Hello, I'm Jimmy Lease and welcome to Skywatch, a new TV program about grounding the F-35 here in Burlington, Vermont and grounding the F-35 everywhere. I'm co-hosting Skywatch with Danika Katowicz, who's based in Chicago. The first of twenty F-35 jets arrived here in one of Vermont's most densely populated cities four years ago. But I've been working to stop the F-35 since 2010 when the possibility of basing them here was first announced. Skywatch calls for grounding the F-35 because of its 115 decibel noise, its climate-killing greenhouse gas emissions, and its sole purpose, war. 1,300 Vermont children live near the runway or in the flight path and are repeatedly exposed to the extreme F-35 noise that damages hearing and impairs their cognitive development. F-35 training in a city is government-sponsored child abuse. What's more, the airport purchased and demolished 200 homes because of the extreme military jet noise. The 44 acres on which those homes stood can only be restored to desperately needed housing once the F-35 is grounded. The F-35 is a climate killer. Each F-35 burns 22 gallons of jet fuel every minute and they fly for hundreds of hours each month. To save the planet, the F-35 must be grounded now. The purpose of the F-35 is war. Like the Iraq war, the war in Afghanistan, and the Vietnam war. All of them based on lies. There is no just war. But there is a lot more to learn about the F-35 and the military-industrial complex from our distinguished guest today. And Skywatch co-host, Donika Katowicz, will introduce him now. Hi everyone and thanks, Jimmy. I am the national co-director at CodePink who convenes the International Ground, the F-35 coalition. F-35 jets are one of the many weapons produced by Lockheed Martin Corporation. And today we'll talk with Bill Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Bill is the author of the book, Prophets of War, which is about Lockheed Martin and the military-industrial complex. Bill, you say in your book, Prophets of War, that the F-35 was supposed to be a Chevrolet, not a Porsche. I think that was actually the Pentagon's terminology that used for it, meaning that the F-35 was supposed to be cheaper than its predecessor, the F-22. Can you tell us how that's been going for the folks over at the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin? Sure. Well, not well. You know, the program as a whole is going to cost $1.7 trillion, which is the most expensive weapons program in the history of the Pentagon. And $400 billion of that is just to buy them. The rest is to operate them. And it's had severe cost overruns, scheduled delays. It was actually first put forward as an idea in the 1990s called the Joint Strike Fighter. So it's also got at least 800 unresolved defects, according to the Pentagon Inspector General. It spends most of its time in the hangar. It's too complex to maintain. It's not good at any of the things it's supposed to do, support troops on the ground, you have fighter planes, drop bombs. Now, you know, given that we may not want these things to be happening, perhaps that's not a, you know, the decisive question on the table. But the project in Governer-Overset has made it clear it may never be ready for combat. And it was supposed to be cheaper because it was going to do many things at once. It was going to be a fighter for the Air Force. It was going to work off aircraft carriers for the Navy. It was going to be a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for the Marines. And so that's part of the problem that's developed is there's these diverse things it's supposed to do, and it does none of them well. So this idea of the Chevrolet was it was going to be simple. It was going to be sort of easy to build parts for the different services, therefore making it cheaper and so forth. But more recently, the chief of staff of the Air Force is, well, really it's more like a Ferrari. I mean, you know, you take it out on Sundays, but you don't use it during the week. So it was supposed to be kind of the backbone of the U.S. Air Force. Now it's almost like a luxury good, and it doesn't even perform, you know, as advertised. Thank you. And in your book, Prophets of War, you I think start the book out talking about the F-22 sort of in relation to the F-35 fighter jet program. I know they were, you know, intended for mostly different things, but both fighter jets made by Lockheed Martin. Can you tell us a little bit about how the F-22 program came to an end? What were the issues with it? Yeah, it was an interesting fight. The Air Force and the Pentagon actually wanted to get rid of it. It was too expensive. They wanted to move on to the next generation, which was the F-35. They were going to build 750 of them. They built 189. For about the same cost that they said they could get 754. So there was huge cost overruns. And the Lockheed Martin and the members with pieces of the plane in their districts fought back. So 200 members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the president saying you can't stop this program. 12 governors. They claimed there were, you know, hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake. They took ads out in papers around the country showing workers building different parts of the plane. So they put on a big push, but there was a bipartisan pushback, not just from the administration, but from Senator McCain, who said this was the military-industrial complex at work. So they were managed to stop it, but the clinching argument by then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was, well, we've got the F-35. They don't give money to the industry. They don't give jobs to people. It's a substitute. It's not the end of building combat aircraft or spending money in this area. It's just a shift in what kind of plane we purchase. So in essence, on the one level, it was a victory for those who were trying to stop the building of an unnecessary weapon and overcome the lobbying of Lockheed Martin. On the other hand, the consolation prize for Lockheed Martin was as expensive as the plane that was being replaced. So it was kind of an exception to prove the rules. Rarely do you stop a weapons program, but they had a substitute sitting in the wings in the F-35. Did the U.S. military use the F-22 often in combat? No. No, there might be a handful of examples, but they mostly used the older planes, the F-18, F-16, you know, former generation bombers and so forth. So it was really in the nature of a luxury good from a military point of view. So that's one of the reasons I think they wanted to curtail it early. Do you see any major similarities between the F-22 and the F-35, you know, sort of with their issues and problems and how they're specifically being discussed by policymakers? Well, I mean, the cost overruns are in common. The notion that, you know, high-tech weapons are going to solve complicated problems that shouldn't probably be dealt with by military force at all. In terms of the more technical aspects, the F-22 is supposed to be what they call air superiority fighter that could overcome other aircraft. The F-35 was supposed to do multiple things, you know, fly off carriers, do vertical takeoff and landing from the Marines, be a fighter, give close air support to troops, be a bomber. So they had slightly different missions. But I think this faith in high-tech, this notion that we have to have a large air force that can bomb countries anywhere in the world, you know, the missions were similar and things that we need to push back against. It seems like a theme with, I guess, Lockheed Martin products specifically. Throughout your book, you know, you discuss a number of weapons that they were trying to create. Sometimes they, you know, only had a prototype out or they never even got a prototype out. A helicopter that could fly like a small plane or, you know, the bigger cargo planes for the Vietnam War, just really high aspirations with sort of no plan on getting there. So I bet Jimmy has some questions about that, so I'll leave it at him. But do you see the F-35 program coming to an end under similar circumstances to the F-22 at any point? I know Code Pink has been in conversation with members of Congress who, even though they might not be a fan of the plane, can't really see funding for it coming to an end at any point. Yeah, well, part of the problem with Congress is the, you know, the alleged economic benefits, and they overstate those. You know, I looked at their estimates of how many jobs were created. It was about half what they claim. And they claimed it's in 46 states, but the bulk of the work is done in Georgia, Texas, and California. Most other states get very little. But Congress sort of bought that argument that it's a job creator. And many years they actually add F-35s to the budget beyond what the Pentagon asked for. And there's an F-35 caucus in the House, 39 members who have pieces of it built in their districts. So there's this lobby entrenched in the Congress. On the other hand, because of the costs, and because there's a next generation fighter already being developed, and because there's an argument whether they should use more unpiloted vehicles versus piloted aircraft. I don't know if they'll build the 2,500 that they set out to do. So in that sense, it may be similar to the F-22. But it'll be, you know, it'll be a budgetary argument. They're not really going to admit that they made major mistakes or question the mission and the kind of like militarized foreign policy that it supports. So how much of the boondoggle would you say like the responsibility for it falls on Congress versus like the people at Lockheed Martin? I think there's equal blame. I mean, Lockheed Martin and all these companies always promise the sky, you know, it's going to be cheaper. It's going to be more effective. It's going to be easier to maintain. And they never deliver, but they understand that they don't really need to because there's only five big contractors left after the merger boom of the 1990s. So often the Pentagon has nowhere to turn. You know, if Lockheed Martin is messing up the program, they can't just shift to another contractor. So in that sense, Lockheed Martin bears a lot of responsibility. But then Congress, which in theory is supposed to do oversight of this stuff, has been asleep at the wheel. There's members like Adam Smith, who ran the Armed Services Committee on the Democrats controlled the House, who said he's tired of throwing money down the F-35 rat hole, but kind of said, you know, we're stuck with this thing. You know, it's too late to replace it. We're just going to live with it. So I would put kind of equal blame and of course there's collaboration because the company gives large amounts of campaign cash to these members of Congress. And also they hire people from the Pentagon as lobbyists, as board members to help them fend off any possible government efforts to reduce spending on the plane.  And so it's kind of a joint responsibility. Thank you. I'm going to pass it over to my host for his questions if any came up for Jimmy, but I do really recommend everyone read Prophets of War. It took me a while to get through. It's very annotated, but I did learn so much about it. And if you're a listener and not a reader per se, the Busted Business Bureau podcast did an episode on Lockheed Martin that uses this book as like a primary source for everything that they talked about on the podcast. So I do really recommend delving into it. There's a lot of crazy and funny stories to be honest in this book. So Jimmy, I'll pass it over to you. Okay, I love the book too. I've, I've been reading it and I've actually I finished reading and I really admire this book. This is a really great handbook on how bad the military industrial complex is in this country. And I just like to get your view on why that is. They've had practice building aircraft since 1905 when the two men, the Wright brothers put together the first aircraft. Why aren't they getting cheaper every generation? And why are there so many deficiencies? You said there are 800 unresolved problems with the F-35. What is wrong with Lockheed Martin that they can't get it right? Well, I think part of it is there's no financial incentive. You know, whether they get it right or not, they get paid. Congressmen still get their campaign contributions. They still get to point to jobs in their district. The Pentagon keeps adding bells and whistles, things they would like to have, many of which are not achievable. So that adds costs. You know, there's been a few plans that have worked better like the A-10, the F-16, where people in the Pentagon pushed hard to not add all these bells and whistles and to hold the companies to some standard. More often than not, the F-35 is the kind of thing that gets generated by this system. So it's a corrupt system that basically provides benefits to the contractors, to the members of Congress, to the Pentagon, whether or not the planes work. So it's really kind of an outrage given that they're kind of selling it on the idea that it's for defense, but really it's to provide money to these players in the system. So there was an example that the book talks about, this cargo plane called the C-5A, and it had all kinds of problems, and it's just like reminiscent reading about it was like the F-35 itself. But one thing struck me was that there was a Pentagon official named Ernie Fitzgerald, who really did some remarkable things. Can you talk about what he did? Yeah. Well, Fitzgerald was sort of a cost estimator in the Air Force, and he got internal documents that showed that it was going to cost a lot more than they claimed. You know, billions of dollars more. And he also pointed out some of the performance problems, like wings that cracked and things like that. It was supposed to be this like massive transport plane to do things like get weapons to Vietnam more quickly. But it had so many issues. It wasn't really used substantially in the war. And Fitzgerald had the advantage of working with Senator William Proxmire from Wisconsin, who was kind of a gadfly who went after the Pentagon on various issues. He also passed the Foreign Crop Practices Act that made it harder for these companies to bribe overseas officials to sell their plane. So Proxmire was on the case, and he actually even hired Fitzgerald as a consultant after he was fired by the Pentagon for raising these issues. But, you know, his contribution was very valuable because he had the goods on them. You know, he had the internal documents. He had the analysis. He had somebody like Proxmire to give voice to his criticisms. It was a time where a senator could get a lot more media attention. The meeting environment wasn't as crowded. There were things like televised hearings. So it was a different moment.  But she had a hearing on price gouging just a little while ago, and it didn't get the kind of media attention it deserved by any standard. So part of it is just how to penetrate the media and political environment to get people to know what's going on, in which case I think they would push back. But it's just lost in the noise. One of the things that your book takes up is the jobs issue. And that was something we heard a lot of before the F-35 arrived from Senator Leahy and from Bernie Sanders, who were both supporting bringing the F-35 to Vermont. But the Air Force said there would be no more jobs in Vermont compared to what we had before the F-35 with the F-16. What's your take on the jobs issue? And the book mentions this study that was done by the University of Massachusetts. Can you talk about that study and how jobs really are or are not created by these military contracts? Yeah, well that study has been updated by the cost of war project of Brown just recently came out. They estimated spending on things like infrastructure, green energy, education, healthcare would create anywhere from 9 or 10% more jobs to 250% more jobs than spending on the military. So throwing money at the F-35 actually cost jobs for the national economy. The problem is the localities feel like well, you know, if I don't have this base, if I don't have this manufacturing plant, I'm going to lose even if the country as a whole gains. And so there probably needs to be some sort of industrial policy conversion policy, which my colleague Miriam Pemberton has looked at in detail in a recent book. She found that some companies actually were making some progress on moving away from aircraft, helping build energy efficient buses and things like that. But neither the companies nor the government invested in that capability to the degree that would have helped shift the industry away from so much dependence on Pentagon spending. But in general, it's a bit of a con game. I mean, Lockheed Martin claimed 250,000 jobs nationwide from the F-35. But a lot of it was by saying, well, you know, it's not just the factories, it's the waitress at the bar across the street from the factory. It's the company that makes this widget that goes on the control panel. And they exaggerate the extent to which that really was true. So they probably, you know, doubled the number of jobs actually associated. And then they said, oh, every state is benefiting. But then you looked at their own figures, you know, they counted Nebraska as one of the states that benefited. And by their own estimate, it would create four jobs in Nebraska. And all of the jobs were in a few states, as I said, Texas, Georgia, California. So they kind of lie about the extent of their impact nationwide. They oppose efforts that would make it possible to invest in other jobs. So it's a manageable problem, but it's politics. And of course, in the current Congress to get to invest in things like green energy is very difficult. Biden had a plan that was scaled back dramatically, but he put in investments of about $37 billion a year in green energy. But that's, you know, less than 120th of what we spent on the Pentagon. So it's still highly skewed. But there's a better future that's possible. And not only would it be better for the economy, it would be better for humanity, because it would be fewer wars. There'd be less kind of capability to go to war on short notice, therefore making it, you know, giving a little time and space for the public to say no, as opposed to starting the wars on such short notice and therefore outmaneuvering, you know, public sentiment against war. Right. Now, you did mention the war, the use of this for war.  And you mentioned that so many more jobs would be created if the money was used for green energy. And in view of that, what is the motivation, what is motivating Congress, what's motivating our state legislature in Vermont, our governor, even our local governments, our obsequious supporters of the military at a time when it's destroying the climate with this 22 gallons a minute burning vehicle. Hundreds of hours a month. We have a climate crisis. How can you justify this? What is wrong with Congress and all of our public officials? And then the wars themselves vastly accelerate the amount of greenhouse gases emitted. Yeah. Well, a lot of it is a narrow focus on the short term economic impacts of these things. You'll even see it in congressional hearings. You know, members will praise weapons built in their state, rather than asking hard questions about do these things work? What's the mission that they're supposed to carry out? Why do we have a strategy that involves being able to intervene militarily anywhere in the world? Given the disastrous results in Iraq and Afghanistan, why is that still kind of the central tenet of our policy? I mean, if you look at policy towards China, it's all about having the capacity to win a hypothetical war with China, not to have diplomacy come to common understanding about things like Taiwan, work together on the climate crisis, because if the two biggest emitting countries don't work together, we're never going to solve that problem. So, you know, longer term concerns, and some of them aren't so long term. I mean, the planet's on fire now. Climate's an issue now. But it's just a very narrow view instead of looking at what a better future for the country would be. And I think that only really can be resolved by public pressure, by people with a broader vision running for office. And that's happening in many regards, but it just hasn't reached the tipping point where we have majorities in Congress that are willing to change course and fight the entrenched interests that want to keep things the way they are. Well, that brings up something that you talked about in the book, which was the nuclear freeze movement. The F-35 is, of course, a nuclear bomb delivery vehicle. But at that time, in the early 1980s, the issue was the anti-ballistic missile. And there was a tremendous campaign around the country. I believe it started in Massachusetts, at town meetings in Massachusetts, and then moved to town meetings in Vermont a couple of years later. That put a lot of pressure on Congress. Can you talk about the nuclear freeze movement? Yeah. Well, the concept was developed largely by Randall Forsberg, who was an analyst of military issues based in Massachusetts. But it was picked up by activists like Randy Keeler, who had been a long-time anti-war activist by groups like American Friends Service Committee and a lot of other groups that were anti-war, anti-nuke. And it got a big boost because of the fear Reagan induced by some of his more rash statements about the Soviet Union being an evil empire. He was doing a radio address, and he didn't realize the mic was on. It was, you know, pre-going on the air. And he joked that the bombing started in five minutes. He had an official who told a journalist, I think it's Robert Shearer. It was in a book he did called With Enough Shovels.   So that was a huge impetus. And then the European nuclear disarmament movement was quite strong at that point. So that was a model. And they were concerned about putting short-range missiles, nuclear arm missiles in Europe that would make the decision time for the Soviet Union and whether to retaliate at about five minutes. So the trigger on nuclear confrontation would be quite fast and be quite dangerous situation. And then I think because they built locally to nationally, they managed to get quite a big following, and they had things you could decide on. Resolutions of town meetings, a resolution of Congress that Senator Ed Markey spearheaded. And I think it made sense to people. It was freeze and reduce. Let's stop the buildup of the new generation of nuclear weapons. And that's worked to getting rid of them. It was sort of a bumper sticker that people could understand. You know, they weren't talking about, you know, technical issues like the circular error probable of accuracy of a missile or something. So I think that helped. And then, you know, it built to the point where you had a million people in Central Park marching for disarmament. Reagan himself went from, you know, talking about the evil empire to saying nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought. He negotiated with Gorbachev about even the possibility of getting rid of nuclear weapons. So he, you know, that whole movement turned Reagan around from where he started. And, you know, nuclear weapons are many fewer globally than they were in the 60s. You know, it was 70,000. Now there's 13,000. The problem is even one is one too many. But there's global movements like, you know, campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. There's a nuclear weapons ban treaty passed by the UN. So on a global level, there's a lot of changed opinion, you know, a lot of the country's US points to, oh, we're doing this to defend them are saying no, you know, we don't want these things. So I think there's movement. And I think the problem now is just this rightward turn in our national politics. It has to be overcome to, you know, make progress on things like alternative economic strategies that so we don't need these weapons and reducing the nuclear arsenal. But there's a lot of good creative people working on this. We don't get a lot of attention. So and often changes like this start with a lot of organizing that's not recognized. It's kind of ignored by the mainstream. And then it reaches critical mass and actually starts changing our policies in our national dialogue. So I think we'll get to that point. But people need to keep keep after it and not be discouraged by the current moment. I think we're running out of time. But I just wanted to end on on this note about the nuclear freeze and you really hit upon it that it became a it started locally. It built into a national movement and it had tremendous tremendous effect. As you said, it turned Reagan himself around and led to a disarm a treaty to eliminate a class of nuclear weapons and reduced the nuclear stockpile. This is what Skywatch is about. We're going to continue to work on that kind of campaigning. Thank you very much on behalf of Skywatch on behalf of Danica and myself. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


My name is Andrea with Foodimentary Adventures in Food.  On our channel, you'll find simple and tasty dinner ideas using everyday ingredients. Hey guys, welcome back to week two of the Pantry and Freezer Challenge. So for dinner tonight, I am making these two packets of Knorr Stroganoff. I found these on sale a while back ago. They were in my pantry, so I'm going to prepare them according to package directions, and I'm going to add in one pound of, I'm sorry, this isn't one pound, it's half a pound of ground beef. I'm gonna cook it up, add some onions to it, season it up, combine everything, and then add a dollop of sour cream. This is gonna be my cheaters' stroganoff, and I'm totally winging this recipe. Okay, so here is our dinner, and it is actually really, really good. I ended up not adding in the onion with the ground beef, but I did add about a quarter cup of sour cream after I combined the meat with the pasta, and I also added in probably about a half a cup of Parmesan cheese and stirred it up, and it's really, really very good. Serving it with some green beans and then a garlic breadstick that I popped in the air fryer accidentally overcooked it just a little bit. But this is what we are having for dinner tonight, and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight, we are having salads. In my fridge, I had two packets of salad fixing. So I bought a couple of salad kits, and the lettuce went bad before I had a chance to use the stuff that was inside, so that's what we're having tonight. So I'll start off with, I think this is my salad. It's an Asian salad, so you can see the crunchy wontons and almonds. I've got the Asian salad dressing, and then I just have some chopped up chicken breast on top with a breadstick, and this is Howard's salad. He is using the creamy ranch salad kit, fixings, and so it's a creamy, I'm sorry, not creamy ranch, it's a creamy Italian salad dressing, crushed croutons and Parmesan cheese, the chicken and then a breadstick. So the chicken we had in the fridge and the freezer, excuse me, I don't know why I can't talk today. We had this in the freezer, and I got it from Costco a long time ago. So we've been working through this bag. Mostly I use this chicken chunk for things like salad. So quick and easy dinner tonight, and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight, we are having Asian food from Trader Joe's. So in my freezer, I had this chicken fried rice, it is really good. I do make mine on the stove top. If you've been with our channel for a while, you know I do not care for peas, so I do take the peas out before I cook it. We are also going to have these veggie bird's nest. Let me flip it over on the back in case you wanna know what's in there. So the first ingredient is onions. To me, it really reminds me of an onion ring, but it has onions in there and carrots and kale and it comes, I think, with the dipping sauce. Yes, it does. And then I'm gonna make this egg drop soup that I had in the pantry for a while. And I just add, I'll just need to add some chicken broth, which I have a bouillon, a cup, well, three eggs, and you guys know how expensive eggs are right now, but I'm gonna add my three eggs and I do have green onions and sesame oil. I have a whole packet, well, actually a whole bag, like a Ziploc bag full of these types of soup mixes, Asian mixes, you name it, so I'm trying to work through that stuff. But anyway, I'll be back. Okay, here is dinner, quick and easy to make. I really love that fried rice and I just stir-fried some broccoli and sprinkled some garlic salt on it. Here is the soup, it's pretty good too. I mean, it's definitely not like going to a restaurant, but it's a good substitute. And then here is that dipping sauce that came with those little bird's nest. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. Good morning, you guys. I wanted to pop in really quickly and show you what I am making for breakfast this week out of our pantry. Gonna be trying out these Trader Joe's blueberry muffins and here is what you need on the side of the box right here. So what's different about these muffins is that they come with dehydrated blueberries, so you actually have to rehydrate them in water before you use them, calls for three eggs. Y'all know that just hurts my heart using all those eggs. With eggs being so expensive now, here is the mix and then you just need melted butter and milk. So I will show you all how they turn out once they're done. Okay, so here are the muffins. I baked them for 30 minutes at 350. The instructions say 400 for 20 minutes, but I usually don't bake my baked goods at 400 because I wanna make sure they're done all the way through. Here is one that I cut open. Howard ate his and he thought they were okay. He thought that he didn't think they tasted very sweet. I will agree with him. They don't taste very sweet, but that's not necessarily a bad thing for me. I will say that the batter was very, very thick, kind of like a pound cake batter. And as you can see, there's not a whole lot of blueberries in there, but the blueberries are much bigger than you would find in the traditional boxed blueberry muffin mix with the blueberries that come in the can. So they're a lot bigger, but there's just fewer of them. So anyway, just wanted to show you all what I made for breakfast today. For dinner tonight, we are having taco salads. Of course, this is out of my freezer. I have everything to make this meal already. So these are the taco salad shells that I use. I love these things, been eating them since I was a child. And we are having this wicked, tasty taco, taco simmer sauce for the first time it was in my pantry. I didn't really care for it. It was a lot more smoky than I expected. Howard said it's okay, but if you don't like smoky flavored things and you probably wouldn't care for this either, but this is Howard's plate. He's got sour cream salsa, a green jalapeno sauce, lettuce, avocado, cheese, and then the meat of course. And then this is mine. Mine looks really sad because I put it in the microwave and my lettuce wilted, but I have cheese, lettuce, jalapeno sauce and the meat. So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time. So for dinner tonight, we are eating family style. My parents are here in town. So I've got some homemade mashed potatoes, Howard grilled some pork chops for us and he used a Korean barbecue seasoning. And then I stir-fried some green beans tonight. So this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we will see y'all next time.


Hey everyone, it's been a hot minute Weeks, I guess since we've done a standalone video. I'm back. How's it going Nathaniel Ruffles answer from Nintendo Prime? It kind of sucks that I'm coming back with this sort of topic because it's not something that I Often want to talk about. There's a lot of positives going out there in the world of Nintendo We have what for like the last four exclusive games that released on Nintendo switch are all in the high 80s And giving switch the best exclusive lineup of games this year and maybe even topping off the best exclusive Library of this entire generation if you consider switch part of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one generation I know there's debates. Maybe it's not part of that. Maybe it's part of PlayStation 5, etc I'm not here to really determine that but it's interesting when you look at all the positivity out there The switch light just came out and people seem to be pretty excited about it But one thing about the switch light came about that has people a little concerned because Joy-Con drift has been an issue for quite some time In all of the joy cons that I basically ever released I personally have experienced joy-con drift and three different joy-cons Which is basically where you don't touch the stick and the character moves or the camera moves or whatever Basically the controllers act like you're pushing the stick in a certain direction that you're not and that is joy-con drift It's just unresponsive controls or overly responsive overly sensitive Hope whatever you want to consider them and we discovered thanks to people like spawnwave who did breakdowns of the joysticks Why this is happening? It has something to do with the graphite pads. It rubs on being Extremely susceptible to damage and wear and tear Leading to grooves and once the grooves occur things aren't accurate anymore inside the actual control stick And we had hoped of course that this would be fixed with the switch revision You know the one that comes in the red box with the seven plus hour battery life and then that came out and it turned out No, those joy cons aren't fixed either now There is new sets of joy cons coming out here in October and maybe those sets will be fixed But it doesn't really look that likely because the switch light is now out in the wild And it turns out that the exact same mechanism of the joysticks are also in the switch light now We couldn't confirm that it would necessarily lead to joy con drift at the time or control or drift because I guess these aren't joy cons We couldn't really confirm that it would lead to this Because obviously just because it's the same design doesn't mean it'll have the same flaw because they could just use a different type of Metal a different type of material that's much more durable and less susceptible to getting a groove in it and creating drift That was the hope that was the the great hope out there is that yeah Just because the same design doesn't mean it has the same flaw. Well today Just look at this now as you can see the right joystick on this particular person's You know switch light is showing drifting issues and there have been a couple not a lot But a couple media members out there Such as the you know Zach over at switch force that have noted that they've kind of experienced some drift at times as well It does not seem to be super widespread just yet But the system just came out and if you know anything about joy con drift you when you buy a brand new switch The joy con drift problem doesn't happen right away It just happens over the course of several weeks or months It kind of depends on how long you're playing a form or any hours you're logging in etc It's just wear and tear right it just happens over time So you don't expect to hear a lot of stories about people switch lights having drifting right now But the fact that there's even one One right now where we are just like three days out from when the system launched and there's even one out there showing this problem Kind of gives us pause to think this could happen to all of them again It's something we're not gonna know for sure for you know many months You know maybe even a year down the road before we started to see several systems with drifting issues But it definitely appears that the joystick has the exact same issue that the current ones do inside the normal joy con so This is just obviously a big problem and it sucks that Nintendo themselves has sort of failed to address it now We do know that obviously Nintendo America Internally has recognized the joy con drift is an issue and they will fix it for free for anyone And maybe that extends to switch light as well. We don't know But the only reason we even know that the internally they have recognized It's a problem at Nintendo of America only by the way This isn't governed in any other place. No one else gets free repairs on this especially out of warranty The only reason we even know that Nintendo has recognized it as a problem is because An internal email leaked Nintendo has not yet not even once said one thing publicly acknowledging the joy con directors issue even though they have acknowledged it Internally that's a problem and that's a huge problem when a new product is coming out that uses the exact same joysticks So obviously this is a big pause for concern if you were considering buying to switch light I can understand why this might make you be like, oh, I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't obviously if you don't mind doing repairs yourself You could replace the joystick I'm sure it's not that difficult to replace because it's not super difficult to replace inside a joy con either Obviously we talked in the past what electrical contact cleaner is a good way to actually extend the life of your joystick because it kind of creates a Coding over the mechanism and lets it last a little longer without issue But again, all of that's extracurricular stuff that we as consumers shouldn't have to do and obviously this person that's having drift right now Can send it into the Nintendo. It's under warranty. It'll be fixed But this is obviously a concerning thing and it sucks that although Nintendo of America's recognized it internally Nintendo has not recognized it publicly and on top of that that they use the same design in the switch light It makes you wonder, you know, even though Nintendo's recognized it internally When did they actually realize it was a problem? It was it only recently and if it's only recently well, they obviously already had switch lights in production So is it possible that the switch lights we get this year are gonna have issues? But the switch lights we get you know starting next year will be different because there'll be different production runs And they will affix the problem. I don't know I mean, we're still waiting for it to get fixed in newer joy cons let alone in like an actual new device. So This is just extremely disappointing and it brings negativity at a time when Nintendo has a lot going for them I mean the switch lights only two hundred dollars That's gonna be a very appealing price point and it has a lot of redeeming qualities to that I understand there's no TV output and that's a shame for some But for those who just don't care looking to replace their 3ds and have all those console quality games with them And don't care about the TV. It's it's actually pretty good and it's solid It's got great build quality some people actually like holding it better than the normal switch because there's no joy-con wobble or anything And I had it comes with a d-pad and that's a big plus for some people So I honestly think the switch light has a lot going for it and then Nintendo has a lot going for them You know, I just talked about the last four major releases all being among the best rated games of this year They're not done yet. They have Luigi's Mansion 3 coming out next month. They have Pokemon Sword and shield coming out the month after that and we can get into, you know, the the Ring Fit adventure And that experimental workout kind of thing. They're doing in December. We could talk about Mario Sonic at the Olympic games These are those that I think are gonna be as highly regarded as a Luigi's Mansion 3 or a Pokemon or you know The more recently Link's Awakening release, but still that's a ton of high quality products in a short time span and Nintendo's gonna have a ton of momentum going into the holidays because Nintendo has dominated sales worldwide This year because PlayStation 4 and Xbox are kind of going like this as everyone kind of anticipates the next generation being announced in releasing next year and obviously Google Stadia, you know has like if you buy the pre-access pack or whatever. It's a starter pack I can't even know what it's called. It's really expensive like 130 bucks I don't know It's like 130 bucks and comes with a controller I think and all that and you can like gift like three months to somebody of the pro membership I don't know that comes out in like November, but I I'm personally Sorry to have my comeback video be a bit of negativity surrounding Nintendo and I sincerely hope that they address this at some point I understand from a marketing perspective.  Nintendo's gonna recognize this now They're heading into the holidays. They don't want to be talking publicly and making a big hullabaloo about this But I sincerely hope that they address it and sincerely hope they announce publicly They will fix all of them for free forever for you know the lifetime of the platform until they stop producing them I really hope that Nintendo does the right thing here, which they have kind of done in in you know North America Without publicly announcing that they've done it because we got a leaked email And then obviously people proving by taking advantage of the fact that that email said they would fix it And getting it fixed out of warranty. So I I'm just I'm sorry guys To be such kind of a downer today, but it's all right. I'm just glad to be back Thank you guys so much for tuning in if you're looking for an update video by the way on my health situation all that Stay tuned. I think I might have one coming out later today since there's no live stream But yeah, you guys just stay tuned for that and I'll catch all of you in the next video


and in some senses no. So we haven't really reached out to a whole lot of the institutional repositories. We've aggregated a lot of the big open databases. So for example, and actually big and small databases. So something like model DB is not really an institutional repository. It's a database that has a particular kind of data. Geo has another kind of data, right? So these are two repositories that are put into Cycrunch. But what they store typically is one data type. And we find that the institutional repositories that we've looked at, and you know, I may not be seeing a representative set of those, but typically they will have sort of random data. So something like FiXshare or Dryad is one of these kind of generic repositories. There is less that you can do with FiXshare or Dryad data than you can do with PDB data, for example. Because when you look at a repository like ModelDB or PDB, PDB, you know you're going to be looking at X-ray crystallography. You know you're going to be looking at a certain kind of thing. But when you're looking at Dryad, it could be ice core samples, or it could be, you know, temperature measurements somewhere in a mouse. Who knows, right? So, but one of the things that we find is if you put a lot of the data into what's called a community repository, it becomes better, it becomes richer, and it becomes something that's actually of value to a particular community. So I keep using ModelDB as an example, but it has now thousands of models. And these are neuronal models in different platforms like Neuron, Genesis, MATLAB, or others. And if one wanted to find out all the code for all of the neuronal models that, you know, cover an area of the brain, like let's say hippocampus, they would actually be able to search that. Another repository is something like Neuromorfo.org. Neuromorfo.org simply has traces of neurons, and that is exportable into models. But again, it doesn't become interesting to search as a data set until there's a whole lot of these things in there. And so Neuromorfo and all of these other data repositories, community data repositories, have been growing very significantly over the last few years as people deposit more and more data out into public repositories, which is wonderful.


Hey survivors, in this video I am going to be discussing what the narcissist really wants from you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal links in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at narxfeathercoaching.com. What does the narcissist really want from you? Narcissus wants narcissistic supply. Narcissistic supply is like a drug. It regulates their emotions and boosts their self-esteem. Like any drug, they chase narcissistic supply for pain relief. It creates an addiction which they use to provide relief from their emotional or physical pain. They are addicted to your emotional reactions or the relief that it gives them. Narcissus supply isn't always about you admiring or validating the narcissist. It also involves being their emotional punching bag. You are the person they use to take out all of their frustration and emotional distress. If they had a bad day at work or someone upset them and they couldn't react in the way that they wanted to react, they will hold on to that anger and frustration and take it out on you. So what the narcissist really wants is someone to put up with all of the abuse and still love and accept them. Never questioning or confronting them. You get nothing in return. But they expect you to be grateful for even having the privilege of being their punching bag. The most damaging part about it is that you go through all of this pain, disturbance, confusion and uncertainty and in return you get nothing. And not only do you get nothing, you often lose a lot of what you already had before you met them. Due to the narcissist's arrogance and entitlement, they believe that this is what they are worthy or deserving of. They believe that they deserve someone who loves and accepts them no matter what they do. Never questioning or confronting them. It never works out that way because what they want is really an impossible expectation. But this is what they want. Someone they can control and dominate. Do whatever they want to and whatever they want to do. You agree to it.  That's what they want. They have so much frustration and emotional distress within them that they need someone to take it out on. Usually what causes them frustration and emotional distress has nothing to do with you but they will take it out on you. They will project it on to you. Because in their minds you are the closest person to them. You are the person that they are most intimately involved with. So whenever something frustrates them or causes them emotional distress they take it out on you. It's really sick and twisted that they could actually view this as acceptable behaviour and that you should be grateful for doing that. It's unrealistic and an impossible expectation but they can't see it because they're only thinking about what they want or what they expect from you. They don't consider how this might affect you or if it's something that you're okay with because in their minds they are so great that you should feel privileged to be in their presence.  And you begin questioning or confronting them. They are not going to stick around to put themselves beneath something they believe they are greater than. They are also going to be expecting you to want revenge on them.  When they first met you they mirrored you and appealed to your own ideals. They weren't about any of that but they knew that you were. From that point on they knew that the relationship had an expiration date because they were never about anything that they said they were. They were never the person that they portrayed themselves to be and they know that it is only a matter of time until you figure them out so they always knew right from the beginning that the relationship was going to end and even if it didn't end they would know that you don't really love them.  If they didn't manipulate you you would never have been interested in them. They knew that you didn't love them. You couldn't love them because they were never real or genuine with you. You loved the fantasy, the illusion that they portrayed to you.  They know that you're not going to have any compassion or forgiveness for them and they are going to be expecting you to what revenge on them. This is usually when they will discard you to protect their fragile ego. They know it's not love. They know that it's the fantasy, the illusion that you love. They might lie to themselves that it's love but deep down they know that it's not because they never gave you anything real or genuine to love. It was never love. It was manipulation and that's why it was so easy for them to move on like you never existed. It was a simulation of love. A simulation of value and significance. None of it was real. Once you figure them out they're gone and it's over because they know that there's no future in something that started out as a game. It was never about love. It was about having someone they can control and having someone to regulate their emotions. Once you figure them out they're not going to stick around because now you know their tactics. They're not going to be able to manipulate you in the same way as they did before and they know that it's much easier for them to move on and find someone else who is unaware of the game that they are playing. The narcissist does not have any consideration or concern for their victim. It's about survival. They just use them for emotional support. Thank you for watching. Hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. We have a private Reddit community where survivors and survivors can share their experiences and knowledge. If you are interested in being a part of this community you can sign up for our Patreon page. The link is in the video description. Check out the Narxiva Moose Dye Store where you can purchase your own Narxiva T-shirt or mug. We have a variety of designs and it is a great way to support the channel. The link to our Narxiva Moose Dye Store is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I will talk to you soon.


Vegas is Kevin. I just got down from Vegas. Again, it's another episode of Ask Kevin. I get this nice space in the janitor's closet. It's probably the only place quiet in the warehouse. Let's get started. So I purchased the HP OfficeJet Pro 8020 series. My number is actually 8025 in mid 2020, so less than two years ago. And it works great. The scanning, everything works great. However, I did run out of ink about three or four months ago, but I didn't really need the printing access of it, so I never replaced it right away. Okay, three to four months is a long time for leaving empty cartridge in the printer. And I recently just signed up for instant ink, and I received all new cartridges for all four colors. When I put them in, the page prints out great. It's clear, sharp. However, only yellow and black are printing. I'm not able to print the cyan or magenta. Isn't she great? I mean, I rarely get the colors that explain things so well. I'm happy that the black is not clogged. Actually, that's the most likely color to get clogged. By clogging, I also mean that the black is most likely to wear out, because that's most color you use, and also HP most likely to put a pigment in it, and the pigment will wear out the black sooner than the other colors. So not all the clogged are actually clogged, but I'm happy that your black is working. Yellow is rarely clogged, so I'm not surprised about the yellow is working.  Cyan and the magenta is more likely to clog, and magenta usually is the first one to clog, but it's a little bit easier to unclog. So I cleaned the printer heads several times. I ran a diagnostic. It did a quality control page. It won't do the alignment for some reason. I print the page for the alignment. It looks good, but then when I go to scan the page for the alignment, it says that I'm unable to scan the page. When you have a clogged printer, don't do the alignment. It doesn't make sense. Actually, if you don't have a problem with alignment, just don't do alignment at all. Alignment is going to use cyan, and this is the reason that you cannot scan it, but it looks good. It looks good because all the black parts look good, but it's missing the cyan color. So when you scan it, it's missing the cyan, and the alignment is going to fail. So I'm thinking that maybe it's clogged for the cyan, and the printer head is clogged for the cyan and the magenta, because I haven't used it in several months. I only used the black for several months, so the black is fine, but the yellow is still fine, although I haven't used the yellow either. That's a great guess. That's what I'm thinking too.  I just wanted to get some advice before I take the next steps on either repairing or just replacing my printer altogether. I think the problem is not that severe, and you should be able to recover your printer without replacing it. We have a loss of a printer like this. It has been dry for a couple years, and we were able to revive it, and we revive it, and then we sell the printhead. Okay, anyway, if you cannot get it working, just email me again. I'll hook you up with a really nice printhead that we salvaged. I know you have A025, but I'm going to use a 6978 for today. They are basically the same printer. Everything behind it is similar. They use different cartridge models, but they're printhead exactly the same. Guess what? If you stuck A025 printhead into this printer 6978, it still works. This printer, the custom brought in, and just like yours, ASIP idle for a couple months, and guess what color is working? What color is not working? Okay, before you do the cleaning, make sure that your cartridge physically has enough ink, and I usually do this by waiting it. For the scale, you can go to Amazon and search for jewelry scale. It's normally under $10, or you can just scroll down. I'm going to put the link in the description. If you want to know what kind of ink I use, I'll put this ink. It says for PG-248-243. Just don't worry about it. It says this. I'm going to put a link in the description, so you can click it and get it. You don't absolutely need a scale. You can just do this. Just put it on some paper and drip ink until you see the ink coming out from the other side. You're going to make a mess, so make sure that you put enough paper on there. The weight for a full one should be 25 for the colors and 30 grams for the black. I don't care what your ink monitor says. When you put it back, the ink monitor will not show the new ink level. Just ignore it. Another thing is I know you have instant ink. If you do not have instant ink, the HP will show you the warning cell. The ink is slow. The ink is depleted. That's just what the printer says. If you keep printing, eventually the warning will go away and you can just refill the printer this way and keep using it. Now we have ink in the cartridge. We use the printer building function to clean the three times. Every time by the end of cleaning, I ask you to clean again or not. So clean again. So each time you say clean again, the intensity of cleaning is going to go up a notch. So you'll do three times, then stop and wait an hour. After an hour and do exactly the same thing, do it three more times. Sometimes you're going to see a color is okay in the first time, but it's completely gone in the second time and just like this. As long as you have enough ink in the cartridge, don't worry about it. How do you know you have enough ink in the cartridge? With it. So after three cleaning, wait an hour and the three cleaning. So you did six of them in the first day. Now wait 12 hours or 24 hours even better. Just wait for the second day. Day two, you start with adding enough ink in the cartridge and do three plus three again. At the end, you did 12 cleanings and if your printer is still not good after 12 cleanings, we'll need some professional cleaning. Actually the first 12 cleanings that I just showed is what we ask our customer to do if they receive a printer that's not working. And then we're going to take the printer back and next I'm going to show you professionally how we clean it.  Next we're going to use a professional tool. You can go to bchtechnologies.com, accessories, anti-clogging agent, and you'll need this flash 900. Also on a side note, next time if you're going to leave a cartridge empty for a while and just flip the cartridge over and drip some of those wetter solutions, maybe second page. Yeah, here is printhead maintenance and wetter solution. What this one does is keep the printers moisturized so you don't have this problem in the future. We're going to inject a two mil of cleaning fluid into each color. Make sure when you inject you feel a little bit of resistance but do not push too hard. Remember you only need to do this for the colors that clogged. You don't need to do for the black in this instance, so I don't even remove the black. After it's done, put the cartridge back. You always not push the old ink out. Your goal is put the cleaning solution in the printhead and leave it overnight. Let the cleaning solution do its work and also do not heat up the cleaning solution just use as a room temperature. The cartridge just put it down there to keep the printhead moist. Okay, second thing, okay, what's the first thing you do? First thing you do is add more ink. Make sure that you get enough ink. So the next day just don't discourage if it doesn't look good and do not be too optimistic if it look good. So this is first one and the second one is you can see is that the magenta have some strap there and the third one still needs some work. So after third one, don't forget that now we're break, even worse after the break, then voila, beautiful. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.pch.north.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers! Or I forgot to tell you the secret phone number and the handshake phone number. Phone number go to Google and search for BCH technologies phone number. And here's the phone number and the secret handshake is what short staffed. So you're probably going to go to voicemail. So in the voicemail, make sure that you say this, Kevin, I gave you full permission to use my voice on the YouTube and then describe your problem as clear as possible. After that, show me an email so I can get your email address and email to support at bchtechnology.com. So we can go back and forth and discuss if I can solve your problem or not. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this video even more. Visit us at www.bchtechnology.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers!


Welcome back to my channel in today's video I'm sharing with you guys what I eat in a week truthfully I almost scrapped this video because this was the week that there was so much happening in my house I couldn't use my kitchen. I couldn't do a lot of things honestly I door-dashed and I don't actually know if I really ate out But I didn't cook as much as I normally would and I didn't eat as many greens as I normally would I definitely didn't eat Like how I normally would just because I love cooking it's like a little bit more elaborate for me And I'm really working on my cooking healthy meals and things like that, but this was a week that was interrupted Okay, I couldn't use my kitchen for a few days. I had to be out of my house It was a very hectic week So I feel like this video could be even more like relatable in that sense also I just want to mention I don't have any like restrictions on what I eat. I eat pretty much everything I'm a Texan like I eat meat things like that I like eating healthier because it makes me feel good and it gives me more energy And mainly I just try to eat meals that I cook from home because that is when I always find myself feeling my best So this week I didn't really feel my best and I'm sorry, but this is the reality of life sometimes Also, I wanted to mention if food is a triggering topic for you. Do not watch this video I just like watching these videos so that I like getting different meal ideas and seeing how people are eating from home And out and about so if food is a triggering topic for you don't watch this video Just click off you guys can watch all my other vlogs. There's so many other like non-food related things If you guys are new here, be sure to subscribe if you need any recipes. They're always on my Instagram on reels Okay, so let's get started You guys are not gonna believe this I just recorded this entire voiceover and apparently it wasn't recording So anyways, I started my morning off with water and liquid IV which I do pretty much every day I didn't film every time I was drinking water But just know I do all the time if you want to try liquid IV I have a discount code down below then like I said This is a pretty pitiful week, but a very on-the-go week where I was disrupted Okay, and I didn't do a lot of grocery shopping due to the fact that I wasn't gonna have access to my kitchen Most of the time so I thought I was gonna make avocado toast got sad when I realized I didn't have avocado Then I made some peanut butter toast thought I could add some honey and that's how much honey I came out so you know there we are also had some coffee few hours later I went to Starbucks and I tried this her recommendation from the barista and this is my new favorite drink It is so good. Like I actually am craving it now and I need to go for lunch I made some leftovers. They were just some chicken tacos or just brisket tacos from Door-dash, then I door-dashed some dinner from chop shop. So good. My door-dash link will be down below I also got a little cookie because they're very good All right, I started off my morning with again some more water these glasses are just the best I got them on Amazon and some coffee as always and then of course every morning I eat avocado toast and this glaze from Trader Joe's really changes the game This is a very, you know hormonal week if you know what I'm saying. So I was so hungry So I made a second breakfast. This is my favorite non dairy yoga with blueberries and all butter Like I said an emo week So I I make this like literally twice a year It's called the quarry special my cousin when I was younger used to make it for me And so when I'm really emo, that's what I make sometimes then I just made some healthy turkey chili So if you guys want the recipe, it's on my Instagram on a real I eat this a lot this week That's typically what I do I'll make like one or two recipes in either have it for lunch or for dinner sometimes or both if I'm very lazy The next morning I went to Foxtrot very early. I got some coffee and breakfast So I got a dirty try with oat milk and then Some breakfast tacos if you guys live in Dallas, I highly recommend the breakfast tacos from I must a taco diner. What from Foxtrot. They're very good later on. I had some avocado toast This is like my go-to for everything as you guys can tell I ended up having to go to run an errand later So I picked up a perfect bar and some tea came home and I oh, this is my favorite tea by the way again guys They made me order it different. I'm not really sure. I would screen shot the first time I got it then I came home. I heated up my turkey chili Very good. Okay. I cannot recommend this enough for dinner. I made some chicken tacos This was not my favorite recipe. I've ever made so I didn't even share the recipe. They were okay Not there. Not the greatest so Thursday morning. I ended up doing four slices of bread So I have the Dave's thin sliced bread, which I don't recommend because it's not filling It's like half of it so I have to do four instead of two, you know, then I ended up getting my peppermint cold brew I really try to stay away from sugary drinks I know I had to try but you know hormonal whatever who cares so the taco my This is what I had for lunch. So good again at my door. National could be down below I could see picnic chicken tacos and then I had smoothie king I had one of the massive smoothies and I went to bed really early I had no access to my downstairs area. So, you know disruptions Again, I had my avocado toast on the thin sliced bread So I have four of them with my favorite glaze from Trader Joe's. I heated up my chili leftovers for lunch and then I had this soda. I You know as we know my drink influencer this flavor I like I feel like this brand could have better flavors but I do like the drinks and This is what I had for a little slack and then for dinner I just put together random things so I had like brown rice salmon cucumber carrots and some like healthy sauce I don't know. All right guys. I hope you enjoyed today's video got some ideas. Maybe I mean I know it was a little bit hectic I eat the same thing every morning pretty much and um whatever I meal prep essentially I love you guys so much And I'll see you in my next video. Bye I was hard on myself until I started talking about my podcast with my closed circles So my boyfriend kept saying like you're so hard on yourself. You're so critical My roommate was saying that like my brother my parents So I didn't even realize that it was that I think It was just bringing me so much like stress and anxiety that it was really easy for me to overthink it and I also think I just have such like heroes in the podcast industry that That creating my own was so stressful for me and like so intimidating to do so Yeah, I think I just have like a concept of what I wanted it to be and If it wasn't at that level then I like wasn't gonna be happy with it. That makes sense Who are some of your podcast heroes? So there's this guy's name is Alex Bloomberg I believe he did a podcast called startup and that was the first podcast that like really got me into podcasts and It was essentially a podcast documenting him launching his podcast company and it was unlike any podcast I'd ever I'd ever heard and It changed my perspective on what I could create it like opened up this whole other world so Hearing him do that and then his other projects and then all the other podcasts under Gimlant, which is the company he started we're always just like so inspirational for me when you look back to


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The design of naval exhaust funnels must consider the interaction between hot gasses and topside structures, which often include critical electronic devices. Predicting the propagation trajectory, shape, and temperature distribution of an exhaust gas plume is highly strategic in various industrial sectors. Wind flow and gas flow conditions at the funnel exit can affect the plume's propagation, making it difficult to accurately model the problem with numerical simulations. Computational resources have enabled simulations to play a key role in the early design phase, but it remains challenging to fully rely on the quantitative results of these simulations due to input variables uncertainty. Uncertainty quantification, UQ, techniques can be used to evaluate uncertainty propagation in numerical simulations, such as the chimney exit velocity and main flow angle. This paper compares two UQ methods, surrogate-based and polynomial chaos expansion, to determine how each method can best be used to analyze the effect of uncertainty on the plume flow development. This article was authored by Carlo Cravero, Davide de Domenico, and Davide Marzano. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hi, I'm Richard Hines, and today I'm going to talk about a subject that I personally have never heard anybody talk about anywhere on how to get a protection dog to bark at a random person out in public. If you were to ask in public at a strange person just somebody randomly without the person showing a real threat, right, that the dog was alerted to, if you were to just go watch at a point to random person standing there, most dogs are going to go, what? Who? You want me to alert to that person? That one? Why? Right? They don't understand that game when the person is not in any equipment, right? The person's not moving suspiciously as we do in training. The area that the dogs are trained in is usually at home in a training facility, right? A training field somewhere that the dog knows all the time that when they get to that location, it's party time. They know exactly what's going to happen, how the game is played, and they're already starting to get hyped up and alerting before they even get into the territory, knowing that the game of barking and getting a toy or barking and getting a bite is all going to happen at those locations, right? And this is normal, right? Because for these types of things too to teach, you need designated places to stay away from the public, right? So that's normal. So if you were doing this at your house, the dog is learning that behavior and that the game is on when a certain person comes to do this with the dog, right? Any equipment being used, you know, to do the exercise with the dog, dog knows person and equipment and territory, okay? Always being done in the same location. So we get a sticky problem, right? Person, helper, equipment, movements, and location, and normally all of it is in one location, okay? And usually one person that's doing the work with the dog. So we get a little bit of a problem now that the dog, randomly if you're in public, outside of your training area, and it's not the person that's usually, the dog is alerting at in training or putting on the equipment, the dog is completely confused, right? Which is normal, because the dog has only had that reference in location, person, equipment, movement, whatever, okay? So now we get stuck. So a person who's been having a dog that alerts well in the facility or wherever they've been doing the training. Good, good girl, good girl, good girl, good girl, good girl. And the bite dog that has good bite training, right? Great when it's at the facility or it's being done at the home. I mean, fantastic. And all of a sudden goes out in public and just randomly watch, right? The dog's just like, what? Who? I mean, I know the word well, I'm very fluent at it. The dog is thinking. But this is weird because there's all sorts of people around and they're not moving in a weird way. And I don't know the person. They've never really, nobody else has ever egged me on, right? So we get a totally confused dog, okay? So how do we overcome this problem? And this is how we go about this. So I'm just going to throw steps at you right now of development, okay? So first thing, we are teaching, and this is the question I get all the time, because people who watch my videos or have bought my instructional videos get a little confused with these things.  So I'm going to bring this out here. Here, we usually always start, whether it's a bite dog or just an alert dog, we start with barking at a toy, okay? So there, both dogs, we taught them how to bark on cue at the ball, right? Which could be anything that anybody's dog loves. Instead of a ball, it could be anything else. But this is how we start the game of alerting and protection. Go hand in hand in this particular beginning stage, okay? So we're teaching the dog to alert on command, add an object first, not people, okay? And then when we have a dog alerting on cue, watch, and the dog, right? So a protection dog, a personal protection dog that goes through bite development. After we get that talking to toy, we transfer it talking to people in equipment, suit. So you're going to do watch? You have to get off the equipment and we go to hidden sleeves, right? So that when we say watch, the dog goes and there's no equipment here in the scenario. Rocco has no idea, right? About hidden stuff. It's the first time right now you're going to see we've ever done it. So when the owner says watch, he rah, rah, rah, even though I have my sweater on, I have something underneath, he has no idea, right? There's no difference in the look anymore, right? So we're making sure that he'll alert on me and he's never seen me in that jacket. He's never seen the clothes I'm wearing and the hidden sleeve is under that he can't detect either. And we just want to make sure that when I'm dressed normal without being in training scenario and clothing he's never seen, right? Because in Miami we don't wear sweaters ever, right? So I have that sweater that's been tucked away for years and just using it for this day. First time now when we ask we want to see that I'm not in a threat factor. I'm just standing there, no equipment, nothing he can identify. Watch, we want to make sure he does it. And if I put my arm out, he'll bite me as if I had a sleeve on that he was developed with or the suit jacket, okay? We want to see it's all the same that he doesn't care whether or not I have anything on when we tell him to watch, I want to see him talk to me even though it's a different scenario and he's never seen this plain look and no threat factor. Me just stand there and there's nothing egging him into aggression, okay? And by the way me and Rocco outside of the scenarios we do in protection he loves me, right? So I can come over, I pet him, no equipment on after session. Rocco, come here, good boy. Right before sessions I can pet him and be around him, no issue. I take photo shoots with him, right up in here, he licked me in the face. So me and him have a very good relationship but when it's on it's on, right? That's the beautiful thing about Rocco, right? He's the most social dog and we have a great friendship but if you turn him on and even like here I have no equipment on, he didn't know a training session was coming, nothing. And he barked and alerted at me like he's supposed to and he did the bite, okay? As well. So perfect, right? And we didn't need the bite but in this case because he's a bite dog I need to make sure he bit me without seeing the equipment and that we know that he's doing things for real and not being orientated to the equipment, okay? And Axel here because Axel also, we did the bark at the ball, then we did the equipment in the suit, right? I tell him watch, he watches Stacey here in the suit and bites when ready when he was supposed to and then here just make sure, right? I tell him watch Stacey first time we've ever used a hidden sleeve. Now we didn't have a jacket that day so I told Stacey to hold it on that side and block off that he cannot see that arm, right? So when I said watch he never even saw anything on Stacey, just her regular shirt, regular clothes, no equipment and he was barking at her normally as if she had the equipment on. We want to see an immediate barking response, aggressive response towards without the equipment on, okay? And then when she came around him still hiding the sleeve he had no idea that she had it there until eventually she came in and went like this and he bit her not knowing that there was anything there, right? Until he went and grabbed her. So he was clueless about that equipment on her side, right? Because he never saw it, right? So he was alerting to the regular clothing and just regular, okay? So now how do we get the dogs then to alert out in public or in the streets, okay? So like here Rocco, you're gonna see Sue walking in the street, have the camera, I have no equipment on, I have the camera and I'm filming her doing her thing and I was just petting him just before that and I told her, tell him to watch me out of nowhere because he's not thinking it's coming. We've never done any bite training in the street outside that house. He has never had any training out there in the street out in that block, none. So he has no repetitions of that or even thinking that in the front there in the streets that we would even go into any kind of bite work or aggression. So it's a perfect scenario for me to test him while I was just petting him and got into the house, right? And then just went out to film him doing his obedience and just had Sue randomly because knowing he's never done it there, I want to see if no matter what, any area would he cue on me when she said watch, right? Perfect. So me behind the camera and as soon as I said tell him watch, Rocco watch him, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, right? Perfect. Immediate response in an area he's never done protection, never had any aggression training. I have no equipment on. I was just petting him there as a friendly visit, right? And that's exactly what we want to see. Now, how we cross this over to strange people that the dogs have never seen out in those areas that they've never trained in. Again, confusing dogs and making them just locked up that they don't know what to do. So I personally have run into many times in my career, so I quit doing it for years now, doing surprise scenarios out in public parks, right? Where there's any people, any, because when I used to do that and go into areas to teach dogs this, anybody that's around would always call the police, right? That we were doing dangerous things doing bite work in public places and people weren't even close to us, right? We always make sure it's safe. For sure, always safety's first. So we're not even really near anybody when I'm pulling surprises on these dogs, right? And I just had to stop doing it in an aggressive way because I used to bring hidden suits out and jump out and give the hidden stuff in public and make sure the dog would bite and talk and alert, right? But then I couldn't do it anymore because every time we would do it out in public, somebody would call the police. And the police would come, kick us out of the park and always tell me, no more of that anywhere in Miami, right? You can't do it. That's dangerous stuff. You're teaching aggression. So I had to find another way of being able to at least get the dogs to queue on command to make threatening behavior without having aggression and bite work attached to it. You would be crazy, right? When we do that through toy stuff also, it's ra ra, right?  But those dogs, even though now the things I'm going to show you are not going to be done with a decoy and in biting, bite work, right? To keep the sanity in the public. The bite dog, if you made any threats, right, and you really needed that dog, if they were trained well like ours, they're going to take action whether they've ever seen you, not seen you. If the threat is on and you do something crazy, it's going to go from talking at something to you're going to get hurt. So we don't worry ever about our trained personal protection dogs, not having bite development out in the public like that, right?  You got to be crazy, right? And if you decide to go through that and ignore it, those dogs, because they are trained already for it, no matter where they are, it doesn't matter if they've ever done it there before, they will take action, right? So I never worry about that. So how do we do it? Okay? Without the bite and true aggression. So here, just give me an example. This is Axl Black Shepherd that I did the other video clips there with. I have a helper. First, how you start this. I'm going to have Stacey come out, no equipment, no nothing. Just show the ball, right? So you're going to see there, she just goes like this and shows Axl she has the ball. Okay? We just want the idea right to get him started to learn the process of how this is going to work. So she's showing him, right? Puts it behind her back, hides it, and I give the command, watch. Okay? And then he rah, rah, rah, rah, because he knows that she has the ball, his favorite thing in the world. Now it's not in sight though, okay? And this is just how you connect the game to start, right? Because if she just came out and went like this, and we said, watch, he's going to be confused. Never did bite work there. We've never done that. Him and Stacey are tight. They're very good friends, right? So he's going to be very confused. So there he barks at her like you see. And as a reward, the person who's holding the object will throw to the dog from where they are to give the reward at the dog for talking at them. Okay? Even though it's for the ball, we're getting acute behavior with no equipment, just to start the process. Now, so then here, I just have Stacey reset. Don't show it to him. Just have it behind your back, right? He's probably assuming she has it, but he can't see it. So when I say watch, he's barking at her. He's gambling, hoping by talking, right, to her not knowing whether she's got the ball now or not. After he talks enough, Stacey again throws them the ball for the right guess. Okay? So, and this could be anything we're talking, right? The ball, it could be, right? I could have a bite pillow or a sleeve behind my back if that's what the dog really loves. And I try to stay as natural as possible, hiding it. And when the dog the only difference would be with the bite sleeve that you can't throw it at him, you would have to take it and go at him and give him the bite. Okay? And the reason that we wouldn't let him come here and get the bite is how I've explained on YouTube that I don't usually allow the dogs to come off the body to take the bites like that. I want the dogs to get the bites at the position and learn to hold control, right? And things will come to that, right? And occasionally I'll send them off and they can go bite. So we have both, but preferably you're trying to go in if you're going to do a sleeve. But I would try not to do these things, right? Like a sleeve unless it was absolutely necessary and this was the thing your dog loved the most. I would try to stick with a ball, something smaller, something you can throw at the dog, easy. Okay? That's toy. All right. So now that we have that, I get a random person, right, that the dog doesn't know. And I stick them out in the street, right? And I have them hide the ball and we go, watch, right? Never seen the person doesn't know the person. They're out in different territory now. Now it's going to be sometimes our dogs, first time after they've done this pre-exercise will bark at the person, right? If they do, perfect. The person throws the ball to them from across the street, right? If not, if the dog doesn't talk to them, the person then will pull out the ball and go like this and then put it back. And then we wait for some good barking. Then we throw it to them. The person will throw it to them. So what are we creating? We're creating a dog now going, wait a minute. So when we're out in public, anybody you point to that I don't know, it's probably going to have my favorite thing there with them, behind them, even though I don't see it. Yeah, in the beginning, right? So I pull, you know, different day or same day if I have another person, I'll have them go in a different area, ready, watch and if dog goes, of course the person throws. If not again, we go like this, dog talks, second person, okay. And once you get a few people in with this in different areas, right? I don't need to keep having a ball. I just randomly go out now and point and have a friend go out there with nothing, right? Watch, right? So it's not going to be a toy every time when I go out in public. I'll randomly do that to keep the dog sharp and have somebody planted, right? And throw the toy, okay? So and it can't be the same person all the time because they're going to be learning on the person. I'm trying to use people that dog does not know and know well, okay? So over time very quickly, I'm talking like a week or two, everywhere I go when I go watch, the dog just goes, whoever I point to that. God boy, good boy, right? And every so often I'll have another person out there and I'll have them do it so I could keep it going, keep it fresh. And if I ever need the dog, right? I know I've built it and it will be there for me, whether it's a bite dog or a watch, just a watch dog. The behavior is built and they'll bark at anybody I tell them to bark at because they have no idea if the person's going to have a toy or not for them. The person I'm telling them to bark at if I ever need them is not going to know the difference whether it's play or serious aggression. Right? Because if you look at Axel here and you see him barking at you. What? You would be crazy, right?  You don't know if that's serious or he's just play talking to you, right? So we have on cue and we have a built behavior, right? So this is the way I go about it with my protection dogs or any client that wants to do just talk on cue, no bite work, just threat. And that's how you build the behavior to be solid, right? That I don't need to go do bite work out in the public and have a problem with the public that I'm doing bites out there. All right? So that is how you build a public watch on command. So Richard Hines, till next time, Mimey Dog Whisper.