Okay. Hi. My name is Connell Murray. I work at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Please excuse the illusion-heavy title that I chose, but I did it to emphasize how remarkable it is that we take something as unwieldy as quantum mechanics, and we've been able to harness that into a viable computing platform. And that's thanks to the work over several decades now of looking at how to mitigate the various loss mechanisms that we see that are present. And so in this talk, I'll briefly describe some aspects of quantum computing and focus on the superconducting transmon qubit. I'll discuss some limitations that we see in the current performance metrics, in particular looking at the various loss mechanisms at play. I'll discuss how we can actually predict a certain aspect of electric loss within these systems. We can do that through a combination of either a finite element or analytical approaches. And then I'll close with some discussions about the prospects that we expect to see from this near-term quantum computing regime. So if you look at the history of classical computing, it's been also pretty remarkable that starting up in the top right there with one of the first integrated circuits about 50 years ago, where the device sizes were roughly 10 microns in size, we've been able now to get down to the bottom image of the case where we have things that are less than 10 nanometers for device lengths. And again, that's thanks to the ingenuity and the resourcefulness of many scientists and engineers in being able to achieve that. That's been done basically through lithographic scaling. The problem is the past decade or so that's been insufficient to also give us the performance gains that we require. Part of that is simply the nature of the materials with which we work. The fact that the oxides that are used to insulate between the gate and the channel regions are so thin they're no longer insulating. Other cases where we actually have to tune the strain within the device channels to improve the carrier mobility. And then in some cases, too, we've actually moved from a planar geometry to one of three dimensions. That's being done so that we get better electrostatic control of the regions of interest. But even being able to accomplish all these feats, the problem is we're hitting a thermodynamic hard limit now. And that's referred to as Boltzmann tyranny. The fact that there is a fundamental amount of voltage that has to be supplied to these systems so that we can distinguish between the on and off states. And therefore, we have to look at different types of paradigms because of the fact that these power densities are climbing dramatically. And I would argue that quantum computing is the leading contender in that race. So I'm showing a picture here that many of you have seen in various forums on how we describe the difference between classical and quantum computing. The idea is that in the left where we have classical bits that can either be one or two states, we can either have current flowing corresponding to the one state or we have an off state. In the picture on the right here, which is known as a block sphere, we have those two states as well. We have the ground state, the zero state, as well as an excited or one state. But you can have a combination of these states. You can have states whose amplitudes are positive, negative, imaginary. And it's a superposition then that can exist within your quantum bit. Now, that's not sufficient to harness the true power of quantum computing. For that, you have to exploit this second property called entanglement. This is an interaction that Einstein famously referred to as bookey action at a distance. And so it is this correlation between these different qubits that really expands the solution space that you can interrogate. In fact, it expands exponentially with the number of qubits you have. And so a question I often hear is when will a quantum computer replace my laptop? When will I get a quantum computer in my car? I would not personally like to ride a shotgun with a dilution refrigerator for a variety of reasons. But perhaps the simplest one is that there are many problems that simply don't require that level of computing. And the fact that classical computers are still very good at number crunching and other aspects that we typically use. And we really should focus on the problem sets on the right here. Things in which you really have a huge a myriad of possible solutions that you need to explore, such as optimization, such as balancing financial portfolios. And so in those aspects, it's important to have the ability to use quantum computing. And more importantly, it's really the synergy between both of these two approaches where you have a sharing of the load between the classical and quantum computing where we will see the greatest benefit in the near term. So there are many different platforms in which you can perform quantum computing. They all have their strengths and disadvantages with respect to scalability or the complexity associated with the processing. But for the talk today, I'll focus on superconducting circuits. And a couple of metrics that we typically use that you may also hear about when describing the performance of qubits are referred to how well they can retain their particular state of interest. The plot on the left here is a depiction of what we call the energy relaxation. The amount of time it takes to when we put the system into an excited state here at the bottom of the block sphere. And then eventually it loses that state due to energy transmission back to the ground state. The second parameter is associated with the coherence of the device. How well you can keep it in that particular state of interest. And so that involves a defacing which you can see a rotation around the azimuth here on the equator of the device. But the actual T2 metric that we use is a combination of both of these, the defacing time as well as your T1 time that's there. Now again, if you look at the evolution of in this case the T2 times over the period of just two decades, it's been remarkable that we've been able to see five orders of magnitude increase in that metric. And that's due, again, thanks to the advancements in the types of materials that we use in these superconducting qubits. The processing that's required to create them. How they're laid out in the system. And also just as importantly, the environment in which these qubits reside. So now I'll focus specifically on one type of superconducting qubit. Again, are a variety of flavors that can be chosen. The transmon, which is an abbreviation for transverse plasma oscillation, is essentially a combination of LC resonators. And so what I'm showing up here is a collection of shunting capacitors and they're made from niobium metallization. They are connected by a region with aluminum, aluminum oxide, just some junctions. And the just some junction is really the key to how we can interrogate and address these structures. Because what you see on the right then is the energy well that's generated. The fact that you need to have the ability to interrogate different energy bandwidths between these regions uniquely. And so the just some junction provides a nonlinear amount of inductance that then can allow you to address the one to zero transition state uniquely. But of course we need to communicate to the outside world with these qubits. And so interspersed between these qubits and to the environment are superconducting microwave resonators. Now those, as you can see the depiction on the right and the bottom, they actually do have equal spacing between the different levels that you can access. And so therefore you can't access an individual state in that process. But it is the ability to communicate using gigahertz radiation using the resonators to these qubits that allow the operation. Now there are, there is a laundry list of different mechanisms that are at play within our systems. I just put a few here in cartoon form on the right and list a number of them as well. With the exception of the bottom bullet point these are our known unknowns. It's the fact that again the qubit state is so fragile just about every element that you can think of at some point will impact the response of your qubits. Whether or not it's vortices that flow through the superconducting metallization, the possibility of quasi-particles actually tunneling through those junctions, how phonons and radiation interact with all these structures. And even two prominent researchers in this field have proposed the existence of cosmic rays actually impacting our structures. So it does give testament to the fact that there are many things that we have to be concerned about in the operation of our qubits. And the one I'll focus on primarily is known as dielectric loss. You often hear about two-level systems or TLSs. They are ubiquitous in nature, particularly in our structures. The qubit is a two-level system as well. And so it really corresponds to the fact that as the qubit radiates electromagnetic energy you will have this energy wash over regions of your device and its environment. And some of those devices, some of those, some of that environment will contain structures that I'm showing in the cartoon up here on the right, things that are intrinsic to the dielectrics that you might have or the contamination that may be present. They may also be associated with defects that are present within, say, your substrate region. And so all of these essentially siphon off energy from your qubit. The degree to which that occurs depends on the alignment of the dipole of that particular TLS. It's frequency, i.e., it's energy in comparison to the energy of the qubit system. And we know that, unfortunately, we actually see greater absorption, greater impact of these effects at lower temperatures and lower powers. And that has to do with the concept of the fact that these TLSs actually can saturate given enough power. And so in the region that we really care about, the single photon regime, we can see what I'm plotting on the right here, the fact that certain dielectrics near and around your system will have a bigger effect on the overall qubit performance. Now part of the big problem is trying to determine what of these TLSs are actually intrinsic to the materials that you need to have and what is associated with contamination that may be present. But because there are so many of these, there's a bath of these TLSs, we can basically use a continuum approximation to describe the response. And that's simply the ratio of the effect of dielectric constant of the materials, the imaginary over the real component of that, into this loss tangent and then some values that are shown on the right. Now here's a chart that contains a list of different materials that we often see within our structures, as well as the primary culprits we think are involved in controlling their impact. One of the most salient points that probably comes out of this is the fact that for a given material such as aluminum oxide, the amorphous version of that material has a much higher loss tangent than the single crystal or substrate version that's there. And that makes sense because again with an amorphous structure you have so many more configurations that don't require much energy to get between the two states of interest. And so you would expect a greater impact of those structures. Now of course where can we see this loss manifest itself? There are a variety of places that it's already been experimentally demonstrated. What I'm showing on the left here is the fact that even with a pristine system, if you unintentionally damage that system, you can introduce TLSs and therefore dielectric loss. One step that's often used in the cleaning of materials in regions of interest is ion milling. And you can see on the left here the fact that you see a change in the overall performance. What I'm showing here is quality factor which is related to that T1 time. And you can see a significant dip simply from the fact that you're introducing excessive ion milling in that structure for a coplanar waveguide resonator. Now another example involves the fact that the Josephson junctions themselves, although in principle they're lossless elements, clearly they will contain some degree of TLSs. And so one example was in looking at the ability to use epitaxial metallization to then grow either amorphous aluminum oxide barriers or to actually create epitaxial versions. What you can see between the two plots on the right are the fact that there are many more striations in this energy landscape on the top image than you do on the bottom. And that refers to the different places in which you have unwanted coupling between your qubit and those TLSs that are present. So we also know that just the choice of material does make a difference within the performance of your qubit. Let's take nominally equivalent design and an example here is shown on the left where we have intertigitated capacitors that shunt the overall capacitance within the Josephson junction region. And these are composed, the Josephson junction regions again are composed with aluminum and aluminum oxide. But what we're changing is the metallization that exists within the capacitors as well as the ground plane. And what I'm showing on the right is the shown performance on those qubits simply as a function of the choice of the material. Now it could be tempting to look at this graph and to assign some intrinsic property that might correlate such as the superconducting transition temperature that you have within your system. That also increases as these Q values increase. But probably what's more important is the fact that the way in which these materials are deposited could have a tremendous impact on the overall performance. The fact that evaporating aluminum requires certain organics that may still provide some residue there. Even the sputtering cases of tinitride versus niobium, the sputtering conditions are slightly different and those can have an impact there. So how do we even try to quantify some of these effects? Well one thing that we've seen heuristically involves the evolution of the transmon design that IBM's used over the years. And the fact that we've gone from an interdigitated capacitor design shown on the left to monolithic shunting capacitor paddles and those that are actually larger in size and have larger gaps that are there. Now these are all designed to have nominally equivalent capacitance. But as you'll see here the fact that there is significant difference in the intensity of the electric field energy within these regions. And this is a linear scale here. And again it's simply due to the geometry that's present. So to quantify this value we use a term called participation. Participation simply refers to the relative fraction of electric field energy that's going through a particular region of interest within your design. We typically demarcate three different regions for that, which I'm showing in the cartoon on the right here. You can have the region between the metallization, in this case niobium, and the underlying silicon substrate. That's the substrate to metal interface. You can have the free surface of that substrate, which is the substrate to air interface. Or even what exists above the niobium, which is the metal air interface. And all you have to do is basically calculate the norm squared of the electric field intensity as well as the relative dielectric constant of the contamination layer that's present to determine what the energy is that's flowing through a certain region. Now often of course we're going to have very thin contamination layers that are present. The problem that poses of course the structures that I showed on the previous slide can be microns if not tens or hundreds of microns in size. But we have to deal with the fact that there's a big disparity between those different length scales. The other complicating factor is that the electric field distributions that we care about, particularly very close to these metallization regions, are singular at the edges. And so that poses certain challenges in terms of how to quantify it. Now one technique that's often used to deal with this is the fact that because we don't necessarily know what the thickness of that contamination layer is, we may not even know the relative dielectric constant of it, is to simply prorate it by changing the volume integral into an integration over a surface. And on the plot on the right here, you can see what I've done is basically taken a mirror of the metallization surfaces, the SM interface, and then projected a certain distance below that region. You can also project it above. But the idea here is you do that same calculation of the integral across a sheet and then watch how that value changes as you move away or move closer to that region of interest. Because again, at the actual metallization edges, the value diverges. This approximation assumes that you have a linearly dependent participation value with respect to the thickness that you have of that material, the fact that you have the divergent case at the region where you really care about. And so one way to determine these values is to use finite element approaches. These are extremely versatile, not only with respect to the geometries that you can analyze, but also the governing equations that you can solve for. And that's because you're actually using a variational approach or a weak formulation in the solution. But the 3M's for finite element method modeling are meshing and more meshing. Because your solution is highly dependent on the number of nodes that you have that are there. Because at any given point you actually are interpolating those solutions between the adjacent nodes that are surrounding you. And so that presents the complication to then dealing with things like singular quantities. And what I show on the right here now is a comparison between such a calculation where we're looking at the substrate to metal participation as we decrease our distance from between the sheet that we do the analysis on and the actual SM interface. And we can see of course a roll off in those values predicted from the finite element method. Now in reality we know that these things should behave logarithmically. And so it should diverge as we go to the value of zero metallization. So there is a disconnect here and that analytical methods if they are available will help us sort of bridge this gap. So one way and I'm color coding here the various interfaces of interest within our system and then the electric fields as they propagate for an instant in time through the system. If we can take a two dimensional slice of those shunting capacitors that I showed before. Where they're separated by a gap which is a value 2a. And the paths themselves both have widths b minus a. If we can assume a quasi-static approximation which is again means a snapshot in time of the electric field distribution. We can actually use math that's only 200 years old almost. To convert the volume integral in order to calculate the electric field energy into one that is now a surface integral. And more importantly by using green's first identity you can actually convert some of the gradient of the potential which is just the electric field into potential and so the integrand itself reduces the order of singularity. The result is now you have an integral that does converge but you're integrating over the surface that encapsulates the volume of interest. And so you can see for a variety of cases here the dots correspond to that numerical integration. We can see very easily how these various values and what I'm plotting here is the surface to air, substrate to air participation. That as we change the various design parameters of our system as we increase the gap for instance which corresponds to increasing a we see the participation drops. As we increase the outer value of the pad sizes that also corresponds to different k values here k's just the ratio of a over b and that drops. We also see a good sanity check that for the case of zero thickness of your contamination there you shouldn't have any participation and now we have a value that converges. We also can make some interesting observations based on this approach. The fact that these values actually do depend on the relative dielectric constants that are present within your system and by knowing that you can actually use the boundary conditions associated with electromagnetics to assess the relative contributions and what you can see here in most cases the substrate to metal the substrate to air interfaces for our dielectric materials of choice are going to be comparable. However if you look at the metal to air component of surface participation you can see it's dramatically less than that that we would see in the other surfaces. Now the good news that all of these are collinear and so it doesn't really matter which one you plot when you want to assess the performance of your device. The problem of course is then it's very hard to disentangle which one of these is impacting the performance that you have. The good news is that there's an analytical approximation that I was able to derive. The details are in the reference on the top right there but the good thing is that with this one formula you can actually assess a variety of designs to see very quickly what's going on and to help confirm that finite element calculations are giving you something that's relevant and realistic within your system. Now of course the important thing is to see how this corresponds to what we see in our qubit performance and so what I'm showing on the right here are actual measured values of niobium based qubits as a function of different designs and you can see some examples here on the bottom right and we can see a regime definitely where we do have performance that is dictated by this level of participation that's present within the system. You typically will only see this in the small devices because those are the ones that have the most participation but also you see in the regime between mods cd and e where you do have these larger structures that something else is impacting their performance otherwise this trend should be linear throughout the entire space of different qubit designs and so we have to look at what other mechanisms might be at play here. So when we want to ascribe the overall quality factor within our system there are losses of course that occur in parallel and what I'm showing in the equation up here is the fact that any particular dielectric loss mechanism is going to be a combination of the participation that's there as well as the loss tangent associated with those materials the table that I showed earlier as well as some values that probably have nothing to do with participation. So this cartoon on the left here just meant to depict what we think are the most dominant effects in the outer core of this of this this nut that we're trying to shave down and then as we start to mitigate those different effects we start to see the impact of other aspects and what I'm showing on the right are just various values of the participation loss tangent that we typically see within our systems and so you can see for instance that although the substrate has a huge participation it's loss tangent we think is extremely small much smaller in fact the 10 to the minus 7 that's there. Now of course there's some caveats to go with this type of idea of what are the most prevalent mechanisms part of which I showed earlier in the fact that you can have damage or amorphization within your system you can also have various extrinsic aspects and purities and what not and perhaps even more important is the fact that the junction size that you're dealing with may also play a definite role the example that I showed earlier with the epitaxial junction region where you saw so many different regions of avoided level crossings that corresponded to a 70 micron square junction size and if you remember for our case we're having something several orders of magnitude lower than that and so where these where these different mechanisms will be dominant may depend on those particulars of your design. Now another aspect that's commonly mentioned is the fact of how quasi-particle tunneling can be impacting your overall qubit performance what I'm showing the left here is a depiction of the density of states that we see in our metallization as a function of the temperature the gray regions correspond to the ambient thermal energy that's present and what we see as we cool down through the superconducting transition temperature TC that at intermediate temperatures there actually is enough thermal energy there to help break the cooper pairs and essentially quasi-particle in this parlance is simply an unpaired electron and it will cause ohmic loss within your system as you get to even lower temperatures though particularly those that we think exist in our operating conditions there isn't enough thermal energy to break those cooper pairs however there is the existence of other non-equilibrium quasi-particle generation generating mechanisms that are present and so what I'm plotting on the right here is actually the predicted T1 values then looking only at thermal quasi-particles as a function of this temperature and the purple line there corresponds to 20 milliculbine which is essentially our operating region now we also we will have heard from Dr. Sheehan Kerter who actually was able to measure the effect of quasi-particle tunneling through the Josephson Junction and her measurements confirmed that the quasi-particle tunneling rate is significantly lower than what we would expect just from thermal quasi- particles it's around around less than a hundred hertz meaning that naively you would have structures that are tens of milliseconds or so in terms of T1 times if they were being impacted by quasi-particle tunneling and so the net result is we know that this at least for operating conditions aren't impacting our qubits now up to this point all I've been talking about are the dielectric materials the qubits themselves and they all reside in this very small region within this depiction of what exists within the dilution refrigerator you can see here the volume fraction of that region is parts per million right compared to this entire ensemble that's necessary to operate your qubit so if we actually invert this picture just as a point of reference right the volume fraction that's required for a similarly ambitious program right was parts per thousand so the point here is just to show that there's so many different aspects that are required to maintain the conditions the hermiticity that is that is necessary within your qubit environment and those involve various isolators attenuators and amplifiers they're just as important to ensuring the performance in our qubits and continue to be where we look at issues of thermalization how to properly shield these qubits from these different sources of loss so in the last few minutes now I'll just briefly touch on some of the aspects of near term quantum computing and one metric that we typically try to use to assess what the useful work that we can derive from quantum computers and one example is the idea of quantum volume and to put it simply it relates the largest square lattice of qubits where you have in one dimension the number of qubits that you can run in parallel in the second dimension how deeply you can entangle those qubits to get an operation of interest or an algorithm to be performed now equally important in that is the fact that there's a fidelity associated with the gates and the errors that are present within those qubits particularly in this era of near term quantum computing and so all of those aspects although they're not necessarily orthogonal dimensions they do help to define a parameter that is hardware agnostic it can actually tell you what perhaps are the most pivotal aspects of your qubit and one example I'm showing here on the bottom right the fact that to certain past a certain threshold you can add additional qubits but if the error rate isn't sufficient to have them be part of the entangling process you will not get a change in the quantum volume that's present now thankfully the quantum volume has increased dramatically over the past three years or so there are a variety of different layouts that IBM Q offers and these are publicly accessible anyone can go online and be able to utilize these and they have various differences with respect to the number of qubits of course but also how they're related how they're interconnected and ideally you would want the greatest amount of interconnectivity present but not at the detriment of the error that might be introduced by having so many in series with these systems the point is that we have we've been able to demonstrate an exponential trend in the quantum volume and in fact just earlier this year we've announced the Raleigh generation of qubit 28 qubit devices that have demonstrated qubit volume of 32 and so what can we use these types of devices for clearly there are examples that involve chemistry material science machine learning the problem again is that we don't yet have the ability to perform true error correction within our qubits that would represent a fault tolerant cute quantum computing system and instead we have ways in which we can try to mitigate that error loss and I'll show that on the next slide the fact that we do have universal computers mean that we can program these gates and we try to look at what type of algorithms that have a short enough depth that can give us useful information from it I also want to mention though that quiscate represents an open-source quantum computing software framework that's being widely adopted now over 300,000 downloads they're present in which you can also use to help program both simulations as well as actual experimental cases on these various devices and the one example here I'll show an error mitigation involves the calculation of the ground state energy of the lithium hydride molecule as a function of the distance between the two atoms and of course you can see on the left that if we only use circuit depth of one here we get a trend that that does follow what we would expect but there's a significant decrease in the accuracy that one would hope for what I'm showing in the right then is by using a technique called Richardson extrapolation you can actually see the performance based on a certain gate time that's present you can amplify that time and then actually use that to back propagate what you would expect to have within the condition of zero error and that corresponds to the bottom plot here where now you actually can utilize the fact of a greater circuit depth to get you more accurate information and there are plenty of different examples of this I would encourage you to access the IBM quantum website to see how in fact some of these can be applied to the particular research interest that you might have and with that I'll conclude we've gone over different ways in which we've been able to see how materials designed processing are important to the operation of qubits we're always looking for the next limiting mechanism that's present in our system but in the meantime the fact that we do have near-term quantum computing applications that we can utilize and they involve the fact that we are able to increase our quantum volume and eventually hopefully move us from the state of error mitigation to true error correction and that will represent a giant leap in terms of the ability to operate our quantum computers please access this website if you'd like more information I'd like to thank the contributions from my colleagues here and the hard work that the entire IBM Q team does thank you


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Hi everybody, this is MXRX, new camera angle, huh? Listen, in this video I'm doing a quick race update. I'm going to go over some video from the race that's hard to find from Score. I also have some information that on the beta truck builds, that's pretty interesting. There's also some numbering nomenclature for the truck on the app. Anyway, let me just get started with this video. I want to just roll this out real quick. Here's the team down in Baja. Hope that started right.  This is from Reddit, but this was on the Score International. This is an interview with the people involved with the truck, the E414. Way into the morning hours. I guess if everybody left the race, the Brentells could have their own race here. We have so many trucks. Everybody at the shop has just been working really hard. Matt and the guys from Lord Towns, we've all been just out here pre-running, trying to get as much work as we can get done. To go back to that, I don't think anybody at Brentells sleeps ever. They have so many trucks, they're trying to get prepped. The shop is just full of trucks. I haven't been over there right before a race in a minute, but it's not just their trucks. They have their trucks. This new something totally different, which is cool. They prep all the trucks they build too. It's great to see great teams teaming up and doing something new. The E-Class is where it's at. This is the future of off-road racing. They always say, don't drink the water down here. I think Jordan and Jonathan put something in the water at the shop because it's non-stop over there. We're super excited to be here and get this thing going. Matt, he can vouch for it. I'm sure he's got some other guys on the Lord Town team that he wants to talk about. Matt, you want to get a couple of words? We're just really excited to be here and be part of this. We understand this is pretty much the toughest environment that is accessible to many people. We're really excited to be here and test this out so that we can put all the lessons learned into our production truck. Matt, it still has a new car smell in here. I just want to pause that for a minute. I'm going to try to show you the information later. This truck is in the E-Class. This class and a couple other classes have been designated to run a shortcut course on the 250 track. This course is 242, not 250. The shorters might say, oh, they got a special deal. They didn't get a special deal. This is a thing they do in racing. You've got these trophy trucks which cost $300,000 each. 1,000 horsepower. These things run fast. Time to say alter the track for some of the slower vehicles. The endurance is 600 horsepower. That's the case. It's not just the endurance that's run this short of course. It's some of the classes as well. I would remind you that the battery range on the endurance is 240. It might be a little more depending on the self-configuration. I was told that the 250 class actually measures 244 miles. This 242 route might be a little shorter anyway. Just some food for thought recording a recharge. This is the steering mechanism on the truck. I believe that's a power steering unit. I'm not sure. The Brethel brothers have a special one they did for their trophy trucks, which is machined billet stainless steel, I believe, which that is not it. But anyway, interesting. There's your king shocks. They've been working on this thing for quite a while. Like the guys at Brent Elf, the guys from Lordstown back in Ohio and Detroit and California, they've been putting in countless hours to make this happen. We're just lucky guys to get to drive it. That's it. Well, good luck to you guys. We'll see you on the start and at the finish too. Thank you. You could see right here. I was corrected and so and rightfully. So these are cool lines run to the engine. These are the power lines. This is the steering control arm. This is not a drive shaft. That is the motor. It's all like that on all four wheels. There's no drive shafts. You can see they reworked the suspension a little bit. Great to see you, buddy. Good luck tomorrow. Yeah, thanks a lot. And I'd like to think everybody had scored. Everybody doing a great job to put on the race considering all the conditions that we're all in. So we're super happy to be here. Man, glad to be down here with you. All right. Have fun tomorrow. Can't wait to hear how it goes. All right. That's you really got to watch it on this one.  But look at that. Look at that build too. I don't know if you can get a shot of that going away. But yeah, the Brent Elf brothers. Okay. That was the score interview. It's hard to find elsewhere. Really nice. All right, guys. This is the information on. This was posted on Reddit as well. On our slash Lord Steinmortar's Reddit. The classes. These are the classes. They're going to use a shortcut. Okay. This is a designated by. The race guys run the race score. And the point is. They're not getting any. It's going to be. 242. Excuse me. Point nine miles. Okay. So. They're not getting any special treatment. Don't let him to burger. Doggy on that. And this is the start time for the Baha. And again, The Baha. E is nine 30 AM. And you see the trophy truck start first and so forth. The. And again. Baha E. Our. Truck number is on the app. If you're tracking it is. The truck number is E. 414. And. The truck on the tracking app. The truck on the tracking app. 414. Let me repeat that eight. The number eight. 414. Okay. And again. You can read this right here. You can pause it and read it. Just goes to show you and we're running. Right on the range. Of the endurance. They have a little bigger battery pack. Little lighter truck. You know. And again. And again.  That the 250 is actually 244. But anyway, they're talking about doing a charge. Let's take them at their word. All right. Let me see if I can get this next clip lined up. Okay. I was going to call this up on my phone, but it's just as easy to do it off this Reddit post. This is the app. And. And again. And again. They have live tracking of each vehicle location, speed and other stats. They have GPS trackers. Okay. So this is it. And now. The most important thing about this, and I think I'm going to make a graphic on this. You're going to look for our truck number. The truck number for the endurance is. E 414. But that's not what's listed. On this app. The number eight. The number four. The number one. The number four. 8414. 8414. Is the endurance on this app. I've checked it out. It's really cool. And this is going to be able to. It's going to be great. It's going to. Really enable everybody to keep track of the race. I don't know how much helicopter coverage they're going to get. But. There you go. Okay, this is just a post here. I wanted to make a note of it. It's got some great pictures. Of the endurance. I'm not sure I think this would be at Lordstown headquarters. Probably. I'm not positive. But you can see a great shot of the interior. And these are these beta trucks. And how cool it looks. And how cool the truck looks. I just wanted to. There we go. All right. Check out the interior. I just love the interior on this truck. Anyway. I want to share that with you guys. This is also from Reddit. All righty then. Okay, this is from the Lordstown motors. Website. And I just wanted to note to you guys that. They got five. They had two. Now they have five betas that have rolled off the line. One of the workers said they're doing. Six through 10. I think they're doing like. One a week. I'm sure that'll speed up as they build more. I think what's interesting is. If you look at these. Anyway. This one here is sub zero. Which is a freezer company. I believe. This is the Harley-Davidson company. This is the Harley-Davidson company. This is the Harley-Davidson company. This is the Harley-Davidson colors. This is good year. This has actually good year on it. And. I'm not sure what this one has on it. But this might. This looks like a crash test symbol here. This too also looks like a crash test. The graphic. Anyway. So good year. Sub zero. All right. Don't know what they're trying to say there. They're trying to say hello. Minus 40. That's a sub zero freezer. Right. Okay. This is good year. This is you can't see it on here. But this says good year. And these are the good year colors. And as I said. There's I can't see anything on here. But. Just be speculating. But those are Harley-Davidson colors. And they're on track for the September launch. So. These are new trucks. I'm going to try to find a video. There's a video somewhere of them loading these trucks on. Carrier. But again. Good year. Sub zero. What's going on here. Nobody's saying nothing. I think we all know what's going on there. Don't we. Okay. I just want to say those betas are pushers. There they are. Loading up on a car carrier. At the Lordstown plant. That is. Oh I thought that said good year on it. Well those are the good year colors. Let's get five stars on it too. That's a crash. I don't know if that's a test vehicle. But those are definitely the good year colors. That might say good year on one side. I'm not sure. Anyway. There you go. Okay guys. I just wanted to make this clip. Now. The endurance. The LMC endurance. San Felipe to 250 race numbers. The truck number. The number that's on the truck is E. Edward. 414. Edward. 414. I have to go up by the app. Or, this is I believe every truck in the race. And every vehicle ATV quad also. You know the spec truck, all the rest of them. Class one.  Okay. eight 414. Very important. You're going to load the app. eight four one four okay I believe that's called the bibb number if you can't find the truck if you're looking under this number which is probably not going to be listed and on the website and the app it's going to be eight four one four just wanted to get that straight for everybody because I was having a hard time myself eight four one four okay all right guys I'm going to wrap up this video I hope you liked it I wanted to get it out quick some race news and some other news from Lordstown hey go Fort Lordstown I think they could do the race without a charge or a really short one I think the torque motors are going to shine I think the balance of the truck is going to shine I think I think they're gonna have a good showing that's all hope so 50% of the trucks never finish and don't forget the short course everybody's a lot of classes are taking it don't let the short sellers tell you that they got special treatment all right this is MXUX creepy music is going to start now thanks for watching guys


James Shillington from Fixed Securities. James, welcome to the program. Initial reaction in the fixed income space to this news of more stimulus coming from the Chinese central bank? Well, it's just the Chinese central bank joining the global agenda of adding more liquidity to the system and really looking at it broadly. Anything that's positive for China in looking to stimulate demand over there is a positive for Australia. So we're expecting to see a pretty strong bid for bonds today. Again, it's going to be a risk-on-tone, just as more money floods into the system and the global scramble for a year will just continue. So equity is in favour and that's the continuing theme. I'm curious to get your thoughts on the fact that some European sovereign debts are actually paying a negative yield. So that means that you're actually paying the government to hold your money. How does that work? Well, it's extraordinary. So if you're looking at a one-year Swiss government bond, for example, if you were to place $1 in that bond today, a year from now you'd be returning. For example, $0.99. So it's got an extraordinary situation for investors that they find themselves positioned against. But what that means is that people just continue to add risk in this environment. So investors want to pick up that extra 1% to 2% really just to avoid those negative returns. And what do you make of the news that's coming out of the ECB in regards to Greek this morning? Oh, again, it's just going to add to the volatility that we've seen in the bond market this week. It's been a very difficult week for bond traders locally and across the US and Europe. I mean, overnight we saw US 10 years trade in the 10 basis point range. Looking at the local market, we've seen this showing government bond 10 years. That's traded in about 24 basis point range over the week. So trying to position your book against some of this volatility is quite challenging. So are you seeking any shelter or finding any opportunities then in the corporate bond space here in Australia? Well, the bid for fixed income continues. I mean, it's a stable asset class. I mean, as our clients continue to switch out of those equities that they've had a fantastic run in and buy some high yielding bonds, which will insulate them somewhat against some of the global volatility. I mean, we're trading names such as Fortescue Metals Group, Virgin Australia, which of course is benefiting from the low oil price. Some of those yields are 7% to 10%. So there's some pretty attractive opportunities there. Yeah, and quite a lot of new bond issuance in Australia as well so far this month from what I understand. It's been a fantastic week for primary markets. We saw ANZ finalise their $750 million hybrid transaction. We also saw a rubber bank come to Australia and issue a kangaroo bond. They did a billion dollars across a dual-trunch five-year piece. And we also have seen James Hardy return to the bond market. They're issuing some eight-year notes in US dollars. They're going to trade around six percent. Okay, James, thanks for checking in. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. James Shillington, they are joining us from Fixed Securities.


Hi everybody, Joe for JasperJasperysCaseBreaks.com. Look at this, we knocked out the last filler we gotta do to unlock that basketball mixer. This is Hoppy Pack Break number nine, Mosaic Basketball. Big thank you to this group here for getting in on it. So remember, as always, the first dice roll is gonna be for the break itself, and the second dice roll will be for the spot giveaway. So let's do the break. Let's randomize names and teams five into three, eight times, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Five into three, eight times for the teams, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. And no trade windows in these little filler packs. Let's just get right to the ripping and then the giving of the way of the spots. There's the first half of lists right here. There's the second half, it's alphabetized by team. And let's print this out and rip this up. So this is the pack we're gonna do. That's the mixer right here, and that'll be in the next video, separate video. More time opening that pack. All right, thanks again. Here's the final printout. Hot off the presses, makes it official. Let's see what we've got. Got a silver Devante Graham, Tramont Waters Red, and a Kendrick Nunn on the back here. I think Kendrick Nunn has really put in a lot of, he's still kind of banged up a little bit for the Lakers. This is heat addition, but hopefully he'll be able to play, come back strong. All right, so now, I guess apparently he's not close to returning from a bone bruise. Sounds like that'll hurt. Hurts Kendrick Nunn anyway. Let's flip back over here. Let's gather everybody's names. New dice, new list, and it's gonna be the top 10. We're gonna be in this break. Top 10 after two and a six, eight times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and good luck eighth and final time. Top 10 after eight. So from 11 on down, very close Pat, no cigar. Thanks everybody for giving this a shot. Appreciate you. Thank you. But sad times ultimately. Happier times though for the top 10. Mike Tower is happy. So is Mark, Tana, Josh, Pat, Eric, Evan, Michael, Brian, and Josh. All right, so Pat, I don't feel as bad about you missing out because you did sneak in there. So congrats to the top 10. Thanks everyone for giving this a go. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye.


The paper proposes a novel methodology for converting existing buildings from non-residential use to residential use. It focuses on energy efficiency and the circular economy, and applies digital technologies such as BIM and GIS to facilitate the process. The methodology consists of two phases, I, defining evaluative parameters for the potential reuse of a building, and II, integrating the evaluation system in a BIM and GIS environment. The results are a tool for rapid automatic pre-evaluation of the potential conversion of a building into a residential space. By applying this methodology, it is possible to manage and transform abandoned or degraded buildings into more efficient and sustainable structures. This article was authored by Federico Sinquapalmi, Spartaco Paris, Elisa Pinacchia, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hello everybody welcome back to another Leonardo.ai video and this one we're going to do a quick tutorial.  Here was my first crack, tough-looking pirate, eye patch holding a cutlass and a flintlock and it gave me these four generic type characters and different poses. Then I ran it again but I went in and got my Captain Morgan. There you go, the iconic Captain Morgan. I dropped that in, ran the same prompt again and I got all four images in that unique pose. So how did I do it? Well, let me just show you everything you need to know in about 60 seconds. So just stick with me. Let's start from scratch right now. Okay, good. The first thing you got to do is you got to go ahead and load in and find a model. Very importantly, this only works with stable diffusion 1.5 models. If it's a 2.1 model or something else, it won't work as of today, February 23rd. Could change in the future. I'm going to go ahead and select cute animal characters and before I go ahead, yes, confirmed it's stable diffusion 1.5 and this is based on the new control nut posing for stable diffusion. If you're a real stable diffusion type nerd, there's some new stuff and Leonardo.ai is at the cutting edge. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and generate with this model. I'm going to go ahead and delete this. And then I'm going to go, I've got my little generation here. So I've got tough-looking pirate iPad holding a cutlass and a flintlock. When you run it normally, you get this generic look here. Let's go ahead and run it with the Captain Morgan. So if you were to do this, drag and drop your image here into this image to image. But in particular, you got to turn this on here, pose to image. When you do that, there are some advanced settings. If you want to look at them, you can change the scheduler, but Euler discrete seems to work pretty good right now. So I'm going to go ahead now and run a generation of this. And then I'm going to come back when it's done. And it should be Captain Morgan. All right, welcome back. I ran it and we not have one. We have four awesome, tough-looking pirates just in the Captain Morgan pose. That's how you do it guys. Thanks for watching.


You'll rarely see them and you'll never know their names, but this group of special operations airmen work all night To make sure you can sleep peacefully Our mission is to detect deter and detain any illegal immigrants as well as human smugglers and drug traffickers This high-tempo team is a part of Operation Lone Star a joint mission that's taken hundreds of pounds of fentanyl off the streets The reason why that must be underscored is that is fentanyl They got past border patrol if it were not for Operation Lone Star the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas law enforcement That would be fentanyl on the streets in the United States killing Americans across our country personally my family's been affected by the drug problem coming into the United States So personally it has a deep impact on me and just weeks ago the sermons team apprehended five drug smugglers Each smuggler was carrying a 50-pound package of marijuana So total in 250 pounds of marijuana that we stopped coming into the country in darkness under the moon You may not see them, but these airmen are there holding the line Executing special missions doing what they can to keep our state and country safe


What's going on guys got Kyle here with laden sports cards, and we are ripping 2022 Phoenix football This is hobby four box break number 37 PYT got Andrew G with the Vikings got Brad R with the Steelers got Carlos F with the Chargers Chad B is gonna have cards cardinals Dale F is gonna have Falcons Daniel V is gonna have Giants George M. Jags Jared T has the Eagles Jessica G has the Colts and the Rams Joseph M. Has the Cowboys Keith B. Has bills Kent I has chiefs Patriots and Seahawks Matthew B. Has the Broncos Matthew M. Has the Lions Nunziopee has the Bucks Patrick G with the Browns Paul B. Has the Jets Peter B. Has the Niners Ron L with the Bengals Ryan F with the Saints Scott T with the Bears Steven G. Dolphins Steve Steve C. Sorry has the Packers Todd G is gonna have a football team and Titans Tony C is gonna have Ravens Panthers Valerie P with the Raiders and Victor F. Has The Texans, let me change this title real quick Hmm triple-click. Cool.  Gotcha You just erase the bottom lines, but as long as you copy this looks like that. You're cool. All right. Good luck guys Four boxes. Got Davian Pierce. This is interesting archetype Rookie for the Texans here Nice one for the Texans Got rookie Ty Chandler and rookie rising Ritter. I haven't seen one of those Oh, yeah, that's an SSP for the Texans there. I Hadn't seen that one yet makes sense got pink contours Yeah, Pat Tillman nice one there. I didn't see one is until like three days after release hot routes Christian Watson Lily first pack Oh, sorry if I missed the detiger Got pink Travis Kelsey 2199 and a Tom Brady flamethrowers This is Micah Parsons Yeah, it's a 175 and contours burrow. It needs to be shorter. I think they need to be lower numbered. It's too cool It's too cool. This is purple rookie James Cook For the bills to 125 hot routes divo Tom Brady gridiron like a marvels You can't just get that away. That's what you mean We have green rookie. That is bow melting Tray Lance flamethrower. We got a Garrett Wilson This is a three color patch. Nice one there Nice purple Garrett. That is Brian Robinson jr. Rookie bow melting rookie. We got a filler Got a rookie rising. Looks like a nebula there Jameson Williams. That is number to 35 beautiful card Nice hit lions DJ more silver hot routes Yeah, you go Paul We can find some more jets for you I'm sure you're excited about Roger's coming, right? Got Garrett Wilson There we go Paul sauce Little sauce auto for you Sauce gardener not numbered on the base rookie auto Great box for you there Paul Got Bailey zappy silver They put the fillers in mostly so that you can't like weigh the packs and nowhere and rpa or a patch would be So a lot of the packs all weigh the same you can't uh Just go fiddling through Got cooper cup red It's 250 and a james winston flamethrower. Yeah, it does need to get there first. Yeah I agree with that This is a Jalen tulbert to 75 nice yellow rpa there Going to the cowboys Christian Kirk silver it means taking all those bum packers like I don't know if the jets should Hot routes purple Dalton uh Schultz because in next off season this would be the exact same situation where rogers are like It's like a fire forge joe name it there Broadway joe Here we go box number two good luck guys I'm so excited to get rogers. Have you ever thought about the downside to getting rogers? Is that every off season he wants to retire now? Interesting. It's 125 we got dual rpa tyquan thorton For the uh patriots there. Yeah, I did it silver deandre hopkins probably because I remembered that when you were This is a breeze hall there we go jets That is red rookie rising to 199 and desmond ridder flamethrowers one for the vikings yeah, that would be just That'd be something else or the bears Trayvon walker rookie. We got a sequan silver And contours jamar chase. I cracked ice here dk metcalf It's number 250 and rookie rising traylon berks Just need to call baltimore get lamar sounds like lamar is not going anywhere It don't seem like it We got chrysalave rookie base It's a 25. We got a nice rookie memorabilia here. That is george pickins nice one there for the stealers And t higgins on the silver it's a filler Got ross wilson contours mister unlimited Hot routes aj brown. This is the 25 speaking to erin's boys veteran rp or patch auto randall cob One of the uh one of the hostages If we want our boy rogers silver spiller This is a rica or eric ezub kama orange to 99 paul maluk contours dalvin cook red Kurt warner fire forged We got black contours number to 10 Nice one here jamar chase I was thinking black might be a little lower number, but nice one there Nice hit bangles seven of ten on the jamar Hot routes deonte johnson I think safe to say top five receiver in the league maybe six matthew stafford pink And josh allen flamethrowers Yeah, those guys are sick. I really like those Is lava it's going to be stefon digs and hot route cd All right guys box three. Good luck See some nice stuff out of here anderson rookie We got to 149 rpa for the jets garret wilson Here we go paul RPA wilson and a sauce auto there we go silver cordero Yeah force to stop loading again john calling everyone at the top of the pleb You hate to see it Couldn't be me I'm over here. It's true We got fire forged patent manning that is to 150 on the aqua And a contours lessner lesnar catch a t tiger looking for a Look for a line here Maybe a little jamo Got pink hawkinson A rookie rising malik willis you think so victor I guess They got a big contract, right We got blue rookie david bell.  I can see the colts moving up a couple If they get crazy I feel like the browns just kind of You just give it to me instead you get the same outcome To 75 we got jumbo patch john michi for the texans Hopefully he has a nice bounce back here this year I guess rookie year I suppose CD lamb silver NBA rules for here. Yeah What picks it's Cleveland even have victor Maybe a goal coming up Looks like uh flame throwers gold is going to be malik willis We got another uh 600 points behind that We'll random that at the end of the break But yeah, uh, it's a 75 that's flame throwers malik Guess it's yellow And right behind it the other quarterback uh flame throwers tana hill Yeah cam newton That'd be something We got lava cooper And contours silver matty corral Aqua that's going to be ryan tana hill And a cunning ham fire forged We have rookie rising sky more To 175 I used to get a little scream going maybe I don't know about scream I've gotten I've gotten pretty excited over some cars for sure For sure Pull the george russell superfractor. I probably scream there We've got purple seamac To 125 and hot routes drake london pierre strong red And flame throwers kirk Good luck here by the last pack of box three Still got room for personals guys if anybody wants to get one ordered We'll be ripping those here shortly to 175 rookie rising malik And fire forge tb12 All right guys last box of the break and this is uh phoenix four box number 37 Good luck guys Zaga was done can zaga Wow just looked up for the first time in a while That is a quite a run they've been on You see a lame We have another yellow flame throwers matty corral the 75 And steve young fire forged Who was it in chat that said you see uh done zaga? Was it higley done zaga? We got aqua auto sam williams that's going to go to the cowboys Tough look for ever said that David ojabo silver Yeah, I don't know what happened got jailen widermeyer. That's going to go to the patriots rookie red Hot routes dk as many packs are stronger than the others Maybe i'm just getting weaker real uh brice hall rookie To 25 jumbo jerseys gonna be rookie sauce For the jets on the nice number patch there Blue to 25 sauce very nice hit there again paul Jets are coming out And a silver brandon cooks Not yet smack not yet They're uh working out the financials I guess Everything else that goes along with that kind of deal We got pink justin herbert number two 199 Got contours garret wilson Right, let's get a candy picket rookie base there lava jamis And rookie silver breeze hall rising see you man late Trey mcbryde to 75 that's going to be dual rpa there Nice one for the cards Couple nice color patches there. This is purple hot routes kupa cup That is Number to 125 and silver terry mclauren Got a saw space orange binotto That's a broncos rookie Malik willis flame throwers yellow david mcgummery to 75 contours cooper cup is darin waller lava Flamethrower russ And last pack guys. Good luck. This is phoenix 4 box number 37 Got another case of honors coming up next Is flamethrower's tana hill red And last card is going to be a hot routes garret wilson Do a quick hit recap here guys and we'll get moving on to honors points random Oh never mind. We're going to do a points random real quick first. Give me just a second to set that up guys The team list pop up with a new google sheet thing Okay Just a second guys. We'll get these 600 points random off All right guys i'm going to roll a dice real quick for these uh points Five and three we're going to go eight times on the random We've got the cardinals down to the commanders. It's going to go eight times. Good luck guys Yeah, one Two three four five six seven and eight going to go to the commanders Going to go to the commanders on the points All right guys, uh, oh never mind. We're going to do a quick hit recap Here we go We've got the 25 jersey sauce gardener We've got michi jersey there We've got a george pickens And a garret wilson on the jerseys Otto's going to be sam williams ricky for the cowboys sauce gardener for the jets tray mcbry dual rpa Jalen tulbert rpa We've got a garret wilson orange rpa Orange dual rpa is going to be ty qualan thorton Got veteran patch auto randall cob We have super short print arc type. That's going to be damien pierce. I really like this car is sick Nice hit there for the texans and number to ten. We got contours jamar chase Nice hit there for the bangles All right guys that will do it for uh phoenix number 37 Sit tight. We will have honors here in just a second


I'm the director of our head and neck robotic surgery program at the University of Maryland. It's a pleasure to develop this program where we're able to offer minimally invasive techniques to treat tumors of the throat. Most commonly we see these cancers present in the tonsil or on the back part of the tongue or the base of tongue that are associated with the human papillomavirus. This cancer is something that has very few side effects for many of our patients and patients often present with already a lymph node metastasis and they don't appreciate that there's a small cancer that's residing in the back part of the throat. More traditional open approaches often result in sometimes facial scars or impacts to your speech and swallowing performance of your everyday life and robotic surgery was developed and designed to really minimize those side effects so that you can recover faster and closer to your baseline than ever before. It's intimidating to think that you may be having a robot operate on your throat but this is something that's controlled by me as your surgeon. It is not an autonomous robot. I am actually in a console on the other side of the room where my hands are really shrunken down to very small instruments that have a small footprint and can remove tumors in the back part of the throat seamlessly and efficiently. One of the best parts about this technique is the robot doesn't have any incisions on the outside of the body and can remove tumors in less than about a half an hour and patients can honestly go home, fortunately, in just two to three days after surgery and get back to their eating and drinking as fast as possible.


The one thing the narcissist fears you will realize. When a narcissist comes around a person who is powerful and dynamic, a person who is positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas, a person who displays power and strength, there is one thing the narcissist must do. They are attracted to you because of your good qualities. They admire that and they want to be around it. But they want to get you to hand your qualities over to them. They want you to give them your power and love. If you give it to them, it greatly benefits them because they're getting it from a powerful, dynamic person. So it's a very potent source of supply for them. But they know that a powerful, dynamic person is not just going to hand it over to someone. They have to trick you, they groom you, they prepare and train you for the purpose of misuse where they mistreat you and exploit you. It's abuse and the abuse strips away your powers until you become trapped or confined with the narcissist and that is when they will immediately become oppositional towards you. They will constantly be in disagreement with you about anything relating to your skills or talents, anything that makes you a good righteous person. They will become oppositional to all of that because that's what gives them the ability to break you down. When a person becomes oppositional to everything that you are representing, to your skills and talents, to your confidence in yourself, when a person becomes oppositional to that, it makes you doubt yourself. It makes you lose trust and certainty in who you are, in everything that you have worked so hard to establish. It makes you insecure. The narcissist does this so that they can gain control over you because they know that a person who is insecure lacks control over themselves, which means that naturally they will be seeking that security and stability from another source outside of themselves.  They will make you feel insecure about things that you are currently going through or even things that you have overcome from past situations. They attack things that you are confident in, things that you are passionate about, whatever you are most confident and passionate about is where they have to strike first because that is going to be the greatest opposition to them being able to control you. A confident person who knows who they are is a difficult target for the narcissist to break down. It's difficult for the narcissist to contain someone like that so they have to put in extra effort to damage your reputation, which is why you will see them always trying to make you doubt something, always going against whatever you believe in, whatever you think is right or true, even if it's just something where you support a sports team. They have to support the opposing side. They always have to be in opposition to you. They can never be in agreement with you. They can never share your views or opinions. But then when it's something you have no desire or interest for, they will treat those things in a way that is kind or helpful, but in a way that betrays a feeling of superiority. They will support things that you don't really care for. They will not promote anything that is usual, expected or logical so that it gradually creates a person who is dysfunctional. It gradually creates a person who doesn't have the confidence in what they've worked so hard to build and establish to make them who they are in the first place. But this is the one thing that the narcissist fears you will realize because if they hate all these things about you, why did they target you? Why did they choose to remain around you? They're trying to manipulate you. They're trying to brainwash you into being their source of supply by keeping you in a state where you can still supply them with all of the things that they need while making you doubt yourself, while making you feel like you're not good enough so that it keeps you looking at yourself.  They don't like it when you display intelligence. They don't like it when you display a positive attitude or when you're full of energy and new ideas because it overpowers them. It makes them feel like they're losing control because they're very weak people, the more powerful, intelligent and dynamic of a person you are to them. It intimidates them. It makes them feel inadequate. It makes them feel like they're insufficient for a purpose. It makes them feel like they're unable to deal with a situation or with life. They want to receive all of the qualities, abilities, skills, talents and resources that you possess without consistently giving you the compliments and praise of who you are and of what you are doing for them because after some time you would realize that they have nothing to offer you. They're not benefiting you in any way.  They're holding you back from being the powerful, dynamic person that you are meant to be because they're weak but you're making them appear strong. You're giving your power away to them. When narcissists come around people who are powerful and dynamic, they have to downplay everything that you're doing.  They hate it.   They don't want you to do that because you would naturally have power over them and they want to have power over you. They have to keep you under their control to secure you as their source of supply.  They don't want you to display logical reasoning. They hate anything that has influence or authority over them. When you fight back at the narcissist, they will experience fear and anxiety. Many of them will disappear. You won't hear from them after that because they realize that you have realized your own power over them, the power that they try to strip from you, to use you as a tool. They realize that you're waking up. You're realizing that they don't have any power. You're realizing that they tricked you.   Instead of focusing on what they're trying to get you to believe, remind yourself of who you are. Remind yourself of the work you put in to get to this point.  They know what you had to do, but they cannot acknowledge it. They cannot give you the praise and compliments that you deserve, because if they were to do that, they would be allowing you to take the chair. They would be allowing you to preside over them with your influence and authority, with the power that you possess, but how would that benefit them in any way? If they don't have anything, if they're weak, why would you even keep them around? If you knew their true nature, if you knew that they don't have anything to offer you anyway, if you knew that they're not about anything, which is why they have to break you down. They have to pull you down to their level to make you think that you're equal to them, but you're not equal to them, you're greater than them, and they are fully aware of this. That is why they always have to go against you. That is why they always have to put you down. That is why they're always so oppositional to you, because the one thing that they fear is you waking up and realising your own power. Thank you for watching. I hope this video is in it with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. 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Hello everyone, my name is Liskati Sembo and I work with Action Aid Uganda as the coordinate of the FDG project. I'm here to invite you for the Land Act International Conference where Action Aids will have a menu workshop due on the 1st of July 2021 under the theme how communities and women's land rights relate to climate and COVID-19 vulnerability and resilience. The session is hosted by Action Aid Uganda, Action Aid Kenya, Action Aid Bangladesh, Action Aid Netherlands, not forgetting our local partners. We shall have opening remarks from our own Catherine Gatundu, the lead person on resilient livelihoods and climate change, Action Aid International. Our moderator for the day will be none other than the country director of Bangladesh, Farah Kalbiel. Our sessions will be in three parts. The first part will show our presentations from Action Aid Bangladesh, Action Aid Uganda and Action Aid Kenya where we shall showcase the realities, challenges and opportunities from the various countries. We shall then have Action Aid Netherlands do a brief presentation on the Dutch steps as related to the Dutch Development Corporation and International Trade agenda. The second part will have panelists from Uganda, Bangladesh and Kenya who are going to give us an overview and observations as per the presentations that will have been presented. We shall then allow them have questions to which to be able to answer to. Later on we shall have the audience ask questions, give us comments, observations for what shall have been discussed and presented and then we shall have answers to that. We shall then have a wrap up with the recommendations and conclusions which will then be summarizing to our report that will be produced and disseminated for awareness creation and lobby and advocacy activities. I am here to ask you to all come and attend this session. Come one, come all. Hope to see you all. Thank you very much.


An NBC station in Tennessee is refusing to broadcast footage of a gay soldier who wants to get married. The governor of North Carolina has vetoed a bill that would let state officials turn away gay couples who want a marriage license, but the bill's not dead yet. And Alabama is actually going through with the threat to stop issuing marriage licenses statewide, although that may not have the effect they think it will. For the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume, and welcome to Marriage News Watch for June 1st, 2015. Here's the ad that a Tennessee TV station refused to air. It features a soldier talking about putting his life on the line as a military physician and how he would like to marry his boyfriend, a state judge. So why did NBC station WRCB reject the ad? Too controversial, they said. Marriage equality crosses the line. Meanwhile, this ad just started airing in Georgia, and even though it features various gay couples and their kids talking about marriage equality, somehow, multiple TV stations deemed it appropriate to broadcast. Hopefully Georgia will survive seeing these highly controversial images. Meanwhile, in Texas, multiple anti-gay bills have gone down in flames. Many of the proposed new laws would have caused drastic harm, and several probably weren't even constitutionally valid. The most the Senate was able to pass was a non-binding declaration in opposition to LGBT couples. That's still not great, but it could have been a lot worse. Speaking of worse, a proposed bill in North Carolina to stop LGBTs from marrying came very close to passing last week. The law would have allowed state officials to choose which citizens they want to serve or turn away, in effect using personal preference to overrule their oath of office. Governor Pat McCrory vetoed the bill after it passed the legislature, but there are still enough votes to override the veto if legislatures really want to push for it. Lawmakers in Alabama have been threatening to do away with marriage licenses altogether, and now it looks like they may actually be making good on their threat. The Senate has passed a bill that stops the state from issuing licenses to any couple, gay or straight. The impact of that is actually pretty minimal. Anyone can still get married. They just don't need to fill out as much paperwork from the state. So okay. We'll have a ruling from the Supreme Court on marriage very soon, which could settle the issue nationwide, once and for all, or it could prolong the fight indefinitely. Subscribe here on YouTube to stay up to date for the American Foundation for Equal Rights. I'm Matt Baume. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next week.


Live from Barcelona, Spain, it's theCUBE. Covering Cisco Live 2018. Brought to you by Cisco, Veeam, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. It's live coverage here at theCUBE in Barcelona, Spain for Cisco Live 2018 Europe. I'm John Furrier, the co-host of theCUBE. It's Stu Miniman, analyst at wikibon.com and also CoastCube, many events. Our next guest, Adam Cowlesy, Cisco Spark developer relations at Cisco. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Looking good today. Thanks. Love the Mojo this year. And again, we've been covering DevNet Create this past year. Cisco and developers really coming together and it's a real extension of a dominance that Cisco's had with network and the network side. Sure. A lot of alpha geeks, they know their stuff but as you guys are moving up the stack you guys are contributing more to application developers. So we're super excited to see that movement, some open source action. You got a lot of stuff. We're talking AI in the keynote, IoT. It's becoming software focused. It is. And everything from Cisco's traditional business core networking, enterprise networking, a lot of that stuff moving to software and becoming developed and run and managed by software. But then also seeing applications and in the application space and seeing everything from enterprise applications moving to a consumer space, moving to APIs, everything becoming open and no longer being an island and connected together and we're excited to be a big part of that. It's an engineering mindset in networking. Stu and I both have a networking background so we kind of know the culture. They can get stuff done and designing, architecture, engineering but now the DevNet has been a big story for Cisco. DevNet as a developer attraction, it's transforming the DNA of a Cisco stakeholder, MVP. It's not just networking, engineering, it's network ops, network dev ops, network software for applications. What specifically catalyzes that story for Cisco? Someone's like, hey, I'm seeing Cisco's got this whole DevNet vibe. What catalyzes that in the mind of the customer? Is it a specific product? Is it a approach? Is it spark? What product? What thing highlights Cisco's focus on developers? Well, so everything here in the DevNet zone obviously we've got a lot of in the collaboration space, a lot of things becoming developer focused and developer friendly and even being products that are being developed with a developer first mindset. We build it for the developer and then work backward from there rather than trying to tack a developer interface onto an existing product later. And so we've got everything from the networking and software defined networking and all of our ability to automate network deployment and services deployment to collaboration and communications and allowing people to communicate inside their existing apps. What's the big thing impact the customers? Now Cisco's moving up the stack, I get that love Cisco have Cisco. What's in it for me? I'm the customer. Right. So the big value to you as the customer is that now developers can bring in the applications that you're using every day into the products that you're using every day to communicate, to run your network, to do anything. The idea is eliminate those islands and those silos of applications where I used to have to go here to get one thing done and then I'd move over to this other thing, bring them together and either bring those products into Cisco products or bring the Cisco technologies into those other products and start blurring that line. Yeah, it's interesting, Stu and I were talking yesterday about the impact of cloud, cloud native and certainly DevOps, certainly on-premises and in the cloud as people start doing hybrid and start thinking multi-cloud. It's, there's two kind of schools of thoughts. Replatform everything or incrementally build on top of what you got. So I'd love to get your reaction to that because we don't, we see replatforming is good for certain things. We just want to throw away the old and bring in the new kind of lift and shift or just kind of, just change. But some cases you don't. I mean, you don't really want to replatform the network. You don't want to replatform a lot of systems. You got to build on top of it, learn new things. What's your reaction to that? And how would you advise customers and stuff? Oh, just replatform the whole thing. We actually run into that a lot with Spark because companies have massive investments in their communications infrastructure. And they've spent all of this money building out this communications infrastructure.  And they're, you know, we're not going to throw away our communications infrastructure to go to the cloud. And so that's why our hybrid model and our hybrid strategy is so effective because you can use all of those things that are inside and those investments that you've already taken to speed up voice traffic and video traffic in your network. But then also get the take advantage of the cloud where you've got the rapid deployment and the rapid evolution and the upgrade cycles. And I'm not having to go and upgrade everybody's machine every six months and, you know, being able to keep that investment and take advantage of that investment while moving to the cloud. That's pretty core though. I mean, that's like fundamental to that. Yes, absolutely. Adam, some of my friends, some of the hardcore networking people come to the show every year. You're pretty excited about the DevNet stuff. They're just like, not just getting my certification, learning about new things. It's like, I can like learn to code. Yes.  What kind of people are coming? What kind of activities do they get to do? So we've got a lot of, there's a gamut. So we're seeing a lot of traditional network engineers, people that have no background in programming, highly technical people, but have never written code before coming and starting to learn to code. I was talking to somebody yesterday. He's very excited. He's taking a certification that requires coding. And he says, I didn't know how to code three months ago. And I've started figuring this out, and it's so awesome, I get to do this. But then we're also seeing a shift toward people that are developers first, now coming to Cisco events, coming to Cisco Live, and we're running into them here. We're, when we first started doing this, so I've been with Cisco almost three years now. And when I first started coming to doing these DevNet events, we had to start at very basic levels. Here's code 101, and this is an introduction to APIs. Now we're able to get much deeper and start diving a lot deeper, both because the audience that's, the traditional Cisco audience is learning so much, but also because we're now attracting an audience that isn't looking at it and saying, oh, well Cisco's just a networking company. They're realizing. You're attracting two major constituencies. Absolutely. I mean, I think the network API stuff is really interesting to me. We were talking yesterday with Susie, we who's the vice president and CTO of the group, but it makes total sense that if you look at micro services and the Kubernetes doing, it's really changing the game and opening up the aperture of what developers can do with programmable infrastructure. Right, so it's always been kind of like, oh yeah, I could program some config stuff, but getting down to the network level and doing policy, it's pretty interesting. What's the impact of that? Because this is kind of like a new dynamic that's happening with DevOps where you've got pure programmable networking capability. Where are some people using this? Where do you see this evolving? What's the sequence? What's the order of evolution, if you will, with net DevOps, networking DevOps? You know, it's, I think the biggest evolution, the most interesting evolution is on the human side. So how this is changing the job role and how the engineer is having to change their mindset from I'm installing and racking equipment and my job is picking up this big, heavy box and putting it in here and plugging cables in to my job is thinking more logically about how the network needs to work and plugging those things into it. So they're slinging APIs rather than slinging cable. Absolutely, absolutely. It's also an interesting impact on Cisco's business here. We're such a channel-focused company, we've got all these partners that are out there selling things and resellers. As more things move to software and move to the cloud, how their business has to change. Now, I no longer make money by buying this box and selling it to you. I now make money by actually adding value and creating a lot of value there. Yeah. Adam, I wonder if you could take us inside the collaboration space. John and I a little bit old on some of this stuff.  We've been heavy in social. Where's kind of the UC collaboration? You know, where does all of that fit in the kind of Cisco's position in that market? Sure, so we see a big move to messaging, obviously. So both in the consumer space, you know, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or SMS and text messaging. And that's really starting to move into enterprise as well where it's not just messaging where I'm going to send you a quick IM to ask you a question, but my daily job is happening in messaging.  But with messaging and the rise of messaging and integrated messaging and voice and video and conferencing and meeting applications, we actually are now seeing a reduction in email usage among people that are using this. What about chatbots has been something that we've been talking about, kind of combination of, you know, machine learning with kind of the collaboration, you know, lots of companies using Slack these days as one of the pieces. Where do you see that fitting into it? So chatbots are growing in usage, in business in general. We're seeing a ton of usage in the enterprise. In fact, to the point where almost every single customer of Spark has a significant deployment of chatbots, either things they've built internally or things that are working with other products that they've downloaded. We've got our kind of our app store called Spark Depot where people can go and download and install different bots into their Spark platform. And we're seeing that those being used so much across every enterprise. One of the things that's interesting that we're in a unique position to take advantage of that a lot of companies aren't is we are completely enterprise focused. We are top down when somebody installs Spark in the network, it's the entire enterprise gets Spark. The entire company gets Spark. So now it's not these little silos of hey, this group is using this platform so for an application developer, I can go build an application once and know that my target is every company in the world. That as we start taking and becoming a more ubiquitous across enterprise that your bot then has a deployment target of that same footprint. Final question for me is what's the hottest DevNet zone area this week? What's getting the most love and attention and interest from you guys? You know, anything that is talking APIs. So we're walking around and seeing all of the classroom sessions, anything that we're talking about APIs and programmability specifically on web services, rest type APIs, crowds of people around the table, not big enough spaces for them. The classrooms are too small for to hold the amount of interest that's there. And what's interesting, I think you guys just to kind of give you some props here, I think this net DevOps concept is like groundbreaking. I think it's new to new to kind of, I think mainstream won't figure it out. Certainly I see people there, like some alpha engineers there, but like that's pretty big. I mean, that's really going to be, we see Kubernetes really opening up a whole new level of Cisco. Absolutely. That's going to change the games. Really congratulations to the team. That's really, not just visionary, it's conceptually relevant right now. So I think that's going to, you are skating through where the puck is coming. You're there, so congratulations. Thanks. Okay, we're here inside the DevNet zone, talking DevNet developers at Cisco, changing environment, the evolution of the networking personas now becoming software-driven and it's been popular here at Cisco Live. I'm Joe for Stu Miniman, live coverage from Barcelona at theCUBE. Right back with more after this short break.


Good afternoon to you. I am Justin Acadone, and this is Denise Update in Class TV Africa. President Mohamed Buhari has sworn in the new chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC, former Inspector General of Police, Dr Salomon Arashay. In January, the Senate confirmed the appointment of the former IGP as the chairperson of the PSC following a January 24 letter it received from the President seeking the confirmation of his appointment. Arashay took his oath of office at the Council Chamber of the President's Villa, Abodja. Addressing State House correspondent shortly after, Arashay promised to prioritize the welfare of officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force. I will be strong on training, retraining in different areas, especially alternative dispute reservations, and the issue of discipline will be taken very seriously. I will not want a situation where civil transactions are criminalized.  But at the same time, they are my colleagues and children, so I'm going to make sure that I sharpen their skills. I made them to have started having self-confidence in themselves. With more training, the trust gap between members of the public and the police, you know, will be bridged. I would expect that the Commission will allow the Inspector General of Police to exercise its operational control over the Nigerian Police Force and that the IG himself will respect, you know, the constitutional powers, you know, the police force. So, you know, there must be mutual respect between both parties, and I don't foresee any crisis anymore. Now, the Chairman of the Presidential Transition Council and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustafa, says air force are being put in place to ensure that the presidential transition process is not truncated. This follows the conclusion of the presidential election in February. The president is expected to hand over to Bola Amitinibu on May the 29th. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


We are moving towards seventy-third Independence Day. Time has come to free India of water crisis. If we cannot grow our food and we don't have water to drink, what are we going to do with our freedom? So, this is a call that everyone must take. In the seventy years since 1947, as a nation, we have many achievements. Our businesses have been built, our scientists have done incredible things. But the greatest achievement in independent India is that our farmers, with very minimal infrastructure, without any great modern scientific knowledge, just armed with traditional knowledge and wisdom are feeding 1.25 billion people. We have treated them so badly that in the last ten to twelve years, over three lakh farmers have committed suicide. One of the most important reasons why farmers are suffering is, there is a serious degradation and depletion of our water resources and the soil condition. How the soil used to be seventy years ago and how our soil is today is hugely, hugely depleted. However, all the water bodies were in this country seventy years ago and how it is today, there is a serious depletion. Our rivers on an average have depleted over forty percent. Our groundwater has depleted substantially. The volume of water that was available in 1947, seventy-two years ago per capita, today only twenty-one percent of that is available. So after seventy-two years, once again we need to free India from a severe soil depletion and water depletion. In a tropical nation, there is only one source of water which is monsoon, the rain. So the water that comes down upon the land in sixty days, we must hold it in the land for 365 days. The only and only way we can hold it is that there must be substantial vegetation. So the only way is to increase green carbon. There is no question of increasing forest because the population pressure is so big. The only way we can go ahead is agroforestry, horticulture, tree-based agriculture essentially. If a farmer shifts to agroforestry within five to seven years, his income has gone up three hundred to eight hundred percent. We have shifted sixty-nine thousand six hundred and seventy farmers into agroforestry in Tamil Nadu. Every year we're putting two to three thousand farmers into agroforestry. If you go at this pace, it will take another eighty to hundred years. By then, it'll be too late. I'm seeing how to crush this time of hundred years into twelve-year project. So as a part of this, we are running a campaign right now for people to support to plant a tree. Freeing India of water crisis means just this. If we put back India's land, at least one-third of it under shade, if you put it back, groundwater will replenish in huge way. Based on this, we are looking at how to plant two point four to a billion trees in the next twelve years in Cauvery basin so that the volume of water we sequester in the basin will be nine trillion liters of water, which is more than forty-five percent of Cauvery River right now. So freeing India is not just about Cauvery. To free India from water crisis and soil depletion means this is a quarter of human population, which if this population goes into soil distress and water distress, what will happen will be upon the conscience of entire humanity. It is not going to be pretty at all. We are moving towards seventy-third independence day. Time has come to free India of water crisis. Freeing India of water crisis is the independence movement that we need right now. We have a free land. If we cannot grow our food and we don't have water to drink, what are we going to do with our freedom?


Hi everyone, in this tutorial you will learn how to remove all items from a list in Python language. In order to do that, I'm gonna create a list, I'm gonna call it list1, this list is gonna have few elements, I'm gonna print it, this list has four elements. In order to remove all these elements, I'm gonna use clear method. So I'm gonna say list1.clear and this clear method is gonna remove all these items from a list and now our list is gonna be empty. I'm gonna print it and as you can see all these items are removed from our list with this clear method. That's all in this tutorial. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel. See you in the next tutorial. Happy coding!