Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered Wednesdays you've been doing well actually just started a series on marriage and the family and and that's what I like to speak about today And then on Thursday, we'll talk a little bit about what you're gonna teach on on Sunday And so since tomorrow is our Wednesday evening service and and we have communion to and we have communion tomorrow So invite your friends. I mean, it's always a sweet time when we have communion with the church family Even on even with the series like this, it's it's a sweet time with the worst job Yeah, except you keep asking for real wine at communion. I'm telling you, no John I want to show with it really quick faster. There was a so when we Were storing the communion prefab cups. Yeah, we had them on top of the fridge in the kitchen Well, the top of the fridge gets warm and so a lot of the Cups were fermenting. Oh my goodness. So one of the men had it and some of the guys were looking at it Like what are you trying to do really fermented? So you took them all home and You know pastors we as you're now in marriage and the family and tomorrow we're looking at why submitting to The husband and that's a 10-part series. I Wanted to speak a little bit more and get your feedback on the family as a unit, you know You've been married for so many years and and you've probably understand a lot more The value of the family unit and the things that can come Into the family into the marriage that will actually pull and You know, I think about in my life I had a strike of balance and you've been really good at telling me this Because I love doing ministry. I have a tendency to want to dive in But yet I have wife and kids at home And these are the things that will pull on a family and affect the actual family unit Versus then making it better. Can you speak a little bit about that pastor to it to some degree? You never want to have your children or wife resent ministry. You never want them to I think it's part of what happens when you're full-time in ministry to be honest with you but you never want to create an environment where your children feel that they've lost their dad and Especially when they're small because they they don't realize that daddy is serving the Lord and it's part of the sacrifice of his life And so it's a very good and very important thing to have a wife who is very supportive of your call My wife has always been very supportive of of my call to the Lord From the time she became my girlfriend Marie has been my at my side supporting me in every way, you know Didn't even realize that she was beginning her life of ministry while she was dating me and she's never stood in my way Complaining or Getting upset Or making me feel bad. She's never done that. She's She's been really quite a warrior bride when it comes to those things. She really has John Because she knows the call that God plays on my heart And so she freed me up to to follow that call and in the first portion of our ministry in the earlier days I had Opportunities handed to me to do ministry in China to go to to India to the Philippines Various places to minister and I began to take the opportunities as they were handed to me to do that but after a while after a few years of Reaching out going out doing ministry in various lands and all I Began to realize that even though I I did the very best I could as a father To to care for the home and the children Giving them devotions every night and bringing them to church. I've said to the fellowship here That my children basically were seven day a week Christians as I raised them Meaning that five days out of the week. They got devotions. I would give them devotions if I was not there Marie would and Then the other two days of the week were Sunday and Wednesday We have Wednesday night services and Sunday services as well as Sunday night So they were saturated in the things of the Lord from an early age Which didn't guarantee that they wouldn't taste the world which they did But it was also the the strength that brought them back To to where they're at now in in their awareness of their own personal walks with God and their ministries and so It was a fine balance that that Marie and I working together tried to find to Be able to prioritize our children's lives in terms of their needs for for their dad and my influence and My presence my ear when they needed to speak it was a fine balance and it took a while for me to learn it because as a aggressive for the kingdom as I was especially in the early days of Wanting to travel wanting to to go to other places and bring the gospel England in various places I got chances to do that Austria and others I had to make sure that I didn't lose my children as I pursued the kingdom and That's kind of a large statement to make by itself, and I know it could be misinterpreted but I came to realize that there were some things that Were really personal desires on my heart that were not necessarily something that would benefit my children so our church was booming it was growing I was gaining a lot of experience I was speaking in a lot of places and Getting opportunities to travel to other countries and all of that and I I put a stop to that in my own life John and in doing so I in voluntarily in some ways Short short circuited some of the path that I was going because at the end I Realized that the Lord doesn't necessarily need me to go certain places There are so many others who are able to and me I I wanted to concentrate on being a better father a better husband and Eventually become in a grandfather That which happened obviously and gave me opportunity to to love them as the elder of the family and so I I believe that that My ministry is to Jesus first Scripture teaches that but I have a wife to cover I have a family to be a covering over and Grandchildren to be an influence to as well as a congregation that looks to me to be here to be present with them and minister to them and So I decided that the best thing I could do is Is be the kind of man that would make my daughter say? That's what a man supposed to be or to be the kind of man where my sons would say That's the best man. I know and he's a model for me Which you know my kids and I would say that to some degree. I Have seen success in that my boys especially You know have they love their daddy and They they you know, they want they want to be like me and and to me That's that's what it should be because I wanted to have the character of my father You know and my dad wanted the character of his father I think that's how God ordered the family John and so We'll be speaking about the relationship tomorrow of a wife and her husband, you know, what does it mean to submit and You know men's responsibility and encouraging it. It's a very important subject right now especially in a time when Men and women and children are being lied to and confused about their genders and About their roles and it's not as if I'm going to touch on all of those things But it's very common for all of us to know that there's a lot of gender confusion a lot of role confusion You know and things of that nature. I'll be approaching some of those subjects or some of those topics As I go through the study so tomorrow I talk to the ladies where he is simply is one of the scriptures Even unbelieving men know, you know, I know why I'm supposed to be submitted to their husband, right, you know and And yeah, but what our husbands to do to encourage a woman to To voluntarily subordinate herself to the headship and leadership of this man So we'll be looking at that as a package. So tomorrow I'll be speaking on women But the next week we'll spend some time with the man Look forward to it and and as you mentioned Church family as Pastor David mentioned will have Communion after the Bible study and so invite your friends to come out and join us, you know, one of the things not in it I don't want to take the time just looking forward to your study tomorrow and we'll keep it at that and And again fit Church family 7 p.m. Wednesday evening and we'll be in the chapel this week And so excited to have you guys come out July 10th. We're having our Israel informational trip Yes inspired trouble will come out after 2nd service July 10th. If you're still interested You don't need to sign the this online or interest. Let's just come just come to me and check it out We'll have some questions or we have over 200 people interested, which means maybe you and I'll go I Unless Marie makes me take her Thank you church family pastor David, thank you so much and church family looks forward to seeing you God bless you


All right you guys here's the deal We're not proud of this piece completely fully or at all But making it was always fun. We experimented found out some new techniques that we're gonna use in future pieces and The point of test pieces ultimately is to figure out what you like. We don't like works What doesn't work then utilize that in? Sellable artwork That being said Please enjoy this Piece not working out twice We're still gonna redo it. We haven't done it yet, but I wanted to post something other than pro tips for you guys to enjoy so Oh Here it is. Hope you enjoyed your Sunday. Have an amazing weekend. I'll probably be painting probably probably be painting through part of the Super Bowl tomorrow Because yeah, it's what we do anyways Shenanigans and enjoy This is a test piece for a client that wanted teal base with Browns a dark brown and then White and I think so too. It looks like it they wanted a Rose gold or gold and a dark brown and white But in order to not make the colors muddy up because if you use too many colors with resin Especially on a smaller piece Sometimes it gets a little bit too busy or the colors that you want to be more dominant get lost So we're basing it in The blue because they wanted his What's it? What is it? Well, the their island is he wanted the island to be like kind of like an art piece because he's going to be Filming his food prep and cooking and his plating and all that food stuff So he wanted to be a little bit different almost like a piece of art more Than the countertops so he wanted to be a little bit more flashy Flashy or whatever So we thought if we painted the base teal Use a little bit of clear less white and the teal would show through you put the brown in there And it wouldn't muddy up with With the teal as well. You can still see the teal on the bottom Right. Yeah Well, usually we will base out with spray paint We don't want to do that with this because we want it to be true to the color that we're gonna use in his house and Since he does a lot of food stuff We don't want to use spray paint Using spray paint in his home is not a good idea to all of them Maybe in the summertime when you could open the door So we're basing it in craft smart Turquoise it's gonna be the color of his logo or his logo is that color Just like we do with the canvases we like to put push pins in the bottom corners So that there's a base we can easily pick up and set down Our working surface and when we put it away for it to set up it won't stick to whatever we set it on This makes life easier With a canvas, it's easier if you aim for where the two Guys meet Right in this It's easier to No, and put these in before you put the tape on because if you put the tape down first And you stick these in there, you're not gonna be able to pull your tape up. It's gonna rip tear They'll be real messy So put your tape down you can just cut it always stay in this overlapping the same direction as well So don't like tape that one and then take this one take it in Succession also, we're gonna use an airbrush today to Move some resin around you can use a straw in your mouth, but odds of Passing out or greater. Now. Why did you pull this up? You start you take when you start peeling it Grabbing this one you could just I Would never have thought of that my brain looks like this It's healing. I think you're always gonna be able to see it though. It's gonna be forever there Anyway, we're using an exacto blade to cut off the excess all the way around You could use a box cutter And lastly you could use scissors, but that's gonna be harder to get a Really close cut you can get an exacto blade from any craft store ever any one of them or a box cutter from any hardware store What else is new we're doing a lot of countercops lately We had to finish up a lot of Actual paintings because we have show and develop right now. It's a group show collaborative show. I don't know It's a show And so we got those out of the way and we've been compiling other videos Make sure your surfaces level especially if you use the push-pin trick because if you push one not as much in as another one Obviously, it's gonna be off some You see the other side of it We've gotten a lot of use out of our level So it's not level anymore. We have to get little resin drops off of it The reason it's nice and flowy Since we heated it up with the warm water Using an all-purpose mixing container that shows the ratios You can also weigh it Look like a food scale I've seen people do that You will try that eventually so while he is Doing the measurements and mapping I'm gonna go over our colors for today's video This is a rose gold spray paint. It's metallic Which is the important thing the Apostolium doesn't have a rose gold. So we're using design master We've used it in a couple other things We're also using We're also using An ink by Doc Martin. This is a metallic ink Or an iridescent in the shade nickel It leaves like a glittery metallic hint We also used it in the first counters in Alabama the white and teal and gold Yeah, I mean you can see the slight hints that this leaves We're also incorporating it makes so much faster when it's like I Everything about warming up resin is great except for you really want to make sure you don't push it all the way to the edge When it's this thin because it's all gonna run off your surface.  It's also an acrylic This is what the rose gold looks like Make sure you shake your spray paint thoroughly and completely a lot especially if it's colder because You can't tell science spray paint about why cold spray paint you have to shake it up a lot Spray a little bit before you spray it into your cup or just get a Really not consistent spray paint Particularly with metallics we found out the hard way after we'd already applied it to a countertop That we needed to go back and add a different Add more of it because we didn't shake it up all the way it looks kind of chunky gritty. It looks gritty Whereas if you do shake it up enough, it looks real smooth and oily like this Also use plastic cup because if you spray it into Styrofoam or plastic It's gonna eat it and you're gonna spill paint and resin everywhere. It's not a fun time When you spray it into a paper cup bend The end of it or the side of it in a little bit so that it has somewhere to hit So it doesn't splash back in your face It's not fun either When you use Acrylics in your resin, it doesn't take a lot just a couple dabs will do you You can always add more Can't take it away You can use any means to spread your resin around On bigger surfaces will use a trowel on smaller surfaces will use Whatever stirring apparatus. Nope, you can pull that We've been using But honestly one of my favorite tools to move resin is my hands Now you left some spaces open on purpose client wanted a more artistic feel to this piece so it's not really gonna be marbly but it is gonna be It's gonna have a marble aspect to it for sure When you put heat on a piece you can use a heat gun a torch We have a blow dryer that gets really hot you use that to the purposes to pop little air bubbles that come up from when you mix your resin together Which less air pop air popples air bubbles come up when you heat up your resin before You mix your two parts Brown it's very like sky Just like picks up all of it. Well, we stay true to The live artwork and if it doesn't work out We show them so usually we use a little blue and yellow roller from Hobby Lobby or Michaels All we had is a bigger one and it's soaked up as you can see a lot of our resin So You got a roll of the punches on this one Maybe we'll like it It's all are all in there And then it gives it back, you know the sparkly hint Let's just Like the thicker you know like the opaque just a good and certain like puddles So use it that little Like I guess I think of it as a little island and then there's it goes from real shallow to deep You can smell the spray paint, you know, it's funny if I think that there's a cold air Like breaks it up it doesn't heat it up so it's not trying to set Like it breaks it up When you mix a little bit of resin into the spray paint If we mix it into Like just a little bit it Almost it gets with it and then it just kind of puts it under it or it gives it a little layer You can do this on the top It just looks like it literally like there's no There's no Seam it looks so good like it looks like it's in it, but I'm pretty sure it's on top of it We never went over the sides So that piece didn't turn out quite like we had planned so We're going to buff it out And redo it there are often times where We just don't even want to mess with something as a base. So we'll just Wipe it out and start over So that's what happened continue action everyone in youtube land Today, we're making a new Today, we're making a new test piece A previous test piece that we absolutely hated So we're going a different route.  By the way, I'm all the way up here. You guys I'm standing on to this Not fall while filming, huh my way down So notice that everywhere in our studio has this black tarpy stuff This is why It's basically magic pro tip pro tip make your whole place Like dexter's gonna do work in it Okay Do we have enough paints? Also, if you haven't checked out our social media Facebook Insta And email us if you have any questions or if you want to show us your work We would love to see it, especially if you have questions about a piece you're working on in particular We don't charge for our information or tips or anything like that We're just happy to help I mean unless you want to throw a dollar at us That sounded real strippery So this is a Or birch. I can't remember board wood canvas I guess because it's framed in the back And We got it from an art store What is the name of it? That one was Aaron brothers, right? This is Aaron brothers, yeah It's an 18 by 24 and then we spray painted it White Make sure it's super mixed in because remember If you heat your resin And then you mix an acrylic paint into it You you need to make extra special sure that your paint mixes in all the way because you'll end up with chunks And that's not fun because then you have to mix it in with your hand on your project So he's just spreading out The resin over the surface The white we're using is by art district. It's an acrylic medium body in titanium white Our resin Is in viritex light Because it's waterproof heat and alcohol resistant and it's FDA approved since we're going to be using it for countertops Here's one of the blues.  Whichever ones we decide to use I'll tell you all the colors This is nickel. It's by doc martin. It's an iridescent Super pretty when it's mixed all together I guess I'm gonna put everybody back in This kind of getting it even cold and also we learn that you cannot Use a very dense foam brush while doing marble veins Um the way we do our veins with a foam roller You don't have to excuse me. I'm sick so By cough or sneeze or very much. Oh Um, so this way you're pretty much just spread it out evenly And you're soaking some of the resin into this so then when I For the nickel down I can just go right over it and it's not taking up everything I've put down Is this the teal you want to use? Oh, yes So the teal we're using is peacock Focus focus. It's by deco art. It's acrylic. I don't think it has a number on it But that's what it is. It doesn't take much Using this much I want to do I want to do all these I want to do in one that one we did It was like crazy lines. I don't know what I was doing like a beginner This client wanted a predominantly blue or teal artistic piece not so much marble, but we're doing the rest of this kind of cops in a similar style, but it is marble So we're gonna have to make an artistic marble out of this one We're a play on marble. I guess See what we do is you just go over this you can Go on the outside but you just try to follow it And when you're just basically smashing it in you're you're you're just kind of making Look like a With a marble effect With the roller picking it up putting it down Distributing it moving it out This will be a good example Like that looks so amazing And see some of it will be on there so it'll catch it and Distributed in other places real light Those little waves that you see left in the resin Those will melt back into itself soon as we add heat onto it Yeah, I was gonna say pull that one back just a little bit We haven't abrupt stop there. Well, there's I'm gonna do I am We're doing other colors too But that's for everybody that's asked about How we achieve our marble look Super easy that little roller came from michaels for $2 and 47 cents The ground we're using Expresso by craftsmart Blowing on it with a straw helps to clean up lines sometimes or to narrow The vein if you want to like push it back into itself or break it up Like you could break it up so like and it'll break up But it'll give you a kind of like a hard edge and then go into the Breakup so it looks very natural back to the roller See that you can make a Hard edge That's what I read this gold looks like very pretty Very metallic It just these colors just don't go together See how it goes over that The teal Take that look at teal and the rose gold here You want to filter it? In the mud as well It's so weird It's like you're probably in an ocean spring It looks like those claws that are like I love the nickel Spray that in there Oh It'll just make it It'll make it cuter Cuter? Yeah, what do you want to do? Filter it around in the circle Like I've been a meteorologist would buy that That storm Lucy On the horizon Coming in, lukewarm That looks like it might be coming in a little hot Well, if there's any meteorologists out there that would like to purchase this it is for sale This is a northwestern shift Headed off of ghost of the pacific Electric avenue Eddie money? No, not any money You know, 80s music Just here's lightning Specific area The pacific post I say we got a winner I say we came up with something A little bit We can do You should see this from that side I could see it It's the gold stuff The gold rush of 1904 Back in gold is Russian Pink Those rolls kept coming Can you guys see that? Like this Here, here you go Looks like this So yeah, that's how That's how that turned out So we did learn some things We got a We got a piece out of it That we're going to end up Probably buffing out and trying again For the third time Just like the glitter table Sometimes it takes a few tries But we always like to post Our successes and failures Just so that no artist out there Thinks that Mistakes don't happen no matter How long you've been working with in the medium How long you've been arting Whatever Not every time is perfect And we're not perfect To put All of it out there for you guys So there's that Let's go see what it looks like Now that it is completely set There are some pretty parts Like these cells That popped up from Focus Mixing the rose Into that Is it Van Dyke brown? I don't know, the last brown that we used So that turned out nice This still looks like Chocolate, caramel and mint Waves Maybe some kind of funky coral But The selling is undeniable Out really nicely In many areas Take a picture of that I think I like the cells With the solid hard line Of green gum There's the tropical storm Twisty dew That Jeff made That's what it looks like When you just spray gold on it And work it around in a circle It turns into, I don't know if you can see that Very visually interesting It did end up flattening out Even So I didn't think that would do that Since we had worked it for so long What else do we have on this piece? Gold separating out of the chocolate Ultimately, not our favorite piece So bad But You live, you learn You work with what you have And then you wake up the next day And do it again So, thank you for watching Tuning in Commenting Focus And everything you guys do for our channel We really appreciate every single one of you See y'all in the next video


Hey, I'm Tracy Burns with the street here with us right now Ken doctor contributing columnist author of news Anomics and man, you're making some noise out there with the columns. You're writing lately Ken. Thanks for being here Hey, you're quite welcome. There's just a lot of news There's a lot of news and I suppose you could thank our president for a lot of it, right? So the president actually is helping our business in spades, isn't he? It is an amazing thing first right Actually in the run-off to the election, but right in the immediate aftermath I wrote a bunch about the Trump bump and the Trump bump was a real thing of subscriptions hitting Unpredictable levels at a number of publications and the question was how long that would last and now I've called it So see subscription surge because we've seen it we're into April already and Subscriptions are still up over what they were a year ago at about a half a dozen high quality national outlets It's amazing actually especially when you and I both know our business was dying The president in the midst of the election Hammered half of our fellow brethren out there, right destroyed them as fake news and now to your point We have the New York Times past three million subscriptions the New Yorker subscriptions up two hundred and thirty percent Versed same time three months ago. This is all based on your reporting. The Atlantic is up and now vanity fair. Why why what's happening? So it could be a Trump plan It could be make the American news media great again, but we don't know if it's that strategic What's really happened if you look at each of these companies that you just named They have had Successful paywalls meaning that they allow readers to sample usually six or ten articles a month but then they make people pay if they want to read regularly and they had developed successful businesses over the last two To five years and then having this business ready having the technology ready And there's a lot of technology and messaging and marketing smarts that go into it Trump comes along and paints the news media as the enemy and they have greatly benefited from it so it's important to see that that that there was a precedent for it that he helped goose the numbers up the numbers are still up But what I think is most important when I wrote about Vanity Fair joined the New Yorker at Condi Nast in the paywall parade is that these Publications almost uniformly are ones that have increased their national reporting and are seen as reality checks on Donald Trump and Readers all have just flocked to the these publications and said we need a reality check and Even in this era of fake news where we have there's practically the whole fake news industry at this point People say I trust this publication. I trust the New Yorker. I trust the Washington Post I trust the New York Times and the logical thing in the business world is when you trust something you pay for it But if what's interesting is most of the publications you mentioned lean left So interesting that people are trusting organizations that don't truly support the president Well, absolutely. We remember that there were there were more popular votes against Trump than there were for him And if you look at paywall economics, and this is something that people have a hard time with they had a hard time back when the New York Times Lost his paywall and announced it in 2010. I remember having interviews with reporters then as an analyst and I would say if they can get 3% of all of their digital audience in the United States to subscribe. They'll have a thriving Subscription business and they will have crossed over to the digital world. They are now at about two plus 5% so in this world and it's in its count it's kind of counterintuitive if you can get One two three percent of your digital audience to pay You can make a quite a business a lot as long of course as that national digital audience is big And that's why this is working for national publications like the New Yorker and the Washington Post and the Times and not working as well for local publications People should know that your article went up on April 17th about Vanity Fair and the other Publications so they should check it out. Okay, but let's play now devil's advocate here. What happens if people? Well, we get bored of it I mean, we're slowly getting bored of the daily tweets from the president, right? What happens if everyone loses its interest What happens to the subscription model then? well the subscription while Importantly for all the publications we've named was successful before Donald Trump got elected It has simply been goosed and goosed by a large number The the thing that we have learned and it's about five to eight years of learning now about how digital subscriptions work Is what do we do as consumers? We give our credit card over and it's on an auto renew and so the churn rate is Relatively low if a news medium continues a trusted relationship with its audience We've seen very low churn So that is the number to watch especially for all this these Trump bump subscribers over the next year Do we have a higher rate of churn and already we're seeing it slow down? But I would think that even if there's another major change at the top I don't think these numbers are gonna go down at all They may just slow, but then again, we have no idea what the next step of history is gonna be Right, and it seems like skies the limit with this administration So I suppose to your point subscription or churn rates might be lower than than people are hoping Let's talk remember that Mark Thompson the CEO of the New York Times He dropped into a conversation at the UBS conference in I think it was in November that his new goal is 10 million Subscribers they have 3 million now between print and digital. It's 10 million So we're just at the beginning of digital subscriptions And you think of this world and how it's changed from music subscriptions and movie subscriptions and TV subscriptions Among all the companies that are out there. This could be be the beginning of something But it's that trusted relationship between a news medium and the audience.  That's not gonna hurt All right, let's talk about Univision because you now have a new piece going up on the site about Univision's purchase of Gawker Which happened back in August 135 million dollars. What was the rationale to begin with with that purchase? It was I thought it was an interesting story and it turned out to be a fascinating story As we know we have the whole Hulk Hogan mess and it was and we all covered it And then all of a sudden Gawker becomes toxic and the question is well Who would want to buy this thing has been in lawsuit and and what are the legal implications and what's going on here? It turned out that Univision and Zip Davis we think were the last two bidders for it Univision got it and I talked in depth with Univision executives about it and they said that they were interested in it because they thought It had some interesting aspects to it But the one jewel they found in it that they hadn't expected was the e-commerce So Nick Denton the founder of Gawker had gotten some press for his e-commerce because he had done a lot more of it than others and Gizmodo and their and their other five sites sell stuff and Well, we're hearing numbers like they're selling a lot of stuff and they're making a fair amount of profit And in fact that had helped turn the company around before the lawsuit Well, it turns out that Univision in doing its due diligence saw that the e-commerce was more than a quarter of the business of Gawker and that was a pretty profitable business and they really liked the look of it and Looking as everybody in the news publishing business is doing for alternative revenue streams They said this is really interesting Number one and number two we can scale this. We're Univision. We've got the number five broadcaster in the country We sell stuff on air. We don't sell anything online So this is an e-commerce story of the return of e-commerce in The publishing world and this was tried 10 and 15 years ago But now it's coming back and we're also seeing Buzzfeed box and the New York Times as well as business insider Makes them significant investments in e-commerce CEO of Gizmodo saying a third of his total revenue comes from e-commerce I so I I understand what you're saying. This is not new though, right affiliate business has been tried before It hasn't been successful for a lot of companies along the way. What's going to make this work for them? well, it's interesting they've got this slogan and It's part hype I think but it's part reality to it which is trust Truth Transaction three keys. So they have sites the sites they bought they they retired doctor Now where they never bought because it did not buy gocker.com. It bought it bought the others Jezebel and lifehacker and Gizmodo and the others And what they had what they knew is that a lot of these sites were a decade old or almost that and That they had really developed a trusty and trustee Readership and Using that trust those readers believe that the journalism they're seeing is truthful. It's the right take It's often it was often pretty casual, but it seemed to hold no prisoners So they they trusted it. They thought it was truthful and that made them more willing to trans act the I think the secret sauce of what What Univision was able to buy from the old gocker was how they created the deals They actually created deals. They have a separate staff Which is for editors separate from the news the newsroom who create offers and they will look for the best products They will disclose up at the top there that the sites are making money off it if you buy But they're saying these are the best and here's the deal and they're writing it in a way that is engaging to read So each site has maybe three or four offers a day Well, it is it is read unto itself and that all of these deals are aggregated at Kinja deals dot com So they're seeing really interesting sell-through. They're saying conversion rates once somebody actually gets to an offer page of As high as 16 percent, which is really high That's really high if you do a lot of volume if you have that big audience if they trust you you present the offers in the right way They have a money machine going now a lot of questions here Amazon is changing its affiliate rates overall consternation In that community, but it's not changing them yet for the big suppliers of commerce like like a Gizmodo or Univision.  Check it out. Ken. You are wealth of knowledge Thank you for taking the time to be with us today


We are collaborating with Medical Detection Dogs to support the vital work that they carry out which consists of training dogs to detect various human conditions including cancer. They teach the dogs to recognize the order from cancer cells in biological samples and then to signal to a human handler when they find a positive sample. The interface that the dogs use consists of a stand and an arm coming out of the stand which is pivoted on the stand. We use pressure sensors to detect the pressure that the dogs exert when they sniff the samples that sit behind a metal plate. The pressure patterns that the dogs produce can tell us what's in the sample. We are currently developing a kind of second generation of this technology and what we want to do going forward is to start working on machine learning techniques that can automatically interpret these patterns on the fly. The signals that the dogs are trained to use is something like sitting down in front of a positive sample. These are conventional signals that make it very clear to the human that the dog intends to signal but for the dog this mode of signaling it can be disruptive of their detection work so they also in this way they can only say yes or no so there's something here there's nothing here so what we have done is to design and develop a technology an interface that enables them to basically to tell us not only whether there is the sample is positive or negative but also how sure they are about what's in the sample and if the sample is somewhere in between positive or negative which can be very important especially in the detection of early stages of the condition. The reason why this work is important is because it enables the charity to get much more information from what the dogs are actually finding in the samples. Nobody knows exactly what it is that the dog detects and that allows the dogs to detect the presence of cancer cells. We know it's an odor but nobody knows exactly what it is that they smell. However by giving a more detailed picture of the dog with the sample we can get a much better idea of what is that the dogs are doing what it is that they may find challenging and ultimately this work can feed into the development of what are called artificial noses so these are machines that could do the work that the dogs do which at the moment are still under development and that don't yet work as well as the dog's noses. With this new information that our technology can provide there is an opportunity to feed into the development of these electronic devices and speed up the process.


Okay you guys, we are here at the Navi Law Cabins. This is the lodge specifically. I'm gonna take you guys on a tour. So you first walk in and there's a super nice kitchen and table, school oven, really tall ceilings, nice living space and then you come this way and there's another table and these awesome stairs. And there's a piano. It's so cool. Okay, then you walk down this hall and there's a bedroom. It's kind of like the master bedroom. Big bed, it's a nice door that leads outside, like that. And then there's a tub, a jacuzzi.  And then you walk out here again. It's a type of towels that we forgot. And you see this gorgeous kitchen, such nice living space, nice pan. And then let's take you on upstairs. Okay, and then you get to this awesome covered wagon bed. How cool is that? It's a covered wagon with a bed inside. And more importantly, there's a bed underneath it. Another place you guys can sleep. There's a bathroom. It's got this cool door, nice tub, toilet. And then you've got this really cool view downstairs over the edge. You can see how nice it is. Look how cool. So there's the covered wagon. And then, oh, look at that bear in the wall. There's also that right there too. It's staring right at you. And then you walk down here even more. And there's another bedroom right here. It's another bed. It's nice to see this bed. So you walk down the hall and there's that room. And then there's this room, an even bigger bed. And more importantly, an air conditioner.  And then a really cool view for outside. I'll go show you guys. So you can come outside on this balcony and just look out over Nauvoo. Super awesome. And then this has also got its own bathroom. So there's the bed. It's a nice, then you open this door into the bathroom. There's a sink, a shower, nice toilet. Okay, and then there's one more bedroom. It's super cool. So this room fits the most people. It's got one bed right here, another bed over there. Really cool steps that lead up to another bed right up there is another bed. So let's take you on up there. So that's the bed right there. There's the room down below. It's pretty cool. And then also there is a door right here. It actually connects to the other room right next door. But there's another balcony that leads outside. You can see on this side of the house now. Okay, so two beds and a loft. Really cool. Gorgeous cabin, a nice flat screen TV. And then a view outdoors again. So pretty.  So go click the link in the description of this video to go check out Nauvoo Law Cabins website and book a stay with them. They're amazing. Thank you Nauvoo Law Cabins. Woo! Yeah!


You're watching the Daily Decrypt. Welcome to currency competition. I'm your host Amanda and today's episode is brought to you by BitShares. The first block, found by mining hardware that supports Bitcoin Classic, was found on Valentine's Day morning. It was found by P2XT Pool, one of the six or so small pools that currently support Classic. Concurrently, in the last week, the number of Classic nodes has doubled again, going from about 500 to just under a thousand. Classic nodes now represent 16% of the Bitcoin network, with Core at 80%, and a combination of XT and Unlimited making up the remaining 4%. Classic will only break away from Core if 750 out of 1000 consecutive blocks, 75%, are mined with hardware that expressly indicates its support for Classic. This is a monumental task when compared with Classic's current one block out of the last consecutive 1000. While bigger Bitcoin blocks is the obvious goal of Classic supporters, some have begun posting online that their hoped-for upgrade need not result in an actual fork at all. Osmond is the name of the operator of P2XT Pool, the one that mined the first Bitcoin Classic block. He tells the Daily Decrypt, the Bitcoin network only forks if the last 25% of mining decides that they don't want to upgrade during that 28-day grace period, and they manage to find a block after a greater than one megabyte block has been found, and they keep mining on that chain. Economically, that makes no sense if all exchanges and merchants have moved to the new Classic node, which they most certainly will if they want to stay in business. If support for Classic continues at its current growth trajectory, it's possible that Classic could achieve 75% of Bitcoin's hashing power. Operators like Osmond have been upping their game, offering zero fees to any miners who point their hardware to Classic-supporting pools. It used to be said that altcoins would be testbeds for Bitcoin, but it would appear that the opposite is true. Bitcoin, being the first, is the current and biggest testbed for the decentralization of all of the things, and it ain't easy being first. Today's episode is brought to you by BitShares, which has recently converted its web and desktop engine called Graphene to an MIT license. The BitShares community also invites you to join their upcoming liquidity event on February 29th, which will focus primarily on USD, Bitcoin, and BitShares trading. You can learn more about the liquidity event and the link in the description section, and you can try out the Graphene wallet for yourself at openledger.info. Have a cryptographically sound day, my friend. Thanks for watching.


I'm very happy to be here because I have been only to Dublin once in two or three with Jill, organizing a conference in two or three together with the German Marshal Fund, and we already, you remember, we tried to explain to the Americans the project of the European Constitution. Tells you something, okay. So seven years later, what project do we explain to whom? And I think I should also say I have no speech for you, not a speech on the usual sense that I'm here to sort of present because I'm more here to capture your feelings about what might be your opinion on Germany or your opinions on the European discussion at large. I can try to give you a sense of what I think my country is heading for, but only a feeling because despite what every introduction says, but you know, I have no mandate. I am not elected. I have no power, right? So I'm just trying to feel a little bit of public discussion with some papers, I think was the last one in a way I hit a nerve. I'm not the only one saying what I say. It's probably just a nice summary of what many people say and think, but I wrote it down and this is it, not more. And I think this is also important to understand. And what you also should know is that Derek Scali is my best friend, so you brief me. The real question is really when I was taking my plane this morning, trying to say, okay, the paper you can read, but what I'm going to use my 20 minutes for to really speak about. And then there is always this question sort of on which note do I leave you, right? Half full or half empty? And to be very honest, this morning I wouldn't know any longer. I just wouldn't. And there are some which feed into the half full, right? The Greek voted yes yesterday, and that is at least sort of something that will probably bring us over the summer. Because the Greek voted yes yesterday, the new council will probably just do a sort of roll over in the way we are expecting it. German and French industrials who probably have seen it signed a big sort of advertising thing in major newspapers, which is finally that German industries is waking up to the sort of there's something happening, it may affect me thing. So this is rather good. And I felt like, yeah, okay, this will bring us over the summer. We can all take a brief. We can all go at the beach and then think about what we do when we will back to the movie in September. Because I do actually think we will back to the movie in September because there will be an exchange to be given to Greek. We will also have a very difficult discussion in Germany, which the parliament's for by this sort of parliamentary voting thing which needs to be in a legal sense to be fine tuned and to still to be walked through a legal process. And I'm told by colleagues in the Bundestag that this is really tricky the way you fix it in a little sense, right? And also the ESM is not ratified. We expect cards for to vote over all the planes from last year. So I wouldn't stand here and say there aren't any hurdles to expect. And if now this trend to Greece is there and Greek has voted about this program, then it's sort of fine, you know, that's not what I'm saying. But I tried to give you some drops to make this glass half full or to least say, yeah, well, we can take a breeze and start thinking about more creatively how we fix it then. But then you lean back and what's my story? I think my story is more an emotional story about where a country stands and what you try to detect from newspapers reading. And if you screen who writes what in which newspaper and who has a majority in, you know, which argument buys and which argument doesn't sell. And I'm a true believer in tipping points, right? And I feel honestly that sometimes you can miss a window of opportunity and debates can turn sour and it's not so easy to bring them back to what there should be. So I guess my talk here is much about a total amalgam about many discussions that we haven't all been able to disentangle and that goes from lazy Greeks to cheating Greece to a much more profound problem of primacy of politics over financial markets that goes from how we organize our democracy in Europe to legitimacy question, like Jung Habermas rises them in our book. So what I'm saying is that when discussions get complex, the easy arguments sell better, right? And this happened in Germany, of course. And the easy argument was we did the job, we restructured our economy. Yes, we did, right? We did, and the others did not. So we are the best and the others should do what we did. And that was the easy part of it. The Greeks are lazy in the first place. By the way, because I'm talking to an Irish audience, but everybody in Germany can make a difference between Greece and Ireland, right? I'm talking more about Greece because it's more what the German, that's perhaps interesting to know for an Irish audience. We are not going to sleep with concerns about Ireland, right? We know that this country is profoundly sane, healthy, has a young dynamic that grows, can, you know, that... Confederation? Then there is... Sometimes we worry. That there's a debt problem, that we will need to fix it, that we will need to talk about interest rates, 5% lesser higher, that there's a corporate tax issue, which can be solved because you are reasonable, the Germans are reasonable, yeah? But the irrationality, the newspaper irrationality or the so-called published opinion about Greek, Ireland, Portugal is pretty different from Ireland to Greece to Portugal, right? And I want you to know this. I think nobody in Germany goes too bad, sort of we have a real problem with the Irish. We have many technical problems with the Irish and we all know in a way that can be solved if collective wisdom is there and if collective wisdom is put into place. The real question is, will there be ultimately enough political energy to put that into place if other debates are so irrational and drive us all nuts before we can come to solving the little Irish question, right? And that is why I allow, under the auspices of the German Foreign Service, to speak much more about emotions than about figures, right? I checked up a little of your figures and about what you need to have, a surplus and, yeah, but you all know this so I don't need to talk with you about this. Going back to Germany, and I was talking about tipping points, right? If my thesis, my philic, is right, that since a year what I would call wrong arguments have been puring the German debate and the wrong arguments at all about we are the victims of the whole thing, we are paying for everybody, we are backing everybody, you know, everybody is cheating us and there's something like a trust relationship broken between the Germans and Europe because the European Union is no longer what they think they shaped in the first place, bailout 125 sort of, you know, law and order, German rule, principles. And this breakdown of trust, I think, is very important for public mindset because trust is what makes a relationship happening. By the way, private like collective relationships. If you can't trust, then you can't trust. And if you can't trust, you need to control it, right? And I think this is happening. And this has been happening in large extent. So, then, and that was the beginning. You all know that Biltzaiton carried this out and ruled this out first the Greeks, then the Irish. And why did it happen? And what is of concern for me is why did German elites not go against? You know, that was the appell of Jürgen Habermas a year ago. Deutsche Eliten rettet Europa. German elites, please save Europe, right? Here's the interesting point when I talk about tipping points. Who is writing the pro argument, we should take this as a collective problem and solve it. It's basically Helmut Schmidt, 82 years old, Jürgen Habermas, 82 years old, Joschka Fischer, 60 something years old, and sometimes little Giro, 46, right? There are another handful of people, but there are not many, right? And there's something like an obsession of a mainstream economic discourse, which clearly stands beyond the international economic discourse. It's sort of as if Germany has to a large extent an autistic debate, not that arguments from the outside do not peer into the German media system, and arguments from the German media system don't peer outside or don't drop outside. What I see here, I mean, for instance, I guess you read the Financial Times and then you read Martin Wolf or you read Wolfgang Münchau, right? Wolfgang Münchau is perceived as being more or less anti-German, more like a bastard, right? So the Münchau argument, that is the argument about trade imbalances and Germany is perhaps part of the problem, not only the solution sort of argument, yeah? It's just not perceived in mainstream media, yes, but not related to the Deutsches Bildungsbürgertum, so that I get a broader understanding of the crisis. The effort set is not a relay for Wolfgang Münchau. I guess that's what I'm trying to tell you, right? So you need to imagine that if you're barfing, imagine, and I'm just trying to depict what happened with German elites, imagine that the German elites are the pharmacist and the doctor and all these Bildungsbürgertum who is more or less feeded through the effort set on how Germany should behave, right? If a newspaper like this doesn't hold against an anti-European spin in public opinion, then you lose your elites. So the build site is one thing, which is bottom up, but the effort set was top down and they did it too. The effort set also wrote Germany into northern Europe, currency, European and southern currency, union, all of it. They are basically, since a couple of weeks, and I give you that one, they are trying to withdraw from it, and you see neat differences between politic, economic and spiritual section, which is interesting because what I detect here is that the effort set, if it all implodes, does not want to be all responsible for being a bad media player, but that's a different discussion. All this, to just explain to you the following things, which is we have a complete amalgam in the discussion, the German readiness to see ourselves as part into the responsibility reckless lending in these arguments, not present in the mainstream discussion, a very narrow-minded economic discourse which is impermeable from the outside, and this feeds public opinion, of course, or it is a gate opener to populist tendencies, of course. To that, you add a completely changed, and I developed this all in my paper, you add a completely changed German Bundestag that has seen the biggest rotation in the last elections where the last people who had been mandates before 89, so sort of institutional knowledge about what Germany has been and what the German-European narrative has once been before 89, say the Schäuble narrative, right? You have 60 persons left in the Bundestag who have been doing deputies before 89. So it's a huge rotation, and the most youngest part is the Liberals, which interestingly love other less European party in the system now. I don't say this to blame anybody, and I'm not blaming my country. I just want to say that this country has profoundly changed and that we have lost the narrative, and the narrative is like, you know, Voltaire incondite, you know, it for cultivé sans jardin, and we didn't cultivé notre jardin, right? So somebody needs to rouse the flowers, and I am of a generation where I thought it's done. 92 done. Maastricht dry, in trocknen Tücher, you know, in dry finished. No, it's not. And so the amalgam of, I would argue all innocent tendencies, nothing there is a master plan, and that is my assessment. There's not nasty Merkel out there who tries to whine Germany out of Europe. There's no blind industry who's running behind China. It's not a master concept here that Germany wants to behave differently, or I feel like there's just something like historical gravity coming and that comes from many things at a time. It comes from bottom up this, you know, innocent nationalism things like soccer game winning and Lena Song Contest things, which are important, German flags since 206, never seen in my life before, right? Innocent bottom up, right? You add to that a complete complexity of internationalisation, globalisation, who does a difference whether we lose jobs to the Czech Republic or to China. I mean, probably not my mother, right? So is Europe a fortress? Is it not? Can it defend? Does Europe add to that? Who knows? Can we disentangle that discussion? Can we make the case for Europe in that discussion? We cannot. You add to that the whole change of the political establishment and you add to that the very fact that Germany is finding a sovereign country. And we have the inverse tendency of what we had in the past, which is that foreign policy was basically driving our domestic discussions from Wieder-Bewafner 55 to Euro Missiles 83 to the Euro question 82 and just with Kohl, just Schmidt-Kohl, I don't know Schmidt-Kohl, everybody running it because foreign policy structured our domestic discussions. Now it's the inverse. Domestic policy structures our foreign policy decisions and that is what you have seen.  And I felt, okay, does not look so evident and you're sitting in the Baltic countries, okay? So, but this is, I think, what changed in Germany. And again, I think nothing of this is nasty. Nothing of this is, I think it's more by default than by strategy, which is the pity in itself, but still it's more by default than a strategy. And if anybody is to blame, perhaps a strategy, a government for lacking strategy, you may blame a government for that, but German citizens are not to blame. The non-elite citizens. Because I think what is in this problematic constellations of completely reversed victims discussions, the Irish as being a victims and the Greeks being a victims, but the Germans a victim too, right? So we're all a victim of Europe, which is a little bit crazy. I argue, and I know that this is a very dangerous argument because apparently it's not so easy to do econometric simulations to demonstrate this in the figures, yeah? But my God's feeling, sort of numberless, that there is a point to make that the wealth, the collective wealth that Germany had through Europe, single market and Euro, has not or has been unevenly distributed in the domestic wealth distribution. Which means that not everybody profited in the same way from Europe. And this is why Germany is now losing middle classes for the political project of Europe, right? We had 10, 15 years where if you are not an export driven worker or a worker in an export driven company like BMW, Siemens and so on and so forth, you have rather relative losses in salary than gains. So how do I explain to these people that they are winner of a single market? So the perception is wrong from the outside. Germany's seen the bold exporter, China and Bruderler told it all over the place, you know, that's the wrong discussion I feel from Germany. We are both so strong and economic miracle number two, right? From the inside, Germany is poorer and more fragile than at any time in history that I have lived in this country. We have erosion in the east. You have poor and empty regions in the east. You have sometimes 30% unemployment in the former GDR. You have towns that die in the western part where I come from, we have this whole demography, you know, so this perspective that we are just about export China giant Germany which is a thing that we conveyed is not true. Not true for the ordinary German. And therefore you can catch him very easily on why should he pay for Greece and not for German kids, for instance, right? I had this. Every third day I'm on TV in Germany and the questions I get most is why do we pay for Greece and not for the education of our children, these sort of things. Is it normal? Is it understandable? Probably it is. So I guess I stop here. If we conclude, I think it's much about, I honestly think this crisis can be fixed. It can. Cost a lot of money, 13 billion for Germany. We can talk soft restructuring, real restructuring, who does what, when, how we manage it. But I was sitting in a conference of 50 experts from banks, among them Klaus Regling and who have you. And there were 50 people who know more than I and who basically said everybody, it can be, we have this, we know how to fix it. The Irish and the Greek and the poor, that's not the problem. We need to bring it from techniques to politics. We need to find the political mindset that allows us to find, to apply the technical solutions which are on the table. And for that we need to shape a discourse. And that is what I'm here for, to give you a little help to understand the German discourse, to give me some help to better understand the Irish discourse. And then Derek and I, we will try to work. Okay.


How in the world can a protein coat that contains some mRNA? How can that be so incredibly disruptive? It's pretty wild to think about when you go from that anatomy to looking at, okay, what is it actually doing in ourselves? Well, the first thing is, as we've said, it's nothing. Nada, nothing, unless it gets into a cell. So its biggest task is to get into and literally into a cell. And think about it for a second. Do you think that the protein coat needs to go into the cell necessarily? Like, what's the important thing that must get into the cell? Some protein coats do go in, but sometimes they just throw in their genetic material. So it's the genetic material that's the important thing. So in this case, the DNA or RNA. That's what, now, okay, why is that important? What is going to happen? What do you think is going to happen when the genetic material gets injected into your cell? Viruses don't have ribosomes. They don't have a nucleus. They don't have a nucleolus. They don't have mitochondria or chloroplasts. I bet there are viruses that infect mitochondria and chloroplasts. Oh, that's weird. I want to know if that's true. They're going to inject their genetic material and your cell is going to go, Hey, look, here's some genetic material. What should we do with this stuff? And your cell, like, follows the instructions. Your cell is a good little cell and does what it's supposed to do with that genetic material. Oh, dang it. You should have followed those directions. But the cells, like, I always follow the directions. I do what I'm told. Sometimes we have to think for ourselves. You don't just follow the instructions that they came from a virus, but your cell doesn't know better. And so it takes the DNA, turns it into RNA, and turns that into protein. Your cell actually assembles, follows the instructions, and part of the instructions involve assembling all those proteins into what? Seriously. Your cell follows the instructions in the genetic material and builds new viruses. And then your cell is like, wow, look at these cool things I just made. I just made it. Look, I made them. And then your cell says, here, I want to share. And exocytosis, all of those new viral particles that it built out into the world. Where, if they're being exocytosed into, say, your blood, then the viral particles, the new viruses that you built, go around and infect other cells. Let's look at SARS-CoV-2 in particular and see how that virus specifically gets into your cells. There are molecules involved that you probably have heard about. First of all, check it out. We've got the particle itself, the virus, and it looks like a little sunshine. I mean, it's really pretty, really, don't you think? Cute little virus. Its spike proteins have a shape that allows them, those spike proteins, bind to a receptor that's on your cells already. This is a receptor that's involved in maintaining your blood pressure homeostasis. And it's called ACE2. So, normal cells. And that receptor is particularly found in the respiratory system. In cells in the respiratory system, many of them express the ACE2 receptor in their cell membranes. Okay, and that's just a normal, healthy, human cellular thing to do. But then SARS-CoV-2 comes along and says, hey, that's the key I'm looking for. And those spike proteins bind to that ACE2 receptor. The ACE2 receptor does normal blood pressure work for us, but now the virus is hijacking it. That causes the binding of the spike proteins to the ACE2 receptor. That causes engulfing of the viral particle. And check out what happens. In this case, it looks like the spike proteins mostly stay on the outside and the genetic material is brought in. And it's RNA. And if you check it out, it looks like the RNA comes in. I don't know what all these other little things are. But the RNA gets processed in the rough endoplasmic reticulum. That makes sense, right? You've got to write a zone who's going to read the code in the RNA and build a protein. Translation is going to happen in the rough endoplasmic reticulum. It gets processed in the... I don't know what that is. The urgic. Oops, you can't see the urgic. Dude, what? It gets processed there. I thought it got processed in the Golgi body. So maybe the urgic is part of the Golgi body. Whatever, however it gets processed, it gets built into a full viral particle that is then exocytosed into the extracellular fluid to go infect other critters. Excuse me. Not just other critters.  It's that simple. You just used the machinery that you already had to replicate and make lots of copies. What? Okay. This was bad. This virus was doing bad things and the disease, COVID-19, was deadly and a big deal. So quickly, word got out. It's really interesting to look at the history of things that I wasn't aware of. I wasn't tracking what the World Health Organization was saying. I remember seeing, probably around February, I remember seeing something on Twitter and somebody was like, oh my God, this virus, there's this weird virus out there and it has this massive replication rate. It makes copies of itself way faster than other things and I'm watching it and being concerned and I was on Twitter going, well, people say things on Twitter all the time and then the pandemic gets declared in March of 2020 and then we all went, oh, that one? Yeah, that one. That's kind of a big deal, isn't it? So scientists were watching it and the next thing I want to talk about is how fast they figured out the sequence, the actual sequence of bases in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. So this little piece of DNA, I mean RNA, that the virus delivered, injected into your cell, it was really fast that the scientists figured out what the actual base sequence of that thing was and I want to talk about how they did that.


The Impact of Local Culture on Education in Laos The local cultural environment undoubtedly plays a crucial role in a community's education system. When specifically talking about developing countries, it is unavoidable to include Laos among those with a strong cultural background. Although Laos can be considered a fairly small country, it surprisingly contains more than 45 different ethnic groups, most of which boast their own traditions, culture, and language. This is a peculiar context that certainly needs to be taken into consideration when talking about education development. In a country like Laos, where old traditions and beliefs are still strongly followed by the community, the education system tends to absorb many of the local customary rules. Here the official language is Laos, but more than 30 other languages are present in the country. This wide variety is undoubtedly a cultural treasure, but it means that Laos is, for the majority of the community, the second language, and English would be the third. A further challenge comes from the fact that many of the ethnic groups do not have any written tradition. As a consequence some people from these communities are likely to have never had any contact with any type of alphabet. In this context not only the new language is a great challenge, but also the sudden approach to a written tradition is an important factor that must be taken into consideration. In this environment it usually takes a long time to get the students confident enough to communicate and interact with their peers. Also, this challenge becomes even greater when these communities face their first contact with the English language. The problem of losing face Having a glance at the Laos community as a whole, it is possible to find a shared cultural sensitivity. The fear of losing face in the community can be considered as one of the main cultural issues that has a great impact on the education system. This constantly leads the students to avoid feeling exposed in front of their peers, and to avoid questioning their teachers when in need. Considering that the main aim of teaching is the students understanding, if the student themselves is not willing to collaborate with a teacher, it becomes harder and harder to provide an effective teaching strategy. This student behavior generally triggers confusion in the learning process and as a consequence leads to a tendency to copy and cheat during activities, exams, and homework. Overall, the students tend to give more importance to their score, rather than actual understanding. For this reason, in Laos the act of copying from classmates is not generally considered as actual cheating, but instead, it is seen as communal help between friends. Local teachers themselves normally allow this behavior, but for foreign or English teachers and volunteers this can be a real problem in the classroom. The impact of culture on teaching methods. This strong part of the culture also has a great impact on Laos methods of teaching and learning. Students here are mainly required to memorize parts of the textbook, and from time to time copy them into their workbook. Evaluation tests are also mainly made up of multiple choice or short written answers to avoid public humiliation in case of mistakes. This teaching strategy for the students, when in contact with a Western method of teaching, can cause confusion and frustration. Students are also not generally exposed to open conversations. While in Western schools active communication with a teacher is usually encouraged and supported, in Laos their personal opinion is never required in the classroom, nor is it in the community. This is particularly evident in public schools, where the critical thinking process is not even taken into consideration as part of personal and mental development. Hope for the future. When working in this country as an English teacher, a radical change in EFL teaching methods is required. A step by step process to lead students to develop their critical thinking is of great importance for their future personal and professional goals. English teachers and volunteers have to bear in mind the fundamental differences in culture and develop new creative methods to encourage their students to slowly expose themselves in order to build their confidence and make the English lesson as effective as possible. Other major issues such as the role of women and children as a workforce in rural areas, and the young age of marriages are also relevant issues with regard to education in Laos. 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Welcome back. So we are now in a position to look at an illustrative example. The example problem concerns a balloon. It has an initial diameter of 0.2 meters, 20 centimeters and it is inflated using some gas and the initial pressure is 1.1 bar. It rises through the atmosphere and as it rises it expands. At the top of its flight its diameter is 0.4 meter. So it has doubled. The pressure of the gas is now 0.7 bar. Notice that the pressure has reduced. Assume that the pressure volume relation is linear that is a straight line on the pressure volume diagram. Determine the work done by the gas. So that is the specification of the problem. So the first thing we do is to sketch. Actually the sketching can be done as we read the problem. First we have a balloon. Since the diameter is given there is a volume associated with we assume that it is a spherical balloon. So the simple system diagram will be something like this. A spherical balloon. The gas inside the balloon with which we are concerned is our system. So this is the gas and that is our system. The initial state state 1 is given to us as diameter of 0.2 meter. Pressure of the gas as 1.1 bar. The final state let us call it state 2 is given to us as diameter 0.4 meter and pressure of 0.7 bar. We are also told that the pressure volume relationship is linear. So if you sketch the pressure volume relationship. So the volume will go from V1 to V2. The pressure will go down from P1 to P2. So the initial state will be this. State 1. The final state will be this. State 2. And we are told that the pressure volume relationship is a straight line. So let me sketch the process as a straight line from state 1 to state 2. And from this diagram it is clear to us that it is a quasi-static process and hence this area is going to represent the pressure volume work, the expansion work. So this is the first step in the problem.


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What's going on guys? Welcome to a brand new retro review. We're doing our journey to the predator It continues today as we discuss predator to Danny Glover's version which came out in 1990 Three years after the original predator, which if you guys didn't miss out on my first review, I love the original predator It's like a classic film for me. So my favorite films is growing up It made me an adult in a sense because of Arnold's big muscles Danny Glover starring in this one in the predator two takes place in LA in a territory gang wars are happening in here and the Predator just happens to be in town now this film. It's not good. It's not good at all like It is cheesy. It's over the top, which yes The first one was all that but in a more subtle manner and more of a manner that holds up predator two is cheesy over the top Disconfigured and just never found its stride. I never knew what it wanted to be It felt very over the top in a sense of being a comedy and a parody and at times it felt very serious and dramatic It never found that right line of what it wanted to be but predator two has some awesome moments That are so bad, but are so good before I get into all those I want to talk about the pros though the pros in here's Danny Glover Danny Glover is awesome awesome in here Charismatic loving you love him and it's maybe it's just because it is a Glover himself It's not but it's just you don't see him in these roles where he's playing a big badass.  He kills people and just so you know like spoilers.   It was very like oh, hey I'm the funny cop blah blah blah, but you kind of get a sense to liking him Maybe again, and maybe it's just because it's Bill Paxton But you've got a sense to liking his character more now the other good thing about this film is the predator You get a little bit more of him You get a little bit more action scenes with him see a little bit more of his mechanics see his ships More of them that that's what was cool about here And I love seeing more of the predator and just again the Mountain Dew blood going everywhere You see him kicking butt taking names Slashing people putting stuff in him and it's bloody It's our rated gore and blood and you get more of the predator I just never like when the predator talks though like can we talk about that like I just don't like when they talk Like it just seems really cheesy, but at the same time like it's such a small gripe I just the predator in here is badass that that's what you come to the film to see I would have liked to see more of him Of course the predator is taking out all these gangs because there's two different gangs which this is like probably the most over-the-top Thing about the film is this voodoo Jamaican gangman and this Colombian gang I think I'm not a hundred percent I'm pretty sure it's Colombian even though I just watched the movie yesterday. I'm not a hundred percent sure on that I should have done my research But obviously I did not care enough about this film to look into that But yeah, so there there's these rival gangs fighting and it's just insane Like how over-the-top especially the Jamaican voodoo ones are like Jesus like Just the way that they're like bases look the way that they string people up like predators So you can't really tell what the difference is unless they're skinned There's one scene where a sex scene is happening But it's like panning in from a wide shot so you can't tell it's sexy yet But it just says moaning but it literally sounded like the girl was dying Like it did not sound realistic at all and I started laughing super hard Like this film has those moments where you laugh because it's so over-the-top and so stupid and so dumb And that's what this film is. It doesn't hold up in all.  They're not the fun versions of themselves And that's why you like them the action here is decent the Predators cool And there's some good comedic beats in here But it always felt like they took the first Predator film Shook it up really fucking hard and made it the super over-the-top movie that it didn't need to be The first one was perfect in its manner And I do think the idea of taking it into an LA centric area with a city like is cool We got a jungle now. It's cool to see a city That's kind of the next place you'd want to see the predator invade Yeah, it's cool. We get to see more predator We get to see some little Easter eggs in this film from different time periods at the Predators And it really felt like they were trying to build a sequel up for either Danny Glover Or for the Predators to go to a different time period and explain like where they've been how long they've been going around Obviously they didn't happen because the next film to come out after this that actually I guess Titan I guess would be the Predators which we'll be talking about on Monday with Adrian Brody, but That that's where this film is it just it doesn't work and execute in the right manner that it does It there's some good moments in here There's some awesome action sequences the last action scene when Danny Glover in the predator fighting is bad ass It has the slow-mo shots. It has the gun action Gary Buse. He's in here and he's over the top as well He's nice in here. I like a nice addition in here, too But the film is not memorable.  I don't like this movie I didn't I enjoyed it for what it was But it's not a good movie and I can't recommend it either It doesn't hold up to the first film and it's not a good film to watch I don't know if I watch this because this is actually my first time ever actually watching the full film in length I'd never really seen the first thing. I'd seen glimpses of it, but never watched it connectively so Predator 2 1999 predator It's all right and not the film that you're wanting right after the first predator. So with all that said, I'm gonna give the predator 2 a D Tell me guys, what are you guys thoughts on the predator 2? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you think it's a guilty pleasure? 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It's almost here. After 10 years of planning, Avengers Infinity War is almost upon us. That's right, Thanos is coming for the Infinity Stones. Six cosmic artifacts so powerful they have the ability to grant their holder godlike powers over all of existence. Hey nerds, I'm Trent, and today we're going to look at the location of each of the Infinity Stones Thanos is going to be gunning for in the MCU, as well as talk a little bit about their powers. Now, the colouring of the stones in the movies is different compared to the comics. So to avoid confusion, we are just going to be referring to the way the stones are depicted in the MCU. The first stone to appear in the movies was contained in the Tesseract, better known to fans as the Cosmic Cube. It was first seen in the post-credits scenes of Thor before being heavily featured as an instrument of power at the hands of the Red Skull in Captain America, the first Avenger. It wasn't until Avengers Age of Ultron, however, that we learnt that the cube was actually the casing for the Space Stone when Thor had a vision of each of the stones forming the Infinity Gauntlet. The Space Stone allows the user to control space, making teleportation around the cosmos as simple feat. The Avengers made a cube a target for Loki, which he used its power to create a portal for the Chitari, the alien species come through and invade Earth. At the end of the movie, the cube is taken by Thor back to Asgard and put in Odin's treasure vault, along with the other powerful relics. However, the cube recently resurfaced in the final act of Thor Ragnarok, with the trickster god Loki stopping by and cheekily grinning at it before Asgard's demise.  Now, coincidentally, Thanos was already in possession of an Infinity Stone, which he bestowed upon Loki in the Avengers in the form of his little scepter. The scepter was used to control the minds of various characters, including the Hulk, Hawkeye and Eric Selvig, the all-important Eric Selvig. The scepter fell into the possession of Baron Wolfgang von Strucke in Avengers Age of Ultron and later Tony Stark, who unintentionally created Ultron through Jarvis analysing the scepter. Ultron stole the scepter, breaking the casing to reveal the stone inside, which he used to create the perfect android which we would come to know and love as the Vision. Unfortunately for Ultron, Vision was captured by the Avengers before Awakening, and with the power of Thor's lightning awoke to be a good guy. Vision continues to work on the side of good and has entrusted himself the responsibility to look after the stone, which is permanently located in the middle of his forage. Vision has been living at the Avengers compound in New York ever since. The Aether, the dark red blob of liquid from Thor the Dark World. Yep, turns out that's an Infinity Stone too, the reality stone. It was shown in the Dark World that the liquid was able to distort reality by acting similarly to the Space Stone in transporting various objects to different worlds, like making Mjolnir transport to different realities, or taking Thor away from the battle. We officially learnt that this was the reality stone once again in Thor's vision in Age of Ultron. Now in the post-credits scene of Thor the Dark World, we see Volstag and Lady Sif go to the planet Nowhere, which is the head of a dead celestial containing the location of the Collector's Museum. Here they meet the eccentric Tavallir Tavarn, the Collector, whom they give the Aether and casing it in some sort of containment unit. It's unclear what happens to the reality stone upon the destruction of the Collector's Museum, but I'm sure the Collector wouldn't leave such a valuable item without strict protective measures. Now speaking of the Collector, he has a close connection to the next Infinity Gem, the Power Stone. This stone was the object of desire in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1, which Star-Lord stole from a deserted city, which fell into the hands of Ronin the Accuser, who was meant to give the stone to Thanos, but decided, no, I'll keep it and use it for myself and bring death and destruction upon the Novocore on Xander for revenge against the Korea Empire. But during this generic plot, we were first introduced to the concept of the Infinity Stones when Star-Lord took the orb to the Collector's Museum, where we learned of its power to be only handled by the Celestials. Now, of course, being the MCU, the Guardians are a unique individuals and are able to channel the power to help defeat Ronin by the end of the movie. We last see the Power Stone held with the Nova Corps on Xander, which can't bode well for the once Thanos and his minions come calling for the stone. The fifth stone made its debut in 2016's Doctor Strange, encased within the eye of Agamado, the Time Stone serves as a source of Stranger's powers in the movie, encasing himself in a time loop to defeat the Dread Dormammu. Glowing green, the Time Stone was revealed to be an Infinity Gem by Stranger's trusty sidekick, Wong. Strange continues to be in possession of the stone within the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York, last seen while wearing it in Thor Ragnarok whilst receiving a visit from Thor and Loki. Now that leaves the final Infinity Stone, the Soul Stone. In the comics, this allows the wielder to collect souls, see within another soul, and access the memories of those imprisoned within the stone to name a few of the powers. Many thought this stone would appear in the Black Panther film, seeing as it's the final movie before Infinity War comes out. Alas, it was not to be. We still don't know the location of the Soul Stone. Could it be somewhere in the cosmos in a yet to be identified location? Possibly. Could Thanos already be in possession of the stone? That's also a likely prospect. However, there are some theories that could help solve this situation. The first is that the Soul Stone still is in Wakanda. We just don't know it yet. We do know that the Vibranium Mound came from an asteroid in deep space and contained special properties. The Vibranium also powered the heart-shaped herb, which granted the consumer the ability to visit the souls of the former Panthers on the Astral Plane. Could this ability be the energy seeping from the Vibranium Mound, which contains the Soul Stone? The trailer for Infinity War gives a clue with the Chitauri invading Wakanda. Why would Wakanda be a target if there's no Infinity Stone there? They also attack the Sanctum Sanctorum and New York, the residency of Doctor Strange and Vision respectively. Another theory comes from the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, where the Golden Asia shows an entity within a cocoon known only as Adam. Fans from the comics would recognize this cocoon as belonging to the strange Adam Warlock, the main possessor and protector of the Soul Stone and an inhabitant of Soul World. This may be a stretch as there's been no reports of Warlock appearing in the movie, but it would make an awesome surprise. Now, the most far-fetched, yet possibly awesome reveal could be that Nick Fury's been in possession of the Soul Stone the entire time, having been kept off the grid for several movies. Some are speculated that he's keeping it behind his damaged eye. But... I just can't see this happening. Now, knowing Infinity War is a two-part movie, we may not even see the Soul Stone at all until later movies like Ant-Man and the Lost or Captain Marvel. Who knows? Anyway, that's where five of the six Infinity Stones are on the road to Avengers Infinity War. We all know that Thanos and his Black Order are gunning for the Stones. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out for Earth's mightiest heroes. Let us know in the comments below where you think the Soul Stone might be. So, that's it from me. Thanks for watching. I'm Trent and I'll see you at the movies.


So in organic chemistry we often talk about functional groups and functional groups are groups of atoms that can be added to hydrocarbon chain for example. And so I've listed some of the major functional groups that students in biology might be interested in. One group is a hydroxyl group and this is what alcohols are all about. So if you see OH attached to an organic compound that you know that's a functional group and alcohol. Another group is a double bonded oxygen attached to the carbon and this is called a carbonyl group. If the double bonded oxygen is at the end of a chain then that particular substance is called an aldehyde. If that double bonded oxygen is in the middle of the chain or it is not on the end then that's a substance called a ketone. Then we can have carboxylic acid groups. Vinegar for example has a carboxylic acid group attached to it and that's a carbon with both a double bonded oxygen and a hydroxyl group attached to it. Then there's a group called a mean group and that's a nitrogen with two hydrogens attached to it. And then we have a phosphate group and the phosphate group is an oxygen with a phosphate or phosphorus and three oxygens attached and you see that carries a charge of negative 2. Alright so let's look at some alcohols for example. This if you'll count has two carbons attached to it and so our prefix for two is F and you see we have a single bond between the carbons and so that means that it would be an A-N for the alkanes that have all single bonds and then you see our OH group which makes it an alcohol. So this is F-N-O-L-E-T-H-A-N-O-L. So it's a carbon with a hydroxyl group attached and then that carbons attached to another carbon that has four or three hydrogens. Let's look at propanol and so probe tells us that we have three carbons one two three so there are our three carbons and then here is our OH group or our hydroxyl group. So this is propanol probe for three carbons propanol. But let's look at an isomer of propanol and that will be isopropanol and with isopropanol you can see that the middle carbon is the one that has the hydroxyl group attached to it. So here's carbon carbon carbon and then the hydroxyl group attached to the middle. So propanol and isopropanol are isomers of one another. They both have the same molecular formula that you can see that their structural formula is very difficult.


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