I'm just getting home from my ACL repair surgery. I got a nice little brace on my leg, a little connector for the ice machine. Okay, go inside, my wife is taking awesome care of me. Just drove me home and she's clearing the pathway, getting all my kids toys out of the way so I can get in the door with my walker back here. So, pain meds are still doing good. I'm not in pain, my leg is completely numb, but looking forward to finally getting this done. It took three months almost before insurance got approved and got the surgery scheduled, so I'm glad it's done. Just over a week since my surgery, I'm down to only using one crutch, which is nice. Gives me the hand to do stuff with. And two more days and hopefully I'll get my stitches out. If you're wondering what this hose is, it goes to that little water pump down there that has ice in it. I had to pay 150 bucks for that, but it's well worth it. It just constantly ices my legs, so I don't have to use ice packs and constantly switch them out. So, pretty much been laying here for a week, hooked up to this machine. Gone a little stir crazy, but I am getting a little more mobile. And so I'm at least really able to get around the house a little bit better now. Had my post op today, got my stitches out. That was nice. Hopefully another day or so and I'll be off the crutches. You know, when I was a kid, I wanted to be the punisher when I grew up. And I want to make some sort of joke about ending up being payback instead, but I don't think anybody would get that joke. Today is six weeks since my surgery. And I was told yesterday, I no longer need to wear my brace after today or starting today. That's nice. So yeah, it's been six weeks today since my surgery. For those of you, if I had mentioned, so I tore my ACL. So what they had to do was they took part of my hamstring and then drilled through my knee and replaced my ligament with part of my hamstring. Apparently you have accessory hamstrings that you don't need. And I asked about the hamstring thing, like, will my hamstrings be weak? Oh, they're actually like, oh, you'll be sore for a couple of days. What, six weeks later? My hamstring's still pretty tight and sore, but things are going good. Unfortunately, it's still another best case scenario. It's still gonna be about three months before I get back to work full-time. So, but things are going good. Improvements every day. And yeah, I turn, I just say it was my birthday, I turned 38, so I got my brace off and that's like at birthday present. Yay! Nothing like feeling old, you know, by having a surgery like this.  And watching the videos of him getting hurt makes me feel better about my injury, but I wonder how he feels at 64 with all the injuries he's had over the years. Does he just hurt all the time? Or has he healed well? I'm assuming he probably has some aches and pains every day.


I'm not dealing with movies. I'm not dealing with music. I'm going to product Right. Yeah. Yeah, he hit with the rap snacks and now you running with Snoop with the Snoop loop.  Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one Yeah, we gonna so I want to ask you also about Kevin Miller I've been asking everybody about Kevin because Kevin was the that was the whole movement when when Pete was coming out with TRU and and in no limit You're here. I'm saying my little brother Kevin Miller rest in peace He would say that all the time he was body body need will keep you know, every you know that that Miss my homies and all that Right, did you ever know him or see him in Cali-O when he was little of him through his uncle you feel I'm saying your uncle is your uncle's over there. He knows. What was your uncle like Bruce? He's still around. No, he did too. He did too. Yeah, so Bruce used to be a little older Yeah, Bruce was the head of that clique that that master P and Kevin them come under Okay, so he was a part of that Tuesday crew of you hear master P all the time to choose the crew That's what Bruce was.   Well, I mean, I want to be broke I won't be that time I want to be you know, I'm saying like when when you see people making these accusations, but then you see him Living how he living What do you think about that? I mean what is broke? He's still in Calabash. He just brought in one thing about Pete here hustling Oh, you might every hustler have a downtime when you trying to realize shit trying to figure it out And I think master Pete just went through that. I'm not dealing with movies. I'm not dealing with music I'm going to product. Yeah, yeah He hit with the rap snacks and now he running with Snoop with the Snoop loop.    I don't know.  What's the name Jeff? But so so when you think about just Like all the music that do happen down there now is there who's a hot artist. Is there any hot artists down there? Yeah, you know what at the head is it's cumbersome there at the top curse is still the main top of the food chain That's his We could put a stamp on it. So that's jet life sitting Then under that Brett you got rifle 9 you got You got why I did it Ellis. You got Cali your Bob. You got Cold young and you got treated like New Orleans on fire right now like we were coming back for our position in this music So I gotta ask is I access every show especially dealing with someone New Orleans How major would it be for the city if? Master P came together with Birdman for sit down on an interview. I don't know. I don't To be honest, I don't know that's never happened. It'd be You don't think it'll never happen I know they're talking right now, but I don't know the impact happen Yeah, they didn't happen. They're talking they already been talking cuz I heard they had come sent through I don't think mr. Servo will lie to me. He told me they didn't have talking but how impactful when they older now Yeah, like that generational gap like all those guys who was between whatever went on they all they live in They like what they found is like they ain't tripping about nothing Filming is like how do you touch these ukes now y'all can sit down now if y'all come together and make a powerhouse and Sign some people and put some situations together You feel me now that had changed the streets that had changed because you ever get people opportunities Yeah, because I always feel like you know When I see people who've been say you had millions and then you got caught up and you went to prison And you come back change your life and you trying to educate some of these youths of how to act and how to be and stuff like That a lot of these you be pushing the streets They'll be like who are you you ain't got none right now this is this is this but these people still have These people are still striving these people are still going moving up, right? They can still educate a lot of these youngsters because they used to be in the streets back in the days Right, so they can't and I would think that these younger people would still listen to these people Yes, because of their status were opportunity because other than that you eating good and you telling me to change my ways Why I'm starving and then you walk off and you still eating good and I'm still hungry You got to give me an opportunity, but there's a lot of people though How can you give everybody an opportunity that you trying to touch? I mean your structure? They put us in poverty through a plan and we could get a plan to get out of poverty This ain't just happened overnight.  Because that's that's what's affected by right them to not getting along, right? What is the difference between uptown and downtown and cat? What is the difference? I'm not from there I'm telling you I'm saying Let me know what's going down I'm down to Mecca.  What's the difference? It's the Mecca. I was swag. I was lingo. I would talk I'm gonna say that cuz you from there.  I was a kid. I grew up half and half What about the what's the difference between that in the West Bank? Well, I don't know I'm interviewing people like it's you know, all this is like every section is its own city Like everybody got different lingo. You feel I'm saying like the West Bank. They got their lingo. They do what they do like You know I'm saying they don't have they got one project on the West Bank And they project a ship like a Chicago project, you know saying like it's one big long Building and stuff like uptown. We got coats ways and cuts and everything you feel me so and I was sad I will cool ways. It's different. I got a question. So Randall Watts. Tell me how was he important to Uptown he was important to the yo like that's big dog. That's what I'm talking about like a guy who has influence at his height And you ain't disrespecting nobody around him. You need something you highlight him You need advice you can highlight him. He give back to the kids He makes sure he put smiles on faces like Randall was one of those guys if it's boring He'll give a DJ I put some jumping jacks up for the kids to go have fun and just to take their mind out of poverty You feel I'm saying like Randall was one of the ones though. Hmm. I rest in peace slum.  Yeah, we gonna talk


Hi! This is video instruction for one octave major scales for Viola. Now I want to stress to you that there is a handout that you can use to accompany this lesson. You can find it posted on the NCSSM Orchestra Moodle site and probably some other places as well. Ask me if you don't have a copy of that worksheet. For Viola, one octave major scales, and frankly for all of the two and three octave major scales as well, we're going to be thinking about finger patterns. So if you haven't already done so, please refer to the finger pattern exercises that can be found online as well. When we're doing a one octave major scale on the Viola, it's really very easy if you're thinking about finger patterns. For any note or any scale other than our open string scales, we will be starting on first finger and really just thinking about the finger patterns that we're playing. For instance, if we find third position on the C string and play our three four finger pattern on the C string and the three four finger pattern on the G string, we get an F major scale. But as long as we start on first finger on any string and play that three four finger pattern, we'll get a major scale. For instance, first finger on the C string is the note D, three four finger pattern on the C string, three four finger pattern on the G string, D major scale. If we start on D flat, it's the same finger patterns. Three four finger pattern on the C string, three four finger pattern on the G string. If we start on E flat, which is up a half step from the note D, same thing. Finger pattern is three four. The beauty of the one octave scale is it's from first finger through the finger pattern on a string, through it on another string, and we've done the one octave. So one octave major scales on the viola are really fairly simple. Let's start by playing a one octave F major scale on beginning on the C string. You've played the one octave major scale starting on first finger on the C string. We did the F major scale. Now let's talk about the major scales that start with an open string. So we'll start with a C major scale. For a C major scale, the finger pattern is the two three finger pattern on the C string and the two three finger pattern on the G string. We're going to be thinking about a three four finger pattern on both the G and the C strings and we're going to run through all of the major scales beginning with a D flat. Major one octave scale, one octave scale. F major, F sharp major.


On page 25 we have the song Lavender's Blue. The new concept in Lavender's Blue is a new chord in the left hand. This chord is the F chord. Now the F chord is played by leaving your pinky on the C where it has been. Moving your index finger to the note F and your thumb on up to the note A. Here's our original C chord, Lavender's Blue.


Hey everybody, this is Brian, and welcome to the 40th Lamp Tutorial. Today we're going to be discussing the final keyword. Now let's say we have a class, and we've done some things to this class, and we really don't want anybody to mess with it. I mean, this class is so special to us that we just don't want anyone to inherit it or do anything. Well, that's what the final keyword comes into play. Whoopsie, that didn't work out too well. So we have our normal class, and we can actually extend this. We'll say class newTest. So someone could go in here and actually override, or overload, I should say, our doTest function and totally destroy the magic. See here. So in our original class, we've done something, and it's just doing something special, whatever this may be, and we don't want classes to inherit this and then change the functionality of it. So what we can simply do, save that and see that it runs, is we can just say final. Once you mark it as final, classes cannot, they cannot extend it. You see how we got this little syntax error down here. class newTest may not inherit from final class test on line 25. Pretty simple yet pretty powerful technique. So if you write a class and you just absolutely do not want anybody to inherit it for whatever your reasons are, then go ahead and put the final keyword in there. You should know that that actually does kind of go against the bit of the spirit of object oriented programming, because what you're saying is this is the final version of this class and no one can ever extend this or do anything to it. So that's all for this tutorial. I know it was a fast one, but very powerful keyword. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye


artificial intelligence is just like the name sounds. It's trying to be able to use a computer, have a computer to seem more human. If we go back to the 1960s actually, the whole idea was that if you took and had somebody in one room at a teletype, a computer in another room, and then the operator in the third room who's sitting at the teletype, and if me as the operator can carry on a conversation, if the computer, if I can figure out, if I can't tell which one of those is the human and which one is the computer, that's called intelligence. That's artificial intelligence. Making it to computers seemed to be more human is kind of where it all started. But really what it's all about is being able to make it so that computers can be able to act more, not just more like humans, but more intelligent than a computer program that just follows a list of instructions. And that's kind of some of the problems. Today how it's all evolved is that because of the amount of computing power, the amount of memory in your computers, and all the rest, it's all moved to one technology which is, it's called a neural network. A neural network is a simulation of a computer that's a simulation in a computer of a human brain. That's what artificial intelligence is really all about, simulating how the brain works for learning things and then be able to make decisions. And that's where it's all evolved too.


Proudly, we hail! New York City, where the American stage begins, here is another program with a cast of outstanding players. Public service time has been made available by this station for your Army and your Air Force to bring you this story, as Proudly, we hail the United States Air Force. Our story is entitled, Bring Back a Mig, an intriguing true story of an amazing adventure in Korea. Our first act curtain will rise in just a moment, the music in the background is recognizable to anyone as the song of the United States Air Force. Its words ring with the mighty story that began in the era of the flying flippers and continues in the modern jet age. Newer planes mean newer techniques, which in turn must be taught to the new generation. Here is your opportunity, young men of America, and a chance to strengthen the defense of the nation as part of the great Air Force team. And list now in the Aviation Cadet Training Program. You have the preliminary qualifications if you are between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half and have had at least two years of college. Inquire today at your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station. Ask about the Aviation Cadet Training Program and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production Bring Back a Mig. The order was seven words long, but if it could be carried out an important battle would be won. It was a grim command, but it was vitally necessary. At any cost, bring back a mig. Bring back a Russian jet-built fighter for study, analysis, and evaluation. That's what they wanted, and the news of it came sifting down. I'm late. I just got here myself, sir. Not much of a place to hold a conference on a night like this. It's cold as an ice box and black as a pit. So we shouldn't be disturbed. Right, sir. You've been temporarily assigned to my command. You know that? Yes, sir. That's what the chief said. Well, I've got a tough job for you. Well, they're all tough, sir. I guarantee this one will be the toughest of all. How soon can you be ready to leave for the States? States? Did you say States, sir? I did. Well... You're going back to school. You'll be spending Christmas in New England. And you said this was going to be tough? It's one of those things that starts out easy, son. I've been put in charge of a detail... Before daylight, you're on your way. You're flying east, east and home. Christmas in New England. You should be used to sudden changes by now, and this is one you'll have a little time to think about. The first part of your job is going to be no pain at all. Like the general said, you're going to school. Not one school, a half a dozen, maybe more. You'll be the only student because the schools you're going to are factories. And the subject... Chets. This is Mr. Rowe. Fred here knows more about what goes on in this plant than I do. How do you do, sir? How do you do? Fred, I didn't get your name. Just call me Jim. Jim was sent up from Washington. Fred, his name is important. Oh, I see, I see. Well, I guess I better let you ask all the questions. I'll have about a million. Well, I've got to rush off now. You need anything, you just holler. But I'm sure you're in good hands. Oh, thanks for everything, Mr. Carr. You're welcome, I'm sure. See you later. Song. Well, shall we start? Right. First off, we'll stop at my office and pick up. As the days pass, your proficiency grows. Under the guidance of experts, you finally reach the point where you could actually field-strip a jet-flighter blindfolded. Just as easily as you could field-strip a rifle. Like the boss said, you spend Christmas and New Year's and New England. And then one day, school is out. You've learned all there is to know on the subject. It's time to put your knowledge to work. Welcome home. Have a good trip? Fast, sir. Well, this modern age. How are things back in the States? Back in the States? So peaceful. I'll bet. Pull up a chair. Thanks. The two copter pilots will be here in a few minutes. I see, General. You've definitely decided on a helicopter for the job. Yes. Your idea of going in alone and trying to steal a mig right in front of their noses is all right for the movies. But the chance is too slim, and we'd be right back where we were when we started. Well, General, have we got a chopper big enough to handle the thing? The Sikorsky H-19 is the biggest we've got. And it's got to be big enough. Oh, there'll be nine of you all told. Two pilots, six technicians, and yourself. Right. Your pilots are the best we've got. That's good. Joe Cooper flew B-24s during the war, switched to helicopters about four or five years ago. Russ Winneger has a similar background. They know their stuff. I see. What, do they know about this deal yet? No, no. They'll hear about it for the first time when they get here. What about the other men? Well, we've already picked them and trained them. Well, they'll be handy to have around in case we run into trouble. I don't see how you can expect to run into anything else. Oh, you never can tell, sir. We might not. Come in. In here, Captain. Is Captain Winneger with you? Yes, sir. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Man, this is Jim. He's one of those cloak-and-dagger birds so his last name isn't important, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if his first name wasn't Jim at all. I never could figure why you men had to act so mysterious about your name. Well, we have to have some secrets, General. Meet Captain Joe Cooper and Captain Russ Winneger. All right, Captain. They're good at keeping secrets. I do. Well, sit down, gentlemen. We'll get down to cases. While the General briefs the two pilots, you have a chance to look them over. Cooper is tall, thin, thoughtful-looking bird, quiet, dependable guy, you figure. No monkey business. Calm in the pinch. Winneger is short, compact with a chin like a hunk of granite. He looks rugged, ready for anything. You have a feeling the General handpicked these men. Cooper listens to the plan unfold, portraying no emotion. Winneger's eyes light up like a couple of searchlights. There's no hiding his eagerness. He's ready to go right now. No. As long as that helicopter of yours delivers a mig in our hands, we'll be satisfied. You know, there are those who think it can't be done. How about it? Well, the overload will be tremendous, but we'll get our copter back and with your mig. I think. You spend the next couple of weeks putting to work the schooling you went home for, teaching Joe and Russ and the technicians how to disassemble a jet with portable tools in a hurry. You practice loading the big H-19 with jet parts. Joe and Russ do things with that baby that don't seem possible. And then one day, all that is left to do is wait. Wait until photo reconnaissance spots a mig down somewhere in one piece. Your hope when they do, it won't be too far behind enemy lines. How many years you figure we gotta wait before that phone rings? Five. Maybe ten. I wouldn't doubt it. Relax, boy. Say, how about some penny ante? Sir, I do not believe in gambling. Sir, this isn't gambling. I'll take your money gently. In that case, steal me in. Well, who's got a deck of cards? I've got one of my footlocker, I think. I'll take a... No cards today, children. Well, shall I answer it or let it ring a while? Look, if you don't answer it in one second, I'll feed it to you. Now go on, answer it. The man's eager. Hello. How soon can you be in my office? In about 30 seconds. Make it 25. I think we've got something for you. We're on our way, sir. It's right here, sir, on the side of this hill. According to this map, the whole area looks pretty hilly. What about it, Joe? Isn't this a clearing right here? That's right. I think you could put it down there, all right. You'll only be about 100 yards from the meek. What kind of shape is it in, Glenn? It looked reasonably intact. Nose was kind of dented in, but she seemed to be all in one piece. She's 200 miles behind their line. Glenn, did you notice any activity in the immediate vicinity? Well, the place looked empty, sir. Good. How far inland is she? Well, let's figure it out. 10, 8, 10, 24, 35. Now this island here off the coast is set up for your advanced fuel base. Good idea. Yeah. From there, you can fly along the coast until you reach this point. You'll have protective cover all the way. The more the better. When do we start? Now. It'll take about an hour to get your cover in position, and your flight time to the island is about the same. Yeah, should work perfectly. Well, we'll grab some chow, gather the other lads, and be on our way. Oh, who wants to eat? Got a point there. Well, when you want it, the food's there. Packaged rations were put in the helicopter as part of the advanced preparations. There's only one point I've got left to make. Is it? Bring me back that mig. Bring it back in 50 parts or 100.  Even though you know you should eat, you find that food seems to stick in your throat, and that an empty stomach can be emptier no matter what you try to put in it. Inside enemy lines doesn't sound like a hop, skip, and jump.  Well, the three of us eat silently, hurriedly, forcing the food down our throats. Then we go out into the bitterly cold afternoon and walk stiffly across the field to the rotesque-looking H-19.  Yeah? What's your worry, Joe? Our extra gasoline, the nylon bags we're carrying it in are all interconnected. Get a burst of flak in one bag, they'd all go dry. I know, but there's not much we can do about it. No, just hope it doesn't happen. Why, fellas, you don't think they'll shoot at us, do you? Well, they'll be so surprised to see us, they'll just stand where their mouths open. Hey, I see the six men are ready and waiting.  All right, sir, you check their shoots, and I'll look after the extra ammunition situation. We're not gonna have much room for extra ammo. Ah, just a few grenades. Oh, brother, it's cold. I'd rather have it too cold than too hot, all of a sudden. In a matter of minutes, everything is checked. The nine of you are aboard, and Joe revs her up. Rise straight up off the ground slowly, almost sluggishly. Then Joe points her toward the sea, and you're on your way. The ugly soiled earth of Korea moves away under you. The lip of the yellow sea froths against the shoreline, as though it would like to give the whole country a good cleaning. The day is gray, overcast. Visibility, poor. You come down low over the sea, heading for the island where you'll find your extra fuel. Joe, there's the island. Just to the right over there. See it? Oh, yeah. I hope this visibility isn't getting any better. Hey, is that the island off there? Yeah. Hey, I can see it a little better now. Not much more than a rock sitting in the sea. Russ, give the boys overhead a call. Will you tell them we're going down the gas line? Right. Meatball calling green leader. Bless you, boy. Bless you. Okay. While listening to the proudly-behaved production, Bring Back Amig, our story will continue in just a moment after this important message. Hey, that's one of those new Air Force jets. It must be some fun to be up there. Gee, I'd sure like to fly when I grow up. Young men of America, yesterday you said it. Today you can make it come true. Today the United States Air Force is offering you the opportunity to apply for the Aviation Cadet Training Program and become an important part of America's jet age. You'll be given the finest training possible and graduate as a fully qualified pilot, navigator or radar observer. What a thrill to wear those silver wings that identify you as a member of the United States Air Force Flight Team. You'll feel a real surge of pride when you're assigned to your plane. Perhaps it'll be a speedy F-94 Scorpion jet or the vital flying boxcar cargo plane. No matter what your job in the Air Force, you as an aviation cadet have the satisfaction of knowing that you're serving your country when it needs you most. If you're a young man between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half, have successfully completed two or more years of college and are otherwise qualified, you should visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station today. You are listening to Proudly We Hail and now we present the second act of Bring Back a Mig. Where's our gas? Hey fellas, look, look over there. Holy jumping catfish. We gotta get out and make a stand. Oh, it's too late, too many of them. One of those grenades. Right, you guys, they're reds. No, no, no, they're not reds. Russ, they're our men. Huh? Hey, you see, they're waving. Oh, brother, I thought we'd have had it. And spades.  With the help of 50 grinning South Korean Marines whom you first mistook for commies, you load and refuel the helicopter in jig time. Helicopter in jig time. Now you're ready for the final run. Hey, what's the matter? We're overloaded. She won't behave. Oh, isn't that just dandy? Oh, come on, get moving. Let's lighten the load. I have to lighten it quite a bit. Everybody take off their parachute. And one of the technicians will have to wait here for us. Even with no shoots and one less man, you're still overloaded. Suddenly, something flashes overhead and you look up. The sky is full of planes. The regular umbrella of shooting stars, saver jets and mustangs. They look mighty comforting. In your hope, they'll stay there all the way in and back. But you waddle along through the air, hugging the coastline. And then it's time to rise up and cross the hills and find what you've come looking for. I'm leveling off at 5,000. Is your handle better now? Yeah, much. Check that map. Will you see if you can pick out anything interesting? I studied that map until I could see it in my sleep. Now you're on the right course. There's the river with a fork in it off to the right. The three hills group together there. And that blasted factory on the edge of the town. Uh-oh, here comes some ground fire. Where's the big from here? Other side of that ridge up ahead. Boy, I can't figure out why someone hasn't shot us down yet. Like you said, they're just too surprised. You gotta pull that mega part in ten minutes. It says here. With seven of us working on it and Joe looking after the ship, we should be able to do it. As long as they don't jump us. Look, over there. There she is. There doesn't seem to be anyone around here. Tell the boys up there we're going down. We found our MiG. Now all we have to do is cart it home. One thing above all else you want now is silence. But the only thing a helicopter won't do is land silently. Your engines sound like a flock of fire trucks in full tilt as you let down into a clearing about 400 yards. And over a hill, the MiG. You sit tensely, hardly daring to breathe, expecting to be raked by fire from behind every rock and tree. Then your wheels touch the ground. Come on, boys. Let's go get it. All right, Sergeant, post one of your men on those rocks. The rest of you start working on the tail section. Hey Russ, you take the nose. I'll take the cockpit. Let's hit it! Now what you learned in school and what you've taught the rest of these men is to pay off. You don't need the whole MiG, but you do need everything that makes it tick. Gun sight, armor around the pilot, metals used in the engine's fire blast chambers and so on. Then it happens.  Hey, I don't have the right kind of tool to get this thing off. None of them fit. Hey sir, we're trying to remove the tail, but our tools... Yeah, I know, I know. But be sure to get that whole tail section. Fine kettle of fish, what are we going to do? We're going to stop standing around beating our gums.  Now let's hurry it up. You disassemble as much of her as you can, which isn't much. Now it's time to improvise. You've got to get this thing apart one way or another. I've gotten off everything I can. Right. Now you and the Sergeant and the rest of the boys start carting that stuff back to the ship. Okay. Hey, what are you going to do with that grenade? Well, if we can't take her apart, we'll blow her apart. Now get going. Yeah, what's the matter? I've got trouble. This is all we could get off her. He can't possibly carry anymore. Hey, they're onto us. No, no, that's Jim. He's breaking the plane up with grenades. Grenades won't even hold all the bits. Stop worrying about him. He knows his business. All right, I'm going back to help him. Sergeant, as soon as we get this loaded, come on the double. What tools won't do, hand grenades will. It's not the neatest way to take a plane apart, but it does the job quickly, and right now every second is about a million dollars in borrowed time. When Russ and the others come back, you've got one broken up meagre on your hands. Now all you've got to do is cart it back to the helicopter and get it aboard. Hey, how are you coming out? It's all done. Look, you two men take that section. You do that one. Russ, you and I will take this. Okay, put your backs into it. It takes two trips to get all the pieces down to the H-19, and then it takes the greatest piece of loading anyone's ever seen. When you're through, the tail of the mig sticks out the cabin window like an extra wing.  Then you crawl into the helicopter the best you can and hope that a guy named Joe Cooper is a magician because you know it'll take one to get this show into the air. Here we go, I hope. Come on, baby, let's walk upstairs. Keep her off, boy. We're going up the hill ahead. Have to head downwind, out of your teeth. We got shrubs in the landing gear. Slowly, the altimeter's finger marches from one to two to three. And finally, at 5,000, you level off and head for the sea. Then what you've been expecting all along, but hoping against hope wouldn't happen, does happen in a big way. Quack! He's concentrating on us. You didn't really think they'd let us get away with a cargo like this that easy, did you? No, but any closer we'll be able to get out and walk on it. Their aim's pretty sharp today. They just have to see Skipper away from all this noise. You were lucky they didn't open up on you sooner. We were just lucky, General. They had our range all the way out to the sea. We found one hunk of flak in the main rotor blade. Gentlemen, you've done a magnificent job. And I think the most remarkable thing you've done is bring yourselves back alive. Well, did we get enough of that mech to help anyone? You certainly did. You risked your necks to do this job, and you can bet they're going to be an awful lot of necks saved because of what you did. I'm recommending you, Captain Joe Cooper and Captain Russ Winneger for the Silver Star. America is depending on her leaders in the air. If you're a young man between the ages of 19 and 26 and a half, have had two or more years of college and are otherwise qualified, you are eligible to join the ranks of America's leaders in the air. You can become an aviation cadet. The defense of our nation hangs heavily on our air strength, the finest in the world, but we cannot relax our efforts. The Air Force still needs pilots and aircraft observers. If you have the primary qualifications, visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Station today. Ask about the Aviation Cadet Training Program. Do it now. This has been another program on Proudly We Hail, presented transcribed in cooperation with this station. Proudly We Hail is produced by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau for the United States Army and United States Air Force Recruiting Service. This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting you to tune in this same station next week for another interesting story on Proudly We Hail.


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Now this is a 300 millimeter long not one foot long swd cable handy for if you say want to debug your metro m7 with a jlink or any other swd debugger this is a 0.05 pitch not 0.1 inch pitch connector like i said very common for arm cortex chips is a very standardized connector that you would then use to do step debugging or programming so our metro boards tend to have them some more feathers have them you'll see this on almost every kind of dev board okay next up next up we have the corvo to dev board from expressive we try to carry all their dev kits i will say that this is the a minimal version of a dev board it is meant to support lcd and camera but it doesn't actually come with the lcd and camera so just be aware of that like it comes as is it has an esp32 s3 on there and it's designed to make it easy to interface with cameras displays it has two microphones on there it has a input and output i2s amplifier and and microphone input so good for like av camera projects with the s3 it sort of replaces an earlier corvo one board which we actually liked we did a lot of our initial esp32 s3 development on it that got discontinued so there's this one has battery in speaker out couple buttons you know some capabilities extra debug port with um it's sorry usb serial port with a usb serial converters that's why there's two usb ports on there on off switch i think you know good for developers with the s3 you want to especially use the camera and i2s peripheral support all right the star of the show tonight besides you lady our team our customers our community everybody who makes this thing go called eight fruit is the in a 228 power measurement breakout does land us actually in mid 2020 and was unable to get chips until like last week so now it's in stock this is a really really nice power monitor we've had the in a 219 the in a 260 it's kind of like the best of them all it's a little more expensive but it can do up to 85 volts common voltage which is great the other ones i think max out at like maybe 24 volts this can do up to 85 volts and it has a 15 milli ohm 1 percent current measurement resistor that's that big resistor in the middle there which means it can do up to 10 amps in one motor up to 2.7 amps in like a different gain mode there's an internal gain of four positive or negative direction and low or high side measurement and it's got a astonishing 20 bit adc inside of there so even if you're measuring up to 10 amps you can still get some milli amp precision and accuracy it's very nice you know 20 bit current and voltage measurement device we've got Arduino library for it secret python library coming shortly but basically like you want to have high dynamic range of measurements this is a chip that's going to do it because the other measurements chips like the in a 260 and 219 i think they max out at like 12 or 16 bit resolution and that that extra 4 bits does help so i do have a live demo i put my live demo still works yes let's go let's go ahead okay so i've got here i'm going to move this a little confusing i've got here two two feathers one's being measured and one's the measure so this is this is just the feather that's connecting to the sensor itself and then this is the sensor so this is the in a 228 and the in a 228 is wired so it's between this battery this battery and this feather board so i'm trying to get everything here so this is a esp 32 feather being powered from this battery and the battery is going through the current measurement live demo um and then this is measuring it so what this what this feather is doing is it's going through three different modes it's going through not sleep mode where the leds on light sleep and deep sleep because i wanted to show that it does um you know just because it's got that 20 bit adc it can measure i mean go up to 10 amps but easily measures the 40 milliamps that is how much it does uh use when it's in running mode and then when it goes into light sleep mode it goes down to like you know one or two milliamps and then when it um goes down to deep sleep i will say it's not as precise because the deep sleep mode is about 15 micro amps that's kind of when you know you might want to do some more averaging um to verify the uh the current draw um or you might want to i i'm honest i didn't reduce the gain by four like i could but it can go down to the micro amp range uh it won't be as precise as something designed specifically for micro amp measurements but given that you can go up to 10 amps on this it's a very wide range of you know three decades of current measurement and the voltage measurement is also really great um you can also get temperature from here and we'll also do power measurement for you it will actually do the power or not just instantaneous power but coulomb counting and it will do the coulomb counting for you continuously and then give you like how much total uh how many total coulombs you've used in power so this is really this is particularly good for low power and high power measurement and overall power usage not just instantaneous voltage and current and that is new


Before we get to the reading, I just wanted to do a quick announcement, doubling up on the announcement from last time, Escape from Site 19, today's sponsor. You use the promotional code Daybreak, that's capital all of the letters D-A-Y-B-R-E-A-K, and you buy a new Escape from Site 19 board game, you'll receive a special promotional when day breaks card, along with three special Christmas promo cards, and the tub itself will come with a nice decorative red ribbon, because it's Christmas. If you'd like these promotional materials, but you've already purchased the game, there will be a way in the next couple weeks, or next few weeks I should say, where it will be an announcement on how you can go ahead and get them at, I believe, just the cost of shipping, so that's in the future for you too if you've already bought one. I highly recommend it, if for no other reason than it's just an amazing piece of SCP branded merchandise, like look at this candle, where else are you going to get something like that?  Now today we are going to do a reading, so I'm going to be back off camera for the rest of the video, I just wanted to pop in and say, you know, buy this, use the code, it will be a link and a coupon code in the description, coupon code is Daybreak, get 10% off. Alright, let's get to reading. The Star's Do Not Wait View was written by Dematix, it is under a Creative Commons Share Like Attribution License, and can be found on the SCP Wiki in a link in the description below. It's quiet out here. The desert sprawls from horizon to horizon, where purest white meets twilight red. There are no edges here, no angles, just curves, and the gentle rise and fall of dunes as far as the eye can see, and everywhere beyond. Had a visitor from some other world laid eyes on this place, they might have found it serene, even beautiful, pure, but I can enjoy no such delusions regretfully, for I know what lies beneath and among the sands of the endless desert, a charnel house spanning an entire planet, seven billion human souls ground thin and fine until no trace of their existence could ever be found. And I know this, because I put them there, oh brother, it all happens so fast once we're gone. It began the day that you, you who I have never known, found my power, the power I hid from myself in some previous life for reasons, well, I can now easily guess. I was looking out of the window of my apartment so I could see the stars, and instead, I saw you, blazing as you tore yourself asunder to keep the power away from yourself. You didn't trust what you would do with it, and so you chose to throw it away. You knew yourself all too well, as I suspect I did too, at one point. By all accounts, I should not have been able to see you, for my apartment was truly a tiny containment cell about a half a mile underground, but such considerations never meant much to one living entirely in his own world. When I saw the moment of your demise, I became aware of myself for the first time in, I don't know how long. Whichever part of me that led me to throw away my power did the same to my will, trapping into an eternal status quo from which there would be no release, an eternity of filling spreadsheets for employers who existed solely in my head by nine o'clock meetings with no one, a fake crushes over imaginary women, an eternity of tired, grinding mediocrity. But that was over that night. When your soul was burning in the atmosphere like the loneliness of stars, I awakened. I died. And whatever left that little cell-turned-department wasn't me anymore. I was never more than an earthworm, distinct from all the rest only and then I had a little more control over the soul in which I crawled. They never thought me more than a minor reality bender, a bundle of introverted powers with neuroses that was very unlikely to ever pose any serious threat. And they were right. The person I was, SCP-1915 as they called me, I was never anything other than that. But 1915 died that day, watching a fallen star. The thing that then swatted at the guards posted at its cell, like there were less than nats, the thing that raised Site-17 into this fine white sand that is now so warm beneath the feet, that was something else. Not an entity, for that would imply a personality. And this thing surely has none, not a purpose, for there was no purpose behind its action then, nor will there ever be for any of its actions to come, nor has it a will for it wants nothing, not vengeance, not dominion, not freedom, not even simple power. Now, if I had to describe that thing as anything at all, it would be an absence, a void where an entity should be, a lack of purpose, an imbecilic force devoid of all will, an absence. The sand is still warm to the feet, and that means the sun still burns high above. I wonder why it lets it remain, when all else was so quickly erased, when it could so easily just reach and plug it out of the sky. Had it been another, I'd suspect it was to mock humanity's memory, to mock that sliver of me that still persists in the flesh, stubborn, like a buried tick. But this is an absence, it doesn't mock. After Site-17's destruction, retaliation soon followed, standard containment teams at first, though certainly still enough to meet any anomaly the Foundation imagined could be contained in Site-17 with overwhelming force. When those men failed to return, failed to even report their arrival, more serious measures had to be taken. Site-17 has always been isolated so they could act freely. Gunships, fireteams, aerial bombardment, and artillery barrages. Site-17 came down on what it still believed to be 1915, like a fire god's fist, all heat and sound and bluster. And had it still been truly corporeal, I doubt even ashes would have remained. But whatever the absence truly was by that point, the tattered semblance of my flesh hanging around it, had very little to do with it. It simply stood there, took it all in. The Foundation's initial fury was soon spent, then it began to walk, not too quickly. For days it simply leisurely strode on while the Foundation threw everything it had at it. I watched from within my deadbolt as it walked unfeeling, uncaring in this desert followed in its wake. As unscrupable and unstoppable as its harbinger, we are not quite alone here. Some stubborn immortals persist, wretched creatures, a cotton in a way an ancient man still walks tormented by three mocking voices. He believed once he was the only one left he would be allowed to rest, and he was wrong. Beneath the ground is a soul, suffocating as the earth slowly grinds its sanity to mulch. From its prison of gold and rubies there would be no release, elsewhere lies a once smiling god as the sands cover his prone figure. He doesn't resist, he had once promised the world his love, promised humanity the stars. Sand pours through his fingers as he tries to gather his flame together for his people, but it's dying and they are dead, extinguished forever. When someone walks they are bound to reach somewhere eventually, despite everyone's best efforts. The absence arrived at its first city, the sands at its heels like an obedient lap dog. Oh, there had been villages and towns before that, but the absence didn't seem to care enough to bother with them. It simply walked by, leaving them to the whims of the sands, which were only ever singular in their intent. But through the streets of the city it strode as mobile task forces fought and fell to buy the civilian population just a few more minutes to evacuate. By this point, hiding what was truly going on became impossible as street after street sank beneath the gentle crawling tide. The foundation had of course attempted to evacuate the city once it realized there would be no stopping the absence, but if I've learned anything in my eons as a corporeal peon, it's that organizing an operation of that magnitude is something that takes a lot more than the foundation had. It's a wonder they managed to save as many as they did. And as for the rest, it waited until the night fell. I imagine it was an eerie sight. That lone figure standing beneath the frozen light of other worlds in that empty intersection between financial and residential districts where train tracks used to be before the old steam locomotives went out of service and were never replaced with new ones. Yes, it waited until it could see the stars. And then burned without heat, without light, and without life. It burned a hole through the city and there was nothing left to fill it in. Reality can't suffer a vacuum, they've always said, but the absence had shown how little it cared for reality, so it was gone. How does someone explain something like that? How do you describe what isn't there? Where one moment was a city of 500,000, the next? It wasn't. To the place it was, even the sands wouldn't come, it was just a scar, it was nothing. It was then, I think, that the foundation realized it couldn't stand alone. The next few months of the absence march saw them turn to their sometimes allies. Even mage killers and thermonuclear strikes, initiative paladins and holy relics. Sniper rifle, sacred sword, burning inferno and divine retribution, the absence did not care. And soon the foundation had no allies left to turn to. It then called on its once vicious enemies, ink-eaters wove their art in maddening patterns to break the minds of the infinite. Archivists and librarians poured from the ways, bringing with them the knowledge of a hundred thousand worlds. Clockwork titans shook the barren whiteness of the sands with a thunder of metal. The absence didn't care.  The wardens unleashed upon their world the prisoners. Of these I have made note, though I doubt the absence did the same. On the blasted wasteland that was once Boston, it was assailed by two brothers, one savage, the other somber, more violent, the other reluctant. They nevertheless fought with a graceful unity to take the breath away. In their eyes, I saw that they did not know each other for a very long while, and that they fought so that they could have the time to rectify this. I saw regret, and hope, and rage, and desperation, but most of all I saw a simple need to be. I would like to believe that you and I would have been like them had we met, brother. They fought with the fury of a thousand years of solitude, and it did not matter. Before the walls of Acre, as the ancient city was drowned by the desert, two figures approached us. One was four-legged and horned, its crown was ice, its eyes, galaxies, its whole power was absolute. The second was a man, simple, humble, but possessing of love, of being that extended to the edges of the universe, compassion to pierce the deepest hells that had nothing to do with weakness. Of the two I could not tell you which was more glorious or which was more terrifying, but they met the absence with will alone, and when I felt it fall on us I thought I would weep. Surely, nothing could withstand such a presence, surely nothing would want to, but the absence was less than nothing, infinitely less. I've told you what became of kind pangloss of the other, even less remained. For months they came, for years, for decades alone, or in groups with ferocity or with blank stairs the foundations prisoners threw themselves at the absence. I could not hope to imagine the reasons behind the actions of every individual anomaly, but if I could guess, I would say that the idea of sharing existence with a thing, like the absence, galled them to the point of madness. I don't blame them, but by the end the prisons ran empty as the world dried up, as life was drained from it inch by inch and grain by grain until only one city remained. I do not know by which power I was allowed to send my senses ahead of us, as the absence marched towards that tottering bastion which held in its quivering embrace the very last of humanity. As the sands around us buried the last of the trees that will ever grow, I felt each tiny mote of light in that sad place like the flame of a cheap candle moments before a typhoon. In these moments, as twilight danced in lurid reds and oranges on ivory, I sensed them all. For you, brother, I witnessed. In a low and narrow room a woman sat hunched at the foot of her, even narrower bunk and couldn't bring herself to pray. She had lost her mother when she was but a babe, and though she was no longer young, her features still displayed all the violence of that incident. Her mother stood before the eater of children and did not budge, and when they both fell down she sang, still, the praise of her lord. She lost her father in the first days of the war against the absences, the paladins marched with holy fervor in their eyes. Her father had been a believer, had always been a solid presence in her life, an anchor immovable by anything but regret. He had promised her he would come back. He didn't mean to lie. But as God had forsaken him when it counted most, forsaken all of them, and now Naomi knelt at the foot of the ever-narrowing bunk and could not pray, so she cursed instead. Below, in a series of dank cellars which might have at one point stored cheeses, a woman of about forty tinkered with broken toys. When she was young she made wonders, such wonders. In every line etched across her prematurely old face, I saw what could have been, had it not been for the absence, that had not been for me. In the dim light and the soft noise of rotting wood crumbling beneath calloused fingers I saw the death of potential, the death of all possibility. Though Isabel was stubborn as she always was, she knew that this toy would be her last. Just as well she thought, after today there would be none left to play with it. On the rooftop of the highest building still standing, an elderly man watched the world come to an end. He was once an agent of the foundation, once one among a hundred thousand ready, prepared, and collected. His duty was to instruct new agents what was proper for an agent to do, how it was proper for an agent to think, and he'd been very good at his job, since generally his recruits survived for long enough to thank him. But what was he now, he wondered? As he watched the sands pour over the paltry last line of defense that a few defiant fools had erected the day before. His lads and lasses were all long since dead, and all that he knew, all of his years of training and experience in the end, had amounted to less than nothing. No longer an agent, for there was no longer an agency, no longer a teacher, for the students were gone, no longer a man since, well it wouldn't do to repeat that, would it? No longer anything, and that was the cruelest joke. And no longer mattered if the absence arrived, he thought. They were already within it. The noise behind him and the old man turned to see a small, mousy man in a wrinkled gray suit, and a deflated hat, that at one point looked like it might have been a fedora. He looked at the old man but said nothing. Lamarti looked back and didn't know if he should laugh or cry, and soon it ceased to matter. Such was the end. Quiet. Small. Bereft of heroics and great deeds, free of pretensions of great meaning. One night there was a human race on the planet Earth, and next there wasn't. And that was that. And that was that. The stars do not wait for you, brother. When you took my power, when you burned yourself in the skies above, they looked upon you and they felt nothing. The stars did not wait for humanity, for all of the promise it showed, for all of the promise others saw in them. But what of the absence? What of me? We are, or I am, by all accounts and possible qualifications, the greatest monster this world has ever saw, perhaps that any world has ever saw. And yet, brother, I see now that the stars do wait for us, for me. And where's the justice in that? Don't look for it. There isn't any. But the fact remains, brother, the stars do not wait for you. They wait for me to take them into my embrace. And I suspect it shall not be long. Thank you very much for listening. If you enjoyed the video, hit the subscribe button and the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash de-summarine and pledge at any level, like everybody here on the screen already has, including MC Casual, who has pledged at $50, and Sinjeriki, who has pledged at $100. It is nice to know that I'm not alone out here and I will see you all again on Tuesday.


Welcome to today's video. So on the video today, what we're going to be focusing on is a dimensional color. We're going to add multi-dimension natural copper tones to this blonde canvas. So what I did was I did zigzag partings all the way separating the top and the bottom of the head. It's a good reference point to just go right at the parietal ridge and start your zigzag and work your way around. The two tones that I'm picking is 7NC Joico Demi Permanent Hair Color and then also the 10NC Natural Copper Joico with five volume. And I'm going to start by working that deeper tone into the hair. So right at that zigzag parting, I'm going to paint the 7NC and I'm going to work that through to the mid-shaft. Now I like to kind of outline the pattern first and really get that depth building up because that's where I wanted to appear the most. So I start working my way through. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to work that down into the mid-shaft all the way through this section like you're seeing here. And then once I get to that mid-shaft, then I'm going to paint the 10NC through the ends, blending those two tones together just a little bit, creating almost like a third color. So it's lighter than a 7, but it's not as light as a 10. So just kind of pulling that through, adding that brightness to it. The brightest tone naturally should be on the very top of the head. So that's where we're going to go just with the 10NC, which I'll show you guys in a bit. Now a couple of key things I want you to notice. I paint very heavy the 7NC up into those triangles because that's where I want to create the depth and the shadow. Because if you think about natural hair underneath all those triangles, that's where the sun doesn't really hit the hair. So it definitely should naturally just be darker than the rest of the hair. So through the ends, you don't want to create that depth. So if you go back to the 90s when we were coloring hair, the early 2000s, we were coloring the bottom very dark and the top very light. This is kind of a variation of that, creating the depth in the middle, the deepest part in the middle. But then towards the ends, like everything I'm painting right now is the 10NC because I want the ends to still be light. That's what it naturally should be anyways. We're looking to create beautiful hair in the salon, not necessarily creating a two-tone look that doesn't mix and match together. So again, 7NC getting painted at the root all the way to the mid-shaft. Then once I get to the mid-shaft, I paint the 10NC through the rest of the color, blending those two colors together, doing kind of a color melting. Color melting is just short for take the one color, pull it into the other color and you get another color. So it's a pretty simple technique. Now I go through the pattern that we created on the top, which brings the depth and those triangles into it. And I'm just going straight up 10NC through the entire top of the head. And I love, like I love when you already see a color, like this is a newer color for me to work with the 10NC. But when I see it just kind of making that salmon-y color right on the top of the hair, I know it's going to sing at the very end when I get it blown dry. So I was already excited about this technique before I even process the whole thing. So you can see how the technique plays out. You can see the triangles, you can see how deep we went with them. It's just really breaking it up and adding the depth, the 10NC with five volume on top, 7NC roots to mid-shaft. And then 10NC, five volume on the ends, color melting that together to create that end result and the technique. So you can see how deep that 7NC is getting already. That's the goal. So now I go in with Joico power spray just to give it a nice hold. I want to show you guys that end result. You could see how soft and beautiful that 10NC is coming over. You could also see the depth playing out there. I'm going to show you guys some more views of that as well. As I start to brush it over, look at the 7NC, how deep it looks and the dimension that it creates and the movement it creates. This is a super layered haircut. If you guys remember seeing this haircut, I did it on a few videos ago, created a long shag bob. So you know how short these layers are. So the depth is created in there, but it's not stripy. It looks really cool. So hope you guys like the video. Let me know. Thank you so much for watching.


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Well the third 2020 Democratic Party primary debate is now officially over and Boy was that a long debate that was honestly difficult to get through and I have a lot of thoughts about that debate But most of it is negative like I think I'm gonna spend the most amount of time during this video complaining because there were so many issues both in terms of The debate format and also with the candidates as well I don't necessarily feel like there really was a breakout winner I don't think there was a definitive loser Maybe besides Joe Biden, but we'll get into all of that All I know is that a three-hour long debate is very difficult to get through if you know, we're not really Having that much fireworks if we're not focusing long enough on certain subjects And if the candidates are just outright lying about policies, but before we get into the specifics Let's just go to some numbers first of all when it comes to Twitter followers and growth throughout the duration of the debate Andrew Yang gained the most with 7,566 new Twitter followers Elizabeth Warren came in second with 4,000 Buddha judge in third with 4,000 Beto O'Rourke in fourth with 3,000 Sanders with 2,000 Harris with 2,000 Booker with nearly 2,000 Klobuchar with 1,000 Castro with 1,000 and Joe Biden with the nearly 1,000 new Twitter followers to see how that looks in terms of relative growth You still see Andrew Yang with the largest gain now in terms of Andrew Yang even though he had the least amount of talk time Which we'll get to he was the most searched candidate After the debate with Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren actually coming in second place Bernie Sanders not really being searched to see Joe Biden search that much I wouldn't necessarily view that as a positive for Joe Biden It was mostly due to some of the things that happened throughout the debate that were embarrassing now when it comes to total minutes Of course Joe Biden predictably came in first with 17.4 minutes Warren in second with 16.5 minutes Cory Booker in third with 14.7 minutes Which is actually a little bit unfair seeing that other candidates who are polling higher than him didn't get as much time to talk Sanders in fourth with 14.1 minutes Harris in fifth with 13.7 minutes Buttigieg with 11.4 Castro with 11 Klobuchar with 10.4 O'Rourke with 9.3 and Yang with 7.9 Now halfway throughout the debate It was not looking too good for Bernie Sanders in terms of talk time Because even if he's in second place, he barely got more time to speak than Andrew Yang, which is absolutely Absurd now overall to kind of give you a sense of what this debate Felt like to me I want to go to a tweet from friend of the show Matt Binder who says this debate is the worst of them all so far We went from the zero percenters in the polls debating with the top tier candidates to just the one to five percenters Debating amongst each other while the moderators just leave the top candidates out of the convo Completely and I totally agree with that So let's just get to some of the things that stood out to me first of all And the most troubling for me from the standpoint as a Bernie Sanders supporter is the fact that he Sounded like he needed a drink of water and a cough drop You can just tell that he was campaigning too hard His team has got to suspend the campaigning events at least like three days before debates Because even though we all know that this is due to him speaking you lose your voice That's just natural the media is not going to be that kind to him They're not going to say oh well, you know, this is understandable. He's talking a lot. He lost his voice They're going to be looking for reasons to attack him during these debates This is his time to shine and unfortunately I think that that was a big hindrance when it comes to Joe Biden There was a moment in this debate where I kid you not it looked as if he had dentures in his mouth that were about to fall out Now I don't know what that was But I mean clearly he stumbled to make any point He was certainly more aggressive this time, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he was more coherent He still seemed belligerent He came across as someone who? Struggled to collect his thoughts. It was just overall another bad performance from Joe Biden I mean at this point it seems cruel To continue this like somebody's got to intervene and say Biden look you're just you can't you can't do this You're not stable enough on top of that we have the protesters interrupt the debate for about a minute minute and a half and their chance was Completely inaudible you couldn't hear a single word that they were saying it seemed like there are multiple people just screaming random things There was no cohesive message from the protesters So I'm not against protesting at the debate But if you're going to protest and chant something you all have to seemingly say the same thing so we can understand What you're saying there was Yang's big surprise that he hyped up that turned out to be him giving the freedom dividend to 10 families for a Year great idea probably should have done this earlier to demonstrate the utility of it Although I do get that you know he probably didn't have the money for it. So overall this debate was the worst by far Just compared to the other ones there was really no moment that stood out to me There was no one winner Everyone was just kind of in the middle and it's because you know the moderators they called on The zero to five percenters More than the top tier candidates and we all came to this wanting to see Bernie and Warren go up against Joe Biden But that didn't happen because Bernie Sanders didn't get called on nearly enough Elizabeth Warren to in fact throughout a really large portion of the debate Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren They just faded into the background and they were not being called on and they should have absolutely elbowed their way in But the moderators were also you know They share part of that responsibility think about this Bernie Sanders He has been graded as having the strongest climate change plan and when it came to the discussion about climate change He wasn't even called on Now in terms of winners and losers before we get to specifics I Do want to list the winners and losers. This is entirely subjective. I honestly I Don't think you can really make a strong case for anyone being an objective winner or Maybe an objective loser with the exception of Joe Biden.  This was difficult to pin down It's an incredibly subjective and I think you can kind of argue that any one candidate Won this and be relatively persuasive. So let's get to this Of course, you know Biden is a loser because everyone teamed up against him again Not to the extent that I had hoped for but nonetheless They still attacked Biden He was a target and he made a fool of himself as I stated and you know a lot of the things that he said Came off as incoherent. He referred to Bernie Sanders as the president at one point And he you know called Cory Booker a future president at the last debate So I mean it's just embarrassment after embarrassment contradiction after contradiction Which Julian Castro actually called out I think magically and then we had Amy Klobuchar Who as soon as she opened her mouth the momentum died? I mean the lack of energy was palpable and the one liners that she clearly rehearsed were Unquestionably the most cringe worthy moments of the night where you can actually make the argument that she was the biggest loser So she planned out and you could tell this was planned a line about Bernie Sanders I wrote the damn bill and she said yeah, well while Bernie Sanders wrote the bill I read the bill and then she kind of paused as if that warranted applause and NBC News made this creepy image of that and I like this This is awful. This is I don't know what to say about this another line throughout the debate that I wrote down that I Don't even know how to process it. She said you know that movie day after tomorrow It's today she said that with regards to climate change That person got the opportunity to talk about climate change Bernie Sanders did not Amy Klobuchar a complete failure This was probably her worst performance because at the previous two debates She kind of just faded into the background And then she didn't have the chance to really step out of the spotlight and make a fool of herself But this time, you know, since the focus was on the zero to five percenters one to five percenters. She did and she failed Now the way that I judged these debates are I have four different categories I have the winner category the good category the meh category and the loser category So in that loser category I place Biden and Klobuchar, although that's arguable I'm pretty set on keeping Biden in that loser category since he's slipping in the polls He really needed to have a good night and he didn't I'm not really willing to waver on that I'm pretty committed to Klobuchar being in that loser category Although when we get to the meh the good and even the winner category I think this is entirely subjective and I think that you could make the case that Maybe my assessment here is wrong. Maybe I'll change my mind after you know sleeping on it But this is difficult for me. So in the meh category I placed two individuals Kamala Harris and Andrew Yang now the reason why I placed Kamala here is because she absolutely needed to have a good moment She had momentum after that first debate because I think that her performance was phenomenal But she lost that momentum after the second debate when as we all know Tulsi Gabber demolished her and she needed to use this debate to recover Tulsi's not here So nobody will probably be as harsh on Kamala as Tulsi was So this was the opportunity for her to recover. Did she recover? No, I don't think she recovered I think it was Kyle Kalinsky to his credit on Twitter made the point that it's clear She's listening more to strategists because she's talking about these personal stories She's coming off as less authentic more rehearsed and it's just bad You know, I think that this was the one moment where she could have had redemption and she didn't have it Andrew Yang I I'm not committed to keeping him in the meh category You can move him to good and I'd say, you know what? I agree with you I think that that's fair I'm putting him in the meh category because he hyped up his announcement and It fell flat and then after that He essentially faded into the background for a large portion of the debate like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren But he never kind of recovered from that he was just in the background and then he had some really weird moments in the debate where he said Come to America where the water is great. I mean to say this at a time when there are water crises happening You know Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water Not the best look doesn't necessarily show that you are, you know, aware of what's happening Also, he had a question about charter schools I actually did not know that Andrew Yang supported charter schools and when he was asked to kind of defend this He had a poor defense. So overall not a great performance I will say that Yang did better in the sense that he diversified his platform seemingly Where, you know, he didn't take every question and tie it to UBI, which I think is important But at the same time Yang, I don't I don't fault him entirely For having a relatively arguably poor debate performance because he was just ignored I mean think about this He is polling higher than Julian Castro, Amy Klobuchar, Corey Booker And in some polls Pete Buttigieg and he got less time to talk than all of them Not necessarily because he wasn't speaking up enough, but because the moderators had no interest in hearing from Andrew Yang So in part, that's why I don't necessarily Want to place him in that mech category because you know, maybe he would have performed better But I will also say that his energy seemed lacking when you compare, you know, this to his performance at that second debate I think he did a phenomenal job he shined, but here I just feel like You know his energy level it was down more and when you couple that with the moderators clearly not really caring about him It just it wasn't great for Andrew Yang It wasn't great But you know, I don't necessarily think he has to worry because he's rising in the polls Gradually so he's moved himself from someone who's like a one percenter into the mid-tier and that's great for him So, you know, this wasn't make or break from for Andrew Yang, you know But you know his performance it didn't leave a lot to be desired. Now. Here's where we get to the tricky part The good category. This is entirely arguable in this category. I place Beto O'Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Now the one person who I really think you can kind of argue against being in this category is Pete Buttigieg You can move him to the Mac category and say Mike you're wrong He shouldn't be in the good category move him to you know, the the Mac category downgrade him and I'd say I think that you're probably fair to say that because He did have some really embarrassing almost cringe worthy moments So when there was this debate about health care, he tried to step in and talk about oh well You see, you know, I'm above the fray and you know, this is why people hate politics This is a primary. This is a debate stop. That's embarrassing It comes off as disingenuous and really Pete Buttigieg to me is disingenuous Although I will say he pulls off what I think Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar want to pull off albeit more successfully He comes across as the centrist and more, you know reasonable moderate candidate Better than they do but he's trying to present himself as a progressive The problem is every time he opens his mouth You just see the energy die and nothing he really says is revolutionary And I think that his time has kind of passed he had his moment where he was on the spotlight and he was the media darling I think his time is going to pass. I think that that new spotlight will be dedicated to someone like Julian Castro Possibly Warren is kind of the media darling currently, but we'll see Okay, the next person better or work, you know watching the first Third of this debate. I was expecting to place him in the winner category Which is a little bit weird because better or works performance in these debates has been abysmal But he actually did a relatively good job. He was strong.  We're not allowed to own nukes We shouldn't be allowed as citizens to own weapons That can kill lots of people that are designed to kill lots of people so kudos to him He also got credit from Biden and Kamala Harris for his response to El Paso and He came off as slightly less Rehearsed this time But again, you can place him in the meh category because he faded into the background for the rest of the debate So again, this is all entirely subjective when it comes to Bernie and Warren. I Place them in the good category And for a moment, I thought should I put them in the meh category? But I'm not going to do that because even if they weren't cold on that much They did get more talk time towards the end of the debate and every time they opened their mouths They made phenomenal stellar points like Bernie Sanders He he has this tendency to really shift the direction of the conversation in a really positive more Substitive way where he talks about the issue in a more systemic way He touches on the broad causal mechanisms that lead to these problems in the first place And he does this in such a brilliant way that even if he had his raspy voice, you know You can't help but think man would a solid point This is so refreshing and there were moments where he did hit Biden relatively hard He kind of took an indirect shot at Warren by saying I'm the only person on this stage who voted against all three of Donald Trump's military Bills, so he had his great moments. This certainly was probably His poorest performance out of all three debates thus far But saying that he still did a good job Even if he just didn't have the time to talk Elizabeth Warren as well. She did a good job She hasn't really performed poorly in any of these debates thus far But I think that like Bernie this was probably her weakest performance, you know in comparison with the other debates So let's get on to the winners category and here I have two individuals one of them is absolutely Arguable Cory Booker. I put Cory Booker in the winner category basically for one reason he had the second or third most talk time on I'm already forgetting the statistic and He's pulling at like what is it two three percent? He's pulling lower than Andrew Yang But he still managed to get a lot of talk time and the way that the moderators Responded to him the way they kept calling on him repeatedly. It really gave Americans the sense I think possibly that he was a leader, you know, he spoke confidently about a lot of things I don't know. This is arguable though. I'm not really committed to keeping him in the winner category There's one person who I absolutely feel like they really gained the most and they were at the lowest position So they needed to have a good performance and they did that person and who I think overall is the biggest winner Probably is Julianne Castro. Now Julianne Castro He almost didn't make it into this debate and you could very well make the case that he should not have been in this debate. It should have been Tulsi Gabbard even possibly Marianne Williamson because you know There's not as much grassroots support behind him as there are for these other candidates with that being said though He targeted Joe Biden and that absolutely helped him out tremendously You know, there were no really gigantic moments where there was fireworks but if I had to say there was one it probably was you know, the numerous exchanges between Julianne Castro and Joe Biden and Polling so low you have to use these debates to propel your name Because you may not qualify for that next debate in October And I think he did enough to where he could get a boost in the polls This could have been his breakout performance his breakout moment. Will that translate in the polls? I don't know. I mean when you look at the Google trends, he wasn't the most googled candidate Andrew Yang was even though You know Julianne Castro Didn't have or doesn't have still very much name recognition Usually the candidates who get those boosts in terms of followers and Google searches are the ones Who had the most again who had the least amounts of name recognition, you know The Tulsi Gabbards the Marianne Williamson's the Andrew Yang's of the world So you would would have expected if this debate was solid enough for Julianne Castro Him to kind of be included there, but he didn't have much new Twitter followers He wasn't really searched so there's just not a lot of momentum for him And I think that part of the reason why that is the case is because he does come off as the typical rehearsed Politician and he's against Medicare for all. He's not very progressive But towards the beginning of the debate in his opening statement. He tried to present himself as someone who's progressive and He's not he's not very progressive his record in Obama's administration is actually not great It's it's poor you could argue. So that's basically my take again This is entirely subjective and I think that if you challenge me on some of these I Would think that that's fair because I'm kind of wavering on some of these and my opinion could change You know tomorrow the next day a week from now because this debate was all over the place basically everyone had You know a performance that kind of blended together in my head. There was no breakout start. There was no You know main moment where you could point to and say that was awesome There was none of that there was no excitement for this debate and the one moment That really got me worked up was at the beginning when they started this debate about health care And it's infuriating because we always see this and it's not changing. We always see a debate between the Corporate financed candidates where they essentially repeat the same talking points from the health insurance industry and then The progressives are forced to respond to them, but these are lies They are lying to you and it's infuriating that we have to rehash this same debate every single time But I mean that's unfortunately What's going to happen? You had Joe Biden forget Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's names. He also forgot I'm assuming Pete Buttigieg his name at one point Bernie Sanders said that you know even if Joe Biden is arguing that the cost of Medicare for all will be 32 trillion the status quo Will actually be higher. He you know called out the advertising of the health insurance industry Elizabeth Warren made a solid point that nobody really likes their health insurance They like their doctors and when Bernie Sanders talked about how you know, we pay More per capita than other countries for worse results Biden said well, this is America and then Bernie chimed in and shot that down It was just a really bad line from Biden. So overall when it comes to health care I do still think that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren they did have the edge Although I will say this when it comes to Elizabeth Warren She finally released her health care proposal on her website and it seems to defer from Bernie in some areas For example when it comes to mental health care It seems as if she's allowing a role for private health insurance with regards to mental health So I don't know we need her plan to be Scored by advocates and activists of Medicare for all but you know for purposes of this debate The strategy of her and Bernie Sanders teaming up it is important I think because they have to take down Biden until they take down Biden I just don't think that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have any real reason to direct their fire against each other because he is still the biggest Threat but that's really the one specific issue that I wanted to touch on moving on to you know Just some random moments for the night Kamala didn't have you know, the worst night ever I wouldn't say that she's a loser like she was after that second debate But she had a moment where she said look Joe Biden instead of saying no we can maybe say yes We can something to that effect. I'm paraphrasing. I thought that was a good line We had Elizabeth Warren talk about corruption Bernie Sanders then expanded that conversation Because Elizabeth Warren talked about you know, the reason why there's inaction with regard to gun reform is because of Corruption Bernie then brought in that conversation out I will say I don't agree with Bernie Sanders and his stance on the filibuster And I don't know why he's being so stubborn here But this is something that I certainly want to try to move him on because I don't I don't like his stance I don't like that. He's not willing to get rid of you know, the filibuster now Thankfully he has been open about using budget reconciliation to pass policies like Medicare for all but just get rid of it I mean Republicans they don't play by the same rules. So why would you impose?  It's kind of like asymmetric warfare And you are choosing to give yourself an additional disadvantage when you know all bets are off Republicans are gonna play dirty. So you should play dirty, too So that's the one thing that I disagree with Bernie about going through my notes here The question that Jorge Ramos posed to Bernie about socialism was embarrassing because first of all Bernie Sanders I don't believe he's a true socialist. He describes himself as a democratic socialist But in actuality he is a social democrat. He believes in a mixed economy capitalism plus socialism Public and private. That's what Bernie Sanders is Jorge Ramos is smart enough to know that so to say that what he's proposing Is to make us similar to Venezuela or to force Bernie to differentiate himself and his ideology from Venezuela and Cuba is Embarrassing for Jorge Ramos like you expect better from Jorge, but that was a terrible question do better Jorge Additionally during the climate change discussion that all works at something that really stood out to me He said that we need to get to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 Now let me remind you last year the IPCC said we have 12 years to act. It's almost been a year So we have 11 years to act He is saying that 2050 is When we get to net zero I've got really really bad news for you, buddy. That is not going to suffice So that was embarrassing, but overall I just want us to all step back and Ask ourselves this question because this is a question that I think will be important in gauging Who who was successful throughout the course of this debate? Did the needle move? Substantially at all for anyone or you know just in general for this democratic primary process And I would argue for the most part No, if we're going to see any change the only thing I would suspect is That Julian Castro maybe gets a boost But again, I'm not entirely certain that that will in fact be the case because even though I think he had the biggest Breakout moment of the night and the strongest performance overall I don't think it was as big as Kamala's performance in that first debate when she went after Joe Biden So I don't necessarily know that his good performance will translate into better polling Now in terms of what will continue to happen throughout the course of this primary process I believe that Joe Biden will continue to go down Elizabeth Warren will probably continue to rise. I think that her and Bernie did enough to maintain I don't think that this debate did enough to really move any one candidate off course or onto a better Trajectory with the exception of Julian Castro, but if I had to guess Probably not too much. So what I'm trying to say is this debate Effectively was useless. It just wasn't great. I had problems with the format They didn't touch on a number of really important issues. They didn't touch on women's rights They didn't touch on LGBTQ rights They didn't spend nearly enough time on climate change foreign policy was really a quick Superficial discussion about Afghanistan, but nobody really had the opportunity to lay out a more broad vision When it comes to foreign policy, nobody was asked about whether or not they're against US imperialism Overall, I just I don't feel like this debate was very substantive and I don't really think it was substantial enough to move the needle in Anyway, and again Julian Castro may be being the one exception So I really hope that the next debate is better more exciting. That's my take on the debate.