No You having a thousand men in your DM's does not be your catch Honestly, some of the most catchiest people are the ones you would never expect facts Listen, it's the message right here Like boy tell me how you really feel Because I just want to build with you black girl. Tell me how you really feel. I Want to keep it real with you. I want to live better eat better I want to love better sleep better. Yeah, I want to feel so aligned you're taking attributes of what He has going on in his life and you're applying it to your life as Maybe you're not a peacock.   You think most men do that? Yes Except give me an example I mean it's a thousand times over even if we're just speaking of like A beauty influencer that I watch She was talking about the difference between when she goes out with her natural hair versus Long leave in the different approaches that she gets from each interaction She's less likely to be approached when her natural hair is out versus when she's got hair down to her ass and it's a different color It's the small things like that that Make it harder for women. I feel like to believe that You aren't acting like a peacock Well, I mean the the question is the question would then be like What kind of men does she get that she attract so she attracts less men with natural hair But what kind and caliber of men are those and then she attracts more men with this long slick hair What kind of caliber of men are those? That's true. I have no idea, but yeah, no it is and I think again Between the colors and between the natural hair and those are two totally different topics because we could talk about that all day long because I do feel like Even in 2022, there's still a large gap when it comes to stuff like that. So Yeah, and I think part of the problem too is Some women who complain about these things They complain about it because they're not attracted to the men who they wouldn't have to complain about it with Like you're not attracted to the guy who likes who prefers your natural hair. So like That's why a lot of times it's disconnect because it's like I don't have success with black women and I love them in their natural hair But she's over there in the corner complaining about future not liking her with her natural hair.  Yeah I mean, that's a good question. That's a good that's a good Statement as well like when it comes to that kind of stuff because you're right Sometimes that guy who wants the natural hair isn't hitting on what the woman may want but again it goes back to Pop culture and how you feel and all this stuff because there's so many It's crazy that we were taught when we were this little not to judge a book by its cover But then we do it every single day in our lives. So I think the The notion of somebody actually enjoying the hair that grows out of our head that we've had to create things Like the crown act to make sure that we're not discriminated against on it's just very like I want to say it's confusing It's very confusing because how do I know you actually Truthfully like this and it's not more Than just a fetish or something like that But I just I feel like there's so many layers when it comes to stuff like that I mean, so the the fetish thing, you know, you can make the argument future who likes slick hair is fetishizing that So It's it's it's gonna be like the kind and caliber of man that you're going towards But I want to segue that into, you know, the 10-year challenge Have you have you seen a lot of these pictures? Yeah, in my experience, it may be yours is different 90% of girls I've seen and fell off. Yeah a cliff And most of the dudes I've seen have gotten better. They they they've started they got some swag They their glasses are off their beards connect now And You're hearing about a lot of hey big head Yes, yeah But the the the the girl who was the baddie back in high school like What's going on? Wait, what? What's the deal with that? Well, again, we talked about The romanticizing I feel like sometimes for women After they've gotten like you said when you get to the ring when you get to the wedding you've won And then I feel like for a lot of women. That's it We start having kids and I just look how I look and you better accept it I really have seen that happened before, you know, you see women all the time with short hair and They just don't wear bras and they just look however And I think sometimes that happens because like you said, they've Reached their top level of what they think is right as opposed to men I feel like I don't really know the answer for that part But I feel like I can speak to women who have either lost themselves because they've reached their highest level or They've accomplished what they wanted and they've gotten what they wanted and they're comfortable because if we're gonna impact that too Being comfortable in relationship will have you out here fucked up Because you look like who done it and why you think he's gonna be down to the ground because you just are like My man gonna love me regardless Think about it Think about the girl who married her high school sweetheart. It doesn't happen often, but When it does maybe she lets herself go because he's loved me since I was 15. How would he ever stop loving me? And that's why you have to continue to date the person and like realize that this is not the end But I think that's the I think that's a disconnect I feel like when we were talking about hierarchy women sometimes feel like they reached their highest level as opposed to a man who Doesn't have that same You don't get as a man I don't feel like you get the same kudos for being a wife or being a husband and being a father You don't get that Not at all. Not at all. It's like in prison now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah so You know going back to when I was saying like you can't tell me shit these days um It kind of ties into love me as I am and and it doesn't matter how I look whatever whatever whatever a big thing right now Is body positivity A lot of men are sick of it They're tired of it.  Yeah Explain that to me. What's going on? body positivity That term can can turn into such A toxic behavior so quickly that I don't think we're realizing it Yes, I should be positive about my stretch marks and my roles and my whatever But also Am I being healthy about it because that's what you mean?  I don't need to fix it.  I'm huge now. But this is body positivity because Whoever named celebrity insert celebrity name Says that they look like this and it's okay for me to look like this and I feel like sometimes body positivity just is One it can be a good way to connect the community of people who need to be connected because As women there's a lot of pressures to look a certain way and to be a certain way and to be perfect It's slim and no cellulite. But also It creates unhealthy habits and it also takes away accountability Which I know is why sometimes men get tired of it because it's like you're not even holding yourself accountable anymore for taking care of yourself because This is real life. Like if you don't take care of yourself, you could be dead tomorrow.  Yeah, so like wait What do women need to do? What do men need to do in terms of body positivity? Yeah who Oh so women Again, I feel like a lot of what our standards today are based off of these Artificial people that belong on social media or that are from social media Because that's where a lot of I feel like the idealisms of like what you're supposed to be and what your partner's supposed to become So one get off social media go look at normal people because that'll help you As women probably just accept the fact of Your type may not be who you're right for who's right for you um, I feel like Even myself I romanticize a type of man for so long And as soon as I let that shit go Other things happened So maybe he is short. Maybe he is bald. Maybe his dick is tiny But honestly like they say it's about the motion of the ocean not the size of whatever um, and then for men I think it's going to take up on both sides understanding understanding that like This woman isn't just saying body positivity all the time just to You know sugarcoat when she's going through her to give herself an excuse She's saying it because there's something that she needs your help with And on both sides, you know I feel like though for women A lot of it is more Image based on what images we see out there versus men They get You become a list men become a list at all times He can't like he said he can't be short. He can't be fat. He can't All these things so I think that's the difference and I think that it all just takes understanding and just Really knowing What and who you're getting involved with I think that's a really good point Especially like you you you put some of the accountability on women, which is rare. So I commend you on that Oh my god, yes So I think you're in a unique position to answer this question because you work in the media space Why is Mr. Kevin samuels Yes famous he's famous because He says some shit that nobody else would say if you think about it if you look at our long history of media It's always the people who say things out seemingly to be outlandish That become the famous ones Um now whether I agree with his opinions on everything Is another story but He's famous because he's just gonna say it.  We're all just listening to it Like sometimes sometimes honestly Do most women know what a man wants? No So Why would he need to be a woman to be able to tell you what a man wants? Oh, let me see. Why would he need to be a woman to tell you what a man was? He wouldn't but again, we have to get out of this generalization thing Because we generalize what a man would want and what a woman would want I don't know what you want. You don't know what I want But if I'm going based off of this dude sitting in his house to tell me how to get a partner It's already messed up from the beginning because It's individualized per person, right But that I would agree with you if It wasn't the case that if you pulled 10 women To explain their ideal man, they would they would Explain the same dude yeah too popular phd who makes six figures and in six foot tall Yeah, so so if he fits that or if men who fit that are telling you what they want Why wouldn't more women listen? Because you're saying okay, so you're saying the list and that all 10 women may have the same list But they don't know what they want We're just Fantasizing just like the man is fantasizing what you want.  I got to be with him, but you don't know what he's like for real so the idea of Any part of that whether it's Kevin samuels or a controversial woman speaking It's bull I believe But I mean from from my point of view, it seems like that's what he's saying Yeah, it seems like you know, and what a lot of men understand is that 99 percent of women want one percent of men That's true And because you want one percent of men Here is what those men want so if you're really interested in that one percent of men This is how you become attractive to that one percent of men. So He also says that, you know, for example, the average of best girl She was saying that after she became a dog rumor and started making six figures She couldn't respect her boyfriend or the men that she dated who made $30,000 a year So and that that was why he was like your average of best because he was essentially saying that The men you want wouldn't want you So why aren't you more invested in why aren't you more interested in Building union and partnership with the men you qualify for What's the problem with that? You say qualify for Oh my god But you tell me you say qualify for and you You know say she's no longer attracted to her boyfriend because she makes 30 he makes 30 000 and she makes six figures Why won't she qualify for Someone else or someone higher up because the curriculum is different Her going from making 30 000 to 100 000 doesn't make her a better catch for a man who makes six figures No And just I mean and you know men understand that if I want Halle Berry I have to make a certain amount of money Right, but for some reason women don't understand that in the reverse They think that if I'm if I now make six figures it doesn't matter that I'm 40 with five kids Six for the men should now want me when men don't grade women on the same curriculum as as women grade uh men I feel like You're kind of right. I'll agree with you just a tiny bit. Where am I wrong? I also well Because you have to again look at what we're in right now I literally can go on instagram Look at a dm From some random dude And he'll be like I don't need to see your face.   Tell me that Well, most men won't but That's why I'm telling women like he you have in 50 men in your DMs doesn't mean you're a catch. No You having a thousand men in your DMs does not be your catch Honestly, some of the most catchiest people are the ones you would never expect So, I mean, of course, none of that matters, but The way everything has been built up now I can go on a sugar daddy website And lie about who I am and get everything I want or I could be who I am and still get everything I want So of course, there's not the same curriculum But it's also up to men sometimes regardless of age To take responsibility for that and incentivize the wrong behavior. You do You literally tell me sometimes I can Meet you tomorrow We can go to dinner You pay my mortgage my all my utilities And all I got to do is pop some pussy every day out again And then you want me to say what shouldn't the woman know that that's unsustainable Huh, shouldn't she know that that's unsustainable like I can do that between 20 and 30 and after that The sugar daddy's gonna dry up because they going back to the 20 and 25 year olds That's not always the case though But I'm saying like if you had 10 sugar daddy's between 20 and 30 Between 30 and 40 you might have five. Yeah, the point But somebody's still Obtaining my life style, right? I don't care if they do window down halfway.  You know I'm saying like this one's a doctor that one's a lawyer Um, this one is an esthetician. This one is this this one that they're boss bitches and they walk out and they got this The letters on but they're all single. Yeah, why? Because and I I don't know I've had this conversation before so this is where I'm getting this idea from You have back in what the 1950s was still when women had to be married to even have like Drivers license whatever. It was something crazy that I don't feel like nowadays It's obtainable sometimes to be both Because yeah, there are a lot of bad bees out here with the grease and doing this But it's hard to obtain both because we've never been taught to obtain both I mean personally in my circumstance I grew up with a bad bee who just happened to be married but it was Not a successful relationship because on the other side of that if you do find somebody Is he going to be okay with the caliber of woman that you are? Because a lot of times you see It happened and you see her finally found her boas And then boas is mad at you because you work long hours and make more money than him It's still a thing of The man's ego or whatever it could be a plethora of things But I will say I think that's one of the main reasons because We're still at the point where we're still accepting that women can be bad bees and they could have degrees and have Nice jobs inquires and take care of themselves.  That's not the case now and then Are just trying to summon are still trying to make that happen They're trying to make that happen with this girl who just spent seven years being a doctor and now you want me to Just shut up and listen to you While trying to be the bad bee That's but the problem with that is that if you ask her what kind of man she wants. She still wants a traditional man So why can't that traditional man want a traditional woman? What's the problem? What's tradition? Um, well when you ask women they say I want a man to provide and protect and you asked men they want a woman who's Kevin sam is called a fit feminine and friendly But the doctors and the lawyers struggle with fit feminine and friendly a lot of times, but they still want to provide and protect. Yeah Well, because I'm I'm sure you've seen this but there's a lot of cases where these uber strong women To say at the end of the day, I just want somebody to go home to and to take the responsibility away from me And I think when they're 30 and 40 When they're 30 or 40, yes But you like right now We're Still 20 something. Oh, I feel like we're in the largest race of our life Some people are starting families. Some people are starting businesses. We know millionaires at this age So at 20, nobody's thinking of that for real. Well in some cases, so I think that's where it comes from Because right now Think about it. Every time you go on instagram anybody from our age demographic is grabbed it is out there getting it It's working seven jobs is lying. It's starting businesses. Yeah, it's lying They are lying, but they're not everybody last year became an entrepreneur. Everybody became this that the third So, yeah When i'm 30, maybe that's when I want you to lighten my love a little That's what I think so obviously like we said kind of in the beginning There is a gap between black men and black women. Yes um What role did black women play in creating that gap? None, no, just like, um What role did black women play? Well Again, I think it goes back in history as well.  So I think that's where it happened for black women And then is your second part for black men? No, no, yeah, well, yeah, we talk about black men And when I when it's a black man, I ask him But I I'm very interested to know Because the popular idea is that black men messed up the black family, right? And we can't create the black family by ourselves. So why the idea that we can mess it up by ourselves All right, so I'm always interested to know. Okay. What part of the dysfunction are women willing to own? Yeah, well, that's part of it and you know, even like destroying the black family Has nothing to do with black people It never has anything has had anything to do with black people I feel like Because it happened through slavery and then it happened when you know, you get rewarded for Being a single parent or whatever it may be because it's crazy as that lady is Candice Owens She makes a good point and she was telling people that one that that one thing. Let's be mindful that one thing That one thing when she said, you know The government came in and made sure they created the divide And what continued that divide I feel like is a lack of healing on the black woman side because you think about it One black man hurts I'll use me for example One black man hurt my feelings five years seven years ago And so I take that on every single black man that comes after him And then I have a black son and I teach him not to be like that black man And that continues it disconnects because I never healed from that and never had that conversation So that that that's um, I think you segue perfectly into this question and then we'll close it out What kind of son do you want to raise? Oh god? Oh my god children. Oh Uh, well in 12 years when I have children um I want my black son to be Like who I potentially believe obviously is going to be his father. Um, which is very vulnerable, but also able to navigate your feelings in a healthy way because I mean, I'm a woman and I still can't navigate my feelings in a healthy way um one who Isn't afraid to have those hard conversations, but knows how to go into it with a certain amount of tact and ability to communicate um One that actually does care about black women because you know oftentimes We make these black well.  Unfortunately.  Yeah Yeah A lot of the dysfunction starts with mom. So And that's what I said about the healing the the popular phrase you hear is that You got a black mom. Well, that's the reason but Does that while black men heal because I absolutely preach that? Does there need to be some empathy from black women and understanding about that? Definitely And it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be very hard because again We've been conditioned to see black men as these untouchable things.  There's gonna have to be a lot of empathy Like I said before I'm always preaching about the therapy because You never know what kind of healing can happen when you just let somebody else help you That's not a part of this equation


Good morning for those attending in person. Good afternoon, and good evening as maintainer of integrity system. I normally describe other people's work this year and instead of my describing their work. I've invited Lakshmi and to share to join me in describing their work in defining new I'm a buffer and critical data measurements. This work is really important and will be used in a lot of different places. Let's try. Thank you, Mimi. Hi, my name is Lakshmi. I'm a software design engineer in Microsoft. I've been working in the integrity subsystem in the next kernel for the past two years. Thank you, Mimi. Thank you, Lakshmi. My name is Tushar Sugandhi. I'm also a software developer at Microsoft and for past two years I've been working with Mimi and other Linux kernel maintainers on various subsystems like IMA and device mapper and all. Thank you. Afterwards, after to try and much we do their section, I'll continue as per usual by describing other people's changes already upstream and some really close to being upstream. As you're aware, IMA has dependencies on the TPM key, key rings, asymmetric key. EVM is dependent on the trust key type, which was upstream to support the EVM HMAC key. So though they aren't part of the integrity subsystem, the integrity subsystem is dependent on them. And for that reason, I'm including them in this presentation. Two themes this year, as you'll see, are generic and generalizing codes that we'll be discussing. Lakshmi. Thank you, Mimi. We have streamed two buffer measurement features in IMA. The first one measures the command line argument passed to the new kernel in the kexec system call. This is enabled to this custom policy. An example is given here named the kexec underscore cmd line. The second measurement is measuring X519 certificates when the key is imported to a key ring. This is enabled through this custom policy rule named the key underscore check. So in the first example, it enables measuring keys imported to any key ring. But if you want to limit measuring only particular key rings, then we can specify the key ring names in the policy. So in this example, the measurement is limited to keys that are imported to the dot IMA key ring or the dot EVM key ring. These measurements are really critical. It enables a remote attestation service, for example, to verify that the system, when a new kernel is loaded onto the system to the kexec system call, the only known valid command line arguments are passed to the kernel. And with respect to the certificates, it enables the remote attestation service to verify if known trusted keys are imported to the key ring. And when X519 certificates measurement becomes all the more important when the feature for a new root of trust for safely loading keys from, for example, mockdb is upstreamed. And we also upstreamed tests for these features in LTP. Tushar. Thank you, Lakshmi. So we also, along with the buffer data measurement, we also worked on supporting critical kernel data measurement. So what is the critical kernel data measurement? IMA measures files and buffer data such as keys or command line arguments passed to the kernel on kexec system call, as Lakshmi was mentioning. While these measurements are necessary for monitoring and validating the integrity of the system, they're not sufficient. Various data structures, policies and states stored in the kernel memory also impact the integrity of the system. These structures are data sources can be called as kernel integrity critical data. Some of these structures cannot be defined as read only after in it because they are initialized later and they're not expected to change frequently during runtime. Several kernel subsystems such as contain such integrity critical data. For example, LSMs like SELinux or AppArmor are various attributes of device mapper modules like DMCrypt, DMVarity that we described in yesterday's talk on device mapper and IMA measurements. These are the examples of integrity critical data. We have upstreamed some of the critical measurements already. For instance, SELinux and device mapper critical data. The SELinux critical data measures the hash of the SELinux policy. The SELinux operating mode, the operating mode can be either enforcing or permissive. We also measure several other SELinux policy capabilities as described in this example. For example, enabling extended socket class capability enables the support for all the known network socket address families. And we measure if that capability is enabled or not. On the device mapper front, we measure the critical data from various device modules like DMCrypt, DM Integrity, DMVarity, etc. For example, in case of DMCrypt, we try to measure what is the encryption algorithm and key strength used for disk that are being encrypted using DMCrypt. In case of variety, what is the root hash of the read only disks like OS boot volumes that are configured with DMVarity for secure boot. So we measure all these attributes for various device mapper modules. And lastly, we also added the support for allowing the duplicate measurement records in order to detect critical data or file change reversion. This change ensures that the up-to-date measurements are provided by the system to the remote attestation services. Thank you. Thank you. The security IMA X adders contain either file hashes or signatures. Anyone with real root privileges may write security.IMA X adders. Up to now, file signatures can be based on any hash algorithm. One reason for this patch set is to prevent writing unsupported hash algorithms. And the other reason is to prevent inadvertent downgrading of file signatures. For example, files signatures may already exist on the file system. Migrating from an existing hash algorithm to another requires allowing the existing file signatures to continue to be verified. But at the same time, preventing downgrading the new file signatures. As seen in the example, policy rules, the praise algorithms differ. On a soft reboot, the TPM PCRs are not reset. As a result, carrying the IMA measurements list was originally added for open power. This work was done by Tiago Bowerman. To Char and Lakshmi, the Tiagos and Rob Herring's help generalize the support for device trade. Another example of generalizing support is the architecture policy support. The existing IMA architecture policy for X86 was generalized for EFI by Chester Lynn with Ard's help. It measures both the Kexec kernel image and kernel modules. It also requires them to be signed. There are different ways that they can be signed. It requires a single method. Revitasso vastly improved the existing portable and immutable EVM signature support. The list here includes a lot of the changes that were made. As much as possible, IMA and EVM are two separate subsystems and shouldn't be mixed. The one exception is including EVM signatures in the IMA measurement list when an IMA signature does not exist. As previously mentioned, the trusted type keys was upstream to support EVM HMAC. Even prior to extending trusted keys to other hardware, the guarantees differed for hardware versus software TPMs. The extending trusted keys to support other hardware highlighted the need to document that not all trusted type keys are equivalent. The trust source section of the trusted encrypted key document is an attempt at documenting that. Currently, the only way of verifying new routes of trust is by building your own kernel and embedding a local CA key in the kernel image, which would be loaded onto the built-in key ring on boot or post-build by embedding the key into the kernel image and resigning the kernel. Most users aren't interested in building their own kernel or even just embedding a key post-build and resigning it. Being able to load a local CA key from a trusted source is really needed, but what makes it safe? Eric Snowberg has posted a pass set a number of times, which is really close to being upstream. His version, the trusted source, is the MACDB, but it's clear that other sources, trust sources, will be defined in the future. Thank you everyone who has contributed, especially Peter Voral and Vitaly, for the contributions to IMA EVMU tools and the IMA LTP test. A lot of work has gone into both of them. I'm hoping to release a new version of IMA EVMU tools in minutes. We mentioned two themes, generic and generalizing code at the beginning. Initially, people think about their specific problem without looking at the bigger picture. Please remember to look at the bigger picture and see if it is something that should be generic. As we've seen with both the buffer and critical data measurement, the code being streamed is a lot simpler and cleaner. Questions?


In this short video, I'm going to quickly share with you some important qualities that must demonstrate in your PhD interview. Friends, the first thing is your commitment. You have to demonstrate your passion for research. While answering questions, you can give examples from your real life on how you have always been interested in research in academia. Your zeal and passion for research should be demonstrated very well. Second thing is alignment between you and the university. You have to tell them how you are the best fit for the university. Why shouldn't they select you out of all the other candidates? You have to tell them how your research can be beneficial to the university and how the university can support your goals. The third thing that they are looking for is likability. Since you are very closely working with them, it is necessary for them to analyse how well you can communicate, how well can you take feedback. So these are three aspects that you should keep in mind if you are going for the PhD interview. I'm going to see you with another lit shot very soon till then stay tuned to arpitakarbar.com


Hi everyone, Megan Cox here. In today's video we'll be showing you how students can upload and submit their work to Google Classroom assignments. To get started go to classroom.google.com on your laptop or Chromebook. If you are using an iPad you may also use the Google Classroom app. Once you get into your classroom you will be taken to your stream. Your stream will have post assignments, comments from both your teacher and possibly students in your classroom. The easiest way to navigate to your assignments is under the Classwork tab. Once you have clicked here you will find all of your assignments. Notice they will have due dates as well. Today we'll be exploring first how to submit an assignment with an attachment. If you click on the assignment it will show you a drop-down option. Notice here I have a Google Docs attached that begins with my name. No matter the format it will always start with the copy of whatever your teacher has assigned you with your name first. If you click view assignment you can see more information. Once you click here you will be able to see where you can leave a class comment. Remember these are public so all students in your class can see these. This would be a great place to add a question that might benefit others in your classroom. You can also see that same doc we talked about previously. Here you will see the add button. We will talk about this a little bit more on assignments with no attachments. Here's a turn in button and then also notice private comment options. This is for something you only want your teacher to see. I can also click here to get to my doc and if my teacher has provided me with a template I can start editing and submitting my assignment here. Once I have finished my submission I can click turn in in the top right hand corner. Once you do this you will lose all editing rights and the teacher will take them over. So you do not want to hit this button until you are ready and completely finished. If you are not finished you could simply exit out of your doc. Clicking back here will take you back to your progress so that you can continue working on your assignment. You can also click the turn in button here. After you have submitted your assignment you can navigate back to your class in the top left hand corner. Here I can go back to classwork and see my other assignments. Notice it now says that this assignment is turned in. Let's explore assignments with no attachments. If I click view assignment you will notice I do not have that document with my name. However I can click this plus add or create to add my own files. Under the Google Drive option you can add any file in your Google Drive. For example this could be a Google doc you have created or it might be a video file that you have uploaded and stored in your Google Drive. Notice the other types of files you can attach. You have the option for links. Files on a laptop will take you to any document stored on your hard drive such as a Microsoft Word file. If you are uploading from an iPad it could take you to your camera roll or your files. If you have not started the document or assignment you can use blank docs slides sheets and drawings from below. They will automatically be stored in your Google Drive and work the same way. From here you have the same options for commenting or private messaging or submitting. If you are uploading from an iPad please note that a lot of the same functions will be listed at the bottom of your screen instead of to the left hand menu that you are seeing or the top that you are noting here. Thanks for tuning in. If you still have questions or you have specific questions on how to turn in an assignment please reach out to your teacher.


Hello and welcome to the memorandum of understanding signing ceremony between the Saint Lucia Nurses Association and the Taiwan Nurses Association. I am Linda Chocolate Berthier, sexual reproductive health nurse within the Community Nursing Service and it is an honor to be your host for this exciting and historical occasion. We move along to our program as I welcome Miss Alicia Baptiste, President of the Saint Lucia Nurses Association with the welcome remarks. It is my honor to welcome you all to this historic occasion, the signing of the first ever memorandum of understanding between the Saint Lucia Nurses Association and the Taiwan Nurses Association. This journey began in 2019 when I visited Taiwan and met with the then President of the Taiwan Nurses Association. It was through continual discussion with the Taiwan Embassy sorry in Saint Lucia which led to this momentous occasion. The signing of this memorandum of understanding serves to enhance partnership between the two parties in the areas of nursing education, professional training and exchange areas of cooperation to include participation in international conferences, seminars, workshops and other capacity building opportunities, training programs, knowledge sharing and exchange of information, academic material and or technical expertise. The Saint Lucia Nurses Association is indeed thankful for this collaboration and looks forward to a beneficial relationship benefiting our nurses and my extension the people of Saint Lucia. It is my great pleasure and privilege to witness today's signing of the memorandum of understanding between the Taiwan Nurses Association and the Lucia Nurses Association. These MOU signing will enhance partnership between Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association in knowledge sharing and capacity building through periodic mutual exchange. In fact prior to today's ceremony a substantial amount of cooperation between the two Nurses Association has already been achieved. Two Saint Lucia Nurses will live for Taiwan in July this year to attend the ICN leadership for change program sponsored by Taiwan Nurses Association. By participating in the same program we believe that the expertise these nurses will gain will equip them with better knowledge for how to improve practices in the Saint Lucia healthcare sector. All of this is happening because both our countries recognize the important role that good healthcare plays in shaping society. I also like to take this opportunity to commend the leadership and great efforts of Honorable Minister Jean-Baptiste, the Department of NGO International Affairs of MOFA in Taiwan, President Chen, President Baptiste from the, from both Nurses Association and officials from Taiwan Nurses of Health to make this MOU signing real life. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all is one of the United Nations sustainable development goals. In that spirit Taiwan remains committed to assisting in the enhancement of the healthcare capacity in Saint Lucia. Thank you. I do agree that NGOs play a critical role in developing society, improving communities and promoting citizens participation. Nurses often find themselves on the front lines of serving the most vulnerable and filling the gap in communities without access to physicians. We now listen to remarks by Ms. Lv Hu, Deputy Director General, Department of NGO International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, Taiwan. It is my great pleasure to join you and witness the start of this monumental partnership between Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association. First of all, on behalf of the Republic of China Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would like to extend our warmest congratulations on the agreement reached between Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association. I also want to applaud the tireless efforts of the two National Association of Nurses through the COVID-19 pandemic and the facilitation of our Embassy in Saint Lucia to make today's event possible. This MOU offers an excellent opportunity to expand the nursing education and professional training cooperation and more in nursing care and science between our countries, particularly because of the strong emphasis placed on public health by both institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that trust, partnership, and solidarity are essential for confronting shared public health threats. As we are aware, this pandemic won't end at home until it ends worldwide. Taiwan has leveraged its experience in containing the 2003 SARS outbreak by responding to the COVID-19 crisis with rapid measures, early deployment, prudent actions, and transparency. Collectively, these actions have created a Taiwan model, it's well known for successfully combating COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Taiwan has donated PPEs, face masks, ventilators, and more recently than 10,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Saint Lucia. As we all always mentioned, Taiwan can help. We are also willing to share the experience and more with our friends in Saint Lucia, not only via official channels, but also through NGOs' cooperation. This memorandum of understanding serves as the best practice of promoting cooperation between NGOs. With strong leadership of President Baptiste and President Dr. Chen, I'm confident that the two associations will translate this MOU from a commitment on paper to a reality in the lives of the people we serve. In closing, my hearty congratulations to Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association for achieving such a tremendous milestone in these exceptional times. That's all of us to help make this partnership a success. And I look forward to seeing the fruits of these exchanges soon. Thank you. We really do appreciate the contributions of the Republic of China, Taiwan, to Saint Lucia. NGO seeks to bring together nurses and communities to provide education, healthcare, and scholarship in the spirit of unity. Nursing development is critical, as we know, in improving standards of nursing care. And now, remarks from Dr. Shu Feng Chai, Director General, Department of Nursing and Healthcare, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of China, Taiwan. I'm delighted and honored to be in this memorandum of understanding of the family between the Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association. Taiwan and Saint Lucia have several characteristics in common. For example, we are both beautiful island nurses. And we are all countries that are united in our commitment to a health system that supports universal health coverage. As we all know, one of the most important milestones of the 20th century in the field of public health was the unauthorized declaration of 1978, which called for a global commitment to the goal of a healthful home. Correctly, efforts around the world have made it possible to work toward advanced developments for a world with universal health coverage. And I'm proud to say that Saint Lucia and Taiwan has always been there from the beginning. Because socioeconomic development is critical to health care delivery and deferment, and inter-central approaches have to be key in this regard. Saint Lucia was one of the first countries to begin developing an inter-central approach to public health and its minister of health, along with other Caribbean ministers of health, convened a national inter-central workshop in 1981 to establish the inter-central community on primary health care, which was quickly followed by the development of a primary care strategy for the Caribbean. Taiwan has never been absent from taking up the challenges to work with the world to provide better health for people. We have done our part in the global nursing initiative. There's our nursing research, education, and practice to the top level. The 16 COVID-19 outcomes importantly create an atmosphere where nurses can be a voice to be in nursing past 19, we are both an integral part of the global nursing. The Saint Lucia Nurses Association, like the Taiwan Nurses Association, is committed to protecting and defending a rise of nurses and believers strong in principles of equity and community involvement. I hope that the two associations can begin close collaboration and work closely together to exchange ideas on health documentation, research activities, nursing education, and after-space practice. I also hope that both associations will work together with the ministries of health in both countries and assist in nursing and health care metrics. With the signing of this MOU, I feel we are one step close to attaining the global of universal health coverage. Congratulations to you all and thank you very much. Indeed, nursing associations are organizations devoted to the professional and personal development of members and to the general advancement of the profession, so I definitely agree that this close collaboration will assist nurses in defending their rights, understanding their roles, and of course, by extension, improving universal health care. And now Dr. Qin Min Cheng, President of the Taiwan Nurses Association, Republic of China, Taiwan, will tell us a little more. On behalf of Taiwan Nurses Association, it's my greatest honor to extend my warmest greetings and welcome you all to this Memorization of Understanding Science Ceremony. Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association are two of national nursing associations in the International Council of Nurses. We have enjoyed a long-standing friendship with each other and worked together to ensure the health and right for the people of the world under the leadership of ICN. To continue this effort and base on well-established foundation, today we are going to deepen and expand our collaboration through this signing of MOU. This is a very historical moment and has never been so important in this constant changing world as the COVID-19 pandemic and recent armed conflict of Ukraine has demonstrated the importance of partnership and solidarity of nurses. This MOU commits us to work together more closely and support each other towards our common goal and value in nursing, such as pursuit of internationalization, capacity building for nurses, enhancement of academic achievement and research outcome, and so on. On top of this, universal health coverage and sustainable development goals are also very significant that the two associations can stay and work together toward this goal. International Nurses Association has very strong leadership trainings. We have two official journals every year. We conduct research conference and over 100 continued education seminars. We are more than happy to share with our sister, Saint Lucia Nursing Associations. Lastly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who has dedicated to making this signing of MOU a reality. In particular, I would like to thank two key persons, Ambassador Peter Chen and Minister Moses Shon Baptist. Without your support, the signing of the MOU would not be possible. Though I cannot attend this ceremony in person, I can feel two dignities, full support and strong backup. This is very important and encouraging for nurses of both countries. Thank you so much. In addition, I would like to thank our Chief Nursing Officer from Minister of Health and Welfare, Xu Feng Cai, for her opening speech due to another important event. She's not be able to join us online today. In conclusion, once again, I would like to recognize the sign of MOU between Taiwan Nurse Association and Saint Lucia Nursing Association and commit to strengthening a stronger relationship between our two associations and implementing the content of MOU. Thank you so much. A few things not worthy was the capacity building, sustainable development goals and leadership training seminars. You could imagine the opportunities for both the Taiwan nurses and Saint Lucia nurses with this collaboration. So, ladies and gentlemen, we are experiencing a moment in history. Put your hands together one more time for us. Nurses get developed, standard of nursing care improves our country benefits in the increased health and disease prevention. And as we know it, health is wealth. So, this augurs well for our country. Dr. Lian Wu Guang, the third vice president of the International Council of Nurses, will share some more by her brief remarks online. It's my great pleasure to be here to witness the signing of MOU between Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association. ICN is a global nursing family representing 27 million nurses from 138 National Nurses Association worldwide. So, collaborating and resource sharing among each other. National Nurses Association across the world enable their sister association to empower their members, promote mutual growth and development. The partnership will act as a catalyst for quality nursing care and better health outcome. As ICN's third vice president, I congratulate both Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association. You have demonstrated an excellent example by collaborating and sharing with each other. I believe both Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association will benefit mutually in the development of nursing profession. By working together, enhancing the nursing education, profession and capacity, hopefully building resilient healthcare systems and promote health for all will come true. Strengthening and enhancing the capacity of the National Nurses Association is essential for the global voice of nursing to continue being heard and valued. Again, I congratulate and thank Taiwan Nurses Association and Saint Lucia Nurses Association for this very significant moment. Finally, I wish you all the best. Nursing, successful and prosperous. Thank you. In this very significant moment, we will engage in a minister who has been protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare and pioneering and advocating for the social security and health of the country. I wish to thank the government and people of Taiwan on this moment, this occasion. I wish to thank Ambassador Chen for his leadership and this memorandum of understanding is clearly another example of the cooperation which exists between the people of Taiwan and the people of Saint Lucia. I wish to thank you, Ambassador, for all of what you've done for us, in particular during this pandemic. I wish to thank Ambassador and the government of Taiwan for what you've done for us over the years in the healthcare and also we are thankful for the recent donation of vaccines and all of the assistance during this COVID-19 pandemic. I wish to thank you for embracing us, even though you have your own challenges at home in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, you found within your resources the ability to stretch your hand of friendship to the people of Saint Lucia. And on behalf of the government and people of Saint Lucia, I wish to say thanks very much. When we look at the program which on the pins, the memorandum of understanding, we recognize as nurse Alicia Baptiste said a while ago that there is, we have tremendous opportunities for participation in conferences, seminars, workshops, and other capacity building opportunities, training programs. Very important at this time. We also recognize that this memorandum of understanding will allow us to share and to exchange information, academic material, or the technical expertise. It also allows us to have opportunities for both parties to gain experience from each other's work. I wish to say that the need for continuous training for our nurses is important and critical at this time. As ambassador and other officials who are with us online, you may know that this region, as with many other regions, continues to experience what we refer to as a brain drain and exodus of our very qualified nurses for better opportunities for themselves and their families. This continues to place pressure on our healthcare system. I believe that the training and retraining of nurses can assist because what this will do, it will help with job satisfaction. If people are better trained, if professionals are better trained, there's continuous training. They have a sense of job satisfaction and it also helps them with their self-actualization and hopefully they will remain, even though we'll obviously have to find some more money to pay them. But I know that with better training comes a feeling of you feel better about yourself and therefore you're more likely to remain at home. So this gives us an opportunity to train our nurses and even after they have served and they want to go to another healthcare market, they are better trained to provide better services. This government's priority, I must say to you ambassador and also the team in Taiwan, this government's priority continues to be an accelerated process with a specific set of activities to achieve universal health coverage over a period of time. I want to say to you ambassador and the team overseas that we are going to activate and we are going to ensure that we implement a specific set of activities starting this year to ensure that we begin the process toward universal health coverage. So we are committed to promoting health for all. We are also focused on measurable activities which will lead us to the process of universal health coverage and to ensure that the partnership which exists between the people and government of Taiwan and Senbusha that this partnership continues for the benefit of both populations and the benefit of our people. We know we all agree inside of her and our team oversees in Taiwan that healthcare for all clearly must be our priority. This pandemic taught us that all of our economic models, all of the theories of economic growth will certainly fall flat down if we have any slight universal problem with healthcare. And we saw all the planes grounded to a halt. We saw all the economic ground into a halt because we had this COVID-19 pandemic. It demonstrates to us our need to strengthen our primary healthcare systems and our need to make our healthcare systems more resilient. So with these few words, I wish to once again say how thankful we are as a government, how thankful we are as a team at the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Early Affairs. I wish to thank Ms. Alisha Baptis and her team for working throughout the years on this. And I want to say to the nurses of Senbusha that we are committed to this and we're going to work very hard to ensure that we have quality outcomes and not just a nice ceremony and so on, that we have quality outcomes over the years. So thank you very much and I really appreciate this opportunity. Thank you. Definitely healthcare for all is our priority, but I think I will grab this opportunity to share the sentiments that nurses are thinking right now. The happy feeling we feel when we hear Honorable Minister mention things like job satisfaction and self-actualization and improvement in pay. I can't even, you know. Calm myself down right now. This is definitely a noteworthy moment. This is a historical moment and a very exciting moment for nurses in St. Lucia. Yes, so the moment we've been waiting for, the signing of the MoMA Random of Understanding. And we are here to witness this as it happens in a synchronized play, both online and in-person. Synchronized play Dr. Chen Ming Chen of Taiwan Nurses Association signing by video and the signing by Ms. Alisha Baptis of the St. Lucia Nurses Association witnessed by Ambassador Peter Chen and by Honorable Moses Jabatis.


You want to check out the biggest sporting event of the year while we are taking you to Minneapolis, the bold north and home of Super Bowl 52. Because of the Super Bowl, more than 100,000 people are expected to travel to the city of Minneapolis, even without tickets to the game. And hosting that many football fans takes an insane amount of planning. Good thing we found the right woman for the job. Maureen, you are from Minnesota so the Super Bowl is in your backyard. What does that mean to you? It is absolutely wonderful to showcase Minnesota to the world, to show people how we live here in the winter, that we don't hibernate, that we have a heck of a lot of fun. No trip to the Twin Cities would be complete without a stop at the Mall of America. This place has over 520 shops, 50 restaurants, it has its own theme park, plenty of Super Bowl 52 swag. So soft. This may be a little small, but I'm gonna get it anyways. Minneapolis is also the birthplace of a culinary masterpiece. The 5A Club created a little something called the Juicy Lucy Burger. You want cheese on top? Well, not here. The gooey good stuff is added right in the middle of the patty. I consider the Juicy Lucy our contribution to American cuisine. You know, like the Philly cheesesteak? Yes. For Philly, the Juicy Lucy is for Minnesota. All right, we're gonna cut it. Oh my goodness gracious. Cheers. To Juicy Lucy. The Juicy Lucy. What's your next stop in town? I'm thinking I need some dessert. And I've been hearing an awful lot about a five pound cookie. So what goes into making a cookie that feeds 20 people? Four eggs and about a pound each of butter, sugar and flour. Now it's time for the best part. Yes. I'm gonna add caramel and chocolate. You're so dainty about it. We're just gonna do this. There we go. Mix it together for 10 minutes and drop it on the scale. Is it five pounds? We are good. Now we're gonna shape this thing and there's really only one thing that I don't think of. All right, how long is this gonna take to bake? About 45 minutes. No pressure, right? 55 pound cookie. We've got one stop left. Good thing I saved the best for last. Two weeks from tonight the NFL will be crowning its champion inside of this beautiful 70,000 seat stadium behind me. Now after more than four years of planning, I am sure Minneapolis is more than ready to host its second Super Bowl. Sadly, it's time for me to go home. I am heading back to the warmth.


Danny, can you talk to me a little bit more about the goal of the 1,000-mile battery and how neobattery materials is involved in that process? Yes. So currently in South Korea, we are ongoing our commercialization process as well as the optimization process to achieve that 1,000-mile battery. Currently, as we know with graphite alone, we cannot reach that 1,000-mile battery goal. However, the industry realizes that we need to implement more of silicon into the battery to increase the EV driving range as well as enable ultra-fast charging. So currently with our optimization of our silicon anode materials, we have recently announced that we have achieved the uniform nanocoding capability of our silicon particles. Now what this means is that our silicon ad technology is highly dependent on how well the silicon is coated with our strong, robust polymers onto the silicon. This is because these polymers protect the volume expansion problem of silicon. And this technical problem is the main deficit of why battery manufacturers and EV automakers cannot use silicon at the commercial scale as of today. So currently with neobattery materials, uniform nanocoding capability, as well as our optimization process, we have achieved about 70% to 80% higher initial capacities than our competitors. We are currently in the initial phases of the construction site of our commercial plant to really expedite the commercialization process and really achieving that 1,000-mile battery as soon as possible for all the battery manufacturers and EV automakers to use our silicon anodes. And of course, can you talk to how you have put together a team of qualified professionals that can achieve this school? This is something we talk about a lot, just there being a shortage in North America of such individuals. Right. So currently our R&D team and commercialization team is all based out of South Korea. And as many may know, aside from China, South Korea is the largest battery cell manufacturing country. And currently we have procured professionals, especially in the chemical engineering space and materials engineering space to commercialize our technologies. And to highlight our management team, we come from the largest battery manufacturer in South Korea, LG Chemical, as well as Samsung SDI. And with scientific advisors from Ivy League institutions, we have a top-notch R&D team to commercialize our technology. And we're confident to go to the next stages to provide our silicon anodes for downstream users and eventually in all EV-mates and models. But you have an office in Vancouver and you were talking about a plant facility you will be building in Ohio. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. We've actually currently re-domiciled into Ontario because we know that LG Energy Solution and Stellantis is going to make a battery gigafactory in the Windsor area and the Volkswagen also with a battery gigafactory. And we believe that Ontario is a strategic battery hub and location. So we are looking towards making another initial R&D facility as well as additional commercial plants within the Ontario region. And as well as in Ohio, we have set up our private U.S. subsidiary, MBM America. And we will be expediting the process to set up an R&D facility. And we have actually just visited Ohio last week, meeting state-level organizations such as Ready Since Daddy and Jobs Ohio and other economic development organizations to expedite the process to build out our U.S. operations. And what would the timeline be for that? Yes, so currently we are more focused on the South Korean commercial plant because we're targeting the completion by the first half of 2024. But we are also concurrently looking to construct the R&D facilities and commercial plants within Ohio. So in terms of timeline, we can expect by the first half of 2024 almost on the timeline with the South Korean commercial plant, we will begin our U.S. operations then and all. Well, thank you so much for joining us today, Danny. And for those of you interested in finding out more about neobattery materials, please go to their website. Thank you.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. I'm here today in Ramat Negev winery. It's located in Kaddish Barnea, which is literally only about 250 meters from Israel's international border with Egypt. The border fence, which is a huge imposing 7 meter high metallic fence, is located just literally a stone's throw in that direction as is Egypt. So this is not the typical place where you'd expect to find a winery and it's notorious as the only boutique winery in Israel that produces wine in desert soil in that specific type of soil and these conditions to do so it uses some really really advanced technology and it's wine which I have tasted is very very good. It's one of the better known small wineries here in Israel. So we're going to go inside now take a tour and hopefully learn a lot more about how they managed to pull off this incredible feast of winemaking here in the Israeli desert. This is where they're fermenting the wine and Alon here was saying that they're one of the larger of the smaller boutique wineries in Israel that make rosé white wines and red wines and they're going to price up to about 450 shackles, just about $120. Most of their wines are pretty reasonably priced, actually more like 60 shackles or $15. This is their Exodus wine. It's an excellent rosé and these guys are going to be at the Jerusalem wine festival next week which if you haven't been is amazing. This place is okay to about one hour from Mitzpey Ramon by car. You drive through the desert it's really amazing. They do tours here all the time so it's very recommended to come here.


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This isn't Justice Stake. This is Applebee's USTA choice sirloin getting juicy over split American oak. So does this look like a microwave to you? Oops, there you go. Everybody, good morning. Good afternoon. It's Monday afternoon, isn't it? Alrighty, so if you can follow me on social media this morning then you know I filled up four more mystery boxes. The listing is already live on Etsy. The video will go up shortly. I'll load it after I'm done with this broadcast. I don't want to do both at the same time because it sometimes messes up the picture quality. But it's already live on Etsy. And when you see the video, I had a different shirt on than the one I have on right now and I looked at the video went, that is really not attractive. So I changed my shirt. Not that you can see it right now, makes a difference. But anyway, I feel better. All right, we're going to start off this morning by putting on some barrier cream on our hands. So if there's anything in the paint that we don't want to have absorbed through our skin or anything like that, that we are pretty safe. This also makes cleaning your hands afterwards easier. This is not made by DecoArt. There's lots of different barrier creams out there. Not super greasy. I got a little too much so blotted up on my rig. There we go. Got some brushes and a palette knife this morning and this is the picture we're going to work on. This is another close-up picture of a flower I took while I was on vacation in Alaska. And of course I ran it through my application dynamic auto painter and used the Benson version. Hey, Alisa, to alter it just a bit and take some of the details out. This is going to be a little bit of a challenging flower. I have no idea how this is going to turn out. But I really find this flower, not only its colors but its shape really interesting. So I thought we would give it a shot because what's the worst that could happen? All right, I've got the DecoArt traditions artist acrylic out. I've got a bunch of those and I've got some Americana out.  Now I do think this photo should be in the inspiration photo section of my website. If it's not, somebody let me know. I'll make sure it gets up there. And after the broadcasts over with, I will put a link to DecoArt where you can get their products, find out about their products and what paint and what paint colors I used in the description. I hope you all had a great weekend. Hey Kathy. All right, I only need one plate. I don't know why I had two out. This is a little painting I did in 2013. It's not very well done. It's just, that's sort of ugly. I mean, it's cute in a very primitive, I guess, kind of way. I was doing a lot of experimenting. I was just really getting back into painting. And I had it for sale for a while at some arts and craft shows and never sold. And there was a series of these that we've been painting over them. So yeah. We're going to get started actually a little differently this morning. And we're going to start with black. Again, this is the Traditions Artist Acrylic by DecoArts. And I have a fairly decent size filbert brush. I can't tell you what size it is because it is all painting. But it says a scota. I can see that much on the brush. It is a filbert. I have no idea what size. Yeah, there's no way I can tell you. We're still doing some purging around here and getting used to, you know, the daughter being all grown up and everything and not being home, being out in her own apartment, which is interesting. Hasn't been a super hard transition because she did move out temporarily not long ago into her sorority house at college. So it's just weird. All right. So I'm going to start with the edges. That's a little opposite of how I normally do. I know, but I just thought we'd try something new because why not? If you guys have any questions about DecoArt products or acrylic painting, painting on canvas while we're here this morning, let me know. I'll try and answer them. I'm no expert, but I'll give it a shot. Nobody can know everything. So I never claimed to know everything. All right. So now, I mean, if I get a little bit of our finished colors on the edge, that's cool. But if I don't, the edges are already painted. Hey, Cindy. Hey, Cindy. All right. So I'm actually going to start with the whole thing black. I know that's very different than how I normally do. Normally, I would tell you, you don't have to cover up the old painting. If some of it shows through, that's cool. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just in the mood to start with black. So that's what we're going to do. I'm rearranging my studio space again. Yeah, emptiness. Yeah, Becca and her boyfriend, Polly, has moved into an apartment together finally. We knew they were looking. What we didn't expect was that while we were in Alaska, we were going to get a call from them that said, Hey, when you guys get back, just to let you know, I'm moving out because while you were gone, we found an apartment and we signed a lease. We weren't expecting that. So we've been home a couple of weeks, but I don't know that I'm rested up from the trip because I haven't had a chance because we got home and landed and immediately started packing her up. So yeah, I don't know. It's been interesting. And now they're off to Canada, the two of them for vacation and I'm apartment sitting. So that's okay. I talked to Cindy. I mean, Bob, well, Cindy knows too. I talked to Bob this morning. And I think we're going to use the opportunity of them being gone to home. There's a few little bits and pieces here at the house of hers. So I think we're going to use her being gone to take all those things over to her apartment while she's gone and like leave them in a neat pile, like in the living room and with a note and say, since you didn't have time for you left, here's the rest of your stuff. Yeah, we it just, you know, I landed from we our ship dock in Seattle. We spent a couple days with my mom, dad, and then came home and, you know, landed and immediately got to work. And it's kind of been nonstop since then, which is I think why I've had some kind of blah days.  And I haven't really had that. Alright, so that was Americana decor. What color was that royal fuchsia? I'm going to put out some white. And while we're doing this, we're just letting this dry a little bit. And I'm going to try to line up the bottles I am using. Let's see. Let's put in some aquamarine just because I like aquamarine. Who doesn't like aquamarine? And we're going to need purple. So oops, because this purple, this flower is purple and pink. And this is purple pizzazz. Again, Americana. And let's see, we're going to take out some paint gray. Oh, see you later, Cindy. Have fun. So paints gray is a dark blue black. And let's see, let's pull out some greens. That one's not even open yet. Let's do it this way. I don't want to fuss with the lid. Alright, and let's put this over here. No worries. We'll make it work. Alright, so let's see. Yeah, you know, I think that Rebecca moving out has been good for us. Not that we haven't been purging before she moved out because we have been, but we're getting pretty serious about not retiring in the house we're living in. We never intended for this to be our forever house. And the San Jose Bay Area is getting super expensive, more than it already was. And now that she's out on her own, we are thinking more along the lines of when we do move, what do we really want to take with us? So as we, every weekend for the next year or so, we are going to be purging as many, unless we're out of town or something, we'll be purging a certain area and going through it and really, what do we really love and what do we really want to hang on to and move with us and what do we not want to be bothered with? We've been here a long time, so we've got way too much stuff. I'm going to start with the darkest green because with acrylic, you can really start with the darker colors, right? And go lighter. I'm going to reorient my canvas. They're always both welcome. God forbid something should happen, and either one or, of course, my daughter needs a place to stay, but at the same time, you kind of hope that doesn't happen, right? So I'm, of course, working on the background first. I know how you know that, Kathy. I can only guess. I don't think that's going to take too many guesses to figure out how you know that. You and my mom could probably have some conversations. Not that I ever went back. I didn't do that to her, but yeah. So with anything, any painting that you're doing, I want you to remember to have some fun with it. Don't worry so much about having to look a certain way and do some experimenting and playing and, you know, what's the worst that could happen? It doesn't turn out. All right. Well, that's what they make Jessa for. So I'm not going to really clean my brush. That'll give me sort of secondary colors, which is okay. And you notice I'm just tapping it in. I'm not really blending it at all. I have no idea if this is going to turn out. It may not. I do really may not. We'll see. I'm having fun. Oh, they're always welcome.  So it's really more about putting in the highlights and the lighter colors and not so much about the shadows. I should probably have the picture over here so you guys can see what I'm thinking of and where I'm at and what I'm looking at. Shouldn't I? Hold on. You have to have fun with it. Otherwise, what's the point? So I'm just tapping color in. I'm really, that's all I'm doing. I'm looking at the picture. I'm tapping color in. This paint is staying pretty, some of it's still pretty wet, which is good. Some of it's going to be dry before I get back in there. I'm going to do a little bit of smudging with my finger, which again, that would be why I put the barrier cream on, because I almost never can paint without getting my fingers involved. That almost never happens. I'm going to grab a baby wipe. It's coming along. I'm going to go to, I have a round brush here and a smaller filbert. I think I'm going to use the smaller filbert. And I'm going to take my light, lightest green. Why is it every time I do a live broadcast, people start messaging me? Happens every time I see things happening in the background on my iPad. There's people message thing, notifications coming up. It's pretty funny. Everything is quiet until I live broadcast. So I'm suggesting some edges of foliage with these lines. You know, I don't know what kind of flower it is. I have no idea. I just know that it was pretty and I took a picture of it. I am by no means an expert with plants at all. Don't forget to go into your settings on your browser if you have trouble with the picture and adjust the quality of the picture. I can grow vegetables and do that sort of thing, but yeah, I'm not great with plants. It is very delicate. I thought it would be challenging, but I thought it would be a good challenge. So I'm just getting the background down first because I don't want to have to fuss with it when we start doing our flower. There's a light spot right here in the background. Now working on a dark background is really fun to do when you're playing with like metallics. Doing metallics on a dark background is fun and they really show up really well. I do have some gold Americana paint around here somewhere. We may add some of that to the flower. We'll see. I actually think that's pretty good. So we're going to leave it. Let's clean the brush off. My iPad can't decide what it's doing. Hang on guys. Now it's going to play the commercial again.  All right. So we're going to give it a little bit of a dry so that we don't get too much of this green and any of the wet black into our flower where we don't want it. When you're drying acrylic paint like this, be very careful because acrylic paint has lots of like plastic polymers in it, especially the craft paints, and it'll bubble up and create a texture that in some cases you might want, but in other cases you might not want. So okay. So mostly I just took the shine off of it. That doesn't mean it's not still wet in parts, but most of the shine is gone. In real life, if I was not doing a broadcast, I would let this dry naturally and then come back and do the flower. All right. So I'm going to take, we're going to work, hopefully work from the center out of the flower. I'm kind of wanting to hang on. Here's my little texture tools. Let's see. This is a brush from the Japanese dollar store. I think it's for like cleaning your fingernails. I'm not sure. It's the handles in the shape of a coffee cup though, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to be for. I don't use it for that. So we're going to, I don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to try it. So I'm going to lay some pink on in the flower center. I'm going to put a little bit of purple in there, and then we're going to take this brush. Yeah, you know, I've had that old blue heat gun for a long time, and I love that heat gun. I have a round brush too, which I'm going to need.  Again, we're using our photo as inspiration. We're not necessarily looking to copy it exactly. We just want that to be inspired by the flower from nature and to create something inspired by said flower that's interesting, and it evokes that feeling that you get when you look at that pretty flower. I also have, how many people have one of these? Speaking of old tools, this old black hot glue gun from Montgomery Wards. I had another one, and I actually dropped it a few years ago on the concrete when my studio was in the garage. I was so mad because I love this heat gun. And then I was helping a friend clean out his mother's estate, and she had a craft room, and he came across this heat gun. He said, hey, you want this? Like, yes, it works fabulously. It's one of my favorite tools. Okay, sorry, sidetracked by Art Supplies. I'm forgetting to talk again, aren't I? I have another violet, but I think I want to make a darker blue, I mean purple. I think what I want to do is just mix one, and I think I'm going to take some of my purple and mix it with some of my Payne's Gray. That's what I wanted. I'm mapping out the large, delicate sort of fern-like petals, and I'm doing it with a dark purple that I mixed. I just took what was on my palette, and see there was some green that was what, that's all right. We'll make it work. Okay, we're going to stay with the round brush for a while, and I'm going to add some pink to the dark purple, and I'm going to start down here at the bottom again. Put some highlights in, and we're going to go in with, excuse me, the Americana purple. And you notice I'm lighting my purples by, I'm not using any white to lighten them. I'm also not looking to cover up all of the old paint that I've already laid down, creating my highlights with warmer colors rather than white. So now we'll go into that, with that purple straight, which is warmer still. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry, Lisa. So I have my, yes, I put my brush away, I have my palette knife out, and I'm going to start with this one. Not only is it tough when a loved one dies, it's tough when you have to go through their stuff. That's really hard. I've had to do it too many times. So I feel, I feel for you, like really wanting to do this. So I'm going to, oh, that's a little too much purple pink. Hold on. I'm going to do that. I actually like that. So that's good. All right, let's see. Now you have no kind of, I shouldn't say no control, limited control over where the palette knife goes. But it makes interesting marks and makes you be more expressive about said marks because you have no control.  Oh, if you have a treadle sewing machine, don't throw that out. Don't, don't, don't throw that out. As a former seamstress, I would tell you do not throw that. Don't throw that away. Not at all. We had a problem with this last week with the screens freezing. So if anybody has that issue, you probably need to go back out and come back in again. It actually happened to me. I watched my broadcasts on my iPad and it happened to me last week quite a few times. Okay, that white is just really white and I'm not wanting it to be that white. So we're going to take some white and we're going to just knock the, knock some of the white out of it by putting a little bit of the purple in because I think otherwise it's too much. There are these white hairs in this flower. So I'm just layering on my marks until I get an impression of this flower that I really like. And I really want me to do, it is not a color that's in the flower from nature. It's just not there, but I'm really wanting to take some of this aquamarine and I'm wanting to put some of it in. I'm barely, barely touching it to the canvas, the brush, and I'm, look at what's happening. Look how that's popping. I'm forgetting to talk again, aren't I? Oops. I like the aquamarine.  Those machines really not only last forever, but they'll sew anything. I'm going to take some of my aquamarine and mix it with a little bit of the purple and just make something that's a little bit more purple and less blue. Just because in nature, your inspiration photo is a certain color, you guys know, I've said this before, it doesn't mean that you have to copy those colors when you do the painting. We're inspired by the photo. We're not looking necessarily looking to copy nature, at least I'm not. So that was a little too blue. And if the colors from the inspiration photo distract you, then print it in black and white. And I agree, that's a nice treasured memory to have. My grandmother liked to cook and she was always in the kitchen. So when she passed, I inherited quite a few of her cooking things, because I also like to cook. And I've passed a few of them on to Rebecca. Okay, I really like that, but I'm really wanting to have something that's a different color pink. This is Quedocrino Violet. This is Deco Art Traditions. And I'm going to mix it with the white paint that we already have on the palette. The current batch of mystery boxes have a few odds and ends of handmade lace, actually, from my grandmother's sewing box. I have so much of it, I decided to pass some of it along. Those kind of things, I love those kind of things, no matter who made some, who made them. I think they're just fabulous. So the more layers we get on here, the more interesting it looks. Try to keep your highlights and shadows in the same place with each layer and try to just refine set highlights and shadows. Hey Paper Jackie, how are you? We're experimenting on painting this flower on this dark black background that I painted, adding layers using our Deco Art paints for something other than your ordinary craft project, because just because they're not expensive artist paints doesn't mean you can't create interesting paintings with them. Yeah, I like the way it looks. The more layers I get on here, the more I like it. Needs with this color. Yeah, you just got to keep layering it. I'm going to do something else that's crazy. Oh, that's not the right color though. Neon. Who doesn't love neon? Like, seriously. I first started doing painting and mixed media. I used Americana Neons. I still use Americana Neons and that is not because I am a Deco Art helping artist. That is just because I like Americana Neons. Again, what is the worst that could happen? Have some fun with it. Don't treat anything that you've already done too preciously.  But you notice how when I recolored the photo, it ended up with this kind of orange halo around the flower. I'm actually kind of liking that. This is a really warm color, so this is really going to make your highlights stand out. Yeah, it's going to give it a nice pop. So you notice I blended some of it with my finger and now I'm going to go back with the tip of the brush. Now this is craft paint. So it's not as pigmented as your artist colors and the names are usually goofy names. So you can't necessarily count on if you are doing something where you need, say, a lizard and crimson and you go because you can only afford craft paint.  It's probably not going to be the exact same color. Can you make it work? Sure. Is it going to be a problem? Probably not. Is the artist paint better? Probably. Yeah, you can just go back.  I don't want to put it on the plate. There's too much purple over there.  And this flower is like so hairy in the center that I don't think there's, you know, there's probably not too much you could do to this to put too many of these little hair marks or suggestions of hairs on this flower. I don't think that's probably possible. The other thing you can do, what I like about these broadcasts is I look at what I'm painting on the display on the iPad, and it gives you a different perspective on what you're painting. And you can see kind of right away where you maybe need to make some changes or not. So that's probably another tip that I would give you is to take a step back, take a photo maybe of your work, look at it through the lens of a camera. You get a different, a very different perspective on what's going on sometimes with your painting that way. And there's been many times where I've been stuck and I did that and it helped me figure out right away what was going on, what was bothering me. I'm trying not to touch my face because my hands are pretty painy. The other day, my daughter came over with Polyas for dinner and she says, Mom, why is there, why is your eye orange? I don't know. I have no idea. So the problem with doing this too much is I'm starting to get a purpley gray color, which is fine, but it's a little chalky and a little bit too gray. So at some point, that's not going to work. You don't want to keep adding white. So I'm going to use more of that other purple and put Pains Gray over here where there's no white. And that's going to dull down my purple just enough, but keep me in the same color range that I want. Now when this is dry, I will be giving it a good coat of DecoPage. And then when that is dry, I will be rubbing in some Americana Cream Wax. That will help seal and protect the surface and also give it a little bit of a shine. I keep wanting to add more pink to that center. Now I really liked the addition of the Aquamarine, but we kind of lost a lot of it, so we're going to bring that back. I don't know that it's better than Daddy Vans, but the thing about the Americana Cream Wax is that when it gets hot, it doesn't reactivate. Daddy Vans is beeswax, so if it gets hot, it'll re-melt. So I am grabbing a teeny tiny brush because we're going to need this in a minute. And I'm going to go in with the Aquamarine first. And this is Monday with DecoArt. So we discussed DecoArt stuff. There are more expensive artist waxes out there that dry hard, but they're very much more chemically than the DecoArt one is, so I prefer the DecoArt. Okay, that's more what I wanted. So I'm going to go in with the white, which I've lost on my white. So that teeny tiny brush. This is a liner brush, low Cornell liner brush. So most of the little hairs in this flower center are white tipped. Somebody said they thought it might be a passion flower. I don't know. I'm not great with flowers. Too much white there. Let's see. So if you have a spot where you get too much white, we can just go into one of our other colors. Just work some of that other color in. There's no mistakes. Just make it work moments, right? I could have probably picked a smaller liner brush, but I didn't want to fuss with my brushes. I could also be a little lighter-handed with a brush this morning. I'm a little heavy-handed. I kind of like that. So there's our picture and there's our painting. What do you think? This orange spot right here is a little bit too much. Let's use this color. So that didn't cover it up completely, but I didn't necessarily want it to. That's better. I like it. That was fun. So this isn't even a gallery-wrapped canvas. This has staples on the side, but if you just paint them, it's not a big deal. And of course, we don't waste our paint, right? So we take our extra paints and some paper or an old book. I've got deli paper. And one of the tools that we've had out that we are already using, put all these paints up here. So remember which ones it wasn't used. And make some painting papers. Something you can use as a collage element on another piece of artwork. You can wrap Happy Mail in something like that. I love this brush because it makes a really cool texture. I got it at Daiso. It costs $1.50. That's $1.50 I ever spent. So there we go. And then we'll wash that off. Clean our brushes. Does anybody have any questions? Some painting papers out of that. All right, cool. I do have a deco art project coming up that I'm going to be doing, but I'm not going to be doing it live because it's going to take too long to do and it's going to be a multi-step project. I live in stretchy pants.  And I have a pair that got a hole in them. So I'm going to repair the hole and I'm going to film that clip and show it as part of the deco art process, but also have it be a sewing 101. I'm going to take that little clip out and have it be a sewing 101 thing by itself too. And then we are going to take said pants with the hole in them after we fix the hole. And we're going to bleach them and then paint them with deco art to fabric paints. Since they're already ruined anyway because they've got a hole, you know, if it doesn't work out, it's not a big deal. I have this feeling they're going to work out nice though. So we are going to try that and see if that's going to be coming up soon. Hopefully I can get that done later this week. Lisa, good luck going through your grandmother's stuff. I hope you make some progress soon so you can get back to creating and use some of her things in your creation. I know she would probably love that and if you have too many of something, like we did with some of my grandmother's things, they have been passed along to others, people who are going to love them and use them and that's what she would want. And that's probably what your grandmother would want too. So anyway, all right, that's it everybody. Don't forget the most important thing. You know what that is, right? And this didn't turn out too badly. I'm kind of liking this painting. So every time I do one of these and thinking I'll sell it on Etsy, it's never going to happen. I'll end up putting it on my wall again. You know I will. All right, have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Yeah? All right, I'll see you later. Bye guys.


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