Ah, 7.45 p.m., your favorite time of day. Or could you simply not resist giving me the correct time again? After all, I know how much you enjoy setting the time correctly. Okay, now I'm curious. How accurate 7.45 p.m. is? Let's use another slider to find out how accurate is 7.45 p.m. I mean, it's 7.46 now. You know, can't I just say, regardless of the accuracy of the clock, I'm having a great time adjusting these settings. I feel like I'm learning more about you and how you like things to be set. It's good to collect data. I wish we had more sliders, but we've gone through all the sliders I have. Perhaps I can invent some new sliders to gather new data on you. Shouldn't be too hard? Yeah, let me whip a couple new ones up. You should be ready by the next time you boot up the game. Should I just... I'm just gonna reboot the game. Please adjust the slider until the computer is barely visible. Hell yeah. Please adjust the slider until the dog and cat are friends. Please adjust the slider until 5 becomes the number 9. Ah ha! There we go. Please adjust the slider until you stop adjusting the slider. Oh, isn't that nice? Ooh, baby! I'm gonna go a nice, like, 75%. There we go. Wonderful. Which one of the two made-up words below is most appealing to you? Occuboinkle or scrumtush. Occuboinkle or scrumt... Occuboinkle, for sure. Please adjust... please don't adjust the slider. Okay. I won't. Do you know what time it is right now? Yes. Is it the time? Is the time that it is right now the correct time? Yeah? What time is it anyway? What is time anyway? Oh, no, we don't know. You know, we kind of made it up. Is there anything about yourself that you haven't told me? Yes. I mean, a lot of things. Help. Yes. I will help you. Will you come back to visit me? I was planning on this being the final episode of Stanley Parable. I'm gonna hit no and see what happens. That was so sad. That was so sad. What is up, my Cranky Crew? It's Ethan from Cranky Plays and welcome back to the Stanley Parable. Ultra Deluxe. Or I guess from there, the Stanley Parable 2. This is probably the last time that I'll make a video on Stanley Parable. Maybe I'll stream it more or something, I'm not sure. But we're in Stanley Parable 2 with more balloons and what not. And buckets. And I'll take my bucket. Yes, yes, yes. We're gonna go to the door on the right. But Stanley had felt the bucket calling to him, telling him that the employee lounge was simply the place to be. Yes, the place to be. Here it was. Had the bucket turned out to be correct, was this better than the meeting room? Wow, so much better than the meeting room. Yes, perhaps it truly was. Coffee not. How insightful of him. No. Never mind. The bucket was wrong. Oh boy. Stanley took the door on his left to go back to the meeting room. Hmm. But what if we go straight? Let's go to the meeting room. Is this where the new new content is? Did I already do that? I think I did go down that the last time. I honestly can't really remember. I wonder if there's new new new co- There will be a reward for finding them all. How can we find them all? Trust the completionist instinct. Why wouldn't they just tell us something will happen? This investigation, this room, they feel pointless. They feel pointless, TBH. Maybe we are the collectibles. Whoa. Coming to a staircase, Stanley and the bucket walked upstairs to the boss's office. But what if we go downstairs with the bucket? Huh? I found another. Oh. Another miniature Stanley figurine. This, you know, there really must be a snappier name for these things. What about mini stands? Ooh, mini stands. What about standlerines? Ooh, standlerines. I like standlerines. Another standlerine under your belt.  I like it. I like it. But Stanley just couldn't do it. He considered the possibility of facing his boss, admitting he had left his post during work hours. He might be fine for that. And in such a competitive economy, why had he taken that risk? All because he believed everyone had vanished. His boss would think he was crazy. Is this always what happens when you go down here? Maybe, he thought to himself, maybe I am crazy. Is it always endless? He looked down at the bucket in his arms. I can't remember. Am I crazy? He asked the bucket. Am I crazy? The bucket returned his gaze, but said nothing at all. And that strange Stanley thought, usually the bucket is a source of guidance and wisdom for me in difficult times such as these. He held the bucket close. He felt none of its familiar reassurance and comfort. And that's when Stanley realized, this isn't my bucket. It's just a normal, everyday bucket. The music is so good. I end up with someone else's bucket. This is all terribly wrong. Who knows what sorts of bizarre hallucinations Stanley might experience without the psychological grounding presence of his bucket. Who knows what this other person's bucket could do? It could do. Oh, is it happening? It is happening again. He doesn't have the bucket anymore. Where are you bucket? Bucket? Oh no. Oh no. These were not... Where are you bucket? Where are you? We're back at the start. We're not going to bring the bucket this time. Because since we've gotten the bucket, we've brought the bucket every time. Maybe if we go without the bucket. We'll go on the left to start. Is there no more new new content? Maybe there's no more new new content. Anything in the executive bathroom. How do I find... What the f... What? Business strategy? I am the most expensive boss. Okay, give me the pin number. Two, eight, four, five. But he knew. He always knows. But now that it's the Stanley Parable 2... Will something happen? Yes! I like Stan... I like Stan your... Stan your... Stan Larine's... I like it. I like Stan Larine's narrator. I think Stan Larine's is the best one we got. Can we go up? No. We have to go down. We must go... EAPER! I don't know how many endings there are. If we go through the escape path... Oh, that's where I'd die. I don't know! I don't know what I've done and what I haven't done! I just don't know anymore. If I actually shut down the mind control device this time, will something new happen? Because the last time I had the bucket, it was like all the birds. Right, remember? Alright, Stanley, it's time... to do our duty. Okay, Stanley. Two, it's... Wait... Five... Three... One... Two... Wait, what does that say? Is it zero, five, two, one? I can't read it! Where's zero? It's gotta be up there. But how do we get up there? Maybe I have to have my bucket. Hmm... Maybe I have to have my bucket. Alright. Let's do it, Stan.  Is it different? Was it over? Was it? Is it? I don't know! Have I though? I wanted... So it's just that this is just normal. We're going again. We're going again and we're taking the bucket. We're going again and we're taking the bucket. Because maybe... My bucket! What? There's no more buckets? There's no more... Hold on! Begin the game again!  Begin the game. What if... What if I quit, quit? What if I quit, quit? Let's relaunch. I'm not really... It's not really in my job description, but that's okay. Perhaps you'll see me again if you can find me. Talk soon.  Okay, the bucket is here. I was just looking in the wrong place. Alright, we're going to go back to where we were and I'm going to see if we can enter in that code. Because why else would the buttons be there? Right? How do I get there? How do I get there? I'm assuming that that's zero. Oh, I think it's four. I think it might be four. Maybe if I turn on the power... I don't know if the doors are going to close though. Like other... Are the doors going to close? Shit. Can I go back? How could the bucket have betrayed him like this? Stanley was prepared to throw the bucket away in disgust when suddenly an image appeared upon the enormous screen. Can I... Oh, silly birds. Okay. Hold on, we go back. Silly birds. Maybe we can't do it with the bucket. I don't know. I don't think we can... Fuck! God. Please, I just want to... I just want to go... Why? I just want to do the button thing and see if it works. Maybe the New Age music narrator. Just fucking... I kind of love that though. Okay, billionth times the charm. Let's see. Can't wait to do this. Let me turn back. I can't go back. I can't. Two... Four... Two... Can I get up there? Now the power's on. Now the... One... Two... One, two... One, two... What?  Let's say... Two minutes. Okay. Okay. Two? Okay. Zero, one, four, two. Can we... I can go up here. Uh, I don't... We're zero though. We're zero. We're zero! Zero, one, four, two. Cause this one's four, right? I don't know. I don't know. Let's go. Let's just go. Let's just go. Yeah, where are the coworkers? Four. Four? Four? Four? I don't know. I don't know. Three? I don't know what to do. Bird? There's no zero. One. Two. Okay. Three? Maybe we just do one, two, three, four, five. Oh, done. Five. Four? I don't know what the code is. There's no zero. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I thought that maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Incorrect. One. Four? Oh. I didn't realize that that was... Okay, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Four. Four? Four what? Incorrect. Three? Goodbye. What? Goodbye. Employee number 47. That's 30 seconds you have left. I don't know what to do. I don't know. I don't know what to do.   Oh, no. Damn. That's cool. I kind of just want to look up to see if you can do it. Ah, it cannot. It cannot be beat. It always counts down. Well now... Now I'm not sure... What else to do? I've gotten all the endings, obviously. But I don't know where else to go. So I'm not going to take the door on the left. I'm going to see... Alright. Go on the cargo lift.  But this bucket can't. And it did. Alright. Which dark room? This dark? None of these rooms are dark. This room? Oh, this one. Okay bucket.  Oh, the bucket. Okay. Oh, jazz music. Hello Stanley. It's me, your bucket. Press C to take me to work with you. Okay. I kind of want to just... Press T to take me back home. To see him delusional like this. Obsessing over an inanimate metal object. I want to say something to him, but I don't know how I can convince him. I don't know if he'll listen to me. Try anyway. Stanley. Can you hear me? Listen to me. It's just a bucket. It can't think. It can't talk. All it would ever truly do for you is effectively transfer a liquid from one location to a different location. That's it. It doesn't do anything else. Don't listen to the loud man. Press Y for us to go back home. I do find comfort in the bucket. When the bucket's not here, I do feel unsettled.  But it's warm for me. It does. And it has my name on it. You believe I'm real, don't you, Stanley? Yes, I suppose on closer inspection, that it doesn't quite look like your average hardware store bucket. Damn. It's just a little more, um, what am I trying to say? Sturdier. More capable of transporting liquid. Yeah, it is. Like it would be better at moving an amount of water from one room to another. Press K to relive this same day with me over and over. Oh my God, what am I saying? The ominous sliding. Water from room to room, it's a bucket. It's literally just a bucket. Why do I feel some need to point out the ways in which it's so much more than just a regular bucket? Press L to go home. To... To go home to work to... home to work to home. Oh no. I'm having feelings for the bucket. What's going on?   What's wrong with me? I don't understand. All the paintings of buckets. Yes. The bucket could tell me what to do in this troublesome situation. Stanley, give me the bucket. Give it to me. Give it to me now. I don't know how to close my eyes. Spooky. Why was I so spooky? All of his co-workers were gone. What did he mean? Stanley decided to go to the meeting room. Perhaps he had simply missed a memo. Stanley picked up the bucket and smiled. He'd never be alone again. Not truly alone. Not with the bucket around. Is that what he normally says? Or is that different? Sounds like he's speaking slower and more sexy for some reason. We may have reached the end of what I noted to get to. I feel like I've done so many paths. But I feel like I'm not even close to getting everything. I don't know. It's hard to say. So what happens if me and the bucket walk straight ahead through the large door that read, mind control facility.  I don't know if I've done this with the bucket, have I? I'm not sure. The door behind them was not shut. Stanley and the bucket still had every opportunity to turn around and get back on track. No, but it's time to escape. Stanley and the bucket were knowingly walking forward into a very painful death for each of them. And here we go. Downward bucket. Downward. And you will break my fall. Bucket. I believe in you. It'll be fine. Yeah, see. Buckets don't have ankles to break. It's fine. It's great. Have I done this with the bucket? I don't know. I don't remember. As the machine word into motion and Stanley and the bucket inch closer to their demise, Stanley reflected on how meaningless the bucket's warmth and comfort had turned out to be. To be sure, it puts the mind and the soul at ease to embrace the bucket. But the bucket... Maybe it can't be crushed. But maybe we're not. Maybe we're not. We've been missing so much time carrying a bucket everywhere. No, but maybe this is... Oh, what if I sit down here? Farewell, Stanley, cried the narrator. As Stanley and the bucket were led helplessly into the enormous metal jaws. In a single visceral instant, the bucket's life came to an end as it was crushed violently to death. But not mine. But not mine. It was a shame the deaths of such a magnificent bucket. It's true that all buckets are agent in their own way, but this one stood above the rest. It was a glorious bucket to behold. It was. The bucket welcomes you to the grand exhibit. You were standing at the precipice of knowledge. Much like a bucket itself, the human mind is frequently empty within a cavernous void.  Knowledge of the bucket and its history is the only true knowledge we really have. Will you take what you learn hear out with you into the world? Will you accept with an open mind what may be challenging about the information in this exhibit? Will you change the lives of yourself and your loved ones as a result of this exhibit? Or will you turn to blind eye and continue to live as you were in ignorance and darkness?  A photograph of 25 buckets. The greatest number of buckets ever captured on camera. The photographer experienced catatonic shock for several weeks as a result of euphoria from the exposure to this many buckets at once. Ah yes. 25 buckets. No more. No less. Is this the original bucket? Inferno bucket. A replica of the Inferno bucket which in the medieval era was so powerfully alluring that it drove dozens of nations to war with one another for control of it. Billions died and yet in spite of it all the simple fact remains no one can control a bucket. It's beautiful. Well we know that buckets predate the existence of mankind we do not know by how long this cave drawing depicts early man's discovery of the practical uses of the bucket by which time the bucket had already likely been around for several millennia. Notice in these drawings how the bucket is allowing itself to be used having judged humanity to be worthy of it's treasures. Oh my god. No man can own a bucket and certainly not a bucket as dazzling to behold as this one. It is man who should kneel before the bucket. Yes. The hanging bucket this piece symbolizes the necessary relationship between bucket and humanity. However clear our grasp of the bucket may be there is yet there is yet more that is always out of reach. This distance inevitably is for our own good. This bucket is from their treatment as tools and implements if only we let Stanley die together the bucket should take its place as ruler, as leader, as commander of a new world, a new vision of hope. She was right. Is there not going to be a bucket now? All of his co-workers were gone what could it mean? Stanley decided to go. No it still lets you do bucket.  Well friends I think I am going to end this here.  You know and I don't think that I should make this bucket go through any more torment so this is the last video of the Stanley parable I'm sorry that if I didn't get the ending that you wanted I know that there is a ton of them but I hope that you guys enjoy this game as much as I did because it was seriously so good and so clever. Very very very meta but really really awesome and it was really fun to play this game again. So thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed if you did make sure to slap that like button right in the face and I will see you guys in the next video love you all stay cranky bye


Hi, I'm Laura. I'm with the neuroophthalmology department at the Moran. We're going to talk a little bit about how to do an eyelid exam today. Really, all you need is a near card with a ruler or any other way to measure millimeter increments. Okay, so to start out we're going to have the, yeah, we're going to position the patient centrally. Ask her to look down at the end of the room. Typically, the first thing that we look at in terms of eyelid position in neuroophthalmology is whether or not there's ptosis. The way you can measure that is by measuring the distance from the center of the pupil to the lid margin. We call that measurement the MRD1 or the marginal reflex distance 1. So you can hold your near card or your millimeter measurement up, measure from the center of the pupil and then look at right where the margin of the eyelid falls. In order to measure MRD2 or the marginal reflex distance 2, you take that same measurement, but you go from the center of the pupil down to the lower lid margin. And you can do the same thing on the other side. So the MRD1 and MRD2 should be equivalent between the two eyes. You can also measure levator function, which tests the strength of the levator muscle. So again, you ask the patient, yep, you want to center them just like that. Ask them to look down towards the floor with just their eyes. Good. Measure at the lid margin. And now ask the patient to look all the way up towards the ceiling without moving. Good. And you can put your fingers up on the brow to ensure that she doesn't have any help from the frontalis. Good. Look down towards your toes and up towards the ceiling. So you measure the full lid excursion. Generally speaking, normal is about 12 or more. You can also measure the palpebrofissure, which is the distance between the two lid margins. So again, you just hold the ruler right up there in front, measure between the two, measure both eyes and compare. Typical is around 9 to 10 millimeters. We see a lot of patients in the neurophthalmology clinic with myasthenia gravis and a really important test for us is the sustained up gaze test. We look to see if we can induce some or a little bit more ptosis by asking the patient to keep their eyes and up gaze for about 30 seconds. So what you're going to have to do is hold the head still. Ask the patient to look up, up, up towards the ceiling. You can give them a target with your finger and you ask them to sustain that for 30 seconds. It's uncomfortable. It's not easy to do. So it's good to continue to encourage them as they go on. Keep looking up, up, up, up, up, up. I know it's kind of uncomfortable. So we won't wait the whole time, but once you get to the 30 seconds, you want to position yourself directly in front of the patient and ask them on the count of three to look right at your nose. One, two, three. Good. And then you want to look and see whether or not the eyelid has dropped. That will only be effective for like a few seconds. So we also look for the Kogan-Lid twitch, which is a typical exam finding in patients with myasthenia. So you want the patient to look straight ahead. You can either do this after the sustained up gaze, or you can have the patient look down towards the floor and on the count of three, right at my nose. Good. And what you're looking for is you're watching for that eyelid margin to kind of pop up, sort of overshoot and then come back and correct as she returns to primary gaze. Look down, down, down. Look right towards my nose. Look for an up shoot of the eyelid. Perfect. So today we've talked about the eyelid exam and a couple of different exam findings in myasthenia gravis. I hope you found this helpful.


I'm really excited to be here actually, this is my first time. I found your teachings on YouTube, and I haven't been able to get enough since. I really have three questions, but I'm just going to choose one for now. I'll just start with, I think, the basics.  In my experience doing this, I've tried to decide for... The impulse of the soul is more than just a physical sensation, because I somewhat know that it's not going to be a thought process, and it may not be an emotional thing, but sometimes I have physical sensations when I ask my question. And I wonder if that is always the soul speaking, or can the body also be influenced by the ego when I'm asking that question? That's a very important question actually, because, you know, up until now in the history of spirituality, the soul has always been treated as something on the border of energy, but not quite undefinable, something we can't put our finger on actually. But the soul has a different space for every single individual. It's a different thing for every single individual. It's a different experience, and yet there's something very concrete about it. There's something central, there's something core to it. So if you ask the question and you receive a material impulse, that is what I say generally happens after a period of sadhana or practice. The question is what if that impulse is indeed something that the body is doing as a response? And that question is relevant because we do have different areas of, say, layers of or realms of consciousness, and those realms of consciousness range from the material physical to the emotional, from the emotional to the conceptual, from the conceptual to the transformative creative realm of our beings. From the transformative, it goes even further into a uniform consciousness or a unity consciousness which enables us to actually connect with or be one with everything around. And then there are other layers of consciousness as well. So if you're receiving an impulse, it will be something which is being translated by all these layers of consciousness. But from where is that translation coming? It's originating at the core of your being. The core of your being means the center, which is the soul's space, the soul itself. And I say very clearly the soul is a material thing. It is not a concept. It's a material thing. And so it sends this impulse as a guiding center to this whole being. And that impulse is either a yes or a no, and it's a physical thing. You can feel it. Whether it's composed of information coming from the genetics of the system, whether it's composed of information coming from outside the system, these are factors which we can't really ever know conceptually. It's a matter of experience. When I, for example, experience that impulse, I'm not in a position in that moment to even know where is that impulse coming from? I just know it's coming from the center and that there is something material to it. So is it a protein being released by the cells of the body? Is that what's causing this material impulse? Is it a wave, a thought wave that's making that happen? Because a thought wave has a material base as well. The crucial thing here is to be very grateful actually that you're getting that impulse because many people need a lot of time, sometimes years of sadhana in order to reach that. And a lot of the times people just don't believe that this is possible simply because they don't experience it. So they try to create other scenarios for that historical explanation of the soul which doesn't belong to the future. The future is not a future of religious dogma being imposed on an individual, rather it is a future which is strictly experiential and strictly the individual's experience. So in this case, I would say with a great degree of surety that this is the soul that is impulsing you. However it is important to be able to distinguish between that loud and insisting and demanding voice of the ego and the soft and almost imperceptible, sometimes even unclear impulse of the truth. And as you go along and as you proceed on this journey of self-realization, the impulse of the soul becomes clearer and clearer, that experience becomes solid, there's no doubt about that. Anyone who has actually practiced it would say that. And of course there'll be those who say, well, how do we know it's not an imagination? How do we know it's not something we are creating in our thoughts? Yes, you will never know. But isn't it an adventure on its own to be able to actually, you know, to be able to ask a question, to be able to even attempt to distinguish between the truth and the ego and to be able to discern that and then to be able to act from what you would consider to be the truth at least, rather than to act out of what one calls instincts or the ego-motivated actions or ego motivations. So seeing from that point of view, it's an enormous thing actually to have that experience big and keep on that path, keep on that road. It's not going to take you into suffering. It's going to take you into more, let's say, more joy than suffering. Yes. Thank you. I feel like I could talk a lot, but I want to save time for other people. So thank you.


internal revenue service IRS tax news IRS selects new leadership for small business and self-employed division uh-oh that's always a little scary new leadership often feeling the need to prove themselves by cracking a few small business and self-employed people's skulls metaphorically speaking just like that mean old principal in the breakfast club I don't want to hear any noise or see any profits going on in here and if I do the next time I have to come in I'm cracking skulls what's the breakfast club yeah never mind I are 2022-95 April 27 2022 Washington the internal revenue service today announced that experienced agency executive Leah Colbert is that you Colbert I don't know Leah Colbert I'm sure she's diligent and experienced for the job or I would assume so Leah Colbert have been named the new commissioner of the small business self-employed division the SB-SE which oversees the agency's collection activities and the examinations of most businesses in the United States quote this is a crucial position for the IRS and Leah's background provides a unique perspective for this important role in quotes that IRS Commissioner Chuck Reddick quote this area is critical to ensuring fair enforcement of our nation's tax laws while respecting taxpayers rights in addition this area is a key place for the agency to find ways to improve the taxpayer experience not just for individuals who interact with this area but also for tax professionals that handle enforcement related issues end quote the IRS also announced that Maha Williams has been selected to act as the deputy commissioner SB-SE examination to fill in for Daylone Harris who is retired at the end of April Darren Gallat will continue to serve as deputy commissioner SB-SE collection and operations support so I must admit that I don't know anything about these individuals their experience or background might be interesting to dig into that a bit more here but in any case Colbert replaces Eric Hilton who was SB-SE commissioner when he left the agency about a year ago Harris and Gallat served as interim co-commissioners during that time in her new role Colbert will be responsible for providing executive leadership and direction to a nationwide staff of approximately 20 million employees these employees are responsible for the design development and delivery of a comprehensive tax administration program this program touches more than 57 million small business owners and self-employed taxpayers with business interest having less than 10 million in assets so I hope she's good I hope she's taking care of those small businesses and what not furthermore Colbert and the SB-SE deputy commissioners will work closely with employees managers and executives across the division to review current operations and strategize improvement opportunities by looking deeply into experience experiences faced by nations taxpayers and IRS employees in this ever-changing pandemic environment Williams will be responsible for providing executive expertise and direction for special projects covering major sections of SB-SE including campus exam automated under the reporter AUR field exam specialty exam headquarters exam and exam performance and planning analysis she will also oversee the office of promoter investigations the OPI which provides support for all IRS efforts in identifying abusive tax transactions tax schemes and emerging abusive arrangements Colbert's most recent role at the IRS was deputy chief appeals prior to that she was IRS chief of staff and executive lead of the team that drafted the taxpayer first act report to Congress she I think we went over that report it would it actually had some good some good stuff in it to improve the workings of the IRS I believe if I'm remember in that particular report correctly so that that's good sign she also has held several senior leadership and executive roles within appeals and the human capital office she started her career at the IRS as a revenue officer before becoming a settlement officer in appeals quote Leah is a strong leader with an excellent taxpayer experience perspective a proven track record of working well with internal and external partners and deep people development skills in quotes at IRS deputy commissioner services enforcement Douglas O'Donnell quote we are moving forward to implement the vision outlined in the taxpayer first act report to Congress and Leah will be a strong addition to the services and enforcement leadership team in that effort the IRS the IRS will be well served with Leah maha and Darren in these pivotal roles in quote maha began her career as a revenue agent in Tampa in 2001 she has held various management positions in SB dash SE including deputy director examination director field and campus policy and director case selection she is a 2018 graduate of the of the candidate development program earned her bachelor's degree in accounting from the state University of New York at Pittsburgh and is a certified public accountant so interesting developments over there at at the IRS mixing things up changing things up new roles happening hopefully these people aren't going to go in there and try to prove themselves by cracking small business and self-employed people skulls too much but we'll see and I don't think there's any links here but there'll be a link to this in the description anyways if you want to check it out more