Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Hundreds marched to the Tunisian Parliament as protests intensify. Delhi police detains around 200 people after farmers led tractor rally. Biden administration to restore diplomatic and aid relations with Palestine. French workers staged protests against government policies. Hundreds marched to the Tunisian Parliament on January 26 as protests against worsening economic conditions and police brutality continued across the country. Protests first began after the announcement of a renewed lockdown starting January 14. Police forces have deployed tear gas, water cannons and other forms of force to suppress the protests. As of January 20, human rights groups estimated that over 1600 people including 600 children had been arrested. However, these numbers have continued to grow. Several injuries were also reported yesterday as police forces deployed excessive violence to prevent protesters from reaching the parliament. Harris People's Dispatch reporter Abdul Rahman to discuss the context of the protests. The basic reason behind the protest is the economic problems the people in Tunisia are facing. When I say economic problems primarily meaning the increasing unemployment and rising poverty among the people which has been intensified particularly because of the outbreak of the COVID. Tunisia is a very service based economy which basically a large segment of its employment comes from tourism which is basically badly affected by the outbreak of the COVID and because of the lockdown imposed since then. Also Tunisia, Tunisian economy is also basically is suffering because of the various other reasons structural reasons. One of the reasons is the mismanagement but the Tunisian masses primarily call corruption. Overall the situation is last year itself according to the different estimates given by different other different international organizations. Tunisian economy has contracted almost 9% which is the largest contraction since Tunisia's independence. The state in Tunisia has been trying to prevent the protests. As I say the protests are ongoing in Tunisia for almost a decade and they have always used strong brutal measures to stop the protesters. In one of the in the recent round of protests the police used tear gas and Lati Char and other things to basically stop the protesters. In one of those protests one of the protesters was injured. He died day before yesterday which led to the call which basically say one of the reasons for the call for yesterday's march was the death of this particular protester. The parliament, Tunisian parliament was discussing the proposal given by Prime Minister Hussain Machisi. He has proposed a new cabinet and the parliament was discussing the new cabinet. The protesters basically are demanding a systematic change in Tunisia and therefore they march to parliament not only in opposition to what was proposed in the parliament as an ad hoc attempt to basically pacify the protesters but also to mark an statement that such small ad hoc measures will not be sufficient. Around 200 people have been detained by the Delhi police today in connection to the tractor rally held by farmers on January 26. Police have issued charges of rioting damage to public property and attacking of police personnel and have registered 22 first information reports. Police complaints have been filed against 10 former leaders so far. The Indian government has also deployed additional security forces including paramilitaries in the national capital today. Tens of thousands of farmers led a historic tractor rally in the capital yesterday as the country celebrated its 72nd republic day. The rally had been organized by the Sanyupti San Mocha which is a coalition of farmers organizations staging a sit-in at the Delhi border since November 2020. Following 11 runs of failed negotiations, farmers had announced the tractor rally and gotten official permissions from the police and the government. The rally was supposed to commence from three different points in the city and follow a pre-approved route. Reports of violence came in when police forces began to attack a section of farmers that had deviated from the approved route. Police officers deployed tear gas and baton charges against the protesters, a protestor was also killed in the ensuing violence and commotion. Stray incidents of violence by individual protesters were also reported which were immediately denounced by the farmers coalition. The coalition also issued a formal statement condemning the violence but reiterated that the protests at the border would continue. The administration of US President Joe Biden has announced plans to reopen diplomatic missions and resume financial and humanitarian aid to Palestine. President Biden has also reiterated his support for a two-state solution for a secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state. These measures were announced by acting US ambassador to the UN, Richard Mills in front of the UN Security Council on January 26. Mills further stated that the United States would maintain its steadfast support for Israel and promote the normalization of relations between Israel and other countries. The US will maintain its policy of opposing unilateral actions including the annexation of territory, demolitions and settlements. It will also oppose resolutions in international bodies that quote, unfairly single out Israel. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has also stated that the Biden administration will not move the embassy, US embassy back to Tel Aviv. Former President Trump had shifted the embassy to Jerusalem in 2017 in a move that violated international law and went against the international censors. Other Trump era measures including the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Cologne Heights in Syria and Israel's claims over Jerusalem as its undivided capital remain as yet unattressed. This announcement was issued on the same day as news broke of Israeli military forces fatally shooting a 17-year-old Palestinian boy. Atallah Ryan was killed outside the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military claimed that Ryan had attempted to stab military officers and was subsequently shot. However, as reported by Al Jazeera footage of the incident released by the military only shows, the back of the officer supposedly under attack. No other videos of the incident have been circulated as of yet. The killing of Ryan is the latest in a series of fatal shootings of Palestinians by the Israeli military. According to rights group Betzalem, Israeli forces killed at least 27 Palestinians, including seven minors across the occupied Palestinian territories and within Israel in 2020. For our final story, we take a look at a strike by various sectors of the French working class on January 26th. And we have to say, for more such stories and videos, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.


I think it depends on the type of man you want though, because if you want a traditional type of dude, he's going to want you to be a traditional type of woman. But if you cool with a 50-50 type of dude, then yeah, you get a little bit more leeway. But the difference is, I think the problem, women want both. They want to be traditional when it comes to the money stuff, but liberal when it comes to gender roles and expectations. What do you feel like men continue to get wrong about women? What's your biggest complaint with us? Because you sent me a lot of videos. So what's the biggest thing you wish men understood? The biggest thing that I feel like is the fact that women like to argue. You think we think y'all like to argue? And y'all don't like to argue? No. Okay, explain it to me. So what I mean by that is, why do you think we like to... Now don't get me wrong.  It's really females out here that just do this for no reason. I get that. But most times y'all are going to like just assume that along the board regardless. Because like for instance, she just want to argue. She just want to argue. So I'm like, I'm very inquisitive. I like asking questions. Why is she arguing? Why is she always upset? What is it? So now we're getting into it. So find out that you did this three years ago. This happened. This happened.   Well, you want to know why? Because she mad.  So it's not even a matter of... So you should leave her at that point.  If you don't like that, then yes. Because she not doing it for no reason. I don't think she doing it for no reason. I don't think females argue, argue, like to argue for no reason. It's a reason for everything. I'm personally, that's how I take it because that's how I feel about myself. I'm not going to do nothing for no reason. So if you feel like I'm always arguing or I'm always mad or always got an attitude, it's a reason.  It's a reason for everything.  Women don't not like to argue. It starts with y'all. It's something you've done first that makes her this way. It crosses the line to liking to argue when I think we've resolved whatever the issue was and you keep bringing it up five years from now, ten years from now. Because she thinks that it... The issue can never die. Because it surprised you and now, even if he's doing better, even if she's showing better, it's still that thing at the back of your mind. Exactly. But that's the problem. So we can't move forward. How can we move forward? Because the problem is you shouldn't have did it in the first place. Women do stuff all the time. We forgive y'all. Like what?  Like what?  This is stuff men have to deal with. But we have to forgive y'all. We have to assume the best. That's not as damaging as what... But you don't know that. That's not as damaging. You don't know that. You know what y'all are capable of. You don't know that. That's not too... What men are capable of? A woman can make you raise a kid that's not even yours. You talk about men are capable of more.   Yeah, listen.  You talk about what men... The worst thing a man can do is probably like bring back an STD. That's probably the worst thing a man can do. A woman can do all that plus making... Bring back an STD.   It takes money out of his pocket, but it doesn't take your money. What does that have to do with the emotional damage? Everything on name.  Everything on name has emotional damage. It's taking your time away from him. Now you have to split him. Like now he don't have... When they had a baby on you and you're saying that that's not as bad. He don't have a baby on you. So now you have to... Everything on name has emotional damage. Yes. The reason why I say it's not that bad is because typically you'll hear women, for instance, single mothers, they'll say where a package deal. Single fathers not saying where a package deal. It's like that's your baby. Handle that baby. You know, this, this and that. That's the difference between having a baby on somebody though. She still knows that's not her baby. She's not obligated to that baby. But still, that's your man that done made a whole life outside of your relationship. Do you not think that's not damaging enough outside of the fact that it's not even your baby? You're not hearing what I'm saying. I'm not saying that's not damaging. Okay, so now why are you trying to excuse it? No, no, no. I was saying that's why something like bringing home an STD is worse because you have to deal with that yourself. That's what I'm saying. Or a woman having a baby on you is worse because now you have to raise that baby. But a man having a baby, you don't have to raise that baby. I don't think any of those are a matter of what's worse and what's less worse. They all fall into the same category. Do you think a woman having a kid, I mean, tricking a guy into thinking it's his kid is the same level as a man having a kid outside? Okay, so I ain't even gonna lie.  That is like the most evil, despicable. Because it's everything that you said, plus the seat and the lie and the... You know what I'm saying?  Yeah, you've seen that for 18 years. That's not your kid.   The emotional investment, yeah.  Yeah, that's the... And it happens. It happens to niggas a lot. Shit. Okay, I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. So my thing is, you know, I'm all about doing homework. I'm all about... My mom would say prevention is better than cure. So even going back to your point earlier, I like to avoid things. I like to avoid things because again, for me as a man, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it.  Because I don't play, you know. So I encourage men to be the same way. But outside of that, outside of you think men don't...  What else do you think we're getting wrong? I really can't even tell y'all what you're getting wrong because... Because you be complaining about us. You be like, man, listen, we want to keep women down and... But y'all do, though.  We gotta sit in one place. Well, it's 2022. I don't think that's gonna work no more. Exactly. So that's why people who stuck on that need to get out of there and learn how to like... I think it depends on the type of man you want, though.  Exactly. But if you're cool with like a 50-50 type of dude, then yeah, you get a little bit more leeway. But the difference is, I think the problem, women want both. They want a nigga who's traditional when it comes to the money stuff, but liberal when it comes to gender roles and expectations. So I want him to pay all the bills, but I want him to help me clean. I agree with traditional to an extent. And what's the other one you said? Liberal. Liberal. Yeah. 50-50.   I'm perfectly okay with that. And because I'm okay with that, it takes a lot of pressure off him, right?   I just feel like nobody cleans better than me. If I'm not gonna clean it, then I don't want to eat from it. It's just my own personal thing. So I really don't have a problem with doing housework at all. Trash dishes, cleaning up after the kids. No, I'm gonna need help with the kids.   You need your tie and your shirt iron before work. I don't have a problem. Like I'm cool with it. That's why I said traditional to a certain extent. Because I just feel like I speak for all women. No, Lord. No, no, no. Okay, you know what? Let me take it back. They about to crucify you. Let me take it back. Let me take it back. Let me take it back. I ain't even gonna say all of them because I ain't even gonna say that. Most women would want somebody who is responsible for at least the big stuff when it comes to bills. But like that, I'm just pretty like this. I take care of myself on my own. I do whatever for myself, by myself, for myself.  I see how y'all feel.   I'm tired of paying to get my own hair done sometimes.   So when y'all carry it all the way, I can understand how tiring that can be. So it's important for a woman to submit if you're doing all that. I can understand the even trade and the balance when it comes to all that stuff. But then, you can combine liberal and traditional in one, based on the person and whatever y'all cool with. If a female and a dude living together and they going 50-50, maybe it's better for them financially to do it like that. You just never know what people's situation is, so... I mean, I feel you, but the problem is most women would still have a problem with submitting.   And I feel like maybe submissions should have a lot to do with who the man is and not like what he can... Like character, they got a lot to do with it too because if he a man who can stand for something and, you know what I'm saying, he say whatever he want and he do everything with his chest. And he is a firm believer in God and he has his own way of being. And it's respectable. That deserves submission being, you know, submissions. But I don't think it got nothing to do with the fact that y'all going 50-50. Should it matter? Like, I don't know. You tell me, you need to talk to the women.  They just want to be taken care of. Yeah, see me, I want to be able to do something too. I wouldn't want my dude to have all that stress. Like if it's anything I can do, then I'll do it. If you need me to pay for this or put this much aside for something or you want me to go out and do this or do this for you or whatever, then that's understandable. But I don't want to just... Leisure is important, but I feel like a man, like y'all a team. So y'all should like act as such.   It's just personally, I feel more useful when I'm being useful. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, so I don't care how much money he got, like whatever small thing that like means a lot to him, I don't think it should be a problem. I don't care my socks, you know? Do this, fix this for me, do this for that. Like it's just... But at the same time, just know that I'm a person too now and I am somebody too. I'm not just good for these things.  I want you to listen to me talk too when I got something to say. Like don't act like I ain't nobody over here either because you can get somebody else to iron your socks. So a lot of dudes, we talk about how women feel like they're perfect. Who's pussy? Let me finish, let me finish. Like women feel like they're beyond talking to you. Like you ain't got to tell me nothing. Don't tell me nothing, I don't want to hear nothing. So I think it might be therapeutic for men to observe a young lady who's willing to like address her flaws. So what are some things you feel like you're working on or that you need to work on to become that level of woman where like you know what I'm saying, my Prince Charming is gonna, it deserves. Or do you feel like you're perfect just as you are? Hell no, I know I ain't perfect, I know I got problems. Some of them I would say, I ain't gonna lie, I'm gonna say things I need to work on is being a better listener and my attitude. Those are like too many things I can for sure work on because if people tell you enough of something then you might need to consider that like, you might need to look at me so I ain't gonna lie. And I'm just, I'm growing still, I'm still learning. What you mean by your attitude? Because a lot of women say that, but like what do you usually say?  Like I know I can just, it's just be the mood in that very moment that'll make me just act a certain way. You know what I'm saying? I just can calm it down a little bit, just bring it down a few notches, that's all. Because like three years ago I can be like this and this is what I believed in and now fast forward to now and I'm like, yeah that wasn't the best way to be so I need to fix that. So I'm just taking it day by day but my attitude being a better listener. Oh, being defensive 24-7. Being defensive, yeah, because sometimes that's why I said being a better listener because it can actually tie into me being defensive because I might not have heard you and I'm thinking that you might be like coming for me but you gotta like stop and be like, oh he wasn't even trying to say it like that, my bad. So yeah, being defensive, being a better listener and my attitude. But everything else, I'm cool. I know how to be submissive. I know how to lay back and chill and just let you do you. I know how to do all that but that's just a whole different topic. So yeah. You have any final words, final thoughts? What do you think you should work on today? Me personally? Yes. I'm constantly working on being a better listener. Patience. I'm constantly working on patience. It's funny, a lot of people like watch these videos and they think I'm really patient but I'm not. I actually need to work on my patience too. And I think you are patient so I don't know why you don't think you are. Thank you. Or maybe you just got a different way of handling your patience. It might be that. If, yeah, I'm very impatient. When I need something, it needs to be done within that millisecond. Yeah. And I would say even like being more forthcoming because it's funny, I'm really good at getting information from people but I'm not as good at sharing information from people. So that's something I need to work on too. Yeah but, yeah. That's it. That's the only thing you need to work on.  That's just what comes to mind. I'm getting my six pack right now. Whatever you say. You tell me, what do I need to work on?


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Okay, move out. He's been on TV. I guess I thought I'd trained for a push-button war. If somebody had told me a few months ago that army training was like this, I'd never have believed it. Here I am in advanced infantry training, in a bunker made of sandbags and wood. But this is how they're fighting in Vietnam, and I guess I better learn it from my own good. According to the training schedule, we're supposed to be attacked today. I'm going to have to clean this rifle if I only shoot one round, so I might as well have a real good time and shoot up a storm. Hard to believe it wasn't very long ago that I was just coming into the army. I'll never forget that day. The army band did its best to make us feel at home, but not many of us were really listening. We sure were a motley-looking crew.  And a man with about a million stripes on his arm gave us a speech. One of the things he said was that now that we were in the army, a bathroom would be called a latrine, and there was one behind us if we needed it. Then we were off to meet the old equalizer. And if you don't know what the old equalizer is, you're about to find out. It's the army haircut. They call it the old equalizer because they cut everybody's hair the same way. Off. It's not the kind of haircut you got back home. They just put those clippers to your head and let them go. And there's not much left when they're through. After that, we were off to the races, starting a clothing issue. They filled our duffel bags with underwear, socks, and other goodies. It was off to be fitted for shoes and combat boots.  Well, now you did. And they kept right on building from the ground up. We wouldn't get much chance to wear our fancy green uniforms as long as we were in basic training. But they look pretty good. I am in men's hats. It took this guy two tries to find a hat big enough for him. The fatigue bands were definitely a little baggy. But I learned later they liked to give you a little extra to give sand room to roll around in. Then, properly uniformed, we were let off to be tested in around 20 different subjects, ranging from mechanics to machine guns. We were interviewed to find out what we wanted to do in the Army. I laughed and said, I'd like to go home. He didn't even think that was funny. I got so many shots, I felt like a human pincushion. But those new shotguns made it almost painless. Well, the Army learned everything there was to know about us, and all that information seemed to boil down to just this. Dog tags. Then finally we were on our way, getting onto the trucks that would take us to our basic training companies. We got a good close-up of our drill sergeants, and one thing was for sure, they didn't smile much. They jammed us onto those trucks, and off we went. Our home away from home for the next eight weeks. They piled us off the trucks even faster than they put us on. Then we were lined up and seated to hear a speech from our company commander. Good afternoon, men. Welcome to E Company, 7th Battalion, 2nd Training Brigade. I am Captain Mouth, your company commander. And during the next 100 minutes, the first sergeant, the flying sergeant, the mess sergeant, and myself will give you some idea of what to expect during your next eight weeks of training here. Once the preliminaries were disposed of, we were broken down into platoons and assigned drill sergeants. I was in the 4th platoon, and our drill sergeant was Sergeant Kelly, who took us into our barracks, assigned us bunks, then began teaching us some of the things we'd be responsible for every day. Like how to make our bunks properly. Sergeant Kelly's demonstration showed us what a bunk looked like made right, without wrinkles. I tried for eight weeks to match it, and never made it. Sergeant Kelly showed us how our wall lockers would be arranged. There was no room for argument. Everybody's will be set up the same way. It was the same with our foot lockers. Your comb, toothbrush, and razor all have to be in a straight line. We also learned how to handle a broom. And suddenly we were into it. I almost put my eye out the first couple of times I tried to salute. The money was a snap compared to PT. It stands for physical training if you hadn't guessed. I wasn't exactly the athletic type when I was in school, and the only exercise I'd had in the last couple of years was running to catch a bus to work. We slapped each other around to get warmed up for the hard stuff. Suddenly I had to use muscles I didn't even know existed. Man, I was hurt. So finally, they took pity on me. And I got a day of rest. I walked K.P. There's the scientific way I cut the eye out of that spot. And I thought everybody ate frozen foods these days. Later on in that first week of training we were issued our M-14 rifles. And right away training began with them. We learned how to take them apart. Taking notes to make sure we didn't forget what we learned. And with a little help how to put them back together again. One thing about Sergeant Kelly and for that matter all the drill sergeants, whether they were giving us orders or helping us out, they were always around. If you have to go through basic training it's pretty nice to have somebody around who knows what he's doing. Then it was more drill and ceremony this time with our rifles. We looked pretty sloppy at first but after a while some of us started to get the hang of it. When that happened you start to wonder why they keep going over and over the same things. You've just got to remember that in the Army you do everything as a unit. And some guys aren't as smart as you are. Like old Stan here but I needed a little straightening out myself. That's a rifle bolt you're looking through. It was open for inspection arms. One of the movements you've got to know in the manual of arms. The class and guard mount was a ceremony in itself. Everyone was assigned a specific function. From the officer of the day played by Sergeant Kelly to the sentry played by one of us lowly privates.  I suppose it is an honor to pull guard duty but sometimes it gets a little cold at 4 a.m. We studied our general orders then one night we were out there walking guard. Early in the morning early in the morning Friday night we were in the barracks getting ready for our first Saturday morning inspection shining our boots and shooting the breeze. I forget what I said but it sure must have been funny. Inspection was just what they said it would be. They went over us with a fine tooth comb the drill sergeants the company officers everybody. As usual Stan came in for more attention to test winter. This time he didn't know his general orders which got him into trouble right away and he still couldn't do order arms this led to an even closer inspection and naturally his bayonet was dirty. At the end of the inspection there was a small ceremony officially promoting those of us who had been acting as squad leaders till now. Later that evening Sergeant Kelly took us aside one by one and explained what he expected of us as squad leaders. He told me if I couldn't do the job he'd have me relieved of my duties and I'd have a long way to go to get back up. I thought about it and I figured it was worthwhile to stay straight. Monday we were off to the hand to hand combat arena. Hand to hand training was supposed to teach us the principles of self defense in case we ran out of bullets while we're caught in combat without our weapon kicking, jabbing and kicking again. Sometimes it got a little rough in the pits. He just grazed me but I felt it. So I got him back. Bayonet training was next. The drill sergeants demonstrated the movements for us. Then we learned how to do them ourselves. Then it was back to the hand to hand pits to put the two together. I suppose it's possible to take a bayonet away from somebody with your bare hands but I hope I never have to try it. With all that training behind us we started to get some order to it. This is the bayonet assault course. A series of obstacles run at full speed with fixed bayonets. Vaulting log walls, sticking hard rubber targets, growling viciously all the time. Then we were down on our bellies crawling under barbed wire to get at more targets. I kept my bayonet safely out in front of me. They tell you the spirit of the bayonet is to kill. And after a while you start to believe it. Actually the bayonet assault course was kind of fun. A variation of the old game of cowboys and Indians. Without the Indians. If any of this caused broken bones in training or on the battlefield we learned how to take care of that too. Of course in battle you wouldn't have those nice straight boards to use as a splint. You'd use your rifle or a couple of sticks. We also learned how to get the victim breathing again.  Sergeant Kelly made sure I got it right. I got him breathing. If there was nothing else we could do for the victim we learned how to carry him back to more professional care. That is if we could get him off the ground. After a couple of weeks of all training and no play, we were getting a little tired. So one Saturday afternoon we got a touch football game together and things livened up for a while. But we never got away from training for very long. Here we are in the rifle ranges to learn that the M-14 is more than just a convenient place to attach a bayonet. We spent the first few days on the ranges learning how to sight and shoot properly. That's not a good shot group. From there we moved to the field firing ranges. Where targets top up from 65 to 275 meters. The targets are electrically controlled and when the bullet hits them they go down. And when the bullet hits them they go down. It's a lot more fun than shooting at a rusty tin can. Finally, after almost two weeks on the practice ranges we were getting ready for the big one record range where we would shoot for a final score with the rifle. We spent a lot of time getting our weapons in shape. Then we were there record range. They tightened the gas cylinder lock screws on our weapons to prevent misfire. Then we blackened our sights front and rear and our eyes keep out the glare. Out on the range I stayed cool like the targets came up and I knocked them down. Record range wasn't the same as the other ranges. The targets came up in front of trees behind hills and bushes the target detection must have helped because I found those targets and I hit them two at a time even. And when it was over I'd shot expert. Believe me it felt pretty good to knock off more targets than almost anybody else. In fact everybody who shot expert got a weekend pass. Back from the ranges there was a lot more training still to go. This is not a free-for-all. Believe it or not it's a part of bayonet training called Pugelstick. After all those weeks of training walking is the greatest way in the world to swing your aggressions away you're too well padded to get hurt but you sure can get batted around when two guys are working on you. Things picked up even more at the grenade range I hustled out into the bay they gave me a grenade and I held on tight I pulled the pin with a little strain cocked my arm threw it and look out I needed a little relaxation. So that night I went into the day room and talked a couple of my buddies into a game of pool but that didn't last long either. Next day there we were at it again you know in basic training you've got something new every day and this was a gas in living color. This was mass practice for CBR or gas training. It looked funny but at least I could breathe. From there we were herded into an innocent looking little building which just happened to be full of tear gas and then we had to take our masks off we had to give our name, rank and service number before they let us out crying like babies oh man that smart I figured things couldn't get any tougher after that but it didn't take me long to find out how wrong I'd been. This is the March to Bivouac Bivouac is the army version of Boy Scout Camp only it's a little different in the first place you have to march about 10 miles in full field gear to the Bivouac area in the second place there aren't any Girl Scout camps nearby the first thing we did at the Bivouac area was set up our tents as usual Sergeant Kelly was nearby to help out then as soon as we had our tents squared away and dug our drainage ditches to keep out the rain we were off again for training Bivouac style the toughest thing about Bivouac is crawling through soft sandy dirt on your back under barbed wire with your steel helmet shoveling sand down the back of your neck but just because you're all dirty and living out in the woods intense doesn't mean you can stop doing things like shaving or just keeping clean you have to learn to do it under trying circumstances shaving with a mirror that looks like it belongs in your sister's purse and with icy water swishing in your steel helmet there's just one thing you have to watch out for when you're shaving Bivouac style your drill sergeant man that guy really gets around another phase of Bivouac training was the assault force which is part of individual tactical training which in turn is what Bivouac is all about it's the real nitty-gritty of foot soldiering while you and your half of the squad are up running the other half is down covering your assault and vice versa here's half the squad coming in for a landing they're covering for this guy coming up now everybody takes out his grenade tosses it at a bunker and gets down and fires off a few more rounds then you get up and start moving blasting away an imaginary enemy we ate in the field every day during Bivouac we didn't eat food though we ate chow in the army that's all you ever eat you've got to call everything by its proper name this guy is probably complaining about the food but believe me he doesn't mean it heck everybody in basic training complains about something but after a hard morning of training that chow tastes real good after chow every man had to wash and sterilize his tray for the next meal then we were off again we were out on Bivouac two more days training all day long learning new things we'd already learned this is a close combat course it's probably the most dangerous training area in all of basic because you're firing live ammunition walking down there and your buddies are on either side of you doing the same thing so you've got to be careful to keep shooting straight ahead in fact finally came to an end but we didn't have time to celebrate because our final PT test was scheduled for the next morning it was time we'd be doing PT for a while and believe me we were up for it dangling like monkeys from the horizontal ladder or crawling like alligators we raced against the timer's watch tossing grenades at a yellow helmet that just dared us to hit it and we never did through the run, dodge and jump course and the fatigue and combat boots and me and shorts and sneakers and I thought I was going to die when it was over but suddenly we were into the last big event of basic, the G3 proficiency course where we were tested on everything we had learned away from the rifle ranges and the PT fields remember drill and ceremony boy you'd better you'll be graded on it just like we were and that NCO looks for the smallest mistake first aid testing included what to do in case of nuclear attack what you do is jump into a hole and pull it in after you and we had to know how to wash chemical agents off our skin this is a five step method and you've got to have each step right or it's all wrong two days before graduation we were given the chance to test our new skills informally on something called the confidence course stepping over logs gently fellas so you might hurt yourself swinging over logs which is real hard to do gently up a log ladder 30 feet high skinning up ropes then jumping over more logs personally I still had a lot more confidence with both feet on the ground then we were the penance flying and strangely enough civilians after eight weeks of basic training you classify everyone who isn't in uniform as a civilian it's hard out then the commanding general on the brigade commander got into the reviewing chief and drove around to pick up our battalion commander to troop the line that means review the troops pretty good I wasn't real fond of the grind of basic training but I'd been through it and I'd made it I'd worked at it because I discovered early that that was by far the easiest way to keep the grief to a minimum of course you'll have to find that out to yourselves and I know some of you are bound to try it the hard way but if everybody had played it smart then we all would have graduated at the same time some guys who thought they knew it all are still taking basic but now that was all over and we were getting out at least out of basic training the band let us buy the stands pass the reviewing officers and beaming relatives a lot of the guys' families came down to see them in our battalion there were guys from 37 different states from Maine to Texas and a state flag from each one marched ahead of us leading us out of the parade field out to meet our waiting relatives and friends that's not my sister fellas yes sir little Betty Lu the girl next door came down to see me out of basic training boy after 8 weeks it sure was good to see her again well Betty's back home now and I'm in advanced infantry training defending a mocked Vietnamese village against an attack from other trainees dressed up in vietnam uniforms before long I'll be playing this game for real I've learned to think like a soldier it'll probably keep me alive right now there probably isn't anyone who can convince you that you'll ever look back on basic training with gratitude but you will I didn't believe it either but I know I couldn't do what I'm doing now if I hadn't been through it if you have to fight basic training will help you to stay alive so remember fellas it's up to you


Hello, this is LaptopMedia, and today, we will show you how to open the HP NV16 and what's inside of it. Getting inside this laptop is really easy. Just undo the 5 Torx head screws holding the bottom panel in place, and pry it with a plastic tool, starting from the back. Please remember, it would be of great help to us if you just hit the like button and subscribe to our channel. That would motivate us to make even more and better videos for you. Here, you get an 83Wh battery pack. It lasts for 12 hours and 30 minutes of web browsing, or about 12 hours of video playback. To take it out, undo the 8 Philips head screws, and unplug the battery connector from the motherboard. To access the memory, remove the metal shroud. This will reveal 2 Sodom slots, which work with DDR5 RAM. Storage wise, you get 2 M.2 PCIe X4 slots both of which support Gen4 SSDs. The cooling comprises a vapor chamber and an additional heat pipe, which goes to a side-mounted heat sink. In addition, there are 2 fans and 2 more heat sinks. If you'd like to see more disassembly videos of the latest notebooks we would highly appreciate if you hit the like button and subscribe to the channel.


So much positive energy and warmth, what if there were a way to save it all and use it when we want? Well there is, and we've been doing it since we discovered fire. Trees absorb and store the sun's energy by turning it into wood, which has always been the world's most used source of renewable energy. We don't just cook and heat our homes with it, new scientific advances using wood waste are opening it up to even more uses like liquid biofuels to power cars and aeroplanes, making it a fuel of the future. Using wood sustainably keeps a balance for future generations. The Forest. Nature's powerhouse.


Woman finds pink flowers on her porch, until one day she realizes why. Rosie felt her heart beat faster as she saw who was standing outside. She had not expected this despite everything that had happened. For weeks now she has been wondering who has been leaving flowers on her doorstep. Finally, the culprit stood before her and she knew she needed to get proof on camera or no one would believe her. Rosie had moved into her new house only a few months earlier. After graduating from Oxford University she moved back home but soon decided to strike out on her own. This is how she and a friend moved to a neighborhood in Bristol. Little did they know that there was more to their street than meets the eye. Moving to her new home in winter presented some difficulties. One of these was the fact that it made it difficult to meet and socialize with their neighbors. Fortunately, everyone that she did meet seemed to be very friendly. When spring finally came, it brought new meetings and something she could never have expected. While out on her deck one day she noticed some pink flowers lying around. She was happy to see that the flowers were blossoming but she had no pink flowers in her garden. She simply assumed that they were blown there by the wind. She thought nothing of it, until later, however. A few days later, however, there were more pink flowers on her deck. She peeked over the fences at her neighbors but none of their decks had any pink flowers. She was curious and asked her roommate about it but she had no idea either. Could someone intentionally be leaving the flowers there? And if so, who? Due to the layout of their street, it was difficult to figure out who might be leaving the flowers around. We live on a street of terraced houses that backs onto another street of terraced houses with a kind of garden corridor between, she explained. What this meant was that almost all of her neighbors could get access to her desk. She desperately tried to think of who among everyone she met might be doing this. Even once she went through her list of suspects, she couldn't think of anyone who might be the culprit. Rosie was back to square one. Flowers are usually an expression of love. So who might be in love with her and giving her these flowers? It was both flattering and scary to think there was a mystery guest delivering flowers. For weeks this continued until one day she finally discovered the truth. While Rosie was in the kitchen cooking, she happened to look out of the window to see the neighbor's cat, Willow. Willow was walking towards the deck. Though there was nothing unusual about the friendly cat visiting people in the neighborhood, she noticed that there was something in the cat's mouth. Willow walked to the deck carrying one of the pink flowers in her mouth. Rosie grabbed her phone because she knew no one would believe her. I was so excited that I went to film it because she's so cute and I'd never seen a cat ever bring back anything but dead animals before, Rosie said. When she first moved in, Rosie met Willow long before she met her human neighbors. Willow had been sitting outside mulling. Being a lover of cats, Rosie opened the door and watched as Willow made herself at home. Soon she would discover that this was not unusual behavior for this cat. Willow rules over about six of the gardens, and I'm pretty sure she gets fed by everyone because she's very difficult to say no to, explained Rosie. All the neighbors she met over time told similar stories of Willow's behavior. Rosie found it difficult to settle into her new life as an adult. She had spent most of her adult life as a student. She was happy in her new home and town but nevertheless, something was missing. Willow helped to fix that, however, as she had several cats during her time at Oxford. Rosie began to stock up on cat food and treats for whenever Willow decided to visit. Whenever she got a package she would save the box for Willow to sit in. She and Willow soon became good friends. Apparently Willow also realized how much Rosie loved her. Rosie was happy to have Willow in her life even though she knew that she was just one of the many human friends Willow had. Willow was welcomed and loved in all the homes in the neighborhood. This is why Rosie started crying when she thought that Willow only brought flowers to her house. Not only did no one else receive any flowers from Willow that spring but the flowers were stolen from her owner's own garden. She clearly likes us because she steals flowers from her owners and leaves them on our deck, Rosie explained.


This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it President David Beauchard Dean Jewel Longnecke pastors and leaders gathered for this conference sponsored by Anabaptist Mennonite biblical seminary my brothers and sisters in Christ what a joy it is for me to be here with you even virtually the theme of this conference is thriving together and Our text for the evening is Isaiah 48 28 through 31 Do you not know? Have you not heard the Lord is the everlasting God the creator of the ends of the earth He will not grow tired and weary and his Understanding no one can fan them. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak even youth Grow tired and weary and young men and women stumble and fall But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not think Or just a few moments if you will pray with me, I'd like to speak to you from the topic dare to hope dare To hope God let the words of my mouth the meditation of all of our hearts be found acceptable in thy sight because you alone Oh God are our strength and our redeemer. I pray that in the next few moments God I would Decrease and you would increase so that the people will hear and see none of me But all of you It's in your strong and mighty name that we pray the name of Jesus Amen Last year 2020 was a difficult year by anyone's estimation Discovering that there was a coronavirus that quickly spread like wildfire and proved fatal We were placed on a stay-at-home Order this meant the closing of anything that wasn't considered essential schools businesses athletic events and even churches The first emotion that most experienced was fear the fear of the unknown fear of what would happen to us our family members and friends fear of What would become of our churches? While some churches have been able to weather the storm with online services and giving others have struggled to survive Decline in memberships resources and the inability to rapidly change to meet the demands this pandemic has placed upon us Made all of this seem like an impossible situation to get through Needless to say people all over the nation and the world have struggled with this crisis The loss of life has been devastating Every one of us knows someone who has died because of COVID-19 The economic distress has been overwhelming as people lost jobs and then had to figure out how to maintain their households Feeding themselves and or their families with no money Many are still trying to make sense of it even as proclaimers of the gospel and women and men of faith We must admit at times. We have felt anxious as well Though we are intelligent people creative and resourceful people who usually can figure things out and come up with a plan of action This one has us all in a quandary Trying to figure out what to do next and if that wasn't enough There was social unrest brought on by the senseless police brutality and others taking black lives The protests that we thought would never end and wondered if they should Provided a prelude to one of the most difficult election seasons in recent history Due to the belief by many that the election was fraudulent There are some who still believe the new president is not legitimate and stormed the capital to make their point So tell me how are you feeling about the times that we are living in? Do you feel like we are living in hopeless times? Does it feel like God has forgotten about us that God has vacated the premises and left us alone to fend for ourselves? Though God claims to love us with an everlasting love In the minds of some It is not obvious If God cared why would he allow such bad things to happen to good people if God cared Why has he permitted such destruction to take place in our nation and world if God really cares Why doesn't he say or do something to stop this pain and devastation in the lives of so many people? are living hopelessly Hopeless is what you feel when everything in your life has fallen apart and you're not sure you have the resources or the strength To put it all back together again Hopeless is what you feel when you have performed too many funerals in socially distant spaces or at grave sites Wondering if the loved ones have had sufficient clothes You're hopeless is what you feel when you look at the world at large and those who are in charge and wonder How they will lead us out of this mess we're in Hopeless is what you are when you know that you have messed up And deserve the madness that you're experiencing so you resolve to live with it. But how long All you ask Is there no end to what you are going through The problem in our nation and in so many of our lives is not simply the circumstances that we are dealing with The problem is that too many of us are living with a loss of hope A loss of hope will cause you to become insensitive to the atrocities that confront us every day Hopelessness will make you numb after a while to all the pain and loss around you Hopelessness makes a skeptical of the voices is promising a better tomorrow and a better world Hopelessness also paralyzes you and makes you think that you have no power to change the circumstances in the world at large Or in your own private little worlds in particular and so you do nothing Someone said when you think you can you can't but when you think you can't you don't even try The worst thing that we can do is Nothing It's so easy to get a trap there when you think you have no options no way out But there is always a way out When you have hope We dare not allow the circumstances of our lives to continue to discourage us robbing us of the will and the power To conquer whatever we are faced with whether it's the pandemic the poverty in our nation That has become exasperated by it the threat to our democracy and unity as a nation The challenges that we face as people of god Seeking to worship And represent him I stopped by to remind you tonight that as the people of god giving up Is not an option We dare to hope In hopeless times our god is a god of hope This is the unequivocal message of the scriptures god is the hope of the nation as well as the people who populate it That's what the prophet germaya addresses god calling him. Oh hope of israel It's saviour in times of distress He is also our personal hope as the psalmist attest in 71 5 for you have been my hope Oh sovereign lord my confidence Since my youth What is hope? Usually when we think of hope we define it as expectation and desire But the biblical concept of hope is so much more It's also trust and confidence and refuge In god When you dare to hope in god you have an expectation of a favorable future a desired outcome under god's direction When you dare to hope you expect good things to happen You face each new day each challenge with the expectation that god will see you through in the old testament The most frequently used expressions of the word hope are the words kava To wait to expect and bata to be full of confidence So from our perspective as the people of god hope is desire with undaunted perseverance It's an expectation with confidence It is to hope against hope to hope without any basis for expecting fulfillment except You know who god is that god is able and god has promised I know the plans i have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future How then can we be hopeless? All of us know personally how easy it is to lose hope even as sons and daughters of god Given all that we are faced in the world and in our personal and professional lives We can so easily become overwhelmed and lose perspective God understands us and our struggle to remain hopeful in the face of difficult and discouraging times It's for this reason that he speaks through the prophet isiah to his people then and now As a result of their continued disobedience and rebellions against god The people of israel had lost everything and were living in exile in babalon the oppressive regimes of the syria and babalon had taken its toll Life had gone from bad to worse with no end to the madness in sight sounds like the world that we are living in right now The enemies victories over israel made it appear that they were stronger than god The nations the people who worship idols seem to be getting away with their wickedness and sin while israel continually suffered Rather than trust Israel has started to complain You know how we do when our backs are up against the wall when we are overwhelmed discouraged and feeling defeated God has forgotten about us. He obviously doesn't know what we're going through or he just doesn't care They could see no end to their predicament and so they had given up hope But god in his providence Had the prophet isiah pinned these words of encouragement to israel You do know what providence means. Don't you pro before a video to see God sees what you need even before you have a need and provides it at just the right time Isiah wrote these words to israel some 700 years before they found themselves in trouble god knows everything There is to know about us in our circumstances before the foundation of the world He knew where we would be and what we would be going through at this time in history And he provided us with this word through the prophet isiah the word Is an invitation to hope and an incentive to do so Isiah says they who hope In the lord will renew their strength. They will soar on ex ex egos. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint isiah could make such a bold assertion to the israelites in the midst of their trial because he was focusing on the majesty and greatness of our god in this entire chapter Which gives us hope we can dare to hope because god is greater than the circumstances behind us In verses one through eleven as the remnant in babelan look back over their lives They saw their failure and sin and needed encouragement God instructed the prophet to speak comfort to his people to speak tenderly to their hearts Isiah was to speak a word of pardon to the people of god Despite the fact that they had sinned greatly as individuals And as a nation through idolatry and injustice and immorality and insensitivity to his messengers They were still his people Though he had to chasten and allow them to experience the consequences of their disobedience He would never forsake them on the heels of judgment god speaks a word of comfort to his people prophetically telling her that their appointed period of hardship is over their sin has been paid for And they had received from the lord's hand a gift of grace hallelujah In other words the exile is not the last word for the lord's people God has a plan and purpose for their nation that they will be a blessing to the whole world It's the same with us This pandemic these protests this this unity this craziness that we are going through all of the troubles That we see in our churches is not the last word god is a gracious and forgiving god The psalmist says in 103 9 the lord is compassionate and gracious slow to anger abounding in love He will not always accuse nor will he harbor his anger forever. He does not treat us As our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above the air So great is his love for us as far as the east is from the west so far Has god removed our transgressions from us When you find yourself in a mess of your own making no need to despair or be hopeless god is not through with you God never gives up on us. This is our hope. Don't give up. Look up God's grace is greater than our sin God is madly in love with his people and is ever reaching out to us to be reconciled The prophet talked about a voice calling in the wilderness preparing the way of the lord in those days When a king was coming the rose had to be prepared every valley raised the mountain and hills brought low The rough places made smooth to ensure safe passage All the gospel writers use this scripture to refer to john the baptist the wilderness preacher Who prepared the way for jesus christ? john came as a voice crying in the wilderness Telling the people to prepare for the coming of the lord by returning to write relationship with god What a word for us during this season of our lives the reason for our hope Is jesus christ as the people of god we can dare to hope because of god's manifested salvation in christ He is the source of all of our expectations the affirmation and fulfillment of all god's promises god came to earth In jesus and his glory was revealed to us the promise of god's coming and deliverance of israel was undoubtedly met with some skepticism But isaia made clear that there's a major contrast between humans and god In verses six through eight he says people are like grass and their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field that soon withers So we cannot depend on them, but the word of our god Endures forever When god makes a promise he will fulfill it god will do what god says he will do God watches over his word to perform it you can depend on god god will never disappoint you god will never fail you when you dare To have hope You take god at his word because god is a god of his word Once again in verses nine through 11 isaia talks about god's coming as a sovereign king with power and his arm rules with him Which talks about his strength? god is a mighty king with all power in his hand, but he's also a shepherd Who tends to his flock? Protecting and providing for them god takes care of his own The song ride is set it this way be not dismayed whatever be tied god will take care of you beneath his wings of love abide god will Take care of you God is greater than the circumstances before us In verses 12 through 26 isaia seeks to help the people put the circumstances of their lives in their proper perspective You see like you and i they were focusing on the wrong things people presidents pandemics situations beyond their patrol control and even those that they could do something about And what they saw caused them to trip But when you behold the greatness of our god hallelujah Everything else can be seen in its proper perspective Using a series of five rhetorical questions isaia makes clear that god is greater than anything or anyone on earth Or in heaven when he created the world he didn't need anyone to assist him He's so great that he could hold all the waters of the globe in his hand and measure out the heavens With the breath of his hand all the dust of the earth could be contained in one of his baskets And the mountains figuratively speaking could be weighed by him on a small scale No one is equal to him nobody greater than our god in power or knowledge He doesn't need to consult anyone about anything take counsel about what he needs to do There are no moments when god does not understand Paul quotes isaia in romans 11 33 in praise of our god Oh the depth of the riches and the wisdom and knowledge of god how Unsearchable his judgments and his past beyond tracing out who has known The mind of the lord or who has been his counselor Who has ever given to god that should god should repay him for from him and through him and to him Are all things to him Be glory hallelujah forever and ever amen The bottom line is this God is greater than our problems greater than your situation greater than the opposition greater Than anyone or anything else in all the world god is large and in charge This is god's world the nations are a drop in a bucket compared to him Nothing is beyond his control. So isaia asked the question In verse 21 do you not know have you not heard have you not understood? Since the earth was founded That he sits enthroned above the circle of the earth and its people look like grasshoppers He has complete control He appoints and disappoints Presidents and governors and leaders in every sphere He can bring them down in an instant when we are tempted to be anxious about the state of this nation And whether or not it will spin out of control We have to be reminded that god rules and super rules Nothing can happen that god does not permit god is greater than our circumstances Somebody has defined circumstances as those nasty things we see when we take our eyes off god If we look at god through our circumstances He will seem small and very far away, but if by faith we look at our circumstances through god He will be near and will reveal his greatness to us To whom will you compare me god says or who is my equal?  Look to the heavens. Who created all of these? My brothers and sisters When you are feeling small and insignificant wondering if you are important enough for god to come see about you Remember that the god who named and numbered the stars knows your name and the very hands of your head are numbered He also knows what you need when you need it and will be there right on time when we look at god and all of his greatness This is a cause for celebration and praise Praise is recognition of the greatness of our god God is great and greatly to be praised when we think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for us We are prompted to give him praise glory and honor from the rising of the sun To the going down of the same somebody help me praise him Praise him But as i told you earlier Instead of celebrating the greatness of god isra was complaining Because they felt that god didn't know their situation Oh, he wasn't concerned about their problems God is greater than the circumstances behind us God is greater than the circumstances before us And god is greater than the circumstances within us The people of israel having grown tired and the struggle didn't even think they had the strength to recover Even after their deliverance They didn't feel like they had the strength to rebuild jerusalem. They like us were feeling powerless drained tired Sick and tired of being sick and tired God knows how we feel and what we fear as we look to the future and what happens After this pandemic is finally open and we return to our church as a win We look at our nation and the great divide that we are faced with having to try to repair Or whatever your concern is at the moment He knows that some of us have grown weary Even our young people have grown tired and are struggling to survive in this pandemic But god is more than sufficient to meet our every need We could never obey god be faithful remain focused and hopeful in our own strength But we can always trust him for the strength we need For whatever we need to accomplish When we trust ourselves and others we will faint and fall But those who hope In the lord will renew their strength The word hope is the hebrew word kava as i told you earlier Which means to trust to have confidence In god, but it also means to wait Patiently that's the way the king james version renders it they that wait on the lord But to wait on the lord doesn't mean to sit around and do nothing It means to wait on god Expectedly to look to god for all we need to be certain to be confident To worship god in the spirit of holiness to give god the praise that he is worthy of Hope is an active waiting while you wait you are praying you are studying you're meditating on his word His character his power Hope Is also a trustful Rest Here it is a participle pointing to a maintained relationship Which means that you are constantly working on your personal relationship with god if you're going to rush rest In him Then you need to know him Not just casually But intimately When you hope in the lord Your strength will be renewed the word renewed comes from a word whose basic meaning is to change or to exchange Taking off the old and putting on the new like an eagle when he goes through a period of molting The eagle strength is literally renewed after each molting season It's only after the eagle has put off his old feathers so to speak that he actually receives strength To soar above his enemies It's the same with us when we take off the old stuff that worry the care the fret the anxiety The weight of the concerns That we are able to so Like the eagles So to be renewed is to put on fresh Strength or to keep on putting on Strength it's a different kind of strength It's god strength a strength that allows us to soar to soar to soar To soar means you can run or easily handle the exceptional demands of life You can run and not be weary And you can also walk and deal with the ordinary daily grind You know what i'm talking about pastors Through our hope in him Our strength is renewed and we have power To soar when there is a crisis to run when the challenges are many to walk faithfully in the day to day Demands of life when we hope In the lord We look to him With confidence for all we need it's to trust him with all of our hearts and lean not to our own understanding In all our ways acknowledging him he will direct our path He will give us certainty in uncertain times clarity about our next move piece that passes all understorage and courage To press all No matter what it looks like Or feels like They that hope in the lord can handle anything Amen


Facilitating your first workshop can be rather scary, especially if you think that your first time has to be a quote-unquote short one-hour workshop with multiple exercises. But you can actually start your facilitation journey with something that's much easier and much shorter. In this video, we're going to share with you a 15-minute micro workshop that you can run during any meeting and we're going to walk you through it step by step. Hi, my name is Amr and I'm a full-time facilitator at AJN Smart. The first time I facilitated a workshop, I was actually pretty scared and nervous. Like most things you're trying for the first time, you have no idea what to expect. I didn't know if I was going to be able to present confidently to participants or explain the exercises correctly or manage the time and I was really worried that people would reach the end of the workshop with no useful outcome and they would just think that it was a waste of time. And now having trained people and companies to become facilitators, I know that this sentiment, this initial fear of how to get started is shared by a lot of you and might even stop you from trying facilitation for the first time, which is exactly why we created this video. In this video, we're going to walk you through a 15-minute short workshop that you can use to dip your toes into the world of facilitation. So you can run this micro workshop either in person or remotely. It doesn't matter. And we made a script for you for what to say exactly word for word when you're facilitating your first workshop so you know exactly what you have to say and you don't even need to think about it. And if you're running this micro workshop remotely, we put together a Miro template for you and Miro is the app that we always use at agent smart to deliver workshops remotely and it's really easy to get started with and we even created separate onboarding videos for both you as a facilitator and your participants. So you literally have everything you need to run your first micro workshop, including what to say, the tools to use and how to get started using those tools. The link to all those resources is in the description box below. And if you have any questions about running this workshop, make sure to leave them in the comments. And also we'd like to know what's stopping you from running your first workshop. So let us know in the comments as well. So the 15-minute micro workshop that we're going to go over today is called note and vote. So the note and vote workshop is made up of just two exercises, noting and voting. But these two exercises are at the heart of every great workshop and they are two exercises that you should really master before moving on to bigger and more complex workshops. At agent and smart, we use the note and vote micro workshop all the time, both internally and with our clients, and we use it for all sorts of situations like prioritizing problems, doing quick ideation, or just simply a sharing session. And the note and vote micro workshop is really great for so many reasons. For one, it's super efficient. And in 15 minutes, it can get done what usually would take two hours with traditional brainstorming. And it's also great because everything is captured and noted down on paper or on a digital whiteboard. And it ensures that everyone has a voice and gives their input. And it has no bias because everything is anonymous as well. So if you're running this workshop in person, the setup is very, very simple.   And also you wouldn't want people to write too many things into a sticky note. So a sharpie forces people to be concise. So the third and final thing you'll need is some voting dots. So something like this or like this as a nice bonus, you can also get one of these timers, which makes the timing for the exercise very clear for everyone in the room. But you could also use your phone if you don't have one of these. And so because everyone knows how to use sticky notes and sharpies and voting dots, we won't go too much into that. And we're going to focus for the rest of the video on how to do this workshop remotely. But all the steps that we're going to go through apply just as well to an in-person workshop with the only difference being that you're moving physical sticky notes as opposed to moving them on a computer. So let's jump into Mira. This is the Mira template that we're going to be working with. And as you can see, it's super simple. All it has is a question at the top, some names and some sticky notes for people to write in, as well as some voting dots. Now using Mira is very simple, but if you haven't used it before, we've created a couple of overview videos that go over the basics. And you can check those out by following the link in the description box below. So as you can see, this template is very simple, which should make it easy for your team to also use it, even if they've never used something like Mira before. And as you can see, there's literally nothing else on here except this board with the sticky notes and the voting dots. And we've also integrated the script for what you need to say right on this board and put it down in the corner. And so to access that, all you need to do is hover over this box and we've labeled them FN, short for facilitator notes, because we didn't want your participants to be clicking on them. So we made it this cryptic short thing off to the side. This is just for you to click into. And once you click into it, you'll be able to see the exact script for what you need to say. And it's broken into three steps. So FN0 is just a list of things that you need to know before you run the workshop. And you can even delete this before you share the link with your team. And then facilitator notes one is the exact script of what you need to say during the workshop. And FN2 is the rest of that script. So I've created an example board that I'll show you here, which has the steps of the exercises. And let me walk you through the script that we've prepared here. So starting with the first one, which is just the preparation, this goes over how to use this script. And it says that everything in between these asterisks that starts with facilitator notes, that's something that is a note intended for you. And you shouldn't actually say this to your participants. And that's exactly what this note says. And then we have a checklist for you for preparing the board. So for this template that we have right here, you can see that it has a question at the top, which is how can we attract more customers. And you can replace that with a question that's relevant for your meeting. And you should definitely replace the names at the top with the names of the people in your team. And all of that is captured in the checklist. So before you share the board, make sure you replace the question, update the names, and you should practice reading out the script at least one time so that you're comfortable with it before you run this exercise. Also, feel free to adapt it. If you feel like the language doesn't come out naturally for you. And this is something that's very important for a facilitator. You should really be comfortable with your script for facilitation so that everything comes out naturally and you're not tripping over words that are unnatural or sound weird to you. So that's it for facilitator notes zero. That's just the prep step. So before we go into the script, let me show you what the exercise is all about. So as you can see here, it's this very simple board, but I've duplicated in multiple times just to simulate the progression of this exercise. So it starts with a bunch of empty sticky notes for everyone in the team. And you have an area here to the side that is hidden in the beginning because we will only get to this step later. And so the first thing you should do is update the question at the top and the names to reflect the names of your team. And if you need to add any more columns or take out a few, you do all of that before the actual workshop so that the board is just ready for you to get started. And this workshop is really made up of two steps. First, everyone writes answers to the questions individually, and this is called working together alone. So you're all together in either a conference call or in a physical space and everyone has some time to think to themselves. So you put five minutes on a timer and maybe play even some background music and everyone is writing sticky notes. There's no discussion happening. Everyone gets some thinking time to themselves. And when the timer is up, that's when we move on to the next step, which is the voting. Now instead of discussing things, because after you're done with the first step, you're going to have a large collection of sticky notes and ideas to go through. And it will be very slow to start tackling these randomly and individually. So what you do instead is you use some red voting dots, and those represent your voice and everyone in the room. So everyone would get a number of red dots. So in this case, in this template, we've gone for three dots per person. And after the timer for ideation is up, you take everyone to the voting area and you tell them, all right, everyone has three dots to vote. And to vote, we simply take a red dot and place it on a sticky note. And each person can vote for the ideas that they wish to prioritize. And after we're done voting, then we're going to look at all the ideas. So let me show you how this looks in practice. So once you started the ideation, we'll have people writing on the board. And so, for example, to answer the question of how can we attract more customers, someone like Annabella would have ideas like maybe we create a YouTube channel, or maybe we run ads on Facebook, or maybe we organize a meetup for people in our industry, or create a blog, or show our office life on Instagram. So everyone would write down their ideas while the timer is running. And then after the timer runs out, you take everyone's names and you delete them. And you delete all of the empty notes as well. So you can look just at the ideas with nothing else getting in the way. After you're done, you can just select all of these sticky notes and quickly rearrange them into a grid. So everyone can start looking at them in preparation for the next step, which is the voting. So now that we have a sorted collection of sticky notes, we move on to the voting and you tell everyone that they have three dots to vote on. And after everyone is done voting, you take all the sticky notes that God voted on and you put them in a separate area and you rearrange them according to the number of votes that they got. So you end up with a pyramid like this, because chances are only a few ideas will get simultaneous votes from everyone and you'll have a bunch of ideas that got one vote each. And so that's really it for this exercise. You will have gone from no ideas about how to tackle a particular issue to having gathered ideas from the entire team and then quickly voted on which ideas should be prioritized. And when you end up with this list, you can start discussing only the top ideas for the rest of your meeting. And so within 15 minutes, you will have introduced people to the exercise, then introduced Miro and had everyone ideate on the board, then vote on it. And you will have a prioritized list of ideas to go through all in 15 minutes instead of taking hours to get to the same place if you didn't run a workshop. So now that you know how the exercise works and what it's about, let me show you a quick overview of the script that we have written for you. So what you would do with your team is exactly what we just did in this video, which is first introduce the idea. So you would say something like for today's meeting, I thought it would be great for us to try a popular ideation technique called note and vote and Google and other big companies use this a ton to make ideation much faster, while also giving everyone space to think. So now you're getting people excited about the exercise. And this is really important whether you're doing this in person or remotely, and especially if you're doing it remotely, because you're asking people to use this new digital whiteboard app, which might cause a little bit of friction. So it's good to excite people up front about the idea. And you also say this whole exercise should take us around 10 to 15 minutes, rather than the two hours it would take us to get to the same place without it. After that, you introduce Miro to your team. And this is all before you've shared the link with them. So you say, since we're doing it all remotely, we're gonna have to use an app to run this workshop. And it's very simple. It's very easy. I have a quick overview video to share with you. And we have a super short video that goes over the basics that you can share with your team. So you don't even have to do the explaining yourself, but you can also do it that way if you prefer. And after you've done that, that's when you share the link to the Miro board with everyone. So then we have a note that says after everyone has watched the video and has the Miro link, that's when you introduce the board and the exercise on Miro. And we have a facilitator note to bring everyone to you. Now, what this means is bringing everyone so that they're looking at the same thing that you are on the Miro board.  This is separate from the video that goes over the basics for everyone in the team because you as a facilitator need to know a few additional features to be able to facilitate a workshop remotely and have it be a great experience for everyone. And so what you would say here is something like, so now that we've seen how all this works, we're ready to jump into the exercise. I've set up a very simple board. It's just what you see here. And each of us have two columns of sticky notes to write ideas in. And you also say, I'll set a timer for seven minutes. That way you get some space to think. And you can also introduce why working in this way is better. So this is called working together alone. And that's what you tell the team. We say they call this working together alone, where we're all collaborating together in the same meeting, but we all have time to ourselves so that we can think and produce ideas without biasing each other. And then you give people some guidelines so you tell everyone, make sure to put only one idea per sticky note. That'll make the sticky notes easier to read and also keep it short but understandable. So don't write an essay, but also don't write just a vague word that no one will understand.  But before you do, just to make sure that everyone is okay using Neuro, it's better to do a check that no one has any issues. And so you say, before I start the timer and we all start typing, I just want to make sure that everyone is able to type in a sticky note without any issues. So let's try that first. Simply double click on a sticky note in your column and start typing. And give that a try before I start the timer so that I know that you're not having trouble. And that's where we have a facilitator note for you to wait for everyone to try typing. And once you feel confident that no one has issues typing sticky notes, that's when you can start the exercise, which is the next section here. And so you say, all right, now we're ready to start the exercise. I'm going to start the timer for seven minutes and play some background music to help everyone concentrate better. And for this, you can use the music selection that's built right into the Muro timer. So you just pick music from here and you can even preview it to select the one that you want to play during the timer. And we prefer something like calm flow or cosmic vibes. And we mentioned that in the script. That's because they tend to be softer and they don't distract from the actual thinking and writing. So we have all of these written down for you in the facilitator notes as three checklist items. And then after the timer is up, that's when everyone will be done ideating. And they will have a board of ideas like we saw earlier. And what you do in this step is just remove the names from the top so that everything is anonymous. You delete the empty sticky notes you can even ask your team to help. And you sort the sticky notes so that they are in a grid instead of these massive gaps between them. And that's the end of the second script. And what you see here at the bottom is to move on to FN2, which is facilitator notes too. So let's click until the last one. And this introduces the voting, which as we covered earlier is this area right here, right next to the board where everyone is working. So let's look at that script now. This is where you introduce the concept of voting, because most people are used to just discussing ideas in a brainstorming session. And what you say here, like now we have a lot of ideas, we cannot discuss them all in the time that we have. So we need to prioritize them first, which is why we're going to do this voting exercise. And whenever you're explaining a new part of an exercise, we have a checklist item for you to bring everyone to you to show them where the red voting dots are on the board. And then you continue explaining and you tell everyone the way this works is that instead of discussing ideas, we all take a few minutes to read through all of the sticky notes. And then we each get three red voting dots to silently vote. So there won't be any discussion when people are voting on this. And everyone decides where their own votes go, according to what they think should be prioritized. And then you say to vote on an idea, you simply move one of the red voting dots next to your name onto the sticky notes that you wish to vote on. And at this point, we also recommend to bring everyone to you again, and just give a quick demo of how that works just to remind people how this works in Miro. And then you give some guidelines. So you tell people it's okay to vote on your own idea. And you can even put multiple dots on the same idea if you feel very strongly about it. But then that leaves you with even fewer dots to vote on other ideas. So now that you've explained how voting works, you can actually start the exercise. And so you just remind everyone again, for this exercise, I'm going to set the timer for five minutes for us to read through all of the sticky notes and then place our votes. And again, to make sure that no one's having trouble, this is where you say, before I start the timer, I want you to try moving your voting dots a little bit just to make sure that you don't have any trouble. Let's try it now. And you wait for everyone to try it and see if anyone needs help. And then when everyone is ready for voting, you start the timer for five minutes with the music again. And we have that checklist for you here. And once everyone is done voting, you'll have a bunch of sticky notes with different number of dots on them. And then you take all of these sticky notes and rearrange them according to the number of votes that they got. And this is all written here. And you share this with the team as you're doing it. And then you say, okay, now that everyone is done voting, I'm just going to reorder these sticky notes based on the number of votes they got so we can start discussing the top voted ones. And then there's a note for you to do that rearrangement, because you're probably going to be faster at it than other people who are using Euro for the first time. So then to end the exercise, you say, okay, now we have a prioritized list of ideas to go through that everyone contributed to and voted on that we can start discussing. And we can clearly see the top ideas that most people wanted to prioritize, which would have been way harder to do if we were just to discuss them without any structure. And let's start discussing the top voted sticky note. And that's where you continue your meeting as usual. So again, in 15 minutes, you've helped everyone ideate and prioritize ideas and just continue your meeting. And by doing that, you will have facilitated your first micro workshop. And after you've done a few of these, you'll feel a lot more confident about running larger workshops, which have multiple steps with note and vote as one of the steps in that workshop. And as you can see in the script, it says this is the end of this micro workshop to let you know that this is the end. You just resume your meeting talking about the top voted ideas. So I hope you found this video helpful. And I hope that it helps you overcome the initial fear of facilitating your first workshop and giving you all the resources you need to get started. So please let us know in the comments if this was helpful for you, or if you have any questions about how to conduct this workshop and to get all of the resources we mentioned in this video, including the word by word script for what to say and the Miro template and the onboarding videos, both for your participants, as well as the facilitator basics. Make sure to click the link in the description box below. So if you enjoyed this video, please give it a like. And if you're interested in videos around facilitation and workshops, then make sure to subscribe and hit the bell icon. Thank you and see you next time. Hi, my name is Omar and I'm micro workshop micro workshop marker. Yeah, cool. Good. I can say one sentence without tripping. Sometimes. And for all the resources, including the script to for what


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This is a 2022 Panini Origins football 8 box half case break picker teams number three So again at the end guys will randomize all the names top name gets a jersey fest promo spot As you can see we've done a couple already Chances at winning some pretty big jerseys So if you want to check out the promo page there it is right there all the jerseys are authenticated by fanatics are authentic by fanatics No custom jerseys here, you know really really nice stuff there as you can see the names And then like I said, there'll be 20 winners 20 breaks Then at the end we'll randomize all the names and we'll match up with the list of All the players there, so Fresh case double origins So the other little character sound it means you want it from a team around them But don't worry remember since it was a team around them You are part of the jersey fest break in regardless even if it was a pack really just will be part of it because you Want a team now here's the origins football case Let's open it up and this is a 8 box half case break So three and four will be the same case together Just have to generate which eight boxes we'll be using here for this one Box right there All right, so one two three for the left four five six for the right. 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with the University of Texas at Austin, and I will be presenting our work towards telemetering for needle insertion, looking at the effects of haptic and visual feedback on mental perception of training forces. The primary application of our telemetering haptic system is for needle decompression. This procedure involves inserting a needle into an affected area such as the lungs are hard to remove excess air. When done correctly, the procedure is lifesaving, but failure rates have been reported as high as 76%, which is why it's important to develop an effective training system. Current training protocols do involve automated patient simulations. However, none of these allow a mentor to directly monitor forces exerted by a trainee, which was what we want to do while minimizing distracting interaction. Our system is composed of two sides. So the training side where the training inserts the needle into a chest pad and force measurements are taken. For this, a custom needle attachment was made, which has a force sensing resistor and also a 3D printed cap which transmits the force from the trainee's finger to the force sensor. And then on the mentor side, the mentor would receive some form of feedback which will go over now. First is positive haptic feedback, so that when the trainee pushes down on the needle, the geomagic touch device would push up on the mentor's hand. Then negative haptic feedback. When the trainee pushes down on the needle, the haptic device would pull the mentor's hand towards itself. And finally, graphic feedback. So when the trainee pushes down on the needle, the mentor can use exploratory motion to determine the force at which they were pushing at. And for the experiment, there are five conditions that we're evaluating. One, graphics and pushing, two, graphics and pulling, and any of the three individual types of feedback. For the experiment, participants who were naive to needle decompression. And we also evaluated three force levels for insertion. For pre-training, the subject will memorize themselves with needle insertion. And then for each condition, there was a training block where the experimenter would insert the needle. And once they reached the force level, they would inform the subject to the force level. And then there was testing. The experimenter would insert the needle. And once they reached the force level, the subject would verbalize the perception of the force level. Participants were evaluated based on their ability to correctly identify the force levels. And these confusion matrices show that they did this the best for conditions one, graphics and pushing, and condition three, just graphics. When we performed the pairwise Wilkinson sign rate test, we saw that there was a statistically significant difference between the two top performing groups and the rest of the groups. However, not all participants performed with 100% accuracy. And so we wondered why that was. So we looked at the exploratory motion, which the mentors took to distinguish the forces. And when we looked at one of the highest performing subjects and the lowest performing subject, we saw that when there was a greater range of vertical motion that the participants performed better. We are currently extending the evaluation to include expert surgeons and intermediate residents. And there will be an additional survey to evaluate the practicality of this system. We are also refining the haptic glove, which would provide guidance cues to the trainee. And we will study the effectiveness of this in the future. Thank you.