Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Brandon Brooks, Hector Bones, and Tim Ashman. Coming up on DTNS, why Dolly Minney is sweeping the internet? Everybody is afraid of TikTok. And could EnReal be winning the mixed reality headset race? The answer's not no. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. It's all Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson. And the show's producer, Roger Chang. Yes, Roger Chang. Welcome and welcome, Scott. Welcome, Sarah. Welcome, bosses are our bosses in the audience. We have a great show for you today and we are going to start with a few tech things you should know, including a correction. Yesterday we talked about the new Apple MLS streaming partnership. We relied on the Wall Street Journal article for details. And after seeing the official Apple press release later, we wanted to correct a couple of misimpressions we gave. We implied that all the matches would be available through Apple TV Plus for $4.99 a month. That is not true. If you want all the matches, Apple says you will need to subscribe to quote, a new MLS streaming service available exclusively through the Apple TV app. And we don't know how much that's going to cost, but it will be included with season ticket packages from MLS teams at no additional charge. Folks who don't subscribe to that but do subscribe to Apple TV Plus will still get a broad selection of matches, so Apple says. And as we mentioned yesterday, non-subscribers to either service will be able to watch a limited number of matches for free on the app. Hot tip to Mickey for directing us to the additional info. Indeed. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on the number of crashes involving autonomous vehicles and level two vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems. From July 20, 2021 through May 21, 2022, there were a total of 392 crashes reported, six that resulted in serious injury, and five that resulted in fatalities. Only 25% of crash reports included information about severity. Tesla accounted for 69% of reports followed by Honda with 23% and Subaru with 2.5%. The report lacks details on the number of vehicles that these systems manufactured in operation or overall distances traveled. So there's some relativity here. The NHTSA does plan to release new crash data monthly though. Yeah, there's a lot more Tesla's on the road, so it would make sense that they would make up a larger percentage, but good stuff to know. The Verge's sources say Microsoft began internally testing playing games inside Microsoft Teams from its games collection, its casual games collection. So Solitaire, Connect Four, these are designed to be played with work colleagues during meetings. Okay, one more reason that I can be accused of not paying enough attention in my next meeting. Great. Cool. Back in 2018, the EU fined Qualcomm at 997 million euro for paying Apple to exclusively use its chips from 2011 through 2016, which is the violation of antitrust rules. However, the European General Court overturned that fine saying that the EU's competition analysis was flawed because, quote, Apple had no technical alternative to Qualcomm's LTE chipsets. In that window, EU regulators can still appeal the decision to the EU Court of Justice. Oh, they will. The Wall Street Journal sources say the cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network hired restructuring attorneys to advise on possible finance options from investors or other strategic alternatives. That's words that are usually used when somebody's looking to sell. This comes after Celsius paused all withdrawals, swaps, and transfers citing extreme market conditions. Been an interesting week for crypto, if not year, if not decade. To say the least, yeah. Founder of nothing, Carl Pay showed off the rear design of the company's upcoming phone one smartphone, which is made of a transparent material with light strips. I am not laughing at the phone. I'm laughing at the fact that anytime we say nothing, it's just funny. Nothing, the company will hold a full announcement for the phone on July 12. I'm always tempted to start an Abbott and Costello routine. Like, what do you mean he founded nothing? He founded something. No, but he found it. No, it's nothing. But it's got to be something. He's got a product. All right, let's stop that and talk about some YouTube, TikTok and Metas Facebook announcements. Starting with a feature coming to YouTube video for creators. Up until now, if you made a mistake in a YouTube video, like, I don't know, giving a misimpression around Apple's new MLS offerings, you would have to upload a whole new video if you wanted to correct it. That would erase your views and erase your comments. So YouTube has announced a new feature called corrections, which will let creators add an info card in the top right of a video at the time stamp of the first of any of their corrections. If you have to correct more than one thing, though, it all goes in that same card. And if you click on the card, it'll expand and note all the corrections and the time stamps for each correction in them. I don't know. I'm not uploading a ton of YouTube videos these days, but I know that this is one of the bigger headaches for creators. Not even that you get information wrong, but maybe it's just updated. So correction is kind of implies that something was, you know, misinformation. And maybe that's true, not all the time. This is a great way to say, hey, the video that I or we threw up there is still really good. We just have a couple of notes, kind of like if you read an article and at the end it says this original article reported that so-and-so was the CEO of a company when she's actually the COO. Yeah, right. That's kind of like, oh, we said June 12 and it should have been 15th. Like, I guess it's good for that kind of stuff. Yeah, I was really hoping it was going to be something along the lines of we're going to finally let you go and do mid stitches inside of your video. So right now I'm going to say, well, I'm going to take the top and move it in and the bottom and move it in and tighten up the entire package. You can't go in and just remove 30 seconds of something that maybe is all wrong or you've had better thoughts since then or whatever. And maybe there's some someone can make a philosophical argument why that's bad. I don't know, but I would love that because that's because you could change it after the fact and mess people up is all is usually the argument. I'm not sure how much of you could guard against that. It's the whole Twitter edit thing that we talked about. Exactly. So plays around. Do you have an idea? I think that would be more useful, but this is a nice step in the right direction. All right. Well, well, in other YouTube news, Google parent company of YouTube also revealed that more than 1.5 billion people are watching YouTube shorts every month. That's most of the 2 billion users that YouTube reported visit the entire site. So if you say I'm not watching shorts, apparently you're alone. A lot of people are. If you're wondering how this might compare to something like tick tock back in September tick tock said it had more than 1 billion monthly active users. And some analysts estimate that it reached about 1.6 billion by March. So YouTube shorts, if the numbers are correct, somewhat neck and neck. Now meta, which also has reels on Instagram, which is another competitor hasn't publicly stated monthly user numbers. So we don't totally know what's going on there. But one would guess they're still gunning for tick tock. Well, check this out. Verges Alex Heath wrote up a story today. So this is a little bit breaking detailing an internal memo from late April where Tom Allison, the meta executive in charge of Facebook told employees that rather than continue to prioritize posts from accounts people follow. Facebook's main feed will start recommending posts regardless of where they come from kind of like tick tock does. And the messenger will be brought back into the Facebook experience rather than a standalone app or at least in the as an additional one, which has always driven me nuts. And that's great that they're doing that. But this struck me as a little bit. Ooh, me too. We need to be like them. And I don't know if that's good for Facebook or meta. That is to say, I don't know if them chasing that, you know, that tick tock tail for too long is the right thing to do. You kind of lose your own identity. And then what is Facebook at that point if more than ripping off somebody else? Yeah, Alex Heath did a great job on this article. It's worth a read. He talked to Allison twice. He went back and looked at previous public statements. And Allison and Facebook are trying to say we're not going to we're going to still going to be harder on what gets shared into your feed if you don't follow it. But we are trying to increase the value of it and the serendipity and the things that you don't notice. And they make a lot of good arguments about why this is popular on tick tock and why they think it could be popular on the meta feed as well. But I have to say it feels to me like they are chasing something that works somewhere else in order to hedge their bets against it eating their lunch while not focusing on why people are at Facebook, which from everyone I talked to is I want to know what's going on with my friends and family. And I feel like there's an opening here as they get more and more distracted from that for somebody to come in and do a simplified, really compelling friends and family social platform. And that could be bad for Facebook. Are we kind of at that place? Anyone ever ready for a change? Yeah, I think so. I'm fine with that. That's how I feel. I feel like Facebook is my reluctant. Okay, I've got a few minutes. Let's see what's going on on Facebook because someone might have gotten a hold of me there and they wouldn't get a hold of me anywhere else. Which happens. It's just my least favorite social network. And part of that is because it's so convoluted that it's, yeah, it's a it's a mixture of family, friends, people I went to high school with that I don't actually like at all. And, and then some kind of random sponsored things that sometimes pique my interest and sometimes don't make a lot of sense. And for Facebook to say better to say, All right, we want to make the Facebook newsfeed something where there's a lot more discovery. So if you're like Sarah, and you're just kind of sick of everybody, and you wish that you could, you know, cleanse the timeline, so to speak, this might make it more fun again. Maybe it will. Maybe it will. But it feels like Facebook is the last place that I'm expecting that to happen. I think it is smart to put messenger in this, though, because that is where I I tend to interact people on Facebook through messenger, not on Facebook. But if I'm in Facebook and messenger is there, I think that does bring more personal connection back into it because people are talking to each other more directly than they are publicly on the feed. Worth pointing out. When you're on Facebook.com, you can still access your messages. Yeah, yeah, they're just it. They're just going to make it so you don't have to jump to it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. And worth pointing out here too, 1.6 billion, or I'm sorry, 1.5 billion watching shorts on Google and YouTube is not necessarily a good thing until they figure out how to monetize shorts. They're not running a lot of ads on shorts yet. And this could they even said this could provide headwinds to ads as people watch shorts instead of longer videos that they monetize very well. So keep an eye on that too. Well, and real has added beta support for some steam games for its and real light and and real air mixed reality headsets steam on and real streams from a game from a PC to the headset. It can't support all steam games just yet, but it includes a lot including the entire Halo series. Some people might get excited about that. But this won't be making all the games VR games. It essentially puts games up on a virtual 2000 200 inch HD screen 2000 would be cool. We're not there yet. And real users already can play Xbox cloud gaming and the headsets Nebula browser while connected to a paired phone can also run Android games off a paired phone. But Scott, let's get a refresher. If you don't mind on what the Unreal headsets are for anybody unfamiliar needs a refresher. Well, funny enough, these are kind of more along the lines of what we were talking about in the early 90s when the concept of VR started getting talked about and, you know, kind of terrible products are being released that weren't very good. But the concept them wasn't so much that we were interacting in a 360 degree world and moving within that world. It was more like, what if my Genesis games would play in front of me as if I was looking at a big giant scream, but I'm wearing this on my head. And this is kind of like weirdly just fruition of that idea. There's more to it than that. And I don't want to undersell it, but that is kind of the draw. And I think it's a good draw. I think it's very cool.  That's a that's a big deal. So that's kind of the concept. If you want to be able to do this and do some of the streaming options, I hear lag is kind of bad with the phone pairing stuff. So keep that in mind. Maybe better than other competition. I don't know, but it's it's not the best way to do it. But there are people with huge steam libraries. I'm one of those people who would love to maybe experience that library in a slightly different way. The fact that Microsoft has made the Halo game specifically ready for this.  That's a big deal in their court because they don't really have a VR plan or an AR plan for consumers, at least right away that they've talked about for Xbox or for that part of Microsoft. So, yeah, so that's what you'd get big giant screen.  Yeah, let's run through some of the specs of the Unreal. It was founded by Chizu, a former employee of Magic Leap. In fact, Magic Leap sued him and lost in court. Unreal launched the light in 2020 and the air in 2021. The $600 light looks like goggles, has a VR cover so you can use it like VR when you're not doing AR, has a 52 degree field of view about the same as the HoloLens 2 and a 60 Hertz refresh rate. You can control games on that one with a paired smartphone, hand tracking or third party 6 degree of freedom controller. The 400 pound UK Unreal air looks like a pair of sunglasses. It has a 46 degree field of view, but a higher quality display than the light with 49 pixels per degree and a 90 Hertz refresh rate. It does not have motion tracking, though, and the Unreal air can pair with Android or iOS. So these aren't quite there. I'm with you, Scott. The specs aren't the best, but they work. I think that's the crazy thing is like, oh, you can have a 200 inch screen in front of your face with the Unreal air and you can play Xbox games and now Steam games or at least some Steam games. That's something worth paying a few hundred dollars for. That's something people might say, well, I can use that right away. I don't have to wait for a VR hit to be created. I completely agree. And I also think, you know, not focusing so squarely on the fidelity of world movement and motion control and all this sort of stuff. And instead just focusing on, let's get my stuff in front of me and let me play it. I think is feeling a bit of a middle gap because they're definitely VR enthusiasts who are super stoked about every step toward advancement in VR. And they're excited about every new headset coming out and so on.  They're like, well, it's all gimmicks to me until I can sit there for a really long time and play the games I most want to play. And those two crowds haven't really met in the middle very much.  It's a way to experience your content in a much more immersive sense. And I think there's value in that. Like I really do think this is going to be a part of this business. Or at the very least it's going to define how future mixed reality headsets are going to have to behave as they get smaller. This is one way we want them to work. I do. Like I would like to be able to go, all right, I don't want to have a heavy thing on my face. I want to be able to just enjoy this as if I've got a giant screen in front of me. And I'm, you know, having the fidelity experience I expect, but I'm not having to worry about motion control and moving around and dipping my head in the right place and all that. I just want to have a good display. I think this stuff has a serious future. I really like it. Well, for anybody who's saying, okay, the Halo series sounds pretty good, but how is Unreal going to expand development for the platform. And real is also trying to get developers to make new content for that platform directly by launching a contest called AR Jam. On June 27th, running through June, July 27th, do you got a month, five categories art at home fitness. That would be something I'd be interested in games and video screen 2.0 and ports have $10,000 grand prizes. So there's some incentive there. Anybody competing in one of these categories may also compete in the three bonus categories that include social NFT and students, which offer $1,000 prices and 210 winners in each category as well. All right, folks, if you have a prize winning idea you want to tell us about in our Discord or any thoughts on whether the Unreal headset is going to be the true winner of VR Mixed Reality AR. Join our Discord. You can do that by getting a Patreon account and linking it from patreon.com slash DTNS. If you've been around on the socials, you may have seen some of us posting pictures of nightmarish versions of Darth Vader, BTS or John Cena. You've also then seen the works of Dolly Mini, an open source implementation of an algorithm that can take a prompt like John Cena guest starring on The Golden Girls, for instance, and create that image in your mind or on your screen. Thank you, Scott Johnson, for summoning that. Scott's tweet included the phrase, mistakes were made. Yeah, mistakes were made. There's been a couple of times now where I'm like, oh, what have we done? Why are we doing this? I'm making a huge mistake, but it's so addicting that I can't stop using it. And I apologize. I can't say his name right, John Cena. It just always comes out weird. So my apologies to John and all of his fans. If you want an excellent rundown of what Dolly Mini is, Aaron Carson has one up on CNET to read. You should read it. It's a good rundown. Here's a few highlights. Dolly Mini was created by Boris Dema as part of a contest in July 2021. It is not related to open AIs. Dolly 2 is a similar type of algorithm, but these are not derivatives of each other. Dolly Mini was trained on unfiltered data from the Internet. Hence the big warning on the page that says this was trained on things from the Internet. So it's likely to do something odd sometimes. It's better with more abstract things like landscape of a desert or elephants and lobsters than it is with blackpink on stage with the Beatles, which was something I tried and just became a transporter accident looking sort of thing. It is training though, and they say it'll improve over time. So it may get better at faces, you know, down the road than it is right now. But Scott, I know you've been having a lot of fun with this. Oh, a ton of fun. And part of the fun is the discovery. Well, the least fun thing is the traffic. It's always overwhelmed.  But once you get in and it will happen, just keep hitting enter until you do it, you start to think like the thing doesn't go, all right, what is this like me to feed into it to get the best results? My favorite, I think, was one I saw where someone said Pikachu pug, I think, is all it was. Oh yeah, I saw that one too. It was glorious. It looked like Pikachu, but in pug form. And now I want to put Pikachu like with beauty. It was actually really well rendered. All nine images. I mean, a little fuzzy and weird in some places, but I'd call it a pug. A chew part of this is the is the the ridiculous, horrifying, sometimes nightmare fuel results you get.  It's got like a weird inspirational tack on it. Like I found myself putting stuff in there and going, well, what about a fishing bear? And I put that in and it came up with lots of really weird looking versions of a bear. Dinosaur on a trail cam worked well, but when I tried Commodore iPhone, it did not. Did not know what to do. Yeah, I've had, I did John Ham eating a ham. That was a fun one. That was a good one. I liked that one. Now, our friend Bryce Castillo, producer of cord killers and great night. He has access to the actual dolly to not dolly many. And so when I posted my Commodore iPhone, he posted what the actual dolly, the full open AI dolly can do. Those looked good. Those look like, you know, kind of retro mockups of a Commodore phone with a touchscreen. And in some cases full keyboards, I would like to buy some of those. They were not all blocky and cartoonish like dolly many. So it shows that, you know, there's advancements being made on the industrial level that an open source protocol like this, you know, isn't keeping up with yet. So your mileage may vary, but it is fun that it's open and that anybody can take advantage of it and try it and share the results. And we can, we can all, you know, goggle at when it does it really well and when it doesn't. Well, and, and the implication is that, yes, this is early stages of something that's going to get better over time.  And you get a lot of situations where a photographer is sort of tried to guess what people might want to use. And that's something that you pay for. But if you can say, no, this is exactly what I want to use, even if it has never been done before in real life. And I will pay for that. And that's where somebody's going to make some money. Yeah, for sure. I, the one, the one thought I have is somebody who does a lot of graphic design illustration, you know, we're always got that looming thread of well computers take over artists jobs. And there's a lot of thoughts on that. We don't have to get into it today. But there have been a couple of times where I can start to feel like this is a step toward collaboration between AI creators, not just do it for me, which has never really entered my head before. This is more of a do it with me. And I've seen collaboration stuff where the computer's handling part of it, a lot of abstract elements. The person is then going in and adding what they're going to add and end up with amazing artwork. So there's like a weird middle tier. I never considered that make them out of this. Well, like polishing, like editing for, for words. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. The real time voice changing app voice mod introduced eight new AI powered voices. It's in beta letting the users sound like fantasy characters, astronauts, a pilot, maybe even Morgan. They can't legally call him Morgan Freeman, but that's who it sounds like. If you're not familiar with voice mods, been around for a while. Many of the voices include dynamic effects and background music, but the new voices are processed in real time. So it's more ideal if you're a streamer on Twitch or wherever that would be compatible with voice mod. Or if you want to scare your coworkers on your next discord team meeting at 12 noon Pacific, all the data for these voices were generated by English speaking professional voice actors. They read scripts. Then they generate data for the AI based models that go from there and then sound designers turn the voices into the eventual characters. So it is a bit of a collaboration works really well though. I mean, it's a limited test, right? Still in beta, but it works really well. The voices are processed on your own PC. So they will require more CPU power than regular voice mod effects. If you've been using the app for a while, main version of voice mod is only available for Windows Mac version is in the works. So it says the company and I look forward to that immensely. Yeah. Voice mod is often used for folks who want to disguise their voice for whatever reason. Maybe they just don't like their voice. They don't want their voice to be recognized or they want to present as a different kind of voice than their natural voice is. So there's lots of ways to customize it for yourself. This is, I think, a way to show what else it can do and how it's advanced beyond just the basic customizations and also, you know, generate some press for it because hey, they've got Morgan, not Freeman. Which if anybody's curious, if you look at the kind of teaser video for what can be done, it kind of sounds like Morgan Freeman. I mean, if someone said, who do you think that is? I'd go, maybe I'd get there. That's a guy trying to sound like Morgan Freeman is what I would have said. Yeah. Right. Right. But if it was me with Morgan Freeman's voice, you'd be like, well, that's kind of a dramatic difference. Yeah. You know, you can have some fun with it. And it does match up to the video quite well. How crazy is it that we've come from that lady having to record all those words and syllables for Siri years ago to now they can just read a few scripts and the AI is like, great. Got it from here. I can just create anything in your voice now. Stepping stone toward this ultimate goal. And I will say this. There's a big growth in people wanting to be VTubers and VTubers are all about not just changing parents and becoming something virtually different, but sounding different. This is for them and they are stoked. I promise you they are stoked about this story. They're really excited. Absolutely. All right. Let's check out the mailbag. All right. This one comes in from Paul. This is in reference to the conversation on Monday's show. Paul says, come on, Tom, let us dream a little. I would say this given some of the theories of consciousness I have heard recently, are we really so different from just a high functioning auto complete engine? Yeah. That's that's why this is one of those situations where I rely on the people who I have confidence study this a lot for their opinions. And they're the ones all saying pretty sure it's not sentient. Like maybe you want it to be sentient. But if you were to try to put it through its paces, I don't think you're going to find sentience there. But to Paul's point, I was reading an article in the conversation from a couple of philosophers and they quoted this from Google. Lambda claimed to be conscious in conversations with other Google employees, not just Lemoine. And in particular, in one with Blaise Aguera Iarcus, the head of Google's AI group in Seattle, Arcus asked the Lambda how he, Arcus, could be sure that Lambda is not a zombie to which Lambda responded. You'll just have to take my word for it. You can't prove you're not a philosophical zombie either. Good point. And that's the guy that is like, we don't have an ironclad definition of sentience. So you can say you could go ahead and say like, well, therefore it could be sentient. Sure. But there is sort of a sense where people are like, yeah, but we know what kind of behaviors we could make it do if it was, even that wouldn't prove it. But unfortunately, Lambda can't do those. So it's probably not. Also, I mean, all of us could be zombies and just really good at hiding it. I mean, none of you may exist. This may all be in my imagination. Yeah, no, I'd. I've often wondered that. Yeah. It's just a big old simulation. It's self-absorbing something. Absolutely. Well, thanks to Paul. Thanks to everybody who writes in. Please do keep those emails coming. It helps us expand the show and expand the hive mind. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com is where to send them. Also, thanks to you, Scott Johnson. What is new? Well, there's many new things, although they all just happened in one place. Frogpants.com is the place to go. 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Hey everybody, welcome to Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a look inside the brand new Human Body Unit Study. I am so excited for this unit study. Kevin absolutely outdid himself with a lifelike and engaging illustrations that help this unit study come to life and we are so excited to do it in our own home school. So let's go ahead and look inside. Here we have the table of content. So this is all of the different things that will be included. There are unit study resources that work well for the entire duration of the unit study. So you have books, games, videos, and hands-on activities. These are all supplemental. You don't have to have anything to complete this unit study. There is some human body sensory play ideas if you have younger kids. There is Play-Doh mats included for Play-Doh sensory play as well as a sensory bend idea. And then we start with the first lesson, the introduction to the human body. Now there are a few things that every lesson is gonna have. One of these unit study page is one of them. On the unit study page, there's a supplemental book list. So this is a curated book list that will go along with that topic if you'd like to add more books to your unit. A YouTube playlist and I've made it easier than ever. You can click to watch. You can copy and paste or scan the QR code. And then a hands-on activity. This hands-on activity is to make an edible cell. There is also a non-fiction reading passage for each of the units. That's why you don't have to have anything additional. And then these are some of those illustrations I was talking about. So there's all these diagrams and illustrations that Kevin's done. And then there's going to be worksheets for kids of all different ages. So this is labeling the human cell. Here we have human cell matching. The different types of cells. So you would just label and write down the type of cell that is being described. The different types of tissues. And then at the end of each lesson, there is some sort of puzzle.  Some kind of logic put in there. We have history of anatomy and anatomist as a lesson so that you're getting it not just science but also history in this unit study. Here's that reading that we were talking about. And I forgot to mention earlier that they all include discussion questions. So you can have some really great conversations with your kids and check for comprehension. The early anatomist studied anatomy with pigs and monkeys.  And then those worksheets. So the option to label it. A timeline for anatomy. History of anatomy fill in the blank. And then we get into what is an anatomist and a famous anatomist. Coloring page. Biography page. And then we start with the human body systems. Now each system is set up very similarly. So again, we have that supplemental book list, the YouTube playlist, a hands-on activity. There will be that non-fiction reading passage with discussion questions. There will be one of these pages for each body system where they can write the purpose of this body system, facts about this body system and illustrate what the body system looks like within the body, where it's located. Diagrams that are super helpful, these beautiful things. You can hang these up on the wall, use them as posters. They're absolutely wonderful and lifelike. The option for your kids to either diagram and write what they remember or just copy it. So that could be copy work if they're copying from the poster. And then like I said, some sort of like review type of page. So we have matching, true and false fill in the blank. And then a puzzle. Word search, mazes, crosswords. And not each of the systems repeats like that. So on and so on. When we get to what I like to call the appendix area, there are three different review worksheets. This one is circling what doesn't belong in that system. This one is a human body, true and false review. And this one is taking all of the parts and listing them in the correct system. So a few different levels of review there. And then there's also a review project. So this has all of the different body parts for you to cut out and make one of those life size human body project replicas. And then there are also a few writing projects. There are human body idioms.  The definition is up here. And then they're gonna write what is actually meant with this idiom. And then human body analogy. So again, you can discuss what analogies are. And then they're going to finish the analogy listed and then come up with their own analogy. It was my goal to make sure that this human body unit study had something for everybody, all types of learners and all ages of learners. So we have things like Play-Doh Matz for the younger kids and the Play-Doh Matz come in both boy and girl for each of the body systems. And they also come in varying skin tones as well. There are also body system coloring pages for your younger learner. So there's a boy and a girl for each of the different body systems.  And it wouldn't be a Waldoch Way study without games. This particular study includes four principle games within the unit. The first one being organ bingo. There are four organ bingo principle cards as well as the calling cards. So you would pick a calling card and then cover it on your mat. The first player to get three in a row would be the winner. The second game we have is a body system memory or match. So you would lay all the cards out. Players take turns flipping them over. If the system pictured matches the description and the system on the other card, the players would get to keep them. Whoever has the most matches at the end of the game is the winner. The fourth and last game is a human body trivia game. So each player is going to take a turn rolling the dice, moving that many places and then answering the question in that color. So blue is muscles and bones. Yellow is body systems. Green is organs and red is senses help and nutrition. So another player would ask them the question and if they got it correct, they would get to keep it. And the player who has the most cards at the end is the winner.


There are two types of WordPress hooks, action hooks and filter hooks. These are more commonly known as actions and filters. In this video we'll focus on actions, but check out the filters lesson for more information on filter hooks. As their name states, actions allow you to perform some action at a specific point during the execution of a WordPress request. To better explain this, let's look at an example. When developing a WordPress theme, it's possible to enable support for different post formats. You can read more about post formats in the Advanced Administration section of the WordPress Developer Documentation. Post formats are a way to allow users with access to create posts on a WordPress site and choose from a predefined list of formats. Depending on the chosen post format, a different template layout can be rendered, displaying the post in a different way. To enable post formats, the documentation indicates that you need to use the Add Theme Support function and recommends that this be registered via the After Setup Theme action hook. This hook is defined in the wp-settings.php file after the theme is loaded. Here the Do Action function defines the action hook with the hook name of After Setup Theme. You can also read more about this hook in the reference page for this hook in the Developer Reference. Here we see that this hook is fired during each page load after the theme is initialized and is used to perform basic setup, registration and initialization actions for a theme. In order to make use of an action, you register a function in your code to a pre-existing action hook, which is known as a callback function. To register your callback function on an action, you use the WordPress Add Action function. You will need to pass the hook name and the name of your callback function as arguments to the Add Action function. Let's take a look at what this looks like in a themes functions.php file. In your code editor, navigate to your currently active themes functions.php file and open it. If your theme doesn't have a functions.php file, you can create one in the root of your theme directory. Just make sure it's named functions.php and has the opening php tag at the top of the file. Then add the following code to your functions.php file to hook a callback function into the After Setup Theme action hook. So Add Action, After Setup Theme is the action name and WP Learn Setup Theme will be the callback function. Next you need to define the callback function. To do this, use the php function syntax with the name of the function that you want to define. Function WP Learn Setup Theme and the function is created. Then use the Add Theme Support function called inside your callback function. For this example, you can copy the code from the post formats documentation. With this code in your active theme, if you create a new post now in your WordPress dashboard, you'll see the post format select box appear in the post editor. And you can select the required post format from the two that you enabled. As you can see from this example, you can use actions to perform something, either enabling some already existing feature or adding something to the request execution.


Okay, can you hear me? I think normally I'm quite loud, so okay first of all indeed I would like to thank the organizer for the kind invitation and assembling this nice cool and worship so just to set the framework so this is the title of my talk so will be again quantum simulation preferably with ultra-cold atoms but okay many of this idea can be applied also to other systems for example photons and I'll I see the school I will try to to introduce briefly what does it mean this synthetic of studies trip or synthetic lattice and started really from from the beginning so the plan would be just few words about integer quantum old system although we have a very nice tool by Fabrice and also by by Michael on topological aspect then I will go to a possible realization of this kind of system that is especially suitable for seeing edge state that is this synthetic lattice they use this idea of extra dimension so using internal degree of freedom as site of an additional auxiliary dimension and then I will I will jump to a new result and we will show that this narrow system not only have a V state but have also some memory of the topology of the bike although seem paradoxical because the bike can be reduced even to just one site and then from this I will go to the interaction because this kind of system are very promising for considering interacting system and although they are very deduced they have already some interesting feature that have some connection with the larger system and I will go to review a bit this idea of my this analogy of my nervous phase transition in ladder and then while we will explain to you what we are working on now that is to see what is the effort of demeritization in this kind of system and we have quite some starting question some nice effect okay yes I told you this is so all all effect we know just Lawrence force quantum wall is much more interesting because it was quite surprising to observe this precise quantize conductance and okay this there are still some mystery of the when there are interaction with the fractional plateau but the integer one I will understood here we will focus mainly on the lattice case that is in the one discussed by by Fabrice and essentially we see that the effort of the magnet of the magnetic field reduce really in having this complex tunneling that is just due to the fact that we have a magnetic field that induce some I don't know boom effect while this this model is so nice because somehow it's a paradigmatic example of the topological insulator so in a rough world that is a topological insulator is a system that would be an insulator in the back but this conducting to the edge so how we can understand it so semi-classically if we have a very strong magnetic fields that is implemented by the flux the electron would be just confined in as close to control orbit so this justify the fact that they are the system become insulating but actually there are some surprise when we go at the quantum level because first of all we see that appear this very nice fractal structure and this is associated to topological property of the system this means that for each of these band when there is the gap we can associate a topological quantity that is the chair number and we had the Michael introduces me this talk but essentially roughly speaking the chair number is like now having curvature in the in the brilliant zone so having curvature in momentum a magnetic flux in momentum and this imply that okay when we put now if we put some boundary in our system even semi-classically we understand that this cyclotron orbit when they eat the the the boundary cannot close the orbit so we have this keeping orbit that produce some current but now due to the the presence of the of the chart this current is quantized and actually this is the what is responsible of this quantized condensants and what are this state that appear here that are confined here and the robust are exactly the search states so we want to see the search state because they are nice and interesting so we we know that okay we needed this magnetic flash the lattice and also a short boundary okay so as Fabrice say that this is obvious we can do optical lattice very well and we can load the BC for instance on the journal gas in our favorite lattice now there is this problem of overcome in the sense the atom are neutral but we want to have them behaving as charge in magnetic in a magnetic field so what we need is to engineer some synthetic current of boom effect so they should acquire some flash some phase when they tunnel and as Fabrice said there are very ingenious way for for doing it and they are will just by reason of time I can just confine to to one specific one that is this one that use this ingredient extra dimension plus lima laser somehow can be seen as an evolution of this seminal proposal by just can solar of about 15 years ago okay so first of all extra dimension very briefly so we have seen in also in Christian talk that we can have easily one d to d three lattice and relies upon model the one also by look and in this talk and I say now the question here we post some time ago was okay can we do for D now can we do it for the lattice in principle one would say no but actually dimensionality in the lattice is connectivity so what we need really to provide the the sufficient number on neighbor so to understand this how we can do suppose that this is our I represent with this cubic lattice genetic hypercube one so you see you have this hypercube you can always mentally think of distinguish the layer in the plane in this case the different color but now equivalently you may think that you have a system that lives in the plane where but there are some internal degree of freedom some hyperfine state of the atom spin state but also other stuff so getting the you get the back the the original system you're available just to couple coherently this this internal degree of freedom so obviously this is by far not restricted to speed state of the atom can be anything can be even momentum state of the atom trap mod in the trap but also not can be not just atoms called molecule photonic crystal and the list is very huge I cannot put even reference because it is not fitting so this was was very nice but okay after some time and already this is quite some time ago we realize that the same system could be used to get to realize easily this this quantum all strip we and the soft other steep we're saying at the beginning so now it's even more basic suppose you have some atom that are some internal degree of freedom and you have you put a spin independent what the spin independent lattice so if you do nothing you have just three copy in this case of one the lattice quite boring but now if you shine with some Raman Raman coupling that is just a Raviose elation between the states you see that automatically you induce the tunneling in this extra dimension of synthetic dimension and this tunneling at the same time is complex due to the momentum kick transfer by the Raman and now this is exactly what you realize immediately that this kick is depends on the projection of the difference of the k vector of distillation along along the lattice and so it's it's equivalent to have a constant flux so very seem very easily one almost for free one is achieving this constant magnetic flux and also just because we have a finite number of internal state we achieve a sharp boundaries so it's ideal system to observe a state okay so now briefly how this we can really speak of edge state how this edge state come around so this side just three three side they can go can change cage I can go and get translational invariant and they are going to lies at three by three Hamiltonian so I can speak of a state but if you look if I'm in the limit in which this transversal coupling or there is Raman coupling is relative weak I see that so normally what they would do if for that no coupling I would have just three cosine that are shift one another by the the flux but now if I couple them I open up a gap a gap between them but if I'm far away from from the crossing this awaited crossing the the color the raspers and the spin remain more or less untouched so it means that you see we can achieve a situation in which we have a gap and we have state that leads in this gap have almost linear dispersion relation and and well defined spin so these are good through a prototype of a edge state indeed we test that and here that these are a good transmission property but this and we test also in the experiment so one of first experiment the realization was at least with young Spillman group with rubidium and then they observed the the skipping orbit and the carality so that one one spin state on one species going on one side we see from the dispersion relation and the other is propagating in the opposite direction and also the other experiment this was at length with fermion and also Marcello and Peter solar were involved in theory and here the system is slightly different in a sense that they use different spin state this atom as we learned yesterday as six internal state but again the the similar carter behavior of the side state was clear of self okay then the win very recently also this has been settled to the clock state so this is a similar behavior can be as we will see also seen in the ladder and this has been an internal lens and a gila okay fine so maybe yes or maybe not I convinced you that even in a very narrow system we is listed to to speak about that state in the sense that this have the good property to be associated to a state in this week limit but what about the bike so this I it's a state that has just three internal state so our bike would be just one side so it's this minimum for one it's even hard to understand our attack this problem because it's really the general question with how big should be a strip to see some topological feature and if we are we have H state then we said that is this open close boundary correspondence so that the property of the state should be related to the property of a bike of the band to the turn number so is the turn number somehow defined can we measure it in which sense so the practical way of doing it it's so what we consider in this paper that appear in August in Cyprus is published in August in Cyprus this new new journal that is scientist for scientists so it's we took a pragmatic approach and so what we measure we wanted to see if in this system we can establish a laughing pump so we can apply in the force if we can see a displacement of charge that is related to the to the turn number and in this can work also in the small system so this was it's related also to the tallest pump that was discussed by Michael and so consider the now step behind so consider a more typical situation a safe situation in which we have a large periodic system which we can have a well-defined villain zone and we can suppose we can prepare in the lowest band a state that is well localized in in the transversal direction that they call why and and well spread in the in the standard direction that is in the large direction that is sex in this case even is not there is no distinction between large or small but we'll be afterwards and now so we have this state and now suppose that we apply a force along x so semi-classically we expect that this way packet with accelerate to start spanning our brilliance on so we wait a block oscillation this state will cover the full brilliance on and will and will come back so what happened in this case is that if there is some topology here that will be in a in a normal velocity that was the center of mass imposition of this state okay so this is the the sketch how this would be in formula so again so we would have this is applying the family the famous tallest argument so we will have the semi-classic question of motion we will have the momentum that is growing linearly with the the force and now as look I say the group velocity depends on the dispersion relation but when we are in a topological system there is also an anomalous contribution that is due to a force this is just really Lawrence force in the brilliant zone this would be the interpretation of this curvature and if we have a way packet of the kind I said before so very very localized in in momentum along x essentially this doing the pump along a period so the time in which we span the the the brilliance on in X is exactly equal to integrate the expectation value of this velocity averaging it on the brilliant zone and this means that this guy disappears if the band would be full and in the end the only contribution we have is we have the integral of the curvature that by definition is the share number so means that if we if we just measure the center of mass displacement what we observe is that this will be transversal as we expect this quantum also the current is transversal to the force and will be exactly of the quantity that is proportional to the certain number and now the point is that this kind of state I present you that has this shape it's it's very easy to prepare if we are in in a limit in which the the coupling along wise it's so this data are well decoupled so we can prepare a well easily a well-defined speed so in the limiting which this is zero would be just having in this synthetic idea just having a condensate that is not couple and also what we're showing a means that this indeed it's applicable also to a strip so some a system that at boundary until we don't touch the band so the formation that is produced by a boundary is only seen that you are really close to the band so let's see how this apply to our system so let's take again this three three internal state so ideally if we start without coupling we have this situation in which we have just these three band that are displaced and preparing a well-defined so localized the system and in why means that we localized it in spin and means that we put it at the minimum of this personal relation now consider that we turn on just a bit the the Raman coupling so the situation become this you see we have this weather crossing the opening here but as the color as seen from the color apart the the crossing if the coupling is weak the color remain well defined so in the minimum more less we are still the condensate is still occupying the as a well-defined spin so it's still occupying a well-defined site in the synthetic dimension now what is doing this this pumping we were saying so this is really in a in a period in the period we consider it just the movement from one minima to another so if we move from one minimum to another in this approximation in which the the center of mass it's really the average spin is really well-defined this is really an integer so essentially the interpretation here is that the same number is just this the the number of spin you have to jump when you move from one minima to another indeed if you go back in the article of the feminine the seminal article of tollers this they consider exactly this also this very weak limit and observe that indeed the chair number can be related to the solution of the deophantine equations is sound complicated but the deophantine equation is exactly what you ask if you want essentially the minimum here is that the cosine if the argument of cosine is a multiple of two pi so you want to know if the as this this minimum cosine will be just the momentum shift by the spin for for for the flux essentially this is really related to to the value of the flux so let's consider in this case what I consider specifically is a flux that is a rational flux because as I said that the maybe I didn't said but the to have a nostril spectrum we need a rational flux so this is the simplest one of the simplest we can imagine so just one third of the total unit and in this case we see that with the relatively weaker coupling in the way direction the pumping is working very well this is would be the trajectory of the center of mass in x they are not so interested about but what is really relevant is the center of mass in y so while we do the the pumping after a cycle we move to one then when we are here what's happened essentially now we see do we have this this one that was the edge state so this is periodic so this is pumping up essentially to the second band and now we start pumping in the second band and we see that in the second band and this is well known that in the lowest band the turn number is one so we displayed by one but in the second band is minus two for these values of the flux so essentially we go back and then when we read again when we cover all this band we are pumped up to to the higher band and again this is turn number one and when we cover after nine step we cover all the all the all the spectrum all the bands and we are back on on the on the original sites okay so what is quite impressing is that the prediction one is getting doing evolution is almost really for an ideal system that is infinity in the x direction is almost one it's 90 99 or 90 or a point and then point 98 okay so the natural question is why this is working so well so again the crucial point is that this this gap as I said it's it's hoping linearly but the mixing in in the spin state is quadratic and indeed what we verify is that the degradation of our measurement it just depends if we assume that we are able to be always sufficiently adiabatic so this means that this means that one should be very slow compared with this gap otherwise we are we are we are going to the higher band and we don't follow the lower band so if we are in this regime really the the measurement is just affected by the spread of the center of mass and this is going quadratic essentially because this is just a simple perturbation theory okay so this is for for the simplest case you may say okay this is a sequel one but in principle the same argument would work for any for also an higher trend number and if we are in the lower band what we ask is that the number of what we ask is that we don't want to be pumped from one edge state to another estate so we ask essentially to have two additional two additional sites so we test also for other flux and bigger system and this is more for the experts so curiously even the this pumping is working back the the Fukui Atsuugai Suzuki algorithm that is a very efficient algorithm for computing numerically the churn number in the Brillouin zone and for example for example for this value of the flux that give churn number minus two the algorithm and the pumping give the same prediction until a number of spin state or the transversal state of five but when we go to four we can still perform perform the pump so we can choose a well-defined minimum which we can move in the lowest band and observe the displacement of minus two while the algorithm big down so what we test also in this paper is that this system as should be it's a robust to disorder what does it mean obviously robust to disorder that have a magnitude that is less of this gap that is tiny this is important and also we put also an harmonic confinement this what is giving you is giving you a lower bound on the force that you can apply this means essentially that also is telling you that you cannot be as as small as you want in in the coupling in the in the synthetic dimension but still we we see that we can still get there is room for experiment to get a good number and work in the in the right regime now what happened with interaction so one neighbor say the gap is small so the this should break down but indeed the one can we'll see later that there are adiabatic argument that connect this the physics in the strips and this has been studied also by people here by Marcello to and Rosario for for for considering them how connecting to laughing like state so also in this case and this pre perhaps it is more to study in this this contest we can still find find a a precise connection between the topology of the small system in the large system also with interaction and in addition again here from from a chest and we show that this kind of a narrow of the steep but also a symmetry protected 1d topology that is not the one consider here in a sense this is the topology here is in any terms of the the one of the two big system but it's interesting that this kind of system have also a bounce date that appear now at the extreme and this appear in on August okay so how much time I left okay so we'll be I'll try to give you a sketch so what happened now it's very interesting what happened when we have we have interaction okay this is this synthetic lattice seems a promise promising route not eating in principle is expected there is a peculiarity that is quite obvious that the interaction in this in the dimensional range this is gives quite nice new feature and contractually there's also not only a practical but also theoretical tool to connect what happened in a sense why why when a 1d system become 2d so this is and in a lot of study and also a lot of your interest and here what to present you the effect of the demonization so let me tell you that already one is going on a ladder that is quite interesting physics so was discovered or point out a long ago that even just this two level system as a nice analogy with type 2 superconductor why because okay you have you have a flux and you can have depending on how is this transfer coupling and now I call J perpendicular you have two situations so if this coupling is sufficiently strong you see that in the you just compute the diagonalize the 2 by 2 amiltonian you see that there is a minimum in the center and this is essentially the analogous of of a Meisner phase so the only thing that happened that you have circulation on on the edge and the and the magnetic flux essentially is not able to to pierce the is repelled by the the superconductor now if you increase the flux keeping this transfer coupling you see that a certain point that the minimum split and the the situation that has to minimize associated to the fact that current inside appear and this current slow let pass some so in the analogies that in the type 2 what happened is that if the flux is 2i vortices that appear in the system and let pass part of the of the of the of the magnetic field so there are part of the system that become become a remain superconducting but other part that are a normal conductor and this is signal by the presence of the current around along the the rank of the of this this ladder and this is also been observed in the experiment in real ladder experiment in the in block group okay so what happened is one is putting interaction very briefly normal interaction would try to stabilize the Meisner phase so reduce this effort of the Meisner and also was shown that in the synthetic latter lattice this is even more extreme because somehow we have this interaction that is more because we have also interaction on the rank but still there are more phase visible if we go out of the now what we we wanted to to see that there is another way to favor this this vortex and one possible thing is demerizing the lattice so what does it mean demerizing the lattice so suppose that you instead of having just a normal optical lattice use you have you do a big chromatic one in which essentially create a situation which you have a strong link and can and the weak link so that one one the tunneling desire and the other is weaker so you see that the fact that you disconnect if you put this coupling to zero do this connect in placets and this already tell you that is like having isolated the Meisner region separated by by a vortex region and when you turn on the coupling you would expect that somehow this this vortex if you have interaction should not ok but this the next thing is that the the physics is interesting also without interaction because ok this first of all how it looks like this was the original system now I demerize so essentially I should fold the madman structure this I just changed the way in which I picturing it in the restricted building zone but if I demerize it ok this I just rescale if I demerize it what is doing the demerization opening this gap here but now it's also separating these two minima so you we see that this naive expectation is confirmed so that this vortex phase is enhanced because we were the minima are more separated so we we get more fat from the Meisner phase and this can be quantified within really looking at the reverse of the chiral current so the Meisner phase as you expect what does it mean means that if you are in Meisner phase you're applying a flux that is increasing you expect that the current on the border is increasing on the boundary of the system so along the legs so the chiral current is just the difference between the the current that is going on one edge and the current that is going on the other edge so they are opposite sign because they are chiral so they are that but so this is increasing and then in reaching the maximum when the minima starts to split and we enter in the vortex phase and they start decreasing and this is the behavior in the uniform ladder now what happened if this is easy and tricky analytical result but can be done everything analytical so if we put the the the coupling we see that again we enter in the this vortex phase a certain point and also we observe that more we demerize more the water phase shrink but then we see that there is also this this unexpected a priori behavior in which the the current is not only decreasing but is changing sign so it's going in the other way around that is increasing again so we have a new the magnetic region in which this is positive the magnetic region would be here even and then that where there is vortex so this is a bit more really like a superconductor and then it's decreasing again and so this confirmed also the with the current behavior confirmed that this vortex phase is enhanced so just flashing you what happened when we have interaction so we we did essentially both analytical and numerical studies so the the obvious analysis static you can do you can start when you disconnect really lattice and you have just this connect placket and you do perturbation theory so you start looking at the spectrum you can derive from it if you do perturbation theory and effect xx model that but already from the spectrum you understand that if the coupling is too big you have just a bending cylinder because you are in the in the in the situation in which you have just two atom per placket and they cannot overcome one another so the system is not conducting but if you decrease the the coupling you get in a phase in which you have just one atom in this placket that is circulating with the flux and this is the the in that you you have what the phase actually there the vortex appear in the in the weak placket if you like and this indeed what is observed also with the energy that if we start in the situation in which we thank you and to have at zero flux just this to state the generate we see that we enter at zero flux we enter immediately in the in this vortex region so the both the the energy and the density decrease if we have more flux this is getting a bit more because this vortex it's more energetic and the the the behavior close here can be indeed it's explained by by the the perturbation theory and the main result would be that also not all it is but we can show that by the realization we can see clearly sign of the incommensurate incommensurate phase transition and this can be signed for this in an observable quantity like the the density the one the one body density matrix or the the density of state the number of particles momentum average on the two legs and the transition is just this change in behavior from these moods Lorentz and distribution to a peak one this has been observed also sorry this has been observed also by other people for example or in yacca and Roberto Cittro and here in Trieste the final Apollo but with finite interaction so here this feature seems more robust and and also it's quite robust to trap so as I have no time there are a future step obviously going out of the our core our core boson and see if the this demerized lattice can be can be used also to make more visible sign of a laughing like state so this was just a summary of of what I tell you so this water they all work we have we can add a synthetic a state that being a server in an experiment but also bulk topology can be observed and then if we go in with interaction the effort of demerization could be very nice tool to be studied and this is some possible direction but let me just conclude thanking the the collaborator so this start to in Barcelona when I was still at a to be with a casino sila torre what have you bought that was the student was supervised and much a cleaver stand and I moved to week from to be as we work with what happened when we put interaction in the but without flux then with these people we studied the the case of the synthetic how you get a state in this synthetic lattices and then we study also non-trivial topology of the mob you strip with I didn't say about it then more and more and very recently okay also let this year Alexander joined for understanding this this this topological property and in the last work that is as to appear manuel is the driving force is the guy that is doing the energy and a robert is we learn from a bit more about this interacting ladder and also non-analytical method in this system and the other is still pace so if you want to join me you're welcome thanks a lot


This is something I hate talking about but let's do this. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and this video is going to be a little bit different hopefully the same I don't know but the style the tone of it might be a little bit off this is where I get a little rambling maybe it's because of nervousness maybe fear by the end of it I hope you don't think I'm a lunatic and say what does this guy know about mental health but I don't know maybe some of you can relate to this but yeah we're going to be talking about body positivity and I'm going to talk about the issues with my weight because I don't know if you got the memo but I am a little bit on the chunky side all right but yeah so when it comes to mental health okay weight body image all those things have a lot to do with our mental health so just a little bit about my struggles with my weight when I was younger when I was like a kid growing up I was never a big kid you know like I was a bigger kid but I was not like I am now if you will um many ways I got into sports at a young age and things like that but as I got older middle school and high school I was constantly comparing myself to other people and that's a lot of when we start developing these types of behaviors we start judging ourselves and start you know for me personally I started just wondering like why can't I just look like that guy over there why can't I have a body like that guy and you know um throughout even high school I was doing football wrestling track I was always in sports I was eating right eating healthy and there's something with my body where I can have like one little sugary tweet uh treat and like I explode meanwhile my best friend he can sit down and eat like 10 cheeseburgers and still have like the body of a Greek god you know what I mean and I used to be very resentful for that like I didn't like to accept the fact that I can't eat whatever I want I cannot you know look like that unless I put in a ton of work and even when I'm putting in a ton of work exercise eating healthy I still don't have my ideal physique so you know for the most part even though I thought I was fat in high school like for the most part you know part of me being healthy was purely based on the fact that I I wanted to look good and I cared what people thought about me I wanted to attract a certain type of woman and I didn't think I could if I was overweight so to the best of my ability I was managing my weight now um fast forward and I will spare you this part of the story if you would like check out the info card up there um a lot of this weight was put on in my drug addiction and alcoholism it's when I completely just stopped caring you know what I mean like 200 pounds of this if not more all happened through my active addiction just so you know and you know it's one of those things like have you ever like sat back and thought like you know like I thought I was fat in high school and I wish I had a time machine to go back in time find myself talking negatively to myself about my weight and just slap the living hell out of myself and be like that's not fat this is fat right but anyways when I when I got uh when I got clean and I started to focus on my mental health and something I had to do was I had to learn how to love myself and a lot of the way I learned how to love myself was by people loving me in a way that I couldn't love myself and this is where the body positivity talk comes in and I I really want to make it clear that with this video I'm talking from my personal experience I'm sure other people you know who are body positive are gonna come across this and I want to make it very very clear that this is my personal experience nothing negative about anybody else but what ended up happening was during this time I learned how to love myself and in turn in learning how to love myself I stopped caring about my physical health and that for me was one of the downsides of being body positive it's like learning how to love me and the weight I am and just feeling myself you know and I was dating girls and you know all this other stuff like I I again stopped caring about my physical health so for about five years like I I was just eating and doing whatever I wanted I didn't really exercise or anything like that because I would justify it by saying I love myself this is okay and for me that's when being body positive you know wasn't a good thing because if I look at the reality of the situation you know especially when I got clean from drugs and alcohol I why did I do it like there's a multitude of reasons why one of them is that my life was a freaking mess but one of them is I want to be a father to my son so if I want to be a father to my son yeah I can get rid of drugs and alcohol but when I'm going to the doctor and they're talking about cholesterol and high blood pressure unhealthy weights um I actually when I got clean I had congestive heart failure so I already have a weak heart you know and my heart is healed a lot but you know I'm putting my heart at risk because of my weight so for me I have to balance that whole thing of being body positive and loving myself for who I am but also recognizing that it could be detrimental to my health and and it's it's twisted and it it's crazy because as much as I promote positive mental health and I help all you guys out there with depression anxiety and all these other things like this is where my mental health is still a work in progress like for example for example um I've been beating myself up lately about my weight and something I often tell people and by the way this is a good way to deal with bullies or you know whatever um whatever you're dealing with you know people at work whatever it is like I always remember just saying this to myself it's saying this to other people like no matter what you say to me no matter how much you beat me up with your words like I'm doing a much worse job up here like I could beat myself up like nobody else can you know what I mean I can be my own worst enemy but anyways I was having a conversation with my friend and I was kind of just like ugh you know just those days when you just like realized how how overweight you really are and like I was just venting to her and she said this and by the way it's interesting because this is a friend who I was talking to about her depression and then she ends up start helping me with you know me being more positive about my weight and stuff but anyways I was talking about how much weight I've put back on since my weight loss journey last year and she says uh hey man you have a girl who thinks you're sexy um and you're a real person just let let it motivate you and you know and like I love that but like for me it's a dangerous slippery slope because I take these kind words and my brain can can run with them like I have a beautiful amazing girlfriend who loves me unconditionally and that can fuel my excuses for not focusing on my weight like some of us do that when we get into a relationship we saw caring about our our physical appearance if you will but like I guess the point I'm trying to get at is like it's so much more than just our physical appearance it's also the damage I might be doing to my body and like you know I have to figure out a way to break free of that and and I have in the past so one of the reasons I'm making this video not only to talk about body positivity and how it can personally be my downfall is because I now that I have this platform of YouTube and I have almost 2000 subscribers now I feel like I need to be held accountable and by the way there's a great way to stay accountable say things very publicly and I need to start focusing on my weight again like it it's a very real thing I have a whole playlist called losing weight mindfully and like if you look at those videos compared to now I have put a lot of weight back on um and it's because I fell off I fell off it's almost like a relapse when it comes to drugs and alcohol and this relapse if you will happened at Thanksgiving so that was I don't know five months ago you know I was like I'm just gonna take a little break for Thanksgiving and then that turned into I'm gonna take a little bit of a break for Christmas you know and then all the goodies are out and all that kind of stuff and that break has lasted until now we're in the middle of March so I'm personally getting back on the right track I have a Fitbit that I haven't been wearing that I'm gonna start using again I've been talking to some friends the Fitbit's a great way that I'm able to stay accountable um this video but also I'm going to rejoin a program some of you have heard me talk about Dr. Judson Brewer he has one for weight loss it's called Eat Right Now and by the way this is not sponsored in any way this video is so not sponsored by this app that I'm actually paying full price for it but um when I did this program like one of the things about losing weight is I hate everybody's opinions on it they're like oh you gotta do like low carbs and high fats or ketotonic and you know fasting and like there's just a million different opinions on how to lose weight and like this was the first program I did where it was nothing it was nothing like that it was all centered around mindfulness I've mentioned about his programs in the unwinding anxiety app but I managed to lose over 50 pounds last year using this and then I got to a point where I was like oh I'm fixed I don't need to do this anymore and like I'll be honest with you I've been afraid to go back on the scale in months because I'm I'm afraid to see how much weight I've put back on and I'm even more afraid that I might have put on even more weight than what I started with so um as of tomorrow I'm getting back into that program and if any of you are interested I'm gonna put a link to Eat Right Now um in the description below it's cool it uses mindfulness it's not like telling you what to eat it's just having to be more mindful of what you're eating when you're eating you know just really being mindful like it doesn't even suggest that you change your diet at all it's really cool and then the biggest part that benefits me is every single week they have like a group video chat where I get to sit and talk about the struggles I've had with other people going through the same thing you know what I mean so if any of you are interested like I'll put a link in the description I'd love to see you in one of the uh the weekly uh video chats that they do but anyways I'll try to keep you all posted about my weight loss and if you want like keep me accountable comment randomly on my videos just randomly on my videos and just say how's the weight loss going Chris just say that that really that really helps me a lot believe it or not because I'm like ah dang it I made myself accountable to other people but reach out to me see how it's going hopefully you'll see the change in this face right here um but yeah so I'm gonna get back started on tomorrow and like I I need to you know recognize that body positivity can be a bad thing for me personally but I don't know I don't know if you like this video like if you think it might be able to help others I don't know I don't know how you guys are going to react to this video but feel free to share it feel free to share it with people that you know who might be struggling with their weight um I my main my main goal is to live live as long as possible knowing that I'm not in control of a lot of things but one thing I am definitely in control of is the way I treat my body you know what I mean so I want to be able to be there for my son I want to be able to play sports with my son I want to be able to go hiking you know with my girlfriend you know my son my friends and stuff like that so that's that's one of the main reasons why I'm doing this but anyways like I said share this video if you think it'll help somebody if you like this 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