Box three medium flat rate box from my bulk buy three hundred and forty four pounds I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay if you Let's get started You want to know more about that you can see the video where I weigh it all and where I pick it up to get more details On how I bought three hundred and forty four pounds of jewelry on eBay, okay, so I Have pre-sorted this box because I was going to do videos of me like untangling it all and it was like over an hour long So I decided the best way to do this is to just show you guys Video of what's going on what came in this box this box was mostly earrings and This was just Full of earrings and I did not have the patience to go through and try to Match them all I did match up some of them And I do remember seeing some of the ones that are in here and other boxes So I'm just gonna keep this bag like this Like that right there is a match. I Should pull that out while I've got it. Oh My goodness, so I'm sure that there are other matches But uh, yeah, just full of earrings And you know the conditions vary the age varies, but I have found some decent stuff So for now That's earrings Now I did get some watches that I'm probably just gonna sell The watches as a lot like I'm just gonna lock these up and sell them to somebody untested. I Just don't want to I don't want to mess with them I did pull out a few That like there was a fossil. I'm gonna have my husband put a battery in for me But these are just you know costume jewelry watches that I don't want to mess with This these are miscellaneous men's like tie and Tie clips and then those things that you put like in the buttonholes. I don't know what they're called But again, they're a mismatch mixed lot. I have these in all kinds of boxes. So I will be Sorting those later. So here is the bag of stuff that I plan to put into small lots or sell in Individually kind of give you an idea of what I decided to hang on to and list separately I'm probably gonna do this separate just because people really like hummingbirds. It's not signed or anything It's nothing fancy, but it's just kind of cute. It's a bread and butter item. I have I don't even know how many of these sweater clips so I'm probably gonna lock them I haven't decided if there's like a really neat one I might sell it separate, but it's not really something that I have a huge interest in Trying to list separately at least that's how I'm feeling at the moment I have been sorting through this stuff for two days straight. I think I've gone through nine boxes so My patience is a little bit thin. I guess I could say I I need to look some of these up these pins These were still in the original Packaging I mean they say twenty eight dollars, but you guys know how inflated retail prices are but I was thinking maybe I could put that on Again same thing with these they're just on the package These are kind of interesting. I Don't know Zara. I can't I'm not sure what that says on the front, but it says 65 VND don't know what that means So I don't know if that 65 us or not, but they're kind of cool. I actually think they're kind of neat looking the way they hang So I might list those separate. This is an old pin that I thought was kind of neat I kind of want to look up unemployed musician More sweater clips this one had a lot of earrings and sweater clips and Again, I thought this pen like these pens with the gemstone or a glass or whatever it is I I've done decent with those in the past Again, I don't it's not signed, but it's a little bird. So I might try that. This says Nixon These little cats I might try those Or I might just end up bundling them. I haven't quite decided this is I think this might be a sweater clip also But it's more of a pin style Born to shop That's me Wish I could shop right now. I'm going crazy not shopping. This feels very lightweight and it does have some type I can't read it I'll have to maybe look at that, but it doesn't feel expensive This is a little airplane pin. I don't know. It's kind of cute A little Noah's Ark pin, which I thought was kind of cute These little elephants. I don't know. I just think like little jewelry things that have elephants are super cute So I might try to sell that separate Again, some of this stuff is stuff that will be great to pull people into my Poshmark closet and hopefully they bundle and buy something else This is just a Bracelet I may just throw that in a lot and sell it that way a pendant. I'll just throw that in a lot More look at all these sweater clips you guys. Oh My goodness That one's kind of cool. I mean some of them are kind of pretty. It's so funny They look like clip-on earrings to me, but they're sweater clips Here's a little Elvis pin A sweater clip This is a pin Again, no markings, but somebody might like it I may sell some of the pins together. I haven't really Still processing all of this. It's just so much stuff. This is a little bird on a um Sorry, I thought I had it in front of the camera a little bird on a ring eating a flower eating This one's kind of cool. I don't know why I just am kind of drawn to this. It's kind of a unique shape This was decent And I think I was thinking when I was doing this that I was gonna lot up like these bracelets and a lot if I remember correctly, so I think I'll just put those in a lot Here's a little, uh, I don't know what this is. Is that a cat or a dog? Comment below. Do you think that's a cat or a dog? Here's another bracelet. So yeah, I was gonna do those together This is I don't know I just thought it was kind of unique and different. It's got the pretty, uh Shells and stuff like that on it So it's kind of beachy. That's the word So I was thinking I might sell that differently. It's just for fun Like this is a sweater clip too So some of them are cooler than another this than others. That's a bangle. So yeah, I'll probably lot those up and then Either sell the pins separate or together. I haven't quite decided on that The sweater clips I need to put in a bag together Uh These are all the earrings that I was able. Here's another. That looks like a spoon, doesn't it? Kind of I'm gonna put those sweater clips up here These bracelets up here so I can make room to show you guys some more stuff These were the earrings that I found matches for pretty easily. Again, I didn't spend a ton of time on it I have to look through them and decide if I'm going to sell them Like individually or in a lot. I may just sell them in a lot I did keep these out just because they were in packaging. Um, these are more pins And uh, yeah lots of pins like look at this little face I can show you guys There's a whole bunch of these things which I need to look up and see if they're anything They're like achievement things So, yeah, I don't know a fish. There's a girl scout pen. I can usually sell those Uh, I think this might be girl scouts. Is that girl scouts anybody know? There's a lot of birds Dollywood, so yeah, this is weird. You know what it says on the back? This is a tie clip So Yeah, and then The last thing I'm going to show you is I don't I think I'm going to put this in with the last Uh, let me make some room My ring sizer I was listening earlier today Okay, but the last thing is this is the stuff that I'm going to sell as a Like a little a lot So I'm going to sell it all together and I'm going to add stuff to this more than likely From I'm trying to get them all like between six and seven pounds of jewelry I don't know what these are. I don't know if they work So I'm just throwing them in this box or I'm just going to sell them in this I think it says let me see if I can see what this is. Uh, here's another one. Oh, this says polar here polar Polar bluetooth Polar loop two, I don't know. So there's that one and then this one's different This bracelet's kind of cute Some bracelets that's like a matching set just threw that in there Just couple like earrings here's a watch. I guess I could put that watch. Oh, that's right. This is weird Have you ever seen a watch? With that long of a band is that weird or what? It's so weird. This bracelet's kind of cool These are just bangles. I mean, I don't think there anything But there's two bags of those These are big earrings. They're kind of funky Just a bracelet There's another one of those things Vitus smart or Vivo smart. I don't know. I don't know if they work So this bracelet's pretty cool. I think I'm going to add that over to the bracelets that I'm going to sell So I'm still kind of sorting and processing where I want to sell which things This is kind of a neat bracelet. Um It's kind of it's kind of bent right there. Oh, I have another lot Of items from another batch the last batch I did that It didn't weigh enough so I may just throw this stuff in with that You know the conditions kind of vary. This is like kind of cute clip on. I think there's another one So, yeah, I think I'll add this to the other bag and make it like that I just need it to fit in a medium flat rate box because I'm going to do free shipping Probably put them on mercury mix it up pretty good Um so that somebody can resell some of the stuff like these earrings are clip-ons. I think they're really cute I think they'd sell I mean, they're a bread and butter item But if somebody wants to take the time to list it like this bangle, you know, but And again, I don't know what these things are if they work. They might be worse something I don't have the patience to try to figure out if they work. I think this is super cute So it's costume jewelry. It's just gonna be a lot of stuff and people can either Use them to Make jewelry or they can resell them or they can wear them They can do whatever they want with it and I'll just disclose all of that in the description of the listing All right, you guys so that is box number three Be sure to check out the description of the video like comment share and subscribe. Thanks for watching You


I'd like to say something about ethno-nationalism because it's one of the characteristics of this dark time. Maybe as a result of the fact that we're living in an age of unprecedented global migration with 65 million people on the move, there is now a renaissance of fantasies of homogeneity. More and more nations are coming to believe that they should live only with and among people like themselves.  When European nationalism was first started in the late 18th and early 19th century, it began with an idea of a perfect fit that there is a state and there is a nation. The borders of the state should be the borders of the nation and every nation would be incarnated by a state and it would all be very neat. The problem was that it was never neat and they developed this thing that became known in the early 20th century as the problem of minorities because there were always people within the homogenous community who were heterogeneous until finally there were people who came to two conclusions. One, they don't need to live among people like themselves to be themselves. They just need to be free. And two, there is no greater source of social conflict and state conflict than the fantasy of perfect homogeneity. And what I failed to understand... But who has this fantasy? You do. I've never come to know. You do. I have a concept. I have a concept of a people in German folk living in a country, in a nation state, in a territory. But I know it has never been totally homogenous like say kind of whatever marbles in the little bag that are totally all green or all blue. It's not a technical concept. Then why are you worried about the immigrants? Because... What are they stealing from you? No, they are not stealing anything from me, but I strongly believe that it is a people that has to be almost and are mostly homogenous. Well, here we go. Well, for sure. Not totally. Being totally homogenous is a fantasy.  It's kind of a technical concept. But excuse me, if you look... We have historical experience here. If you look at the history of the treatment of minorities by nation states, it is true in theory that you can have a state in which you have a large homogenous population and then a small minority or minorities. Sometimes it works. But if you look at the... Wait, wait. Experience has shown us that people who are excited by the folk and who are excited by people like themselves generally wind up losing tolerance or worse with the minorities with whom they live. So why wouldn't it be easier and more just and more moral to simply rely upon a pluralist democracy in which everyone who lives in the country has the same rights and each community can flourish according to its power? Okay, so I have one last question to you, Mr. Vizetir. This is... Why is Israel an exception from this?  Because I'm interested in your answer because every nation state must disappear. The great problem that faces Israel right now. Oh, I don't think Germany should disappear. No, no, no, I'm all for nation states. But I think that the nation that lives within the state should be conceived heterogeneously, not homogeneously. I'm not for the discipline. I think the nation state is here to stay and it's probably a good thing. The problem that Israel is facing is that Zionism in some ways imported the European idea of nationalism, this theory of the perfect fit. And then the Israelis discovered, the Jews of Israel discovered, not only that they are before 67, that there were Arabs living in their midst. And after 67, as a result of a war of self-defense, not of a war of conquest, that there were millions of Palestinians living, if not with them, then right alongside them. And the problem that you're facing is, I tell my Israeli friends, that's the problem that they're facing. And at some point they will have the same choice that European countries will. They will either become multi-ethnic and pluralistic, or they will become fascist and homogeneous. Those are the only two possibilities.


The United States has one of the highest premature birth rates in the world, now ranking 131st worldwide. Even worse over the last few decades, the rate of preterm birth in the U.S. has been going up. We've known that preterm delivery is associated with significant problems during infancy and almost three-quarters of all infant deaths, but even preemies who survive past infancy can carry a legacy of health issues, such as behavioral problems and moderate to severe neurodevelopmental disabilities and psychiatric disorders in half of those born extremely preterm by the time they reach school age. There's even evidence now that adults born very premature to increase risk for things like heart disease and diabetes, and babies don't even have to be born that premature to suffer long-term effects. Even so-called near-term births at 36 or 37 weeks are now thought to be related to subtle developmental problems. So what can pregnant women do to decrease this risk? I've talked about avoiding aspartame and diet soda consumption during pregnancy, but what about food? 66,000 pregnant women were studied to examine whether an association exists between maternal dietary patterns and risk of preterm delivery. They compared a so-called prudent diet, which was more plant-based, which is a Western diet or traditional Scandinavian diet, and found that the prudent pattern was associated with significantly reduced risk of preterm delivery. Their findings suggest that diet matters. But why and how? Well, inflammation is thought to play a role in triggering delivery, and so a diet characterized by anti-inflammatory foods, high-intensity vegetables, fruits, and berries, can reduce both systemic and local inflammation, and the lower saturated fat levels may also be associated with reduced inflammation. Any good foods in particular? Well, since a significant percentage of preterm deliveries are thought to be related to infections and inflammatory conditions in the genital tract, what about looking into garlic? Garlic is associated, well known for its antimicrobial properties, and also has these prebiotic dietary fibers that feed our good bacteria. Speaking of which, dried fruit packed with fiber also have some antimicrobial activities against some of the bacteria suspected to play a role in preterm delivery. So they studied the garlic, onion, and dried fruit intake in nearly 19,000 pregnant women, and indeed, they observed a reduced risk of spontaneous preterm delivery related to groups of garlic and onion family vegetables and dried fruit. In particular, garlic stood out for the vegetables and raisins for the dried fruit, associated with a reduced risk of both preterm delivery and preterm prelabor rupture of membranes, which means you're water breaking prematurely before 37 weeks. And it didn't seem to take much. The so-called high garlic intake, associated with the lowest risk, was just about one clove a week or more, and high raisin intake was defined as just like one of those little mini snack boxes of raisins a month.


I started trying to weave the thinking and the mindset that comes with thinking from sustainability. And I feel like that's where the impact came in, just building that awareness around what does it mean? It's not this vague concept. It's tangible and you can put it to action. My name is Samra Ibrahim. I'm based in Dubai and I'm working with EY Parthenon, which is the strategy arm of EY.  For example, there's a lot of women that we work with and they always look at the roles that they carry within a firm and they look at the role models that are around them. So there's this aspiration of we can't reach the top because we're not enough or we can't do enough. So for me, the impact story was more along the lines that something is possible if you work really hard towards it. So being able to work with Prime Minister's office and being able to be Nani Amorati in that space was something that made it kind of like a stepping stone that you know what it is possible if you try. I was curious to see what CSR was in our firm, corporate social responsibility. And the more I was involved, the more I wanted to learn and that's what paved the way for one of the partners to say, if you're this interested, you could do a master's in it. And then I found the CISL program at Cambridge. And then in the program, this eye-opening moment came in of, you know what, there's a lot out there that we haven't even tapped into. And I wanted to take that back into what I did and where I worked and the clients that we dealt with. And it kind of paved my career more into the sustainability consulting space. And I was having conversations with clients around, you know what, sustainability is not just the green aspect, it's not just the environmental aspect. There's the social component as well. Just building that awareness really made a difference in the conversations that we were having. Even when I moved across to the Prime Minister's office, a lot of the projects that we worked on, I recall in the beginning they're like, no, no, sustainability, that's too much, it's way too much for us to take on. So let's just stick to what we know. But the more I worked on these projects, I started trying to weave the thinking and the mindset that comes with thinking from sustainability. And I feel like that's where the impact came in, just building that awareness around what does it mean? It's not this vague concept, it's tangible and you can put it to action. I imagine a future where I'm able to make that impact, make that change. So the new team that I'm working with now, it is to try and embed sustainability as part of a strategy. It's not something you plug in and you plug out, it's not something that you only do when you feel like, oh, the revenue for this year was good, we've profited, we can stretch a little bit. No, it's actually a core of what your business is for.  And that's what I think is a future that I would love to be a part of where I've helped to pave that mind shift of it's possible to look at not just profit and profitability and the economics angle, but look at the environmental and social components as well. When you start looking at anything, being at your strategy, your operating model, your business, your citizens, your country, the minute you start looking at it as a multifaceted entity or a multifaceted impact, you see things in a different light. And for me, when I did the program at CISL, the concept of systems thinking, of understanding that things are interconnected, there is a feedback mechanism that needs to trigger something else. When you're looking at net zero, you need to look at if I change one thing, what's that ripple effect look like? And for me, that's why sustainability is important. It allows you to see things in a very systemic way, in a very connected way, understanding that one system relies on another system and that the impact you do here has an implication here. A leader doesn't believe they have the authority. A leader actually believes that they need the right people next to them and guiding them, sometimes even more alert and more aware and more knowledgeable than they are, to elevate the entire ecosystem that they're working in. So for me, a leader is somebody that listens. You don't really understand the power of listening until you're put in a situation where you start realizing biases are feeding into your mind as you're thinking, as somebody speaking. You know what? Listening really is turning your own mind off and truly listening to what the other person is saying. One of the most important ones has got to be transparency, because transparency underpins the way that you interact with others. It underpins the way that you deliver on what you need to do. When you are transparent, you are transparent in what your capabilities are. Therefore, nobody feels like you're trying to be superior in any way, shape or form. Being transparent, being clear as to what you're able to accomplish and where you need help along the way. Because the more transparent you are, the more people are willing to help.  This is where my weaknesses are. This is where my strengths are. Let's collaborate. I'm not pretending to know more than what I know. This is it, and that authenticity goes a long way, especially when you're trying to really change mindsets. I was given a project while I was working with the World Government Summit on developing and delivering a failed publication. We had two months left to the summit. This project was either make or break. And I don't believe I slept. I don't believe I even ate. I got really sick during that time because the pressure of learning something completely new, understanding concepts I've never had to even consider looking at before. Looking at megatrends at such a large scale and the implications that they have on our world. So I needed to work with a team to envision what the world would look like in the year 2071, how governments would interact, how citizens would interact with governments. And just that sheer pressure was interesting. I worked with people I've never met before. And in the span of two months, I think you learn to work on your toes, absorb new things, completely disconnect from what you've always done on a regular basis and think completely outside the box. And I think I realized anything is possible if you allow yourself the window to believe that you can learn something new every day. I was learning something new, not even every day. I think it was every hour. So I feel like allies are those that you inspire around you. It can be your family. It can be colleagues. It can literally be somebody that you just met at a conference and they're looking at like, you know what, I like the way that you're thinking. So you know what, let's connect the dots. And it's amazing how many interactions have come that way. My advice is find not one mentor, but find many. And they come in all shapes and sizes. I've had mentors that have been my bosses. I've had mentors that don't even work with me. I've had mentors that I've just connected with as friends. But I feel like a mentor is somebody that you define as being a reflection of who you are, but in a positive light. Somebody that can sit there and be like, okay, you know what, yes, you're struggling. Let's figure out why. It's not because you're incapable. You need to find that voice of reason. You need different mentors at different points in your life to really help you bounce where you want to go and where you are. I think the expectations become harder. You've come in from the outside. Therefore, all this light is on you to really transform something and it becomes a pressure. It's a superpower because you push yourself further than if you were within your own comfort zone. So the fact that you were brought in on an exception makes it feel like you need to deliver on something more. The fact that you can see things a little bit differently just because of cultural differences just encourages you to really drive that diversity conversation that you need to have. So it's a superpower because it drives you internally to want to do more, to feel that privilege of, you know what, I'm in a space where very few are. So you know what, I'm going to make the best of it. I'm going to share what I have and maybe we can build something stronger together.


25 A dream of man and woman, divine or still, but human, solving the riddle old, shaping the age of gold. 26 Upon the shores of the river as she went home, the young fine fronds were thrusting aside the unfaded leaves. The forest stood in a pale and tender fog of green, as if an unseen artist had blurted it with a blender, perhaps to deceive an overweary eye as to his real intent in touching it at all. There was something at once unutterably delicate and urgent in the advance of the deathless spring upon the deathless summer. The eye leaned upon it with the relief which it finds in sunset, sunrise, zenith, fire, or sea, in those things only which bring the thought face to face with what is unfathomable. The heart bowed before it, quickened to ask, Where shall I find eternity without resurrection? She travelled alone, tearless and excited. She felt strong and strained. As yet she was filled less with a sense of loss than of love. Philip seemed quite near. Nearer than when it had been possible to be conscious of any imperfection in himself or in their union. Only his ideal visited her heart. She was not without a strange exultant sense that now she never could see a weakness or a flaw in him again. Life might try her cruelest, she could not fret them now. She thought of him with something of the proud and peculiar triumph of the widowed girl, who kneels to the vision of the man whose wife she never was, to learn to reverence him by one blind thrill the less. Unheard he seemed to her tense mood to speak to her as she rode solitary, and his voice had the tone of the wooing and the bridal time. Unseen to her soul's eyes he journeyed with her, and his face had the look of its first youth and the beauty of its noblest hour. Their relations seemed to her to run on quite uninterrupted. He leaned over her shoulder to read their undivided life. He had but turned a leaf before her in the story without an end. Aunt Chloe was sitting in the twilight with the little girl asleep across her generous arms. The geraniums in the windows were all pink that year. Aunt Chloe watched them while she hushed the child. The professor walked rather feebly up and down the silent city. He had been saying to his sister that he was growing old, he thought, and that the house seemed lonely. He stopped to write the picture of Sir William, whose fresh gray cord had twisted on its polished hook, and wondered who had taken Locke's understanding from the left elbow of the mahogany sofa, and if Professor Brown would call again to see about that pet chemist of his, who was marked so low on intuition, and how long it was since they had heard from Avis, and what it meant that we were having such a merciful spring, and said how green the grass was even now upon the yard. And then Aunt Chloe heard the gate click, and when they looked out across the pink geraniums, Avis, in her widow's dress alone, was walking up between the blades of grass. Aunt Chloe went out and led her in, asking no questions and saying no word.   No solitude is so solitary as that of inharmonious companionship, and beside certain other phases of her life, her present one seemed at first to Avis to lack the essential qualities of loneliness. It was with that a vivid belief, which has the character of consciousness to imaginative minds, in Philip's watchful and intelligent sympathy, that she directed her energies to the object which her marriage and its consequences had interrupted. She opened the garden studio while the apples budded, and there she stayed patiently for a year. They questioned her little or none, and she worked in an absolute taciturnity, not characteristic of her sweet and kindly temper, which was quick to sacrifice an instinct of reticence to one of consideration for the feelings of a friend. Aunt Chloe knew there was a portrait of Little Jack Rose, and suspected a picture for the exhibition, and tried to remember that it showed a lack of acquaintance with life to be hurt by the conduct of the afflicted. When the year was out, Avis one day locked the studio, took her little girl, and went to find her father. She crossed her hands and stood before him, much in the attitude in which she stood on that June morning when she read Aurora Lee. Only now, between her folded palms, she held the fingers of the child. She said, "'Next week, father, I shall go into the art school, and teach, and I think I can get a private class besides.' "'Do you suppose?' asked the professor, after a sad silence.  More largely, perhaps, than a smaller man, the professor's sympathy yielded what his intellect grudged. He felt that he had made one of the concessions of his life in intimating to his daughter her mother's possible approval of her personal connections, or regret at their obstruction, since, of course, when his daughter had married, it was to be assumed that she yielded the tastes and occupations of her maidenhood like other women, like her mother before her. But the professor could not argue with the eccentricities of an afflicted child. His daughter's frosted future chilled him like some novel defect in the laws of nature, as if the sun should elect upon whose roof it should shine, or the rain pass him by to visit his neighbor's field. "'It is of no use,' said Avis wearily. "'My pictures come back upon my hands. Nobody wants them now. They tell me that my style is gone. Gopille says I work as if I had a rheumatic hand, as if my fingers were stiff. It is true my hand has been a little clumsy since—'Van.' But the stiffness runs deeper than the finger's father. "'Never mind. Don't mind. We've given it up. Wait and I. Haven't we wait?' "'I don't understand you,' said the little girl distinctly. Avis's daughter was a logical little body, clear-headed, speaking only when she had something to say. Wait did not understand what it was that had been given, did not see that anything had been given to anybody—it certainly was not grandpa's hour for the cough lozenge—and preferred not to allow herself to be compromised on any matter on which she was not perfectly clear. Her mother stood looking blindly down. Wait pulled at her dress, unnoticed.  Wait stood patiently. A sturdy lassie with straightforward eyes and a healthy temper of her own, aware that she was not of much importance to her mother just then, but perfectly able to bide her time. Avis continued to look down with her eyelids half closed. It did not seem as if she saw her. Something as elemental in Philip Ostrander's wife as the love of their child required her attention at that moment. She wondered how it would have been if she had cared for him in some other way, like some other women. If she had been made of tougher tissue, if her feeling for that one man, her husband, had not eaten into and eaten out the core of her life, left her a riddled, withered thing, spent, and rent, wasted by the autocracy of a love as imperious as her own nature, and as deathless as her own soul. But she would do it all over again. All. All. She would never love him by one throw the less. Avis stretched out her arms into the empty air. She did not know how to express distinctly, even to her own consciousness, her conviction that she might have painted better pictures, not worse, for loving Philip and the children. But this was what God meant for her, for all of them, once, long ago. She had not done it. It was too late now. And Wait was watching her with resolute, critical eyes, tugging at her hands now, with lip put up, would have cried if she had been a baby like Ave Rose. Avis turned with a supple motion, and snatched the little girl. I have my child, she cried. She thought of this more often after that. All was not over, the child had her life to live. The parental resurrection came to Avis as other forms of tenderness had done, slowly, but with passionate intelligence. She seemed to herself to be the first woman in the world who had said, My child shall not repeat my blunders. Or what does it all matter if my child may be spared my sorrows? Wait developed with the rapidity of most solitary children quite in her own fashion. When she was four years old, her mother came to Aunt Chloe one day, rigid with dismay. Aunt Chloe sprang dropping the cotton flannel for the beneficiaries. Is it her fingers or her throat? Oh, did I leave the oxalic acid out? I asked her if her doll was asleep, gasped Avis, and she said, Hush, Mama, it has been the object of my life that she should not know she was a doll. Her forehead is too full, said the doctor, exactly as if he had not said it to every other mother on his list that morning. Keep her out of school till you are convinced she is a dunce. Turn her out of doors with no more restriction than a cricket. One mother on the list at least obeyed him, and one elected lassie was let loose upon the wide, harmless fields and shore. Before she could read a line, Avis's daughter was a splendid little animal. At this point the mother's heart withdrew and took counsel of itself. It must be clearly remembered that Avis had been reared in social and intellectual conditions whose tendency is strictly to the depression of novelty in conduct or opinion. There are always phases of progress vital enough, perhaps, to their little coteries of prophets or disciples, competent even—heaven forbid that one be dulled of imagination about any remote forms of humanity—to their own organisms, circulation, heartthrobs, possibly, which the life of a university town can hardly be supposed to enter upon its curriculum of interests. Religion, sex, race, class, or whatever, looks for no recognition of its discrown state from the centres of scholastic culture. The moral evolution comes slowly to the intellectual specialist as faith to the physicist or doubt to the poet or geometry to the artist. Phases of thought quite familiar to most thoughtful people to-day, forms of advance pressing silently against thoughtful and thoughtless now alike, Avis had been trained to regard with the calm curiosity with which a free thinker tries to regard a Christian, a being in the nature of things, of inferior culture, because cherishing a superstition which is, in the nature of things, barbaric. As free from the compression of any agitating influence or upheaval, as if she and Waite had been sitting sheltered on a summer day in a convent garden, side by side among the sultry flowers, while the music from the altar sounded on, and the sweet veiled women passed with holy feet, Avis, with her earnest eyes and tender mouth and tired brows, found herself face to face with the future of her child. She found herself in the sensitive state of one who has made a gradual but radical change of climate, horizons with which her own youth was unacquainted beckoned before her, the hills looked at her with a foreign face, the wind told her that which she had not heard, in the air strange melodies rang out, uninterpreted colours gathered about the rising of the sun, her own chastised aspiration looked humbly out upon the day whose story she should never read. We've been told that it takes three generations to make a gentleman. We may believe that it will take as much or more to make a woman, a being of radiant physique, the heiress of ancestral health on the maternal side, a creature forever more of nerve than of muscle, and therefore trained to the energy of the muscle and the repose of the nerve, physically educated by mothers of her own fiber and by physicians of her own sex. Such a woman alone is fitted to acquire the drilled brain, the calmed imagination and sustained aim which constitute intellectual command. A creature capable of this command, in whom emotion intensifies reflection and passion strengthens purposes, and self-poise is substituted for self-extravagance. Such a creature only is competent to the terrible task of adjusting the sacred individuality of her life to her supreme capacity of love and the supreme burden and perils which it imposes upon her. A man in whom the sources of feeling are as deep as they are delicate, as perennial as they are pure, whose affection becomes a burning ambition not to be outvied by hers, whose daily soul is large enough to guard her, even though it were at the cost of sharing it, from the tyranny of small corrosive care which gnaws and gangrenes hers, such a man alone can either comprehend or apprehend the love of such a woman. No man conceives what a woman will do or dare for him until he has surprised her nature by the largest abnegation of which his own is capable. Let him but venture the experiment, if he will find himself vanquished by her in generosity to the end of the sweet warfare. Then first he knows what he has won, for then only does she suffer him to know. It is not till then that reverence and surrender radically begin their life in her. Nay, then, he is the man, he only among men, who understands what a woman's tenderness is. With her he is a crowned creature, but with him she is a free one. Avis was a care-worn woman, and like most people with whom life has dealt intensely and introspectively, the pressure of the advancing upon the retreating generation touched her personality more than her philanthropy or philosophy, where their subtle readings of the eternal riddle astir upon the desert had the stone lips of the sphinx begun to mutter.  For her she had her child. It would be easier for her daughter to be alive and be a woman than it had been for her. So much is this, she understood. More than this she felt herself too spent to question.  She had the child. She had the child. Once sitting with Coy and the Parsonage parlor, the two women felt a talking of matters of which they did not often speak. Coy had the immense power of incommunicativeness sometimes found in simple and even impulsive women, in whom a kind of heart supplies the place of a deep imagination. For years now, with Avis, Coy's instinct had kept her close to the surface of the immediate. She felt it to be natural that there was always something not to be talked about in Avis's life. It was the way with women like Avis, to whom things happened. Nothing had ever happened to Coy, except John and the children. Coy had three children. They were not kept out of the Parsonage parlor any more than the son or the heir. Coy's children did not tire her. She looked radiantly at Avis across the brisk babel in which they sat. Coy wore a morning calf with purple ribbons. She had some pink ones, but took them out for the baby. She wondered how it was that people minded growing old. They talked a little that morning about the geological professor and his new book. Avis spoke calmly of the great gratification which the trustees found in his success. They spoke of the people who rented the house in High Street, and how they had built an L, and cut down the Elm Tree, and altered the porch. Then Coy spoke of Chattie Hogarth's Odyssey Club, and of the poem Mrs. Hogarth had written for the denominational weekly. She asked me how my BABE was yesterday, said Coy. I never want to know another thing about a woman than that she calls a baby a babe. I hope she won't suffocate the Odyssey Club. But they say there are some fine law students in it—rather young, though, I should think—and the girls that are coming along study Greek, and a really very pretty Avis. That stratum just below us, you know, that we're flirting with freshmen when we were engaged. Oh, look out, Avis! Wait will cut herself putting Jack's screwdriver into the baby's dimple. Then they talked a little about Wait, and a little about John and the children, and then they spoke of Stratford Allen's housekeeper, and when Coy had told her how comfortable she made him since Barbara went, and how glad everybody was that Stratford was so well cared for, and how much good he did with all his money, and how many fine pictures he had in his house, she said she supposed Avis knew that the woman's name was Jessup, and that she came from Texas, where her husband had got shot.  Coy spoke lightly, but her own voice sounded to her as if she had said, he bought your soul. She rather wished she had said nothing about the sphinx. She hurried on to speak of Barbara, who had not married her minister, but only a New York businessman. It was a trial for a harmless girl, but Barbara bore it well. Then she talked a little of John and the children, and after that she spoke of the last alumni meeting, and said that John said the wish to put up the monument in Florida originated with the members of Professor Ostrander's first class, the men who were under him in his opening year at college, clever men, John said, and that they spoke of Philip with emotion. And then, by way of variety, she talked of John and the children a little more. "'You seem to keep pretty well,' said Avus, after a silence. "'With all your care, Coy.' The words sounded superficial enough. Coy felt that Avus would rather be taken on her own level, and answered carelessly, "'Pretty well, Avus. There's about so much bother in everybody's life, I suppose. Some people take it in high tragedy. I take mine out in the mumps. I own my married life would have been happier if they hadn't all had the mumps while John was in Philadelphia, and Sarah laid up with her broken ankle, and deacon bobbly out on a heresy hunt, and the American board, as nearly as I understand it, destined to become bankrupt, unless it could pay off its debt out of our church. I own so much, Avus.  There is one thing I must admit. I do not like to ask John for money. There. But that is all, Avus.' Was it all, indeed? It was a peaceful, pleasant story, as the children shut the door it seemed very still suddenly in the parsonage parlor. The sun was upon the worn carpet in the playthings, Coy's sewing chair and little garments lying half-made, and purple ribbons, and upon the baby in her lap. Coy looked up from her sewing, and saw Avus sitting there and watching her, as the country, wasted by civil war, pauses to look off upon the little neutral state. A spark sprang into Coy's incurious gentle face. "'It is nature,' she cried. Explain it how you will.' "'But I,' said Avus, in a low voice, after an expressive pause. "'I am nature, too. Explain me, Coy.' Coy did not answer. It was to be expected that Avus should be more or less unintelligible. But when Avus turned presently to go, she kissed her, looking up with puzzled, affectionate eyes. Then she lifted the baby a little higher on her neck, and went into the study to talk to John. "'Somehow,' said Coy, "'I am always more sorry for Avus when I go away and think about her than I am when I sit and talk with her.' "'Poor girl,' said John Rose. As they stood in the window, leaning together, Avus and her widow's dress in the color of the morning, passed by, leading her little daughter by the hand. When they were at home that day, more silently perhaps than usual, wait in the corner with her picture-books and her mother sitting with crossed hands and vague eyes. The child came up and said in her distinct, impressive fashion. "'Mama, I cannot read this story till I am old enough. But it is a pretty story, and I want to hear it. The man has a yellow saddle, and his horse is red. Read me what he had a red horse for, and where he went to. Read me why the saddle was yellow. Read me. Read me till there is no more to read.' Wait stood leaning a little and stroking the back of her mother's hand with the palm of her own. If anybody had noticed this, she would have stopped. But Mama understood about such things. She did not talk and make a fuss. Avus took the book and read. She sat with her profile toward the child. Sir Lancelot rode over thwart and enlong in a wide forest, and held no path but as wild adventure led him. Then Sir Lancelot looked round, and saw an old chapel, but could find no place where he might enter. And as he lay, half waking and half sleeping, he saw the holy vessel of the sangria pass by him. So thus he sorrowed till it was day, and heard the fowls of the air sing. Then the hermit led the young knight to the perilous seat, and he lifted up the cloth, and found their letters that said, This is the seat of Sir Gallahad, the good knight. This is he by whom the sun-grail should be achieved. Now the name of the young knight was Sir Gallahad, and he was the son of Sir Lancelot, Duloc. End of Chapter 25 End of the Story of Avus by Elizabeth Stewart Phelps


LAX is an exercise to get us ready for upcoming the Recount Force counter-recount. So we do a couple iterations of these. This is the first large scale one we're doing So we move out from Camp Lejeune. We employ radar systems, sensing abilities, UAS We tie it in to close the kill chain So next one, we've done a lot of field ops in the past the last couple weeks getting ready for this This is the first one that we're like actually out executing the mission So we've set up the the radar systems the sensing abilities before we've done the ranges. We've done The cammy painting up getting in the hide building building gillies driving around the utv's we've done all that separately This is the first time we're taking all the puzzle pieces and putting it all together So this is what the Marine Corps wants to do by 2030. This is the first iteration of this For the recount counter-recount So by doing this first lex, we're finding out the abilities the capabilities that we have And the deficiencies that we have not only in the marines in our training but in the gear So as we move forward going to lex 2 lex 3 lex 4 it's going to become more refined and we're writing the playbook for this stuff So you're taking guys from everywhere.  So like for the o3s especially like a lot of them They're starting to get hands on with the com gear. They're learning about the sensing capabilities that we have They're all going on courses getting up on the uas And then for me and corbel baker, who's the other 21? As radio operators, we've you know, we are attached to the grunts, but we're getting to do all the hands-on training So this is one of the first times that genuinely everyone in this platoon has to know everyone's job So by doing this lex We're all seeing how that plays out if you know baker and I are taken away Someone else has to step up and if one of the uas operators can't do their job You know, then we're not going to be in the fight the same way The common that's 2030 plan that we're implementing is the standard forces So in any littoral area if the we go to war full on with the peer-to-peer nation We need to be able to pull out any fleet in that area and then leave standing forces So the fleet can't go toe-to-toe with the anti air capabilities and the anti Fleet capabilities that other nations have so they pull out leave us on an island somewhere as the Adversary nation flows through let all their ships pass but collect on them as they go by And then once they're completely through we're collecting on any cargo ships supply chain ships So that we can feed that back to the fleet that we're in support of and they can fly and execute and destroy that target So it's not to directly combat the enemy, but it's to chop their legs out from under them So the training that we're doing right now directly ties in the 2030 plan Like I said, this is the first time this has ever been executed. This is the first time that A recount counter recount like this has been conducted So by doing this training we're again writing that we're writing the playbook for this This has never been done. So as the years go by and more and more of these Style deployments are being executed We'll be able to take the info and all the things we learned from this and pass it on to the Marines following us So they can execute it to the best of their ability This training is making us more lethal by raising our capabilities and a plethora of skills. So from uas Sensing radar passing all this back into the higher to the greater super architecture So that you know anyone in the world can hop on our super network You know as long as they have the correct classification and they're allowed to be on it And they could see what we're sensing on they can see all the data we're collecting And then closing the kill chain for not only the Marine Corps, but for the Navy side showing them that they can send four five six Marines In a single utv with sensing capabilities and uas and they can get all the eyes on the target you need So like lex one and the follow on lexes that we're planning all start here and like started You know yesterday when we got here and it's Making sure that everyone is capable on all these systems taking 27 Marines and being able to execute a mission Close the kill chain instead of sending hundreds of Marines So this is directly tying into like force plan 2030 what the commandant wants us to be able to do And it's the future of how we as a branch survive and make ourselves relevant All of this benefits the individual Marine by you're taking a single Marine and instead of them putting them in a Billet as a rifleman or as the radio operator attached You're making sure every Marine in that platoon Knows everyone's job you're making every Marine have to not be specialized but be a jack of all trades And people say jack of all trades but ace of none But when you take a unit of this size the amount of training that we're getting and the amount of courses that everyone's going through at the time is Far exceeding what any other unit is able to do right now because it's such a small unit So the individual Marine is coming out of this better trained better equipped to handle anything they do in the future Whether they go back to a more conventional unit or they continue on with doing a recount counter recount


Let's see two ways to create a whiteboard using the browser. After signing in, go to the left side menu and click on whiteboard here. Now on the right side you can see this menu. All whiteboards, my whiteboards, shared with me, starred and trash. To create a new whiteboard, click on all whiteboards here. Now you have two options. One, if you have never created a whiteboard before, click on the new whiteboard button here. Two, if you have created a whiteboard before, click on the new button here. Now using the app. Go to the main menu and you will see the whiteboard icon here. When you click it, you will see in the left menu the same options we just described in the first method. Click on all whiteboards, choose the best option for you. New whiteboard, if you have not created one before, or if you have, choose new in the upper right corner here. Now let's see how to share a whiteboard. When you are in your whiteboard, you will see the share button in the upper right corner here. A new window is open where you can type the emails of people with whom you want to share. You can also assign the role of the invited person as editor, commenter, or viewer only. I will select editor. Now click on the send button here. Another way to share it is by clicking on the copy link button here. The link is copied and you can paste it and send it in an email or message in app. In this example, I will send it via email. When the person opens the email, they will be redirected to the whiteboard and zoom. Also you can share a whiteboard while you are in a zoom meeting. Go to the bottom menu and click on the whiteboard icon here. A new window opens where you can see the option of a new whiteboard. Also you will see any whiteboard you have created previously. In the bottom section you can indicate who has permission to access the whiteboard and determine the kind of permission they will have as editor or viewer only. Once you have selected one option, click on the open and collaborate button here. That's it! We believe this new tool in Zoom will make your teaching skill more effective. Why not try it and let us know what you think. Burn to Learn is working to help you understand the changes in technology as they happen. Stay in the know. Subscribe today.


Who does the narcissist target? What kind of person do they target? What qualities or traits are they looking for in a source of supply? Narcissists are predators. They prey on you. They hunt you down so that they can use you for whatever you have to offer. They exploit you. They make full use of and derive benefit from you in a way that might be considered unfair or underhand. For them to be able to do this, they must ensure that you are susceptible to their manipulation. They must ensure that they are able to control you to their advantage. They use unfair and dishonest methods to acquire new targets. They acquire their target in a secretive way, concealing their true intentions or motives. When the narcissist is acquiring a new target, they are looking for someone who cares. Someone who gives attention and consideration to them. Someone who feels concern or interest for them. Someone who attaches a level of importance to them. They are looking for someone to fulfill their needs. So these qualities are very important to them. They need someone who has empathy. Someone who is able to understand and share their feelings. They also need to know that you trust them. They need to know that you have a firm belief in their reliability, truth or ability. They need to know that you believe in what they are displaying to you. They will often give you tests to see if you are a suitable target. To see if you are a person who cares or a person that is going to trust them. They might tell you about a situation that they are currently in or something that has happened in the past. They might display false emotions as though they are heard to upset. They will exaggerate it and make it seem worse than what it really is. They are putting on an act just to see how you react to them. As you are reacting to them they are identifying whether or not you are a suitable target depending on how you are reacting to them. If you don't seem as though you care or trust them you are not going to be a suitable target but if you do react with pity or concern for that act of suffering or misfortune. If you do try to cooperate or solve a problem with them they will then identify that you are a suitable target for them. They will identify that you are someone that they could have further control over. Once you display the need to act on what they are displaying to you. Once you show any pity or concern for them they see it as a weakness. They see it as something that they can use or take advantage of. It makes them see you as a target. Someone that they can exploit. Someone that they can use to fulfill their needs. They use these fake situations to lure you in. To make you feel pity or concern for them and then comply with their requests. But once they've got you. Once they've secured you as a source of supply. That vulnerable defenseless person soon disappears and what you then see is an attacker. Someone who is trying to hurt you. Someone who is trying to manipulate you. And that's when you begin to realize that something is not right. Because if they were really this vulnerable defenseless person. Why would they be attacking you? Why would they be trying to hurt you? And the reason for that is because it was all an act. They weren't really vulnerable or defenseless. That was just designed to lure you in. It was designed for them to take advantage of you. To use you to fulfill their needs. What they say to you is very different to what they do. And this is how you know that they are very dishonest people. They are prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful or insincere way. They will cry and express their dissatisfaction or anoints about something. But when they have the ability to correct the situation they never do anything about it. Because it's not a concern to them. It's not a matter of interest or importance. They're doing all of these other things rather than dealing with the things that are supposed to be important to them. Most of their time and resources are spent on using and exploiting you.  That's when you know that they're just using a situation to lure you in. They're just using a situation to distract you. To divert your attention from everything else that they're doing. Outside of what they say is so important to them. They're using their situation as an excuse for their behaviour. When they have the ability to act on what they say is a matter of interest or importance to them. You never see them act on it consistently. You never see them with any desire or enthusiasm to correct the situation. They will make up excuses as though they don't have the tools or information to correct it. But then they're never actually doing anything about it. They're never taking the steps required to resolve anything. They never try to resolve anything. They will only use these situations to justify their behaviour. So that you won't question or confront them or try to investigate the reason why they are acting in this way. They are distracting you. They are diverting your attention from the real reason. After that, when you question or confront them, they can always revert back to the situation to justify their behaviour. It's just to stop you from looking at them for the phonies that they are. Because if their behaviour had anything to do with their situation, they would be attending to their matters of interest or importance. And the factors that are causing their feelings or behaviour, they will be focused on dealing with that. But they're not.  Forget about what they are saying to you. Look at their actions. Look at what they are doing. Their actions never match their words. And when they get the opportunity to make their actions match their words, they never take the correct action to resolve the situation. Their phonies, they're lying to you.  But they will keep up the facade so that they can extract as much out of you as they can. They use future faking. They make you believe that something is going to come in the future. If you just wait. If you just hold on a little longer. But as long as you stay trapped in the illusions that they are portraying to you. As long as you believe in their lies and excuses. The more that they are going to extract out of you. The more of your time and energy that they are going to waste until you are completely trapped in a false reality with false situations and stories that have no underlying support or foundation in reality. The narcissist targets people who will believe in their false reality. People who will validate their false self. If you believe in what they are displaying to you, they will identify it as though you are susceptible to their manipulation.  They will continue manipulating you. They like to find people who are naive. People who have a lack of experience with them or judgment. People who are too willing to believe that what they are saying is the truth. It gives them the greatest chance of sustaining supply over a long period of time. The people that they use become their source of life. Their source of stability and security. That's what keeps them going. If they didn't have people to use, they wouldn't be able to survive. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Portland Media Center is a video production resource for Portland City government. We can produce for you public service announcements that last 30 seconds to two minutes, short news stories anywhere from two to ten minutes long, short interviews also from two to ten minutes long, or document a single speaker or presentation. This video will show you how to do that without any additional cost to your department. The first step is to run your idea by the city's director of communication, Jessica Granton. You can also copy me, Tom Handell, at tomh at portlandmedia.org. Once there's agreement among all of us, I'll either communicate with you further about the details, or have Brian Naublock, our production coordinator, get in touch with you for more details. Here's what we can do. For a public service announcement, or PSA, we can tape a person you designate to give the announcement, or we can have a PMC staff record the announcement from a script you've prepared. We can also record extra footage, B-roll at the same time if you want to add moving images to make your announcement more interesting. We can also take JPEG files of stills that you provide us with. We will then edit it for you. If it is a short news story of an event or profile of an employee, we can tape sound bytes from one to three people you designate at the event and collect B-roll. Just let us know where and when to show up and let us know the people you want us to talk to. We'll take it from there and edit it ourselves. If it is a short interview, usually about an important issue or an event that you want people to know about in advance, we usually do those in our studio with a PMC staff conducting the interview. Just let us know who is going to be interviewed and what it's about and we'll arrange studio time with that person. If you have a single speaker making a presentation up to an hour in length, just let us know where and when it will be and whom we should contact for additional questions if we have any. Usually we need to know if there is a PA system we can plug into. Also it's good to know if there will be a PowerPoint slide presentation, in which case we would ask how to arrange getting that on a flash drive or through the internet for us to edit in later. All four of these video services assume that we will take your content and shape the product ourselves. It will then be posted to our YouTube channel. We will send you the link when it's done. If you want a more involved video produced that would include someone other than PMC staff making decisions about the final product, we can quote you how much that would cost and as a city production, we'll discount it by 15%. There is also a limited amount of funds we have to discount that price by an additional 50% as long as those funds last. If you have any questions about anything PMC can do for the city, please don't hesitate to contact me directly, Tom Handel, at tomhatportlandmedia.org, or by calling me at 775-2900-ext. 200. Remember, video is a great way to make Portland a user-friendly community.


Okay. And how about, you know, Sailor's Future? What about retirement changes? Are we going to see any changes there? Oh goodness. We keep seeing articles on that. No. Let me, I'll answer straight. No. There is no plan today to change retirement. This will take some time. There are folks studying it. There's a commission studying it. There will be articles on it as different, oh man, and they'll continue. But if I could make one thing clear. Anybody who is wearing a uniform today, that retirement system will be grandfathered, which means that is the, today's retirement system is their retirement system. The only thing that might change is they may have the option, and I underline option, to transition to a new system if they want to. That is one that would come in for people who come into the military after it would be implemented. But I'll tell you, Carolyn, it's going to be a few years before we get one put together, studied, voted on, and actually implemented. If you wear the uniform today, today's your retirement, today's the retirement system is your retirement system.