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Today we're going to be discussing the anatomy that's associated with the urinary system. The urinary system is responsible for taking the blood and filtering the blood to create urine so that way the body can get rid of all the excess that we don't need any water soluble excess we don't need while retaining all the things that your body does need to continue to function properly with homeostasis. So in looking at the urinary system what I've created for you is this flow chart that diagrams the anatomy. We have the blood coming into the kidney and traveling all the way through to the nephron. The nephron is in black. The nephron is where we filter the blood to create what's known as filtrate. Filtrate is a fluid that is not finalized. It is something that we still need to adjust. There are things in there that we want to save versus things that we want to add to it so that we can get rid of it as waste. The waste is shown in blue that's urine and you can see it's flow out in the anatomy that it passes through on its way out. So what I wanted to do is I wanted to do an overview of each piece and discuss what happens in each piece so that way we can put this whole thing together and not only will you understand the physiology behind it but the anatomy as well. Okay so let's get started with the blood flow. We can see our starting point here is the heart. We've already done the circulatory system so you know that once the blood leaves the heart it travels through the aorta all the way descending through the diaphragm to pass into the abdominal cavity. Once it does the blood will travel into the renal artery. Okay the renal artery is the large vessel that leads into the kidney, right in the hillum. From there the renal artery is going to branch and you're going to see what's now known as the segmental artery. The segmental artery is going to be found in the renal pelvis area so in this large collection area you can see the renal artery segments up into the segmental artery. The segmental artery once again is going to branch and become known as the interlobar artery. The interlobar artery is located in these renal columns so you can see them in between the pyramids so it's between the lobes interlobar. Okay and then that continues on to become the arcuate artery and you can see with the arcuate artery it actually arcs over top of the pyramid hence why we have its name arcuate. Okay next is going to branch again and become what's known as either the cortical radiate arteries or the interlobular arteries. I like to remember interlobular but there is a spelling issue if you can see we already talked about the interlobar. Interlobular has an extra UL in it so it's important that you guys make sure you write that down. The way that I've remembered it is that the famous movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off Bueller was trying to get as far away from school as possible so when I look at the interlobular artery this is the one that's furthest away so the interlobar is going to be in the renal columns and the interlobular is going to be out in the renal cortex. Okay and then from there the interlobular, excuse me it becomes the afferent arterial. The afferent arterial is quite large in diameter and it's going to funnel the blood into the capillary bed so just like the rest of the circulatory system we've seen the arterial funnels the blood into the capillary. The capillary in this case is called the glomerulus and the glomerulus is this twisted capillary ball where the more that we can fold and put into the space the more exchange we're going to have or the more filtration so it's really important that we have this twisted capillary ball and so we have to make sure it's really twisted to safe space. Once the blood moves from the glomerulus it travels into the efferent arterial. The efferent arterial is quite smaller than the afferent arterial. The efferent is leading away. Most of the blood is going to be filtered at the glomerulus so there's going to be less of it traveling through the efferent arterial so less diameter for less volume. Once the blood leaves the efferent arterial it continues on through the renal cortex and what's known as peritubular capillaries. The peritubular capillaries are the capillaries that are associated with the nephron and we'll get into that in just a minute but these are the ones that are found in the actual cortex itself so in this outer portion of the kidney that's where you find the peritubular capillaries. Okay from there the blood will travel through what's known as the vasorecta. The vasorecta is a capillary bed that is attached to the peritubular capillaries but it extends down into the medulla so peritubular capillaries are up in the cortex the outer portion vasorecta is going to be deeper down in the medulla. Okay but just like all capillaries okay once the blood goes into a capillary you're going to have exchange and then the blood's going to travel back out through the venous system so once the blood travels out from the cortex it's going to go into the interlobular vein. Notice the similarity there between interlobular artery interlobular vein so these are sharing a name based on their location. Remember these are also called cortical radiate so they radiate through the cortex. From the interlobular vein we're just doing our flow chart in reverse. Argue at vein arcs back over top of that pyramid then into the interlobar vein and going through that renal column then back out through the renal vein. Okay from the renal vein it's going to travel through that inferior vena cava back up to the heart.


Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of reading vegan hate comments now This one here is going to be directed towards a video that I uploaded on my Facebook page If you're not on my Facebook page, check it out. It's joey carp strong now. This video was I was out of Melbourne Gas chamber called dial diamond Valley pork. This was one of the first Gas chambers where the activists got the footage from inside the gas chambers. So it's a very horrible place and Not very nice to be out the front of now, of course There's got to be an array of interesting comments this video reached nearly 700,000 people in a couple of days Okay, the first comment is this is what Muslims pray and bless the animal before we sacrifice them to eat it So it doesn't just feel pain, but also to fulfill the stomachs that are in need and don't have food We bless them as well. This man here seems to think I mean this this probably isn't his own thought This didn't come from his own mind.  I wonder if that would still apply Would that still apply if I were to kill a human being prayed First killed the human being would that exonerate me from the crime to fulfill the stomachs that are in need now The thing is this man looks like he's from a affluent Western country Maybe even if he's not third world countries you still have access to grains easier than animals The reason there's starving children in these places is because the grain is being fed to the animals 50% of the U.S.'s grain is fed to livestock the reason there are actually hungry stomachs is because of animal agriculture for starters I don't I'm not sure why this animal sacrifice loophole are in these religious books I don't know who put that in there at what time they were put in there But if you are a Muslim, I want you to think of this it is written 192 times in the Quran that God is merciful and Compassionate okay merciful means to show mercy now if you can watch That video of those pigs screaming in there, okay, and don't have it in your heart to show them mercy. It is a sin To murder God's creation. I mean if we followed this man's logic We could use prayer to justify basically anything. Here's another one. I'm sorry, but this is just life We have dogs as pets You can't really have a pig as a pet and plus we are humans and we're at the top of the food chain So it's only normal for us to eat pigs. Okay, so this is what human beings do we use speciesism and culture Determines how we treat these certain species. So We have dogs as pets. Okay, who taught you that who taught you that we have dogs as pets your culture did now This is an arbitrary line. We've drawn these animals are our pets.  They're playful. They love their families. They want to hang out and play very playful animals pigs Amazing to have as a companion now I don't know if you've ever visited an animal sanctuary and met any pigs But I think you should we are at the top of the food chain I'll throw you in the ocean with some apex predator sharks and see how top of the food chain. You really are my friend I'll throw you in the jungle with a lion a real carnivore and see how top of the food chain. You are my friend these distinctions we make between animals pigs are food dogs are friends they're they merely are Determined by culture and programming and there's no moral difference between a dog and a pig just what humans seem to have Selected over time now in China as some other places they eat dogs barley they eat dogs Okay, dogs are food there to culture is not the same as morality.  You have obviously never had to careful pigs mine are free range and they sound like that There's a lot of screaming in this video from the pigs screaming from inside Do the world do the world a favor and talk about lettuce or something do it do you even do a little bit of research on a carrot?  Let me tell you something about free range pigs They all get gas chambered too. There's no difference in the way a free range pig is killed unless they're killing them on the farm with a ballpoint hammer or a 22 caliber rifle to their head Stabbing them in the throat. There's no difference to how free range pigs are killed They're mercilessly slaughtered lowered down into a gas chamber with all the rest of the factory farm pigs So and just because pigs squeal on your free range farm I'm very well well aware pig scream now the screams that were coming out of there were heightened They were screaming very loud very Urgently, okay, and they were they were traumatized on that truck I'd seen those pigs before they went into there and they were traumatized on that truck They didn't even want to take water. They were scared. Okay, you could tell I know something about compassion, mate I look in these animals eyes I open my heart to these animals and that's something you know nothing about Okay, otherwise you wouldn't be hurting these pigs for your own use Okay, objectifying them Sending them off to be chopped up into a million pieces so you can get a paycheck Compassion is something, you know nothing about the amount of I love bacon and my Tormented animals listen to this comment. I love bacon and my tormented animals now This is me pleading with a police officer in this video. She's nearly crying here in the screams of these animals They are being tormented. I kept saying they're being tormented and this guy's saying I love bacon and my tormented animals now the The type of mindset it takes to say something like that Maybe he's ridiculing it because he's feeling a bit uncomfortable about it But either way to say something that like that in the face of such horror It takes a very special mind. It takes a very conditioned person It takes someone who's a product of a very sick society to say that if you can listen to the terrified screams of these pigs Okay, and say something so insensitive like I still love bacon if you can listen to the yelps of terrified dogs Okay, screaming terrified yelping while they're getting their paws chopped off Skinned alive boiled alive and ready to be eaten if you can still make a comment like mmm dog meat though. Yum I love dog bacon.  Well, the World Health Organization in 2015 I believe classified bacon as a class one cast image in okay in the same category as Plutonium asbestos smoking cigarettes the biggest cancer on society is actually eating bacon So sorry buddy wrong on that one again. Okay. There's another one man. I want me some bacon now these guys They've obviously heard the screams of the pigs and this is the way they deal with it This is really the way they deal with it. They don't want to access that part of their emotion They don't want to open up their heart their heart their mind and heart has been closed So if they open up that part of their heart that makes them vulnerable vulnerable to their their feelings and and oh God forgive if you extended compassion to these pigs these animals would you extend compassion to children if they were children in their screaming? pigs had the same mental capacity as children and Okay Small children toddlers in their screaming Screaming for help. Okay terrified. Would you be like I want some children bacon now? The level of conditioning is so profound that we can hear Innocent childlike beings screaming like that for help and say I still want to eat their tortured Tormented mutilated chopped up bodies in a sandwich. This is the society. We're living in a very sick twisted society Okay, he just compared slavery to bacon. I'm done now This here. I've had a few comments like this and I've had a few debates now People don't like the fact that I'm saying that these pigs are enslaved that it's slavery what's happening to these pigs now They're saying I shouldn't compare Pigs to human beings now, which is not what I'm doing. Okay. I said human slavery was once legal But it was immoral. Okay animal slavery is legal, but it's still immoral if it's legal Doesn't mean it's moral people are saying that I'm saying that humans are the same as pigs or I'm somehow saying these beings are the same No, the injustice is what's the same and it saddens me that people that come from a history of oppression Black people Jewish people, you know who had atrocities like human atrocities like the Holocaust Like the Atlantic slave trade and I'm well aware of how atrocious those humans were treated In the slave ships the conditions were worse Then how animals of that time were treated. I'm well aware. They had like a 50% mortality mortality rate on the boats women African women had their stomach slit open so that children could be ripped out on the ground and animals could come and eat them I know what happened in the Atlantic slave trade I don't know what happened in the Holocaust, but it saddens me and disappoints me that people have who have gone through this oppression In their history and their family line cannot see another being suffering and say That is slavery to that is oppression to that is a Holocaust too I think that people that have gone through that should be able to connect more with these beings suffering Just because it's a pig a cow a lamb a chicken a fish They what they are experiencing the injustice they are experiencing is the same. I'm not saying they're the same beings Human beings and animals. Yes, they are different, but in every way that matters. We are the same We suffer the same. Okay, we want our families not to be separated We don't want to be enslaved and objectified and used for our bodies. Okay, these pigs are being enslaved Objectified used for their bodies Tormented animals are being murdered by the trillions every year. Okay, and I just implore people especially from these cultures that have been oppressed to open their heart and open their mind and see that the oppression the injustice Is the same for these animals


Police have fired tear gas on protesters who gathered to commemorate one year since Nigerian youth took to the streets to protest and to brutality at Ashtag and SARS. Correspondent Destiny Momo, who was at the Lekitogate area, reports that the protesters scampered for safety as there were sounds of gunshots and confusion. The ensas at the Lekitogate, the protest ground and surprisingly the whole place is filled up by protesters right behind me as security operatives guiding the protesters from coming further you know so that passive vides and motorists will be able to ply the route without any hitches. There was a massive gathering this Wednesday morning at the Lekitogate. It looked like a transfer of aggression of pain and anguish. The protesters rallied and fought an illegal procession, causing some greed luck earlier in the day. While the police were stationed at the Toe Gate for security, lawyers for the ensas movement and other activists advised the protesters to vacate the scene as they foresaw a situation where the process would be hijacked. The point is that we have made the point. They said don't come out and we came out. It is good time to leave. The protesters were on the tad as they make their demands known. There are still over 300 protesters in prison. Alas gunshots could be heard. The police fired tear gas canisters at protesters in a bid to disperse the crowd. The commissioner of police Hakkimo Dumosu made an appearance. He explained the reason for his men's action. Some protesters were reportedly arrested as the police had warned that anyone seen at the Toe Gate without an ID card will be arrested. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police Hakkimo Dumosu says hoodlums were dispersed at the leaky Toe Gate, the venue of the ensas memorial protest. He said this while explaining why operatives of the command fired tear gas canisters to disperse those at the Toe Gate. Dumosu who spoke to newsmen at the Toe Gate said the protesters had already left the location, explaining that those who hung around were hoodlums with intentions to steal and cause destruction. So that's really good to do it. One, secondly now we agreed that the moon needs to move in vehicles, not on foot. They can blur their house. I don't want to blur their house, okay? So they can wave their flags, I don't want to wave their flags, okay? They can display their posters there, no problem. So that's one, but they are not to be, sorry, so they are not to be on foot. And we agreed that they won't come down from the vehicle to address anybody. That's where people will start coming in, that's where people will now start converging. So and as I return, we need to use minimal force to disperse the miscreants, not the protesters. I discuss with them that they have the right to protest there should be within the midst of the law. We'll find out about fresh news updates.


Please join me in a moment of centering silence. Please remain seated as we sing our in-gathering hymn, number 360, and the words are written in your order of service. Good morning. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual, as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Karen Rose Gredler, and on behalf of the congregation, I would like to extend a special welcome to any visitors who are with us this morning.  Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service, and to visit the library, which is directly across from the center doors of this auditorium. Bring your beverages and your questions. Members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you. You may also look for persons holding teal-colored stoneware coffee mugs. These are FUS members knowledgeable about our faith community who would welcome visiting with you. Experience guides are generally available to give building tours after each service. So if you would like to learn more about this sustainably designed addition to our National Landmark Meeting House, please meet John Powell on this side of the auditorium, your left, after the service. We welcome children to stay for the duration of the service. However, because it is difficult for some in attendance to hear in this lively acoustical environment, our child haven back in that corner, I see some people back there already, and the commons out behind the auditorium are excellent places to go if your child needs to talk or move around, dance, sing, whatever. The services can still be seen and heard well from those areas. This would also be an excellent time to turn off any devices that might cause a disturbance during the hour, especially cell phone ringers. I'd now like to acknowledge those individuals who help our services run smoothly. This morning, David Bryles is our sound operator. Tom Boykoff is our lay minister. Mary Elizabeth Conkel was your breeder. Usher's include Nancy Daly, Marty Hollis, Gail Henslin, Dick Goldberg, and Liza Monroe. So I guess we're back to fall and people are engaged and I am very, very happy to see it. Plenty of ushers today. Hospitality, folks making coffee and lemon water, whatever, back in the kitchen are Jackie Toberlin and Biss Nitschke. Celia Boliard was in charge or is in charge of our pulpit palm care today and and Smiley is watching after the orchids. The floral offering is from our alliance. And as I said, John Powell is planning to give a tour. Please note the announcements in your red floors insert to your order of service. There's information here about things going on today and this week and and soon upcoming at the society and I have a couple of things to mention specifically. Each year our seventh grade compass point students survey the congregation about their beliefs. This year's survey focuses on our seven principles. Students will be in the commons area following service and will hand out surveys for you to please complete. Please support their questioning minds by participating in this survey. One last thing next weekend and I'm so excited is art in the right place. And for the first time the sale will be held on Saturday as well as Sunday. With 47 artists and a wide variety of beautifully made items you'll want not to miss. The art fair runs from 10 to 6 on Saturday and 9 to 4 on Sunday. You may want to arrive at FUS Extra early next Saturday so you can shop before services begin. 15% of the artist sales go to our children's religious education program. So you'll be supporting local talent and our children's programs. And I would encourage you to look for anybody like me who has a little paper sticker that says look what I got at the art fair because I bought this beautiful necklace a couple years ago and I love it. So hopefully there's some other people with samples too. And now again welcome. We hope today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart and stir your spirit. These are the days that have been given to us. And so let us rejoice and be glad in them. These are the days of our lives. Let us live them well in love and in service. These are the days of mystery and wonder. Let us cherish and celebrate them in gratitude together. These are the days that have been given us. Let us make of them stories worth telling to those who come after. I invite you to rise and body your spirit for the lighting of our chalice. Please join me in reading the words of affirmation printed in your program. To face the world's darkness, a chalice of light. To face the world's coldness, a chalice of warmth. To face the world's terrors, a chalice of courage. To face the world's turmoil, a chalice of peace. May its glow fill our spirits, our hearts and our lives. And now on this fine 30th day of October, please turn to your neighbor in exchange with them a warm greeting. Please be seated. And I would invite any children who are present to come forward for the message for all ages, superheroes, spooks, angels, whoever you are. Well, let's see. I don't see any Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump masks here. How many of you who are up here are old enough to vote? You may not be old enough to vote, but I bet that some of you know what's going to be happening a little more than a week from now, a week from Tuesday. What do you know? The election. And who's perhaps the most important person that we're going to be electing? Well, the president. Let's keep this nonpartisan up here, okay? And we cannot, we cannot vote for Barack Obama, can we? No, because he's had two terms and so he can't run again for the president of the United States. So in January, there's going to be a completely different person in the White House and leading our country. Now, because the election is just around the corner, I wanted today to talk about another president whose birthday was 281 years ago. And that was John Adams. And John Adams was our second president, the second president of the United States. And he was also our first Unitarian president, the first of five Unitarian presidents. And so I want to share with you a little bit of information about John Adams and the Adams family. So John Adams, the future president, was the oldest of three sons. And like most Americans 280 years ago, he grew up on a farm. And his father, who was also named John, was a farmer. But Father John was also very well educated and very respected by his neighbors. He held a very important position in the church that his family attended. And he also held a number of public offices in the town that they lived in, including one that would be kind of like our police chief today, was called the Constable. Now, John Adams, when he was growing up, was a little bit afraid, not of his father, but of his mother, Susanna, because she was known to have a pretty terrible temper. And when John got into some mischief, his mother could get really mad at him. But his father was more easy going, and he really admired his father. And although his father was constantly telling John, you know, you need to work hard, John, well, he wasn't that hard a worker when he was a kid, and his father didn't push him too hard. So after a while, though, because John was pretty easy going about his schoolwork, his parents started to get a little bit worried that maybe he was letting his talent go to waste. And so one day his father came to him and said, John, what would you like to be when you grow up?  Well, his dad had higher ambitions for him, better plants. And so the next day, he took his son out into the fields to work with him. And he worked young John, who was only ten years old at the time, just as hard as he would have worked any adult. And that night, young John came home tired, and all of his muscles were aching, and just covered with dirt from the fields. And his father said, well, John, do you still want to be a farmer? He thought he had taught him a valuable lesson about how hard it was to be a farmer, but John looked at him and replied, yes, I think that's what I want to do. Well, John really didn't like farming all that well in the first place, but he was a very stubborn young man, and he did not want his father to think that that experience had caused him to change his mind. But after that experience with that hard work, he did begin to study harder, and after a while, just a few years later, he had made good enough grades that he could go to Harvard University to study law. And so he studied at Harvard, and he became a lawyer, and he was very successful in practicing law. And in the beginning of his practice, he met a young woman named Abigail, and they got married, and they had five children together. Now, the unfortunate thing is that John didn't see a whole lot of his children when they were growing up, because his law practice took all of his time, and then he got involved with politics, and he was gone at meetings most nights. And then he held some offices that caused him to be gone from their home for years at a time. And during those years when he was gone, Abigail wrote him 2,000 letters to try to stay connected. Well, John Adams played a very major role in the American Revolution. He worked to free our country from British rule, and then he actually wrote the treaty in 1783 that ended the Revolutionary War. And because of these contributions, these good things that he did, our country elected him as our first vice president. And who was the first president? George Washington. You're right. So there was George Washington was the president, and John Adams was the first vice president. And after George Washington retired, then John Adams was elected our second president. Yeah. A true fact here, our first president allowed slavery. And actually, so did our third president, who was Thomas Jefferson, and a few others besides that. But anyway, back to John Adams. With the end of his presidency, he retired. And he went home to Boston. And he and his wife enjoyed life at home, really, for the first time since they'd been married. And their daughter came to live with them with her children. And so they had the grandchildren in the house. And they really, really enjoyed helping to raise the grandchildren. John Adams lived to be 91 years old, to be a very old man. And he died on July the 4th, Independence Day, 1826. But he was alive long enough to see his oldest son, John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth president of the United States. So there were two Adams who became president of the United States. And by the way, Abigail, John's wife, had some pretty strong political opinions of her own. And she always was willing to share her opinions with her husband. And so when John and the other founding fathers were busy drafting the Constitution that set all the rules about how our government works, Abigail wrote to John and said, John, remember the ladies. Remember our interests as women, which, of course, they didn't do. And so it was 130 years before women could actually cast a ballot, could vote, or run for public office. But if she were alive today, Abigail Adams would probably be very, very delighted. And why is that? Because for the first time in our nation's history, we might just elect a woman to be president of the United States. So don't hold your breath. But late next Tuesday, we may have our answer. Thank you for listening. And we're going to have a little change in our order of service. And we're going to have the kids go ahead and go to their classes now and have our meditation after they have exited. So have fun in your classes, folks. And I invite you to be seated and join me now in the spirit of meditation. As October ends and autumn's last adamant leaves are whipped from their branches by the galloping wind, as scarves and caps come out of storage once again and storm windows replace the screens that once invited summer into our homes. As squadrons of geese set out for southern destinations and earthbound squirrels hastened to provide against the dire straits of winter, at such a time as this, do our thoughts return to things past, to life retreating, and to life that is no more.  Long into November, our hearts protest summer's passing. The end of warm days and fragrant nights, shirt sleeve strolls along lush lake and river banks. And likewise, on this weekend before all souls, images of old dear companions who once graced the summer of our lives, crowed in upon our memories. Let us not be hasty to push them out again. Let us not be charry of the sadness and the regret that their presence evokes. May these brave and lovely spirits live again in our tender thoughts for our recollections attest to their enduring importance. They prove that death and distance are powerless to sever the bonds that connect truly loving hearts. Now I would have us recall those members, former members, and friends of First Unitarian Society who have died within the past year. These are their names. Sally P. Hansen, Mara McDonald, Pete Krueger, Wade Shuddy, Louise Crook, Ruth Hursko, Patricia Leonardi, Laura Smale, Ori Lauchs, Martha Figueroa, Frederick Gooding, Jr. Let us continue on in a moment or two more of silent meditation. Peace be with them and with us all, amen. The first reading is very much in the spirit of all souls. It comes from a collection of essays by the physician Rachel Naomi Raymond, who has spent a good deal of time working with people in hospice. And she's also been a professor at the University of California Medical School at San Francisco.  About halfway through the hour, I suggest that my students reflect for a few moments and then find an image, an image that symbolizes for them what the practice of medicine means to them personally. And then we spend the remainder of the hour talking about it. But one year near the end of the hour, a student volunteered that he must have done the exercise wrong, that he hadn't been able to come up with a symbol. Instead, he remembered a phrase of music going through his head, a phrase that he recognized from Beethoven's Third Symphony. Deciding to pursue his statement a little further, I asked my student when he had last heard the Third Symphony. He looked at me steadily. His eyes became sad because the Third Symphony had been played four weeks ago at the funeral of a friend who had died in a motorcycle accident. The class became very still. Well, what have you learned from your friend's death? I asked. My student paused. He missed his friend terribly, he said. And several times during the past weeks, he had picked up his phone to call his friend to share something with him, and then he would remember. And each time he remembered, he would feel the loss acutely. And he had not thought about it in so many words, but his friend's death had shown him that no one can ever be replaced. Every life is unique. Every life is precious. He sat for a moment in silence on the verge of tears. I guess this is the bottom line for me, he told us. If this were not so, then none of the stuff that we are learning would matter to me at all. And so we all sat together and thinking this over. And in the silence, many of us recognized that this was the bottom line for us as well. Now, when I was small, Naomi Raymond says, there was a week when the whole country knew that every life is irreplaceable. It was many years ago, as I recall, well, and for a week, rescue teams worked to bring her out. And this was the time before television, but radios, radios were playing everywhere, in the stores, in buses, everywhere, even at school. And strangers out on the street would stop and ask each other, any news? And people of all faith traditions were praying together for this young child. And as that rescue effort went on, no one asked if the child had a parent who was a professor or a cleaning woman or was the child of a wealthy family or a poor family. No one asked whether the child was black or yellow or brown or white. Was that child good or naughty, smart or slow? Because in that week, everybody knew that these things, these externalities didn't matter at all, that the importance of a child's life had nothing to do with these. And without saying this aloud, we all knew that there was also nothing personal in this. Not only was that human life of great value, but we recognized that our lives were of equal value. If we ourselves had fallen down that well, the thoughts and the prayers of the whole country, they would have been with us, too. So if on the occasion of someone falling down a well, we all knew this, well, then we must have known it all along. This dramatic crisis had simply allowed us to remember something that had always been true. But then the rescue was completed. The little girl was safe and everything was forgotten. You know, it's really surprising how easy it is to forget that every life matters and that we are each of a kind, each one worthy of unconditional love. The second reading is a poetic selection from the Native American poet, Joy Harjo. She's a member of the Creek tribe out of Oklahoma. Remember the sky that you were born under. Know each of the stars' stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun's birth at dawn. That's the strongest point in time. Remember sundown and the giving away of the light. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath.  Remember your father as well.  Remember the earth whose skin you are. Red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth, brown earth. We are the earth. Remember the plants, the trees, the animal life who all have their own tribes, their own families, their histories. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. Remember the wind, remember her voice. She knows the origin of the universe. And remember that you are all people and all people are you. Remember that you are this universe and the universe is you. Remember that all is in motion. All is growing is you. And remember that language comes from this. Remember the dance that language is, that life is. Just remember. One of my earliest memories is of an automobile ride along the Rock River on Illinois Route 2. And rounding a curve on that particular highway, this massive concrete monolith rising 48 feet above the bluff on which it stands, suddenly comes into view. And the solemn figure gazes out over a landscape that his people had once claimed as their own. Now, although the sculptor, Laredo Taft, bestowed the name Black Hawk upon his creation, it actually bears little physical resemblance to that local 19th century Native American warrior chief. But the exploits of that sock leader, that's what inspired Laredo Taft in his creative enterprise as he sought to capture his subjects indomitable spirit. And indeed, even as a three-year-old in that car, I was powerfully struck by my first glimpse of that silent sentinel. Now, Black Hawk, as some of you probably know, played a minor role in the history of Madison and the Four Lakes region. In 1832, retreating from advancing American forces with the remnants of his tribe, Black Hawk pitched camp near Pheasant Branch before moving further west. Battle with the Americans was joined at Wisconsin Heights a few days later, and there Black Hawk showcased his strategic abilities, holding a much superior force at bay as the women, children, and elders of his tribe continued their trek toward the Mississippi and hopefully toward safety. In the end, however, the exhausted Indians were overtaken near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Bad Axe Rivers, and hundreds of tribe members were killed, Black Hawk himself was taken prisoner. Years later, in the autobiography that he dictated to an Emanuensis, the defeated chief described his treatment at the hands of his captors. He said, we are now confined to the barracks, forced to wear the ball and chain. This was extremely mortifying and altogether useless. Were my captors afraid that I would break out of the barracks, that I would run away, or was this punishment that was inflicted upon me, was it ordered? If I had been taken you prisoner on the field of battle, I would not wound your feeling so much knowing that a brave war chief would always prefer death to dishonor. In the dedication to that same autobiography, the aged Black Hawk addressed General Henry Atkinson, who had earned his grudging admiration as a just and honorable soldier. May the great spirit shed light on your path, he said. May you never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to. What seemed to bother Black Hawk the most about his fate was not defeat, for in that struggle, he knew that he had acquitted himself well. Rather, it was the assault upon his dignity that rankled him the most. That's what humiliation is really all about, isn't it? Our English word derives from the Latin dignus, which literally means worthy. As a defeated adversary wearing the ball and chain, Black Hawk was made to feel unworthy, a person of no account, a person without merit. And reviewing that history, that story, I was reminded of a recent conversation that I had with Everett Mitchell, now a Dane Coutty circuit court judge. And I asked Everett a few weeks ago how it was going, how he liked his new position. And he very quickly expressed a concern about the way that defendants in his courtroom were handled by jail staff. Why should they all be brought into my presence in shackles? He asked. Well, there are clearly some safety issues here to be concerned about, but in order to spare prisoners, particularly nonviolent offenders, further humiliation, Everett Mitchell hoped that shackling might become the exception rather than the rule in Dane County judicial proceedings. Now, the first of our Unitarian Universal principles clearly addresses this issue. It admonishes us to affirm and promote the inherent, the inherent dignity and worth of every person. There are those two words again, side by side, dignity and worth. From an etymological standpoint, as we've already seen, they are very closely related. To retain a sense of dignity is to feel that your life counts for something, that it has some concrete value. It suggests in terms of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative that each of us deserves to be treated as an end in ourselves and not as a means for fulfilling someone else's purposes. Now, one of the most effective ways for breaking an individual spirit is to progressively and brutally strip them of their dignity. Pile humiliation upon humiliation. And that is precisely what U.S. military staff utilizing the advice of professional psychologists said about doing at the notorious Iraqi prison Abu Ghra'id, until, of course, those abusive practices were exposed and summarily discontinued. In recording his own experience as a prisoner at Auschwitz, Primo Levi, an Italian Jew, a professional chemist, said that that prison, that concentration camp, was designed to strip residents of every last vestige of their humanity. And the object, he said, was to beat us down physically, emotionally, spiritually until, as he put it, the veneer of civilization had been completely removed. Well, Primo Levi, for one, resisted. And he said, through it all, we still possess one last power and we must defend that with all the strength we have to the very last, and that is the power to refuse our consent. But he didn't always feel that way. He was inspired in his resistance by a friend and a fellow prisoner. This man had been a soldier and he watched as this soldier would go out into the prison yard every morning and wash himself with the camp's dirty water without the benefit of soap, with no towel to dry himself with. Steinloch was the soldier's name and he would scrub his face and his upper body thoroughly and then dry himself with his outer jacket. And as he watched him, Primo Levi originally said to himself, what's the point of that? If I were to be given a few extra minutes between revelry and work, I'd take it easy. I'd just enjoy a few moments of idleness. But then he had this insight and he said to himself, we must certainly wash our faces without soap, with the camp's dirty water, not because the regulations say we must, but for dignity's sake, for propriety's sake. We must continue to walk erect without dragging our feet, not in homage to Prussian discipline, but simply to remain alive, to not begin to die. And with that passage, Primo Levi suggests that life itself may be contingent upon our ability, even under the most deplorable, humiliating conditions to preserve our dignity, to walk erect, to retain some shred of our original humanity. Short of that, we're simply marking time until death carries us away. It's an interesting proposition to ponder. Unitarian Universalism's first principle states that dignity is intrinsic to our nature, that we possess it, each one of us, as a birthright. It is not something that we are obliged to earn, although it does require some effort on our part to maintain it, to preserve it. No one gives us that dignity, but people can, in fact, take it away from us. In this respect, dignity is not at all the same thing as pride, which is contingent on some form of personal achievement. And the Chinese sage Confucius didn't even think that two sentiments, pride and dignity, were compatible with each other. The wise man, he said, has dignity without pride. The foolish man has pride without dignity. What's the source of this peculiar sensibility, one that we humans seem to possess exclusively? Well, we observe certain animals, perhaps the cat and dog in our own house, and we might remark to ourselves sometimes, hmm, that cat carries himself with dignity. But then we have to ask ourselves, does it matter to that cat? Does it matter to a dog or an eagle? I rather doubt it. As animals, we have a lot in common with other members of the animal kingdom, particularly the mammalian kingdom. But dignity may be one of those traits that is unique to acutely self-conscious beings such as ourselves. In any case, it does seem to be a universal or near universal quality of our humanness. We have these two people from radically different cultures, Black Hawk and General Atkinson, but they recognize the importance of dignity and it became the basis of their sympathy and their mutual regard. Where does it originate? Where does it come from? Judaism and Christianity attribute our sense of dignity to the Imago Dei, that metaphysical spark of the divine that God bestowed upon human beings at the creation and that sets us apart from all other sentient life. But that's not the only explanation. Other cultures, the ancient Greeks, Buddhists, have come up with alternate explanations for this intrinsic attribute. Dignity's source isn't obvious, it's not clear. But that's not the point. In order to avoid confusion, I want to be clear about the context in which I want the term to be understood. When we use the word dignity in common speech, we often use it to refer to the behavior of highly cultivated gentle men and gentle women. The dignified person carries him or herself with confidence, perhaps even with an air of condescension. A person of dignity, a person of such stature, may well refuse to engage in certain pedestrian activities because as they put it, it is beneath my dignity. But for present purposes, we should not so construe this word. And the examples that I have just cited represent an excess, a super-arrogation of dignity. But the fact is we are all meant to enjoy a measure of dignity as an aspect of our core humanity. It is one of those attributes that defines us as a person that convinces us, as Rachel Naomi Raymond suggested, that our lives, each one of our lives, does count for something, is irreplaceable. Even at an early age, we begin to recognize when we have been affronted, when we are humiliated. I remember as a child, those few times when I was punished for some misdeed. Fortunately, they were rare. Or when I was subjected to criticism or when a joke was made at my expense. I remember those occasions, but I don't remember the details. The substance of those experiences faded from my memory. It underpinned myself. I wasn't all that secure in myself to begin with. I lacked autonomy. I was largely dependent on others, on my elders. And so I needed to regularly be reassured about my standing, my worthiness in the world. But barring early experiences that are truly traumatic, that cause one to have serious doubts about their worth, I and all of us will enter our adulthood with our dignity more or less intact. But even as adults, we remain at risk, don't we? A reversal of our financial fortunes. A health crisis. A development that suddenly reduces us to a state of dependency. Any of those things can cause any one of us to lose our sense of worthiness. And in our own culture, with its unforgiving ethos of rugged individualism, people who suddenly find themselves needing to accept public assistance are made to feel inadequate, even shameful. Because the application process itself, as many have said, leaves one feeling demeaned. And dignity. Dignity is also harder to maintain as each and every one of us grow older and less and less able to make autonomous decisions, satisfy our own needs. Elders who have transitioned to assisted living facilities or to nursing homes, become especially susceptible to despondency because they must increasingly rely on others in order to subsist. With dependency, older adults often express the fear that they have become a burden, a drag on other members of their family's lives, conceivably an object of their resentment. For each of us, Wendy lost beta rights, there is a limit to the amount of surrender that we are able to countenance without losing ourselves completely. You know, a certain amount of reciprocity seems to be required if a person is to hang on to at least a piece of their dignity. Because if you're always on the receiving end, if you never have an opportunity to return the favor, you're no longer gonna feel like a real person. Old age is particularly difficult, Simone de Beauvoir once said, because it feels so alien. How do I become this different person and yet still remain myself? That's the rub. Now there are practices that we can employ to protect our dignity, to protect other people's dignity as well. So say we are functioning, cast into the role of a caregiver, providing regular assistance to an infirm relative. Well, the first thing we can do is we can avoid making a fuss over them, providing our assistance as unobtrusively as possible, as cheerfully as we can, because that reduces the possibility that the recipients of our good offices are going to feel ashamed. You know, there's a central premise of practice in Judaism. It's called the performing of mitzvots, good deeds. But there are helpful and unhelpful ways Judaism teaches in which that should be done. If you are going to do a good deed for someone, do it in a way that uplifts them rather than debases them. And there are other ways in which we can help people to uphold their dignity. Residents of nursing homes who are simply given a potted plant to take care of remain more alert, more cheerful than those who are deprived completely of any caregiving responsibility. Appreciative listening, that can also help, signaling to an otherwise dependent individual that their accumulated experience, that their hard-won wisdom is still useful, that it still can give me something valuable to hang on to. And then more generally, Donna Hicks of Harvard University is a scholar who has written extensively on dignity and the important role that dignity plays in negotiating our relationships. And she points in particular to two principles that are crucial here. Acceptance and inclusion. In practicing acceptance in our interactions with others, we meet and we commune with them as equals. We treat them neither as superior nor inferior to ourselves, regardless of their religion, their race, their ethnicity, their sexual orientation, their class, their disability. We try to accept them uncritically for who and what they are reminding ourselves that when we judge people by those criteria, we are calling into question their inherent sense of dignity. Acceptance. With inclusion, Hicks invites us to go a step further, opening ourselves to deeper relationships, taking concrete steps to demonstrate to those who may be different from us that they truly belong, that they deserve a place in our city, our neighborhood, our schools, and our faith communities. This is how we continue to dignify them, to assure them of their intrinsic work. And then finally, we can also help to remember and help each other to remember that whatever fate has done to cause us to doubt ourselves, that dignity is always and ever our birthright because too often, we forget that. And in forgetting, we lose the opportunity to lead lives that are truly and uniquely our own. Remember Joy Harjo writes, remember that the son, the moon, your mother, your father, the earth itself once worked very hard to bring forth the one inimitable and admirable you. Blessed be Adam and man. And today's offering will be shared with the Mellow Hood Foundation about their good work in one of our more troubled neighborhoods. Please be generous. I invite you to rise once more in body or in spirit as we sing our closing hymn number 303. And now with gladness in accomplishment and with perseverance in life's adventure, we push onward, onward with respect to our yesterdays, onward with praise for today, onward with hope for tomorrow. Please be seated for the post-lute.


Hi, I'm George Kow and here's my sweet little dog Buddy. Buddy! Today in this video I want to talk about motivation. Do you know what are the top way or ways to motivate yourself to do things? Every... I mean there are so many personality types among human beings and not... you know some people might say well the way to motivate yourself is to get an accountability partner. Other people say well the way to motivate yourself is to is to publicly share your your goal so that you kind of have a lot of people watching for you to complete a particular project. Other people say no the way to motivate yourself is to do regular visualization. Well my answer to this is it depends on your personality type and the way to really find out is to experiment with different ways of motivating yourself and then trying a bunch of different ways and then and then evaluating okay which ways work okay. So what I did was I had a bunch of people apply to be by clients to be part of my coaching program and in my application I listed 13 ways to motivate oneself to get things done and I asked my applicants to score each of those ways based on their knowledge of themselves and so I want to share with you the top three ways that came back as well as the the bottom way and I will put a little bit of notes on all 13 ways in the notes attached to this video. The top three ways were number one connecting to the big picture so if you're having a hard time or whenever you need more motivation to get a particular project done to connect that project to the bigger why. Why is that important for your business? Why is it important for your life? What difference will it make? How will it create a life that you're really excited about or avoid a problem that you're really scared of? Okay so that's number one way is connecting to a big picture. Second way was to get an accountability partner a daily or weekly accountability buddy where you're checking with them either via email or via the phone on a weekly or daily basis or it could be like twice a week and they could just be short calls I get like 15 minutes to 30 minutes where you are reporting to each other on how did it go since your last call on making progress on the thing that you said you were going to make. If you did it celebrate if you didn't what did you learn how could you do it differently before the next call etc and then the third motivational way was to regularly write your top priorities so either every morning or at the beginning of the week to write down what are for example the top three priorities for you this day or the top three priorities this week to write it down. The losing motivational method out of the 13 that I had people score was sharing a goal publicly. This is surprising to me because that has been one of my top motivational methods. That really gets me to do something when I say to my audience I'm going to deliver something by a certain date I tend to get it done but a lot of my audience members they themselves don't find that motivational maybe they find that too too intimidating or yeah too self-defeating perhaps. So I welcome you to comment below this video let me know based on your own understanding of yourself what motivates you to get a difficult project done something that you're procrastinating on perhaps or has the potential for procrastination what do you do to make sure you give you a better chance of getting it done and then I'll share with you all 13 methods below. All right looking forward to your comments and until the next video I wish you well.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2023 Tops Tribute Baseball, six box picker team number eight from jaspyscasebrakes.com. A big thank you to this group right here for making it happen. Here on Monday the 17th 2023, thanks to the people who bought their spot straight up. Jeff you got LastBot Mojo, that's the star next to your name, 70% of the time LastBot Mojo hits 100% of the time. We did this randomizer in a different video but we just basically pulled those teams out and turned into a serial number break. There are the results right there. At the end of the video we'll re-randomize those names and see who gets a lot of non-numbered base cards. Thanks everyone for making this happen, a lot of big hit potential in this tribute. I think this is all the tribute we have for now but keep your eye on the website folks. We may get some more jaspyscasebrakes.com. That's a numbered card, 13 out of 50 Vlad Guerrero Jr. That is a random number block team so if you're not familiar with that we go by that digit right there. So Toronto three and that will be fulfilled. These are the non-numbered base cards, actually that is numbered, that's eight out of 75, that will be for the Reds, Reds eight, it's going to be for Jan, LastBot Mojo. Now let's get to the hits. Behind us, Cedric Mullins is Vinny Pascatino, 19 out of 25. Royals are a random number block team so that will go to Kansas City nine. That will be for Nathan. Next up is Tim Hudson, 88 out of 150. That will be for the A's, Brian with the A's. Speaking of the A's, I just did a re-watch over the weekend while I was under the weather. This is Derek Jeter, game use triple of Moneyball. Really good. Still good. A weird batch of 180 top loaders, 21 out of 99 on the Jeter, that's going to go to Nathan. Got the Yankees straight up. Then we got Anthony Rizzo, another Yankee, stamp of approval relic. So you can go to mlb.com slash authentication and punch in those letters and numbers. You might get an additional story. You'll definitely know what game that jersey was from. This game used memorabilia and then you can look up the box score and see what Anthony Rizzo did that day if any. VT-032279.  Behind Hermann Marquez is the dual relic Nolan Aeronado, Paul Goldschmidt. Where are we at on those Aeronado trade rumors? There was a little bit of mention about that. It's eight out of ten too. Nice. Daniel with the cardinals. I don't know if anything's really going to materialize unless the cardinals are blown away with an offer. There's Christopher Morel, 24 out of 199. Cubs, that's a number block team. That's going to go to Cubs four. Daniel with the number four. Box one, next box. Reds keep calling up youngsters here. Reds promote Christian and Carnassio and Strand, placed Kevin Newman on the IL. Maze-designate Yanni Cherinos for assignment. Guardians placing Shane Bieber on the IL. Angels will reportedly consider O'Chani trade offers, but deal seems unlikely. I think the Angels are going to do as much as they can, whatever they can to save face, I would imagine. Looks like Reds are going to be buyers. That would be awesome to see. Young team is ahead of schedule. Let's keep adding to that. The Reds have apparently shown interest in the White Sox starters. There's Marcus Simeon, 89 out of 99 for Daniel and the Rangers. Looks like Cardinals' deadline folks will be on the 2024 club. They've punted the season already. Just never got off on the right foot. There's Oswaldo Cabrera, 9 out of 99 for the Yankees. That'll be for Nathan. Behind Stephen Kwan is Christopher Morel. Dual relic for the Cubs. 69 out of 199. Cubs, 9. Excuse me, it's going to be Nathan. Behind Jackie Robinson is a triple relic, Jordan Alvarez. He's making his way back from injury. Astros, Astros 1. That'll be for Phil. There's Oswaldo Paraza. We've got Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswaldo Paraza. 193 out of 199 for both Yankees. Both for Nathan. And then we've got George Springer, stamp of approval. Looks like KV031677, 44 out of 199. They go to Daniel in the number four. We've got Trey Mancini, 122 out of 150 for the Stroes. Astros 2, it's going to be for Paul. And the final one here of the box is Vlad Guerrero Sr. 131 out of 199. That'll be for the Nationals. Expo stuff goes to the Nationals. And Nationals 1 will be for Phil. Our box. Sorry, Phil, who needs some pitching? You might be lagging behind a little bit. Make sure you're watching live. It goes to everybody. Hit that live button.  Oh, you know what? Excuse me. Dodgers are on the East Coast. They're in Baltimore, which means there's already a game happening. As much as I want to watch live from the British Open, we're just the open, as they call it. We'll be talking a lot of golf this week. The Dodgers are down to the Orioles. 13. Guardians Pirates are tied. Bottom of the second, middle of the fifth. Giant Reds are tied at 1. Marlin's leading the Cardinals early on. 1-0 in the bottom of the second. Also in the first inning, we've got Nationals leading the Cubs 2-0. Ray's leading the Rangers early in the first 1-0. Tigers Royal scoreless bottom of the first. And then three other games not started yet. Yang, he's at Angels. Red Sox at A's. Twins at Mariners. Warner Franco is 28 out of 75, by the way. That'll go to Ray's eight. It'll be for Jan. Another Warner Franco not numbered for the non-numbered randomizer. And here is Zach Wheeler. Triple Relic for the Phillies. That's going to go to the Phillies. Philadelphia random number block group. 15 out of 199. Philadelphia five, that'll be for Nathan. Ryan Mountcastle reveals a Jim Tome. Burned Stripes. Jersey and Otto, that's pretty cool. Six out of 50. Got a bit of the Phillies pinstripe. Jim Tome's on-card Otto. And that's Jan with the number six. There you go, Jan. There's Larry Walker, a couple of bits of his lumber there. Rockies are also a random number block team. It's nine out of 75. That'll be for Nathan, number nine. Riley Green rookie card. Rookie card's not too common in the tribute set. Got a little extra boost of values. Ken Waldichick, 21 out of 199 for Brian N.B.A.'s. Riley Green goes to Daniel and the Tigers. And then we've got a Kyle Tucker, Sam of Approval Relic. Looks like KV057, 758. Astros five, Nathan, the number five. And then we've got Josh Winkowski, 64 out of 75 for the Red Sox. It's gonna go to John G. and the Bo Sox. Halfway through the break here, next box. Well, we did mention before that, we did mention before that Ohtani, the Angels are fielding offers for Ohtani. They'll listen. But one team they're not gonna trade them to is the Dodgers. John Heyman allegedly puts it at about 25% chance that Ohtani gets traded before the deadline. But reports are saying it's definitely not the Dodgers. How hilariously the Angels-y is that if I'm the Dodgers before or after Ohtani gets traded or maybe the Dodgers aren't that petty, but the Moreno is. How weird is that, right? One of the best pharmacists in baseball recs and then, oh, a book, right? And then they're just like, ah, but Gritter refused to deal to the Dodgers. Yeah, well, on the other side of my illness here, this box is 75. Yeah, I'm on the back end of the cold, so I think I'm feeling better. Voice is not super strong. I don't know, I grinded through the week. I thought I was gonna be fine, but they just kind of hit me sort of Thursday night, Friday morning. Triple Raleigh, Adley Rushman, nice. Orioles, that's gonna be for Nathan. Then I just kind of slept the next couple days and slept most of Sunday, yesterday. Got another good night of sleep yesterday and here I am. Matthew Libertor, 68 out of 99 for the Cardinals. Daniel Smith. Yeah, some sort of upper respiratory chest cold, so it was a lot of coughing, a sore throat, like money knows, like kind of typical cold type stuff. There's Raphael Deversander Bogart's dual relic and that's John G. with the Red Sox. 154 out of 199. Oswald Parazzo, 17 out of 199. Another Yankee for Nathan. Yeah, I think, is this the first book we've seen? Here is DJ The Menu, speaking of Yankees. VT-039-185, Nathan, the Yankees. I can tell you that, don't worry, John, not the Yankees. Sorry, Nathan. Here's Shay Lang Lear's 41 out of 150.  Brian Kay with the A's. And the book is Tandem's Autograph Book Card. And it is Paul Canerco on the left side, Frank Thomas on the right side, nine out of 10. Nice dual auto book. And that goes to Jeff, who picked up the White Sox before the remaining teams are pulled for the filler. So that's Las Fon Mojo, 70% of the time Las Fon Mojo hits 100% of the time. Congrats. Ooh, nice. The sales for Wrecks there. You got nothing, so do you think Otani will break Aaron Judge's homerun count from last year? I say no, and I think it's difficult enough to do that, especially for a player. I think it was hard enough for Aaron Judge, and he didn't have to pitch once a week. Although I don't know, I mean, if he doesn't get traded, I don't think he's gonna get traded by the deadline, but if he doesn't get traded and the angels have nothing to play for, maybe he'll just say eff it. He'll just go up there and just swing for the fences and just play a little selfish baseball and just swing for the fences every effort. But short of that, I think no. Three out of 99, there's Michael Harris, 99. Braves, that's gonna go to Daniel Michael Harris, or the Corey Seager goes to Daniel and the Rangers to 99. Your hits, we've got, ooh, nice straw man shadow box autograph, seven out of 10. That's pretty cool. Ryan with the Metz. Little reminds me of the straw man fallacy. Alex Bregman reveals Aaron Judge speaking of homers. Sam of Approval, KV, 0-5-8-3-3-2, I think. Numbers are kind of small, but Nathan Yankees. Luke Voight reveals A. Ken Waldichick, one, two, three out of one, a 99 for the A's. That'll be for Brian. Peter Lonzo reveals a dual relic, Manny Machado-Fernando-Dutty's Jr., 91 out of 199. You don't think he's getting traded at this point? He's too much for a two month rental? But something better than nothing, no. Or you just let him walk in free agency? That's the tricky situation. Kenneth with the Padres. You got Kirby Puckett triple relic. That's for the Twins, Twins are a number block team. Twins triple relic, 146 out of 199. Jan with Twins six. And the autograph is another Darryl Strawberry, 35 out of 75, there you go, Ryan. Starting your Darryl Strawberry PC whether you intended to or not. Rex is saying, listen, we've talked about this before, but now I think it'd be really dumb now if they don't trade him. They've fallen apart, Trout's fine for a while. Losing playoff contention quick. Have to get something for him. I'd argue, Rex, I agree with you. I'd argue that they were never in playoff contention. They should have traded him last off season where they could have gotten the most value out of him. Natalie Rushman just went yard on my Dodgers. The other day, he's a fake reporter and I'm saying he's had plans to involve you to make his career here. Nothing funny about misinformation, Rex, about fake reports. I don't find that funny at all. I mean, if I'm the angel, I take that offer. They make money off of his license, what licenses? Chris Bryant's 99. They don't make too much off of the, I mean, everyone wants to claim Jersey sales and stuff, but it's really not, not that much. We got Peter Lanzo, two out of 10. Well, for the Yankees, yeah, that'd be silly, but if you're the angels, you take that deal right away. Ryan with the Mets. Yeah, that is more like a deal for Juan Soto, though. Here's Jose Altuve, couple pieces of the lumber for the Stroze, Stroze III. Phil, number three behind Jacob de Grom is a Christian Yalich. It's a nice color in that triple relic there because it's out of 10. That's gonna go to Brian and the brew crew. Yeah, the angels did mess up. I mean, you're not in a good spot if you're the angels. You want to be the person that trades Otani? Have that on your resume? It's tough, you know, hindsight's 20, 20, or it's the reasonable time, probably would have been the preseason to trade Otani, but then you're punting the season, essentially, to your fans anyway, but that's when you could have gotten the most. Ryan with the Mets with the Brett Beatty. Ultimately, I think you're right, John. I think it's, and I'm sure a lot of people see it the same way, too, he's probably not gonna get traded, and he's gonna end up walking for nothing because you're never really gonna get full value for Otani as a rental for right now. There's Boa Shet, KB053, 541, that is. Blue Jays are a number block team. Nathan with Blue Jays five, and then Tim Anderson reveals a Derrick Hall, 133 out of 199. Phillies are a number block team. That'll be for Phillies three. That's for Phil and the Phillies, number three.  Nice, 30 out of 99. That'll be for Daniel Smith and the Rangers. We'll get some AL rookie of the year votes. And that's that, my friends. Now I gotta do a quick little randomizer here for the non-numbered base cards for the random number block group. So let's flip back to the list, let's gather all the names here. New dice, new list, no other randomizers to do. Excellent, let's roll it, randomize it. Four and a three, seven times. Name on top gets it. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, last but not least, Joe Jan. After seven times, you'll get all the non-numbered base cards for those teams right there, including rookie cards. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one, bye-bye.


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Hey everybody, today we're talking about, well, deadlifts and I have an umbrella. We're talking about lifting with your arms during the deadlift, at the top of the deadlift. So what this looks like, if you're, I have this mostly with newbies just because they don't understand the mechanics of the lower body musculature versus the upper body muscles, right? So the lower body muscles are much bigger, the upper body muscles are much smaller. You don't want a deadlift with your upper body muscles. You want a deadlift with your lower body muscles. So that's how I want you to learn how to pick things up. What this looks like, if you're deadlifting, people will generally finish like this and they just kind of keep pulling up at the top. All I'm saying in this case is you're just, you're working too hard. I want you to keep your arms straight the whole time and maybe until you can learn that arm position. I might just have you do the RDL, right? Because then it's only just this one motion, it's like this exaggerated bow. I don't have to worry about bending anything else like my knees because my knees are a lot like my elbows and those things kind of go together. So if you start to do it that way, consider just trying the RDL and really focus on keeping your arms straight as you finish your deadlift.


Hello, welcome to this video session. In this video session, we'll be introducing the VECA with a learning outcome wherein after watching this video, we expect the audience will be able to explore VECA on their own. So primarily this video would be a hands-on session wherein I'll be actually be showing you the various interfaces of VECA and what all we can do through using VECA machine learning toolkit. So let us switch to VECA editor. So going back, let me switch to a VECA editor. So now I have a VECA editor open. Now the moment you open a VECA, you always see these five buttons to its right side here. Now let us quickly understand what is the use of these five buttons and what all we can do with each of these buttons. Generally, most of us, we always go with Explorer. In some little bit expertise user, they prefer either experimental or a workbench. And we do also have a simple CLI. So you do also see a command line interface here. So the advantage of command line interface is that it lets you handle VECA using command line interface commands which have been listed on the VECA documentation site. So mostly we are concerned with these four buttons, what are these four of these buttons? So when you go and open the VECA Explorer, what you see is in a screen where you can explore the various functionality of VECA. So that is a primitive one where you can load the data set from a file, ARFF file database and try out few clustering classification and some kind of machine learning and data mining algorithms. But the second button which is named an experimenter is more detailed one. What this button lets you do is if I click on this, it opens the screen wherein it lets you set up a specialized experiment with the help of various algorithms and data sets. So the object of this experiment is to compare multiple algorithms on a data set or compare multiple data sets with respect to one algorithm where you will get a very detailed result of comparisons. You can compare two algorithms where it's almost like an Apple to Apple comparisons. So it lets an ML developer to compare two algorithms for a specific ML problem and also at the same time let him save the results for future analysis and further conclusions. So let me quickly open explore and show you how the screen looks. This is how the screen looks when I open VECA Explorer here and when you click on open, this is how you load a data set and you can also load a data set from a URL and further our self-explanatory the generate lets you generate data for us. So generally by looking onto the screen under the pre-process tab, one of the very important to note down some very important is this ability to apply a filter on a specific data set. So if I load some sample data set, let me load a sample data set from the VECA installation itself. So I have my VECA installed on C drive, you will find a folder data under this. Let me do one thing. Let me load this iris data set. So when I load this iris data set, these are the attributes in that and this is a label. So it's a famous classification data set used for showing the demonstration of how the classification algorithm works. So that's how we load the data set and here this attribute, this window here, shows you some of the fundamental statistical properties associated with that. For example, I have selected a sample length and you can see that its minimum value means standard deviation, which gives a good amount of idea to the ML developer about the entropy present in this attribute. Which could be very much useful in deciding or which could be very much useful in feature engineering when the number of features are too many. So this is there, but one thing which is to be very much important is your filters. So here under filters, we have two types of filters, supervised and unsupervised. So what exactly is supervised and unsupervised filter? So supervised filters, they work on class labels. So whatever the filtering works here, they look at the class label and sometimes I want some filtering applied on one specific column or in a set of rows in your data set irrespective of what the class label to which that record belongs. So that time we prefer unsupervised filtering and under supervised and unsupervised you always find two more categories called attribute and instance base. Attribute related filters, they are some which work on column-wise. So they apply on an entire column and instance-wise are some which apply row-wise. So they apply horizontally on a specific set of rows based on what are the criteria which you give. So we will have a separate video session to demonstrate actually working of attribute base and instance base pre-filters. So when you explore unsupervised, here too you will find, in fact you will find more number of pre-filters on unsupervised because most of normal, most of pre-processing can be done on column independent of class labels if there isn't any much of relation between that. So some of the very famous pre-filtering is you can discretize the column values. You can convert a nominal to binary, binary to nominal and at the same time some of the very famous are normalizing. So what they do is they let you normalize entire column in a specific range. So there are many pre-filters available. So when you click on instance based there are few for example randomizing records or setting a subset or removing a duplicates. So these are one which apply at row level. So these are the pre-filters on that. So once I load the data here, what you next wise we move is we either try to classify the data set here by choosing few classifier algorithms or cluster it, association, select attributes are one which lets you do a feature engineering specifically like information gain or want to you want to know what's the gain ratio and here they let you visualize the data with the various helps of plot matrices. So this is general overview of explore screen. So once I close the explore screen and if I open experimenter window what you will see is you will see a completely different set wherein here what you see is here you set up an experiment and when you set up an experiment you add few data sets under this and then you add a few algorithms on that. So it's like the way like you can test one single algorithm on multiple data sets or one data set and you can test multiple algorithms. So the comparative analysis of this walking of algorithms either data set wise or algorithm wise it's generated and later we load it and we do a comparison on that. So this is used when we shortlist few algorithms to be applied to ML problem and then on we set up a detailed experiment to find out which algorithm is better and which is poor one and how internally they have an effect on that. So this is an experimenter we will have for the series of video sessions on each of these screens with the help of a good use case example. So after experimenter we have knowledge flow the knowledge flow is nothing but whatever you do under explorer and experimenter this lets you do with the help of GUI. So it's like a drag and drop interface where you can apply few filters. So you see what all whatever we could see there everything is available here and what you need to do is you need to just make sure this is a graphical way of designing that. So for few who are not much used to the way they we handle explorer and experimenter some might even try out their handset GUI based as well. So after that then we have a workbench workbench is far more powerful and it has a detailed setup of working with this and it's slightly better than explorer and it's far more sophisticated with more detailed result analysis and ability to have a better workflow based machine learning processes under that. So this is a workbench and when you click on simple CLI it lets you type WECA class names and let you invoke algorithms, configure and train data sets using completely command line commands. So this is WECA here so let me quickly switch back to our presentation and I have a small reflection quiz for you. So what do you think does WECA support normalization with the help of pre filters? What do you think is it true or false? You can pause the video and you can go back to earlier slides and try to guess the answer for this. But the answer for this question is yes it supports normalization. So normalization is nothing but it we bring a values in a specific range and sometimes it's a very important transformation on data when we are particular with specific algorithms which are very sensitive to the data range values. So as a further resource for you to explore I would advise or suggest you to go through this documentation of WECA wherein most of this information and the some of the instructions to repeat some experiments have been very well given there. So that's it for this video thank you.