Man, social media has really changed the world a lot because it just puts everything out there. Well, at least everything that somebody wants to be put out there, it puts it out there, both good or bad. Have you ever had a group of friends or family members that you used to chilling with, used to hanging out with, used to being around for so long, maybe even for years? But then all of a sudden you find yourself not around them anymore, but you see them hanging out with somebody else. And you see it through social media or sometimes you may even see it in person but you feel left out. You feel like you're missing them. And that's what it seems like is going on with Marcus Peters and the Baltimore Ravens. Marcus Peters is somebody who said he wants to retire Raven. He was somebody that a lot of people expected to be back after his contract expired this off season. A lot of people expected the Ravens to resign him. I was one that expected them to give him the Jimmy Smith treatment to where it's like, all right, we know you were hurt last year.  Go test the market, go see what's out there. And then, hey, if it works for you, great. If it doesn't, come talk to us, come on, let us. That's what I expected to happen. Then I expected him to do that and then be back. But no, it hasn't been that way. And the Ravens, when they signed Rock Your Scene, it was like, oh, well, this may be the end of Marcus Peters with the Baltimore Ravens, reason being because Rock Your Scene is primarily an outside corner. Marcus Peters was an outside corner with Marlon Humphrey, even though he can play inside, he's an outside corner. So you see where this is going. You see where it's headed. The Ravens have their two outside corners. And not that you can't have more, but at the same time, what can we really expect? What should we really expect from Marcus Peters with the Baltimore Ravens? Like, even if he did return, is he gonna take a role as a backup? Especially as a cornerback, he may feel like, hey, I still got it. Last year was an anomaly. I was coming off my injury. I wasn't fully mentally ready yet. Physically I was there, but mentally I wasn't all the way there yet. So I still wanna be a starter. I still can start in the NFL. He may still feel like that in the Ravens. They may not. We don't know, because we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. But as for now, Marcus Peters is not with the Baltimore Ravens. And he remains a free agent. So we'll see what happens with that. But anyway, yesterday, cause you know, y'all know Lamar Jackson. He love social media. And he loves posts and stuff on social media, especially when he with his guys, when he back in the building. Cause QB1 has officially returned, couple of days ago he was back. But anyway, Lamar Jackson on Instagram, he posted, he said, it feels great and use the GR8, the number eight you get it. It feels great. Anyway, feels great to be back on that grassland. Hashtag trust. And there was some pictures of him from OTA he's throwing the football and whatnot. But then if you look at the comment section, if you look in the comment section, Marcus Peters was in there. Hollywood was in there too. But Marcus Peters was in there. And he said, miss my folks. And it was a sad face with the tear dropping and whatnot. And you can see why. Because Marcus Peters has been, he's been here ever since really Lamar's coming out party. Because remember, Marcus Peters, he came in the middle of the 2019 season. And that was, you know, that was such a special season for Marcus Peters. I was thinking about it last night because when he came on that season, he had never lost a regular season game with the Baltimore Ravens. Did not lose not one regular season game with the Baltimore Ravens. Because remember, he came after that, that Browns game, where Browns just literally ran all over the Ravens. And it was another game, like either the week before the Browns or the week after that, the Ravens lost two. So they played the card. No, they played the Dolphins week one, Cardinals week two. And then I forget it was the Browns and somebody else week three and four. And week three and four was the ones that they lost. But after that, they ain't lose again. And then they, of course, they got Marcus Peters right before that Seahawks game. And he made his impact known from jump. That was so special because he was like, oh yeah, I played Russell Wilson a couple of weeks ago. And I remember what he did on his particular play. And that's how I picked it off. And he took it to the house and it was a beautiful thing and Marcus Peters fit right in with the Baltimore Ravens. The attitude that he brought, that swagger that he brought. And I think that's why so many Ravens fans have been really sad and hurt that Marcus Peters is still out there because of everything that he brought, just the energy that he brought alone. Forget the play, the energy alone that he brought. Well, you can't forget the play cause he is a cornerback and yeah, you ain't forget no cornerback play, but the energy alone that he brought to the Baltimore Ravens, it was special because they needed that. They needed somebody who's nasty on defense. They needed that. I mean, on offense, you can never have enough of those too, but certainly on defense. And that was Marcus Peters.   Marcus Peters is going to try to tick you off if you were an offensive player. He is going to try to get under your skin, but he's also gonna try to make plays too. And we had been so accustomed to Marcus Peters making plays not last year. Cause again, last year was not a good year for Marcus Peters. It was just, it wasn't a good year. In my opinion. But before then we had been so used to Marcus Peters making plays. And he did make some plays here in there last year. He certainly did. I mean, I think everybody's favorite play from last year that Marcus Peters made was on Sunday Night Football against the Bengals where they ran that goofy trick play. And I remember, I remember that drive and I remember thinking like, man, it's gonna be a tough ask for the Ravens defense to stop the Bengals. They right here on the goal line. Oh boy, I really hope they do something goofy.  And guess what they did? Something goofy, something silly. They did that little end around reverse, whatever. And they were gonna have, I think it was Tyler Boyd. I think they were gonna have him throw a pass or something. It was something goofy. But Marcus Peters was all over it. And he literally just pushed Tyler Boyd. Pushed him down. Pushed him. Or was it Jamar Chet? No, I think it was Tyler Boyd. He pushed him down. And then he did his whole little, his little version of Ray Lewis. I know y'all, I know everybody remembers that play. That's probably everybody's favorite play for Marcus Peters last year. But the thing about it was that those plays, they were far and few last season. And I know for a cornerback, it's tough because there can be games where the ball's just not coming your way. You may just miss some opportunities, it happens. But a lot of times we saw Marcus Peters out of position. We saw him trailing a lot last year. It just, he wasn't himself. So I guess Ravens were like, you know what? We're gonna go in a different direction. And they went in a different direction, at least for now. But you kind of feel like it's probably over. Kind of feel like that's probably a wrap with the Ravens and Marcus Peters, especially how they've been really promoting Rocky's scene. They've been really putting him out there. And again, I would expect him to be the other opposite outside corner that starts. So with Marcus Peters, the only way that I can see him coming back is, yeah, if he were willing to accept a backup role. And that's hard. That's hard.  And now all of a sudden to be a backup, oh, that's humbling right there. That would be something. Or if there was like an injury or something, I was expecting a backup. Other than that, I don't think so anymore. I don't think so anymore. But you can feel where Marcus Peters is coming from, missing his guys again, because he was there since 2019, since the middle of 2019. And he's been through a lot with the Baltimore Ravens. He was there for their first playoff game. Well, actually not this first playoff game under Lamar Jackson, because he had to play off game the previous year's rookie year. But he was there for that MVP season. You got to see that in person. It wasn't just an NFL player watching highlights on TV. You know, he was actually there. He was a part of it. He got to be there for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens first playoff win in this new era. And it was a special playoff win because it was against the Titans. And you know, that was like, that was significant back then. That was very, that was personal. That was real personal. So he got to be a part of a lot of special moments. He made a lot of special plays. But like we talked about earlier, when you used to be in around somebody, especially if you've been around that personal, that group of people for years and y'all had a great time and whatnot, then all of a sudden you see them still having a great time, but you're not part of it. That can hurt. That can be painful. And that can make you feel some type of weight like you just missing out and like you just missing them. So I get where Marcus Peters is coming from. So we'll see what happens with him this off season. We'll see where he ends up landing. I'm sure he's gonna end up signing somewhere. Where that's gonna be, no clue. But just like Marcus Peters is and probably will be from this point on in the rest of his career, when it comes to being a member of Baltimore Ravens, I'm out.


unbeaten and 10 points from the possible 12, Swindon's out on the side, on a roll. And the star that needs to table is their host, Derek Adams, who is Bradford City. The Robins however, see their last three wins, won't come on the road, but their last home victory coming back in August. The visitors to the counter ground today are winnless in their last three outings. The last victory over Watchdale, and it's got the Phantom back into life. It's a slugger star for the campaign, and we've got Derek Adams, utilising the long throw. I do like to use it, Bradford City, and it's going to be turned in. Kieran Lavery, big enough, bolchy enough, and accurate enough. And that's exactly why they work on these long throws. Oh, so simple. After 16 minutes, long throw to the near post.   Certainly a swing, but not a swing and a miss. Bradford City have the advantage early on, almost away by Reid, but well away. Real clearance from the hosts at the moment, pressure remains. Feet of Sutton, he couldn't bring it under. Let's get a chance, though. The goal scorer looking for his second, and his side-second early on hit. Really up for it this afternoon, the visitors. Offending of the last-ditch variety needed. It's in the talk, anyway, but plenty of room for Sutton to come forward. Now he runs into a dead end. Look at the feet of Sutton once more. They're walking into some space, the goal scorer sends it in, and a touch from the defender. Looks so noble. Not going to go anywhere off that left boot. Just a Terry Butcher headband as well, doesn't it, whenever a defender's wearing that. Defending to be done here, though. It's off the post, turned in. Sutton, close range. Just before half-time, it's 2-0. That's just come very easily, much like Bradford City's first this afternoon. Defense unable to deal with the long aerial ball. Sutton's just waiting to pounce. Two goals last season. He's got one this afternoon. Five minutes before the interval. The perfect time to double the lead. That's too much with it. In use. No free kick given. That's between the defenders. He was pulled down by Gilead. Fancy one, though. It's at the keeper and palmed away. Preventive, opportunistic, and then disastrous. The bodies forward, but they're open. They lead themselves in the back. There's a chance for Cook on the counter. Trying to work his way away from his marker. Can't believe he's put it over from such close range. All the hard grab. Just needed to be a little more headstrong with guided hope. That will be a corner for the home side. Reaching the shot. The pain, twisting, turning. Stay on his feet. Trying to keep the move alive here. Actually swung in. It wasn't really a cross. It wasn't really a shot either. It was the closest one to it. At the back post, he was no way near it. He already saw a superb reply. Cook is replaced by Theo Robinson. Chance for the substitute to try it. Just had some fresh legs into the front line. Down the opposition. Robinson has a goal. Oh, that is magnificent. What a way to introduce yourself. Straight off the bench. Straight on the score sheet. But no one was expecting this. He's just having a pop. He barely even looks up to see where the goal is. It's brilliant.  Bradford lead, by the way. Nobody's even thinking about the score line after that one. Just enjoying that moment. Lovely step away from the challenge. The ball for Bradford to deal with the danger. Towards that fast stick. It's going to be a corner, I think. It's a big shot for a handball. And the referee agrees. Penalty. It was an unorthodox spotty position that Oliakota found himself in. Is it ricocheted off his arm? You can see that on the replay. Into the bottom corner. Struck home by the captain. For about 12 minutes to go. Stoppage time. Is there life in this game yet for Swindontown? Finally, he eats into the deficit. Goals this season in the league. Jack Payne. Does that breathe new life into this encounter? Not where the hosts want to be dealing with the ball deep in their own territory. We've got under by Robinson. So he could ball in. Good save by Abdonnell as well, though. The header just didn't have enough power from McCurdy. Accurate enough in the corner, either to cause real trouble for the keeper to a very crowded penalty area. But it's cleared away. And that is job done for Bradford City on the road. Back to winning ways. Down to victory. The last three league encounters. The goal from Laverie opening the scoring up to 16 minutes. Sutton as well on the scoresheet just before the break. But Theo Robinson's first goal for the club since he joined an absolutely stupendous strike. Ceiling the victory. The Bradford third and it finishes here. Swindontown won. Bradford City three. Three points to the visitors.


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Question is from Jamil, A-144. Are massage guns good for recovery or a waste of money? You know, so I'm gonna you, there aren't a lot of studies on massage guns. They feel good, I know that. But there are studies on massage. So I'm gonna put them in the same category as massage. And they actually have studied massage to see how it affects the body post exercise. Does it actually speed up recovery? Here's what they found. They found that massage does reduce the inflammatory markers that tend to be produced from exercise. So can they speed up recovery? Yes, but here's the caveat. They might actually reduce the muscle building signal that the exercise then sent. This is the catch 22 with things that speed up recovery. Things that reduce inflammation also simultaneously blunt the muscle building or adaptation signal because inflammation is what signals the body to adapt. So theoretically massage could benefit you or it could hurt you depending on where you're at with your training. If you're over the line, if you're training so hard that you're over the line of over training, then massage may bring you back to the point where now it's an optimal amount of inflammation. If it's not, if you're not at that line, it may bring down inflammation to the point where it actually reduces the signal that your workout just sent. So it really does depend a lot. I don't have a ton of experience with massage guns though. I don't know if you guys, do you guys even love them? They fall in the same category as foam roll for me. Like if it helps you get into a mobility move or get into a stretch, there's value in it. Do I think that a majority of people need to invest in the 200 something, I think they're like $2 to $400 for some of these things. I know that some people have made some hacks where you put it on like a- Yeah, you just get a drill and put a different attachment on it.  Yeah, so I think- I've seen those. Yes. Why are all the videos in slow-mo? Have you seen that?  Yeah, great selling point, right? Yeah, so I mean, if you've got the money to have things like this, I mean, I don't own one. Okay, so let's just, I think that's important to know. You're married to one, isn't you? Your girl's a massage therapist. She'd be offended, I would say. Yeah, no, she would be, actually.  So yeah, you know, if you've got the money to have something like this and you're trying to work on your mobility and stretch more and do that, the thing that I always worry about with things like this, and again, foam rolling is included in this, your work is not done there. All these tools, both those tools, foam rolling and these guns, give you temporary relief so that you then can do the work you need to do to change the root cause of the issue. If you just do the TheraGun to release some of the tension and then you go about your normal behaviors, you're not really doing anything.  Like you've got to do something about what's causing the hip pain or causing the knee pain or causing the low back pain. Even though these guns give you the temporary relief or the foam roll gives you temporary relief, doesn't mean that it's technically fixing the issue. All it's doing is giving you temporary relief. What you then need to do is address what got you into that position. So I think it's a great tool.  But it's not the answer and nor do you need it in order to address the issues that you potentially have. Absolutely. I think it's like a novelty that's nice. Like you feel good from it.  It's like those massage wands and chairs and attachments. Like we've had these from infomercials forever, like just trying to like sit there and feel like a massage, something vibrating or like making not like going up and down my back, like that feels great. But at the same time, it's just temporary. So you look at it like that. Yeah. And what they do really is they, it's kind of like hacking the, the CNS, right? It sends a signal to the CNS. Like those vibrating plates, you know, when you use those and you get into a stretch and you can only go so far, stand on a vibrating plant and you'll find that you'll be able to go a little farther. It's literally confusing the CNS and the CNS starts to relax and the muscles then allow for more range of motion. If you use them properly, like what Adam was talking about, they can be very valuable. But if you just use them as band-aids, they're not going to benefit you. They're just going to give you that temporary relief. And then when that temporary relief is gone, the root cause is still there. And the, in fact, I could possibly even see how these tools may actually cause more problems for some people because it allows them to prolong the root problem even longer. No different than taking, you know- Yeah, masks the symptoms. Yeah, like taking a painkiller, you know, like if- No, this is a good point. This is what happened to me with my IT. So I used to foam roll like every day before I played basketball or do anything like that. And because I noticed- You pushed it further and further. Yeah, I just kept, and I never addressed why I was having these issues until way later did I really dig into like what was going on. Because it would, it'd give me temporary relief. I'd then be able to play basketball and I'd be paying for you while I was playing basketball, but then it'd come right back to me. Yeah, it's like, oh, I can't, when I squat my hip hurts, but if I foam roll, I can keep squatting. You're not figuring out why it hurts in the first place. You're just allowing yourself to squat more and then what'll end up happening is whatever was causing the problem in the first place, it's gonna get worse. So it all depends on how you use these.


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Good afternoon, everybody, of our company's press conference. The DG will be happy to take the questions. Thank you very much. It's very good to see you. Let's gain time and allow you to go straight to whatever questions you may have. Thank you very much. Hi, DG. Can you hear me? OK. There are two things happening at the same time here. On the one hand, you've recently come back from Tehran with a deal that you say creates a window of opportunity for diplomacy. On the other hand, there are discussions about a resolution criticizing Iran here largely based on your last reports, which Iran and Russia say will only complicate efforts to revive the deal, so the very diplomacy that you've tried to create a window for. How do you feel about both of these things, especially about the discussions going on about a resolution and the board? I will do something I never do. I will answer with a question. What do you mean by what is further complicating a resolution or my reports? So Russia is saying that passing a resolution would further complicate the efforts to revive the deal. Well, thank you for the question. I think that the passing of a resolution is in the domain of member states. It's something the director general is impartial. This is a resolution normally expresses the opinion of countries about things that we are reporting about. My appeal to all is to have constructive discussions and to preserve the work of the agency. For me, that is important. Of course, there will always be opinions on the impact of what is going on. At this point in time, there are many things influencing, as you know, the Iran issue. There are consultations. There are the capitals. There is this process. There is the JCPOA process. And of course, people will have views on how one thing impacts the other, like a kaleidoscope. And I would not get into that. What I hope is that the work of the agency will be preserved. This is essential. Then if I may follow on quickly. Please. You just focusing on the window of opportunity for diplomacy. You've said there is a small window of opportunity of three months created through your efforts. You've seen Iran's latest statement about not wanting to take up an invitation to Brussels. How do you feel the diplomacy is going? Well, it's not an easy moment. This is clear. I should weigh my words very carefully, because as I said just now, these are national positions. But we all know that what's at stake is quite serious. So what we see is a complex situation in front of us. And again, to go again to my point, I think anything that will happen and any way forward must be one where what we do from the agency is indispensable. You may go one way or the other way, but without the inspection work, nothing is really based on a safe foundation. This is why I'm worrying about this and this is why I'm saying to you and to the board just a few minutes ago, I said that the inspection work of the IAEA must be preserved. The inspection work of the IAEA should not be put in the middle of a negotiating table as a bargaining chip. What you can bargain is about positions. And of course, who is the director general of the IAEA to say what countries want or don't want to do? It's in their domain. But what we say is this, having inspectors, having transparency is not, it's neither a reward or an incentive or a penalty is the essence of the work we do here. So whatever kind of political arrangement may be reached, it will not be possible without a strong, robust presence of the IAEA inspectors. And this is what I hope will be preserved. Thank you. Hi, Raghida Bahnam from Al-Arabiya TV. There are some officials in the Biden administration that are saying Iran at the current level of uranium enrichment will be able within three to four months reach the level that needs to build one bomb at least. Now, given that the IAEA inspectors will not be able to see cameras from sites for three months and they will only see them if a political agreement has been reached, can you say with all certainty that by the end of those three months, Iran will not have enough material to build a bomb? Well, there are different issues in what you are asking. One is the amount of enriched uranium that could be accumulated. On this, I can say that the agency will continue to have the means to verify that in whatever circumstance. This is very important on the one hand. On the other hand, I would say that the speculations about whether a member state of the IAEA is going to build a nuclear device is not something we normally do. We don't judge intentions or political aspirations. We simply verify what is there. And by the way, around the world, you have a lot of material accumulated that could lead to this or not. The important thing, I come back again to this. You will hear a lot from me today because I think what is at stake is the ability of this agency to continue inspecting and verifying what's important is to have the inspectors there. If you have the inspectors there, you know what's going on. We don't have the same access applying to other things, which are very important. But if you're talking about the amounts of material, yes, we would. We would. Yes. Thank you very much. So coming back to what you said, that the inspection work of the agency is not to be a bar gaining chip, do I understand correctly that if this technical agreement that you have reached should, in the course of this negotiation, be, for example, ended, what does that mean concretely for you, for the work of the agency? And if I may ask a second question, which could be a little bit maybe off topic on the COVID situation, I learned that because of the importance of your work, you still have a relatively high number of staff members coming to the VIC every week, about half of your staff members, compared to other agencies who have significantly reduced physical work at the Vienna International Center. So I was just wondering, how do you preserve a safe working environment, also given the many infections at the VIC? Yes, yes, yes. First of all, on the inspection work and what may happen, as I said, we reached a week ago, eight days ago, eight days ago, an agreement, myself and the vice president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This, when I, you remember, we were there, it was a very windy night. The first words I said was, this is a temporary bilateral technical understanding. In those four words, there is one that I want to remind us all today. This is a bilateral agreement. It's an agreement between the agency and Iran. So, and this agreement, this agreement has a validity of 90 days. Up to three months, we said, up to three months. And we said something else. We said that both parties to the technical understanding would have a possibility to review at any time the agreement to see whether it continues to serve its purposes. So I suppose that if at some point, my Iranian counterparts want to say something about the continued validity of this agreement, they will communicate that to us in a formal way. So this is why I try to abstain from giving opinions about political statements. We know that a political negotiation of this type sometimes requires, or perhaps not requires, entails. Political statements and affirmations and even sometimes threats. But that's not my area. Turning to the other issue, let me say first of all that here at the IAEA, in general, the international organizations here, but I cannot talk for them, I can say that from the IAEA viewpoint, from the very beginning, I've been in close touch with the Austrian government and we have been guided by their guidelines and requirements in terms of safety and the COVID-19 measures that have been applied here and elsewhere. In the case of the IAEA, unlike other international organizations, because of not only the safe catch work, because of the technical cooperation, the assistance we are giving to 128 countries all over the world on COVID, but also on the safeguards, we need some of our staff to be here. But of course, this is done in strict observance of the safety and hygiene measures as recommended by the Austrian government. So we don't see in that regard a problem in terms of our, as they say, footprint being a bit bigger than the other organizations. In any case, it would be, we are two thirds of whatever you see in this house, in this center, so it's normal that our presence would be felt a little bit more. I hope that is satisfactory answer. Thank you very much. Hello, just in the care of... Sorry, sorry, sorry. Thank you very much. I'll start. Yeah, just in the care of from AFP. So there's been just over a week of this new arrangement being in place with Iran. Are you in a position already to describe or evaluate what concrete impact it has had on the ground? When you came back from Tehran, you said that you were satisfied that you'd still be able to ensure to give the assurance that the program was exclusively peaceful in a satisfactory manner. Is that still... So far, so good. And what could you say for how it's changed? Sorry? How has the work changed? If anything has changed, you mean? Yes, how has it changed since the new agreement came into practice? Well, we lost the additional protocol. And this is a big loss. I said it as well. And also the transparency, what the so-called transparency measures that the specific to the JCPOA. So, for example, to give you an example, if I wanted to go to a place which when I want to go and it's not part of the declared sites and I have a doubt about, I cannot. So it's a huge loss. Let me tell you that since the... Maybe interesting for you to know that since the beginning of the JCPOA, we conducted max 170, more or less, 170 complementary accesses. So you can see the frequency and the intensity of the work of the agency using these tools that the AP used to give us. And hopefully we will recover at some point. Albert Oddy, DPA, Chairman Price Agency, a follow-up question. Since not many normal readers understand complementary access and additional protocol, rather than explaining it in terms of legal framework, could you explain what types of installations or what parts of the fuel cycle you have less access to now? Well, it may be anything. I mean, of course, they have to do, when it comes to additional protocol, this is areas that have to do with research and development. These are areas that have to do with uranium ore. These are areas, and I'm being very technical, I admit, but this is what it is. These are areas where nuclear material is not being utilized, but still important activities that will have an impact down the line are taking place. So additional protocol, you know, it is this instrument that after the side experience in Iraq, the IAEA created with the member states to give the inspectors a bit more visibility. So this is why it includes all the mining part and the research and development parts, which combined with the complementary accesses that I was referring to a second ago, used to give us a very nice, very deep ability to get into whatever was going on, and we have lost. Hello, Diji. I'm Hamad Esgi from Press TV. My question is, you say that it's important for the agency to preserve its work and its inspection in Iran, and this is all based on the JCPOA because a lot of the access that the agency has now is based on the commitments that Iran has accepted on the JCPOA. So if we consider that the JCPOA no longer exists, what will the cooperation between Iran and the agency look like? Well, let me correct something in your affirmation. It's not only the JCPOA. We have JCPOA, we have voluntary measures, we have now the technical understanding, but we also have the traditional comprehensive safeguards agreement mechanisms that exist and give us, albeit more limited, but answering to your question, for example, about the quantities and so we can go to the facilities and see how it is going, and we also have the possibility, for example, of special inspections. We have still, in our toolbox, a number of things that we could eventually use. So there is that area. Could I just, because you mentioned the modified code, 3.1 of the subsidiary arrangements to the CSA, so if Iran has labeled that as part of its voluntary measures, so if Iran does not continue with its commitments under the JCPOA? Yes, we had a very good discussion about that with the Vice President Salehi, who is a very knowledgeable man on all these issues, because you've been working on this for many, many years, and also with the foreign minister. I must say this issue, again, to try to explain to the big public, this is a provision, a legal provision that has it that countries must inform the IEA as soon as they have plans to build, construct new facilities, which is very important in terms of transparency. This is part of the legal obligations of a country. This is not a voluntary measure. Of course, any country can walk away of a legal obligation by rescinding it, abrogating it, walking out from the whatever agreements, but it is not a voluntary measure. This is modified code 3.1, which is technically attached to the comprehensive safeguards agreement, so it is in no way a voluntary measure. So this is a dialogue I'm trying to continue with my Iranian counterparts to make sure that there is no confusion there, because I wouldn't like to have a discussion about things that are, in principle, should not be part of a debate. We have enough complexities out there to add one more unnecessarily. Hello, Jordi from FM, very short question. There is two issues which are separate, but they're related, I guess, which worries you more, the safeguards issue or the JCPOA technical temporary agreement you had to make? Well, I would say, you know, with a nuclear program which has the breadth and depth of the Iranian one, complex, big, sophisticated, we need everything. Sorry, did you just, just to get back to this question of explaining how much has been lost and all the rest of it. I was very interested by your comments to the Nuclear Threat Initiative the other day, where you made it sound like essentially simply operating according to the CSA would not be enough. You were saying that these would not be reversible measures and that you would be flying blind. So does that mean that you feel that the measures afforded you under the safeguards agreement are simply not enough to properly do your job in Iran? Well, certainly they are not at the necessary level because of what I just said. This is a program that has, this wide that it has all these capacities that are growing and which we have been inspecting. So the situation we are is paradoxical. It's like having been able to see this much, provide guarantees and then you cannot see and you are expecting, you're expected to continue to say that everything is fine. I think there is something flawed in that logic. So this is why, because we understand the political complexities, we were trying creatively to find ways to try to mitigate if you want, at least for some time, these deficits. So we can have all in all, as I was also explaining to our colleague from Press TV, here what you have is a variety of measures that apply. You have, or like Jordy was saying, you have the CSA things, you have the additional protocol, you have the transparency measures and out of that, our inspectors make the best combination and they judge what is necessary according to different situations. Mr. Director General, you always say, I talk to my Iranian counterparts and I had a good discussion with Salih here, O'Hanian. So we never heard you saying that you have good talks with your American counterparts. Is it possible to tell us something about how you talk to him? I talk to everybody. Of course, I talk to the Americans, I talk to the three, I talk to Russia, I talk to China, all the EU proper, all the participants. The difference here is that I inspect Iran. So with the others, of course, you discuss about the, what is best, how we apply the norms, what could be a message for the future, but we do have a different sort of relationship with the inspected state party, if you want. So this is what is making the, but of course, I talk to everybody. Yes, I can imagine, but what I meant, like this problem has been created by the American withdrawal from the agreement, the nuclear agreement 2015. So I can guess now the talking is a little bit different. Is it so or? Well, yes, and I don't think you need to confirm this. We have the president of the United States has indicated and the secretary of state has indicated as well that their aspiration is to return to the JCPOA, and they are looking into ways and means to do it. This is why, among other things, I thought it was important to give more time for diplomacy, to give more time for consultations. We are not supposed to drop the ball after seven days or eight days. This is going to take time. And some may even say 90 days is not enough. Perhaps it's not enough. What we all hope, and I hope as an international civil servant, but also as a citizen of the world, I hope they will agree. And we are going to be supporting them. Hi, thank you. Sorry, I just want to ask again also about the two nuclear sites that the IAEA didn't have access for a very long time and that you mentioned in your speech. Doesn't this indicate that there is no trust now with Iran if the Iranians have hidden that they had activities in those two sites for so long? How can you work with them now if the trust is basically nonexistent? And would you like to see a condemnation from the Board of Governors in this term? The work and the trust must always exist. And when we have doubts, we ask questions. We are not condemning anybody. We are simply saying we have found things where they shouldn't be. So explain to me why this is there. And this is the dialogue that I must have. It's a technical dialogue. And when I come to my conclusions, I present them to the Board of Governors after my technical assessment of what we've found. So, and then they decide whether this is compatible or incompatible or condemnable or praiseworthy. It's for member states. I am the mirror and the lens through which the international community can see the reality. For me, what's important is to continue my work. This is what's important. I'm not in the business of condemning or praising countries. Of course, I will always, in so far as I have the technical means to do that, say things as they are. And then as to the qualification, it's not for the IAEA. The qualification is for member states. Is this good? Is this bad? Let them decide. But certainly, without this, you cannot even know what's going on. And this is where it's very serious. So you don't know whether you can sleep tight or be very, very, very concerned at night because you don't have the inspection, the inspections and the inspectors doing their work. Thank you very much for coming. Well, it's been a real pleasure. We will be seeing each other. Thank you very much.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to print from your Chromebook. I was looking for instructional videos online how to use Chromebook and print using a printer but most of the videos I saw they're outdated. They're very old and they're not complete. So I decided to create this video which is going to be a complete video and easy to understand and I'll cover both how to use wireless and wired printer and how to use old and newer printers to print from your Chromebook. So I have actually index cards which I'll be using to make it clearer and let's start with the video. So I'll just set this Chromebook aside for a second and the first thing you're going to be needing is that when you use printing from a Chromebook then there are two ways you can do it. So the first way you can do is wired. You're going to be using a USB cable and the second way you can print from your Chromebook via wireless network and when you use wireless network then you can print using either Google Cloud Ready printers or old Wi-Fi printers. So I'm going to talk about these a little later but let's first start with USB cable printing which is going to be wired printing. This is going to be very easy. If you like to use printing using cable or wired printing then all you have to do is that you have to just you know get to your USB input. So here this is USB-C. You may need a converter to connect it to your cable to the printer. So what are you going to do? You're going to just you know use a USB cable to connect this to your printer and then there's going to be a popping up screen showing up here and then you have to just follow the instructions. So I'm not going to be showing you the whole thing but it's very easy. So all you have to do is just connect, get a USB cable and connect your Chromebook to the printer. You might need an adapter if like you know your printer doesn't have direct access from USB-C so you have to just convert it from here to USB-C adapter and then your output is going to be a regular micro USB to the printer. So that's step one. So this is going to be using a USB cable via Chromebook to the printer and then you can just you know use this way. So connect printer via USB cable and follow online instructions. The next thing I'm going to talk about is how to do wireless printing using your Chromebook. So when you do that basically you're going to have two different options. So you can use Google cloud print ready printers. So these are newer printers which are already cloud ready and these are much easier to you know connect it to your Chromebook and print and you're going to have to do the setup on your Chromebook which I'll show you shortly and then the other way if you're still using an old printer but that printer has a Wi-Fi then you can still use that printer to connect it to your Chromebook and in that case you're going to have to set up that printer on a Chrome browser but this is going to be on a Mac or Windows computer not on your Chromebook. So let's say if you have a old if you have an old Wi-Fi printer it has to have Wi-Fi and then you're going to be able to set it up on your computer that computer has to be Windows or Mac computer and you're going to need a Chrome browser on your computer and then you can you have to set it up on there. So basically two ways a newer Google cloud printing and older Wi-Fi printing. If you're watching this video from like you know after two years or three or four or five years then most likely you're going to have a Google cloud ready printer. Now most of the printers actually are so most of you are using this are going to be using this setting. This is only for some of those who have still an old printer. So let's talk about the Google cloud printer first. If you have a Google cloud printer or a printer which is Google cloud ready then you're going to have to sign into your Chromebook. So the Chromebook I have here is we have it right here. So when you sign onto your printer just go to the setting of the Chromebook. Usually it's going to be on the lower right of the Chromebook. For example for this Chromebook the sign-up section or the setting section is going to be right here. So you'll click right here and then here you're going to see all the settings. So you're going to see your in a profile icon and then next to it you'll see the wheel for the setting. So if you click on the wheel that's going to open the setting page and you're just going to scroll down all the way and then you'll see advanced which is right here. So when you click on advanced then if you scroll down you're gonna see the printing option right here. So if you see the printing option then you'll click on here and then if your printer Google ready printer is already on the network then you'll see it right here and then you're going to have to just add printer. So basically the setting is right here. Sign into Google Chromebook and then go to account profile photo and then settings advanced printing add printer and which is right here. Now if you don't see a printer right here then you're gonna have to just go to a different section and you are going to have to just add printer manually which is going to be right here. So for this section I'm going to give you a link in the description box below which will show you how to add printer manually here and there's going to be YouTube video links as well provided by Google. So follow those instructions if you do not see your printer automatically showing up after clicking here. So if your Google ready printer is here then it should be right here and you can you should be able to set it up properly just clicking on it but if it doesn't then just click on add printer and then follow the instruction based on the you know links I provided in the description box below. So that's gonna be the way you can add print which are Google ready printers or these are newer printers which are already Google cloud ready so it's a very easy setup. Now let's say if you don't have the Google cloud ready printer if you have an old version of printer which has Wi-Fi then you're going to be using these instructions to set it up or to connect it to your Chromebook. So basically you're going to open a Chrome browser on your Windows or Mac computer and then you're going to go to Chrome settings then you're going to go to advanced and then you're going to go to printing then you'll go to Google cloud print then manage cloud print and then add printer. So for the section I have another link and video which I'll provide description links in the description box below. So if you're not sure about these instructions after you're looking at here then you can just go to the link and you can check the links or the video and these links and videos they're provided by Google and they're very easy to understand so you should be able to understand that very easily. So that's basically how you set up or how you connect your printer to your Chromebook to print from Chromebook and this is not difficult you can do it easily so you have to just follow these instructions. 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Hi, I'm Adrienne Burke, Principal Planner with Miami-Dade County's Office of Historic Preservation. How can we in preservation respond to climate change? We're going to have to be flexible and do preservation in ways we've never done it before, be willing to be open-minded, get rid of small rules, perhaps, things we're used to, and be willing to see a new preservation for a new time. And hopefully with some of the systemic impacts of racism and inequity that we've seen, the time is now. Hi, my name is Manolo Choa. As we think about climate change, let's consider commercial districts and main streets and communities of color where climate change will have its biggest impacts. Many of these buildings are not iconic, but these buildings are assets to their community and local business owners. So let's work to ensure these places don't get overlooked so that we can patronize diverse businesses and celebrate authentic communities in years to come. Hello, I'm Dr. Leslie Keys, Director of Historic Preservation and an Assistant Professor in History for Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. And the City of St. Augustine with a number of partners has just put together a plan with specific mitigation and adaptation strategies to help the most valuable properties that the city, the government of St. Augustine owns. Hello, my name is Alex Westoff, and I'm a Senior Preservation Planner with the San Francisco Planning Department. While preservation is about safeguarding the past, adaptation is about preparing for the future. And as professionals, we must reconcile these fundamental differences between such goals. Congratulations, Shadelle. I'm a Coastal Engineer and the Director of Community Resilience at Taylor Engineering in Jacksonville, Florida. I think that the way the preservation community can lead here is we've spent years in preservation, you know, protecting and saving our cultural resources. And I feel that it's really up to the preservation community to lead the charge in this. The community is so good at knowing what to protect and preserve and understanding the importance of this for future generations that when it comes to flood mitigation, it's just another thing to adapt to. So it's studying the science and doing a science-based data-driven approach to understanding what the threats are and how we can protect against them. And I really think that the key is bringing together a community of, you know, scientists, engineers, architects, preservationists, planners, the public, and elected officials. So it really does take a village, a whole community to come together to prioritize what we need to do for flood adaptation. Holly Bacchus, Preservation Planner, Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Coordinator for the town of Nantucket. Preservation can respond to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts by addressing it from the top down. Federal agencies like the Advisory Council and Historic Preservation down to the State Historic Preservation Offices. The Advisory Council and the State Preservation Offices can take more of a lead role in preservation planning, instead of just outlining it as a concern in the respective preservation plans. If each ship out outlined priorities for historic districts in each state, there would be more of a definitive guide for historic districts to prepare to mitigate and adapt to such things as sea level rise and climate change. Local districts appreciate the recent guidelines on flood adaptation by the National Park Service. This was a much needed start in this initiative, but more collaboration needs to be done. Thank you. Hello, my name is Karen Timer-Brown and I run the Preservation Division at Historic Annapolis. And the question is how can preservation respond to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts? And one way is through partnerships. Historic Annapolis is currently developing an adaptive reuse and stabilization plan for the property in partnership with the National Park Service Chesapeake Region, the city and the state in Preservation Maryland. And the analysis identifies recommendations to make the building more resilient, including elevating the building approximately five feet to respond to short-term immediate risk, as well as long-term projections for sea level rise, but also keeping it in its historic location. Good afternoon. My name is Kimberly Rose and I am the coordinator of the Acclimate Nantucket on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. When looking at the question of how can preservation respond to the needs to mitigate and adapt in the face of climate change, preservation already has a lot of the resources and the frameworks available in order to do so. Emerging technologies help not only expedite documentation, but also can help us recognize when communities or resources are underserved or underrepresented in our data. This helps us make sure that we're serving that community and promoting climate justice and social equity in our work. Bring in interdisciplinary communications and communicate with fields that we may have not previously worked with or thought of as part of our documentation techniques and processes and adaptation processes. Preservation has always been about preserving for the tomorrow, but it's the actions we take today that make tomorrow possible and we need to make sure that we are giving the communities the resources, the frameworks, the connections, the networks, whatever it needs in order to be successful and stay in place as long as possible in the face of climate change. Hi everyone. I'm Sarah Bronen, a law professor from Connecticut and an advisor to the National Trust. How can preservation respond to climate change? I'm going to suggest two ways, both ways that involve the law which may be as my bias. One is to revise the secretary of the interior standards on historic properties. National standards are woefully inadequate to addressing climate change and that we have to modify them both to allow things like renewable energy and energy efficiency and also to look forward by expanding them to include additional treatments. Treatments like a deconstruction treatment which would enable us to deconstruct properties in a particular way and recognize that not everything can be saved. Another treatment like a relocation treatment which would enable us to move properties when we know that we have to take them out of harm's way. Second thing I wanted to talk about was disaster law. So right now disaster law does not adequately account for historic places. Disaster law does not incorporate historic places in the preparation or planning stage, in the mitigation stage, or in the recovery stage after a disaster has occurred. So those are my two ideas and I'm looking forward to hearing everyone else's as well. Thank you.


Yes, I am really pleased that I am able to share some of the work I've been doing on social isolation and loneliness. And let me introduce first of all my colleague here Nancy Newell. She's an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Branton University. So the two of us have been working on this topic, who for quite a few years now probably well over 10 years in some form with the other. And we'll keep going with it. Starting off with some definitions, just so we're all on the same page. What do I mean by social isolation and loneliness. We have two people and I called them here, Lizzie and Tom. And the circles around those two people reflect their social networks. So the squares within the circles are the people in the social network. The people within the small circle are the people that are really the person feels sees a lot is close to the outer circle are also important people in the person's life and the different colors reflect different people, for example, red is for the partner a spouse and the blue is for children grandchildren. And so we carry these networks through life with us. Now, when you look at the two networks that really very different so Lizzie has a lot of people in her social network. Tom has very few so probably we could argue. You might agree with me that Lizzie might not be socially isolated because she does have a lot of people around her that she let's say we've asked her that she sees a lot she has a lot of contact with because Tom does not. So social isolation then is an objective state of a lack of social contact it's something we can count we can count the number of people in the network. We can ask about frequency of contact and we can say that Lizzie let's say is not socially isolated where this Tom is loneliness on the other hand is a feeling it is an unpleasant feeling of being disconnected of not having enough contact not the type of contact that one would like. So looking at Tom, not a lot of people in the social network. Really, we could say socially isolated, we don't know whether he's lonely, maybe he's actually not lonely at all maybe he's just happy with having very few people in the network. Lizzie on the other hand, even though she has a lot of people in her social network might actually be lonely, we would have to ask her the saying as the saying goes we can be lonely in a crowd. Now, we know from a lot of research for many decades over many decades that social isolation and loneliness, both of them are health risks. And here just a few examples. They're associated with the decreased immune system increased risk of heart disease and stroke increased risk of dementia increased risk of depression loneliness in particular is very strongly related to depression and lower quality of life. We also know that social isolation is related to mortality so it increases the risk of mortality as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Now that statistic that piece of information has been quite a bit in the media during the pandemic especially, even though we have known this for over 40 years since the early 80s so it's not a new finding at all. So we know social isolation and loneliness are bad. We've known that for a very long time the real challenge though is how do we connect people. What do we do about it. And that is where our work Nancy and my work has focused on so how can we get that socially isolated socially or lonely person socially engaged. And connected to the very many programs that are actually available out there that are that could provide some social contact. So, our project which we're calling targeting isolation has two main objectives. One is to provide evidence based information about social isolation loneliness, but also about other aspects of aging about older adults and then train community connectors to identify and refer at risk older adults to resources in the community. Now, what do I mean by community connectors. A community connector is a person in the community you as part of their everyday work is in contact with older adults who might be socially isolated or lonely. So think about a pharmacist pharmacists have a lot of contact with a lot of people. And they might actually be an older person's only contact as they pick up medication so that might be a person who could say well wait a minute there seems to be something wrong here. This person maybe is chatting a little bit too much what's going on. I'm not sure. And so that person then that pharmacist that community connector could say. There's warning signs here. I'm not sure what to do this is not really my job right and I'm, you know, I'm a pharmacist I'm not a counselor. And then they would refer that person over to a community organization who could assess needs, and then connect the person with the appropriate resources. Now we can do this project alone. So we are partnering with community organizations. And that is forming what we call the aging well together coalition. And let me just briefly introduce the organizations activating active aging in Manitoba is an organization that focuses on active living healthy aging. Manitoba Association of senior communities focuses also on social engagement that's an umbrella organization that helps active living centers and seniors groups with their programming. We have transportation option network for seniors. Tons that focuses as the name suggests on transportation. Transportation is a really important piece of this whole puzzle because what if their programs out there in the community but the person can't get to them. And then they're stuck. So we need to also work on transportation and then we have a no support services for older adults, and they provide specialized support services for all the people. They have a couple of examples they have a really interesting program called senior centers without walls it is programming for site socially isolated older adults over the phone. So all kinds of things that people can call in and have programming over the phone. So we have a befriending programs also a volunteer will will go into a person's home to chat with them and just for some friendly visiting. And overall we also try to raise awareness of the issue of social engagement importance of social engagement and as well as programs and so on. So that's us. Marketing isolation. So that's the work that Nancy and I do is very much based on CLSA. So CLSA provides a foundation for our work and why is CLSA so important for us well first of all it's Canadian data, and that's super important. In some cases, given what we're interested in some of the basic statistics that we're interested in we can also have Manitoba specific data for our partner that's partners that's really important because they know what's going on right here in Manitoba and some of it we can even look at Winnipeg you know what's happening here. What is the picture of social isolation loneliness look like right here. CLSA also has a lot of questions on it and and and thanks so much for responding to all of the questions that we ask you, but there are questions around social networks, social support social participation. All of those are really important for us and loneliness of course. In terms of our work, those are really, really important. You just a flavor of some of the things that is important for our partners. So, just to know how common our social isolation and loneliness in Manitoba. By the way, these numbers will not be that different in other localities in other provinces but again for our partners it's particularly important to know how to know Manitoba figures. So, about 20% of Manitobans age 65 plus are socially isolated about 25% say they are lonely and this is pre COVID and about one in three so about 30% something like that want to participate in more social activities. But last piece of information is important again for our partners because it suggests that people actually do want to be more socially engaged. There's a, there's an opportunity there. If we only could get them hooked up. We know life changed during COVID. We all know that we have gone through it and I think all of us have to some extent did to some extent become socially isolated. Many of us became lonely and CLA say has been, as was pointed out by Tina has been incredibly useful to show what just the magnitude of that impact was and so as we look at Manitoba figures. Again pre COVID we have about 20% socially isolated people and then it goes to about a third 30% plus during COVID. Now, in and of itself, that doesn't surprise us because we all know that it was a real challenge to live through COVID. What is interesting though is how this will change over time as we get new data in so as we as you are willing to participate again in being interviewed, how do the numbers change are people recovering from COVID. And perhaps even more importantly, are there certain groups of people who do not go back to normal. And that's what we need to know about. And that the organizations that we're working with need to know about where are the gaps where the challenges. We've also done research on risk factors so both our research and other people's research shows that social isolation loneliness is more common among people living low income those with health problems. We're experiencing life transition and losing a spouse a partner is a very major impact, for example. So, in order to, to group the, these, these risk factors we've come up with the acronym helps so knowing the risk factors helps. And we've came up, we've come up with that just as a way of helping those community connectors. Remember some of these risk factors. And so as again briefly they are health problems environmental factors would include things like having access to transportation, living in a safe neighborhood. There are other life transitions, again, I mentioned loss of a spouse but there are other life transitions to the really important, like becoming a caregiver can be very isolating, losing a driver's license can make a big difference. There are psychological risk factors for example what was self esteem and some people have certain negative ways about thinking about their relationships even if they have relationships and that can be detrimental. There are certain social groups, like, for example, people on low income who are more likely to be socially isolated on lonely. Another thing we have been working on a great deal is to say, how can we, how can we tell our community connectors who they should refer to a community organization. So, yes risk factors are important to know about, but not everybody who has a risk factor will be socially isolated and lonely so can we be more specific. And we have done Nancy and I quite a lot of research using CLSA on that but also combined with other people's research, we have once again come up with a an acronym show somebody you cared. Let's say you see somebody that you think has some of those risk factors maybe there's some some warning signs there's some signal something is not right here. What is it that you should look out for the sea stands for connections that relates to the loneliness. Does the person want more social contact. Are they lonely. They want to directly ask them if they're lonely, but you could ask, would you like to be around more people activities does the person lack meaningful activities. And the question here might be, what do you do for fun, would you like to do other things, other than what you currently doing relationships. That social isolation. How much contact is the person have with friends family so how often do you see your family or friends might the family members might be a question here. Does the person have an emergency contact so are there social supports there if they're needed. And dwelling is, are they living alone, are they living in a safe neighborhood. We wanted to just address a question that somebody sent our way, and that has to do with living alone and the question was is living alone, different from being living with a spouse. And my answer would be it depends, we have it here as one of the questions to explore, but in and of itself living alone does not need to be a problem, depending on the social network that the person has around them so. The person can live alone but be very strongly socially connected, and have social supports right now might have people to check in every day on them. They might go out a lot so there's a very strong social network where there is a problem is when a person lives alone and has no good social network and social support system. So, think about what would happen if the person falls, would somebody notice. Or as we've seen some in some recent disasters natural disasters like heatwaves. They were all the people living alone and nobody knew, nobody realized that they were in danger, and some of people died. So, living alone is not the only thing. Of course, it depends really on other factors the social support and social network around them. So, what we tell our community connectors then if if you see some of these signs, the person seems to be lacking the connections. If three or more questions are causing you concern, refer the person over to a community organization. We have and targeting isolation then we have prepared fact sheets so everything I talked about is on our website you can access it there it has more information that I could go through we have reports. We have resources, various resources we also have videos we you can meet team up targeting isolation Manitoba who will talk you through some of the things I've talked about like risk factors on so on. Just to note that because we're working in Manitoba our, some of the stats, the facts are Manitoba specific. So, just be aware of that if you're accessing the website from outside some of it is general but some of it will be Manitoba specific. And to train community connectors we've also developed workshops so Nancy and I have given workshops we've given them for for example pharmacists occupational therapists physiotherapists and so on. But we've also developed e learning modules again they're accessible if you're interested in looking that you can look at them. One is for healthcare professionals like pharmacists. One is for community volunteers and again goes through what is social isolation. What are some of the risk factors what are some of those signs, and then there's the referral information now. The caveat with this is that it is Manitoba focused, we are telling community connectors in Manitoba to refer over to a no support services for all their adults the organization that we're partnering. Why a no well because they're a partner of ours, but also because they have the capacity to call back the person when they're getting a referral, a referral. So when they get a referral they can call the person, they have the capacity to assess needs and they can then get the person in touch with whatever resources the person actually needs. So if you're looking at it from outside I would encourage it outside Manitoba I would encourage you to think about which organization would you refer somebody to, is there an organization in your community that might make a lot of sense. So, that's it for me. Thank you so much for participating in CLSA. Our work would not be possible without you. And for any of the information I talked about or other information go to targeting isolation.com, or you can contact me directly.


All right, so today we are making baby food in your Vitamix. The first thing is that you want to pick one ingredient. You want to make sure that you're testing for allergies. So once you've picked that ingredient, you're going to steam it. Steaming helps keep all the nutrients in. You're going to blend with either breast milk or formula. Remember that that's all that they've had at this point. So you want to make it as smooth as possible. You're making really small batches. You never know what your kiddo is going to like or not like.  Once you've blended, you want to freeze. So you're going to put your blend in a small silicone tray. I use these silicone trays because they're much easier to pop out than a traditional tray. And I'm using the really small cube size because the serving portion is going to be really small once you start. So once it's frozen, you're going to pop out the portion that you need the night before. Just put it in a little container and put it in the refrigerator to thaw overnight. If you need a quick thaw, my method is filling a glass bowl with hot water, putting another glass container with a couple of cubes, frozen cubes in it, and then letting it sit in that hot water. Within a couple of minutes, you'll have thawed baby food. And then the last step is to label the food that you made.  So if you like this video, hit the thumbs up and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. Thanks so much for watching. See you next time.