The word NATO is a lie. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, this is definitely not any longer true. NATO is the military alliance in the world. The biggest military alliance history had ever seen. Thousands of people took to the streets in Madrid on Sunday, June 26 against the NATO summit which began in the city on June 28. Protesters called NATO a threat to global peace and demanded its dissolution. The organizers stated that close to 30,000 people participated in the protest. They also raised slogans against US military bases in Spain and demanded their removal. The protest was organized by a set of groups including the Communist Youth which is the youth wing of the Communist Party of Spain as well as platform for peace, world federation of democratic youth, no Cold War among others. The organizers also held a two-day peace summit in Madrid on June 24 and 25, at the conclusion of which a joint declaration was issued, asserting that NATO is a serious threat to world peace having left a trail of destruction from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan. Why they are doing this? Why NATO is spending 60% of all the military budgets of the world, 60% of 2 trillion. This is more than 1 trillion US dollar per year and you know hunger, poverty, climate problems, all these problems are not facing. So why they are doing this? And for me the main reason is that we have a tectonical change of the international power structure. We have losing powers in the world and we have new powers which are upcoming and want to be more independent, more strong, accepted in the world. The powers which are reducing the influence in the world is above all the United States of America. Today NATO has become a huge axle in the wheel of this kind of global military-industrial complex that's been controlled essentially by the US Empire in its different reinventions for the purpose of a kind of full spectrum domination driven of course by its ferocious appetite for economic control and economic hegemony. It's a big money maker as you all know. War in the military is a big, big money maker and so the US wants to keep turmoil going for its military-industrial complex. The joint declaration demanded the dissolution of NATO claiming that it violates the UN charter and is intensifying a new Cold War against China and Russia. It also underlines that NATO is acting against progressive governments throughout the global south and encouraging a global arms race which goes against the real needs of people, education, health, housing, social security and an effective energy policy. It's not critical to the security of Europe in my opinion that Ukraine be a part of NATO. I mean how many NATO countries are there? 30 something? 30. 30. 30. Yeah and they're right here except the one, is there one nation outside of Europe that's a member of NATO? Columbia. Columbia. Where the hell is that? Where is Columbia? It's in Latin America for God's sakes. A place that I don't think has anything to do with European security but it certainly has something to do with the US unilateral war on nations in Latin America that don't do what the United States say to, like Venezuela right next door. NATO is certainly being used as a prop for US imperial interests all over the world and trying to get first partnerships with the four major countries in Asia that will then become a part of NATO. That's the next expansion will be there. And then in terms of their actual like qualitative role on the continent we've seen increasingly and it's so apparent, that's a sad part, it's so apparent that the US military operates not only to provide advantages to the United States and its ruling elite but it also functions with the armies of NATO countries like France as a guarantor of various Western corporate interests. The biggest foreign military base outside of the NATO countries is in Niger which is a US drone base that conveniently is located next to France's foreign military base in Agadez which is very close to one of the biggest uranium deposits. And this uranium deposit I still find it like astronomically depressing that the uranium generated from this one or two mines from this one town are able to power one in three one in three French light bulbs one in three meanwhile the populations of Niger the people of Niger it's around and this is a generous one a generous figure one in seven have access to electricity that's not guaranteed but have access of some kind. The NATO summit is scheduled for three days June 28th to 30th in Madrid apart from its organizational issues the 30 member transatlantic military alliance will also focus on the war in Ukraine and the membership bid of two new countries Finland and Sweden. On June 29 the two countries signed an agreement which will pave the way for their membership in NATO and lead to the further expansion of the organization. And we should not forget that the European Union has their own military interests the European Union and Ukraine is the best example for this is on one side following the U.S. rules and U.S. guidelines but on the other side they also want to be a European Union military superpower with own interest above all in Africa saving the resources which we were taking for more than 500 years from this continent and the enlargement of the military infrastructure the military budget also in Europe is to develop the European Union as a military superpower. Far from Madrid protests were held in different cities across Europe including in London with thousands took part. More such protests are scheduled globally in the coming days fearing further protests against the NATO summit in the country the Spanish government issued a blanket ban on all protests until June 29th citing security reasons.


Now in the previous lecture you saw how we relate area under a curve with probability or the p-value Now when we compare the means of two groups or even more The computer actually draws two types of graphs for us of which we can take the area under the curve One is called a z-distribution and one is called a t-distribution. With a z-distribution We really have to know what the population standard deviation is Most of the time we don't know that and we use the t-distribution Have a look at this


Hey everyone welcome back to Nintendo Prime and you know I barely had my morning coffee and Nintendo decided to drop a bomb on us and give us the actual release date of Splatoon 3 and no folks it's not delayed it's not being pushed in 2023 in fact it's actually still coming out this summer who knew hey look bringing out a one game into July from September didn't magically push you know Splatoon 3 out of summer so Nintendo hasn't lied about anything so let's actually talk about this by showing you the Splatoon 3 news so as you see Splatoon 3 gets a September release but Nate you said it's not outside of summer ah the summer technically goes into September Splatoon 3 is one of the year's biggest releases and now Nintendo has continued to flesh out the confirmed schedule with a release date of the 9th of September so early September summer actually runs until September 22nd so technically it's just an end of summer release it always seemed like a good summer candidate with his colorful look at your whole action you know so it came with an extended look at the turf war match and we'll we'll put some of that footage up here in a bit here's what they said quote in the Splatoon 3 online 4v4 turf war battles can create heated matches across a mix of new and returning stages where teams of four face off to cover the most grand most ground in their ink newly uncovered footage provides insight on one of the new stages uh eel tail alley along with a look at the stringer a new bowl shaped weapon that enables you to sling ink sideways and vertically you can view all of this puzzle glimpse into some new gear and information by visiting the nintendo youtube channel in addition to frantic 4v4 multiplayer matches so 2 and 3 also features a fresh single player campaign and the next iteration of the co-op salmon run or salmon run i know i always pronounce that rug in the single player story mode you'll join agent three in a fight against the unruly octarians and discover the secrets of a mysterious place called alterna and the fuzzy ooze when diving into salmon run you'll ink with teammates to fend off waves of dangerous uh salmonid bosses and some which are colossal in size as you can see nintendo has you know clearly given us that clear date for and what's interesting is that's actually earlier than when uh the original release date of zeno bright chronicles 3 so um it's obvious that you know they weren't going to want splatoon 3 and zeno by chronicles uh three released within a couple weeks of each other and zeno by chronicles 3 is already done and they moved that up to july you couldn't say they could have moved it up to august instead or or heck you know if splatoon 3 is releasing you know september ninth it probably could have released at the end of august went to ben the end of the world it's obviously going to be done before you know it's not like oh no putting it on september ninth means the game's not done until like september fifth now like it would have been done in plenty of time to release the end of august this obviously does leave august though wide open so it had been widely considered that splatoon three could have been a september and or august release and now that we know that it is september it does make you wonder what's nintendo got cooking for august why couldn't they do it then and if it senses the beginning of september is nintendo done releasing games in september because typically when nintendo has a big game come at the beginning of the month they have another big game coming at the end of the month so is september even out of the question for another game could we see potentially some zelda remakes at the end of september or do you think those might be an august drop do you think nintendo's just got more games cooking and they're just reshuffling their lineup to make it work the granted technically it's between three isn't reshuffle because all we were told for splatoon three was summer and guess what september ninth is still summer so uh nintendo didn't lie it is what it is so what do you guys think about this updated release date are you happy that splatoon three is coming when it is are you looking forward to all the new stuff and obviously most importantly do you actually enjoy the new footage that they showed off of the game we'll put a link to the full video in case it didn't fit uh in this video because we're not going to just keep talking for the next 10 minutes to make sure that that gets in i want to get this news out to you as quickly as we come this morning because this is a big deal so thank you guys so much for tuning in i understand robert jackson is in a prime i would appreciate if you would subscribe we're on our road to 100 000 subscribers uh so that would be lovely otherwise guys i will catch you in the next video


Hello everybody, Andrew and my ST here with dental tutoring. I've been away for a couple days But it's nice now to be back home And of course the first thing I do is go on my computer and I am working on some mock exam questions for my students in the A board exam prep Academy. So if you are a dental hygiene student or a dental assisting student looking to Obviously pass the board exam then have a look at my Dental L board exam prep Academy because I go through everything. So you have access to modules previous session Recordings for the past two years You get tutoring at least twice a month and we are actually having a live tutoring session on Saturday, sorry on Saturday. It's usually on Sundays, but it's actually on Saturday So tomorrow and I am just making some new questions for my students So I just thought that I would give you guys kind of a Sneak peek. So at the last session that we did have I did have students asked me to make Some special needs and medical emergencies questions because I do typically ask at the session before What students want to know because inside our course? There's pretty much everything there. So you do have mock exams case studies as I said you have modules Everything but there's still always more to know right and even if you're trying to study a topic You might still say afterwards. Oh, you know what that was good, but I still feel like I need a little bit more So that's why I like to ask students at every session that we do have what they want to know next So we will be talking about special needs and medical emergencies I just thought that I would give you guys kind of a sneak peek into some questions Okay, so how the tutoring sessions usually work is there about an hour long sometimes a little bit more Sometimes a little bit less but usually an hour long and I just go through the mock exam questions So there's typically about 30 slides and that takes about an hour And I go through the mock exam questions And then there's the answers afterwards too and the thing that I like about that is if Let's say all of the students that I'm teaching get this question wrong or if Most of them do then that tells me that well, I haven't taught this properly then so I need to actually stop To explain it a little bit more so then They can say oh, okay now that makes sense But if I'm going through questions and they all get the answer right then I know that I can move on You know if that makes sense. So just as an example So this is the first question that I do have prepared. So your office sees primarily seniors You don't have a lot of experience yet Functionally independent older adults And then the answers are a have more natural team or B have at least one partial denture in the mouth C have dementia or D. Do not use the floss. Okay, so What answer do you think this is? This is something that you have to think about then feel free to click Pause and then you can watch the rest of this afterwards Okay, so but I am going to talk about the answer because I find this kind of tricky, right? And this is my mock exam questions literally come from probably eight different textbooks So I do I do always purchase the newest ones every couple years and they come from me looking through everything and then taking, you know Bits and pieces from different textbooks. So this is from, you know, what I don't remember but probably the most these textbook So the answer is a so they have more natural teeth And how our tutoring works is I will also stop and say does anybody have any questions But I don't just simply leave it at that because I like to talk about it more So why this answer is a is because of the keyword right here So if they are independent older adults, okay, so always pay attention to the keywords If the question might have said if the seniors not Independent then the answer would change because that's saying well if the older adult is Independent then that means they are able to do everything themselves meaning they They don't have any troubles using their, you know Toothbrush, waterpick, you know all of that but if they're not Independent and that means they could have somebody else looking after them So in that case it would be rare for somebody to have most of their natural teeth because if somebody's looking after them say if They're in a nursing home, they don't really look after their teeth very well to be honest with you Even if they had all of their natural teeth, they're in a nursing home for six months They start to lose their teeth. It's it is just horrible honestly, but in the nurse's Defense is they have so many other things that they have to look after that oral health seems to be the last thing and then by the time It starts to look bad. It's too late. So they tend to lose a lot of their teeth. So that's the keyword here See C&D it just is more of a vague answer. Okay. Yes, that might be Actually in this case C&D would not be correct anyway because the keyword is Independent, but if the word if the keyword was not Independent so if they weren't Able to take care of themselves Then some of these answers would be more correct, but then you would still have to pick the most correct So this is what I like to teach my students the most is picking the most correct answer And why because that will determine if you pass the exam or you don't pass so always have that in the back of your mind and pay attention to the different answers to if Let's say two answers kind of sound the same. That's probably not the right answer But if you notice have more natural teeth That's pretty much standing alone because if somebody has at least one partial denture in the mouth That's implying they don't have a lot of their natural teeth left if they had Dementia they probably are starting to lose their teeth because somebody else has to look after them if they're not taking care Obviously of their mouth. They probably don't have more natural teeth So that it's not always that easy if you're picking apart the answers But if you have no idea what the answer could be then kind of look at all of them and say, okay Well, these two are kind of the same so it's not those ones and then look at the other two that you have left and say, okay What? What's the best? So let's try that with the next one. So just one more kind of sneak peek So the next one is here your next patient is 86 years old. He's Frail and not very independent. What do you expect to see inside his mouth even without looking at the chart? So even before you look at the answers look at the keywords of the question now sometimes on the board exam it's a long question where it could be a paragraph and The only parts that you have to pay attention to are the keywords in this one I kind of feel like there's a lot of keywords But obviously when I say the last part of it, what do you see inside the mouth or sorry? What do you expect to see inside the mouth even without looking at the chart? That's not really a key point. So I'm just giving you too much Information trying to trick you right the keywords. I would say is that the patient is 86 and He's not very independent. That's that's pretty key because then if you look at the answer So the answers are he has most of his natural teeth. He has Fixed and removable Prosthesis he has implants. He has excellent oral hygiene. So again, let's kind of look at this a different way So look at the answers that are similar So I would say he has most of his natural teeth and excellent oral hygiene are similar They go hand-in-hand because if you have excellent oral hygiene, you'll have most of your natural teeth If you have most of your natural teeth, it's because you have excellent oral hygiene. So does that make sense so far? so then look at the other two that are left implants and fixed and removable Prosthesis now, let's look at implants. So implants is not a wrong answer here But the patient's 86 He's not very independent the cases or I should say the chances of him having in implants or even an implant is Slim if he was let's I mean and I pretty much say that because if he's 86 Implants started to become popular. I'd say 10 years ago Or I should say they they got a lot better So more people were were talking about implants and more people were putting implants in 10 years ago. He would have been 76. Are you gonna put an implant in a 76 year old? Probably not implants are more common in you know ages pretty much age 20 to 40 even 50 but not usually past that I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's just not the most common So if we're trying to pick apart different answers here Think okay, if I had to pick one Implant might be right. There's nothing wrong with having implants because he could have had He could have had an implant placed many years ago, but fixed and removable prosthesis It's kind of making more sense, right? Maybe yes. So yes, so that is the right answer So I hope this helped To just kind of help to pick apart the answers picking the best answer if you need more help Let me know I will leave the link for you inside the board exam prep Academy So I will leave the link for you there on the bottom because you can sign up now the board exam prep Academy is now open you have a full access to it for one whole Year so even if you take the exam next month If you if you take the exam in six months You have full access for one whole year and the nice thing is is that as soon as you you sign up You have full access to everything so you can even start to watch the tutoring sessions from like two weeks ago from a month ago from a year ago You have access to everything if you don't want to watch the tutoring sessions right away We have mock exams. We have case studies We literally have everything that you need to pass the board exam So you do not need to open up a textbook again I cannot say that enough you do not have to open up a textbook again because I have done all of the hard work for you Honestly, I have looked at all of them The board exam prep Academy took me years to put all through and I do I do update it as well every four months Because things change And it was just updated It's February 1st today. So it was just up late Updated just after Christmas. So it is newly updated everything's there and I now also have Which will be released late February a board exam prep app So that all of the mock exams case studies everything you can you can also see from your cell phone Your iPad you just anywhere so I'm pretty excited about that If you guys have questions, let me know and good luck mock exam questions are the best thing to kind of train me to do Because even if you let's say you had no clue what this question was then that tells you like okay I need to study more on on Seniors and special needs because clearly I didn't know this so I need to study more So even if you don't know anything in a mock exam package that tells you that you have to study more So I hope this helped you guys If you need anything, please let me know I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom to sign up for the board exam prep Academy If you want because I do have a separate one for dental hygiene students and dental assisting students as well So you will learn everything it works for Canada and the US so it works everywhere So this will help you. Thank you for watching and I will see you guys very very soon


So I want to respond to a comment I had the other day from one of my videos on my channel, which was about astral projection and lucid dreaming, and in that video I basically said that lucid dreaming and astral projection, in my opinion, they're both kind of real. Although lucid dreaming is the only one that's been proven scientifically, astral projection in my opinion and in the opinion of many others is also just as real. People experience this for real in real life, and although it's not been proven scientifically that shouldn't mean that we can't believe in it or that we don't know that it's real in my opinion. And so I got a comment which went something like this. I'm halfway through the video and I'm a bit confused. Are you really arguing that we should believe in things before they're proven just because they might be possible? And this comment got a few upvotes and I thought maybe you guys were interested in my opinion on that comment. So the way I see it, many things in life and in history have been debated or doubted before they were proven or before the public as a whole genuinely believed that they were true. This goes back as far as history goes, pretty much. Before history even started being recorded, people would doubt something and then later on it would be proved to be right or they would be proved wrong. This goes back as far as we can remember. People have always doubted things and not known the truth about things. For a long time, the whole world thought the world was flat, okay? And it's only when someone actually went around it that they discovered it was actually around. Now, this is kind of an extreme example because, yeah, that was a very long time ago. But it wasn't that long ago. Humans in general are often wrong about many things and that includes astral projection. People most of the time, if they don't understand something or if they have an idea built up in their head from whatever reason, from whatever place, right? Maybe they had the idea built up from the media or from their friends or family or just ideas they've read online or maybe they even just came up with a belief themselves. Quite often they are quite strong beliefs and it's only when we question these things that we can change them. So astral projection is a huge example of that, okay?  Now, you have to ask yourself, okay, what would be the motives for proving this with a scientific study or a test? There would be basically no motive for any company to fund that study. Because think about it. Why would people fund that study that it wouldn't benefit any company financially? Really. It's difficult to learn, okay? So even if it is possible, that doesn't mean everyone is suddenly gonna be able to do it, okay? It's very difficult to learn. So for that reason, yes, I am arguing that we should believe in things before they are proven. Yes, not everything. Now, here's where I wanna specify, okay? If we believe in everything before it's proven, then yes, we would end up believing pretty much every belief under the sun would have competing ideas and beliefs in our heads. Now, I'm not saying believe everything before it's proven. I'm saying believe some things before they're proven. Now, astral projection is something that is hard to prove because it involves traveling to different dimension. It's hard to prove something in this dimension relating to something in another dimension because it's a different dimension. This makes sense, like if we have in this reality and this dimension a series of scientific tools and everything like that, and we can measure things here, that doesn't mean that we can measure them in a different dimension because it's a completely different thing. It's a completely different world. So there's no way at the moment of us actually measuring something in another dimension. Now, we can have sort of some idea as to what's going on. We might have some clues, but really the best thing we have to go on at the moment is people's subjective experiences. However, if people all around the world that are not connected at all by any kind of club or motivation, if people all around the world throughout history, throughout different civilizations, different wars, different economic stresses and everything, at times where there would be no motivation for people to say this stuff, to tell people their experiences with astral projection, then that is something to take more seriously because why would they lie? Why would everyone around the world make up a story that happens to be the same or very similar to other stories about astral projection? Why would they do that? And it's a crazy situation where there's no motive for doing it, so why would people do that? There's no reason why people would actually make that up. Now, one of the comments on that video is from a YouTube channel called Cats 2079 and they said, you use lucid dreaming as an example of something that was always real, but many people didn't believe in it until it was proven and that's somehow a bad thing, a question mark. Now, they then went on to say people didn't believe heavier than air flight was possible until the Wright brothers came along and proved that it was but it was always possible, okay? Was the world wronged to go around saying humans can't fly? Now think about this for a second, if everyone had this belief and this mindset, no innovation would ever happen. If every person in the world had the mindset of this person that commented, nothing would change and we would never improve at anything because we would assume that it's not possible. If everyone, including the Wright brothers, thought, yeah, there's no way we can fly, we're too heavy, there's no possible way in this reality for humans to fly in a plane, we would never have planes, we would never have commercial airfares, like that wouldn't be a reality right now. It's only because someone, or in this case two people, the Wright brothers challenged what we didn't know, what was not proven scientifically. They challenged that and said, actually, I think we can do it, I think it's possible and so I'm gonna try and do it. And that's what brought the plane to reality, that's what made us have that in our reality now. I think it's very damaging to go around thinking that just because something isn't proven, it's not possible. If that happened, we would have no innovation and things like flying wouldn't exist. And this goes for any invention. Anything that was first invented had to change the paradigm that was there before it was invented. Before the light bulb existed, okay? No one thought it was possible. It wasn't proven, of course, because no one had done it. And so when it was invented, that was a change in our paradigm and our reality, that was an improvement on our reality. And I'm sure you would agree that all of these things, flight, electricity, radio waves, internet, this is all, these are all inventions and discoveries that happened because someone had the belief that something was possible even though it was not proven at that point. And so I'm just saying be a bit more open to this, okay? Astral projection is something that not only do millions of people around the world do and experience and tell stories about, but it's something that can really be beneficial to you if you do learn how to do it. And there are techniques you can learn how to do it, like I have videos on my channel. There are things you can read online, there's different ways you can learn how to astral project. But I would urge you more than anything else, question everything. Everything that is now possible at one point in history was thought to be impossible.


Hello, hello, it's Nick Chay. If you're new to the channel welcome I make videos about college fashion lifestyle photography and film if any of that sounds interesting Make sure you guys subscribe and you guys won't regret it But today we are doing a fall shopping haul recently. I've been in New York a ton I've been back home So I've had a little bit of time to you know do some shopping spend a little cash I'll just be going through the different pieces that I bought and kind of show you how I'm styling it and the reason That I bought it and so let's jump right into it. All right, first off. It's a sweater that I'm wearing I actually just got it in the mail today. It's from this company called John Henrich They're based out of Sweden and it's just kind of this orange Knit sweater and it feels really soft on my body and it feels super well made super soft Honestly, and the reason I went for this color is as you know, it is fall So a lot of fall colors are orange turquoise mustard yellow gray is super in and obviously black So I'm kind of trying to stick to that theme right now But yeah, overall I got this in a size small just so it's a little bit of a tighter fit Kind of shows off your muscles a little bit and yeah, I'm really enjoying this I actually got a bunch of these items a few months ago because I was doing it for a back to school shopping I've never had time to film that video. So some of these are t-shirts They're still super fashionable and still super applicable in the fall But first off is just regular white t-shirt from H&M. It's got that like grocery bag kind of look But it says in Los Angeles. I just think it's a really simple t-shirt I picked up for maybe like eight bucks at H&M So it's a super affordable fit and highly recommend next up This is from ASOS and it is this Adidas in the green like I said green is super in for fall This tri-colored t-shirt. I don't usually go for brand stuff But Adidas in this retro look is super in right now. So definitely pick this up for fall season Next up. This is by far one of my favorite t-shirts. I've bought but it is this Mickey Miles t-shirt from ASOS once again. Like I said, it's in this four screen color I think right now retro is super in so a bunch of people are trying to rock this But this kind of paired with some light wash denim is a great choice So a question of where I get my clothes the majority of it comes from Zara H&M and ASOS I think that those are all really affordable prices for college students and the quality if you find the right stuff is still on par with a Lot of the higher-end brands and like I said We're students so we don't have the cash to be blowing out on super high-end stuff But I will say as I grow older and as I'm starting to develop my wardrobe better I'm realizing that it's about quality and not quantity You want to be buying basic essentials that will last you a long time rather than things that are trendy and things That aren't well made and are gonna go out of style in a few months or a year So like I said just invest in the basic like sweaters and turtlenecks and t-shirts are all stuff That's gonna last me a super long time. So that's why I'm investing in that right now But next up once again, this like burnt orange except it's striped They didn't have it in my size So I kind of wanted to go for an oversized fit But this just kind of paired with another pair of black pants and maybe some white shoes It's gonna look super fly this I wear tucked in with a belt because like I said It's a little oversized and that's the kind of fit that you're going for now as great as all these pickups are for The fall season you can't be styling cool and stylish outfits without having some accessories Especially like the ones from our sponsored worlds golden black You guys know I've been working with them in the past and honestly These are hands down one of my favorite accessories and honestly I wear at least one product from them every single day because they just elevate your style game to the next level I can see a bunch of guys around campus wearing cool stuff Whether it's hype beast or street wear or whatever, but are any of those guys rocking cool accessories? I promise you they're not but if you're that one kid that has really cool accessories and can pull them off You're gonna be able to stand out in the crowd So I highly recommend picking up a pair right now some my favorite pieces have been this beaded dark red bracelet You guys also know I love to rock this gold chain, especially with something like a black t-shirt It keeps it super minimal and it just makes your outfit pop just a little bit more if you're interested I will have them linked down below if you actually go to that website It's a landing page where I personally picked out all my favorite products So you can get them and a discount code will already be applied So make sure you guys check them out because what are you gonna do having a stylish outfit if you're not gonna Be rocking some sick accessories next up This is hands down by far my favorite t-shirt I've ever bought I've worn this in the vlogs But it's got hotel Texas in the front And on the back look at these designs These are so sick once again bought from ASOS I think you can look up just Texas shirt and you might be able to find it But by far one of my favorite shirt Texas pride till I die. This is a shirt I wore my back to school lookbook It's just this regular polo from H&M like I said investing in polos is a great option Especially at school because it gives you that academic look Well, I have actually been really into orange. I didn't even realize but I bought these from Zara when I was in New York A couple of weeks ago. They're a chino style, but they're still slim and they're kind of cropped Which I like I think these go great paired with some boots And since this is like dark orange color, it's very versatile It's very fall vibe and you can pair it with a lot of different things Next up I've been getting a lot of questions of where I've got these pants I wore them on my instagram and they're cropped because that's kind of the style I wanted to go for and the stripes make it look Just a little bit more sophisticated. Once again, this is bought from ASOS I did do a big ASOS shopping haul, but I really enjoyed this Lastly is this like turquoise slash coral green Harrington jacket once again from ASOS I was looking for just lightweight jackets that I could pair easily And usually what I like to do with Harrington jackets is layer it with just a regular t-shirt underneath it And then some black jeans go well with this And it's super versatile super lightweight and a really great pickup for the season All right guys that about wraps it up for this video I hope you enjoyed this mini back to school slash fall shopping haul If you guys want more fashion videos make sure you guys leave them down below Subscribe and I will see you guys next time


It's on Apollo and the Teenie, of course, and that's a track called Candy. Okay, some movie news right now if you're into 80s movies. I'd say certainly I'm showing me age now, but... Over 30 years in the works, Beetlejuice, the movie, is getting a sequel. It's set to get an official release date, it was just a nice couple hours ago. The movie is said to be starting in production this very week, having first been announced all the way back in 1990. Beetlejuice 2 has finally been given the official release date and the green light, as reported in multiple outlets. Warner Brothers have announced that the sequel to the 1988 classic comedy, the horror fantasy helmed, of course, by the famous director Tim Burton, will be out in cinemas in September of next year. The original Beetlejuice centered around two families, one living and one dead, in a house who found themselves terrorized by the title character, who is, of course, played by Michael Keaton, the Beetlejuice himself, a devious and obnoxious ghost from the nether world. Michael Keaton is set to reprise the part as the iconic ghost. Of course, he's making a comeback as Batman recently as well, so a bit of a Michael Keaton renaissance at the moment. Along with Winona Ryder, of course, we've seen recently in the TV show, Stranger Things, so Winona Ryder coming back into the fray as well. She played the gothy Lydia Dietz in the first movie. And on top of this, Tim Burton is set to be back to direct. So it's all happening for Beetlejuice 2 and also rising star Jenna Ortega, has reportedly joined the cast as well for the follow-up to play the daughter of Lydia. And this would redeem the 20-year-old actress with Tim Burton following their work together in the smash hit Netflix flicks. It was being absolutely huge recently, Wednesday. So Jenna Ortega joining the crew. In fact, Beetlejuice 2 looks like it'll be a Wednesday reunion in more ways than one, as the creators Alfred Goff and Miles Miller are said to have penned the screenplay for the sequel. Also reportedly the part has got Justin Thoreau as well. And also plot details of Beetlejuice 2 are currently being kept under wraps. However, it has been stated that the movie is starting production today and there'll be more information in the coming month. So there we go. If you're a fan of Beetlejuice, well, Beetlejuice 2 just announced today and the finished film is set to arrive in cinemas on the 6th of September 2024.


So I think you're ready to go. Oyan is going to be talking about hypotheses with PyTest, so I think we're interested. So it's all yours. Good luck. OK. First of all, thanks to everybody for coming. This is my first talk ever. So please be gentle. I'll be going over the django testing, especially using PyTest and hypothesis for test generation. We're going to see how we can make thousands of tests with relatively small code. Now, my name is Bojan Miletic. I'm the founder of Terrific. I've been working as Python developer for more than a decade, and I absolutely love talking about Python. So you can connect with me on LinkedIn or on email. Sorry, but I'm not very active on other social networks. So during this presentation, we're going to cover PyTest, PyTest django plugin. And after that, we're going to move to using PyTest for optimization to generate tests. After that, we are going to add hypothesis into the mix and see how far we can go. The main point to mention is that we're going to be focusing on PyTest and hypothesis. But this is something you can apply to basically everything. Any kind of Python script function, we are talking about in the context of django, but it's pretty much usable everywhere. Since you only have half an hour, we are not going to go much into the dev because PyTest, PyTest django, hypothesis, good practices and stuff like that on its own will take much more time. So I'm just going to give you a brief overview of the things and hopefully get you interested to start discovering more things on your own. If you have any questions later, feel free to ask me. I'll be on the channel and let's get started. For this example, I decided to make a website for keeping track of Unicorns. Basically, we're going to add new Unicorn and list the Unicorns. We're going to focus basically just one endpoint. And I believe we can generate tons of huge number of tests for that endpoint. Before testing some of the good practices, that you know what you're building.  But when you're doing project on your own, take some more time before jumping into the code. It can save you quite a lot of time. Also, since in this project, we are going to be working as REST API, you want to write API specification and then consult your front-end team or some other person. When writing API, it's quite helpful to have multiple persons. And once we have API specification set, then you know what we need to do. As you can see, here's the example of the endpoint we're going to be using. It uses just two parameters, color and the name for the Unicorn. And it returns status code 201 when it has successfully added Unicorn to the database or 400 if we made something up. What we're going to do is make sure to generate as much as possible 400 responses. Basically, try not to crash the server and get some 500 error. For a Unicorn model, it's very, very simple. I try to focus mostly on the testing side which made my jungle state a bit weaker. We have one item for the colors and then some limitation, pretty simple. So the name must be at least two letters long and it marks 30 letters long. Now, when writing tests, big, big number of tests is going to be located on the domain limitations of specific value. For example, in the name, if there is some kind of error, it's going to happen either on a character that is two characters, the text that is two characters long, one character long, 30 characters long and 31 characters long. Also, we're gonna test the empty strings. Those are some extremes and they cover 99% of the errors that happen. It's quite unlikely that we are going to have some sort of error with the string that is length of 10. So always focus on the extremes and now we can start with our simple test. In this first test, we're sending just empty data for that to expect our backend API to return us a simple error and tells we're not doing fine, error 400 invalid request. Ideally, when you're returning requests, you wanna provide some text in the body of the request. Basically tell your front-end friends what they need to do to fix this. But since we are doing as minimalistically as possible for this, we're just returning status code, nothing more. And the next one is basically checking if the client is, if the unicorn is successfully added. Now, one thing I will mention, you can see that we have some nice fixtures in PyTest. That's the client and client DB. Now, that's all thanks to PyTest Django plugin. Client will allow us to basically use Django as we would use the normal request library or something like that. As you can see, I'm not calling the view function directly but using the URL, which is quite handy. And the database fixture in the second text test is basically telling us that this test will need access to database, otherwise it's going to crash. So those are the two fixtures that you're probably going to use the most. On to the next things. And here is our simple view. Basically, I created a class based view since in normal situation, we're not going to have just post.  But for now, just post. If you can see my validator validation here it's basically just checking if dictionary is empty. If yes, return HTTP 400 by the request, which is perfectly fine because my test here is passing. And afterwards I'm just saying it and it's all good. When doing TDD, it's very important to not get ahead of yourself. I love writing tests that fail because when you write a test that passes right away you don't know if your test has any errors in it. If you're testing with drone or if everything's perfectly fine. As much as it is to the back when you test crashes then you fix the code, okay? And now we're going to use PyTest Parallel Trace. It works quite simple. Basically just type this, give it the name of the parameter which is going to be parameterize. Here it is key and the list of values. Now, as you can see in this example here it's very, very basic. But the idea is we don't want to repeat the code. We could easily split this into two tests. One that has only name in the request and one that has only color in the request. Like this, we only have one test. It's quite trivial in this example but when you have a much more complex request structure it's going to save you quite a lot of time. Almost regarding the PyTest Mark parameterize you can supply multiple parameters that you wish. Behind the key as a first parameter you can just add comma and list the second parameter. And instead of the list of values it's going to be a list of tuples that are the same length as the number of parameters. Okay. So next thing we're going to do is once we edit test that validate structure of the request is basically try to send some junk data to our endpoint. Because also a good tip when testing is that majority of your tests are going to be located at the borders of your system. That means you're going to have to extensively test your API very receiving response requests from the user. And the third party libraries that you're using your sending request and receiving responses. Since in majority of the cases we're going to get the world stuff from our frontend team which would be using this API. But they might get something wrong or some kind of malicious user is going to send us some crazy stuff that we're not expecting. For that we need to try throwing everything at the API and hopefully getting just error 400 which is user request is invalid. What we don't want to do is get error 500 which is a series of errors that correspond to server crashes and stuff like that. Basically we want to be able to graceful handle every exception possible. Now as you can see we got from here three tests above from this we got two tests. So that's five tests and we just wrote two. And it's time for hypothesis. Now hypothesis is a property based testing library. It uses Haskell as a starting point and it did quite a lot of good stuff that we can use. Basically in hypothesis you specify your strategy. Here we are saying name is going to be a text and the text is going to be a minimum size two and max size 30. The same thing we got when we defined the field for the name. Now usually what's gonna happen is we could write for example in PyTest parametrize just pass the range of values as the string length from two to 30 and basically multiply character A or B by that number and get the string length which is good and which is going to work but like almost every single web input that requires text, we're gonna get Unicode and hypothesis is gonna provide us with a bunch of crazy stuff, ASCII text, Unicode text, characters, involuntary formatted skeinputs and what we want to make sure is that we get status code 211 that everything is set in the database as it should be. If you're doing some preprocessing lots of time this is where we're gonna catch Unicode errors with the text. Okay, now that we have successfully tested this case we wanna test all the invalid cases as well. For example, we can set up one strategy for text that is using maximal size of string one. It basically go into zero and one. It's not as quite complex in this case but I'm just asking for a little bit of abstraction because you can apply this to pretty much anything. Also, okay. Next thing, we are also going to add tests that are outside of maximum size.  Now, the reason we are limiting the size, we're not putting 10,000 or some other stuff is because in SQL when you define a field it has a fixed size in memory. Okay, we did some basic, basic overview of hypothesis by this and by this parameterize. Now, I'm open to the questions. Feel free to ask me anything and that way I can go more into depth regarding concepts that interest you. So for anyone who wanted to ask questions there is a Q&A bottom and they need to click there and ask the question. It's also possible if you click in the right hand and the kind name will allow you for the question. So if anyone want to ask, that's, now is the time. So thank you very much. Okay. Okay, any questions? My presentation was so good that nobody had any additional questions. You were, seems that you were really, really good. We have a couple of questions. We have two now, we have two now. So one person is asking what is the given decorator? Oh, yes, I can explain that. That's a very good question. Given decorator is provided by hypothesis you're basically telling here, like we did here with PyParameterize we're telling this function. We're gonna supply multiple values for the name. And here we are saying, okay, hypothesis is going to supply you multiple values for the name and generated by default. This is going to supply you 100 different kinds of texts that correspond to these parameters. There's, you can use another decorator about this to set it to a higher or lower number. So this is the hypothesis decorator. Okay. So the other question is, what's your feeling or what's your thought about PyTest versus PyUnit, if you have any opinion? Well, when it's a difficult question for me because when I started, I was using a unit testing and it was pretty much similar like in other frameworks for me. But when I started using PyTest, it felt more petonic to me. Tests are much prettier. And I liked the fixtures and bunch of other stuff that gets provided here. So I prefer using PyTest mostly because it's my kind of the style of programming. I don't think you can get along with unit tests as well. An important thing is to have tests. Find the framework that works best for you. One plus side for PyTest is that it has plugins for pretty much anything. I'm not sure what's the situation with the unit tests. Okay. So next question is, who do you define the number of cases the hypothesis has to generate? Oh yeah. Above given, you have another decorator which I don't know on top of my head. I'll type it in the chat after this. You can set it's at settings, I believe, and you define number of how much you want. When running PyTest, you can provide additional argument. Dash dash show hypothesis, the script statistics and it will show you how many tests it has generated for you. So please write me in the chat channel and I'll send you the code examples and we can discuss further if you like. Okay. So I was just going to repeat that. There is a talk Django testing and I sure that that's the channel that you can follow the discussion. So one more question. Robert is asking, do you have any recommendations for applying tests to an existing code base? Yes. Now, this is something that happens quite often. You get the code base that has absolutely zero tests. First of all, before you even touch the code, you are not going to start with tests like this. You're going to have to start with functional testing. Basically start large, test entire system and outputs to make sure you don't break anything, large functionality. And once you get that down, then you can start the moving code around. Then you modify a little bit of code, write the test for that. See if anything breaks down. Don't start with the functions, start big. That's the way I did it and it usually works.  They did something crazy in the production. I also need that. So first start with the large functional tests. I would even go so far to recommend Selenium for that. And then get smaller and smaller. It's when you usually get code base that doesn't have any tests. Coding standards are not quite high. So you might get a function that has, I don't know, one tons of code. The max that I saw was 5,000 lines of code and 45 input parameters. Stuff like that, you cannot start to break apart until you have dozens of tests that test existing behavior. And only that, you can start slowly breaking down into smaller pieces, okay? Cool, thank you. So I have one question more from Discord. Javier is asking, in case you need to test with more complex input, like a self-made object, how hypothesis handle this? If it's a Django model, hypothesis has a very nice support for that. You basically just tell it to use this model and it will generate a random values for that model and supply it. You can also make your own strategies for generation, link multiple strategies together. For example, if I wanted to add more unicorns here, I would use, I could use a name and color as input parameters for hypothesis. Okay, good. So we have more questions, so I go to continue because we have a few minutes. Jennifer is in, okay, seems that she missed some part because she was a three-year-old person interrupting. So how did you generate the 400 tests? Here, well, when you say given, that decorator basically tells, okay, I'm gonna turn this, provide, I'm gonna use this strategy to generate various values for the name. And by default, it's 100 values. So this piece of the code is currently on the screen. That is 100 tests. Yeah, you can set it up above and it will generate 400 various tests. Now the text field, which I really like in the strategies for hypothesis, will try to break your code in ways you didn't think it was possible because it will throw a unique code, asky characters that are invisible, stuff like that. Also in our reformatted unique code, basically all the crazy stuff you can expect from your users. I hope that answers it. I think it does. Okay, last one, last one because we already like 10. Daniel is asking, he always has the impression that testing something a lot of times doesn't do much more than be the few careful thought like with the standard normal test. And he's asking if you have an example when hypothesis was catching an error. So when hypothesis has code edge cases, like because you were doing like a really big set of tests. So I think that's a question. Sorry, it was like maybe changing it a little bit.  Inside your system, you can trust it to provide the valid inputs and stuff like that. So there you can use carefully designed tests and not treat it as a black box. If you can see here, I'm never calling the unicorn view. I'm treating it completely as a black box. So from my standpoint of view, if I didn't use PyTest.junk, this could be a flask application or something in Java, anything at all. Does that answer the question? Yeah, I think it does, I think it does. Okay, thank you very much. That was a really nice talk. So I need to play some because. Whoa! Thank you.


the halls of ivy starring mr and mrs ronald colman this is ronald colman and i think i'm inviting you to join us again on the campus of ivy collie ivy collies that is in the town of ivy usa you know many a man takes his wife a box of candy or a bunch of flowers on occasion but the occasion is usually a birthday or anniversary it's a rare husband indeed who takes his wife a bunch of violets simply because it's spring and their flowers for sale on the street corners and he happens to be fond of her but that's how it is with dr william tot hunter hall president of ivy as he enters his own front door at number one faculty role vicky vicky where are you your chicken has come home to roast with your face down here you'd like a small hen peck thank you darling and if i may take this occasion to make cynics of the comic strip artists the wearier novelists and domestic relations clinics and i i would like to state that i william t hall being of sound mind even after many years of marriage to hear by depose and declare that i still love you very much implementing this declaration with this bunch of violets they do not quite match your eyes my dear but we must be patient with nature this is her busy season would you put all that in writing if i get you about twelve sheets of paper a lot about it and that's a lot of time to that when i was playing safe i thought they might be the shrinking time it's just a birthday i mean did you bring me about it to celebrate some occasion yes what did i forget who don't try to stop my love the only occasion i'm celebrating is our marriage but it isn't our wedding anniversary i know that but uh... it can't i celebrate it whenever i want to just because i view the massive well did you have a good day how did your conference mr wellman go darling one does not have conferences with mr wellman conferring with clarence's equivalent to discussing balanced diets with a hungry tiger you can't win uh... has anyone called a man named hollins be called wants to know when you are going to return his trombone don't worry about it you had the wrong number you're not holding the elbow of your great suit and should you re-weave it so i said please do oh toddy i'm afraid i don't take very good care of you moth holes in your suit it's shame for really my dear dear woman in the first place that suit is at least seven years old and should only be worn to riots dog fights and balloon ascension secondly i don't expect you to spend your waking hours secondly i don't expect you to spend your waking hours hiding in closets with the cap pistol frightening off the marauding lepidoptera thirdly you'll take excellent care of me then you don't think our marriage is a failure anxious dear anxious no i do not signed ampiatris now then i who else called oh uh professor gardener and dr otis but that is dr otis called for both of them she said they'd like to come and see you on a rather serious matter oh i thought about four o'clock could be safe it's almost four now i wonder what's troubling them yeah let's see now otis is anthropology and uh what is gardener paleontology oh yeah study of geologic periods based mostly on fossils and i wonder if they ever studied mr wellman mr wellman is a unique specimen a modern fossil he can take more time louisa i imagine that's professor gardener dr otis you know them of course don't you think they're very nice that two of my favorite ah good afternoon dr otis the professor gardener nice to see you i think you met my wife we apologize for breaking in on you like this dr hall no no no anyway my husband has a clause in his contract which says the president should be available at all times to the more interesting and attractive members of the faculty do i understand that something serious is troubling you yes dr hall we've got something on our conscience we'd like to unload and take whatever consequences we deserve well this sounds as though it needs more privacy than you have with me present so i'll go get my cap pistol and fighting some moth oh no no please don't go mrs hall the students value your help and advice so much i don't see why the faculty can't benefit from it too yes please say well thank you well now that we have a quorum which of you is the spokesman for the delegation um uh you tell him dear uh oh dear uh yes mrs hall and we're married oh yes we we've been married two weeks before that's a pleasure congratulations thank you thank you but but dr hall it's against the rules we have violated the regulations we're living in what you might call academic sin then we realize we're being unfair and unethical and it played on our minds and so we decided to come and tell you i appreciate that and while matrimony as such is approved by most civilized people in your case i'm afraid our esteemed board of governors will consider the serious breach of regulations will somebody please tell me what's going on here who's the board of governors that tell people they can't get married tell him to go boil a buffalo victoria my love you're right his indignation is quite natural and i share it but as with most regulations governing the operation of this college however idiotic they may seem at first glance the rule against intro faculty marriages has a realistic basis yes you see mrs hall it's not that they're against marriage but they oppose more than one member of a family being on the faculty at the same time so getting married and keeping it a secret for two weeks is a pretty serious infraction well well i think you came to the right place this is the sort of thing my husband loves to find solutions to he knows more answers than there are questions oh i'm sure you will understand my wife's belief in my omnipotence many a man has become a success merely by trying to live up to his reputation however hollow it might be well your reputation may not be for omnipotence doctor hall but it certainly isn't a hollow as emerson i think said an institution is the length and shadow of one man and you cast a pretty respectable shadow doctor oh although i realized that flattery will get us nowhere in this situation well we're in a bad spot and we we thought you ought to know and i look maybe i'm not very bright but why was such a silly rule is this ever passed it's a matter of economic status my love each faculty salary is adjusted with surgical precision to the rank of the individual thus it is impossible for an instructor to make more than an assistant professor or an assistant professor to make more than an associate professor or an associate professor more than a full professor and so on and president them follow me yes i i'm following you but i'm running like mad to keep up hypothetically um let us say that the two faculty members get married meet mr and mrs hypothesis as a result of this marriage the family unit represented by this couple might have an income superior to that of let us say the dean of men with a professionally inferior status and a financially superior one resentments arise protocolized bleeding and according to the board of governors ivy college tutors and crumbles into ruin maybe i'm being just hopeful dr hall but you sound as though you don't agree oh i i believe in laws and regulations but they are subject to reconsideration and i've made frequent attempts to remove the one under discussion mrs gardener tells me that it's one of mr wellman's favorite rules come on now you've been married over two weeks you can call her lucy thank you mrs hall you see if the room is enforced against us john can't very well stay at home while i go on teaching even though he loves cooking and can throw on a button as well as the next time well i don't think mr wellman would like that either i'm afraid you're right and if you stayed home dr rotis i'd be giving up years of work in my field and a book that needs finishing i don't want to find a job at another school because well it may be just a foolish whim i but i just don't want to be separated from john or from ivy oh and ivy doesn't want to be separated from either of you we'd like to try to keep it a secret for a while longer but i don't think we'd succeed in our present mood we just want to tell the whole world about it and when you're in that mood marriage like murder will out from all the symptoms i would say we're witnessing the onset of an acute form of successful marriage as old practitioners we have a duty to perform most emphatically then will you take on our case dr hall well we'd appreciate it very much having deceived you for a couple of weeks we don't come into court with very clean hands but we have great faith in the judge well i'll do my best to act off the record in the case of wellman versus cupid oh thank you very kind of you dr hall however i must warn you that never has that young miscreant with a bow and arrow had a more flint-hearted target but don't give up hope as shakespeare almost said this bird of love by wellman's ripening breath may prove a beauty's flower when next we meet the halls of ire we find dr hall and his wife victoria at breakfast the next morning another piece of toast party um i um marmalade on your eggs or just cream and sugar uh yes thank you thank you won't you try one of these boiled curriculums they matriculated in deep fat and served with chopped umbrella handles no thank you dear i um i don't i don't believe i chopped what they're all out of peanut brittle and i'm relatively fine oh i'm sorry vicki take me gently by the hand and lead me back to the conversational crossroads where we lost each other oh well it's all right darling it's nice to know you're here physically even if mentally you're having breakfast somewhere else i admit to being absent without leave but it wasn't for breakfast i was thinking of professor and mrs gardener and what is ivy's own Beatrice yeah fairfax going to do about them i have sent for mr wellman oh it's very saucy are you a mere president of a college tending for a chairman of the board of governors why is it it's like a used car dealer sending for general motors it's a well darling mr wellman is not too coin of phrase unsendable for after all he's only the chairman of the board of governors and by one definition a governor is a mechanical attachment for controlling speed uh thus mr wellman is a device for retarding the advancement of whatever he may be mechanically attached to uh therefore seems to be attached to the doorbell right now i received a message that you wish to see me i'm not in the habit of being summoned you know we'll all be summoned one of these days good morning will you have a cup of coffee no thank you good morning and i shall be ready mrs hall when i'm summoned i mean well that's a whole oh i hope i should be ready too that's indeed well anyway it must be something very urgent for you to send for me for uh that is otherwise why would you mr wellman i wanted to consult you on a rather delicate matter that's different quite to be of help after all i am a man of considerable experience and anytime i can i mean anything that requires delicate handling is something a week what have you gotten yourself in through now i am only indirectly involved mr wellman and perhaps you are also me involved nonsense it's just got it it was perfectly innocent i mean there's no basis for for scandal just because a man after all it was raining talking about oh it is mr wellman remember them certainly don't you think i know the members of our own faculty fine young people credit to ivy wish we had more like them well in a year or two you might get your wish thinking about it here that they're married mr wellman why yes of course i'd like to hear about such things nothing like marriage to bring people together i always tell them they seem to be very happy but uh you don't mr wellman of course i'm not happy well they they can't do this it's against the law the regulations of this college it it's distinctly stinking members of a faculty family cannot be gainfully employed but duck all lights will demand this marriage be annulled or something i think the or something is to be preferred to an element mr wellman our bylaws are well established but matrimony is a much older institution however mr and mrs gardener are valuable members of the faculty don't you think that in view of the circumstances the ruling of the board should be set aside impossible it's the policy of our cornerstone but i mean the cornerstone of the very foundations of our language formulated dr hall in order to accommodate a couple of newlyweds is simply no no no don't you understand what it means to these two people they should have thought of that before they know why why why to defy this ruling is flying in the teeth of providence and i know i'd be before you know it some faculty family might have a combined income of more than well maybe more than the member of the board for example considering the present state of teachers salaries mr wellman it's not likely to happen in the foreseeable future i assure you as president of this college i am frequently embarrassed when i check our salary list the head of a department makes less money per annum than a second-rate prize fighter or a minor league shortstop yes sometimes seems that earning is a matter of getting the l out of learning ruling that is basically these people were familiar with the law and if they chose to ignore it i'm afraid they must take the consequence of what what time is it hope oh my goodness i've got a meeting of the finance committee in 10 minutes and they're in a very very smooth dr hall very very well as chairman of the board mr wellman i'm sure you contain the bad yeah he can do better than that he can make the whole thing unbearable wait a minute what did you mean i can make things unbearable was that a disparaging remark oh no just animal spirits mr wellman oh yeah i see animal spirits bears think i've been in solid and i'll have to think it over and well well goodbye mr hall looks like you and cupid have lost the first decision do you take the case on appeal well i should at least prepare a new brief legal battles are a little out of my province darling but but i'll do my best as an attorney as dr johnson said that the woman's preaching it is like a dog walking on his hind legs it is not done well but you are surprised to find it done at all john and i were wondering how our case is going well having failed in the initial direct attack on our chairman i am preparing an enveloping movement it's an elaborate maneuver in which you slip around the side find the chink in the armor lower your visor raise the halberd and let the old boy have it in the neck smite him hip and thyroid is his particular chink dr hall well after years of experience i have found that it is located between his flashing sword of economy and his brassy breastplate of pride in ivy and there is a sharp speeding directly toward that point cut the realm awaits your presence from the living roaring cairns i didn't expect such quick results what's his mood i'm not sure but you better get ready to talk turkey i'll match him drumsticks for drumsticks hang around maybe i can pick up enough flying feathers for a new duster good afternoon mr wellman dr hall i've been waiting here for a good 15 minutes i mean a bad 15 minutes and i have no time for any explanation oh i shan't ask you for any mr wellman but perhaps you can explain this all the memo you sent me adding five thousand dollars to the estimate of the faculty payroll for the next year ah yes yes of course well since professor gardener and dr rotis are married they cannot both be on our faculty next year regulations you know your regulations i believe mr wellman certainly has worked it out very carefully word for word of course the gardeners would both prefer to stay at ivy mr wellman but they're reluctantly considering employment elsewhere so i've made some preliminary investigations for teachers to take their play now go go that's fine you will agree i'm sure that upholding the principle of your own regulation should be well worth the extra five thousand dollars it will cost for immediate replacement you mean to say there and stand that are you trying to tell me that we have to pay an extra five thousand dollars well if that's how it is that's how it is all right pay the extra five thousand after all the principle of the thing is what comes you're absolutely right mr wellman thank you but uh it's too bad ivy has to lose the prestige of publishing the two books professor gardener and dr rotis are preparing books what books why didn't somebody tell me about this why am i so ignorant of these matters and it would have been nice to publish them under the imprimatur of the of the ivy university press ah well ivy's louse is some other colleges gain and i don't suppose it matters too much who publishes the work as long as it's a contribution to learning it most certainly does i also understand that bradford college is anxious to add gardener and otis to the basketball and track trophies they took from us last year never i won't allow it to hear me i i leaving ivy why why why can you give me one good reason dr hall right mr wellman you know the rule on faculty marriages dr hall yes mr wellman i shall expect you to support me at the next meeting of the board when i move that we strike this regulation from the book mr wellman let's not be too hasty now you spend a great deal of time and thought in formulating the rules and to discard it without you consideration would be you consideration my grandmother ruling is ridiculous after all a man can change his mind can he you know the old saying a foolish consistency is there something or other a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds oh i wouldn't say that about mr wellman i think it would be better to say that circumstances alter cases thank you mrs hawker however if you think it wise to repeal the regulation mr wellman you may count on my support why is dr hall lose two books i'd be publications just because of a silly viola call people go that far as keeps rolling along seems we've just destroyed one of the foundations of this college you know mr wellman is now completely convinced that if you hadn't been so stubborn that rule would have been repealed long ago i know i am the hidden catalyst in the chemistry of flamence wellman well there's one nice thing about being a catalyst they always have money i said catalysts my darling not catalyst catalyst was a cowboy as you think so i'll start rounding up the gardeners and tell them the good news do tell him bring them here i want them to know that it wasn't stupid to did it after all but you yes vicky with my administrative bow and arrow i shot sparrow wellman well it just goes to show doesn't it but everything turns out for the best if you know the right people oh my darling that's a very cynical attitude although i must say that some of my favorite characters for cynics as uh as duke gerald of tuscan is said to martin of portugal the meek shall inherit the earth but only when the bold pass on it is the strong and the determined to administer this world's affairs mostly for gold and glory but should by mere accident a trifle of good accrue to their stewardship they become histories darlings and are hailed as lovers of mankind this production of the halls of ivy was broadcast with an actual audience present in the studio


Alright, so today's idea I want to share with you is this concept of working without ceasing and yet to be resting deeply always. It's a paradox, but it's one that I've been reflecting on quite a bit because it seems to me that society typically assumes, you know, puts this supposition on us, presupposition on us, that a good life is one where we work for a while, gather up money, gather up resources, set up the systems, and then we coast for the rest of our lives, that's called retirement. And of course, you know, a little bit more sophisticated than that is work-life balance. So you work during the day, and then, you know, whatever, whatever your shift is at work, and then you rest and play in the evenings, weekends, and on vacations. And because of this, and there's this idea that really ideally like if you had all the money in the world, or if you had plenty of resources, you wouldn't really work so much.  That's the most pleasurable way of being. And all of that assumes, all of that assumes that there is simply this body-mind system that tends towards chaos, really, it tends towards everything breaking down, but it tends towards shall we say laziness and, you know, pleasure, it tends towards pleasure, let's just put it that way.  Let me know if you think that's true or not, actually, do you think that's true or not, that I just, I've kind of felt this assumption on me my entire life, right? Like from society, that that's the goal. The goal is to get to a state where we're just playing and resting all the time, relaxing, you know, on vacation mode, basically, all the time. But we have to accumulate enough money to get there. People who are retired or retired early, you know, can just do whatever they want all the time. And essentially presuming that it's basically pleasure all the time. And anything that's not pleasure, like staying fit, is really just so that we can have more pleasure later. It's just sort of like a delayed gratification is another way of putting it. And so the reality, of course, is that almost all of us don't have enough resources to just relax and play all the time. I don't. I still have to work my business to be able to pay the rent and, you know, buy food and all that stuff. I still have to work, work, work. And so because none of us or very few of us have the privilege of being able to just have money come in, and some of you, and even those who have money coming in all the time from trust fund or something like that, you have your burdens too. You have burdens from family, certainly. You have burdens from expectations of society and others. It's way harder than most people think. So it's like, no matter what situation you're in, it's like there's always hardship, you might say, or lack of pleasure that we have to get through, no matter what. And so there's this, I don't know, there's this sort of like ongoing battle, I guess, with the fact of hardship, labor challenges, and having to do stuff to stay fit. Stay fit in terms of your finances, in terms of your body, so that you can have more pleasure in play and relaxation. So there's this constant battle, I don't know, to me, it's like, why does it have to be this way? And maybe a deeper question, which is related, is why is there evil in the world, dear God? Dear God, why did you allow, you have all powerful, why did you allow evil in this world, including the fact of labor and the fact of everything breaking down all the time? We have to stay fit, we have to fix machines, we have to fix ourselves, we have to pay the rent. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? And so I want to flip the idea on its head and introduce this concept of working without ceasing, and yet resting deeply always. So this is my way of going beyond the societal, eternal battle of labor versus rest, labor versus leisure. And it's like this eternal battle, like, can we find it? Like instead of the answer typically is, well, you've got to find balance, right?  It's like, but then, during the pleasurable times, might you not feel guilty that you're not doing enough work, enough labor, enough fitness, when you're indulging in the cake, are you feeling guilty that you're not keeping to your nutritional, you know, whatever? You see, I mean, like, why, why is this this constant battle, and can we find a higher way beyond that? And so this is my proposal to you of a higher way, which is to, it's sort of like this taking work life, work rest balance, and putting a higher spin on it, which is to work without ceasing, and yes, to rest deeply always. Okay. What do I mean by this? And so what I mean by this is by, when I say work, I don't mean literally, when I say work without ceasing, I don't mean you should be at your computer all the time doing your business or doing your job. That doesn't make any sense, because you would be, you would have to, you still have to rest and, you know, take care of your body and your family and your community, da, da, da. So it's not literally physical work, okay, or even mental work. I'm talking about spiritual work without ceasing. And by, and this is supported in, by most faith in sacred traditions, of this idea of, you know, Western sacred traditions have a continuous alignment, continuous communion with God. Like that, that should, that ideally, that's the aim is to have this continuous, like, practicing the presence of God. Like during all of your waking hours, you practice the presence of God, like without ceasing, well, a life monastery, essentially, right? And then in Eastern traditions, it's this idea of mindfulness and continuous engagement with the world to bring more harmony to, to the world, you know, to align with the dao, essentially, at all times. And so in, pretty much all sacred, in indigenous traditions, the same idea. It's continuous responsibility and engagement with the whole, you know, through rituals and through, you know, practices and all that. So it's like, in all, all these sacred traditions seem to support this idea of work without ceasing, spiritual work without ceasing. And then at the same time, what about rest deeply always? So to me, the more we do the spiritual work of alignment with the divine, the more we're able to rest deeply. Because we understand that all of our efforting is by grace alone. It's like we get into heaven by grace alone. But it's because of all the efforting that we get into heaven, but it's all by grace alone. So I'm kind of like, I'm kind of poking at both the Protestant and Catholic faiths. Trying to, trying to meld everything together. Sorry, Christians. But, but the resting deeply is possible because we are psychologically and ontologically resting on the foundation that this individual mind and body is really not an individual mind and body. It's really, it really depends on everything, right? You are not separate.  It's all connected for all the atoms and the electrons and the, and the quantum field is all connected, right? Like even physically, we're not literally separate. It's well known that, you know, there are certain elements that have been with, I mean, there are certain elements that have been with us since the dawn of time. And so like every breath that has ever been taken, ever been exhaled, there are molecules in that breath that are still literally here in the world today.  There's some molecules of that that's still here. And that's been distributed all around the world now. And so even physically, we're not separate, let alone metaphorically or philosophically or spiritually. Certainly we are not separate. We're all connected by spirit, by the quantum field, by the spot, by spirit. It's all connected. And, and, and furthermore, for those of us who believe in guardian angels and, you know, the divine source that is supporting all of this. Like you can't do a single, you can't even take a single breath by your individual might and effort. You can't even do that. It's all dependent on everything else.   There is nothing we can do by ourselves. Everything we do is dependent on this rich web of physical and spiritual support. And so, and the simplest way I think of it is my eternal destiny is secure, is completely secure. Like there is a higher power that is guiding this entire life of mine. And I don't have to ever be afraid of being bumped off of that path. There is nothing wrong that I can do that is so wrong. I mean, it's impossible to do any sin, any sin or any wrong thing, wrong behavior, wrong thought, wrong disposition. There is nothing so bad that I can do that will bump me off of this secure, eternally secure path that I have been placed on toward ultimate knowledge, ultimate bliss, ultimate power, ultimate creative capacity, ultimate love, ultimate wisdom. That path is certainly secure for me and I believe for all of us. There's nothing that can take us off that. We are not powerful enough on ourselves individually to take us off that eternal secure path of goodness. And so that allows me to rest deeply. There's nothing I can do that is that wrong. Of course, I'll make mistakes. Of course, I could do wrong things from the smaller perspective of right and wrong. You know, in this lifetime, as compared to societal norms or my own norms or whatever, sure, I can do things that are right and wrong, but in the eternal sacred sense, then nothing I can do that will bump me off the secure path of growth towards ultimate goodness. And so therefore, I rest deeply. And therefore, I'm resting deeply and psychologically. I'm not, you know, taking naps and watching Netflix all day long and eating popcorn and ice cream, right? That's typically when people think they're resting or playing, right? Playing video games or whatever. No, I am working without ceasing. Well, that's what I aim for anyway. Work without ceasing in terms of the spiritual communion with God and mindfulness of my mental well-being, spiritual path, how I'm treating others and treating myself, and how I'm continually working on my spiritual growth, essentially, and doing the right thing, whatever that means in the moment. And yet I'm doing all of that with this deep rest, which is, which is sadly, I think the opposite of what many people do is that many people can never rest deeply. They just haven't, you know, whatever. It's like they haven't found a way to rest deeply. And then they're always battling the idea of having to work. It's always fighting. Oh, I wish I didn't have to work and wish I didn't. It's like, and the work without ceasing translates into your job, into your business as well. I mean, I'm not literally working my business all the time, but I feel like I'm able to work more in my business and without as much angst as a lot of people because I'm resting so deeply even while I'm working hard on my business as well. So I'm able to work more hours, but then I'm also literally physically resting a lot during my work. But anyway, it's all connected, this idea of work without ceasing, but resting deeply as well. It's like, and that, like I said, it's opposite of what most people do, which is they cannot rest deeply psychologically and then they're battling their work all the time. So that's, that's maybe that is the highest work for everybody, right? I'm not saying I'm perfect or I'm not enlightened, certainly, but, but it's, it's the highest work and the most important work for all of us is to find a way to cultivate the inner peace that's ultimately what's about, right? That cultivate that deep, deepest, deepest inner peace that allows us to rest deeply in the psychological spiritual sense. And from that deep rest and deep security, psychological security arises, true work arises, work on in our most authentic sense. There rises the most empowered type of work. So anyway, I hope this rambling has any value at all to you. I'm curious. Thank you for watching and whatever you've got, maybe you have to watch this again to see the dots being connected. But I look forward to seeing your comments below if any of this connected with you and served you in some way. So thank you so much for watching.


Chairpersons, Honourable Ministers, Director-General of FAO Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an honour for me to make a statement at the Regional Conference for Europe as Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security, CFS. I am grateful to Director-General Mr Chiu Dong Chiu for these opportunities and the invitations. Currently, all countries in the world are going through very difficult times with the COVID-19 pandemic. Hunger and food insecurities are increasing dramatically, further impairing the achievement of SDG2 zero-hungers and other related targets of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The Committee on World Food Security, CFS, provides policy guidance in many areas to address the challenges of food security and nutrition and is more relevant than ever to help your countries identify relevant topics and actions. CFS policy guidance has proven to be relevant to many countries in the regions. Let me first say a few words about the Committee on World Food Security as some of you may not be familiar with CFS. The Committee was established in 1974 as the Committee of the FAO Council, but was then fundamentally reformed in 2009 to become an independent multi-stakeholder platform for dialogue and debate on global food security and nutrition policies, jointly supported by FAO, EFAT and WFP. CFS vision and the roles was defined in 2009 to focus on the key challenges of ending hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for the progressive legalizations of the right to adequate food. A remarkable feature of the Committee is its inclusiveness, which gives it policy recommendation and unrivaled level to legitimacy and authorities. The CFS advisory group includes all the main actors involved in food security and nutrition from the UN system, civil societies, international agricultural research system, international and regional financial institutions and private sectors and philanthropic foundation. Since the 2009 reform, CFS policy debate and work have benefited from scientific evidence and knowledge provided by a CFS high-level panel of experts on food security and nutrition, HLPE, whose report are outstanding. Finally, this unique UN platform report to the United Nations General Assembly through FAO conference and the Economic Social Council, ECOSOP. Let me now present to you CFS achievements since you met at the regional conference in Voronezh last two years ago, as well as the CFS program of work for 2020 to 2023. Since it reformed in 2009, CFS has issued outstanding policy work, providing developed and developing country with effective instruments to fight hunger and malnutrition, and I would like to mention to some of you, the well-known Voluntary Guideline on Responsible Governance of Tenors of Land, Fisheries and Forestry in the Contact of the National Food Security, CFS VGGT. The next one is the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food System CFS Ride Principles. And the third one, the Framework for Action for Food Securities and Nutrition in Protracted Crisis, CFS FFA. And we still have other 14 sets of policy recommendations stemming from CFS high-level panel expert reports on a wide range of food security and nutrition topics. All CFS policy products can be downloaded from the CFS website. Please visit us. CFS is currently developing Voluntary Guideline on Food System and Nutrition for expected endorsement at CFS 47 in February 2021. The preparation of this guideline is informed by the CFS high-level panel expert report on nutrition and food system and by contribution received at open meeting and regional consultation in 2019 last year. CFS is also developing policy recommendations on acro-ecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food system based on a CFS HLPE report on the same topic. We anticipate negotiating these next springs and adopting them next year ahead of the UN Food System Summit. CFS will also provide global policy guidance or new topics as per its program of work for 2020 to 2023, which was approved at CFS 46 in October 2019 last year. And some of those work streams are gender quality and women empowerment in the context of food security and nutrition. The term of reference of the Voluntary Guideline are expected to be endorsed at CFS 47 in February 2021 next year. And the guideline will be endorsed at CFS 49 in October 2022. The next work stream on youth engagement and empowerment in agriculture and food system to promote policy that foster enabling environment capable for tapping into the energies and skill of youth to improve food system to be endorsed at CFS 49 in October 2022. The next work stream data collections and analysis with the objective of strengthening the capacities of country to collect, analyze and utilize quality data to approve decision-making on food securities and nutrition which will be endorsed at CFS 50 in 2023. And the last one, the work stream on reducing inequalities for food securities and nutrition including gender inequalities with an analysis of the driver for socio-economic inequalities between actors within accurate food system that influence food securities and nutrition outcomes. The discussion will start at the end of 2023. And we will be looking at way to review our policy recommendation on water and on climate change to see how they have been used and if more can be done. Honorable ministers, excellencies, dear colleagues, the situation today is extremely worrying. We all agree that we must act to address the pressing challenges of today. And after the coronavirus pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of our food system, CFS policy products are existing to help countries progress toward the achievement of SDG2-0 hunger and the fulfillment of the 2030 agenda. And we'll make every effort to support your country with its policy guidance. CFS also needs you members and stakeholders to participate actively and constructively in its debate to gain full ownership of its outcome and to communicate and implement its policy recommendation where appropriate at the national level, at the ground level. If your country is not yet a member, I urge you to join us now. I'm grateful to the director generals for the support expressed to the work of the CFS and accordingly I would like to underline the importance of FAO field offices supporting the work of the CFS and to see how best to operationalize CFS products and achieve more concrete results and outcomes. I look forward to welcoming you to Rome at the next panel recessions of the Committee on World Food Security CFS in February 2021 to continue this conversation. My last words are to thank again FAO for its great contribution and continue support to the Committee on World Food Security CFS. Thank you very much.