So the 10 things that you should stay single unless you meet a guy who does these things. So the first one is that he is true to his word. So the mark of a mature adult is when they promise something and they keep their promises. And obviously mistakes happen, right? People forget things, nobody's perfect. But my suggestion is that if you want a great relationship, you wait for a promise keeper. You wait for somebody who has integrity and is true to his word.   When he misses you, he's willing to be vulnerable enough to say that he misses you.  And so he's open and he's willing to say that he misses you because he really does, he likes you and he's willing to be vulnerable in that way. Number three is that he communicates his vulnerabilities to you. So he's not perfect. He knows he's not perfect. And he's strong enough in himself that he can open up about his vulnerabilities to you. And that doesn't mean that he can't talk about himself in a positive way. He should be, right? If you have high self-esteem, you do talk about yourself in a positive way. But he's also willing to open up and admit when he's wrong or talk about mistakes that he's made or he's willing to open up and talk about how he's vulnerable with you. That's another mark of a mature adult is somebody that's willing to do that. Number four is he takes you seriously. So he listens, pays attention and cares about you and your needs. And so this means that he values you and who you are on the inside, right? He actually cares about who you are and he cares about what's going on with you and he cares about your needs. And he actually sits there and pays attention and listens to you and what's going on with you. Number five is he takes responsibility for your needs and happiness, even though he doesn't need to. So you're happy and fine by yourself, hopefully, hopefully that's the case, right? But he learns about who you are and what you need and he makes sure that you're getting taken care of and that you're happy. And this isn't a codependency thing, right? You're not dependent on him for your own happiness, but he enhances and he enriches your life. So number six is he wants you to be safe, happy and protected. So he's the type of man who, even if you two broke up, he'd still care about you and treat you well and be a friend to you. And that's because he's not just your lover, he's also a friend and a partner in your life. And that's kind of the foundation that really creates a really empowering, powerful relationship that you can be in is not just being lovers, but also being friends and actually caring about each other and each other's needs and what's going on with each other. And as a man, one of our primal needs is to provide and protect, right? And to make sure that things are going well, everything's taken care of, everything's good to go. And so you want that to be a part of who he is and what he brings out in himself when he's around you. So number seven is that he is proud of you. So he sees the beautiful and amazing person that you are right now. So he's proud of your qualities. He's proud of your work. He's proud of your mind.  He sees and appreciates who you are today.  So number eight is he brings out the best in you.  And so a lot of people and one of the kind of red flags that you want to watch out for is a lot of times people get into relationships where you pull out kind of the worst parts of each other and you always feel like you're the worst part of yourself is being pulled out when you're together and that's the opposite of what you want. Number nine is he gets along with your friends and family. So I've talked about this before in the past and there are exceptions to this rule. Like if you hate your family, right? So there are some people in the world who hate their families or they have really weird families or they have really disconnected families or they haven't done healing around their family or maybe their family there's people in their family who are just people that are just people that you would never want to associate with. And so sometimes there are exceptions to this rule for sure. But generally speaking, if your family isn't that dysfunctional, right? I know a lot of us have dysfunctional families, me included. But if your family's not so dysfunctional that you've completely disowned them and don't want anything to do with them anymore, then it's one of those things where let's just throw friends and family together here and say that if you want a great foundation and start to a relationship, it's good to have a man who gets along with your friends and your family. He doesn't have to be best buds with them, but he does get along with them. Number 10, he's bold and unapologetic about wanting a commitment with you because he sees a future together. So if a man's afraid of a commitment or he's scared about talking about it or he says he's not ready for one, that's a massive red flag. There's a question about this in our community, I think today or yesterday or something, where this woman was asking about this guy who said that he's not ready for a relationship, but he doesn't want to let her go. And it's just so bad to him to let him go. And it's like, well, you know, it's one of those things it's like he's trying to get all of his needs met without meeting your needs. And if a guy is really serious about you, he will see you in his future and he will think about you in his future.   You don't want a maybe or a shield, do you want an enthusiastic yes, I want this person in my life, right? And that's the kind of attitude that you want him to have with you. And if he doesn't have that attitude with you, then that's a major problem. And so he isn't afraid of a future together because he sees you in it. He includes you in his life because you're important to him, so important that he doesn't want to let you go. And that's what you deserve. And you shouldn't accept anything less. Now, if you're thinking he's not really, really any of these things, he doesn't have any of this stuff going on, then my suggestion is that you can do better.  So you're not just going for any guy, you're not acting desperate, all that kind of stuff because when you're coming from a space of desperation and just taking anything and just, you want to be in a relationship so bad or you want a guy so badly that you're willing to get into a relationship that isn't really right for you just so that you can have the guy, you end up getting into a bad situation and you'll end up regretting it down the road once some of those crazy emotions that you have kind of settled down. And so you want to make sure you're getting into a great situation. And the way that you do that is by making sure that you value yourself and that you look at yourself as a woman who deserves the type of relationship that you really want to have. Just going to go back over the 10 again real quick so everybody can hear them. First one is he's true to his word.  Third one is he communicates his vulnerabilities to you. Fourth one is he takes you seriously. Fifth one is he takes responsibility for your needs and happiness even though he doesn't need to. Six one is he wants you to be safe, happy and protected. Seventh is he's proud of you. Eighth is he brings out the best in you. Ninth is he gets along with your friends and family. And tenth is he's bold and unapologetic about wanting a commitment with you because he sees a future together.


West is advocating against this move. He is the head of policy and action of AFRI Forum. That's a civil rights organization protecting the rights of white South Africans and other minorities. Ernst Roots joins us tonight from D.C. Ernst, thanks for being with us. Thank you, Michelle. It's good to be on the show. All right, Ernst, even though white South Africans were promised during the reconciliation process that there would not be expropriation without compensation, and that was in fact one of the reasons that a civil war was avoided, and this was indeed enshrined in the Constitution, South Africa's president from a posse says that this needs to happen to fix the apartheid legacy. White people make up just 9% of the population. They still own about 72% of the farmland that's held by individuals. And the ANC, the ruling party, says this land needs to be redistributed to address the past. What do you say to that? Well, I think there's several things to be said about that. It certainly is true that the negotiated settlement of 1994 is being breached now by the ruling party because that settlement agreement among others stated that minority rights would be protected in South Africa, and that property rights would be protected now. Down the line, they've decided that they want to break that agreement and basically take South Africa down the road of a socialist path. But we do also find that you mentioned some of the figures, and you quoted them correctly, although we frequently hear them quoted incorrectly by our government, where the claim is made that white people own 70% of the land in South Africa. The truth of the matter is that according to that report that is often quoted, white people own 70% of the 30% of land that is owned by individuals. In other words, it's about 20% of the surface of South Africa, while about a quarter of the surface of South Africa is already owned or controlled by government. But I think the important issue here to mention is that there's a lot of dishonesty in this process. This is not, and you can clearly see this by the statistics that's available, by developments up to date. This is not about redistributing land. This is not about correcting historical injustices. This is about nationalization of land. This is about the government taking property from people claiming that they want to redistribute it to the poor, but not redistributing it and having government control the land. It's the same type of thing that happened in Zimbabwe, although the only thing that they're saying is they want to do the same thing, but this time it's going to be without violence. That doesn't make sense because that is to say that I'm going to take your property from you without any compensation and you are not going to resist. And of course we know that's not realistic. So we are very concerned about the situation. And to be clear, the government is not going to pay the white farmers that they take the land away from anything at all, nothing whatsoever. Well, so currently there's this redistribution process where we had an example where, for example, there was this Akerland-Burdrow farm, it was a well-known example. They gave them a few days to vacate the farm and they said to them they will be compensated at 10% of market value. Of course the constitution hasn't been changed yet. They are now in the process of changing the constitution to empower the state to do exactly that, to say we can take your property if we think we should and we can then decide if you should receive any compensation at all. And there is, and I know there would be some people just to respond to the way you frame the question, would say, no, this is not a racial thing at all. It clearly is. If you listen to the comments made by government leaders, we've had cabinet ministers say black people in South Africa can rest assured that when government embarks on this process, no property of any black person will be touched. They will only take the property of the whites. We hear this coming from some of the most senior leaders in government. So we would have, I would have liked to say to you that this is not a race thing, but unfortunately it is a race thing for the South African government. All right, well, add to your point of how this policy destroyed Zimbabwe's economy. That same sentiment was echoed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, says it's going to destroy the economy for everyone. You're in DC pushing for more action from the US government. What would you like them to do? Yes, that's I think the important point. So we are here to speak to people in the US government and Capitol Hill and so forth. And one of the important things is I think the US should realize that this would be bad for South Africa. But there's also a bigger picture here. And part of the bigger picture is the role that the Chinese government is playing behind the scenes and how the Chinese government is benefiting from this policy and how the Chinese government is gaining more and more control over Africa as a continent as a result of these socialist policies. And that's something that I think that we believe the US should be very alarmed over. And I think also there's an opportunity for the United States here. And that's what we're advocating for. So there's a trade agreement between the US and South Africa that stipulates that to be a member of this agreement, the parties need to protect property rights and promote a free market while the South African government is doing the opposite. I think the appropriate step to take, and that's what we're as I said, what we're pushing for years, not for the US to say, well, you're breaking the agreement. So let's scrap the agreement. But rather to say, listen, we need you, we need to pressure the South African government, put diplomatic pressure on the South African government to stick to the agreement. And because if this agreement were to be breached, the consequence would be that there would be massive job losses in South Africa. We don't want that to happen. We want foreign investments into South Africa. Right. But we want the South African government. We need the South African government to reconsider its position on these socialist ideas that they're pushing. Okay, Ernst, we're out of time. Thank you so much. Ernst, through it, we'll be right back. Thank you very much, Michelle.


Ok fans, this Thursday night you are going to be a part of the pre-game and half-time experience with the Titan's Light Show presented by BatMGM. It's really simple and it's going to be an amazing show. First, take out your cell phone and make sure your Titan's app is updated to the latest version. Right before the 49ers enter, scan the QR code that will be on the video board and open the link. You'll be prompted a second time prior to the half-time show. Make sure to enable your microphone and camera on the app and once the screen says waiting to sync, you're ready for the Titan's Light Show. Hold your phone up and you will be a part of the show.


PSVR 2 is less than two months away and while there's still some room for surprises, it seems like we are unlikely to see any more big games announced as day one launch titles. So when it comes to big titles launching alongside the PSVR 2, we are left with the following. Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Ace, The Dark Pictures, Switchback VR and No Man's Sky. Now there are plenty of others coming but those are the heavy hazards, the strongest arguments that Sony has to convincing you to buy a PSVR 2 on day one. However, I believe that out of these four confirmed titles, one stands above the rest in terms of potential and importance. That game is Horizon Call of the Mountain. How's it going ladies and gentlemen, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and if you liked the vid then consider subscribing for future PSVR 2 content. Now back to the video. Horizon Call of the Mountain was the first game that Sony themselves officially revealed for the PSVR 2 headsets, although its existence had been heavily rumoured for a while previous. It is a first-party title being developed by Sony's newly acquired Fire Sprite Studio. Call of the Mountain is a spinoff of Sony's popular Horizon series which was created originally by Gorilla Games, who up until that point were best known for the Killzone series. Sony really need to get their full ways behind the PSVR 2 if they expect to succeed, so creating a first-party title based on Horizon was a good move by them in my opinion. After all, Horizon's Bocombass would be a natural fit for showcasing the abilities of the new sense controllers of the PSVR 2. When you compare the PSVR 2 launch lineup with the PSVR 1 launch day titles in 2016, you can see that Sony's big first-party output back then was the dead on arrival rigs from the now-shuttered Gorilla Cambridge studio, the demo-disk-feeling PSVR worlds from Sony London which gave us six mini-games, and I suppose until Dawn Rush of Blood seen as Sony owned that IP, although technically it was developed by Supermassive Games. So you might think that the output is considerably less this time from Sony themselves with Horizon being the only first-party day one title. However, when you consider that Call of the Mountain is, well, allegedly, a much more complete game bigger than all six mini-games of PSVR worlds added together, and that Sony have the gaps filled with big names like Resident Evil and No Man's Sky and switch back to replace Rush of Blood, you can begin to feel a bit more confident about the PSVR 2's launch lineup. But that all hinges on Call of the Mountain. Let's talk a bit about what we know about Call of the Mountain. Now, as I already mentioned, it's a spin-off from the Horizon franchise where players will be controlling a brand-new character, although Aloy herself will appear as an NPC that you can presumably interact with, and I bet you will interact with her, you dirty little. Anyway, the game is first-person so that's already a big change from traditional Horizon third-person action. Gameplay will be a mix of both combat and climbing and exploration. It's not open world. However, there are supposedly branching paths that will add to the replayability of the game. The game is set to be around 7 hours in length, which is comparable to something along the lines of Uncharted 1, but it's also a full-price game so you'd want that as a minimum. Now, one point of concern I have with Horizon is that the combat is said to have an on-rails feeling, with players only able to strafe around an enemy instead of moving freely like they would be able to otherwise. Now, this could be something that proves to work well. After all, on-rails combat can be fun, but it's also possible it'll end up making the player feel more limited. Interestingly, Call of the Mountain has a separate boat ride mode, where you can just sit in a canoe going down a river, taking in the sights and machines of Horizon. Presumably, this is the mode you want to be shown off to your friends and your family to give them an idea of what Virtuary Asi is like. A next-generation shark encounter experience, if you will, that PSVR World's originally provided. Now, that boat ride sounds great for beginners, but what about those wanting more? Is the meat and potatoes of Call of the Mountain going to be able to go toe-to-toe with something like Half-Life Alyx? Alyx is considered the gold standard for AAA VR games since it released, a polished, full-length campaign that was built from the ground up with Virtuary Asi in mind. I might personally be looking forward to Resident Evil Ace more than Horizon right now, but Resident Evil Ace is going to be ported to Vior. I'll get to see Lady D in all her glory, but it will essentially be the same Resident Evil Ace I already played, but with motion controllers, a game designed with traditional displays in mind and not Virtuary Asi. Call of the Mountain, however, is being developed specifically for Vior, and Fire Sprite really have the potential to wow us here, to make full use of the medium of Virtuary Asi and have it be woven into the DNA of the game, just like Half-Life Alyx. Right now, Little Fuss is being made about Call of the Mountain by traditional gaming media, largely in part to that industry ignoring Virtuary Asi in general. However, Sony have all the ingredients to make their own Alyx. They have a popular IP to build off. Horizon Zero Dawn alone sold over 20 million units. They have improved hardware with some cussing edge technology like iTrackin to take advantage of. They have talented developers in Fire Sprites who before now were best known for their persistence. The possibility for greatness is there if Fire Sprite don't fumble the ball. And seeing as Horizon Call of the Mountain is the big first-parity exclusive, this is going to be the game that every reviewer will be prioritizing when the PSVR2 launches. Even the traditional media that likes to ignore Vior will be forced to cover this one, and that is why Horizon is the most important game of the day one lineup. If they can blow those reviewers away with a triple A Vior experience, they could be calling it Sony's Half-Life Alyx and drum up some considerable interest in the headset. Not to mention, encourage Sony to go all in with bringing their biggest IPs to PSVR2, although they should be doing that regardless. However, should Call of the Mountain fall short, or even worse, be a bad game? Well, that is not going to be a good look for PSVR2. Journalists who are already talking about Vior being on its deathbed will pounce on the opportunity to say that this is another nail in the coffin of Vior, and the PSVR2's launch will be tainted. Unless Firewall Ultra comes out day one to save us all. That's it for this video lads and ladies, if you enjoyed this then consider liking, subscribing and all that usual YouTube and shies. Thank you to Decepticon for letting me use his music in all of my videos, you can check him out Decepticon.com, link to him will be in the description below. I'll see you in the next one, until then please stay nice and moist.


Let's take a look at the solution to question 2 for the final exam for our course math 12-20 We're asked to find the slope of the tangent line to the polar curve r equals 8 sine of theta at the point theta equals Pi thirds, so if we want to find the tangent line I'm gonna I'm gonna go a little bit to the side here So you get a little more space right out here if we're looking for the slope of the tangent line We're trying to find the derivative dy Whoops dy over dx Which if you treat a polar curve as a parametric function We have to take the derivative of y with respect to theta and divide that by the derivative of x evaluated theta where here remember y equals r sine theta and x equals r cosine theta and So taking the derivative here Well without even knowing if the function is going to be if we treat r just as a function of theta The general formula you can see very quickly from the product rule is you're going to get r prime sine theta and Then you're going to get plus r cosine theta as your numerator and then in the denominator you end up with r prime cosine theta minus r sine theta So I mean without even knowing what what r is we get the following and so we do know what r is That sounds like a horrible grammar right there right so r is 8 sine theta So we'll plug those in in just a second and we also want to plug in our theta equals by thirds So let's plug in that r equals 8 sine theta The derivative of 8 sine theta with respect to theta would be 8 cosine theta So we get 8 cosine sine and then we're gonna get 8 sine Cosine that's kind of nice that those actually match up and they're gonna double up there in the denominator We're gonna get 8 cosine squared theta. In fact minus 8 sine squared like so which are some trig identities We could use to simplify this thing and the double angle identities are in play right here In either situation though we can factor in 8 That's actually gonna cancel out 8 over 8 and that leaves behind a 2 sine theta cosine theta over Cosine squared theta minus sine squared theta Which at this point you could plug in the pi thirds if you so wanted to it's perfectly fine Or you could do you could rewrite this as just sine of 2 theta over cosine of 2 theta If you want to use those identities, whichever you prefer I'm gonna stick with this ladder approach if we stick in the pi thirds at that moment We're gonna end up with sine of 2 pi thirds And then in the denominator We end up with cosine of 2 pi thirds So this is an angle in the second quadrant it'll reference angles in the first quadrant Which is actually pi thirds again. So we get a negative Well, let's leave you more careful here You're gonna get sine of pi thirds on top and then you get negative cosines negative in the second quadrant So at pi thirds sine should be root 3 over 2 At pi thirds cosine is actually one half so you get negative one half And so that would simplify to be negative square root of 3 Which we then see is option C For which case we select that one and so on this exercise We had to know how to calculate the derivative of a polar curve and here when we talk about the slope of the tangent line We're talking about dy over dx and really just treat this like a parametric curve You would if you were asked to find the slope of the tangent line of some parametric curve We would do the exact same thing Except that the function would be given as x equals whatever and y equals whatever in many cases You can treat a polar curve as a parametric curve and you'll be just fine in that regard


Number of Russian attacks in east decreases, but Russia regroups. The number of Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine has decreased slightly after a powerful strike by Ukrainian forces on Russians, on the Kupiansk and Lyman Fronts, Deputy Defence Minister Hannah Malia has said. Over the past week and even yesterday, on the first day of this week, we have recorded a quantitative decrease in attacks and the number of attacks in the east. But this does not mean that the enemy is backing off, that the enemy has abandoned its plans. It's just that our troops attacked the enemy very powerfully when they became more active on the Kupiansk and Lyman Fronts. Indeed, our soldiers have stopped them very effectively there, killing a lot of enemy fighters and destroying a lot of equipment. Hannah Malia added. She says that now, the Russians are regrouping, restoring forces lost in the battles and accordingly the number of attacks has decreased. Malia added that Russians will continue to advance, where they have been advancing, the fighting will continue and this should be well understood. She says that on the Barkhmut Front, Ukrainian soldiers are gradually but confidently moving forward on the southern flank with battles and obstacles because there are mines and air and artillery attacks. It's very difficult but they are moving forward. Malia added that the situation in the south is complicated, as it is elsewhere at the front. Now there are battles for Eurasian and work on the Melitopol and Burdiansk Fronts continues. But it is not easy everywhere. The situation at the front sometimes changes hourly and when we simply say, fighting continues, attacks have decreased or attacks have increased, behind those words there are very dynamic events on the front line. Do not rush to underestimate the enemy. Battles and prolonged fighting exhaust all sides. But this does not mean that anyone has abandoned their plans. Our plans are to liberate our territories. While the Russians aim is to further conquer Ukraine's territories, Malia summed up.


When I started this business about 20 years ago, looking for the right area to set my foundations, Compton came to me several times and the perception of Compton 20 years ago was scary. However, all these companies, including myself, are putting a name in Compton. It's not where I am, it's who I'm going to service and what I'm going to be servicing. As we talk to people, we realize that lives are very complicated. So when we talk about being healthy and we say to somebody, well, you should eat well. You should exercise more. And then somebody tells you, well, there isn't a supermarket within 15 miles of where I live or I can't walk at night after I come home from work because it's simply not safe to do so. It sheds a lot of light on the role that Kaiser Permanente needs to play. South Bay is an incredibly diverse community. So we serve the Palace Ferties, the Beach Cities, but we also serve Compton and Hawthorne, Launday. West Coast Warehousing is a fairly established company providing jobs and thriving and supporting that community. When I first heard about ICC and some of their sponsors, I was intrigued. Large companies like Kaiser getting involved with small businesses, looking at different ways that they can help, not necessarily just by help, but by other means. We were introduced to the Initiative for Competitive Intercity and their Intercity Capital Connections Program where we were able to identify, nominate, and bring together 100-plus small businesses in the part of Los Angeles that faces issues again around unemployment and economic insecurity and bring them together to help them with education around business, finance, strategy, human resources and to provide them with an opportunity to gain access to capital and grow their businesses and then to create this virtual cycle of creating employment in the inner city. When we help them grow their business, actually thrive and take their business to the next level, that means they're hiring more people. That translates into economic security. It changes the cycle. Working with Jay and working with the owner of the company, that itself is a blessing because most places, you never get to meet the owner.  With him, he appreciates and values you as a person. Most of my employees have been with me for a long time and I can tell that they're healthy, their families are healthy. They're getting the health they need, the proper healthy foods and the medical health because I know they can afford it now. I find employees within the community, families are welcome, it means they can commute together and they can work together. I've had employees where I've helped them put down payments on a house because they couldn't afford down payments. If I can help anywhere I can, whether it's monetary or whether it's support, I'll drop everything and support my employees. It does get back to the mission statement, to improve the lives of our members and the communities we serve and it's that phrase and the communities we serve that allows us to expand our thinking about the role that we can play.


It is absolutely incredible. I actually recorded an intro already and then my face cam corrupted for the first couple of minutes. So this is like the new intro. So hope you guys enjoy this collection opening. It is really crazy. It is awesome. The most expensive collection I've ever bought. So let me know what you guys think about it and I'll see you guys in the video. Before we get started, the giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards.  Be subscribed. Let me know your favorite card from the collection. There's a lot of good ones to choose from. Let's go ahead and hop into it. I've been waiting all day to open this. Really a long time because it was supposed to arrive last week like eight days ago and it didn't. So we were getting kind of worried that it wasn't going to arrive and all this stuff. Fortunately, it did. So we're going to keep looking here and we're just going to go through this stuff. I think the middle is where he said most of the good stuff is. So we have comments here. I'm not going to try too hard to show you guys like every bit of the comments. Get a terraforming first edition in metamorphosis. You can see there's some cool for on a guardian first edition cards.  So hopefully nothing shifted that was like damage or anything like that. So I'm going to be just doing like this. So you've got some start like Pegasus stuff. So just some comments so far. Keep it up. All right, we have like pendants, you know, just some. Okay, the glare is actually not too bad right now, which is good. Sonic bird. I mean, throw back to the the dueling series. Go check that out. If you guys haven't seen it, it's pretty good. Okay. Waiting to get to the really good stuff. Here we go. I'm trying to get to it, but I also don't want to skip anything. There's the hungry burger. A lot of you guys love that card. Okay, here we go. Jiggin bucket in secret pass to the treasure. All right, I changed up everything so we can see better. But as you guys can see on this page, we have some absolutely crazy cards we got to check out. So obviously, first of all, first edition blue eyes, white dragon. Okay, we have a blue eyes. Let's check the condition. Condition looks to be. Oh, the big old ding in the back. That is unfortunate. That hurts. Definitely has a binder ding in it, but still a first edition blue eyes, white dragon from LOB. That's really cool. I hope all of these do not have that binder ding. That would be pretty tough. Here is a red eyes black dragon first edition from LOB. Please don't have a binder ding in it, please. We have a pretty clean red eyes. There's not a ding in this one. So this one looks a lot better than the blue eyes did. Centering is not perfect. So this could maybe grade like an eight or a nine. Probably not a nine. Maybe an eight. Maybe even a nine. We'll have to double check it. But next we have a dark magician girl from Magician's Force. That one looks pretty nice. Looks like it could grade pretty well. This one doesn't have the ding in it, fortunately. It is not perfect, but it is pretty nice secret rare first edition. I've never actually owned this card. So this is pretty cool. The dark magician from LOB. All right. So the dark magician does have a binder ding in it. I'm having all kinds of technical issues right now. Everything's cutting out. But here we go. We should be good now. We got that binder ding in the dark magician, which makes it automatic like six or worse, which is unfortunate. That's okay. We do have some epic other epic cards coming. We have a dark palette in first edition from Magician's Force. This one looks pretty good. Pretty good. No binder ding in this one. Anytime you don't see that, that is fantastic. This is the art they put into the booster boxes. But if you send it back in, you could get the corrected art, which was pretty rare at the time. So it's still pretty expensive to get one of those next. We have a summon skull. It does have a looks like it has a ding right there right in the middle or some sort. It is faded though. It looks really nice. All the back super nice has a little bit up here. That's super cool though. Slight fade on that. That's really awesome. Then we have a blue eyes tune dragon secret rare. This one looks really nice. Really nice. Maybe a tiny corner issue. First edition magic ruler. That is pretty cool. We have a SDJ red eyes black dragon. So we have the L O B and the SDJ. So it looks pretty good. Oh, wow. That one's actually really nice. Okay. So the first page, we can go through all we got some pretty incredible stuff. Pretty incredible is an understatement. We have red eyes blue eyes tune summons skull dark paladin first edition dark magician first edition dark magician girl red eyes black dragon and a blue eyes, which was probably in the worst condition of all of them, which is really sad, but still really cool to get that. Now we're not going to go through the condition of every one of these, but probably actually going to go through this buster blader though. This, this is insane buster blader. The guy we can never pull from pharaoh servant. He has a little corner ding. So pretty nice condition. Really cool to get that. I think I have one in a binder, but that's still nice to get another one. Okay, let's go to the next page. I'm not going to open or like look at all these, but these are so really nice cards like first edition tyrant dragon breaker, the magical warrior. Then we have some people. We have an injection fairly. We have Gaia. We have all kinds of stuff here. So let's, let's go like this. Let's go to B skull. We actually already have a PSA 10 and we pulled one in the metal raiders video. So check out the metal raiders video. That was crazy. All right, B skull dragon first edition. Okay. No binder ding a little bit of a ding at the top. So this guy's probably not a PSA 10, but so pretty strong. B skull first edition for metal raiders. That is super cool. All right. Now let's go to Gaia the dragon champion a secret rare from LLB. We opened a Gaia box. We did not get the Gaia, which was unfortunate, but still really cool. Wow. Gaia the dragon champion secret rare. That looks pretty nice. That looks pretty nice. Secret rare from LLB first edition secret rare. Look at that sintering classic legacy of darkness. Nothing new there. Oh, wow, that is really nice. That could maybe get a nine. That sintering though, classic LLB. Yeah. So let me know if you guys are enjoying just seeing these old cards. I definitely am, especially since I bought them. This is really cool. So I don't have a lot of these cards actually. So this is really cool. I do have a Gemini elf. I got a nine. It got a nine and then I cracked it and I actually slightly damaged it. So that's a reason not to crack. I cracked this card. It's the only card I've ever damaged. Well, actually I damaged a PSA three exodia head, but I was a PSA three. So this card looks nice, but I slightly damaged it. It wasn't too bad, but still I was like, oh, that's terrible. Exodia limbs down here. We have the right leg of the forbidden one. I think I needed these because I think I have the arms. I think I still need the head though. Right leg of the forbidden one. Oh, wow. Those look good. Those are really nice. The glossy sintering seems to always be shifted up on the back. You guys notice check out that sintering. You can check out my how to value and assess conditions. If you don't know what sintering is, I'll put it up in the eye up there. Has a little bit of edge where at the top, maybe from pricking it out of the sleeve. Yeah, it's got a ding, a little bit of a binder ding as well. So that that left legs will beat up the left leg. Oh, what I tell you, it's always hard to get that one in even in nice condition. So we have a guy of the fierce night. I have a PSA 10 back there, but this card is actually really cool. I like it a lot because it was my first PSA 10 from L O B and I graded it myself. Like I bought it from a guy and I graded it was really cool guy of the fierce night. That is super nice. That one is really nice actually. We're going to be subbing some cards of PSA soon. So look out for those PSA submissions. They're going to be fun. All right, we're not going to pull out the supers, but they are still really nice cards. So I'll definitely pull them out after the video. We got some L O N. We got L O N secret rare magic cylinder. We've got Rygeki from L O B. You've got last worry from another planet from L O N. I mean, there's a lot of crazy stuff in there. Paul and I going to pull them out because this video is going to be longer. If I, you know, if I look at all this stuff. So we got more L O N stuff. This is really cool. L O N first edition. We got some PGD stuff. Oh man, like the ring of destruction. That is super cool. Fiber jar. I mean, just awesome stuff. And here, let's see. We're starting to get to a less like more rares and stuff. There's a dark necro fear. That's really cool. Here we have blue eyes. This blue eyes is unlimited, but still really cool blue eyes and dark magician from the starter decks as the swords revealing life from L O B double spell, infinite cards, stuff like that. Here, Kozigen and Saga. Those are unlimited first edition. Mask of Restrict. That's cool. Fusio, Richie. Mask of Cursed. All right. We have a Kaikyuu, the Ghost Destroyer, Pot of Greed unlimited, the Freed and Royal Command and Ryoku Field. The classic Dragon Ball Z card. You got a few things here like XYZ metal dragon is first edition. There's a forceful sentry. So Z dragon cannon X is the XY tank cannon. It's really, really, uh, changing them up on me. It's killing me. There's another air knight. I have a lot of these first edition. I'm actually pulled to own. There is the penguin soldier, the best car in the collection for you guys. Let's see. Then we have Azura Priest, Hell Palmer, Dark Geroid, Pyramid Turtle. There's a time wizard unlimited. That would have been really cool to be first edition, but it's either way is still an epic card. Sir message. L we've taken a few L's been pulling that got a few. We've got some LOB rares. First edition. Those are nice. Fiends called dragon destiny board is cool. Actually submitted one of those that we pulled a while back to PSA nightmare wheels in here. There's all kinds of cool stuff. We got Ryu Senchi, some more rares. Those are LON rares. We have Revival Jam, Grape Keepers Watcher, the jowls of dark demise. It's classic. And we have some. Let's see if there's anything else. That's not that's not like rares and stuff. There's a confiscation at Amazon. A swordsman right there. Let's do it like this. Spirit Reaper. That's cool. Fire Princess. We have Pot of Greed. First edition. That's actually really cool. Let's see. Bottomless, Jalgen. What else we got? We've got some of the spirit messages and giant rat. That's cool. Shadow Tamer. There's a Polly from Starter Deck. Spirit of the Harp, Princess of Surugi. Yeah, I think that these are like Starter Deck cards and Harpy's brother. That's cool. So yeah, that's that's about it for this collection. As you can tell, crazy epic. There's so many cool things like we got all the stuff we pulled out.  We got MRD.  We got the one and only Blue Eyes, White Dragon, Glossy Print. Super cool. So if you guys enjoyed that video, make sure you guys hit subscribe, hit the like button for future videos. We're going to be opening up some crazy stuff. Like there's so many cards out here. I can't even fan them out. So yeah, I hope you guys did enjoy that one. Let me know what you guys think of the collection and I'll see you guys later. Thanks for watching. Peace.


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today. We are doing some more crafting Yes, so last time we crafted the Tavistry to Darkmoor Today we are starting on the deck the spell decks We're gonna be starting with the death ones first just because there is a deck that I am looking to craft So yeah, we're gonna start with the death stuff first and then we'll go in to others But yeah, we are crafting the Lord of Deaths bit of hand or Lord of Deaths hand. Sorry This deck is the base of the four four one two three three Other death decks that are here all of them need one of these so you need to craft three of these In order to create all of them Not that you would generally you would only go for the triangle slot one But Yes, we today are crafting the just the Lord of Deaths hand, which is the base one So yeah, we have everything we need on screen now As always are all the things that you require all of the requirements all of the reagents all of the fishes all of that sort Of stuff are there While we make our way over to our house And Hit on him to craft this these recipes are actually starting to get a lot more difficult They're actually like very difficult the motes especially can be quite challenging to get you have to go through whole bunch of skeleton keys or exalted jewels or actually craft Actually do a whole bunch of the dungeons again just to get them which is a bit annoying But yes, let us craft this deck here the Lord of Deaths hand the first deck that we're overcrafting so Great that it's this one Boom there we go Obviously the stats on this not particularly good at the moment. So it gives 64 max cards, which is the same as my one currently which is like all of them fall Max copies 7 which is better than mine max death copies 10 sideboard 40 60 health 18 crit for death 2% shadow resist and one power perp death score only obviously level 100 plus Yeah, like it's a good deck, but you need that you need dim sockets. So Yeah, we will be crafting the triangle one probably next time But yeah, anyway, thank you for chewing into the like and subscribe if very subscribe press Silly little bells to know exactly when I post another video and remember craft outside the box


The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, recently released consumer price index data for January 2024 revealing a significant escalation in the cost of imported food within the Nigerian economy. Over a span of four years from January 2020 to January this year, the average price index for imported food witnessed a staggering increase, more than doubling from 337.8 to 692.6. This marked an unprecedented rise of 105.03% in the period on the review. The CPI is a critical economic indicator and it measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services, including food. My guest brings Wally Bama Oikoya, the MD-CEO of Bama Farms Limited, who is a former chairman at the Greek and non-Oil sector at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He joins me now to look at the food insecurity and recent developments in the nation. Good morning to you, Prince Oikoya. Good morning. Nice for having me. Yeah. Let's start with one that is on the lips of everyone since I'm Saturday or so. Nigeria is actually getting over 20 helmetry tons of grains from Ukraine that is supposedly in a war situation. What does this really tell about them also? We are so much in poverty and we are also indirectly at war. Well definitely what Ukraine has done is on humanitarian grounds and that means that they have access. It's only when you have access that you are able to give out. So that shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with our system in Nigeria. If a country in a one-ton can still be looking out for a country like us that is not at war, giving us grain, giving us food, that means our system needs to be overhauled, that means a state of emergency needs to be declared in terms of food production in Nigeria. And if you remember how long we've been talking about food shortage, food crisis for almost about 10 years now, but we are having leaders that are not really focused or that does not have the visions for tomorrow, the only plans they have may be short-term terms like 2 years or 4 years. When we're talking of food production, you have to be having a long-term plans like 20, 30, 50 years that what is going to happen to my people in the next 50 years, but if you don't have such a plan, what is happening now is bound to be happening because if you look at what is really happening, it's a very simple thing because we have the most beautiful atmosphere to produce all these things. We have a lot of vast land, arable land to produce some of these things. And I keep on saying that we don't have to produce everything, like these rice we are talking about and wheat, there are so many substitutions for it. We plant cassava, we plant yam, all these things could be substituted, but there are so many things that are really affecting us in this country, especially the security. We try the security most farmers have been displaced in their locations. Most farmers are retired voluntarily and involuntarily and look at what is really happening in the North East. If you look at most of the food we eat in the South comes from the North, but now if the North cannot even feed themselves, can they begin eating to the South West? So the South side was the South East. This is where the South really need to buckle up, that if care is not taken, what happened at Boogia, where my citizens have to go into the government warehouse? It happened everywhere. I don't think it happened, but believe me, with the way it is going, there is hunger in the land. I will be talking about this hunger a long time ago, but there have not been any provisions in order for this thing to be avoided. Okay. And just recently, the African Development Bank, I said in my intro, is pledging to support Nigeria's agricultural sector with a whopping $134 million investment in that enhancing food production. My question right now is that, how far would this go in terms of reaching the exact farmers who really need this all? All the political farmers that you always talk about, because according to addition of the President of the AFDB said they want to help to cultivate 300,000 hectares of rice and maize and 150,000 hectares of cassava and 50,000 hectares of soybeans during this year's planting season? I think we'd be hearing this long, for a long, long time that we have not been getting anything to the tables of the farmers. As you say, yes. What does it get to? It doesn't get to the hands of the farmers. It's just like it's money for some people in the government. Especially when they hear that dollars coming from abroad. It's like they don't take agricultural serious in this country. And that is why we have been hungry. And that is why they always say a hungry man is always an angry man. They have not said anything yet. If this trend continues, you will see so many uproar over there, because people are really hungry and people are really angry. Because all this money coming in, yes, will be heard by the international donors. They are really getting to the right source. There's nothing wrong to borrow, as every nation needs to borrow. But when you get that money, what do you use the money for? Is it for the money for the boys or people in the government? Whereas you neglected where the money is supposed to be shunned into. Because I believe in successful government, I'll be doing the right thing. Nigeria have no business, been begging for food. We have no business looting what we have in the reserve. Because there are so many trends. A lot of Nigerians want to go into farming, but the environment is not conducive. I'll just give you an example of what happened to our own people. Let us hear it. Our own people, our own farmers in Lagos State, December 10th the military majors came into our farmland. Almost about 30 farmers have been displaced right now. They said the land belongs to them. But how did we get to this land? The Lagos State government allocated this land to us. When we were being displaced from where we were before, at Afero, all of a sudden the media came, they said they'd be looking for their land for the past two years. That the Lagos State government have no business or have no right to have allocated the land to us. We've been trying to cry to the Lagos State government up to this moment. Through the minister of agriculture or through their Greek landholding or through the governor's office, I've not been able to get rich to us. Now we are talking about food shortages. We are talking about food crisis. How many people are even in these farm businesses? In the people that are doing it, you are displacing them. You are not making them happy. You make them jobless. You make them to lose their investment. A lot of directly and indirectly, about 500 workers have been displaced. So a lot needs to be done so that we can do more to bring food to the table of every Nigerians. All right, it's still business insight on Plus TV Africa. We'll take a quick break right now and we'll be back with more talk on food security in a moment to join us again. All right, welcome back. It's still business insight on Plus TV Africa. We're looking at food security in the country and how we can mitigate against them the high cost of food inflation. And I still have a Prince Wali where you call your Barma farms with me. And before we took that break, we're talking about the challenges that are mitigating against the flourishing of agricultural and farming in the country. Now, specifically, you talked about what has happened in terms of land allocation in Lagos state and what the challenges some farmers are having with the military. So over time, have you been able to reach out to the Lagos state government and what comments or what reactions have you gotten so far? Even before the military invasions, right from the time the land was given to rubbed by the last regime, 2015, 2016, we'd be having a lot of challenges and we'd be trying to let the Lagos state government know that. We have not been joining this land. How their money will come, the property developers will come. So many. Sometimes we have to pay the Lagos state government for security because the way their money and these property developers have come, it's like they're taking over the farm and that even leads us to some of the money that we're supposed to use for farming. We have to use for fencing in order for us to get security. We are talking about high-smart security. Now we are talking about moneyless security. Now we are even talking about Lagos state government that is giving us a land that does not even have a comfort because we are not even enjoying the land at all. This is the second time we have been displaced. So who knows what is going to happen next? But we cannot just hold our arms and the government will be saying that we need to feed our people that there is a food shortage in the country and you are displacing people that are even interested. That's why the fact that we are not even getting anything from the government to even assist us. Right from the over 10 years we've been business in this place in Motako, which is along the talking and nearby houses. We have not been getting anything from the government. Even the little world that we are doing and we are getting displaced and the government is not even looking to rate. So something needs to be done with our government in order for us to get full supply. Let's just hope the Lagos state government looks into this and so that people who are willing to farm can actually farm in peace. And of course, the issue of our food security can be addressed. But another story that is a development that is trending right now, that federal government is initiating distribution of 42,000 metric tons of grains to kick-start dry season farming. How far can that go? See, there are so many political statements going on. Just the same of palliative they've been talking about. How many people even enjoy this palliative? How many people who have been given these palliatives? I think there should be a time that the government need to see that these people they're lying to, they're already wise up. Why are we lying to them? What can we do the right thing? How many state governments are giving out the palliative that the federal government gave to them? And I keep on saying that we should stop blaming the federal government. What about the state government? Why are they there for? With all the allocation they're getting for the federal government, with all the IGR they're generating, with all the security votes they're getting, we see having all this kind of insecurity all around. So what are we doing with all this money instead of them to focus on the state on how they can feed their own people, they keep on governising around the country, around the world? It is a bad time for us to hold our governors and the local government chairmen accountable because they are the most people that are very close to the masses, not the federal government. So the federal government have no business doing business in agriculture. It's the state government. And if you remember the 1978 Lai Yus Act, it gives the power to all the state governors on how they can use the land especially in terms of agriculture. Most of the rural lands that have been converted into urban development. That way, most of the people that are supposed to be doing farming have been displaced. So it's a bad time for us to hold all our state governors accountable to them.  We have no business being in Congress, probably in Nigeria that in the olden days, in the 60s, 70s, you remember the granite pyramids, you remember the coco, you remember the robber. We used to be the first ten shots in terms of agricultural produce, but look at it now, we are behind the schedule. Okay, so what do we begin to do now because I need to find out solutions in the short term because as it is right now, if you go to the market each day, for instance, they tell you what do they call this container now for buying Gary, a paint of guy. They tell you it's about, I don't even know how much it is, but if you go for small measures now, they tell you it's about one for the price of beans. You know, it's against what used to be sold at 500, 609. Most people cannot really buy Gary or beans that used to be like normal staples or the food that people can actually just manage and not. But right now it's almost becoming luxurious to even feed in Nigeria. As I said, it shows the systematic failures of our previous governments. Yes, and the price we keep on going on because we are not producing, let us face the reality. That is why there is hunger in the land. We are not producing. And as I said, the people that are producing, they have been displayed by the heist men, by the kidnapper, by the Bokoara. Everybody government is self because what happened to us is by the government. It's not by heist men. So if we keep on continuing, the trend we keep on continuing on, see all the three tiers of government could sit down at the round table and say, listen, what are we doing wrong? It's a battle for us to be able to feed our people, not just consuming or embezzling all this money. And most of the funds, most of the intervention funds that are coming are not really getting to the farmers. We will be discussing this in time with numbers. And if this money will be shared and be given to the reform, we will not be having all this money we are having. But now everything is going to the face of everybody now. So the federal government is crying. The state government is crying. But I hope their cry is genuine. Because it is not genuine. We still come back to the same table of hunger.  We have no business begging for food. We have no business for other countries to pity us, to feed us, where we can do the same thing. You know, before we used to occur by a family farming.  Substance farming, which is the center of family farming, is made practice in China, US, UK. And the rest, what happened to the rest? You don't treat it, you take it to the market, which is what they call free market to help your community. Until this thing is back, and gone are the days that you expect the youth of nine days to go to the farm with cutlass and hoe. It's the back time to modernize what we are doing. And with a population of almost about 300 million, we are being deceived because there have not been no sensors in the last 10 years. So the government does not even know how many people they are feeding. And if you don't know how many people you are going to feed, it's going to be a problem. They say at the back of their mind that we are seeing under 200 million people, which is not. So all these things are affecting us and climate change is another thing. Climate change is affecting the whole world. But what is each government doing to really cushion the effect? Are we practicing irrigation during the dry season? The answer is no.  So with time irrigation, what is going to happen? Most of these vegetables are supposed to take three months. It will only be done in another six months or nine months. So with time, the government tackling the climate change are giving out funds. And at the same time, to give a conducive environment to the farmer, we keep on having the food shortages as we are having today. All right, Tom. Thank you so much and Prince Wally or Yukonia. But I just must ask very quickly in 30 seconds, so I could just get this out of my head. So are we saying that right now, in the immediate time, maybe in the next three months, we cannot see a reversal of prices of food stuff that maybe in the next three months, we can go back to the market and buy beans again for like $6,994. It's not possible and it's possible if you have to import. We have to open our borders. With the way things are, as I said, I keep on saying that we are not producing. As I give advice on other platforms, open your borders or else you are going to starve your people. Like rice now is almost about $100,000. But if you open your borders, I bet you the price will be slashed now. And some of these states, they have these rice milling equipment. Allow them to bring the rice party for them so that they can be processing and they can crash the price of rice in the country. I thank you so much, Prince Wally or Yukonia. I mean, when we talk about food, when we talk about good culture, either everyone has to be involved because at the end of the day, if there's no food in the stomach, things like the lutein and insecurity will continue to grow in this way. But then I hope the government listens to some of this advice that have been put forward and just create some sort of a turnaround. I would do appreciate your time on the show this morning. Thank you for having me. It is indeed a pleasure. That's as much as we can take care. My guest has been Prince Wally, we acquired the MDCEO of Bama Femmes. And we have been looking at the issue of food insecurity. And of course the main thing that Nigerians are talking about right now is the Ukraine feeding us per se and the federal government distributing 42,000 metric tons of grain to assist in the dresses and farming. My name is Justin, after the new business Insight will return to us, could again, same time. Many thanks for being there.


A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis of dietary patterns and depression concluded that a healthy diet pattern was significantly associated with the reduced odds of depression. But out of the 21 studies you could find in the medical literature, they were only able to find one randomized controlled trial considered the study design that provides the highest level of evidence. And it was the study I profiled in improving mood through diet, in which removing meat, fish, poultry, and eggs improved several mood scores in just two weeks. We've known that those eating plant-based and to have healthier mood states, less tension, anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, and fatigue. But you couldn't tell if it was cause and effect until you put it to the test, which they finally did. But what could account for such rapid results? Well, eating vegetarian does give you a better antioxidant status, which may help with depression. Also, as I previously addressed, how consumption, even a single carbohydrate-rich meal, can improve depression, tension, anger, confusion, sadness, fatigue, alert, and calmness scores among patients with PMS. But what about long-term? Overweight men and women were randomized into a low-carb, high-fat diet, or a high-carb, low-fat diet for a year. By the end of the year, who had less depression, anxiety, anger, and hostility, feelings of dejection, tension, fatigue, better vigor, less confusion, or mood disturbances? The low-carb dietors are represented by the black circles, and the low-fat dietors are represented in the white. These sustained improvements in mood in the low-fat group, compared with the low-carb group, are consistent with the results from epidemiological studies showing that diets high in carbohydrates and low in fat and protein are associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression and have beneficial effects on psychological well-being. The overall amount of fat in their diet didn't change in this study, though, but the type of fat did. Their arachidonic acid intake fell to zero. Arachidonic acid is an inflammatory omega-6 fatty acid that can adversely impact mental health via a cascade of neuro-inflammation. It may inflame our brain. High blood levels in the bloodstream have been associated with a greater likelihood of suicide risk, for example in major depressive episodes. How can we stay away from this stuff? All Americans are exposed to arachidonic acid, primarily through chicken and eggs. But when you remove chicken and eggs and other meat, we can eliminate preformed arachidonic acid from our diet. So while high-quality treatment studies investigating the impact of diet on depression are scarce, there is that successful two-week trial. But even better, how about 22 weeks? Overweight or diabetic employees of a major insurance corporation received either weekly group instruction on a whole food plant-based diet, or no diet instruction for five and a half months. There was no portion size restriction, no calorie counting, no carb counting, no change in exercise, no meals were provided, but the company cafeteria did start offering daily options such as level of soup, minestrone, bean burritos. No meat, eggs, dairy, oil, or junk, yet they reported greater diet satisfaction compared with the control group participants who had no diet restrictions. How'd they do, though? More participants in the plant-based intervention group reported improved digestion, increased energy, better sleep than usual at week 22 compared with the control group. They also reported a significant increase in physical functioning, general health vitality, and mental health. Here's this all kind of represented graphically, where the plant-based group beat out controls on nearly every measure. There was also significant improvements in work productivity, thought to be due in large part to their improvements in health. So what this study demonstrated was that a cholesterol-free diet is acceptable not only in research settings, but a typical corporate environment, improving quality of life and productivity at little cost. All we need now is a large randomized trial for confirmation, but we didn't have such a thing until now. 10 corporate sites across the country from San Diego to Macon, Georgia, same kind of setup as before. Can a plant-based nutrition program in a multi-center corporate setting improve depression, anxiety, and productivity? Yes. Significant improvements in depression, anxiety, fatigue, emotional well-being, and daily functioning. Lifestyle interventions have an increasingly apparent role in physical and mental health, and among the most effective of these is the use of plant-based diets.


Don't worry about weight fluctuations when you are low carb. What's happening in today's NJvue22.com vlog, we talk about the psychology behind weight fluctuations and your low carb diet. The principle is simple. People become dismayed when both their weight and body composition changes for the worse. It happens for many reasons, but when you're low carb and you do not fall off the wagon, i.e. cheat, it's almost always just a temporary hiccup. In our case, it's typically during the winter months where our actual physical activity levels diminish due to the less strenuous outdoor work that's required, especially if there's no snow. We imagine if we paid stupidly for monthly gym memberships, we'd probably be less likely to have this condition where you have weight fluctuations, but not everybody can spend their time on their vanity. And if you're on course, this is not a long term problem. You might even see trends that last six months along and there's no reason to give up. Sometimes you have to tweak your diet a little bit, cut some things out, but it should make you re-examine what you're eating. If you have any fruits or vegetable in your diet, especially big salads, those can cause disruptions or stall your progress completely. The same goes with these keto and gluten-free flowers. Stay away from the sweets, whether they're natural or not. Once you get closer to true carnivore or carnivore light, you'll be amazed at how steady your weight becomes. Seriously, two pounds, fluctuation max. In other words, just deal with it and keep calm. Have patience and never expect anything in those 30-day time frames and it'll always work out in the end. I'll see you next video.


The Big Bear wrestling tournament is back for the 17th year, 39 teams, 411 wrestlers, all competing in one of the largest tournaments in the state this afternoon at Castle Lake Bina High School. Crowds were so big they had to ask the fans to disconnect from the Wi-Fi. Well, starting the second round of action, Cody Dravis at 182 pounds, ranked third at the state at 170. This was his 100th career pin. He moves on to the semis. In 195, Carson Holes from Pierce grabs his opponent's leg and uses it to score the takedown. He wins by decision. At heavyweight, Jared Siebert from United North Central secures the takedown. He would later win by pin and win his quarterfinal matchup. In the quarterfinal round at 152, Chandler Mooney from Roseau racking up points all day. He won all three matchups by technical fall to move on. Brandon Tomala from Pierce absorbing all that contact. But he secures the pin, ranked fifth in the state. And finally from the hometown black duck, Castle Lake Bina, Ian Frenzel, the impressive takedown here. He wins 8-1 by decision. And with one day in the books, Detroit Lakes isn't on top. Pierce in sixth place, they send four to the semifinals. The Lakeland PBS.


The City of Pikeville and with a partnership with the Pikeville Main Street Program has some new incentives. We're looking for new businesses and ways to help our existing businesses. So if you are like ready to start a new business or grow your business, we have several different kinds of incentives that could help you. If you're a target business that we're looking for to increase downtown as a destination, we want you to contact us because we have some available properties working with property owners and just opportunities that could really make a difference in downtown. We're currently looking at two new businesses that we're getting ready to help and we're really excited about anyone that wants to contact us and might have any ideas for others.


Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by Daniel Highland. Social Laws, Part 1. In essays posted late last year, such as, What Are the Human Sciences? Methodology of the Human Sciences and Tracking Freedom with the Human Sciences, I discussed various aspects of those cognitive disciplines that study human action, or the human sciences, as I call them. I shall now proceed with more detailed treatments of some traditional methodological controversies that have attended economics, sociology, and history. My primary purpose in this series is to determine in what sense, if any, we can properly speak of social laws. When, for example, we speak of a law of economics, are we using the term law in the same sense as when we speak of a law of physics, or a law of chemistry, or to invoke another common controversy, can we properly speak of laws of history? This is obviously a complex field, so I can do no more than to offer some brief analysis and suggestions that I hope will prove useful to those readers who may wish to explore these controversies in greater detail. But even my abbreviated treatments require a fair amount of background, so let's begin with the controversy over methodological holism versus methodological dualism. How do the human sciences differ from the physical, or natural sciences? Even if we concede that the study of human action differs significantly from the study of physical, i.e. non-human nature, does this necessitate a radical difference of method between the human sciences and the physical sciences? This question, which has been debated for many decades, is of fundamental importance for our understanding of the human sciences. Attempts to answer it generally fall into one of two categories, monism or dualism. Methodological monism, which has been associated with a school of thought known as positivism and a cognitive ideal called the unity of science, maintains that the scientific method is, or should be, essentially the same in both the physical and the human sciences. Methodological dualism, in contrast, maintains that there exists, or should exist, a radical difference of method between these two fields of study. Human action, according to dualism, has a subjective meaning for the acting agent, and this unique feature, which is not exhibited by atoms, molecules, and other non-human entities, imposes upon the human sciences a distinctive method of inquiry that does not apply to the physical sciences. The human sciences are subjective in the sense that they must take into account the inner, or subjective meanings of actions, as understood by the acting agents. Throughout this series, when I use the terms subjective and subjectivism, it must be understood that I am referring to a methodological approach to the human sciences, an approach that has no necessary connection to moral, epistemological, or other kinds of subjectivism. The sociologist Alfred Schuetz, a friend of Ludwig von Mises who shared his general perspective, explained some implications of methodological dualism as follows. There is an essential difference in the structure of the thought-objects or mental constructs formed by the social sciences and those formed by the natural sciences. It is up to the natural scientist and to him alone to define in accordance with the procedural rules of his science his observational field and to determine the facts, data, and events within it which are relevant for his problem or scientific purpose at hand. Neither are those facts and events pre-selected, nor is the observational field pre-interpreted. The world of nature as explored by the natural scientist does not mean anything to the molecules, atoms, and electrons therein. The observational field of the social scientist, however, namely the social reality, has a specific meaning and relevance structure for the human beings living, acting, and thinking therein. By a series of common sense constructs, they have pre-selected and pre-interpreted this world which they experience as the reality of their daily lives. It is these thought-objects of theirs which determine their behavior by motivating it. The thought-objects constructed by the social scientist in order to grasp this social reality have to be founded upon the thought-objects constructed by the common sense thinking of men living their daily lives within their social world. Thus, the constructs of the social sciences are, so to speak, constructs of the second degree. Namely, constructs of the constructs made by the actors on the social scene whose behavior the social scientist has to observe and to explain in accordance with the procedural rules of his science. On Phenomenology and Social Relations, University of Chicago Press, 1970, page 273. This stress on the subjective meaning and significance of human action, known as the interpretive method, was defended by Max Weber, George Simmel, and other members of the German School of Sociology. It has also played a key role in the methodological arguments of Austrian economists, such as F. A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. So we should understand what is at stake in the ongoing debate between monists and dualists. A good deal of confusion has been injected into this venerable debate by a failure to distinguish between epistemology and methodology. Epistemology studies the fundamental features of human knowledge, the nature of concepts and propositions, for example, and the meaning of truth. The discipline of epistemology is more fundamental than methodology, which investigates how epistemological standards should be applied to a particular field of study. Epistemology does not dictate a specific method of investigation. Our choice of method will depend on what we wish to investigate. Insufficient appreciation of the foregoing distinction has generated considerable confusion in the debate between monism and dualism. Epistemology and methodology pertain to different levels of analysis, so an epistemological monist may also be a methodological dualist. The methodological dualist needn't uphold a similar dualism in the realm of epistemology. He needn't argue that our knowledge of human action, koal knowledge differs fundamentally from our knowledge of physical nature or that it should fulfill different epistemological criteria. He may argue instead that the human and physical sciences, while operating from the same epistemological foundation, require different applications of the same epistemological concepts and criteria to their respective disciplines, owing to fundamental differences between human and non-human phenomena. An illustration may clarify the point. In his defense of A Unity of Method in the Physical and Human Sciences, Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism, Harper Torchbooks, 1964, maintains that Karl Manger, a founding father of Austrian economics, also defended methodological monism and consequently rejected dualism. This is an intriguing claim because it attributes to Manger a position that differs radically from that of later Austrians, such as Hayek and Mises. Contrary to Popper, however, Manger was neither a methodological monist nor an opponent of dualism. If Popper failed to understand Manger, this is largely because he failed to differentiate Manger's general epistemology from his views on methodology. Manger was at once an epistemological monist and a methodological dualist. The former position is contained in Manger's discussion of the conceptual methods that every science must employ when formulating general laws. From this epistemological standpoint, no essential difference between the human and the natural sciences exists, but at most, only one of degree. Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences, 3rd edition, Libertarian Press, 1996, page 27. Manger's empirical method, which he applied to every kind of science, both physical and human, is based on his theory of concepts and general propositions. This is an epistemological theory, not a methodological one. And Manger pointed out that the specific application of his theory of knowledge will vary according to the cognitive demands of a particular sphere of investigation. Manger rejected the monism, or unity of method, defended by Popper, as we see in the following passage. Every method of investigation acquires its own specific character from the nature of the field of knowledge to which it is applied. It would be improper, accordingly, to attempt a natural scientific orientation of our science, of economics. Past attempts to carry over the peculiarities of the natural scientific method of investigation, uncritically into economics, have led to most serious methodological errors. Principles of Economics, Libertarian Press, 1994, page 47. It would be difficult to find a more concise statement of the difference between epistemology and method. The method appropriate to a particular science is determined not by our general epistemological principles, which apply to every science, indeed, to all knowledge, but by the appropriate application of those principles to the subject matter of a particular science. This, according to Manger, is true empiricism. Not the uncritical application of a universal method to every science, but rather the careful adaptation of method to subject matter based on one's theory of knowledge as a means to attain the cognitive goal of knowledge. Thank you for listening to Excursions. To learn more about Libertarian philosophy and history, visit www.libertarianism.org.


Hello everybody. Welcome to DevConf. My name is Davide Carratti, and I work for Red Hat in the Networking Services team, and I'm a resident in Milan. And my work is mostly focused on Red Hat Enterprise builds. Today I want to share with you step by step where I'm at with the attempts of putting continuous integration in TC. I assume most of you know what TC is, is a component in the Linux kernel that implements traffic schedulers, packet classification, and packet bangling. In the case, we are going to briefly see how unit tests can be written within the TDC suite, and then we will see an example implementation for the BPF action, which is kind of trendy. Then we will see how this test case and the whole TDC can be automated in a way that every single patch targeting the NetDev mailing list can run this simple unit test with the proposal of avoiding regression and undesired behaviors. So I chose to use patchU to automate the test and summarize the test results. We will overview the setup of the whole test system and see an example report. Next, we will overview what can be the future development for the TDC suite and for patchU as well. Finally, if there are any questions and they are easy enough, I will be happy to try and answer. So, why am I doing this and why do I think it's useful? As you might know, TC code is in Linux since many years, so theoretically we would not expect to see so many breakages over time. But the reality is different because the TC code is constantly being expanded and improved and sometimes rewritten because there are many users of TC. I want to mention time-basic transmission, which is a new QDCyplain, which has been added by Intel. Also, I want to mention OVS offloads because OpenVisWitch is using the TC layer to offload classifying an action to their nicks. So, one of the strongest proposals for people working on nicks is to avoid breaking things. So, any change of behavior should be done on purpose and any change and any improvement should be designed to be backwards compatible. So, unless it's a bug, the current behavior needs to be preserved. And as you probably already know, CI is one of the answers to these kinds of needs. About two years ago, TDC was pushed to the upstream Linux and it started introducing self-test on the TC layer. And more recently, Petu project landed upstream to provide continuous integration for the QEMU project. So, before going on, it's worth mentioning the guys who wrote most of the code I'm using for this presentation. So, Kudos and thanks to the authors of TDC and namely to Alexander Lukas, Chiara and Roman from Mojatatu. And of course, many thanks to the authors of Petu. They worked for the QEMU project, particularly thanks to Paolo Wanzini and Fan Zeng. Last but not least, Kudos are for you in case you plan to contribute to OpenSWITCH and particularly to TDC and Petu. So, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Especially if you are new to the Linux camera community like I am. Writing a self-test is definitely a good way for being onboarded. So, this is a mail that David Miller sent to one of my roommates and it's quite self-explaning. Serious applied. So, I assume most of you have basic knowledge of what this is. And in any case, there's a lot of documentation on the web, on the MAM pages. And a fun fact is also TDC is a source for documentation if you have troubles in configuring some TC rule. Anyway, what's relevant here is the interface that programs use when they communicate with the kernel. It's all made of netlink messages that carry inside the configuration data. You can try to get an idea of how big is this configuration space and you try this common. So, you just try to show the simplest option in the kernel and see what kind of messages travel inside. And this is the message. It's a big netlink messages carrying data. And after that, consider we have these objects. 35 Q disks, 12 classifier and 15 actions. Maybe counting because I know of people writing more Q disks and more actions. So, with this space of configuration, the probability of breaking something is not negligible. Now, let's take a real example and assume we want to unit test the BBF, actually. Let's install dummy eBBF program that is going to be executed on the data plane. For example, we want to mangle packets one by one when they are transmitted. So, we install this program and then we query the kernel back to see if the program has been correctly installed. So, we are doing the TC action add with the specified program. And then we do a TC action done to see if the program has been installed correctly. We will be invoking these methods in the counterpart of the action. We will be enclosing in the netlink messages the following parameters which are specific to the BBF action. And we will also use these kind of parameters that are common to all TC actions. Okay, this unit test and many others like this are covered currently by TDC. So, you just need to push D to the TC testing folder in the Linux search tree. And then you can just list all the test cases available for the BBF action and selectively run one tester or do them all. And let's see how test cases are written. Each TC action, every filter and every QDisk has a dedicated list of unit tests. So, briefly, unit test is made of a command under test that we launched. There is an expected exit code. We issue a verify command and check if the match pattern matches match count time. So, back to our unit test example. We assume we did all the setup phase where all BBF action has been cleared. This is the command under test. We check the expected exit code which should be zero. We issue the verify command and we check for the match pattern and the match count. It's quite really easy. So, that's it. That's what is TDC. The test infrastructure can be extended. There are the possibility to use plugins. So, we put some variants on the setup. We can use namespaces. We can use virtual alternates. Or we can use tools like Vigrant or KMM leak to find memory leaks. So, TDC, the number of TDC test cases is growing as the Linux kernel evolves. And please note that QDisk have not tested yet. Coverage will be introduced this year. So, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. And like I mentioned before, contribution in this area are very welcome. So, now that we know how to write a unit test, let's see how to do the CI part. For this thing, there is Petu. Why Petu? Why did I choose Petu? Because it's new. And I like new things. It's open source, of course. And it's used by another big project. So, it's kind of a good thing. This diagram summarizes the architecture used by Petu. There is an important node that checks for new emails. And it pushes information to a server, which holds a dashboard. And pushes to a Git repository. Every patch that is received. Then there is a tester that pulls the server, gets new patches, clones a repository from the Git repository. And it simply does the test. So, let's see how a patch is processed. At the very beginning, somebody sends a message to a mailing list. And there is a mail client that pulls for new content, checks for new messages. It checks if it contains a patch. And similarly to what is done inside PatchWorker, it recognizes the follow-ups. So, the reviewed, the tested, the arcade buy. And it stores these informations. So, the importer applies locally the patch and tries to push to a mirror of the Linux kernel, which is currently in my GitHub. And after that, it creates a tag. If the push operation has been successful, the importer then updates the status in the server like this. So, if the push is successful, the importer puts the G status flag. The G is blue. So, the application has been successful. It can be gray in case the application is not, the patch does not apply. So, the importer is also able to understand follow-ups. So, if somebody reviews the patch, it applies the R flag. And if the patch is superseded by a new patch, patch you understand it and puts the O flag. And in case there is a series, the series may be incomplete, the question mark. And, okay, now it's time to see if our patch did pass the test. So, the tester periodically pulls for new patches, untested patches, and simply clones the tag locally. It compiles the kernel. It launches a virtual machine with that kernel and runs the test. So, if the test goes okay, there is a green T flag. And otherwise, there is a red T flag, like in this case. And that's how the dashboard looks like after the importer applied three patches and tested two of them without finding any issue. You can click on the subject and have it look like this. And since I'm logging in the project, I can reset some of these flags to redo the tester, to redo the apply log. So, here is how I managed to install patch you. Did it work well? Well, the scripts I used to create the tester are on my GitHub. During this work, the traffic on the main list was almost zero because there was a long period where the branch was closed. So, no patch was applied. And also, many TDC test cases were broken. And what is strange is that the breakage happened very recently in the last month. So, we want really to make this stable. So, the current state is there, there is no dashboard on the official patch you. I have a draft dashboard with semi-broken importer that it's working at the unstable patch you branch. Stay tuned because in the next days I'm going to put it online with a live test. What's next? For TDC, a lot of things. We are planning to do functional test on the data part, inject the traffic. We are planning to do performance test to check if the install rate and if the bucket rate degrades with some patches. We need to add more and more test cases for testing queue disks. And we are evaluating inclusion for the CKEI project, which is a bigger, bigger project for kernel continuous integration when TDC will provide enough coverage. And then we need to fix the loose dependency on IP route 2 because many breakages happen just because a commit in IP route 2 broke the current behavior. There is a way to fix this and it's use the JSON-ified output. For patch it's much easier because everything that is in the future is in this nice to-do list on the patch you project. I'm done. Any questions? Till left some candies here. So, many questions. Cool. No, I'm not planning to... Sorry, the question is if we are planning to test driver changes. So the TDC layer should not impact on driver but in some case it does because TDC action and TDC classifiers can be offloaded. So in case a driver offloads a rule and the driver does not behave correctly that's a problem. The solution for this is to use plugins. If you use an S plugin you can specify a network device and all the tests will flow through this network device. So you install the TDC action on a specific device and this way you will be testing drivers. Am I planning to test patches for drivers? No. I don't think it's feasible with this infrastructure just because it's too slow. CKI is the correct thing to do. Speaking of CKI... I know you. You are famous. Me too. Any more questions? There's some extra content. So the git configuration the dashboard as soon as you log in you can just put the script on the server and configure email notifications and configure the git repository. For git hub it was quite tricky for me to find it so maybe there's a reference for somebody. This is the test script it's very easy. I just copy a minimal configuration of the kernel I compile the kernel I run a virtual machine with that kernel and as soon as the virtual machine turns off I grab for results and that's it. Oh! This is the traffic on Netscad in the latest two years. It's not much and that's why we can leverage on a light platform to do this kind of work. Why did the case test? Test case failed because the configuration of the kernel was run. I was testing ABPF without compiling the support for SHA sum and so the ABPF is called the failed system. Well, yes, it could do this so the question is does it report the test failure to mailing lists? It can do this for testing purposes it's better to be really careful when doing this because we don't want to spam the mailing list. That's exactly what typically happens. Thank you very much.


Good morning. My name is Sergeant John Glomba and I'm a competitor and instructor with the Marine Corps shooting team here on Quantico. So this week we just concluded the one-week Marine Corps Marship Championships which encompassed all the medalists from all the geographic locations that we have held Marine Corps Marship competitions at. The varying disciplines they competed in were USPSA, carbine hit-factor, three-gun, skill challenge and PRS followed up by a team rifle and team pistol match that included some of the skills that they are required to understand and be competitive in for the matches that we held during the week. So I'm a recipient of the Gold Lockheimer Trophy and medal. The Lockheimer Trophy is an award given to the overall high shooter of the match. In my case, I competed at a high enough level in each discipline over the week that my average together ended up placing me first overall. The biggest reason I think I succeeded primarily goes to the credit of the instructors that I had here on the Marine Corps shooting team. It wasn't for having them basically being on my heels and keeping me in my games. A lot of the credit goes to them and to me, I shot my game, I did what I could and it all played out in the end. Alright, as for you senior enlisted leaders, it is your responsibility to make sure your Marines are well-trained in every aspect and one of these is the use of the service rifle. I highly recommend you as well push your Marines to the highest level to come out to these matches and compete and also get their invitation to championships. Again, as our responsibility as leaders both enlisted and officer to ensure our Marines are trained and rated the highest level going forward into our next phase of combat whenever that might be. As it comes down to the day, Aver Marine is and should be a rifleman.