In this section, I will tell you how risk tolerance plays a significant role in portfolio selection process. So firstly we will discuss what is meant by risk tolerance. So basically risk tolerance is a measure of how much of a loss an investor is willing to undertake when he decides to invest in a certain investment opportunity or is investing in a portfolio or is making a portfolio he can bear at least as much loss as possible. So that helps you in deciding what is the level of risk tolerance for this individual. So we can segregate people on the basis of the different levels of the tolerance of risks they have. Any individual investor's age, income, total savings, wealth status, all these things influence risk tolerance. So risk tolerance can be high or low depending upon a number of factors such as the age of an individual or an investor or they already have so many savings or their family is integrated. Integrated means that if I have any loss, then my sister or brother will come to help me or not. So this also influences my risk tolerance. So risk tolerance plays a very important role in portfolio selection. So if your risk tolerance level is very high, that is, you are involved in a very big loss, your financial position, your wealth, your family background, you are supported for this, that if you have a very big loss, then you will not be shocked, you will be involved in financial shock. In this kind of situation, the level of risk tolerance will be very high and similarly, if you do not have money or you do not have financial support or you do not have a very big wealth, if you do not have a very valuable value in your account, then your small loss will also hurt. In this case, your risk tolerance level there is a possibility that risk tolerance level in this case will be low. So it depends upon a number of different types of factors. Now another important thing is that we discussed earlier that there could be personal factors. Like my age, my pocket, my money, my income, all these things also influence my risk tolerance. But at the same time, the overall economic situation in which you live in, the political events there, in that particular country or in that particular sector, the regulatory authority, what is its role? Law, governance, judiciary, what is the level of all these things? This will also play a very important role in your risk tolerance. And if you know that I will make a particular investment and some people will betray me. And my judiciary system is so strong that no one can save me from cheating. And it will be caught. It will be fine charged. And my losses will be recovered. And there is a very high chance that no one can cheat me. In that case, your risk tolerance is higher. But if you know that people will cheat me and run away and never catch me, in that kind of a situation, obviously you will be reluctant to face the high risk situations where there is high risk involved. So it's not just the personal factors that play an important role in determining the risk tolerance level. Apart from this, the volatility fluctuation of the stock market you often see that the stock market has crashed and is doing a very good business. So these are the indicators of the volatility of the stock market. The volatility of the stock market, the swings in the stock market, all the other things are the conditions of IMF. I MF has paid, South Europe has kept us $$. South Europe has said, just return us $$, all these things also influence your risk tolerance level. So for the assessment of risk tolerance, there are organisations where you can assess your risk tolerance that you make assessments Assets are high risk, low risk, neutral level risk and according to that you will decide there could be a number of different asset classes. For example, I wanted to invest in a certain financial instrument so I talked to the manager of that particular organization. They told me that there are these different asset classes. One is where there is a high return but there is a high risk category or asset class in which you will invest in which you will get very little return but you will not get much loss. So organizations or financial institutions classify different assets on the basis of risk. So again, it is not essential that if you see that this is a safe opportunity, then you stay safe overall with the fluctuations in the market conditions. There could be a number of different other factors that can cause fluctuations due to which the safe opportunity can cause some loss. So it keeps on fluctuating so we have to look at that particular aspect also. So together we can, if we categorize or we make a list of the factors which can influence our risk tolerance. So in that we discussed personal factors. There could be another very important thing that is the time horizon. How much time period are you investing? If you have invested for 20 years, then naturally time horizon has increased. There can be a risk factor that the organization in which you have invested that organization collapses, that organization becomes very successful. There could be 110 factors. So people therefore avoid investing in this particular financial instrument for a very long time period. And if they do, then the organization has to offer a very high rate of risk to overcome this particular risk. So time horizon influences risk tolerance. Your future earning capacity influences risk tolerance. How much money can you earn in the future. That thing will influence your risk tolerance. If you feel that in the future, if I retire and my income falls down, which I am earning now, then you don't take much risk. And if you feel that no, I have got a long way to go and I can earn more money by investing or working or making food or whatever. So in that case you will be, your risk tolerance will become higher. You can get a higher level of risk. So your risk tolerance increases. And one more important thing is that what is your home situation, financial support, then you can get pension, social security. If something goes wrong, there is a loss, an accident, or a layoff that is being taken out of the job, then what is the status of social security? Will the government help you or not? Or what status of inheritance do you have? So inheritance means that those who are going to get money from the parents or those who have got it, they are a little more. This also can influence your risk tolerance very much. Now, on the basis of risk tolerance, we can classify investors into three categories. So we can have aggressive investors whose risk tolerance level is quite high and they participate in the market very rigorously. If they have a high level of risk associated with a financial instrument, they would like to go for that. They will invest in it. They do high purchases, buying, selling. And that is why they are called aggressive investors because they have got a higher risk tolerance level. On the contrary, we can have another class in which we can have conservative investors. They think a lot and invest a lot of time. And their financial risk tolerance level is quite low. So they think that there is very little loss. Even if there is very little loss, it will be shocking for us. They always focus on investing carefully. They don't invest frequently. They invest very carefully. They invest in very low level of risk investment opportunities. So we can have the conservative investor and we can have aggressive investors. So these are the two extremes. We can have investors who are ready to go for moderate risk. We call them moderate risk investors. They always invest on those particular opportunities. We will invest in a place where moderate risk is very low and very high. So we have got this third category that falls somewhere in the middle and they are known as the moderate risk investors. So we have got aggressive investors and we have got the moderate risk investors and then we have got the conservative investors. So these are the three categories on the basis of which we can classify investors on the basis of the level of financial risk tolerance they have.


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What's going on everybody, DatoDoy here with another Dragon Ball Fighters Rank Session this time, starring the boys Bardock and Broly. We're gonna have a whole week of these things since you guys were asking for it. And I'm excited, dude. I was in the training mode, both Bardock and Broly are feeling pretty good. And I just can't wait to see what we can do in some actual matches here. Alright, hopping into a match. I think this guy was a pink square too.  Oh god. This is gonna be, whew, this is gonna be a tough one. Oh yeah, we got Bardock. I forgot to mention what our rotation is. We're gonna switch out the third character every other game, but I think Bardock's gonna stay on point just so we can see this intro. But who knows, we might switch that around too. I think Bardock might be a better mid, especially in this case, but oh god. Goku, black looks insane there. Alright, let's keep it nice and slow. Alright, in the corner. This is where you wanna be with Broly though. Alright, I caught. We're going right back in the corner. No! Oh nice, I didn't even know that was possible. Oh no, don't die already, Bardock. My neutral with Bardock is awful, by the way. Damn, we lost him so quick. Yep, this is my first real game with these two. Oh man, I'm so rough right now. Oh, Broly. Broly time. Oh no. Oh, Broly. How did I miss that? I usually don't miss that conversion. Oh my god. Broly time. Watch this. Oh, the monster. Oh Broly, you beast. Oh, I forgot I used my smash attack. No, I should have armored through that. No. Look at me. Now I'm playing a character with armor. Go ahead, do what you must. No, no wait, wait, wait. Oh, I think I lost. Might have lost my Broly too early there. I was really feeling it too. Oh, I did not mean to get caught by that. I was just desperately trying to spark up. Alright, rough first game, but oh. There we go. And damn, I never even got the chance to spark up. Too much bar. I'm going to put that on a... I wanted to level three with Broly, but I'm just... I didn't want to do it and miss. That's fine though. Got a nice little feel for it there. Alright, come on, Bardock. Good stuff, good stuff. Nice. So much better. Alright, good stuff, Bardock. Oh god. Not the corner. Okay, get me out of there. What are the... No. Don't armor me. Hell yeah, let's go. Ooh, give him that saiyan. Ooh. Bardock is so nice. Let me get like six more hours in the training mode with Bardock. Oh yeah, I got to use that move too. Like I wouldn't be blocking. Oh, missed that. Missed that one completely. I should have saiyan spirit right there. Oh. I don't even know why I wasn't blocking low to be fair. I should have done either of those things. Oh my god, I can't lose like this. That was so rough. I'm already cracking. So clean. I really should practice defense against 16 one of these days. Corner time. It's already over. Broly in the corner. Nothing scares me. Except for that. Except for that. No. Why am I going with these risky moves? I just got to get my feet planted on the ground and start busting on some armor moves. Wake up level three. I ain't dealing with mixups today. Nice, nice. Alright Goku, bring it home. I ain't trying to get this much. Don't click the button. And I didn't block. I can't believe it. Curse my absolute atrocious play against 16. We in space, bro. There ain't no birds up here. Alright, let's go. Let me get a good start and then a good finish as well. Aw, too early. Good start. Alright, very nice, very nice. Now if you remember, this is how the last match started. Broly. No, he went over me and I'm in the corner. Not good. Okay, let's see what I can do here. Three bars. Aw, that was so close too. Ooh, nice. Level three. Interesting. Aw, you got to be kidding me. I didn't think you'd block after that. Nice. Okay, so we're looking about... I think we're looking worse than last match, obviously. I can't believe that hit me. Jesus. Getting grabbed up for who, bro. Saw that one coming. Nice. No. Okay, get him in the corner. Aw, let's go. No, Broly, no. You were supposed to be the one that I didn't recover from that. No, no. Don't leave me with just Bardock. I'm just clicking so many buttons and getting hit by these moves. No, I'm being too late. No, that move. Aw, didn't expect it. He hasn't done that move all game. Alright, just got to land a level three. See, this is a mindset when I start cracking. I just got to land a random level three. Let's go. Let's go, Bardock. Nice. Okay, come back. You guys were all laughing in the comments. Gonna get three owed real quick in his first ranked video, but we are already coming back. I don't know how long this video's gonna be. Random heavies, I got those. Put myself in the corner. I got that too. Nice. I love that move. So quick. How far this guy's best character is, 16. Poor conversions right there. Let's see if I can do it. Let's see if I can do it. Dropped it again. Keep dropping that. Level three. Can't say I agree.  Oh, I can't believe I didn't get... Oh, no, he... Nice. There's only one hit of armor on the grab move. I was hoping he'd just go with a jab, panic block. Gotta go with the heavier moves on that one. Oh, you can't do that in between that. I tried to go with the... I don't even know what the move's called. Just the heavy rush into the corner one. Oh, man, with Broly Gun, this just got rough again. Oh, that's so fast. No, no, no. Okay. Let's go, Bardock. Let's go. Let's go. That was a smooth finish. That was so cool. All right, let's go. I told you guys it was the comeback. Everybody better be deleting those comments. I saw him. Man, can't believe first ranked video of the week and this is the result. Yikes, I'm dropping so many conversions. Oh, nice assist. No, no, no. Trying to vanish. All panic. I gotta get Bardock out of here. No, Bardock. Run. Okay, good. No Bard. No Bard. Oh, no. No. Oh, yikes. Oh, yikes. Oh, yikes. Oh, my God, that reach. Too high. Yikes. I'm getting swept out. No, no, no. All right, get out here, Broly. Get him. So much armor flying around. Oh, you can't do that in between. Nice. Stomp him. Okay, I need to get Broly out so he can heal. But also, there's not going to be a really good time to do that. Nice. No, not nice. Not nice. Oh, I felt like it was going so well for a second too. Ken Broly with sparking. Save it. Do I have sparking? Okay, I do have sparking. No, the armor wasn't enough. Sparking time. Oh, God, heal up Broly. Don't let this be the end. Don't let this be the end, Broly. No, do not rush me. Okay, good job, Broly. Now we just have one full health. 16 sparking to go through.  Oh, I forgot he could dash. No, my comeback. All right, well, props to that guy. Those are some good games I got blown out the first two. Started, you know, making my comeback. But, hey, that's a good start. Just nowhere to go but up. Hope you guys enjoyed this one. Be back tomorrow for the next one, I guess. We're going to be doing this for seven days. Jesus, that's a lot of editing.


Hi, I'm Meredith Morris, University of Maryland Medical Center. Today, we're discussing the latest anti-aging trends with Dr. Natalie Justice from University of Maryland Facial Plastic Surgery. Thanks for being here today, Dr. Justice. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. And thanks to all of you for watching. We invite you to leave your questions in the comments section below and be sure to like this video to let us know you're tuning in. Dr. Justice, why don't you give us a little history about you and what you specialize in related to facial plastic surgery? Sure. So I just moved here to the state and also to University of Maryland. I was in residency in Boston at Masai near the Harvard program. And then that was Otolaryngology. And then I did a separate fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan. And then I just moved to the area in August with my husband, who's active duty in the Army and our 18 month old daughter. Well, welcome aboard and we're happy to have you on our team here at University of Maryland. Great so far. Great. All right, so let's get right into the questions because I know we have a lot to discuss related to the trends and anti-aging and exactly what it is we offer at University of Maryland Facial Plastic Surgery. So why don't we start off by what are the, I guess, the most common complaints or concerns you see in your practice related to aging? Sure, it's a lot of things. I think a lot of people are concerned about wrinkles that are forming as they age in the forehead, around the eyes or crow's feet. Patients are bothered by what we call increased nasolabial hold depth. So the cheek crease kind of as they age. They're bothered by jowling and discontent of the face.  So I kind of I hear it all. Some things are more common than others and some are a little bit specific to the patient, but all kinds of things. At what age do most people begin to notice changes in their appearance? Oh, gosh, I feel like it can change a lot from patient to patient. I mean, I feel like I know this. Well, I'm probably like paying particular attention to things. I notice changes in my face in my mid 20s that bothered me, but it was nothing I would have ever done anything about. I feel like some of my patients come in in their mid to late 20s and are noticing things that they want to get ahead of. But I would say the majority of my patients are 40s, 50s, 60s, who are who are coming in for anti aging. Is visible aging preventable? Well, we're all going to age. So I think it's really the the speed at which you age and some of it, you know, genetic, some of it's based on lifestyle and other risk factors, some of which we can mitigate and improve on, some of which we can. I would say, you know, aging in general is is not preventable, but we can sort of slow the process or do a couple of things to to improve the aging process. You mentioned risk factors and also genetics. Can you go through just a short list of what some of those risk factors may be for more, I guess, premature aging? Sure, I would say that the number one is smoking. Diet and exercise can can improve the aging process, but I would say that that smoking is is the most modifiable of risk factors. So so I'm not smoking. But a lot. I mean, a very significant portion of aging is just based on our genes. So it's not really something that folks can do a whole lot about on a on a genetic level, but that's where, you know, I come in and some of the tricks that we have can can help outside of stopping smoking and maybe making sure that you're living an overall healthy lifestyle. At what point should a person begin to implement a skin care routine or possibly personalized facials based on their skin type, etc.? It's a great question.  And I think even if you asked a bunch of facial plastic surgeons, they might have different answers. For me, that question is very patient specific because I have folks that that aren't bothered by their wrinkles and, you know, it's it's a badge of honor because we're smiling and they're they're happy to have signs of aging. For other folks, they want to kind of dampen that a little bit. And so I would just say it's time to to get on it whenever it bothers you to to kind of work on some of that preventive. I mean, there's things you can do to almost push some of it off, but I would never ask or suggest for anyone to do those things until they're ready to take that step. You hear a lot about how Zoom and other video platforms have made people more hyper focused on their appearance lately. Have you seen an increase in patients or in concerns related to the fact that they are now on camera? Absolutely. I think patients notice their noses a lot more because it's central to the face and I think they can get a little bit distorted on Zoom, just like selfies can distort the nose. I think folks filter themselves more or think about that. They look at their skin more. They look at asymmetries more so from one side of the face to the other. So, yeah, I've seen and heard a lot about all of that recently. So what can they do? I mean, short of actually having a procedure done, whether it's surgical or non-surgical, are there things they can do, you know, just at home to help improve the way that they feel that they look on camera?  You know, there's things that I can help with if it's a concern outside of Zoom or, you know, things that they want to address. But I think that's something that a lot of folks are dealing with right now. So I just read that a recent study by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery showed that surgical procedures are up and non-surgical procedures are actually down. What do you attribute that to and do you think it possibly is because they're able to, I guess, like heal behind the mask, heal more discreetly at home? Yeah, I think folks are able to heal at home. I think a lot of folks have experienced a lot more flexibility with their work schedules or they can fit something in for a change. They might be changing jobs or I just feel like I've heard all kinds of things. It's given them, you know, people are looking at themselves more on Zoom. They've thought about an intervention for a while and they've decided to go ahead and do it. But, you know, I've seen a lot of the non-surgical stuff as well. I've done a lot of Botox because of wrinkles that folks are seeing on Zoom and fillers for kind of hollowing and other concerns. So I feel like folks, I don't know. I don't know if I've noticed that there's a dramatic change in surgeries so much as people are commenting more on Zoom and are just acknowledging that change in their lives. It's interesting you mentioned rhinoplasty in particular because the study also mentioned rhinoplasty is like one of the number one surgical procedures that's increased during the pandemic. So if somebody were to have a rhinoplasty, what can they expect as far as healing time, scarring, et cetera? Yeah, that's a great question. So I do both functional, so rhinoplasty for breathing as well as cosmetic, so rhinoplasty for the shape of your nose. I think folks are coming in, you know, because they're noticing their nose more, but also potentially with the masks, they're noticing changes in their their breathing. And so I, you know, would analyze the nose if there's a deviated septum or enlarged turbinates, I can address those at the time of the septorhinoplasty. I do most of mine through what we call an open approach, which means you have a little incision right under your nose in the columnella. But that's hidden long term if it heals really well. Surgery takes a few hours and you generally go home the same day. And, you know, the kind of nuances of it I would get into with each particular patient, depending on what their concerns are, what they would like to address with surgery. But generally, I leave splints in the nose and those come out about a week later. And then from there, you know, you can go back to work probably about a week later. Some go earlier, some go later. Really depends on what you're doing for work and then also what your comfort level is, what's being asked of you once you get back to the office or wherever you're working. But yeah, I've done a lot of rhinoplasty recently. It seems to be something that people are thinking about. What other surgical and non-surgical techniques, procedures do you offer as far as anti-aging or just improving or rejuvenating your appearance? Oh, there's a lot. So in terms of non-surgical things, we can do. I do a lot of Botox for wrinkles. I do a lot of filler for the nasolabial folds or under the eyes. We have PRP here for anti-aging. We can do that with or without a micro facial. And then we have a really incredible laser. So that can be used for BBL, but also more specific laser technologies, pro fractional, other sorts of resurfacing. And then we have an esthetician here as well for other facials and anti-aging non-surgical procedures. In terms of surgery, we can do upper lids, lower lids, facelifts, rhinoplasty can be done in an anti-aging way and all kinds of other little procedures. But it's really important to me that we focus on the right procedure for a particular patient and that they understand what their options are, because you might not have all those options for a particular patient. And that's where I kind of stand in to interpret and help them decide what might be the best for them. One of the offerings you just mentioned, PRP, platelet-rich plasma. Can you explain exactly what that is? And is that a common treatment that's offered at many spots and facial plastic surgery offices? Or is that more unique to our practice? I would say we're lucky to have that technology. Not everywhere has it. It's definitely been taking off. I wrote a review article about PRP a couple of years ago, and I feel like since then, it's like even even taken off more in terms of interest and then also some of the indications for it. So PRP, we take a small vial of your blood and we spin it down in the office in a centrifuge and then we use the plasma component. And we can sort of incorporate that into a facial. We can also use it for hair loss. And for the right patient, it can help augment hair growth. So there's a lot of different ways that we can use it. But again, it kind of depends on picking the right patient so that they get the result that we expect and that they want. What is it about PRP that makes it so effective and unique? Well, it has a number of growth factors, like I can't even list them all right now, but it's kind of thought to be restorative and indicated for kind of a wide variety of things that help you to look useful again. And how many laser treatments? I know you mentioned that we have a really awesome laser at University Maryland Facial Plastic Surgery. So exactly what can the laser be used for and how many treatments would be necessary or sessions rather in order for you to see the most improvements or for it to be most effective? Yeah, this is a conversation I have with my patients all the time. I think if you're coming in with some sun damage or a little bit of redness almost like on the rosacea spectrum, I always I always see how we're going to do with the first treatment. But I let patients know and a lot of facial plastic surgeons or folks in the field will suggest doing three treatments to really get a good result. I use that first treatment to sort of determine how how much I can I can give to the skin because I mean, I did two two friends of mine recently and I thought that they would need kind of a similar amount of of the laser. But one had a kind of like robust response with even less treatment. And the other kind of didn't have as much response as I thought. And the first one ended up having like a lot of that pigmentation come out and a lot of kind of anti-aging benefits. And the other had some but but not as much. And I wouldn't have necessarily expected that just in analyzing their skin to begin with. And so we never push the laser or do anything that's outside of set protocols. But you don't always know how someone's skin is going to react until you do that first laser treatment. So now for the one friend, I would I would probably push it to the same level again or go almost as much because she had such a good anti-aging result. But for the other one, I might even push it a little bit further on the second time. But I wouldn't necessarily have known that unless I'd done a first treatment on them. And so I think it's helpful to to kind of think about it as a series of treatments because you often sort of unmask some of those benefits on the second or third treatment. But most people will notice a pretty good result from one. But then potentially want to do more. And I will say that the laser targets the skin and resurfaces. But often what I'm doing is a little bit of like the BBL, which is not technically laser, but it is laser like and then doing a bit of Botox with that for sort of a gentle rejuvenation. And the Botox targets the muscle. And so for a lot of folks, that's what they're kind of coming in for. They're feeling a little dull and stuff after all the mask wearing the past couple years and especially going into the holidays or looking for a little bit of a boost or some brightening. Speaking of Botox, it seems like people mistakenly use Botox and filler, whether it's on social media or if you're just talking with them, they'll accuse people of having Botox in possibly areas where Botox would never be used, etc. So can you explain what the difference is between Botox and filler and also how long the results last for each of them? Sure. So very simply, Botox is going to paralyze muscles. So it works by preventing muscles from moving. And it's most frequently used on the forehead, between the eyebrows, around the eyes and the crow's feet. I use Botox sometimes on the lower face, but that's mostly in patients with facial paralysis. So not on your kind of typical anti-aging patient. I think people mistakenly think sometimes that sort of that heavy lower face or that some of the changes that you see to the nasal labial fold is caused by Botox, which it usually is not. Usually we use filler, so a molecule that retains water to inject into the nasal labial folds or other areas to augment the cheeks to to work on the under eye hollows. Botox is going to take a few days to work. So you're not going to notice an immediate effect, whereas with filler, you will notice an immediate effect. But I never want my patients to have that like overdone or overfilled look. And so frequently I'm discussing the difference between the two. And then we sort of elect which one we're going to do at that visit. And then we kind of, you know, Botox takes about two weeks to hit its maximum effect. So it's not infrequently that I'm having a patient come back, check in with me at two weeks, make sure they're happy before we proceed with any filler or anything like that. I can do them both at the same time. But I feel like for a lot of my patients who are just getting into anti-aging or just getting into Botox and filler, that they might prefer to sort of see the stepwise additive effect rather than doing it all at once. Once they start these different injectables, how often would they need to come into the office to keep up with the long lasting effect of it? So you never have to come back if you don't like it or you find that it's not something that you want to do. So, you know, there's no like you're not hurting yourself by not following up with it if you don't like it for whatever reason, that being said, most patients really, really, really like it and want to come back. So the Botox, you'll usually start to notice that it's starting to wear off around three or four months. That means that some folks want to come back and get more right then. But other folks kind of like it as it wears off. You still have a lot of benefits from it. So three, four, five, six months is sort of what I would expect Botox to last. Sometimes folks only want to get it once a year or, you know, want to get it around the holidays and that's fine, too. And then filler, I find to be a little more variable. It can last six months on some folks. It can last up to a year. So it's a little a little more variable. But again, if you get it once, it doesn't mean you're committed to getting it a second time and, you know, when it when it eventually does kind of wear away, you can add more and a lot of my folks really like it and want to keep going with it. But it's totally a personal choice. Is it ever too late to start anti-aging treatment? I don't think so. You know, it's going to you're going to notice a longer term result or the changes that you make of the 20, 30, 40 year old do pay dividends later, but I don't think it's ever too late. And a lot of the things that we're doing, laser Botox, those can be done at almost any age. When people often hear facial plastic surgery, they think that it's all cosmetic related. You made a comment about how oftentimes they'll use Botox for your facial paralysis patients as well. What are some of the other conditions that you and our other facial plastic surgeon treat that would not be considered cosmetic necessarily? Yeah, that's a great question. So my fellowship and the majority of my training has been a combination of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery techniques. And even here in Maryland, I would say more of my practice is is reconstructive and cosmetic. You know, I kind of strive for that balance because I really enjoy both of them so much. Dr. Vikari and I both see cosmetic and reconstructive surgery patients. The reconstructive side of things can be skin cancer reconstruction. It can be facial nerve paralysis after a tumor or Bell's palsy, rhinoplasty that's more functional or caused by a trauma. And then I also see a lot of patients come through shot trauma with a variety of things that have happened to them where I work on their reconstruction. All right. So we're going to switch and take some questions from the audience. So the first question is Katie asks, what can I do to lift a saggy yowl and wrinkly neck? I prefer non-surgical option. That's a great question. I definitely have to see see the area. Some of our lasers can be used to tighten the neck, which can be a good benefit for the right patient. Other treatments like Kybella can help to dissolve fat in the neck. I will say the neck is a challenging place and it's where eventually if you want to get a contour restored, you're starting to think about surgical options, but I've got plenty of folks that that don't ever want to go there. And so we, you know, do what we can in the office. And if they don't ever want to go into surgery for a change to their neck, then I would never push it. But it really depends on what their results are. And if I feel like I can get a good enough benefit for them as to what I would suggest in the office, can you tell us a little bit more about Kybella? I've actually had a friend do it. She had great success, but for those watching who may not have heard of it before or are unsure of what it all involves, can you explain a little bit more? Yeah, so Kybella is a product that helps to dissolve fat in multiple different areas. But a lot of facial plastic surgeons use it for the chin.  And you would think about doing two, sometimes three different injections, timelines over the course of a couple of months.  But it really depends on having, you know, may analyze your neck and a good conversation of what the expectation would be because it's definitely about for everyone. If you have muscle banding there or, you know, other aging that's not related to fat, then it might not be the best, best procedure for you. OK, and then Amy asks, I have chin hair growing in with thick, blonde and white hair. I have been told years ago that there is no way to permanently remove blonde or white hair. Does this continue to be true? Um, so.  And it's easiest when there's a contrast between hair and skin tone. That being said, there's usually some, we have a great laser, there's usually some benefit to to using the laser for laser hair removal. And so I would have, you know, have to see you. But I think if someone's willing to try and knows that it might take, you know, a couple extra sessions or something like that, then often we can get to a better place with the laser hair removal. So we have we have two different ways of removing laser or sorry, two different ways of removing hair in the office, two different lasers. And so we'd have to talk about, you know, which one would be better for that specific patient. OK, and then our last question we received, James asks, what do you offer as far as skin care for African American men? I have been treated to help identify skin flare ups and the skin ointments have not been effective. That's a good question. I have to dive into a little bit more to what he means about flare ups, whether it's, you know, acne or another skin condition. But a lot of the, you know, procedures that we use laser Botox can be, you know, used on skin of all different colors. You just have to know where you modulate. You might use a little bit less laser or lower pulse or a different filter. But it's really important to me that we're offering procedures that that are available to a wide variety of patients. And so, you know, I'd encourage you to come in and we can look at some of those two and then also we have a great esthetician that could help with that as well. Dr. Justice, is there anything else that we haven't covered yet that you feel people should know, whether it's about facial plastic surgery, anti-aging, any other topics? I don't know. I'm, you know, excited to be here. I'm excited to meet folks in the area. So much of what we've talked about today is very specific to the patient. So I encourage you to come in and chat with me. I'll never push you to do anything you don't want to do. But I think a lot of folks don't realize some of the options that they have now. We've got a lot of really, really great technology and some of it's changed relatively recently. So it's always worth seeing if something is right for you. And yeah, I'm looking, looking forward to meeting more folks in the area. Why should patients choose the University of Maryland Facial Plastic Surgery? So I would say both my partner, Dr. Bacaria and I are both really interested in giving patients good results that don't make them feel unlike themselves. We want people to embrace their natural beauty. I think we both also deal with really complex facial reconstructive type surgeries all the time, so we're really comfortable with complex facial anatomy. And we, you know, both really enjoy the kind of whole spectrum of caring for patients with with big traumatic injuries, but then also the really delicate minutiae of caring for patients who just want to look their best and have anti-aging concerns. And, you know, we're an easily approachable duo. And we really both enjoy what we do. Why is it important for patients to choose a board certified facial plastic surgeon for their needs? Oh, my gosh, I've done so much training to get to this point.  Some folks do even longer than that. A year of fellowship, multiple board exams. So we are we are experts in facial anatomy, the musculature. There's there's few but rare and sometimes significant sequela or adverse events from either Botox or filler administration or from using a laser improperly. And those are things that I never wanted anyone to go through. And so you reduce the risk of any of that by going to someone that's had such extensive training. And what is your patient care philosophy? I think I've addressed it a little bit. It's I want patients to look and feel their best and that's different for everyone. You know, one patient might want more extensive surgical intervention, others just might want things that turn back the clock a few years. And I really try to honestly lay out the options and then help kind of guide the patient to the decision that they think is best for them. But it's different for everyone and different patients have different questions. They want, you know, different things for me. And I try to just really be their guide through that process. For viewers who still have questions or concerns, what do you suggest is next step? Just come and see me and we'll talk about it. And where do you practice where your office location? I have offices in Baltimore. I've got a reconstructive office and a cosmetic office that are actually really close to each other, but depending on, you know, the day and what a patient needs, I can be pretty flexible. And then we also have an office in Colombia where your colleagues see these patients. Oh, yeah, Dr. Marquaria sees patients in Colombia. OK, great. All right, well, that's all the time we have today. Thank you again, Dr. Justice, for speaking with us. And thanks to all of you for watching. Again, you can continue to leave your questions for Dr. Justice in the comments section below. You can also send us a private message if you feel more comfortable asking your questions that way. And if you would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Justice or Dr. Vicaria, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. And we'll put that in the caption as well. And we'll talk to you guys later. So thank you again, Dr. Justice. Thank you.


Hello, this is Laptop Media, and today, we will show you how to open the Lenovo Idea Pad Gaming 3i16 and what's inside of it. Getting inside this laptop is a bit weird. First, you need to undo 4 Philips head screws, holding the plastic shroud. After that, undo all 8 Philips head screws from the bottom panel, and pry it with a plastic tool. Please remember, it would be of great help to us if you just hit the like button and subscribe to our channel. That would motivate us to make even more and better videos for you. This notebook features a 71Wh battery pack. It got us through 6 hours and 30 minutes of either web browsing or video playback. To take it out, unplug the battery connector from the motherboard, and undo the 4 Philips head screws you see. There are 2 Sodium slots, which work with DDR4 RAM, and support a maximum capacity of 64GB. As for the storage, you get 142mm and 180mm M.2 PCIe X4 slot, both of which support Gen for SSDs. Cooling wise, there are 2 heat pipes shared between the CPU and the GPU, as well as 1 more for the graphics card. In addition, there are 4 heat sinks, 2 fans, and a couple of heat spreaders for the graphics memory and the VRMs. If you'd like to see more disassembly videos of the latest notebooks we would highly appreciate if you hit the like button and subscribe to the channel.


Welcome to the 21st Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards, where we celebrate the outstanding achievements of our sector. Tonight is for all the people who made this possible. It's for our manufacturing leaders. It's a chance to celebrate our small, medium, large and regional manufacturers. An opportunity to honour individuals who demonstrate outstanding talent and a commitment to excellence.  Victoria is the state where the future is made. Tonight we say thank you.


Really the less we know about spirituality is actually the better because I know many people who were Catholic, who had been raised Catholic and they had a heck of a time with the Course of Miracles because the definitions that Jesus was bringing forth in the Course were so different. Atonement had a whole different meaning and sin had a whole different meaning and the Holy Spirit had a whole different meaning and it's like they were like oh now I've got to unlearn my entire associations with all these words and learn new meanings like he's using these words to point me in a new direction and so to the extent that you've got a lot of past learning and even past associations around spirituality those will be the inhibitors because he wants to unwind the mind from what you have learned before in the past and take you into what Buddha called emptying the mind. Jesus is doing the same thing. Some of you might remember lesson 189, simply do this, be still, lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is. It sounds very Buddhist. Jesus and Buddha are both on the same wavelength. They're saying the same thing, you know, come inside, let go, let go, release, keep coming, build your faith.


Welcome. This is the Sheikot Africa Pipeline Help project meeting. It's the 26th of May, 2022. Topics I had on the agenda, questions and answers. If Afi or Sophia, either of you have questions or want further discussion, be sure that final reports are complete and as far as I know they are. If you have any questions on the additional plugins we put on the list, I think I had made the latest recording available. If not, I apologize sincerely. I will try to get it done today. Sophia or Afi? Yeah, so we got the input, the pipeline input step I made, I raised a PR but it hasn't yet been reviewed. I tagged you. Yeah, so at first I realized that when I first pushed the headings were much larger so I went to change that and I pushed again. So I would love a review on that. Very good. Well, so and let's take a quick look because if it's a relatively. Yeah, I should be able to get that done today, Afi. I would I like that because I would love to have those reviewed at least by us. Well, by the mentors so that we can say yes reviewed and done. Very good. So Mark to review today. Let's put it this way before Saturday's end of project. Good. Okay, excellent. Thanks. Yes, go ahead, Sophia. Yeah, the one for walk, walk, space, clean. Yes, that's one. No, no, no, that's not it. Excuse me just a minute. Okay. Okay. Oh, input step. Yes, input step. The PR has not been reviewed yet. Right. And so that's one. Is there maybe I should double check are there more. There's just the one poll request to be reviewed right. So that's the one that I see or, or am I missing something is there another one I should be reviewing. Yeah, just just wait a minute. Let me come from I think I'm miss. I'm missing up the plugins. But I know there's actually one that needed to be reviewed. Well, and maybe it's workspace cleanup. Let's take a look just to see if, you know, okay, so how about Sophia let's look in your, we can also just look in your, we can look in your, or what do you call it in your GitHub history, and find it there just as easily. If I remember that Sophia. That, no, no, that's not right. I think I think it's okay. Oh, you had that. Yeah. So with the hyphen. Yes. Oh, perfect. Okay, great. All right. So all we need to do is look in your history. So this gives an HTTP request plugin maybe. No, it's not actually it's okay. The request has been merged. Okay, so let's look at additional active. So get show more. Okay, so we've got the get plugin the pipeline build step maybe. Yes. Okay, good. Well, I love, I love their history feature this being able to look back and see hey what's going on. Excellent. Okay, so let me put this one into the list to be reviewed before Saturday as well. Because that makes perfect sense. Let's get it. Get it done. All right, so input pull. So and then pipeline build step. Excellent. Thank you. All right, so here it is. And, and I had a bunch of fun with this one actually with the build step I was using it for other purposes recently.  So thanks very much for exploring it. Good. Okay, so we've got to. So let's put this as pull requests, pull requests that need review by Mark and Kevin. And or Kevin. And there are two of them. Excellent. Okay. So the other pull requests we should be sure we we check for that I investigate. Maybe we should go back to that technique we used before let's look at your history Sophia and just just in case I missed something else. Okay, so committed 13 commits in one repository created a repository. Okay, show more. All right, so I think. Oh, come on. Why, where did it go we just had maybe. Oh, wait a sec. There. I have to get everything first. Now, we've got let's look first. Get plug in that one I've already reviewed HTTP request plugin has been merged you said right input step. That one came from a fee. WS cleanup was there anything we needed to do there. I think it was already, it was already matched. Yeah. Okay, great. Plug in. Just, I just cloned it because I want to take a look at it. Okay, so so it wasn't when you done a pull request great. And I assume email extension plugin is the same thing that just cloned it to take a look at it. Yes. Great. Very good. Okay. So, I feel let's do the same thing for you because that way we make sure we don't. That I don't miss something I should have reviewed. Right. Let's let's be sure we asked the same kind of questions. So, here we go. All right, so here's the history. expand. Nope. I think someone else and reviewed the other one before the input step. I've gotten the person's name but I'll have to check that. It could have been Devin Nussbaum. There are thankfully there. It's more than just Kevin and I doing reviews. We like that. That's a really healthy thing. Okay, so HTTP request was okay. Right. We've looked at that one pipeline input step I still have to review. And so I think good I think we've looked through the candidates and it looks like. The only ones that yet, yet need to be reviewed. Very good. Okay, I will, I will get those done so that we can, we can prompt the maintainers and say, Hey, you should merge this. Anything else on pull request to review. No, no for my end. Okay. All right, and final reports. Let's double check just so that we can all see them. So on community.jankins.io, how was the experience reporting to community.jankins.io. Did you did that go okay for the two of you. With typing in the report, I did not know that the right pain was the preview. So I kept on making a mistake of like trying to edit there and I always have to remind myself that the left pain was for editing and then the right person was for preview. So with that, I certainly, I certainly understand it is not a trivial thing to learn the editing workflow of, of a new forum site right it's like, oh, oh, okay that's how I'm supposed to make it work. Good. All right, so here is. I think I got my, my second edit got pulled down, because there's a spam but that's there so I think probably cause I made the edit twice after publishing it sort of pulled down the post. I think that was quite scary because I was wondering what I had done for it to be pulled down but it was later on like, like released and like republished so the experience was great. Well, and, and that's, that's one of the things that we're learning as a project as well is how does the, how does the spam defense system that the discourse uses here. Help us and what do we need to do to be sure it doesn't hinder us, because I've seen exactly that there are times when I'll see comments about something and it's it's warning me as an administrator oh this has been rejected put on hold as spam and then we have to go review it. So yeah, good, good point. Thank you. All right. So final reports are completed pull requests are ready to review any other topics we need to and I don't think we should assume you're going to work on more plugins you're certainly welcome to, but from an official perspective the project is concluding. So, so thanks for your contribution it's great this was the final reporting period. Great to do more. Kevin and I are happy to meet with you or you could join docs office hours that happen on this day each week anyway. That would be fine as well if you're interested in contributing we have a regular session we do that's that's on let's see it's Kevin Kevin it's on Thursdays at 5pm, if I remember right. Kevin at 2pm my time. Yeah, your time, we have to talk in utc for everybody okay so right right just a minute it is at 6pm utc. If the two of you are interested. Now no requirement because really, we wanted this to be a project that you would get no hey we started it, we completed it, and we're done. No, no requirement that you need to but if you're interested you could certainly join us for documentation office hours. Okay. All right, so what's next project is complete. I can join docs office hours. If want to continue helping Jenkins. And we understand if you're if you're not available that's those are perfectly reasonable things people get to contribute to open source with the time available to them. See the calendar. See probably best for me just to put a link to the dock site. Unity documentation office hours, there we go. Each Thursday. All right, any other topics of me in my fingers. Any other topics we need to, we need to discuss today. Sophie do you have anything you want us to discuss. No, not for me. All right, Nafisa anything from you before we conclude the meeting. No, I don't have anything from my hand, but I'm Sophie I'd like to have a chat with you on slack channel about the wrap up presentation please. Oh, okay, no problem then. Great. I propose we call an end thanks very very much to all three of you. It's been a pleasure working with you look forward to seeing each other in the future.


What's up everybody, JC here for jacobyscasebreaks.com. Phil's Tops Chrome number 11, 2020 Tops Chrome Sello one pack brand new team number one. So 32 spots everybody gets around on team MLB. First we'll open up the Sello pack, and get no better in common ship, and then we'll distribute the hits, and then at the end of the break, we'll randomize only the 30 customer names. And if you match up with one of these teams here from the Angels all the way down to the Pirates, you are in, so one through 14 will win a team, and there you go there. So let's do the break first. Roll it, and it's a two and a four, six times. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Joel down to Courtney. Do we have sello's in here? I actually grabbed a regular pack, but it's another one. We're good. All right, six times. Okay, thank you. One, two, three, four, five, six. Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins. Joel, you got the Washington Nationals, as well as the Red Sox, actually, just to make it quicker. Just to show you what you guys got really quick. White Sox went to Amber, Dodger's went to Joel, some of the bigger teams, of course. Houston, Oliver. Now let's, I don't even know the head cells for this. Print and rip it really quick. What a sello. What do you get? Five exclusive pink refractor parallels. Pino, Cease, no Cindigar, Molin Arnato, Cavendizio, and here's your pinks, guys.   I felt weird. I was like, oh man. Mancini, a Rosarena, AJ Park, Logovach, and a Jordon, very nice. Wow, these are nice. Man, that's how they get us, right? You have to buy the exclusive now. Like, man, I can only get pinks if I buy cells. What happened, did he hit them down there? No, Jeff Green's down, but did he hit them down there at the bottom or something? Yeah, somewhere down there, you see me? All right, you guys, now let's see who's gonna win those teams. Dice Roller, boom. Team winner's there. So I went through on the phone, Ryan, but something's going on when you tried to do it on the computer, all right, I gotcha. Roll it, and it is a four and a three for seven times. There you go, good luck, guys. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Nick, down to Courtney. Let's see who makes the top 14. So Nick, you have the angels, congratulations. Joel with the Astros. Brian, you have the Yankees. Amber with the Reds. Nick with the Braves. Rick Thomas with the Phillies. Nick with the Cardinals. Stephen K with the Red Sox. Amber with the Brewers. Eric with the Rockies. Joel with the Twins. Courtney with the Orioles. Nick with the Indians. Stephen K with the Pirates. So there you go, guys. So now coming up next in a separate video is the break itself, appreciate it.


So you have half a walking animation, but you feel like there should be an easy way to finish the other half, and you would be correct. In the next 20 seconds, you will know how to flip and mirror any animation you could possibly think of. And if you stick around, you'll have a complete walking cycle as well. Alright, let's do this. Click the record button to decide how long you want the animation to be. I'm just going to say 30 frames, scrub to the start frame, drag select all the bones, press I to key, lock, rot and scale, control C to copy the frame and scrub to the end of the cycle and control V to paste it. Now in the middle, we need to reverse our animation. To do that, scrub to a key frame, drag select all the bones and unselect the hands. You can do this by holding shift and drag selecting them. Control C to copy and go to the middle and click key and select paste, flip. You can also use shift, control V. And now you can see that we have pasted the mirrored version of our original animation. If you did not unselect the hands, you're going to get this weird finger bending movement, so make sure that you do not select the hands when doing this. Alright, so we have the beginning, middle and end of our walking cycle, but we can make it look better. Go to the middle frame that you just pasted, drag select all the bones, press I to key, lock, rot and scale, control C to copy them, scrub a little bit to the left and then press control V to paste it again. And make this frame a little bit more exaggerated than the middle. So drag the bottom down a tiny bit and make small adjustments to the arms and head. Nothing crazy, just a bit of weight. When you're done, drag select the bones, press I to key frame, lock, rot and scale, and now scrub to the 25% area and again press I here to key frame, lock, rot and scale. Now we need to make the up motion of taking a step. So grab the base and move it a bit up, tilt the head down to compensate, start to move the arms where they should be heading and then lift the forward leg into the air and aim the foot down just a bit. Alright, looks pretty good. Now there's one last thing that you should do and that is go between that frame and the one next to it here and just tilt the foot up just a bit. In my opinion, it just helps the step look a little bit more real. Okay, now drag select all the bones except for the hands. Drag select the frames between the middle and the beginning, control C to copy them, scrub to the 75% area and shift control V to paste them flipped. You're done. And now you have completed a walking animation. Feel free to change the spacing of the frames for fine tuning if you need. Hope that helps. Thank you so much for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to like and subscribe. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to the vlogs today. I am actually going somewhere I'm gonna be going to Upper Canada Village now what that is It's basically an old town put together of all the old buildings from Canada's first settlers that were all in Ontario and All the workers there are dressed up for that time period. So it's actually pretty interesting. I hope it is really fun I honestly have been there in over five years reason for that is as a kid every year for the end of the year School trip. We went there. So it was really boring. It was very repetitive because you've seen the same things every year So I'm hoping when I go today, I'm leaving in about 10 minutes When I go today, hopefully I see a lot of new stuff stuff. I haven't seen before It's just me and my aunt going so it should be fun either way But I'm gonna give you guys some footage from that I'm gonna be filming some of the stuff I see and that's what today's vlog is gonna be about so I hope you guys enjoy But let's just get right to it and show you guys some of Upper Canada Village. Let's go Yeah That's really nice Okay, so now just a quick little update for you guys as you guys remember About two months ago. I quit my job and that was because I hated my job and I went through for a security guard course online I'm happy to say this past week. I finished that security guard course. My online course is done I actually wasn't expecting the grade I got my final grade before exams was a 90 I was thinking it was gonna be a between 70 or 80, but for me to get a 90 in a class It's something I've literally never done before So I'm extremely happy that I did that now the only thing stopping me before I can write my final two exams for the course is I had to go and get my first-aid training now this past weekend Saturday. I went and got it It was a full-day course honestly, I was scared to do it because I thought in a Emergency scenario I wouldn't be able to get up and perform CPR or do anything really to help But honestly after doing the course it's stuff. I already knew how to do it's just literally I had to get a piece of paper that said I can do it. So I got that all done I am certified. I just have to get my certificate in the mail. That's what I'm waiting on now And then once I get that I'll be able to sign up for my final two exams now I have two exams the first one is for the course to finish the course and gets Everything ready for that and the final one is for the Canadian government to be able to get into working in this workforce as a Security guard and need to pass that exam so two exams left then I'll be able to get back to work But let's just get back into today's vlog. I finally received my loot crate my very first loot crate by the way And it was about three weeks late the reason for that is I guess one of the items arrived to the factory late So it did affect a lot of people and mine was one that was affected but check out this shirt Jurassic Park Very interesting. I wasn't expecting loot crate shirts to be this comfortable. It's very high quality I do recommend checking them out, but this might be the one and only loot crate unboxing I do reason for that is this month's themes included Jurassic Park Godzilla ghost busters and the Incredible Hulk and it told me that in advance so four of the items everything that was in it Were of interest to me July's only two out of the four items are of interest to me So to me, I don't see a point buying them unless all four items are of interest that way I get the most bang for my buck if I'm not interested in the other items There's no point getting it unless I'm interested in everything. So I am gonna be waiting But I just wanted to give you guys this quick little updates This is all I received and You guys could check that that video soon if it's not already up. I might leave it in the comments down below But let's just carry on with the vlog Okay, so I'm gonna end the vlog here I hope you guys did enjoy coming up soon There is a big car show a couple towns over and I am a car guy. I love going to car shows I haven't been to this one in about three years and there usually is about 500 vehicles and they're really really nice One is the nicest car show I've ever been to so I'm hopefully gonna go It's in a couple weeks and I'm hopefully gonna show you guys that I'm hopefully gonna dedicate a whole vlog to it Because there's gonna be a lot of cars there. I'm gonna be able to show you guys a lot. So Either vlog number 15 or vlog number 16 expect to see the car show vlog But I'm gonna leave this here. I will see you guys in the next vlog. Please take care peace


Welcome to day two of Backgarden Bushcraft with Ellis Brigham and Fjarrraven and today we're going to cover fire lighting. Yesterday we talked about building a shelter so hopefully you've now got a shelter protecting you from this sort of pretty wet weather and now we're going to really make that shelter home by learning how to make a fire. Fires are vitally important and looking back through our history as a species it's fire that separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom. We learned how to light fires and once we learned how to light fires we were able to use it to cook food, to make it taste better, to make tools and to protect ourselves against wild animals and to keep warm on really cold nights. So having the skill to light a fire connects you with our ancestors but also can make the wilderness or even your back garden homely and safe and warm because at the moment it doesn't really feel like that. So fire is really important and a really useful tool but it can also be very dangerous and cause a lot of damage so before we start lighting fires we need to check a couple of things. First off we need to have mission to light a fire where we want to. We can't just go into a local park and start lighting fires because we'll get in trouble. So I've got permission this is our back garden so I give myself permission to light a fire here so that's number one tick. Number two we want to make sure that the fire can't get out of control and cause any damage.   We also want to make sure that the fire can't catch anything else alike so I wouldn't want to build it next to a wooden fence or a wooden shed because if that was to catch fire we'd be in a lot trouble as well. So making sure we've got permission and that it can't spread and that there's nothing flammable nearby. Those three things are really important. So once we've got permission and we know that it's safe and not going to spread anywhere and catch anything else alight we want to always make sure that we've got an adult present with us when the fires are light and anything in the fire or near the fire we have to assume is going to be really hot so we don't want to go in and start grabbing things because we're likely to burn ourselves. So that's the safety out the way but once the fires are light we still have to make sure that safety is always the first thing we think about. Right lighting a fire then it's really exciting and it's a really good skill however the problem with fire lighting is the more you need it the harder it is to light. If it's a really nice dry sunny day and all your fuel is nice and dry it's easy to light fire but you're warm and you probably don't need it but if it's weather like this and it's wet and cold you really need a fire to stay warm but everything's wet and it's much harder to light so that's when good fire skills really pay off. I don't want this to sound too much like a school lesson but there are some things that we need to bearing mind when we're lighting a fire. So I'm sure lots of you will have seen this before and this is what we call the fire triangle. If it's new to you it's really simple we need three ingredients to make a fire.  For fire we need fuel, heat and oxygen. Now the fuel will be burning is wood the heat source we can use a lighter we can use some matches we can use a fire steel that creates hot sparks and the oxygen well that's all around us so we can't really do too much about that at the moment but we can sometimes blow on a fire and that puts more oxygen into it. So once you've understood that basic thing there's one more thing we need to think about we've got our ingredients this is my fuel this is my heat source and we've got oxygen all around us as we've said so in theory this should light but it's not going to and it's not going to light because my fuel source is too big or my heat source is too small if I had a flamethrower then that would probably burn but unfortunately I haven't got a flamethrower and they're quite dangerous so we need to make our fuel much smaller. If I take some dead twigs which I collected yesterday again they're made of wood so the fuel is the same the heat source is the same but the key thing is a fuel is much smaller now this is a good example that too much oxygen can also put a fire out because the wind is blowing my lighter out a little bit so now that my heat source and my fuel are in a better proportion that's going to start to burn like that so it's just like making a cake. If I put the ingredients in as eggs, flour and butter but if I put a hundred eggs and a teaspoon of flour and a ton of butter all the ingredients there but it wouldn't be a very nice cake it's exactly the same with fire we need those three ingredients but they need to be in the right proportions. If you're ever struggling to light a fire have a look and make sure that the size of your heat source is in relation to the size of the fuel so now that we understand the fire triangle we need to look at our fuel and it comes in like four main stages the first stage is tinder and that's the finest smallest fuel today we're going to use cotton wool with a little bit of Vaseline in it but if you're out in the wild you could use dry grass birch bark bird's nest that aren't used anymore anything that's dry and fluffy so that's our tinder the next stage is our kindling and that's going to be a big bundle of small sticks not much thicker than a pencil and the key for this is that when I'm collecting them I try and snap like that and you see how they break nice and cleanly that tells me that they're dead I also found them hanging up in trees I didn't find them off the ground where they can be really wet so they're off the ground they're nice and dry and when I snap them they snap really quickly and cleanly and a friend once told me that if it makes a sound like a crackling fire then it's going to burn well the next stage once these are burning is to put on sticks about finger to thumb thick and I always use body measurements because I'm not going to carry a tape measure out with me in the wild so I can just use I've always hopefully got my fingers and thumbs with me so I can just use those and say right that's about finger thick that's going to be the next stage and again it snaps nice and cleanly so I want a nice big bundle of those as well once those are burning then we go into our main fuel so that's our last stage really and that can be anything about wrist thick and bigger if I was building a massive fire I could put whole tree trunks on there but we want to keep our fires nice and small because they're much easier to manage they're much safer and they use a lot less firewood if I was to build a bonfire in the back garden here I think the fire upgrade would be over pretty quickly it's really important that you prepare properly to make a fire if I rush into this and I get a fire going and I have to run off and get some more fuel by the time I come back my fire might be out so preparation preparation preparation that's key to successful fire lighting especially when the weather's a bit grim like it is at the moment so I've got everything ready to go next to me I'm going to light my fire here so let's get going okay this is the exciting bit this is where we get ready to light our fire the first thing we want to do is take some of our sticks that are about finger or thumb thick and put them down on the ground this does a couple of things actually three things the first thing it does which is really important is it protects the fire from the coal potentially wet ground early on the second thing it does is allow more oxygen which we know is one of our key ingredients for lighting fires it allows more oxygen to travel in underneath and the fire is going to burn hotter and because these sticks are nice and dead and we know they're dead because they snap nicely these will eventually start to burn as well and when they burn it will give the fire a really strong heart so it's less likely to go out so dead stick platform is always useful sometimes I do this in the snow and in order to stop the fire disappearing down through the snow we have to build a dead stick platform like a foot thick so that it doesn't burn and disappear once we've got that sorted we get our bundle of twigs the thinnest ones we have and we kind of pull it apart like so so we have two bundles when I collected these I made sure that they're about as long as my arm it's really easy to get into the habit of just breaking all the twigs much smaller but the problem with that is when you come to put tiny little twigs on the fire your fingers have to get really close to the flames and the flames are really hot so you'll burn yourself but by keeping the twigs really long I can burn them and still move them without burning myself because I'm not fuel the wood should be burning not me so now I can take these two bundles and control them really easily so our first stage can you remember what it was called tinder that's right okay so we take our tinder which is our finest material and this case it's cotton wool but you could use newspaper scrunched up you could use birch bark there's lots of things you could use we're using this because it's the easiest and it's what we had in the bathroom upstairs so I'm going to take that I'm going to put it on my dead stick platform and then I'm going to take my fuel source I could use a lighter like so or I could use a fire steel so this creates a big shower of hot sparks and then that's going to set that alight and then my two bundles are ready right next to me so I don't have to run off and gather them they're right here and I can put them straight on okay so let's go I'm going to use the fire steel because this is my favorite method sometimes it takes a little while to get the sparks where we want them but there we go now that's starting to burn I'm not rushing because I've got plenty of time I take one bundle of twigs and I place them over the top now I haven't let go of them and because they're nice and long I'm not burning myself and I don't want to squash the flame because it's going to extinguish it it's going to cut out all the oxygen and we know that oxygen is a key part a key ingredient for the fire so I can still control it I need to make sure that the flame is touching the fuel otherwise you'll never catch fire and also there's enough oxygen in there in a minute this will start to crackle like your cereal in the morning snap crackle and pop and once that starts happening then I'm going to put the next bundle on over the top so we can see the flames are just starting to come through there now so I can take my next bundle I can place it over the top there sometimes you just have to be a bit patient with fire and let it do its thing as long as it's got all the ingredients it will burn now where I positioned the second bundle of twigs was really important I put it straight over where the flame is and in a nice tight bundle because if it's really spread out it's not going to burn that well and I lay in what we call a V all the sticks on top so they're all directly over that central bit of flame there now I can see the flames are growing there's a bit of smoke which we'll talk about in a minute but the flames are growing I can now put my finger thick and thumb thick sticks over the top and again I like to keep these nice and long because it's just easier to handle can you hear that popping that's a really good sign it tells me I've got a happy fire if there was lots of smoke and not very much flame I'd be a bit worried it wouldn't be very healthy at this stage the fire is really hungry so it's important to feed it and give it lots of fuel but I'm not just taking the whole basket of fuel and dumping it on top I'm taking a little bit at a time and placing it on top of the fuel I've already put down so that's burning really well now if I was to put some more fuel on it I'd want to put it on in that V pattern so always adding fuel in that way and that's a really good way to grow a fire you might notice when you put more fuel on that you get a lot more smoke because the fires just sort of struggling to start burning that new wood it's not a problem but if you wanted to add more oxygen which is what the fire needs you could get a baking tray or a frisbee or a paper plate and fan it and that puts lots of oxygen into it that's a really safe way to do things I haven't always got that with me when I'm on my trips so I just get used to blowing into the fire but it's really important that you don't get too close because the fire can get too close to your face and you can lose your eyebrows and look a little bit silly so take a nice big breath and imagine you're blowing out candles on a birthday cake it's a nice long steady blow and then I lean back taking a nice clean breath of air and blow again that's burning really nicely enough really nice and warm and even though it's still a bit cold and wet I feel quite snug and warm in my shelter I've got the roof above me I'm not getting wet from the rain and the fires giving me lots of warmth so it's feeling really homely of course it wouldn't be a campfire without some marshmallows and I think no matter how old you are roasting marshmallows over a fire is still a pretty amazing thing to do so I've just got a stick here and you could use a skewer from your kitchen and you just need to make sure that it's not a stick that's from a tree that's poisonous so something from the kitchen would be easiest to know it's safe and I personally like my marshmallows slightly burnt on the outside gooey in the middle with a chewy center so my technique is to let them just about catch fire and then blow them out sugar gets really hot so you want to be careful that you just put it straight into your mouth you need to blow on it and let it cool down and also waving around marshmallows on the end of sticks is really dangerous because they can fly off and I've seen a couple of accidents where people have ended up with marshmallows on their faces and have got burnt so be really careful with this now that's pretty good but to make it better we can make a s'more and that is a couple of your favourite biscuits or cookies with a melted marshmallow in between look at that well there we go even though it's still raining underneath this shelter with the fire burning it feels really warm snug and homely fire was so important for our ancestors it meant safety warmth good food and could even scare off predators I love just sitting and looking into the fire and I think it connects with a really old part of our brain it might be something we've lost a bit because we live in houses that have got central heating electricity and sometimes I think the flickering of a TV replaces the flickering of a fire so wherever possible it's always nice to get outside even if it is just in your garden lighter fire sit around it cook some marshmallows enjoy the warmth the friendship and tell some good stories we would love to see your creations so please upload using the hashtag back garden bushcraft to be with a chance of winning a far-raven goodie bag and one lucky family at the end of the week will win a whole family of backpacks good luck there we go once you finish the fire you need to make sure it's out the easiest way to do that is to get a watering can or the garden hose or even a saucepan from the kitchen with some water on it pour water all over the fire until there's no longer any flame smoke or heat in there once you've done that you can leave it fires at a left when they're still burning can cause a lot of damage so it's your responsibility if you've started it to make sure that it's out 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There can be a lot of hype around NAPLAN, you know, in the media from other parents, from the kids in the playground, but we've just tried to make sure that the key message that our kids, you know, hear is that NAPLAN is just like any other day at school. It's just like any other experience. It's nothing to be nervous about. It's not one of those high stakes tests or their educational future is not going to hang in the balance as a result of NAPLAN. I think it's really important that parents know what their son or daughter is doing at school. Be it a NAPLAN test, be it a talk, a presentation to the class, be it a swimming carnival, there's a whole range of things that young people may be confronting, entering into for the first time. And I guess that parent-child relationship then is to work with them to make sure that they understand what's there, how it might work, how they can go about approaching it, and if they have any concerns, how they can manage them. We didn't actually know that our granddaughter was under stress until the morning of the test when she woke up and she was quite upset about how she was going to perform, which filled us with a lot of concern because we didn't know where she was getting messages from that would cause her to feel that way. Had we known earlier, we would have been asking the teacher what was happening in the school to make our granddaughter feel like that. I was quite alarmed when my daughter-in-law came to me, reasonably distressed, asking me whether she needed to purchase the additional books or get us some tutoring as she'd heard it in the playground that this was the way that the children would achieve during this NAPLAN test. I'd say here, quite bluntly, we don't encourage practicing for NAPLAN. The thing that's going to best prepare young people to be ready for the NAPLAN test is the sustained, broad, rich teaching and learning program that schools will have in place, complemented by a bit of familiarization to make young people familiar with the form of the test itself, to make them familiar with how things might be managed on the day so that when they come there they're ready to focus on showing you, their teachers and the rest of us what they're able to do in literacy and numeracy. And then on the back of that, teachers will be able to use that information to build upon that and seek to continue their skill, their understanding in literacy and numeracy. What really Makayla's teacher needs is an honest snapshot of where Makayla is at in class and what her teacher is giving her in the classroom should be more than sufficient for her to be able to attempt this assessment. Of course, any new event and for young Year 3 students sitting down and doing a test like this one might be a bit different and I'd encourage all parents to speak with their son and daughter and encourage them to sort of, this is about you demonstrating what you can know. It's a good thing to be doing and work with them so that they are focusing on demonstrating what they can do, focusing on doing their best. In the period leading up to the tests, I spent time with my daughter just talking to her about what they were talking particularly about their purpose and I tried to emphasise to her that this wasn't a competition, it wasn't a race. What this was about was finding information on what she was good at and things that she could improve and that the results would go to the teacher and that would mean the teacher would be better able to help her at school. The most important thing about NAPLAN is to remember what it is, what its context is. If you don't understand what NAPLAN is for, particularly if children understand what NAPLAN is for then they'll know that they shouldn't be anxious, they shouldn't prepare for it, they should just go in and do their best.