This is Covering the Spread, part of the FanDuel podcast network. We've got a big Tuesday on tap for today because not only do you have games across the NBA, but also this is our final day, clocking bets before the tournament begins for the farmers insurance open in the PGA. So we're going to have Brandon Gadoula on for today to break down his thoughts on both of those, talking basketball, talking some golf and getting you set for a successful Tuesday night. I'm on into Covering the Spread. That's right here on the FanDuel podcast network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com. Joined here as mentioned by Brandon Gadoula. Check him out on Twitter at Gadoula13. He is a senior managing editor of NumberFire.com. Brandon, busy week for you, with golf beginning on a Wednesday to avoid overlap with the conference championships. So how are you doing today? Oh, yeah, Jim, with PGA back, it's always busy because the NBA don't stop. It never stops. It's relentless. We know that. And once the PGA tour starts back up, that is also relentless. So basically nonstop with those two sports specifically for me. Do you prefer PGA beginning on a Wednesday so you're done with stuff? Don't think about it? Or is it more hectic for you to jam everything in right away?  Well, it just depends on, you know, how, you know, when we get like slates. Yeah, when we get when we get odds, certain things. I mean, I just feel pretty slow for this week for a lot of a lot of places for the farmers. But I think I probably just prefer the Thursday because in the event that I don't get things all sorted on Monday, I'm still, you know, free and clear for like another two days. Well, we're going to get you set for the Wednesday tea times and get you set for the farmers insurance open later on. We'll start with NBA in just one second. 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Text Hope & Wire in Tennessee. Call the red line at 1-889-9789. Now, moving to the NBA, there are a couple of nationally televised games for tonight. We got the Celtics and the Heat, the Clippers at the Lakers brand. I know your favorite teams all involved. In this one, teams that have never had injury concerns, never had things in doubt for you to juggle throughout the day. So when you look at these, people want to lock in bets while they're watching these games tonight. Anything you like in these games or are they a voids for you? Well, yeah, thankfully, Miami isn't having the worst injury report of all time tonight. So that's very helpful.  Lost by double digits. Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown each played a lot of minutes, 36 or more. So, you know, that's a bit of a concern. However, on no rest this season, the Celtics are 7-0 with an 83% cover rate. There's 6-0 in road games on a back-to-back, 4-2 against the spread. I don't really look at these numbers in terms of, like, actionability, but it likes, I like to see that a team can kind of figure things out on a back-to-back, kind of overcome that game plan accordingly. But with that game last night, there's still no official injury report for Boston. So they're actually a little bit more problematic early in the day than Miami. I would assume they're without Marcus Smart and Malcolm Brogdon again. Al Horford probably sits on the back-to-back. So you got to make adjustments there. Statistically, though, they're still a good team without those guys on the floor so long as they have Tatum and Brown. It's not really a huge change to their data, even if it feels like it. For the heat, again, shockingly small. Injury report doesn't include any key players. The spread currently is Miami minus two. I believe that shifted from one and a half when I looked earlier. And it's not two and a half, two and a half. OK, so probably not getting a lot of Celtics healthy. I think the line is pretty efficient. That being said, I like the over, OK, despite maybe some potential absences so long as we have Tatum and Brown active, Boston is going to be able to score. These teams have played to the over two out of three times already. One of them was it was an overtime game. But I think the scoring is going to be a little bit better than people probably realize with the injuries. Injuries alone don't always mean that that scoring will be down. But yeah, over two, 19 and a half, two, 17 and a half. So it's come down. It's been dropping a lot, which does have me a little bit concerned. But I think it's also one of those games where you look at, you say, you know, back to back, it's Miami at home. Probably probably like the under, but all the data sort of actually points to the over. So that's probably one where you're waiting to see where it hits like its nadir and starts to kind of level out. And if it gets to, you know, if it stays a two, 17 and a half for a while, then I think you can have the confidence to fire on the over. It keeps on tumbling. That probably says that there is some kind of key thing that's going to be announced later on. But as long as it like hits its nadir at some point, I think that it makes sense to keep an eye on it at least. Yeah, but, you know, projecting what we know for certain, even even sort of on the skeptical end with that trio that I mentioned for Boston being out, my numbers have the over. I think that's just one of those like sort of misleading, you know, not really a narrative, but it sounds like it'd be an under but the data likes the over. Yeah, which team for the Clippers and Lakers? Right now Clippers are five point favorites total. That game is two thirty. So, yeah, the Clippers should be pretty healthy based on their injury report in games with both Paul George and Kauai Leonard, eleven and seven, nine and nine against the spread. So I think the odds makers have kind of figured out what this team is played at pretty evenly. The Lakers are the bigger issue here. They're without Anthony Davis. LeBron James is listed as questionable, which isn't really news. But then that for like 70 straight games, it seems like. Yeah, it's a huge shift, understandably, with and without LeBron. With LeBron active for this game, my numbers would have the Lakers is one and a half point underdogs. So I'd love just to take the five points with the Lakers. But without LeBron, their their net rating that I would use goes from basically zero to like a minus 12. They're a really bad team without both LeBron and Anthony Davis in key, key leverage situations. So, you know, it's hard to say early in the day and the over under number switch based on whether LeBron is active. I would assume that he does play. Because LeBron's questionable a lot and doesn't miss a whole lot of games. But, you know, it's one of those where it there's some other games on the slate. I know you probably want to like get action to a national televised game. But for me, I'm not really interested in this one. Yeah, let's say LeBron is confirmed as in, would you be willing to take it as long as it stays below that one and a half that you had it at? Or how would you handle that in that situation? Yeah, I mean, we're going to get points anyway, I think with the Clippers. Like it's not going to shift that much or sorry with the Lakers. So it's it's it's, you know, as long as we're getting points. I'm good with that, basically. So monitoring the total for Boston, Miami, two seventeen and a half right now likely looking at the over there. If we if that doesn't continue to to bottom out and then also keeping on the Lakers potentially adding that later on, depending on the status of LeBron James. But as you mentioned, there are plenty of other games on Tuesday night. What else do you see on the board right now at Fandle? So we have Bull's Pacers. That's an interesting one to me. Pacers are one and a half point home underdogs. Total of two thirty five and a half. But my number is like the under a lot in this one because of the health of Tyrese Halliburton. Without Halliburton, Indiana's offensive rating drops seven point six points. Their defensive rating improves by three point two points, which are both under friendly trends in eight games without Halliburton. Pacers have gone under sixty two and a half percent of time. Their own points per game number drops by six point three. He's a really good player and this team just is different with and without him. So I don't think that's fully accounted for with such a high total. And then Dallas taking on the the Wizards in this one. Dallas seven and a half point home favorites. Washington is going to be without Chris, that's poor Zengas. Dallas is also without Christian Wood, but there's a pretty big difference between like the net net ratings. So basically what you are with a player, what you are without him and like that difference. If you look at that, that number poor Zengas has is a plus five point six. Wood is a plus one point zero. And so long as they as so long as Dallas has Luka Donchich, their offensive rating is high. It doesn't really matter. So they have a one twenty one offensive rating in games with Luka Donchich, but no no Wood or Maxi Kleba. So inject all that into my model. And I think that Dallas wins this one pretty comfortably at home. But right now that number is a seven and a half facing off of the Wizards. It was obviously making some trades recently, seven and a half points spread in favor of Dallas. And you talked about the under for the Pacers and the Bulls, two thirty five and a half the number on that one. A fan dual sports book, the under is minus one oh eight. So decent little card across the NBA for tonight. Let's talk now about some golf. We got the farmers insurance open coming up this weekend. It is a two course event at Torrey Pines, the north and the south course. Most of them played in the south course. What do we need to know about the two courses in play for this week? Yeah, so we should we should focus primarily on the south course and with that in mind distance, it's over seventy seven hundred yards, smaller greens than average around five hundred or sorry, five thousand square feet on average, according to the GCSA. PG tour average is around six thousand, so that's roughly eighty three percent. So basically small greens and that does correlate actually with better iron play, but the distance itself is also important. Just it's not like I'm not saying it's the most demanding set up because we have seen this be set up in a more difficult fashion for the U.S. Open, but it's not going to play quite like that or anything. But you know, past three winning scores have been either 14 or 15 under.  If you look at the past winners here, they're generally like either long off the tee and had the short game clicking to sort of be a surprise winner to some degree or they're just really, really good overall golfers. So, you know, with a lot of studs in the field, that kind of does impact how I'm betting the week like John Rom's on fire, but he's not the only star in the field. And I think it'll it'll probably take a really like true heavyweight to sort of beat him on a course that plays, you know, a lot tougher than what we've been seeing. So I'm looking at Irons distance and putting for this week. Tough to putt on these poet greens statistically on the South course. And again, just kind of an all around test. And that means that the long term form just overall golfer strength is not the worst way to go. I don't know how many like long shots we'll see it's toward the top of the leaderboard come Sunday.  We've seen the past couple of months, and I think it's important to kind of like have a mental reset at that point to kind of reorient yourself with a different kind of set of what we've had here recently. Speaking of different setups that translate to the odds. The odds of this event at Fandall Sportsbook, John Rom plus 430. Pretty short, I will say he has lengthened. He was plus 390. So Fandall, I'll give you a little bit of a break here. But that's short, man. I'm assuming we can't get to wrong with that number, correct? I can't. I like how far off are you from that? Like really far off or no. So plus plus 430 is 18.9 percent. I haven't 14.9 percent. That's that's not bad, actually. It's not like those. Yeah, it's not the worst once you account for like the fact that that number might be a little bit low. I don't account for things like course history in my model. If you did, it might be around 18.9 percent for John Rom, won the US Open, won the Farmers in the past. Just really good here.  And the iron play itself is not really what's separating him. He's just so good at golf. There's nothing that he doesn't do well. So like for me, I can't get there. You know, it's he's shorter than he was last week. But I realistically think like there's not going to be a whole lot of like Davis Thompson's and those in like Chris Kirk's kind of pushing toward the top late on Sunday. I could be wrong on that. I think it'll kind of be like a two or three guy showoff showdown on Sunday. So I'm not going to get there with Rom again. Like if anyone wants to, I'm no longer going to fight it. I'm sick of like avoiding John, like recommending to avoid John Rom at this point. Plus, like it's a tougher course and like the better golfer should separate. So I'm out. He is easily my model's like favorite to win. I I very I don't often get to the bet or recommend my model's favorite because there's more to it than just taking the winner. It's not it's not straight up or anything. So if you want to bet John Rom, you have every race in two, aside from the odds being a little bit shorter than they probably deserve to be. Now, the benefit of having Rahmet plus 430, where his implied odds are about four percentage points higher than his than his odds in your model is that that in theory should open up value elsewhere. In theory, unless they just jack up the hold, which, you know, could happen. Any outrides showing value to you right now? I do like to and they're both toward the top of the board. Let me guess. Are we getting Xander here? Yes, we are getting Xander. OK, OK, knew it. All right. You have a second guess. Oh, let me think here. Is this is your model showing value in this person? Or are you betting them or do you want to recommend them personally? Both. OK. JT. No. Finau. No, he's 12. No, it couldn't be that. Hideki at 33. No. No. Way no. That sounded like. No, the model doesn't really love Hideki that much anymore. So I got Xander. I'm going to just going to call Xander is 11 to one. Who is the other person who was out? Of course. Oh, yeah. OK. I think so. So Will's always doing stuff in good fields and that helps out a lot. But for Xander, I think he's over the back issue based on what he did at the American Express T3 there really surged. And he says that he doesn't like birdie fests. He does pretty well on them usually. Did a lot of damage with the wedges, but we have incomplete shot length data from last week with a three course rotation. So just two courses or two rounds there. But this is probably a good, I don't know, sort of teaching moment because I'm not trying to claim that I know everything. But it's a good reminder that if you just trust long term data and use that, you don't have to like sweat if Xander had like two good rounds with the wedges because we know long term is a good wedge player anyways. It doesn't like you shouldn't really bucket that too much. But the long term data has Xander ranked first in the field in true strokes game T-degree and over the past 50 rounds according to data golf. He's got the home game narrative for this week. I was going to ask what's the bump? What's the bumper home game? He's from San Diego. This is in La Jolla, basically, you know, his backyard. Played a lot of high school golf here. Hasn't always translated to direct success at Torrey Pines, but he's rounding into form at the course on the PGA tour. Top 25 in two of the past four years, T2 in 2021, albeit five shots back of Patrick Reed during his infamous embedded ball situation. We can leave it at that. But I do like Xander and, you know, I think that one of these guys is going to have to be the one who beats John Rom at the top. So I'm going to stick with Zalatoris. It's going to be a smaller betting card at the top. Don't really love long shots for this week. It's a pretty tough top of the board, pretty tough course. That's just how I'm playing it. But for me, Zalatoris makes a lot of sense. Similar to Xander, where I'm no longer concerned about the back, so a good ball striking data from him at the American Express and the Century Tournament champions. He stopped foreign strokes, ganteed a green 21st and putting, which the putting is really trending up long term for him. Good results here, two top 10s the past two years for him. And so, look, it feels like we're fighting John Rom this week, like the field against John Rom. I'd rather go with like Xander or Zalatoris. I will say, if you want to kind of like pay the John Rom tax in a different way, Xander was plus 700 to be top American. So I'm not saying 11 to one and seven are the same thing, but that is an option if you're too fearful of John Rom. I mean, that makes a lot of sense actually, just a lot of- Plus 750. Yeah, so. Zalatoris also gets the home state bump, not the home town bump, because it's a very different part of the state, but he gets the home state bump. He's from the Northern part of the state somewhere up there. But he's 14 to one, Xander Shafley 11 to one. I mean, Xander, I think makes a lot of sense. Getting confirmation last week that he was healthy, I think is kind of the big thing for him. What about non-outrights? Now, the menu here pretty limited thus far, especially because we're talking here on a Tuesday morning, but any you see right now, and then any guys you are looking at for non-outright markets once as opposed to? Even with somewhat limited options, I do see some things that look good. Two in particular, nationality bets. SungJM top Asian player, plus 230. I think that looks good. I think that the odds are too short for both Hideki Matsuyama, who again, my model is not in love with. Of course, where statistically putting is tricky, I think that makes enough sense to shy away from Hideki there. And see what Kim, I think also is bumped up too much. Coming off of a win at the Sony Open, really putted well to a T22 with the American Express. I know, again, limited data, but I think that that has kind of changed things in the short term and that SungJM is the better play long-term at plus 230. And then Dean Bermister, top South African, plus 170. If you just look at the true strokes gained averages among the South Africans in the field over the past 50 rounds, according to Data Golf, Bermister is a plus 0.73. Dylan Fortelli, minus 0.26. MJ Duffy, minus 0.34. And Garakiego, minus 0.76. Big edge to Bermister there, whenever I see stuff like that. My model likes it too, but that's just confirmation that I think the recent form is telling us that we can go with Bermister at plus 170 there. Yeah, so Bermister plus 170, top South African, SungJM top Asian at plus 230, joining Will's Outdoors 14-1 and Xander Shafley, 11-1 Outrights or the Xander 7-1 Top American as well. Preference for you between the Xander Outright and the Xander Top American? Do you prefer the just full outright on him or what do you think? Is the American one really just a hedge to get away from ROM? That would be it, is basically, if you think ROM wins it or you don't want to sweat like ROM and it's a ROM Xander showdown and you don't want to have to worry about it, I personally would go with the outright, but I'm also afraid sometimes of John Rom, so. I don't blame you, it's a very fair emotion to have. I think it's personal preference, but I'll stick with the outright. Okay, well, that sounds like a fun card across the NBA and the PGA for the next couple of days. Get those bets locked in again because the first tee times for PGA this week will be Wednesday morning, so get those in as soon as you can. That is Brandon Gedula breaking down NBA and PGA for us. You can find Brandon on Twitter, at Gedula13, GDULA13, Brandon, thank you for swinging by for today. Once again, good luck to you tonight. We'll talk to you once again in about five minutes over on the DFS side of Things Talks and PGA. Yeah, it's always fun, Jim. Looking forward to it. You can find Brandon's work, his simulations for PGA and his NBA betting guides over at numberfire.com. I'm on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. Almost forgot how to spell my name there for a second. Good start to the day. We'll talk to you once again Wednesday, talking to NBA and NHL with Tom Vecchio. This has been covering the spread right here on the FanDuel Podcast Network.


What's up everyone? My name is Jossi and in today's video I'm going to be talking about what's in my bag for 2021. Yes, a lot of us are working from home. I myself am a front end developer who's working from home. I don't find myself working outside of the crib too much. However, these videos are a lot of fun solely because we get a chance to talk about the main tech, our tech essentials for the year or what we're starting out the year with. I'm excited to share this video with you. Before we get started, I'd really appreciate it if you could give this video a thumbs up it'll help out with the algorithm a lot. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and make sure you hit that notification bell so you can know right away when I release a video. With all that being said, let's get started. My everyday backpack that I've been using for about a year now is the Falco Everyday Commuter Pack by Bagsmart. They sent me this about a year ago, which is when I made my first what's in my work bag and I've enjoyed this backpack so much that I haven't gone with any other backpack now. I do like to have two backpacks, one that's more of my like commuter everyday carry backpack with like my laptop and other tech essentials and also a camera backpack. But for the purposes of this video, the tech that I'm primarily going to be talking about is going to be going inside of the everyday backpack from Bagsmart. So it's a really simple design, kind of like a canvas type of material. I really enjoy the silhouette along with the like navy blue and black colorway. Has plenty of storage can fit a 15 or 16 inch laptop got two pockets on the side for water bottles and that's something that is overlooked. I've had backpacks that didn't have two pockets on each side, you know, to put a V8 energy drink in one pocket and needed to put a water bottle in the other or carry my wife's water bottle and the other pocket. So that's something that I've really enjoyed other than that really basic book bag. It's pretty affordable and is really durable along with having a lot of storage and able to fit a 16 inch laptop. The first item that I want to talk about is the Surface Headphones 2. I used to use the Sony like I think WH-900BN, not exactly sure the name but I'll link those down in the description box as well because they're a great set of headphones. But I replaced those with the Surface Studio Headphones 2 and I love this headphone. Now I will say that I think the Sony headphones that I had might have had better noise cancellation sort of and a nice feature where if you just put your hands over the earcuffs you can go back to ambient noise so you can hear whenever someone is talking with you. However, the Surface Headphones are better in every other way with really good noise canceling. In order to change the type of noise cancellation setting all you have to do is just turn the knob on the ear cuff and it'll change the setting. But in terms of like connectivity to multiple devices this headphone can connect quickly. It pairs quickly and it also can connect up to multiple devices and I can switch in between devices really quickly as if it was in the same ecosystem as like my iPad and my iPhone which it isn't because it's made by Windows and not Mac or Apple. So this is a great headphone they feel really comfortable. I think the black color way looks really really good. One of the best looking headphones you can get and in terms of Bluetooth connectivity, comfortability and overall sound quality great headphone. Moving on to the actual computer or a laptop that I use I use the Surface Book 3. Now this is a device that I've been using the past I'd say like month to a month and a half and I love it. It's not the most powerful device however the capabilities that it offers in terms of productivity you know beautiful resolution a really nice keyboard great battery life and a large display it's great when it comes to that. Now in terms of like power I do have 32 gigs of RAM and I have two terabytes of storage so it's plenty of power even for content creation however for like the price tag that it is you can get much more powerful devices however if you don't need something that's like super duper powerful rendering you know 4k footage all the time and you more so need a device has a lot of screen real estate is pretty light really versatile in terms of how you can use it this is a great device. I've been using the Microsoft whiteboard app a lot just to write down notes when I'm you know studying and working on different programming projects along with thinking of content and just my overall brand for my channel you know just creative thoughts and brainstorming I love this device I've actually found myself using my iPad Pro and iPad Air a lot less moving on to the phone that I use and carry with me every day because I only have one phone not one of those people with two phones but this is the iPhone 11 Pro Max it's not the 12 I didn't get the 12 because I just didn't think it was worth it plus we just switched to Verizon and got this phone like a month before the 12 so there's no way I was about to spend like $500 to upgrade to that phone when it's not really that big of a difference outside of the design and a few things here and there regardless I got the black or space gray iPhone 11 Pro Max it's a base model for Pro Max nothing special here all right all right so the next device that I want to talk about that I carry all the time especially when you know we go to my wife's family's house for the holidays or if I'm going to like a coffee shop to do some work or you know work on a side project and that is the iPad Air now we do have two iPads and the reason being is because we got the first one because my wife likes to video edit and I also wanted another device to like you know consume media on watch Netflix YouTube TV YouTube videos on along with using it for more of that like creative type of work like creating thumbnails for YouTube which has been a great help editing pictures and lightroom and another thing that I got the actual iPad for or I didn't realize I got it for this but it's been a huge benefit to me and that's actually uploading YouTube videos and specifically on this device because it is LTE now I would recommend getting the iPad Air with cellular over the iPad Pro without cellular I can't tell any difference between this air and the Pro this has the 6-core A14 bionic chip it's super fast now no one does any video editing on the air the only thing I've really done is uploading videos simple tasks like you know using Nebo which is one of my favorite apps where it's basically just a freeform page for me to write down notes and create diagrams if I need to along with consuming content and of course uploading YouTube videos but I've really loved this device taking it downstairs to go work out when I do Peloton workouts being able to be on LTE has been great yeah loving the iPad Air would highly recommend getting it it's just helped me with productivity significantly let's take a moment to talk about the lens that I always bring with me my setup is pretty minimal I have only two lenses I have a 90 millimeter G Master and I have a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 zoom lens now I don't bring the 90 millimeter with me too much I usually bring the 28 to 75 with me and the reason being is because it's like literally the most versatile lens that you can ask for it has a f2.8 so I can still get that really nice bokeh especially when I zoom in to like 50 and 75 millimeters it's also extremely light and 28 millimeters gives me more of a wide-angle shot and I can still kind of mimic a macro shot with 75 millimeter and of course 35 and 50 give me that portrait kind of video camera angle I know there are videos out there where people talk about it finally had one lens it would be usually it would be like some sort of zoom lens that covers like wide angle all the way up to like telephoto which is what this lens does it's about $879 and if you're not like familiar with like camera gear and that sounds like a ton of money but for what you're getting that's a really good price and if I could only have one lens it would be this one regards to the camera that I'm using that I carry with me almost everywhere I go especially if I'm in the mood to take some pictures or know that I might get inspired based on wherever I'm going especially like coffee shops I like to shoot b-roll for YouTube videos or get you know some Instagram story but regardless I'm using the Sony a7 III I've been using this camera for I think about two years now and it is great I have zero complaints outside of not having like a flip-out screen which the Sony a7s III has you know resolved by adding a flip-out screen to that camera that's something I'm definitely looking to upgrade to it's just really expensive but regardless the a7 III is an excellent camera everything looks so cinematic I know a lot of you I've been asking about what gear I use so I have the a7 III that came out a few years ago paired with the Sony Tamron 28 to 75 f2.8 this camera goes up to 120 frames per second and 1080p and up to 30 frames per second in 4k the dynamic range is excellent along with having 10 different picture profiles based on what kind of look I'm going after for my YouTube videos all right so that concludes today's video I hope you all enjoyed it 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Hello everyone. Today we explored a city of Sydney's plans for lower-income households in high-density neighborhoods. You'll be hearing today from AISL East Hope from the City Future Reachers Center at University of New South Wales about two neighborhoods with the same local government area in Sydney, both with considerable populations of lower-income households living in apartments, but which provide markedly different day-to-day experiences for their residents. I'm Claudric Silva, and today let's talk about urban planning. Welcome to our episode, Hazel. Thanks, Rodrigo. Good to be here. So the first question for you would be, why is this topic so important? Well, a lot of research that's been done on condominiums so far focuses on luxury high-risers, talks about things like their use of safety deposit boxes in the sky, how they're marketed to well-off residents, but in Australia, lots of people on lower incomes live in condominiums, and we wanted to talk about that and what it means for planners and what it means for housing development in our cities. So I guess I should start by saying, what do I mean when I say lots of people live in condominiums? When I'm talking about condominiums, I'm talking about private apartment buildings where each individual unit is owned separately. In Australia, we call them strata title. They're called lots of different things and lots of other countries, but condominiums is internationally recognized. So we could talk if you want about some of the historical reasons for that. But I'm getting a nod. So part of the reason for that is that we have quite a small supply of public housing, and also we have much fewer rental buildings than in many other countries. So buildings that are built for the purpose of renting out. So essentially, if you rent in a private apartment in Australia, you're most likely renting in a condominium, which we call strata title here. So the result is that large proportions of lower income apartment residents live in condominium housing. The other thing that's really interesting I think about the Australian case is that lower income condominium residents often live side by side with higher income residents. So it's not the case that we have neighbourhoods of lower income condos and neighbourhoods of higher income condos, but we have a mix of resident profiles within the same neighbourhoods. And I think that's really interesting when we're thinking about planning for private development, fully private condominium dominated precincts to think about the mix of people who are likely to live in them. So that's really what the paper explores how is this done. And we do that through two case studies, which are in the same local government area as you said, one of which we might call a best case or ideal scenario, and the other one is a much less than ideal scenario. So these are both neighbourhoods in the same local government area with the same local government responsible for their planning, and the same state government responsibilities for planning, but with markedly different outcomes residents. And in the paper we explore what's happened through a detailed in-depth dive into those cases. And before we jump into the findings, when you started this research, so what were you hoping to find? What was your research gap? So the paper's actually based on a slightly larger research project, which focused on how to plan higher density apartment neighbourhoods that would meet the needs of low income residents. And that project also looked at public housing provisions, private housing provisions of apartments. And we thought that that's really important because although lots of low income households who live in these developments, and in the case of private developments, lots of low income households living in private apartment developments, their needs are seldom explicitly considered or catered for. So their needs as apartment residents, but also their needs. So in this paper, we've focused on the private story. Because you think that's pretty interesting. And we wrote the paper because the contrast between these two neighbourhoods was so extreme, despite the fact that they've both made up almost entirely of private condominiums, and they're in the same place. Of course, I think this contextualisation of how the situation, so how it works in Australia, contrasting to other countries, and now jumping into this research gap was very, very interesting. So can you tell us what are the main findings of your article then? Sure. So I'll briefly describe the two case study areas. The first one we have called Upper Stratfield. So it's the lesson ideal case study. So to give you a kind of picture of people who live in Upper Stratfield in Sydney, who we spoke to, they were living next to empty development sites, so sites where the previous houses had been demolished or had not yet been demolished, but no new development had occurred for many years, without the street upgrades for the park that they'd been told were coming, and they moved to the area. The development in the surrounding area was delayed. That also delayed the contributions that the developer would have provided to fund local public infrastructure. And for example, one grandmother we spoke with, she walks past these empty sites with her grandchildren to catch a train to go to a park in another suburb. So not an ideal outcome there. So residents who live there, we talk about how convenient the location is. It is next to a major transport hub, train station, and a major shopping centre. But the closest parks and children's playgrounds are more than a kilometre away. There's no community centre. And residents told us there was no way to meet and talk or hang around. There's heavy traffic, which made walking in the area unpleasant. And the site is actually sandwiched between the heavy rail line and a major highway. So then if we turn to the other case study area, Roads West, it's in a different area within the local government area. It's waterfront. It sits on a river. It also is walking distance from a train line. It has fantastic local parks. It has a multi-purpose community centre. It was designed with community input and funded and negotiated developer contributions to that community. Residents told us that the neighbourhood gave them a really high level of everyday amenities. It was quite attractive and an enjoyable place to live. And they especially liked the waterfront walks, community centre and access to the shops and the trains. So those neighbourhoods are providing a different quality of life. In the paper, we talk about why that happened and what we can learn about those two cases. The other thing I should say is that these developments were also occurring or in the case of Upper Strathfield, not occurring around the same time as before. Okay. Okay. So there's a difference in the time of the research? Well, no, I mean, what I'm saying is it's not that they're occurring at completely different times. The development period is quite long, but contingent. Of course. And so it's interesting to do two different contracts. So my question would be for you now. So now what? Can you indicate what comes next in this topic? So what's now left to find? Well, I think what I need to explain to answer that question is how did we get here? How do we have Upper Strathfield, which has a not very desirable outcome in the roads west, which has a very desirable outcome. So Upper Strathfield was at the edge of a lot of strategic planning proposals, but it wasn't central to any of them. So, for example, there were proposals to upgrade the major highway that I mentioned. There were proposals to put in a new metro station nearby. A series of kind of rolling proposals that might have impacted on what could be developed in the site, but where the site was not central to, or strategically central to any of those proposals. And what people have indicated to us is that they think that one of the major landowners in the area was sitting on the sites and not developing them with a view to perhaps them being able to develop in the high densities where some of these were to come on. So sitting on the sites and getting a more profitable outcome. So in contrast, roads west was a high profile site. It involved larger development companies, what we call Tier 1 development companies. So kind of the big boys in town. It had a lot more local and state level political attention, and that brought with it a lot more resourcing and coordinating of planning approaches. And it became central to the strategic planning story, and it was resourced appropriately. In the paper, we discussed how that was able to happen, and there are many reasons for that. One is simply the geography. Upper Strathfield is sandwiched between a heavy rail line and a major road, while roads west is on the riverfront. But there are also other reasons. Upper Strathfield was on the edge of various strategic proposals, including a new metro and an upgrade to the highway, while roads west was central and a focus as a precinct for upgrade that received both local and state level political attention and associated with that more resourcing and coordinated planning approaches. So the question that we ask in the paper or the problem that we pose is how can this be allowed to happen? If we can demonstrate through roads west that we can achieve excellent planning outcomes for lower income residents in private apartment developments, why aren't we achieving them in all developments? And that's why the two cases in the same local government area are so interesting. Or put another way, how can we try and achieve types of outcomes that we achieve in roads west in places like Upper Strathfield? And so we explore in the paper two main areas. One is planning and public infrastructure provision, and the other is place management and community engagement. And we compare what happened and didn't happen in the two case study areas in that sense. One of the important differences in terms of base management and community engagement was the delivery of the community centre in roads west. Upper Strathfield doesn't have one. And also a dedicated place manager position within the local council in West which there wasn't afforded to Upper Strathfield. That was very important in the roads case for achieving positive outcomes that were achieved. So why can't we achieve this in all neighborhoods, not just in high profile sites? So you asked before, what does this mean for further research? I think we've demonstrated how by just looking at two cases in depth, we can really start to explore the politics of the planning process and also some of the good practices that we might want to replicate. And I would be calling for many other researchers to be doing many other case studies like this at that neighbourhood or precinct scale with a critical reflection on the planning process so that we can learn more about what we should be seeking to achieve across the board and also raising these political questions and not just assuming that private condominium developments are going to house wealthy people and provide a good quality of life for them. So if there was one takeaway that I wanted people listening to this talk to go away with, I would say, so long as we're primarily relying on the private market to deliver housing, lower income residents are going to live in private condominiums and governments are going to need to intervene through appropriate planning process to ensure that their needs are met or put another way. Don't forget that lower income people will live in condominiums too. Of course. An important punchline and still a lot of research to be done in the topic. Absolutely. Hazel, can you provide us to the listeners some additional resources about the topic that you discussed today? Some self-promotion is allowed if it's the case. So can you recommend more materials for our listeners to explore this topic? I would love to, Rodrigo. So there's a broader report on which this paper was published by the Australian Housing and Open Research Institute and I can provide a link that perhaps you can link to this presentation to that report. It has much more detail and also additional case studies in the city of Melbourne. I'll also provide links to two news articles that we published in the conversation based on this project as well for the further background and reading. Perfect. And thank you, Hazel, for your participation here today. That was my pleasure. This episode is available on Urban Planning websites on Koshitatsu's YouTube channel as well as in podcast directories. Hazel, it was a pleasure. Thanks, Rodrigo.


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The narcissist world is surrealistic, psychedelic, nightmarish, and hallucinatory. So how come he lures you into it? How come you walk willingly into this hall of mirrors, into this howling void?  I'm going to use a variety of examples from world literature and philosophy to try to understand what's going on? What's going on? What had happened to you? Now that you are out of the relationship looking back it all looks like a nightmare a dystopian fantasy. It all looks unreal. One of the main symptoms that victims of narcissistic abuse report is the unrealness of it all. They look back and they can't believe they've been through this and they're right. The narcissist is not real. It's a simulacrum. It's a simulation. There's absolutely nobody there. Never mind how handsome, how intelligent, how well educated, how many books the narcissist had offered and a professor of what the narcissist is. My name is Sanwagni and I'm the author of Malignan Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited and I'm a professor of psychology in a variety of universities around the world. Stay with me for this tour and of course, it's a tour de force. I want to start by quoting a saying by Aldous Huxley. Aldous Huxley wrote maybe this world is another planet's hell and this is a good encapsulation of the relationship with the narcissist.   Everything is disjointed. Everything is discontinuous and terrifying to some extent, exactly as it happens in dreams and nightmares. In the stone garden in Kyoto, Japan there are 15 stones arranged in something called a dry landscape. But no matter how you approach these stones, you see only 14 of them. No matter how you approach them on the ground, you can count only 14. Only when you climb up or take a drone or a helicopter can you see that there are actually 15 stones. The narcissist is that missing stone and introduces you into his beautiful dry landscape, into his stone garden.  The narcissist is a bit exotic, a bit foreign. It's like being attracted to an alien on a vacation. It's like a summer holiday fling. Which continues forever. But you don't see the 15th stone, which is the most critical one. To see the 15 stones, to perceive its existence, you must climb up. You must take distance. You must put distance between you and the narcissist. You must be above it all. Chuang Tzu was a philosopher in ancient China. One night he went to sleep and he dreamed that he was a butterfly. He dreamed that he was flying around from flower to flower. And while he was dreaming, he felt free. Blown about by the breeze hither and thither, he was quite sure Chuang Tzu that he was a butterfly. But when he woke up, Chuang Tzu realized that he had just been dreaming and that he was really Chuang Tzu, dreaming that he was a butterfly. But then Chuang Tzu asked himself the following question. Was I Chuang Tzu dreaming that I'm a butterfly? Or am I now really a butterfly dreaming that I'm Chuang Tzu? And this constant disorientation and dislocation, constant self-gaslighting, not only outside gaslighting, but self-gaslighting, constant uncertainty as to what is real and what is not. Who is doing the dreaming? Is the narcissist dreaming you or are you dreaming the narcissist? This question had been tackled in numerous works of literature. A bit further, I'm going to study an excerpt from Alice in Wonderland. But before we go there, a more cheerful piece of work is Solaris. Solaris is a 1961 science fiction novel by the renowned Polish writer Stanisław Lem. In Solaris there's this crew of scientists. They are on a research station. They are at work trying to come to grips and understand and glom in extraterrestrial intelligence. But it's an unusual extraterrestrial intelligence. It has a form of a vast ocean on an alien planet, an eponymous alien planet, the titular alien planet Solaris. It's a wonderful amazing novel, very, very disconcerting and disquieting and yet somehow mysteriously kind of liberating. Solaris is the chronicle of the futile attempted communication with this extraterrestrial life. It's a distant alien planet. It's covered with an ocean of gel. And this ocean of gel is actually a single entity. It's just this whole planet is covered with a single organism. And so the scientists think that the conjecture that it's probably living, it's probably a sentient being, and so they say why not communicate with it? And there's this guy, Chris Kelvin, a psychologist, what else? And he arrives aboard the Solaris station. And the scientists there have studied the planet and studied the ocean for many decades, etc. But they kind of get nowhere.  And it's not clear whether these different results are because this organism, this entity is frustrating their efforts or because science, as we have known it, cannot be applied on this planet for some mysterious reason. And so there's a whole discipline that had evolved over these decades and it's called Solaristics. And it's simply observing, recording and categorizing the phenomena that occur on the surface of the ocean. And so there's this enormous compilation of nomenclature and phenomenon. And so there's no understanding. There's no understanding. They can't get to the root of it all. And so shortly before Kelvin, the psychologist arrives, the crew exposed the ocean to an aggressive and unauthorized experiment with the high energy, X-ray bombardment. And having done that, suddenly there are unexpected results. All of them are subjected to the ocean's retribution. Having intruded into this single organism via various layers, having leveraged X-rays to see the inner aspect of this organism. The deeper hidden dimensions, then suddenly the personalities of these scientists come to life. It's like the ocean, the entity, materializes, actualizes and realizes physical manifestations. It's like ectoplasm in spiritualism. And so each one of them comes across their deepest fears. People they loved and had died. Their sadness and sorrow, the ocean exposes them to everything that's been repressed and suppressed. Everything they had forgotten, every trauma they had blocked off in firewall, the ocean exposes them, exposes them to this. And so they fall apart.  And it's harrowing, it's tormenting and they disintegrate. And all other researchers are exposed to the same experience. Lem wrote, the peculiarity of those phenomena seems to suggest that we observe a kind of rational activity. But the meaning of this seemingly rational activity of the solarium ocean is beyond the reach of human beings. And so it's a sentient alien. And this sentient alien has the capability to provoke in human beings their deepest fears, insecurities, regrets, remorse, sorrows, sadness. Emotions is able to dysregulate them and destroy them in the process. I have never heard of a better encapsulation of the relationship with the narcissist. Using the dual mothership principle and brain and training, this is exactly what the narcissist does to his so-called intimate partners and insignificant others. Now I've dwelt upon, I've dealt with and training and the dual mothership principle in previous videos, most notably my dialogues with Richard Granum and with Charles, which you can find on this channel. And so the narcissist has this fantastic universe, a paracosm, and he invites you in. And when he invites you in, it's a dreamlike state.  The narcissist dreams you. It's like the famous books by Carlos Castaneda. The narcissist evokes you inside his dream. And when you had entered his dream, it's very difficult to extricate yourself because you gradually acquire the characteristics of his dream. You become a dream entity. And I want to read to you an excerpt from Alice through the looking glass, the sequel to Alice in Wonderland by the inimitable Louis Carroll. And here's what happens. Here Alice checked herself in some alarm, adhering something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam engine in the wood near them. Though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast. Are there any lions or tigers about here? She asked timidly. Ah, said twiddly. It's only the red king's gnawing. Come and look at him the brothers cry, twiddly and twiddledom. Come and look at him the brothers cried and they each took one of Alice's hands and led her up to where the king was sleeping. Isn't he a lovely sight, said twiddledom? Alice couldn't say honestly that he was.  I'm afraid we catch cold with lying on the damp grass, said Alice, who is a very thoughtful little girl. He's dreaming now, said twiddly. And what do you think he's dreaming about? Alice said, nobody can guess that. Why, about you, twiddledy exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you would be? Where I am right now, of course, said Alice. Not you, twiddledy retorted contemptuously. You would be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream. If that their king was to wake at a twiddledom, you'd go out, bang, just like a candle. I shouldn't, Alice exclaimed indignantly. Besides, if I'm only a sort of thing in his dream, what are you I should like to know? Ditto, said twiddledom. Ditto ditto, cried twiddledy. He shouted this so loud, that Alice couldn't help saying, hush, you'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise. Well, it's not you as you're talking about waking him, said twiddledom. When you're only one of the things in his dream, you know very well, you're not real. I am real, said Alice, and began to cry. You won't make yourself a bit realer, a bit more real by crying, twiddledy remarked. There's nothing to cry about. If I wasn't real, Alice said, half laughing through her tears. It all seemed so ridiculous. If I wasn't real, I should be able to cry, I shouldn't be able to cry. I hope you don't suppose those are real tears, twiddledom interrupted, in a tone of great contempt. I know they're talking nonsense, Alice thought to herself, and it's foolish to cry about it. So she brushed away her tears, and went on as cheerfully as she could. At any rate, I'd better be getting out of the wood, for really it's coming on very dark. Do you think it's going to rain? Alice's experience with the narcissistic twins, because twiddledy and twiddledom are reflections of each other, mirror images. Much later in this video, I'm going to mention Lacan and his work on mirrors. By the way, Lacan is my spitting image. I'm kidding you're not. We look like identical twins. He was a psychologist, I'm a professor of psychology, and we look like identical twins. Not a big compliment to Lacan, I should think. Anyhow, Shoshanim, her experience in the forest with the Red King is exactly what all intimate partners and victims of narcissistic abuse go through. At times, during the relationship with the narcissist, you feel as though you don't exist, as if you were just conjured up by the narcissist, conjuring. As though you're kind of two-dimensional, painted, so to speak, by the narcissist. Carl Jung, in a letter dated 16th January, January 1959, had written, I was the figure himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi. In his autobiographical memories, dreams and reflections, Carl Jung wrote this, I had dreamed once before of the problem of the self and the ego. In that earlier dream, I was on a hiking trip. I was walking along the little road through a hilly landscape. The sun was shining, and I had a wide view in all directions. Then I came to a small wayside chapel. The door was ajar, so I went in. To my surprise, there was no image of the Virgin on the altar and not crucifix either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement. That's the empty core of the narcissist. But then I saw, continues Jung, that on the floor in front of the altar facing me set a yogi in Lotus posture in deep meditation. When I looked at him more closely, I realized that he had my face. I started in profound fright, and I awoke with the thought, aha, so he's the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I'm it. I knew that when he awakened, I would no longer be. Ulysses is the hero of the Odyssey, the Greek epic poem attributed to Homer. Ulysses is the Roman name of Odysseus. Odysseus is Greek, Ulysses is Roman. I'm going to use Ulysses. Ulysses spends ten years trying to get back home to Ithaca, God knows why, after the Greeks had won the Trojan War. Ulysses comes up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, by the way. Anyhow, on one of his trips, he comes across a cave, and in the cave there's a cyclope. An ominous, threatening creature, a giant monster with a single eye, straight smack in the middle of his forehead. It is a cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. Polyphemus makes a show of hospitality at first.  And he proceeds to devour two of Ulysses' men on the spot, and he imprisons Ulysses and the rest of the men in his cave, presumably as future items on his menu. Ulysses cleverly lied to the cyclops.  Of course, consequently, nobody comes to his help. Stories about dreams, stories about dreams resonate a lot with victims of narcissistic abuse, but equally with narcissists. Remember, narcissists are victims of trauma. They are post-traumatized, small children, stuck in a cave exactly like this one, facing the cyclops of abuse and trauma in early childhood. And so they resonate with other victims of abuse, who dependents, for example, people with borderline personality disorder. There's a resonance there, there's a twinship, there is an affinity that cannot be denied. And so, together, the narcissist and his intimate partner weave the dream, create a dream, and then inhabit the dream as two figments of each other's minds. They recreate each other time and again on the fly as it were. And then they lose the ability to tell what's real, and even more crucially, who is real. In the Book of Sand, El Libo de Arena, it's a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Bohes. The Book of Sand is about the discovery of a book. The book has an infinite number of pages. The other story is by Bohes with the same motif, like there's a hill anyhow. And so, this book has an infinite number of pages. The story starts with this unnamed narrator, and suddenly he has a visitor. And the visitor is a tall Scottish Bible-seller. And the Scott presents him with a very old cloth-bound book that he allegedly had bought in India from an untouchable. The book is emblazoned with the title Holy Rite, underneath the title there's the word Bombay. But it's called the Book of Sand because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end. When you open it, when the narrator opens it, he is startled to discover that the book is written in an unknown language. It has amazing punctuated illustrations, which are pretty meaningless. It's very reminiscent of the Voynich manuscript, by the way. And it is infinite. As one turns the pages, more pages grow out in the front and back covers. And so, he hides it. He's so startled, and he hides his book behind 1001 nights. Over the summer, the narrator develops an obsession over the book. He takes it out, he pours over it, he catalogues the illustrations. He refuses to leave home because he's afraid the book would be stolen. In the end, he realizes the book had taken over him. The book had possessed him. It's monstrous. So, he considers to burn it. But he's afraid that because there's an infinite number of pages, there will be an infinite production of smoke, and the smoke will suffocate the world that is destroyed. So, he goes to the National Library, where he once worked, exactly like the author Bohes, by the way. And he leaves the book on a basement bookshelf, reasoning to himself the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. The problem with this book is that if you read a certain page, you can never return to this page, always reach another page. And it has no last or first page. And that's also an excellent description of the kaleidoscopic psychology of the narcissist. You can never return to the same page. It has no end or beginning because it has no story, there's no narrative. It's totally discontinuous and disjointed. Dissociation destroys the narcissist's identity. He has no identity. He has no self. He has no functioning ego. There's nobody there. It's an emptiness.  Karl Popper said, the philosopher said, our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German physicist and sapphirist, wrote, a book is a mirror. If an ape looks into it, an apostle is hardly likely to look out of it. So the narcissist is infinite and is a mirror. He allows you, the narcissist allows you to see yourself. And this time, if an ape looks at the mirror, an apostle does look back. The narcissist idealizes you.  And this is irresistible, exactly like the book of sand. It's infinite. It's a whole of mirrors. They all reflect each other in an infinite regression, ad infinitum. And so you're taking in, you're captivated, you venture deeper and deeper in the corridor of the whole of mirrors. And finally, you can't find your way out. There are not enough breadcrumbs to ever get you out of it, of this labyrinth, this maze of the narcissist's mind. And this is of course very reminiscent of Jacques Lacan's work. Now I am not, and I'm trying to be very restrained and to use a British understatement of the millennium probably. I am not a fan of Lacan.  In Germany and France, there's a tendency to confuse obscurity and bad writing with profundity and sagaciousness and wisdom. And Lacan has a lot, has an abundance of obscure and bad writing. But every fool who talks for decades is bound to come up with some wise things to say. It's like a clock whose hands are steel, and this clock would be right twice a day. Lacan latched on to previous ideas about mirrors and the importance of mirroring in the formation of narcissistic pathologies. Mirrors are exactly like dreams. Dreams are the mirrors of the unconscious. You are mirrored by the narcissist. The narcissist mirrors himself through your gaze. It's all smoke and mirrors basically. And the mirror stage and the symbolic order are two innovations introduced by Lacan. He said that when an infant stumbles upon a mirror, when an infant apprehends herself for the first time in a full body mirror, she is suddenly bombarded with an image of herself as a totality, as a complete whole. Previously says Lacan, children previous to encountering a mirror, previous to this specular experience. Children experience existence as a fragmented entity, various parts and beats and organs with libidinal needs. So there's a prem mirror stage and post mirror stage.  That's Lacan, that's not me. I strongly disagree. And by the way, majority of object relations schools and, of course, recent discoveries in neuroscience and so on, all refute this utter and complete nonsense. But as a metaphor, it works. So the child perceives herself suddenly as a whole. The image in the mirror is what Lacan calls the ideal eye. He couldn't use ideal ego, which was proposed by Freud, because he wanted to appear original. Lacan was very strong on being original and being noticed, which is a gentle way of saying that he was a prime narcissist. Anyhow, this ideal eye or ego ideal, actually, for Lacan, provides an image of wholeness. And this image of wholeness is essentially the ego. What Lacan did, he renamed big parts of Freud's work, essentially. Anyhow, and exactly like in Freud, the ego, the ideal eye, is formed through an external force. The sudden realization of a complete image of the self that appears in the mirror to counteract the infant's primordial sense of fragmentation. So when the child apprehends himself or herself in the mirror, there's jubilation. There's jubilation, but the child is still stuck in dependency and motor incapacity and so on and so forth. And so some processes are beginning to take place. But I will not go into all this because I'm not making a video right now on Lacanian psychoanalysis. Thank God. I still want to focus on the mirror. The image in the mirror is an image of coherence, of totality, of wholeness and completeness. These are critical facets, critical facets of idealization. That's the merchandise the narcissist is selling to his victims, to his intimate partners. That's how he lures them into his trap only to devour them as cyclops had done. The mirror makes the world and our place in the world complete subjects. It makes, in other words, sense of the world. Many victims describe the experience of having met the narcissist for the first time and having fallen in love with him. And as suddenly everything made sense, suddenly there was a meaning and a direction and a goal to it all. Suddenly they say, I was infused and infused with and by life itself. Everything sprang into color that which used to be black and white. So it becomes a process of identification of the internal self with an external image which is precisely what the narcissist does to you. He equates, it causes you to equate your internal self with his external rendition of you.  In return for an external image basically, a mirror. So the mirror image, the mirror stage in Lacan's work represents the infant's first encounter with subjectivity, with spatial relations, with an external sense of coherence and with the sense of I and you.  You re-experience all these. It's like getting a second chance at redesigning yourself. And the mirror stage also plays a key function in the interpolation of subjectivity and this has to do with Althusser. I refer you to my video on Althusser as a precursor to the study, to the modern study of narcissism. And so Lacan distinguishes three orders as he called them. These are spaces within which certain aspects of subjectivity operate. And these three spaces are very relevant to narcissistic abuse, which essentially to any relationship with the narcissist. The first space or the first order is the imaginary. Lacan says that the imaginary becomes the internalized image of this ideal. So the child sees itself in the mirror, creates an ideal eye and then internalizes this image. And that's the imaginary, ideal whole self. And it's situated around the notion of coherence rather than fragmentation. It's roughly aligned with the formation of the ego in Freud. In Freud, the ego is a mediator between the internal and the external world. According to Lacan, the imaginary becomes a space in which there is a relationship between the ego and its images. And Pierce said that the imaginary is aligned with the icon, icon and image which is understood with no or little mediation. And the second order is the image. De Sussure says that the imaginary becomes the signified. The concept symbolized arbitrarily by a sign. And there were many other interpretations of the imaginary. The second order is the symbolic. In contrast to the imaginary, the symbolic involves the formation of signifiers. It's the realm of language. It's the determining order of the subject. And when you see the entire system of the unconscious and conscious, it's an endless web of signifiers signified, signifiers signified. In other words, it's a language process. It's a process of associations between signs and what they stand for. No wonder that Lacan says symbols in fact envelop the life of a man in a network so total that they join together before he comes into the world, those who are going to engender him. What he's trying to say, I think, I hope, is that language is the precursor to consciousness. It is language which makes the man, not men who makes the language. Marx said something to that effect. Lacan says, men speaks, therefore, but it is because the symbol has made him men. This is beginning to see. These are all very narcissistic statements. Sorry, statements that pertain are very relevant to the process of narcissism. In narcissism, there's a highly idealized I, highly idealized self. This idealized self is the mediator between the narcissist and reality, and it is the false self. I wonder how Lacan did not make the distinction between false idealized and true idealized. Curious, because he was on his way there. Similarly, the three orders, the imaginary, the symbolic, and shortly we'll talk about the real, the three orders are directly applicable to understanding how the narcissist's mind works. The symbolic order functions as the way in which the subject is organized and to a certain extent how the psyche becomes accessible through language. It is associated with words, with writing, and parlance, I think, pierces symbol and signifies. The third order is the real. We have this conventional conception of objective collective experience, but in Lacanian theory, the real becomes that which resists representation. Everything that's pre-mirror, pre-imaginary, pre-symbolic, pre-language, the real, the core, not corrupted yet by the mirror, not corrupted yet by language. There is some equivalent here to introversion, Jung's perception of introversion. Everything that cannot be symbolized. Everything that loses its reality once it is symbolized, once it is made conscious once it is subjected to language. It is the aspect where words fail. Miller described it as the ineliminable residue of all articulation, the foreclosed element which may be approached, but never grasped, the umbilical cord of the symbolic. I found online this wonderland of narcissists. I found online a thesis by Martin Lopez Garcia. The University of Aladolid. It's titled Alice After Lacan, the symbolic, imaginary, and the real. And I want to read to you an extended excerpt. Jacques Lacan's homage to Louis Carroll says the author proposed that psychoanalytical theory can learn from Louis Carroll's works, as our subjective structure is better represented in Alice than anywhere else. Firstly, those aspects of the subjective structure present in Alice have been discussed in terms of the symbolic. We have seen how the people of Wonderland always make use of puns, homophonic, homonymic, compound, recursive puns, and Portman too, worries. When Alice hears these characters, she gets disoriented. Meaning is always changing and elusive. Garcia continues, also the presence of Alice's inability to express herself and of her lack of communication with the others is constant. Every logical explanation given by Alice is dismissed, and this causes her a lack of identity. It's precisely what the narcissist does to your value. Garcia is describing a typical set of interactions between the narcissist and their intimate partner. Listen well. Actually allow me to read this to you again. We have seen how the people of Wonderland always make use of puns and Portman too, words. When Alice hears them, meaning is always changing and elusive. Isn't this your experience with the narcissist? Also continues Garcia, the presence of Alice's inability to express herself and of her lack of communication with the others is constant. Every logical explanation given by Alice is dismissed and this causes her a lack of identity. In Lacanian terms says, Garcia, Wonderland's world of nonsense is ruled by the signifier and miscommunication is an effect of the lack of correspondence between signifier and signified. As in the big other of the unconscious, every attempt to find meaning in Wonderland is frustrated. Secondly, the imaginary register of subjectivity can also be found in Alice. Alice is defined by the others in terms of her appearance and image, but they constantly mistake her for something different. Wonderful. It's exactly what the narcissist does. He derives his sense of identity from the gaze of others, from the way he appears to them, but they don't perceive him. They perceive the false self. They mistake him for something different, exactly as the characters in Alice in Wonderland mistake her for other things, not for Alice, to the point that she begins to ask herself, maybe I'm not Alice, maybe I'm Mabel, the stupidest girl in the class. Garcia continues, also Alice's body is constantly changing, growing, shrinking or fragmented in such a way that she cannot identify her own body or herself. It is what she tries to repair by tying up the parts of the body of the Duchess's baby or by building an ideal image of herself as a good educated girl. And this is exactly what the narcissist does to you. It destroys your ability to perceive yourself, even your body, properly. He uses all kinds of techniques, if he's psychopathic, he's using also gaslighting to prevent you from creating a coherent and cohesive and functional self-image and self-deception. And because you need to have one, he hands it to you. He says, here, I will give you, if I want you to have an opinion, I will give it to you.  It's going to be wonderful, it's going to be idealized, you're going to love it. But you have to rely on me, you have to be dependent on me to understand, to realize who you are. The narcissist tells you, outsource your identity to me because I have taken your authentic original identity and trampled it on the foot and ruined it for good. Garcia continues in her thesis. There is strong evidence to suggest that in Wonderland one returns to an early imaginary order of subjectivity that Lacan described. A mirror world that is best represented by the narcissistic rivalries of twin pairs into the looking glass. Lastly in Wonderland we are found in Alice the experience of anguish produced by all those body transformations, misidentifications and nonsensical words that have created an abyss of meaning and identity around her. This corresponds to the Freudian uncanny, the Lacanian real. It all begins by falling down a rabbit hole into the world of the unconscious where time and space lose their reference and liberation from anxiety only comes by waking up. In conclusion it may be said with Lacan that Wonderland represents the world of the unconscious in which the main registers of a humanist subjective experience can be found, the symbolic, imaginary and the real. Alice's experience is not different from ours. Usually our attempts to find meaning through what we know or have learned are useless. We do not feel that the others recognize us and we have to defend from anguish. By sublimating his own impulses in writing Alice, Carol integrated all aspects of this objective structure in his work. Thanks to it we can learn about his complexity and this leads me to the final insight. The narcissist's hold on you is because he provides you with an alternative unconscious, as simple as that.  He intruses and invades and becomes a deep-seated, stealth, root-kit interject. And to eradicate him sometimes you need to reinstall the entire operating system, exactly as in computer manual.


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Pokemon have just dropped a brand new patch for Pokemon Scholar in Violet, the 1.3.2 update has gone live and where there comes a bunch of hints leaks about the potential information that we could see in the DLCs as well as some future raid events that could come to the games very soon and we're going to cover all of the details in today's video. So this all started a couple of weeks ago and Pokemon put a notice up in regards to a new patch that would be expected to drop in regards to three particular moves that they outlined that had errors in them when they were traded from Pokemon Home into Pokemon Scholar in Violet. The Pokemon that were effective were Cleaver, Sneasler and the Hussuy and Samarov with their respected signature attacks, Diaclull, Stone Axe and Ceaseless Edge. Those moves having a higher critical hit chance to them weren't actually meant to be like that in Scholar in Violet so this patch was specifically outlined to say we're going to resolve that and take that higher critical hit chance away from these moves and it doesn't appear as though that has been changed in the game. So as we can come over to Twitter here you can see the update from PokemonPlayPokemon but the update version 1.3.2 has been released for Pokemon Scholar in Violet. For details regarding this update please visit the following link so if we head over to this link here we'll be able to have a look at the patch notes for this specific update. As you can see here version 1.3.2 released the 28th of June which is today as I record in this video. Mechanic adjustments have been made for upcoming live tournaments and that is actually all we get so nothing more than that for the patch notes so there isn't really too much to go on here but like we mentioned before this patch was specifically outlined to resolve the error in the descriptions for Diaclull which is Fatal Claw here, Stone Axe and Ceaseless Edge which all have a higher critical hit chance to them so this description was meant to have been resolved with this update. This has not actually been done whether the mechanics themselves of these moves has been changed which feels like it's more likely to have been done they've just removed that mechanic from the moves but the descriptions have actually stayed the same so whether that would have caused issues between home Scholar in Violet and Pokemon Legends Arceus if you're trading between them or not I don't know but hopefully the mechanics going into regulation D with this update have changed those moves so they don't any longer have a higher critical hit rate the issue is with the descriptions staying the same it's going to be misleading for fans that kind of come into Scotland Violet a bit later maybe trade these Pokemon across and are a little bit confused why these moves aren't having a higher critical hit rate then they should do as the description says so hopefully that is something that does get resolved in a future update but on the back of this we have had a lot of information in regards to this update so Matt who is Matt Yukana over on Twitter a very well-renowned dataminer has come out with some big information on this patch update so per the official Scholar in Violet news site this update was meant to change misleading move descriptions for Diaclos Stone Axe and Ceaseless Edge just before regulation D starts which is on the 1st of July so a couple of days away now they did not update said move descriptions but instead opted to leak DLC content nice so you can see the descriptions of the moves are here from the data mine itself the user lashes out at the target with ruinous claws aiming to land a critical hit and they've all still got that land a critical hit option in the the move description so that has not been removed like we've just mentioned but Matt did go on to say there was a bunch of DLC updates as well so my also goes on to say the latest update for Scholar in Violet has some adjustments to text and some additional for future DLC content which is really interesting so this new segment of text for the new battle new is going all out against its formidable opponent so this is a new battle text that popped up in the recent update that indicates that Mew could be playing a big part in one of the DLCs maybe it is the Teal Mask and it's theorized that Mew could be one of the big partnering Pokemon that you use to go up against Ogopon which is obviously the big bad oh supposedly the big bad of the Teal Mask we don't really know too much information yet but it's interesting that this line of text has popped up in the data mines because obviously it will be a big part of the games and the description itself Mew going all out against its formidable opponent kind of stands out quite a bit from the regular text that we'd normally get in the game it does feel like it's playing a big part a big role in it and why is Mew connected in Scholar and Violet hasn't even been mentioned before so this is a really big hint at what potentially is to come the other thing that was referenced by Matt in the data mines was the TM update so TM's at the moment stop at 171 that's where we got up to so we got 171 TM's but in the data mine we have new TM's listed nothing specifically against these TM's but TM 172 to 201 so like 30 new TM's are going to be added in the DLC's and the illuminate ability has been changed as well so the illuminate ability was raises the likelihood of meeting wild Pokemon by illuminating the surroundings this has now been changed in the recent update by illuminating its surroundings the Pokemon prevents its accuracy from being lowered so it has been changed it actually has some use in competitive battles as well now rather than just being used for kind of shiny hunting and stuff like that that it's been used for in the past so that's a big kind of hint it's some big changes that we can see coming so these are the two big ones here obviously the Mew information here is huge because I mean the implications for it being involved in one of the DLC's against one of the big bads that we're gonna come up against is pretty exciting because Mew hasn't really featured in any games recently as a kind of like partnering Pokemon to us so it's really exciting to see that it finally will have a big role to play potentially from this text that we've got from the DLC's going forward obviously as well with the TM update it was to be expected but it's nice to have kind of almost confirmation that we are going to be getting new TM's when the DLC's do drop as well as that interesting change to the illuminate ability as well and other interesting news is Matt goes on to further say that the update the description of the mightiest mark has changed so the old description of the mightiest mark a mark for Pokemon court in a seven-star terror raid battle and the new description is a mark for an especially mighty Pokemon will we be able to get the mightiest mark through other means in future this is interesting because I was like oh maybe that they do something like they did in Sword and Shield with the the max mushrooms the mushroom soup and you can get the Gigantamax mark that way but it doesn't appear so because Ku Ridley Ku are very well-renowned very reliable leakers come out and said nope but something different so it has some role to play in it and whether or not it is linked to all of the theories about the masks a new mechanic the mightiest marks have a new form attached to them for these Pokemon that have the mightiest mark can have a separate transformation in regards to tracelization somehow which we don't know about just yet and then on the back of that we had a post from Ridley Ku and it was just this a Shoshu emoji with a picture of Mewtwo and then the mightiest mark so is this a big hint at what is to come are we finally gonna get a legendary raid seven-star raid from Mewtwo and also Mew as well I would say definitely because how else are we gonna get Mew on the games especially if we're going off this text that would make a lot of sense to me right now now whether Ku's not exactly seeing it directly like it's gonna be Mewtwo but it potentially could be Mewtwo and Mew if we go back to the sword and shield first legendary Dynamax raid that we ever had it was from Mewtwo so that could potentially be something that we see replicated in Scarlet and Violet but the fact that we've got this line of text from Matt that he's pulled from the data mines Mew playing a big part in the potential DLCs it kind of makes me feel like Mew is gonna be the Pokemon that we are gonna get prior to the DLCs dropping for a legendary raid but again we might get both of them as well but that is all of the information from the latest update not really too much in regards to it affecting the games like the actual reason for it was to change the descriptions of those moves and the mechanics it may have changed the mechanics I would imagine it probably has changed the mechanics but outside of that we've got a bunch more information which is actually really exciting going forward and gets me very hyped for seven star Terraids Mew and Mewtwo if we do get them in seven star Terraids are gonna be extremely difficult their move pools are huge their stack their base stats are a lot higher than what we faced before so it's gonna be extremely challenging to go up against these but exciting and something I'm looking forward to building for especially if they do get announced the other thing to mention before we just end here today is that the gimme ghoul event is running until this Sunday so this Sunday night on the second of July the gimme ghoul chess form event that was announced part of the Nintendo Direct segment with Pokemon in will be ending this Sunday so it means that potentially there is room for an announcement after this event ends of a new seven star Terraid event will we be getting the Delphox event that was shown and then pulled because of the issues that we've had recently and then the Rillaboom event I feel like we do need these Pokemon because they need to have the mightiest marks we need to get these Pokemon with their mightiest marks regardless of them being available through home or not I think their mightiest marks are gonna play a huge role in the teal mask and giving these Pokemon the ability to trust lies to change with the masks in some shape where form the mightiest mark feel way more important than just being a kind of like a token gift for an event that's running there seems to be like an underlying theme to these and I really do believe that we will get the Delphox and Rillaboom but whether or not we get them this coming week or not hopefully we do it seems like all the issues with the Terraids have been resolved now so I'm hoping that this Sunday night we can put a video out saying Delphox is back or even more exciting me or me too are coming to the games next week and that would be a big challenge but let's see what happens let me know 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