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Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com. I want to give a big shout out to the winner of our Best Bob contest. He's already been a pretty big winner this weekend, taking away quite a few awards at the Hair Brain Video Awards, but I want to give a shout out to Douglas McCoy at the House of Pop in Spokane, Washington. This work is just unreal. He's posted a lot of great things on our Facebook, and I just love that people with this caliber of work are contributing to what we're doing on freesaloneducation.com. So I want to give a shout out to him. Thank you so much for posting this, and I think a lot of people can learn. You look at the quality of work here, it's just, you know, this takes practice, it takes time, and this is what we're trying to build is, you know, a community of people that are willing to learn and to get to this level. So I just want to say thank you to Douglas for this, and congratulations from the weekend for all the awards that you won. Make sure you follow him at House of Pop on Instagram, and also probably can check him out on Facebook as well. So thank you guys for subscribing, continuing to support what we're doing, and check out more videos and education on freesaloneducation.com. Thank you.


Season 3 episode 16 perfect game guys welcome back to our attack on Titan reaction series last episode We had the truth behind the death of marker revealed in all of its gruesome fashion the name reveal of the Beast Titan In fact being Zeke and the grand transformation of burthold into the colossal Titan following a pretty character defining Conversation between him and our mean we're gonna hop right into this episode But before we do if you're new to the channel drop a sub and hit that big blue bell We're gonna be grinding out the rest of the season and heading straight into season 4 Which is currently premiering, so you are gonna want to miss that with that being said enjoy the episode The showdown Well, it's okay cuz we're looking for the basement I got you smacked him with a literal like explosive spear What He's gonna blame himself now a board Aaron He's like Noah's Ark How are they supposed to Like I feel like even Aaron can't do anything to a certain extent I think have the rocket still I don't know if the Rocks are gonna do anything against this. You don't think so I mean, maybe if they like the rods and deep enough in Cannon fodder Titans, they're just there to distract Not a coward just confident Balls though You leave I pop off all you should know what's going on back The Beast Titan is chucking rocks. Oh my god. He did.  It was like bullets, dude.  Yeah, just another one.  Oh, they had a plan plan He's a way he's joining them. Oh my god Yell at him. Yeah, he hasn't been able to even effectively use this cream yet.  Yeah, and he does not give up. He does not care What do you do like tear away at it? I feel like it's so reinforced But he has to speak still Thank Yo, just thinking about it like continuity errors When they said that the ODM here didn't didn't make sense to go close to him You know who the only person that ever got close to the colossal was there was it remember in the first Yeah, I guess we'll find out they can even do anything Oh Dude's a sense of scale right there. Yeah of actually how enormous he is Yeah, I mean you can't always actually kind of pushing him. Oh shoot. I thought he was even gonna be able to budge knock him Oh, yeah, he fell. Oh my gosh Leveled in the city Oh My god I thought he went into the wall for a second. That's what I thought Though I oh, it's not looking good on that side. Yeah, you're low key good spot to be though low key good spot Yeah, see how close you can get Okay, they use them against Rainer I still don't know how much they'll do though cuz they exploded in Rainer But they still just kind of like didn't do that much Okay, they did a lot, let's be honest, but I guess the eyes are pretty weak Oh Look so confident. Oh Yeah, the steam is so powerful. They're like floating the spears were like floating in the air. Oh my gosh And they just they didn't say like the weakness of it is if they don't have any buildings or anything to hang on to It's like you can't really go anywhere and it can hit you commander commander He's just going They need something I don't know what's gonna take him down. Maybe no way Perfectly fine Either Aaron has to like jump from the top of the wall and like claw onto his face or he has to start controlling Titans like There's I was a little bit of a sidearm there. I don't know if I like that pitch This is perfect games ruined Yeah Can you that's what they want them to do though is flee because they have the giant ring of Titans This is so sad What do you mean the horse is flee because of this guy? I think he lost his horse like everybody has one Like they need as many as they can get True widow lower morale man They need like Irvins and give some words of inspiration. Yeah, it's some leadership.   That's so sad because that's been his entire. Yeah, his whole life has built towards that God So close Relates back to what Kenny said how everybody lives just for a dream or lives for something Like a little throne Humble throne That come to piece with it There they go. Oh my god Dude, what if you just threw one one boulder? This is pretty pot He's not expecting this They would have some other plan. Yeah Oh smoke. Oh my god Let's say how did he convince them? I Was a wide spread Can leave I just like slices nape I feel like the Beast Titan isn't that susceptible to just someone attacking him. I guess Levi's a little bit more Gifted but still I Used the Titans Yeah Either die or die like trying Do it He's speaking from his experience doesn't matter what your dreams are Man I Was literally 30 seconds ago, I was about to say this is the only time that I felt Like ruin would actually die Because he's made it out of so many situations and stuff like he literally had his arm grabbed on to by via Titan And like I had it ripped off and he was still commanding But this is like you can feel like the energy of like if he doesn't die It wouldn't make sense like this is like his character arc has come to this point where it shows how powerful it is if he Sacrifices himself which means giving up this dream that he's literally lived for since he was a kid That's it for episode 53 Well, we are basically searing seeing Aaron Irvin's Sacrifice for the entire group and the sacrifice of the entire group. I'm guessing we're gonna see the fall out of that We're getting closer and closer to what I believe is the post credit scene from episode 12 that we saw that like it seemed like everything was hopeless I mean Levi's there with Mikasa and Aaron no clue where anyone else is but like I said It's getting closer and closer to that point if you did enjoy be sure to drop us up and hit that big Woodbell will he is linked down below as per usual and we'll see you guys in the next one


In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rosetti, music by Gustav Holst, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rosetti, music by Gustav Holst, sung by Robin Lamb. Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella by E. Cuthbert Nunn, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella. Bring a Torch to the cradle run. It is Jesus, good folk of the village. Christ is born and Mary's calling.  Beautiful is her son. It is wrong when the child is sleeping. It is wrong to talk so loud. Silence all as you gather around. Lest your noise should awaken Jesus. Hush, hush, see how fast he slumbers. Hush, hush, see how fast he sleeps. Softly to the little stable. Softly for a moment come. The soul can see how charming is Jesus.  Hush, hush, see how the child is sleeping. Hush, hush, see how he smiles in dreams. End of Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella by E. Cuthbert Nunn, sung by Thomas Peter. Carol for Christmas Eve. A 16th century traditional Carol. Music by Romano. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. A tale I will you tell. Which as on this night of glee in David's town befell. Joseph came from Nazareth with Mary that sweet maid. Wherein were they night to death and for a lodging parade. Sing high, sing high, sing low, sing low. Sing high, sing low, sing to and fro. Go tell it out, we'll see. Cry out and shout that Christ is born indeed. The scanty bed they made. Soon a baby from Mary's womb. Was in the men light through glass. He came to save us all.  Go sing low, sing high, sing low, sing to and fro. Go tell it out, we'll see. Cry out and shout all around about that Christ is born. To keep the salishie. Hosts of angels in this sight. Kicked down from heaven's high steep. Tidings, tidings unto you. To you a child is born. Sing high, sing high, sing low, sing low. Sing high, sing low, sing to and fro. Go tell it out, we'll see. Cry out and shout all. Sing high, sing low, sing to and fro. Go tell it out, sing high, sing low, sing to and fro. Go tell it out. Arrow for Christmas Eve by John Syrog Hughes, sound in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out a Libri volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The First Noel, arranged by Sir John Steiner, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The First Noel, sung by LibriVox volunteers. Gesù Bambino, words and music by Pietro Alessandro John, sung in Italian. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. How great our joy! Traditional German carol, English translation by Theodore Baker, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. How great our joy! Traditional German carol, English translation by Theodore Baker, sung by Maria Casper. In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rosetti. Music by Gustave Holst. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. How great our joy! Traditional German carol, English translation by Theodore Baker, sung by Maria Casper. When he comes to rain. In the Bleak Midwinter a stable place suffice. The Lord God Almighty Jesus Christ. Angels and archangels may have gathered there. Cherubim and Seraphim thronged the air. Art his mother worshipped the big midwinter, sung by Adrian Stevens. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Okamokami Manuel by John Mason Neal, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Newell by John Mason Neal, sung by Sam Stockwell in Crosschurch, New Zealand. Oh little town of Bethlehem. Words by Philips Brooks. Music by L. H. Redner. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Oh little town of Bethlehem. Music by Adolf Adam. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Music by Adolf Adam. Sung by Robin Lamb. Once in Royal David City by Cecil Francis Alexander. Once in Royal David City by Cecil Francis Alexander. Sung by Gillian Hendry. On Christmas night, traditional Sussex Carol sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. All Christians sing to hear the news the angels bring. On Christmas night, all Christians sing to hear the news the angels bring. News of great joy, news of great mirth. New civil king's birth, then why should we on earth be sad since our Redeemer made us glad? When from our sin he set us free, parts before his grace and love place, and Cindy parts before his grace and life and health come in place. Angels and men with joy may sing. On Christmas night, sung by Maria Casper. Santa Claus by Nathan Haskell Dole. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. What clatters on the roofs with quick impatient hooves? I think it must be Santa Claus. Hark, old Santa Claus. He's in his loaded sledge. I wonder what he brings, what heaps of pretty things, and how he gets them down the flu. Hark, down through the flu, just where the stockings hang. This cold, this cold can be, yet I should like to see if Santa Claus is dressed his best. Hark, dressed for his ride, his ride around the world. I guess I'll dare to peep. He'll think me sound asleep. Why, there he is with heaps of toys. Hark, yes, heaps of toys. Yes, there is Santa Claus. End of Santa Claus by Nathan Haskell Dole. Sung by Thomas Peter. See Amid the Winter Snow. Words by Edward Caswell. Music by Sir John Goss. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. See Amid the Winter Snow. Words by Edward Caswell. Music by Sir John Goss. Sung by Gillian Hendry. Days of Christmas by Frederick Austin. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Wasail Song. An English folk carol, collected by Cecil Sharp. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Wasail, Wasail all over the town. Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown. Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is to Cherry and to his white cheek. Pray God send my master a good piece of beef and a good piece of beef that may we all see. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is to Cherry and to his right eye. Pray God send my master a good Christmas pie and a good Christmas pie that may we all see. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is to Cherry and to his right arm. Pray God send my master a good crop of corn and a good crop of corn that may we all see. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is to Cherry and to his left ear. Pray God send my master a barrel of beer and a barrel of beer that may we all see. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is to our cow and to her long tail. Pray God send our master he never may fail. A bowl of strong beer I pray you draw near. And our jolly wassail it's then you shall hear. We'll drink to thee, drink to thee. And our jolly wassail it's then you shall hear. Come butler, come fill us a bowl of the best. Then I hope that your soul in heaven may rest. But if you do draw us a bowl of the small, then down for butler, bowl and all. We'll drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. Here is the maid with the lily white smock. That do trip to the door and draw back the lock. Oh let us all in and seek how you do. Say, Nan, if you will, we'll welcome you too. We'll drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. We'll drink to thee, drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. With the Wasailing Bowl we'll drink to thee. An ancient carol from the west of England, sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Among the rest, with grief oppressed, was good Saint John their slain. Who on this day, missport and play, a martyr's death did gain. King Herod being in his tower, Herodias dancing spied. As fair as any summer flower, all in her painted pride. Clad in bright gold for to behold, King Herod's heart admired. He bid her crave what she should have, though she his crown desired. Wish before me it be laid, which was the thing she of the king desired with white good will. Whose death was wrought, and to her brought, such minds have harled still. Thus wine and women we do see, men's mind do fully win. For Herod did too soon agree, and gave consent to sin. For on this day, as scriptures say, Saint John did lose his head. While she did sing before the king, as he at table fed. Then let us all by him take heed of riot and excess. For fear that soon to us it breed, as great a wickedness. And let our sport in civil sort content each merry mind. So shall we all in this good hall much joy and comfort find. End of When Bloody Herod Reigned King Sung by Alan Mapstone While shepherds watch their flocks by night. Traditional. Sung in English. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. While shepherds watch their flocks by night. All seated on the ground. The angel of the Lord came down. The angel of the Lord came down. And glory shone around. And glory shone around. And glory shone around. Fear not, said he, for mighty dread. Had seized their troubled minds. Glad tidings of great joy I bring. Glad tidings of great joy I bring. To you and all mankind. To you and all mankind. To you and all mankind. To you in David's town this day. He's born of David's line. A Saviour who is Christ the Lord. A Saviour who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be the sign. And this shall be the sign. And this shall be the sign. The heavenly baby there shall find. To human view displayed. All meanly wrapped in swaddling bands. All meanly wrapped in swaddling bands. And in a manger laid. And in a manger laid. And in a manger laid. Thus spake the seraph and forthwith. Appeared a shining throng. All angels praising God and us. All angels praising God and us. Addressed their joyful song. Addressed their joyful song. Addressed their joyful song. O glory be to God on high. And to the earth be peace. Good will henceforth from heaven to men. Good will henceforth from heaven to men. Begin and never cease. Begin and never cease. Begin and never cease. Of while shepherds watch their flocks by night. Sun by Alan Mapstone.


In this video we are going to go through the differences between distance and displacement, and how we might plot these out over time. But first we need to go through the difference between what is a scalar and what is a vector. Both a scalar and vector are types of measurement, however a scalar only tells you the magnitude or size of the measurement, whereas a vector will tell you both the magnitude and direction. There are a few cases where you might come across this. Whilst speed and distance are scalars, velocity and displacement are vectors, they also have a direction. Velocity therefore tells us how fast an object is moving as well as its direction. Displacement tells us how far an object has moved and the direction that it has moved in. For example, a dog travelling 10m in 5 seconds has a speed of 2m per second, but a velocity of 2m to the right. Sometimes we need to plot an object's journey over time. To do this we use displacement time graphs and velocity time graphs. Let's have a look at the displacement time graph. Notice how time goes on the horizontal x-axis at the bottom and the displacement goes on the vertical y-axis. Time nearly always goes on the x-axis and then what you're measuring, so the displacement in this case, goes on the y-axis. Now let's add information to our displacement time graph. Alice starts walking to Bob's. Travelling at a constant speed, this will create a diagonal line from the origin. If she walks slower, the line will be less steep, having a smaller gradient, because in the same amount of time she will travel less distance. If she walks faster, the line will be steeper. She then walks back home at the same speed, but this time she is walking away from Bob, so the line we draw must head in the opposite direction. We draw the line downwards, back towards the horizontal axis. When she gets back to the horizontal axis, this means she is back home. She has no displacement anymore. If Alice stands still at any point, time will increase, but her distance will not change. This will mean that we draw a straight line across the plot. Now it's your go. Can you draw this journey? Pause the video, give it a go and press play when you think you have the answer. Did you get it right? 50 meters in 50 seconds is this diagonal line, then 30 seconds and another 50 meters, then 100 seconds to walk all the way home again. Did you label your horizontal and vertical axes correctly with units? Fun fact, did you know that the average walking speed of a person varies from country to country? A survey found that some of the fastest walking countries include Germany and the Netherlands, while some of the slowest include China and Austria. I hope you now understand the difference between scalar and vectors and how to happily draw displacement time graphs. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe, comment below if you have any questions. Why not check out our Fuse school app as well? Until next time.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. As we know, the elections in Bolivia are scheduled on Sunday. That's the 18th of October. And now this is a very, very important elections because last year, the elections were followed by a coup. Evo Morales, who was elected as the president, was forced to leave the country after a violent, massive right-wing uprising against his government following that Johnny Nanez came to power. The elections have been delayed many times since then. And now they're happening tomorrow. And we have with us Zoe, a contributor to People's Dispatch, who is on the ground in Bolivia, who has been talking to people over there, talking to officials, talking to people of various parties. Thank you, Zoe, so much for joining us. So first of all, my first question would be regarding something that has been in the news for the past couple of days. This is regarding election observers, you yourself are part of the Codeping team. They have been other teams that have also been coming. They have been reports of a number of obstacles, harassment being faced by many of these observers. So could you just quickly take us to that? Yeah, thanks so much for having me Prashant. Yeah, it's a bit crazy actually. So with the Supreme Electoral Court, several delegations have been approved to participate in the observation of the elections. So I'm with, for example, the mission from Codeping. There is a mission that's from the International Progressive. There is a mission that's from Parrasur. So it's parliamentarians from Latin American countries, a lot of different delegations of parliamentarians. And the government of Geninanias has essentially launched veiled and not so veiled threats against these electoral observers. There's also been attacks on social media by right wing activists very close to the right wing candidate Fernando Camacho. And, you know, there, for example, some members of this delegation were followed and harassed at the airport. Pictures were taken of them post on social media with threats. And then we saw, for example, some of the people who are coming from Spain, their photos that were taken at immigration were released to an media outlet, also with photos of their immigration forms, to say that they were instigators, to say that they were coming to country with a political agenda. And then last night, one of the most worrying episodes happened when three deputies from Argentina, from the ruling party frente de todos, arrived to participate also in an electoral observation process. They were invited by the parliament. They were stopped at the airport after having passed through security immigration, sorry, in Cochabamba. Then they flew in a national flight to La Paz, which is the political capital. And they were stopped Federico Fagioli, who is a deputy national deputy in Argentina. He was detained. His documents were taken away. They proceeded to produce a document saying that he couldn't enter the country because he had been accused of crimes against humanity and a whole list of ridiculous statements. And all with the pretext of kind of, first of all, blocking this independent observation and also creating a climate of threats of intimidation of saying, foreigners aren't welcome. They're not welcome to interfere in our electoral process, even when all of these people are just coming to do electoral observation, to observe the process, to make sure that it's a transparent process and that all of the democratic processes are respected. And so, this in addition to all of the other things that have been happening for the past couple of weeks is really creating a climate of fear of tension of intimidation of hostility. And I think that the fact that it arrives to this level, even with international people who are coming from Spain, from Argentina, from the United States, I think is really indicative of the level of, you know, lack of democracy present in this moment in Bolivia. Absolutely, right. And in this context, I also wanted to ask you about the situation that you've been observing on the ground. Like we just talked about this is a very historic election because last year's incidents are still very fresh in the minds of all of us who are watching it from across the world. And there was a lot of accusations thrown about irregularities. Later studies have proved that all of these accusations were completely unfounded and that Ivor Morales victory was completely as per the books. There was nothing irregular about it. So while you've been talking to people across various spectrums, what are the kind of how do they see the importance of this election and what do they see as, you know, what's likely to happen or other issues they're concerned about? So what are some of these things? Yeah, definitely. I think for most Bolivians these are some of the most important elections that will happen. But what we've heard from a lot of people on the ground, you know, in from movements from the party is that there's a lot of fear and the fear is that this time there actually will be fraud committed because these are very unique elections, not only the first elections to take place after coup d'etat, which happened in November 2019, but also they're taking place in the pandemic. So there's been much less access to be able to make sure that oversight is happening on all of these processes. I think one of the biggest concerns has to do with the rapid transmission, the rapid vote count transmission system, which last year was one of the biggest instigators behind the protests, calling for a second round and then finally calling for the renouncement of Evo Morales, because it's a system that, you know, rapidly transmit the results, but it doesn't, it's not a final tally. So the only decisive tally of the vote is the final count. But this rapid transmission system can is able to install some, what can be called a public discourse. So once people see that this rapid transmission system is working, they're going to accept the results that are that are projected there. And so what happened last year is that you see there was sort of a shift and you see Carlos Mesa, you know, winning some percentage points, and then you see it kind of bouncing back to mass. And immediately that was a justification for electoral fraud. And then, you know, everything we know that happens occurred. And so I think this time around, people are really concerned because the entire process is being controlled by the Janine Anya's government. There's been no kind of citizen oversight to this. And yeah, I think generally the sense is fear. They recognize the extreme importance of the elections because it could bring a return to democracy in Bolivia, but also, you know, the really great risks involved. Absolutely. And so in this context, there's been reports from people who are eligible to vote in other Latin American countries, Bolivians living abroad. And now these votes are also very essential in these elections. And there have been reports and concerns expressed by many of these voters. So could you take us through what's happening there as well? Yeah, so another really key issue is that, again, a lot of what's justified, what's the irregularities that are happening in this process is all justified under COVID-19 restrictions. So one of the really concerning things that's been happening is that the voting precincts in Argentina, in Brazil, and in Chile, and then in other countries where there's a large concentration of Bolivian migrants who have voted in past elections, is that their access to the vote is being severely restricted. So there have been reports of, you know, the precincts being changed and then being closed. People who, you know, have been registered to vote in all the past elections, having their voter registry invalidated. And because of the COVID-19 restrictions, all of these processes, all these bureaucratic processes are much harder to take forward. You know, as we know, it's very hard as it is to get appointments with these things, but they're not able to kind of, everything is done online. So there's really hard to follow up with. And so there have been a number of complaints from Bolivian migrant communities in these countries that their right to vote is being restricted. I think in Panama, you know, with the justification of COVID-19 restrictions, there is no polling station. In Chile, there was seriously restricted, if I'm not wrong, it's just in Santiago, which is the capital in Argentina. I think recently they were able to open up the voting station in Mendoza. But it's also necessary to understand that in the exterior outside of Bolivia is where the vote for the mass has been strongest. And so it's not casual and it's not coincidental that their votes are being restricted. Because the right wing knows that this is always a strong vote for the movement towards socialism party. So it's seriously concerning, but people are, you know, mobilizing and demanding their right to vote where they are. Absolutely. Thank you so much, Zoe, for speaking to us. We'll be staying in touch with you tomorrow during the elections and in the days that follows as the results come out. Do keep watching us on People's Dispatch. We will be bringing you the latest news from Bolivia. Thank you for having me present.


I appreciate you for the high-five there, Toddie. All right, shoppers in stores and online Friday deals at their favorite retailers. Joining us now to discuss what to look for and what to leave on the shelf from the stock swoosh, Melissa Arma. Thanks for being here. Morning. As always, I'm Black Friday. Good morning. Good morning, yes. Let's go over the deals. I mean, because everybody wants their deals right now, and tell us how we can get them and what deals we should get. Well, there's a lot of deals out there today. I think you've really got to go online first to find out where the early doorbusters are. But make sure if you buy something at one of these doorbusters, sales look so good and then you buy something, you're like, wait a minute, I don't really need that. Yeah. You know, you end up spending money that you don't really want to spend. But with the doorbusters, there is limited quantity for the electronics, TVs, computers. So if there is something that you want in one of those doorbuster sales that you see online, go there, go early, because they have limited inventory. Okay. Let's talk about specific items, because I do feel like Black Friday tends to cater to electronics and TVs and things like that. Yes. Actually, one of the best deals is Walmart has an Apple iPad for $250. That's a really good price. And again, these are some of the things, if you need them even for yourself, it's called self-gifting. You can buy right now, not just for presidents, for presents for other people, but for gifts for yourself. I love the idea of a self-gift. The cyber guy just signed off on it. He gave me the thumbs up when you said two fifties in the background there. That's right. You can also get a 70-inch TV for $750. Do you remember years ago, you couldn't get a TV like that, a flat screen for less than like six grand, $750. I mean, that's worth going out and buying if you need one for your apartment or your home. Absolutely. Then they have a 65-inch smart Roku TV. That's another good deal. That's at Walmart. That's for $398. Again, you can't beat these prices. I mean, some great prices. Walmart has some really good sales going on today. People watch also $200 at Target. Great price. It has GPS. You can hook it up. The Fitbit right now is a great price, $120 at Target, normally $150. This is the good. There's also a lot of bad because people know that we're all trying to get these deals, and so then the scammers come out. What do we need to look out for? What's really important for people is make sure, if you're buying online, that the site, if you're putting in your credit card information, is encrypted. That's important. Make sure you're actually buying from the site. Now, how are you going to know? It says HTTP, and then it has the colon, and make sure it's williamsonoma.com or potterybarn.com. Make sure it has the actual retailer in there because if it doesn't, it could be a scammer. The other big thing that's going on right now, and this is new, Target has this. Make sure, if you do buy online, pick up and store, that you are actually going there and getting it, and you're signing up for it, and you have your information because there's a chance that you could get hacked, and then someone else goes, they pick up the merchandise and sell it. So if you're going to do that, I wouldn't wait like 24, 48 hours to go pick up the merchandise. If you're going to do it, go back today then, and pick it up because someone else could hack.  Oh, that's actually a good point I never thought about that before. Is it better to shop on Black Friday in stores or wait until Cyber Monday and shop online? Well, you know what, the Cyber Monday has only been for the last couple years. I think the jury's still out on that, where the best deals are. By far, if you really want to go out today and fight the crowds, I'd say have a good time if you're going to do it. Have fun. There's Christmas music in the stores because you're really going to get the best deals still by going in the store. Now, if you don't want to fight the crowds, wait until Cyber Monday because you're going to get the best deals online on Cyber Monday. But if you want to go out, have a good time. I say, don't risk the farm and don't spend too much, but have fun when you're spending money today if you want to go out shopping.  There's a lot of people out there, but you're going to get the deals today. Really? So don't punch people to battle lunch.  Take a ride. Thanks, Melissa. I'm a very peaceful person. Thank you. That was very helpful. Appreciate it. All right, time now, 26 minutes.


As somebody who's been clean and sober from alcohol and drugs for a little over seven and a half years now, one of my main concerns with this whole social distancing, self-isolation thing is people who are trying to stay sober because this is completely rocking their world. And just recently Taylor Nicole Dean came under fire for making a decision and I wanted to talk about addiction and recovery during this quarantine period. What's up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution.  Alright, so last night as I was lying in bed checking, you know, my Twitter and Instagram before I went to sleep, I saw Taylor Nicole Dean's Instagram story pop up and she's been getting a lot of backlash for a decision that she made about breaking the, you know, the quarantine stuff. And I wanted to discuss it specifically when it comes to addiction and recovery and I guess mental health is a whole. Alright, so to give you a little backstory for those of you who aren't caught up, Taylor Nicole Dean is in recovery from her heroin addiction. In the last year, year and a half or so, Taylor Nicole Dean actually went to rehab twice when she was still dating that dude Johnny from that band Slaves. They went to rehab together. Then she ended up breaking up with him going back to rehab and that was a great decision. And she stayed sober for quite some time. Her and I had a little, a little thing happen, but her and I actually talked through email, squashed that beef. We're totally cool. And yeah, she was doing great staying sober. And earlier this year, she actually, you know, opened up and said that, you know, she relapsed. She ran out of her suboxone because of something going on with her intensive outpatient program and she relapsed. But since then, as far as we know, and what she said, she's been clean and sober. So yesterday she took the Instagram to her stories and she discussed some backlash that she's been getting. So bear with me. This is really long, but I'm going to go ahead and read it just so you get the full context of what she said. This is going to be long, but it's because I feel so badly. If you don't listen to my video clips, here's a text version of what happened. Last night I visited a friend's house. I haven't left my house once during this quarantine and have been very open on Twitter about me struggling with my addiction right now. I discovered some recommendations that you can safely quarantine with a single friend and that as long as neither of you go anywhere, meaning remaining at a single house and not going out anywhere, and make every effort to be as sanitary as possible at the chosen house with one single person that is safe to do. The information was clear that you can't just pick a different friend every day or even pick more than one friend at all because clearly, if you stay safe with multiple people that's going around and being with multiple people. I brought a mask that I wore in my friend's car and stayed at their house for a few hours as I talked myself out of relapse. I understand entirely that I should have just waited until the morning and gone to an online meeting. Now that I'm more clear headed, I understand that I should have just dealt with it alone. I understand I can do better and I will. With that being said, I do not have any respect for the messages that are saying that this decision makes it clear that I'm on heroin, that I clearly don't care if my brother dies if I bring home the virus, and that disgusting foregoing out all night and partying with no regard for those around me. I have not gone to any party. Even on my birthday, I didn't leave my home. I barely left my room at all in two weeks. I had bad judgment last night and left to see a friend due to an overwhelming anxiety coupled with ignorance that I can safely see them. I do believe I was as safe as possible because the only friend I saw hasn't left his house since quarantine has begun either. Not even to see a single family member or anything. I understand now that even seeing one person under all those circumstances isn't worth it and I won't be leaving my house in any fashion unless for an emergency, aka God forbid, the need to visit a hospital. My mistake of going out to see a friend stemmed from me panicking and wanting to be in the presence of someone who could help calm me down because I did not feel safe in the moment. I understand there were better choices I should have made if I felt that way. I was scared to confront my family with the fact that I felt the way I did and chose to go to a friend instead. I shouldn't have made it an in-person thing. I know there's a scary time right now but I am not one of those people who are not having any care for anyone else's well-being. I was under the impression that seeing a single person in any isolated house who had not been anywhere public while also taking every precaution to remain sanitary would pose no risk to anyone. I didn't see how it was any different than the trips to the grocery store. My mom has to make several times a week but now we're actually seeing that my mom is doing it to get food for us while my venture wasn't a necessity. I was only thinking about my anxiety and my overwhelming desire to use in the moment. If you can take a step back I'm sure you will see that we all make imperfect decisions when struggling not to relapse. My explanation doesn't make it any less my decision and any less of something that I need to say I'm sorry for though and I do and I understand that. My actions made due to my mental struggles are still my actions that I'm responsible for. So I am saying I now recognize that it wasn't safe and will make sure to be as cautious as possible going forward by not leaving my house for any reason. But due to my lack of ignorance I am going to go and donate online any of the money I made this last week on YouTube to the Thing Solidarity Response Fund. I'm sorry again. All right thanks for allowing me to read that. Okay so check it out listen like we are all in a very scary time like it's it's scary. I'm you know the person who is designated to go to the grocery store and everything like that and every time I go my anxiety flares up and I am just hyper alert and I'm just like stay six feet back stay six feet back I don't like screaming people but I'm just constantly looking around I hold my breath when I'm about to walk past people like I get it it is a very scary time all right but like right now I I know so many people in recovery who are legit struggling and I don't think if you've if you've never struggled with an addiction especially in early recovery you don't know what those cravings are like like you don't know the obsession you don't understand how your mind cannot get off of this and like from what it seems like Taylor has been doing a great job self-quarantining and everything like that but you guys I'm just going to be totally honest with my opinion here and this is something I've noticed for a long time it is very easy to be online and take a moral high ground because for the majority of people who are commenting nobody is monitoring their every move and decision okay like a lot of people are doing things that they shouldn't be doing right now a lot of people are going out and being like absolutely ridiculous but we all know for a fact like if we're just going to be honest that there are people doing far worse who are doing worse like what you know is is completely irresponsible compared to what Taylor and Nicole Dean did while trying to go and prevent a relapse by talking to a friend and absolutely absolutely there were better decisions you can call you can face time or whatever but I can understand that mental state and not thinking about it because something a lot of people don't realize like a craving isn't just something that comes out of nowhere cravings are based on sights smells thoughts emotions everything right anything can trigger it and sometimes when you're having those intense cravings you just got to go like maybe it's your room right maybe it's your family maybe it's something where you're like I got to get out of here like in my early recovery there were so many times well I just had to like leave the house and go to a meeting and people in recovery right now do not they don't have that option like meetings are shutting down and stuff so check it out if you're watching this in your own recovery and you know somebody's who's in recovery they do do online meetings one of the best websites they have an app to is in the rooms.com I know a lot of treatment centers I still have a lot of friends who work in treatment and everything like that they are moving like their groups and everything like that to online and doing zoom therapists are moving to you know using they're calling it telemental health and calling and talking and everything like that but we need to unlike I do think that Taylor and Cole Dean gets a pass on this one especially because it's not like she went to like you know this party where she was you know hanging out with a bunch of people she went to one person's house okay and right now there are people who are visiting friends and family members and they're limiting their social interactions well I don't agree that it's the smartest decision like it is you know doing their best not to be in these big social spaces you know what I mean but now I'm going to jump into just a little bit of my opinion and if Taylor Nicole Dean ever sees this like this is just strictly my opinion to help keep your sanity if you are a public figure and like again this is my opinion I can't I can't stress that enough Taylor Nicole Dean she just from what I've seen she really puts everything out there she posts a lot of pictures she tweets a lot and she's very open and transparent with her audience which can be seen as a good thing right but I've seen since everything is public public it gives people more ammunition to come after her and like if I was in her situation especially if my following was that big like there's so many things that don't need to be posted like there's so many like when I saw this when I saw her message I was sitting there and thinking like how did anybody know that you went to your friend's house like why did anybody know that you know what I mean um there have been plenty of other youtubers who have done this as well and it's just giving people ammunition like I think Trisha Paytas is a good example like you know H3 podcast I don't know if you heard about that whole thing like Trisha Paytas is like apparently hooking up with Ethan's brother-in-law who's Ela's brother or whatever and she's like quarantine date quarantine date like those two people aren't living together so they're still hanging out and we know a bunch of other people are doing this but as a public figure it's like why even post that why even let people freak out about that like recently Edwin of Edwin's generation he did a livestream with Trisha Paytas his ex-girlfriend and Edwin got a lot of crap because he wasn't social distancing he had her come over and they did a livestream together I feel like social distancing is misunderstood largely misunderstood at least and maybe I'm misunderstanding but social distancing doesn't mean you can't be around human beings at all it doesn't mean you should like not talk to anybody ever I mean when you go to do you guys not go to the grocery store you're not interact with people you know it's like you know if you don't show symptoms okay it's I don't know I like I'm not an expert so like I'm not trying to like I feel like even addressing is almost setting myself up for big year but again like they could have done it virtually I've done a few interviews for my podcast and you could do it virtually like you don't have to be in the same space but again like as an influencer I would start asking myself like why do I feel this need to post literally everything online and you see that with a lot of people you see that with people on your Facebook feed just your friends and family members like they stream every single thought and every single action they do you know not everything needs to be out there but lastly and this is something that I used to be terrible at and I'm trying to be better at and I haven't had you know a ton of people come after me lately thank god if there was any wood around here I'd knock on it but like Taylor also feels this need to reply right and give a statement on everything and it's just like something I've learned through my experience is like not everything needs a response you know there are going to be people who are just going to disagree with you or try to moral grandstand on you like a great example recently is iDubbbz he didn't need to respond to that and a lot of people think it made his situation worse but anyways like just please try to have a little empathy for someone who is fighting for their life not to turn back to a deadly drug like you gotta understand people who are in recovery from addiction they're waking up every day every day they are in a fight for their life and I am very fortunate that I've made it this far sober like I'm in a place in my recovery where I don't need to go to a meeting every single day like I'm not constantly craving or freaking out or anything like that it is just kind of like maintenance of my recovery I talk to my support group I go to meetings when I can and everything like that but I remember my first year sober so when I see somebody like Taylor Nicole Dean making that decision during an anxiety attack and going to a friend to try to calm her down and talk herself off to out of relapse like I try to empathize with that I try to put myself in her shoes like I could see myself doing the exact same thing early in recovery right and you got to remember like being in person with people it is much different and there's more of a social connection than you know even calling or being on FaceTime even though like I highly recommend it and that's what I've been doing I use you know better help online therapy I talked to my therapist from a distance and everything like that but you know when we're in a poor mental state we make you know not always the smartest decisions but again like she wasn't going out into like a crowded like farmers market like there are far worse you know irresponsible things going on and I'm not a doctor but right now it is limiting your social interactions in person social interactions as much as possible okay it's decreasing the risk of being exposed or exposing others and I think once in the last two or three weeks going to visit one friend like that is a that I think you get a pass on that one especially when you're trying to protect your sobriety anyways you can share your thoughts on this if you have any ideas what people can do whether they're struggling with addiction or their mental health in general go ahead and leave a comment down below all right but anyways that's all I got for this 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This time, instead of visual, she used audio fantasies. Okay, audio fantasies. The only difference in the script in the audio fantasies was she used female stranger, a female friend, a male stranger and a male friend, and then a long time lover. And a stranger you just met, right, a stranger. Here's what happened. Female strangers were twice as arousing as the female friend's fantasy. Male strangers were eight times more arousing than the long time friends. So you're a f***ed if you're in the friend's zone, in other words, right? Eight times more. She'd rather hook up with you if she did just met you. And here's the scariest part. When they swapped out a stranger versus long time lover, it was almost equal. In fact, the stranger was a little bit more arousing. This means you could be married for 40 years. None of that matters, because you could just introduce to her a hot guy in an alleyway. She could be just as aroused. What does this say? What happened to they can only be aroused with emotional connection?


We're going to do five supporting claims questions in five minutes or less. I'm going to show you how to tackle some of the toughest questions on the digital SAT today. Supporting claims questions can come in a variety of formats, but generally speaking, the question always asks you about supporting the claims or supporting a hypothesis. In this case, it says which quote best supports the claims by those interviewed. If we take a look at the paragraph here, it says that journalists Karen Harris recently interviewed a variety of people on the subject of right wing politics and most of those interviewed agreed that right wing politics are beneficial for the nation's growth and stability. But if we don't know what right wing politics are, it might be tricky to figure that out. So I want you to keep reading a little bit more. It says lower taxes, limited government, free market policies, strong military, secure borders, protection of the traditional family. Let's look at our options. So first, we should not privilege any particular definition of family over others. All families should be respected right there. That's not traditional family. The second one says a strong family structure is the cornerstone of a strong and healthy nation and must be protected. That sounds like support for a strong traditional family, which is one of the right wing politics as stated by the journalists. That is the only answer that truly supported any of the right wing politics that were made. Second one here, which quote would support the main idea of the text? We need to find the main idea. Usually we're going to find that in the first sentence. I'm going to read it here. Journalists are increasingly recognizing the potential of wind energy as a sustainable energy source of the future. Okay, so we are looking for a quote that supports wind energy. There are many pressing issues and the energy crisis is one of them, but wind energy is expensive. Okay, it goes negative, we don't want it. I live on pristine country Meadowland and I love the view I have of my front porch every morning. Can you imagine what it would look like with a bunch of windmills in the way? Wrong. Also, I think it would look pretty cool. Wind energy is an important piece of our energy puzzle, but it should be used. As soon as I see this, but I can tell you this is wrong. Let's look at D, we need to invest much more into renewables such as wind. There's your right answer. It's right there. What evidence would sport Jared Diamond's opinion? I need to figure out what his opinion is. Let's take a look at the first sentence. He's a scholar and author who's devoted much of his research to the collapse of civilizations. He believes there's his opinion. He believes that the collapse of civilizations is primarily due to environmental degradation, climate change and the mismanagement of resources. A, a study in the Roman Empire showing that its collapse was not due to outside intervention, but rather to overextending its influence and spreading resources too thin. That does seem like that could be a good answer. It does talk about spreading resources thin. I like this one. Still, let's check the other answers. Archaeological studies on Saharan civilizations that existed and thrived for thousands of years with very few sources of water. Okay, that probably isn't going to support your argument because if they can survive with few resources, who cares if you destroy the resources or mismanage them? C, an investigation that uncovered a civilization that knowingly destroyed their own forests. No, okay. I mean, that doesn't make sense either. If you're doing it knowingly, I don't think that's the right answer. Studies showing the climate change is a largely modern phenomenon. It affects our current society more than those of the past. That would also be wrong. So again, we can rule out B, C and D and that leaves us with A. What evidence would most directly support the researchers' findings? Let's figure out what those findings are. It says a recent medical study sought to confirm the hypothesis that regular physical activity can reduce the risk of disability in older adults and we can see here towards the end of the paragraph. At the end of the study, the results showed that those who had a higher level of physical activity had a lower risk of disability. After a six-year period, a participant who could walk one kilometer can now walk 800 meters. Okay, well, that reduced. I mean, that doesn't seem like that's a very good piece of evidence. Evidence of a great grandfather being able to climb a set of stairs despite never doing high volume exercise. Okay, that doesn't support our theory at all. Participant records are feeling more fatigued and drowsy five months after completing their participation in the research. That doesn't sound good. If you're sounding worse after doing all this exercise, that's bad. We're left with D, an account of a lifelong marathon runner who's able to live independently in their three-story home at 95 years old. Good for that guy. Yeah, that's our best choice. And lastly, what evidence would support Kenzo Tange's beliefs? We got to figure out what his beliefs are. Let's look at our first sentence. He was a renowned Japanese architect who believed that architecture and urban planning could have a profound impact on people's lives. A talks about a university showing crime present in planned cities. I don't think that's the right answer here. He didn't really focus on things like crime in his comments there. A survey on overall life satisfaction in urban areas with heavy pollution and with ones in clean air, where there's no difference. No, no difference is usually never the right answer. A report in which citizens overwhelmingly approve of a new office building in Tokyo that was designed using traditional architecture styles. That sounds like that could be a good answer. It's a building that shows the traditional culture and people approve of it. So it confirms his theory, right? That if people's culture and needs are reflected in their architecture, they will be happier and like their cities more. So we're going to go with C. With supporting claims questions, the most important thing that you have to do is identify the claim. And so if it's not given to you directly in the question, you need to look around in the paragraph for what that claim will be. Usually you can look for words like showed, proved, believes, thinks, argues, any of those words that can kind of help you find where the writer or author's opinion is. Use the first sentence of the paragraph to help you understand what the whole paragraph is about. And in some cases, you'll actually find the central claim there. It might also be at the very end of the paragraph. You just want to look for where that claim will be, understand what that claim is, and then pick the best piece of evidence to support that claim. Remember too that not all pieces of evidence are created equal. If you're dealing with a scientific text, you want to make sure that you choose good scientific evidence, data, using specific measurable things from the paragraph. Anecdotal evidence or people's self-reported ideas like surveys are usually not as good as a scientific experiment. So be careful when you choose those options. And now my people with supporting claims questions, thank you very much. I'll see you next time.


Now, we're going to level up our timer by instead of counting down by whole seconds, we're going to count down by pieces of a second, specifically milliseconds. By moving to our while loop construction, we made it a little bit easier to do this. So, we start out by defining our interval of 1 millisecond, 0.001, 1 1 thousandth. We have our seconds left set at 11, and then a lot of this is the same. We start by initializing done to be false. We create our while loop. We say while not done, do this indented code block. We start by sleeping for the interval, and then print how many seconds we have left. Then instead of decrementing seconds left by one whole second, we decremented by that interval. We check our condition again, whether it is still greater than zero. If it becomes less than or equal to zero at any point, say done equals true, and we'll finish and get a ding. But until then, go back and do the whole thing over again, one interval at a time, so one one thousandth of a second at a time, instead of one whole second at a time. Now because computers are very precise, this produces a very ugly number with a lot of decimals, a lot of decimal points. We really only care about the first three, because we're just counting milliseconds. We don't care about the nearest nanosecond. So luckily, F strings has a way to take something ugly, this ugly seconds left, and chop off all but the first three decimal points. It is this construct here. This is a cryptic code that tells the F string how to format this number. So the colon says, okay, everything that comes after this, this is formatting information. The F says, this is a floating point number, so it's going to be a decimal with stuff that comes after the decimal. The point three means, of everything that comes after the decimal point, keep a fixed three digits of precision. And that's exactly what we want. We want to be able to represent milliseconds. And then we'll add our customary spaces on there to cover things up when we go down a digit from two digits to one digit. And then when we run it, we can see this is exactly what happens. It counts down from 11, and it cycles through the numbers one millisecond at a time. They turn over very quickly, and pretty soon we get down to zero, and we're done. So our timer just got a lot fancier. We went from a slow one second at a time, to a ridiculously faster than we could ever make use of one millisecond at a time. If you'd like to play around with it, go into this code, change the number of seconds left. Change the interval. Change the number of decimal places it shows when it prints it. Try changing each of those and seeing what the result is. Really make it your own.


Over the years, the Solution National Youth Council has provided youth with opportunities to discuss national issues and what better topic to start off this amazing podcast than Emancipation. So I have my facts, Emancipation is a recognition of the freedom of a people once enslaved and looking to the future. We'll discuss, but welcome you guys to a fresh new podcast. It's called Moe Memexa, I know you say it all the time, so today you'll find out exactly what this podcast is about. I'm not the only person here with you today but my name is Franny, Fire Franny on social media, I'm a media girl, love entertainment and of course you know if we're gonna bring the vibes to you and if we're gonna teach you a lot in a fun way, we have to give you an awesome cast. So let's introduce you to the amazing people who will be sitting here with you for the next hour or so. So grab a drink, get something to eat because y'all it's all about Moe Memexa, the podcast. So welcome guys, how are y'all today? We're good, we're good, alright. Alright, so who's in the house, Joshua? Well, like she said, Joshua, you all know me from TV and media so it's awesome to be here. Giovanni Chaus, all geological. Hi, I'm Siana. Edison Lane, AKA your prophet Edison. Okay, we'll learn more about where the prophet come from, you know what I'm saying? Moe Memexa. Okay, so we're talking emancipation. For some, it's a very heavy topic and I don't want you to think that it's about to be a long, boring, drawn-out conversation. Emancipation means different things to everybody. So when you guys hear emancipation, be as honest as possible, what does it mean to you? I think that emancipation represents the liberation of physical bondage but it still has some effect today. I mean, you're definitely younger, much younger than, you know, that time that the physical bondage was very prevalent on this entire earth. So how does it mean that to you or how does it resonate with you? Emancipation I see as freedom, I see as a point of, you know, we are now treated as equals, we are now seen as equals and it's the point of us moving forward not as just black people but as a culture on a whole. Nice. Well, for me emancipation is simply African pride. Being proud of my ancestry and just being proud of my skin colour and being proud of the journey that my ancestors went through and, you know, looking at where we are today and looking at today and how we move forward from today into tomorrow. Yeah. I think to me that emancipation means progress. It basically means how do we move on from this stage? How do we try to better our lives and improve our position in society? So that's what emancipation is to me. Edison, what about you? To me emancipation in essence, it speaks more to the public display of the change of ownership that people are back and they own themselves, they're free but in the literal sense, still within an economic structure, still within a dispersion, still within many different layers of the social effect that doesn't all coincide with the one too. So it speaks to a breaking down of social fabrics to allow for the people of our race at this point in history to actually begin to reclaim what is ours and to actually begin to feel as though we are like the children, we're like the children who won, we actually sit here comfortable whereas like 400 years ago, people were just in bad, like deplorable condition having to fight on things that you wouldn't think of, they would have to think of.  So I just give thanks for that era where we now overturn and all of that. That's really what it is like to me. You know, I think people look at the different fabrics that we still wait into overturn and they feel as though perhaps that wood is an incomplete wood. But to me, I just feel as though the fact that we're here is already proof that we have overturned a certain level of what has kept us back or what kept us back some 400 years. That's true. And you mentioned, you know, especially that it affects young people and you all know right now we're in the pop culture era, you know? It's the Lord have mercy. And sometimes I think because of how quickly life progresses right now, we don't actually stop to figure out how everything connects. So how exactly do you guys think pop culture has influenced our view on emancipation or how has it added to that or taken away from it in some way? Well, if we look at, like you said, time is flying very quickly. Youth are no longer youth. The concept of youth used to be you're young. You can engage in this. You can engage in that. Now our young people are forced to grow up faster than they intend to in a world that is gradually shifting for achievements and academia rather than self development and mental assurance with pop culture. Pop culture has changed the entire fabric of how we see a lot of things. Whereas emancipation used to be just a concept of identifying where we came from, the concept of freedom, the concept of development, the concept of the right to vote, the right to this, the right to that. Now it's just become another celebration in our calendars within this modern era. And I know this year we had a big celebration about it. But if you look at previous years, we just see emancipation as just another holiday rather than understand what it really means. So even within our school systems, you don't really hear the true depth of emancipation. You don't hear the liberation of black people. You don't hear about African descent or you hear about it's a holiday and it's when black people were free. I know the Caribbean is much different from the United States, where you know you had two different sets of emancipation and South Africa had its own set of emancipation. But you don't hear much about it. You just hear it's a day, it's a holiday. I get to stay at my home and I don't have to go to work. I don't have to do none of these things. So as a young person, when you exist within this era and you are now learning about it and you are now understanding it, you get a clear understanding that it goes beyond just a holiday. It goes beyond just the concept of black people facing racial tensions and and afflictions on their lives to adopt a European culture. But it goes to the fact that these are people who came, who were forced and who conquered despite their lives being taken. They still fought for us to be able to sit here with our chains on our necks and our hands and feet and without having to stand on the stage and be an auction to other plantations. But we're going to come to the rest of the cast, but even in the pop culture sense, that's what I was talking about, the disconnect with and the meaning behind the things that we do. We see a lot of young people wanting to be liberated. We see it in the way we dress. We see it in the music videos, the way people just break boundaries. Our grandmothers hold in their heads saying, where my mix up?   But isn't that liberation? Isn't that part of what emancipation means? Sometimes with freedom, you get chaos. And right now, what our ancestors would see us doing in this modern era, they would see it as chaos, though we are truly free. We are still slaves to some of the concept of our past, the way that we... I mean, now I see school children going to school and they can have whatever hairstyle they want. But even five years ago, when I was still in secondary school, girls could not come to school if they had one type of way. You could not come with fitted pants and stuff like that. Sorry, I need to correct you because some girls could, when your hair was a little straighter. Yes, but even that is a concept where it depends on what your hair texture is like and how it is right now. So even with that now, when we speak about pop culture, pop culture is changing our culture. And we are now trying to identify ourselves with what is abroad rather than be interested in who we are. I mean, why is it now Creole is not being taught within our schools when it is part of our natural language structure. And then now, children are being raised now to say that, OK, Creole is not a language that we should really use because it seems derogatory, it seems ancient. When that is part of our structure. So for me now, who's grown up as a millennial, I can understand Creole because I learned from my grandmother, but I was never taught by my parents who speak it perfectly. So that causes a cultural disconnection, which is something that was brought about even through the process of emancipation as we became free and began to interact with each other. So pop culture has changed the entire way that we speak, that we act or that we interact. Whether we see it as good or bad, it is determined by your interpretation of your life and how you see yourself going forward. But in terms, we're still on neutral grounds and we're still trying to figure out our way forward. But in terms of good or bad, that is dependent on your perspective of your country and your culture. It's true. What about you, Edison? Well, I would definitely say that, I mean, as far as we look at it at the very empirical level, like the smallest level, how does a child or anybody from the youngest experience listen to a story, listen to folk culture? How do they connect to the people who literally, though their circumstances were some of the most deplorable, I mean, in every height, every high culture, you find that some people were sold, whether by their parents or by somebody in society where there would be some level or some class who were referred to as slaves. These people still, without standing like their environments, especially in our charter slavery instance, actually fought and liberated themselves through violence, through rebellion, through a complete revolutionary concept. Like to most people being born in that era, I'm sure, they were locked out of the idea of revolt, they were locked out of those ideas and the mere fact that they were able to analyze the situation and eventually still end up in the same era where they had to literally fight in the depth of the night and relate to that because in all honesty, there's no way you will appreciate even the smallest aspect of our liberation now without understanding the degree from which it comes, especially the way we've settled in every community, how it's been built, how the families trickle down, how people travel from the South. These are the same people in all honesty who were probably working within the slave plantations, probably working for the money after being quote-unquote liberated but economically disputed against or discriminated against because people couldn't get work based on small things, colorism, they couldn't based on perhaps their lineage, they were already a slave class. So you're not gonna allow a jump into somewhere that you're not familiar with or that perhaps a society doesn't deem you fit for. So when these same people now are able to thrive, whether educationally, whether in industry, when they're able to actually do what they're doing now, it's to appreciate the degree from which it comes from because it wasn't really given, we had to take it and in the Caribbean, we have the liberty of being surrounded by each other but in the larger world, people don't experience that level of inclusion. Here we have a different type of inclusion but that speaks to the emphasis we probably should put in relating those stories, relating these experiences to each other in a way that we could embrace it because that's all it is. I was about to say in terms of the appreciation, you kind of have to know to appreciate, you know? And I think, especially as you talk about community, we have an issue with the trickle-down process in getting young people to understand things because go ahead. Another thing is like it's kind of, like it's too full because like on one hand you would say like the young people don't know anything about their culture, they don't understand anything about their culture. Actually, I'm doing a summer, well, I'm one of the facilitators at a summer camp and I was very pleasantly surprised to see that, like I started a story literally how I started it so it was once upon a time there was a cow named Copebeth and you these little children like five to eight-year-olds finished the whole story for me and I had to go in my back pockets and find another one that they would probably not know and I was really, I was inspired with hope really that the young generation, well the newer generation actually knows something about their culture. So I think it's just a matter of finding a way to bridge the gap and we find ourselves like doing a tug of war but if you can't beat them maybe you could join them. So where you're trying to struggle to get people you know, out of TikTok and into, I don't know, a flower festival for example. You could bring the flower festival to TikTok. Yeah, so like why is it that you're trying and I guess that's, it's kind of a consequence of our enslavement that we think we need to discipline people into action but you could find a compromise and meet them in the middle and try to bring the culture to the places that they spend the most time. I think for me I don't believe in compromise at all on that. I believe what I think we all know the only constant is change, right? And some change happens whether you want it to or not, right? But if I may interject on this point, even if we, when we look at our culture, we look at our identity, sometimes we as the young people, we are aware of what is our culture and who we are.  It kind of makes you want to stray away from these type of things or stay away from these type of things because all you see is the bad all you see is the negative. So when we say young people do not care or they are not part of this it's not that we are not aware, it's not that we don't know, it's not that we don't research. It's just that how society's construct has made us become isolated and stay with ourselves and not want to take part in a lot of things because we see, you know, everything is the same old. We do this, we do that every year. And here we are now. Yeah, I understand that. Again, I told you all, women makes a lot of needs, all right? That's only the first part, you guys. Of course, we have a lot of action for you lots of entertainment, hot topics. 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