What's up everybody, it's Jason here with Jatsby's Case Breaks.com. Just filled out 2018-19 upper deck v-cup hockey 2 box break, pick your teams number 25 You have a chance to win a free box of Opeche Platinum. All you got to do is buy two or more teams in this break So two teams equals one entry Four teams equals two entries, etc. No max entries And again, this is a two box break All two box breaks are from the same case. So 25, 26, and 27 will be from the same case We'll randomize the customer names and see who gets into that box giveaway at the end of the break Here are the customer names. We had to do one random number block though for a couple teams And here are the customers that are in that one right there There you go Good luck everybody Here is the case a two box break. 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So my name is Rabia like Lilliana just said I'm a medical doctor and specializing to become a neurologist Yeah, so I'm specializing to become a neurologist So in the next 15 minutes, I will tell you how your brain will change in response to the changing demands of the job Today and what you can do to influence that change This is a picture of me and my friends in 2015 this was the day of our final exam in medical school after months of hard work and studying this day came and We thought that finally it's over. We will not have to study so much anymore We will not have to learn so much anymore We could not have been more wrong because what happened they're not very long after this looks very much like this We have to learn new things new skills and new information every day And we have to learn we have to learn to keep us up and updated about the new findings in medical science We have to learn about new treatment methods We have to learn an enormous amount of patient information and we have to do this fast and efficient So as you can see in the picture, this is not easy This was not easy and I'm sure that all of you in some way can relate to this picture because most jobs today Require us to learn at a constant rate In fact jobs today look very much different than jobs in the past when we look back in the starting from the 18th century starting from the Industrial Revolution 12th 19th century and much of much of the 20th century jobs were mostly of manual nature most people were required to do the same thing over and over again on a daily basis so towards the end of the 20th century with the digital revolution and Changes in technology with the internet jobs started to become more of more of Met jobs require acquired us to use our minds more use our brains So we just today require us to be innovative. They require us to be created They require us to keep learning at a constant rate. So with that said what will jobs in the future look like? so best-selling author and historian you well know a harari in his book Homo Dios a history of the future Tells that jobs in the future will require human beings to be even more flexible to be even more versatile to be even to be able to learn even morning things To hear is a small part of his interview to hear it from the author himself. Okay, so Can we turn this turn it out? balance Okay, you can summarize it. Okay, so I will give you a summary of what he said. So he said and what You want to hurry says is that jobs? Say even 2050 will knows what jobs in 2050 will look like but thing with things such as artificial intelligence and automation It may be that jobs look completely different And what he says that our best chance as humans to stay in the game is to be able to learn and relearn things new skills and new information and to reinvent ourselves throughout our lives even at the age of 50 so So with that said biologically is it possible for the human brain to be to be Capturing all that information to be able to learn and change and reinvent themselves over and over This is yes, and it is explained by a very simple term called neuroplasticity so neuroplasticity is a term which refers to the ability of the human brain to change the human brain can Rearrange itself and form new neural connection throughout its entire life An excellent example of neuroplasticity is the way children learn children learn at an Tremendous pace they learn to walk in a year. They learn to talk within months. This is neuroplasticity at a very high level So neuroplasticity this doesn't mean that neuroplasticity is over in adults Neuroplasticity is still presenting adults at a much smaller scale than in children an example of neuroplasticity in adults is the way that patients recover after stroke When musicians learn one piece of music they when they practice it over and over over and over They get eventually better at it and when they learn the next piece of music They can learn it with much more ease and that is neuroplasticity at work So biologically speaking neuroplasticity I Will just try to explain it in a simple way. This is these are two neurons So neurons are basically nerve cells you can imagine them to contain a head and a tail So they they connect with each other they send information from one to the other from the head via the tail and you can imagine these small structures called dendrites to be sort of elongations of the heads and Information is travels from the head to the tail and to the dendrites of the new next neuron from the tail to the dendrites of the next Neuron, so what happens in neuroplasticity broadly speaking there are two different types of neuroplasticity structural and functional neuroplasticity when we talk about structural neuroplasticity it refers to the structural changes in neurons It refers to the ways dendrites grow more more connections between neurons are formed so more dendrites are created and the and the chemical structures which facilitate the travel of information from one nerve to the next will be produced at a greater rate will be easily more easily produced when we talk about Functional neuroplasticity it refers to the way that Neurons it becomes much more easier for our nerves to connect to each other by forming by strengthening of synaptic connections, which is the connection between two neurons, so that's basically the way it works biologically, so Is there anything we can do that will that will help us to improve our neuroplasticity? There have been many studies which show that there are connections between lifestyle habits and the way that neurons Change over time how the way our brains change over time in the following I will give you three quick tips on how you can actually improve your neuroplasticity Study the results of one study which basically show that when we exercise Neuroplasticity becomes much more strengthened and that happens via starting chemical and structural changes in the brain and the results of this study show that two groups who Did exercise this is a study which was done on 120 people and the group who did regular aerobics exercise? Had a growth in a part of their brain, which is relating to memory a part of the brain called the hippocampus which relates to memory formation and and overall brain function so this shows that that part of the brain actually Grows over time when we exercise and this is the region of the brain which also shrinks in size as people age and it's also related to Declined in memory such as dementia the The the next point I want to tell is an excellent way to to To support your neuroplasticity is to continuously learn new skills. So as we learn new skills Our brains actually change in structure This is a study which was done in London in 2000 Researchers studied a group of London taxi cab drivers So in London to become a licensed taxi cab driver you have to go through a period of rigorous training and During this training you have to study the map of the really complex map of London by heart. You have to memorize it so after After going through this rigorous period of memorizing and learning the map these group of taxi drivers and their brains were compared to the brains of Regular people people who did not go through that Period of rigorous training. So what they found is that tractor in the brain, which is involved in spatial memory and Navigation through space this structure was much much bigger and much better developed in the taxi cab drivers who learned the map by heart so So this could also was this that some the taxi drivers who could learn it by heart. They already had a Bigger vision in that brain. So to to eliminate that that possibility There were follow-up examinations So it was found the number of time the number of months they spent studying the map Correlated to the volume of that area of the brain. So this shows that learning actually does change our brain structurally The the next point I want to talk about is something which is very obvious that Healthy eating habits are very much Related to your brain function, but this is very difficult in human studies to show because every individual has different lifestyle Everyone of us has different eating habits. Some of us work out more. Some of us work out less. So Human studies are very much prone to errors. So for the lack of Valid data on human studies, I want to show you one study which shows the relationship between Diet and neuroplasticity in mice, which is we can assume it is representative of pretty much what happens also in humans. So in this study A pairs of mice were put in a swimming pool called the Morris water Maze or whatever, right? So this is a maze and and the amount of the amount of minutes of the mice take to figure out a hidden platform by figuring out the maze Is Relating to the how quickly they are learning. So this is a study which goes over five days so every day we train the mice to find out this maze and There are there are four groups of mice one of the mice is fed regular diet like normal diet Which is the blue line line shows represents the group of mice that were fed a particular kind of omega-3 fatty acid called DHA and The orange line shows are the exercise regular diet and only exercise and the blue line shows the group of mice who were Doing regular exercise and taking the omega-3 Based a fatty acid supplement So this graph clearly shows that the time to find the platform was much much less for the group of mice Who were taking the omega-3 diet and also? exercising this shows that and they they learned much quickly and they took much less time to figure out the Maze So with that said I'm pretty much at the end of the talk and To sum it up. I think neuroplasticity is a wonderful way to explain how our brains can change in response to the changing demands of jobs today and of the jobs that are to come in the future and There are many ways that we can facilitate neuroplasticity in our own brains And I think that eating healthy exercising and keeping on learning new skills are wonderful ways to do that And if you have questions, I will be very happy to answer them. You can also ask questions I have a since I'm an aspiring neurologist I'm always happy to answer questions and I have a Facebook page Which is called ask a neurologist, which is basically there to answer your Neurology-related questions or anything brain-related. I will be very happy if any of you come to us and ask Technical difficulties are our fault. Not Ramya's fault. I think she did a wonderful job If you have any questions, please, this is the time to ask No questions, I guess. Oh, no, we have one Okay, so keeping in mind the future of labor markets How do we introduce these three factors into early childhood development so that we are helping them focus instead more on how do we develop for More active learning or open learning because you said the work environment is required to do that more often So how do we prepare people to go into this work environment given these three factors? You mean how we prepare our children, right? Yes, so how do you create the environment in school that prepares them for a new working environment based on this? Right, that's a really really good question. One that becomes very relevant also for our for the future generations I think Neuroplasticity is in children anyway. It's very much at work So it's needless to say that exercising in children good diet and learning teaching them new skills Is our wonderful ways to support their neuroplasticity? I think our education system needs to Support the idea that we will need to continue learning and to To prime our children to the idea that it's not learning one particular skill That's important rather being being a versatile and being able to always keep changing and keeping on learning. That's more important And the other question we still have time There's a person there There is In science or I don't know maybe it's popular They dissect the famous scientists. Let's say they are brain. They see some Some changes, say for example, they say they have good analytical skills. It was seen in their brain Is it a result of their exposure through time or is it like given from nature or something? That's also a really good question. I think it's both because some Like genetics always plays a role Partial role in how brains develop and how personalities how people develop It's also exposure and that's the very idea of neuroplasticity because the more you expose yourself to a particular problem to a particular skill Those are regions of the brain will develop, right? That's the idea And we have time for one final question. Go ahead The music plays a role in neuroplasticity Because for example, I have heard that babies it's good to Classical music Yeah, right. There have been many studies done on classical music and how classical music can Actually support learning and cognition I can't name any right now But there have been a lot of evidence that music supports learning and I can imagine also neuroplasticity Unfortunately, we don't have any more time for questions But at the end of this event you can always come to our speakers and ask them whatever you want. Okay? So, thank you, Rabia


Neuroblastoma, NB, is a severe form of tumor that occurs mostly in young children and arises from nerve cells located in the abdomen or near the spine. Current treatments are not always effective and can lead to serious side effects that affect the quality of life of survivors. Pyrrhozoal-loaded cationic nanoparticles, CB1-HP7-N piece, have been shown to be effective against bacteria and may offer a promising alternative treatment option for NB. In vitro studies showed that CB1-HP7-N piece were highly cytotoxic to two NB cell lines, IMR32 and SHSY5Y, with IC50 values ranging from 0.43 to 0.54 muM. Furthermore, the nanoformulation of CB1-HP7-N piece was more potent than fennrenonide, an experimental retinoid derivative currently being tested in a phase III clinical trial. These findings suggest that CB1-HP7-N piece could be used as a potential therapeutic agent for treating NB. This article was authored by Gendalina Zuckery, Alessia Zorzoli, Danilo Merimpiatri, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


I think there is no debate, sadly no debate, that from day one, from the first day that settlers came to this country, the Native American people have been lied to, they have been cheated, and negotiated treaties have been broken. We owe the Native American people so, so much. We are forever grateful that they have shared their culture, that they have shared their respect for the environment with us. But all of us know that the first Americans, our Native American brothers and sisters today live in many cases on ancestral lands which they have called home for thousands of years. Others live on lands where they have been moved forcibly by federal policies throughout our history. But all too often, Native Americans have not been heard on issues that impact their communities. They have been told what to do, they have not been involved in the process. Despite the existence of negotiated treaties which coerce tribal nations into ceding, as we all know, millions of acres of their homelands to the United States in exchange for guaranteed rights, many of those rights have not been upheld. Despite past and ongoing mistreatment of Native Americans, including federally sanctioned assimilation through boarding schools, Native Americans have maintained possession of cultural and natural resources today that are the key to the Indian country's bright future. The United States government has a duty to ensure equal opportunities and justice for all of its citizens, including our first Americans. And let us be honest, again, let us be honest and acknowledge that we are not doing that today. The challenges that I have been all over the country speaking to tribal leaders, not just here in Arizona. And this is what I have learned. Native Americans continue to face appalling levels of inequality and systematic injustice. Today in America, one in four Native Americans are living in poverty and the high school graduation rate is 67 percent the lowest of any racial demographic group. The second leading cause of death for Native Americans between 15 and 24 is suicide. And that speaks to incredible despair. Second leading cause of death for young people is suicide. One in three, it's important that we lay this out because without the knowledge we cannot go forward. One in three, one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. Most of the offenders are non-Native. Most of the programs dedicated to the tribal nations are underfunded. That has led to inadequate housing, inadequate healthcare, inadequate education, and insufficient law enforcement. Today Native Americans have a lower life expectancy and higher rates of uninsured than the population at large. And even those who have health coverage have difficulty accessing the healthcare that they need. Exacerbating the struggles of Indian country is a failure to understand and support the principles of self-determination. During my time in Congress, I have worked with other members and with the Native American communities to address the challenges facing the Native community and to create opportunities for those communities. I have recently introduced in the U.S. Senate the Save Oak Flat Act. This is, this is, this is the same legislation that Representative Raul Grohalva has introduced in the House. Raul, I believe, would have been here with us tonight but the Congress is in session. And that legislation would repeal a federal lands transfer of a sacred place in Arizona given to a foreign mining corporation. The sacred places of our Native American communities cannot and must not be sacrificed for the profits of mining interests. As a senator, I have consistently opposed tar sands and fracked gas pipelines like the Keystone Pipelines and other pipelines throughout this country. In my view, not only are these pipelines themselves causing environmental damage, not only do they stand the possibility of terrible oil spills, but ultimately as a nation we have got to break our dependence on fossil fuel and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And you are living here in this beautiful state. You have an unbelievable natural resource. It is called the sun. The sun doesn't have oil spills. Sun doesn't have gas leaks. Sun especially in your state is out almost every day. Wish I could say that about my state. But you have an opportunity here to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and transform your energy to solar to win the geothermal. As a nation, as a nation we need to increase tribal sovereignty and tribal jurisdiction in prosecuting criminal acts done on tribal lands regardless of the race of the perpetrator. Tribes need increased control over tribal housing programs and we need a major investment in Native American housing. And by the way, City of Washington has a very good football team but it doesn't have to be called the Redskins. We recommit the federal government to honor the treaties and statutes that are at the core of the trust relationship. And that means having senior level tribal appointees with access to all executive agency leadership. Washington should never act on issues of importance to the tribes without being in consultation with them. Finally the federal government must protect Native American cultures. Tribal communities must be empowered by providing resources to protect and revitalize indigenous languages, religions, cultures, and tradition. The culture of the Native American people is so rich, is so extraordinary that all of us will gain by preserving and enhancing that culture.


Welcome to NASA and the Seller Foundation's Space System Engineering Course Unit 1, What is System Engineering? The unit objectives for Unit 1 include, explain systems engineering in the context of the aerospace industry, discuss the need for systems engineering, give an overview of the NASA system engineering engine and its associated processes, identify the attributes of system engineering. Unit 1.1, common definitions of system engineering. Today we're going to talk about system engineering, what it is, what does the system engineer do when they come to work every day and specifically how does it apply to the missions that NASA does for the in the aerospace community. So a lot of the other material you're going to see in the course going forward will get into the specific processes, the tools that are used by system engineers in their daily life but today we're going to kind of back up and just talk in general what is system engineering all about. A system is an integrated composite of people and people in a lot of cases in system engineering, you're talking about all your discipline engineers, you have thermal engineers and power engineers and a variety of people that are involved in a system. You can't forget, sometimes people think of system as the product which you see on the slide as well. The product is the actual physical hardware and software that you're going to develop as part of the system but the people are just as important to developing a system engineering concept. So people and products and then you see processes on the slide as well. So all three of these are kind of key to putting together a system engineering process and to managing a system development activity. So all of these are combined to satisfy some need or goal or objective that you set out for the system. So we'll talk more about that but the goal is to kind of set a site where you want to get what does the system need to look like, how is it going to operate and then what are the people, products and processes I need to put in place to make all of that happen. The term system engineering really was developed in the 1940s. So there was people doing system engineering forever, right? Anytime there was a big project, when the Egyptians built pyramids, they had to have some processes, they had to have some way to communicate because the system was too big for any one or two people to be able to kind of manipulate the whole thing and make it work. So when you have these big teams, you need to have standard processes and tools. So system engineering has been around a long time but the formalizing of it really developed in the U.S. in the 1940s, so kind of in the World War II era. And the Nike Missile Program in the 1940s was kind of the first program where people started to use the term system engineering. The Nike Missile Program for the Army was a way to try to defend the country from jet aircraft that might attack. Jet aircraft were being developed and the threat of jet aircraft couldn't be met by the traditional ground to air missiles that were available. So you needed high speed, highly accurate missiles and that was going to be a very complex program that involved a lot of different technologies coming together. And so the idea was it's a very hard problem to solve. You needed to bring together a team of engineers and then you had to have engineers who would kind of make sure they were coordinated and that a system was developed out of it. Bringing the importance of this anti-missile system to the protection of the free world, the Army is pursuing the development of Nike Zeus on a high priority basis. When it comes to NASA's history, our first big effort in system engineering was Apollo. In the Apollo program you were bringing together elements from around the country and a lot of different systems and capabilities had to be brought together to make it work. And so system engineering at NASA really started to be formalized during the Apollo era. And at this point and if you go online there are many sources, the NASA system engineering handbook is available many different places online where you can see all the different ways now that we have formalized that methodology and that's again what you're going to be learning in this course. System engineering is a rigorous approach to designing, creating and operating a system and you know there's other things too. You're trying to optimize the system to meet the requirements and the goals that you set for it. Let's just talk about the two words. So first this involves engineering. So system engineering at its core is engineering work. So engineering being the application of physics and math and science to solving some problem. There's something that needs to be done and engineers step in and use the laws of physics and mathematics to go ahead and find some solution for it. And there's all kinds of different disciplines may be involved. So depending on the problem there might be chemists involved, there might be metallurgists involved. But the end goal is to engineer a solution to some real-world problem. And so there's a couple examples on that chart. Something like building the Hubble Space Telescope Mirror that you see on the one side or on the other side you see some folks at a Marshall Space Flight Center trying to build a new type of lunar lander. And so in either case you've got a team of people coming together and they're starting to look at the different ways to make this system work. Now a lot of engineering can happen at the very basic level. So some engineers are only working on maybe the design of a battery for a spacecraft. Some engineers are only working on how to build the thermal coatings that go on the outside. Those very specific engineers that are working in their disciplines, that engineering can happen at a small scale level with small teams. And they can make changes just based on their experiences and develop a better and new product based on their experiences. But when it comes to bigger things, not just maybe a small application, engineering can become more and more complex. So if you go to the next chart, you see that the next part of system engineering is the word system. And so as problems become more complex, the engineering techniques and the processes you need to use also become more complex. The number of people involved becomes more complicated. Here you see an example of the space station. So the space station is an example of a large system. You see that there's one element of it is the space station itself, the thing that's in Earth orbit. That's allowing crew to be on board and running experiments and doing all kinds of cool and neat things. But that's only one part of the space station system. What you see on the rest of the chart is all of the other elements that make up the system. There are cargo vehicles delivering cargo to the station that are coming from all over the world, Japan and Europe, from commercial vendors from the Russians. There's also crew vehicles coming back and forth, the Soyuz capsule delivering crew and returning them back to Earth. There's also a lot of other elements of this system. You see some large communication satellites in the background. Those have to be the relay data from the space station down to Earth so that people can communicate with that crew on board. There's also many facilities spread out around the world that have to be integrated together to make the station operate, to send information up to the station, to take the data from the station and send it out to the scientific community that needs to see it. So in this case, you've got a very large system that has to be coordinated with thousands of people that have to make this thing work. And this is where system engineering comes into play. And so system engineering, it really adds a discipline when you get to these large scale projects. So as engineering has become more and more complicated over the years, the idea is mature, that you need tools to do this. You need processes. And those processes need to be standardized so that everyone speaks the same language. Everyone uses terms that everyone else can understand. And so that's a lot of what you're going to learn in this course is, what are those terms and what are those processes that everybody uses? The system engineering approach consists of identifying and quantifying system goals. And so at the beginning, we'll talk that you start with an abstract idea. You'd like to maybe learn more about the universe and how planets around other stars might be able to be seen from Earth. And so I've got this goal. I've got this very high level thing that I'd like to achieve. Now I have to break that down and understand, how can I develop a system to actually do that? So I'm going to use an example here. You see some pictures on the slide that maybe remind you of the space shuttle in some way. Maybe not exactly what you remember the space shuttle looking like, but we're going to walk through this process. And at the beginning, you've got this high level goal that you'd like to achieve. And maybe you have many different ways of developing a system to meet that high level goal. So it says, a creation of alternative systems and design concepts. So along the way, as you try to meet this goal, you may try out a lot of different ways and a lot of different systems that might be able to achieve that goal. Now you want to go through a number of trade studies. So the system engineering approach consists of performing trade studies, design trades, where you're starting to look at, well, which one of these potential systems might be the best at meeting that goal? What's the optimal way of achieving what I'd like to achieve with the system? So the system engineering approach consists of selecting and implementing that best design. Best is maybe some subjective, some objective. You have certain things like, in the case of what you see here, this was actually some early design work for the shuttle. You have some best might be, it has to be able to carry the most payload up into space if it's a space shuttle. But then best might be, you think it's the safest way of doing it. So there might be some subjective and objective ways that you're going to consider, what's the best way? And once you've selected an approach, you're going to go through and do some verification of that design. I'll talk more about the term verification all the way, but verification says if I build that system, as I'm building it, I want to check to make sure that in the end, it's going to meet all of the requirements. Can it carry all that payload to space? Is that shuttle going to do all the things? Can it carry seven crew members? Is it going to do all the things that I set out for it to do when I first wrote down my goals and my requirements up front in this process? And so as you go further into the process, you've verified that the system is developing the way you want it to to meet that high level set of goals. And then at the end, you're going to say, okay, I've got this vehicle, I've built it. Now, can it meet the goals that I set out for it at the beginning? So we're going to learn about a term called validation where at the end, you want to know, will it operate the way I said it should when I set out to build this system? And so we'll learn about verification where along the way you're seeing if it'll meet each individual requirement such as how much mass can it take to orbit? And then we're going to validate the entire system to say, as a system, does it do all the things? Does it operate the way that we expected it to? We'll talk about one of the major processes of system engineering. It's kind of the largest abstraction of system engineering is, how do you move from an idea to a system that's completed and operating? And so here you see the Mars Curiosity rover. And we're going to use that as an example to kind of walk through very quickly to describe the process of system engineering. In the upper left-hand corner, you see the initial requirements that the scientific community came up with to come up with a new rover to send to Mars. They said, gee, we'd like to learn more about the geology of Mars, more about the atmosphere of Mars. And we'd also like to know if Mars could have had life on it at some point in the past, was the environment conducive to having some form of microbial life developed and survived? And so when you're doing system engineering, you take those initial ideas, and now the first step is going to be to look to see if there are any tools out there that already can do what is needed to be done. So if you look in this case, there are other rovers that have gone to Mars. So could those rovers do the science that's being asked for? Could they answer the questions that you've come up with? And so there was the Sojourner rover, many in the late 1990s, early 2000s. There was the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. So you can look at the science from those rovers and say, could they help us in answering these basic questions? The first step of system engineering is, is there some way to get this information without having to even build the system? Maybe we can just use an existing system. So in this case, the answer was no, that the existing rovers weren't capable enough to do the kinds of investigation that the scientists wanted to do on Mars, so a new rover would be required. You'll see that there's now the designing phase. You take this idea, you don't have an existing system that could perform the job, and you develop a new system. So you have to design it, you look at different ideas, how big should it be? Should it be a wheeled vehicle? Should it have tracks on it instead? So now the system engineering process is going through and doing trade studies, doing analysis of alternative options on how to perform this mission. And you're looking at which one is maybe most cost effective, which one can be done the quickest from a schedule standpoint, and which one would require new technology. And in the case of adding new technology to a mission, it might make it very capable, but it also might add risk that if the technology isn't matured on time, your whole mission might be set back.  Maybe you look at two or three alternatives designs and you pick which one you think is most optimal for how you're gonna do it. You see that you also might do testing. So here you see a prototype of the Mars rover, and you see they're looking at the mobility system, the wheels. How are they gonna design the wheels? How is it gonna move over the surface to be able to go into the rugged terrain that they wanted to explore with this new rover? And so they aren't building the spacecraft yet, but they're building parts of it in a demonstration mode where they can test it on the earth and make some decisions about how to go forward.  So this is all part of the system engineering process from idea all the way through now to actually building the vehicle that you're gonna send into space. So you see them working on the front end of the rover here and getting the drive system ready for testing. And so this is the integration of a vehicle, the actual development of a vehicle. After you've done a lot of pre-work to get to this phase. And so a lot of people think that this is where most of the time and effort is spent is actually building the vehicle. But the system engineering tools and processes will tell you that all of that front end work you did, looking at alternatives, doing trade studies, looking at different technologies, coming up with different designs and trading them off, that's the most critical part of the process because changing things back in that early part of the process when you're working with designs and you're working with drawings, the cost of making changes is very small and you can try to optimize your design. Once you start actually making the vehicle, any changes that have to be made because maybe the vehicle isn't meeting the requirements, it's not working the way you thought it would, those changes are gonna be very expensive if you have to go back and change drawings and remanufacture components. And there could be a lot of ripple effect on your ability to meet your schedule, your ability to stay on budget. So it might be deceived into thinking that NASA spends most of its time building vehicles, we actually spend most of our time designing vehicles and that's where system engineering tools really come in handy. So if you go down to the lower left hand corner, you see that after we build a vehicle, it has to go through a whole series of tests. A lot of these tests involve putting the spacecraft or in this case the rover into an environment very similar to what it'll be like on Mars. And so there are large chambers where you could reduce the pressure, change the atmospheric components, put the sunlight onto the vehicle the way it would be coming if the vehicle was on Mars. And that's what you see here is that you see a person inside the chamber testing to make sure that the brightness of the sunlight or the artificial sunlight in the chamber matches up with what you would expect at Mars before they run some type of environmental test where they might lower the temperature to be like Mars at night to see how the rover would survive at night. All part of the system engineering process. Again, making sure that the rover will work the way it's required to work to meet that high level set of goals that you set out for it at the beginning. So you've designed it, tested it, you got it ready for launch and now you're gonna operate the system. And so the end of the system engineering process has to do with actually operating a system all the way through to the end of its life and then decommissioning it. So you'll learn a lot more about how these phases are translated into a whole lot of terms. The beginning parts are called phase A and phase B the designing phases, the building phases move in and the final designs phase C the building of the vehicle phase D and integrating it and the phase E operation. So there's all kinds of terms that will come up but put it in the context of system engineers really work through a formal process to take an idea and generate an operational system that's really the key. Click on the icon to read the art and science of system engineering and that'll provide you some more information about background on system engineering. And once you've read that, come back to this video and click on the link for understanding the value of system engineering, again, some additional work to help you understand the concepts.


In this video, we'll discuss the kinds of peer review comments that are most helpful to writers during the drafting process. Student writers often assume that peer review means proofreading for grammar and spelling errors. This approach can be helpful when the major goals of a writing project have already been achieved. When reviewing a first or second draft, however, writers benefit most from feedback that promotes revision. At its root, this word means to see again. As a peer reviewer, you can help writers see their own writing again from a different perspective and to explore possibilities for developing their ideas further. With this goal in mind, what kind of comments should you make? Here are two things to keep in mind. First, you'll need to prioritize. You probably won't have enough time to include a written comment on everything you notice. And, even if you did, the amount of comments might be overwhelming for the writer. Instead, you should focus on what's most important. Writing scholars distinguish between higher order and lower order concerns when responding to a peer's draft. Lower order concerns refer to the mechanics of writing, including sentence-level issues like grammar, spelling, punctuation, and formatting. Higher order concerns, on the other hand, refer to the content and context of writing, including the writer's ideas, arguments, and evidence, overall organization and coherence, audience, tone, and use of sources. Here are some examples of peer review comments that address higher order concerns. You do a great job of explaining why climate change is an important issue in introducing electric cars and how they fit into the topic. Or, you claim that electric cars are easier to drive, but you don't really explain why. It would be helpful to include some reasons. Or, since you're writing this for an audience of general readers, it might be helpful to define some of these lesser-known terms like off-peak charging and range anxiety. While lower order concerns are local issues that only affect a small part of the text, usually a single sentence, higher order concerns are global issues that can impact the text as a whole. Focusing on these higher order concerns is crucial for helping writers see their own text in a new way. Another way to ensure you provide helpful feedback is to write specific comments rather than general comments. General comments are broad and often vague statements that don't refer specifically to the text. For example, good paragraph, or this section seems out of place, or I don't understand. General comments can leave the writer wondering how to address the issue or what to do next. In contrast, specific comments provide more detailed, explicit feedback that give a clearer sense of what you're suggesting or highlighting and refer directly to the text at hand. For example, I like how you've articulated your argument in this paragraph. As a reader, I have a clear sense of why you think electric cars are better for the environment and the statistics you include are compelling. And since you're defining electric cars and explaining how they work in this section, it might make sense to move it earlier to help readers understand the technology before you argue why it should be widely adopted. Even if you don't have any specific suggestions, explaining your own understanding of the text back to the writer can help negotiate miscommunications. For example, I'm not sure I understand this part, but I think you mean that electric cars are more eco-friendly than other cars on the road but less eco-friendly to manufacture. Is that right? Notice that while a comment like good paragraph is generically applicable to almost any text, the specific comments modeled here are tailored to one particular essay about electric cars. These comments may take a little longer to write, but they are worth the extra time. They help you as a reader to engage more fully in the writer's ideas and help the writer clearly understand your perspective, suggestions, and questions. As this video has shown, there are several qualities that make for optimal feedback. Focusing on higher-order concerns and writing specific comments helps peers see their own writing in a new way, offers encouragement, and provides a clear path to meaningful revision.


to begin with a demonstration of what exactly I am going to show you. Basically I am a physics teacher and I am here to share something about amazing tool that has potential to transform the way we teach and the way we learn. Okay, here I am just using a small interface, something like this, a small box called X5 and it is going to be a simple experiment. What I am using now is a small motor and on that DC motor, a small magnet is mounted, an ODM magnet and I have these small pickup coins, maybe later I will show you these things. I am using this device, I can actually drive this motor. Okay, so now the magnet which is mounted on the motor is rotating. Then I will just bring this pickup coin close to the magnet. I will be able to see that there is some disturbance in that graph. Okay, actually it is fetching the data of voltage generated in that coin. So let us add this time scale that we will have a clear idea about what kind of voltage we are getting there. So it is actually a sine wave. So we have generated AC signal here. We could fetch the data using this kit and we could plot the data using a very simple Python code in real time. Maybe I will use one more coil and for this now I need one more channel. So I will bring this A2 and select second channel. I will bring the second coil close to this magnet. You can see one more curve there. And here we can play around these things. We can just try and explore and we can learn so many things. Now as you can see here on the screen, both the waveforms are in phase. When I was a student for me it was quite difficult to understand what is phase and all those things. Okay, we used to just bug or reproduce in the exam. We never really understood what it is. If I just rotate one coil like this, now you can see that the waveforms are out of phase. And just place them at 90 degrees. Maybe let us reduce this time scale a little bit so that it will be clear. Okay, now you can see the waves are, they differ in phase by 90 degrees. Right here there is a 180 phase difference. If I rotate one coil like this, they are almost in phase. Then if I just put something in ferromagnetic, even a screwdriver in this coil, the amplitude of the signal will increase. So basically it's a very simple tool that students can use to perform so many experiments at home. Basically it's a pocket science lab where we can do almost all physics and electronics experiments with low cost devices. In fact, so many devices can be made at home. Okay, let me start with the presentation now. So what you have just seen is this computer, sorry, pocket science lab. XPISE is Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists. This was the idea behind the project. When we started, unfortunately, almost everywhere is the situation. In our science education system, too much importance is given to the theory. And experimental part is always neglected. Now where do you think this kind of vehicle will go? And there are many reasons for this kind of ignore and saying in educational system. Maybe exam oriented evaluation system, lack of interest, or maybe it can be lack of equipment. And if the last reason is the true reason, lack of equipment, then XPISE is an answer. It works with a 5 volt source or it can actually work with USB port of a computer. Basically it's a low cost device. It's a low cost device that can generate and measure voltage. There is a built-in signal generator. We have a ready made oscilloscope. In fact, it's a digital storage oscilloscope. And the most important feature of this interface is the microsecond time resolution. You can measure any two events which are separated by 4 microsecond. And that uses the power to fetch the data and do some real experiments. Okay, the hardware is inexpensive. And maybe I can claim that it's the cheapest pocket science lab in the world. It's fast, flexible, design is open. You can use it with ready made GUIs available. Or you can access that source code. You can just modify that code and you can use it for your own experiments. Okay, so what is this XPISE for? For students, for learning by self-exploration and experimenting. For teachers as a tool for demonstrating. In fact, as a tool that can bring your lab to the truth. And for engineers and for hobbyist hackers as a testing device. Let's talk about the features which are available here. In fact, if I say it's a full-fledged physics electronics lab. There are many digital input outputs. We have 12-bit analog resolution. There is an in-built waveform generator. You can have a steady sine wave of 100 hertz. There are two square wave generators where you can change the frequency of the square waves. You can have two square waves generated with some phase correlation between them. And all can be done with maybe two or three lines of Python code. We have GUIs available for more than 50 experiments. For teachers like us who do not know ABCD or programming. They can use those readily available GUIs. They are self-explanatory. This is Python programmable. It can work as a test equipment and it's very small. Maybe of the size of your small print card. And the design is totally open, free. That is royalty free. And we have freedom to use it at different levels. Like level one, you can directly use UI programmings. Programs which are available if you do not know programming. If you know a little bit of Python programming, you can actually access this tool. Write few lines of Python code and fetch the data. Say for example, I actually used one terminal called A1 terminal here. That is an analog input. And with just one line of Python code, I could fetch the data and plot a graph. Level three is you can study a little bit of micro-controller programming and you can create standalone systems. You can just see that program there. We are importing the XPY's library. And this one line, p, v, that p.capture. That is the function defined for capturing data. It can record the data say 200 times and with a difference of 100 microseconds. That can be measured with a gap of 4 microseconds also. Basically, the project started in 2005 by Inter-University Accelerator Center in New Delhi. These are nuclear science people. In the beginning, we had that huge box there. And then in 2006, we shifted to micro-controller and Python made it easy for all of us. Because for teachers and students who do not have any computer science background, it's very difficult to go with C and do this kind of stuff. Python has readymade libraries, just import those libraries and you need to know just mathematical functions which you study in classrooms. So 2011, that was the next portion XPY's. It had a 10-bit resolution. And now we have a smaller box but with better resolution, that is 12-bit resolution. And it's much cheaper. So this is how we can communicate with XPY's box with just three lines of Python. Import the library and you can read inputs. You can write inputs, write outputs. You can set those frequencies. You can set the voltage. And you can connect different sensors to this device. For my experiments, I use temperature sensors. I use pressure sensors. I use a small DC motor as a pickup coil. In fact, you can do so many mechanics experiments with that. You can do experiments with coupled pendula. You can take two pendulums. And to take that signal, you can use DC motors. And these are very low-cost devices. You can use SRF05 ultrasonic position sensors. That sensor can send pulse of ultrasonic wave. It gets reflected from the obstacle and you can actually measure the distance to few millimeters. So many low-cost sensors can be connected. And actually I use this code to fetch that data in the beginning from a pickup coil. You can in fact fetch data from four different inputs simultaneously and plot it on the screen in real time. Okay, so here this is one example to set square waves. As this function like an oscillator and a function generator. So if you need to generate square waves, it's really simple. You can use that to set squares. Definition created for x-piles and you can actually set square waves. Remember that graph shows two square waves generated with a 90-degree phase shift. That is the most 25%. Okay, this is the ready-made GUI that we use to access the x-piles scale. It's a four-channel storage oscilloscope. And as you see, you have most all features that you have in a very costly digital storage oscilloscope. And here the cost is not even 1%. Maybe less than that. Okay, and what kind of itchments we all can do with this. Okay, you can study logic gates. You can study the interface of sound. Maybe I'll demonstrate this a little later. It's a very interesting experiment. Transistor characteristics, acceleration due to gravity. And there are many more. And in fact, you can access the same code, just make few changes, and you can do your own experiment with this. Okay, last year I had an opportunity to work for this GSOC project under boss Asia. And we could develop code for accessing new sensors like the 0.5-prosthenics sensor. There are some instruments available for doing mechanics experiments. Like verifying Newton's laws if you are aware of momentum, collisions, all those things. And those devices are really very costly. Some American proprietary devices are available. And those are in couple of thousand dollars. But here with this kind of code and some homemade solution for this apparatus, you can actually bring down that cost to just one or two percent. Okay, so the project status. Maybe I should skip this. And there are some people who are helping us out. We have our volunteers in France. Mr. George is responsible for one project in Europe called Pocket Science Lab. And they have adopted this kit as the basic component of their project. It's going to happen since April this year. In fact, these are good. If you compare the cost. Okay, here it is yours dollar 30, maybe little less than that. And that equipment, a multimeter. I think it's a multimeter, right? It will cost you 1.5 dollars. In fact, both these devices have same kind of hardware. But our devices, it will cost me because we are not able to manufacture that in bulk. But if somebody takes that kind of opportunity or responsibility, you can say, and manufactures this in bulk, we can bring down this cost to 1.5 or 2 dollars. So you can imagine every student having a very affordable science lab in his own pocket. So when he goes home, he can do all sorts of stuff and learn by exploring. Okay, so availability, you can just go online and you can order if you want. Basically, I should clarify that I'm not here to sell this equipment. This project is open source. Entire design is open. So if anybody is interested in manufacturing it locally and distributing or spreading the awareness about it is welcome. Okay, so it comes with this kind of fit and basic devices that you need. Pickup coils, you need buzzers for doing so many experiments, resistors, transistors and capacitors. And these are the links where you can have the complete information. Maybe if I have 5 minutes more, let us do one more small experiment. Now for doing experiments with sound, what are the things we need in a normal laboratory? If you think of a place from where I belong, okay, we have we virtually do not have labs in high schools. Students get access to labs only when they go to 11 standard and that too, 2 hours a week. So they just get 2 hours a week in physics lab. So it is almost impossible to do these things, right? So in that kind of situation this can offer a great help. If I want to do some sound experiments, say, interface of sound, we need two different sources of sound, we need two different sources of sound, we need two different sources of sound, we need frequency generators, function generators that is again a costly device. Then we need an apostic sensor or a good quality mic. Then we need a digital storage oscilloscope which can plot the data for us. So we need a full-fledged lab. But here we can do all those things with very simple devices which are available. Okay, so for this actually I am using two small buzzers. The circuit is actually removed so it works on AC. And then there is one inbuilt mic here, a small mic. So I will generate sound with these buzzers. Okay, I will fetch that data using a mic. And output of the mic is connected to a channel of this CRO. So what we need is two sources for generating sound and a mic. Okay, this is the main screen and we can access these really available experiments using this tab. Let us search where is the interference of sound. So you have this main GUI for the X-Men and again for those who are not familiar with all this kind of stuff. For them there is a readymade schematic available. So I am just basically using two piezos. One is connected to square wave one. The other is connected to square wave two. And the other terminals are grounded and the circuit is complete. So now I will just test whether these buzzers are working. First buzzer. It is actually a square wave but since we have connected to the buzzer and it is oscillating like this you get a sound wave. Let us test the other one also. And here the frequency is about 3600. They are slightly different in frequencies. Now what we should expect here when two sound waves are traveling simultaneously in a medium they will go in phase and when they are in phase amplitude increases and when they go out of phase they destroy each other. So we should have that periodic change in the intensity. That is one very interesting. Let us try that. I will just sound both the buzzers together and we will be able to see that waveform there. The flickering sound now it is not uniform like before. And you can actually plot the data on the screen. And this can happen very easily in real time and what we need is just maybe maximum five lines of pattern code. One line to write that output or deciding the frequency. Another line to decide frequency of second source and just one code to fetch that data using an interterminal. So it is really very easy for a beginner to get started with. You do not need any official training for this purpose. Anybody can start working on the device and anybody can modify it for their own needs. Maybe I should stop here if anybody has any question. So how do you basically learn from the students from the students? What I did is in my place there is a different story again. Our students they study in their vernacular medium like Marathi or Kannada language till 10th. And when they come to 11th standard everything is in English. So first problem that they face is the language problem and second thing is they do not have these kind of facilities laboratory. So what I did when they entered my campus on the first day itself I just gave them these boxes. I selected 12 students and I gave them these boxes. And I just demonstrated these ideas. I did not use scientific terms like interference, electromagnetic induction and all those things. I just gave them, demonstrated these things so if you bring a coil too close to the magnet this is what happens. So I just allowed them to explore those things. And after a week when they came back I just started asking them questions. What happens when you bring the coil close to the magnet? They said that that amplitude increases. What happens if you increase the speed of the magnet, rotating magnet? Their answer was ready. What happens if you insert their ferromagnetic core there? Their answer was ready. So I did not have to teach them but they could learn most of the things on their own. And then what I had to do was I had to just tell them this is what is called electromagnetic induction. Then I asked them the relation between the speed and the coil the number of turns. So I had to just help them with the technical terms like statement of Faraday's laws first law and second law. Their answers were ready in their own language. My job was just to introduce them with English words and that made it all easy. In fact one of my students is now working in a startup in engineering. He is doing so many wonderful experiments with this. He just removed those plates from his piece of buzzer and he used that buzzer that I do not know which crystal he used I think quartz or something and he used it as a sensor and there is some kind of game he was talking about on the browser just above the google window you get one dragon like thing and something comes in the front and that jumps. So he used one photo detector and this kid and he simply placed it in front of the screen so whenever that dragon comes light intensity will change and directly a key can be driven arrow key can be driven from that and it starts jumping and in one day he could create a new world record for that game so that was amazing experience if there is no other question I think I should thank you for your question. We still have a few minutes can you tell a few words about the expires you say is a item based quarter can you tell a little bit about dependencies I saw you do a pilot we use matplotlib we use pilot and for plotting this we use pygrace grace for plotting you can download install the single package you can install the bin packages are available online and it is officially open to repository latest version is there we are working on rp any more questions it works with Fedora also that is what I was talking about we are working on rp directly also you can install it in Fedora it works on almost all Linux classes thank you very much


This study aimed to evaluate the external validity of the parental attitude toward childhood vaccination, PACV, scale by comparing it to data collected from seven countries. The results showed that the PACV scale had good calibration and discrimination when applied to the data collected from these countries. Additionally, the scale was found to be transportable and could be used to assess attitudes towards influenza vaccination among parents in different countries. This article was authored by Rami Mohamed Gazi, Sally Waheed Al-Qadri, Susan Abdelraman, and others.


Babaji Desong will be set to train the competence of local artisans and craftmen in Lagos state. Well this isn't a bit to reduce incidences of building collapse, cost of property development and enhanced quality in housing development. The governor disclosed this on Tuesday during the commissioning of 774 housing units of Lagos homes at Sangut, Tedo, Phase 1 in Etyosa, local government area of Lagos state. Most TV Africa Lagos state government house correspondents love Ikuku Oyedeku, once again gives us more details in this report. Sangut, Tedo, Phase 1 consists of 744 homes in 62 blocks of 12 homes each. There are 248 one bed, 248 two bedrooms and 248 three bedrooms apartments in the scheme. It's the commissioning, Governor Saoulu said that the government had to continue to build decent homes in livable communities for people. This is so that they can be psychologically and socially stable enough to contribute their quota to the development of the state. This is one location that people will live in peace and people will also have full recreational facilities because the ambience for itself is well laid out and they've rolled out all of the other amenities that have been provided in this community. As you know, shelter continues to remain a basic need for human survival after food. Governor Saoulu has a plan to bridge what he termed as the skill gap in the sector. About 1000 artisans have been earmarked for the training package tagged master craft program. And so working with the minister of world creation, working with the minister of housing and working with the mission of poverty alleviation. We are designing a scheme where we can continue to train and retrain on skilled people. We do not want our jobs to be taken away by other nationals. Let our own children, let our own boys and girls, let our own youth be the ones that will have the full benefit of government interventions like this. The state commissioner for housing, Moruf Akinde Rufotai, is confident that the legos homes will impact greatly on the housing deficit in the state. He enjoyed legos homes to continue to support the state government by paying their taxes. This he said provides the necessary ingredients for a progressive and peaceful governance. The completion of this scheme brings to us all the joy of fulfillment because of the immense benefits being added to the lives of the people of legal states, particularly those in the Tiausa area. In completing and delivering this modern housing estate to the people today, legal states under the leadership of Mr. Governor is articulating loudly for all to hear that this government is here to serve the people with the best of intention and nobility. This is another move by the state government in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people. From Legos, Love Ikuku Uyidoku for Plus TV, Africa. News updates.


How ethical is our European-grown produce? Our supermarkets are brimming with Spanish produce. Green beans, strawberries, aubergines, watermelons. If you live in a European country, chances are that you enjoy produce grown in the greenhouses of Almería, a region in the southeast of Spain. Here's the side of Almería and greenhouse farming you don't see. The history behind cheap labor in Almería. Despite making up only 1.7% of the surface of the country, Almería exported close to half of the value of Spanish fruits and vegetables in 2014, including more than half of Spain's tomatoes and 70% of its peppers. These high yields are a result of the largest hub of greenhouses in the world. What started as a government-funded plan in 1963 resulted in roughly 32,000 hectares of plastic greenhouses, collectively covering an area significantly larger than the city of Amsterdam. Often called the Spanish Miracle by economists in Spain, the development of this booming agro-system was caused by a range of factors that came together at just the right time. The government investing in agriculture, Spain joining the EU, allowing it to sell vegetables to the region terror-free, and the birth of several innovations in agro-technology, allowing farmers to optimize growing conditions. In the 1960s and 1970s, properties were run entirely by families. But as these then-smallholder farms entered global food chains, they had to scale up their operations and cut costs to meet price demands. This resulted in farm work relying heavily on the cheap labor of migrant workers, mostly coming from Northern African and Eastern European countries. Life for greenhouse laborers in Almería. Today, the Almería growing region houses an estimated 100,000 migrant workers, many of which are living in Chabolas, which are informal shacks, with makeshift housing constructed from waste materials. More often than not, Chabolas lack running water, electricity, and sanitation facilities needed to support a reasonable standard of living. Depression, boredom, and drug use are reportedly common in the Chabolas. To find work in the greenhouses, many prospective workers wait in the surrounding of urbanized centers for vans of duty managers to drive past and recruit them. If they are selected, they will be hired, either legally or illegally, depending on their citizenship status. Eventually, if workers save up enough money, they may move to urban areas in the vicinity. But even there, they are often met with racism and xenophobia by part of the local population and used to scapegoats by some political parties for a multitude of issues. High temperatures and exposure to chemicals. The greenhouse laborers often work in harsh conditions, with temperatures reaching up to 50 degrees Celsius, very few breaks, and daily exposure to harmful pesticides. Recent investigations have revealed incidents of farm workers fainting, vomiting, and in some cases, dying from exhaustion. While this is dangerous work for anyone, it is an extra risk for undocumented migrant workers, as they have no access to the Spanish health care system and are not covered by employers. Low salaries and no job security. Job security is a luxury in the greenhouse region, with employers only providing a formal contract for around 64% of workers, leaving many migrant workers without official proof of work. Due to a lack of legal support and language barriers, workers are also often paid less than promised, are forced to exceed agreed working hours, are not paid for holiday leave, and will live under constant fear that they could be dismissed any day without any reasonable warning. Lack of protection. Since the production of food from the region was still needed to fuel Spain and broader Europe during the pandemic, labor in the greenhouses continued. In 2020, multiple COVID-19 outbreaks and chavolas were reported, and workers told several journalists about the lack of protection offered in the greenhouses. Although we ask these workers to put their life on the line for us every day, this blind eye to their safety and health reveals how the vital work of the modern-day farmer is still commonly disregarded by businesses and importers seeking to turn profits. Who is to blame? It is not uncommon for farm owners to attribute practices of labor exploitation to the pressures, demands, and competitiveness of global food markets. Many producers have claimed that it is a vicious cycle driven by their own small profits inhibiting their ability to cover production costs and to pay their workers properly. While perhaps there is an element of truth to this, the responsibility is hard to pin on just one culprit. The perpetuation of exploitative food systems stems from a number of factors. One of these is the unreliable and shrinking profit margins for food producers, partly caused by long supply chains and supermarkets' desire to maximize profits. Another relevant aspect is a general undervaluing of farm work as a consequence of, and in addition to, a general sense of detachment from the origins of our food. And lastly, even more broadly and complexly, light the geopolitical disparities that lead humans to migrate to countries with attractive higher incomes and a larger number of job prospects. How can we end labor exploitation? The exploitation of workers in the greenhouses of Unmedia isn't a new issue for those who have power to solve it. UN officials and journalists have been speaking out on the issue for decades. While Spain is one of the European countries with the most cases of labor exploitation, the issue is also prevailing across Portugal, Italy, and beyond. So why has no action been taken? While many other factors play in, the continued exploitative conditions are largely a result of the dismissal of responsibility for many of the stakeholders involved. This lack of ownership is also exacerbated by the vulnerability of migrant labor workers. With many cases of inhumane working and living conditions left unreported for fear of being deported or fired. But while the solutions to issues have proven difficult to achieve, many movements are currently fighting to give voice to Almedia and greenhouse workers. Organizations such as La Via Campesina, ethical consumer, and info migrants, along with investigative journalists, have drawn awareness to the unethical practices in the greenhouses. Many migrant workers also frequently protest the poor conditions to which they are subjected, despite the risk of loss of employment, arrest, or deportation. There are also local farmers unions which facilitate these confrontations and demands for change. These and other organizations are fighting for legislation that protects the rights of migrant workers and facilitates the unionization that will give voice to those in vulnerable positions. They also emphasize the need for a shift within governments, companies, and individuals in the way we see food and farm work, claiming that the farming profession should be acknowledged as indispensable and skilled work. Demand transparency from suppliers Some actions we can already take today are to put pressure on our supermarkets and demand more transparency from our suppliers about the way our food is sourced. We must also remain curious about the origins of food and join the movement of acknowledging those who pick and grow, who ends up on our plates. Thank you very much for listening. This article is written by Ines Orta-Lonzo and read by me, Ines Orta-Lonzo. I originally posted on Food Unfolded. Food Unfolded explores the stories behind the food on our plates, reconnecting us to the origins and sustainability of our food. Food Unfolded is co-founded by the EU and powered by EIT Food.


I'm going to tell you this. You and John McCormick got to be Mr. Rayburn. I've been letting you all off the road. Let me tell you. Yes, you do. Well, you can just tell John. I've heard Mr. Rayburn say, Majority Leader, I'm not going to do this. Now, you just say I'm not going to do it. I'll tell you what you've got to do. You've got to say these civilian employees. Well, they shouldn't be passed. We shouldn't. Now, wait a minute. Let me tell you. I've got a steel strike. They're in August. And if you pass this thing, you break all of my guidelines, and they're gone, and I'm through. Well, I don't want to pass it. Just tell them not to give them a rule, and don't let them get to 21 days. Wait. Just as wild as anything we ever had, and it'll pass, it comes out. It'll come out. I don't know. Well, you can't get a rule, can you? I don't know. The Speaker talked to... I talked to the Speaker, and we both talked to Rose Fulton. The Speaker wouldn't... He just doesn't understand my language. That's the difference. I'll tell you that right now. He doesn't understand how important that is nationwide. He knows it. Northeast doesn't matter, I think. But we've got about three bills that we're going to get... that we're going to get hurt on. That's one up. And I think we've got... I think the federal employees thing, the minimum wage... How they... What about the 21-day rule? How do you keep them from getting that on the... They ask for it on everything in the labor committee. Have they asked for it on waste now, yet? Yes, they ask it routinely on everything that they get.  But I'll tell you what I can do. I can get Judge Smith to give a rule on the higher education if we need it. I just... I wish you'd start on him Tuesday. Higher education and immigrant. Please just do it Monday. Because I've got Morse and I've just got Morse. Give him a hell. I don't want to admit it. But he's just threatening me with everything. And he's got some hundred million bills. I want to get rid of them and I'll tell him, screw yourself. We're going to get the higher education. I don't have any problems with that. That's the least. I've got to get it in education. Now can we pass ARA? Yes, sir. Now what do we need to do on agriculture? Well, that's the one. We need to... We need to make the most detailed personal lobby we've made since we've passed the taught. It's worse than the rent subsidy. We've got a real job on our hands on that one. And there's nothing else we have any trouble passing. We're keeping things from coming up. That's our... that's our biggest problem. How's your boy? He's fine. Still got that baseball glove? Let me tell you. You still got that baseball glove I gave you? How'd you ever play baseball? Play. Is that a pretty good glove you got? Do you like it? You going to ball game with me again next year? We'll have a lot to accept right now. I'd like to invite you. I'd like to invite you to go to the ball game with me. Why don't you accept right now? I ask you, Dad, if you can't go with me. But that's... Well, that's right. But if I can invite you a year ahead of time, can't you give me an acceptance a year ahead of time? Yes. Will you go? I think so. You think so? All right. I'll be a good boy. Okay. Let me talk you there. All right. He said he did say that's too far off to the ball game a year from now. That's spring game. And when he says it, he'll go. I invited him and he says he'll go. Do you think it... Well, all your house members today, they didn't come. Were they mad? No, nobody mad. Just because we didn't meet. We finished our program. I would like to see us meet. I'd like to see us, you know, Friday and Saturday until we can. We can and can. The old Temple Neill blew up this week about something on the program. What was it? Did you see him quoting the paper on it? I didn't see that, but he... Well, a bad tax. Yeah, the bad tax. Well, and so did Jim Delaney, but they'll be all right. I think we haven't blown up every day. They never quicker one. I tell you one more thing. And this is... This is not Mr. Price. I think we've got a hard job passing the Farm Bill. I think we've got a hard job keeping a real radical FAPC and a real radical minimum wage bill from coming out. And I don't think that'll help anybody. We've done all we need to do for civil rights this year, last year. We can do FAPC next year. Would you agree? I thought we had FAPC with Franklin Roosevelt. He came up and got stronger power. Right there? Well, you know, that's Powell. He's got one. Out of the committee. That in the minimum wage. And I talked to Jimmy Roosevelt and so did the speaker. He said, well, we've got to go to $1.75. Include five million more people. Well, you include five million more people including farmers that hire four people. And they have no idea of the impact. They don't... There's one thing to pay a dollar and a half an hour or $1.75 an hour here in Washington. Another thing to pay a dollar and 75 cents an hour out there where their rent costs them about $5 a month. That's where they... Well, you just have to tell them what you can do. Well, I'm trying. Well, don't tell them yourself about what. I'm not going to bring it up. I'm going to fight against it.  Get your new leader. I ain't going to do that. You take good care of yourself and I'll see you Monday. I'm going to take care of my boy for him and don't let him... Paul Johnson just called me and said that he's mad because I have to send registrar. I'll see you Monday. Bye.


you guys have had a lot of games like this lately where you ultimately kind of hung on in the fourth quarter um but what was your view of the fourth quarter tonight and what was Steve's message about tonight's game um yeah i don't think we we didn't play particularly well um i guess across the whole game but especially in the fourth quarter you know there was definitely a lot of miscues um i think defensively a lot of fouls a lot of just you know kind of pretty easy rim attempts open threes and uh you know his sentiment was that we were really lucky uh to come away with the win Alex Schiffer with the athletic Joe kind of piggybacking off that seems like some of these tight games you guys have had some issues with with inbounding is that becoming a problem or are they kind of isolated incidents is there a common theme that just what do you kind of make of that i mean i think you just see it um probably across the league i would venture yes and i we turned it over a ton on inbounds but you know there's the occasional sort of mishap whether it's miscommunication between the passer and the receiver but you know defenses are playing aggressive at the end of the game and uh you know i think this one that we had tonight was you know just Detroit sort of pressuring up and then you know i don't i don't know i i i i don't know the uh extent to which you know what Jeff was seeing what Blake was feeling there but uh it's it's definitely one of the things that we we got to clean up um it kind of falls into the boat of the boat of just executing down the stretch finishing games the right way um because that's where you have to be the most sound uh and uh you know we definitely need to clean that up


Has a middle-aged man rocking a baseball cap on camera ever had anything profound to say? I can't think of a single thing, but they had a lot to say anyways about turning red. This is a rant video. It's going to be all over the board. I'm going to try my best to keep on message, but the message is kind of all over the place to begin with, so I'm already setting myself up for failure. I should also throw this out right away.  This isn't going to be for you. Go ahead and dislike, say, bye, whatever, unsubbed if you're subbed. You will not like what I have to say here. You are also not really an adult, but a child and a sad individual that needs to rethink your priorities. If everything is woke now, nothing! Nothing at all is woke. You've abused the word. You've ruined it. Congratulations. It's now literally of 2022. I only bring this up because turning red was of course called a woke film and people that liked it are woke, and oh also the Batman was woke because there was black people in there playing the part of what used to be a white character in the comics. A comic book series that featured like 99% white characters. And also Catwoman had previously been played by black actresses and it didn't seem to be a problem then, or it probably was in their heads, but they didn't have the megaphone they have now which is social media to really bitch with like-minded dumbasses. Listen to me, fools. It's a skin pigmentation. That's what you're mad about. A skin pigmentation. And I get it. There's people that are hardcore about their lore and they want people to look as close to the comics as possible, but when your comic book series, or I don't know, like all comics back in the day, back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, were predominantly white characters.  Who gives a crap? Again, I already told you to leave if you were gonna put woke in the comments.  I don't want to hear it anymore.   I guess I'm extra perturbed this week because I watched turning red with my family, my nine-year-old son, my wife, my 13-year-old daughter appropriately. I didn't know at the time this was about a 13-year-old girl going through changes, both physically and mentally, having to struggle with her emotions. And yet I'm told by online critics this is an alienating film. That's not for them. It makes them feel uncomfortable. Yeah. Okay. Why does it make you feel uncomfortable? Maybe do some reflection on that. What did the movie do to you that makes you feel so bad inside? Oh, the movie's not for you? Oh, okay. Well, who's it for then? Just girls? Because I'm a father. I have a daughter. I can relate. I had a sister at one point. I had a mother at one point. I can see different viewpoints. I can see struggles. I have my own struggles when I came of age.  I also saw a comment that said, uh, the movie makes them horny. This film made them little, little horny. Holy god. What? I guess it's inappropriate because the 13-year-old girl was drawing a boy that she liked as a merman. Merman! Merman! I'd also be very interested to know if these same pearl clutches had issues with films that came out in the 80s and 90s, like, I don't know, the Sandlot?  That's probably fine, though. They're just objectifying a young woman. I don't know a single person that's upset about that. My daughter's seen Sandlot. We love that movie. What about the Goonies? There's plenty of talk in that film as well in interaction with girls and boys. These are things that are normal and natural. Why aren't we ashamed of them? We're trying to hide it from our kids.  Obviously, I'm going to be losing subscribers on this video, but I'm just at the point now where I'm fed up. Okay? I want to watch a movie and talk about the merits of the film, the story, the characters, the visuals, the music, you know, the things that make a movie.  How about you actually discuss the film instead of getting hung up on one or two different portions of it that are so meaningless. It's beyond parody at this point that you're spending so much time on it. I saw multiple comments on Twitter. This isn't from one individual. I'm not going after Sean Chandler or someone. He seems like a very nice guy. Completely insane thoughts on this movie, but he seems like a nice guy and I'm sure he'll see this video. Only love. Only love, sir. But since I brought him up and I did watch his review because I saw some of his tweets and I was I was like just a little curious as to what he thought. Honestly, I thought he was just going to say the movie's a little too boring. The structure wasn't quite right. He didn't understand the message, which I think is very clear. But no, he like went all in on like these little things like the girls were annoying. He hated the girls because he's been with teenage girls before and they're the worst. That doesn't seem like much of a gripe about the movie, but a personal issue. The same with the single line towards the end where one of the girls says, my body, my choice. In the context of the film, she has panda ears and a tail and the mom's like, hey, put those away. And she's like, my body, my choice. It was a silly throwaway joke that, yes, does have references to political ideologies, I guess. My body, my choice, obviously with abortion. My body, my choice also for anti mask wears. It has multiple context, but yes, obviously the main one is abortion, but it wasn't making a statement there. It was one joke in a movie. Holy crap, we're getting really offended now, aren't we? The Batman was also woke because Catwoman said something about white privilege at one point.  I didn't care. I guess that's a big thing for people is white privilege shouldn't be talked about, or it's not real, or I don't want to have to think about things outside of just watching the movie.  I get it. But I think it's completely disingenuous to label an entire movie woke because of one line of dialogue, or because some characters are black. So turning red is obviously woke. It's alienating to a large set of people, I guess, even though it's not. And that's a silly statement. How is a kid going through puberty less relatable? And by the way, not just going through puberty, but having to deal with the baggage of not being perfect, of not getting, you know, A's in all of her classes and liking boys and feeling ashamed of the changes going on. How can not everyone relate to that? But yet a movie like Robocop or, you know, like Ratatouille or The Batman, that's more relatable. A billionaire orphan who dresses up as a bat and fights crime, that to you is more relatable than going through body changes. Wow. Okay. Wow. Congratulations. You're insane. I love the comments I get where people say, Adam, Hollywood is owned by the Libs. It's owned by the Dems, the SJWs.  It's California, dude. These people making the movies are liberal. They have a voice they want to express themselves. This has not changed in Hollywood over the years. It's always been that way. Well, cancel culture, that's the new thing. Cancel culture has changed it. It's changed everything. People are afraid to say what they want and make the things they want to make. I'm sorry, is South Park not on the air anymore? Is Fox News suddenly canceled?  My major problem is that the writing in Hollywood these days seems to be far worse.  It's the same woke people working there that always have been, but they're just worse. Like the new generation of writing is just bad. It's too kid over your head now. There's no subtlety. There's no creativity.  Like they're wedged in. It's nonsense. It's nostalgia bait. So much that comes out of Hollywood now is soulless. It's just a property. That's what gets me mad. Not the agenda. Not the brainwashing of family values and changing things. Oh my god, we have an Asian family in Canada. I can't relate to that. Give me another talking toy film. That's where I belong. That's where I like to live. Turning Red is not for families because they show some of the struggles that tweens go through. But yeah, I'll take my whole family to the Avengers and watch them kick the shit out of people for two hours. That's fine. I also had some gold comments saying you're never gonna see Pixar make a movie about a boy going through changes. You're not gonna see their first ejaculation. How do you know? We very well could. And I wouldn't put it past them to find a clever way to do it. You cannot like Turning Red. That's fine. There's plenty of criticisms you can make. I had a couple of hangups with the film. But to dismiss it because of the blanket statements of it's not for families. These aren't criticisms about the movies. They're criticisms you have with yourself and you're uncomfortable watching the film because of them. They're your own personal hangups that you're projecting. I personally steer away from politics and religion in general on this channel. Maybe I shouldn't. I don't know. I just feel like people have enough of it in their lives. They don't need to hear from me. But to ignore the fact that it's all over our entertainment, industry, and everywhere else would just be silly. Because it is. Of course it is. But that's what happens when people create content. They want to get their voice out there. They want to express themselves. And the ones that do it right do it subtly. They have a clever twist on it. The ones that do it wrong, they hit you over the head and you have Ghostbusters answer the call. And I will rightfully call them out on it. But turning red, really? Saying it's too political? When there's virtually no politics in the thing? And saying Pixar has turned their back on some of their audience and they're going in a new direction. Last year they did a film called Luca, which was great. About two boys.  His father turned his back on him because of it. I don't see the issue here. Years back, Pixar did a love story called Wally, another brilliant film. It's about climate change. Political? I guess?  This is not new for Pixar. They tell stories. They have unique ideas and they run with them and I applaud them. Even if they don't always work for me, I'm glad they're doing new things. We have nine Fast and the Furious films. Nine. And they're not done. That's a bigger problem for me. All right, that was a very aggressive rant today. I'm sorry it wasn't the most fun. Usually I have a good time here, but I'm just getting kind of annoyed by all of this. And I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. Let me know. If you're just going to waste the characters, call me an SJW, woke, libtard, leave. Thanks for watching the video. If you haven't yet and you're new, maybe think about subscribing to the channel. I post movie related content every single week. Usually it's not this aggressive. I just get annoyed. Like the video if you somewhat agreed with me here. Hit the notification bell so they show up in your feed and hopefully I'll see you next time. I'm not a betting man, but I'm pretty sure my subscription count's going to drop quite a bit after this. That's a chance I'm willing to take. As far as I know, this is my only shot on Planet Earth. I have no idea what's going to happen next, if anything. So I want to make it count and I want to be honest to myself, which means sometimes I throw out a harsh video defending my own personal beliefs. If that's too much for you, fully get it. 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