Hello everyone and welcome to Lego Land Florida Resort. My name is Brittany Williams and I would like to welcome you on this very exciting day for us here. Let's go ahead and get things started with our general manager, Mr. Adrian Jones. Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Lego Land Hotel, but more importantly welcome to the Lego Land Florida Resort. Before we start I want to make a special mention to the city commissioners and Mayor of Winterhaven who's joined us today and this is a special day for me and a very special day for quite a few people who've been working on this for a very long time and I want to use this as an opportunity to thank them. I'm not going to go on for hours trust me it's a bit warm. I want to start with merely magic making led by Mitch Bernstein who has probably lost weight on this project actually, but a big thank you from me to him and his team who've done a great job and Mitch delivered on your promise my friend. I also want to make a special mention to Whiting Turner led by Alfredo and Mike who have been absolutely fantastic through this entire project.  I also we give a special shout out to the local contractors that we use and I use the word local for it quite deliberately there. But more importantly I want to make a special shout out to my team and more importantly than the 150 new emcees and the jobs that we've created for this fantastic hotel we see behind me. But a really really special shout out goes out to probably one of the best hires I've ever made and I give me great pleasure to introduce our new hotel general manager Mr Kevin Carr. Thanks Ed and welcome everybody. I'm extremely excited to be here also nervous because of the great hotel that we've got behind. I've worked for Mailing for nearly 10 years now and I've never ever seen a hotel as beautiful as this one. It's extremely great inside as quite few of you have seen. This hotel created to bring children's imagination to life. The 152 bedroom five story Legoland hotel features brightly colored interactive Lego a pool a lounge Lego absolutely everywhere. It's amazing. Every room is designed and themed from a child's imagination adventure kingdom pirate and for the first time in the United States Lego friends and I'd just like to say it's also unique that we've got a Lego friend suite which is the first in the world here in Florida. The other unique part of this hotel is that we've moved the entire model shop with inside so I get to see the model shop guys making bricks every single day. How good is that? It's awesome and my team gets to see that too. Legoland hotel is the perfect compliment and extension for the experienced guests when they visit Legoland Florida resort and I'm ready now to open this hotel. Excuse me Mr. Carr but what are you doing? Well young lady I'm here to open this autumn hotel behind me but this hotel is built for kids. Why aren't kids opening it? I don't know. Do you have the key to open this hotel? Guess I have to do everything around here. You're in luck Mr. Carr because my friend here the dragon who looks over this grand hotel has locked his suitcase with the magical key that will open this hotel for us. But the problem is he left his key to open the suitcase at home. It's okay though because I made this lego key at home with my own imagination. I am sure it has a special power to open this suitcase because I made it with my own imagination. I want to let one lucky kid be the one to hold it with me. Guys, see who gets to hold the special key. In just minutes I have a huge surprise for you with the help of some pirate friends and their cannons. Whatever happens next you are looking for the golden minifigure. Whoever finds it means they can help me hold the special key.


Good news. Good news. Good news. The SEC finally comes out and approves an exchange to trade crypto and digital assets. We'll take a look at what that exchange actually is and also we'll take a look at some more good news is Apple finally approves NFT sales on its platform and a couple other pieces of information. So these are the days that I like to report on the news because it gives everybody a little bit of a push, a little bit of hope and that is a good thing. So the first thing we have today is this was a article by Coindesk and it talks about coming and register. These firms say they actually found an SEC friendly crypto path. Now if you haven't followed what's going on with crypto lately, the SEC has not been very forthcoming and very giving as to what they want to do as far as when exchanges come in and try to register with the SEC to try to trade securities. Coindesk has done this and of course what happened with them they met with them multiple times and they got hit with a well's notice. And now it looks like the SEC is changing course just a little bit. And before I get the article it was interesting that I had talked to Simon Dixon and we did this in February and he talked about how when he did it through his bank of the future as he was trying to start up his own bank and how it was to register and register for securities. He says actually the way that these crypto exchanges are doing it is they're doing it in a wrong way and the way that they're doing it doesn't really lend itself to being compliant with the SEC. He also said the SEC is also not being very forthcoming. So he said it's not just on this one side of the exchanges. It's actually both people who are being a little bit non-compliant with what they're trying to do. So I always thought about that comment that he said and now it's starting to make a little bit of sense but you'll get to it. So there's what we got. The SEC quietly issues significant approvals for companies trying to stick to the securities rule book. The FINRA, a financial industry regulatory authority, industry funded oversight arm created by the SEC announced that it approved its first broker dealer with custody rights for digital asset securities. That was done today. This is through Promethium Ember Capital LLC. Aaron Kaplan, who is a security lawyer, is the founder and co-CEO of parent company Promethium. He said the firm will demonstrate that industry compliance or complaints about the absence of a path to US compliance are totally mistaken. He says those complaining about a lack of regulatory clarity, going based on others, were trying to put a square peg into a circular hole. Promethium Capital has only been approved as a special purpose broker dealer that can take custody of customers crypto assets effective May 17th, which is retroactively, but also as an alternative trading system or an ATX, ATS for digital asset securities. The company's platform will go live in the third quarter. So again, when we talk about this, it looks like this platform is going to allow exchanges of crypto and digital assets, whether that be a security or potentially a commodity, or somewhere in the middle. So it ends up like this. Kaplan, who wouldn't yet identify which securities he anticipates will change hands on his firm's exchange, contends that his platform will be able to handle the many digital assets that have sought exemptions from certain securities requirements. Unlike a full-fledged exchange, an ATS doesn't work with a company to list the security, but it only really links buyers and sellers to trade assets that Promethium Capital's compliance operation decide meets the definition of security. So again, they're going to allow trading of crypto and digital assets. I think this is a step in the right direction. So the big question is, is what's going on with Coinbase? Now it's a little bit of a different as far as like the nuance behind it, but at least it gives us a little bit of hope that there is a little bit of a way to meet in the middle. And yeah, let me just think about that in the comments section. And also more good news, Apple and NFTs. This is from an app called Steppen. And the issue with Apple is that they don't like to deal anything with crypto or digital assets or anything in between, especially with NFTs. And the big thing is the fees that they have to charge for that. So now it looks like Steppen, which is a move to earn app, got to around that in a certain way. Here's what we got. So let's scroll down here. So here's, here's how it's going to work. Is that, let me scroll up here. Apple and Google, just so you know, they charge a 30% fee on most in-app purchases. So everything that you put on Apple or Android, they're going to charge you immediately 30%. That's a bummer. That's what it is. I thought that was just Apple. That's maybe Google does. I don't believe that Google does. That might be incorrect. That includes NFTs, which means app developers will either need to charge users that extra fee or otherwise eat the fee as part of the cost of doing business. So a lot of places, what they'll do is they'll say, okay, this is $10 out in the real world now because of Apple. It's going to be $13. What we'll do is we'll charge $8 and we'll increase that cost to meet around that $10 fee and we'll eat the fee. However, what Steppen did is the exact opposite. They said, if you want to buy this NFT on the Apple Store, what you're going to do is you're going to pay for that. So here's an example. A pair of sneakers was listed for 110 GMT, which was about $31.40 based on the price of the token for Steppen. And then if you want to do that on the Apple Store, it was actually $44.60. So you could pay $31.40 outside or if you just didn't really want to deal with it and wanted to go through Apple, it's $44. That's like a 43% difference or 42-43% increase. So there is a way around it. I just thought it was interesting that Steppen's like, well, if you guys want to buy it and you want to go that route, then you can do it just so we're going to charge you. And it's actually going to be Apple and we're going to eat that cost. So I think, again, it's positive. I don't agree with them doing that, but maybe I missed something. Let me know in the comments. Also more good news, tokenized securities. It looks like they hit $225 million market cap. Now, this is something that you've heard people from BlackRock talk about, how the future is going to be tokenized securities. So they're going to be able to tokenize stocks. Instead of stocks sitting in some brokerage, you're going to be able to own the tokenized version of those stocks. And it's been ending up on Ethereum, Polygon and Gnosis. It's a $225 million market. Now, this was written yesterday. And if you take a look here, there's a website called dune.com for tokenized securities. I'll link this in the description. You can see that actually today, for Daily Global, it's $189 million. So it's still doing pretty good at 12% growth. And here's the market cap as far as issuers, Ando, Matrix Dock, VAC, Open Edge, Franklin Templeton, which I was kind of surprised to see that as an old school financial institution. They're getting into that. But it looks like this is actually going off without a hitch. There's one thing to note here though. And I thought it was interesting that the company I mentioned, Franklin Templeton, the old school finance, they use Polygon, which I thought was a pretty smart way to do things. They tap Polygon to host a tokenized version of what's NASDAQ listed on Chain U.S. Government Money Fund. However, just so you know, the majority of the activity is occurring on Ethereum. I don't know why that is.  Why don't they just use Polygon? But again, step in the right direction. I like that. Also, some good news, some not so great news. Ledger, they just had their Twitter Spaces, and they came out and said that they are going to hold off on the recovery option. If you haven't heard so far, Ledger just rolled out an option where they would be able to store your private keys. And it was $10 a month if you wanted to do so.  This is, I think, I thought was a terrible idea, because that's the whole ethos of cryptos, be able to give you control and you power and you to keep it. But sure, I understand where they're coming from. If you want to onboard some more people, maybe a lot more people, they don't want to deal with it because they're not used to it. I think they can get used to it, but that's not for me to decide. I'm not anybody's dad. If you want to pay for that service and just give somebody else control, so go right ahead. I don't care. But for this one, they said, yeah, we've heard the complaints. We know what's going on. So we're going to roll back the firmware upgrade. We're going to not go through with the recovery option right now. And we're going to make our code open source. Now in the past, they made a couple, a couple of different parts of their process open source, but now they want to go through the whole thing and give the option for everybody to take a look at their code. Now here's the thing. I don't know if you know this, but I'm not a developer. So if they roll it out and open code, I have no way to know what's going on. If they do, and there's some information that some of the analysts can take a look at, so much the better, great, I'll report it. But I think this is good in the long run. Maybe people can look at it and go, Oh, there's a problem here. There's a problem there. I'll report on it. But for me personally, maybe you out there, maybe this isn't such a big deal. So we'll see how it is. I am going to have ledger on the show today is Tuesday. They will be here Thursday. So I'll ask them some questions. One of the big questions I'd like to know personally is if you're going to do this, because let's be honest, they're going to do it at some point. It's a revenue stream. They're going to tackle $10 extra a month from the plebs. If you can do that, why don't you just put that onto a different device and just let the people that are here right now and know what they're doing just to keep it the same way, keep it a different device for different people, and they can have the firmware upgrade and they can back it all up and we don't have to deal with it. I understand the whole process that it doesn't go through unless you opt in and unless you give your consent and unless you start paying for it, but it would just be nice if they could just separate it totally and everybody can feel safe. Anyhow, if you've got questions for them, link in the description. I'll ask them the best of my abilities. And lastly, just to finish up some bad news and some, I think some really good news. First of all, you may have noticed there was a little bit of dip yesterday. Apparently, there was an AI-generated hoax of a Pentagon explosion. This was making the rounds, being tweeted and retweeted that there was a reports of an explosion in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and this was by some pretty big names and they would put it out and then later on, they go, oops, sorry, that was AI. And just so you know, when that happened as far as like the dip that it was, US stock to a little bit of hits and then Bitcoin went on in 26.5. I think it rebounded to 27.8 somewhere around there. So if you were catching falling knives in a trader, congratulations, probably got a good deal. But this is a problem and it's going to be a bigger problem as we come into the season of a new presidential election in 2004 and everything else that's going on. I would highly recommend, if you haven't done so, subscribe to a channel that you'd like to get information from instead of hopefully not getting too much AI-generated nonsense like this. And lastly, and this is pretty good. I think we're in the right place at the right time. I think that the four-year cycle is still intact. And this is from Will Clemente. And just to kind of give you a feeling of like where we're going, he says, one of the biggest differences between this Bitcoin bear market. And the last one is that in 2019, hash rates didn't reach new highs until Bitcoin 3xed off its lows, which if you don't remember, 2017 we hit 20,000, 2018, 19 of like 3,300, 5,000 somewhere around there. And people just kind of were writing off Bitcoin. But now I think people don't do that so much. So today, the hash rate is over 2x. It's prior May 2021 high. But Bitcoin's only up 75% of its lows and hasn't even nearly 3x. What this means to me is that companies and minors and investors start to see that maybe this thing that they call Bitcoin and crypto assets would be something to get into. And you'll see more people putting money into the mining operation. And I think it actually is a good thing moving forward. But that's it for today. So look, if you like today's video, give it a thumbs up. That helps a lot. Also consider subscribing, like we just talked about.  Just pick someone that you trust and subscribe to them because this is not a set in the forgetting type of market. That's it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one.


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Is this for real?   This was in Fox News. I've been following a carnivore diet for 7 years. I've been drinking blood, I've eaten raw brains, raw liver, what do I have to eat a live rabbit to get into a news story? I've reached out to so many publications and I've never been in one article. Now these people come along, they follow the diet for 30 days and they're on the front page of mainstream news. Do you guys realize how big Cargill is? They are the largest privately owned corporation in America. Hundreds of billions, probably trillions of dollars. These people don't want to just control the food supply. They want to take over the world. It doesn't matter if you're carnivore or vegan, they own both plant and animal products. That's what this is about. Cargill has been cutting her checks when she was vegan and now they're doing the same for her to be carnivore. This is a corporate demon disguised as a boyish looking blonde girl.  And believe it or not I'm the only person I'm aware of in the carnivore community not sponsored by these people. Yeah, there are other few small YouTube channels but you haven't heard of them because they don't have this corporate backing. And the reason for that is I actually have the integrity to work an actual job instead of stealing people's money. Let's see what this young lady is up to. I've done a lot of crazy things in my life but I haven't eaten only meat for 30 days until now. Well, that certainly isn't a steak from ButcherBox. Looks like a factory farmed grain fed feedlot ribeye cut out of a tortured cow in the Midwest. At least she's probably feeding her dog meat now. Elise was kind enough to put clips of her fellow Cargill con man. There are a few theories on how eating only animal foods can be surprisingly helpful for one's health. Essentially, the carnivore diet is a form of an elimination diet, which means that it removes all common food sensitivities from the picture. She had the nerve to put an ad in her video for ButcherBox claiming they don't sell factory farmed meat. As a huge health advocate and someone who cares about the animals and our environment, I've teamed up with ButcherBox to shed some light on how to source high quality meat and opt out of factory farming entirely. About 80% of the food that I consumed during this 30-day challenge was from my monthly ButcherBox and the other 20% from local farms. I'm so thankful that the service exists and I love what they stand for. Their goal is to make grass-fed beef and organic chicken more accessible than ever before. All of their meat is free from antibiotics and hormones, it's 100% grass-fed and finished, and all of their chicken is free-range and organic. But that isn't true, ButcherBox is not high-quality meat. They are literally selling you factory farmed pork, bacon and chicken. These people will lie through their teeth. Do you know what organic chicken means? It means the chicken was fed organic corn and soy. Even garbage from the supermarket. Their heritage pork is even worse. It's literally conventional factory farmed pork, not even organic, sold to you at a premium price. They're doing a great job at selling you this horrible feedlot meat disguised as high quality. I told you guys, this was going to happen. I even got an email from Guess Who, Chris Kresser. Let me get this straight, Chris. If ButcherBox is high-quality meat, then I can safely say meat from Frankie's free-range meat is for the Roman gods and statues exclusively. But for some reason, Frankie's free-range meat is more affordable and far better quality than ButcherBox.  Judging by how much money you're making, I'm sure you can afford high-quality foods. Give me an email. I'll help you guys out, regardless. Whenever I'm out and about, I just want to just get whatever I want to get. Normally it's going to be mostly animal-based anyway, but being able to get a bun for a burger and not just have a burger patty would be amazing. But I am feeling good. I'm just being a little bit bitter and excited for being able to have just a little something else. Elise, we know you're getting paid to do this. At least you can pretend you enjoy doing it. She let Cargill hold her hostage for 30 days on the corn of war diet so she can maintain her lifestyle without having to work a real job. What would you say to somebody or a lot of people who are so confused on how eating all meat could possibly be healthy? The way I usually tell people to look at it is... Oh look, it's Mikaela Peterson. Make sure to pay her $600 so she can tell you to eat meat and drink water while she flies around the world getting pumped by top quality meat. Okay, now the question that you have been waiting for. Will I continue eating 100% carnivore now that I have completed this challenge? I've got to be honest, I'm honestly really looking forward to eating something other than meat, fish and eggs so I'm not going to continue with this 100% but I did notice enough benefits from eating this way to make me want to continue eating mostly animal foods. Evil comes in many forms. If it manifested itself in appearance, Elise wouldn't be a cute little blonde girl. That's for sure. At this point in time, one-third of the comments on my videos are corn of war shills, another third are vegan shills, and the final third are my loyal followers who I place my hope in for exposing these people for what they truly are. At the end of the day, Frankie Boy was right. Thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please like the video, share the video, subscribe if you haven't. Definitely hit that bell icon. If you're wondering why vegans aren't talking about this, carnivores aren't talking about this, no one else is talking about this, you know the answer. 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Can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah. Excellent. So the whole climbing process in the Olympics, how does that work? Yeah, it's slightly different. It's essentially, you know, a combination of three disciplines. So you start with speed climbing, which is just like 100 metres of climbing. It's a race to the top. It's 15 metres long and about 5 to 7 seconds. There's nothing ridiculous like that. A lot of people don't think it's proper climbing. We can, you know, do the same over and over again. But I quite enjoy it and it's quite addictive. And then after speed climbing they do boulder, which is kind of like problem-solving. Essentially, it's just short climbs close to the ground to 50mts. Some of the hardest moves that the contestants will do will be in the boulder round. They get multiple attempts that will put up the problems within a set time period of a few minutes. And they have to do four boulders in qualifications and three in the final. And after boulder, you've got lead climbing, which is rope climbing, more of an endurance test. And then whoever gets the highest wins. Yeah, so your position just gets multiplied and the lower the number you end up with, the better. So if you win all of them one by one by one, you get one point. If you get, you're trying to get that one in at least one of the disciplines because as soon as you go further down the ranks it's just doubling, dribbling, quadrupling. It's simple to understand, getting used to following three different disciplines.


So Alex, first things first, welcome to Bradford, you must be glad that it's all signed and sealed now. Yeah, like you say, I'm obviously over the moon, I'm buzzing to be here. Obviously I found out last week that I would be coming down and I'm over the moon. When you first knew of the move, when you were looking to this move to Bradford, do you know much about the club match, about your future team mates perhaps? Obviously I knew of a big club, I know quite a bit of the history about them, I knew a bit about the manager, obviously my agent and me. My family didn't know that when he was up in Scotland, he did well up in Scotland.  I came down and watched the game on Saturday, seeing the size of the fan base they've got and the way they played, and I was kind of ready to go, I just wanted to get here. Yeah, you touched on it there, obviously you were in the crowd to see the tunnel victory over Chesterfield last Saturday. Most of your appetite really, the thoughts of playing in front of such an atmosphere and such a crowd. Obviously I've been at Luton and they get decent crowds, but I think it's kind of double the crowd that Luton gets. And I was thinking to myself, I don't think this is such a big club, I think it's too big for League One kind of thing. And the size, like you say, the size of the fans, I was kind of like, oh it really isn't a play in front of these, so I was just thinking to myself, I just want to get going, I want to get into the games. And overall did you enjoy the day? Obviously we played some good football at times once before, it's exciting the prospect of being involved in that. Yeah, yeah, obviously they did play some good football, 2-0 win. And I think the way that they play, I thought to myself that they played a lot to my strengths as well if I do get into the team. Obviously they're trying to get the ball wide and get crosses in and that's what I'm all about really, and getting in 1v1 situations. So I was kind of thinking I could do well in this team. Yeah, you've mentioned it there, but for fans who perhaps don't know your style of play, what sort of winger would you describe yourself as really what can the fans expect for you in a Bradfordshire? I like to get on the ball and I like to run with it. I like my favourite, obviously my favourite situation, be 1v1s out wide, get crosses in, I can chip in with it, let me odd goal, and I just all round just like to run around. And I suppose obviously this loan will work for you, obviously coming to Bradford trying to impress yourself here at the club, but the fact is till the end of the season it's obviously a low-collage club as well as a couple of hours an hour or so away from Newcastle. That must take a few boxes as well. Yeah, obviously like I mentioned before I went to Luton, obviously that's down south and I tried that, obviously it's a big club and I wanted to move away from home, but like you say I'll be moving down here, but obviously it's now an hour and a half from Newcastle so I can pop back in there and back easily, but also I think it'll be good for Newcastle, it'll be easier for Newcastle to keep tabs on us, obviously coaches I think will come down and watching. It did take a few boxes, obviously location wise, but I think the size of the club and obviously being Bradford, that was the big thing for me.


Welcome to the ITU studio in Geneva. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Dr. Supavadi Arangvith, who is Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering for the Chulalangon University for the Faculty of Engineering in Thailand. Dr. Supavadi, thank you very much for being with us today. Okay. I'm glad to be here at ITU and to giving this interview. Fantastic. Now, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about the fact that this year we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ITU development sector. Something we're very proud of, and I've been talking to all of your fellow colleagues for this study about. ICT has changed tremendously. The landscape has changed tremendously in these past decades. ITU is now launching a study on ICT for SDGs, and I wanted to ask you, how do you think that this study will contribute in responding to many of today's challenges? As part of the Professor at Chulalangon University, we are the academia member of ITU, and we are glad that ITU launched this impact study for sustainable development goal because it is very important for the people from the academia member as well. As for the challenges, I believe that there are 17 sustainable development goals that have been defined. And then for the challenges, I believe as an educator, I would like to emphasize in terms of capacity building for the qualified professionals. I believe this is very important, especially in developing countries. So how to put the policy framework and also at the university, how you could use enabling ICT technology with the teaching, so that it has a very good outcome. So I believe it is very important. So you've been at the university for about 16 years now. I wanted to ask you, how has the ICT landscape changed for you in that time? One thing, because we have an evolution in the ICT, so now we have so many like teachers, we have many aids that could help us for teaching like all those external knowledge and then the fast internet that we could engage students, the new kind of the classroom, that equipped with the Wi-Fi access and then engage the students. So it's not like classroom type anymore. So it can be like the group, the student can set up as a group in the round table and then we could have some kind of the group discussion and then they could file information from the internet as well. I believe with those also stimulate students to engage in not only the knowledge for themselves, but also sharing with others as well. Well, thank you very much for being with us in the studio today and sharing your knowledge with us and we look forward to the report coming out very soon. Thank you. Thank you very much.


The Cavalcade of America, presented by Dupont. This week is being observed throughout North America as Wildlife Restoration Week. As a tribute to that effort, the Dupont Cavalcade this evening brings you the story of John James Audubon, who was outstanding in passing on an appreciation and love for outdoor America. Those among our listeners who have made a hobby of nature study probably could answer this question. Is Comfort an animal, vegetable, or mineral product? The answer to it will be given in our story of chemistry, told at the close of this broadcast. But more than that, you'll hear a number of facts about Comfort you probably never knew before. Comfort is an important raw material for American industry. And the part that research chemists play in providing Comfort for many products you use is another good example of the Dupont Pledge. Better things for better living through chemistry. As an overture, John Voris and the Dupont Cavalcade Orchestra played the love theme, one song, from the picture Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Cavalcade moves forward. James Audubon was born in 1785 in Haiti, a French parentage. At an early age, he was interested in the study of nature and art. A short time was spent studying painting in Paris, but his father owned land in America. And in 1804, we find John James living at Milgrove near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the living room of her father's mansion at Fatland Field, Pennsylvania, pretty Lucy Bakewell looks up as a servant enters. Miss Bakewell, who do you think is riding up the road fast as ever, you please? The young French gentleman who's come to settle at Milgrove. Oh, he must be coming to call on father. There's rather a belated call seeing he's lived here some weeks. I'll speak to him. Will I bring him in here? No. I'll go out on the front steps to greet him. He scarcely deserves to come further. He certainly can ride.  Good day, ma'am, sir. Is this Mr. Bakewell's home? It is, sir. Will you please sit at his mouth? William, will you take Mr. Audubon's horse? Yes, Mr. Bakewell. Yeah, thank you. You seem to know my name, ma'am, sir. I was about to introduce myself. I have heard much report of you in the neighbourhood, Mr. Audubon. I am Lucy Bakewell, William Bakewell's daughter. You're servant, ma'am. Is your father at home today? I'm sorry, he is not. But he'll be most pleased that you called. Perhaps he will not be pleased, ma'am. He paid a call on me when I first moved into the neighbourhood and I have waited over long to return it. Did you wait so long because you knew us to be English? Oh, how brightly you blush, monsieur. You look the colour of our sumac bushes in this October frost. It is true, ma'am, sir, that I was reared in France and my father, a naval captain, spent some time in an English naval prison. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll tell father you were here. Thank you. My horse boy, yes, sir. Wait. What is that? It sounds like a bird. It seems to come from your saddlebag, sir. Oh, I found a small knot hatch lying in the road as I was coming here. You catch a bird, sir? I but captured it to help it, ma'am, sir. One leg is hurt. I will show you. There. See for yourself. Oh, the poor darling. It's so soft and gray. Here, hold it, ma'am, sir. It's too frightened to peck here. Oh, how cute. I will take him home, cure him and make him serve as a model for a drawing before I release him for good. Let me show you how his wing looks spread. Oh, how beautiful he is. You hold him far more gently than I. Did you say you would draw his picture, but why? Because I love birds, ma'am, sir. And think the marvelous work of it. And think the marvelous work of it. And think the marvelous work of it. And think the marvelous work of it. And think the marvelous work of it. I like the birds of France, but since my father has sent me here to manage his properties, I have thought of nothing but the birds of America. You like it here? Oh, indeed I do. And you mean to settle for good? I hope to, yes. I do, too. At first we thought we should miss England, but this land has such warmth of colour, such freedom. Ah, the turning of the leaves in autumn, this red and gold brilliance in the woods, there's not to compare with it in France. Nor in England. I'm glad you like the wood too, mature. Oh, I spend all day writing about in them, observing each change breathless with pleasure as the winter draws on. And then I trap what birds I can that have not already flown south and place a small band of silk thread on one leg that they cannot dislodge. And in the spring, I shall watch to see if the same birds come back to this neighbourhood. Oh, you are truly scientific.  Oh, yes, when he is well. Oh, well, perhaps the long ride home. He really should be taken care of at once, should he not? Yes, it would be better for him. He might be warmed by our fireplace and given a drop of warm tea. My tears, finder, not share in these benefits too, Mr. Sluicy?  I'm so sorry. I deserved punishment for neglecting to be friends with my neighbours. Father will be home at any moment. He'll be glad to welcome you. And since, after all, we live in America, the fact that you are French and we are English, should it matter now? It should not matter in the least, myself. For now we are Americans. William, please stay with Mr. Audubon's horse and tell Martha to prepare us tea. The friendship of John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell soon turned to love. His devotion to the study of bird life was shared by the lovely young girl he determined to make his wife. Hoping to earn enough money to marry her, young Audubon went to Kentucky a few years later and set up a frontier store. In the spring he returned. As he arrives at the Bakewell Farm, Lucy is waiting for him. Lucy, how are you, my dearest? I'm well, John. I'm so happy to see you. You're as brown as an Indian. I guess I recognize my elegant Frenchman and his frontier dog. Oh, dear, I am not French now, Lucy, but a true Western settler. Will not your father be the better pleased with me? He will be glad to see you again, John James. All the family will rejoice that you're back. And as for Lucy, do you rejoice, too? Of course. But you're almost a stranger. It's been so long since I've seen you. Surely a few months in Kentucky could not make a difference between us, particularly when I went there solo to gain means for marrying you. Our marrying was not really a set of matters. Then let us settle it now before we go up to your house, Lucy. Oh, nay, we must speak to Father. It was really like the seat for me to rush here to the gate to meet you, but the family shouldn't see you caressing me. Why, you are incapable of any real falseness, Lucy. You will come back with me and take your place by my side. It's not so crude and rougher country as you might think. There are goodly folk already and more arriving each month. Yes, but I somehow cannot imagine, you John, running a frontier store. Indeed. You should see me measuring off calicoes with the good wives of the neighborhood, weighing out tea and sugar. But if you keep the store, you won't be able to see your birds. Let alone draw or paint them. Lucy, did you ever hear of a man who could support his wife by drawing pictures of birds? Perhaps an end with your talent should not have the burden of a wife. Lucy, I could not go back to Kentucky without you. For a person like me, my work and my future will always be bound to those I love. But will that always be true? Always. Thank you, Lucy. I thought of nothing but the return journey to Kentucky. Imagine. Imagine a honeymoon. I would start by coach over the mountains and then go down the winding Ohio. Tall trees are lit by shops of sunlight. The soft green is alive with a whirring of wings. Morning doves call from the thorn apples, robins and tannages flash in the oaks. Such beauty, Lucy, was blessed... blessed few lovers. If I see it through your eyes, it will be beautiful.  If you think I will be a help and not a hindrance. Oh, darling, let us find your father and pray heaven he be as good and kind as his daughter. John Audubon and Lucy were married and followed the great American pilgrimage to the West. But Miss Fortune seemed to hurry all Audubon's plans. His frontier store did not prosper and he and Lucy were saddened by the death of two of their children. In all this sorrow, there is only consolation in his increasing skill in painting the wilderness birds. Finally in 1819, several years after their marriage, increasing debts necessitated the selling of all their goods. Have we got all the chairs out, Charlie? Done well, Mr. Ridge. Well then, better take this table next to reckon. Sure thing. Oh, wait! Wait, please! What's the matter now, Miss Audubon? Lucy, please come outside where it would be less painful for you. No, John. Mr. Ridge, I will no longer plead you for each bit of our furniture. I'm resigned. But in the draw of this table are a few trinkets which I did not remove. All right, I'll get them for you. These what you want? Mostly paint and drawn pencils, ain't they? Yes. My husband, you know, he paints a great deal. So I here it. Racking is one reason he's losing his home. Well, I don't know whether or not I'll let you have these pencils or not. But why not? Well, let them go, Lucy. There's no consequence. But, John, you have no other pencils. Can't see what we'd do with them, Mr. Ridge. We'd better ask the creditors first because they're part of this property and it's being sold up entire. Now, what's this about in the drawer? It looks to be an old portfolio filled with... hmm... pictures of birds. You do these, Miss Audubon? I fear you'll find them very trippy. No, no. They look right pretty. Look here, Charlie. A wild turkey car. You might be right out in the woods yourself looking at a bird like that. You're welcome to the lots. Oh, no, John. No. Why? We wouldn't take them as Audubon. Pictures like that are pretty, but no daggone youth in the world. Here you are. Thank you. Thank you very much. He can take pictures. Well, come on, Charlie. I'll give you a hand with this table and anywhere through. You betcha. There wasn't much here anyway. Now, look how I got it. Careful now. Come on, be along. Drive with that door. I have it. John, do not look so tragic. We have our future to think of. We must make our plans.  You have friends there. It's a larger city and your friends can help you with your crayons and drawing paper. For what purpose, Lucy? To spend some time in the fields and woods drawing your robins and tannages. You'll forget this humiliation as soon as... I cannot afford to forget it. John, why cannot we muster courage to face the truth? We both knew soon after we came here that you were not suited to running a store. But instead of turning from this to your one great gift, we feared to take the chance. Gift? Rather a curse. Oh, no, John. When I've looked at your picture, I've often thought, this is not painting alone, but history. Already the West is changing. The people coming after us, my dear, will never know the splendor of the West as we have known it. But they'll value its tradition in their lives. Enough to pay for it, you think? Oh, try it, John. Put the leaves of the trees and the strange flowers and the rush of wings on paper. Paint all the birds you can find in America. It'll take years. Then the sooner you start, the better. I'll pack your napsack tonight and the dawn you set out. But what would you do? I'd have to go south and east. While I'm wandering through the woods, how will you and the children live? When you settle anywhere for a while, we'll join you. I'll teach school. No, no. You'd be struggling along lonely, pitted by your neighbors. I didn't look at your pictures at night, feeling myself back again. Back in those beautiful forests we go through on our honeymoon. I've never forgotten them, John. I know how to cherish my happiness. Bravely, though they now had children to support, Lucy and John decided that he should give all his time to a work at which he had become amazingly skilled, recording the exact appearance of North American birds. Lucy began to teach, going first to Cincinnati, while John Audubon worked in the wilderness, spending hours in the careful observation of birds and trees, and paying his expenses by making crayon portraits, his family struggling along without him. He finally gets a chance to show his work to Vandalin, the best-known artist in New Orleans. Vandalin and a friend of his, an army officer, look at the painting. What do you think, Mr. Vandalin? They're interesting, Mr. Audubon. Very interesting. Don't you think so, Colonel? Extremely so. Yes, but, um, frankly, I can't just see what value they are. They're not portraits and they're not landscapes. So they're not supposed to be. Why, Vandalin, I'd call them portraits of birds and their natural habitat. Very realistic, too. Yes, they're probably very accurate as to coloring and drawing, but I wonder just who would be interested in bird pictures. I see. Thank you, Mr. Vandalin. You've been very kind to give me so much of your time. Oh, not at all. Oh, may I help you collect your drawing? Oh, thank you, sir. Well, possibly when you have some other subjects, Mr. Audubon, you'll drop in and see me. Thank you. Good day, Mr. Vandalin. Good day. Good day, Colonel. Oh, Mr. Audubon, just a moment. I'll walk along with you. Yes, Colonel.  Oh, thank you, Colonel, but you see what Mr. Vandalin says. Oh, don't let him discourage you. I don't know anything about painting, but when I looked at those pictures, I really felt as if I was standing right there in the woods. Vandalin doesn't understand them, that's all. He spends his life in studios, not outdoors. I'm afraid many others feel the same way he does. You should go to Europe, Mr. Audubon. England and France, they appreciate your work there. And I appreciate your kindness, sir, but what chance have I of going to Europe? I can't even make my living in America. Audubon remained in Louisiana to paint birds and plants in settings of color and beauty. Meanwhile, in a small flat in Cincinnati, Lucy Audubon is reading one of her husband's letters as her small son, Victor, comes in from the bedroom. How's Victor? Why did you wake up here? The light woke me up. Oh, I'm sorry. I had to light the candles for what I was doing. Are you reading father's letters again? How did you know that? Johnny says when there are tears in your eyes, you've been reading all the letters since father's been gone. I didn't know you and Johnny were so sharp. Go back to bed now, Victor. I must get to bed, too. You get tired, teacher, in school, Mom. Oh, everyone gets tired of what they do sometimes, Victor. Yes, but you're taking care of us at night and teaching all day. Are you going to bed? You'll wake up your brother. I'll whisper. It's cold in here, but it's nice and warm where father was, isn't it? Yes. Louisiana is a heaven in place, he says. No snow like we're having here. He says he's painting birds and plants with the brightest in the tropics. And did he sell any pictures yet? Not yet. No bird pictures, I mean. He's painted a few little portraits, but... he says people know from his clothes that he's poor, so not many of them want portraits by an unsuccessful artist. Too bad. Yes, but it doesn't really matter. Because your father's collecting pictures of hundreds of American birds. He really should go to Europe and get a reputation there. And in two years I'll have stayed enough. You see, that's the reason, Victor, that even with my teaching we don't have much money. I must help your father before it's too late. I suppose he'll get to Europe if you want him to go. Yes, I wanted to have a real triumph. He thinks he's doing work that belongs to the world and the world must hear of it. Look, dear, he sent some pictures to me with his letter. Oh, what's that? The snowy heron. The best one I ever saw. Really beautiful, mother. Yes, it's magnificent. Big white heron with those feathery plumes. That plantation house in the background. It's gonna look awful putting it in the room. Can I wake up Johnny to look at it? Oh, dear, it is beautiful. Why are people so blind? When will he be happy and free to do his work? In 1826, John Audubon sailed for England on Lucy's savings, knowing that the trip to Europe was the last desperate effort to have his paintings brought before the public. But Lucy's faith and his destiny was rewarded. Some months later, in New York City, shortly after John has returned, John and Lucy talk together. You say the crowds couldn't even get into the rooms of the Royal Society, John? Yes, so many came, Lucy, that many were turned away. And already in Liverpool, I had cleared a hundred pounds from exhibiting. Oh, it's marvelous. And the water's got them for you. Yes, he was most kind. He had seen my drawings and wanted to meet me. Who else met you, John? But did you not read my letters, Lucy? Actually, I read them silly, but I must care about it as you tell it. Who else welcomed you? Well, Lord Elgin. Here's the man who brought the marble statuary from the Parthenon to England. He drank a toast to me, Lucy. And then there was an appraiser at the Royal Society who said my painting of the wild turkey cock was worth a hundred guineas. Why are you laughing, Lucy? That's the one the man at Henderson who took our furniture said wasn't worth a thing. Oh, so it was. I had forgotten. The Birds of America. It seems strange, European, to be interested in a book like that. Oh, but they're very much interested in America, Lucy. I could find but one flaw. What was that? That you were not there for our triumph. For it was your triumph, too. It was your book. And I had no way to make them understand. Oh, John, I'll be content with an American triumph. It's not likely I'll have one. The Americans know their own birds and porous. We'll not find the vision overwhelming. Maybe you're wrong, John. I have a message for you, but I'm not delivered. Yes? What is it? A gentleman brought it. It's a welcome from the President. The President of the United States? Does that mean more to you than foreign royalty? Much, much more. Yes. You ought to go to Washington, so he wants to shake your hand. That will be my triumph, John. You've won the gratitude of your own country. It was just 100 years ago this June that John James Audubon completed his polio in England entitled Birds of America. Evidence of renewal of interest in the work of Audubon is to be found in the national exhibition of his original painting, including the famous turkey cock, which the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia will hold from April 26th to June 1st this year. Also, a new museum is to be opened shortly in Audubon Memorial Park, Henderson, Kentucky. Their 600 acres of forest land where Audubon did much of his work have been preserved to honor his memory. This evening, Dupont salutes John James Audubon, American painter and naturalist in the cavalcade of America. Speaking of Mother Nature's handiwork, a good question for one of those radio question bees would be this. What is camphor, an animal, vegetable, or mineral product? Before anyone has to go to the foot of the class for not knowing, here's the answer. Camphor is vegetable in origin, and for centuries the only source was the camphor tree of the Orient, principally the camphor forest of the Japanese island of Formosa. Most people know that camphor is used in medicinal products, and they think of clothes put away in the attic with camphor balls to keep away moths. But millions of pounds a year are needed in the manufacture of such things as photographic film, toiletware, safety glass, automobile steering wheels, ornaments, fountain pen barrels, and 1,001 articles made from plastics. In 1920, due to a foreign monopoly of the camphor supply, the price ran up to $2 a pound. Although many previous attempts in this country had failed, DuPont chemists set out once more to develop a practical method of making camphor chemically. They of course sought to use raw materials available right here in America. Because of early experiments in the last century, chemists knew that something very like camphor might be obtained from turpentine. They kept on experimenting, and finally found that they could rearrange the complicated chemical structure of turpentine to produce camphor, which is the twin sister of the product from the camphor tree of nature. Better still, they found they could get their raw materials from southern plan trees, and that's where much of our present-day camphor comes from. After extraction, the basic material, pineem, is shipped to Deepwater Point on the Delaware River, where DuPont has built the only synthetic camphor plant now operating successfully in this country. In 1937, the price of industrial camphor instead of being $2 a pound averaged only 35 cents. Camphor users such as the plastics industry are now assured of stable prices free from foreign control. Thus, America gained a new industry, which now provides a new source of income for our citizens. For hundreds of years, a highly refined type of natural camphor has been used for medicinal purposes. Now, man-made camphor of uniform and pure quality is produced by DuPont from American pine trees, and is widely used in medicinal purposes. The story of man-made camphor shows how resourceful chemists are in finding ways to create and produce at low cost product that the country needs. And is one more example of how the DuPont company carries out its pledge. Better things for better living through chemistry. Charlotte Cushman, pioneer American actress who began her career in opera and ended it as one of the outstanding personalities in the history of the American theater, will be the subject of our broadcast when, next week at the same time, DuPont again presents the Cavalcade of America.


That's a brand of the year. Hey guys, sorry I haven't been around for a while. A few complications, including a missing tripod head, have led to me not doing a video for a while. Either way, this is my review for quite possibly my favorite movie of the year. Kubo and the Two Strings is amazing. It is an extremely well-formulated film with absolutely amazing characters, amazing animation, and maturity that I didn't expect, and I am so happy that it had.  There's two things I really wanna talk about with this film. The first is the animation. I love stop-motion animation. I grew up watching Wallace and Gromit when I was a kid, and after I found out how much work that takes, if I'm correct, something about for one second of film, they have to do at least 24 shots of emotion. That would take forever. So the fact that this film is so intricate, the hair movements, the armor, the fur, the skin, the hands, the emotions is so good. The detail is immaculate. I couldn't believe I was watching a stop-motion animation film half the time. There was maybe one or two moments with mouth movements, like, but otherwise, it was seamless. I almost thought I was watching an animated, like a CG animated film at times, and that was one half of why I love this film. I was never bored. I had never a moment of, because of how great the animation was. Now, the second part is the story. The story is way more mature than I thought I was getting from this film. It's not a kid's movie. If you're thinking it's like for kids like four and five, it's not, because the material that they're talking about this film is completely out of their league. There's words in this film that I thought I'd never hear in a kid's film.  There's so many words in this film, they're like, wow, just took it a step up. The characters are fantastic. Kubo, you can relate to him so well. And his journey throughout the entire film, we're not just seeing a kid who's trying to find his place, but also trying to reconnect with his parents, but he's also coming to accept the ideals of death. And this film also talks about Alzheimer's and memory loss. And it just comes at it from such a mature angle. I'm amazed at how well this works. The art style, again, is amazing because of the Japanese influence. There's a lot of Japanese influence of folktales and whatnot in the story. And everyone's great. I loved Monkey. I love the samurai beetle. All the voice work in this film is amazing. Probably one of my favorite character designs is the evil sisters. Whenever they appear, just the detail on their movements was amazing. This film also has fight scenes. There's a fight scene between Monkey and one of the sisters. And it's one of the best parts in the movie because they're just sitting there going, I'm watching a fight scene in a kid's movie and stop animation. This film will marvel you the entire way through and it is such an amazing ride. Even though there's an odd sort of element with the ending, which I kind of thought was a little bit too kiddy, considering how everything before had been very mature. And when you really think about it, the story itself is not that complex. It's quite simple and it's kind of set up in a way, but just the entire film is such a marvel to watch. You won't care about any sort of issues because with every little eh, you may see, very rare, mind you, you'll still be like, wow, this is an amazing movie. Kubo and the Two Strings is by far the best movie I have seen this entire year and that's why it gets a seven out of seven. I love this movie. If you have not seen it, watch it. I'm very tempted to watch it again. It's that good. Anyway, guys, it's all from me. There's a lot more to come, I promise. I'm off the packs right now, but I'll see you guys later.


Okay. So we've got another video here, ADHD and autism relationship accommodations. How to get your needs met by how to ADHD. I think I've said that already. I'll have a look at this thing. Um, as I said, well, as you know, I'm much more of like mostly just an autism person. Uh, but anyway, I do know quite a bit about ADHD as well. Um, so it'd be interesting to, um, hear what this lovely lady has to say. Hello, Brains and hearts. There are accommodations available for ADHD at school and at work, but what about in relationships? According to Dr. B at take this relationship accommodations are reasonable adjustments we make, which allow the other person to meet our needs. I think this is something a lot of us do in relationships kind of already and automatically to a certain extent where we know that we have a collaboration. Maybe we need a lot of touch and we know that the other person has some thing that gets in the way of meeting that need. Maybe they get overheated really easily. And so we turn on the air conditioning so that they can meet our need for guttling and we don't really even think of it as an accommodation. But there are times when we don't understand why our partner isn't meeting our needs. And I can relate to that one a lot. I have a heat like real, real easy.  I think I'm like a human fairness. That can happen a lot in neurodiverse relationships. If one person is neurotypical and the other person has ADHD or one person has ADHD and the other person has autism, it can be really frustrating because the the needs are there and they're not being met. And it's really hard to understand why from both parties and we might jump to some conclusions like, oh, they're not listening. They don't care. They're just not trying hard enough. My needs don't matter to them. There are a lot of stories that I have within my dating experience where I was either dumped or chastised or things ended because I had difficulty reciprocating emotion in a way that was recognizable to the other person. And once I was diagnosed with autism, you know, everything started clicking and making sense. So there is definitely like the emotional component of relationships can be fairly difficult. I think mostly because of alexophymia, I would say. There is there is those aspects of cognitive empathy, which is, you know, to do with indirect communication, which sometimes can be an issue, but it's only an issue when direct communication isn't like established in the relationship. Like the alexophymia component can be quite hard because it makes it really difficult for the person to set boundaries in their moments about things. So there could be something that someone says or someone or that someone does that actually is not something that you like and not something that you want. But you only know until after the after the fact, you know, maybe a couple of days, couple of hours, couple of weeks, maybe that actually, you know, that wasn't that wasn't nice for me. And you put a boundary in like afterwards. And a lot of people are not very understanding about that. I don't think because on the one hand, it kind of makes them feel like they can't trust like our words about things. Like when we say that something's OK, that it is actually OK. But also from our side as well, it can feel quite pressured, you know, to to produce a response like we're not given enough time to process it, which can be quite difficult. And also understanding how our feelings just in general, like when someone asks like, how are you doing or how do you feel about that? You know, sometimes sometimes we got we got a bit of a bit of a delay on it and we need to take time to kind of process how we're feeling about things. Alexophymia is fun. This term of relationship accommodations came out of my bad experiences dating where I needed help essentially bridging the gap. So the other person could recognize what I was trying to do in terms of meeting their needs. A lot of us try to explain our needs harder or expect the person to try to meet them harder. And we know at work and at school that that doesn't work. It's usually not about lack of effort. In the rare cases where it is about lack of efforts because somebody's gotten frustrated and given up. But for the most part, there is some sort of impairment that's happening that's getting in the way. And so I think relationship accommodations are a great way to kind of bridge that gap where it's like, OK, I understand why you're struggling with this. Also, I understand that I have these needs and these needs need to be met. So what can we do? How can we figure out how to get these needs met? And that's a really important point that she's she's bringing up because I think there is a lot of situations within relationships or friendships or parental relationships where, you know, the issue is primarily caused by a by a like a miscommunication between two parties. You know, perhaps they don't understand too much about it. The other person doesn't want to, you know, you tell them something. They don't really want to do a lot digging into it. They just kind of make an assumption. It's I think it's good to. You know, within a relationship to like try and understand where someone's coming from and what they mean before making a judgment, especially if it's about something serious, because, you know, quite often our initial reactions or feelings about stuff can be wrong. And especially when you have a different neurotype to another person, it's like the chances of that happening is usually quite high. So you've really got to kind of temp yourself, especially when that the when there has been or there is an issue or an occurrence within a relationship, you know, and every everyone does have their own needs. And it's I think sometimes trying to think about how to meet them together is is definitely like a it's it's also it's good for actually achieving like someone's needs being met.   Yeah, I can't I can't say I can probably say that that that is, you know, I'm I'm really bad at texting usually. I think it's it's a lot to do with that kind of, you know, needing space like that social battery, I think as well. And needs and expectations and challenges, things that are getting in the way of them being able to meet a person's needs in a relationship are different. So take all this is a grain of salt. But just hearing from my community, going from my personal experience, the research that I've read, there are some things that each year's tend to struggle with in relationships that do need accommodating. I'll talk about a few of those and then I'll pass it over to Dr. B to talk about some of the accommodations that might be useful for autism and alexithymia. First of all, for ADHD, we tend to struggle with planning and prioritizing and cleaning and organizing anything that doesn't engage our brains. So mundane, everyday tasks are really challenging for us. It's not that they're hard to do physically. And that this is also something that autistic people can experience as well, executive functioning issues, you know, big jumps in hyper focus for things that we're really interested in. Other kind of executive functioning related things, like just general life, things that you have to do can be can be sometimes really taxing. Although for some people, they might have another condition that does make that the case. It's that it's mind numbingly tedious for us and our brains do not want to focus on it. It can be really hard for us to stay on top of everyday chores. And we might need to gamify things. We might need help prioritizing one accommodation that can be really helpful for somebody with ADHD is if there are things that need to get done and there are some things that are more important, making it clear, hey, this is what the priority is, this is what I need help with, or this is this is the important thing that needs to be done. Also, side note there, if if this person is also autistic and has pathological demand avoidance, maybe don't do this tip, it's probably going to be like produce the opposite response, not going to lie. You know, giving them an order, this is the priority. You must do this. PDA senses. If only three things can get done this week around the house, these are the three things I would love to have happen. A lot of the time strategies that work for neurotypical people don't work for ADHD. We kind of have to tweak systems and do them in a way that works for us. And so a reasonable accommodation might be letting somebody with ADHD do the thing that you're asking them to do in the way that works for them or when it works for them. An accommodation can even be something like hiring a professional organizer or a housekeeper to come every once in a while, putting aside money in the budget for treatment for the condition, having accountability, having check-ins. So instead of, hey, get this done sometime in the next three months, and then the person with ADHD is like, cool, that's not now and totally forgets about it. Be like, hey, remember, we need to get that gift sometime in the next three months. That doesn't mean that. Cool. That's not now. Straight back into the hyperfixation of the day. Somebody, right? Nobody wants to be nagged. Nobody wants to be parented and parenting your partner is really not healthy for a relationship. Accommodating differences and accommodating needs, making sure that those needs get met should be a collaborative effort. It's not about one person trying to figure out how to fix the other person or get the other person to do the things that they need done. It's working together. And so instead of seeing the person that you're with as like a problem, letting all this resentment build up, you can see it as, oh, this person is trying to meet my needs and their ADHD is getting in the way. How can we accommodate that together? So one of the things that is a very good way of putting it as well, you know, and I think just naturally as human beings, we can all have some things that we don't find that energy taxing, that we do actually find a lot easier than the other person. I think, you know, you know, for example, if you find something very difficult at work within a team, like perhaps not the best thing to do is to, you know, for the manager to say, okay, right, well, that's part of your job or you do that. I mean, I think a lot of managers will do that. But, you know, perhaps it might be better to give them something that someone else is not very good at, and like switch them around and like. So it's all about like cohabitation, you know, it's not about codependency, but I think in any like successful relationship, you've got to have some level of communication, some level of meeting the needs of the other person, or like supporting each other. It's not codependency, I think is very different to that. But you've got to have some level of like, reliance on the other person. I know it's not really something that people talk a lot about as like a good trait. But it is definitely like something if you really want to, you know, make something last long term and you're very committed to a person. You know, definitely like, you got to lean on each other for different things. I'm sorry, Joe. It sounds like a really tough, tough situation for you. Ke'an Finney says well said, you've earned a sub. Thank you very much, Ke'an. To also bear in mind with this is that the impairments that exist in terms of relationships, or even in broader sense with folks both on the spectrum and with ADHD, is that our impairments can often be invisible. We've been socialized to try and speak neurotypical. But we're not good at it. It's like a metaphor I like to use is we're Linux computer. I disagree. I think we are absolutely great at it for like a different brain. We are so good at it. We're not as good as like generally not good as good at neurotypical speak as much as neurotypicals would be. But like we're definitely a lot better at neurotypical speak than neurotypicals are for autistic speak, you know, we do tend to make up a lot of like the communication like barrier, particularly in like friendships and relationships and things like that. From my experience, only if that person does have insight into how they work, you know, sometimes people don't, which can sometimes, I guess, be a barrier. That's why I like the term partner because you have to work together as a team 100% woodshed. Here's in a Windows world and you're essentially asking us to be Windows. We can't do that. Now, we might learn tricks for interfacing with Windows and communicating better. And that's really what relationship accommodations are going to allow us to do. And one of the greatest accommodation tips I have for me is for the other person to ask, what did you mean by that? Yes. What were you doing when exactly? Exactly. And it's the same, the opposite around as well. Like, I get told a lot that autistic people, we do pick up on indirect communication. And I agree to a certain extent. We do know when things are different in a situation. We don't always know why or what that is. So there's quite a lot of situations that I think that I can think of within relationships and friendships in my past where I have definitely like noticed that something's changed and I've asked about it. And the ideal situation would be what's, you know, I would ask what's changed. And then the person would tell you sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's a bit more kind of passive or that passive aggressive or that which can be difficult. Other times, quite straightforward to communicate. I think it does definitely come across as somewhat like a needy behavior, but it really isn't. It's literally just like an accommodation. It's the, you know, it's the same thing. I wish I wish that it wasn't interpreted that way. But I think it does sometimes. Thank you very much, Jackie. Learn it. Five gifted 40 or two autism podcast memberships. Wow. Thank you so much. I think that's like the biggest membership dump I've ever had. So thank you so much, Jackie. SW Supernova Tritero Rudolph. I spent English Gypsy Rose. Make sure to say thank you to Jackie if you can. I'm sure they would really appreciate that. Increasing the team. Thank you, Jackie. Mary Farm says that since I have delayed processing, I know that something is a bit off, but sometimes it takes hours or days to figure out what actually happened. That is exactly the Alex Fimea. That is, it is, it is tough. Like it's hard to manage, and it's especially hard to manage if either you as an autistic person don't know, or the other person doesn't really understand it or isn't willing to try and understand where you're coming from. Jackie says I love what you're doing, intending slash sharing, Thomas. Thank you very much. Back to the video. Because for me, I have a tendency to go off and just sort of think on my own and work through things. And from an outside perspective, it might look like I'm ignoring things and asking openly and honestly, what were you doing when what was your process, you know, open ended questions like that to help learn what the other person is doing. That's a huge accommodation for folks, for me at least a lot of relationship difficulties with folks who are neurodiverse, come from misunderstandings of intent, misunderstandings of action, yes, or feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, often because we come from an entire lifetime of literally not being accepted for who we are. Again, relationship accommodations need to be reasonable and allow the other person to meet our needs. Sometimes accommodations aren't enough. There are some jobs where no matter how many accommodations they provide, it's just not a good fit. And there are other jobs where they can't provide the accommodations that we need in order to be successful at that job. Oh, speaking of accommodations, hey, Chloe, bring me my meds. And here's the thing as well that I don't think a lot of them have talked about in the context of this. You don't have to get all of your needs from other people met by a partner. You don't. Like it might be an ideal situation in your head of this kind of like romance, kind of collaboration thing, but you can get a lot of your needs met by through friends or through family or through other means other than just your partner.  It's going to be very, very difficult to find. I think it's sometimes very unrealistic. You know, you don't you don't need to get everything met by your partner, just the things that are important to you within a relationship. And sometimes if you if you try to focus too much on getting everything that you need from your partner, then you could lose someone who is who's really good for you. And, you know, like having a reason to go outside of the relationship and get your needs met in a different way with someone else can sometimes be quite good for you as well. It doesn't always have to be this was against the world kind of attitude. You can you can have friends. You can have you can see your family. You can chat to people, you know, Chloe. Come here. This is a fantastic accommodation for me. This is Chloe. I'm training her as my service down and she brings me my meds because it is not a reasonable accommodation for me to ask a human to bring me my meds every day, especially if they are also forgetful. Needless to say, can I get a dog that brings me my meds? Can someone buy me a dog that brings me my meds overnight? Is it a thing? Is it a thing? Can someone look it up? Because if so, I need I need a papa that will bring me bring me my meds overnight. I suppose it's not a reasonable accommodation. I mean, most of the time I can get my meds taken it's just annoying that the times where I'm more likely to forget my meds are like the times when I really need my meds the most. Don't all have to be met by your partner. You can absolutely have other ways of getting your meds met. But there might be some needs that you need to get met in the relationship and for that, accommodations. Thank you to my brain advocates and all my Patreon brains for sponsoring all of our content on this channel and the website that we made and all kinds of really cool things that we've got going on. Without you, we wouldn't be able to do half of what we do. Thanks for hanging out. Let us know in the comments below how you accommodate the neurodiversity in your relationship. I would be really curious to see that. I'll talk to you soon. And how do you accommodate the neurotypicalness in your relationship? I suppose neurodiversity covers that as well, to be honest. Really great video. If you haven't already, please go and like this video this is from how to ADHD. ADHD and autism relationship accommodations, how to get your news map. With any video that I react to, you've got to remember like in terms of production, the amount of time that goes into making these reaction videos, like in post, like when I put them out, very little in comparison to the work that's gone into actually creating this content, these videos. So I definitely go over, try and give them a subscribe, give them a like, show them as much love as you can.


Hi there, it's Sandy Almak, and today I'm going to talk about making layering stamps realistic. And I'll be using this beautiful swan from Altenew to do this, and talking about in general how you can do this with your layering stamps, and colored pencils specifically. So I'm starting with stamping the two swans. You can stamp the beaks, or you can draw them in.  I am just terrible with that. I started though by getting out my Trinity Modern embossed frames, I think is the name of it. There'll be a link in the doobly-doo with the supplies. I cut the smallest one for the panel that I'll be working on, and for some reason I zoomed way in on my misty while I was doing the stamping. Sorry, you can't see more than this. But I stamped this swan's first in Mint 2B from Catherine Pooler. It's a light greenish blue, and it looks really blue against blue paper. And that I wanted. I did end up adding a little bit of twilight, which is a grayish color, very light gray, on the bottom edge, just tapping some onto the stamp. And then I wanted the whole thing to feel more white. So I stamped over it in Lawn Fawn's Yeti. Now my Lawn Fawn Yeti pad needs to be re-inked, so it didn't do a whole lot for me. I had to stamp it a couple times to get it to work. I just wanted to soften the colors that were under there so that they looked less strong, which you can't really see on video. It's hard to videotape. But here you can see at an angle what I ended up with once I put the bird's little beaks on there, which are not in the right place. Because as I said, I have such a hard time getting layering stamps to line up. But on these, I figured at least there's only one stamp for the body.  But I started by taking all the areas that didn't have ink, and you can do this with your flowers, whatever flowers you're stamping, whatever area has no ink in it. Once you get all the stamping done, fill that in with white, but then extend it past that edge, right where that that hard edge begins is where you want to just blend it and make it softer.  So here I'm adding a lot of feathery texture on top of the white pencil using my white gel pen. Whatever ink is in a good gel pen, and I think of it kind of as an acrylic of some sort is going to be whiter than what a pencil would be. So it's going to give you another layer of highlight. If you're working with flowers and you have multiple colors, then find a coordinating pencil that goes with each one of your colors and soften the edges where they blend into each other. And you'll start to get more realistic blends of them. And I've tried filming at an angle to see if that was helpful in seeing what I see when I was trying to color. It's a little hard to tell here, looking at it straight on. Hard to get that to film properly. But you can see how it's got hard edges until you start to add some of that softness around those edges. And it's just like magic. It starts to look realistic. I decided not to stamp the orange in the beaks because I could do that real easily with my colored pencil and not screw it up. And once I started adding water underneath of them, remember that when a bird is sitting in the water, it's not flat. Unless you're looking at a totally flat line. But we have a little above view of these swans. So you're going to see the contours of their body a little bit in the water. I'm adding just a very slight blue here. It's a little darker than the paper, but not by a ton. And then I'll add some ripples in the same shape that the birds are in. Whatever their their bottoms look like. That's the shape of what ripples they would cast out outside of themselves. I'm adding some reflections in white. But technically, if you look at a reflection, it won't always be white. I won't even get into the science of how and why, but it is what it is. So I'm going to add white because it's a card and I can do that. I decided I wanted a little more contrast, too, because as you try to see shapes, the reason you see shapes when you're looking out at anything, look across the room, you see shapes because there's negatives and positives. There's darks and there's lights. And in order to see them, you need to have some contrast. And I wanted more punch on this card. So I added in the background here just a little section. Sorry, it's off camera again. I was just having such a bad filming day, but I am adding just a corner of greens and dark blues so that I can then start to bring that into my scene. I want to just a loose corner. I didn't want to make it look like I was really working hard at creating a full scene. But what I realized after adding these greens and kind of faking in a few ripples was that it was taking too much attention. It was too strong in terms of texture. So I got out my gamsol, which I keep in a little container and a blending stump and dipped it into the gamsol. Now I put a cotton ball in there so that my blending stump doesn't end up getting soaking wet and drippy. And on colored paper or even white paper, if you're going to use it out in an area where you have no other color, you're just going to use it on the paper itself, you'll get an oily stain. But in an area like this, where it's dense color, none of that is going to matter. You're not going to see it. So I'm able to blend these colors and make them really soft and make it kind of disappear into the background. But once I get to a certain point, I'm going to stop adding any new gamsol to the blending stump because I'm moving out into the area that doesn't have solid pencil on it. So as I move to the left and start dragging color and start working on pulling in the ripples and trying to soften some of them, I'm not adding excess liquid to it. Because I don't want that oily stain out here. And you'll see in a few minutes when I start working on the green area above, you'll see just how much right here, how much of the gamsol is still left in my blending stump. I can still squeeze more out of it to make even lighter and lighter and lighter pieces of the reeds to continue that, but let it slowly disappear. But just be really careful when you start using it in a big open area. I'm also not going to use it on the swans because the swans now have crisp edges and crisp feathers. That's in nice contrast to the softness of the water and the softness of the reflections and everything. So I'm not going to use it absolutely everywhere in order to have some nice contrast between the elements in my picture. So there is my finished card. I did a crazy thing with my ribbon because I tore the paper. I tore the card stock of my layers and covering it up with this nice big bow seemed to be a good thing. Now, I can't mail that big honking not. So it's going to go to a local person that I can drop the card off for since I can't mail it. But yeah, once you have an error in your card, just think about what you can add on to it that you can rescue it and maybe just send it locally and not have to worry about paying a whole bunch in postage. If you're at all interested in more information on coloring on colored papers with Copic markers or pencils or anything, feel free to look at the playlist that's in my playlist section of my YouTube channel or on the page in my blog that is linked down below so you can get lots more inspiration. Thank you so much for clicking the like button for subscribing and for sharing this with a friend who might want to color some swans and I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.


Hello everybody. Thanks for coming out to the theater today. My name is Joseph George. I'm the vice president of solutions at SUSE and we totally recognize that we are between you and lunch. So we're gonna try and focus on some very interesting things today. With me is a Simon Briggs. He's our AMIA cloud architect and we're gonna spend some time talking today about the applications in your environment. They're not 100% cloud native. They're not 100% legacy IT applications. So you're gonna have to figure out how you make these two work together. And SUSE is a great partner to work with you to make that happen. We've been doing it across Linux. We've been doing it in storage. We do an open stack. So without further ado I will hand it over to Simon. Thank you very much George. So thanks everyone for coming along. It's great to get opportunity to speak at the open stack summit. It is a wonderful event and I'm very proud my company SUSE chooses me to do this. As it's been introduced I'm a little bit of an open stack fanboy and it's brilliant that SUSE who I've worked with for many years now is also a fanboy of open stack and what it brings to possibilities it brings to the companies that we work with. So importantly open stack isn't just a upstream community. Organisations like SUSE actually also help very large enterprises get the best out of the technology and we answer some questions they may have. So this presentation is going to be a brief walk through our thought processes around the challenges that our customers have and how we think we're a very strong proposition as a vendor to help you move forward in your journey to get the best out of a private cloud and what that might mean in the future. Okay so we today announced actually that our new version of SUSE open stack cloud as it's called has been slated to be released back end of the year. We've done a full press announcement but really this just quickly describes that we are releasing on the Newton code base this time with SUSE open stack cloud 7 and importantly the biggest change within the technology stack is we're incorporating Magnum allowing Kubernetes to drive Docker or system containers sorry application containers out at scale and we've got a very strong presentation set up on our booth on D27 so if you want to come along and actually see Newton driving those Docker instances within a running open stack cloud it's actually back in Germany our headquarters in Nuremberg you can see the elastic capabilities that you're able to achieve with that technology. There's some other bits I'll mention as we walk forward but my click has decided not to play so what SUSE's proposition well first of all open stacks been recognized by those within the community is a fantastic vehicle for what we might termed as cloud native technology stacks okay so if anyone's familiar with the argument of pets and cattle very much the kind of cattle type logic was applied to open stack initially and that's how most organizations probably utilize the technology well SUSE comes from a slightly different thought process we for many years have been delivering open source to companies in a manner which allows it to be trusted, performant, secure we do all the old-fashioned stuff we're very much the ops part of DevOps in the SUSE world and what we did was recognize very early on that actually if you do too much around the cattle and you concentrate on just the power of rapid development and all the things that the DevOps methodology brings to you you're kind of missing a trick because there is also the ops bit within DevOps okay it's still important that the workloads that you drive into your clouds are actually resilient it's still important that they're secure it's important the data remains secure we are a Germanic organization by nature Nuremberg is our HQ and a lot of our thought processes come out of that part of Europe so we really concentrate in on the security of data and things like that so what we've done is work with the thought process that not only does OpenStack allow you as an organization to be revolutionary on transforming your digital processes but we also help you evolve so why have all your your revolutionary transformation in a silo and all your traditional IT operations in another silo some might actually sit between the both and make sense to be moved across into a fully performant fully secure fully resilient very powerful OpenStack instance okay so that's where we work and that's the logic that we apply when we're working so just to illustrate that more the man on the left is me as a younger guy I put a bit old put a bit of weight on but I used to work out quite a lot so that used to be me working for Suzer in the operational areas so very much into stability the HA capabilities within our OpenStack cloud we were the first to release a fully supported HA component with an OpenStack on the control plane obviously now that's extended now with Liberty release for our Suzer OpenStack 6 to include the KBM or Zen hypervisors another point there is we actually do support Zen it's not gone away if you are interested in Zen Suzer's your friend so we've also worked very hard with our technology to get to the point that we're moving now in version 7 to a non-disruptive upgrade path okay so upgrade has been a massive challenge within the open source community and we've recognized it working with our customers because they like working with a company that takes all the traditional aspects of IT series and we've been improving the upgrade path and we now at a point when we release 7 that it should be a non-disruptive upgrade from our version 6 if you were to start using our technology as 7 that that logic will move forward there's a subtle reason why that's more complicated than you might realize because actually Suzer chose at version 6 to move away from the six month release cycle I banged on pretty hard while I'm stood up here that Suzer's all about reliability all those operational traditional values okay well most of our customers weren't very happy with a six month upgrade cycle it was a little bit too aggressive so we've actually worked with those people and our partners and we've come up with a year-long release cycle support cycle okay so version 7 is coming out now a year ago we released version 6 what that's allowed us to do is extend our supportability of a code base so we get a full three-year supported platform with our version level which is unique in the industry but what it also does it means that when we do an undisruptive upgrade we've got a leap from Liberty across Matarca up to Newton okay that's challenging the technologists in our company have worked very hard on that and we are going to release technology code base which is able to deliver that into our customer base okay we've also got the widest hypervisor support okay we don't just say to our customers and partners we define KBMs the only way forward you have to use it we've worked with VMware for many many years we've worked with Hyper-V for many many years why not make them fully performant and fully supported with an industrial open-stack cloud we've also worked on the mainframe for years you might know as Susie is a Linux on the mainframe it's a reputation we've got so why not make ZVM available with compute notes in the hypervisor in the cloud options so all those options are available to customers and many of our customers look at actually having different levels of service within their cloud delivered by different infrastructure that they have okay we enhance that by making ourselves highly interoperable as well so you can use different hardware infrastructure in the background we have great integration with the big storage vendors for instance so you could actually put some workloads data on very high-end storage arrays and you could actually use our Susie open-stack sorry Susie Enterprise service storage solution which is set based for other workloads within your environment and what we're really delivering there is choice but on the other side we also recognize the organizations of using open-stack to to harness the power of transformation and they are in the game of revolutionizing this very slow traditional model that we all seem to have slept walked into around IT service delivery okay now being able to deliver with containers via a orchestration system like Kubernetes and gives you great power to be able to react to inputs within or events within your application profile usage and then drive out on demand massive scale and then it conflicts back again it's really at a point now where we've got fantastic elasticity with our technology okay not only can we do it on the VM level but the container level allows us to be even more reactive and certain workloads you're looking at as businesses will definitely be candidates to utilize that kind of technology Susie's been in that game for quite a while and we've also integrated Seth as I said earlier and Sephapes is now coming on on board with version 7 allowing us to integrate it with Manila to give unified storage for your production workloads working in your cloud okay obviously we work on other areas as well such as fast deployment and ease of management but they're the call-out stages Susan would also like to tell you that we're very open about open source okay I've got one of my directors in the background Ralph Flax a leading light in the Linux world and his mantra is that as an organization we are open about doing business and part of that is being open to work with partners ones you maybe wouldn't think would be natural with us so Mirantis are very definitely our competition on the open-stack cloud but you might have seen in August that we actually together with Mirantis released an announcement telling the world that we've come to an agreement with them where they would use Susie linux enterprise server technology under their their open-stack technology as their preferred Linux okay the rationale behind that is we're open to other vendors in this market we think our product strong enough to compete whilst others can use our technology in relationships those constructive relationships are even more reinforced if you saw the HPE announcement recently the micro focus the owning group who owns SUSE have actually come to an agreement at least at a very high level with HPE about merger of some of their technology in the open-stack okay again another major vendor in the open-source market a competitor in many ways but an organization that is a if we are getting closer to with relationships in this industry and one thing I like to call out is if you think there's probably about five major vendors in the open stack enterprise ecosystem and that means three of them are actually using SUSE linux technology as their preferred linux technology and I think that's great validation of how strong we are and obviously I've already talked a little bit about the the open-stack announcement on version 7 whilst we're here we're also allowing people to get access to SUSE's open-stack training what you might not have realized is SUSE's open-stack training is the only training available around open-stack which prepares you to not only take the SUSE qualification for open-stack but you will be able to take the standard open-stack qualification of the certified open-stack administrator after following our course so if you do look to get a more general open-stack qualification SUSE training is a good option to follow okay we've got representatives on our booth D27 and also in the training area out front we'll be able to give you more details about that and we are running training it's fully subscribed during the summit and you might get a seat at the back if you want to look but it's fully subscribed sadly one of the other areas and actually the cloud I was talking about that we've got a demo environment of is an example of this we're actually supporting with version 7 ARM 64 technology it's another case where SUSE is very aware that our customers want to be able to be flexible about how they deliver infrastructure to support the needs of their organizations and the ARM 64 technology is going to be supported and I raised that because our demonstration of the SUSE open-stack cloud 7 running Magnum is running on some cavium hardware sitting back in Jürgenberg so it's a really good example of the power of what we're able to achieve okay I've talked at length about the new features and I recognize I've droned on so time is running out but no presentation at the open-stack summit would be complete without a block diagram of the services that we're we're looking at here so SUSE is often seen as just siloed around SUSE Linux but that's the old days we're now active and very strong in the community around network storage and hypervisor layer obviously we've got the great capabilities that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives us on top of hardware and we're moving more and more into that top layer that you can see where containers as a service platform as a service with the cloud foundry guys is all becoming relevant okay I've got about four and a half minutes left of your attention I'll quickly just highlight that we've been in the open-stack for a long while you may not have seen us in the community too much but we've kind of been there in the background we're getting a lot bolder about our presence there's a lot of us here during this week please connecting to us come and talk to us we learn from you even if you don't become our customers so we love the conversation we even like talking to our competition if you're in the crowd come and tell us what you think about things it's an open community after all okay some of the credibility story is this continuation so we were the very first organization to bring a fully supported open-stack to customers as a commercial offering okay that was on the Essex release which some of you may remember some of you might be still working on because of the challenges of upgrading okay I've got about three and a half minutes I wanted to give opportunity for questions from the floor so if you have any questions I know it's a daunting thing when you're sat in front of somebody in the lights with a with a headphone on but I'm more than happily take any questions from the floor if there's any brewing up if not I can tap dance no don't want to see me tap dance no okay well thank you for your time it's been wonderful talking to you and thank you very much for opening stack putting on a summit like this it's absolutely fantastic cheers