Noticing who I think it is Hello Satan and we ain't seen you in a long time What you been up to? We're watching the credits at the end of a movie and notice that there was a name as a director This was a person who had been a movie star But it kind of disappeared the old saying out of sight out of mind kind of applies But just because you're out of sight and out of mind doesn't mean that you haven't been busy The same could be said about Satan just because we don't see him Just because he's out of sight and out of mind does not mean he's out of the picture and he's still busy I think sometimes we get it confused thinking that just because we don't attach his name to something Doesn't mean that he's not involved Resists the devil and he will flee But what if you don't know that the person that you're fighting is the devil The Bible says that we wore not against flesh and blood But sometimes it feels like flesh and blood is who we're warring against Rather than against the devil make no mistake about it Satan is smart. He's wise He's been at this for a lot longer than we've been alive and when he comes He doesn't just show up knocking saying hey, this is Satan look at what I'm going to do No, he comes as the Bible says an angel of light and so we've got to look at what's going on in the world and look at his Agenda and he won't tell you up front what his agenda is He's going to put it in a nice little bow a nice little package and make it look good Make it sound good make it smell good and to us as we take it in as we consume it We actually think that it is good But it ends up being Something not so good for us. It ends up leading to destruction He's decided that whatever agenda that he's in it can't be apparent that it's him And so he puts these neat little titles on for example, let's say he wants to get rid of a lot of people He wants to have a lot of bloodshed but make us feel good about it And so he'll he'll he'll put it under the umbrella of maybe Reproductive rights or women's right to choose and give it a nice little title such as Planned Parenthood because Who didn't want to plan out their parenthood? Who didn't want to plan out their family? That is a good title You know why it's a good title because Satan is good at what he does another example. How about black lives matter? Wait a minute who would be against the lives of black people? Well, nobody but when you get to the heart of the matter and you find out that that actual organization is Against God himself when you go and look at some of the things that they stand for Those things that they stand for on their own website will tell you they're not for us They're not for what the Bible or what God is for But that's what Satan does He comes at us in ways to make us think that it's not him and cause us to fight against each other So we don't think that we're fighting against him But we're Republicans fighting against Democrats or Democrat versus Republican black versus white white versus black young versus old He has these ways of of making us think that we're evolving into something better He's got this new thing that's going around that makes us feel like That's what I want to be it's got young folks and old folks alike jumping on board with this nice little title It's a title called woke. I'm aware of what's going around and I want to be socially conscious And I want to be a benefit towards my fellow man. That's how he packages it But that's not really what's actually happening He comes under the guise of tolerance Love my fellow man. I'm going to accept what he's doing just so long as he accepts what I'm doing And if he's doing something that sin, well, it's okay because hey, it's none of my business And well, I should live and let live I'll leave it under the guise of tolerance Twist some of the scriptures. I'm not gonna judge him because the Bible says after all judge not But is that what it really says? No, but as long as Satan can keep us from the Bible As long as Satan can keep us from having our attention on him and even more to the point having our attention on God and Christ himself Then we think we're doing something totally different something that doesn't have any any kingdom implications But the fact of the matter is Satan is good at what he does. He's good at dividing us.  And when you come to an actual answer if your answer is Satan, then you'll know what Satan's been up to


In our music lessons we always use a big range of different activities and that's designed very specifically not only to address the multi-dimensional aspects of music but to try and promote this deep thinking. So for example in our way of approaching the music classroom I'm not thinking about a particular skill or concept from just one perspective. I'm always thinking about it from multiple perspectives. I want the children of initially its music so I want them to engage orally and kinesthetically. Then I also want them to discover the components of that knowledge. Then we'll reinforce that with writing activities and then later on we'll go on with compositional and improvisational activities. I want the children to really understand this particular aspect of any music learning from every possible aspect. The other part of that too is that once the children have learned something I will then do that thing we call it in our way of teaching more deeply internalising. So for a musician you have to be able to make the music for the small children sing the song. Can you sing the song and clap a different rhythm? That's quite complicated because the rhythm work comes out of a different part of the brain to the singing work. So we're engaging more of the brain to help internalise, make more deep the learning for that particular aspect. And we have sequenced that sort of learning right throughout the 14 years of education really. So those many different types of activities are all trying to make the learning more internalised, much deeper learning, much more independent and owned by each child. So in the classroom we're always going to use a wide range of modalities in the teaching. We want the kids to try and use all of their capacities. We all know that some have a preference for a particular modality in learning and we try and acknowledge that. But actually we want the children to develop strength in all areas. That's part of what our goal is. The children I think respond to the challenge of that. Do we know, we talk about it, of this child, did she sing very well but was she correct when she did the rhythm? Or this child is rhythmically very strong but what happened when you were then singing? So the children develop an understanding of their own strengths as well. But what we're trying to do all the time is help the children become the best musician they can. No matter what I ask them to do, I want the children to be drawing on all their faculties. When we're talking about music education this notion of improvisation is a very big one. And there's research that says improvisation and compositional activities are sort of the biggest activity that's got the greatest amount of brain function at that time. With the very little ones of course, what does that look like? It might be that we're playing a game like here we go around the mulberry bush and I might ask a child what else could we put on? When you think of another thing that we could wear that might make us warm. So for a three or a four year old that improvising is really within a very set context but we're asking the children to start to think a bit more broadly. By year one once we've got some conscious work they might know so and me and la or ta or teetians are the first elements and I might give them a rhythm and ask them to sing. We might be playing a game which requires some word improvisation but then when the child tries to put a new word in it doesn't fit so they have to feel how that new element will fit inside a known song. So even from the very early stages this idea of improvising is very important and composing. Our children use the improvising as a basis then for written work which we'd call composing. If we can start down here with three and four year olds that develops very powerfully all the way up to the high school. I think it's interesting that the way that we teach we feel that the skills that are learned, the thinking skills that are learned in our music program that has enormous transfer across the curriculum. Do we have formal scientific research around that in my program? Not yet but we're working on it. However we have a whole lot of anecdotal research so we have very experienced teachers here in the school and when we first started the program from the kindergarten or prep that came up in the grade school I asked those experienced teachers to watch very carefully. Did they notice any different capacities in the children now in mathematics, in science, in English, in spelling? What about their understanding of syllables? What about their phonomic recognition? All of the teachers early on said that they noticed a remarkable difference. And that's gone on year after year after year we have the teachers report to us that the children seem to have these extra capacities that they seem to have another set of skills. Certainly there are very deliberate cross-curricular skills like memory that's one of the things that we do all the time. Because it's a singing-based curriculum then of course we're using text, we're using words perhaps that they're less familiar with. I may be using old English songs or Scottish songs that have unfamiliar words that we're talking about what those words mean. So I think a program like this has enormous implications. As well I think the structure of our lessons, the way that we teach has small three-minute segments where there might be a fun activity, a game, a more relaxed activity and then there's quite a focused little activity. And then we'll move on to something a bit more relaxed again. And I think that model of lesson planning and not just for the younger ones but for the older kids as well, that model develops this real focus in the children when we need it. And we find even with our very young children sitting for half an hour listening to a performance, selling in assembly, these are the sorts of skills that we don't see in other children. So yes, I think this sort of a program has enormous benefit across the curriculum.


My favorite items in my office are my capulanas. They're like sarans or skirts and that's how they're used most often. But they also serve many other purposes. You can tie a baby to your back with the capulanas. You can put all of your dirty laundry in the capulana and carry it to the river. You can put multiple layers of capulanas on and then tie your change into a little pocket that you make so that you have your own purse. I've seen many, many different uses of capulanas throughout the areas where I work in Mozambique. Basically they're pieces of cloth with really distinct patterns on them. And some of the real up and coming fashion designers out there in Southern Africa are using capulanas in different ways in some of their new designs. So there's been a great expansion of interest in capulanas. My interest is a bit more in the political side of capulanas and how they're used in performances or marches. And so one of my favorite ones was from a march in 2008 in Zambezia and it was sponsored by the organization for Mozambican women. And so OMM has been in existence for a very long time trying to assert women's rights to lead and also access to health care and any number of issues in the country. And one of their main heroines is Josina Michelle and she was the first wife of the first president of Mozambique, Samora Michelle. And so you often find capulanas on April 7th which is commemorating her death, her very early death in 1971. You'll see them with her face on the capulana and then commemorating the date of celebration. And I have several of these. This one's from 2009. And a lot of the girls in the rural areas can't wait to get their capulanas with Josina Michelle on them and find out what the new pattern is going to be for that year. Sometimes they have regional differences so this one is from the province where I do some of my research. And there's also, there's a range of qualities of the cloth and so you can, how well they tie really depends on that quality. I'm still trying to figure out how to tie them properly. I'm always being corrected locally by my hosts. And you can't as a woman really work in rural areas in Mozambique without wearing capulanas as a sign of respect and just as a sign of fitting in the area. And so I'm constantly wearing them and constantly being told how to make them fit better or adjust them and you dance a lot with them. And also the main leading political party for limo, whenever they want to have an election campaign or they want to get folks mobilized, they distribute capulanas with the party logo on them to try to get people that visible performance of the presence of whatever your cause is out there in society. So they're very political, they're not just purely practical. And so for me they're very interesting and I always like to have them in my office to remind me of all the times that I was walking to the river in the forest in Mozambique to wash my clothes with women or dancing in the streets commemorating Mozambican Women's Day.


Never put up with the narcissist. Narcissists are like children. They will test you. They will try to see what they can get away with. They will test to see how much you are willing to tolerate. So you need to set strong boundaries. You need to recognize your deal breakers.  So don't put up with it. Tell them that you don't want them to go to a club without you or not at all. And if they still persist, you get rid of them. Don't deal with them anymore because if you let them cross that boundary it's only going to get worse. They're just going to push it further and further until one day you look at your relationship and you wonder how it got so bad. It's because you tolerated their behavior. You allowed it to happen if you had left at the earliest opportunity. They wouldn't have been able to do that. If the narcissist cheats on you or even tries to cheat on you you have to get rid of them because if you tolerate that it's only going to get worse. You shouldn't have anything to do with something that is against what you believe in. If it's not something that you like to agree with you need to stay away from it. That's why you need to recognize what is a deal-breaker for you but be aware that when you recognize your deal-breakers the narcissist will sense this and they will test you. They will see if they can get under your skin and that's when you need to cut it off. You need to put an end to it because they're like children and you're their teacher. You have to teach them how to treat you or else they will act unruly and undisciplined. They will be out of control because they have no direction. Don't even argue with them. Don't feed into it. You have to let them know that if they do something that you don't like you're done. The relationship is over and if they value anything about the relationship that will keep them in line. They will be on their best behavior and this is what narcissists need in their lives. They need direction. They need boundaries to keep them in check but if they think that you're going to put up with it or even that you're going to argue about it it's more likely that they will continue to cross your boundaries. If they think that they can get away with it they're going to keep doing it and it's just never going to stop because that's just how narcissists are. They're like children. You have to teach them how to treat you. There's a reason why people don't put their hands in a fire because they know they're going to get burned. They know it's going to hurt and they're not going to be able to talk their way out of it. They can't explain to the fire that they were just joking. If they put their hands in the fire they may never be able to use their hands again so they're going to refrain from touching it. They will stop themselves. They will evade it at all costs. They will stay away from it because they know that there's no way they're going to be able to talk their way out of the consequences and effects of their actions which is why the narcissist needs to know that if they cross that line you're going to end the relationship. They need to know that you're never going to put up with it because if that fire is always lit and there's no way for them to talk their way out of it they're going to stay far away from it but if you haven't set that boundary or if they think that they can talk their way out of it if they think that they're not going to be burned they're going to touch it when you're involved with a narcissist they will push your buttons. They will see what works. They will see what gets a response from you because when they're pushing your buttons they're hoping to get a pleasurable response which will be painful for you so you need to flip it around on them. You need to ensure that when they push that button they get the shock of their life. You need to ensure that they regret pushing it so that they never do it again because that's the only way that they're going to learn.  This behavior is going to continue and it's going to get even worse. If they cross that line and you argue with them or shout at them but you don't actually do anything they will know that they can get away with whatever they want. It's just going to get worse until you end up more miserable than if you had left them at the earliest opportunity. It's not enough to forgive the narcissist because when you do that they're just going to hurt you even more. Take away your hope. Stop expecting things to change. If they've done it once and you let them get away with it they're going to do it again. It's just going to go on and on until you feel like less and less of a human being. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching queries. You can email me at coaching.narksurvivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


I'm sat here looking at this pile and I have absolutely no clue where these are going. Hey guys, so I was trying to clean up my room earlier and I realized that I actually have a pile of puzzles that I realized I never actually shared with you. And these are all puzzles that I had either picked up or were given in January. Hit that like button if you're guilty of buying too many puzzles, like me. I also realized whilst I was cleaning that I am in desperate need of places to put the rest of these puzzles, because the original pile that I had I was able to find a home for, but now I seem to have developed another pile and now I need to make more space for them. Now I know some of you may suggest that I should probably start giving some away, but to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'm ready for that yet. But I'm sure at some point in the future that time will come and I will be ready to part ways with some of my sets. But as of right now, that isn't happening. So anyways, here is my secret January pile of puzzles that I've accumulated. Our first one today, well actually these, there are two that are from kind of the same set, same series. But the first one of that is a Robbins Burger puzzle from Disney's Villainess. And this is the Maleficent set. It's 1000 pieces and it is 27 by 20 inches when it's completed. And this particular Robbins Burger Villainess puzzle set contains a collector's piece from the actual Villainess board game. And I really like the design of this Villainess collection. So obviously for this one, this one is Sleeping Beauty. So we got scenes and picture frames from the film as well as a nice really big picture of Maleficent. And the other Villainess set that I have is of the Evil Queen. And again, this is from the Robbins Burger Disney Villainess collection. And this one also has a collector's piece for the Villainess board game. It is a 1000 piece puzzle and is 27 by 20 inches when it's completed. And again, like the Maleficent one, this one has different scenes of the Snow White movie and picture frames. I feel like these sets are really nice if you want to display them on your wall in a picture frame or something like that. And I do like, for example, in the Evil Queen set, how, you know, you still have pictures of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, basically the other characters in the movie. I do also have the Gaston set and I showed that in an earlier haul video. But I'm happy to be growing this Villainess collection. I'm not sure how many there are in total. I think there might be, I don't know, at least six. No, there has to be more than that. I've seen a ton of them. But I don't actually own the Villainess board game. And I feel like that's something I should pick up at some point. If any of yous have that game, let me know what it's like in the comments. I think I'm definitely going to pick it up at some point so I can make use of the collector's pieces that are included because you're meant to use them in that game. These I didn't actually pick up myself.  So that was, that made me feel better. The next puzzle I have in my hidden pile here is one that I picked up from Walmart. Well, actually it's one of two or three that I picked up at Walmart sometime in January. And this is from Disney's Thomas Kincaid Studios. It's called Mad Hatter's Tea Party and it is 750 pieces and 24 inches by 18 inches when it's completed. And this one is by Seco. And like all Seco puzzles, it does come with the puzzle poster. And I was really excited when I saw this at Walmart because I had not actually seen an Alice in Wonderland puzzle from this series. And I'm sure it may have been out for like the longest, but none of the Walmart's that I had been to and I actually had it until I stopped in at that Walmart that particular day. Now aside from the fact that Alice in Wonderland just happens to be like my earliest memory of watching a Disney movie, this image is absolutely fantastic. There's just so much fun stuff going on here. You have the Cheshire Cat. You have the white rabbit on the bottom looking all frantic. There's Alice there looking all curious. You got the Mad Hatter, that crazy bunny. And the poor little clams on the side there that happens to be my earliest memory of being traumatized because you know the poor things get eaten. That was quite depressing really. I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one messed up by that scene when I first saw it. I love how this image is so colorful as well. And this is going to be a great addition to my you know Disney Seco puzzle collection. Even though I don't honestly think much about Seco, but I mean I have to admit I love the Thomas Kincaid designs. The next puzzle that I picked up from that same trip from Walmart is also by Seco and also from the Disney's Thomas Kincaid Studios collection. And this one's called Gepetto's Pinocchio. It is 750 pieces and it is 24 inches by 18 inches when it's completed. And again with Seco you get the puzzle poster as well. You know which is always a plus for me. Now Pinocchio is one of my absolute favorite Disney movies. And the image in this set is absolutely gorgeous. You have Gepetto playing with Pinocchio. You have all his clocks and toys in the background. He's got something boiling over the fire. It's very homey, very cozy in here. It gives me like a very warm feeling. Now I absolutely love this image. Although it's a little bit confusing considering that the Blue Fairy just so happens to be in the middle of the room here and Gepetto doesn't really seem to notice her. But you know that's okay. He's not really looking through his glasses so that's probably why he can't see her. She kind of gives a pop of color to this whole scene. But yeah this is gonna be a fun one to put together just by the image alone. Now the last one that I picked up from that Walmart trip is actually from a brand that I do not, well I did not own at the time but now I do. And this one is from Spin Master's Puzzles. It is called Gloria Rose General Store and it looks like it's from the series by Tom and Tonyshak. This is a 1000 piece puzzle and it is 27 inches by 20 inches when it's completed.  And they use precision cut dies and advanced machinery to create unique puzzle pieces that fit together securely every time. And I found that interesting. I wonder if it's gonna be a more satisfying experience when you pop those pieces in. The colors of this image look very vibrant. For one I love the image that's depicted here. Something about this image reminded me of like it took me back to Oregon Trail for some reason. You have this general store here. It really looks to be depicting a time period during the times of the pioneers living on the frontiers. I really love that part of American history and that's really what this image reminded me of. I mean that lady could be me. I mean she looks way older than what I am but you know I wouldn't, I could say I could see myself walking out of that general store. They look to have some really good things just by judging what's on display at the windows. And look at those prices. Five, six, seven cents. Those are my kind of prices. This is gonna really make me feel like I'm living on the frontier. I find that time period very fascinating. But yeah I look forward to working on this one too. Especially getting to experience that satisfying snap. The next one that I picked up was during my quick trip to Niagara Falls. And this one is a masterpieces puzzle. And it is called Old Fort Niagara Castle. It is 500 pieces and it is 21 inches by 15 inches when it's completed. Now I recently worked on my first masterpieces puzzle. So I know I'm gonna enjoy this one. Of course it has the poster included. We have a really good puzzle piece size. And I picked this one up at the Old Fort Niagara gift shop. It's actually a whole site where you can visit this castle and walk inside it and walk around the entire fort from like the 1800s. It's very fascinating. We love going there. So it was nice to be able to take something back this time because I don't remember seeing these the last time we went to go visit. I did wish they had 1000 piece puzzles but you know I can't complain. At least they had something. So this is great because I can actually say that I have been here quite a few times. And I have walked in this building. So I know what it's like in here. So it's really gonna kind of take me back as I put this image together and give me you know some good memories. And I'm pretty sure the next time I go back I'm gonna pick up the other two sets that they have there. The next one that I have here is one that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. And it's from a brand that I didn't own before. And this is from the company Euro Graphics Puzzles. It is called Cookie Party. It is 1000 pieces and it is 19 and a quarter inches by 2658 inches. And the main absolute reason why I picked this one up as I'm sure you saw on the box was that it was reduced all the way down to $3.99 from $14.99. So that was a huge savings. I figured I can't pass up a price like that especially for a puzzle from a brand that I didn't have at the time. But you know on top of the fact that the price was super dirt cheap this image is a lot of fun to look at. I love cookies. Don't tell me you don't love cookies. And my second favorite cookie with my number one being chocolate chip of course are the sugar cutout cookies. And you got tons of fun designs here. I'm pretty sure I can eat all these cookies in one sitting and then you know cry about it afterwards while suffering with massive heartburn. And then you have this awesome looking cup of coffee on the side here as well. So this puzzle was like a real treat to me especially being dirt cheap. But yeah I'll be interested to try a puzzle from Euro Graphics. I've heard some good things about them but it'll be nice to actually try it out for the first time. I'll make sure to have plenty of coffee and cookies next to me as I do it. Now I wasn't actually going to show the next two puzzles until I kind of did like the puzzle review reveal of it. But I figured you know considering that I did get them in January I might as well just show them to you because they're really cool sets. And these were ones that were also sent to me from the company Cubic Fun. So you know these next two are going to be 3D puzzles. Now you saw my first one which was Neuschwanstein Castle. But they also let me have the Paris Notre Dame set. And this one is 128 pieces. And it measures at 14 by 7 by 9.4 inches when it's completed. This one's going to be really awesome. Notre Dame is definitely a place that I want to visit one day which was one of the reasons why I picked it. But I don't know how much harder or how much easier this is going to be compared to my Neuschwanstein Castle. This one does not actually have LED lights to it. So it might be slightly easier but I don't know we'll see right. Now that I have kind of like an idea of how to go about 3D puzzles I don't feel like this one is going to be as confusing to start like Neuschwanstein Castle was because I kind of like already have the experience if that makes any sense. But yeah I can't wait to do this one. I'll just have to figure out where I'm going to display it afterwards. And the last puzzle that I chose from their website and they sent it to me as well. This is a big one. This one I know is not going to be easy because it is much bigger and looks way more complicated. This one is called Queen Anne's Revenge Blackbeard's Ship. It is 340 scary looking pieces and I cannot picture exactly how big this one's going to be because I'm not very good in visualizing centimeters but I'm going to give you the measurements anyways. It is 67.7 by 25.4 by 63.3 centimeters when it's completed. I kind of have a feeling this is going to be a really big one just by judging from the size of the box. Now in terms of where I'm going to put this when it's completed my husband's already claimed this one for his room so that's not going to be a problem. I think my bigger problem is having the patience to put it together. This one has a complexity of eight stars which is pretty much a different scale compared to the Neuschfenstein castle which only gave me three six seven stars. Neuschfenstein was six out of seven stars but this one is showing me eight stars. So that doesn't really give me an idea but I mean considering that it's a higher number than Neuschfenstein yeah this one's going to kick my butt. It's a fantastic looking ship though. I love the dark colors. I think this one's going to look absolutely amazing and this one does have LED lights in it. This one's going to be an absolute beast when it's done aside from I'm sure being an absolute beast whilst completing it but we'll see right. It's definitely not going to be an easy one but I look forward to completing it because I think it's going to look absolutely amazing. So that'll be coming up in the future. Well that was a big pile. Let me know down below if you have any of these puzzle sets and if not did you pick up anything interesting recently? I'm sat here looking at this pile and I have absolutely no clue where these are going. I really need to sit and think about how I'm going to reorganize all my current sets so that I can somehow fit them along with the other ones here. I just gotta like kind of plan it first and figure out what I'm going to do in terms of making space in my current space but we'll figure it out but that will for sure be another organization video that'll be coming in the near future. If you'd like to catch me putting these puzzle sets together be sure to subscribe so that you can follow along with me on my jigsaw journey pick up any tips and tricks that I come up with and of course see what else I get up to with puzzles. Anyways guys thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one.


Half of african-americans in the state of california roughly half of latino families have no access to a checking account or an atm things We take for granted they don't have a check what's wrong with them And what but what well because they don't they don't have the resources to suck those things away Why do we have a lot of different reasons? But but roughly half those families don't whether they are menians have them But where they end up is why check cashing places. I want to know why those group Why those two groups don't have a lot of it just happens to be that we can talk about odd No, they're hardly flawed, but they're struggling Hardly not absolutely, but okay. So but do Asians have this problem? I mean a lot of communities have a lot of whites have these problems. That's not just black and Hispanic No, but it but so Asians are suffering just as much as well. They're the face of welfare is not an african-american Asian Jewish it's all of them caucasian. It's okay. So we're also not a lot of folks are strong


Look, I'm so excited for what's happening with Nintendo Switch 2 next year, at least what's supposedly happening. Of course, this is all reportedly all rumor-based, but we do have some new rumors on games coming to Nintendo Switch 2, coming from Nintendo published studios. So I'm pretty excited to bring this stuff to you. That's actually the big story we're gonna do in the latter half of the video because we also have a couple of other really interesting stories. You guys know that, yeah, we'll be covering all the rumors and leaks. I like to keep you up to date as well on the latest ongoings with Nintendo, well, positive and negative. And today we actually have a couple positive stories, just glanced it out of here. And one of them has to do with how well Nintendo's doing as a company. They have now reached a new all-time high. And the other has to do with a game already announced by Nintendo for next year, maybe coming sooner rather than later. It's one that doesn't have an exact release date, but we're gonna talk about that in a moment as well. And you know what? That moment is right now. You can see here that we have Stealthier, our good buddy of the channel, over on X putting out this. Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door Remake was rated by the ESRB today. This is a good sign that perhaps the release is closer than we think. And you can open it up here and see, hey, there's the ESRB rating. It's E for everyone. The rating summary just goes into things in the games. It doesn't really tell you much of anything that we didn't already know about this game. So that's obviously really awesome to see that Thousand-Year Door, which right now is only slated to be 2024. A lot of people thought it might be towards the fall or end of summertime. But what if this ends up being a game that's actually coming out in the first six months? What if this is an April, a May game? That is entirely possible. And it was, of course, always possible for that to be the case. But it's still interesting to think about how quickly this game might be upon us. I know for many of you, this is maybe the most typed game Nintendo has currently announced for 2024. Again, this doesn't really mean it's gonna come out sooner. It just might come out sooner. It's a little weird. We've seen things rate up with the ESRB but then not released for over a year. So, you know, whatever. It's at least a sign the game is probably done anyways. Now, that being said, we have to talk about another story about Nintendo because they have now hit an all-time high. Now, you might have seen this trending in a few places but we need to add a little context to this. Nintendo's stock prices did hit an all-time high but only in Japan. Technically, if you check the US stock market, Nintendo's all-time high was $16.10 back in 2020, December of 2020 to be exact. They're only around $12.97 today but that's not the stock market that really matters for Nintendo. We do talk about it sometimes but the real stock market that matters for Nintendo is where the company's located and that is in Japan. And that is where we have some very, very impressive numbers coming in because this is where, look, Nintendo converts all of their currency and all of their stock pricing into yen. So this is where really everything matters. Let's go ahead and take a look at this. And of course, this is coming from Jiro Reddy who put a screenshot up here and says on the last trading day of the year, that's right, the stock market is now closed in Japan until next week, so until 2024. Nintendo shares finally topped their Wee High eras. And if we look at this graphic, you'll see that their Wee High was slightly below the current high. The current high ended at $7,359 yen which is right around $50 USD. And yes, that is the highest share value we've ever seen. And you can see back in the 2007 to 2008 era right up in here that yeah, they actually had some very good peaks but what's interesting to me is if you look at from 2015 and really 2016 right here onwards, it's like when the Nintendo Switch was announced and onwards, it's just been sort of a constant upward trajectory. And Nintendo is just doing very healthy as a company. If we think about not just these stock prices but why are the stock prices doing so well? I mean, the Switch is technically downturning. So why is it still doing so well? Well, they just had a billion dollar move this year and that's just at the box office that doesn't include anyone who bought the digital version, bought the physical copies. How many royalties are getting ahead? It's the number one movie on Netflix right now. So what kind of royalties did they get from Netflix for that movie to be there?  Nintendo has theme parks now. They have expansions to their theme park coming next year. They just announced the Zelda movie and even though the Switch sales might be going like this, there's also a lot of talk and fervor around a brand new system. You have obviously the CEO of the company saying, hey, we're up here. We don't wanna fall off the cliff like we always do. So potentially a new system next year, more movies coming out, surely a Mario movie too at some point. Maybe a Donkey Kong movie, a Donkey Kong expansion is coming. Oh, by the way, Nintendo now works with Lego and like every Lego set they release becomes like the fastest selling new Lego sets ever. I think next up is Animal Crossing. So an Animal Crossing is massively popular and you can see why a lot of people would really like to have Animal Crossing sets to kind of go along with their fandom. So, look guys, Nintendo's in a very, very healthy place. This is quite literally the healthiest the company has ever been. The healthiest, which man, that's crazy to think that this company's been around for over a hundred years and right now is the best they've ever done as a company. Yes, all the Nintendo is doomed and all the naysayers out there. Hey, eat your heart out. Now we have to get to our last story and of course this is a story surrounding rumors for Nintendo Switch 2 and this is coming from none other than Nash Weedle over on Twitter. Let's just hop right over and see what he said cause some of you are gonna be very happy about this. Bayonetta, baby, some rumors on Bayonetta. So Bayonetta will receive a trilogy edition with its three main games in one pack for Switch 2. The games will bring visual, HDR confirmed and performance improvements. HDR is big because that is not currently supported by Switch and honestly, we didn't know HDR would be supported on Switch 2. So did he just confirm or at least rumor in an HDR support? I mean, that's awesome. Anyways, due to backwards compatibility, it can also be played on Switch 2 with improvements which I don't know what he means there because he literally said the trilogy is gonna be put on Switch 2. Maybe he has a typo. Maybe he meant that this is a trilogy pack that's gonna be coming to Nintendo Switch. I don't understand this. I'm kinda confused. Then again, this is the original text. So sometimes these translations are not exact but I mean, he clearly says it's coming to Switch 2 and it's gonna have visual and performance improvements including HDR. Now the Bayonetta franchise to me is one of the unsung gems for Nintendo. I know Bayonetta 3 for many was not quite as good as Bayonetta 1 and 2 but still most considered to be pretty good. And if you bring performance enhancements in, you get that game to a locked 60 FPS. That would be great. Obviously, higher resolutions and all of that. Toss in some HDR which just gives you deeper blacks and just really helps out making the game pop. I do think that doing this to all three games are just gonna help them stand the test of time. Now, I do think we're gonna get a number of things like this. I wouldn't be surprised if someday we get like the Metroid Prime 1, 2, and 3 remakes like Rush Remastered HDs or whatever in a big collection pack. You know, we got obviously the Super Mario 3D All Stars what if that gets ported over as well and they re-release that with 4K enhanced visuals or something like that. It's entirely possible that we're gonna see Nintendo doing a lot of this kind of thing on Switch 2. It was like, look at how many ports and all the stuff we ended up getting on Switch but what if they start to go with the collection pack ports this time around. As an example, what happens if we've been all talking about how they might do an enhanced version of Tears of the Kingdom and all that? What happens if they just actually just do a bundle of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom enhanced rendition as one thing? I don't know that we were really thinking about that but now that we see that this is being rumored out there about the ban on a trilogy it makes you wonder if this is a direction Nintendo wants to look towards. Like, hey, what if, you know, we get Mario Fluss Rabbids but both of them, right? Kingdom Battle and Sparks of Hope enhanced and bundled together. If you actually think about it, that can make sense for a lot of Nintendo's games that came out on Switch. Now, I don't think we're gonna see like a Splatoon 2 or Splatoon 3 bundle or anything. I think they'll just move on to Splatoon 4 same with a new Mario Kart, same with the new Smash Bros. But for a lot of franchises, I can see this actually making a little bit of sense. I mean, what if they bundle Mario Odyssey with 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury? Boom, enhanced 4K edition. I'm gonna say it. I see this possibly being a thing that starts to become a trend and also could add some value if Nintendo does bump prices up to $70 on the next system. Well, it might feel a bit better if you're getting these two-in-one bundles. I don't know, we'll have to see what happens. Obviously, Nintendo's gonna have a full slate of like brand new games and obviously brand new remasters and remakes that they haven't done yet. They're gonna keep that stuff going. So we'll see. Obviously, our fingers are all crossed with that ocarina of time from the ground up remake. But even if that never happens, there's gonna be other stuff. And I know one thing you guys probably really wanna see, how about some Star Fox? Right? It'd be nice to see a sign of life from that franchise. Maybe Kid Icarus Uprising. Like it's some of these older IPs. It'd be nice to maybe bring back. I don't know, just throwing that out there. Obviously Metroid Prime 4 at this point. We just, can we just see a sign of life from that game, please? Not a new, I mean, even if it's just a new logo. Like if you have a new logo for the game, I don't see the sign of life. I need to know Metroid Prime 4 as a heartbeat. I realize like I've heard from my own sources and we've had rumors about the game being done. I just, I wanna see a heartbeat, please. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for being here. I am Nathan Robledance from Nintendo Prime and we'll catch you in the next video. Test, test test test test test test test test test test. I have to test, I have to test, I have to test, I have to test, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have. I have to test, I have to test, I have to test. Oh, I have to test, oh, I have to test, Oh, I have to test. I do.


1. Man gives his girlfriend a necklace. 1.5 years later, she breaks down when she realizes what's inside. Men often think of the most amazing gifts to give to the women they love. Some of them go to many different stores in hopes of finding the perfect one, while others use their imagination to make a romantic gift for their woman. One man called Terry wanted to give his girlfriend, Anna, a very special gift for their first anniversary. He decided to make one part of the gift himself and buy the other one at the store. Then, combine the two elements together and surprise her. Anna loved the gift her boyfriend gave her. However, what she found inside the necklace one year after made her burst into tears. Anna certainly didn't expect that from her boyfriend. She could never trust him again. The couple had been together for one year and Terry wanted to do something special for his girlfriend on their first anniversary. And soon, he came up with the perfect idea. Hand made necklace. Terry decided to make Anna a necklace from Tasmanian wood. He was good with his hands, so he made the main part of the gift himself. Then he purchased the chain for the necklace and combined it all together. It didn't take much time for Terry to design the necklace and glue everything together. He hoped that Anna would love his gift, although there was something he had been hiding from her all along. On the day of their anniversary, Terry took Anna out to dinner, where he was going to reveal his big surprise. He was a little nervous as he wasn't sure whether or not Anna was going to like the necklace he made for her. After finishing the dinner, Terry finally revealed his surprise to Anna. He took out his hand made necklace and gave it to her. Anna's reaction to the gift was far from what Terry expected. Not only did Anna like his gift, but she also absolutely adored it. It was indeed a beautiful necklace, and most importantly, Terry made it himself. Anna was on cloud nine after receiving the necklace. However, there was only one problem. The fact that Terry had made the necklace himself made it much more special to Anna. She wore her boyfriend's gift as soon as he gave it to her and never took it off again. Little did she know what was hidden inside the necklace during this entire time. Terry had something very valuable to him inside the necklace. Putting it in Anna's gift was the only way for him to ensure that no one was ever going to find it. And for a while, his plan seemed to be working well. Then, one day, the truth came out, putting their relationship on the line. Terry had always been worried that his secret would eventually come out. If his girlfriend ever discovered what was hidden inside the necklace, he would be in a lot of trouble. Terry had to find a way to eventually remove the secret item from Anna's necklace without her knowledge. Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be as easy as he thought. There was one time in particular when Terry thought his secret would come out. The couple was going on a trip together for the first time by plane. He was terrified to go through the security check, knowing how strict the airport police were. When they entered the airport, Terry started to panic. He was worried that the security would ask Anna to scan her necklace, and his dark secret would come out. Luckily, his secret remained hidden even after going through the airport security. Terry was relieved and prepared to enjoy his romantic trip with Anna. But what happened a few months later was beyond his imagination. Their trip turned out to be fantastic. Terry and Anna made many memories together, and the man couldn't wait to spend the rest of his life with her. However, his dark secret was always on the back of his mind. Terry knew he couldn't do this much longer. The next few months went by fast. To his big relief, Anna was still unaware of what was hidden inside her necklace. But the guilt was eating Terry alive. Finally, one day, Terry decided to remove the item from Anna's necklace. After hours of thinking, he thought that now was the perfect time to do so. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. In November 2016, more than one year after giving Anna the necklace, Terry finally got the courage to remove the secret item. But how could he do it without Anna finding out? Terry thought it would be the perfect time to open his girlfriend's necklace during their trip to the caves in Northern Scotland. The man knew it was a very risky decision, but he couldn't wait any longer. It was either now or never. The destination that Terry and Anna had chosen for their trip meant a lot for both of them. They had talked about it since the day they met. So, in November 2016, the couple took off to the caves of Northern Scotland. Terry was nervous the entire way to the caves as he knew what he was about to do could severely impact their relationship. He was hoping that everything would go according to his plan. Little did he know what was going to happen next. When they arrived at the caves, Terry decided it was the time to reveal his secret to Anna. He asked his girlfriend to take off her necklace. Anna was confused, but did what Terry asked her to. Terry broke the necklace apart with his pocket knife and gave it back to Anna. When the woman separated the two parts and saw what was hidden inside, she was at a loss for words. There was an engagement ring inside the necklace. Shocked, she looked at her boyfriend, who was already on his knees. Anna couldn't believe her eyes. All this time, she had been wearing an engagement ring on her neck without even knowing it. Anna immediately said, yes, and gave Terry a big hug. It was indeed a wonderful surprise. Anna later said that her boyfriend's proposal was terrific, and she feels like the luckiest woman in the world with a man like Terry by her side.


She's the editor and publisher of the alternative press award winning magazine hip mama, and she's the author of eight books Deal with it Handle it. They're so good. Please welcome Ariel gore So this little story is called Muffy McPherson Muffy McPherson lives across the street her house has two stories and a swimming pool in the backyard Muffy McPherson has a pink canopy over her bed and a Barbie dream house under her bedroom window in her backyard Behind the pool Muffy McPherson has a big red playhouse with a Barbie oven in it We wear red and white checkered aprons and we pretend to make chocolate chip cookies When we're done we go inside and Muffy McPherson's mother has made us real chocolate chip cookies that cool on a tray and an island In the middle of the kitchen That's what it's called when you have a counter in the middle of your kitchen that you can walk all the way around an island Muffy McPherson doesn't come over to my house to play and I'm glad my mother wouldn't make us Cookies and if my stepdad did that have carob chips that he bought in bulk from buyer patch co-op market And then he might take out his teeth Muffy McPherson's mother wears a lavender leisure suit and she uses real chocolate and she never takes out her teeth Muffy's father goes to work in the morning and he doesn't come home until dinner time Muffy McPherson is in love with Harrison Ford. It's not a crush. It's true love I'm going to marry him. She says and she dances Across her pink canopy bed swishing her straight blonde hair back and forth My hair is dark and curly and I know there's not much I can do about it But I think maybe if I had a pink canopy over my bed, I wouldn't feel so scared all the time. I Have a poster of Harrison Ford I tell Muffy You do she stops moving stares at me. Yeah, I say you can have it I shrug cool as I know how she nods real slow and I can't believe I actually have something Muffy McPherson wants It makes me feel calm and powerful at the same time like maybe we're not so different Muffy and me like maybe even with my hair I can be one of the pretty people when we get back to school in September The next day I come back with my poster of Harrison Ford rolled up all nice. It's not actually my poster I stole it from Leslie my sister stole it right off her wall But I've already practiced my denial a practice the blank look on my face when I'll claim I don't know what happened to the poster Muffy McPherson's mother answers the door and calls upstairs to Muffy I bound up those soft stairs close the door to Muffy's room behind me and begin to unfurl the poster Muffy McPherson's face is all thrill at first, but then she frowns That's not Harrison Ford. She scowls then squints her eyes at the picture. That's some old man It isn't I look at it Harrison Ford the guy who's Dr. Dolittle in the movie Muffy McPherson Muffy McPherson clenches her teeth and crosses her arms and shakes her head her hair swishing a little that's Rex Harrison It says so right there She points her thin finger to the signature at the bottom corner of the poster Rex Harrison.  Do you even know who Harrison Ford is? I look at the poster at Rex Harrison with his sideburns and sly smile Then at Muffy McPherson with her long blonde hair and stern look I roll up the poster I glance at the Barbie dream house behind Muffy and I already miss playing with the Ken doll. I swallow hard I say yeah, I know who Harrison Ford is I was just I was only kidding and I feel something in the back of my throat That's hot and sore like a coal from the campfire that got stuck there and I don't know who Harrison Ford is I don't know who Harrison Ford is So that's from all the pretty people about all the things that happen to you when you are Not allowed to have any access to pop culture And our fed a strict diet of carob instead So so this book of the end of Eve is about my mom got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and showed up at my door And she didn't really want me to take care of her, but she said pitifully tiniest you're all I have and The doctor said told her she had a year to live But when you looked it up in the Merck manual I was living with my girlfriend and my preschool son at the time and In the Merck manual it said, you know, if you have stage 4 lung cancer and you don't treat it You know, you'll only live three or four weeks. So we thought well, we can do anything for three or four weeks So we agreed to tell her house in Portland and move to Santa Fe To take care of her we bought a duplex with her in Santa Fe but she got there first and Had the duplex got it. So when we got there, it was not only not a duplex, but it was not inhabitable Anyway, so I'm gonna read to you from like the middle of the book She'd written on her calendar her death date, which was supposed to be October I believe 18th 2010 Two months shy of the death date.  I laughed agreed, but I knew she wasn't kidding The house wasn't a duplex anymore But my mother's now master bedroom was separated from our smaller bedrooms by the dining room living room and the huge unusable kitchen Our first weeks in the house. I focused on cooking on the camping stove in the backyard I made calabasitas ancho and mild green chili stew when the doorbell rang and my mother spied one of the hospice nurses She'd hiss in my ear. It's one of those maidens of death sent her away We had moved here to help But what could we do our joint tasks included shopping for organic groceries and cooking when my mother was home Not asking where she was going when she left and being polite to Ronald who came and went at odd hours Carrying expensive building supplies and appliances. He didn't seem to know how to install. I'm here with electrical wire He announced one night after dark. He had a key to the front door. Anyone know how to wire a place My solo tasks included paying all the bills keeping track of my mother's alternative healer appointments and making sure there was a Steady stream of Netflix Noir's coming to the mailbox Soul for her part was to make herself available to move heavy furniture from one end of the house to the other and back Again, whenever my mother screamed her name. I Stumbled all the time. I couldn't feel my feet on the ground I didn't take out my contact lenses even at night didn't want to get caught off guard And then one day a bird fell from the eaves in front of the house a dead bird on the cement walkway just before the front door I didn't think much of that first dead bird But they kept falling every week than every few days then every day dead birds covered with ants when I found them. I Was afraid the dead birds would spook my mother So I scooped them up with a little garden shovel and buried them in a secret bird cemetery in the backyard Did you always have a problem with those birds? I asked the previous owner of the duplex when I saw him in the produce aisle at Healthy wealthy. He was wearing spandex bike shorts falling from their nests on to the walkway every day He bagged his butternut squash. I always loved those birds He hummed with their nests in the trees and in the eaves. I can't remember any falling though Maybe once he walked away Ronald's worker Julio cried over the bathroom sink He was one of the men my mother had saved from early retirement He'd lost his only child in a drunk driving accident and I found him there late one afternoon Just crying my daughter is dead and my wife is married to someone else and all I want is a loving family around me And Eve has exactly that and she can't see it But my mother was standing silent out in the hall and heard him say that so Julio wasn't allowed in the house anymore And the workers who came after that only spoke Spanish and they didn't cry in the bathroom My mother counted the days to October 18th 2010 and said I'll be dead in seven weeks Then I'll be dead in 33 days. I'll be dead in three weeks. That's 21 days, you know, I'll be dead this time next week Her voice was always monotone and I didn't know how to answer her So I just shook my head and said no you're doing good mom. You're doing really well I wanted to make sense of these days, but filled my journal with unconnected notes 8 30 10 been here two weeks Not going well 9 15 10. I asked mom if she's talked to my sister Leslie and she says I'm done with your sister My biological father finds out I'm here taking care of her and emails me pictures of naked nurses with enormous breasts He probably would have posted them on my Facebook page, but he got banned from Facebook last month for inappropriate status updates Leslie texts. I am so ready for both those parental freaks to die 9 27 10 my mom's getting so skinny. She only eats a few bites 10 11 10. There's no way she'll be dead in a week unless she's planning on blowing her brains out 10 13 10. She doesn't sleep 10 16 10. I'm tired 10 17 10 In Paris Alice B took care of everything Gertrude just had to be a genius all her energy and time just to be a genius Sometimes I think seriously. I'm a genius. Where's my Alice B? I have to move boxes call hospice pay the bills pay my as college tuition take Maxito to preschool note My mother's new symptoms. Who's going to take care of me? When do I get to be a genius? On the morning my mother thought she would die. She marched out into the living room in her leopard print robe I was sipping black coffee get a load of this She said as she handed me a printout of an email from Leslie for the record I just told your older sister as nicely and as rationally as I could that I thought she ought to go back to college and finish her BA in anything or come here and live with us Excuse me, but what is she doing with her life and look at this? This is the thanks I get From Leslie Gore date October 18th 2010 to Eve de bona subject re reality limitations options Dear mom when I said never bring it up again I meant just that I am never going back to college and I'm never moving to that God forsaken high desert town You are a broken record stop telling everyone what they ought to do and what they ought to want and listen for a change If you want to see me buy me a ticket if you don't want to see me never mind I would probably need six months of therapy to get over your abuse anywades. See you in the next lifetime love Leslie In the next lifetime my mother said gravely she pointed to the brain tumor under her eyebrow I texted my sister. I can't believe you just contracted for another lifetime. I am so done with her after this one That night I dreamed of the mountain lion I'd never seen the lion paced around the yard slept waited I tried to scare the lion away through the windows I told Maxito and soul to keep the doors closed so it couldn't get in But the lion came and went as she pleased through the dog door in the laundry room No one seemed afraid. We all knew the lion was just looking for my mother and my mother wasn't home. I Opened my eyes in the dark of my bedroom soul snored softly next to me And my mother's silhouette was in the doorway waving a giant kitchen knife over her head I nudged soul, but she didn't wake Maxito's room was across the hall I felt a familiar calm kind of panic racked my brain for what I was supposed to do or say next to make sure nobody died tonight Surely my mother didn't want me to laugh not now or did she? What are you doing mom? The clock that glowed green from my nightstand told me it was just after 3 a.m Look what I found my mother whispered She held the knife by its wooden handle and it glinted a little in the moonlight in my new dishwasher She hummed a few long lines from the sounds of silence and grabbed the tip of the knife with her freehand Move the blade against her throat knives like this don't go in the dishwasher. Do they tiniest? I was careful to move very slowly as I got out of bed. Of course the knife doesn't go in the dishwasher. I Moved closer to her kept my voice low and calm. I don't know how it got there It was a mistake give me the knife.  I don't wish you were dead mom. Give me the knife I'll wash it properly in the sink with organic soap She narrowed her eyes turned the tip of the knife toward me now pointed it at my chest But held it steady a half inch from my skin Nobody likes the tip of a knife pointed into her chest, but relief flooded my veins I recognized that look on my mother's face just a glimmer of bright behind her eyes I knew what I was supposed to do I laughed so she wouldn't stab me Come on. Give me the knife mom She smiled wide showing the one dead tooth on the right side Stepped back as she loosened her grip on the handle and let me take the knife Wouldn't it be funny? She laughed if I was that crazy She smiled as she backed away kept smiling and backing away her figure disappeared and then her shadow disappeared I poked my head into Maxito's room to make sure he was still alive Watched the rise and fall of his chest in the light of the half moon In the morning three dead birds huddled frozen on the front step The cold season was coming and I worried I wouldn't be able to keep up with all the birds that needed burying Thanks Ariel Gore so great


The NBA 2023 MVP ads are out now. Let's take a look at it. So at the very, very top, we got my man, Luka Donch just leading the way at plus 500. And right behind him, you got Joel and B sitting at plus 550. And honestly, he might be a man on a mission this year after getting beat up by Yelkes just this past season. And if you take a look up here in the middle, you're getting crazy value on the Bron James sitting at 28 to one. A lot of names on this list, but only one can take it. So what do you got?


A violent and chaotic looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope's image of a supernova remnant, denoted N63A. Many of the stars in the immediate vicinity of N63A are extremely massive. It is estimated that the progenitor of the supernova that produced the remnant, seen here, was about 50 times more massive than our own sun.


The House of Representatives on Wednesday in its resolution directed the National Film Video Sensor Board and the National Orientation Agency to sit up to their responsibilities. This is in ensuring that movies and home videos released for viewership are thoroughly censored before released to the general public. This decision is coming following the motion on urgent national importance moved by Honourable Tobi Okechiku, Deputy Minority Leader. It was on the need to declare a state of emergency on abduction and killings for ritual purposes in the country. Honourable Okechiku described the upsurge in this act as alarming as it costs across every part of the country. According to the lawmaker, what is most worrisome is a confession by a corporate who was arrested for ritual murder that he lent the act from watching it in a Nigerian home movie. It is also alarmed by the moral decadence in our society's trend that has promoted the Gay-Tree-Squid Syndrome amongst our youths. The House is mindful of the role of the Nigerian movie industry in molding behavioural patterns. In our society, we service the mandate of the National Film and Video Sensor Board as a clearinghouse for movies produced in our country. The House is cognisant that a lot needs to be done by the police and other law enforcement agencies to checkmate the ugly trend. The House is also mindful of the role of media as a tool to change this wrong narrative among our youths. The House therefore resolves to declare a national emergency on ritual killings in Nigeria a call on national orientation agency, parents, heads of schools, religious leaders and the media to undertake a campaign to change the negative narrative.


Man who had an eight-point night tonight for the Mustangs five goals three assists for JT Thielen who joins us now here on the all-access post game show all right JT We're gonna tell you the truth We did actually use the word easy a few times after some goals that you scored tonight Which takes nothing away from them because you got them But how about the same right how good does it feel when you get some opportunities like that when you come up with a play Interceptions something along those lines and get to just sort of put it in the goal from there I mean it just it comes down to writing I mean that was something that we emphasized on this week and I got to give it up to my teammates for Riding the goalie hard like they did and just giving me an easy opportunity to just put the ball in the net and Make my life a lot easier JT it seems like the chemistry between you and Wade and Brandon or Tyler has really increased as the season's gone on I mean, I think you guys have all found your roles Can you speak to that a little bit what each of you bring to the table? Yeah, I mean it always takes a little time for everyone to gel But I mean we played together through the summer and I think that's when everything started gelling We started realizing what people's tendencies where? Wade's a great finisher Tyler's a great finisher So I can always rely on on them to be open have their sticks open and and just jam it in there for them And that they usually make a play But I mean just having a bunch of guys that I can rely on is just Unbelievable and they could I hope they can rely on me I mean, I think the numbers would suggest this Hey, JT, we're talking obviously a lot about this big game coming up on Friday night and a chance for you guys Whatever you weren't able to get done against the the big good teams the beginning of the season How how much better do you believe this team is going into these next two games against ranked opponents? Cabrini and Stephens then you were at the beginning of the year Cabrini and Stephens are gonna be tough tough matchup for us Cabrini especially coming off the wind with Salisbury I think we just need to come in with the same fire that we have with the teams that we've been playing no matter how How not so good they are how good they are? I think we just need to play at the same fire depending on doesn't matter who we're playing So I hope we can do that and I think we will it's gonna be a tough week in practice And I think we'll get it done. It'd be a fun night on Friday night. It's gonna be a I'm excited for it I'm excited quite the atmosphere up that way a chance to you guys go up there and improve something obviously Going into your own conference tournament eight points tonight. You ever had what's what's your at any level career high It's got to be more than a my career high I think was JV when I was my freshman year. I scored 10 goals. Okay. Yeah, that's my high. Yeah, all right That's a pretty good number. That's a pretty good number, but a tonight. I like tonight. You'll take off.  Appreciate it Thank you. Absolutely JT feeling coming up to hang out with us in the all-access postgame show


This paper proposes a novel ultrasound neuromodulation system that can accurately target multiple brain regions. The system uses acoustic holography to compensate for skull aberrations, as well as a phase conjugation mirror and MEMS technology to create a lightweight, portable device. The system was tested in freely moving mice and successfully demonstrated the ability to target multiple brain regions simultaneously. This system has the potential to revolutionize the field of neuroscience by providing researchers with a powerful tool for studying the effects of ultrasound neuromodulation on the brain. This article was authored by Geon Kuk, Ye-Hun Jo, Terin Oh, and others.


Live from Houston, Texas, extracting the signal from the noise, it's theCUBE covering Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Now, your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Houston, Texas with the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, and we are here with Jeff Frick, my co-host, General Manager of theCUBE. We are day one of the Grace Hopper Celebration. Megan Smith has just given a great keynote, CTO, she's from Silicon Valley, now working with the government, really opening up the doors for innovation across the board. Again, this is about women in tech celebration, but we have Brian Nosak, who's not a woman in tech, he's a man in tech, who's here to share his point of view, Executive Director of Center for Open Science, also a professor on leave from University of Virginia. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you for having me. So what do you think about all the sea of ladies here? The men's line is pretty short to get into the men's room. Yeah, it is a fantastic meeting already. We've had great conversations at our booth and everything, just a lot of energy around everything tech related. So it's really- And it's pretty amazing too, it's about technology and a lot of programmers here, a lot of developers, a lot of leadership, talk about your role and your company and how you're involved in this because you have an interesting story. I want you to get it out quickly. COS, Open Center for Data Science and Science, tell people what you're working on because it's a nonprofit. You're liberating the market with new free software, all open source, providing great tooling for data science share, what you're working on. Yeah, so we are a mission driven nonprofit, but it is a technology startup. So our goal is to open data across the sciences and to improve reproducibility of that research because really the data is what's valuable in science but science depends on openness, right? It's all about making things freely available for critique, for extension, for questioning whether those things are accurate inferences. And so we're really trying to provide a framework to make it very easy for sharing data and collaborating across researchers. And how's that different than what they used to do before? Because there was always independent follow up, people would try to replicate. What has really changed in the internet and open standards and where we are now from how that used to be done? Yeah, well the values of sciences have always been about transparency, right? Basic ideas you have to say how it is you got to that scientific claim in order for people to believe it. But the practices haven't been that way. So the emergence of the internet, science is actually way behind compared to other industries because the scientists have not embraced the idea of openness of their materials, of their data, of how they pursue their workflow in producing the findings. It's interesting, I want you to share your data science tooling because I want to get your perspective on women in tech because I see women as a different gender bias towards data as well. They have a different unique orientation than male data scientists. Sometimes more creative, just in my opinion now, general bias, but what's the role of women in data science in your organization, in the academic community, obviously I know you're on leave as a professor, but what's the younger generation look like? What's the mix? What's the mindset? What are some of the insights that you could share with the folks out there in terms of this new breed of data scientists and the women in particular? Yeah, so for us, openness is two things. One, it's about transparency and access to data, but the second part of openness is inclusivity. That the way in which our science and our technology is going to succeed is by drawing on talent across the range of people that can get involved. So really our organization, both by mission and by process, depends on pulling talent from everywhere that we can. And so having a very inclusive technology community in general, and then specific to our company, is critical for us to meet the goals that we have. What's your staffing look like right now? So we have 68 staff, 42% are female, and 75% of our staff are technology people. QA through software development, full stack. What do you think about the digital native generation growing up? I was only interested in saying, I'm a DoD dad of a daughter, and they're growing up. And they're just naturally inclined to love tech. And it's not even about math or science, but there's men and women now are attracted 100% in on the native role. But there's now a generation of computer scientists now in college today. What's it like? What is the current mix there? Just any anecdotal observations that you could share in terms of what the makeup is, what they're thinking, what's it like? Yeah, it's a great question. And the experience that we've had so far, because we have a very young organization, we have a strong internship program where we're getting people that are students wanting to get experience and then very rapidly scaling up. And what is drawing them, at least in the work that we're doing, is to solve problems. It isn't just technology for technology's sake, but technology for an application to really address some issues, some needs, some problem in the community. And for us, obviously that's opening science, but we see that a lot of interest from all the interns and early developers that come into our program and wanting to have their technology matter in some way. So you're donating all this software for free, tooling, the picks and shovels, if you will, for this next generation of software engineering, softwares eating the world. Open source is now a tier one citizen. When I was growing up in the computer, it was radical, tier two, it's like I don't want to pay the licensing fees, it was mostly CES, very mail driven. Now it's a tier one open collaborative resource. The game has completely changed. What's your take on this?  What is the next generation of open source going to look like in your opinion? Because now the data is important. The specialism is also still there. People are vertically targeting. Scientists, for instance, they don't want to be jack of all trades, they want to go deep vertical. Right, and most organizations are using, the data is the basis for the monetization strategy or whatever commercialization strategy they have, and ours is completely the opposite. The data should be freely available. That's the thing that we should not control. And instead, we want to encourage the different services that connect to the open science framework to leverage their expertise, their services, let them be expert in what they're expert in, but make sure that the connections between the services and the data that it's resting on are the things that are freely accessible. Can you give an example of where it works? Where open data was a really good thing and you can give an example of a success. Yeah, so open data in science is so important because tons of money is invested in conducting individual studies. And if those data don't get accessed by others, then they can't be used for the many different types of possibilities that they could be. So we have a nonprofit that I did before this called Project Implicit, where we look at implicit biases, thoughts and feelings people might have, judgments they might make by gender or race or age, and all of that data is freely accessible on the open science framework. And so many other researchers have been able to use it for questions that we would have never asked in our own laboratory, but they have expertise in, and so they've been able to use the same data to solve new problems. And so basically they didn't want to reinvent the wheel, basically. Right, and the resources that went into collecting that. Right, a Project Implicit, we have a million people a year coming to complete these tests. Those data are of high value and we're not going to get to doing all of it. We're not going to have all the ideas of what could be learned from that. And so making it available changes the equation. Yeah, so let's dig down on the bias thing a little bit because I think it's an interesting topic.  Well, of course everything is biased, right? We all bring our life experiences, a certain filter. So that bias is not really the problem. It's when you don't recognize that you have biases, right? And not appreciating the fact that there's bias. So talk a little bit about how you guys have kind of unbundled the yes things are biased but yes, let's also recognize it's biased and try not to get, let that bias get in the way of the fact. Yeah, yeah, it is a huge challenge because bias is a very ordinary outcome of the mind, right? We have to make sense of reality but our brain doesn't experience reality. It comes through our filters, exactly as you said, right? We have to construct an understanding of the world. So we make assumptions, we jump to conclusions, we use stereotypes and all of those things will influence our individual judgments whether we know that we're using them or not. Right. And so a lot of the things that we've been trying to do as an organization is try to identify what assumptions might be driving our behaviors in different circumstances for hiring, for retention, for how it is. We try to create a climate that is inclusive for everybody that's there and can we challenge those assumptions that we have? And by having a very diverse work group, the assumptions come up more easily. More people can notice things that I might not see because of my own life experience, the positions that I have, how people interact with me whereas having many people from different, having different origins and different experiences, a lot of that stuff bubbles up more easily and then everybody can succeed more easily from that. So is that the best way to kind of expose it, to shine the light on it, is to have more points of view so that someone will say, wait, wait, wait, I don't see it that way at all. I mean, we talked to Lori McKenzie from the Claiming Institute and she talked a lot about attacking the problem via behavior, right? You can attack it via behavior in language and vocabulary. You know, real specific things that are actionable that you can do, that you can teach, you can define rather than trying to change the way people think, right? The work. Exactly, I've been studying implicit bias since I started graduate school in 1996. I'm not free of implicit bias. I am about as educated as you can get on it, right? I'm just studying it every day, all day and it's still in my mind because I don't get to decide whether it's in there or not so it really is on behavior, as you say, is that I have values, I have intentions of how I want to behave, I may not always behave aligned with those intentions but where I can intervene is on what I do and be open to having other people challenge that and say, wait a second, how did you get to that decision? Why did you decide to advance him rather than her? That special assignment, you know, she's totally perfect for that. Why didn't you think of her for that? Oh, I don't even know why, you know, and so being having that challenge and not having it be an attack on me as a person but rather a challenge on the process that I've done. That is the key point, that is the key point. Rather than being persecuted for being yourself, right? Just be you, right? Being open to the bias is actually a competitive advantage because you're going to have better input rather than negative energy. That's right. So like, I mean, everyone has a bias. Everybody has their own biases. However, harnessing it will be the key. Yeah, I mean, the key lesson that I've learned from doing research in this area is to have humility about my own decision-making, right? It's so much in to saying I am made an objective decision, but they're not objective, right? They're through all of these filters and so being willing to be humbled by that and have a challenge. How have your studies changed? I mean, this is something that we are very interested in. We do a lot of, you know, anecdotal research and some algorithms around online behavior with interactions on Twitter data. Has the internet changed your acquisition of bias data or has it actually worsened it? Yeah. You can argue that the social graph has actually increased the group think, if you will, actually accelerates the bias or doesn't create more data. Yeah. Back to the data question. It's a great question and there's competing ideas about it and there's not good resolution, right? One perspective is, well, you have so much more access to so many more pieces of information that would challenge your current way of thinking. And so isn't that great? It's an open landscape. But at the same time, we can completely isolate ourselves in a much bigger way by looking only at those data sources that are already aligned with how we think. Yeah. Right? If I am a left winger, there's certain websites that I might go to. If I'm a right winger, there's other websites I might go to and it can create much stronger echo chambers. And there's different now channels of communications. Yeah. Now there's Omni channel, front, back, side, you know, it's like, I can look this way but then back channel somebody this way. So it's really interesting. I mean, I just haven't found any data on this area because this is the key. How do you surface someone to look in the mirror and say, how am I behaving? Yeah. Versus being persecuted. I mean, just this, yesterday flying here on my Facebook thread, I threw out a comment to my friends and said, I'm going to the Great Topper. I'm super excited. Of course, I've interviewed so many women on the Cube. Never once asked them how they balance their family just as well as they're supposed to talk tech. But I said, is it not politically correct to say I love women in tech? Just kind of a comment because I love women in tech. Who doesn't? And all of a sudden, the thread started. A lot of response.  A debate about that. A debate about the word politically correct. Yeah. Just every single. A debate about the word love. The word love. That's one guy brought up the Greek definitions of. There's four versions of love. Amen. And every second. So my point is, you can't get it right. It's everyone will argue about every semantic. Yeah. So this is a challenge. Yeah. It is challenging. And I think a lot of it is just being genuine, right? And being open to having someone push back a little bit and say, well, did you think about it this way and not have that be a threat? Have that be an opportunity? That's exactly what came out of the Facebook thread. One guy, notable comment said, John, just be yourself. They're going to dig you.  Don't. Which is like, okay, wait a minute. That means that I'm not myself then. Okay. You might not be myself. Right. But my point was be genuine. Right. Okay. Be yourself. But don't be trying to be fake. Right. Don't fake it. Right. Oh yeah. Because that's the easiest to detect, right? Right. So I just want to bring it back before we wrap up with Center for Open Science with your core project. Can you give any examples of research, breakthroughs? You said you're kind of general. You don't necessarily concentrate on a particular type of thing like cancer research or this or that. But are there any stories you can tell where having a platform such as what you've been working on have really resulted in either faster problem solving, innovative problem solving, breakthrough problem solving that people can really kind of understand? Yeah. So the latest project that we have that's an illustration of that is that there's a very strong sense in the scientific community across different disciplines that we're not getting as much reproducible research into the published literature as we'd like. That the publisher may not be as reliable as it needs to be. So we, through the Open Science framework, we ran a crowdsourced project. 270 different collaborators all worked together on replicating 100 results in psychology. And the platform made it entirely possible to do it. It would be, have not been feasible to coordinate the protocols, to get all of these separate data collections done, to have those all organized into a single environment and then to make that publicly accessible. And those results were just published last month in Science and have really advanced the conversation in the scientific community about what the challenges for reproducibility are and then how we might improve them. And openness is one of the answers. So what was the answer? Yeah, curious. The short answer is that we were able to reproduce less than half of the results of the published studies that we tried to reproduce, which is much less than we would want. Right. And so the follow up question is why, right? What is it about the published literature? What makes it so hard to reproduce? And that's where they're right now is very interesting debates. You know, and it also is a debate about the academic literature, right? Because the academic journals yield so much power and it's kind of like the old newspaper, right? There's only so much space at the top of the fold. They have a lot of distribution power. There's only so many pages in those journals. How is open source and the research side impacting that process? Because you've also got much easier kind of open peering review than you used to have just those guys in the hallowed hall. That's right. Yeah, the pipeline for getting something into the scientific literature is based on 1940s technology. And there's this fantastic movement of open source, open science technology to try to transform that. Post publication peer review, like you're describing, write open data, more generally open materials. Pre-registration, where people say in advance publicly what they're going to do in that study and how they're going to analyze it and to increase the credibility of what they find rather than just data dredging, right? There's also gatekeepers that run that too. That's right. And so it can really democratize the entire scientific community by making it more open so that anybody that has a good idea can put it into that marketplace and have it be wrestled with. Talk about developers. What are you guys doing? What do you guys do with developers? How do they get involved? I'll see APIs are going to be critical to what you do. Is it cloud-based? Quickly give us the run through the geek side of it. The more interesting, when clouds you use, Amazon, Azure, all of the above. Yeah, so we are a Python, Java, ScriptShop, our primary tool that's open science framework is a web-based application. We use Amazon and Rackspace for a lot of our storage and computing needs. And we have a learning-based internship and hiring program. So because we came out of academics, we have a tech intern program where they can get in. They're all paid internships or they can even do it for credit and they get involved in the code base right away. That's fantastic. And so they really get this very on-the-ground, on-the-job, service-based learning kind of experience. And our goal, obviously, is to hire them or at least make them very hireable by the time they get out. So a meeting like this is also very important for us. Oh yeah, it is fantastic for us. Because we get people that are enthusiastic, they're driven by mission, they want to contribute and they just need the opportunity to get in. So are you on an evangelism mission here and or recruiting or both? Both. We're trying to say what the center is doing. We're always trying to advance our mission. We're also presenting tomorrow about implicit bias, my research work and how we're trying to wrestle with that at the Center for Open Science in terms of a practical application. And we're trying to hire like crazy. Well, it's a great mission. We totally support it. We think you're doing amazing stuff. The bias stuff we want to get, if you can get us a copy of that, so let's follow up and we can get it on our blog, get it out to our audience. And great stuff, really is the future. It really is about democratization. The old way in academic is going to be frictionless data sharing, access to tooling, picks and shovels, it's a gold rush, as we say in California. So, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE, appreciate it. We'll be right back with more from Grace Hopper in Houston, Texas, celebration of women in computing. I'm John Furrier, Jeff Frick, we'll be right back.