Scott Douglas Jacobson of News Intervention asked me what makes a narcissist tick? And from this simple question, a whole dialogue had evolved.  It's a place where no one has access to, least of all, the narcissist himself. So join both of us, Scott and myself, on this journey, a journey into the unknown, the last remaining, terror incognita. My name is Sam Vaknin and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love Narcissism Revisited. I'm also a professor of psychology and this is my interview to News Intervention. Scott's first question was, your raison d'être is narcissism. Narcissism is rooted in the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus rejected a nymph, echo, his punishment, eternal love with his reflection in water. Narcissists, as you state, love their reflection, not themselves. And this raises the distinction between the false self and the true self. What distinguishes the false self from the true self? And I responded, the true self in the unconstellated, unintegrated precursor to the self. It includes introjected object representations, in other words, voices and inner objects, avatars, which represent caregivers such as parental figures. So this is the unconstellated, unintegrated phase before we have a full-fledged self. Abuse, during formative years, disrupts the integration of the true self and its replacement by a false self. The false self is a godlike construct and it performs several important functions. First of all, the false self serves as a decoy. It attracts the fire. It is a proxy for the true self. It is tough as nails and can absorb any amount of pain, hurt and negative emotions. By inventing it, the child develops immunity to the indifference, manipulation, sadism, smothering or exploitation, in short, to the abuse inflicted on him by his parents or by other primary objects in his life. The false self is kind of an invisibility cloak protecting the child, rendering him invisible and omnipotent at the same time. The second function is, the false self is misrepresented by the narcissist as his true self. The narcissist is saying in effect, I am not who you think I am. I am someone else. I am this false self. Therefore, I deserve a better, painless and titled, more considerate treatment. The false self, thus, is a contraption intended to alter, to change other people's behaviors and attitudes towards the narcissist.  One, reinterpretation. The false self causes the narcissist to reinterpret certain emotions and reactions in a flattering, socially acceptable light. The narcissist may, for instance, interpret fear as compassion he sublimates. If the narcissist hurts someone, someone he fears, for example an authority figure, he may feel bad afterwards and interpret his discomfort as empathy and compassion. To be afraid is humiliating, but to be compassionate is commendable and earns the narcissist social approbation, commendation and understanding. Narcissistic supply. So this is the first role of the false self. It reinterprets everything that happens to the narcissist in a favorable light, which produces narcissistic supply.  The narcissist is possessed of an uncanny ability to psychologically penetrate other people, called empathy. Often this gift of cold empathy, called like an opposite of hot, often this gift of cold empathy is abused and put at the surface of the narcissist's control freakery and sadism. The narcissist uses cold empathy liberally to annihilate the natural defenses of his victims by faking empathy. And this capacity is coupled with the narcissist's eerie ability to imitate emotions and their attendant behaviors. Affect. The narcissist possesses emotional resonance tables. He keeps records of every action and every reaction, every utterance and every consequence, every datum provided by others regarding their state of mind and emotional makeup. And so from these tables, he then constructs a set of formulas, which often result in impeccably accurate renditions of emotional behavior. This can be enormously deceiving. Jacobson asks, why does the narcissist love their self, their reflected self as in the myth of Narcissus, rather than their true self? Why do they not love the true self? I answer, because it provides only above mentioned functions. For the same reason that people love God, for example, the false self is a God-like structure. It is a proxy ideal parental figure. And the false self renders the narcissist divine by association. The narcissist becomes omnipotent, omniscient, brilliant, perfect, infallible and so on by merging, by identifying with the false self. Gradually, the narcissist comes to identify himself or a self with the false self, which started off as a fantastic imaginary friend in a paracosm. Looking at it this way, narcissism is a private religion. The false self is the deity, the narcissist is the worshipper, the true self is the human sacrifice. Jacobson asks, what differentiates the ego, the superego and the self? What is the nature of narcissism regarding these in general? Vaknim, that's me. I regard the trilateral model as metaphorical, not as real or objective in any sense. In the narcissist, the false self usurps the role of the ego and fulfills the functions of the ego, especially ego boundary functions, mediation between the individual and the world, and a sense of personal continuity. The false self pretends to be the only self. It denies the existence of a true self. It is also extremely useful, it's adaptive. Rather than risking constant conflict, the narcissist opts for a solution of disengagement. The classical ego, proposed by Freud, is partly conscious and partly pre-conscious and partly unconscious. It's like an iceberg, partly over the water, partly under the water. The narcissist's ego is completely submerged. No part of it is conscious. The pre-conscious and conscious parts are detached from the ego by early traumas and they form the false ego. The superego in healthy people constantly compares the ego to the ego ideal. The narcissist is a different psychodynamic. The narcissist's false self serves as a buffer and a shock absorber between the true ego and the narcissist's sadistic, punishing and immature superego. The narcissist aspires to become pure, ideal ego. The narcissist's ego cannot develop because it is deprived of contact with the outside world. And therefore it endures no growth-inducing conflict. The false self is rigid. The result is that the narcissist is unable to respond and to adapt to threats, illnesses and to other life crises, exigencies and circumstances. The narcissist's brittle, fragile, is prone to be broken rather than bent by life's trials and tribulations. The ego remembers, evaluates, plans, responds to the world and acts in the world and on the world. It is the locus of the executive functions of the personality. The ego integrates the inner world with the outer world, the id with the superego. The ego acts under a reality principle rather than a pleasure principle. And this means that the ego is in charge of delaying gratification. It postpones pleasurable acts until they can be carried out both safely and successfully. The ego is therefore in an ungrateful position. Unfulfilled desires produce an ease and anxiety. A reckless fulfillment of desires is diametrically opposed to self-preservation. The ego is to mediate distinctions. In an effort to thwart anxiety, the ego invents psychological defense mechanisms. On the one hand, the ego channels fundamental drives. It has to speak the language of the id, of the fundamental reflexes and instincts and so on. It must have a primitive, infantile component. On the other hand, the ego is in charge of negotiating with the outside world and of securing a realistic and optimal bargain for its client, the id. And these intellectual and perceptual functions are supervised by the exceptionally strict court of the superego. Jacobson, how do narcissists manage the balance between their sadistic superego and false self? The inevitable vaknin responds. The irony is that narcissists are selfless. The narcissist true self is introverted. It's utterly dysfunctional. In healthy people, ego functions are generated from the inside, from inside the ego. In narcissists, the ego is dormant. It's comatose. The narcissist needs the input of and feedback from the outside world, from others, in order to perform the most basic ego functions. For example, recognizing the world, setting boundaries, forming a self-definition or identity, differentiation, self-esteem and regulating his sense of self-worth. And this input or feedback is known as narcissistic supply. Only the false self gets in touch with the world. The true self is isolated, repressed, unconscious. It's a shadow. So you could think of the false self as a kind of hive self or swarm self. It is a collage of reflections, a patchwork of outsourced information. Tick-bits garnered from the narcissist interlocutors and laboriously coherent and assembled so as to uphold and buttress the narcissist's inflated, fantastic and grandiose self-image. And this discontinuity accounts for the dissociative nature of pathological narcissism as well as for the narcissist's seeming inability to learn from the errors of his ways. In healthy normal people, ego functions are strictly internal processes. In the narcissist, ego functions are imported from the surroundings. They are outsourced, they are thoroughly external. Consequently, the narcissist often confuses his inner mental psychological landscape with the outside world. He tends to fuse and merge his mind and his milieu. The narcissist regards significant amounts and sources of supply as mere extensions of himself. He appropriates people because they fulfill crucial internal roles and as a result, they are perceived by him to be sheer internal objects devoid of an objective external and autonomous existence. I call it snapshotting, introjection. The narcissist is an even more extreme case. His ego is non-existent. The narcissist has a fake substitute ego. This is why his energy is drained.  The narcissist is a person exhausted by his own absence. The healthy ego preserves some sense of continuity and consistency. It serves as a point of reference. It relates events of the past to actions at present and to plans in the future. It incorporates the ego, the healthy ego incorporates memory, anticipation, imagination and intellect. It defines where the individual ends and the world begins, boundaries. Though the ego is not co-extensive with the body or with the personality, it is a close approximation. But in the narcissistic condition, all these functions are relegated to the false self. The halo of confabulation of the false self wraps off on all these functions. The narcissist is bound to develop false memories, conjure up false fantasies, anticipate the unrealistic and work is intellect to justify all these. The falsity, the falsity of the false self is dual. Not only is it not the real thing, the real McCoy, it also operates on false premises. It is false and it is a wrong gauge of the world. It falsely and inefficiently regulates the drives. It fails to thwart or mitigate anxiety. The false self provides a false sense of continuity and of a personal center. The false self weaves an enchanted and grandiose fable as a substitute to reality. It's fantastic. The narcissist gravitates out of his self and into a plot, a narrative, a story. The narcissist is rendered too dimensional. The narcissist continuously feels that he is a character in a film, a fraudulent invention, the imposter syndrome, a con artist to be momentarily exposed and summarily socially excluded. Moreover, the narcissist cannot be consistent or coherent. The narcissist's false self is preoccupied with the pursuit of narcissistic supply. The narcissist has no boundaries because his ego is not sufficiently defined or fully differentiated. The only constancy in the narcissist's life is the narcissist's feelings of diffusion and nulment, identity, disturbance. This is especially true in life crisis when he hits rock bottom, when the false self seizes to function, a state of decompensation or modification. The narcissist's superego is comprised of infantile, harsh, sadistic interjects. It is frozen in time in an early stage of personal development, devoid of reflective self-awareness. It is much closer to the id and leverages the id's aggression against the self. The narcissist is besieged and tormented by a sadistic superego which sits in constant judgment of the narcissist. It's a kind of a per-secretary object, a harsh inner critic. It is an amalgamation of negative evaluations, criticisms, angry or disappointed voices and disparagement meted out in the narcissist's formative years and adolescence by parents, peers, role models and authority figures. These harsh and repeated comments reverberate, reverberate throughout the narcissist's inner landscape. These voices, these interjects in his mind keep berating him for failing to conform to his own unattainable ideals, fantastic goals and grandiose but impractical plans. The narcissist's sense of self-worth is therefore catapulted from one pole to another, from an inflated view of himself in commensurate with real-life accomplishments, to utter despair and self-denigration back and forth like a pendulum. Hence the narcissist's need for narcissistic supply. He needs narcissistic supply to regulate this wild pendulum. People's adulation, admiration, affirmation and attention, they restore the narcissist's self-esteem and self-confidence and they stabilize his sense of self-worth. The narcissist's sadistic and uncompromising superego affects three facets of the narcissist's personality. One, his sense of self-worth and worthiness, the deeply ingrained conviction that one deserves love, compassion, care and empathy, regardless of what one achieves or how one performs. The narcissist feels worthless without narcissistic supply. Number two, the narcissist's self-esteem, self-knowledge, the deeply ingrained and realistic appraisal of one's capacities, skills, limitations and shortcomings. The narcissist lacks clear boundaries and therefore is not sure of his abilities and weaknesses. That's why he has grandiose fantasies, compensatory. And finally, the narcissist's self-confidence is affected. The deeply ingrained belief based on lifelong experience that one can set realistic goals and accomplish them self-efficaciously.  He therefore does not trust his ability to manage his own affairs and to set practical aims and to realize them. By becoming a success or at least by appearing to have become a success, the narcissist hopes to quell the voices inside him that constantly question his veracity and his aptitude. The narcissist's whole life is a twofold attempt to both satisfy the inexorable demands of his inner tribunal, this inner critic and on the other hand to prove wrong the harsh and merciless criticism emanating from this internal court. It is this dual and self-contradictory mission to conform to the edicts of his internal enemies and at the same time to prove their very judgment wrong. This is a contradiction and it is at the root of the narcissist's unresolved conflicts and dissonances. On the other hand, the narcissist accepts the authority of his introjected internalized critics and disregards the fact that they hate him, they wish him dead, their enemies. He sacrifices his life to these critics, to this superego, hoping that his successes and his accomplishments, real or perceived, will ameliorate this internal rage, this internal self-loathing. On the other hand, the narcissist confronts these very gods with proofs of their own fallibility. The narcissist says, you claim that I'm worthless and incapable. Well, guess what, you're dead wrong. Look how famous I am, look how rich I am, look how revered and accomplished and well connected I am. But then, having said that, much rehearsed self-doubt sets in and the narcissist feels yet again compelled to forciify the claims of his trenchant and indefatigable detractors by conquering another woman, giving one more interview, taking over yet another firm, making an extra million or getting re-elected one more time. It's Sisyphian, it's Sisyphian, it's a perpetual mobile, no amount, no number of accomplishments and successes can douse, quail, silence these internal, disparaging self-hating voices. To no avail, the narcissist is his own worst foe and enemy. Ironically, it is only when he is incapacitated that the narcissist gains a modicum of peace of mind. When he is terminally ill, incarcerated, inebriated, the narcissist can shift the blame for his failures and predicaments to outside agents and objective forces over which he has no control.  He says, it's not my fault, there was nothing I could do about it.  Then, with the narcissist defeated and broken, they go away and he is free at last. More generally, in the patient with a personality disorder, the sadistic and disparaging inner voices that constitute the superego to use Freud's term, these voices are implacable. If the patient is successful, these introjects or inner representations of narcissistic parents, for example, they become virulently envious of the narcissist and punitive because he had succeeded. If the patient fails in his endeavors, these internalize avatars, feel vindicated, empowered, elated, euphoric and morally justified in their quest to inflict pain and castigation on the patient. But why doesn't the narcissist resist or the personality disorder patient? Why doesn't he resist? Why doesn't he or she rebel against these embedded tormentors, at least by doubting the omniscience, infallibility and veracity? Because it feels good to satisfy these voices. It feels good to cater to mother's emotional needs and to be a good boy. It feels good not to doubt your introjected parents. It is a masochistic Stockholm syndrome, a kind of shared psychosis for L'Aplusio. The patient doesn't experience these harsh juries sitting in judgment over him, over his traits, skills and actions. He doesn't experience these torturers, these evil abusers, internal abusers. He doesn't experience them as alien, but as an integral part of himself. And their gratification at his own self-immolation is also his gratification. He is, in other words, split. That's why we're using the terminology of self-states. Jacobsen, finally, poor guy gets to ask a question.  The Vaknin. L'Ensperi distinguish between narcissistic style and narcissistic disorder. Mellon contributed the mezzanine level, narcissistic personality. These are gradations. The differences between these three reflect a higher intensity or pervasiveness and escalation of the effects of the various narcissistic behaviors and traits on the individual and on his human environment. I'm going to read this again because this is a very crucial point, missed very often online. The differences between narcissistic style, narcissistic personality, narcissistic personality disorder. Reflect a higher intensity, each level is more intense than the other. And all pervasiveness affects on all realms of life and the escalation of the effects of the various narcissistic behaviors and traits on the individual and on his human environment. Jacobsen, narcissism comes with internal processes and externalized behaviors, including abusive. What is the internal landscape or matrix of cognitive and emotional processes of a narcissist? What are the externalizing behaviors of narcissism? The signifiers. Sem Vaknin. Both types of narcissists, overt and covert, fragile, shy, vulnerable, inverted narcissists. Both types are invested in extracting narcissistic supply to regulate their fluctuating sense of self-worth. Both also lack empathy. The fifth edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual published in 2013 includes a dimensional model of narcissistic personality disorder. The DSM-5 redefines personality disorders this way. The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality, self, interpersonal, functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. According to the alternative model for personality disorders in the DSM-5, page 767, the following criteria must be met to diagnose narcissistic personality disorders. Moderate or greater impairment in personality functioning in either identity or self-direction and I think it should be in both. I'm continuing to quote from the DSM-5 with my comments interlaced. Identity. The narcissist keeps referring to others excessively in order to regulate his self-esteem really his sense of self-worth and for self-definition to define his identity. The narcissist's self-appraisal is exaggerated whether it is inflated, deflated or fluctuating between these two points and his emotional regulation reflects these vacillations. Finally, the DSM-5 accepted what I've been saying for decades that narcissists can have an inferiority complex and feel worthless in bed. They can be compensatory. They go through cycles of ups and downs in their self-evaluation and that this cycling influences their moods and affect. The DSM continues. Self-direction. The narcissist sets goals in order to gain approval from others, narcissistic supply. The DSM-5 ignores the fact that the narcissist finds this approval equally rewarding as long as it places him firmly in the limelight at the center of attention. The narcissist continues the DSM lacks self-awareness as far as his motivation goes and as far as everything else besides by the way. The narcissist's personal standards and benchmarks are either too high which supports his grandiosity or too low which buttresses his sense of entitlement which is incommensurate with his real-life performance. Impairments in interpersonal functioning in either empathy or intimacy. It should have been in both. Empathy. The narcissist finds it difficult to identify with the emotions and needs of other people but is very attuned to their reactions when they are relevant to himself. Cold empathy. Consequently, the narcissist overestimates the effect the DSM has on others or underestimates this effect. Actually, the classic narcissist never underestimates the effect he has on others but the inverted or covert narcissist does. Intimacy. From the DSM, the narcissist's relationships are self-serving and therefore shallow and superficial. They are centered around and geared at the regulation of his self-esteem. Obtaining narcissistic supply for the regulation of his labile sense of self-worth is the number one priority. The narcissist is not genuinely interested in his intimate partner's experiences, implying that he does fake such interests convincingly. The narcissist emphasizes his need for personal gain. And by using the word need, the DSM-5 acknowledges the compulsive and addictive nature of narcissistic supply. Narcissist is a junkie. These twin fixtures of the narcissist's relationships render them one-sided. There's no mutuality and no reciprocity and I would add no intimacy. The DSM continues. Pathological personality traits, antagonism characterized by grandiosity and attention-seeking. Grandiosity. The aforementioned feeling of entitlement. The DSM-5 adds that it can be either overt or covert, which corresponds to mitaxonomy of classic and covert inverted narcissists. Grandiosity is characterized by self-centeredness, a firmly held conviction of superiority, arrogance, or haughtiness in condescending or patronizing attitudes. On to attention-seeking in the DSM-5, the narcissist puts in ordinate effort, time, and resources into attracting other people, sources of narcissistic supply, and placing himself at the focus and center of attention. The narcissist seeks admiration. But the DSM gets it partly wrong. The DSM-5 gets it wrong in the sense that the narcissist does prefer to be admired and isolated, but failing that any kind of attention would do, even if this attention is negative. DSM, the diagnostic criteria end with disclaimers and differential diagnosis, which reflect years of accumulated research and newly gained knowledge. The above enumerated impairments should be stable across time and consistent across situations, not better understood as normative for the individual's developmental stage or sociocultural environment. And they are not solely to the direct physiological effects of a substance, for example a drug of abuse or medication, or a general medical conditions such as severe head trauma. It is important to note that the DSM is used mostly in North America. The rest of the world uses local variants of the ICD, the international statistical classification of diseases in related health problems. So there is a revolutionary paradigm shift regarding personality disorders in the 11th edition of the ICD, published by the World Health Organization. And I refer Jacobson to my video of the differences between DSM and ICD. Jacobson asks, those externalised behaviours can be abusive, for example given narcissistic abuse. What is narcissistic abuse? My favourite question, Vaknin says, in 1995 I coined the phrase narcissistic abuse to describe a subtype of abusive behaviour that was all pervasive across multiple areas of life and involved a plethora of behaviours in manipulative or coercive techniques. Narcissistic abuse differs from all other types of abuse in its range, sophistication, duration, versatility and express and premeditated intention to negate and vitiate the victim's personal autonomy, agency, self-efficacy and well-being. The victims of narcissistic abuse appear to present a clinical picture substantially different to victims of other, more pinpointed and goal-oriented types of abuse. The victims of narcissistic abuse are more depressed, more anxious, disoriented, aggressive, defiant reactants, dissociative and they are trapped, they feel hopeless owing to learned helplessness, intermittently reinforced or operant conditioned helplessness. In short, the victims of narcissistic abuse are in the throes of trauma-bonding, Stockholm syndrome, a kind of cultish shared psychosis for Lea Dunn, known as the shared fantasy. Repeated abuse has long-lasting pernicious and traumatic effects, such as panic attacks, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks, intrusive memories, suicide ideation and psychosomatic symptoms. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment and an enhanced sense of vulnerability. CPTSD, complex post-traumatic stress disorder or complex trauma, has been proposed as a new mental health diagnosis by Dr. Judith Herman of Harvard University, and it was used to account for the impact of extended periods of trauma and abuse. Jacobson, for the most extreme cases of narcissism to be the most minute, from the most extreme cases of narcissism to the most minute, what are the principles for dealing with them if one cannot enact the no-contact rule? And I refer him to a video of a lecture I had given in Hungary about the eight techniques of coping with narcissism. Jacobson, thank you for the opportunity and your time, Professor Wagner. Professor Wagner, thank you again for your patience and perseverance. This interview was published in News Intervention, which is an online website, News Intervention. Just type News Intervention, Wagner, and you will get the unfortunate and unpalatable results. Thank you for surviving yet again.


Meanwhile, the federal lawmaker representing South Anijaw Federal Constituency of Biosas States Honorable Rodney Bikebina and Beoway has learned his voice to condemn the cold-blooded murder of 16 military personnel at Okwamaogele South local government area of Delta State on 14 March 2024. Honorable Rodney, while briefing newsmen in Apocha noted that a gruesome event was one of the worst things to have happened to our Garland soldiers in recent history. The lawmaker also condemned the invasion of the once-serene community by men said to be of the military in search of the perpetrators of the Heianos crime at Okwamaogele. When an oil touches one finger, it touches the other hands because one person or two person may have committed crime should not mean that every other person should go for that punishment. If the Nigerian Hami intelligence is true and they go to a Bumutaro community, it's not every Bumutaro community people that did the killing. As we speak, most of them are in the bush or in the bushes. Just like in my statement, the children can't even go to school. One, there's presence of military, of course, you know, our people. Sometimes the military cannot even do them anything, but for that fear, it's a problem.  So as a result, will you allow innocent Nigerians to die as a result of a crime being committed one or two or three persons? No, it's not possible. As it stands now, because of the fear, even those who are selling food, for them to even transport food to a Bumutaro community, it's even a problem. It's a common thing, not for even the Bumutaro people, even me and you. Once there are situations like that, you know that as Nigerians, we find it difficult to go to such places. That is the essence of my calling for palleteers for the people.


And this one? So these are not... I don't even know why the freaking band came off. And here's another one. It's gonna be interesting. Hi. I've talked about the problematic aspects of family channels before, but there's one family channel in particular that has done so many shady and sus things that I'm sure I won't be able to cover it all in today's video. Today we are going to dive into the scams that the ACE family has participated in, mainly the parents of course, because children are perfect angels and don't participate in scams. And this video is going to be a deep dive into all of those scams and shady things. This is the second episode or video on my series where I look at public figures and examine all of the scams and shady businesses that they've participated in. Before we get into it though, if you like deep dives and like to analyze, don't forget to subscribe down below and give this video a thumbs up. If you like this video, it helps boost the video into the YouTube algorithm, I guess. The comment highlight for today's video is this one. If you want to be featured in the next video, leave an interesting or funny comment down below and let's get into it. The ACE family consists of the father, Austin McBroom, the mother, Catherine Piaz, or McBroom, I think now, and there are three children who I won't be naming out, mainly because I don't want them to end up being associated with the scams or shady actions of their parents. I want to briefly mention some of the controversies that they've been in just because I think it's important to briefly talk about it. Though in this video, I won't be heavily speculating on their relationship or talking about Catherine's past, those two things I just don't want to talk about. I just feel like they're kind of all speculation or judging someone based off of their past and that's not what we're here for. We're not here to needlessly judge people, instead we're here to actually analyze the shady actions that they've done. A lot of these controversies mainly have to do with the actions of the father, Austin McBroom. For example, his shady past and some of the tweets that he's tweeted out, which I'm going to show up on the screen but I'm not going to say them out loud just because I don't want those sentences and words coming out of my mouth. There's also the horribly cringey pranks that the ace family has done in the traditional family channel fashion where they do these like blatantly staged and ridiculous premises of pranks. I don't know if that was proper grammar but you get what I mean. Hurry, come here, hurry. Look. I won't believe what I did. What? I absolutely delete all our videos. There was also the incident of the lollipop video where Austin gives a child in their family, not their child specifically but I believe Catherine's younger sister who was a child, Austin films this child going into, it looks like a Spencer's I believe is what it was and he purchases a phallic shaped lollipop for this child. And talks about it being like their little secret and just a lot of really weird shady things happened in that video. The logic, I just, what brings you to do that and think that that's okay and then film it and post it publicly? I will never understand the logic. There was also the grape without the G allegations that came out about Austin McBroom. She repeatedly said no. The girl who was actually in this situation, she said to speak on this video that Cole Corrigan posted, some of you guys already figured out that I'm the other girl that they're talking about in the video. I feel like this video was made for the wrong reasons and this wasn't called story to tell. I wanted to say that Austin McBroom is not to blame in the situation and did not mean or anyone. There's so many conflicting sides to that story and what really happened but I thought I would at least mention those allegations to add to the fuller picture of what we're discussing today. There's also been a lot of cheating claims or rumors or allegations whatever you want to call them about Austin cheating on Catherine, the mother of the Ace family. I think one of the most interesting rumors was stated by the host of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Alex. Like literally the who, what are they called? The Ace family, the YouTubers and all that.  I don't know if that story is true but what I do know for a fact is one of my friends has literally the Ace guy and he cheats on that woman all the time and I'm pretty sure she probably gets yams about it all the time. And the wife is obviously making a decision to like stay with the husband. That's her call, whatever. She's got like a family and that's what you want to do, your cup of tea, whatever. But there's also been so, so, so many others who have claimed that Austin cheats frequently on Catherine and Catherine has vehemently denied all of these rumors, claims, allegations. And it's definitely hard to know the full true story of all of that without like concrete evidence or proof. And it seems like the Ace family is definitely willing to sue or go after anyone who does have any concrete evidence or proof. So it seems like we'll just never know the full story, although there's also another option as well. Some people have open relationships and that's how they structure their relationship. And if that's something that's mutually agreed, then that's, you know, their personal life and their personal decisions that two consenting adults are allowed to make. So those are some of the controversies that the Ace family has been involved with. But let's get into the timeline of the scams and shady business practices that the Ace family has done. Something that makes the controversies and the alleged shady scams out there more disturbing is the fact that the Ace family's largest demographic is a child audience. They cater their content to children. They target children to be the viewers of their content. So when cheating scandals and the lollipop scandals come out, it makes it even more upsetting because their audience is children. Children are watching this and taking it in. And I think that's why a lot of the things that the Ace family does business wise are so blatant and obvious because they expect their child audience to not know the difference logically, to not understand that this is a scam. So they're so blatant about it because they think that they can get away with it. And honestly, they're kind of right, unfortunately. So the first alleged scam that we'll discuss is in August of 2018 and the house robbery that many feel was faked. The Ace family posted a YouTube video claiming that their house was robbed while they were away at Disneyland. They filmed the aftermath of the break-in as well as the police visiting their home, which is of course a really traumatic thing if that's real and if that is real then that's horrible to go through. But many people thought that the way that the police were acting was extremely suspicious.    God is gonna catch y'all watch. So you never had an alarm go off? Do you guys have security cameras? Do you have cameras? Yes people. Yes people, don't try to do no funny stuff. They're looking at y'all so be careful now. You can see there's another camera right there. There's been this email that's been flying around about somebody who pretended to be Austin's financial advisor. They emailed a company that's known for working with fake cops and they set a receipt of his purchase. A lot of people felt like this was just an attempt to have the noise of this cover up the controversy that the family was currently going through. The second shady scam that the Ace family took part in is their basketball charity event in June of 2018. In June of 2018, the Ace family held a charity event where they announced that they would be donating a hundred thousand dollars to the charity of their choice. This basketball charity event was really successful but at the end of it they ended up only giving away $75,000 instead of their original promised $100,000. They were gonna donate $100,000 to charity and then at the event they only had a check written for $75,000. They raised a lot of red flags as to like wait a minute where's the other 25k that you said? Many felt like this just wasn't cool and didn't really understand why. Like why only give away 75% of what you promised to give away? It's just so strange and a lot of people even theorized that the event was a scam itself meant to give the Ace family more publicity and also make money even off of the charity event.  A YouTuber by the name of Choice TV he did a video breaking down how they profited and how they did not do what they said they were going to do with the proceeds.   But the Ace family had their own explanations of why they gave away only part of the money that they promised. The tickets are are 45 and they sold about 10,000 they made around $400,000 right? First of all Catherine and I have never done anything like that at all. I do all know this is our first time and I believe it might have been the first time um someone has has hosting event like that. And over this I've seen online conversation really split two ways. Some people think it's awesome that they donated money at all. I mean how many of us can say we gave away $75,000 to a charity and some feel like the whole thing was really just a scheme to gain more followers and more money for themselves. The Ace family has also taken part in some really scammy or strange giveaways. Like saying in a video that only people who purchase their merch will be entered into a giveaway to win $1,000 which is against YouTube guidelines. Giveaways should be free to enter you shouldn't have to pay to be involved in a giveaway. That if you go to our website and cop some merch we'll be giving five lucky winners $1,000. It's against the guidelines on YouTube that literally say if you do a giveaway it has to be free. They've also done things like giveaway a free car but then in a later video the car was shown in their front yard so did they really give it away? Someone actually commented on that video. Wayne was this film because I'm confused. They still got the Jeep they gave away if it's still there. Another person said they live near them and they passed by on a hike and the Jeep was still there after the Jeep giveaway video came and it basically seems like a lot of their giveaways are just blatant scams designed to bring them more followers but not actually be a true authentic giveaway for their fans. There was also an incident with the bands where Austin McBroom allegedly reached out to an artist saying he likes his work and they got together and this artist pitched him all these ideas for his work what he wants to do showed him all these bands. From there I was like all right well what I could do is I can make a couple exclusively for you and then we could sell them and then you know when I link back up I'll make them. When I link back up we could negotiate like the price and then it just clicked to me I was like another thing was dope is I'm working on a truck then I'm about to drop that uh we can like basically do pop-ups where every band that I make exclusively for you we pop up we can sell them. Basically the artist said that Austin just ripped him off. His idea for a mobile merch truck he ripped that off of this artist the bands he copied the identical look of it and just basically took all of this artist's work and just carbon copied it for himself without giving the artist any credit or any kickback. I couldn't find too much on this but I also remember a controversy about Austin not paying his editor properly I'll add a clip of it if I can find it. This director claims that he wasn't paid what he was worth he was only paid $150 for his contributions and his work and he wasn't credited like he was supposed to. Originally we had we kicked it off amazingly but it ended up taking a turn when me asking for what I deserve and what I made when you work hard at this craft to make it look good um you're not constantly just you don't just put a video slap it together in two seconds you know I'm saying so it's time going into this and mind I gave him discounts on my rates just because he was a homie and I was just trying to grow him you know I wasn't focused on the money but where it got weird was when if you're not gonna just credit me for the video I provide you with then just pay me my regular rate. The reason for my posting was to know you're worth bottom line you know and a lot of people out here videographers and artists don't get paid what they're worth all the time and sometimes they don't even get credit their work just gets stolen. It just seems like this family is really willing to cut corners in any way they can to not properly credit people who are working to help their channel or who have valuable artistic input to help them grow and like I just don't think that's cool at all. I don't think anyone should get away with ripping off art and not paying their employees because it's just really shady and wrong. Early 2019 the ace family launched the ace family app which promised to feature exclusive access to discounts deals and updates to the ace family gear for a subscription price. The app was a scam. In mid 2018 the ace family app was released and hype was built on their main youtube channel regarding the exclusive videos available to what Austin described as real ace family members. And then on January 28th of 2019 the ace family announced that they would be taking a break from youtube and only posting on the app. So if you wanted to see any ace family videos you had to purchase the subscription fee to the app. We will be taking a break from youtube and why are you smiling? I'm excited. So because those things happen obviously as you guys know we're taking this break we're gonna focus on our app our merch a whole bunch of other amazing things. A lot of people felt like that was a way of kind of forcing their fans who'd been following them for a while to purchase the app in order to be able to see their content and not miss out on any ace family content. And since a lot of their followers are children who might not fully understand the concept of money they might purchase the app not thinking it's a big deal not understanding the concept of a subscription service. And it just feels like a way of like tricking those vulnerable children into purchasing the app. So fans were really upset and called this move just a blatant scam. Additionally there was times where there was absolutely no new content on the app and fans would still be charged. To purchase their merchandise you need to download their app. Oh it gets better. The app has a monthly subscription fee of $2.99. Catherine said on twitter that only a real fan of the ace family was ready to subscribe after downloading the free app. Many who had ordered items from the app had been charged but had to wait months for their items or had not received them at all. When merchandise ran out on the channel it was not replenished and subscribers continued to be charged. Catherine and Austin said that they were working on the app but many were already convinced it was a scam from the very beginning. On top of that merchandise items purchased from the app would take months and months to be delivered or never got delivered at all. There are lots of reports that their fans have struggled receiving their merch that they paid for and they continued to pay for an app yet they aren't receiving anything they actually paid for. In general like where's my merch that I just bought through your app that I already have to pay a membership for. Another shady thing that happened regarding the ace family and scams was an early 2019 in basketball giveaway event that was just really shady all around. Here I say I first want to start off by wishing everyone a happy new year. The ace family was to start off this year by doing something fun and entertaining. So next Friday January 11th the ace family was giving away $100,000 to someone who can hit 10 three-point shots in a row. If you think you can do it hit us up I know I can do it. So yes ladies and gentlemen the ace family is giving away $100,000. So here are the rules. Location Los Angeles date Friday January 11th time to be announced we're only picking 20 contestants. Contestants must shoot from 10 different spots on the court. Whoever makes 10 shots in a row first wins 100k. All ages and genders are welcome. If you think you can do it hit us up. If you think your favorite youtuber or celebrity can do it make sure you tag them. I also put the video on my instagram so make sure you tag them in the comments. Guys it's a free 100k you don't have to pay to enter although we suggest it's up to you but we suggest whoever wins donates a portion to charity. You all know Catherine I love giving back. They claimed that it was basically this giveaway that anyone could enter and the winner in this competition would be winning $100,000. Now of course that's a huge deal $100,000 is a big big deal and a lot of people got excited that maybe they could be the one to win so a lot of buzz and noise was generated. The first shady thing about this event is a lot of his followers thought that they would be the one selected to do the basketball charity event but instead Austin chose only famous youtubers to compete in the event you know because they just are so pressed for $100,000 they need the money obviously. So here's the confirmed contestant that we have so far. He got Jay Paul, Keen Batch, Rice Gump and Soulja Boy but wait there's more. We also got FaZe Rug, YG, Nick Cannon and Logan Hall and the next people I see are YBN, DDG, Jordan Jones, Supreme Patty, Jacob Satorius and Alex Wasabi all famous and rich people or at least wealthy people. He kept promoting and talking about the event as if it was this charity giveaway type of event but in reality it really just seems like a cross promotion collaboration scheme to gain more followers and more free press. Everybody is dragging the shit out of the Ace Family and then he follows it up in response to his fans saying this and for the people who are saying why aren't we picking Ace Family members for the contest if you're an Ace Family member you know we always do stuff for our Ace Family members. Come the day of the actual event nobody was winning the $100,000 the competition went on for a really long time and no one could win and so Austin just had this like random idea to call on a random audience member who turned out to be his very close basketball friend from college. All of a sudden this random friend quickly and easily won the $100,000. Austin acted like this was just such a surprise but this is actually great because this person really needed the money. But the whole thing is a little sus and a little fishy. Many people think that the event was just rigged from the very beginning basically so that the Ace Family could just make a video with a bunch of popular YouTubers but not actually have to give away the money because it's very easy to imagine a scenario where this friend of his made a deal that he would be the one winning and he would give Austin some of the money back. So Austin and I go way back like Austin and I have known each other since we were about 12. We played basketball together forever. A lot of people feel like that might be what happened and even if it's not people looked into this guy and felt like he was actually pretty privileged already and really didn't need the money as much as Austin acted like he did. I just won $100,000 RM screaming on the inside, on the outside, everybody's swarming me. I mean it is this is the I don't I still it still hasn't hit me. First things first I'm gonna move out of my parents house and into my own place. I need to have my own space my own closet just live on my own which I'm super excited for that will be my first move for sure. I will take Austin out to dinner for the second move. So overall none of the event was as it was claimed to be and it was all extremely misleading and a lot of people think it was just a total scam. There's also the Ace Family Club that the Ace Family created. This is where they post other exclusive content so videos that we've never seen on the channel. They post like some TikToks that they haven't posted on TikTok which is basically like their channel membership. A bunch of perks for the Ace Family for $20 and 16 cents a month which is kind of pricey in my opinion. The Ace Family recently launched their juice brand Silly Juice. I definitely think it's really interesting when YouTubers expand beyond the YouTube platform and try and actually create a legitimate business but I feel like sometimes there are just YouTubers who create products that are just super unoriginal. They're not innovative in any way whatsoever and they just bank on the fact that they have a large audience to try and get as many product sales as possible. On this item that's just really not special in any way. For example Silly Juice, the brand that the Ace Family came out with, it's branded as like a healthy juice but it has a ton of sugar. 37 grams of sugar which is more than even other leading juice brands. Each one of these is 10 fluid ounces. This little baby guy is 10 fluid ounces, 150 calories. 38 grams of carbs. And of those 38 grams of carbs, well I was gonna say that's all sugar but it's listed total sugars 37. It's $15.95 for a 12 pack of juices that you can purchase online and I am not a bulk pack juice purchaser so I'm not really sure if that's an outrageous price. Let me know if you do purchase bulk pack juices if that's an outrageous price. That's basically a dollar and 30 cents for a single bottle. It seems like just a slightly higher up price than other leading brands but you know maybe people are searching in the market for a luxury children's juice. Who knows? This almost tastes like a sweetened like cough drop to me. People who purchased these juices these Silly Juices also claimed that when they received their order the juice had literal mold on it or the packages were destroyed so interesting. And this one? So these are not I don't even know why the freaking ban came off and here's another one.  That's disgusting. That feels even worse than like influencers who sell makeup that has like mold and damaged packages as gross as that is because you're literally consuming this so yikes. There's also been a lot of speculation that the ace family pays for their views and a lot of people think this because all of their videos within the first hour of posting have the exact same view count. Literally all of his videos have the same amount of views after one hour. I do have a theory that he has been purchasing views and subscribers. If you see my channel or other channels most videos have like a varied view count. Some videos do really well and some videos just don't do that well and it's hard to predict what the YouTube algorithm will like or what your audience will like and views. So the fact that the ace family has the exact same views every single time is definitely a little bit sus. But I also don't know if that necessarily means that they're paying for views because I also think about like how would they be able to predict the authentic amount of viewership and then account for the difference. Like I don't know if you could predict authentic views of a video enough to pay the difference and get the view count to be the same every time but I don't know. The worst part about all of these shady business dealings and scams is that they are targeted towards children. As we all know children are the most lucrative audience to sell to because they're the most impressionable and the most easily influenced but that also means that they can be easily convinced and easily scammed. Getting ads on kids content is the highest paid for and the most competitive spot. That's why family content channels get paid the most. So for an entire YouTube family brand to just hyper focus on selling all of these different business schemes to children is a little bit shady. I know that children aren't the only people that watch family content and family YouTube channels but they are a large demographic or a large portion of the ace family.  It's parents buying silly juice for their children. There's no adults buying silly juice for themselves. YouTube has become a full-blown industry and it seems like with any industry there's people who take advantage of every loophole that they can find to scam and get as much money as they possibly can. While it can be frustrating to see people like the ace family succeed I think it's important to also remember that scammers like the people that I've talked about in my videos have to live with themselves at the end of the day. Though I'm sure it's a little easier to live with yourself when you're living in a luxury LA mansion making millions. So


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This is Witchspace news for Friday the 1st of October 2021, I'm CMDR Buur In Elite Dangerous News this week, Elite Dangerous Horizons on consoles is patched, Frontier hosts a developer live stream, there's pre-engineered ship weapons up for grabs in this week's CG and we have some thoughts on the current state of Elite Dangerous on PC and consoles. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe, remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you would like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. As was promised by Frontier last week, the start of this week saw the latest patch update reach the console versions of Elite Dangerous Horizons. The delay is essentially down to the certification process software has to go through to get into the console's respective walled gardens, a similar patch for PCs being deployed at the end of last week. The primary reason for the patch was to remove the accidental uber damage that had been added to engineered weapons that essentially meant just about anything in the game could in essence be one-shotted, including everybody's favourite pliades party poop as the Thargoids. But there's also a small number of other tweaks and fixes that also made it into the patch those are listed in the patch notes which I've linked in the video description. Frontier hosted a developer livestream in their regular Thursday night slot this week that saw CM's Arthur and Bruce sitting down to chat with two members of Elite's UI team Geronimo and Gotie who are lead UI designer and lead UI programmer respectively. Both have over 20 years experience in the area of user interface have worked on Elite Dangerous since its earliest iterations and have clocked up significant hours in the game itself as players. The UI in Elite Dangerous no matter what of the current versions of the game you are playing is a necessarily complex beast and particularly in recent times the changes to it haven't always been met with universal approval from the player base. The chat provided a fascinating insight into the reasons for some of the decisions that the team make and the challenges of working with a complex UI that has to be replicated on multiple platforms to span control schemes as disparate as keyboard and mouse, hotas and console controller. They also talk through some of the more technical aspects of design such as for example what the team refer to as friction in a UI where the user may be slowed down from achieving their goal and sometimes how this tactic can be used deliberately in certain situations where it's deemed important to do so. The Odyssey UI and the changes it brought haven't always made the life in Elite Dangerous as easy as it could have been the team even admitting that it was buggy at launch as was much of the rest of Odyssey obviously more on that in a moment but it is good to see that the UI experience is constantly under review and importantly changes to its flow do get made as a result of player reactions and feedback. The chat is worth catching up with if you didn't hear it live, if you've been occasionally frustrated by the UI or perhaps struggled to understand why it's designed the way it is then it will definitely provide some useful and helpful insight. As always it's linked in the video description. There's a new community goal active in the game this week that is offering specialised pre-engineered weapons to its participants. Powerplay leader and erstwhile Federation Admiral Yuri Grom, reviled by the leadership of the Federation he once served was involved in a political conference with his former bunk mates that did, initially at least, appear to be building some bridges. Those primordial bridges were sadly sent crashing into the valley below this week when it was revealed that the whole conference was, it appears, a ruse to capture and detain the bearded renegade by the president of the feds, king of corruption and dodgy dealings and all round federal surveillance fanboy Zachary Hudson. The T-1000 of powerplay, even having this to say after Grom had escaped the attempt to move against him, quote, Yuri Grom is a traitor and a dangerous threat to federal security, we cannot ignore any opportunity to eliminate this ruthless tyrant, unquote. Never one to remain happy as a silent warflower, as you'd expect, Grom has responded by saying quote, the Federation has declared war unquote and promising to quote respond in kind, unquote. The end result of this is the community goal that is now raging in the Delta Pervona system. Both sides are asking for combat bonds to be handed in and if the feds win then the top 75% will have two fixed mount class 2 rapid fire multi cannons with increased damage and phasing sequence at the cost of increased spread and reduced range handed to them. If Grom is victorious then the top 75 commanders will have two fixed mount class 2 seeker missile racks with double engineered high capacity, increased fire rate and drag munitions at the expense of increased power draw and mass gifted to them. As usual, the CG will run until Thursday so to be in with a chance of saving the galactic bearded wonder or alternatively aiding Senor surveillance you'll need to pile in your combat bonds before then. The full details for the CG and associated Galnet story you'll find in the video description. It's now nearly 5 months since the Elite Dangerous Odyssey expansion launched onto the PC. The largest expansion that the game has ever had, it's a well documented fact now that what should have been one of the games brightest moments actually turned out in the initial post launch period at least to be one of its darkest days. After the initial excitement and spectacle of a generally well received alpha period it rapidly became apparent that the released product had been rushed to market and was as a result extremely unoptimized buggy and missing a fair few expected key features. All of this arrived off the back of delays to both the console launch and the expected terrain upgrades to Horizons. With all of this combined the resultant anger and frustration from Odyssey, Horizons, PC and console players alike left the community fractured and more than a little bit wounded. In the post launch nuclear wasteland that followed alongside various complaints about bugs and unoptimized code the one unified cry that seemed to come through was around communication from Fdev themselves and in the days following the Odyssey launch there was an acknowledgement from the CM team and indeed David Braben himself promising that they would look at how they communicate with the community. Shortly thereafter things did indeed change. As of right now we have regular news drops at least every other week, the forum activity from the CMs is persistent and consistent, the top voted issues on the issue tracker are reported back to the community on a regularly updated permanently visible basis and we get monthly development updates in the form of a forum post that details where we've been, where we're at and some small hints at where we're going and what to expect next. All of this is sprinkled with regular live streams from the team that, as we've seen this week, feature chats with developers, conversations with community content creators as well as gameplay across Odyssey and Horizons. The community management team have since reached out to the community to gather their thoughts on how the game might be improved in a number of key areas, most notably speaking to the anti-Xeno initiative recently and taking some very constructive and well structured feedback from them. This kind of direct outreach is not something we've seen before and it's very encouraging to see. As far as the various versions of Elite across PC and consoles are concerned, here's where we're at. Elite Dangerous Odyssey has now had 7 major patches to it with numerous much smaller patches sprinkled in between. The vast majority of those have attempted to address frame rate issues and optimisation, lighting issues and planetary rendering as well as numerous bugs and glitches but there have also been gameplay tweaks and UI changes mixed in. Whilst it's still far from a perfect landscape for everybody playing, Odyssey is in a far far better state now than it was at launch. Again, I'd reiterate it's not perfect but it is way more stable, playable and overall it looks much more like a complete game. Had the game launched in the state it's in now it would have been a very different story indeed. There are still some significant frame rate drops around surface settlements but it does feel at least that these are related to the NPCs and the optimisation of their associated nav mesh, it's particularly evident when you arrive at a settlement and things are still loading in. The team at Fdev have said these issues are to be addressed in the upcoming patch 8 specifically. It even seems now that the long persistent invincible Thargoid heart bug has finally been squashed. Alongside the regular patches dropping into the game we are now starting to see new features and announcements of upcoming features. Frontier have stopped short of saying exactly what players can come to expect from Odyssey as an ongoing live service game but with the arrival of the new surface conflict zone features and the announcements around megaship and fleet carrier interiors as well as a new combat oriented multi-crew capable SRV we are starting to see hints of what we think is likely the way of the future that being incremental additions and new features dropped into the game on a semi regular cycle rather than the benchmark season based content drops that we'd seen before. This is a guess however as Frontier aren't stating anything specifically at the moment. With all that said then where does this leave the console commanders? In particular on our own comment section this week we've seen a more significant than usual number of console commanders asking what the state of play with the console edition of Elite Dangerous Odyssey is. In case you're not a regular to the company's live streams or their other social media feeds then the question of quote what is happening with Odyssey on consoles unquote comes up unsurprisingly every single day and the official response from Frontier is always very much the same quote console is on hold as we focus on improving the PC experience for Odyssey when we are able to share more on console development we will let everyone know unquote. There is speculation all the time that the console edition will be cancelled or that the console player base has somehow been forgotten as best we can tell the bottom line to that understandable anxiety coupled with F devs responses on the issue is this Frontier definitely won't have forgotten about consoles corporations are driven by money and Odyssey on the consoles equates to sales in terms of copies sold and money spent purchasing cosmetics for the game as best we can determine the console market makes up about a third of the total player base that's not an insignificant amount of money to Frontier bottom line in lieu of any other evidence to the contrary here at the burp it we absolutely believe hands down there will be a console version of Elite Dangerous Odyssey the next big question is when will we hear more about it and when will it be released any answers I give you now on those questions are of course pure speculation the two interesting things here are however the current version of Odyssey on PCs is in a much better state than it was at launch if the company can nail the current stuttering issues associated with arriving at a settlement and introduce a few other optimizations into the mix then it is starting to feel like the period of triage for the PC is coming to an end and that in fact we are very much now on an upward turn couple that knowledge with the fact that they are now starting to talk about new content and what is to be introduced into the game then we wouldn't be at all surprised if we started hearing more on the console editions and how those are expected to progress most definitely sooner rather than later it's been an undoubtedly long road for all concerned no less so for our console commanders if indeed we are close to the end of all this then as soon as we hear anything will let you know on this very channel are you planning on fighting for Yuri Grom or perhaps siding with the feds against him let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time


Our school in Moscow does not provide its own accommodation. However, you can choose to rent a room or a whole apartment or stay in a local hostel or hotel. Prices for accommodation vary depending on size, quality and location. For example, a stay in a comfortable hostel close to the training center starts from around 1.5-1200 per night. If you would prefer to stay in a private apartment, we recommend using airbond.com. Examples of accommodation options in Moscow 1. Loft with a fireplace, luxury area. A great studio apartment in the central area of Moscow suitable for both travelers and businessmen. It is fully equipped with all you might need and freshly renovated. This space. This grand attic is located in a fundamental building in one of the oldest Moscow avenues. The history of the building goes back to 1955 when it was erected for the Soviet Research Institute. In 2012 the Institute moved to another location and the Empire-style building was renovated to become high-end apartments. You will be delighted with the 4.5-meter, 15-feet, ceilings, thick walls, weighty oak doors and beautiful corridors. But most likely is that you will love the atmosphere of the 1950s in the avenue and inside the building. Like my other listings this open space apartment was built without any savings on work and materials, beautiful oak floors, ceramics from Italy and Spain, handmade English red bricks and a gorgeous stove from France. You will also find all you need for living, fresh towels and bed linen, big and comfortable pull-out sofa, a real bed on the upper level, additional bed for one person, teas, coffees etc. For security reasons the building is guarded 24-7 and has a reception desk inside. It will take you 15 minutes to get to the Kremlin by trolley bus if the traffic is low, my parents and grandparents did this for more than 50 years getting to work and back. Alternatively take a tube, it is only 7 minutes walk in 3 stations, 7-10 minutes to find yourself in the heart of the historic center. Please look at the map with all the conveniences around to make sure that you will find everything within a 5-minute walk, nice restaurants, 24-7 supermarkets and bars. To make your stay comfortable please read the house rules carefully before booking. I will be happy to answer any questions you have and see you in Moscow. Cost $46 per night per room. 2. Room 10 men walking distance from the Kremlin. Apartment with European style in the heart of Moscow. It is located on Petrovka Street. 10 minutes walk to the Kremlin, 5 minutes to the Bolshoi Theater, 5-7 minutes to many subway stations, supermarkets, bars and there is a restaurant downstairs. The apartment has a large living room, fully equipped kitchen, 2 bathrooms, as well as heated floors, air conditioning, washing machine, cable TV and internet. The bedroom has a rack with hangers and shelves for clothes, a single bed and a table for working with a computer. Cost $40 per night per room with a private bathroom.


Hey everyone, so I might have a triple pack or so of videos for you the rest of the day That's right a lot of videos. There's just a lot of stuff going on right now We have a bunch of news a monster hunter to get to here later today There was a monster hunter like direct today, so I mean I didn't live stream it But we will be talking about that and there's a lot of other stuff to talk about as well especially from Xbox side of things although we'll we'll we'll get into that a bit later This is actually going to be about Nintendo possibly looking into some sort of cloud gaming Something or other and switch whether it's a service like like xCloud or maybe it's a way to deliver future You know old games kind of like what happens with Sony, so there's something happening here factually This isn't there's gonna be a lot of speculation here But it's based on something that's factually occurring at Nintendo But before we get to that I gotta remind you we're giving away speaking of monster hunter a copy of monster hunter rise along with To $20 Nintendo switch PlayStation or Xbox gift cards to enter head down to the description or the pinned comment. All right, so There's this interesting hiring post that was linked to me Creditfully to Sonic Man the best he actually has a YouTube channel But he linked to the only to his YouTube channel down below actually but he told me about this on discord And I thought this was interesting because Nintendo's looking to hire someone in the United States For a senior architect of cloud application and data and I just thought this is for their their backup services Right. This is this is just a backup games, right? You know, they have that cloud backup service That's really all I thought this was But the more I read into the description of duties the more I'm starting to think Nintendo's Looking into something with cloud. That's a lot bigger deal than just backing up games So here's the descriptions of duties once you get past the initial mumbo jumbo explaining what Nintendo is in their background Description of duties is networks with senior internal and external personnel across multiple areas define long-term Plans for Nintendo of America IT evolution partnering with other IT leadership with a focus on creating well-informed application and data architecture strategy Regularly evaluate cloud services frameworks and best practices work closely with IT security to adopt and implement application and data security best practices support development teams and selection and use of data technologies and practices now That's all cloud stuff right cloud data backup services. I get it. Okay, that's obviously going to be included with the job But that's let's let's read further work with the application teams that have find and implement roadmaps for services and Applications as we transition to cloud Work with application teams to define and implement roadmaps for services and applications as we transition the cloud What? What let's go on before we talk about this participates in the development of a common enterprise-wide cloud strategy Review adherence to our selected architectural principle standards and tools through architectural reviews and or testing helped to maintain compliance of regulations with regards to areas like security frameworks control systems, etc Assist the overall architect team in developing the foundational frameworks for the creation and delivery of software and infrastructure services across Nintendo of America and in some cases across NCL in areas like serverless Applications containers tools and standards including monitoring SLAs and security infrastructure layer to support services working closely with the infrastructure teams security and enterprise scale cloud integration platforms Assessing technical architectures infrastructures and applications to identify Opportunities to document and define reusable processes components objects and data Defining and documenting processes data and objects to ensure the technical solutions take advantage of the fine standards and ensure interoperability between and across Solutions, etc, etc there. There's a little bit more in there You work with the chief architect and obviously you got to have a lot of experience With IT and cloud services and Oracle Microsoft open source technologies a bunch of stuff I'll link to the hiring post down below. I think what's interesting here is the emphasis on cloud Yeah, obviously the beginning that's all about their cloud backup save system all about You know files and storage stuff, but like they're looking into things like enterprise-wide Cloud use now. This is obviously very useful for things like working at home So obviously they're they're working on some services here to make working at home a lot more palpable little and a lot more Efficient that makes sense to use cloud for that. But what's interesting here is When he talks about work with the application to define and implement roadmaps for services and applications as we transition to cloud They're transitioning the cloud not only internally, but like the externally What is Nintendo working on now, we know they have some cloud games already on switch right factually cloud games exist right now You can go on the Nintendo e-shop here in America and buy a copy of Control and play it online 1000% well 100% through the cloud and it actually works pretty damn well If you have as long as you obviously have a stable internet connection Goodness speed all that jazz not a concern in my house. So yeah, it works really really really well a lot better than I think people expected certainly when you were testing out their prior cloud services in Japan That you know, well you're on Japanese servers in America. Obviously, there's gonna be some problems, but you work pretty well and It looks like Nintendo is putting a massive emphasis on cloud not just here In in America also at NCL That is huge Nintendo is like Seemingly going all over cloud inside and out. So what can this mean for the future one? Obviously, we have to we be remiss if we didn't even talk about the possibility of a cloud service I don't know what Nintendo could possibly be planning I don't think when you're hiring a senior person for it at this point This is something you're going to see soon. I think if a cloud service comes it would be five years down the line Possibly but think about it Nintendo could be working on a cloud service right now That's just like xCloud and what if it's basically xCloud and Game Pass put together Now look if there's any company that could get 30 40 50 100 million people subscribe to a cloud service It's Nintendo because if Nintendo does a game pass like Service with a cloud aspect that enables you to play their games Maybe at first on switch, but maybe they end up tying it to you know, maybe you can play it on PC or something You know how many hundreds of millions of people would subscribe to that service Now I don't know that this makes sense for Nintendo in the year now when you got Animal Crossing Possibly gonna hit 40 million maybe 50 million in sales before it's all done I don't know that it makes a lot of sense right now for Nintendo to toss out a cloud Service at least for their first party games, you know like a game pass But do I think working on cloud technologies for something in the future makes sense? Yeah, and I think Nintendo would be idiotic if they weren't So this is very interesting to see of public hiring posts where Nintendo's like dude, we're doing cloud inside We're doing cloud outside. We're using cloud for everything. Let's get it done now on the more Maybe conservative side and maybe even a more likely side Possibly they could take things like the NES app this NES app and N64 app Basically virtual console and make that a subscription service Sony actually already does this so it wouldn't be shocking to see Nintendo decided to look We've been reselling and repackaging our classic games forever and now we're offering them through a subscription service Anyways, if we're all we're gonna offer them through a subscription service. Why don't we make it a cloud service? We already check and check online before you play these games So why not just make it a cloud service and then we can just infinitely add games and that cloud service is easily Transferrable platform to platform. We don't need to Redo and rework and the games every single time, you know that they literally it would make a lot of sense It makes a lot of sense when Sony did it it would make a lot of sense for Nintendo to do it So that it's also something to do so if you're someone who's hoping for full virtual console. Well, I mean it won't be like it was But it could be a hell of a lot better than it is now and that's exciting too now That's a lot to infer from this hiring post But one thing's for certain Nintendo is massively investing in cloud technology What they end up using it for at this point is anyone's guess you guys? Let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. 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Inflation, you probably heard yesterday, inflation came in at a relatively low number. The CPI consumer price inflation, that is this basket of goods that the federal government uses to measure, increased during the month of May by 0.1%, that is a very low rate, means that the annual increase from 12 months ago to today, to the end of May, was 4%, that is significantly below the highs that were achieved late last year of 9.1%, so it's less than half of what we achieved at the peak of the inflation pressure. Much of this is a consequence of energy prices declining, all prices declining, they declined sharply during the month and as a consequence that drove it down, so what they call core consumer price inflation that takes out food and energy, because food and energy are very volatile, that is still up 5.3% for the year and was up 0.4% in the month, so a lot of prices that are not related directly to energy or to food are still rising at about 0.4% a month, the Fed wants to drive that down to between under 0.2% a month, so we'll see. So inflation is still there, price inflation, a consumer price inflation is still there, it's still significantly higher than what the Fed's target is, which is 2%, but it is coming down significantly, although the coinflation is fairly stable over the last three months at around 5.2%, 5.3%. It is interesting, Rob on the chat mentions eggs, but it seems like greed has been sacked out of the economy, in particularly with regard to eggs, eggs spiked up dramatically last year and earlier this year, and there was a lot of talk about greed inflation that egg producers were inflating because they wanted to make a lot of money and they could and they were just exploiting all of us and they had this quote monopolistic power and just drove up prices and Elizabeth Wong and many people supported her coined this term of greed inflation, well, greed inflation is gone, the opposite is happening, we're having, I don't know, altruist inflation, which is deflation, because the fact is that last month, oil, egg prices, egg prices fell at the steepest rate since 1951, they fell something like 20 something percent in just one month, so there we go. We continue to track greed inflation and continue to give you the good news. Inflation is this tricky number because different goods go up and down at different prices, as I said, oil has gone down, eggs have gone down, other fruits and vegetables have actually gone up, but again, CPI tries to capture some kind of average, a core CPI, some kind of average, those are still high, particularly the core, higher than what one would like, higher than zero, which is what I would like, higher than 2%, which is what the Fed would like, but it does suggest that the Federal Reserve today will not raise interest rates that we're probably going into a period of the Fed pausing, holding back and not raising interest. One other inflation number was reported today, which is the PPI, the producer price index, these are prices at the producer level in the supply chain. Those prices actually fell in May by 0.3% and on an annual basis they went up 1.1% in the year ending in May, so again, looks like inflationary pressures in the various parts of the supply chain have been eliminated. If you believe in greed inflation, that means the end of greed, but if you, like me, believe that this is all caused by physical and monetary policy, by handing people money, well, the effect of the handouts is probably adjusted prices, there's probably still some adjustment to be made, but ultimately unless there's some massive addition to the money supply produced by the Fed, we're probably heading towards lower inflation. The fact that the Fed is stopping raising interest rates suggests that they might just pull off what's called a soft landing. I've been calling for a recession for years now and it hasn't happened and I still think there's going to be a recession, but now I'm starting to think, I guess there's a possibility it won't happen. I don't exactly understand why, but the U.S. economy is just super resilient and the barriers to actually shrinking and to actually having a recession are high given this resiliency and in a certain sense, the U.S. economy is just humming forward and you know, good, good, I'd rather have it humming forward than a recession. So we might avoid a recession. I'm not calling, I'm not saying that's what will happen, but it might, it might. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com.  Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. 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Hello students. Myself, Siddeshwar B. Tulsapure, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Valshan Institute of Technology, Solapur. So today, we are going to see the topic, it is flow through the pipes in series. The learning outcome of this session. At the end of this session, students will be able to write an equation to calculate head loss in compound pipes that is the pipes in series. The contents are the definition of pipes in series. The pipes in series connecting two tanks we will see. Then we will go for the calculation of head loss in pipes in series considering minor losses. Then we will see the calculation of head loss in pipes in series neglecting minor losses and lastly the references. Now let us see firstly the pipes in series. So these are also named as compound pipes. So pipes in series or compound pipes are defined as the pipes of different lengths and different diameters. So connected end to end in series that is to form a pipeline. Means what we are having is we are having the pipes of different lengths and different diameters connected end to end. So end to end it is going to form a series to form a pipeline. So complete pipeline we are going to form. Means the pipes of different diameters and lengths we are having. So these are joined end to end. So that is going to become compound pipe as these are joined end to end. So that is named as pipes in series. Now let us see the compound pipe it is connected to the two tanks. We are having one tank on the left hand side. We are having one tank on the right hand side. So in these two tanks these are connected to each other with the help of a compound pipe or pipes in series. Now in case of these you might observe that we are having the firstly the diameter as larger then the diameter it is reduced. And still again the diameter it is reduced for the third section. But not necessarily always we will have the reduction in the diameter when we are going from the first tank to the second tank it is. We may have any diameter for any of the sections and say only thing is the diameters these are different and the connections these are end to end because of that one. So this will be called as pipes in series or it will be called as compound pipe. Now see again what we have done is we have taken the two tanks which are at different elevations. So the tank it is say on the left hand side it is at higher elevation. The tank on the right hand side it is say at lower elevation. So we are having now the connection between these two. So here now compound pipe we can observe. So the first section it is of larger diameter. Then the second section it is of smaller diameter and we are having again the larger diameter for the third section. So as I said earlier so the diameter should be different. So that is what the condition is for the compound pipes and end to end connection should be there. So that is there. So now in case of this one we are having the pipe diameter of the middle one as lesser. So first one to some extent larger and third one also it is to some extent larger. Now the notations which we are going to use is it is L will be used for the length of the pipe. D it is the diameter of the pipe. So small f it is coefficient of friction of pipe. Then V is the velocity of the flow of liquid. Then suffix 1, 2, 3 these are going to represent the pipe sections in the compound pipe. And capital H we are going to have the difference in level of liquid in the two tanks it is. Now think of whether the difference in levels of liquids in the two tanks is due to the difference in elevations of the tanks. So now the question you can observe. So the question is we are having the difference in level of the liquid in the two tanks. So already the tanks are different elevations. So whether the difference in the level is due to the difference in the elevations of the tanks. So I will show you again the diagram. See this diagram. We are now having here the level of the liquid in the say left hand side tank it is say here. And in the right hand side tank the level is somewhere here. So this difference we are having the level difference as it is H. And what the question is? The question is whether this difference in level of the liquids in the two tanks is due to the difference in the elevations of the tanks. Think of the same. See the answer. The answer is no. The difference in levels of the liquid is due to the losses in the pipes connecting the two tanks it is. Say we are having the liquid level as always say horizontal it is. Say in case of these two tanks the say it is not like this the two tanks are there and these are connected with the help of the pipes. And the further things are somewhat like this the liquid it is going to come from somewhere else in the tank number one. Then it will pass through the pipes. Then it will go to the second tank and from second tank it is going somewhere else. So it is not like that it is stored. So in case of the stored one the liquid levels these are going to be same. So in case when the flow is occurring at that time we are going to have the difference in the say level of the liquids in the two tanks. Now the head loss we are going to consider. The head loss now it is going to be of two types. One it is corresponding to the major loss that is called as frictional loss. The second one we are having it as a minor loss. So minor losses these are say at connections between the tank and pipes. So the tank is it is say pipes these are connected to the tanks. There we are having the minor losses. And one at one more place that is when the two pipes of different diameters these are connected to each other. So there also we are going to have the say minor losses. So major loss minor loss like that two types of the losses are there. So major loss it is say considerable minor loss it is having lesser value and of less significance. Say these two types of the losses these are there so that you remember. Now again the same diagram I have done here say I have taken. And we will now go for the equation corresponding to the head loss in pipes say considering minor losses it is. Now if you look towards the diagram and again the say if you remember this minor loss definition and the things we talked about it. So minor losses these are due to the change in the direction change in the cross section etc. we are having. So observe that the pipe it is connected to the tank. So here one minor loss it is going to occur. Then so through the first pipe section we are going to have the liquid flow. So major loss will be there. Again sudden contraction we are having of the pipe. So here minor loss it is going to occur. So again frictional loss in the section 2 we are going to have. Then sudden expansion it is going to occur. So we are going to have again minor loss. The frictional loss in the section 3 and lastly again the section 3 pipe it is connected to the tank. So at that joint again we are going to have the say minor loss. Corresponding to the formally of the minor losses say minor losses due to the say sudden expansion minor losses due to the sudden contraction etc. And say minor losses at the connection between the tank and the pipe etc. So you can write the equation. The first one it is h is equal to head loss h is equal to say it is 0.5 v1 square by 2g. So it is the first minor loss. The first pipe it is connected to the left hand side tank there. Then it is major loss 4f1 l1 v1 square by it is 2g d1. Then it is 0.5 v2 square by 2g. So it is corresponding to the sudden contraction. Then major loss corresponding to section it is 4f2 l2 v2 square by 2g d2. Then sudden expansion it is occurring. So loss corresponding to that one it is v2 minus v3 bracket square we are having and divided by 2g. And plus it is 4f3 l3 v3 square by 2g d3. So it is major loss in the section 3. And lastly again section 3 is connected to the second tank. So there it is v3 square by 2g going to be the loss which is minor loss. Then if you neglect the minor loss because minor losses these are of lesser significant less value these are having. So if you remove these minor losses we are going to come across only the major losses. In case of major loss only corresponding to these 3 different sections we are going to write. So it will be h is equal to it is 4f1 l1 v1 square by 2g d1. 4f2 l2 v2 square by 2g d2. Plus 4f3 l3 v3 square by 2g d3. These are the references which are used for this particular session. Thank you.