Some of you might be familiar with this book. It's one of the greatest manuals ever written. Street Sword, practical use of the long blade for self-defense. A book all about how to use the greatest weapon ever crafted by human hands. The Katana. You see, when sitting at home or when out and about, you never know when you might be set upon by those who wish you harm. Muggers, gangs of ninjas, ex-girlfriends, process servers, the list is endless. And in just about all of those scenarios, a katana is the best thing to have on hand. It's easy to hide, it's deadly to all but the most skilled warriors, and being seen with one will grant you great honor and respect. See, if people see a man with a katana walking around, they instantly assume he knows exactly what he's doing. And even if it's illegal in your area, no one's gonna stop you. You have a katana. Now, the katana is a very deadly tool. Not just anyone can use it, which is exactly why Phil Elmore Sensei wrote this book.  This is a very, very rare tone. Only the most dedicated of Elmore Sensei's followers get a copy at all. It took me almost a year to get this one. And today, I'm going to take you through some, not all, but some, of the knowledge contained in these pages. But be warned. Once you set off on this path, there's no going back. The only way out of hell is through it. So if you're going to continue watching this video, or Heaven's Forbid, you get a hold of street sword, practical use of the long blade for self-defense, then, well, you'd best be prepared to keep going forever. Time to get started. But before that, we need to dress the part. First, we need some banging glasses. Check. Then we need a badass trench coat. Check. Then we need a sick scarf. Check. Then we need some fancy gloves. Check. And finally, we need a katana. Check. Now, you may notice this isn't a real katana. This one's made of wood. My gaijin hands are not worthy of touching one made of proper nipon steel. And if you're wondering, James, why are you calling yourself a gaijin? Isn't your grandmother Japanese?  Now, let's get started. I can't really snap with gloves on. Just go. Now, a sword may seem less useful than a gun in most combat scenarios, but as Elmore Sensei points out, if you are unable or unwilling to own a gun, then a sword is your best chance. And even if you do have a gun, a sword works great as a backup, or if you run out of bullets.  Only a blade can take them down. With bullets, they'll just dodge or deflect anything you throw there away. So it's best to have at least a passing knowledge of the basics of how to use the blade. Let's go over some basics. How to grip the sword. First, take your dominant hand, which will be your right hand, and hold it near the top of the hilt. Then, take your non-dominant hand, your left hand, and hold it near the bottom of the hilt. This is how you grip the sword.  Now that you know how to grip the sword, you need to know how to attack with it. The overhand strike is simple. Simply grip the sword, as we discussed earlier, then hold it like a baseball bat, and swing downwards at a diagonal angle, as if you're painting a line from his ear down to his knee. If you're an anime fan, you should recognize this as the most basic strike used by most swordsmen. Once you've mastered it, you'll be able to cut through their bone, their muscles, their organs, and everything else with ease. You'll know you've done it correctly when their body releases a spray of pressurized blood 10 feet in the air. If you swing your sword overhand and it gets caught on your opponent's bones, then you're either not swinging fast enough, or you're not swinging with enough force. Just practice some more, you'll get it. Remember, human bones are pretty strong on normal circumstances, but they turn to cheese in the presence of the katana. Next is the underhand strike. This is useful for surprise attacks. First, hold the sword in a reverse grip, like so. It's similar to the grip we went over before, but now it's in reverse. Then you hold it down at your side, like this, and then you simply swing straight up. You can also swing diagonally if you'd prefer. The important part is that you pull your non-dominant hand back while you're attacking.  At least I assume you don't. Much like the overhand strike, this should cut through bone, metal, other swords, stone, anything as long as you do it properly. Now for how to do thrusts. See, with Western pig blades, you can't cut through armor very well, so the only way to get through it is by stabbing, punching through it. However, glorious katana will cut through steel like cloth, meaning you don't need thrusts. Those are for barbarians. If I ever hear about any of you doing thrusts, I will know that your honor has been besmirched, and if I hear that your honor has been besmirched, I will restore it the only way it can be restored.  If you are, for whatever reason, unable to finish your opponent in a single attack, then you may have to wind up defending against one or more of their attacks. Now, the length of a duel varies greatly. It can be over in a single attack, or it can last as long as three or four episodes of back and forth. Whatever the case, you want to be versatile, so you're ready for any and all situations. Now, the best defense is a good offense, meaning you just sort of whack and cut and attack, never thrust at your opponent, and you always want to mirror your opponent. If they swing overhand, you swing underhand so that you can deflect. If they swing horizontal, you bring your blade vertical and bring it over to intercept. Remember, don't bother looking at your opponent's body while they're attacking. The sword is the dangerous thing. Keep your eye on that. If it seems to be moving too fast to keep track of, then get better. Now, when you're not in battle, your sword will be in one of two places, on your back or at your hip. Whatever it is, when you pull it out, you want to strike at the same time. Never take too much time to pause and wonder what you're doing. Simply pull and swing. If you can't see your enemy, if they're out of reach, it doesn't matter. Just sort of swing in their general direction. Once you get really good, you don't even need to touch them with the blade to cut them. For example, if it's at your back, grab near the hilt with your dominant hand, which is your right hand, then pull and strike at them. Now, don't be afraid to turn your body away from your opponent as you strike. You don't need to watch them. It'll look really badass if you cut them in half and you're not even watching. Plus, if you don't look at them as they die, it'll intimidate any other potential foes. Now, drawing and attacking is known as ii-jutsu, and it's actually a pretty simple technique. You only need to practice five or six times. If you really want to master it, though, you have to do it at least 10,000 times per day. After a few weeks of that, you should be at least passable. If you're an American, it's very easy to get a gun. It's much less easy to get a proper blade. It's easy to get a blade, but it's hard to get a proper blade. So, if you ever find yourself in the middle of a battle, even if you don't have a gun on you, just search around. You can find one. Just look in the nearby bushes or an elementary school. You'll be bound to find something somewhere. And if it happens to be a handgun, you can dual-wheel the gun and a sword, like so. Jutah! Now you have range and power at the same time. The trick is to make sure that when one weapon is forward, the other is back. When you're swinging with the sword, your gun hand is back here. When you're firing the gun, the blade is safely out of the wa- What? No, you're fine. I'm filming a thing here. When you're firing the gun, the blade is back safely out of the way. Strike with the sword while the gun is back, then pull the gun forward and finish your opponent off with a single shot. That's really just double-tapping though, because again, the katana is where the power is. You should always be aware not only of your target, but what's behind your target. If, for instance, you found your gun at an elementary school and you're firing at your assailant, be sure not to hit any small children. And if you do hit any small children, just say that Hamas was hiding behind them. People will stop asking questions after that. The gun is a useful weapon, but only in certain circumstances. Against a seasoned master, it's little more than a distraction. Remember, they will simply dodge or deflect anything you throw at them. That's what being a swordmaster means. The gun is for convenience. When you actually want to get the job done, you need the katana. Now, that's about all I can cover in a single video. Be sure to re-watch this dozens of times and practice regularly. Thanks for watching, and tune in next time for the exciting sequel, Flashlight Fighting. How to turn your pocket flashlight into a take anywhere self-defense weapon. That's all about how flashlights are actually better than knives if you know what you're doing. Goodbye. Aloha, everyone who's watched this far. You are all great. You see these names? Yeah, these are my patrons.  You know, that works. 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Just checked in to my new high-rise apartment today So I thought I'd do a video here. It's one of the nicer ones that I've seen in this location everything I need To relax and make some videos Got lots of good videos on the way. It's a shame Nala isn't here to enjoy this But I'm hoping she will be here soon and then she will be back on my live videos The start of the show Nala some incredible views here though You can see everything three balconies So you can see all the way around got this canal here It's really nice, but onto the topic of this video because this is Not so nice. I'm just gonna take off my Glasses so you can see my eyes Let's sit down and talk about this because it's something I Haven't really discussed in detail, but I think it's something that is Very important Because I know a lot of you notice it you notice that you're being treated very different to everyone else and This is something that all narcissists do and it's very strange It's very weird Because of course normally When you're in a relationship Or when you're romantically involved with someone That person is meant to treat you as being more important than anyone They meant to put you first You're supposed to be number one in their life You're meant to be the priority where they consider your needs and your feelings because They're meant to be committed to you They're meant to be in a relationship with you so you should feel close and able to express yourself emotionally and They should be able to receive that because They feel love for you and They're attracted to you as They should be if they are committed if they are in a relationship with you that's Normally how it works from my experience Because of course I haven't just been involved with Narcissists I have had normal Relationships with normal people as well so I Know how it goes down. I Know what we should expect. I know how it's supposed to be Because of course I have experienced love and romance Myself So I do understand the difference And I know that this does not happen with narcissists Because if you are the closest person to them they will treat you the worst and You're gonna feel like You're doing something wrong by loving them a Stranger that sounds It's as though you loving them is the problem and They are punishing you for doing that Like you're doing something wrong, but I'm gonna say now it's not you There is nothing wrong with loving someone That is a good thing That's what you should be doing. The problem is their disorder their personality it's very different to ours and The reason why To keep it simple enough The reason why you get treated the worst And you look around and it's like they treat everyone better than you the reason for that it's because You're seeing the real version of them You're seeing who they really are And everyone else is Getting the fake version and I know it hurts you. I know it frustrates you. I Know that I do Because You're so confused. You don't know What you've done wrong and yet this person That you love and want to be with They're treating you like You're completely worthless Like you're worth less than everyone else and you have to look around at how they treat other people And just seeing them treat other people better than you and you want to have that same treatment The same treatment that you're giving to them because then it's fair. There's an equal exchange But know what they do is They broadcast it They put on a show Because they want to show you that They can treat other people right and well if they want to They're just not gonna do that with you But what's actually happening is when they're involved with other people They're wearing a mask They're acting Normally The key word is acting Because they are excellent actors and That is what confuses you It makes you wonder Why Can't they treat you like that?  Why can't you do that with me? because they will take things out on you and Just leaves you confused and you're wondering why but that's That is just how it is When you're dealing with a narcissist That's what you should expect You shouldn't expect any more than that you will get punished for loving them and why Because they feel Most comfortable around you You accept them you accept everything they're doing so you get the real version of them You get treated the worst And not only that but they have to keep you under control So they can't let you see too much Because if they do then That puts them at risk Because You know the real them so you have the ability to expose them You could go and show everyone what they're really like and One of their greatest fears along with rejection and abandonment is Being exposed so they can't let you see too much They've got to keep things hidden from you.  You're not going anywhere So then you lose value in their eyes You're not valuable anymore Because they're looking at it like if you're so great If you're so special Then what are you doing with me? because They don't think like us like I would think if someone is with me Then that means they must be pretty great because I know The work that I've put in over the years to become the man that I am today So that's how I think With narcissists they look at it like if you're so great then what are you doing with me?  That's how they look at it So the more time you spend with them the more value you lose in their eyes Because they think if you're so valuable then you wouldn't want to spend any time with them anyway That's how they look at it Especially if you've got children together With you've made some kind of plan in the future and they know you're not going anywhere Then they're really going to start to feel comfortable around you and You'll start to notice they don't make an effort anymore maybe But the guys They won't spend as much time with you.  That's how they think Because they don't value themselves If they did then they wouldn't think like that.  This is the disorder and They will abuse you Of course in private because then they still have their false image They've still got this Outward appearance that they show to everyone else Because when they're around other people, they're so kind and polite And then it makes it look like something is wrong with you as Though you must be the problem Because you're going and you're complaining about them But no one else can see what they're doing wrong And that makes it very easy for them to Get attention and admiration from other people which means that They don't need to be involved to do as much I mean, why would they When you're the one who knows what they really like So that's not much fuel for them.   They're controlling everyone They're controlling everyone's perception of them, but the question is Why Why do they want to do this to you? Why do they have to treat you so bad? Why can't they just give you the good side of them?  It makes them feel like they're better than you It makes them feel important It makes them feel better about themselves That's why when you are dealing with a narcissist You will go from gold to garbage overnight And the only reason why is because you're human Because you question things Because you realize that something is not right and One person could never make them happy. They're adrenaline junkies They need constant amusement and entertainment Because they get bored very easily So it isn't long until they're looking for the next shiny new toy Because they always think that the grass is greener on the other side. They think Yeah, I may have found you and You may be pretty good You may be there for me when I need you You may be kind helpful, but that means there could be someone better than you out there So what do they do? They put you on the shelf They forget about you and then they want to go and play with their new toys That is why you will find that the more that time goes by you just argue more and more and They're actually looking for excuses to take a break to leave you or To go silent They're looking for excuses for them to do that and the reason why is because Most likely they're already involved with someone else they're already working on their new target And you'll know when that is happening because they're so hot and cold It's like they love you one minute and then they hate you the next Sometimes they want to talk to you and sometimes they don't And you know that when they don't want to talk to you it's because they're talking to someone else and you may not even suspect it You may think No, not my narcissist mine Does a lot of things that narcissists do But that's the one thing they won't do they They wouldn't cheat on me They wouldn't go and talk to other people and that's why you don't even suspect it Because most often that's exactly what they're doing They are talking to someone else And that's why they're not giving you as much attention as they were before They have to be doing something with their time and if they're not giving their time to you They're giving their time to someone else and that's why it gets to a point Where the communication just gets less and less Than ever before and even when you are talking to them You're just fighting because they're already Planning to move on with someone new and this person is about to take your place But don't worry too much about that Because it's not like they're gonna ride off into the sunset And it's gonna be this big fairy tale and they have this happy ending Never works out like that Because they will get bored of them just like they got bored of you and then they're gonna be looking for someone else and They may even try to come back to you, but you got to look at it like Do you really want to accept them back? You don't know where they've been Even if they were just gone for a few days, you don't know where they were They could have been with anyone. Are you really willing to accept that? They've been given their time their attention Their emotions to someone else and now they want to come back to you and even if they do come back And you accept them Nothing's gonna change. You're gonna get the same treatment again Because there's no incentive For them to act right Why would they need to do that? They can treat you like garbage Because they're still gonna get positive attention from other people So they don't even need you because They're only showing that real side of themselves to you No one else has seen that and that's how it's so easy for them to cut you off That's how it's so easy for them to go silent with you because the entire time they've just been showing you who they really are And of course, you're not gonna respond well to that so they already know They're not gonna get a good response from you But they can take that false character and Show it to other people and get a positive response So it makes more sense for them to do that But anyone who gets too close to them eventually they're gonna see that real side of them They're gonna see what they really like Just as you did So this is that this is why They treat the person closest to them the worst Now what do you do about it? Maybe you don't want to be treated like garbage every day Maybe you recognize that you deserve better treatment because of everything that you put out for them you treat your damn well and Of course, I'm a believer in that if you Respect other people You deserve respect back in return if you give love you should receive love Sounds fair to me So what do you do when you're giving them your love and respect but you're not getting it back in return What do you do about it? This is what you do And this is really the only thing that you can do The only thing that you can do is go no contact Stop talking to them Because I can promise you the more you talk to them the more that You involve them in your life.  You've been spending all of this time with them Have things got better or worse You should notice a pattern the more of your time that you give to them The worst they treat you so you need to distance yourself you need to cut them off and Focus your time and attention on yourself On your own life on becoming the best version of yourself and Yeah, you really just need to go no contact If you want to get that good version of them again You have to be distant for a certain amount of time.  You have to live in this shared fantasy Because you know they're not really about that, you know, they don't really have those emotions and feelings. It's not a real connection It's not what you're really craving what you really want and Yeah, you you deserve better you shouldn't have to settle for that you should wait for the real thing But if that's what you're gonna do If you really really want to get them back you want that positive side of them even though it's fake Just go no contact for two to three months. You will get that back. But even then It's not gonna last for long. You might get it back for a Few days, maybe one week and then you're gonna see that real side of them again They're gonna treat you like dirt. So it's not really worth it. I mean, what is the point? Go in no contact, but at the same time you're holding on Just Waiting for them to come back. I mean if you're gonna do that you should be seeing someone else during that time Instead of just waiting for them and when you do that you start you focus on your healing you date other people You might just find out that you never needed them anyway Because you might find someone who can give you that for real someone who can give you that connection Someone who makes you feel loved someone who makes you feel special because that's really what you want. I Mean, that's what anyone wants When they're in a relationship, you don't want to feel like you're unimportant. I mean if that's how you feel when you're with someone Then you probably shouldn't be with them and they should probably be alone I mean that would be great if we could just Put all of these types of people on Some planet on their own somewhere And they can go and play all of these games with each other And then ask real people we can develop Real connections real intimacy. I think that would be a lot better Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible So we do need to maneuver our way around these Narcissists but yeah, you know, that's why they treat the person closest to them the worst and if you do want better treatment Like they give to everyone else. There's really only one way and that is to cut them off There's no other possible way to get that You have to go no contact for at least two to three months and in that time Yeah, you may want to date other people but I would advise Focusing your attention on becoming the best version of yourself you should be focusing on healing from what what you went through and Going to the gym exercise Make sure you're getting plenty of sleep talk to a therapist or book a session with me and Focus on things that you're passionate about not just Your work or maybe you have a business But what is it that drives you? What is it that you really care about in life and go and focus on that? Because when you do that you will forget all about them They won't be on your mind anymore and yeah, that's what you really need to do because I know a lot of you you are constantly looking at your phone waiting for a response waiting for a phone call and You know what? Well, you're doing that while you're sitting at home late at night Staring at your phone waiting for that text waiting for that call You know what they're doing? They're out somewhere Maybe walking on a beach Having a nice meal at a restaurant With someone else and you don't even know it and yet. What are you doing? You're just sitting at home waiting for them to respond That's why You need to take this attention that you're giving to them and put it on yourself and your own life Because that's the only way that things will get better As I've said before you need to invest in yourself. It's like the stock market What are you investing in? Because if you're investing in a bad investment You're not going to get a good return If you're investing your money in something that has no value You're just gonna lose it all but you do have value That's why you need to invest in yourself because then you will get a good return and then eventually maybe you'll meet someone Who Is more like-minded they're more on the same page as you a high-value person and of course When you invest your time and attention into a high-value person You will get a return It will Benefit you in the long run, but it's not going to do that with a narcissist You can invest as much of your time and attention as you want It's not gonna make a difference. You're not gonna get anything back.  They target the best of the best And you're given all this all of this value To someone who is not of the same class Someone who is low-value And let me tell you someone of low value cannot recognize Something valuable and important They can't recognize that you got to think what you think would happen if I gave my $4,000 Alienware laptop to a two-year-old child a toddler What do you think would happen if I left that in the room for a few minutes and Then I came back. Do you think it's still being one piece? Or would they rip it apart? It's the same thing with these narcissists If you put something valuable in their hands, they will destroy it Because they don't recognize its value Because they don't have anything of value. So they don't know how to treat it They don't understand that it requires proper care and attention It's just like if you have a nice car if you have a Bentley or Rolls-Royce You're not going to take that car to just any car wash if you really Worked hard for it bought it with your earnings and you recognize its value You're not just going to take it to any car wash because you understand That it needs the proper maintenance The proper care, but these narcissists do not understand that they can't even recognize Your value they can't even see it a lot of the time They may see it in the beginning As I said before once you're around them They're thinking if you're so great, then when why are you around me? If you're so special that's how they think the longer you spend with them The more that it becomes normal to them and that's the same thing with anything when it comes to narcissists They can't find consistent happiness in anything They might buy a new car or a new house But after a week they get bored of it. They stop taking care of it And it's the same thing with people because they see us as objects They don't know how to take care of anything So what makes you think they're gonna know how to take care of you?   Yes, they try to trick you into thinking That They were the same but they are not it's just an illusion and that is why Most of the experiences you have with them are not anything positive Not anything uplifting So yeah, just invest that time into yourself Then you will get a return Don't expect someone who Can't even understand your value. Don't expect them to treat you right They need to be able to recognize The value that you provide They need to be on the same page. Otherwise It's not going to go anywhere good. It's like if you've got a rowing boat And you've got two people on the boat they're rowing in opposite directions.  There's got to be some Understanding and cooperation. You've got to be going in the same direction If you go in in opposite directions, it's not gonna work. There's something to keep in mind Let's see what we got here in the live chat. I have been reading some of these comments, but Let's reach on them out Irani says Narcissists don't cherish anything.  Anyway, you don't actually lose any value unless They've broken you down then you do but other than that. It's just because they get bored very easily they need constant entertainment and You know these types of people they're always on Facebook Twitter TikTok Instagram They're always scrolling through their feed looking at what everyone else has got what everyone else is doing They're so distracted. They always feel like they're missing out on something They always feel like there's something better than you because they're always looking for the bigger better deal the next shiny new toy and You know, you just You can't compete with someone who has a mindset like that Someone who's always looking for something greater something more Most often when they go and find that It doesn't turn out to be anything like they thought it would be anyway Because a lot of times it's all in their heads. It's just this fantasy that they're trying to bring into reality But it never works out like that What they should be looking for is something real But then what would be the point in that because they're not real, but that's what they do They're always Looking for the next shiny new toy because they get bored very easily So they can't sustain anything But yeah, you just need to take that time that you're waiting on them and just put it back on yourself Become the best version of yourself Just like me. I'm traveling every day Putting out these videos helping millions of people around the world That's what it's all about providing value to people and You all provide value to me too Every day I read your comments That I really appreciate the support Couldn't have made it this far without you. We really have an amazing community and I Am so thankful for all of you. I see how many we got in here 84 live viewers, we've only got 39 thumbs ups Please hit that thumbs up button down below If you found this video helpful I do appreciate your support and share your com your thoughts down in the comments As I said, I read your comments every day Let's just Take one more look at this view. It is raining It's a pretty awesome view out here. I'm sure it'll be even better later if the Sun comes out Got the canal going all the way down there You can see everything. I only wish that Nala was here to enjoy it I know she'd be sitting out here in the balcony Well, if it wasn't raining anyway, okay, I'm gonna head out now Thank you all for watching And as always, I will talk to you in another one very soon


90% of women report having painful menstrual cramps at least some of the time. Around the Mediterranean fennel seeds have been traditionally used to relieve painful menstruation. We call them seeds, but they're actually whole little fruits. Hard to create placebo seeds though, so they use the fennel seed extract to put it to the test. The women started out with 6 out of 10 pain, but down to 4 out of 6 within an hour, all better than placebo. 52% of the women rated the fennel seed treatment as excellent compared to only 8% of the women in the placebo group, who are just unknowingly given capsules containing flour. But women don't take flour for cramps, they take drugs like ibuprofen. Methanamic acid is in the same class of anti-inflammatory NSAID drugs, and may actually work better than ibuprofen, but it's not over-the-counter. How did it do against an extract of fennel seeds? Most started out in severe pain, but ended up pain-free after treatment. And the fennel worked just as well as the drug class considered the treatment of choice without the side effects of the drug, which include diarrhea, rashes, autoimmune anemia, and kidney toxicity. And the drug doesn't help with the other symptoms of bad periods. Women can feel nauseated too, not just in pain, out of sorts, weak, achy, and diarrhea, but fennel seeds seemed to help, though the control group was not given a placebo, so you don't know how much of it is the placebo effect. One downside is that on fennel, women bleed about 10% more. See, menstrual cramps are caused by the uterus contracting so hard that its own blood supply is compromised, and the way we think fennel works is through muscle relaxation, because it also helps with infant colic, which is thought due to intestinal spasms. The advantage of fennel here, too, is the lack of side effects, and unlike the drug that's used, which they know, and unfortunately can work a little too well to get your baby to stop crying by developing side effects like death. Ginger, on the other hand, is effective for cramps and reduces bleeding when an eighth of a teaspoon of ginger powder is taken three times a day during one's period, an eighth of a teaspoon. This is important since up to 18 million young women in the United States experience iron deficiency anemia due to heavy menstrual bleeding. The amount of blood loss was estimated using a scoring system that gives points for level of saturation and clot size, and on ginger they went from like a half a cup per period down to a quarter cup. Ginger appears to be a highly effective treatment, the reduction of menstrual blood loss, it's cheap, about 6 cents a month. Easy to use and may have fewer side effects than other chemical medications and invasive approaches. Even sometimes fewer than placebo, they use lactose, milk sugar for the sugar pills, which may have caused the flatulence. Ginger may also work better for premenstrual syndrome, an eighth of a teaspoon twice a day of ginger powder for a week before one's period yields a significant drop in PMS mood, physical, and behavioral symptoms, whereas fennel may help with PMS anxiety and depression but not with the emotional and physical symptoms. There are other dietary interventions that can help like a reduction in salt and animal fat consumption, something I've addressed before. Whatever works, since sometimes, evidently, PMS symptoms can lead to murder. And indeed, there are cases like Christine English, who at that time of the month ran down her husband, accepting PMS as a defense she was released with one-year probation.


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com, coming at you with 2021 Prism Baseball. Cellal Pack Break number 11, Retail Pack. Last but only filler we had to do to knock out that high end mixer coming up in the next video. We'll give away these teams at the end of the break. Let's do the break itself first. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate you. All teams are in, let's roll it. Randomize names and teams two and a five, seven times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, we've got Michael down to Eugene. Two and a five, seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. After seven, it's lying everybody up here. No trade windows in these filler breaks as most of you know by now. Here's the first half of the list right there, and then there's the second half of the list right over there. Just print them right. And then after this break, we'll grab your names again for the second dice roll and match you over the team in that order right there. All right, thanks everyone for getting together with me on a Thursday. Your Thursday, my Friday, but whatever day it is. A good day for breaks. We've got here an autograph. Nice. A Miguel Yajure autograph for the Pirates. Adam with the Pirates. We don't see autographs too often in these prison packs. Seven out of 50. Pandora is at the pattern. Too many patterns to keep track of. And an emergent Bobby Whitjr for Brian and the Royals. Bonus pack. There's your bonus cards right there too. Red, white, and blue. All right, not bad. Now let's flip back to this list here once again. Let's gather everybody's names. One through 30. New dice, new list. And it'll be the top 10 after eight. Six into two, eight times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, seven, and eight in final time. So what did I say, top 10? Yeah, so top 10 after eight. So from 11 on down. Sorry, Alan, it's gonna be sad times. 11 through 30, but especially 11. Top 10, happy time for you though. Congrats, Jeremy, you're happy. So is Eugene. There you go, Alan, you still got it. And Brian, Jeremy, Adam, Brian, Alan, Brian, and Michael. All right, so not bad at all. There's the top 10 right there after eight. And we'll put Prism 11 next game, so you know you won that spot in break number 11. So Michael, you got the Royals in the high end mixer. Brian K with Houston, Alan with Philadelphia, Brian with Pittsburgh, Adam with St. Louis, Jeremy with Toronto, Brian with Detroit, Alan with Baltimore, Eugene with Colorado, and Jeremy with Miami. There you go, gang. I'll see you in the next video for the break itself at jaspyscasebrakes.com.


Do not let someone else's opinion of you become your reality Welcome to this channel, Meks creation and I'm your host, Meks creation If you so first time come across this channel, by the way, don't forget to hit the subscribe button, it's very important because you will always be updated whenever I get to upload a new video Do not let someone else's opinion of you become your reality Yes, when you look at your jobs in the Gulf, when you look at the people who are in the Gulf countries When I talk about the job countries or when I talk about the Gulf countries I will talk about countries in Kuwait, I will talk about Dubai, I will talk about Saudi Arabia, I will talk about Oman, wherever you are working or wherever is your station of work right now We've been to these countries or we are to these countries as most of us here Remember, we came here not just for tourism, some of us or some of you might have come for tourism But as we came for work and we came to a new level which we are not or which is not unequivalent to what we are earning Yes, that is true Most of the time when we come to these countries we get to meet new people, we get to meet new friends But remember, as we are meeting or as we get to come closer to new people We should be evaluative a little bit or we should be a little bit conscious of what who is next to me, who is next to you Which is quite very important or which is always very important in what we call our career growth We've met people who have negative aspirations or who never even have dreams of going wherever They want to go in what you call the comfortability zone So most of the times you find that these people closer to us will tend to limit what kind of chances we have to go because the aurora has been negative, the aurora advise us in what you call a negative way You know what I'm talking about especially to where we live in these accommodations Remember when you talk about accommodations Most of the companies in the Gulf countries do provide accommodations to their employees You do stay in what you call shared accommodations So you find you can find very many groups of people There will be the good ones, there will be the one, the good ones, there will be the bad ones There will be those that will be happy for you There will be those that are not happy for you There will be those ones that will not want to see You move to what you call the next step So we have those kind of people in one order What kind of advice aural give you if you come to this one of these Gulf countries or if you are in these Gulf countries Chase your trip Move on Don't let other people, don't let anyone step your way as you're trying to chase Yes, most of us will fear to change jobs Most of us will fail to change jobs in one world or the other We fail to go We fail even to take up those opportunities that we think are gradually on us on paper Why? Because we have that kind of mentality and thinking What are they going to say? What are they going to think of me? Yes Remember the only reason why we are here is money And it is that money that is going to sustain you Sustain your family And get into what you call your personal development So Don't think about what they are going to say But just think about yourself Thank you so much Hope I've tried something for you Thank you so much See you again in the next video


Hi, my name is Berjica Rodriguez and I'm an actress based out of California and today I'm going to share with you why and why I got this mild eye surgery and how it happened. I vlogged along the way and I'm going to show you my experience, what happened to me, how it was, how nervous I was before it happened and everything and this is not sponsored at all. Anyways, it's the most magical thing that's ever happened to me and that's what I told the doctor when I went for my checkup a couple of days ago. She asked me like, how I'm doing and I'm just like, it's the most magical thing. I look outside. I'm not wearing any contacts or glasses and I can just see everything. I wake up and I can just see everything. So obviously I had a really positive experience today is May 6th and I'm still getting a little bit of halos around the lights, but not as much as it used to be. But my vision is 2020 now. So let's go back to the beginning. On April 13th, I had my consultation and it did take about two hours because they do a bunch of different tests. They basically want to check that your eyes are okay for the procedure and they will recommend either LASIK, which is more invasive and smile. I am of course not an expert at this. I know barely anything about surgeries, but I'm going to tell you my experience and what I do know.  So of course, smile takes a lot less to, you take a lot less recovery time to be able to do normal things again. I'm wearing makeup today and my surgery was April 30th and they approved me. I was able to get the smile surgery and then I scheduled it for April 30th and they gave me some drops in medicine the day that I have my consultation once I did schedule my surgery. They gave me these drops, which are antibiotics and I have to put them in my eyes the night before, one drop on each eye and then the morning of and then after the surgery every six hours and you don't have to wake up every six hours. That's what I thought. But it's as long as you do it four times a day while you're awake, it's okay. And I was waking up every six hours and it might be different for everybody depending on how your eyes are doing, but for me, they told me I can just do it four times throughout the day. So I put alarms on my phone to do this. Another thing is that you're not supposed to wear contacts, soft contacts seven days before and hard contacts four weeks before and then the morning of I do have some footage. I was in a terrible mood because honestly I was so terrified. I'm getting the smile surgery today. So they asked me to wash my hair and before I came in, so I just did that and we have to leave our house here in about 30 minutes. So I'm pretty nervous that my boyfriend did this and of course it's a procedure that a bunch of people have had done and it's lasers. It's just like, I'm just gonna be a doctor there. It's gonna be fine. I am really happy to be getting this especially for acting because sometimes you're on set for long, long, long hours and your contacts can dry out or these glasses especially. You can see there's a mark right here. Sometimes I get headaches from my glasses so in general, I know this is going to improve my life, but specifically for acting, it's going to be very, very beneficial because I don't have to worry about being on set, doing something very active. I don't have any contact falling out. I don't know if you guys have ever experienced that, but I have literally been watching TV and then I blink and a contact falls out onto my cheek. So no more of that, no more glasses and I can wear sunglasses without needing to put contacts in first. So I'm really exciting for this to help me in all aspects of my life and in acting. We're on our way to the office to get the surgery and I am super nervous.  Before the surgery, they gave me some muscle relaxer. The surgeon looked at my eyes one more time. He needed to know what correction he needed to program the machine because the machine is going to do the lasering and then he's going to go in there at the end and take out that little cloud bubble thing.  I go into the machine and then he says we're going to practice, so I practice looking at the light. He's like, okay, great. You know, explains it. By the way, the surgeon, he's the nicest man. He talked through the surgery with me so I could calm down. He's just so sweet and nice. You know, just nice, a nice person. I could not have asked for a nicer person to poke my eyes. Once we were done practicing, he's like, okay, it's time to do the real thing. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. I felt pressure on my chest, like something heavy was on my chest and I was getting really nervous.  You can hold his hand. I was like, no, no, no, no. I'm a big girl and I felt like if I was holding his hand, I would move. I really wanted to stay still. I calmed down and then he did it. The second eye took a little bit longer, I think. They had to put more numbing medication because they did put numbing drops in my eyes and even tested my eye to make sure I didn't feel anything, which I could see things. And I was like, I don't know if he's like coming at me or what, but you get numbing drops in your eyes and it works super fast because they go and test it. And then they put some metal things. I think they were metal. I couldn't see at this point. That was really disorienting, not being able to see for a while, but during the surgery. But he opened it up with pride and open with something and then tested it and then the machine put some kind of suction on. There's a countdown while the laser, it's doing its thing. After the laser is done, super cloudy, you can't see anything.  He's really making you comfortable. And then as we're talking, he also tells me, okay, great job, you're 30% done, 50% done, 90%. And then once we're done, we went to the next eye. So he's really good about like walking you through it because it is a really quick process. After the surgery, they gave me some sunglasses and then just asked me to sleep, gave me some sleeping pills. Immediately after the surgery, I went to the reception, they gave me Tylenol and I had it just because the numbing drops were going to, you know, go away in a little bit. So I needed something too. So I wouldn't feel any pain. And then they asked me to go home and sleep. So that's what I did. And I actually have a clip of me because I told my boyfriend apparently to please record me while I'm going to bed and they gave me these goggles to sleep in. So yeah, I slept in these for a couple of days. So you can't see, I'm in bed. I took some valium when I got there and I didn't really kick in very well because I was nervous the whole time, but I was still okay and the doctor was really good at. Chatted it up and telling me when I was doing good and when I needed to do. And I just took some sleeping pills and hoping to sleep. And we also just put some eye drops in my eyes and they'll have goggles so that I can't touch. I don't remember any of this. I slept around 4.45 and then had dinner and then took the other sleeping pill and for some reason I woke up in like three and a half hours. Those sleeping pills just didn't really affect me as far as like sleeping the whole night but I did continue to have my eyes closed until the next day and even the next day I wanted to be super, super careful. I slept most of the day and just relaxed on the couch and put my sunglasses on. We did go on a quick walk just to get you know some blood flowing in my body but when I went on the walk I had on and some glasses on and just was trying to not put any light in my eyes because it was pretty uncomfortable. But as far as the recovery process you know just taking care of your eyes not rubbing them because they're recovering putting in your antibiotic drops and then they also gave you these artificial tears which is like a more slimy version of water. I'm not exactly sure what's in here but these are Oasis tears. I love these whenever my eyes get dry I just have to put a couple of drops in and then my eyes feel so much better. Almost a week later my right eye is still from the beginning has been more dry than my left and then I had my checkup on Tuesday. I just got to the doctor's office for my post op look up look post op appointment. The fact that I can see things like I can look far away and be able to see them without having contacts or glasses on like it's mind-blowing to me that they just put lasers and then the surgeon went like boop boop and it's done. So magical I'm so grateful I was able to do this. Wow this is the most magical most amazing thing. I'm so dramatic but really I'm just so excited to be able to do this so I'm gonna go into my appointment right now and hopefully they say everything is good. I just got done with my post op appointment and I love Dr. Tran she's the best she's so sweet and awesome. She's one of the doctors that will see you before and after your surgery but I'm great I'm fully recovered as far as like the healing process of my eye and she said I can wear makeup I can wash my eyes of course like not scrub but I can lightly you know massage the areas to clean it I can wear makeup I can stop wearing those sleeping goggles but I'm basically done healing she just checked my eyes and I'm at 2020. So exciting oh my gosh I definitely recommend this this is super expensive not something you need to do by any means but it's something that if you can do it's so cool I much much rather spend you know thousands of dollars on my eyes and being able to see without contacts or glasses then spend it on like I don't know jewelry or what else do you spend that much money on nothing I never spend this much money um I guess Invisalign that's the other thing that cost pretty much the same as this new eyes new teeth who this I'm so lame okay I'm so excited um about this yeah so happy really excited to be able to you know just throw some makeup on and start filming or when I go on set I don't have to worry about contacts or glasses so I know that's definitely going to help me when I'm working so so much because it's just a pain you know it's just like it's such a luxury to be able to do this for sure but I say if you have the money I recommend it if you don't have the money and you can maybe save up for it in the future definitely do it the company that I went with was IQ laser vision I know they are a pretty large company I know they have offices in a very least California maybe other places I will make sure to leave a link in the description so you guys can check them out if this is something you're interested like I said not sponsored at all and if IQ laser vision ends up giving me a code I will definitely put it in the description for you guys um but thank you so much for watching I'm so excited to be able to see without anyways thank you and at the end of every video I feature another channel this is today's video if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment


Initially, the reaction vessel contains only the reactants, hydrogen gas and bromine gas. The forward reaction of hydrogen gas and bromine gas produces hydrogen bromide gas. As the forward reaction proceeds, the concentrations of hydrogen and bromine gases decrease, and the concentration of hydrogen bromide gas increases. Once hydrogen bromide gas is present in the vessel, the reverse reaction of hydrogen bromide gas producing hydrogen and bromine gas begins to take place as well. As the concentration of reactants decreases, the rate of the forward reaction decreases. As the concentration of products increases, the rate of the reverse reaction increases. Eventually, the system will reach equilibrium at which the rate of the forward reaction and the rate of the reverse reaction are equal. At equilibrium, there is no further net change in the concentration of reactants or products.


All right, so the goal of this last session of the day is to give you guys an opportunity to ask questions that may interest you. There's three of us up here. One of us has just finished sharing his incredible transhumanist credentials. Earlier in the day, one of us has shared her incredible Mormon credentials. And I might try to interpret between the two in answering some of the questions that you guys might have. We encourage you now to ask those burning questions in your soul, whether they're theological questions, whether they're literature or historicity questions, whether they're hard questions about technology. You've got a Mormon, a transhumanist, and a Mormon transhumanist up here.  So. Speak for yourself. I'm not promising anything. We'll start over here. I have a question for, sorry, I have a question. I know you presented on nanotechnology, but based on your background in cryptography, I have a question about that. In the current internet, we have a problem where we have privacy issues. We have problem of people being able to be anonymous and then engage bad behavior and people that are acting in good behavior. Their whole world's exposed and they suffer from that. Is there something with cryptography that you would see as a way of managing privacy so that people are protected at the same time and now enabling things like distributed consensus algorithms, blockchain, where you could also validate and or differentially disclose their behavior? There are long and complicated answers. But the simplest answer is no. Privacy is not really a technical thing. It is more a sort of a social consensus and something that involves governance and involves the software and is the software reliable? It involves a whole bunch of really complicated stuff. That said, there is at least some reason for hope. The recent work with Bitcoin, Bitcoin itself is simply a currency and is, okay, it's mildly interesting. But the Bitcoin algorithm, the way in which Bitcoin functions, is very interesting because it enables any distributed algorithm to be implemented the same way Bitcoin was. And any distributed algorithm could be a corporation or a government or whatever you want to implement. And that starts to get interesting and people are exploring that space of possibilities now. And there might be some ways of providing privacy or at least guarantees of assurances in the governance space that we currently can't provide or don't effectively provide. That's about as close as I can get to an answer. Corner and at dinner. Other questions? Off of that, but involving a little bit of theology too. So there's this idea that at some point in the future our sins will be shouted from the rooftops as in everybody's going to have no privacy basically about what they've done. And I've sort of observed on the internet that we're voluntarily moving that way or sometimes involuntarily. And it has, I think, two potentials.  But on the other hand, sometimes you find out that everybody has certain bad tendencies or it becomes easier to understand other people.  So I wonder if privacy is really actually going to be a concern in the long run from a theological standpoint or if we might find that it's a better world when privacy goes away. If it goes away completely. Well, the problem is that privacy is more likely to go away partially in the sense that the government will know everything and we won't. And that would be awkward in a number of ways. If privacy goes away completely so that everyone knows everything, that actually would be a workable world. Yes, your dirty laundry would be out there, but so would everyone else's. And the trade off of no longer having to worry about whether someone else is up to something that might be damaging to you might be worth that. Usually today privacy is a code word for I don't want my socially unacceptable behavior to be made public. Even though my socially unacceptable behavior is, yes, it's socially unacceptable. But very likely it's one of those victimless crimes. I mean, there are a whole list of such things. It doesn't take much imagination to rattle off a number of things that people do on a fairly widespread basis that cause immense problems, particularly if you're running for political office, that if nobody knows, there's no particular problem. But if people know, there are huge problems. So what about all of those issues? What about what happens when they come out? Maybe we become a more tolerant society. If everybody knows everything about everyone, that's the hopeful scenario. The reverse would be maybe we come very uptight and when everybody knows everything about everyone, we have a lot of people who get really hurt, really badly. And I don't know which way it'll go because that is not a technology question. So I haven't studied those issues and can't address them effectively. I think theologically that's interesting maybe because if you take away social shame as a control mechanism, you actually enable real virtue. Suddenly people have to behave well out of devotion to God or religious conviction or whatever instead of fear of social appropriation. So maybe it's an interesting theological experiment. I personally would like to see is a more relaxed set of rules. So it is no longer illegal to do a variety of things. Those go away, but the smaller set of rules that remain are actually more fully enforced. Next question. A joke first, but apologies, but you kind of set me up. So if we didn't have any privacy, you said it would make difficult for people to run for office. Maybe then nobody would run for office and, yay. Well, we're already seeing that. I think there is a problem though. How do I put it? I mean, we need government. Government has to be done effectively and it has to be done fairly. And we see a number of instances where incompetent government, in fact, has been hurting people. So how do you get competent governance? I think competent governance is probably the single most important problem of this century. Let me put it to you this way. Everyone here, most people here, want to have these really long lifespans, right? How long does a government last before there's civil war or an unnecessary war in which lots of people die? How long do you think your lifespan is going to be if there are governments running around which every 50 years or so get involved in some big, large-scale rumpus, which is just silliness? I mean, look at the United States. We've had a major civil war. We've been involved in a number of wars and, you know, some of them people say, yeah, we had to do that and others people say, you know, maybe that wasn't such a good idea. If you want a long, happy life, maybe we have to work on this governance thing so that we have governments that are going to be stable and make sensible decisions over correspondingly long lifespans or correspondingly long time frames. So that's something to think about. How do we get governments that are stable and act sensibly over timespans that are similar to the lifespans that we aspire to? Artificial intelligence, presumably. That is one of the answers. There are issues there to be worked, but that is one of the answers. Actually, the whole Bitcoin algorithms is another one that looks interesting. Can we have another question for you, Brad? Yeah, one of the, you know, you implied it during your speech today that the social governance problem, someone's going to turn up the heat on your cryogenic machine during the next hundred years just because they think it's a bad idea for you to be hanging around that long. And almost everything we've talked about today, it seems to come back to this, the nexus of technology always being involved in the human or divine purposes that are in conflict and it's a very interesting, not with necessarily technologists, but between each other that cause these conflicts that have ramifications for someone. I want to ask one of the big themes today was on emergence, Whitehead's idea that one in one always equals three. There's always the synthetic creativity, the new that comes and it seems to me that the question for us theologically on this whole question, if everything is known, all of us are totally, our histories are naked to everyone else. We're all tuned into the machine. We get it. If there's still emergence, the only thing that really is interesting is what we still don't know is which you're going to do next, what you decide in this creative moment to do next. And so it will not be so much in my mind an issue of what we've done in the past, but the amazing fact that there are billions of us out there who are creative agents still who in relation to each other could either create a lot of interesting stuff or a lot of trouble and we don't quite know what's coming, even though we're living forever, right, so to speak. So I just want to put that out there is the theological idea and Mormonism, I think that's what heaven's all about. In other words, that's what it's all. There's going to be another war in heaven. We might as well get on with it right now. I mean, that idea is there's their deep possibilities of freedom, even among the gods. And we can't predict it in accurate ways in advance. Christine, I'm interested in your perspective on that. Randall is suggesting that God doesn't know everything. What do you think most Mormons would say? And what do you personally think about that? You're asking me to reveal a personal heresy. I think that most Mormons think that God's foreign knowledge is somehow complete, that he knows what we will do. And my personal heresy is that God's knowledge is works sort of like a big choose your own adventure book. Am I the only person old enough to remember those? I do. But so I think God knows at every point that we make a choice, he can see all the rest of the possible adventures that follow from that choice. But I don't think he knows which choice we're going to make. Not really works. Would he know, even if I deliberately randomized my choice, is there any possibility of a mechanism that is randomized to the extent that God would not know what the outcome of the random event was? Is there any source of randomness that God is not aware of? Anything? I don't know. I mean, I'd like to think so.  Well, if there's any source of randomness that God cannot predict, then obviously, then I can make random choices because I just take that source of randomness and use it deliberately to make a random choice. Yeah, I don't think it would be. My answer to the question. Oh, to the question I asked. Yeah, about randomness. So I suspect that there are things that God does not know. You know, one of the things that in fact I've enjoyed thinking about is that evolution itself may be such an algorithm that God cannot know any faster than it computes itself and that the world in which we live is a genuinely creative endeavor that there may be a shape to the outcome, a general shape, some constraints, an environmental molding, but that within it there's all kinds of surprising flourishing possible. And there's very real suffering risks possible as well. And this gets back to the Mormon notion of the premortal war in heaven. This idea on the one hand of one of the gods or would be gods or Satan, depending on the perspective you want to take, suggested, you know what, this plan is too risky because there will be real losses. And then on the other hand, the other that we recognize as Christ suggesting it's worth it. The real risks are worth it because genuinely new creators may be produced by this process. So I do think there are things that God does not know. Well, that would certainly be an answer for why is there evil? And basically, if you look around and you say we exist and we are the result of an evolutionary process and there was no other way to get to humans other than allowing the evolutionary process to play out, then what's your choice? Your choice is either no, we will not allow the evolutionary process to play out, in which case there would be no humans or okay, will allow the evolutionary process to play out with all of its mess. Are you a Mormon transhumanist? I'm just a transhumanist. So that actually I'm really interested in sort of the questions because, you know, this is this is a classic problem. And I think Mormonism has an excellent answer for that question. But the moment you allow God to be finite, then suddenly that it admits of a variety of answers. We can optimize for thriving and that entails real risk. Yeah. So I have a question for both Christine and Ralph. And maybe I can phrase it in two different ways and you can choose which you prefer. One of them would be what can you imagine would persuade you to identify as a Mormon transhumanist? The negative of that would be what would you say is the the current biggest block or barrier to identifying as a Mormon transhumanist? Me. I don't know. That's a good question. I'd have to think about that one. Essentially, I was raised as a, you know, straightforward scientist. Hey, you know, if if something is correct, based on the available evidence, then it's correct. And if it's not supported by the available evidence and yeah, okay, well, nice idea, but it wasn't correct. So that's the way you go. And essentially, if it's compatible with that, then sure, why not? And if there's something there that's fundamentally in conflict with that, then that would be fundamentally in conflict with that. So that would, I guess, be my my off hand response. And then I guess the other response would be, I don't know enough about sort of the fundamental Mormon theological beliefs. Certainly the Mormon transhumanists are a lot more consistent with scientific beliefs than I had previously been led to believe. How flattering. I guess I'd say that the thing that keeps me from wanting to be a transhumanist is the thing that also sometimes makes me pause about identifying myself as a Mormon, and that is that they both seem like boys clubs. Absolutely. Awesome. I was actually surprised. I thought I might be the only one. Yeah, that that's a legitimate concern. That's a legitimate concern. The demographics of secular transhumanism, of course, are very strongly white male. Of course, there's exceptions. They're not all white male, but yes, very strongly so. And then, of course, Mormons are very white and people who like engineering among Mormons tend to be male because of the way that our demographics play out and who's in the professional working area. Right. So, yeah, it unfortunately has been way too much a boys club. And if you could help us change that, that would be wonderful. No, I would just say, I mean, it's not it's not merely demographics. Right. I mean, they're the the privileging of rationality and of reason and of technical individualistic solutions in transhumanism and the total invisibility of women in in Mormon theology and Mormon culture. Well, Mormon hierarchy, at least. And I mean, even just today, I mean, we've had lots of sort of non self-conscious quotations about man as the creature with rational capacity and, oh, hey, I'm here, I think, sometimes and and, of course, discussion of of God seeing himself in humans, seeing himself in humans. And there's no, you know, there's no Heavenly Mother and no one mentioned that as a problem. And so I think it's it's partly demographic problem when you fix the demographics, then that those problems start to be articulated and solved, but it's hard to fix the demographics before you become conscious of those problems yourselves and start articulating them and fix the story and the narrative and the way we express it. Yeah. So this is a question for for any of the panelists. The family is a key part of the Mormon aesthetic. And I was curious, not just from a Mormon transhumanist perspective, but also just a strict transhumanist perspective, what are the opportunities or possibilities and how it affects the family unit that transhumunism would affect the family unit and what are some of those risks? By the way, before you answer that question, I just wanted to, in Caleb's defense, I wanted to point out that I think I think he was actually trying to explain why he did not neuter the the pronouns in his talk. He wasn't trying to claim that women are not rational creatures. I know. And I'm I'm I'm sorry for singling you. I mean, I yeah, I I think I knew what you were doing. I did not mean that as an act. Yeah, I thought he was like deliberately actually trying to promote more gender equality. But anyway, OK. OK. Oh, yeah. Yeah, go ahead. One of one of the challenges with the texts, whether they're ancient texts or even unwritten texts about family is that we've inherited them from many thousands of years of both constructive and destructive patriarchy. And because of that inheritance and the the strong, the strong aesthetic pull of the ancient, it's hard for us to pull away from them and sufficiently recognize what some of us feel inside and that we have to learn and grow beyond parts of what those ancient texts and some modern texts say. So and James is spreading his arms for some some reason. Oh, thank you. So getting to the question of the family, I think that there are important things that we need to learn about family, that Mormonism can do some incredible things to answer. If we will embrace the radicalness of Joseph Smith's vision about ceilings in particular and welding together humanity, Joseph Smith didn't just seal men and women in marriages or children to parents. He also sealed, I'll call it his friends to him. And I would be ecstatic if Mormonism were to reinstate such behavior and formalize friend relationships and even consider other sorts of ceilings that may be beneficial to extending the notion of family in ways that we've not recently been accustomed to, but I think that Joseph Smith's behaviors challenge in a very positive way. I don't know if I should say this. Please do. I was talking about medical nanorobots and nanomedis and things like that. At some point we develop really good cosmetic surgery. I mean really good.  It's just gone because the mental patterns of the growth, the who you are, that would be something that would be voluntary, but the physical structure is a physical structure. You can be anything you want. I don't know what implications that has, but from a technical perspective it's going to be possible. I guess another thing I can imagine becoming possible is another thing I can imagine becoming possible is artificial ways of gestation and conception so that women aren't always the ones who have to bear babies. And that is interesting not just because of the real effects of not having to bear children, but because it would make us rethink the whole raft of things that we have attached to the biological fact of childbearing. It turns out women aren't actually incapacitated by lactation and pregnancy for more than maybe a decade out of a life at this point, maybe a little more for Mormon women who have more kids, but we have attached this notion that having children unfits women for much of the rest of the things that humans do. And I think that as we make technological advances, that rationalize that process further and force us to think about it differently. Even if we end up still doing things the sort of the way that we're accustomed to now, even if our biology doesn't get transformed that much, the way that we think about the biological effects of producing children I think could change dramatically. And that I think could have really wonderful effects for families. We already see fathers spending much more time with their children being much more involved. And that's only good. And I think that sort of further uncoupling biology from the ways that we think about family could be really helpful. Christine, how do you think about the body and image of God? How do I think about the body of God in one minute? The body of God sounds like Bach to me. How's that? I'll just leave it as a mysterious statement. All right, I guess she'll have to hear me ask that question again later on this evening. One last question. Who's got the most important question in the room? Uh-oh. Can we take two? If you want any closing remarks, we really, we will get kicked out of it. I know. Let's take two. And my closing remarks are going to be very short. We'll take Brian and Reed. And we all promise to try to answer succinctly. Read them, Brian. A standard stereotypical Mormon. And maybe I'm guessing you might get some backlash about that occasionally. I'm just wondering what your suggestions are or advice for people to help us be constructive, I guess. Even though we have differences maybe with a lot of our peers, do you have any advice for us to help us be constructive? I think succinctly my advice would be assume that you belong and behave as though you want to belong. And usually people will let you. Thanks. What is the role of the Holy Spirit from just a technical downloading function in the future, this great hard drive in the sky that whatever, I'm a believer, right? That's dipping my toes into the transhumanist world. What is the role of the Holy Spirit, this love of God, as we go forward, as a transhumanist? I'm going to assume, Ralph, that you'd prefer that I answer this question. So when I think of the Holy Spirit, the first thing that comes to my mind when I'm trying to communicate with somebody like Ralph is, hold on, I've got to translate. And Ralph, when I think of the Holy Spirit, I think of a sublime aesthetic and aesthetic, something that inspires and provokes me to act in what I associate with the sublime in harmony with that, in resonance with that, complimenting that, building it, creating it, being compassionate, things like that. So there's this sublime aesthetic, this Holy Spirit that inspires the believer. We call it the Holy Spirit. We feel it. It motivates us, it inspires us. It reveals things to us. It guides our lives. It makes life meaningful in so many cases. So I believe that God created the world that we live in, the matrix architect, crafted this environment. And that inherent in the shape of the environment is an aesthetic. Inherent in the shape of the environment. And that in the same way that organisms evolve and adapt to the terrain, the physical terrain of the environment, our minds will adapt and evolve to the mimetic space, the shape of the environment in which we've been placed. And suffer and thrive within that space. And the end goal being not some kind of simple suffering mitigation, although we're called to relieve the oppressed, to console and to heal. But the goal is bigger than that and it's worth a risk of the suffering and that is to thrive. And so the role of the Holy Spirit as I see it from a transhumanist perspective is in the structure of the environment we find ourselves and how it shapes our ability to create, our grace of the possibility of creation and how it provokes us to become gods ourselves. And what is that to become a God ourselves? Well, if we narrowly conceive that as exactly the God that we were taught or that we imagined when we were six years old, then we might be thinking too narrowly about what it even means to be a God, to be a creator, to be a creator in a genuine sense is something that can't be preconceived. It's something that has to be created in an ongoing way. So I look at the role of the Holy Spirit as that, as being that thing that pushes us to create, to become gods ourselves. So I think we're out of time. Those were my closing remarks, except for this, you're all invited to come to the dinner this evening. It's at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, which is a beautiful white building right next to Temple Square, that direction. If you need a ride, we can help with that as well. We will help you get a ride over there. And the dinner, I believe, the time for it has been changed to six o'clock. So that's less than 40 minutes from now. There will be more barbershop. There will be more singing. There will be excellent conversations. I promise I'm gonna be asking Christine again to answer my question, but she evaded. And it sounds like there might be an interesting discussion about cryptography going on, and I'm sure all kinds of awesome conversations. So please come and join us and eat the food, and we'll have a good time. Thanks.


This is one of a series of presentations about the areas of search that are being put forward in the Welsh marine protected areas network completion project. This project is being run by Welsh Government with technical support from Natural Resources Wales and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Areas of search are not marine conservation zone site proposals but represent a step in the process towards designating marine conservation zones in Welsh waters. Here is an illustration of the phased process moving towards selecting possible MCZs for consultation. We are currently between step 2 and 3 in a period of wider engagement on the areas of search to gather additional information on activities and interests. We are discussing the areas of search with interested sectors, stakeholders and communities and will use this information to help with determining suitable areas. Once possible MCZs have been identified within the Task and Finish Group. JNCC and NRW will provide pre-consultation advice ahead of Welsh Government's 12-week public consultation. More information can be found on the project website. The shortfall features in area of search A are Ross Worm Reef where the worms cement grains of sand together to make a tube. When there are enough tubes they can form reefs that provide habitats for other animals to live in. Fragile sponge and anthocyanin communities is a community of sponges that grow proud of the seabed and anthocyanin such as sea anemones, soft corals and colonial anemones. Some of these sponges are slow growing and can live for decades. The broad-scale habitats subtitle coarse sediment which is coarse sand, gravel, pebbles and cobbles and is generally thought to be a fairly mobile environment and subtitle mixed sediment which is a mixture of sediment types but always with muds present and generally less mobile. The area of search is predominantly inshore and located to the north and west of Anglesey. It is approximately 1290 km2. The area is largely dominated by subtitle coarse sediment in the south-western northeast corners with patches of subtitle mixed sediments dotted around. The records of fragile spongen anthocyanins and Ross Worm Reef are located in the western half of the area. The area of search is the only option to address the shortfall for Ross Worm Reef in the Irish Sea and is one of the two areas that are both required to address the shortfall for fragile spongen anthocyanin communities. There are opportunities to fully address the shortfall for subtitle coarse sediments and partially address the shortfall for subtitle mixed sediments but because it is inshore it doesn't provide representation and improve connectivity for broad-scale habitats within deeper waters. At the broad area of search stage shortfall features are overlapped with currently licensed activities and existing infrastructure were removed as they are incompatible with an MCZ designation. The area of search overview document shows these activities in more detail and can be found on the project web page. The map on the left shows the currently licensed activities and existing infrastructure for area search A which include marine licensing applications, oil pipelines, port of hollyhead and anchorage area, offshore wind installation in the east, two areas of consented offshore tidal stream and another at pre-planning application stage. There are also a number of licensed dredged disposal sites. For each area of search data was collated on activities that caused pressure which the shortfall features are sensitive to. However, we do not have comprehensive up-to-date data on all activities to include at this point. We recognise that further discussions are needed to establish key areas for other activities. One dataset that we do have is the fishing activity interpreted from the vessel monitoring system data summed here from 2016 to 2018 shown on the right. VMS data is only collected on vessels over 12 metres and on some smaller scallop fishing boats. We are aware of other fishing activity of under 12 e.g. potting boat charter angling and recreational activities that occur within the area of search. Again, this will be part of the wider engagement, getting information to feed into the process. For more information about the process, this area of search and the other areas that are being put forward and how you can have your say, please visit the projects web page noted on the screen here. Thank you.


over his hair follicles look at how far lateral they are I want to move them up here so my plan is to remove this shape and put it together you can see he's very thin I like put everything out there's only thing is gonna be left is the lymphatics so here we go one two three and then we're gonna go down this way this might seem barbaric but it's the right way to do it is because you want to retain the lymphatic channels so that he doesn't get a seroma or anything so what we're doing is just pulling off the skin you could see all the good stuff look at that that's all the lymphatics is not getting cut you could see how thin it is this is only the skin that we're taking off look at all that lymphatic channel this is very good anatomy this is the axilla a lot of lymphatics in here look at all the nerves and everything is in place the only thing we're taking off is the skin and a little bit of the fat everything else is retained here so this is exactly what we want to do just take off the skin you could see it's barely holding on okay so look at what we've done we've established the lateral chest line there is his chest there's his nipple this is the lateral axillary line we put the we put his hair follicles there are the follicles up where it should be under his arm under his axilla they were down back here so we moved it we tacked it down to the chest now we're gonna sew it up sew up his arm and then go to the next step stay tuned so look at the area of skin we're taking out stretched out it's very long when it's gone it when it's let go and it's steady state it's pretty small but when you stretch it out look at how long that is we're taking a good amount of skin so again we're going right there so again we're just lifting the skin we don't want to take the the lymphatics or the veins from underneath so we're just going to pull the skin off okay I want you guys to see the inside look at all these thin vessels here some of them are nerves some of them are lymphatics that's his bicep muscle you could see everything and now we're going to just pull off the excess tissue and there we are so you could see with us doing the lipo you could see we've taken out all the fat we've left all the important structures we haven't violated the muscle or anything look at what a big slice of skin we've taken out now we can approximate it and put them together so you can see how we're going to recruit the hair follicle the area from his from his back into his axilla where it should be and I'm just going to mark go to the markings and approximate them as such


Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So I was a slacker. Not a slacker. I just, I talked about this in last last month's plans video.  I took two trips. I had like parties and social things going on for my birthday. I saw like Broadway plays here that the touring plays. I just had something going on all the time. So I didn't get a ton of sewing done. So this month I am kind of using it as a time to kind of catch up on all the ideas I had over the summer. It's still plenty warm here. Highs are in the 90s so it's still very much summertime. So like the white dress with the rickrack. I absolutely still want to make that. I cut out one of the tops that I talked about in last month's video. So I'll sew that up. Possibly even cut out the other one and get that sewn. I do have some new projects that I'm working on as well. One of them is super secret and I cannot talk about it until the end of October. Sorry about that. But I'll be getting a head start on that. Trust me. It's amazing. You all are going to absolutely love it. I'll be working on that. I'll also be working on the Subalong M7991. You guys heard about this yesterday or a couple days ago. I am making the Doleman bodice with this flair skirt from this like super soft lightweight French terry from Soso English fabrics. I'll have that done at the end of the month for sure because the Soalong is a four-week Soalong. We're doing this entire Soalong in four weeks. So you guys will see the big reveal for that on the last Saturday of this month. It's Soalong Saturday. Roll created with that one. So if you're interested in doing the Soalong, go watch yesterday's video or Saturday's video and come back every Saturday. We'll be talking about M7991. What else? We also are in the thick of football season. I am living in an NFL city now where there is a local NFL team. So I feel like I have to like really get behind that. So I grabbed some of this Carolina Panthers. I think it's broadcloth. It's ugly. I looked everywhere for something cuter, but this is the NFL licensed design. If anybody works over there or knows anyone, please call someone to get some help with this. This is awful, but it is what it is. So I am going to make a little top from this. I posted my Willow Tank a week or so ago and asked you guys if you would like to see some like hacks, some Willow Tank hacks. So I think I'm going to use this as an opportunity to make a Willow Tank hack. I'm going to add a little like ruffle sleeve, maybe a ruffle around the collar, maybe a ruffle around the hem, going to ruffle it up, try and make it as cute as I possibly can. And then as it gets cooler, you can always layer the Willow Tank with like a turtleneck type situation makes this seasonally appropriate for the games that are in September as well as the games that are in December. That's kind of my mindset around it. It's also very stiff, like not great quality fabric itself. So I kind of have to work with that. And I think the Willow Tanks kind of, you know, straight shape, you know, no pleats or ruffles or not ruffles, gathers or anything like that will be well suited for this.  So stay tuned for that. I also, those of you that live in NFL cities or go to stadiums, you know, you have to have those see-through crossbody bags. So I have a fun cricket project coming up where I'm going to be making like decorating this as well as a cute little pair of shoes.  No sewing involved. Yeah, no sewing involved other than the shirt. But I'm going to try and jazz this up a little bit with the help of my Cricut and their super new mini heat press. And then in addition to that, I got my Ankara and Lace box. And Ankara and Lace is sponsoring this video. So huge shout out to them for that. Much appreciated. If you remember, I did, I opened the last box and I can't remember. Maybe it's been a couple months. I think it was like two months ago, maybe longer. Anyways, and got this really cool, very vibrant fabric. So I'm super excited to see what's in the box for this month. You get, this is the August box. So this is what everybody got last month. If you sign up before the 15th, then you will get September's box. And then also before I forget, there's also a coupon code for you guys to use all the information about Ankara and Lace, the coupon code, the link to get a subscription will all be in the description box. So be sure to head down there and check that out. The description box is always a great place for you guys to check out. It has a tone of information, every single video, not just sponsored videos, like what I'm wearing, links to the products that I mentioned, all of that stuff is always in the description box. So be sure to check that regularly. Okay, so we are getting apparently fabric, trim, a magnetic pincushion, some sewing stickers, and a McCall's pattern, I think. Yeah, let's see. Let's see. Oh, man. Okay. Okay, that's the fabric. Oh, yeah. Wow. Okay, ton of stuff came in this box. Let's see. Let's start with a little stuff. So I got a magnetic pincushion, which I have a good jillion of these. This will be my third. So I have one at my cutting table, one at my sewing machine, and now I guess I can put one by my serger or over by the ironing board. Honestly, you can never have too many of these magnetic pincushions. I love those. I got some rickrack, some black. And this one is like a kind of like a royal blue. That's pretty. Then I got a McCall's sewing pattern, one that I don't have. It's Elora Ashley 7963. How cute is that? It's very kind of sexy. Like the back is like totally like a lace-up situation. We've got spaghetti straps. We've got like some beautiful like ruching like bust cups, you know, kind of a fitted elasticized waist. And then you have shorts for a romper. You have pants for a jumpsuit. And then even this like little mid-length one, which is kind of cute too, and the ruffle sleeve, that's adorable. So I'm not sure I will be making this pattern out of Ankara fabric. You definitely could, especially this version here would be stunning. But not totally my style. But yeah, this is cute. That'll be really fun whenever spring rolls around again. I've got Lily Bell signs and Bell is your sewing machine stickers.  That's really sweet. There's red ones and blue ones. That's super cute. You could also I'm sure put it on your iron or, I don't know, all over the place. That's fun. Okay. Cute. All right. And then really what you're here for. This is the Ankara fabric that I got this month. That's actually probably the wrong side. Hold on. How stunning. I don't think I have any brown fabric at all. And then it has these beautiful like yellow medallion type things on it. Oh my gosh. So so pretty. So so pretty. So yeah, I'm definitely going to be adding this to my plans for this month. I didn't know what it looked like before I opened the box. So I don't have a pattern picked out yet. But I think that Ankara fabric is so well suited for fall because it is cool enough because it is kind of like a, you know, it's like a waxed cotton. So it's not super breathable. So it will be nice to kind of keep you a little bit warm.  And so, you know, the beautiful straight line wide leg pants are stunning in Ankara fabric. So I just feel like fall is falls patterns are really well suited for Ankara fabric like this. Similar to how you're kind of reaching for like sweater nets right now, you should also be reaching for Ankara fabric for some of the more structured patterns that you are buying or that are in your stash. So I just, I mean, I love this one. I really feel like I'm going to get a lot of wear out of it even if I made pants and I feel like there's black, but there's also navy in it as well, which is, I mean, so versatile. So we've got white, yellow, brown, navy, black. I mean, you could, if you make pants, you could pair any top with this. So maybe I'll try and find some wide leg pants that I didn't want to try. I don't think I'll be doing an elasticized waist.  I'm getting it. I'm coming around again. So after the success of those Vogue pants with the boning and the waist, actually those would be great out of something like this. Maybe that's what I'll do. Another pair of those Vogue pants, truth be told, the coral ones I made and the black ones I made are too big by about an inch right now because of my getting my health situation under control. So that would be a really, really good option too. And it avoids needing a waistband. There's a zip closure. It's not fussy with any thing wild happening at the waist. So yeah, those would be really, that'd be a really, really good option. But I also, you know, address like this one that's like fit and flare. I mean, this fabric is a stretch satin, which is about as structured as this is. So you could also do a dress like this. This one has like some ruffles in it. You can see those details here. So this would also be really well suited for fabric like this as well. And you'll know I love dresses. So I have to get to my pattern stash and I have to start looking through and seeing what I've got to get to sewing this. So yeah, super cool, super fun box. I love these little notions and stuff that we got too. That's also a really great addition to the box. So like I said, head to the description box to get all the information you need about Ankara and lace and get your own subscription. Use the coupon code. You guys know all the good stuff. But yeah, so that's going to do it for my September plans video. Fingers crossed for me that I can get all my ish together and get into the sewing room more and actually get some sewing done. Speaking of which, I probably should go. So I will see you all in my next video. Bye.