Can I start? Is this on? Ah. Come in. So, hello. My name is Manuel Lulao. I'm from Hamburg in Germany. I'm 20 years old and using Blender for six years. The title of my talk is Making Use of Blender Without Having to Learn It. And that sounds very provocative, I guess, and very mystified also. What does this even mean?  So who's the profiting side there? So just a quick raise of hands or something just to see who's unsure about what this means. OK, that is exactly what I expected, and also what I intended. So this title is actually quite matching for what I've been talking about, but it's not specific at all. So I'm trying to go for a more specific direction. So how about another title? Like Enabling Non-3D People to Make Use of Blender. So this sounds way better already, and we can see where this is going. The basic idea being that you can also settle blend files to people not familiar with 3D and also not only not being familiar, but also not trying to become familiar with it, not trying to learn it. So yeah. And I think that this is the perfect use for Blender because Blender is so extraordinary, versatile, especially on the interface part, that you can create files which are self-explanning when you open them. And also when you can save a file to have a layout in the interface that usual people would not recognize as a 3D software at all. And you can just hide the 3D view, and someone coming would be, hey, is that an editor or something like that. And these files that you have to create, they have to fulfill certain requirements. And the three most important ones are figured to be easy usage. So you have users of the file, they have no idea what they're doing. And you want to make it as easy as possible for them to understand what they have to do to get the result and also to not get confused with all the other stuff going around. And also the file has to deliver fast results. That is very important. So us coming from a 3D background, we are actually used waiting for one render, just one image for maybe an hour, maybe 10 hours, maybe rendering a whole month on an animation. We are used to that, and we can tolerate that because we understand it. But if you imagine someone sitting in an office even not being able to use the computer for five minutes straight is really stressing them out. And they get bored and they get frustrated. And so fast results are important for such a file. And of course, it also has to work without constant assistance. So you should not be there to help all the time, but maybe give them an instruction on it, give them one page of lookup material, and then they can make a use of that without you being there. And how can we do, how can we meet these requirements? We can create, oh, very good. I have to get the USB stick, I guess. Sorry for that. I really hope it works here. So that was that. The answer, how can we make that? We can create templates. Ah, nice. In this case, templates is only meaning regular band files, but nearly everything inside of them is already done. So the approach to that is very different from your usual vendor workflow because you're not trying to output an image, but you try to have the file as the output, so you have to modify the interface after you're actually done with your work, which is something that I guess you usually don't do. So you have to think that a graph editor may be great for your workflow and that is fine, but when someone not coming from through your background sees that, it's like weird graph lines and he's confused and you should not have them see that. So our goal here is that some changes can be done to the file safely and without much know how to customize the output of the files. And the way we can achieve that is by preparing a lot. So the file has to be prepared and actually the most important here is hiding stuff that can get the user confused. So with Blender's interface, you are very flexible and you can just reduce the number of windows. You can exclude certain types of windows and also just drop all the windows that don't need actual user interaction. Also Blender allows for some locking. Locking can be great if you have to have a 3D view in place. So lock the camera position rotation scale and for the objects also, just to make it safe. And also with just one week of Python reading and experimenting, you can create custom buttons which are a really, really easy thing to do in Blender. Yeah, so the overall goal being here that we try to decrease the chances of misusing or breaking the file due to misunderstanding or experimenting with the file by the user. I have an example file which I'm going to show you today. I'm working in a publishing company and what was needed were high quality 3D renderings of book covers, for example, for online shops. And you should be able to choose from four different books with various service features and then the user should be able to replace the cover images of the books himself so that no 3D guys needed for that part. And the way I met the speed requirement on this particular file was by pre-rendering and then later accessing those pre-rendered stuff which I did in cycles with the compositor and combining it with a shadeless color pass I rendered with the internal on the fly which is really quick. And behind the scenes of this file, a Python-controlled script is giving you buttons that control a lot of stuff going on in the compositor. Here you can see the custom menu that I made and you can see those five lines of radio buttons which are really easy to understand. You just have to read them and then you know what is happening there. And with five clicks, you can select from 64 different file possibilities being there for you to create. And it's very, very simple and if you are just seeing this, it's basically impossible to misuse or break. Of course, you might accidentally collapse the file, switch the tab and get confused or something like that and if you then save the file as a user, it's really bad because you don't know how to get back. And behind this script, each of those radio button lines is actually controlling switch nodes. So you can see here that on the left and the green column is actually our 32 pre-rendered image input nodes and then we have a pink column of switches which is controlled by, for example, the reflection, no reflection radio button and it all enables or disables when you switch the radio button. So the whole switches here. But enough for only talking, I want to show you the file and how easy it is to use without even understanding what is happening. So demonstration time. Yay. Here's the file. We can make it like down here, we have the script which can be an auto run so we can even drop that and it creates this menu here and we can just try to re-render something here. So how, this is a paperback image for online shop dimensions and if I switch it to hardcover, confirm it and render it, it gets re-rendered and then it's nice and glossy and yeah, so let's try a more thick book and it's working as easy as that. And also for the backside, for example here, we have some nice pages here and it's just really easy and the user would then just have to image, save as image, which also could be skipped by the compositor, we could just auto-save it. But I think that this is quite confusing still. So if a user accidentally clicked here and saved, he wouldn't know what to do when he opens the file, how to get back to what I explained him to use. So to get rid of that risk, a friend of mine who is more into programming helped me and he wrote me a little executable file.  So we only have those input informations that the user does because we have so little information that is changed. We could just feed those information with the executable to the Blender file and then it gets rendered and saved. So I want to show you that. So here's the three books Excel file and if I just run it, you see that we have the radio buttons here just in Windows interface. And we have the output image name which could be like anything you want and the output path. Yeah, so we just select that and when the user is only seeing this, there's nothing he can accidentally click wrong because everything is important to the output of the file. And if you now hit render, we have specified a path here and click render and then Blender gets started but just the console and here's the rendering happening and compositing and now he just, ah, that's wrong. So you see the name here that I just typed in, the image got saved here. So, and if I just make a hard cover for example and render it again, it's really fast as you can see and done. You see how it switched to another book and the user, as you remember, should be able to change the cover image of it. So that is like the most important part of the whole thing. So let me just grab another cover image and I instructed them to just override the file so that's usual Windows progress that they're used to like overwriting files has nothing to do with 3D and we can just do it here and then hit render again and once it done, we can go, ah, there it is. Ah, I have to restart this. It's actually no image one. So once it's done, which is now, we can go to the image folder and see that the Art of Blender is now a 3D book ready to go into the online shop and with this method, like all the different books would be exactly the same angle, the same reflection, the same size and they would look very nice. And it's really, really easy to use. Okay, so much for the demonstration. Of course, there are some known issues and the most important one being, of course, it is very prone to break. If you're not mounting the file, actually, it is very, very easy to break the file and by experimenting, by not understanding what they're doing, by maybe not running the script and stuff like that. And the usability of one file is also very limited. You can output very few images with one file. So here we have 64 possible results plus the customization and it really takes a lot of work to make more possibilities and also the files get bigger because of the pre-rendered images which have to be attached and so on, yeah. And also, as users saw, without a custom menu, navigating is really hard. So if I just was in the blunt file and not having the custom menu here, so I'm not running the script, then I would instruct them to like, yeah, go here, go there, blah, blah, blah, and it's very, very confusing and you can easily get lost. So that is not good. Also, the image result is always RGB. That is just something about Blender and something about every three software. They are not outputting similar images and that's just something you have to communicate when producing for print workflow, for example. And as with any other digital product, files can very easily be shared, just something you should know. And I asked a bunch of people who make their living on Blender what they think about the sort of idea and also about the usability and so on. And here are some general questions that I got and the one I got the most times, nearly everyone asked it, can and should it compete with web-based services? And I think that if you just, you're offering a service for people to see their logo on a Mac before they get the Mac printed with their logo. There's so many services for that already, also for T-shirts and pens and stuff like that. And for that, I don't think that this is useful, but for a more individual product, it might be. So if you're having a very individual product and trying to customize that with different images, with different logos, then a plan file can be a solution for that problem. And also a question just, how versatile can one file be? So how many images can it output? And also at what point does the work justify the result or not justify it anymore? So yeah, a good question, I guess. On getting started, you can do a few things to make it easier for the users. And if you're involving software that already know into the pipeline, they're going to feel more familiar, they're gonna understand more what's going on. And yeah, you should try that. Also working with things and external data, like overwriting the image outside of Blender here instead of selecting a new file to render on the material, it's making it easier for the user. And making use of the compositor can skip a lot of button clicking and making the whole file less prone to break. So for example, the file export node at the end of the compositor would just save the image automatically and save the user some more clicks. Some ideas for the use are, of course, recurring images that files should be often used. So images that have to be updated frequently, like online shops, they're constantly getting new books, for example, they can make use of such a file, maybe also online shop with wine bottles with new labels, furniture, interiors, or advertisement. There are a lot of possibilities, maybe even diagram charts or something like that. Yeah. And to summarize, those sound blades can be a sellable product, so you can maybe include that into your variety of services. If you're freelancing, for example, you can explore a rather new market. I don't think there's that many people doing exactly this already. And you can also mount the file in a custom program, as you saw it, to make it fail-safe, which is just also like 100 lines of code, or maybe 200, it's not that hard, and you can also get help on that. And these files, of course, are mostly for companies, individuals, who have the need for recurring images in the same style, but actually at the moment, they are just having flat images in their shops or bad photos, and you can go to those people. And also, of course, Blenderheads can be your customers if you have a good file. So that was my talk. Other questions or ideas on your mind that you can't wait to ask. So he asked if you could also add other passes than the color to being rendered on the fly, like reflection or global illumination. I think this is possible, and you could just use the pass output from the scenes to have only the glossy pass rendered, and combine that with your color and your pre-rendered. So I think you can expand on that. Any more questions? Yes, please. I understand that since doing such a program that you did, so it's definitely worth, I would argue with this question, can it be solved? Because it's such an individual situation, you have the possibility to automate, but you get to the moment where nobody's interested. It's so specific to your job or for our job that really needs to be individually written. Yeah. You don't really find a way to set it to. So he's saying that, trying to summarize it shortly, those files can be hard to market because they are so individual and for so little usability maybe. And I think that you should consider this more to be a service that you do for one company only, one person only, and not for something to be sold in a marketplace for many people to buy it. So I think if you approach it that way, the use can be there and the market may. Yes? Yeah. This program. Yeah. I saw that Exifile and maybe somebody answers that question, wouldn't it be possible to use the game engine to do that to make a template as a little game, use the blender machine in the game and then you have an Exifile as a little game for you are not gaming, you're pressing buttons and get as result, you get your book or rendered like that. So you mean the safe is executable from the game engine? Yes. The safe, the programmer work there. Yes. Yeah, I think it might be possible. The game engine. Yeah, I think it might be possible. So, yeah, thanks a lot for your attention and feel free to come up to me later and ask some questions. I saw it on the stream. Ah, good. Yeah. We'll direct talk. So, feedback. Ah, no, I was finally moved for the first time. I was too scary, wasn't I? I didn't know I was terrible. You must have left it there ago, right? You left it there, you must have left it there. That's you. What the?


On the breakfast show this morning, NLC and TUC disagree on protocol for planned strike. TINUBU seeks true partnership for Africa's development in UN address. And also we'll be looking at the headlines on the front pages of our national dailies on what we call off the press. Very good morning to you and thanks for joining us on the breakfast. Good Thursday morning. My name is Nyam Gul Aghaji. We are in it together to make our country better. We are in it together to make ourselves happier. We are in it together to make our world a better place. We do hope that you are crafting the positive things that you are going to do today to make sure that you bring about those things that we've just mentioned. Happiness for self, for country and for our world. This entrepreneurial Thursday, that's how we'd like to set your minds to think like an entrepreneur. Now everybody's talking about the fact that it may not be enough to just depend on your salary.  So people are thinking outside the box on how to make more money and you don't have to miss work one day before you can make money nowadays. So long as there is the internet, there is a possibility you can make some cool cash. Look to the internet, look for causes to do if you have not yet had a certification for some of the things that people do remotely, get some certification and then begin to do. Or you just concentrate on marketing and that is a very easy one that you can do. Whatever you do and you want to have another stream of income, let it be a wholesome thing that you are doing to contribute to making your bank account become better than it is and put more food on your table. Times are hard but we are going to go through this. This phase is going to pass. Like we always say, these too shall pass. So we have some things that are trending for us. It may not be the most trending but there are things that caught our attention. And one of them is that the US court has granted orders to release Tinobu's academic record that is the president of the country, Nigeria. Remember, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has granted the request filed by the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, that is Atiku Abu Bakar, that seeks to, seeks the release of President Bola Tinobu's academic records by the Chicago State University. The judge, Jeffrey Gilbert, a US magistrate, gave the ruling on Tuesday ordering the CSU to produce all relevant and non-privileged documents to Atiku, the plaintiff, within two days. Tinobu's lawyers have argued that their client is not willing to lift his privacy privilege with the ruling also conceding this by using the term non-privileged documents. So Atiku had approached the court seeking an order that will compel the university to release Tinobu's records and although Tinobu's credentials indicated that he graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in accounting, there have been allegations bordering on discrepancies in the president's certificate. So now that parts of the documents that are supposed to be released have been released because we're hoping they've been released, the two days have gone by. If they have been released, then maybe that matter will be put to rest. But that is a bone of contention, so many discrepancies according to the people who are asking for them. Some say even if he graduated from the university, it is someone else that graduated, maybe a female, even some are saying he didn't even graduate. Well, even though we've heard some stories that the school has come out to say he did graduate, well we are going to have the certified true copy, if that is the word to use, of those documents that will be tendered in court. But we are keeping our fingers crossed and seeing what is going to happen. Whatever happens, whatever the result of the appeal that has been made at the Supreme Court by both the Labour Party and the People's Democratic Party and their presidential candidates, we do hope that the outcome will give Nigeria a better lease of life, that the suffering will stop or even if we're going to suffer, let it be for a short time and the end will give us something to smile about. It's a new Nigeria we want, not just a new government, not just a new person at the hem of affairs, not just everything has to be new. We just want a new Nigeria, a happier Nigeria, a healthier Nigeria, a better Nigeria for ourselves and our kids and grandchildren that are yet unborn.  Remember that a doctor on housemanship lost her life in an elevator in a hospital that is supposed to be government-owned or at least is supposed to be overseen by government. But right now another tragedy happened where a doctor allegedly dies after working 72 consecutive hours in Luth. That is the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The doctor died in there. And the story is that the death of Dr. Umor Michael worked allegedly for 72 hours and it led to house officers at Lagos State Teaching Hospital to raise their alarm over poor working conditions. Dr. Michael allegedly died on September 17 after being on a 72-hour call in the neurosurgery unit. It was said to have been on call for the duration before arriving home on Sunday morning for church service and slumped in his worship center, United Evangelical Church, at about 11 a.m. In a letter written to the chief medical director of Luth, Professor Wasiu Lanry at Dayamo, biomedical doctors under the ages of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, Luth Chapter, they said the late doctor's roommate attested to the fact that the deceased had hardly slept in their apartment for the past one week. They claimed that Dr. Michael was always on call and had returned home after surgeries and other activities in the neurosurgery unit at about 3 a.m. They also mentioned that the long-standing challenges they have faced since resuming their housemanship at the hospital, including bullying from senior colleagues, stressful call hours without breaks in between no-call food and no good accommodation. Now, in their request, the doctors demanded that house officers who were on call the previous day should be allowed either half-day the next day or allowed to resume work by midday the following day and should not be made to work for 48 hours at a stretch. They also demanded that the compulsory health checks at the beginning of house jobs should be free or grossly subsidized for house officers. They further demanded that their senior colleagues, senior registrars and registrars should make the work environment friendly for them and house officers should not do the work of porters, nurses or patient relatives. In its reaction, Loose Public Relations Officer, Omo Lola Fakie, said it is not true that anybody worked for 72 hours. At the time, he claimed to be awaiting a briefing on Dr. Michael's death and would get the truth from the medical report. Okay, so a lot of things are being thrown up here.  Who would God not understand? Why not use the time to rest? That is not meaning that anybody is supposed to work like the doctors are demanding for up to 48 hours. Why? But when we ask ourselves these questions, we also remember the fact that a lot of medical practitioners are leaving the country. So in a place where there are supposed to be 10, we have only three people working there. That means the workload will be really, really crazy. And in so many offices that I know, people are leaving because the working conditions are no longer favorable. Sometimes it's not the management that is bullying them like they are saying in Loote, that they are complaining that senior colleagues are bullying them. Maybe it's not just bullying. Maybe even the management doesn't have the money to pay everybody and they are just trying. They don't have to lay off anybody but people up and leave. Sometimes people see remote jobs that they are doing from home because that's the craze nowadays and they have no need to come to the office. And so they resign. And in a place where you're seeing, you are supposed to be seeing like 10 people like I mentioned, you are seeing only three. So what do you do? So people are short-staffed and why is that? So if the government is not deliberate about it, they might be a lot of other Dr. Michael's that will come up because like they say in Nigeria, man, no be would. So if you have somebody working for 72 hours, someone who used to work for 8 hours or used to work for 6 hours because doctors shouldn't even work for that long because of what they do. So imagine a doctor under stress operating on a patient. This is neurosurgery, which is a very delicate part of medicine and someone is standing up and doing what he is doing for 72 hours. Even if it comes and goes but non-stop for 72 hours, that is a full week. So what will the government do about it? What will they... This Luth is a government-owned hospital. That is Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. So it is owned by the government, which means if one person is working 72 hours, it means that they are short-starved. How can their staff strength be boosted is to make the working conditions so favorable that the people who are living will not live anymore. So without trading blames, without laying blames at the feet of anybody, we just hope that this kind of a thing will not have to happen again at all. Anywhere, not just in the medical profession, but in any profession at all. Because once someone is stressed, the work becomes somehow as we would like to put it. Our hearts go to the family of Michael Oumor and we also pray that his soul finds peace in the bosom of the Lord. Where are you right now? I hope that you are set to go to work if you are not an early bird, but you are, that need to be at the office very early in the morning. But if you have to go anywhere, you know that in Lagos State you have to move early, no matter the fact that now the traffic in Lagos State is not as much as it used to be, thanks to whatever we know already. But it doesn't mean that you have to be late for work. Let that culture of waking up early and doing what you need to do still be in you. You never know where you will need it tomorrow. What will happen someday. And then you would just blame yourself that you should have been an early riser. Now there are the trains. Trains were coming from mile 2 to Marina and from Marina to mile 2. It's just a journey of about 30 minutes or less if you are taking a train. So do well to leave your car at home if you are the person that used to take your car. Conserve the fuel and keep it for all the days and maybe you are taking your family to the church on Sunday. Just enter the train, take a BRT bus if you have that opportunity and let our roads not be as clogged as it used to be. Let Lagos breathe. Let Lagos roads breathe at some point. Okay, so we thank the government for that but we ask that the route from Marina to mile 2 is not the only route that people need to apply. People need to go to Ikeja, people need to go to Odubega, people need to go to Badagri, people need to go to many other places. So if the train cannot get to those places let the buses be able to get to those places. For instance you get to mile 2, you cannot get to Badagri with a BRT bus because they don't go that far. I think the end at mile 2. There should be some provision that will take you anywhere in Lagos. Once you have your car record you know that you are fulfilled. You don't even need to carry transport fare inside your wallet because you have a car record that you have loaded and that should be enough for you to move around in Lagos whether you're taking the train or you're taking the bus. So the traffic situation is improving and we're hoping that it will improve even more especially as we know that government-owned transport services the trains, the BRTs are a bit more pocket-friendly than every other one and also let the working hours for these things be extended. The train goes for a longer period than the buses. Why can't the buses go for as long as that at least till 8 or 9 o'clock in the night so that people can get to wherever they want to get to? But you know we're just suggesting those kind of things and we hope that the authorities will look into it. We'll take a short break. We have a lot on the newspapers to talk about and when we return we hope to be joined by Architech Ezekiel and I took a public affairs analyst who will help us to make sense of some of these headlines. Stay with us.


These are vintage Halloween trick-or-treat orange string lights 10 count here got these at the Goodwill for three bucks Hey, bolo buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing, right? All right, let's get started Hey, bolo buddies. Thanks for watching bolo video. I am going to tell you where I got it What I paid for it and what it sold for if it I consider my bread and butter items that I sold for 35 dollars or less Typically pick my items up at like estate sales garage sales thrift stores the Goodwill bins youtube auctions facebook marketplace All pretty much source anywhere where I can find a good deal I do love to bundle so if I go to garage sales and there's a bunch of toys I like to pick them all up So I do a lot of smalls and I source very very cheap. So Thank you for being here and thank you for watching and let's get started All right, the first item is this vintage star wars galop. I think is how you say it It's a new old stock toy. I got this at a garage sale. I think I paid five bucks for it I took a best offer of 20 plus shipping for this So anytime I can find new old stock toys, even if it's not something I'm super familiar with I will pick it up like star wars star track. I don't really know too much about that But this had a barcode on it. So and it's in the packaging. So it's really easy to look up This is a vintage signed solid copper braided cuff bracelet It is marked solid copper. So I just put that in my title and I got this out of a bulk buy I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay. I purchased 344 pounds of jewelry If you go way back on my channel, there's a whole series on that And um, I sold this for $15 plus shipping. I am still listing the stuff It's going to take me a while and I think I'm going to put some of it over on whatnot I think I'm going to do auctions over there I think that'll be a quicker way for me to move some inventory Because the jewelry usually gets pushed to the side and I try to list the bigger stuff because the jewelry doesn't take up much room So what not might be where I'm going to sell that if you check down in the description There is a link that will take you to my what not if you are um Not signed up to buy on what not if you use that link you'll get $10 credit to buy So, uh, definitely check that out But uh, I'm polo buddies over there if you're already on what not just follow me and hopefully I will see you in one of my auctions soon All right. This is a transformers rescue bots reskin boulder the construction bot dump truck and I love picking up these rescue bots I usually get them really really cheap like 25 cents 50 cents I don't pay a whole lot for them because they're a major bread and butter I got this one at a thrift store for 50 cents and I sold it for $7 plus shipping This is a bill to bear san rio hello kitty 2011 plus it is missing the bow. There's a bow that attaches right here And this one I got at a garage sale for a buck and I sold that for $30 plus shipping If you want to know about the top 10 bill to bear that were trending when I did the video Go check out my bill to bear video the rebel reseller also recently did a video on the top selling bill to bear currently So you can check her out as well. She has an awesome channel and she specializes in plush This is a forever collectibles. Why college it? Sock monkey. I don't know if what the why stands for so I wish I would have known that because I think that Would have helped me sell the item I got this at the goodwill bins. I think and I sold this for $9 plus shipping and it sold pretty quick These are the paul patrol mini figures cake toppers and I sold these for $7 and 50 cents plus shipping I don't remember where I got them. They're just a bread and butter But people need them for their cakes for their kids parties and stuff like that So when I do see them I do pick them up because they do sell This is a hallmark 2018 group and the rocket marvel avengers infinity war keepsake ornament This came out of a thrift store mystery box and I sold this for 11 dollars and 90 cents plus shipping Hallmark ornaments. I like to pick them up. Um, if I see them and they're a good price Some of them go for more than others. I recently came across some uh jacks Skellington and you'll see those in my big money bolo videos But they were in a thrift store mystery box as well and they have been selling super fast for the $40 range This is vintage muffy vander bear clothes line midi top boxer shorts set from 1999 I got this at a garage sale and this sold really quick for $22 and 40 cents plus shipping The next item are these hair accessories. It's mickey mini goofy hair accessories super cute This was a long tail item. It did take a while to sell But again, you know, you just got to wait on the right buyer and they are a harder to find item They may even be custom made. I'm not really sure but I sold these for $13.99 plus shipping These are vintage halloween trick-or-treat orange string lights 10 count here got these at the goodwill for three bucks and I sold them for $35 plus shipping These are vintage serving trays. They are hand forged art hammered aluminum I almost got it aluminum embossed flower from 1949 I got these out of a dibble box, which is a dibble bit of this and a dibble bit of that Mystery reseller box basically and it's not always a mystery, but sometimes it is These I think I bought during a live show at an auction on donna telebotilino's youtube channel I don't think this was a mystery, but I'm not I'm not sure I sometimes buy mystery boxes also from her I will link her down below if you guys are looking for inventory It's a great place to source in the comfort of your own home and it will be shipped to your door If you spend 40 or more the shipping is free. So great place to source. I have found some really great stuff So these for $17 plus shipping This is a vintage lot of five clip-on earrings I don't remember where I got these probably a garage sale and I ended up selling these for $15 plus shipping This is a fisher price little people vintage sesame street miss hopper grandma She is a harder to find Little people figurine here figure figurine toy, whatever I sold her for $14 plus shipping and she came out of a thrift store mystery box This one right here is a vintage everhard fabber van dyke typewriter eraser brush wheel And I ended up selling this for $8 and 40 cents plus shipping. I got it at a garage sale for about a quarter It was in a little lot of items that I purchased and I will tell you this thing sold fast This is a disney moulin pet horse con. I think is the name plastic action figure I got this at a garage sale for 10 cents and I sold it for $10 and 50 cents plus shipping The next item here is this lego vintage count dooku. I don't know yellow star wars figure and he's not perfect I mean, he's actually pretty beat up and I got him out of the goodwill bin So he has been ruffled and tuffled all around and I still sold him for $12 plus shipping the buyer was all in for 1775 for that. That's amazing, right?  I got it at a garage sale for around a buck It was it with a dollhouse and a bunch other stuff. So probably a dollar maybe 50 cents This is a vintage amethyst chip nugget necklace and I sold a bunch of these from my bulk buy I bought it on ebay to sell on ebay 344 pounds jewelry I had a bunch of amethyst in there this one for some reason took a little bit longer to sell I did end up selling this for $25 free shipping This is a clue junior game and it came out of a thrift store mystery box I don't normally mess with board games because they're heavy unless they are vintage or something special But what I have been doing is putting them on poshmark because I feel like like this is $9.90 to ship, right? On poshmark, it would be a little less than eight dollars. It's seven dollars in some sense to ship So board games as long as they're not super big are great for poshmark But this one sold on ebay I ended up selling for $11.90 plus shipping These are vintage tallies. They're for bridge their scorecards and I just thought they were pretty cool They're vintage somebody can use these to craft or they can actually use them for their intended purpose I got these at a garage sale I don't remember what I paid for them But I ended up selling them for $14.50 plus shipping and that was more of a long tail item This is a creative memories heart maker scrapbooking paper punch and it's got the two punches and then the little holder That's where you put your little Little hearts once you punch them. It's like a little carry case I got this from a garage sale. I paid $50 for a huge lot of creative memory stuff and boy Oh boy, that stuff is flying out of my store and that was a great buy um, I wasn't really sure at first because I'm like They had 75 on it and I got them down to well Actually, she knew I was thinking about it and she's like how about 50 take it all for 50 and I ended up doing it and um I'm glad I did but it just wasn't something that I felt super confident about and there have been a lot of Old stock items in there and I've done really really good. So you'll see those in other what sold videos Ended up taking a best offer of 15 plus shipping on those The next item is this linux joy christmas ornament charm and this sold To a lady named joy, which I thought was pretty cool But it came out of a thrift store mystery box and I sold it for eight dollars plus shipping These came out of the goodwill bends. Can you believe that these lived through the bends like they weren't broken? I just thought they were cool because it's old vintage advertising. I didn't test them or anything like that I just was selling as is as seen Uh, so probably two bucks or less for these and I sold these for 18 dollars plus shipping The next item is this vintage mam sell Mam selly. I don't know how to say it initial m or w textured diamond cut brushed brooch pin Got this at a garage sale for 50 cents sold it for 14 dollars plus shipping. Oh my goodness this dog You guys Okay, so I believe this was um This was uh, I bought it from donatella botelino's youtube channel And she was doing 50 dollar plush with free shipping. I bought a box And the rebel reseller bought a box and then we did a collab video where we each unboxed and you guys decided Who you thought had the better box, but this guy was in my box and It's a dakin lue randken, which is a good brand. Let me show you it's got this on the paw Here's the tag But this thing the hair was just a hot mess and I was like Donna's like you can brush them and she has this little trick that she has on our youtube channel How you can brush them and I'm like I am not brushing that thing I am just selling it as is and I am just going to Disclose that it is well loved you guys. I just read my feedback on this And the person was like thrilled with this dog They're like it looks like their dog that passed away and they were so so happy and they just gave me the best feedback And I almost didn't list it because I thought it was a little bit well loved too loved And I didn't want to brush it out. So anyway I was wrong on this one It's sold and the person was super happy. So I'm guessing it's just supposed to be a little scruffy but anyway I sold this for ten dollars and fifty cents plus shipping. I will link donatella bottolino's youtube channel down below I know recently she was doing a sixty dollar bag of plush.  So she's doing sixty dollars now, which is still a great deal And because some I mean there you get a big ball of plush check out the video that I did I did one with no well farm girl scavenger that's on my channel And that was a fifty dollar free shipping that no well sent me as a gift And then I did the collab video against the rebel reseller So if you check out the two videos of mine and the rebel resellers video That'll give you kind of an idea of different plush that you can get But she literally just throws them in a pile and bags them up and ships them out So you never know what you're going to get. I've seen people get some really great stuff So and sometimes you just get a bunch of bread and butter, but you usually definitely make a profit So check donatella bottolino out check out no well farm girl scavenger and check out the rebel reseller I will try to remember to link them all down below This is a train. It's actually thomas the train wooden railway sodor mining company gold cargo car And this I can't remember where I got it, but I ended up selling it for nine dollars and 80 cents plus shipping Probably a garage sale or a thrift store. Who knows? This is a vintage breakfast babies beanbag general mills cheerio busby I remember I got this from an estate sale. I bought a whole bunch of them. They were 50 cents each I knew that they were going to be bread and butter, but they were still sealed in the packaging And I'm like 50 cents. I'm going to get them and I've sold quite a few of them I still have quite a few left though. So they're more long tail So this for 10 dollars and 50 cents plus shipping the next item is this aster place counted Cross stitch. I don't remember where I got this one, but I ended up selling it for nine dollars I took a bust off on that one. So that one is a major bread and butter. Some of these can go for big money I sold one recently for 150 dollars. So Some of those can be big money. So I do have a video on cross stitch kits to be on the lookout for So you can check out that it's a category video where I pick a category and I talk about it and I teach you some of the higher I higher priced sold comps to look for And I have lots of category videos. So check those out. This is a smoke and joe's racing hat I probably got this at a garage sale for 50 cents or a buck ended up selling this for 20 dollars plus shipping The next item is this huge lot of 100 shopkins mini figure toys. I usually lot these up I sold these for a best offer of 33 dollars plus shipping and I got those at a thrift store This is a font fontanini 261 shepherd children nativity replacement figure made in italy This sold really really quick. I got it at a garage sale for a buck and somebody offered me 13 dollars and I went Head and ran with it. So 13 dollars plus shipping on that one The next item is this blaze in the monster machine die cast peg wheel peat the pirate truck. I got this I don't remember where I got this I pick up these blaze in the monster machine everywhere anytime I see them if they're at a garage sale the goodwill bins thrift stores I pick them up.  This one sold for 16 dollars and 90 cents plus shipping The next item is this vintage barbie pool party pool slide railings hand rails from 1973 This is from a garage sale. I bought A play set it was part of it was damaged and I went ahead and decided to part it out just to see how it would go This is the second piece. I have sold from that This is a fina leotard lc child large velour sequins girls dress. I got this out of a mystery Halloween box From auctions for you. Actually, you know what? I think she unboxed this on her channel I think uh, this was an auction. I'm sorry. This was a live auction and I bid on it Got a really good deal on it have made a lot of money on that I do have an unboxing of that as well on either this channel or my sourcing with bolo buddies channel Both those will be linked down below um So probably had a buck or two in this and I sold this for 16 dollars and 24 cents plus shipping It did take a while to sell um auctions for you is uh Her and donna telebotelino go back and forth on each other's channels and I buy from both of them and they will both be linked down below Great inventory for resellers. This is a fisher price geotracks yellow grand central station train Remote control only batteries not included I got this at a garage sale for a buck and I sold this for 11 dollars and 70 cents plus shipping All right, you guys There there there were there were 35 bread and butter bolos in this video. Thank you guys so much for being here Thank you for watching. It's after midnight. I think Yes, it's after midnight. So I'm getting a little silly. All right. I am off the bed. Thank you for being here Thank you for watching Be sure to subscribe if you have not already and if you want to hit that bell that will alert you when I post New videos I would appreciate it so much if you did that And let me know in the comments how you found the channel and leave me a hat moji or just write the word hat All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here and thanks for watching


7 mind games the narcissist will play with you. Narcissists are expert manipulators. They know how to control and influence you. They know how to deceive you. They know how to make you believe something that is not true. They want to know what your vulnerabilities and weaknesses are so that they can exploit them so that they can use them to take advantage of you. They want to put you in a position where you are seeking validation from them because that is what will give them narcissistic supply. They don't care about how their behavior affects you or how it makes you feel. They just see it as though that's your problem. They don't take responsibility for their actions. But they will continue playing mind games with you. They are self-absorbed and they lack empathy. They only care about how they feel. So here are 7 mind games that the narcissist will use to elevate themselves at your expense. 1. They want you to open up to them. The narcissist is aware that you may have experienced abuse in your life, especially in childhood. That was one of the main reasons why they targeted you. They seek out people who are primed for their manipulation. They seek out people who have poor boundaries. People who don't have support and they try to convince you that they're not like everyone else. This time it's different. They're not going to hurt you and you should just open up to them so that they can show you there's someone you can trust. You should just be more communicative and confiding. You should be more present, available and accessible and they will do whatever it takes to get you to open up to them. They will show curiosity and concern for you. They will display a feeling of interest. They will try to excite your curiosity and attention. They will persuade you to undertake a course of action. They will act friendly towards you. They will ask you questions and try to learn more about you and you may think that maybe this time it is different. Maybe it's safe to be vulnerable with them so you open up and you tell them more about yourself. They ask you more questions and you reveal more information and in a healthy relationship that's what you should do but this is just one of the narcissist mind games. They want you to confide in them. They want you to reveal all of your secrets and personal information but they will never do the same for you. They cannot be vulnerable with you but they will want you to confide in them and when you do they will be taking mental notes. They will be recording information so that they can figure out what hurts you, what causes you pain and what your needs are. It helps them to create their game plan of how they're going to further manipulate and control you but they start off by being friendly and trustworthy. They make it seem like they're on your side. Two, they gain an advantage over you. Once the narcissist has convinced you that they're friendly and trustworthy and that they're on your side, they will begin criticising you. They will indicate your faults in a disapproving way. They will say that you should have done something a different way. They will always leave you down yourself. They will always make you feel like you're wrong and they're right and you need to listen to their advice. They have to display this attitude of superiority as though they know more than you or as though they do things better than you. They have inflated self-esteem which means they are characterized by an inability to listen to you or critique themselves. They tend to undervalue you and adopt hostile behaviours towards you. They believe that they are free from error. They believe that they are always right in an opinion or judgement and if you express a different opinion they feel no need to listen to you. They just expect you to listen to them because in their minds they have a greater point of view or attitude towards life than the average person. So you should listen to them, you should trust them, free. They will use fear to control you. They want you to fear them. They don't want you to feel safe. They want you to think that something bad might happen to you. Because that's what they're going to use to control you. That's what gives them the power to influence and direct your behaviour and the course of events. They will use criticism and strong emotion to make you afraid. If you ever question or confront them on something you do not approve of they will get very angry so that the next time you're too afraid to tell them anything it causes you to become very conscious of your movements until you just push your preferences aside. You forget about what you want and you just do what they tell you to do because you don't want to deal with all the difficulties and complications. If you try to express yourself or display your individuality around a narcissist it's going to create more problems than it solves so it causes you to act a responder of fear rather than how you would prefer to act a respond. You cannot be yourself around a narcissist. Four, they will sabotage you when you're getting to know the narcissist. They will try to isolate you. They will try to keep you all to themselves. They don't want you to have any support so they will go behind your back and talk about you in an unfavourable and uncomplimentary way even if someone tries to compliment you. They will downplay it and divert their attention to a fault or mistake that you have made. They don't want people to trust you because then that keeps them in the superior position which is why they have to sabotage you so that they can elevate themselves at your expense and now you have no one else that you can confide in. So it keeps them as your only source of validation. It makes it easier for them to control you. Five, they will target your flaws and imperfections. They will get you to open up to them. They will get you to confide in them until you decide to reveal secrets or personal information. You might tell them about a mistake you made many years ago and they will act understanding but they will later use it as ammunition against you. They will later use that mistake to define you. They will use it to make you lose your dignity and the respect of other people when they try to get you to confide in them. It's just another mind game. They will only take note of what you're saying so they can later use it against you. Six, they will play the victim role. They need to look like they are innocent of wrongdoing. They need to look like they're always trying to do the right thing and if they do make a fault or mistake they will always hold someone else responsible for it. They will just say that if you did your part it would never have happened. They will always find a way to blame you. Seven, they turn life into duty and obligation. They talk you in a way where everything is about requirements and obedience. And so you have to uphold a moral or legal obligation. And so you are morally or legally bound to do something. They will hold you to some imagined contract or agreement. And so you have to do something for them. And so you have to follow the rules and regulations. And of course they are the ones who write the rules. These are the mind games that the narcissist will play with you.  They are designed to make you lose whatever is special or unique about you. They want you to be under their control where they can tell you what to be. They want to take you away from being who you naturally are or who you naturally would be if they didn't intervene. Don't react to the narcissist. Observe what they're saying or doing. But don't absorb it. Respond rather than reacting emotionally. They want you to fear them. They want you to be angry and upset. They want you to defend yourself so that they can point the finger at you. And see you as the problem. They focus on your reaction rather than anything they did to cause it. Don't play their game. Don't give them a reaction that they're looking for. But don't be afraid to confront them.  But don't enter pointless arguments with the narcissist. Don't get sucked into the rabbit hole. You can state your difference of opinion. But after that there should be nothing more to say. They want to confuse you. They want to make you doubt yourself. But now that you are aware of their games, you can choose to not be a part of them rather than supporting someone who doesn't even value their own rules. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share, subscribe if you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Couching inquiries. You can email me at couching.narksurvivor.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


I predicted John Phillips's of this morning. Maneuver to Geo 3.1, kick off right away. You'll probably see it in the timeline there. Here it goes. The land of Houston, your gopher undocking on time. Copy, gopher undocking on time. Copy, physical separation. And here's our last. We show about 35 degrees more to go in the fly around and then we'll be stopping on the... Chilly, we concur. Looking great. Just doing a great job. The set burns complete. Great docked and run to visit. Farewell. Best wishes for a great... Oh, if you just... Great job operating the docking system. Just the whole docked mission. What spectacular. Thanks for everything, Dave. It's kind of sad thing to see Mary disappear in office here. It's not big, it's about 10 meters. Here's a sign, 70 feet in the distance. The foot is 30 centimeters, as it was. Yes, 2 centimeters. Yes. And I measure it. I measure it. About 20 meters. I have a number of information. 2036, 2036, 10, 0, 7. 0, 0, 0, 7. You... When you enter, switch to the KV-1 mode. Oh, I see, I see. After... 0, 0, 7, switch to the KV-1 mode. Yes, I got it right. It means it's possible. Just... Aha. There are some small signs here. We're watching the Chutah. I'm watching the Chutah. Got it. Yura? Yes, listen to me. You know, it's the most... It looks like the time to pull out the impulse at the departure of the shuttle. 5, 0, 7, 0, 8. 5, 0, 7, 0, 8. Yes.  Yes. Oh, it means alive, right? Yes, that's it. We're watching the alive one. It's very clear that it's flying away. Is it from the 9th? Yes, it's from the 9th. The 9th is very clear. Yura, is this a record? Yes, it's still going on. Yes, it's still going on. We can't record it on the KV-1. But it's... Well, yes, it is. It's a copy. We'll keep it for a long time. So that we can edit it later. It's a beautiful picture, of course. Yes, it's a beautiful picture. It's a picture of a researcher, isn't it? Yes, I don't know. Do you see it when moving or processing? Well, yes, it seems to be visible a little. Here it is now. Is there a program? There is a scheme in the collection. Maybe you haven't found it on your phone. It's when Yura and I worked together. Switching the package. Now, Sasha looks at me. It's somewhere in the first place, I think. Is it? Yes, it's in the second place, isn't it? Yes, it's a very beautiful picture. Once again, it's in the second place. Guys, first place. Thank you. It's in the first place, really. You don't have to trust me. I think it's not directly in the second place. It's already in the second place. It's directly in front of the entrance, isn't it? Yes, in front of the maneuver. It's beautiful, isn't it? It's in the background of the city. It's somewhere around the world, I think. Yes, it's somewhere around the world, isn't it? Yes, it's somewhere around the world, I think. It's in the background of the city. It's a good picture. It's not a very good quality, that's why I'm a little bit impressed. To be honest, it's much worse. It's also good. It's from the 5th generation. It's in the second place, isn't it? It's in the second place, isn't it? It's not used to the fact that the plane is flying forward. Do you know how it flies? I'm the same. It's used to our form that the plane and the elements of the construction of the station look so unusual. The plane and the plane, maybe, the American international event, I've also understood that it's different, it's perfect. It's also very beautiful. It's in the dark, it seems normal. It's in the dark, in fact, it's somewhere around the world. It's very good, of course. It's like an operator. I probably won't put it on. It's cool. Thank you. It's working, isn't it? It's like turning on the headlights. Yes, it's very interesting. It's very beautiful. Vasiliy, please pay attention to these frames. We had one petal that was wrapped up, and now it's even closer to this one. So, please, what is it? It's on the back. I'm looking at the model now. Yes.


As I said in the prior module, that in this module, I will briefly explain the 12 chord rules using simple examples. And of course, the details are given in the notes you can read there. And for the simple example, I will only use a very simple table with three rows and about three or four columns, so that you can understand the concept. Once you understand the concept, then you can understand the details also. So the information rule, the information rule states that if I change the order of the rows, the result doesn't changes. I change the order of the columns, the result does not changes. If the salary comes first, and then is the email address, and then is the name, it doesn't matter. The data which is stored in the cells, that data should not be separated by commas, by space, by hyphens. The data which is stored in the cell, that is it. If I store something like this 10, 5, or 6, that is not allowed. Or if I store 10, 5, 6, that is also not allowed. That is the information rule. Okay. Then is the guaranteed access rule. Now I know the table name. The table name is employee. So if I would like to know the details of a certain employee, this is the primary key. This is unique. This is the primary key. So I give the primary key, and I give the column names, and I give the table name. I get the answer. It should be guaranteed access. That is the example. That is how this rule is supposed to be implemented. Systematic treatment of null. In the previous example, or the table, or the rule, over here I showed empty space. This is, null is fine. This is okay. But empty space, NA not applicable, missing value, value not available is not allowed. There has to be consistency. Now this null can be there. If say for example, maybe in certain case, the email address is not there. You can leave it. That is the null. And in this case, the salary was not mentioned null. Now null plus zero is not zero is null. Now in this case, say for example, if everybody gets a 5% raise, right, then the employee with the null salary, the result will be null, but other employees will get the raise. That is the systematic treatment of null active and online catalog. There's certain table in the database. You can run the query on that table. I believe it's all underscore tab and you get all the metadata about the data database itself. That is a data dictionary. You learn the same query language. Comprehensive data sub language rule. Okay. Comprehensive data sub language rule. I am using a language and that is a query language that is a structured language. I can get what I want using the query language view updating rule. Now what I do is that I create a view instead of writing a query every time that this condition should be met. This should be met. This should be met. It becomes complicated. So I create a view and the view you see over here is the view of those employees with salary is shown as null. Whatever the reason it is irrelevant. This is just the representation. So I have a table which is actually a view to the end user. It's like a table, but it's a view. So this is the employee underscore null cell. Right. Now why is it difficult to implement theoretically if I change make the change in the view. It should be reflected in the underlying table or database. But usually it's not the case. Usually when I make the change in the underlying table, the view changes. Okay. High level insert update and delete. Now insert update, delete, intersection, union, minus all that should be available to be implemented at a high level. Okay. We are not concerned at the low level. And along with this, this should not be limited to row by row basis. For example, in a large organization, we say, for example, with 10,000 employees, right? And if there is a management decision that everybody in this salary range will get a 5% increase and there are 2000 employees in that category, then only one query will be executed will update the salary of those 2000 employees. Physical data independence. It is irrelevant. What is the file name in which the data is stored? It is irrelevant. How the data is stored. It is irrelevant, whether it's on a magnetic hard disk or on a solid state hard disk. That is the physical independence that I believe I also mentioned in the previous module also. Logical data independence. It is irrelevant how my data stored over here. The data is is already bifurcated into two tables. One is those employees with the salary is not null. And those employees with the salary which is null. So I have these two tables over here. This is the logical. This is table one. This is table two. What the view I am getting what the user is seeing is table one and table two collectively. Okay, seeing table T. That is logical data independence. Of course, that partition of the tables can be vertical also, and so on. Integrity independence. Okay, integrity independence is that, for example, I would like to add an employee in department number 50, and that department 50 does not exist. So that should generate an error. That is the integrity independence, and they should not be any shortcut or any other way to insert that employee in a department that does not exist. That would be a violation. That is the core spirit of the relational model. Distribution independence. This is the basis of distributed databases. My data could be anywhere. It could be on any server. It could be physically located anywhere. Okay, and it should not be the issue or the problem of the database designer of the user where data is located to that user. The data is located in a set of tables. And those set of tables may may be giving an impression that they are on the hard disk of the end user. And finally, the non subversion rule. It means that if I run a query to perform an insert or an update that query will only perform and insert an update in the table and only on those at columns for which the query was executed. It means that if I am updating the records of certain students, their grades, it will not change the grades of those students which were not included in the query. It means that if I am updating the accounts of my customer who made a deposit, it should never ever affect the accounts of other customers who were not listed in the query. I believe you understand this. More details are in the notes. Thank you very much.


Hello everyone! Welcome to another NARC Survivor live video, discussion video. Why the narcissist wants you dead? They don't really want you physically dead, but they want you dead in every other way imaginable.   They want you to feel completely empty and lifeless inside. To wear your only purpose in life is serving them. Just doing what they want you to do. Your thoughts just revolve around them where you're just anticipating their needs 24 hours a day.  It's just all about them. Everything is about them. Your entire day ends up revolving around them, supporting them, propping up the ego to where you begin to neglect yourself.  You're erased at a core level to where you don't even remember who you are anymore or what you like or are interested in.  Every part of you that bothered them. Everything they were envious and jealous of. They destroy it. It's the only way that they can feel better about themselves if they destroy the thing that they are envious of. And they feel no remorse when they do that. They really couldn't give two shits about you. All they care about is their supply regardless of what it does to you. They do not care at all. And they may even blame you for your own abuse. And there is nothing you can do to get them to think in the right way. That's never going to happen. Even when they come to you with these false apologies and they act like they finally understand and they want to make things right again, even then that's just a manipulation. They will never, never understand you. Never in a million years.  It's difficult to put this into words for you where everyone can just understand where I'm coming from here. But to really put it into perspective, think about it like this. You imagine you're in this scenario.  Maybe it got impaled by a bear trap.  That will be pretty heartbreaking, I'm sure. But now imagine this.  You're trying to worry about your own survival. You're trying to just climb on to land again. So there's nothing you can do about this other person who got their leg caught in a bear trap. There's nothing you can do about that.  You're just trying to survive. And that is exactly how it feels. Just to put it into perspective for you. That's how it feels to lack empathy, to be unable to consider someone else. And that's how they see it. Even though to the external world, you could be doing everything for them. Their lives could be almost perfect. But on the inside, it's that lack of emotional stability and regulation that keeps them stuck in survival mode. Where they're constantly hanging off the edge of that cliff. Where no matter what you do for them, no matter how many hours you spend being that emotional punching bag, the empathy is never going to come back. All you'll ever get is love bombing. And manipulation. It's tragic. It really is. And think about this. If we want to go one step further, imagine this, right? You're hanging off the edge of a cliff. And this person who is supposed to care for you just walks away. And thinks, no, I've been sitting by the edge of this cliff for such a long time. Now I need to go and look after myself. Just imagine how that would feel. Because that's exactly how it feels for a narcissist. And I'm not saying that for you to feel sorry for them. I'm just trying to put it into perspective for you.   It's such an offensive thing. But we can't see it that way. Because we're just seeing everything that's happening externally. But inside of them, it's so much more powerful. So much more painful than we could ever imagine. And that's why they get so angry. Because in that moment, it is life or death in their minds. It is about survival. And they're just trying to protect themselves. And in those situations, there really isn't much that they won't do. Just to feel like they're okay. They don't think about the consequences either. And that's why they may want you dead. But it doesn't mean that they're actually going to kill you. Although in some situations, with the more malignant narcissist, psychopaths, yes, of course, they have killed people. But it is very rare. Anyway, that's all I have to share on this. I would like to hear from you as this is a discussion. So please share your thoughts. As the narcissist ever said that they want you dead, or that they're going to kill you, please let me know in the live chat below. Felicia Foril says, my narc co-worker revenge is brutal. She got people kicked out of their houses. False reports. Yeah, there's really nothing they won't do to get revenge.   Just to stabilize themselves. And unfortunately, the only way they can do that is by destabilizing someone else. True love says, he said if I ever leave him, he will kill me. Joannita says, never said that. But did make me feel dead inside.  Nancy Figart says it's like a cat that catches a bird. He doesn't actually kill it right away. The cat has fun taunting it by letting it run away and then catching it again. Watching it suffering is fuel entertainment. That's right. It really is like a cat and a bird or a cat and mouse.   They love to beat you down. More and more as time goes on, they really get a kick out of it. Watching you suffer, knocking you down just so they can watch you crawl. And as you're trying to get back up, you're struggling with your injuries.  And then you try again, bang, down again. Now this process just repeats itself hundreds, if not thousands of times, depending on how long you remain around them. But one thing I can guarantee, it's a cycle that will never change. They need it. The constant in survival mode, constantly feeling like they're hanging off the edge of a cliff. And the only way they can regulate is to destabilize you. That's the only way they know how to do it. They can't go within. There's nothing to go within too. So it has to be externalized and it will be externalized on whoever they see fit, whoever like supports. Whoever has any weaknesses that they can sense, just like a shark smells blood. That's their target. That's who they're going to destabilize to regulate their emotions. And that's just how it is. But I would like to thank you all for joining this live discussion video. You're all greatly appreciated. Thank you all for joining. Check out the websites NarcSurviver.co.uk. I posted a new blog post earlier today. And we also have the support forum on there as well, which you can join. I will be answering your questions. And I'm also on TikTok now as well. The same account name as my Instagram. It's NarcSurviver YouTube. So thank you all for joining this live video. And I will talk to you again very soon.


Great ideas for teaching writing skills in the ESL classroom. Of all the language skills that are taught in the ESL classroom, teaching writing skills is often seen as one of the least popular. Some teachers consider these lessons to be a bit boring, hard to evaluate and somewhat limited in what you can incorporate into them. However, this doesn't have to be the case as teaching writing skills to your ESL students can actually be interesting, fun and productive. Take a look at these ideas for spicing up your English writing skills lessons. Think outside the box. One of the most common reasons why writing lessons are sometimes seen as boring is that many teachers stick to a traditional approach that rigidly focuses on structure, grammar, and punctuation. While these are an important part of the writing process, if you want to engage your students and make your classes more interesting, you should consider mixing things up a bit. Here are a few great writing activities that your students will love to have a go at. Write a story. Write a newspaper article. Write lyrics for a song. Write a poem. Write an email. Write tweets. Write a blog post. Write a script for a movie or a TV show. Write an advertising campaign for a fictional new product. The list of potential ideas is endless and within all these activities you can teach the fundamental aspects of writing while your students are engaged and motivated. To get the most out of these activities, you should also ensure that the students are encouraged to read out their stories and poems, act out their scripts and even sing their song lyrics to the rest of the class. Large creativity, not perfection. Many of your students will have plenty of ideas to write about but are held back by a fear of making mistakes. As teachers, it is our job to minimize this fear and thus maximize each student's potential. While you do need to identify and address common errors that occur during your writing lessons, you should not correct every mistake a student makes as this is sure to undermine their confidence and stifle their individual creativity. Encourage students to write about what interests them. Rather than relying on textbooks for ideas on what students should write about, simply have them write about their own interests. Many teachers fall into the trap of following a textbook too closely which can seriously reduce creativity and general motivation in the classroom. By giving your students the freedom to write about subjects that interest them, you should find that they will be instantly more engaged in the lesson. Writing doesn't have to be a solo activity. A common sight in many writing classes is rows of students sitting alone quietly writing out exercises from a textbook. In this scenario, it is fair to assume that many of the students will also look bored, sleepy or simply disengaged. By introducing pair or group writing activities you should see an instant increase in energy and enthusiasm among the class. Not only does it encourage interaction and participation from all your students, but it also allows for mutual feedback between classmates. Group activities that involve story writing, TV, movie scripts or song lyrics can be great fun for all involved. Introduce multi-skilled lessons. Rather than focusing solely on writing skills, lessons can be made more interesting for students if you also include other skills. Reading and writing skills are regularly taught together in lessons, but you should also consider including listening and speaking skills. One popular option is to combine writing and listening skills by using music-based activities. An example activity for this lesson could be to cut up song lyrics and hand them out to the students who must then write them out in the order they think they should be in. You can then play the song and allow them to make changes to their lyric order as they listen. You could also have your students write down the words to famous speeches, podcasts or audiobooks as they are played in the classroom. Writing games. A simple online search for writing games will bring up a huge number of great ideas that you can incorporate into your writing lessons. Writing games are not just a fun activity to keep the students happy. By choosing carefully they can be a great way to increase motivation, reduce the fear of making mistakes, and encourage the spontaneous use of the English language. They can also help to create cooperation among your students, and they can also be great fun for the teacher. Are you ready to teach writing skills in your own classroom? As this post hopefully highlights, English language writing classes did not need to be boring, predictable or difficult to plan. By using some of these tips, you should have no problem engaging your students and encouraging them to make rapid improvements with their written English. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Welcome to dorking in Surrey for the Mole Valley parkrun behind me is Denby's Wine Estate and over here is the very famous Box Hill which you would have seen on the Olympics in 2012. We are here to run Mole Valley parkrun 5k as always it's a beautiful freezing cold frosty but beautifully sunny Saturday morning. Andrew is this your local? It is yeah. What's your fastest time here? Well I'd love to do it in under 25 minutes a day. What's your name? Simon. Is this your local? Yeah this is our local two minutes up the road. Okay and how many how many parkruns in total have you done? I think I'm up to about 30 now 30 or so okay it's a little bit more. Oh we did Mount Etna. Mount Etna. Last month we did yeah first time. Fantastic. That was something else yeah. Let's see what this parkruns like then. Mole Valley. So first loop around the field back past the start and now we're going to go uphill. Kilometer one four twenty eight heart rate one forty two. Kilometer two in four fifty seven. Heart rate still about one forty something. Thank you I think that might be all the pying done there downhill for the last two k or so. Heart rate one fifty seven. Five sixteen for that uphill kilometer. Let's try and make up some time on the downhill. Kilometer four in three fifty eight. So into the final one now come on keep it going up to the finish. Twenty seventh today in twenty two and a half that's not bad. In the first three k there's definitely some little hills to attend to. How many parkruns is up for you now? Three thirty three forty something like that. Very good. And that is it from the Mole Valley parkrun here in Dawking in the shadow of Boxhill on the beautiful Denby's Wine Estate. Glorious parkrun to run. Some beautiful scenery made all the better by this lovely sunshine. It was a bit cold to start with. There are some hills definitely some hills in the first three k. If you want to watch other parkruns we've done please click the link there because that is our parkrun playlist. If you're not subscribed to the channel I know you want to please click that button down below and subscribe and help us out and we'll see you on the start line next time. Bye bye.