My name is Stan Levier and I am a snowboarder. Okay, also the editor of Snowboarder magazine and esteemed host of the show Last Resort with Stan. I am a long-standing proponent of change and I think that snowboarding should remain fresh. And that is why I am here today to tell the masses about the course design changes that we have on deck for the 2020 Burton US Open. The halfpipe was introduced at the Burton US Open in 1988. It was deemed the standard for all competitive halfpipes to follow. In the year 2000, they brought the first superpipe 300 feet long with 15-foot walls. Fast forward to the modern superpipe, which we've seen at the US Open for years now. 500 feet long, 22-foot transition. Pretty much the same one dominated by the likes of Danny Davis, Sean White, Kelly Clark, Scotty James, for at least the last decade, plus. So why change it now? Well, why the hell not? We've got the tools, we've got the machines to do it and the precedent to throw with these riders, whatever that they can handle. I say why not do it? According to me, there is just no better way to buck tradition and get a little weird here at the US Open. It's time for a little history lesson, okay? In 1982, the year it all began. The first ever iteration of the Open went down at a small mountain called Suicide 6 in Vermont. In the decades since then, here is a quick list of events that the US Open has featured in the past. Border Cross, Super G, Downhill, Slalom, Rail Jams, Big Air, Quarterpipe, Slope Style, and Halfpipe featured at the US Open for over 30 years. Here in Vale in 2020, it's going to look like it never has before. Burton went directly to their riders for their ideas. Just taking stock of their hopes and their dreams when it came to course design and progression. The Slope Style course will be tweaked from top to bottom in a design built from the ground up with the rider's feedback at the forefront. The street setup up top leads to a beautiful collection of kickers, speed rails, booters, and transition jumps meant to mix up every full pull you'll see from some of your favorite riders. They've also completely reimagined the US Open Halfpipe. It starts with a 13 foot mini pipe featuring 6 foot tombstones. Then, rollers on both sides of the mini pipe transitioning the rider into a standard 22 footer to the bottom of the course. It's not going to be the traditional 6 hit run that we're used to in the past, okay? These curated runs made in a lab to get on the podium, okay? It's time to get a little creative.  So what do you have to do? Easy. Tune in live to the Burton US Open February 26th through the 29th in Vale to see this all for yourself, okay? I'll be there looking to poach. Oh, and Godspeed to those judges.


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Hey everyone, it's Claire, coming to you live from the University of Vermont. I'm standing in front of University Heights North, one of our residential halls on campus. And that's what today's topic is, residential life. So here at UVM, to choose where you're going to live, you choose a living and learning community. Some of those communities include sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship, arts and creativity, outdoor experience, et cetera, et cetera. In these communities, you live with people that have a similar interest to you. So everybody has different majors, they still have different hobbies, but you do share that one common interest with other people living near you. So today, I'll be taking you inside of the Honors College, Rated Hall, that's where I live, and I'll show you around a little bit. I'll show you some features that every residential hall has, and then I'll get to show you my room. This is super important topic because your room is what's going to be your home when you go to college. I lived in one room for basically my whole life, so it was definitely an adjustment. So I'll talk a little bit about how that adjustment worked as well. Super excited to show you around, and we'll talk a little bit more about other communities as we go along. All right, let's head in. So coming inside, we have our main common area. Note the piano over there. We also have different music spaces for students to practice in private. Normally there are more couches here, but due to the COVID situation, everything is spaced out. So here we are in the University Heights North kitchen, located on the ground floor, and everybody has access to it 24-7. Along with that, there are microwaves and sinks on each floor in the common rooms. So that's great if you just have a little tea that you want to microwave up, make it warm again, you can just go down the hall to that. Or if you want to have a big pasta dinner, maybe a bake-off with your friends, you can come down here and use the large space for that. One of the great things about this kitchen particularly is that the dean of the Honors College actually uses it. So every once in a while, maybe it's during a midterms week, or when a lot of the Honors College students have a paper deal, he'll email us at night and say, hey, y'all, I'm in the U Heights kitchen, and I just made my mom's favorite mac and cheese recipe. Or I made so many apples from apple picking this weekend, I made apple crisp. Come on down and get some. So not only are you eating incredible food, homemade, you're also getting to talk to the dean on that personal level. I really like that because I got to know somebody who I didn't think was supposed to talk to students themselves, so it was really cool. And also, he doesn't lie, his mom's mac and cheese recipe is indeed famous. So here's a video of the kitchen in room without my face in the way. Just show you, it does have oven, stove, fridge, microwave. We even have some shared plates, pots, pans, etc. for us to all share. Got a nice long island, and then this also doubles as an extra common room. So we've got the couches and TV, tables, we have foosball, pool, air hockey. We even have cornhole indoors, and then of course the vending machines. So every residential hall has a front desk that's staffed, and they're here to answer any of your questions and specifically help out with packages, cleaning supplies for when your mom calls 30 minutes away, saying surprise visit, rent out games, etc. While the buildings are open during the day to UVM students, each residential area is locked 24-7. And you have to scan your cat card, our form of identification, in order to get in. Before we head upstairs, I want to just quickly show the laundry room. It's very noisy and warm in there, so I'm going to stay inside to talk about that. But just know that every residential hall has plenty of laundry machines, and laundry is free here. That's right, it's free, which is amazing. Alright, let's head on, let's keep going upstairs. We have made up one plate of stairs onto the University Heights North green room, kind of like a second-story courtyard connecting the two sides of the building. Students come out here to hang out, there's some back there putting spike ball right now, and in light of the COVID situation, professors are actually teaching some classes out here, since you can remain more socially distant, and of course the outdoor air. It's a great resource, but we've got so much more to see, so come on, follow me. As we walk through the hallway, down the hall, through the common rooms and such, we'll talk a little bit about roommates. So at UVM, you can either pick your roommate, maybe off Facebook or social media, or you can do a little match.com survey, which the university provides, where you put down what you like to do in your room, and what time you wake up, go to bed, etc. So both options usually work out just fine. As for getting along with your roommate, it might seem a little tricky at first, but there are different ways that you can manage that. So for example, telling each other your schedule, so that you know when to expect each other, and when to have your time alone. So now you're probably wondering what we're looking at now, and it's just a common room on our floor. You just saw another one. They're a little bit less furnished due to COVID, but each floor has at least two of these common rooms. They all have the microwave, the sink, but enough about that.  Now that we're inside the room, I'll show you around a little bit. I live in a private double in U-heights, so that means that my roommate and I share a bathroom just for ourselves. Not all rooms are like this, but I will talk about what each room does include no matter where you live. So coming in, the door is there. We have our closets.  Some rooms have them built in, ours are moveable. And then coming over here, we have our sink area, hello again. And each room comes with a recycling bin, wipes due to the COVID situation, a compost bag, et cetera. Coming into the living area, we have our fridge and microwave and lots of apples from Apple picking the other weekend.  That is actually the green roof out there that we were just on earlier. One of the really cool things about our room is that you can see the mountains from the window. Now, coming over to my side of the room, here we are. Got lots of underbed storage. It's important for me because I have way too many clothes. And here's my desk. And of course, we also get a set of drawers for underneath the desk. And then coming over, I chose to bring my own printer. However, we do have printed in the library and some different college buildings, et cetera. There's smoothie maker, tea kettle, things I highly recommend bringing to college. And then as I said, with the private bathroom, we'll go inside quickly. And there we go. We've got the toilet there and our shower. All right, so that's what a private double in University Heights looks like. Now let's go talk about what it's like to live on campus, how it is adjusting to a roommate, and what other amenities the different learning communities offer. All right, let's go. So now that you've seen a little bit about what a residential hall and room looks like here at UVM, let's talk about what it's like to live on campus. As I mentioned before, UVM has different learning communities, so that you already have something in common with the people you live with. Within each community, one of your classes as a first year will actually be based around that community. And a great way of getting to know the people in my building that all share that similar interest. Here in the Honors College, our classes actually take place in this building or outside on the green roof. And there are different offices of some of our advisors are on the first floor. So it's really convenient to have all of that in one place. And also, we're all taking similar classes, especially the first semester when you all take the same class. So it's nice to have those people around you and being able to share the study times together. Finally, I want to talk about how you make the room feel like home. So I've lived in the same place since I was in kindergarten. And I think it felt like home to me just because I've been there for so long. When you come to college, it's a new place. When you walk in, like any new place, it's unfamiliar. And you're trying to figure out how you can feel more at home.  So as you saw when I showed you around the room, I have different decorations that mean something to me. My favorite color is purple, and I find it very soothing. So you saw a lot of purple around the room. I also have a lot of photos of family and friends. Because, again, that reminds me of home and the parts that really matter to me at home. I think decorating with things that make you calm, people you love, things you love is really important. When you come home after maybe a stressful day, it's really important to be surrounded by things that you love. One other thing that I have in my room is my bear. I keep him on my bed. And I had in my first year and was a little bit worried that having a big stuffed animal would kind of scare away any friends. But I, my friends all visited my room last year and were still friends with me. So I don't think it made a difference. So that's just one of the things I brought to college with me. That reminds me of home and definitely makes my room more homey and comfortable for me. So that about sums up residential life here at UVN. While each room and each residential hall is a little bit different, they all have those necessities that you need, closets, dressers, desks, etc. And you can make them all feel like home by bringing things in that means something to you. I look forward to hopefully seeing some of you next year in the halls on campus.


Well, I just received the news that the rapper Mac Miller has died at age 26 from a drug overdose and we need to talk about it. What's up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about helping you improve your mental health but it's also about addiction and recovery and things like that. I am a recovering drug addict. I have six years sober and I try to make videos to help others, inform others, increase awareness, decrease the stigma and all that kind of stuff. So please make sure you subscribe and ring the notification bell because this video is one of the reasons why I started this YouTube channel. So yeah, Mac Miller, 26 years old, my girlfriend just sent me a text message with a news article saying that Mac Miller has died from a drug overdose. So this just came out. This is brand new news. There's not really any updates yet and we're going to find out more in the future so we don't know what substance it was or anything like that but man, whenever stuff like this happens like I got to talk about it. I have to talk about it because there's so much, you know, so many misconceptions about addiction. There's lack of education about addiction. People don't understand when they need help or if they have a problem and so many things and it breaks my heart because one of the terms that I hate, more than anything, okay, I talked about this in a video I made a long time ago about Carrie Fisher.   Addiction does not care how functioning you are.  So what is functioning? Functioning is you still have a job. You're still making money. You're still paying bills. You're still on the outside very successful. That's what functioning is. So we see this, this tragedy of a 26-year-old young man who had everything ahead of him, an amazing career, everything he could have wanted, love and admiration from his fans, traveling the world, making tons of money, right? And addiction just took his life because addiction doesn't care how functioning you are, all right? I have been clean and sober from drugs and alcohol for six years. So whether it's in the rooms of 12-step programs or I was working at a drug and alcohol treatment center for three years, I can't tell you how many people I come across who say, oh, I don't need this. I don't need help. I don't have a problem because I still have a job because I still have money in the bank because I still have my wife or my kids or my husband or whatever it is. Like it kills me. It kills me so much. My best friend just celebrated three years of sobriety and I'm so proud of him. I thought this dude was going to die. He had everything that you could think that you would want. He had a very loving family. He had a great job, a ton of money, right? All these things, right? So I was like, man, he's not going to get it. He's not going to get help. Like it bones me out when people don't hit that rock bottom of these materialistic things, right? Because most people get clean after they lose the house and the money and the spouse and you know all this other stuff, right? That's when a lot of people get clean if they're lucky. But it's a lot harder when you have all this stuff, when you have all the things. Like part of my story was I lost everything. You know what I mean? I lost everything and that was part of the reason I got clean. But for people like Mac Miller or you have like Demi Lovato who's recovering from an overdose, like dang, dang. And I was just reading in that news article, Mac Miller got a DUI earlier this year. So clearly there was a problem. A lot of this too, when you look at celebrity culture, so much of it is the lifestyle, man, so much, you know, and we can talk about hip, hip hop culture, you know, and you got all these rappers talking about doing drugs, left them, right? All sorts of stuff like who do you think Mac Miller was hanging out with? Like you think he was hanging out with people who really cared about his sobriety? No, he was probably hanging out with people, you know, who liked to party and you know, do drugs and things like that. I wonder who was with him. I wonder who supplied the drugs. I wonder, I wonder all these things and that's why I make videos about like get better friends, you guys, give people around who care about you and tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Like, yo, you're messing up and you need help. You know what I mean?  But I need to break down more of his lyrics. But man, like Mac Miller is doing it and he's had a relapse, I think a year or two ago he had a relapse, things like that. But it's hard, man. It's hard. And what I think about all the time as this YouTube thing continues to grow. Like I worry, I worry that we're going to see a lot more of this when it comes to YouTubers. I worry that we're going to see addiction, whether it's to drugs or alcohol, I worry that we're going to see suicide, you know, and so much of this is just here's the thing.  Our problem is, is the way that we view this world and the way that we think that we achieve happiness is based on like the worst things. The money, the fame, the fortune, the women or the men or the cars or the vacations or the subscribers or the followers and stuff like you cannot base your happiness on those things because there's never enough, those things can disappear in a blink of an eye. So we got to start finding what makes us happy.  I'm going to link you to the podcast. He's in Recovery 2 and we talked for like two and a half hours for the best conversations we had. And I'm going to upload a clip from it. Probably tomorrow is going to upload it today until this news hit me. But like, man, people just chase the wrong things. They chase the wrong things. And it's no wonder why so many of us are screwed up, right? Like how many of us are just like, oh, if I can only get that, then I'll be happy. If I can only get him or her, if I can only date the right guy or girl, then I'd be happy. If I only got the right job, if I only had enough money, if I only had this house or that car, if I only had this vacation, then I'll be happy.  The happiness has to come from other places. And it bums me out, man. Addiction is such a major issue. It's National Recovery Month right now. And I'm doing a terrible job promoting it and talking about it, especially as a man in recovery. But yeah, it's National Recovery Month. Like do you guys understand what's going on in our country right now, all over the world? The CDC just released a report that 72,000 people a year are dying in the United States from opioid overdoses. That is mind-boggling. Think about a packed football stadium. Holds about 60 to 65,000 people. So more than that are dying from drug addiction. And the thing is the drugs aren't the problem. The alcohol is not the problem. The problem is that people aren't happy. People are miserable. You know what I mean? That's the problem. That's why I'm so passionate about this YouTube channel because I know that a lot of you watching this are hurting.  And then we do these toxic, terrible things to harm ourselves, to harm others. For some people that turns into drug and alcohol addiction. For some people that turns into self-harming behavior. For some people that turns into eating or gambling or becoming addicted to social media, right? We're always trying to escape this pain and suffering that we're feeling. And I am in this amazing place and it took me so long to get here where I'm okay feeling the way I feel when I don't feel great. But the beautiful part is I feel great a lot of the time. So it's very few and far between.  I was going to sleep every single night with a handful of pills and a bottle of booze hoping that I wouldn't wake up in the morning. That's where I come from. I understand the pain. I understand the suffering. I understand the misery. But never lose hope. If a guy like me can get better, if a guy like me can get well, anybody can. But I do so many videos cause there's so many things that we have to talk about it. And one of them is chasing the fame, chasing the fortune, chasing the success, the success. You know what I mean? So I make so many videos and I just, you know, my goal is to just get through to some of you. I want some of you to take a step back and say, wow, no wonder why I'm not happy. I keep chasing the wrong things. You know what I mean?  I don't know. You know what I mean? I've been very fortunate to work at a drug and alcohol treatment center. I've had people thank me for what I've done for them. I've had people in the rooms of 12 step programs thank me. I've had some of you thank me. That's an amazing experience. But when I chase the numbers, when I chase the subscribers, when I chase the followers, it's because I want to deliver a message of hope to as many people as possible. Because if a guy like me can do it, anybody can, you know? So this is a bummer for all of Mac Miller's fans, for his friends, for his family members, for anybody out there, man. Like just hearing that another young life is lost. Like the loss of life is terrible. But when you see a young person who seemingly had everything doing something that could take their life and then it did, like it's a shame, man. It's a shame, you know? So I'm gonna try to do better this month, make more videos about addiction, recovery, things like that. Because chances are you probably know somebody who struggles with an addiction or maybe you struggle with an addiction, whatever it is. And I don't know. I never thought in a million years. I never thought in a million years I would get six months sober. And now I'm here with six years sober, you know? But not only am I sober, my life is amazing, you know? And that's why I do these videos. I wanna give you some of that hope. So again, like never lose hope. If you're affected by this, by the story of Mac Miller, I know that people get affected by this stuff. And real quick, like feel what you wanna feel. Feel how you need to feel. Talk, tweet about it. Get involved in conversations. And to everybody else out there, I hope this isn't you if you're watching this. Don't talk trash to people who feel some type of way about a celebrity passing away. Like that, that disgusts me, you know? Everybody has different connections. People have music that saved their life.  Like who are we to judge somebody else's experience and what's helped them? So if you're one of those people, get better, be better.  Leave comments down below, I'll be talking in there.  Like talk with other people who are affected by this stuff. You gotta get involved in the community and have other people who understand the way that you're feeling. That's the best way to deal with tragedy and loss. You know what I'm saying? Anyways, this video is a lot longer than I expected. I got some buttons up on the screen if you wanna subscribe, that's cool, you know? But anyways, I love you all. I hope things get better, never lose hope. And I will see you next time.


Can you discuss the concept of choose yet again and how we accomplish that? Is that the end point of our studies? Or is it something that we do continuously? And how do we do it? How do we get there? What does it mean? I would ask you a question and you can direct it to one of us so we can look at each other. I was asking both of us. Okay, we'll choose once again.  One of the clips we showed the other night on Sunday night was a movie called Waking Life where it's so spectacular. I think Richard Linklater put it together. At the end, Richard Linklater is actually in one of the scenes where he's at the pinball machine and the main character says, I keep having these false awakenings, but I think I'm still dreaming, but I want to wake up and then he kind of gives the whole story of like, really, time is just saying no to God. Like, are you ready to be one with me, with universe, with eternity and everyone saying like, no thank you. So we get this opportunity to choose once again and more on the level of, we could say the miracle, we are constantly getting opportunities to choose once again from the wrong-minded perspective to the right-minded. So it seems like the choices can be personal, like we're choosing with human beings, but it's actually, you know, as the Course says, the script is written and it's really we're learning how to choose again with the right lines and really choose the miracle. And eventually when we get good at that, we can say we become more consistently miracle-minded and finally we reach a point where, as Jesus did, we can choose the Atonement and that's like a final choose once again. And then, good afternoon, good evening and good night. Yeah, that's cool. That final section of the text, choose once again. Of course, it always comes back to forgiveness. And once you're choosing between the body or spirit, which is why that final section, choose once again, starts off with that definition of temptation. It starts off by saying, temptation has one lesson to teach in all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the Holy Son of God, He's a body. Born of what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders Him to feel. And it says, you know, would you be this if Christ came to you in all His glory asking you but this? Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world or would remain in hell and hold your brothers there. And for He has come, and He is asking this, and that's the choice that we're always asked to make. So then it says, you know, learn them the happy habits of response to all temptation with these words. You know, I am as God created me. His Son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son. What can suffer but a body? You know, that's why it always comes back. You know, what are you going to see other people as being? A body or spirit? And whichever one you choose is what you think is real, as it also says in that section. And that's a dynamite section, a wonderful section of the Course. And Jesus really kind of puts it all together there. And we're asked to choose once again every single time somebody pushes our buttons or we're worried or something comes up that we need to forgive. You know, we choose once again over and over again until we go as completely undone. And then, you know, as David said, you get to the point where you choose once again for the final time. That's the beginning, not the end. You know, it's like the last quote that an ardent person had to use in disappearance. Jesus says, help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun. To make another choice with me. You know, so you completely undo the ego and eventually you end up back at the beginning. And Jesus said the same thing in the Gospel of Thomas. And have you found the beginning? Because where the beginning is, the end will be. So it's like it all fits together and you choose once again for the final time. And then the ego is undone. And as David said, you're out of here. And that's what we're working toward. But the cool thing about this particular path is that you can have a good time on your way. And you can have a really good time. So, you know, you can have any cake you need to. You can have a good time now and you're still going to awaken in God eventually. David, I'd like to ask this question of you. How should we address entities? Jesus cast out entities several times. And how do we look at them? Okay, I think when you talk about casting out entities, you're talking more of like ego entities? Yes, ego entities. Okay, kind of like the stories from the Bible about chasing them out of the people onto the herd of swine and into the water, that kind of thing. Yeah, you might say that you could think of entities in the most helpful way. I think as attack thoughts and consciousness that need to be cast out of the mind. In other words, Jesus says when you're offended in anyone, pluck the offense from your mind. So we could apply that. This is kind of more of an extreme case when it seems to be ego entities or so forth that you're confronted with or whatever. But in one sense, this is about purifying the mind and letting go of attack thoughts. And that's actually the way to enlightenment and healing. You know, I am not a body and my mind cannot attack so I cannot be sick. Part of that recognition of my mind cannot attack is to purify the mind of all these attack thoughts because they can't be our real thoughts. The Course tells us that we've got this layer of thoughts that are egoic and then underneath them are our real thoughts, the thoughts we think with God. And so you might say that this is a temptation to believe that illusions are real, you know, perceiving ego entities. And then how you answer that is very important. You know, you need to see it as a call for love and not as a thing of fear. And then in that sense of joining with the Holy Spirit and Jesus and that, you are able to answer the call for love.


We'll get right into this episode, but first, I just want to remind everyone that while it may look like things are returning to normal, there's a very good possibility that these lockdowns will continue into next year. And if that happens, it's more likely that we're all going to have to deal with food shortages. Don't just wait and hope that things are going to work out. Be proactive and make sure that you and your family won't have to worry about food shortages. Trust and use my Patriot supply. You can, too. Take action so you're ready for what's coming and save $70. Those that know what's coming are preparing. Go to preparewithdronetech.com, preparewithdronetech.com. I wanted to follow up on you said about the small business program, Harvard's going to pay the money back.  Well, I'm going to have to look.  Harvard, you pay that money back. I want Harvard to pay the money back. Okay? I have to pay it back. I don't like it. I don't like it. This is meant for workers. This isn't meant for one of the richest institutions, not only far beyond schools in the world. You got to pay it back. I want them to pay it back. Welcome back, everyone. Since Trump was elected, we've seen the rise of these so-called fact checkers who claim to be objective defenders of truth and justice, but turn out just to be partisan political operatives. Today, I have a couple examples of this coming from CNN and the Washington Post. Over at CNN, our highfalutin bedders are outraged because Trump called out Harvard to pay back their $9 million stimulus check since they currently enjoy a $45 billion endowment. Trump simply demanded that they pay back their $9 million stimulus and dip into their own billions, which, by the way, is the biggest endowment in the country. Since then, Trump went after Harvard, basically claiming that they had sort of sucked up some of the funds that were supposed to be for small businesses. Harvard has refuted that. What's the truth here? It's a total fabrication. Facts first. The president was completely wrong. Oh, boy. You got that, everyone?  You can almost feel her seething anger as she makes that very specific declaration of complete fabrication. I'm sure that she has some major truth bombs to drop on us now. Harvard did not steal money from small businesses. Let's be clear. There was a separate multi-billion-dollar fund set up for educational institutions.  It has a $40 billion endowment, so you can understand perhaps some questions being asked here. Wait a minute here. First, she said that what Trump said is a total fabrication, then goes on to say that they are the richest in the country, and that asking questions about that is legitimate.  So Harvard does have a lot of money, and they don't need $8 million from the government. And they aren't the only filthy rich university getting millions from the government. Princeton is getting $2.4 million, and Yale is receiving $6.9 million. Both universities have multi-billion-dollar endowments. I just, I can't wait to see what ridiculous spin this hack uses to justify saying that Trump lied. Harvard have said, and perhaps we could question the timing, we don't know, that all this money is going to go to their students that come from low- to moderate-income families. Okay, this doesn't disprove anything Trump said. $9 million is a drop in the bucket to Harvard, or any of these Ivy League prestigious universities. Why can't they just give the $9 million back and pay it out of their own pocket? They definitely could, but it's free money. Again, this is exactly what Trump said, and it's 100% accurate. The second thing is, an endowment is there to make sure that this university, this college, lasts forever. It's not like a piggy bank.  It's literally a piggy bank. Lady, everyone is struggling, and most of us don't have multiple tens of billions of dollars to dip into. There's lots of other universities and colleges out there, nowhere near as rich as Harvard or Princeton, that could no doubt benefit from this money. But all of this is just a distraction from the fact this alleged fact-checker hasn't disproved anything that Trump said. In fact, she confirmed it. All she's done is offer up rationalizations and justifications for why it's okay for Harvard to keep the $9 million. Over at the Washington Post, we have another very curious example of a fake journalist hyperbolically calling Trump a liar, then proving him right in the preceding fact check. The WHO failed to investigate credible reports from sources in Wuhan that conflicted directly with the Chinese government's official accounts. There was credible information to suspect human-to-human transmission in December 2019, which should have spurred the WHO to investigate and investigate immediately. Through the middle of January, it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission happening despite reports and clear evidence to the contrary. The delays the WHO experienced in declaring a public health emergency cost valuable time. Where's the lie? Everything Trump said there is true. The fake fact checkers started his piece with this line. For the purposes of this fact check, we will examine the part of Trump's statement that holds some credibility that the World Health Organization did not alert the world quickly that the new virus could travel among people. Okay, that seems to be the main gist of Trump's statement. So this guy goes on to lay out a timeline of the WHO's response to this outbreak saying through the middle of January, it parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission. This conflicts with what Trump said how. This is reminding me a lot of the other fact check that we just looked at, where a hyperbolic over-emotional pronouncement of lies is declared as if to condition the mind of the viewer.  It's like a dollar store Jedi mind trick. The Washington Post story is behind a paywall, so I can't show you the actual article, but the Blaze did a really good write-up and showed that there's at least nine times throughout the article where the Washington Post actually proves Trump's point, making the three Pinocchio rating even more baffling. This total hack of a fact checker moves his goalposts and claims that Trump's lie is that he expects the World Health Organization to investigate the outbreak for him. Why exactly are we giving them $600 million every other year eclipsing every other country and foundation on this planet? This guy literally didn't debunk anything Trump said. All he did was deflect blame for the World Health Organization and China. This is in fact checking, this is political propaganda. That's all for this episode. I just wanted to let you all know about this tactic I noticed them using and it seems to be very popular in the DNC media. If you enjoyed this episode, please hit that like button and subscribe. If you enjoy my content and you want to support this channel, please consider subscribing to me on one of these platforms. You can find all the links in the description and pin comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


Do you guys see these 17 inch steel pipes bolted on to the torso of a marble statue? Now, I don't know about you guys, but I haven't heard of too many other lifetime naturals on YouTube having 17 inch cannons at a mere 150 pounds. That being said, I don't really care about how big my arms are anymore, which is a far cry from when I started weightlifting. Now I'm just bodybuilding to become a fitness influencer, whereas the initial reason I started in the first place was because all I cared about was having big arms. It was something that seemed glamorous when I was a teenager, and I think I even suffered from bigorexia until I was in my early 20s, which is basically muscle dysphoria. It's the belief that one's body is too small, not muscular enough, and it made sense that I felt like that because I spent so much time looking at pictures and videos of IFBB pro bodybuilders, that unrealistic, unachievable, very enhanced muscle level. And that was throughout most of my early years lifting weights as a teenager. Even when I had people telling me my arms were huge, I still didn't really believe that in the mirror. Now I have that more objective, self-aware perspective on life, and I'm more reasonable with both my perception of my physique as well as the typical routines and training that can get you there. That can't be said for the majority of weightlifters who look forward to doing arm exercises as much as possible. When I was following a bodybuilding bro split, I was doing triceps and biceps with chest and back Monday and Tuesday, and then I even had a separate arm day on Friday. People would love to do bicep curls every day if that's what they thought would get them bigger arms, and some people do, including myself. The first thing I want to bring up is the size of the muscle relevant to the amount of volume, and I'll do a whole video on this, but think about how large your bicep is compared to your back or chest. The amount of tissue that is physically contained in that area is significantly smaller than the larger muscles, and it would make sense that you would do less volume to stimulate the bicep effectively, and that applies specifically to individual workout volume, not necessarily weekly volume. As long as you achieve the maximum volume for that muscle size in every workout, depending on the frequency, you're good to go. That doesn't mean you can just cram all of that weekly volume into one day. Your bicep needs a certain period of time to rest and recover between sessions. Now this is kind of contradictory to the first piece of advice people tend to give you. Most will say the reason your muscle isn't growing is strictly because you're not doing enough volume, and yes, that is true, but they need to specify the frequency as well. Doing two to three sets of failure every day is drastically different than 14 sets of failure once a week. We want to increase the volume, but want to make sure that it's not beyond what's necessary. Compound movements do work your biceps and triceps, but since the goal of those movements is usually to take the back or chest to failure, you have to take it day by day. If you feel like your biceps really got hammered on the lat pulldown on those barbell rows, or your triceps were shredded on bench press, you won't have to do as much volume for your arm workout. And that will happen on its own because when you go to do arms, the fatigue from the compound movements will set in, or it won't if you didn't use the accessory muscles too much during those compound movements. So we know the biceps and triceps are smaller than most other muscle groups, and theoretically, you know, we don't have to do more than one or two exercises each compared to the three or four, maybe even five, that you might have to do for back or chest. On paper, that makes sense, but it doesn't work practically. That's because people always focus on increasing the weight as opposed to the intensity. And the way I increase my overall training load is by upping the training frequency, shortening the rest time, and really contracting the muscle. The effectiveness of full body routines doesn't seem like it's really hit the mainstream as hard as it should have. And part of that full body routine involves doing arms every single day.  So when you do that full body routine, you might be doing, you know, four, five, six times the amount of volume of someone doing a bro split. And that doesn't necessarily equate to that much more muscle size, but it is significant. It's probably two to three times muscle growth speed. So I do arms at the end of my workout because the way I structure my full body routine is whatever I need to work on the most goes first. And since I feel like my arms are kind of ahead of the rest of my physique, mainly due to my long arm genetics, I do them last. And all I've been doing for the past nine months is a couple sets of tricep push downs and a couple sets of bicep curls. Of course, there's been a bit of variance in weight, but for the most part, it's been pretty consistent. About 80% of the time, I'll do a moderate weight. So that means about 40 to 50 pounds on the push down. And my main focus here is really flexing and stretching the tricep. And I'll do about 10 to 15 reps standing like this, squeezing that long head of the tricep really well. And when I feel like it's getting a little difficult, I'll switch over to behind the neck. And this hits the outer head a bit more. So I'll really squeeze the outer head here. Anywhere from 5 to 10 reps. And I will use a little momentum if I have to here just to really flex that outer head. And then I move on to my famous 15 pound dumbbell curls. Now in my full body routine, my biceps usually get hit harder on back than my triceps do with chest. So some days when I go to do these bicep curls, I don't really feel it on my biceps at all because they're a bit overworked. But today it feels pretty good. So this is as basic as it gets. Just 12 to 20 reps of really nice contractions. Sometimes I'll go with like an outer extension a little bit, hit a different part. Sometimes I'll go a bit inner, hit a different part. But for the most of the time, I just go parallel up and down. To failure. And usually if I feel good, I'll jump right into another set. If not, I'll do a set of calf raises. So for my full body routine, I usually super set glutes with back and some of chest. And then I'll super set calves with some of chest, shoulders, and arms. And maybe I'll even do a few sets of abs here and there. Anywhere from 15 to 30 reps I'll do. Then right back to the tricep extensions and bicep curls. So I'll do between four and six sets of each. And then I'll be around failure.  I only get four or five reps. I try to do some behind the neck. I get one or two reps. And then I go to do the bicep curls. And I get like seven or eight comfortably. That's what I do most of the time with moderate weight. Sometimes when I feel really, really good, I'll up the weight a little bit. I'll go heavier than I should. So maybe I'll do like 70 or 80 pounds on the tricep extension. I'll swing a bit, use a little momentum. And it feels pretty good. And I like doing this for maybe 10% of my workouts. Just go a little heavier on certain exercises. Bang out as many as I can standing. And I do the same thing behind the neck. And same thing with biceps. I'll take a much heavier weight than I normally do. 35 pounds. And despite curling relatively lightweight for most of my workouts, you know, 10, 15 pounds, I still have a decent amount of strength where I can curl, you know, 35, 40 pound dumbbells. So I'll do as many of these as I comfortably can. And when I go heavy, usually I get less good sets in. So with the moderate weight, I'm doing four or five good sets to failure. With the heavy weight, maybe only two or three. And this is why you're not bodybuild because you're out of breath after you do everything. Another 10% of the time, if I don't feel good, I do a really lightweight. And usually when I do that really lightweight, I'll still move into a moderate weight afterwards. But, you know, the first two or three sets, really light, 20 pounds, nice, easy flex. Squeeze the muscle, feel the muscle. And then, you know, when I feel a little better, I'll up the weight a little bit. You know, same with the dumbbell curls. If you don't feel good that day, grow up some 10 pound dumbbells. This is a marathon. It's not a race. And you're doing a 10 pound dumbbell curl might only be, you know, 70 to 80% as effective as your normal workout. But it's still, you know, 70 to 80% better than doing nothing. So I'll do that to failure. And then that's really it. So four, five, six sets. Most of the time moderate weight, sometimes heavy, sometimes light. Rest time is very low. You guys saw I did like 15, 20, 30 calf raises. I'm not really resting more than, you know, 30 to 40 seconds between each of these exercises. So only five minutes a day really for my arm workout. And there's a couple of things I wanted to touch on. One was that my arms are a little longer and larger than the rest of my frame. So it kind of creates this unusual appearance, so to speak. And that combined with the fact that people are used to seeing enhanced steroid using weight lifters that tend to have really big shoulders, traps and chest. So what happens is when you use testosterone or performance enhancing drugs that are meant for bodybuilding, you get more androgen response in those muscle groups. So there are receptors that are more susceptible to the steroids. That's why you see people with like really rounded, bolder shoulders, trap separation, big upper chest. Natural weight lifters don't have that. And I'm a natural weight lifter. So what you'll see typically, and it usually means so is a natural when they have larger arms or their arms appear larger because the frame of reference you have is all of these juice head athletes. So I don't really like being compared to those people. And for all of my workout routine, I have put my arms to the wayside. At no point in time have I focused on my arms. In fact, I've actually focused on those other muscle groups, so the shoulders, the chest, the traps. But again, the image that most people have in their head is distorted because all of these fake natties lying to them. So I like to think this video is a good introduction to my training philosophy, my training style. Some other videos I'm going to talk about in the near future, such as muscle size and relevant strength, using lighter weight to really build up that muscle to the point where you can stimulate it. So let me know how you guys like this. Of course, if you could please like the video, leave me a comment down below. And above all, guys, please share the video on social media. If you do wanna support me further, you know how to do so down in the description. Thank you guys for joining me today. I'll see you for tomorrow's video. And if you'd like to join us, we're doing a live stream later on the channel, Frank Tufana.


So much for coming. Can you hear me in the back all right? Let's get started with some quick questions. Who if you knows about the Clippy project? Who knew about the Clippy project yesterday? All right. All right. That's still a very good number. Thank you so much okay so first things first Hi, I'm Pascal. I do rust since 2014 and If you ever happen to be in Cologne, please try to be there on the on the first once day of a month Because we do great rust meetups. You can also follow me on Twitter and I write some stuff in my blog about rust as well So you might want to check that out soon but Let's start with something. It's absolutely Everyone can agree with that rust programmers like compiler errors Yeah, I'm pretty sure that every one of you has seen a compiler error once in his or her lifetime and You set yourself. Wow. This is this is really great. I want to have more of those This basically what it looks it looks like it might be a bit small, but it's a very nice error format and this is something that delivers a promise of rust safety because The compiler is there to to help you check your stuff So you can be confident that your code actually works also the errors are pretty and It's not just errors. It's warnings to like We have a warning that you have not used the result of a function Like if you have a result type and you did not check it was an error It was an error if it's of any use the compiler will tell you This is not something that breaks your code. It's just something that points in the direction of maybe a mistake you made so your code gets even better and Am I absolutely favorite lint of all is missing documentation? If you're publishing a library and you activate this lint, it tells you which public items Have no documentation. This is not just so you can write documentation But it's also very very helpful to figure out which items are actually public and which items You did not want to be public and wanted to change later on and maybe he published a breaking change so it's very very useful for that and About two-thirds of you said you knew about clippy just for the other ones Clippy is awesome. You should totally look it up. It's a collection of even more lint So if you like the built-in errors, you can get even more errors like yesterday's there were 208 additional lints I am pretty sure if you check in next week, there'll be 210 or 12 or something like that and it goes more into the case of catching even more Mace mistakes that you may have missed for example if you wrote an infant else and Both code blocks is the same it's probably mistake on your part and you just copy pasted it from this to the else and Forgot to check it later on on fix it clippy has lint for that as well It's it's very very in isn't an ambitious project and it's very very awesome okay the completely other aspect of Lints and warnings is that you don't just want to catch warnings, but you also want to learn about new things For example, I hope you can read it. Otherwise, I'll just read it out loud to you so you have an iterator and you call the filter method on it and You give it a closure where you compare the item that you are iterating over with zero and Then the result of that you call next on so basically you have an iterator to get the next item that contains the number zero hmm It's an interesting way to to write that what what did you actually mean when you wrote that? It's it could be anything. It could be just a check for it. Is there any item that is zero Why not find The item and then you actually have explicitly stated in your code that you wanted to find an item that is zero or That's a trivial example. Let's go for something more. It's an if statement that if The map M does not contain the key K You insert K with the value V into M Okay It's all good. It's like how you insert stuff into a hash map in basically every language But Ross can help you with that In a way that may be surprising but will lead to very good code Have you heard the good news about the entry API? If you use dot entry instead of contains key and then insert you will do the hashing only once You ask the map is there an entry with that maps to K and if it's not there you can insert it this is very concise and very much not if then do stuff so you might not have even noticed that there is such an API and there's a link to tell you about it and Afterwards you'll be a Bit more experience in the crazy API is that Ross Senate library has to offer so This lends help you when you're basically almost using an API that you didn't know about and If you happen to be bought some lazy afternoon, you can also just check the clip your documentation because it has Examples for basically every lint was okay This is what you wrote and this is what you maybe have meant and this is what you could also write So good read I can recommend it Okay, okay, so I don't know how many of you are there from a tears talk earlier this morning he talked about I do magic rust and Man, he told you all about how to do it yourself It's it's a it's a nice idea to actually fix your coach yourself, but How about who makes us a bit more interactive? okay, so The compiler already gives you suggestions If you wrote for I in 10 dot dot zero you iterating over something that's never happening because Ranges only work in the one direction and not Counting downwards, so you were looking for Something that's called a reverse loop Basically, you wanted to say Zero dot dot ten and then reverse it You didn't know about it. Okay. It's totally fine. I didn't know about it either But the lint didn't just tell you okay here you can do this no no the lint actually wrote the code you need to write To get good idiomatic code So why fix it yourself This is from your perspective. I hope it's totally from my perspective The quote on the slides if you can't read it says, okay, I'm sold these suggestions are great But I don't make me type don't make me wait and just fix my freaking code already enter rust fix so There is no magic and it's already happening You've seen the errors. You've seen the suggestions There are messages and the diagnostics can also be outputted as jason instead of human readable text so let's just take this jason and Pass the suggestions and do a bit of search and replace and you end up with better code at least I hope you do It's actually if you think about really trivial and So the rust fix There's a tool that's called rust fix and it's a simple CLI tool you basically invoke it and it calls the compiler and asks hey Would you say what's this code and for every single? Error message you would have gotten from the compiler rust fix Collects the errors and shows you one by one. Hey So this is wrong or we can do better here. Would you like me to replace it with the dada day? And you say yeah sure or yeah, I don't know or This is plain wrong it's it's our lens there and After you ran through all these errors you say safe and it basically Replaces the things you've thought the totally to replace in your code and hopefully your code still compiles And it works better than before big promises I know But it's still not like if you can do better like you need to manually call this tool like it's one step too many Okay, okay What's better than like writing code and? Calling the compiler and making it tell us stuff and maybe basically wrapping rust fix around it well, obviously Let's do it in the editor while we are typing. We want to have suggestions as well and luckily for us People have already been working on that as well. It's called the rust language server and it's exposes warnings errors suggestions to an editor that can consume the language server the language server protocol the most complete plug-in for an editor is the one for a visual studio code and Turns out it can already fix our suggestions. So basically, why did we write a select tool? Just use this plug-in and So it turns out What's Clippy in this like the rust language server doesn't know what Clippy Why don't we make it know about Clippy and I had a horrible horrible hack that basically Imported lint from Clippy into the rust compiler that gets called by LS and Wasn't it wasn't pretty it really wasn't pretty so I was very glad to see me medicine. It was just this morning about hmm Why not add Clippy as an optional feature to the rust language server? So thanks to Oliver who's Here with us and whose talk is the one after mine, and you should totally stay for it Clippy is now an optional feature in the rust language server and Also five internet points for Nick Cameron It is already merged Not released but but much so if you are going to compile our as yourself you'll get this awesome bunch of additional lint So this is the time. Well, I'll give you a demo. Well, I don't I don't have my laptop But that's no problem. I expected to not have my laptop because well fine was too easy So let's do a quick slideshow. This is what it looks like the open visual study code and basically Right these lines just enable basic Clippy warnings right a main function Define a vector with the element. That's the number one And write an if statement that says hmm. What's the length? Is this length of the vector greater than zero? Hmm, what would you actually want to do here? Hmm length comparison to zero. That's a nice. That's a nice overlay, but also see there was a light bulb Okay, yeah, let's fix it and replace this if length greater zero with is not empty Because that's what we actually wanted to express and also this is more performant because collections Collections that are not as trivial as vector can basically implement is empty in a more efficient ways and counting their elements Okay, so we get a nice light bulb. We get a nice context menu and we can apply it and bam. It's done the plos is not the plos is absolutely not for me like I Hope the people who actually made this work are here or watching the stream Sometime in the future and this applause was for you Okay, time for another demo you wrote a new statement with a Small Boolean expression Just imagine it was like twice as long and not just something I came up with this morning It can be simplified To what? Oh, yeah, absolutely Less than or equal sure. We knew about that. Let's fix it damn another thing done but It's not all good like it's not all finished. It's not This is not 1.1.0 or anything near it and I want what I want you to take away from this is You can contribute This is a very nice lint that tells you that if you wanted to write 3.14 You may have actually wanted to write the constant for Pi so Why not use like The constant is actually defined Okay, wait, where's our light bulb? There is there is no light bulb Because this suggestion does not exist It's it's only zero message Okay, okay, so this was a demo. Thank you so much. I'm glad it works as well Let's talk a bit about how this actually works like not to zero lines of code. I committed just how it actually is working and Lints are a compiler plugins basically and if you've been here for the talk before mine Nikita talked about ASTs and lints basically are matches on particular AST structures you try to find notes and items of interest and Then you tell the compiler to basically annotate this Piece of code with the suggestion or the help text or a warning or what have you and the compiler then generates Output that's either human readable as you've seen before or machine readable So rust fix can't consume it This is not that hard as you like this is actually rather trivial. I managed to do it. So if you wanted to Look at some code and say hey, hmm, maybe maybe I can Can actually fix this Myself manually or by writing a lint you should totally not fix it yourself because everyone can do that write a lint We have a very Interesting question still open though because what is actually auto fixable like we have these suggestions and Can we apply all of them? This is everything we get good Codes that we can just search and replace Yeah, a lot of it is actually like I was surprised that I Expected it to like the very very small percentage of all suggestions we have That we could actually auto apply but it turns out we can apply auto fix a lot Which would totally make a list or actually How about the flag? Approximately suggestions so we know which ones are not auto fixable and When I wrote these lights earlier last week There wasn't was a PR open for the rust compiler. There's glorious pull request number 47,540 that acts as a simple flag to each suggestion you write and Passes this down to basically the JSON output as well and it allows you to flag approximate suggestions Yeah, I was gonna talk about how this is a good idea and how we could maybe do it, but actually It it got much already so just This stuff is changing rapidly like if you if you look at this talk in a year I hope you already already be using it and everything I tell you will be totally unsurprising So yeah, it's great progress. That's happening here and you should all contribute to it And with that, thank you so much and into recap just so I can leave this slide here search for rust clipping search for the good first issues and Become a compiler hacker. Yeah, let's start here and then go there Clippy is basically a compiler plugin as all ends are so It would be very very hard to stabilize Compilers internal APIs and not have some break ever so we don't want to do that, but actually Clippy will be shipped with rust up as a component you can install just like rust format or the LS So you don't have to so you can I think it's in in the next release Or maybe in the one after that that you can just write rust up component at clipping and get it on stable Just go there Okay, good good Yeah, so the question was if I have thought about fixes this introduce new errors Yeah, so a Lot of suggestions are not yet They they introduce Maybe not errors, but but new suggestions as this is a good case like we already producing codes that compiles but triggers new errors and Yeah, it's it's you could Get into the way of thinking that like okay Let's just recursively run rust fix Until it generates no more errors or it doesn't compile it. This is this is a good solution, but not one that's that's working Quite as we intended it to so I Have I have no solution to give you except for calling it multiple times But I'll be open to to any suggestions Any more questions. Yeah, sure. I don't I don't want to I don't want to say yes, but maybe I Don't I don't think so. I don't think so, but yeah, it's like Do you want to do that? Okay, okay We still have time for more questions. I guess that's actually the secret behind all my github contributions in the last year No, no, no, I've I've run it on on personal code. I have seen people run it on their code, but I Have not yet started like doing pull request Automated by rust fix it might might be a good idea actually, but you should totally look into it Yeah, the question was if I have tried or If I intended rust fix to be a tool that can upgrade code basically so once new rust features become available that you can use rust fix to upgrade your code base to use them and I totally didn't think about this until There was a discussion about introducing epochs to the epochs. Oh, they are called actually into rust because this year The rust team wants to basically compile a new version of the rust language itself and Introduce breaking changes without breaking code and they want to do that by actually versioning the compiler and the standard library in epochs so If you wanted to have a sync and to wait as a keyword in in random code This was this was actually proposed It would not work today because you can't introduce new keywords because people might already be using this for their variable names and Epochs will solve this because in your cargo configuration file you say, okay, let's use rust version 2018 instead of the implicit 2015 one. That's one point. Oh and in this discussion People started talking about well Can we make all these changes in a way that they can be auto applicable with rust fix? I was like Yes, please please do it and if there are some lens in clippy that Suggests using newer features or features that were not available in 1.0 so there's already a bit of precedence for it and I would be really happy to have a Rust fix that You can tell to load a lint group. That's called upgrade to 2018 and Get your code fixed Thank you


Ladies and gentlemen, now I have this opportunity to invite to the podium Mr. Adik Rahman, director from Vikash, Bangladesh. Mr. Chairman, Honourable Chief Justice, friends, ladies and gentlemen. Once again, it is a pleasure to be here and addressing this concluding session. As Salina said, we have achieved quite a lot in this conference. Over 90 papers, 40 presentations, events, posters and the declaration coming out of it, the government declaration. Communities across the world are trying their best under very difficult circumstances. Climate change is here and now and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports on the Fourth Assessment and Fifth Assessment tell us that things are going to get worse. For things to get better, there must be much larger need for mitigation as well as adaptation. If we do not mitigate rapidly, particularly led by the industrialist party that is committed under the Convention, there will be much bigger need for adaptation and the cost of adaptation will shoot up so much that will really create greater poverty, greater distress for the poorest people in the world. That in itself does need a lot of attention. By 2015 in Paris, we should have agreed strong declaration for rapid climate action much higher as required by the science much, much higher commitment for mitigation. But at the same time, adaptation needs are soaring. People and communities are suffering, they are being displaced and in many places their food security, water security, energy security and life security is being threatened. So it is not a story of changes of lifestyle. Lifestyle is lifestyle for some and livelihood of others. We must not be put into that choice. Those who are responsible must reduce their emissions and reduce them fast and that is the place to make that commitment very, very important. If we cannot do it, then our problems are far bigger. There is already displacement across the world moving on to what is called climate migration. The numbers quoted are in tens of millions to hundreds of millions of people who will be displaced. Where will they go? There is one theory which says they will have to be accommodated by the countries which have emitted in-house. That is the most in a proportionate way. That is not a present future that we are looking towards but that would be a reality and climate health tasks become the greatest or one of the greatest issue of justice. Climate justice has to be addressed in the near future and poverty must be reduced. Climate change impacts and luxury of others cannot be allowed to increase the poverty of the many. Climate displaced population is being taken, the issue is being taken very seriously with the security community across the world particularly in rich countries. There is no mechanism that has evolved in the defence and security world which can stop large populations moving. Most of the ammunition that they have created is for killing people but not for maintaining in certain spaces. This is going to be a challenge of the future if we do not take climate change very seriously. For the poor in the communities it is not a choice. They are forced to take it seriously for their share of survival. Right now in most cases they are doing it through their own level, own money, own efforts. This we have already initiated through the CDA type process and other funding sources some initial very limited funding in this area. This has been significantly. So 50% of all climate investment costs and expenditure must go to adaptation and out of that 50% of that must be for the communities particularly poor and depressed. That is a key message from the government declaration and we permit ourselves that. We are going to look forward to working together with all the countries and the leaders and their respective communities and it is absolutely urgent that we mitigate rapidly at the same time we invest in adaptation otherwise we are entering a world of much greater insecurity. So we want a world with greater climate service, greater security and greater climate justice. We all look forward to that. Thank you.


The chemical bath deposition method was used to synthesize lithium niobate nanostructures, which were then decorated with silver nitrate particles through UV activation. The X-ray diffraction confirmed the hexagonal structure of the samples, while the optical absorption indicated the presence of silver atoms at 350 nanometers. The photoluminous peaks were observed at 355 nanometers for purely NbO3, Psi and 358, 360, 363, 371, 476 nanometers for different immersion times. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the particle morphology changed with increasing immersion time, while atomic force microscopy revealed a decrease in surface roughness. FTIR spectra showed an increase in the intensity of the peaks, while Raman spectroscopy indicated a shift in the peak positions. Finally, A.G. Li NbO3, Psi-heterojunction nanodevices were fabricated and demonstrated improved optoelectronic properties compared to pure Li NbO3 or Psi-heterojunction devices. This article was authored by Evan T. Salim, Wafa K. Kalef, Makram A. Fakhri, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Personal Finance PowerPoint Presentation. Callable Preferred Stock. Prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. Most of this information comes from Investopedia. Callable Preferred Stock, which you can find online. Take a look at the references. Resources continue your research from there. This is by Adam Hayes, updated March 28th, 2022. In prior presentations, we've been taking a look at investment goals, investment strategies, investment tools, keeping in mind the two major categories of investments that being fixed income, typically bonds, equities, typically on the common stocks. We're looking at the callable preferred stock. Let's first just think about the preferred stock component that we've talked about in prior presentations, which technically falls on the equity side of things, but functions similar to or functions kind of like a bond. So functionally, it kind of falls in between the fixed income and the equity side of things. So a quick recap, what are bonds? We can think of them kind of like us giving or loaning money to the issuer of the bond, typically a government or a corporation and return for the fixed income of interest payments, typically. And then we're gonna be receiving the amount of the face amount at the maturity of the bond. If they don't pay us the interest payments, they will be defaulting on the bond and that will cause them problems. So it's pretty solid fixed income. When we look at the common stock side of things, we're looking at ownership in the company, remembering that companies are separate legal entities, breaking out ownership into equal unit shares called stocks. The stocks then are often traded when we're looking at them by publicly traded companies on an exchange. And those are usually what we're thinking about when we're thinking about the common stocks. The preferred stock, let's not take into the callable component here, just talking preferred stock are items on the equity side of things. They're preferred because they usually have to get paid the dividends to the preferred stock before any dividends are paid to the common stock. And if there was liquidation to the company, they'd have to pay the preferred stockholders first. Preferred stock is not better than common stock, however, because if there was an upside, the economy did quite well, the business did quite well, the common stockholder value would typically increase more than the preferred stock. The preferred stock dividends are usually gonna be more guaranteed. That's why they're similar to a fixed income, similar to a bond type of situation. Okay, keeping that in mind, what is callable preferred stock? Callable preferred stock is a type of preferred stock that the issuer has the right to call in or redeem at a price set price after a defined date. So in other words, they can call them back. So the company can call them back and that of course is gonna be a benefit to the company side of things, not so much for the investor side of things. So that's, you can see how the effect on the price would be if you're looking at preferred stock that has the callable feature, which compared to stocks that do not have the callable feature. So callable preferred stock terms such as the call price, the date after which it can be called and the call premium, if any, are all defined in prospectus and cannot be changed later. So they're part of the terms basically of the preferred stock in the prospectus when the stocks are issued. Understanding callable preferred stock. Callable preferred stock, also known as redeemable preferred stock is a popular means of financing for large companies combining the elements of equity and debt financing. So redeemable preferred shares, trade on many public stock exchanges, these preferred shares are redeemed at the discretion of the issuing company, giving it the option to buy back the stock at any time after a certain set date at a price outlined in the prospectus. So that means it's a benefit to the company because the company, by issuing the preferred stock they're basically financing the company. They're trying to get money. They're trying to get money so they can invest in things like equipment, buildings and so on and grow, use that to generate revenue. And like when we refinance a home or like when we finance a home, for example, taking out a loan on the home, it would be nice if at a future point in time we could refinance if the market conditions were good. And the same kind of concept is here. If they can call back the preferred stock which is similar in structure to a bond, then if market conditions become more favorable they would like to be able to do that and possibly structure their financing in a less costly way. So this is beneficial for the company if they have issued 5% preferred shares but could now offer preferred shares at 3% because interest rates or preferred shared yields have dropped. So in other words, similar to us on a mortgage if we had a mortgage and we had the fixed rate mortgage and then the interest rates drop, well, it's like, well, now I'd like to be paying the lower interest rates. Is there any way I could do that? Well, I'd have to restructure my whole loan in order to do that same thing here. The company would like to be able to say, hey, you know, things are better at this point in time. I can issue preferred stocks and be paying lower amounts of payments. So we would like to restructure if we could that would be given them the opportunity. On the investment side of things we would like to be able to say, no, keep paying us the 5%, right? Because now we're on the other side of the table as with our mortgage scenario. So we would like to lock them in to be paying the 5% not let them restructure or pay out so they can restructure at the 3%. So they can call and their more expensive preferred shares and issue lower dividends at rate ones. So callable preferred stock is routinely redeemed by corporations. This is done by sending a note to shareholders detailing the date and conditions of the redemption. For example, on January 13th, 2021, City Group Incorporated announced that it was redeeming its series S preferred stock effective February 12th. This means shareholders of the shares needed to return their shares on that day in exchange for payment of their capital outstanding dividends and a premium as the case may be. Benefits of callable preferred stock issue were advantages. So this is the company side of things. A callable preferred stock issue offers the flexibility to lower the issuers cost of capital if interest rates decline or if it can issue preferred stock later at a lower dividend rate. They have the capacity to refinance in essence. For example, a company that has issued callable preferred stock with a 7% dividend rate will likely redeem the issue if it can then offer new preferred shares carrying a 4% dividend rate. The proceeds from the new issue can be used to redeem the 7% shares resulting in savings for the company. Conversely, if interest rates rise after it issues the 7% preferred callable shares the company will not redeem them and instead to continue pay the 7% just like on our mortgage side of things. Obviously if the interest rates go up then I'm not gonna refinance to get to the higher to pay more interest, right? So if you're on the person who's lending side of things then it's nice to have the option to refinance if you could but if the market conditions do not reflect that then you keep going with where you're at and your interest rates that you're paying right now are lower than the market rates if the market's rates went up and you had your fixed rate. So the company is protected from rising financing costs and market fluctuations. So what are the investor advantages? What's my advantage? That's what I wanna know talking about the company. An investor owning a callable preferred stock has the benefit of a steady return. However, if the preferred issue is culled by the issuer the investor will most likely be faced with the prospect with the prospect of reinvesting the proceeds at a lower dividend or interest rate. So we can obviously we can get the return of investing in them but if they are culled they're going to be culled at a point in time when it's a favorable point in time to be refinancing for the issuer which means that the money that we're going to get we get the money at that point in time but we're probably not gonna be able to reinvest the money and get the same return we were getting before because the reason the company culled them is because the interest rates had changed meaning we're not gonna get as favorable a rate most likely with similar kind of investments. So issuers usually pay a cull premium at the redemption of the preferred issue which compensates the investor for part of this reinvestment risk. So when they cull them they have to pay back and they might pay back somewhat of a premium again to kind of compensate for that. So obviously just like with refinancing a home it's costly so they have to basically clear the cost of doing the process of refinancing and so on. Investors assure themselves of a guaranteed rate of return if markets drop but they give up some of the upswing potential of common shares in exchange for greater security. Cullable versus retractable preferred stock while cullable shares may be redeemed by the issuer retractable preferred shares or a type of preferred stock that lets the owner sell the share back to the issuer at a set price sometimes instead of cash retractable preferred shares can be exchanged for common shares of the issuer. This may be referred to as a quote soft and quote retraction compared with a quote hard and quote retraction where cash is paid out to the shareholders.


is TFNN, the Tiger Financial News Network, update. Good morning, everyone. Basel Chapman here for the Tiger Financial News Network, 10 a.m. market update on this Wednesday, the 7th of February. The day was up 94, 38,611. We've been talking about it possibly trying to test the 38,783 high of a few days ago to make that leg D that missing leg D. It doesn't have to do it at this point, anywhere from here on says that if it turns around, we can consider that some kind of reversal of importance, but it hasn't yet. We're looking at the S&P. That's the S&P 500 trading up 18 at 49.73. That's a leg E, that's just made a new all-time high, QQQ, index 100. Traded at 430.51. That's above all the 429s and 430s of the previous two weeks. So that's an all-time high. 430.51 is trading at 49.77, up 2.22 right now. IWM is weak, IWM. They're also 2,000. It's down $1.37 at 192.30. Let's go to gold, and I'm gonna move over here. Gold is trading up 6 at 2058 in this sideways trading band, and actually the dollar, and this is gonna be quite interesting because the dollar is an important inflection point. Had a big spike in the 104.50, 60 area, and now it's at 104.07, pullback 10 techs, and we're gonna be watching it very closely. The other thing we're looking at is within the context of the markets, we're looking at the bonds. This is the US bonds right now, trading at up 5.30 seconds at 1.21 and 5.30 seconds. These yields have been going higher and the kind of staying in that higher range. Let's just go to Crudall before we go to my show, the Tiger Technicians Hour after the coming break. Crudall is up 20 cents at 73.52. So with that said, this market is, and let's just see what the semiconductor is. Semiconductor is up $1.37 to 194.11. We're watching this area very closely because that's kind of a tell on the market so far, hoping very well. Coming back to the Tiger Technicians Hour, hope you can stay and check out both the call daily news editor. See you in a few moments.


One of my favorite story was after the Sid Prim crisis of, you know, 2008 and the Queen of England, you know, had a little call to the economist at the London School of Economics and she was just, you know, hi, I just only have a question for you. Why didn't you see it coming? And, you know, and so they had to write very awkward situation, a letter to answer his question and the letter is priceless. I've got it framed in my office because it's so beautiful. We pushed the GDP button but it didn't work. Exactly. We found out it was not connected actually, someone loved it. And so it's anyway, it's technical, you're gonna really understand, you don't have a degree in economics. No, but their answer was even more shocking. It was, and I quote, collective failure of imagination. It's just the way we've been thinking about the economy did not allow us to see what was to come.


Haha, did not expect trunks to be doing this, but... whatever. I'm a trunks player! I'm a trunks player! I can feel it coursing through my veins! How's it going, everybody? Dato do it here, back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters rank matches, this time with a team of Bardock, Goku GT, and Trunks. Also, we're going up against a God of Destruction, which means this guy is top 25 players. Now, the question is, do I Bardock? Wow, that actually hit, and because it hit, it turned into a raw tag. Awkward. You want to try to Dragon Rush me? I'd appreciate that. Oh, beam assist! I'm not a beam. Oh, he got hit by that! Haha, let's go, trunks! Dude, three! Now, what's the mix? Oh, if I down-heavied that, I would have felt like a god. Sanko didn't work. He... mashed, dude. I can't believe he clicked buttons there. It wasn't his turn. He was just feeling it, which was correct. I thought he was going to back that, so I clicked to him. It was a bit of a read, and Trunks died for that. Haha, it was a bit of a read. I'm not going to lie. I tried to read on round one, maybe not the best. You dare drop against the boy? Okay, I'm just kidding. Don't know why I didn't confirm that. No down-heavy either. Trunks is coming back in. That is 100% guaranteed. Went for the... You know, I can appreciate that. He's going for the harder strats. I don't think he thought I was going to do that. Maybe I shouldn't have for the blue health. See if he leveled threes. He didn't level three, and I'm making a lot of reads. Wait, hold on. Why am I trying to read? I'm barely three steps into the library, and I've already checked out 80 books. He's not killing me, and I'm down-heavy for that. I was definitely down-heavy for that. I wonder if he was trying to save bar. Okay, block that. That might have been auto-block. I'm not too proud to admit it. I'm not so proud that I wouldn't admit it. Ah, no bar docks up, so we're going to have to just go with it. Yeah, I wasn't going to reach that. I should have planted my feet. I should have planted my feet and got ready for a turnaround. That would have been the best of strats. I hit go... I was hoping he'd panic and I'd get both of them. Read. Whatever, dude.  Oh, but I'm pretty pathetic myself.  The down-heavy into panic mode. This should be death. Two bars, that should be enough. Divine Lasso, he wants the beam assist out. He likes having the yoncha. Now, if you turn your eyes towards the top of the screen, you'll notice I haven't used sparking yet.  I'll use it now. I'm so bad at Super Dash vs. Super Dash. Okay, we got that, at least. We're gonna have to go with this. No problems here, gotta go with the level 3s when I can get them. Now, what would be the proper mix? Cross-up. Maybe if I was a good player, but I'm not. So we kind of dropped it after the cross-up hit, but whatever, we good, we good. We good, we eventually got it. Now, there's no point in being a bar dot player, right? See, there it is, another situation where it's like a gray area. I don't want to click Super Dash first, but I'm damn good at clicking it second. I don't know what to say. If there was a championship for who could click Super Dash second, I would take first place. And the simple, that was day one mix. People have been doing that Gohan mix since literal beta, or maybe not bad. I don't know if he was in the beta, but day one, as soon as the game came out, I got hit with that. And here I am today. All right, round game one went to him again. I think we faced this guy before, I remember. We beat him two, well, we didn't beat him, but we had him two one. But because we won two games, he unfortunately, and the world champion at clicking Super Dash second manages to do it again. He is too talented, folks. His Super Dash button is permanently binded to go second. All right, now this time I won't miss. Amen, I could have done it. Oh, but he, that time I clicked it first. That time I clicked it first, it was wrong. All right, down tech for days, boys. We, you know we're raw teching up. Yup. And then that's a simple snap. We call these simple snaps because they make the decision themselves. Oh, what was that? All right, all right, I respect, I didn't block. Okay, we got a spark. We got a spark. We got to save Bardock. Bardock is my boy. He's literally the heart and soul of this team. Okay. Oh my God. Oh no, the pressure on keep the pressure on flip for maximum damage. Oh, I thought that would work. I'm not a trunks player.  I had to mix it up. Dude, I'm not saying that like the comments. It's like I literally have been playing too much Yamcha. Didn't go for the usual six M. I see set off to go for the ankles. I can, I can buy it. Oh, drop. He began up. Oh, he didn't think it hit fair enough. Not many players would get hit by that, but I'm a special case.   All right. Well, we still have level two sparking. I'm not ready to give up just yet. Although one of them is my trunks, which isn't the best. Change the future. I'm trying to copies my trunks masters out there, dude. I got to be smarter with my change the futures though. All right. Can he kill with this much bar? I don't know. I've never seen this team comp. Oh, I didn't want he wanted the mix. I was all right. I'll be honest part of the mix was that as a Yamcha player, I thought he was going to go for the level three. So I kind of result. Oh, see, we got a early spark, dude. Play gave spark is trash. All right, bro. Let's let's go. I'm a mash. All right. I don't do those two low. Regional champion. This guy's a master. This guy spent to every globe. Every part of the globe. There's only one globe.  I got I got scrambled. I got scrambled. And we need to use sparking earlier. Sparking was wasted in that game. All right. So as soon as we get pressured in the corner, I'm remind me to spark remind me to freak out. Pull the sparking button because we are on the last game of this set. That was a good fight. I don't know.  Don't get too close. I might start mashing, bro. Got me. I was so confident. My defense there. I was waiting for the dragon rush. I was so waiting for it, dude. I was going to snag it up. I was going to feel nice and confident.  How do I always rush things? Why do I always resting and rushing things again, dude? I'm rushing things again. How about we slow it down? Let's go the opposite route. Let's slow it down. If you actually thought I was slowing anything down. I don't know. You must be new to the channel. Please subscribe. Boom. Let's go. Raw level three. That means Raj right. See, he's a master of the early spark as well. To be fair, it was a raw level three. It made a lot of sense. I should have read it. Now is the time for reads earlier. It wasn't, but now. Now it's a read season. I thought I blocked all of that. Unless he didn't an overhead or I don't know how I could admit. No, I pushed it. I pushed it. Why did I go for the extension? The extension cord. I should have put it away. But there's no more putting it away. There's not even any more extension cable. A1 mix. A1. Don't go on. Why do you exist? Just to be sick. My right things. All right. Well, that was just. That was important. Guard can't. Okay. So that was my first guard cancel of the game. And I'd like to, I'd like to nominate that for worst guard cancel of the year. 2019's almost over, but it's really flying in under the radar. Yikes, dude. This is every time I mix up the team. I get jumped by the, oh, let's go. That's kind of clean. All right. We might be able to go here. All right. Completely honest. Forgot Bardock was dead. All right. We can do this. We can do this. If we play a solid enough GT, I don't know a man in the world that can stand in the way of a good GT Goku. The only question is, is my GT good? Let's go. Redash. He can do level one at the. It's going to do. He's going to get the knockdown, of course. I never even thought of doing that. Your tech has been stolen. I know this dude's going to level three. The Yamcha. No, I was playing pretty solid there. And then Yamcha came in and swiped it away. Level one will kill. I'm going another match, by the way. It, this has been a really quick video. He did win the set three. Oh, so good games to my opponent, but. I wonder if he did it on purpose.   Let me make it a little closer here. Let me turn down the dial. All right. Good. Now that he thinks he can win, let's, he's going to think he could rematch me, which fair enough. Now he's testing my IQ. I can't allow it. All right. He got me. Oh, I was too bar docked. I was bar docked out of my day in mind, dude. I, I can't legally be held accountable for dropping that I was bar docked out of my mind. When you hit a second L like that, the bar dock endorphins in your head just start. I can't believe bar docked it. Now he's not dead, but I can't believe I got him. This hurt. Oh my God. He almost died. That was real close to bar docs. Just dead material. That was so close to just what bar docs dead, but we got him back on the right track. Let's see if we can get this mix. Last time we went for a cross up. Thank goodness. Oh, let's go. Is that a back road? Oh my goodness. He's dead. Wow. I didn't even do the optimal trunks combo because let's be honest. I couldn't do it. Let's just keep it real, dude. No need to make false excuses. I just could not do it. So I just did not want to do it. I just did it too early. I guess the arm chest. This would have probably stopped me anyway. So all's well and unswell. I guess you wink. I don't know why I did my best shaggy impression right there. That was not on purpose. You like to swing school?  We got red. We got red so hard every time you see a back dash like that. It's a bad sign. Just know it's a bad time. Oh, oh, are you kidding me? My down heavies are not. What? What do you even hit me? I've heard of lightning legs. But what was that? Don't ask me. Vanished was just a whoa. Why are you holding forward? What was that all about? My man was just walking at me menacingly. All right. Well, the best we're going to get here is a sliding. Can't believe we did. We did the correct move there, but I just didn't punish it. Punishing was. Oh, there was no way I could get that. Oh, I panicked again. Panicking in the clutch. All right. Hold on. Straighten up in the chair. Straighten up. Assume the proper position. Get the right eye leverage. There we go. That's good for the price of one. I always do too, by the way. And if you ever play me, just know if you block the first one, a second one is on its way. I never do one. All right. We got to go again because winning and then leaving is a look at the seventh and this whole set pointless for him, but he only seeks competition. He doesn't care about anything else. That is all good by me. Wow. That shouldn't have worked either. Let's go. Oh, I've never seen that interaction. This is pretty dragon ball. I don't know why this game got so dragon ball of a sudden, but it definitely did. Got him. All right. We're cooking now. We're cooking now. Our trunks is actually did not expect trunks to be doing this, but whatever. I'm a trunks player. I'm a trunks player. I can feel it coursing through my veins. It feels good. I can finally know. All right. That hit. Stop, dude. Trunks, what are you doing, man? You're absolutely going crazy. I don't even know what I'm truly doing. I don't know why he tested me there again. We've seen what he's capable of. I thought that you have a punch there.  Down tech snag this man jumping on me. I'm beginning to think this whole plan. It needs to be erased trunks. I don't know where you snatched, bro, but you've clearly snatched. Put the sword in the back pocket. It's time we get out of here. I we need to do one more. We need to go one more time for the one time. Oh, that's a serious stamp. He keeps that stamp on the payroll just in case. Oh, no. Yamsha just clawed our eyes out. Yamsha just absolutely clawed my eyes out and it's a bad time. On tech. I'm actually smart. Dude, if we got him with that second mass, though, it would have felt pretty good. Why would you bring out trunks by a second? I clashed my beam with it, but it just didn't work. It just did not work how I wanted to. I should have thrown out with a go crew. GPS says that would have been smart on world champion. World champion at taking second. But he would drag and rush, but he would drag and rush. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Let's stop making reads getting blown out of the water. The serious stamp. Get out of here. Respect it for any openings. Double overhead. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. He didn't get me. Yes. Okay. It's going to spark here. He's going to spark. How do you read a spark then? What is the what trunks do anything? How about I jump over and backflip? I'm idea. I'm idea. I try to get a little blue health with trunks.  What do I got to do to show you trunks is responsible? Hey, wait, what am I trunks? It was just snapping that one round. He was my weakest character. Why do I care so much for the boy now? I come on. Rest of the gang. I know we're weakened, but Amy, I lasted a long time. All right. Good. Good. Good. That's a snap. That's snap material on level three me. No, I forgot all the down heavy was too fast again. I think my problem is I don't react to the down heavy. I don't react to super dash. I just kind of I just kind of when there's an awkward tension, I can feel one coming. That's when I down heavy. So I got to definitely work on that a little. He snagged me out of the air. All right. I can still win back up. Okay. We got a hit there. We got a hit. We can make the comeback as long as we're continuously on offense. Okay. That was correct. Oh, no. That's the last mistake you'll make. That's the last mistake you'll make. I can't block. Well, that's going to be the end of the video. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this rank set. It was a lot of fun. Thank you to my opponents for the games. And if you do have a favorite moment, make sure to let me know down below in the comment section. And while you're down there, make sure to leave a like and subscribe to the channel. If you enjoyed this video and the stuff we produce on this channel than that. If you want some more videos right away, there should be some up on your screen. So make sure to give those a watch. If any of them catch your eye, I have been Dr. Doya and I will see you in the next one.