Think Tecawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Welcome to Finding Respect in the Chaos on ThinkTecawaii.com. I am so happy to have you here. And I'm really happy to have a guest with me today. This is Julie Dugan from the Job Corps. And one of the things that happens, you know, with kids that have been involved in domestic violence at their homes, they need to have some opportunities. And Job Corps provides those kind of opportunities. And so we're going to talk with Julie today about some of those opportunities for kids. So Julie, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It's very nice to have you here. So I know that Job Corps was started by President Lyndon Johnson, which blows me away. I had no idea. Something about the war on poverty is when he decided to come up with that. Correct. And so what an amazing program. And so if it was him that started it, you guys have been around for a really long time. I would love to hear a little bit of history about how Job Corps got started and a little bit more about what you guys do and stuff. Sure. Well, Job Corps is a nation's premier career and technical training program. And like you said, it was started through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 under President Lyndon B. Johnson. And it included programs like Job Corps, but also programs that are still around, such as Community Health Centers, the Head Start program, Adult Basic Education. Oh my goodness. Right. I didn't even have any idea that all of those things are sort of in the same bubble, so to speak, right? Correct. Trying to lift people up from poverty. And like I said, all those programs are still going strong. Oh my gosh, I hope our new leader doesn't 86 them since that's what he seems to want to do. But we won't get political. Okay, let's just talk about the good stuff. Actually, I think we have a video that we can show even about Job Corps. It kind of gives a little bit of background to it. I think that we might want to watch. If you could queue up that video, that'd be great. But the price of admission isn't money. It's the desire to succeed. Success takes skill. Skill takes training. Training takes work. If you're ready to learn, train, and work, Job Corps is ready for you. These Job Corps students can tell you it's real. Job Corps. Careers begin here. Oh my gosh, that was a wonderful video. Wow, so amazing. And just to see these kids that are working so hard to try to make themselves better. Now I know in the past it used to be kind of considered a program for troubled kids, but it's really morphed way and grown way beyond that now, right? Right. Again, it started with a war on poverty, trying to give young people opportunities to get out of that, those income levels. But it's really evolved. Over the years it was maybe someone that was in trouble with the law or wasn't making it in school, they'd say go to Job Corps. That didn't work if the young people didn't want to be there. So it has evolved into a complete volunteer program. Young people, so we work with young adults, 16 to 24, from low income backgrounds that are in need of education, maybe finishing their high school diploma and need of some job skills. Right. So how do they have to go about that then? Do they have to apply? What's the application process like? They do. So we have admissions counselors all over and they're out in the schools. People ask me what a typical profile of a Job Corps student is. We have high school graduates that might not be able to go on to a community college or vocational tech school. Job Corps might be an opportunity. We have high school dropouts that realize I can't get a decent job these days without a high school diploma. So we're out there spreading the Job Corps message wherever young people are and their influencers as we call them. They're Ohana, their aunties, their uncles, their career counselors at schools. Wherever young people are we're out there spreading the message. Thank you. Because I'm always saying we got to get them young. We got to teach kids young if we want them to grow up to be adults that know how to treat people with respect. And part of that is learning how to respect themselves, right? Right. Because that's a big thing. I was a minister in the south for many years and I worked with kids for about six years, intercity kids. And one of my favorite kids ended up going to Job Corps because of that exact same reason. She didn't have an abusive household.  And so she just grew up in hell, but she knew she wanted to get a better life for herself. And so she ended up with the opportunity to go to Job Corps. It changed her life. Absolutely. When she came out, she went in Kentucky, I think it was. So we were in Alabama. And so it was really great that they took her away from the local scene to get her away from her friends and get her away from that crowd. And she loved it. She still has friends. I know that she's in contact with. She came back. She could get a job. You know, she had got her high school diploma, which was really quite remarkable anyway in that demographic. But for her to go on to Job Corps, it absolutely changed her life. And so I know it changes people's lives. Definitely. And that's why I said we serve all of the Hawaiian Islands and throughout the Pacific. So again, 16 to 24 year old from a low income background that themselves have a desire to enter the program. Not their aunties or their school counselors. They're not successful that way. They need to be a legal resident of the United States. They can't have any court obligations. Oh no, see, wait. I thought that sometimes they could get sentenced to Job Corps. Years ago, but that didn't work. So we've evolved. It's a completely volunteer program. The young people want to have to come in. In the past, it could be a court ordered. When I first started at Job Corps 28 years ago, there was some of that going on. But they realized if they're ordered to be there, they're not going to be successful. So we've evolved again over the years. So again, people from low income backgrounds, maybe they've had some truancy, some minor bumps in the road with the judicial system. But we want them to have all that taken care of and so they can participate full time in the program. We're Monday through Friday, 8 to 4.30. So they can't have any court obligations. Oh right. They have to be able to attend class all day long every day. It's like a full time job kind of thing. And the majority of our students live on campus. So they're there full time Monday through Friday. So they can live there and you feed them and everything? All of their basic needs are taken care of. Okay, so does it cost anything? How much does it cost for these kids to do this? We're a no cost vocational training program. Oh my gosh. So is there a need again to finish their high school diploma, need some job training? We're probably the program for them. Right. I know so many kids that could benefit from this here. You know, and people ask how do they hear about Job Corps? Not only we have admissions counselors and staff on board that are out there spreading the Job Corps message, but most of them learn about it from family members, friends. Right. You know I was surprised that that sort of misconception of troubled kids go to Job Corps. Because I was talking to somebody about the fact that I was really excited that you were going to be coming on because it's really important to get this word out to people that this opportunity is available, right? And they said to me, oh, isn't that for troubled kids? And I'm like, not anymore. From what I understand, so I was really looking forward to being able to ask you about that. And because it's still sort of a misconception for people that we need to change. There is that image and we're out there trying to change it. So our graduates are out in the community. Not only they're concentrating full time on their education and career training, but we encourage them to be part of the community, being good neighbors. So we're very involved with service learning, anything going on in the community. We want our students to be working alongside of community members. Giving back to the community as you well know is a trait of a responsible civic minded citizen. That's right. So we're practicing that at Job Corps and with the thought that they'll go back into their communities and continue to pay it forward. Right. And that's the hope, of course, always that they're going to pay it forward. Because you know they've got to have friends that they know that are struggling or having a rough time. And the economy, unfortunately, here in Hawaii is really hard to have anything extra after you pay your mortgage or your rent.  Right. And again, we call it a no cost, you know, scholarship because if they meet the age and income requirements that desire to improve their lives, it's at no cost to them. Wow. And to operate a program like this, we say it's about a $36,000 a year scholarship. Wow. Because that's what it costs. All their basic needs are taking care of housing, medical dental clothing. What? Medical dental, too? Uniforms. Oh my gosh, that's amazing.  The theory is it's operated by Department of Labor and the investment is so they can concentrate full time on their career training. Right. Because it's kind of a concentrated training, right? Yes. Wow. So could they come from another state like the little girl that I knew that went from Alabama up to Kentucky? Sure. Is that the kind of thing that can happen? Currently, Department of Labor has it geographically based. So we serve all of the Hawaiian islands and throughout the Pacific. Okay. So we serve students from American Samoa, Micronesia, Guam, Palau, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. So if you're living here in Hawaii, one of our two campuses you would come to. If you're living on the mainland, you would attend the closest to where you're residing or the closest and what career pathway you're interested in. Oh, right. So that might have made a difference, right? But of course here in Hawaii, we get phone calls on a daily basis. Students from the mainland wanting to come here. But we're serving the students of the Hawaiian islands. Right. So you have two? We have two campuses. Two campuses. Our main one is in Waimanalo on the windward side. That's our largest campus. We serve a little over 200, about 211. 211 kids. We have room for that in the dormitories. Wow. And then up country Maui, beautiful campus in Makauau. Oh wow, yeah. That we have room for 130 in the dormitories. Oh my gosh, that's huge. And those are for the students who reside on campus. Right. But then if you wanted to commute, you could do that also. Oh my goodness, so you don't actually have to live. If you've got a big family and you'd rather live at home, you can just come in for the daily trainings. Or if you're a young adult, you know, 16 to 24, a lot of them maybe have small children. So at the Waimanalo site, they can commute. We even have a child care center on campus. So they can bring their kids with them? Correct. Oh my gosh, that's awesome. So their children would be receiving quality child care while they concentrate full-time on their career program. Wow, so this is like, if you've got someone say who got married young and it turns out to be an abusive situation like what we talk about a lot here on this show, they could maybe retrain themselves. They could get some more training so they can get out there in the workforce. Thanks. Because they're sort of lost afterwards, right? Correct. Oh my gosh, and if they already have kids, then that's a way to be able to do this. And it doesn't cost, there's no cost for the child care or anything. No, if they qualify for our program, they would qualify for the child care center right there on our campus. So we want to remove a lot of the barriers that are preventing them from continuing their education or receiving job training. Wow, that is just remarkable to me that this, since the 60s has been going on and that it's morphed into so much more than it used to be. And it's, I think it's kind of sad that people don't realize that it's not just troubled kids anymore. No. And so I want to help you get that word out because I was really surprised when that person said to me, oh, that's just for troubled kids, right? And I thought, I don't think so, not anymore. Again, we're out there continuing to educate. But we've been serving the youth of Hawaiian Pacific actually since 1965, a year after the Opportunity Act passed. Wow. And over the years, like I said, I've been with the Job Corps for 28 years. But even before that, we've had campuses on the Big Island, Kauai, but again, right now we're on Oahu and Maui. But we're serving, we go out and recruit from all the different islands. We take care of their travel costs. There's no cost to the young people that are interested. That is awesome. Well, we're going to talk a little bit more about that in just a minute. Right now we need to take a break. I'm Cynthia Sinclair. This is Finding Respect in the Chaos on thinktechkawaii.com. Don't go anywhere because we got more to talk about. Aloha. My name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Law Across the Sea. Law Across the Sea is on thinktechkawaii every other Monday at 11 a.m. Please join me where my guests talk about law topics and ideas and music and Hawaiiana all across the sea from Hawaii and back again. Aloha. Aloha. I am Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Cold Green for thinktechkawaii. I appear every other Monday at 3 p.m. and I have really, really exciting guests on the exciting topic of energy efficiency. Hope to see you there. Welcome back to Finding Respect in the Chaos. I'm Cynthia Sinclair and this is Julie Dugan and we are here talking about Job Corps and the way it has changed over the years and the opportunities that they have for kids. Well not just kids, but ages 16 to 24. So we're going to talk a little bit more about the exact kinds of programs that they have, what they have to offer and all of that. So Julie, I'm so glad you're here with us so that we can kind of change the narrative. That's sort of a negative narrative. Let's get that changed. Exactly. So tell us a little bit about what stuff you guys do. Sure. Well first of all, our motto is careers begin here. Nice. And so again, we're a no cost career and technical training program for youth 16 to 24. Our main campus is in Waimanalo. Nice. Beautiful campus on the windward side. We built that campus about 22 years ago. Wow. So we built it from the ground up. Our students are responsible for doing the maintenance. That's how they get their hands on training. Oh, so there's learning stuff too. Exactly. So when people tour the center, they say, it's so gorgeous. I don't see any graffiti. Well, our students are the ones who maintain it. So they have a vested interest in keeping it in prime shape. Sure. Sure. So at our Waimanalo site, we have nine different career tracks. Nine. Nine. Yes. So we have two medical. First one, we have a certified nurse assistant program. Wow. So we also have a medical office support. So CNA, front billing for the. My gosh, there's good money in those two careers. You can make a good living for yourself with that kind of a career. All of our trades, there's need in the industry. In fact, we have an advisory council that advises us on what the local workforce needs. For example, so I mentioned our CNA, our medical office support. One trade that we just added two years ago was our security and protective services. And we added that because the state went to a certification program. So for anyone who works in the security field in the state of Hawaii, they need a guard card certification. There wasn't enough training programs. Job Corps nationally already had a security training program. So we implemented that. Right. So they come out of there with the certification needed to go to work. Brilliant. We have employer partners that are calling me on a daily basis. See, we need more of these. Exactly. Wow. Exactly. We also have a, everyone needs office administration. We have an office administration trade. We have some construction related trades. We have a painting, industrial painting. We have a building maintenance. So in the building maintenance trade, they learn a little bit of carpentry, a little plumbing, a little bit of electrical to be able to go in and maintain. Oh my gosh. This is like a rounded out program where they can kind of, if they want to specialize later, they can do that, but they still have that. A little bit of solar also they're exposed to. Oh my gosh. And that's exactly what's needed here in Hawaii because the paint always gets, you know, you need to repaint your house like every two years or something, I think here. Right. Because the salt air is so hard on paint. Yes. And all of that, all of the stuff that you just talked about are things that is really in need here. Yeah. So landscaping also, that's huge. Beautiful. We have a great automotive training program. Wow. Yeah. And the ninth one, we have an outstanding culinary arts program. Our chef, Robert Tom, is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America Award winning. Wow. All of our instructors have worked in the field before, so they're very well connected. And so when it comes time for our graduates to go to work, they ease them right into some outstanding situations. They've already got the networking and the connections that they needed to begin with. Correct. Wow. That's brilliant. Yeah, that's so smart. All of those things, too, are so big. So how do you pick whose cars you work on? Can we volunteer our cars? To get practice done? Yes. Just so happens I kind of need some help. Actually, right now at our Waimanalo site, they do get certified in breaks. So if someone in the community wants us to work on your car, you would just provide the materials. Pick me, pick me. Materials. And we could do that for you. Oh my gosh. Pick me, pick me. That's amazing. That's where they get their hands on experience. Oh, because labor is what's so expensive with this stuff, too. Exactly. Again, right now there are certified breaks. So once a person completes the trade, all of our trades, they leave there with some type of industry recognized certification. Years ago, they used to get a nice certificate saying that they were trained at Job Corps. That didn't mean anything to the employers. So now they all leave with some type of industry recognized certification. Oh, brilliant. So for the culinary, anyone in the restaurant business has to be served, saved, certified. So they leave with that. Our office administration leave with Microsoft office certifications. All of our hard trades have the OSHA, all those type. And of course, our CNAs leave as a certified nurse aid. We pay for all the certifications. So there's no cost for these students. So the CNA, man, because that's a hard thing. I know that at Winward, they have a CNA program that takes, it takes like two years. So that program takes two years. So they have to be invested for two years to come to that program. Is that right? No. Our CNA program, depending on the individual. So people ask, how long does it take? Right. It depends on the individual. If I come into the program and I've already graduated from high school, I could get through the culinary program in eight to 10 months. Wow. So if you needed to work on your high school and go into a trade, it might take a little bit longer. Oh, I see. So the average length of stay or completion right now is one year. You can be in the program up to two years. Oh, okay. So there's not only opportunities to get certified, but you also could remain in the program and start your college career. Oh, my gosh, really? So you could still go to, you could be going to college while you're in the program. Now we have, I believe, just 10 students that have completed the basics, and they have started their college career at Winward Community College. Wow. In fact, just last month, we had two students that graduated from Winward with their associates in liberal arts. And one young lady has been accepted into the School of Social Work at UH Manoa. Oh, my gosh. That's remarkable. And she got her start in our program. The first in her family, not only to graduate from high school, but in college too. Wow. So the opportunities are there if the young people want to take advantage of them. Yeah. So career training, college, there's also advanced training programs on the mainland, so they could actually go to mainland centers after they finished Job Corps. So see, just per se, they say they needed to get their high school diploma, and then they went through the training. Right. But they want more training. So they could go to an advanced level. We get, we do basic certification of the Hawaii Center. Wow. Yes. They just have to be in great sanding, you know, given 110% while they're in our program. Sure. So that they can continue a little bit longer and a little bit further. Correct. And does that include the transportation to get to this other place? All of their basic needs are taken care of. Everything. Transportation, correct. Wow. So while they're living on the program, housing, basic medical and dental, we have a delicious dining, full service dining. Oh, I was going to see. Is that where the career, I mean, the culinary stuff, do they make the food for the people that are there? Correct. Oh. Beautiful dormitories. Oh my goodness. Yes. In addition, when they leave the program, we offer job placement and job retention services. Oh my gosh. That's like remarkable. Yes. It changes people's lives. Kind of like the little girl that I knew in Alabama, it changed her life. Correct. She came back, she got a job. She was just had all these like nowhere little tiny jobs working at the, you know, the little food mark down the corner. Underemployed. Underemployed, making almost nothing. She had her high school diploma. She heard about Job Corps. She asked me what I thought of it and I said, I think it's a great program. I read the little brochure with her and I helped her get the phone call going. So that's why I was so excited when you were coming on today because I'm like, you know, somebody who went through that and really it just changed her life. And so I think that's really important and it's really exciting and I think that the people here in Hawaii maybe don't know about it and so that's why I was so excited for you to come on. There's so many opportunities and we're always looking for different venues to spread the Job Corps message. So if there's anyone out there that is interested, we can come out and do a presentation to your school, to your organization. Okay. So we have staff available. They could contact me directly at 259-6051 or we do have weekly tours at our Waimanalo campus. It's every Thursday at nine o'clock. I want to come see it. We do ask for reservations and they could call 259-3220. At our Maui site, we do tours every Thursday at 10 and they could contact us at 579-6506. I don't think we have that number for the screen so can you repeat that number one more time for him? For our Maui site, you can call 579-6506 tours every Thursday at 10 a.m. Oh my gosh, I think that's important for the kids to be able to come out and take a tour and make sure that it's something that they, instead of just, you know, being curious and hearing it in the, you know, pipeline of things, hearing that, and then to actually get to see it, you know, and maybe even parents that don't want their kids to go to it because they heard that it's for troubled kids can come out and really take a tour and see that it's no longer just that, that it's more than that. And that's very eye-opening when they come take a tour and we encourage the parents, their support systems, you know, their school counselors, anyone come out and seeing as believing rather than just hearing it from me, hearing from the young people who are currently participating, hearing from the instructors about the employment opportunities, the connections that we have in the community. They also participate in a six-week internship program out at employer sites. And a lot of times the employers are so impressed with them they want to hire them on the spot. Wow. Oh my goodness. All of this is so amazing. Do you have, we're almost out of time. It goes by so fast. I can't believe how fast it goes by when there's so much more to talk about. But I want to have you back again so we can talk even more about all this amazing opportunities that you guys have. Do you have one last thing maybe that you'd like to make sure everybody knows about before we're done? Sure. Again, we would love to come out and spread the Job Corps message. They can contact me directly at 259-6051 or if any of our viewers are watching the mainland. You can contact find out more information about the Job Corps at 1-800-733-JOBS and that's 5-627. Right. Awesome. I'm just so happy that you were here, Julie. Thank you so much for coming. And I want to thank everybody for joining us today. 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In the study guide for human action, I walked through Mises' classic work. Now, I realize a lot of Austrians who are big fans of the school and love the work of Mises and Rothbard, they might say, well gee, you know, I read Rothbard's Man-Economy and State, why do I need to read human action?  But there's a lot in human action that Rothbard doesn't pick up in Man-Economy and State. Rothbard in Man-Economy and State mostly looks at the economics, which is crucial in the most important aspect, obviously, but Mises in human action gives his perspective basically on human society, the way he approaches history and human interactions in general. So if you really want to call yourself a fan of the Austrian school, a fan of living on Mises, you really do need to read human action, and if you find it intimidating, just use my study guide as you're going through it.


was appointed as Minister of State for European Affairs in June 2017 and has served as a phenagail TDA for the Mead East constituency since March 2013. She was previously appointed Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People in May 2016. So please give a welcome to Minister Mac. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen distinguished guests. Firstly just to say a massive thank you to Barry and of course to all of the team here at the Institute for organising what is a very timely intervention and invitation pan yng Nghymru i ddechrau'r cyfrifethau ar gyfer ymdyn nhw i'r newid yma? Fy oherwydd i'r wneud am gweithio am ddiddordeb yn ateb, ac ymdyn nhw'n fawr yn gweithio â'r ddechrau. Ymgyrchu Gweithio Aelodol i Eurpoedd ym Mhwy, mae'r newid ymdyn nhw ar gyfer y cyfrifeth newid, ac mae'r gweithio'r ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw ymdyn nhw'n cyrchio ar gyfer ymdyn nhw'n cyfrifeth newid, ac mae'n gweithio newid yn ymddangos i yw'r ffordd. Fy enw i ganddid o'r ffordd, rydyn ni'n cael ei gael y bynnag, mae'n gweithio i'r ffordd yn cael eu ffordd eich bod yn dod i'r bynnag a'i ddefnyddio yr hyn. Mae'r bynnag yma yn y dywedig sy'n meddwl i'r ddechrau yn y dyfodol. Mae'n ddim yn ymdyn nhw i'n bynnag ac mae'r ddechrau yn ddiddordeb. A byddai'n cwestiynau ymdyn nhw'n helpu i'r ffordd ar y ddweud, i'ch nhw'n gweithio yn ychydig yn ymgyrch. Felly, mae'n ynnig oedd ychydig。 Yn y DU27, ym Mhwysgawr 60, mae'r Traethe i Rhyw Roedd a'r Traethe i 1957, a'i gyrsiau eu hunain economaer. Mae'n ddawr ddau'r documentol yw'r Uniau Europeu. Mae'n ddau'r ddau'r ddau, i gyrdwyr i'r ddau'r ddau'r ddau'r ddau, ond yn cael ei gael ei ysgrifennu yn ymdyn nhw'n amgylchedd, ond ei fod yn unig i ddweud i gweithio'r cerddyn nhw, ac yw gweithio eu gwirioneddau'r cerddyn nhw'n dweud i'r cerddyn nhw'n dweud i'r Ew 27. Mae'r dweud yn cael ei bod yn cael ei ddweud angenwydd y dreidiau ac i'r proiect oes i'r golygu sut yn cael ei ddweud y fawr yma, ac mae gyda'r nobl, ond mae'n fawr yn y ddweud i'r cyfrofiol ac'r ysgrifennu i'r argyrchu. Ond, ond, this is true, but it is also a response to the economic exhaustion prevailing after the war. It was also a response to international trade which had gone into hibernation, and although fascism was well and truly discredited, politics was very much up for grabs with more than a few crunches ready to experiment with other isms, including communism. Just one year earlier, two European powers, France and the UK, discovered the very hard way during the Suez canal crisis ddod o'r llwythau yn oed o'i ddisgrifetau sydd yma'n ddigonwch y brifysgolio. Mae'n dweud o'r griffau a'r ddweud o'r pargyfrifau a'r Gweithreth sydd o'r union sydd hynny. Mae'n rhaid o'r gyfer ei gwael i'w ddweud o'r rhag ar hyn o'r ddweud o'r llwythau oherwydd dyma'r rhag o'r rhag o'r Ddermany o'r rhag o'r Ddermany. In the meantime, the UK was trying to make up its own mind about Europe, should we join it, should we not. During the treaty negotiations, the former Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison famously said joining the common market would be the end of a thousand years of history, so it didn't join. We know then obviously it later did. In short, the 1957 Europe was struggling to meet the needs of its citizens. It had no real voice on the international stage and to put it mildly it was confused as to what direction it should take. What is striking, therefore, is just how prosaic the language of the actual treaty was given the challenges. What we might have expected was a text that was much more rhetorical. Instead, what jumps off the page is pragmatism. It talks about the improvement of living and working conditions, about eliminating barriers, about balanced trade and fair competition. It talks about progressive abolition of restrictions on international trade, reducing differences with less favoured regions, pooling resources to strengthen peace and, of course, an ever closer union among the people. The treaty also included a call to other peoples of Europe to join their efforts. Since then, Ireland and Sweden and many others have answered that call and more again are currently engaged in the accession process. Sixty years on, we are once again looking for the clarity that led Europe so successfully out of the confusion back then that reigned within its borders around its neighbourhood and, of course, throughout the globe. Most discussions in the future begin by emphasising how complicated and how turbulent the world has become. We talk about multiple challenges. The financial crisis, the migration crisis, climate change, Brexit, the emergence of new powers, the decline of others, and a general sense that the voters have less and less confidence in the people that they have actually elected. It would, of course, be wrong to ignore these challenges, but I think it would also be wrong to let them overwhelm us. When the leaders of EU 27 met in Rome in March, they came close to capturing the approach we need to take in the future of Europe debate when they said, we want a union that is safe, that is secure, prosperous, competitive, sustainable and socially responsible, and the will and the capacity of playing a key role in the world and shaping globalisation, and amongst all of the challenges we face and the things we have across border elements to them. Ann has set out, I suppose, a number of Sweden's wants and where they are going, and Sweden, I think similar to what's wants the EU to focus on job creation, particularly among our young people. We in Ireland have the second youngest population in Europe, so it is a key priority. Sweden wants a digital single market that helps its SMEs do business digitally and helps consumers avail of services online. So do we, and indeed we spent much time over luncheon and in our own meeting discussing this, and I think we agree that any barrier to doing business online or digitally or cross board is a barrier to trade, it's a barrier to progress, and again we agree I think a barrier to jobs. Both countries want ambitious trade agreements that respect the high standards that our citizens expect, agreements that provide better opportunities for jobs and growth, and likewise Sweden and Ireland are very strong advocates for strong environmental policies and greater solidarity among member states when it comes to migration. In short, I think both of us recognise the fundamental importance of the European Union in dealing with issues that affect us. In Ireland we have undertaken extensive analysis of the consequences of Brexit, and our unequivocal conclusion is that our future interests are best served by remaining a fully committed member of the European Union, notwithstanding the UK's departure of course. Like Sweden we see it as the best instrument we have for addressing the new challenges we are facing, serving the needs of our citizens who want to live, study, work, move and prosper freely across the continent. In the early 1900s, Europe accounted for 25% of the world's population. By 2060 it will represent less than 5%. Long-term trends would suggest that Europe's share of the world's GDP will fall from around 22% to much less than 20% by 2030, and thanks to longer life expectancies, and this is something I learned from my previous role as Minister for Older People, the average age in Europe will be 45, making us the oldest continent in the world. So by contrast, the average age in Africa will be just over 21 years in 2030, so that shows you where we're heading. So I would ask the question, would we be better dealing with this brave new world on our own, or together with our partners in a major economic power with unparalleled levels of social protection and welfare? When we try to find new markets for exports, will it be easier to gain access on our own or with the weight of one of the world's biggest trading blocks behind us? In a world of asymmetric threats of international terrorism, do we go as alone, or do we stand in solidarity with our partners sharing intelligence and putting in place protective mechanisms? If you ask me, and I assume if I ask most people here, I would argue that we would be much better together. Together with Sweden, we will work with our friends and our allies in Europe, crafting a common agenda that meets the needs of our citizens, and I think it's timely, therefore, to have a full debate on the type of Europe that we want to have, that we want to see, but most importantly, that we want to be part of. Of course we also want the future of Europe debate to be fair and to be honest, and I think an honest debate should be one that confronts the myths about Europe, and a debate that is citizen-focused will be more about outcomes than institutions. An honest debate will also be one that recognises that the European Union is not perfect. The leaders of the EU 27 acknowledged that last year when they were in Bratislava when they launched the debate, and it might be a statement of the obvious, but if the EU was perfect, it would not be a need for renewal, and the reality is that it does indeed need renewal. What we don't need in any debate is rhetoric. We should take the same level-headed and dispassionate approach that the architects of the Treaty of Rome took, and to look at pragmatic solutions in this area. In my opinion, we need to ask how the EU 27 can deliver on these three promises, prosperity and stability, freedom and values, and finally peace and security. I'm already engaged with organisations such as the Institute here with European Affairs and European Movement Ireland, and together with Minister Simon Coveney, I will be leading a process of public engagement and debate across the country in the very near future. I know that the Institute is working on responses to the Commission's white papers and the five reflection papers, and we obviously report or we await a chance with interest, I think, the five reflection papers, they're not inclusive, they're not exhaustive, but they obviously give us a platform to start and to further the discussion that we're having. Others such as the President of the European Commission, John Claude Juncker, and of course the President of France, Emmanuel Macron are busy making proposals, and we know we've heard some of those proposals in recent days, and while not all of them we would agree with, it is important that we in Ireland get ahead of the debate, and that our contribution very much reflects the concerns and the expectations of the Irish people. All too often, I think, and we've seen this previously in referendums and debates that we've had when we engage on Europe, we get torn between Eurofanatics and Eurosceptics. The Eurofanatics sometimes leave us feeling that it is a union and a club that knows best, but it's often too complicated for me or you or others to understand, and the Eurosceptics, they demonise this and they frog the debate, and the Brexit referendum in the UK where we had lies, we had straight bananas, and we had a lot of fake news as well, so I think this is a process that has a lot of dimensions. It will depend on the wise counselling of organisations such as the Institute here and many others, and it will depend enormously on the quality of our engagement with the wider public. The European Union still enjoys immense popular support in Ireland. I think the recent questionnaire showed us that 86% in favour of the European Union, but I don't think we should be naive and take this support for granted, notwithstanding the support the union commands, we should expect a very robust debate in Ireland. This is why we need a calm and considered and inclusive debate, and to quote and to finish on this, Jean-Flaude Juncker, the future of Europe cannot be decided by decree, it has to be the result of democratic debate and ultimately broad consensus, so I would ask you all to join in that debate. Thank you.


So you're about to apply to medical school and everybody around you is just pulling out their hair and about to have hair loss like me. But what instead could you do to make sure that 2020 or whatever you're applying to medical school, the process of stress periods exactly, we'll talk about this video. All right guys, welcome to another episode of the MD journey. We're here, we're all about helping people just like you succeed on a medical journey with less stress. My name is Lex, I'm currently an internal medicine resident. So if you are new to this channel, I've been helping people like you through blog posts, videos and now podcasts. And so this is the first time stopping by and definitely consider hitting a subscribe button on YouTube, as well as subscribe and follow along podcast if you're listening. And after going through the video, if you enjoy the content, then go ahead and hit that like button to support and make sure it gets out in front of more people. But today I want to speak to the pre-meds on the other side of this camera, who are possibly going to be applying to medical school within the next few months, as well as in the future whenever you're watching this, of how to make the process less stressful, what kind of things you should be doing, what type of timeline it should create for you to make the process both effortless as well as kind of stress-free. That way when your peers are freaking out, you're like, well, good, just waiting on my admission letters to come in. But in all reality and seriousness, we just want to make sure that you're doing the things from start to finish, they're going to help you obviously get in front of the eyes of med school admission boards without feeling stressed out in the months of July, August, and September. So in this episode, I'm going to give you a step-by-step approach to kind of help you through the application process and making it stress-free. And if you enjoy the content and want to learn a little bit more about how to do well on your pre-med journey, then one great resource that I recommend is you guys check out one of the ebooks that we have on Amazon for $0.99 called the pre-med journey. And this book is essentially a blueprint from start to finish on how to succeed on your pre-med journey and eventually get that coveted med school acceptance. Let's get into today's video. And the first thing that I want you to do to make this experience less stressful is to actually keep a list of your experiences. And I recommend if you haven't done this, then to start the fall semester of, I guess, your third year of college or your spring semester of the year that you're going to apply and make a list of everything you've done. This is not a CV. You can just simply be a Word document and go ahead and just simply type in every experience. And these experiences can be a variety of sizes. It can be really impactful. That can be something that you just took one time. And now the next thing that I want you to do is look through each experience and simply type in two or three bullet points of your biggest takeaways from that experience. So for example, maybe as part of a community service project you worked a weekend with Habitat for Humanity, maybe you're helping build a home for somebody you need. You may have enjoyed working with a team and other individuals who all had a common goal of helping this one person that could use their service. So those would be some takeaways and then you would put in the Word document. And we just kind of came up with those kind of on the fly. But they sound pretty amazing. And essentially what you would do is you would go through each of the experiences and you would truly take some reflection. This is not a one day kind of activity. It's something you can do over the course of a week or two. But the idea is you're going to have all the experiences you've done, all the community service, anything academic related, anything research related, any shadowing experience. And this can be as you know, as far back as kind of later years in high school, if you kind of have something, as well as your early years in college. And if you take a gap here, then those experiences are also included. But then you're able to do a few things with these takeaways. One, you're able to use them in your essays, you're able to use them in your applications. It also helps to form some common themes of what is important and what experiences you value. For example, you may see after a list of 20 experiences that really only four or five are the most pertinent and the ones that speak most directly to your desire to become a physician. Now, going off of our last example with Habitat for Humanity, maybe you realize you do enjoy working with your hands. And the other four experiences on this list also had something of similar nature. And then use these experiences and kind of create a cohesive theme about enjoying working with your hands and maybe considering a field of surgery or something interventional or procedural. And you can use this in your personal statement, application, as well as your interview process. Simply taking the time to create a list of all your experiences, not just a CV, ask yourself, what did I really take away from each experience is going to help you kind of find a common theme. If you could do that, you're already one step ahead of most med students because the typical approach is most med students will create a list and they'll categorize them into community service, they'll categorize them into shadowing to research. But there's no common theme that they may have through their applications, just experience loading. And if you're a, if you're like any med student, and if you're like any pre-med, it's typical to want to do a lot to stuff your application. But it's very difficult at times to be able to distinguish what your goals and what the common themes and virtues you value as a future physician to definitely do this experience exercise. Let me know what you guys think in the comment section down below, but it's going to help with some of the few things that we're going to talk about later in this episode. Now it's the second thing that I want you to do. And again, I'm going to assume that this is late fall as well as early spring of the year you'll be applying, is to do a mini of personal stuff. And now I know whenever I talk about essays, people start freaking out, you get anxiety, you may feel like you're at writer's block, you're not a good writer. But this is not the final personal draft. It's not even the true personal draft. This can be a paragraph two or three, simply answering the question, why do you want to become a physician without getting really fluffy? And the reason for this personal statement is two things. One, to make sure, you know, did your takeaway practice from the first tip help you identify some common themes of what you want, what your goals may be, even if everything is not crystal clear, that's okay. But you may start getting a direction. And two, you can then use this personal statement again, it can be a very sketchy draft with the least and decent grammar. You can then give it to your letter writers in the next tips that we'll talk about and give them an indication of why you want to go into medicine and what experiences you've had. And again, you want to see if your common themes can be tested. And your letter writer may tell you, you know, this is a good approach. These are good reasons to go into medicine, and they can use those and their letters of recommendation to give you that brings us into the third step. Or the third tip is to ask for your letters of recommendation early and ask for multiple of them. And so most med schools will ask for anywhere from three to upwards to five letters of recommendation. And it's important to over the years, obviously, to have an idea of who could write one. Definitely during your spring semester, you may have one or two professors that you may want to ask. If you've done research with somebody, you may want to consider having a letter from them. The bottom line is it's better to have more letters of recommendation than you would use for certain institutions. But once you identify potential letter writers, make sure you meet with them and email them and then ask them if they're willing to write you a strong recommendation for medical school. If they're just going to write you a template where they kind of fill in your name, your GPA, how you did in the class, that's not the letter you want. Essentially better not having that than having it in the first place. So definitely make sure they're willing to write you a strong one if not considered going elsewhere. Once your potential letter writers agree, it's important to one, give them that mini personal statement that you wrote as well as your list of experiences and your takeaways, and then also give them an actual formal CV. This way they can kind of see a cohesive idea of everything you've done, why it's important to you and why you want to go into medicine, and ideally the letter that they'll give you will be better. And it's important to also give them a deadline of a week and a half to two weeks before the actual application goes live. Because this is the big thing that I want to mention in this video that will help your whole experience become stress-free. So listen up, pro tip, you know, like alarm, start listening, the phone away. And that is, you are going to have an easier time getting into medical school, a less stressful experience if you get your application within the first week that it goes live. I know this is not going to happen for every individual, for different circumstances, maybe you have to retake your MCAT and you have to wait for the score to come back, or you're waiting to get your final transcript. But for most people, your goal should be that first week, either the first two or three days, your application is submitted and it's done. And the reason for this is imagine your admission for it. The application pools are starting to come, they're going to come in quick on the first day, which is like May 1st, May 30th, depending on the application and the location you're at. But as I see more and more applications through the month of May, June and July, I may see a lot of those students that have similar applications. And later on in the process, I may say you have to do a little bit more to impress me. It's just very natural to have that bias. You know, you're initial, you're not sure if there's going to be something better later on in the pipeline. So you might as well just take and give that person an interview versus later on, you've seen enough of what the applicant pool looks like, your threshold of what's acceptable for an interview is going to be hired. So it's important for you as an applicant to get that application to them in front of them quicker, that way that threshold amount of applicants that they've seen before years is not as much as they would see in let's say July or August. So that's the biggest takeaway from this video is to get that application in early, which is why the process that I'm walking you through in this video is giving you kind of a step by step of how to make sure that application gets submitted on the first few days that it goes live. Now going down our window, I'm trying to make the process less stressful is I want you to start looking at the schools you're interested in. Sometimes there may be a generic application depending on what state you're in or if you're applying nationally to go ahead and start creating a list of all the problems you may have to do. So there's going to be a generic application that I'll link down below to the generic nut school application as well as there's one for like the state of Texas and they usually use the same prompts every single year so it's not like you have to wait for the application to go live to see what your essay should be about just simply look at what it was last year, the year before and if it's been the same it's likely going to be the same thing again. So go ahead and have that as your main prompt for that application and some schools will also have what they call secondary applications. They may have certain questions and essays they want you to write for their institution and depending on the institution they may just send you a secondary application as soon as you send them the first one or they may want to evaluate the first one and then send it a secondary to a certain amount of students but assume that you're going to get that secondary application from those institutions. It's important to create a list of all the essays. There's definitely going to be some overlap where you ask similar questions between an institution and applications so you want to at first start prioritizing working on your actual personal statements these are the big essays and then start to go ahead and work on the prompts for the secondary essays. Your goal should be depending on when you're watching this video and how far you are from applying is to have those essays you know started in the month of March and April that way when May comes around your essay is done it's been reviewed by a few people it's obviously check the grammar and for quality and you're happy with them because in that first week that application goes live you're not worried and focused on trying to get your essay to be perfect and other people to review it instead you're just kind of plugging and checking the application you're copying and posting your essay it was again the experience is not stressful and I know a lot of you guys may think this is a lot but I promise you if you don't take this advice I've seen it on the other end where I've given this advice to pre-meds and then they're still working on their essays in the month of June and July and that may not seem like a big deal because the med school applications will go live and continue all the way till October so you're like well I have enough time remember that concept I told you there are people that have already submitted their application while you're still working on your essays and so there's admission boards who are evaluating their for interviews they've already seen what their essay is and the application looks like and here you are still trying to get your essay to be perfect and your threshold of likely getting interviews and get higher and higher so just make sure you understand that concept that you obviously want to work on these essays earlier you still want the quality you want to work on them earlier and if you're working on them in the month of June and July you're already behind the April my last tip on this timeline to make the experience less stressful is to make sure you give yourself as well as your letter writers and any other person responsible for a part of your application whether that may be proofreading your essays or anything of the sort is to give them a deadline of one and a half weeks to two weeks before the deadline so if the essay and the application goes live on May 1st then make sure that like April 15th is your deadline all your letters and recommendations should come in people who are responsible for reading your essays start to give you feedback because then that gives you two weeks to go ahead and just tidy everything up maybe give the letter writer an extra week to get everything in maybe you have some tech issues where things aren't getting submitted the way you wanted them to or maybe you need to work on and that's a little bit more after a reviewer gives you some feedback on that little two week buffer is going to be a time around okay stressing out application about to go live but when the application does go live you know ideally you've given yourself enough time to make some adjustments and fix your essays have your letters and recommendations in and then you can ideally just copy and paste and hit so I know that was a lot guys and honestly you can be stressful when I break the process in that form because it seems like you're doing a lot of work when you're taking classes and you're thinking about graduation and things of that sort why can't you just push this to May June and July but we've already talked about why so make sure you set aside some time your spring semester your fall semester to really help the process become stress-free when it's time to apply as well as giving yourself the best chance of getting accepted that's basically my blueprint on how to make the application part less stressful but if you do want a blueprint on how to make the whole pre-med experience less stressful i'm including how to study how to become more productive as a college student as well as the application process for also things like studying for the MCAT as well as interviewing and getting accepted from medical school you guys can check out one of the courses that we have and offer on the journey called the pre-med blueprint where we walk you from start to finish regardless of what phase your pre-med journey you're in there's something for you to make the process more expedited like we talked about in this video and of course if you guys have more questions for your pre-med journey your medical journey you guys just drop them down in the comment section down below if you made it to this far that video and the like button still hasn't been clicked but you've enjoyed the content then go ahead and support the channel by just hitting the like button maybe two times and if you're also new to the channel and you haven't hit that subscribe button then go ahead and hit that subscribe button hit that notification bell to get two videos just like this on a weekly basis that's it for this episode guys thank you so much for watching thank you so much for listening if you're listening on the podcast and i will see you guys in future videos thanks for being a part of my journey hopefully i've been able to give you guys on yours and see you guys in the next one peace


Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside to Him. So July 4th is right around the corner and if you've been watching a lot lately, you know that I wanted to refashion this dress I found at Goodwill into a skirt to wear to my Independence Day barbecue. I'll post a modeling video for you guys soon but today I wanted to show you just how I was able to take this J-Crew strapless dress and make it into a skirt fit for fireworks. First I chopped off the bodice, cut away the zipper, and removed all the pleating from the back of the skirt. Since the skirt of the dress was a circle skirt, that left me with the entire circle still intact except for the center back seam. I needed to make sure my skirt was going to be A, the same length all the way around obviously and B, the length I wanted. So I measured up from the hem 25 inches all the way around. I connected the dashes I had made when measuring and then cut along that line removing a few inches from the top part of the skirt. Next I needed a waistband so I used my trusty curve runner from Stitch Buzz, formerly Lunagraphix Co. and measured the length of the new waist seam. Then from the scraps that I cut away in the previous step I cut a waistband three inches wide and as long as the measurement I just took. For the waistband facing I simply laid out the self fabric waistband onto the lining that came with the original dress and cut it out. This will prove to be an annoying mistake later. I forgot that I needed to line the skirt anyway so I have no idea why I decided to just cut this waistband out from the center of the lining fabric I had available. So annoying. Anyways, I interfaced the self fabric, attached the facing by sewing along the top and bottom edges, then attached it to the skirt using all the proper techniques like trimming, clipping curves, understitching, and pressing along the way. Okay, we are pausing this voiceover so that I can show you this super cool technique that I just learned by taking this apart. So basically this is the center back seam and this is the folded over seam allowance of the center back seam and look what they've done. But they've attached it to the hem because this is a hem that's exposed I guess and they've stitched across it there to hold it into place and I just thought that was such a really cool idea to keep it from showing. So if you ever have like a knit or something that you're not hemming, this is how Jay Crue handles that issue to keep the seam allowance from going anywhere. Okay, back to the voiceover. I did not have the one and a half inch elastic that I needed so I just sewed a seam half an inch from the top of the waistband and I'm calling it a paper bag waist. I inserted the one inch elastic after measuring my waist and making note of that measurement. The back of this skirt is much wider than the front since the original dress had all of those pleats so I flattened the front skirt around the elastic as best as I could then gathered up the elastic around the back until it reached my waist measurement. Finally I sewed up the center back seam gave everything a good press and snipped any rogue threads. And voila my new American holiday inspired skirt. I cannot wait to wear this to my July 4th barbecue, the Labor Day Parade, Memorial Day Service and any other event where red, white and blue is warranted. I know this skirt wasn't made with a pattern but I hope it shows you that refashioning can be fun even when you're just winging it. Oh and if you're wondering what the lining, I ended up just buying a slip. Maybe one day I'll get around to properly lining it but this will do for now. So that's going to do it for me today. I hope you guys really enjoyed this quick tutorial and I will see you all very soon. Bye!


All right, welcome back to another animation analysis and this time for something else. I will be analyzing my own Kind of this is the new trailer for the Star Wars squadron here This is the whole thing want to go through but this time I want to just point out what I did and what kind of the work is that you do on a project like that because there's Some stuff that I worked on and some stuff that I kind of just polish or tweaked Maybe that is of interest for anybody watching this and of course it will also be somewhat of a reaction Because come on in Star Wars and it's awesome One of those rare upside down shots Star Wars usually has a up and a down chips Don't really turn around it is not Star Trek at least a new Jada Star Trek's or any of the space movies that Has obviously in space. There's nothing down, but in Star Wars there is so there's something new Lots of lots of actions. It's awesome. I love it already I'm a big fan of Star Wars in general still and flying Flying animating X-Wings and animating TIE fighters. It's just so much fun I don't know who I made it this but always feel bad when you have that many ships That's always a pain. You got all the flight pass or however that the animator animated this but lots of cool work It's always kind of need to almost see into the cockpit But even though it's tiny you still have to animate it's done double doing things That will potentially cross cut all the this blinking thing here is probably and if that's the hand to be honest or this turning on Well, I'm always a fan of this and as the franchise has evolved the VHS or whatever Scanline has changed to just some kind of flickering. Yeah. Yeah, we got the writing here. We got this here I'm so pumped for the game. I always wanted to have a Star Wars game in VR It's awesome. This seems simple. By the way, I didn't animate this But the constant movement and re-holding of the fingers and just the tightening and the shake on top of that Hopefully someone did animation layers or we have stacked rigs where we have multiple nodes But that looks simple, but it's a pain just because it's time-consuming to animate fingers like that The way I did these shots was either keyframe or we got mocap that was then tweaked again I did not shoot this but just as a I don't know if it's an FYI or something But if you do those type of shots sometimes you get mocap and it's not quite working because you have Notes or you need to tweak things and you start keyframing these but if someone is sitting in a cockpit It's usually not that complicated. You can do this by hand love all of this So good Reminding you of that's a shield reminding you of Rogue one Love that helmet still. I know it's nothing has animation This is just me commenting on what I'm seeing. Anyway, it's gonna take forever I'm gonna fast forward to the things that I did. Although come on. This is so cool Whoa, I love this. All right. So as this continues this guy realizes I am being abandoned and actually the first shot that I worked on is this and by worked on I mean I did almost nothing So we have this Gets hit and I remember on this one. I tweaked some camera stuff I tweaked position some debris this guy going through and ultimately where this gets hit I think it was a bit lower and then a bigger turn So that the camera has a bit more of as you can see this in the streaks Bit of my out of control feeling so that it matches a bit more of this That is super cool. I have to stop this. I know it not animation related, but this is super cool I love that close-up. I love all this happening and just that Refraction the flexion the colors all of this. I think this is a super cool shot Also kind of showing that in this trailer the rebels the technically good guys are a bit more faceless We don't really see the eyes. They're not really the the heroes in this trailer And I think that was the purpose behind is that we don't really see the eyes in this one That's why this guy gets the helmet takes the helmet off So we can actually identify and kind of Kind of go with this character as we can see the eyes and the other character is just kind of faceless in menace anyway Flies off. I'm a big fan of this this whole cat mouse thing with a more slower flying x-wing I think that's pretty cool. That's rarely seen. They usually fly by fairly fast. I'm always a big fan of that. That's cool It's cool with the lights too. It's really neat. By the way, I haven't animated this So far Animated whoever's watching this is going really really but come on love this So love that we're keeping this type of color the engines. Nothing has changed. It's very cool See that don't see the eyes. We don't really want to identify with this nicely done here and Fingers tightening of this all pain That's cool. Love that love that we can see inside. I'm still a massive fan of the design x-wings the type deceptors regular type fighters cool stuff now as we are Exiting this moment here. It gets closer to what I actually Animated and touched. Yes. This is I can go up here. What? This is halfway through And I haven't done much. I can't remember. I don't think I did this to be honest After a while, it's also blur of the things that you touched But I don't think so. That's cool. Nope. I didn't do this. I didn't do that. That's cool I love how we are switching to also by the way, this is cool Also clever because you have to kind of look at screen direction kind of looks right to left and The other one still kind of disappears right to left we are flying Right to left and as we want to change direction Now you're going from right to left a little bit to behind right now We're switching to left and right or left to right And then see that now we're flying left to right even something like this You always kind of to pay attention even though it's just one type out of one x-wing. You don't want to keep You know keep the screen direction clear not confuse the audience again, not that you're super confused I mean, you know who's who but just in case I This is the worst animation analysis in history. I don't think I touched this one. I touched so many up towards the end Not this for sure. This is cool. I love all the tech here the display all of that Really nice looking those old old school buttons and switch rules Whenever you see this up close, that's really neat. I hope that this was clear to the audience that he hacked this thing to turn around to then go back and Attack the x-wing and This one. Oh wait. I actually I think I made it the shot. Here we go. This one Did I do this one? I know this is the best the best Animation analysis. This was fairly recent and I already can't remember. I can't remember if I touched this I can't remember if I touched this this all of these might have been The way this works I came on the show a bit later and then you sometimes need to do just camera changes We need to have a nice review of this Maybe this might have been lower with a bit more of the sky and it's not clear enough this I Got mocap and then it was no good because Sometimes you get you know, you got the chair and whatever mocap actor and then you got these guys To hold sometimes it's a bit too close too far and then it starts to kind of pull the arms This guy left my cape is they want to constrain them to these and sometimes that stuff just gets too weird And you want to adjust to the chair and some adjustment here and then the spine and at the end It just all gets tweaked and it's also short, right? So if you go back, this is very short This is so short that I scrubbed Passed it all right way past it So that was a shot that was done I hand but even something short You want to have a little bit on there a little bit of compression on the fingers You can see it's blurry But I tried to put in compression on the thumbs and you do all this in a certain view to make sure things are Correct there and then it's out of frame and you can't see it. Sometimes you do work You think it's gonna be awesome, even if it's detail work, but you can't really see anything but you also don't want to Distract from things. You don't have all kinds of hand movements things But again fairly simple. You don't want to over correct too much You also want to make sure that it doesn't keep on moving with the controls Otherwise the ship would be in a different position All that stuff seems small, but you do want to look at continuity and how how they move here That's very cool that I Don't what did I do in this one basically calming down of the camera again? I inherited the shot from someone who did awesome work And if I say someone a lot of it has been done by Scott Benza who is a beast a beast He does so much good work But I think it was a bit more making sure that it the camera is really tight and it looks like it is attached to the wing But not too loose, but still also making sure that all of that is visible. So this will be a typical Kind of touch up polish fixes inheriting from someone making sure everything's correct to push through renders Same with this one. This was fairly done in that stage It was just kind of camera adjustment to make me sure that the ship leads the camera breaking frame And adjusting the type of role if you need it This is a shot that animated from scratch. So what you do here is that you basically have assets for Clouds every that works again, I don't I can you know dive all secrets and things that we do this But generally speaking so I don't get fired either you have a card. That's a 2d card. Sometimes you have volumetric Smoke sometimes it'll clowns or sometimes you have spheres. However, you can do this So we understand the camera move and the speed of things and then You can put this on a flight path and then we just fly to surround Sometimes the flight path you don't want to go too crazy with the curve and then the ship does weird stuff So sometimes you just leave it flying and any type of movement where I have it here It's just animated on the control so the ship goes off the path Still the path is there to fly straight in for the speed the miles per hour But you can just kind of do something Where you do that and then of course, this is all CG so you have to do the camera as well and These are all animated laser blasts.  They talked about this. These are called pews So we animate these we can select the controls and say peep you and then it shoots at the same time And then of course because it saw wars you have to make sure that the firing pattern is correct So for x-wings, am I shooting here? I am shooting here It starts here and then it crosses down and then up and then crosses over it is rare I believe episode six has only two shots of an x-wing Flying all four at the same time So even though saw wars has gone through a couple different versions and looks and more handheld and more classic We still try to keep things the way they are with tie fighters It's usually two sometimes one these are a bit more all over the place But we want to keep the x-wing firing pattern Fairly consistent same thing here. So CG ship CG camera This shot as well and since it's back to back It's I can just plug this in and have those laser blasts come in into this shot Same thing on a path flying off the path camera adjustments To make sure it's framing, but not too clean you want the ship to lead and sometimes break frame But I like this and then you also you want to make sure that if you do animate ships like this Let's see if I have this in here talking out of my buti t is that when they're on a path What you don't want to do is start translating ships over either x-wings or tie fighters They start with a rotation with the roll So first it rolls and that almost pulls the ship over into a translate And then it would roll kind of roll to stop that trend that you would keep transiting a little bit and then it translates back Into that same thing with this you can't just suddenly translate the ship over it would start with a roll And sometimes it's tricky because the length of the shot you have to almost at the same time But you do want to try to rotate first Then go into a translate Even that it was a bit of an arc not too straight and then there's still momentum There's still inertia and in this case gravity as well here in the atmosphere and the planet So as it rolls you want to overshoot a bit with a slight Correction you can see this and then you want to make sure that as you stop that you don't stop here Because that's a weird tangent So try to keep it so that there's a clear gap here then you can overshoot enough So again, it doesn't overshoot to here but here So there's a bit of an overlap for nicest silhouette and so on and so on so you go back These are kind of the things that I think about in terms of path and overshoot and keeping Weights and with these guys I treat these separately as Tie fighters to me tie fighters are kind of just the grunts. They just fly around time receptors There are just a bit more specialized so to me out of that, you know, that's canon and that's how you're supposed to do it That's how I approach the ships. This will be a bit faster and a bit more precise They're a bit more the elite pilots that can fly a bit more Precisely this the only thing I touched was this coming down into a clear view Coming out making sure this really passes camera It's like camera move following this year again. This was already done by someone This was just touch-ups, but that's what you do in a show This is why I'm doing this animation analysis is not to go frame by frame on things But I mean I ain't going for my frame but can't explain and if you are in a show It's not just I do everything and it's mine but you do things where you inherit a shot and you have to make sure that you can work within someone else's file and That was sims But you have that general piece that you animate going back and then That's one that I did Camera I think was already there if I remember, but you adjust the camera a little bit little tiny tweaks, but body motion and face Was by hand and you have you can barely see this sometimes It's a bummer because of the lighting but it's more real I mean it's not saying it looks wrong, but you dialed in those shapes You can see those neck shapes as it tightens And you have to be careful that then it doesn't go through the straps here Nostrils all this kind of stuff you don't quite see but you want to put in flares. You want to start putting in a bit more asymmetry Not super cartoony, but it is human and organic. So you want to change your shapes just the time I put in the slight rotation in that job it There I say I did animate all the eyes and you can't see it Yeah, you can't see it there was a bit of a flare and then a squint and I believe this is one of the first shots That I did and and I did not know that this is going to be rendered so we don't see the eyes So it's the faceless adversary. So I put in all the animation and then I was told oh by the way You don't really see the eyes But then again, I still would have put something in there because you never know you never know what you see You don't want the character to be cross-eyed. You just never know what's going on I love this though. Love the reflection here Then you got your compressions if you do facial stuff like that you put up the jaw But then you start going into compression of lips here compression of that This will push up the shapes here. It starts to push up the nostrils and it's not quite visible But I did put that in there when you start clenching Into this you get a jaw clench as that goes in you have a shape that goes out And sometimes this is later on when the guy doesn't have them at the helmet on you have temple You have clenched at the temple goes out tiny stuff again And you might not really see it But the hope is always that you feel it that you put in all of this that you don't just animate jaw close But you do really animate all the extra shapes everywhere to make this fleshy and organic I did not touch this Did not touch this is almost like but to is it but to one from galaxies edge to the planet did not touch this Did I do this no? Maybe I Did a couple with this I? Sure remember They're very uneventful. It's one of those things where you just put compression on the fingers This is why it looks somewhat familiar then you want to make sure that because the hands are constrained to this I think I really did this one Sorry if I didn't do this and I'm saying I did to ever animated this But you want to make sure that generally you don't have the arm and then you forget that there's a constraint and then you got the wrist Broken you mean you got an arm like this wrist broken because it's attached to this here if that makes sense So as you go forward, you're gonna have to detach the constraint or animate on top of that So didn't start animating the fingers. So it's bit of a tighter grip stuff like that did not do this wall That's cool Let's go forward No did not do this one, but Touch this guy. This was super simple. I think literally the only thing I did was changing the pews in the firing Pattern I believe making sure that it goes through I remember dressing this guy so it goes through the cockpit Maybe Maybe fly pattern on this a bit. I know it sounds ridiculous But just want to always make sure that things are clear and sometimes shots are longer too I can't remember this one was started already This was the basic blocking was there of this but these guys going out I can remember these were sim that the end and this being pulled out I didn't do anything on the body animation. The only thing that I tweaked here Fingers just in case to offset things and making sure that it wraps around so it's not cheated Compression thing and then adding all the shapes so the tension Kind of tweaking just the face again basic face up was there But just adding ah you can see it the smoke takes it out Oh, I put all kind of tension shapes in there in here all that you can see the shapes here putting all that in there and Then because the One points and go back here and go scroll back. There was the note since we have Bam a hole is in the window. Well, this ship travels really fast speed And we wanted to have something where by we that's the royal we were told that it would be good to You know the wind comes in and the character gets affected by the winds at the speed that this tie fire I tend to set this flying. I mean he will go free probably couldn't keep his eyes open But that's the cinematic conceit. So in here what I added again Offsets was a bit picture approach. I've done a little bit know a little offset in this Shapes you got all the shapes here and then getting into a blink And I think this one out Maybe you wanted to blinks more and start cutting things out. It's not super blinky But you started to think about well, what is the wind going to do and then sim adds the magic and stuff flying around Again, I did a bunch of those I might have done this I think I did this one. I probably did this one and not the one before to be honest because I remember Wanting to keep this in here how we frame this we see a little bit So you want to keep part of that facial shape in there again This is the reality for production where you might do something like a bigger shot that I did later on and then You do smaller shots like these but just because they're smaller You still got to pay attention. Is that the same mouth shape as this at the end? Do we want to frame this a little bit here? Where do we cut this off just by the nose by the not just the lips the chin It's like that you still have to think about of course the compression on the fingers and something that even if it's short You want to make sure that all that stuff is in there even if it's not Super readable this one. I think again, maybe I know I did a lot of firing patterns So in the in the basic blocking these were just all fours For timing and I know I went into a bunch of these shots to put in the firing pattern So I would probably say in this one firing pattern and you start animating by hand So, you know that you want this you want that to go You know, this is gonna cause a reflection certain lighting elements. You want to put that in there? Yeah, I think I did this one one two crossover. Yeah, I did this guy in terms of firing pattern Some adjustment on the ship anim. There wasn't too much time. It's fairly fast and slidey But sometimes you just have a short shot and you got a cram all that information in This one I did not do it's cool to see that up close though I mean, this is cool. That's what they were talking about where you have the light coming in and then it needs to adjust Facing suggest to the temporary blindness. I think that's pretty cool It's cool that they put that in there this one I adjusted the camera bit fly pattern a bit but again inherited from the basic block was already there So this is one of those really new touch-ups making sure that it's visible and you want to make sure that everything is there Not too far apart, but still always there same thing with this basic I think this was just settling the ship in so it doesn't overshoot too much again polish movies was already done I think a lot of these towards the end were done by Scopenza VFX soup Adam soup. Sorry Adam soup on a lot of Transformers movies He does on blue skull island fantastic work. It's not the best animators that I'll am this guy I think the hat mo cap was kind of ridiculous because of the placement It's just on the hands and then the lip sync starts early. You want to kind of exaggerate because it's small I still did the eyes and you want to get into the sounds which I will not turn on here Although maybe copyright strike on sound here Wars over Wars over imp. So even though it's cut off and we animate with handles So this would continue in the dialogue, but of course in the edit it's cut shorter But I did this and then this one is probably the one that I like the most Where I did a lot of I think again We had some mo cap and a blue this all the way because I wanted to match it with the head So head turns body stuff again, this is small and subtle But I wanted to add the little bumps You know those reactions Even if you have a bit of a body reaction that there's a little bit of bump in the head But not too much because we're getting closer to the face You don't to move the body around too much and this was just fun I like stuff like that when it's really up close facial stuff key framing the blinks the reactions You know, it's kind of turned away again because of the winds and then he hears the imp thing He wants to look over just a bit and then he has that. All right. Well if you say this I'm going to concentrate. So I wanted that facial look to be different than this It's a small shot, but I do think about those things. This is a certain state of mind This is a certain state of mind almost a bit more I think at one point I had a smile in there and that was kind of nixed But I wanted to almost like it's a it's a challenge. Oh really. All right. Let's see how this goes I think that's why I had a smile in there first, but and then goes back into All right, let's do this and you get again asymmetry you dial in all the shapes the shapes here Here's the jaw clenched you get that kind of out there and I might have even put in This might be the temple the temple shape where if you if you clench your jaw You will notice how this protrudes out doubt all that all those things in Oh, I think this might have been the second shot. I worked on this was just the camera adjustment To make sure that it goes from low to highs like simple stuff. I think this is fairly it didn't touch this Oh, I animated this guy too Yeah, a compression on these guys And the same thing on the face squinty stuff and then Getting in there and leading with the body This one I did not touch this one. I touched mainly placement again. This was already there. This was I think just camera Lowering the path so that the the water Path was here. I think before that when I got it was like this again This is super minimal stuff But again, I want to do this animation. I'll just kind of explain how this works What what do you get as an animator? Sometimes it's you know, bigger things where where I have a lot of fun where it It's stuff like this Ah big hero shot I like this is real meaty things and it's a lot of fun to put in those shapes And then right next to that you do a shot like this one where you basically just adjust things that you got from someone else That's cool though. Look at that. That's very cool Didn't do this. They got all the wetness on the window. You got to think about all of that And I did this I think again It was just an adjustment for the camera or making sure that it really goes towards this I think reducing some of the roll I can't remember. Yeah. Yeah, something at the end where he wanted to start Although here's the picky thing. This might have been tweaked or me not Tweaked enough or part of the handles I can't remember but if you look at this, right? You got a rotation in this technically that should be more pushing on that controller Or unless you're saying it's pushing this way. I don't I'm looking at stuff like that. I didn't do the shot. I'm gonna blame someone else Did not touch this one did not touch this one. That's cool Do I love how it's losing energy and it knows this up and you got that wiggle? That's cool. I love that detail whoever animated this thumbs up. I love this That's so cool. That's also cool. I love this when you got the the shakiness It starts to stop and go And in the same thing in the body realizes, all right That's it for me. That's a wrap I am down Did not do this. I did Parts of this right? I did touch this guy. What did I do? Oh, I think feet and arms or something internal touch-ups I think there was something where you wanted Movement as we get there And not so it doesn't look like the guy is dead So I think that was it and a little bit of extra breathing and some movement and some tiny things but not for final This was then taken over by someone else. I think again, that's like might as well talk about that, right? So that's you get shots that have been started by someone and you inherit it And then you make tweaks and then you got to move on to another shot And then someone else going to take the shot and finish it So it's tricky in terms of ownership. So that's something That you just have to be conscious about and remember what you did what you touched and what someone else did And then not be a turret and claim that I did everything I think this one I did something maybe It's one I can't remember again lots of little shots And then you get screwed onto another show and then it goes on and blah, blah, blah, blah And Star Wars Squadrons, that's it again, not exactly a uh frame by frame. This is the arc in the line of action I don't want to talk about again the shots that I did stuff that I touched stuff that I That I finished and not and kind of talk about the realities of working on a show when you get Different types of shots you share shots and you do things on your own Maybe that is of interest or not. I don't know but might as well post it Let me know in the comments and stuff like that is actually Interesting, maybe I can grab some other shots that are in trailers from other movies that worked on And I sick kind of the stuff uh that I did. All right. Well, that's it If that is of interest to you, you know my spiel. I do other things than this I don't just do animation analysis. I do arc analysis and lectures and rig reviews You know that stuff and if you don't know it browse around my channel Feel free to check it out and also subscribe If it's something that you like and you don't want to miss my uploads And that is that enough rambling as I am popping through the whole thing here and And you know my shot. I will say tata and see you until my next upload


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