Way back when I was an arch user. I was a very big supporter of the a you are in fact I'd go so far as to say I was a fan boy of the you are I made a lot of videos over the course of two years Where I talked about how awesome the a you are was and how everyone should use an arch based distro because the a you Are was so good and as you can tell by the tone of my voice. I was very Well, I did it a lot. Let's just put it that way. I Bored people to death with my fandom of the a you are Now since then I've switched to fedora and now I bore people with how awesome fedora is, you know I consider fedora the best distro, but it's the best distro for me and we're not here to talk about how awesome fedora is even though I could go on about it for 20 minutes and Nobody wants to hear that anymore because I've made that video already But anyways, the point is is that one of the reasons why my transition from arch to fedora Was so smooth was because of flat packs now. I've made Videos about flat packs before and I've talked about the benefits. I've talked about the downsides and at the time of my last video I was very agnostic towards them. I was Well, let's just say I was pretty sure that they were the best Cross-platform package management system out there. I was arguing that but I wasn't so high on them that I was You know Thinking that they were the next best thing, right? But as I've used fedora more over the last say few months I have come to realize that flat packs are better than I thought that they were so what I wanted to do today was talk about a few reasons why I think flat packs are Absolutely fantastic in that you should give them a try now one of the reasons why I mentioned they are is because a lot of people who use arch watch this channel and Those guys I love all of you you all love the a you are the vast majority of you love the a you are and you have good reason They you are is very very good and it is a platform Benefit for arch Linux like it's it's kind of like iMessage for for iPhone right once you've started using iMessage It's really kind of hard to transition away Not only because other platforms don't have iMessage, but also because Apple kind of you know Change you down and keeps you there and the a you are is kind of like that only in an open source way, right? You use it and it's so good. It's really hard to move away But I think flat packs do a really good job of filling the gap of the a you are now Obviously, there's not as many Libraries and all the development stuff that you'd find in the a you are on flat packs flat packs are for binaries basically only and You're only gonna find Applications on there, so you're not gonna find all the other stuff that you'd find in the a you are but when it comes to actual Applications, I think that the flat packs do a fairly good job of filling in the gap And that's one of the reasons why my transition has been so smooth So let's go ahead and talk about the reasons why I think flat packs are so good So the first one and this is a big one when you download a flat pack on one computer and you download it on another computer You're going to have the exact same experience and this is not true Basically for any other package management system So if you were to run two different versions of Debian, let's say you're running Debbie on both computers But you may have access to different versions of the software if you download from the repos, right? that's something that happens all the time and Also, if for example, you are running Arch on one distro Ubuntu on another one and you download Say OBS from those repositories You're going to get different versions on both of them and different features So if you download the OBS version from Arch, let's say they package it differently than Ubuntu does You know and that causes your experience in those applications to be completely different even though they're technically the same application When you download the flat pack version of that particular piece of software, you're downloading the same version on all your Computers and they'll work exactly the same. They're the exact same version And it is just it's so nice to know that when I download OBS on this computer and I download OBS on my new laptop I'm going to get the exact same experience now I don't think that this is going to be one of those things that apply to everybody because not everybody has multiple computers Not everyone runs multiple distributions all the time So if you don't move around from computer to computer to distro to distro Maybe this benefit isn't as beneficial for you But for me personally, I love the fact that I can download an application on this computer Download an application on the computer behind me and they run exactly the same. It's really nice Now I know that there are going to be the app image guys out there that says well This is the chief benefit of app image. Well, that's probably true But app images have other problems which I've talked about before but we don't need to get into so just know that I know app images have the same kind of thing snaps also kind of do the exact same thing So this is not a flat pack only benefit, but I use and prefer flat pack So this is one of the reasons why I like flat pack so much another reason is very minor And it's gonna seem very silly but flat packs don't require you to use pseudo when you install them now This is true whether you install from the GUI or from the command line And if you want to install stuff without pseudo all the time, that's really nice now like I said it seems silly because how long does it take you to enter your password and It is silly, but I like the fact that I can just do flat pack install whatever and installs now the terminal Installation of a flat pack has other problems. So there's a lot of confirmation steps when you install a flat pack I would wish they would combine those so you don't have to press yes three different times So that's one thing. They also still have that really stupid naming convention for flat packs Which they had just really have to get rid of it makes it so confusing Especially like if you were to download or try to download OBS from the terminal through flat flat hub You're gonna get a listing of like 16 different OBS if you do flat pack install OBS, you're gonna get 16 options and you have to go searching through calm dot OBS studio dot studio or that plug-ins slash codecs whatever, you know There's like 16 different ones there and you have to know exactly which one you want and you have to know the naming convention It's not user-friendly at all now Obviously, you don't have this problem in a GUI you just download OBS and it works But if you're using the terminal version, it's not user-friendly at all So I wish they'd fixed that but outside of that I like the fact that you don't have to use pseudo It just saves me a little bit of time and like said, it's a silly reason But I like it another reason that I like flat packs is that they you almost almost Universally store all of their data in one place now if you download applications from your distros repo You'll know that developers put their stuff all over the place They're like a teenager in their room and they have their stuff scattered all over the place They put things in the home directory. They put things in that config things are in dot local that share things are, you know In all over the place like I said, you just you'd never know where an application is going to store their stuff with a flat pack Almost certainly all the data for a application is going to be in the dot var directory inside of your home directory Now I said almost certainly because there are some instances where Once you give a application access to your the rest of your user files That usually gives them permission to then move their data in other places and that's always annoying But if your flat pack stays contained chances are most of the data is going to be in that directory and What reason why this is good is because when you do decide to hop to a new distro or move to a different computer You can take that dot var directory Transfer it to your new distro or your new computer and all of your data from all your flat packs are right there And they'll pick up right where they left off, which is really it's it's nice Because you don't have to keep track of all those separate Directories and stuff that are all over the place if you want to back up your data from your applications Which is something you probably should do so the last reason on my list is that flat packs are becoming increasingly more popular As time goes on more and more developers more and more companies are choosing to make flat packs their official version There are several examples of this OBS being the biggest one where if you want to download their application Flat pack is probably the best way to do so probably through flat hub And the reason why this is great is because if you like flat pack and you enjoy the benefits of using flat pack it's nice to have the official version of the application that you download and Obviously they do probably supply their application through other sources But if you are already using flat pack knowing that the version that you're downloading is the official version That's just a kind of it's like the icing on the cake It just makes it so much better and OBS is by far the best example of this And they've done such a nice job of packaging OBS in a way That just works and you know that when the new stuff comes out the new version comes out You're going to get it first Whereas if you're relying on like the snap package, you're going to have to wait for whoever maintains the snap package to update the snap package and If you're waiting for the app image, you're gonna have to wait the same time if you're waiting for the you are you're gonna have to wait for that to be updated and Also because the main the developer of OBS is the same one that maintains the flat pack You're not gonna have to deal with any weird Choices when it comes to packaging OBS So you're not gonna have to deal with them taking out features because OBS has control over it So that is another really good reason to use flat packs now. Like I said, I'm not Blind to flat packs problems. They still have despite the fact that they're supposed to be containerized They still are not the integration between the security layer that you're supposed to have control over and flat pack itself Isn't all that great. You have to have a special application to control the security of the flat packs called flat seal Flat seal really should be a dependency of flat pack. It really really should you shouldn't have to go have to download it in order to Control all the permissions and stuff of your flat packs. So that's still an issue so it's not the biggest Reason why you'd want to use flat packs is probably because of the containerization features and I'm not convinced that flat packs are as sandboxed as we'd like them to be a lot of Applications come pre-installed with permissions that you don't necessarily think that they need and some of them come with no Permissions at all that they do need so the permissions Aspect of flat packs is still something that they need to work on significantly putting flat seal as a dependency for flat pack would be the first step that I'd have them take But outside of that, you know, it's not an easy question or an easy thing for them to do, right? You can't proclaim yourself sandboxed and secure while not being consistent across the board and that's something that they still struggle with and Part of the reason why is because it's a very open structure, right people. There's no True way to say everyone has to do things exactly this way and And That can become a problem because then everybody's doing something a little bit different and it just it doesn't quite work as well As you'd hope it would considering the flat packs are supposed to be a you know a sandbox system So those are the reasons why I really like flat packs and one of the reasons why my transition from arch to Fedora has gone so smoothly because I've been able to find the vast majority of my applications and just download them Through flat packs and the experience has just been so good. It's just one of those things that it's made it so I Don't even think about my the lack of a you are on on my system anymore I mean every once in a while I'll come across something that I have to install for the terminal that I missed the you are for but when it comes to Like gooey applications almost everything is available through flat hub these days and it's just it's really good So if you are on the fence over choosing between snaps flat packs app images I highly recommend choosing flat packs. It just seems to be the best one out of the three So for those of you who use they you are you're probably going to just completely ignore this video and continuing to use they you are As you probably should because they you are still is really really good And there's still nothing that can truly compete compete with it because it does So much more than just applications So that is it for this video if you have thoughts on flat packs You can leave those in the comment section below you can follow me and mess it on our odyssey those links to be in the video Description you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the link cast links for YouTube and the bear pay will be in the video Description thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube because they're all Absolutely amazing without you the channel just not be anywhere near where it is right now So thank you so very very very much for your support. I truly do appreciate it I probably could add a few more varied in there, but there'd never be enough to to express my gratitude So thank you so much. Thank you so much for your support again. I appreciate it. Thanks everybody for watching I'll see you next time a little bit of a ramble there at the end there Matt. Good job


Hello there, YouTube family. I hope everybody is doing well. Welcome home. We are going to be doing a Beauty Brand Superstars video on the best of Flower Beauty. And I wanted to show this with you guys in this format because a while back, it might have been a year and a half or more ago, there was a tag going around called Beauty Brand Superstars and it was designed to help you kind of cut through the muck of a brand and what is in that brand that is really good and be able to recommend to you the things that I really love and then you can kind of go, yeah, I remember that that was one that Melissa really liked. So let's get going. If you're new to my channel, don't forget to subscribe. I'd love to have you here as a part of the channel and please give this video a thumbs up if you guys wouldn't mind. I do makeup videos. I'm trying really hard. I'm going to say this out loud and as soon as I say this out loud, it's going to come back and bite me in the butt because you guys know I have precarious help, but I'm going to try really hard to set my schedule for Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. And I will upload a video on those days at about four between four and five PM Pacific Standard Time. Now, if there is a time when I can't, I'm going to make sure that I update you guys in the community section, which will just come across your scroll, your home screen, that kind of thing. So I will make sure that if I'm ever going to miss you guys will know it, but that is going to be my goal for the rest of this year is to make sure I upload on those three days. I have been doing three days a week, but you guys didn't know when to expect them. So hopefully this will help a little bit with that. Let's get into this because I am so in love with Flower of Beauty, you guys. I think that they're such a good brand. I feel like they are way up there with drugstore brands as far as quality and consistency and how good they are, but I also feel like they're a better price point than like L'Oreal or NYX or any of those. So I'm really excited to be doing this video for you. And I want you to know that most of the stuff that I'm going to talk about, I do have on my face today. So you guys can know that too and I'll talk about each of those. So the Light Illusion Foundation. This is a fantastic foundation, you guys, for mature skin. If you find that there is foundations that really make you dry or they make you feel like you've got a lot of texture or anything like that, this foundation is really good. It's also only about a medium, medium high coverage, but it can be built on without showing more texture, which I really do like too. The Delivery System is a pump, which I really do appreciate. For me, this really does perform like a high end foundation. I haven't really heard of anybody trying this that they really didn't like it. It's just one that I really have been enjoying a lot lately. Okay, the next thing that I have absolutely fallen head over heels in love with is the Flower of Beauty Satin Finishing Powder. Now for me, this powder can be used as a finishing powder or it can be used as a setting powder. If I wear a very matte foundation and I feel like my face just has no life to it whatsoever, I will use this as a setting powder, but very lightly. The thing about it is because it's satin, it does have a teeny tiny bit of sheen to it. Not really anything major. Not anything that's going to make you glow in a big way or anything like that, but it's so pretty, you guys. My only gripe about this particular product is the packaging. It's much too bulky. You only get, the powder is about at that point right there. So you're only getting the same amount that you get in any other loose powder that you buy. So I actually do hope that they change that about it. Another thing that I do absolutely love from them is their setting powder. This is the Light Illusion Perfecting Powder. This powder is just so soft, creamy, lovely, lovely powder. If you're struggling with powders that really make you look drier. This is a really good compact for you to have. Very portable. You can put this in your purse and touch up. It does have a nice little mirror on the other side and it does come with the, you know, the standard little puff or the sponge right there. Also, you can use this if you're not using any makeup and it's just a really humid day and you need something, you know, to kind of take down the shine or whatever. So it's really beautiful powder. I would highly recommend that one. This Light Illusion little line that they have going is really good. And there's one more thing that I have from it and that is their concealer. I do have this on today. I actually have the finishing powder, the powder on all of that. I do have this on today and I didn't have to set it down with a powder. And I've had it on for about three hours now, absolutely no creasing and I'm a little bit warm from all the lights in my makeup room right here, but it doesn't, it doesn't really do that. So I know that I have all of those expression lines that are underneath my eyes from smiling and crinkling and everything. But I really find that this doesn't settle or anything and it doesn't accentuate those yet it does cover really well. So I really do like that whole entire Light Illusion line. It's one that really has impressed me. Okay, speaking of impressed me. This is their highlighters, the highlighter trios. The new one is called Sun Kissed Summer and the older one is worn off. I have no idea. You guys know I'll put it up for you. So Sun Kissed Summer is the newest one I got. Now, I'm so glad that they came out with this because it's in a little bit deeper tones and I think this is just so pretty as far as, you know, people that have a deeper toned skin. These are going to be such pretty highlights for you. It's just, it's really gorgeous. And then the other one is more along the lines of light to medium. Now, this is the one that I can use on my eyes because of that. I'll tell you guys, I feel like these are every bit as beautiful and every bit as gorgeous as the Becca highlighters, her pressed highlighters. I just, I really, really love them. They're ones that make you glow without there being any sparkle or anything to them. They're just really beautiful. Now, these ones right here, since they are a little bit too deep for me, I'm going to be using these as eyeshadows. The consistency is right up there. So there is not a problem with that. I do have the lighter highlighter color on as a highlighter today. So just really love that. I think it's so fun. And I'm so glad that they came out with the deeper color as well. Okay. They're flower pot blushes. These are so pretty, you guys. It's not, it's a very matte blush. This one is called Sweet Pea and I love it. It's what I have on today. These are extremely buildable. So these are very buildable. They're very pretty, creamy, even though they're a matte blush. It doesn't feel dry or have any texture or anything like that to it. So definitely would recommend those. Also, her Petal Pout lipsticks. You guys, these are so good. Okay, this one is Autumn Rose and this is a matte formula right here. Look at the pigment. Oh my gosh, you guys, it's so good. They have the most gorgeous colors. This is what I have on today. This is called Dahlia Desire, I think. And it's just, they're so pretty. So Autumn Rose and then Dahlia Desire is what I have on today. And the cream ones are super comfortable. Even the matte ones, I shouldn't say that. Matte ones are comfortable too, but the cream ones just give you that really super comfortable kind of juicy feel to your lips whereas the matte ones, you know, you get the longer wear out of it. But I find on the cream ones, if I blot after my first application blot and then reapply a, you know, a thinner coat, I've got some pretty good lipstick going on. And I've been filming here, sitting here for about an hour and a half and my lipstick still looks great. So I'm not worried about that at all. But this formula, this is so good. I feel like these are everybody as good as a high-end lipstick like MAC or Urban Decay or any of those. I really like these a lot. Okay, last thing is the Flower Beauty Seal the Deal Hydrating Setting Spray. I really, really love this in the winter when my skin is so dry and it feels like it's just needs that extra bit of moisture. It just to me has been one of those ones that I've repurchased again. And I really love the mist on here too, you guys. I don't know if you'll be able to see this or not, but the mist is super fine. It isn't one of those one that's gonna leave droplets on your face. I do feel like this for me is better than just the regular one, the regular setting spray, although that one is really good in summer. And what I actually will do is I will layer them in the summer if I need to. So what I'll do is I will take T-Zone for the regular setting spray. So right through the nose and right through here where I get some creasing in the summer when I sweat.  And I know that's a little bit extra, but I like them both so much. And if I'm just sitting doing my makeup and playing with my makeup, that's the kind of thing I do. But if you want something to be super bulletproof, that would be the other setting spray, especially in the summer months, as we're coming up and we're kind of sweating and need that kind of extra. Okay, it wasn't really necessarily gonna tell you any of the things that I would steer clear of as far as flower beauty goes, but I am gonna talk about just a few that really didn't make the mark for me. For one thing is their mascara. It just did not build lashes. It was not one that I really, I really just couldn't get on board with it. So that mascara was a no for me. Also their liner, their black coal liner, I tried that too. And it really kind of almost immediately when it went into the waterline, it was almost smudging almost immediately. So I was like, that is not for me. And they also have a tattoo brow, tattoo brow. They have a tattoo brow. And I couldn't really make that one work really well for me. I'm used to a little bit creamier of a product and this was like a felt tip pin. And I need it to look a little bit more natural because I do like a little bit more natural brow. So that one didn't work for me either. Also they have what's called the heat wave luminous powder and it's their bronzer. And it's really not too bad. It looks quite pretty. As a matter of fact, the reason that I got it is because it looks so cool. But when you swirl it like this, it changes colors. And all of a sudden you've got an orange bronzer on your hands. I don't really wear that tanning, kind of orangey undertone in my bronzer because my skin really leans towards cool. But if you're warm toned, you might really like this as a bronzer. And the last thing is the Flower Beauty Sugar Rush Palette. I really wanted to love this because these colors are right up my alley. And not only did it have the great pinks and the purples that I like a lot, but it had some neutral colors that you could work into. Some of these shimmery colors, they just absolutely had no pigment to them. So when you put them across, they were giving you a little bit of shine, but they weren't giving you the color that's in the pan right here. That bugs me about any makeup. I don't care what I'm working with, it bugs me even if it's high end. So that wasn't the greatest.   But the mattes in here, they're really pretty good. And then the darker shimmers, they were okay too. So it's got its pros and its cons. So I would say that it's not the best palette at the drugstore, but again, it's not the worst. So that's it you guys. That's Flower Beauty Brand Superstars. Those are the things that I felt like you would just absolutely love if you got a chance to try them.  I hope that you did enjoy this video. If you did, please give it a thumbs up. I hope that you're all having a fantastic day. Let me know in the comment section below if you guys like something from Flower Beauty that I have not gone over here in the video. I would love to hear from you. If there's anything that I need to definitely pick up that I haven't tried out. You guys all have an amazing day. I love you all very much and I'll catch you all in my next video. Take care of yourselves. Bye bye.


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Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson we are going to practice our chord changes combining two of the rather tough things to do in music or rather maybe the toughest things if you think about triads at least to shift between two rather tricky chords which we will call the tritone interval which I am going to explain shortly and also how to shift between them using rhythmic variations using odd time meter and making the speed of the shifting incrementally faster as you go along and whilst shifting we practice broken chords, we practice arpeggios, we practice a nice pattern which we have notated for you. So first off a little bit of theory in the lesson as to what is the tritone, how do we change between them, how do we pair them and then a little bit on the topic of inversions on how you can shift between them. So if you are looking at the topic of chord inversions which is the ability to move smoothly between any two chords on the piano or guitar or anywhere, let's say C major, going to F major, you know that it is to shift in the most efficient way possible using the least motion possible, you want to keep the common notes consistent so that is the general flow of inversions. So I have taken the same strategy of chord inversions by using the tritone interval between chords and using this technique you can practice all the 12 plus 12 major and minor chords out there in all their respective inversions. So stay tuned to the very end, it is going to give you a very holistic way to practice all your triads and we are tackling the biggest challenge of them all, we are poking the bear when it comes to our chord movement so to speak and while doing that I love rhythm as some of you already know, so we are going to bring in a lot of rhythm patterns using arpeggios in this lesson. And before we get started it will be awesome if you would consider hitting that subscribe button on our Nathaniel School of Music YouTube channel, you could also hit that bell icon for regular notifications and remind yourself of new videos which get released on our channel pretty much every other day. And also my handwritten notes are waiting for you on our Patreon channel forward slash Jason Zach. Do consider heading over there and supporting us, let's get cracking. So first off what is a tritone, a tritone the way I look at it is it's the only interval in music which divides the octave believe it or not into exactly two slices. So if you want to divide something into half in music you need the tritone and if you look at the circle of fifths the tritone is the farthest away from anywhere. It is so far that it is the diameter from anywhere in that circle to the next point. So if you connect the diameter from let's say C in the circle of fifths you're going to go all the way down to F sharp also implies that the interval contained between those two notes C and F sharp in this case is going to end up being the most tense while the closest neighbors namely C and G seem to sound very stable and peaceful with respect to each other and almost emotionless it's almost like a blank canvas or something. So the tritone gives you that tension and that immediate urgency to resolve. So if there is a tension in music what do we do we try to resolve it to something to a chord or to a new note. So without tension and resolution you can't really do much with this dynamic art form as it's called. It's not a static picture isn't it music it's not a painting or a sculpture it's a art in motion. It moves for sort of like a movie for the years if you think about it. So if you take these two intervals now C and F sharp and build chords out of them what are the two possible chords well there are many but the two I've chosen for this video are major and minor. So you're going to want to do C major let's just stick with major major for now. So C major going to F sharp major that is the harmonic motion that's the chord movement. C major F sharp major they are both separated by a tritone and there's a very very interesting interval. It's used a lot in movie theme scores for sure I'm sure you're observing this and if you change the chords to minor another very beautiful artistic sound. So if you imagine a movie score by Hans Zimmer or Danny Elfman you're probably going to have these sort of connections between the chords and right after this video it would be nice if you can watch my series called mysterious chord connections which we'll link up in the description it shows you all your Jurassic Park kind of chords and all your scary movie chords or Halloween chords and so on and so forth also the Batman chords so do check out that after this lesson. So coming back you know how to form a tritone now it's very important to note that the inversion of a tritone is itself so it's the only musical interval which when inverted is pretty much the same so C's tritone is F sharp what is F sharp's tritone you might argue or think C C's tritone is F sharp F sharp's tritone is C does that work anywhere else in life C's perfect fourth is F F's perfect fifth is C F's perfect fourth when you think about it is not C it's not the inversion it's B flat so the only interval in music which when inverted becomes pretty much the same thing is the tritone interval and the connection or the movement between the tritone when you play two triads a major to a major or a major to a minor is going to be rather tricky which is why I've chosen it for its artistic nature or its mysterious nature as well as its technical complexity if you can shift the tritone you've pretty much got yourself covered with any two triad motions between two chords with three notes basically so we form the tritone pair C to F sharp how many tritone pairs would there be in musical life well there are 12 notes in music C to F sharp is a tritone F sharp to C is the next tritone so that's your tritone pair as I like to call it then look at all the other tritones just for your reference D's tritone is A flat again if you see the circle of fifths wheel diameter if you draw it correctly you'll you'll get the greatest distance from D to be A flat so D to the A flat D major to the A flat major or D minor to the A flat minor then what about E stritone E stritone is B flat E stritone is B flat you can either go E to up to B flat E down to B flat okay that's your tritone combo similarly for D what did we do D A flat D A flat C was first C F sharp C F sharp and then let's look at F stritone F to the B B to the F F down to B B up to F and then there's one more tritone pair to learn that would be G down G to the D flat G tritone is D flat G to D flat you can practice it lower as well okay write down all your pairs you can even see my handwritten notes which give you all that then A last pair A to the E flat A to the E flat so C F sharp D A flat E B flat F B G D flat A E flat B F and then it obviously repeats because each tritone is the same right so C to F is F to C so we have six tritone pairs so what I first want you to do before you get your right hand started is to just shift between the roots of these chords that can be a workout just for your left hand so you do C F sharp and go either down to F sharp or up to F sharp so C F sharp C down to F sharp C up to F sharp C down to F sharp it's a great way to recognize your notes because they are all over the place they're not consecutive or grouped diatonically so to speak because the tritone is not part of a major scale from the root at least so you can also practice this in a nice disco like manner what pushes your shifting you can do an eighth note F sharp you can do other tritone combos D A flat D and A flat maybe E B flat E B flat F B F B G D flat G D flat A E flat A E flat those are all your tritone left hand workouts so six of them are there and now coming to the right hand so the right hand you're kind of forced to use inversions because if you just go it's a huge jump you need your eyes to do them and as I generally tell students while discussing inversions if ever you've done it well you have to do it blindly you have to do it without your eyes so very tough I would need my eyes eventually to find that right so you need to definitely use inversion so the practice would be C E G how do I go to F sharp major perhaps this way and the challenge for this particular movement is that your fingering matters a lot so if you take C major you'll play F sharp major like that because you've given yourself the ring finger and the pinky finger room or freedom to play those notes in the upper register C major C sharp F sharp A sharp you're playing F sharp in the second inversion second inversion is root in the center right however if you were to play C major like this with your pinky on the top then you have to choose F sharp major like this you'll have to slide left slide down basically so depending on the fingering the tritone position would matter you practice this maybe start with another inversion of C the first inversion of C and let's see how that goes higher so basically from every point you have two possible inversions that's why I like the tritone exercise because a normal triad C to F is just one way to go from C major to F major once you've planted C you know F is there you it can't possibly be the other way but tritones you have two potential ways of going towards so if you take the first inversion of C you can play F sharp that way if you're going downward if you're going upward if you give yourself a finger towards the right you can go up then if you take the second inversion of C major you can do your thing to F sharp and for some reason practicing F sharp going to C would also be a nice challenge don't just do C to F sharp just do for practice purposes F sharp to C F sharp to C it'll force you to use the C major as an inversion if your F sharp was in root right so practice that and this exercise gets really wholesome and will cover pretty much all the 24 chords in all of their inversions 24 means 12 major 12 minor are there in life right so if you want to cover all the 24 here's what you do you take the other tritone pairs and start working on them D A flat D lower A flat so you're doing all the versions of going from D major to A flat major even though it's tough your this skill or this investment of time which you put in will help you play a lot of things in the future I can guarantee you so the other thing you might want to do is because I want to achieve 24 chords 12 major and 12 minor how do I bring in the minor look at the binary permutations that exist between major and minor so you could do coming back to C to F sharp major major major what if I now say minor minor C minor F sharp minor both minors what if I like major minor C major F sharp minor you can start with the root positions then minor major but you'll realize inversions are a lot easier so now it clearly becomes a very wholesome exercise with all the 24 calls I'd like to cap off the discussion with an exciting chord pattern to play this stuff with and also explore perhaps different time signatures along the way and as the time signatures get introduced the shifting between the chords is going to get trickier and trickier because you have to count the time signature and the number of beats is going to reduce and the other part which I think is going to make this chord pattern exciting is it combines block chords with an arpeggio system whenever we deal with the pattern we play blocks you know arpeggios I thought let's combine them so the pattern is so block hit so you could count it as one e and a two e and a repeat and a four you could count it as 16s if you want to play fast or if you'd like to do it in an eighth note style feel free it'll be one and two and three and four and one and two and so block arpeggio arpeggio something like block arpeggio block arpeggio change arpeggio change so totally if you count the beats it'll end up being a four by four or maybe an eight by eight if you want to call count it as eight quavers one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one same shapes you can even do minor so that's your default pattern so practice that I think you can use this even in songs which are about to play it's a nice piano pattern for sure now to make that change a bit more exciting and challenging for you you can drop one beat from the four by four or eight by eight and convert it to seven by eight so then it's gonna be I'll play and then show so if you count it it'll be one two three four one two three one two three four one two three one two three four five six seven three four five six seven you can also use conical to give you that vibe of seven if you don't use conical what tends to happen when you play piano or guitar is you go one and two and three one two three four five six seven one two three four five six seven one the reason that's wrong is it's actually eight you're just not saying the number eight you know which is wrong because you observe that extra beat in any case so don't go one and two and three and four and and think you're doing seven now you need to force that seven in by saying what I would recommend either one two three four one two three one two three four one two three or one two three one two three four one two three one if your voice if you're phrasing it like that one two three four I'm phrasing it as one two three four one two three one two three four one two easy on the tongue would be using conical So we've converted or we've moved from 8 to rather challenging 7, what's lesser than 7? 6. So block arpeggio, that's been our pattern, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2. So as you can see the time you are going to get is a lot lesser and it's still musical because you are following the meter of 6, 8, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I'm phrasing 6, 8 with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I'm not doing 1, 2, 3, 1, 2. I'm not doing it in the lazy way, which we use for 6 by 8 songs in general. Let's move forward. What about 5, 8? Can count like that, or you can use? And then of course you can come to a 4 and see how ridiculously fast it becomes because 4 you just have 4 sub beats to move to the next chord and not just any next chord you are going to the toughest possible change in triad history. so that's 4 this will really squeeze out all the technique you need to play the piano then triplets 1 2 3 1 2 3 or 3 8 if you want to call it that or that's every subdivision and then something which even I don't want to do will be Let's not bother doing that now, right guys. So let's just recap. We've looked at the tritone, a very exciting interval in music for composing, for general study and creating this great art form. You need to have tension and resolution and tritone provides the best possible tension and it's been a tried and tested tool for composers for hundreds of years from the classical era. So then we looked at triad shifting using inversions, using the major to major connected by tritone examples C to F sharp. There are six tritone pairs. When we connect them, we could do all the binary permutations, namely major, major, minor, minor, major, minor, major. And lastly, we looked at a nice block meets arpeggio combo exercise, which will enable you to shift with a lot more musicality and improve and strengthen your timing as you do so. Right guys, hope you found the lesson useful. And for more of our lessons, you should definitely consider heading over to Nathaniel school.com for our video courses, which go in a very structured way. You can start from absolute beginner foundational and then move forward. And you can also learn a bunch of instruments at our school, you can learn the guitar, you can learn vocals, you can also learn the piano. And I'm the piano teacher if you'd like to learn.  Right. Thanks a ton for watching the video catch you in the next one. Cheers.


Think Tech Hawaii, civil engagement lives here. Welcome to another episode of Likeable Science here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Ethan Allen, and with me today in Think Tech Series is RB Kelly, body language boss. Welcome back, RB. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here, Ethan. Good to have you again. I've had RB on several times before, and she's hosted her own Think Tech Series here. So we're going to just jump right on into this. Everyone knows RB's amazing credentials and background. She reads body language, teaches other people how to read body language, and a while ago we were having an email conversation, and she mentioned, hey, elections are coming up. Do people really know what their candidates are saying and how much they mean it? And I thought this, she actually said this would be an interesting topic. And it is because, right, these candidates get up and they say anything, whatever they want to say, whatever they think will sell, right? Yeah, they do. Some of them, well, let's not get too detailed, but some of them are, let's say, less than fully truthful about what they're selling, right, what their words are, right? So can we use the techniques that you teach to help discern which ones may be believable and which ones we should take with a proverbial grain of salt? Well, absolutely, because candidates, they say things that they think you'll like, but may not necessarily be true. And so you've heard this, like, campaign promises, they're just empty promises, they're to get someone in office. But the tricky part is what we really need to look at is not always the candidate, often what we really need to look at is ourselves, because, all right, so I'm wearing big chunky glasses, right? And you are too.  And say these glasses are, like, colored pink, what I'm seeing through my perception isn't necessarily what's going on in the real world. And so your biases, your interpretations of someone's verbal or nonverbal behavior, and your assumptions about their motives and about their character are all things that are probably unique to you and may not actually reflect what that person is saying, feeling, or intending. Right. There is, that is, you judge people's trustworthiness, for instance, very much on, sort of, how much they're like you in a lot of ways, right? When you meet someone in, say, this was a business meeting and I was meeting you for the first time, I would judge you mostly for you and for what I'm actually seeing of you with my eyes. But if we come into a meeting and say, I'm a Democrat, and say, I hear that you're a Republican, my own biases and how I feel about Republicans in general, or Democrats in general, are going to color and add just another layer of, another layer of confusion on top of you. So suddenly, I'm not seeing Ethan the person, I'm seeing Ethan the Republican. And that's a completely different thing. Right, right. I wouldn't recognize. Yeah. So I think politics, people get, people get stuck in politics because they look at the little letter after the name, instead of the actual person. And so the very first thing you want to look at when you're judging someone is, am I judging them because of the party they're attached to? And if the answer is yes, you've got blinkers on, you've got blinders on, and you're not seeing them clearly. Can you set that stuff aside? Can you or neutralize it? Well, it depends. I know some, I have, I've been very blessed that I have friends who are very, very right-wing and friends who are very, very left-wing. And so I get to hear both sides of the story about how this person is saying, oh yeah, the other side has gone crazy. And this person is saying, oh, the other side has gone crazy. And so if you're that's, if you are so entrenched in your point of view where if you see someone as of the opposite party, you immediately discount them as a decent human being, you're going to have a really hard time judging anyone accurately. But if you're willing to consider the notion that, hey, just because we are in different parties, maybe there's something of value in this human being, if you can at least do that, then you'll be much more likely to be able to see them clearly. Right, right. The movie about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it talked about how she and Scalia, who had radically different views on everything, put their great friends. They would travel together, they would go to opera together, and yet they would disagree strongly on these issues, but they understood that shouldn't be getting away with friendship. I don't know. That was, I thought, actually a real model for people to- How people should be. Yeah, exactly. Rather than, yes, exactly, just dismissing somebody if you're no longer fit to be considered as a human being because you belong to this group or that group. That level of bias is certainly disturbing. Yes, it is. And unfortunately, it seems to me that it's growing in our culture. It is growing. Absolutely. That's something I've noticed.  You'll assume their intelligence. You'll assume their age. You'll assume their gender. You'll assume bits of their character and their personality. You'll assume where they fit into the social structure. And so, if you can notice what you're assuming about them, then you have the chance to challenge it. Right. And you will make these assumptions remarkably fast.  Remarkably quick. Yes, I've done that. Or they just little reflash these pictures on for fractions of a second. And people are happy to write all kinds of things about who these people are. And it's not, and there is definite patterns in what people write, which suggests people are actually coming up with the same thing. One interesting, really interesting study, studied, it had a group of students judge a professor. And so, they had two different groups. They had one group of students who judged this professor after seeing them lecture for a fraction of a second. Literally, a fraction of a second. And then they filled out the end of term evaluation forms. The other group had actually taken the teacher's class and then filled out the end of your evaluation forms. And then they compared the evaluation forms and they were extremely similar. Which suggests you could get to know someone in a fraction of a second just as well as you'd know them after talking and watching them for months. Right. I mean, this again, it speaks the value of, you know, people always say I make a good first impression because people will do a snap judgment and oftentimes it's a pretty spot on, you know? Yeah. Not always. Not always. And that's where we get into trouble. Right. So, for example, one interesting, actually a couple different interesting studies found that looking back at past elections, you could predict, you could guess which one would win with about 70% accuracy by showing the faces of the candidates to a group of children and asking them to choose the best captain for their boat. And so there are certain things we look for in the faces of leaders. For example, competence. Competence on a face, often you have slightly lowered, slightly more masculine eyebrows, you have a slightly square jaw, and a kind of a hard set face. And this appearance of competence doesn't actually mean you're competent or know what you're doing, but the look of competence is tied very widely to the idea of competence. So we know there's a schema there. We also know it doesn't actually correlate with real world competence. So there's that assumption people make that isn't necessarily so. Right. It's very significant because that's one that is relatively sort of pan cultural, right? Virtually all cultures around the world would make those same set of judgments as people's competence. Yes, they do.  And they judge lots of things like that. So they will judge aggression, they will judge trustworthiness. So for example, highly dominant, aggressive faces tend to be the faces that have very, very masculine characteristics. So thick brows, low set, smaller eyes, square jaws, and kind of a frowny face. Whereas highly trustworthy faces tend to be highly feminine. So higher eyebrows, softer, larger eyes, soft smile, and softer jaw. Which is very interesting to see because women aren't necessarily more trustworthy than men. Men aren't necessarily more dominant than women. There are always exceptions, but we make assumptions just based on the faces we see. And then it gets to sort of, we live out our beliefs in some sense, right? We do. And we sort of force the world to conform to them in a hot sense. It's also really interesting to see what people look for and the people they're electing. So when people are, say we're in a time of change and we're looking for a leader who will bring us to a new era. Then people tend to prefer to vote for younger looking faces. Which explains why President Barack Obama's change campaign was so powerful. Because he was young. He was seemingly inexperienced, but he was tying that to change. Which always works well together. Now if a really, really older candidate said, let's have change, that would be less believable. Right, Bernie Sanders. Exactly. And so people look for older candidates with gray hair wrinkled features. When they are looking for stability in changing times. When they're looking for someone to help them hold the line of tradition and keep things stable. People look for masculine, really masculine faces like Trump's when they're wanting to go to war. Which he kind of said he would go to war with Washington. And so he tied that campaign promise really well to his face. But we look for feminine features when we are wanting to broker new peace. Find more cooperation. Make more alliances. Well, I mean it makes sense that rarely is the women who take us to war, right? Which happens. What's even more interesting is that these features, so masculine features for going to war, feminine features for finding new peace. But it actually didn't matter if the candidate was male or female. It could be a female with masculine features who would win to take us to war. Or a male with feminine features who would win to find more peace. Which I thought was very intriguing. Interesting, interesting. So, but again, to sort of get back to my initial question. Candidates make these hollow promises, but they know to some extent they're hollow promises, right? They may never intend to keep them. They may know that it's completely infeasible that they're not going to be able to keep them. They're not going to have the money. They're not going to have the political backing, whatever. But they'll say them, these people are basically lying. They fundamentally, many of them know it, right? Isn't that going to show up somewhere in their presentation? Sometimes. Now, the more you have the chance to practice and rehearse a lie, the more natural it feels, the less cues you give away.  If he had prepared, he had his story straight. He knew the facts, whether he was telling the truth or not. The mere fact of preparing would make any lie he told seem more truthful. But if he's coming off the cuff, he's not prepared for your question. He's not prepared. He doesn't have his story straight. It's going to be much harder for him to tell the truth. And so his nervousness and his deception will sneak out, not only in his body language, in his facial expressions, in his hand gestures, but also in his word choice, in his tense choice. And it's one of my favorite things to watch politics to see when they're lying. Indeed, Noah, you must be having a field day these days. It is so interesting to see the drama.  I'm ready for them both to grow up and get to work for the American people. Yeah, it does seem that's what we really need. It seems sort of remarkable that just relatively a few years ago, the Republicans and Democrats would work well together. They would find common ground. They would compromise shocking terms. Don't say that word. And now, right, it's sort of if the Democrats pose up, the Republicans say it's a terrible idea and vice versa. And they accuse one another of being obstructionist when they're both being obstructionist to each other. And you talked about how you can judge that trustworthiness. And the problem is they don't trust each other. And so they are spending all this time dragging down the other candidates and being dragged down in return, that now they're just rolling around in the mud and the whole American people can see it. Yeah.  I'll return to dignity and decency. Let's hope for that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have a lot of faith about that. So it's interesting what you were saying about who wins the election. You say children can actually accurately sort of post facto predict that. So when are people doing that kind of thing currently? The head of elections now get panels of kids. I think they should. I think that would be so cool to see. Because it's one thing to say to look back in hindsight and like carefully select. And you always wonder how accurate those studies are just because I'm suspicious of everybody and everything. So I think it would be really, really cool to do some predictions and just see how they pan out, see if it works. Fascinating stuff. We're going to dig more deeply into this when we come back. Right now we're going to take a one minute break. I'm going to end this here with me in the ThinkTech studios today. I'm your host Ethan Allen and likeable science. We'll be right back. Hey, Stan the Energyman here on ThinkTech Hawaii. And they won't let me do political commentary. So I'm stuck doing energy stuff, but I really like energy stuff. So I'm going to keep on doing it. So join me every Friday on Stan the Energyman at lunchtime, at noon on my lunch hour. We're going to talk about everything energy, especially if it begins with the word hydrogen. We're going to definitely be talking about it. 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RB has been a regular contributor to the show here and we've got her on talking politics now and because politics is great, right? I mean people are saying all kinds of stuff and that may or may not be true, right? And people want or don't want to believe it. And a lot of it as we were talking earlier has to do with what stuff is within us, right? Whether we identify with that candidate or their platform or their party or whether we dismiss them out of hand or whether we are willing to compromise. And a lot of it's very personal, right? I mean we grew up with individual biases as to who, for instance, the people who we grew up with when we were infants we learned to trust faces that are like those people and we don't trust faces that are very different. Right, so it's very tricky, right? When we live in an increasingly diverse country so there's more and more new faces around. And that's something that was studied and one group found that you are, and this is kind of taboo to talk about it, but let's be honest, you are more likely to vote for someone who is your skin color. And so that is something that we do, we ought to be aware about. So if you are looking at candidates and one of them is not your skin color, just know you are more likely to discount them because they look new and unfamiliar and that's a little scary for your brain. And so if you just know that, that okay, I hear these four candidates, one of them is a different color, one of them is a different gender, I'm going to automatically be slightly discounting towards those just because of my own biases. And therefore you might want to listen a little more carefully. Listen a little more carefully. And try to sort of say oh, that's what they're saying makes sense actually. Yeah. Is it reasonable? And one thing I thought was crazy, that countered that was if the candidate who was a different color had chubby cheeks and a more trustworthy face, they were that, that's almost handicap of being a different color from the person they wanted them to vote for them, that handicap was lessened. So if you are going to run in politics in a group where you are of a different demographic, if you have chubby cheeks, it's going to go better for you. Because you seem more trustworthy and therefore they're more okay to let you into the group. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Probably having to do with that's almost a more childlike face. Yeah. So you're safer. Yeah. It's less threatening. It's not an aggressive face. Yeah. Exactly. And then I thought it was interesting if we were to look at the 2016 election, the presidential candidate in the Republican Party. I loved Carly Fiorina. But whether that was because I actually loved her as a candidate or because I loved the idea of this strong techno-prisoners woman who was willing to stand up there and tell the truth and I adored her as a candidate. But she had that flash in the pan where most of your viewers won't even remember her. Right. And so there is that bias where if you see someone who sparks something in you, it's often very unique for you. Mm-hmm. So for example, if you were looking at a couple of candidates and one of them looked like your father and you had a fabulous relationship with your father, you would be slightly biased towards that candidate. Yeah. I recall actually, back in the 1980 election, dating me when the Republicans had seven different candidates going for her. And one of them, John Anderson, was just this very straight shooter. People would ask him a question. He'd answer the question. He didn't seem not to have a particular position that he was trying to, or a message that he was trying to get out. He was very straightforward. He was very honest and I thought it was so refreshing. Yeah. And so I thought, this guy's great. I might almost vote for him even though I'm not a Republican at all. But of course, yeah, flash in the pan, as you say, he didn't make it at all. So do you suppose that the counter is true if you are, if you have an untrustworthy face, do you have any future all in politics? Well, well, what is interesting is highly dominant faces look different from highly trustworthy faces. And we have currently elected a very dominant face in the White House. Whereas he was up against a more trustworthy face in Hillary Clinton. But they played that really, really well in emphasizing that Hillary Clinton was untrustworthy and emphasizing, oh, she's a liar, etc. Because her face showed the trustworthiness and like, I'm going to take care of the country, the feminine, nurturing, finding peace. So the whole message was to counteract that. Whereas, what they tried to do against Donald Trump was say he was too aggressive, too dominant, and that just didn't work as well. Right, right. Yeah, but certainly trustworthiness has proven itself to be a little lacking there. I think, I think it's really important to remember in politics no matter who says something, they're probably not telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I just assume, no matter who it is, whatever they're saying, it's partly true and it's partly not true. And so with Trump and the presidency, one thing that's been really interesting is that there's this total divide where on one side Trump is this like angel who's come to like clear out all the corruption and on the other side Trump is this horrible monster who has come to, and like, there's no middle ground. And so that makes it really hard for me to believe either side. Right. But unfortunately, that's also been spread beyond Trump himself. It's spread the same thing Barack Obama, same thing. I have, I can't think of a politician in my conscious lifetime that I've actually thought, wow, that person is super trustworthy and I'd like to hire them, other than Carly Fiorina. That is the only one I can remember. So, there's a condemnation of the past politics. Yeah, it's, I feel somehow things have gone downhill and that's considering how it's the Richard Nixon stuff that's saying something, I guess. But, so, if we want to overcome these biases that we ourselves may bring and other things you can do other than just sort of a general awareness, are there active measures you can take to help yourself break them down? Well, there are active measures but I don't think your viewers are going to like them. So, the one, there are two different ways you can handle this. The one is to get a bunch of training on how you judge faces, become super, super aware of your own biases and learn to just overcome that, which would cost you thousands of dollars and take a lot of time. Or, you could actually do research on your candidates, learn about their voting histories, learn about their character, make up your own mind. And that would take less money but more time. So, those are your options. Yeah, interesting, interesting. That sort of straightforward factual approach is a good one. But, you know, it's on these days because in science, what we're finding, scientists are still actually trusted more than most other groups in the country, certainly more than politicians. But, to convince people of your position on a scientific issue, what used to be considered was all you need to do is, yes, provide them with the facts or your voting record. Here is, you know, this theory, this fact, this concept, boom, boom, boom. And, that was assumed to be good enough. And now, what we found, it isn't. You can provide people with all the information you were saying about, that your own biases, you have to understand the frame that that person is sort of putting on the story. You know, how they're looking at that issue, whether it be climate change or genetically modified food or whatever it may be, right? And, until you can sort of get into their head and understand their viewpoint and then talk about the issue bearing that in mind. From their point of view. Yes, from their point of view. Right? And so, I guess it is, there is a parallel there with politics, right? You want to be able ideally to do that. As we polarize things, that becomes harder and harder. More and more possible. Yeah, if you're just a little bit apart, you know, on just a few issues, you can sort of do that. Well, I agree with this person on X, Y, and Z. So, right, so why can't I? But, yeah, let's talk about this other issue that we don't agree on. And it's been really interesting for me. I feel like I'm kind of caught in the middle, because my father is incredibly conservative. But, Jay, what I would consider incredibly liberal. But, my father doesn't think he's incredibly conservative, and Jay doesn't think he's incredibly liberal. But, I'm sitting here in the middle like, you're way over there, you're way over there. And I'm just like hiding out in the middle like, I can see both of your points of view, but each of them thinks the other person is crazy. Yeah, it is interesting how we adopt this sort of relativistic thing, you know. Yeah, none of us want to consider ourselves out on the fringe, you know, either for in trouble or in general, except probably a few crazy people who enjoy that. But, But a lot of people are they're trapped in an echo chamber. Right. Because, I mean, it's no longer considered polite to talk about politics. But I think if you can't talk about politics, you probably can't talk about anything worth talking about. Because you've got to be able to recognize both sides of the argument. You've got to be able to test your facts and your arguments against each other. Instead of having the media talk about this side and a different media talk about that side, let's put them together. Let's let them compete and see which ideas which ideas work. Yeah, actual, actual ideas. Again, I come back to what I said earlier about the 1980 Republican debates. These candidates will be asked questions and they would just get up and make a statement. That had maybe nothing to do with the question because it was a statement they wanted to make and they wanted a point they wanted to get the giant scoreboard off to this side. They were like, ding, minus one point. And you could just keep score, like high schoolers in debate classes could do a better job than the politicians and the media running these debates. Right. Maybe we should have, you know what they do in Toastmaster, the odd counters, the odd bills, you know, ding, you do an umber and you get ding and you rapidly stop using those.  Like really? Yeah. We should start a debate. My other pet theory about politics, of course, is that all politics, particularly international politics, we much better conducted in hot tubs in the nude.  I heard another one where you had like sticks. So if they couldn't explain their idea by drawing it in the sand, it wasn't going to work. So there were no chairs, they'd learned to have really fast, really to the point meetings to get stuff handled. I like it, I like it. That's a good one, except they might hit each other with sticks. Start surviving with the fittest. Yes, that wouldn't be, that wouldn't go well. Well, this is great, this is wonderful to learn about the political appearances as it were and the appearances of politicians and so, so much of it is filtered through our own lenses that we bring to it and how we have to be aware of that, of our own biases in order to make any sort of rational judgment on them. I think that was eye-opening to me and I suspect eye-opening to our viewers here. I thank you so much for being here. This was a great, a great conversation.  Thank you, Ethan. It's always a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here, Arby. Arby Kelly was here with me today. Thanks for joining me. You're on Think Tech Hawaii. I hope you'll join us for likeable science again next week. Until then.


The Asian National Organization for Migration, IOM in Nigeria, has awarded 12 journalists for their quality reportage in a ceremony that was held in Abuja. The event concluded the Nigerian edition of the reported migration competition, launched in several West and Central African countries, organized during the week, preceding the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, marking the importance of quality journalism and reporting migration issues. Details in this report. The reported migration competition 2022 started with a call for entries on the 7th of April for Nigerian journalists walking in local and international media to submit entries on irregular migration, return and reintegration and migrant protection. The importance and the power of the media was emphasized by the IOM Nigerian Chief of Mission. The media really, I mean, I was something like a broken record, but you guys in this program play a very important role in changing the narrative and, you know, aiding development in the right way. You, you are not only reporting states, but you are an important part of development. It is in our hope that we use the power of the media to change the stories of Nigeria. A lot is happening, yes, but the power lies in the media to make a change that is necessary. But I want to talk positively about the lives of Nigerians. There are a lot of amazing stories that are happening, talking about resilience, because the one thing, and I'm the one by the way, and the one thing I know about Nigeria, we always say we are in competition in terms of resilience, but I can found out and say Nigerians are more resilient. Yes, so you people are stubborn. So there is a lot of resilience in Nigeria and these are the things we should really be reading about. These are the things we should really talk about, the power to do, and you know, all these nice stories about Nigeria, this is the spirit in Nigeria that we should really, you know, use all of our platforms to talk about. Out of 56 entries received and assessed, based on rigorous evaluation by a jury comprising of academia, experienced journalist, the European Union delegation in Nigeria, and media experts from IOM. Twelve journalists were awarded for stories and reports published in four categories, including radio, television, online and print. Out of the four entries chosen, plus TV Africa's Fumi Unwa Jeefi received an award for the television category. In addition to the certificates, 12 cash prizes amounted to $6,000 US dollars was awarded to the winners. This one is some sort of encouragement to remind us that we are not working in vain and that international partners that work matter to recognize what we are doing and see how it contributes to changing the narrative as far as migration is concerned in the society. The awards ceremony allowed the media to draw attention to the importance of mental health and psychosocial support. The report in migration competition was organized under the EU IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration to Foster Quality Reporting on the Protection of Migrants.


Front row left line, ready, thrust! Ladies and gentlemen, our ceremony will begin momentarily. Today's ceremony is considered an outdoor ceremony and all headgears to be worn by all military personnel. We also ask that you please silence all cell phones and other electronic devices at this time. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to historic Joint Base Meyer and Henderson Hall. Originally established as Fort Whipple in 1863 and changed to Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall in 2009, its main purpose was fortification in the defense of Washington. Since its inception, Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall has been the home of horse cavalry, artillery, and infantry. Today it is home to the Old Guard, the United States Army Band, and the United States Army Garrison. Before today's review begins, the United States Army Band, Pershing Zone, presents a pre-ceremonial concert featuring the following musical selections, Liberty Bell, and This Is My Country. Once again, good afternoon and welcome. Today, the United States Army Military Dish to Washington, represented by the soldiers of the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard, and the United States Army Band, Pershing Zone, pay a special tribute to several soldiers who are retiring after many years of distinguished service to the United States Army and our nation. Participating in today's review, from left to right, is the United States Army Band, Pershing Zone. Formed in 1922 by then Army Chief of Staff, General John J. Pershing, the United States Army Band is the premier band of our senior service. Pershing Zone provides musical support for ceremonies and special events in our nation's capital and throughout the United States. The United States Army Band is under the direction of Captain Lee Lam, and led by Drum Major Ben Cadel. Elements of the Old Guard include Honor Guard Company, commanded by 1st Lieutenant Jack King, and led by Sergeant 1st Class Alfonzo Roman. Next online is Bravo Company, commanded by Captain Frank Lazamis, and led by 1st Sergeant Cody Marthaler. Next online is Charlie Company, commanded by 1st Lieutenant Nicholas Christensen, and led by Sergeant 1st Class Steve Massey. Following is the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, patterned after the unit created by General George Washington in 1776 to be his personal guard. The Commander-in-Chief's Guard is commanded by 1st Lieutenant Alan George, and led by Staff Sergeant Tyler McKay. The last element online, dressed in the Continental Musicians' Uniform, is the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. During the American Revolution, musicians wore the reverse colors of their parent infantry unit. The men and women of the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps maintained this tradition by raring red coats instead of the infantry blue. The Corps is led today by Drum Major John Parks. Ladies and gentlemen, moving into position is the Commander of Troops for today's ceremony. Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Wall, Commander, 1st Battalion, 3rd United States Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard. Since the days of the American Revolution, the colors have been one of the most important elements of a military unit. Therefore, taking the center of our formation in just a moment and bearing the national color is the nation's foremost color team, the 3rd Infantry's Continental Color Guard, led by Sergeant Nicholas Cook. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the advancing of the colors. Please be seated. The history of the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment reflects the growth and development of our nation. Fifty-five well-earned battle streamers, two valorous unit awards, three meritorious unit commendations, and five superior unit awards attest to the Old Guard's record of bravery and action and achievement during peacetime. In 1922, the War Department granted permission for the Old Guard to pass in review with bayonets fixed. The Old Guard will now fix bayonets to the traditional beat of the drum. Ladies and gentlemen, taking the reviewing stand are the reviewing officials for today's ceremony. Colonel William S. Galbraith, Chief Warrant Officer 3, Nicole L. Daniels, and Command Sergeant Major Brian D. Narducci, accompanied by the hosts, Major General Trevor Dre Braydenkamp, Commander, Joint Task Force National Capital Region, Military District of Washington, and Command Sergeant Major Veronica E. Knapp, Command Sergeant Major, Joint Task Force National Capital Region, Military District of Washington. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the advancing of the colors and remain standing for the United States National Anthem. Please be seated. At this time, Major General Braydenkamp and Command Sergeant Major Knapp are moving into position to honor the retirees. Please feel free to applaud your soldier as they are called. Headquarters Department of the Army Special Orders, by order of the Secretary of the Army, the following soldiers of the Department of the Army are retired. Colonel William S. Galbraith, Logistics, Chief Warrant Officer 3, Nicole L. Daniels, Military Police, Command Sergeant Major Brian D. Narducci, Aviation, Colonel Heather A. Clevenger, Military Intelligence, Colonel William J. Epilito, Chemical Corps, Colonel Kenneth G. Haynes, Signal Corps, Colonel Peter J. Cook, Logistics, Colonel Ramona J. Mullins-Forman, Army Nurse, Colonel Joseph N. Pierre, Adjutant General, Colonel Scotty B. Roof, Medical Corps, Colonel Daimone A. Simmons, Engineer, Colonel Deanna N. Turpin, Military Intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel Michael C. Arnone, Psychological Operations, Lieutenant Colonel Christine M. Baker, Military Police, Lieutenant Colonel Shalei M. Cameron, Adjutant General, Lieutenant Colonel Neil R. Erickson, Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Lieutenant Colonel Howard G. Heastend, Finance and Comptroller, Lieutenant Colonel Shane C. Honan, Logistics, Lieutenant Colonel Mark M. Lee, Psychological Operations, Lieutenant Colonel Ryan G. Rektaut, Logistics, Lieutenant Colonel Syrian Asak Tape Saman, Signal Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Julie A. Wagner, Signal Corps, Major Brahima Kamara, Military Police, Major Armando L. Diaz, Signal Corps, Major Judith A. Finn, Logistics, Major Janet C. Sapa-Tuelis, Acquisitions, Sergeant Major Glenn K. Jalevay II, Army Finance and Comptroller, First Sergeant Brandon E. Gilbert, Medical Corps, Master Sergeant Charles J. Sakura, Military Police, Master Sergeant Matthew D. Thigpin, CID Special Agent, Sergeant First Class Jamie Chow, Medical Corps, Sergeant First Class Andre P. Lockett, Medical Corps, Sergeant First Class Timothy C. Ralph, Quartermaster, Sergeant First Class Marcos A. Rios, Military Police, Sergeant First Class Jenny L. Sweet, Adjutant General. We are proud to recognize the soldier's devotion to our country, and we wish them happiness and prosperity in their well-earned retirement. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the posting of the colors. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, Major General Braydenkamp. Well, good afternoon, everyone. We got a full house here today, which is really awesome. Distinguished guests, senior leaders, command sergeants, majors, friends, and above all, soldiers and families to be honored here today. Thanks for making the time to attend this retirement ceremony, and welcome to historic Joint Base Meyer Henderson Hall. On behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Christine E. Wormuth, Chief of Staff of the Army General Randy A. George, and Sergeant Major of the Army Michael R. Weimer, welcome. It's another beautiful day here in the National Capital Region, and a great day to be a soldier. Before I address our distinguished retirees and families, I would like to take a moment and thank all those who work so hard to make today such a special occasion. On the floor in front of you are the soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard, the Army's oldest active-duty infantry regiment. You look tremendous, and your professionalism and precision honors those retiring here today. Thanks for your hard work and dedication, and thanks for serving in our Army. Thanks also to the member of the U.S. Army Band, Pershing Zone. As always, you look and sound amazing and make these ceremonies all the more special. So the soldiers retiring here today joined the Army to be all they could be. Some joined the Army following Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Others after America was attacked on 9-11. All have stood ready to meet the challenges and uncertainties of the global war on terror that brought almost two decades of continuous combat operations. They stand here today representing the best of America. Today, we honor 34 soldiers and their families for their faithful and dedicated service to our nation and for being all they could be. Collectively, these soldiers represent more than 800 years of military service across the Army. 800 years. With service around the globe and in a variety of combat arms, combat support, and combat service support specialties, these soldiers, leaders, and their families answered our nation's call and have not only served during a period of persistent conflict, but also led and trained our young men and women to deploy into harm's way and to do our nation's bidding. Our Army and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude and your service and sacrifice that can never fully be repaid. The medal and U.S. flag are but a small token of appreciation for your service. I would like to take just a moment to talk about our flag, Old Glory, that you receive a flag on the occasion of your retirement is significant in that it is the symbol of our nation and recognized around the world. We have fought to protect the freedoms and our way of life, and we wear the stars and stripes proudly on our uniform, both home and while deployed. The red color in the flag symbolizes hardiness and valor, which each of you has personified as a soldier and leader in our Army, operating in austere conditions with limited resources to accomplish difficult missions. The white color refers to purity and innocence, which you have sought to protect both here at home and abroad. And the blue color represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice, which each of you has demonstrated in the conduct of your duties as officers and non-commissioned officers. I am sure the flag holds special meaning for each one of you, as it should given your service to our nation. As you walk out of Convy Hall today, take solace knowing that you leave behind an enduring legacy that lives on in the countless soldiers you have trained, mentored and inspired. The Army is better because of your service. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a round of applause for these 34 great soldiers. It would be remiss today if I didn't take some time to thank the family members of each of these retiring soldiers. Your sacrifice and support over the past 20-plus years of service has been foundational to the success of each of these retirees, allowing them to accomplish their assigned missions and serve in the Army that they love. You have remained steadfast in your support during a time of war that necessitated family separation, and for that, you will never be adequately compensated. Please accept our eternal thanks on behalf of a grateful nation for all that you have endured as military families. We could not fulfill our obligations to our soldiers, the Army, and the nation without the love and support of our families. So please join me in a round of applause for the families of our retirees. Once again, to our retiring soldiers, thank you for your service. You are warriors and soldiers for life, so I humbly ask you to take on one last task. Tell the Army's story. Help to maintain our volunteer Army by sharing your experiences with America's sons and daughters so that they might be inspired to follow in your footsteps and volunteer to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We continue to serve as a shining example around the world because men and women like you volunteer to serve. So again, on behalf of the Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff and Sergeant Major, Joint Task Force National Capital Region Military District of Washington, the United States Army, and a proud and grateful nation, thank you. Good luck and Godspeed. This will defend and be all you can be. Please stand for the... The United States Army is honored to have presented today's special ceremony. Thank you for attending and enjoy the rest of your day.


We have these really special Belgian puppets who are not to be trusted, but will give us a short summary of what we've heard in the last nine speeches. We welcome here, in the best academic secret in the Netherlands, Tilburg University. We are becoming sick here because you can do everything here in 2025. You can work, you can live, and you can eat meat.  If you don't eat meat, you can win the award for the alumnus with character. We're standing here in a bubble and we come to meet the world. Meet, yes, meet. The last group of Max and Paul, the only one with wonderful sweaters. You can buy them here because Tilburg University is the unique selling point. At six o'clock there will be one stop shop, yes. So we just come for a summary. But at the end of the day, we will explain you everything about all the presentations. The only one who knew something about these presentations is Miss Mayuleen de Graaf, the chairman of today. She did it wonderful, wonderful. We all have lists and then she made a hustle. And now it's a surprise to everybody we don't know who will come on stage. We are two puppets. Are we teachers? No. Because teachers are not valued by title like researchers. So we are researchers, yes. We are more blended professionals, yes, blended professionals. At the end at six o'clock, 60% of you wish to stay, but we have only food for 30%. And in 2025, at that time, the Netherlands will have 20-25 political parties. Wine for the little elements, wine for the big animals, yes, okay. The Tilburg University will be number one in the ranking. It will be easy to become on the second place this year, because which university is on the second place? Nottingham, Nottingham! So it's nothing, it's nothing! So from 319, we have to go once in a few months to number two. Nottingham will be nothing, okay. And anyway, ladies and gentlemen, we heard fantastic presentations, fantastic, fantastic. And if our zeal month is the only one who gave at the end an information very important, I'm living in Room C 182. There you can live, you can eat, you can work, but there's no meat, no meat. In any way, we will be back later. For this part, think about the fantastic sweaters of the Tilburg University. There will be new in 2025. Let's hope, let's hope. See you later today, bye-bye! Thank you, Armand Schreuers, all the way from Belgium. Thank you. It's time for a break to have a drink and a stop at the bathroom and everything you like, but do come back here for the second round with these beautiful eight speeches to inspire you again. Let's make it 245, see you back in 15 minutes.


Question is from JoyfulJJ, I have hypermobile hip joints that have led me to have terrible recruitment patterns in my lower body. I try to strengthen the muscles around my hips, but I still feel like I'm not able to engage them correctly. What can I do to fix this? This is another, what a great, who picked this? That was a good question. I did. So the kudos to you, this is normally like a Justin question because Justin is big, isometric guy, slow training. This is a great, great way to incorporate isometrics and I think why it's such an underrated tool in our space. So I would definitely incorporate some of that. That's the first thing that comes to mind. I remember the first time I had a client who was actually hypermobile. And the reason why I remember is because it's way less common than a person who's tight. Like the average person is tight. So when I was a trainer, when I first became a trainer I'd get clients and almost every single one of them, I had to work on improving their mobility, the range of motion, getting them to be able to squat deeper, loosening up their hamstrings and their hip flexors and their hips and their shoulders. And then I remember I got this one client that, and I didn't know that this was a problem because I was a new trainer. So I had this one client, I did my assessment and I'm like, whoa, you're super flexible. This is gonna be easy. It's gonna be great. Like you could fold your body in half, you could do the splits. Like their form looks perfect. Yeah, oh yeah. You could totally move and everything. And then we would train and everything would hurt. And it'd be like, this is very strange. Why is everything hurting? And luckily I had another friend of mine who was a trainer who was also a physical therapist. And they explained to me that having the extreme range of the motion without strength is just as bad. It causes instability. And so the way I train this person, this is the way I always approach this because I've had, since then I've had several clients who were hypermobile is very different than the way I train other people. So other people I'm constantly challenging range of motion. I'm constantly trying to get them to be able to squat deeper. Of course, everything with good form and that stuff. With a person like this, I stopped them from full range of motion. So when I have someone like this, we're not squatting astagrass. I'm stopping them a little bit. I'm letting them go past parallel just a little bit. Pause there, hold the squat, come up real slow. Now go back down, stop, and I would have to tell them where to stop the rep. I would not let their flexibility determine where to stop the rep. We'd have to go lighter and we'd have to keep lots and lots of tension and go slow. And then over time, we rebuild stability in their body, but it's a very different approach. Stability training too. Like someone like this that's in their hips, I think right away, like single leg toe touches is such a great move for that person. And you don't need to do it holding very much weight whatsoever.  And in that point, you have them hold like an isometric pose there for a second, maybe five seconds, and then come back out of the rep and then move back down and just work on stability and isometric together, you know? Yeah, it's a totally different way of approaching reps too. So like, there's gonna be less reps because it's very taxing when you're trying to irradiate this muscular tension throughout your body and just basically meaning like you're squeezing all these muscles and really trying to feel your way through where, you know, you may have a loss in terms of like I can drop into that position, but I'm not necessarily, you know, tight and strong in that position. So I would work in one of these techniques that while I was really drawn to like the stick mobility guys and what they're doing with adding in isometric components to it, there was a way to add, and we did a video on this a long time ago called the Duffy Squat. But the concept there was really to then add more muscular tension even with the upper body getting involved in squatting. And so this was a way to push up and create, you actually feel like your muscles get that tension, get tight and that kind of cascading down into the hips. And so as you slowly lower, you could just feel this resistance through your body. So I'm going down real slow, I'm feeling that resistance and that tightness. If I feel at all there's a loss in that tightness, I'm gonna stop right there. And then we're gonna squeeze, like you said, we're gonna go ahead and hold like for that five second hold to try and reestablish that connectivity there. Like there's a drop and that's where the instability, that's a problem to where if I'm in this and I can't get out of it with strength, that's an issue. What a great video you just referenced that should definitely be linked in the show notes especially for this person. For someone who's got hypermobile hips, the Duffy Squat would be fantastic. I can always tell a client because they, especially with squatting in their hypermobile is that their legs kind of flop everywhere when they drop.  And you could tell that- Even if their form looks good when you watch somebody who's hypermobile, even if everything looks kind of perfect, you can tell that they're losing tension the whole time. You could just see them move through the squat and it's as if they're not tight, intense. So this is the thing, do your exercises, don't let your body tell you how deep to go with the movements, stop just a little bit before you know you could go any deeper and then stay tight with everything. And then here's the good news, for people who are hypermobile, you start building muscle, it's really a great solution. You pack muscle on somebody's hypermobile and they really start to solve a lot of problems. Yeah, and Joe just reminded me and Joe DeFranco, certainly like they're talking about you either need to mobilize or stabilize it. So this would be like on that side of needing to stabilize. Right.


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