Okay, so this is October 2nd and this is my crop tips. So this would be the end of our sprint Yes, that's what I thought so let's let's do a check in and see how we did Chris Do you want to can you pull up the the Jira tickets and we'll go through that. You're muted. I'm muted You're muted everybody see the sprint then okay? Yes Okay, yes, I guess I will get started since I have mine up for you know my daily tasks I Was able to get pretty much all of Salini the next version of slainie done I The only reason I'm holding off on the next version of Salini is I wanted to finish the Weightboard file naming scheme thing that we just came up with I think you know It's really not a lot of point creating a bunch of files with a thorough on the scheme. So I Should finish that today So it'll be early next week we'll have a slainie release But I did not get to any of the Of the tagging UI stuff Unless you count any operating angular 10 was kind of part of that But one thing I did Do spend some time on yesterday that took a little time was Angular 10 fixed a lot of our depend about issues on Salini So I went through you probably got all the email I went through and And you know cleared a lot of PRs and stuff because I checked the the versions on the angular 10 version of Salini UI and And all those got cleared off. So that took me a little while yesterday But yeah, so that's that's basically yeah, I'm just In this print ready to release the next version of Salini, but no no tiger UI stuff. Okay, great Is there anything else not tiger UI that didn't get worked on I Did not upgrade this course Which is small I should do it next branch until even I was just about to say well, okay That's not really critical, but the title is literally a critical update I Did spend some time looking at it and got distracted with something else. So I have an idea. I just need to execute Sorry, I was having a backup to that too seems to be Quite a lot. I wonder if we should look at printing some of those old ones out So we're not keeping it back up like daily and if we don't we aren't putting them to get pretty out of control Is there any any input into how long we should be keeping discourse backups I Mean I like to keep a pretty healthy list of backups, but you know, I feel like you know once it's gone past A month having a daily backup is not as necessary and you know, but I like to keep Personally, I like to keep you know, like then monthly backups or something like that, you know So that if there is something you can you can roll back to some kind of snapshot, but I Can't really see why we would want to roll back, but that's saying that that's exactly what you say when nothing's going wrong And Back when we roll back three months, you know, no, like that's why Unless unless everything back to that point didn't work. Yeah But it's been working so So we haven't tested the backup. So it's question whether the backups are working, you know Okay So how about we keep a month's worth Well, the scheme is you know, you keep Daily backups for a month or two months, right? And then you keep monthly backups for a couple of years, right? So I'll go through the backups and I'll add that to this ticket to I mean, we can keep yearly backups indefinitely and per month for the last two years you said sure And yearly after that, right any other questions on my progress? Miss print not for me. All right Derek so I think the biggest news is, you know, I was excited to show you guys prototype today, but I Kind of screwed up the printer. So I've got to fix the printer. I had to order some parts yesterday I got kind of a glob of death The printer failed on the fdm printer and just collected Plastic around the hot end So that was kind of a bummer But the cat is complete So hopefully as soon as I get that going I get parts on Monday So yeah, the gooey stuff is it's done I Got one of the SJ 230 is complete for Michael. The only thing holding me up on the other one for gays is I Need a print another speaker enclosure and that will be done Got all the sourcing done for the drivers and the displays in terms of Still working a bit on pricing on the drivers like to get a board Uh So michael asker like on the camera module. So we're evaluating camera watch. So I pulled out an old Version one Pie camera and plug it to the pie for it and it worked fine That's about the extent of it. So that's what I was thinking we'd go with It's the cheapest route Okay, we just need to get that and is that incorporated into the can anyway I don't have it in this current design. I kind of have it like blocked, but I don't have like Placed in there, but I don't have any of the bosses or anything in there. Yeah The only thing to think about that on that though I've been thinking about is really the ideal way to do it and clean nice ways And what we did with these eye links design we actually incorporated behind the cover glass So I'd like to go back And look at that possibly but that would include a custom cover glass from the display manufacturer It was a pretty minimal. Um, it's going like a 500 dollar in re when we did it last time So I'm gonna look into that so yeah And I've kind of blocked on this rollover stuff until we get the part back or till we get the devices back from them to see if we can test whether Whether or not they failed from what we expected with the re speaker microwave issue that we've seen in the past Yeah, it's about where I'm at Okay, great next Yeah, yeah, so I'm buttoning up. Well, I don't buttoning up as a relative term Uh, I haven't started investigating why we're getting stereo audio yet. Um The no audio output on first boot. I'm not seeing with the Which leads me to believe it was an issue with the re speaker board As far as the enclosure still goes so I got the um Switch is doing what the mark one does with volume up and down. So it goes around and you know, um That's it, you know, 100 percent whatever down to zero percent uh I I I made them go through if you're pushing the down button I made them red the ring and if you're pushing the up button. I made it green, but I could just make it all blue Uh, that's probably uh, something I wanted to discuss with derrick Um, I think I just figured out what was wrong with my mic. It was that the mic mute button was on Which leads me to the question What do we want to do When the mic mute button is odd Are we going to dedicate one of these leads to like a red green for the mic mute button? I mean having 12 leads is interesting because really tan is ideal for volume control Uh, and that would leave two open one for my commute. Maybe One for activate And I was reading through the mark one code Uh, to understand how the activate button works. It's kind of weird So i'm not mistaken the mark one was a pie and a arduino Board connected via serial port. Is that right? yeah so The way that the activate button work was kind of wonky. So instead of sending it out the message bus it actually create Created a sudo IPC communication concept where it would stick Files in a shared well-known location directory and call those signals Um, so, you know generate a signal would say Put this file this name there See if there's a signal there would say, you know return true and delete that file Um So anyway, uh Yes, I guess i'm gonna I guess i'm gonna maintain That our code is is chops full of mark one isms like, you know message bus stuff that's You know says move the mouth, but we have things that act upon it and it doesn't really move a mouth So, um anyway Uh That's that's where i'm at. Uh, I have not so I I pulled all the hardware volume stuff out of the skill All obviously all the leds and switches are out of the skill So the skill still has the stuff that responds to the message bus so, you know The the volume skill would send out a increased volume and he's Picking that message off, but then he's calling into this volume class. I created to do a hardware You know volume change or set or get I've created a separate subdirectory in that subdirectory called sj201 underscore rev a And in there live a lead class a volume class and a switch class And the assumption is moving forward That if we have I don't know You know a new board or I could just create a re-speaker if we wanted me to That would be the same but we'd have a lead class and a switch class Volume class might be a little bit different, but The main code would always Still, you know, basically instantiate a lead a volume and a switch And and the semantics should be identical So I've got that level of abstraction, but I have not moved this all into the actual enclosure Uh, don't know how far I want to go on that right now. Uh, I think there's other things that are needed like posts Which I was thinking about moving Um, so I don't know, uh, michael, I'll leave that up to you what I should do next if you want me to Refactor this and pull the all the stuff out of skill proper and put it into an enclosure class and move on to post Uh, processing I think posts is going to be a challenge without some sort of user Interaction the other thing is how did we set the mark one into setup mode? because I could Right now I have a a timer off of the switches Because when you ratchet it up and start, you know, displaying the volume level A couple of seconds right now. It's three seconds later. I want to blank them out after no button's been pressed So I could do the same thing with the activates or the action switch where if you held it down for like five or ten seconds I could drop us in the setup mode. I don't know how the mark one did that or what we're expecting out of that Um Anyway, Josh just uh, gave you an answer via chat Uh, he says that there was a menu you would hold down a button And then it would pop up a menu and then you would use some other buttons to scroll to the option you wanted so Yeah, three seconds hold it down for three seconds and I'll pop it So you want me to retain that behavior Derek? No, um, yeah, we're not gonna We're not gonna see that was kind of trying to use a lot of the we just had a one button and the rotary encoder. So We're gonna be able to do all the menu stuff Well, actually, this is this is part of this debate that we need to have for example in the cute design there is an entire menu in the touch screen, you know slides down like a drawer like the ui in a Phone and mobile phone you just drag from the top and you get all kinds of the menu options there Um, you know, it could be You know, it could be activated by holding down the uh, you know the action button for three seconds, but um I think we'll end up wanting to put it in the menu on the mark too. So did the mark one not have a setup mode? Well, what do you mean by setup mode? so, um If I have my mark one paired to my network in my house And then I bring it down to my condo How do I get it to go back through the wi-fi setup process? Right, so yeah, yeah, you'd hold down the button for three seconds and there's a wi-fi option in the menu So you'd scroll through all the options with the rotary encoder and you click wi-fi Okay, okay. Well, I can certainly do that. I won't do that at this moment But yeah, michael, I may want to talk to you outside of this meeting about power on self diagnostics and things like that the other thing that we wanted it to do was when it just you know to boot it up And there was no wi-fi or there's no You know, it didn't recognize any wi-fi that was saved and it's You know In the wta something or whatever it would just go straight into wi-fi Well, the concern there is wi-fi Connectivity could be intermittent in other words, uh, the wi-fi at my house could go out for half an hour or so which is not uncommon and Yeah, you just run right into wi-fi set. That could be a little confusing. So I'm not Yeah, I I know it does bark, right? It can't connect to the internet or something I've heard it bark at me That uh, the qt already does that as well. Um, but also I think we should hold off on that until we Make that make all those calls around how the wi-fi's gonna work and stuff um Yeah, yeah, I also We don't really want to do the menu button thing like because everything should should really like we can do that much nicer on the screen Yeah, yeah, exactly All right What was that chris? Sorry If we could use voice commands novel idea for a voice assistant Okay, there the only concern really is um As josh pointed out passwords Using voice can be tricky Well, not for wi-fi. So I was talking about like some of the The settings or the activity button stuff. I mean all that stuff should be supported with a voice command um Yeah, it sounds like this is a Going through a menu Sounds like this is a rape topic for uh, some digging into the the architecture getting in giving into uh Having a solid spec on that. I'm sure somebody had one back in the day, but none of us knows what it is so uh Let's go Uh, I'd like to put that on the uh, uh kens plate for next week To investigate core with respect to the boot up power on self-test and enclosure type code Okay Yeah, I feel like getting the enclosure code like deciding how we want that enclosure code to look so that we can start pulling out the mark one You know stuff that's sprinkled everywhere Um out into its own enclosure code as well. I think that would be a pretty valuable Yeah, I mean, I think I think what I'm hearing because like I said, I mean I could button up the enclosure Puto skill piece now if I wanted to The exception of the activity button doing something everything else seems to be working And of course, what do we want to do when the mute mic switches on or off would be nice to have an indicator so Simple minds like we don't get easily confused But I think we really are at a point as michael just pointed out that You should probably take a first stab at How do we define the beast? What is its high level functionality and how do we expect it to behave and all that good stuff? I think that really would answer a lot of the questions not only in the enclosure code, but moving forward So, um, yeah, I guess michael I'll try to get on your calendar at some point Really next week talk about power on self-diagnostics with you and I'll start taking a whack at putting that stack together And I'll work with both chris's and xeric to understand What we had and how we want to vary Does that sound like a plan? Yeah, let's do that early next week Okay All right, and that's it for me. I haven't gotten to the uh Prototype and closure stuff yet. Uh, but I should be able to button that up Can we close mark two 125 at the top there? and we You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna say Yeah, I mean because nobody's been reporting at psj201. It really does seem like it was a re-speaker issue Uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna go at my old adage. No screenshot. No bug. So yeah close Okay, I'll uh I'll make it a little fix I'm not really doing a battle. We're just gonna move on to the next design Yes, oh my I think that's showing me and in a moment. Oh Yeah, uh in terms of what did get done, um, you know, uh, there was a lot of focus on um, community stuff and and getting the Uh, the microp core in particular PRs sorted out. Um So yeah, that that feels a lot better. Um, we did get new versions of the microp skills kit out, um as well as, uh A new message bus client, um, which is you know, what people can use to To connect to a microp from, you know, other projects Um, just giving them a simple way to do that. Um Also yesterday, I pushed out some trademark usage guidelines that had kind of been mostly developed a couple of years ago, but um, just needed a little tidy up and hadn't gotten published. So, um, they're now out there and I'll um start pushing that out to the community and and just get people's feedback on that. Um Already sent it to one one person and and they were pretty pretty comfortable with them all so that that was good Um And what else is in there? Um the exposed logs, uh, I finally got that all knotted down. Um Um Just a lot of trial and error Uh replaying replaying jobs and seeing what happens. Um, and now there is a tiny conflict in the PR that I have to fix but um other than that, it's working good Um, and so hopefully that will also give us some more info on those two Um bugs that are still in the in progress. Um uh because The thought is that having the the service status stuff in there will will help those but um Because we've never been able to reproduce them locally Don't know for sure and so now next time they happen. We'll have we'll have logs for them, which will give us a hell of a lot more information Um What else we got the the roadmap, um, that seems pretty Good enough to to push out so I just haven't um Done the you know communications after the community for that. Um and then same with the I want to Provide ken's current test model precise model out. It would have to have a plate with Um, so I didn't get to that, uh, but it should be a pretty minimal thing um A bunch of little stuff in there bug fixes And then the other things that I that I haven't really got to Um, well the speck out media playback system Uh We we did a a good chunk of work on it But I just popped it back in to do because I wasn't actively working on it. Um, so that needs to get finished off at some point lingua franca, I still want to um get to because It's it's a basically it's a big change. Um And it's kind of blocking people from contributing new languages. Um while we're in this sort of state of change um And the skill api is all finished off. I just need to test it and um Uh after there was some extra changes made to it Uh, and then finally the war from alpha, um, I believe I talked to johnny about that yesterday. Um, and Uh, we we had an outstanding debt that they hadn't told us about or something like that. Um, they're bills Oh, there you go. Yeah So hopefully that's fixed pretty soon and then I'll revert that change. So Um, that's why that's still sitting there I think that's it Hey Gez. Yep I was reviewing that message type document you threw together Oh, yeah It'd be helpful if we knew which bus the message belong to Uh, are you mean in terms of the main bus or the gooey bus? Uh, or the recognizer bus The recognizer bus is is the main is all on the main bus. Everything's on the main bus except for gooey Yeah, there's only two bus donations right now Are you sure about that? It looks like I thought the recognizer had its own bus, but maybe not maybe it's got Its own loop on a bus. I'm not sure probably has his own client All the services have their own client I was in that code a little while ago and I thought it Anyway, all right, it has it the recognizer stuff has a a weird um sort of Name for the message types that might be like Um, what seems different so it has the it has this weird Recognize a loop colon you know And then and then whatever action whereas everything else uses Like microsoft dot audio dot service dot play whereas Yeah, the recognizer loop is is uses a different naming convention for for an unknown reason So maybe that Right the gooey bus and the main the main bus. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, we should we should change those Names over at some point. Um, it's just Happening Yes There's a few other cleanup things I want to do with the message types as well where Even just things like the tents of things like, you know, making sure that it's just been around Did the thing happen or is it happening or? Yeah, I kind of think I'll make it An easy way to search across repositories A lot of these messages are just embedded As hard-coded strings and method calls. So yeah Yeah, so any change we have to be pretty careful about and it like There are other people also relying on those message buses on those message types as well. So You know, we'd want to we'd want to Potentially support both But this is also why it's kind of better to to do it earlier rather than later because You know, whilst it feels painful now like the more people you have relying on that the more painful it becomes Yeah, you gotta be careful too because some of them are overloaded and you know, yeah It might say move the mouth and it really triggers a completely different event like Start the recognizer or something. I'm not sure Anyway Anyway, it definitely can't happen until major release anyway, so But it's also something that take a bit of Careful review Is it also the case that there could be outstanding skills that are relying on those messages? Uh, yep, yep So they would they would magically break Yep How is it why is it difficult to search through multiple repos? I don't get it Just to find the files Yeah, I mean unless you check out all the repos Um And put them under one major subdirectory Well, you can Excellent Yeah, you can do that. I mean most of the message bus names are pretty a pretty unique You know, like globally so you can just search all of github for like Is does the recognizer loop a woken message exist in anyone's repo on github? And then you can search for a term across multiple repos. I didn't know Yeah, yeah, you couldn't do that on bit pocket. Okay. Good way to find new skills All right, good point. Okay. All right, uh, so thanks that was guest, right? Derek, do you or Michael want to take one go over Kevin's? Uh, sure, I can I can handle that Um, we sent out our request for quote on the next and hopefully last spin on the mark to Dev get prototype board for the sj201 so um In the next couple of weeks, I expect we'll have our fully functional uh board that we'll be able to um, you know, send out at least the dev kits for This will not necessarily be the board we take to production But it will be stable and have all the functionality we need to to continue continue our development efforts um And uh, yeah, that's covers both of Kevin's kicks, I believe Okay And I actually emailed Kevin With the gbi o18 ten issue Great challenge. Do you have any updates? Oh lots of stuff, but nothing Nothing here. I'm meeting with pantacolor and belina and abuntu about the update process I've been working with that coral co processor Um, and moving machine learning to the edge, which looks like it's a win and may May be something that we'll be discussing for the final mark to Been talking Michael's ear off about getting us all in the same room for a few weeks That was on the agenda for this meeting. Yes Did I miss that part? No, we're gonna do it at the end of the regular meeting. Oh Okay, um And then closed out the last pass credentials which have been fixed I don't have a lot of tickets in this ticketing system So anyway, I will be Okay. Oh, we can we can start working on it. Uh There's lots of things for that I should be helping with so Um, that's all I have though. Okay. So at the very least you've got the one ticket for uh, talking to canonical about updates Um, you just go ahead and make separate tickets for the the other two that you're looking at Okay for belina and for pantacor Yep, Michael. Uh, yeah, so I think I just discussed the plan Yeah We have uh, there actually is a there's this is actually in progress because It's not just about the uh, the initial Set of dev kits for us internally, but I want to actually have the full plan for how we're going to roll them out to the Kickstarter backers who wanted dev kits And anybody I need to go go in other campaigns who want dev kits and then, uh, opening up, you know The the door is for dev kits in general, uh, which is a different beast than The mark two, you know that we Will be releasing commercially, uh, mostly from the you know, the set of expectations that the users of those Devices will have in terms of how production ready with how polished is it and that sort of thing um, so Yeah, we're we're still working on that Yeah, so the the feeling at the moment is that people will be able to Order dev kits even if they haven't been in a backup. Is that? Uh, it's definitely an idea that we're talking about Yeah, cool because we're getting we're getting requests and like I know that Obviously we want to get everything out to the backers as soon as possible and dev kit backers would would have Would get the first units. Oh, yeah, absolutely but like getting people dev kits doesn't slow us down from Getting marked to production units at the door. In fact, it makes things better because there's more people testing it and and and um and helping us out there so um, exactly. Yeah cool. Yeah. Yeah, um and right and and you know, so We're also talking about going to the Kickstarter backers and and asking them. Hey, do you actually want a dev kit? You know, because we don't know necessarily which of those people Um, want a dev kit version versus, you know, who are just looking to use it as an end user And the dev kits to be clear on the Kickstarter. They said, we're gonna, you know What was promised in the Kickstarter is we'll give you all the parts you need to make your own mark too And uh, I think we can do one better than that, you know in this case We know the dev kits that I'm talking about will be pre-assembled. They will be, you know ready to just You know plop on your desk plug in and go But they will be very definitely in an alpha state, right? We're updating the firmware Um, may require you to pull the usb drive out and stick it in your computer and copy an image from the internet You know that kind of thing versus over the air updates and and all the nice ui stuff that that you really need for a commercial project. So um But yeah, well, you know, we'll be asking the Kickstarter backers about that If we do decide to make dev kits available to the to the public just to make sure that You know, they get they get priority Okay, so uh, so that's our sprint. Uh, let's go ahead and close this one out. Um, I did Do we want to, um Assign these on assigned Tasks to people. Oh, okay Interesting Those seem rather big Oh, okay actually I think scl 119 is probably a meeting I can set that up That's a discussion to have Yeah, uh these purchase parts bombs, uh Those look like they should be on Derek's plate Oh, these are some tasks for the Protests that is probably on Derek's plate, right? Yeah, there's something a little weird. Yeah, I think I need to just reorganize that a little bit Um, I mean, these are things that are kind of in progress Like the purple for example the purchase parts. That's like the displays and the Driver speaker drivers and a lot of good stuff So, yeah, let me take Are we where you put it? Oh, you're signing to me. Okay. I might end up consolidating or something But yeah, that works for now. Yeah, I don't know if it's a Maybe it's just we're using JIRA in a way that it's not meant to be used Or something. I don't know it seems intuitive Yeah, I think I just don't really like how they do sub tasks. I think it's weird So I've just kind of stopped doing You can sort insert other dependencies like, you know, is blocked by or that sort of thing Okay, so these two Do these have any further description? I think these are just high level Like this is a high level ticket for the tag. I don't know what says it's duplicate so Let's check out precise 65 make sure that it's a duplicate Yeah, sure. Okay So, yeah, we just mark that one as a duplicate Whatever we do with those things The other ones in the spring other The non The ones that they're duplicated. Are they in the spring? Like are they things that we actually want to do? Oh, good question I can speak to that. Yes, absolutely that ticket was simply because You can't delete tickets Or I didn't think you can now I can now Back to the end there's an artifact from not being able to delete that Yeah, you can delete it with a click on it But do we want to add the other ones into the sprint was I guess the 65 is in the sprint, I believe It is not No sprint, but I also think 65 might be Might be duplicated by everyone Right, so let's put it into sprint 16 We're going to resolve it then And data capture from devices Um I don't think again, this is done. This was done in selene. I think it was originally documented and precise, but This was a selene project. So this is probably a duplicate of everything. I just did Yeah, that's certainly nothing meaningful in here right now. So go ahead and get rid of it And again a duplicate Back in the days when I couldn't delete your ticket. Oh, this is that weird feature where we can't It doesn't really look like it's Okay, so let's close this out push everything forward and then on monday weekend Reorganize the tickets Okay, so any other business for this meeting, okay, great, uh, well, thanks for uh, Listening everybody you're muted Michael. Oh Right, so any other business for this meeting any issues any particular trouble blockers came up I assume we were talking about that already, but Okay, well then thanks everybody for listening and We were gonna get feedback on the summit Yeah, I'm doing that now that we've stopped recording


Hello there, this is Mr. P. On today's lesson, we're going to look at direct object and indirect object So let's get started Let's start with direct object So it is a noun or a pronoun It follows an action verb and it receives the action of a verb in a sentence A direct object can be found by asking who or what's about an action verb So let's look at some examples The message reached the lawyer The message is your subject Reached is your action verb The message reached who? The lawyer does your direct object A direct object can be found by asking who or what's about an action verb Another example His landlord is raising the rent His landlord is the subject. The action verb is raising His landlord is raising what? The rent. So that's your direct object Again, a direct object can be found by asking who or what's about an action verb Next example Marty and Carol served pi an ice cream for dessert So we have Marty and Carol as the subject That means is a compound subject because there are two people Then we have a verb served So we can ask Marty and Carol served what? Pi an ice cream direct object So a direct object is never an adverb or the object of a preposition Just like these examples Joanne walked what? Her dog. That's your direct object So Joanne walked briskly that that is a is an adverb So that's right. So briskly is an adverb and Joanne walked to the store That is a prepositional phrase So let's do this exercise Identify the direct object highlight or underline the direct object Pause the video and then we'll look at the key.  My grandma always wishes me good luck Luck is your direct object. I bought what it for my sister I'll get what them for you as soon as I can He brought what a bottle of wine to the party Sean liked what? My lesson on direct object Great. So now that we have the direct object. Let's look at the Indirect object. That's right. So it is a pronoun or a noun Tells to who or to what or for who or for what the action of the verb is done Andy brought a flower. Okay, so we know that flower is direct object But if I said Andy brought Me a flower then me is your indirect object. It will be the same as saying Andy brought a flower to me. So to me would be your Indirect object and the flower of course direct object another example Sarah showed the class her new glasses. So the class is your indirect object Glasses would be your direct object. So you would ask Sarah showed her new glasses to who? to the class The same with a second example Jeff gave Caroline a chess set Jeff gave a chess set to who to Caroline. That's your indirect object Now if the verbs read and write are only followed by the Indirect object a preposition must be used just like these examples Please read to me You can even say Read me the letter. So indirect object is me direct object the letter or Read the letter to me and you can see there to me is your indirect object The letter is your direct object another example She must write to her parents next weekend She must write her parents an email for example. So her parents is always Indirect object direct object is email or You can even say she must write an email to her parents to right there is To her parents is your indirect object Please note and here we have an important note If there is an indirect object there must be a Direct object However, however, and this is important here. You can have a Direct object without an Indirect object just like the examples we already saw Now another important fact only Action verbs have indirect objects and direct objects only action verbs linking verbs do not have Indirect objects or direct objects Linking verbs are those like be look taste smell stand turn etc One example is of a linking verb would be Zachary is a silly boy here the verb to be is a linking verb is always a linking verb Sometimes cannot be a linking verb, but that's another story, but in this case is a linking verb An action verb with an action verb the same sentence we can say Zachary Saw a silly boy. So the direct object here is boy He saw what or who a silly boy, right? direct object So another important fact About English grammar is that we have transitive and intransitive verbs a transitive verb is an action verb with a direct object Just like we saw for example saw to see right is an action verb and Is a transitive verb also called because they they take objects an Intransitive verb instead is an action verb with no direct object or a linking verb Linking verbs are always intransitive verbs. That's the difference between Transitive verb and intransitive verb will have a lesson on this point of grammar So let's do some exercise now Identify the indirect object in the following sentences. So highlight or underline Pause the video and then I'll show you the key Okay, so this is your key They gave Harold indirect object a new car Miss Jones offered the girls. So the girls would be your indirect object My grandma always wishes me indirect object. I Bought it for my sister for my sister is your indirect object I'll get them for you. That will be your indirect object Number six, he brought them Okay, your them is your Indirect object and then we have a direct object a bottle of wine like we did before For the party now number seven Sean liked my lesson on direct object So light What's my lesson? So that's your direct object So here we don't have an Indirect object. Do you know why? Well, I hope you know so you can tell yours your teacher if you don't just write it Under this video. I would like to know your answer for this number seven Why don't we have an indirect object in this sentence? If you know the answer post it under this video Well, I hope you enjoyed the lesson if you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do if you liked the lesson, please hit on the like button and You may share the video with your friends until next time. Take care. Bye. Bye


Hi, my name is Kenneth. I am from the United States, and I finished my TEFL certification with ITTT I'm gonna put the review what I thought of it and Let's go ahead and get in so I actually really like the convenience of the online features You could do it whenever you wanted I think you could do up to three units a day because they wanted it to take about a hundred twenty hours to complete. I Only did the online certification Because I'm actually currently volunteering at a community center to teach English to foreign students there For free, which is pretty nice. So I got some experience already as well as the official certification I really liked how the units were divided up You had you typically you had like a grammar section and then you'd have a teaching section It would go back and forth. So if you didn't like the grammar section as much going over that You didn't have to sit through like five sentences in a row of it. So it was good pacing. I Am in the next year probably once I save up enough money I'm gonna start looking for jobs in other countries. I'm looking at Poland and Germany and the Czech Republic and maybe even Japan or Korea And I like the fact that the ITTT actually will help you Find job placement To their best ability. So there's a lot of Just benefits to using this so yeah, I guess that's it. Thanks


Meet Advanced Care Paramedics Harvey Milburn and Gail Scott. They are two of around 90 qualified paramedics who decided on a sea change, moving family and possessions from the UK to Queensland. Queensland's beautiful, yeah absolutely beautiful, yeah different lifestyle to England, a lot more relaxed, the weather's fantastic. Came travelling here about six years ago, obviously fabulous place, met my now fiance, bought him back to England with me, we've been to and from for the last six years living in England, coming back here. The Queensland Ambulance Service embarked on a global recruitment drive, deciding the qualifications of paramedics in the UK best match the skills of paramedics here in Australia. They advertised their for recruits and I had my ear out ready waiting to come back over, so yeah went through the process and here I am. We really have appreciated the efforts from the Department of Immigration and all those people involved in the processing of visas, sometimes it's just a name on a piece of paper but I've got to say, it really does make a difference when people support the process and get people across. With UK paramedics being dispatched to all corners of Queensland, they had to be trained for the conditions, including the food. We did have on our induction here, they brought in the crocodile and the snakes and things, which was a good insight into what is around but you don't see it every day, so that's quite pleasing really. So if you get sick in Queensland and need an ambulance while watching the ashes or rugby World Cup, be careful what you say as the nice paramedic taking your blood pressure might just quietly be cheering for the other team.


So my presentation today was about the effects of digitization on the copyright protected industries, books, music, movies. And the idea is that digitization has taken a couple of different forms. On the one hand, the first big manifestation of digitization was Napster in 1999, which made it possible for consumers to get access to music without paying for it. And really as the dust has settled in the research community, that's been shown to have a devastating effect on revenue to recorded music. Now if that were the only impact, one would expect a big reduction in revenue to have really negative impact on the quality and quantity of creative output. But it turns out that that's not the only aspect of digitization. There have also been reductions in the costs of bringing products to market. And as a result, it's not clear, a priori, whether there would be a reduction in new products. Instead, you really just have to look at data to see what's happened. And it turns out that on balance, there's been a great increase in the number of products created in the music industry. And moreover, they seem to be very useful to consumers. Surprisingly, even though revenue has collapsed since Napster, there's been an increase in the service flow from music products created since 1999. In books, the changes have been pretty astounding. First, there's been an enormous increase in the number of new books coming to market. Many of these books are self-published electronic books, and many of them are not of much interest to anyone. But what's interesting is that a rising and actually now substantial share of books that end up being best sellers in the US are books that originally came to market as self-published works. It's interesting because those are books many of which would never have made it past traditional gatekeepers, so it's really revolutionary. In movies, the nature of the evidence is a little bit different. But in movies, it's also true that there's been a very large increase in production, the number of movies produced and related. There's a big increase in the number of movies available to consumers from any point in time. So it used to be people watch movies in theaters and there's a pretty limited number of movies that get released into theaters each year. But now the digital distribution is not only possible, but increasingly popular, a lot of movies can be distributed to consumers. So twice or three times as many movies as are distributed through theaters end up being available to consumers through digital distribution channels. On the one hand, it's tempting to conclude that copyright's not important. I think that's not the conclusion at all. I mean, I think in other contexts if one just has bad news on the revenue side and costs don't change, one does see reductions in output. Copyright matters, revenue matters for bringing products to market. But I think what's really important in this context as we think about policy changes, we should remember that there have been changes on the cost side and on the demand side. And so before we make any, provide regulatory relief or policy reform, we should think about what's really happening in the industry on both sides of the market. Well, there's of course the usual caveat that more research is needed. And it's not just a throwaway line in this context. Data are fairly hard to come by in this context. They're either expensive or proprietary. And so there's the caveat that not all the right data are necessarily brought to bear. But I would hope that those who have data and have concerns about the results would share their data so that we can examine them and find the truth.


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Hi everyone and welcome to happiness isn't brain surgery with Doc Snipes practical tools to improve your mood and quality of life. This is module three of a four module series on problem solving. The first two modules were recorded in our Facebook group happiness isn't brain surgery. So if you want to be able to access all of the modules feel free to join that group in this section we're going to identify your problem solving options and explore methods for solving those problems. Like we talked about earlier, once you've identified the goal you have the option to either stay miserable, which is what you this is definitely a viable option. You can tolerate the distress because sometimes things can't be changed. If you're having to ice your hand because you heard it. It doesn't pleasant to ice it, but you can tolerate that distress. Sometimes you may be if you go to the dentist to have your teeth cleaned and you don't like that, which I don't think most of us really love having our teeth cleaned. You do it, because it's going to help you achieve your goals of staying healthy and having a good smile and everything, but you tolerate the distress. It doesn't feel better about the situation. Change your thoughts and feelings to focus on the positive or focus on the fact that it will end. It's not never ending, or you could just change the situation completely by solving it. You know, if we want to talk about getting our teeth cleaned. Well, you could opt to not get your teeth cleaned. Now that may not help you achieve your long term goals, but it would definitely provide less distress right now. Basically, you've got two options. When you're presented with a situation, you only have so much energy. You're either going to choose the option that helps you move toward your ultimate goals of being happy and healthy and content and all those wonderful things. Or you're going to choose something that may solve your distress in the present moment, but it's not going to move your, move you towards your goals. You're going to feel stuck. And I'm liken that to thrashing around in quicksand. When you're in quicksand, you may think that the best thing to do is to thrash around and try to get out because you want to survive. When you're acting in your emotional mind, you're trying to relieve the immediate problem without stopping to think about, okay, how do I do this? This is really bad situation. What is the next right step to do?  So you want to start brainstorming solutions. In the first two segments, we talked about describing the situation and really getting out of your own head and stepping back and describing it as an investigator, describing it as somebody who wasn't involved in the situation who's just an observer. So you can get more perspective, not only on your contributions to the situation, but on everything else that's going on. Once you've described it all, you've got it down on paper, you've identified kind of how you got to this place today. You know, we're not talking about every time, but what happened that got me to this place today. So then you can brainstorm solutions. Distress tolerance is like we talked about accepting that the situation is unpleasant, but things will change, you don't have to stay miserable. Now the acronyms improve and accepts we've gone through multiple times. There are ways to help you change the next moment. This is unpleasant right now so what can you do in the next moment to either kind of change your reality, maybe you take a mental vacation, or you do something that is that will make you happy. Not not jokes, finding funny memes, something like that. Volunteering, contributing, there's a lot of different things you can do to take your focus off the current situation. If it can't be changed, sometimes you just need to take your focus off of it until you can move on. In addition, regulation, you address your vulnerabilities. Sometimes things seem really, really overwhelming, and you realize that one of your vulnerabilities is that you're exhausted. So one way to address that vulnerability is to go to bed, get some good sleep, wake up tomorrow and reassess the situation then. So if you can address your vulnerabilities. Sometimes you can turn down the intensity level of the unpleasant feelings. And you can get a clear head. Sometimes you just need to take a step away. If you've ever tried to solve a problem and you've sat there for 30 minutes or an hour trying to solve a problem or trying to get something done and you're just stuck. Sometimes if you take a break from it and do something completely different for 10, 15 minutes, maybe an hour, and you come back to it, all of a sudden you'll see options that you didn't think were there. You can change your thoughts. Walking the middle path means focusing on the positive, not just the negative. So when you have a negative thought about how horrible this is, have the positive thought that it won't last forever. If there's something that you need to change, you may, for example, if you don't want to go back to using alcohol, or you don't want to go back to a relationship that was just unhealthy. Sometimes you need to focus on the negative because when you're in your upset period, you're remembering and romanticizing all the good things because whatever this changes hurts. So you start thinking about how it really wasn't so bad. So sometimes you got to change your thoughts. Don't romanticize something that was really unhealthy or unhelpful. And this will help force your behavior change. If you remember the bad stuff. Have cheerleading thoughts. Sometimes you can do this by having a SMS message scheduler. You can actually schedule your own SMS messages to yourself, which is, you know, can be kind of cool. You get a message every morning at 8am. That's just some positive thought for the day. It starts your free ones for the Android and for the iPhone. And it starts your day off well. That's something that you can do to prevent distress. Relapse prevention and purposeful action means changing your thoughts and really focusing on what can I do to prevent this from getting any worse or having any more negative effects. Sometimes you can't prevent whatever this is, but you can prevent it from being a huge problem.  It's there. You can't just magically will it to go away. You've got to cut. But if you take care of it, you can prevent it from getting infected and becoming septic and all that kind of other nasty stuff. So. Planning and purposeful action thinking to yourself. This is the situation right now. This is where I want to go. These are my ultimate goals. How do I get there? What do I need to do to prevent this situation from holding me back and identify alternate possibilities. You can also work on just changing your feelings. Sometimes the situation can't be changed when my father was diagnosed with cancer. That really was a devastating couple of years. There was nothing I could do to change it. So when I would start thinking about it, I would have to start focusing on things that helped me be happy and having an attitude of gratitude. For the fact that he was around to see the birth of our first child and to see that how long I did have him in my life compared to what some other people didn't have focusing on things that made me happy. And when we were together, focusing on appreciating the moment and how awesome it was, instead of the fact that, you know, in six months from now he won't be here. So focus on the positive. Identify and preferably do this ahead of time because when you're in a bad mood, it's hard to think about, all right, what's going to make me happy. Identify what makes you happy. If it is, my daughter loves going on YouTube and finding videos of raccoons eating fruit. She just thinks it's so cute to watch them use their little hands and eat their fruit. You put it on mute because they make this horrible smacking sound when they eat, but whatever makes you happy. Keep a list of like five or six different things. Keep if you've got a mobile phone, which most people do anymore, keep a particular album of memes and pictures and other things that make you happy. So if you're having a bad moment, you can go to that and go and remember the good things. Sometimes you need to change the situation because and you can change the situation if you're in a job that you really hate and things happen and you seem to be angry all the time. You can change that situation you can look for a different job, or you can change how you feel about the situation, at least for the present time until you can find another job. Sometimes a job is just that it's not a career. It's a means to an end. When I was in undergraduate, I knew I wasn't going to be working in retail all my life, and it really wasn't my favorite thing to do. However, it was a means to an end so I could, you know, eat while I was going to school. So if you're changing the situation, remove or eliminate whatever's causing your distress, if you can use interpersonal effectiveness skills to address the situation if it's a situation with another person. You may need to be able to assert what your needs are and create a win men, but to create a win win, you have to understand what the other person's needs are as well, which goes back to module one. When we're talking about describing the whole situation and what not only you bring to the situation, but what the other person brings, you know, maybe they have had a God awful morning.   But that's not what they need right now. Right now, they are struggling, they are frustrated, they are angry. So creating a win win. You can talk to them, let them know that yikes, you know, you seem like you're feeling really angry today, you know, noticing how angry that they're feeling. They're thinking if you could help creating a win win situation, reaching out because that'll bring it to their attention that they're, you know, kind of being a little cranky, but it also offers to help their situation. Other times or other ways you create a win win is by saying basically, if you let me know ahead of time that we're going to have to do this. It didn't cause me as much stress.  I am kind of rigid. And so it reduces stress for everybody in the house. If mom knows ahead of time that we've got company coming over on Saturday afternoon. So the kids know it's gonna be more rewarding for them and much more relaxing and pleasant. If they let me know ahead of time. And I find it helps me because I can plan. You also add something to alter the situation sometimes it's not stepping away from the situation is bringing something to it and that can be compassion that can be, you know, maybe if you're feeling lonely. Sometimes it's not escaping a situation but actually adding to it and saying, let me add a friend. Let me figure out something else new to add to the situation so I don't feel isolated anymore me bring somebody into it. One way you can start analyzing your options is called the force field analysis. So for each option you have, you want to look at your enabling and motivating forces to change. And you're constraining or resisting forces to change. So, two examples. If you are in an argument with your friend, or your friend doesn't respond when you text them or you call them and leave them a message. You can set up a lunch to talk. That's one option. So using the force field analysis you want to look over what are the motivating forces, the benefits to doing that. Well, emotionally, it may make you feel a little bit more empowered and a little bit more hopeful that you can get something worked out. Mentally, it will enable you to kind of let it go and not be constantly dwelling on what what was it that I said what did I do, you can maybe table it and say, All right, I'm going to figure all that out when we have lunch. Physically, what are the benefits? Well, if you are not all upset and if you're able to put aside those thoughts so they're not bombarding you all the time, you're probably going to have less physical symptoms of stress and sleep better. Interpersonally, you know, it's probably going to make it easier for you to be in a good mood and want to associate with people. If you feel like you're headed towards some sort of resolution. It may not affect your job, and it may not affect your environment. What are constraining forces? Well, emotionally, if you call and you set up a meeting to talk, you also might be scared that you're going to get an answer that you really don't want to hear. Ultimately, you may end up playing and rehearsing this lunch over and over in your head until it happens so you're actually get stuck there, which may cause additional physical symptoms of stress and may impact your relationships even further. Ultimately, you don't know why your friend didn't respond. So you're trying to figure that out. The question is, what do you need to do? Not everybody can say, All right, I've got a meeting scheduled with this person. We'll deal with it then. I'm going to put it on a table. I'm going to put it on the back burner until that point. Some people can't let it go that easily. So figuring out what works for you. The other example is when you're feeling lonely and isolated. One solution could be making new friends. So again, going through the motivating forces, emotionally, it could be really exciting. The drawback, emotionally, it could be really intimidating if you have low self-esteem or social anxiety. Mentally making new friends. Some people would view it as extremely exciting and stimulating to get to know other people and experience that. Other people might find it mentally exhausting because they've already got enough going on. They just want to hang out. And all of our stress and all of our thoughts and all that stuff come out physically one way or another. They either drain our energy or enhance our energy. So you want to look at how is this particular solution to this situation going to impact you? I have a friend right now who is feeling kind of lonely, but he's an introvert. So getting out around large groups of people is extremely stressful to him. So when he thinks about making new friends, it really quickly gets overwhelming. So figuring out ways he can make new friends where it's just two, four people at a time. It's not totally overwhelming. And it's for short periods where he doesn't feel like he's kind of stuck is one option, one way to change that solution. Making new friends. Yes, that's what we want to do. But how are you going to do it in a way that is more motivating and enabling you to achieve goals and takes care of or eliminates any of the constraining forces or the drawbacks. So choose the best option. You're going to go through several, especially if it's a big issue that you're you're looking at. Choose best option for you that is effective at helping you move closer to your long term goals. This is not about anybody else. This is about you achieving your long term goals and staying true to your values in a way that's realistic.  So what is realistic for you? And you need to be honest with yourself about how much time you have, how much energy you're willing to devote to it and how motivated you are. The best option usually integrates the logical mind, all of the benefits and drawbacks and chooses the thing that is most beneficial, but also the emotional mind. So you may have three things that rank up there with highly beneficial, but don't all make you as happy. So you're going to choose the one that is most beneficial and makes you the happiest.  Sometimes, well, even just with a house, you know, during the week, things get done, but imagine a teenager's room, you walk into the middle of it and you're just like, oh my gosh, I don't even know where to start. There's laundry, there's stuff on the floor, it needs to be vacuumed. Nothing can fit in those drawers. You can get overwhelmed really easily. At our house, what we do is we just take everything and we put it in the center of the room and start from there, you know, because then the bed can be made and you can move on from there, but nothing has to be done. Once you put everything in the center of the room, how to get an idea of all the things that need to be done, just start whittling away at the pile. It's not necessarily something that has to be done in a particular sequential order. If it is, or if you need to have some sort of order, identify the steps you need to take to solve the problem. First, I need to start somewhere, then I need to, you know, maybe the first thing you would do is dump out all the drawers, refold the clothes so you can make room to put away new clothes, whatever it is that you want to do. I find with the pile method, in terms of cleaning, and kind of in terms of life, I guess, you put everything in a pile and you start whittling away at it, then eventually everything gets done. And it's not, you don't waste as much time going, all right, now what makes sense to do next? You just do something. And before you know it, the pile is gone, the room is clean, your to-do list is empty, whatever the case may be. Once you start the process, it's important to continually evaluate, though. Sometimes you're going to have to stop back, stop and drop back and change course a little bit because you realize that what you thought was going to work isn't working as well as you had expected. Okay, so adjust. You don't have to be right, you just want progress. Once you know what the problem is, you can start brainstorming solutions and get outside the box.  It works for us. It may not work for you. So get outside the box and figure out what may work to help you solve this particular situation. With my friend, when I was talking about making new friends, just going to a party or going to a social gathering or something was just way overwhelming. So we started brainstorming, getting outside the box, talking about meetups, talking about going out with some of his roommates in order to meet other people, but be with a small group that he felt comfortable with. And we brainstormed a whole bunch of other opportunities and options like community education classes, where he might be able to not be sort of the center of attention, but he's around other people that he can potentially make friends with. So get outside the box then consider the alternatives and choose the option that's most effective at helping you achieve your long term goals. What is it that's going to help me feel accomplished? What is it that's going to help me feel nurture the friendships that I have right now or develop new friendships, whatever your long term goals are. You can subscribe to the podcast on any podcast player. You can join our Facebook group at docsknives.com slash Facebook. Subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash all CEU's education or join our community at docsknives.com.


So you know released a message to the fleet outlining his guidance on what lies ahead in 2014 our three tenants were guide us through the year War fighting first. We will bring you the capability and the technology to get the job done Operate forward. We're gonna continue that Asia Pacific rebalance But we'll maintain the course and speed if you will in the Middle East and be ready We'll bring you the training that you need while at the same time Getting away from those degraders from our readiness such as sexual assault or substance abuse Sino also touched on the importance of watching out for one another and keeping yourself physically mentally and morally fit Watch Sino's full message on navy.mil from the defense media activity. I'm petty officer Jonathan Pankoff