practical units or the legal units that were based on standard resistors and standard cells, batteries. And every once in a while, someone would measure the ratio of the legal volt to the absolute volt. And that was one of the things that was tabulated in the fundamental constants. So when you said that your voltmeter was calibrated, if you were in the US, it was calibrated according to US volts. But if you were in France, it would be calibrated in French volts and in Germany and German volts. Well, that was pretty nasty. So in 1990, they agreed that they would use the quantum of Hall effect and the Josephson effect and everybody would use the same one, but it still wasn't the SI. And now it is because 2A over H and H over E squared, when you've defined both H and E are fixed numbers and they're in the SI. So now we no longer have two system of units. So that's what this says. Oh, the mole. Remember what the mole was? It was the number of entities that you had that was equal to the number of carbon 12 grams and 12 grams of carbon 12. Now it's just a number. We've defined Avogadro's number and what could be simpler. And then finally the Kelvin. It used to be 1 over 273.16 of the triple point of water. And now we've defined the Boltzmann constant. So the Kelvin is now defined in terms of the energy, the thermal energy of the microscopic constituents. And we love this definition because it really gets down to the microscopic nature of what temperature means. So, so all of these things bring us to a conclusion. The French Revolution gave us the metric system. The convention de metro brought us an international agreement about units. And now on the 20th of May, the anniversary of the signing of the convention de metro. We had the biggest revolution in measurement unit since the French Revolution and liberally leading the people means we're finally free of artifacts standards. And we're finally free of a double standard for electrical measurements. And all the base units are defined by fixing values of constants of nature. And it seems like we've really done what those French revolutionaries dreamed of, that we've created a system of units that is good for all time and for all peoples. It seems for time itself, because time is defined in terms of hyperfine frequency of cesium, a particular atom, a really good atom, but we've got better atoms now. And all these wonderful atoms, strontium and terbium and aluminum ions and mercury ions are doing better than cesium. In fact, they're doing two orders of magnitude better than cesium. And so it seems that we will have to redefine the second. And we're working on it right now and having discussions about what the redefinition, the new definition will be. And only time will tell what that definition will be. Thank you very much. So now we have questions. And I think the first question should be yours, since you wanted to ask it before, and then you will then have charge of giving out. But you will get the first present. So your question. Thank you. So my first, the first question, so I get the first present, is I was wondering when they measured all the cesium atoms for the time, wasn't there any concept, any idea that while they had the problem to reduce the accuracy further and further, was an alternative approach to not go with atomic clocks and the cesium atoms because at some point it seemed like there was nothing more, not more curious and reachable. Yeah, well, that's exactly what happened when when the cesium atoms got to about a part in 10 to the 16, then it, the technology had developed so that these other atoms were, were starting to look good. So let's go back to that picture. Yeah, so you see about the time that the best measurements on cesium, this blue point was happening, then we were starting to get optical clocks. You see, I didn't tell you, but that's one of the big differences. All these red points are optical transitions instead of microwave transitions. And that's one of the reasons why they're so much better. So, you know, maybe it was just luck at about the time that the cesium hit the wall of about 10 to the minus 16, then we started to get these optical, whoops, these optical clocks better than, than cesium. And, but, you know, cesium worked really well for a long, long time. It had a great run. So the prize, oh, there's, there's three prizes, the wallet card of the fundamental constants of nature with the defining constants on the front with no uncertainty. So a whole page of fundamental constants with no uncertainties. The car that just has the defining constants and the world's best periodic chart made by NIST, of course, has, well, I mean, when you, when you see it, which I'm sure you all want. And, you know, if we run out of time, you can ask me during the reception and I'll give you prizes even then. It's got everything. It's got the electron configuration. It's, you know, it's got the, the ionization potential. It's, it's wonderful. So more questions. Yes. Okay. You mentioned at the end that you're trying to redefine the second again. Yes, again. And all of the other constants that you find also face stuff of the second. Yes, that's true. So how will this affect? Not much, fortunately, because the second is so good. You see, the second is good to a few parts in 10 to the 16. We can realize the kilogram to a part in 10 to the eighth, if we're lucky. So that means we've got eight orders of magnitude to play with before we have to worry about whether redefining the second is going to have any significant impact on, on the kilogram. So in principle, it's true, but in practice, we don't have to worry about it. But we need that, that better definition of the second for, you know, a number of, of scientific reasons. And who knows? So you need to get prizes and you have a question. So two short questions. First is since it wasn't there at the presentation, what happened with candela? And the second one is the second one is why do we still use it? Okay. So, so, so the candela is a measurement of luminous intensity. And basically, here's the thing about the candela.  So the candela is now defined in a very clear way. It says you take light of a certain frequency, green light, which is near the peak of the sensitivity of the human eye. And it's a certain number of watts of that kind of light equals one candela. Okay, actually equals a lumen is the way it's defined. Now the idea is that a human subject will look at light of some other color or some mixtures of color like sunlight or artificial light and say that's the same brightness as this green light. Okay, that's the way it's done. And it turns out that people all over the world have pretty much the same curve. And why do we have it? Because when you go to the store to buy a light bulb, you want to know how bright it is and you buy it and it's in terms of lumens. And people want to have something that's traceable to a legally defined standard. And so that's what we have. That's why we have a candela, which is related to the lumen just in terms of solid angle and things like that. So that's why we have it, but it's got this human element in it and none of the other. So you can think of that as either a positive thing. It's the most human of the units. Or you can think it's not really precise because it depends on what a person thinks. So that's the story. I love it. Yes. Oh, microphone, microphone. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, well, let's take that one first and then we'll come back. Thank you. Just two questions. The first one, with the new units of the mass that you have, can you say something about the mass scandal that the prototype that we have really is losing the mass or not? Right. So those measurements are now in progress. They weren't possible before, but now they are. So the answer to that, I hope will be forthcoming, but for the moment, we don't know. Another question. Usually we teach the SI units at the beginning of the elementary courses that we have, with that new definition of the SI, how we can do that. And what does that mean? Okay, my colleague Peter Morini wrote a paper directed toward physics teachers, high school physics teachers, and we had a co-author who was a high school physics teacher about how you should approach this process of teaching the SI in the new way. And I admit it's a challenge because before it was easy to say, oh, a kilogram is the mass of this object. And now we have to say, the kilogram is that mass that makes Planck's constant equal to this particular value. That's not so obvious that that gives you a kilogram. So look, if I were teaching high school students, I think what I would do is to say, in the past, we used to define the kilogram this way. And once they're comfortable with the idea of what mass means, then say, but that wasn't sufficient for modern times. It was a definition that was not as stable as we need for modern times. And so we came up with a new definition, and that's how this one works. So that's probably what I would do if I were a high school physics teacher, but I'm not. Okay, now I promised that you would be next, but you have to run. You're young, so you can. Thank you. My question is, how far is the relativistic effect affect to the whole precision of all that and the whole system? Very much. Both special relativity and general relativity come into this. So all these atoms are trapped, the ones that are used in these experiments, or almost all, and even the zero point motion of the atoms or the ions produces a relativistic effect that is a time dilation, a relativistic time dilation. So that has to be taken into account. And general relativity is a really big deal because the lower you are in the gravitational potential, the slower your clock runs. This is sometimes called the gravitational redshift. And back when they defined this, it was not a problem because in 1967, I don't really remember how good it was. It was probably a part in 10 to the 12 was the best clocks. And a part in 10 to the 12 would have been something like 10 miles, 15 kilometers. And we don't have any laboratories, 15 kilometers above sea level. So it didn't matter. Today, the distance that can be resolved is one centimeter. So you have to be extremely careful. And in fact, it's difficult to make a comparison between clocks in Boulder, Colorado, where these really good clocks are in the US and clocks near sea level, the way the really good clocks are in places like Germany and France and China. And so that's a challenge that we're working on. Portable clocks are one of the ways in which that's being addressed. And global warming is changing sea level. And we define where a clock should be to be a second. It should be at a place called the geoid, which is a kind of a mean sea level. It's a little bit more complicated than that. But if the sea level rises and the distribution of mass from the ice caps changes, what do we even mean by time? So this is a real problem. Now, you had a question, right? You need the microphone. Is the microphone on? Because of the global warming. So probably be that the mass of the earth is going to be increased because of what the ice is going to be melting. Then there is a possibility that then we are against it together and then redefine all this because probably it will be changing. Yeah. Well, the problem is so complicated. Because how do we even know that something is changing? What are we referring to? Some people have suggested we should have a clock at one of the Lagrange points. I don't know if that's a practical idea. It doesn't seem like there's any good answer. Putting it up higher. The whole earth is rebounding as the glaciers are melting. So it's really a hard problem. Make sure she gets the prizes. So the question I have is how you go from these type of definitions and measurements that seem based on very sophisticated experiments to something that you can use in your everyday life. Like I still need a stick to measure something. How do you go from this thing about speed of light and frequency to the length of a stick? Well, there's a hierarchy in the metrology community of standards. So for example, now the secondary standards will be platinum. And then there will be tertiary standards that are made out of stainless steel. So for example, in the US, every state government has somewhere some stainless steel kilograms and other masses that have been measured against a platinum iridium kilogram, which is now measured against a quantum device of some sort. And then those masses are used to calibrate other masses. Maybe you go into a store and you buy a set of brass weights for your balance. And then those are used to calibrate the scale in the factory that's loading crackers into a box. So that's a whole hierarchy. And everybody has to be able to show how their measurement is traceable all the way back to the definition. So if somebody is in a factory, they know that they've calibrated their scale against somebody that has calibrated masses that have been calibrated against stainless steel that have been calibrated against. So that's the way it works. I want also a price. So you derive the unit of mass and the unit of length from the second by fixing the value of H and the value of C. Yes. And E? Well, E is recurrent. Value of H and value of C. But instead of this crazy value of H and C, you could fix H equals C equals 1. You could. Which would be much easier to remember. Well, it would be easier to remember, but it would be inconvenient. Because then I think what you're suggesting is something like having only one unit, the second. And so from me to you is about seven nanoseconds. And the temperature outside today is something that will be measured in inverse seconds. Now, you may like that, but I don't think the average person is really going to be comfortable with measuring everything in seconds. Plus, it creates difficulties when we want to make sure that we've done our calculation correctly. What do we tell all of our students? We say, check your units. If everything is equal to one, you can't check your units. I have theoretical colleagues who tell me that they did a wonderful theoretical calculation and then had to spend another month turning their answer, which was assuming that H equals C equals 1, maybe E as well, into SI units so that they could publish it. So what you suggest is done routinely by theoretical physicists, but it drives the experimentalist nuts to read papers where they don't convert into, shall I say, real units. Thank you for a fascinating talk. So I have a question on over here. I was wondering, so imagine aliens have made contact. So how would you use a fundamental constant to establish a basis for communication? Yes. Well, this is good in, I mean, it's a great, it's a great and it's a great question because it's obvious that in the past, we wouldn't be able to tell them what a meter was because it was the length of a stick. We wouldn't be able to tell them what a kilogram was because it was the mass of an object and without transporting those things, we wouldn't be able to communicate with aliens. Now we can. Now there is this problem of the gravitational redshift. It's not that big, right? We could make a pretty good guess about what the difference in our gravitational potential is at the surface of the earth to the gravitational potential in interstellar space, perhaps being able to reference some place that both of us could see. But that would be a problem because of the fact that the mise en pratique, as they say, the putting into practice of the definition of the kilogram depends on it being in a certain gravitational potential because of that we couldn't be as exact as we would like to be with the transfer of information to our alien colleagues. But we could come, I think we could come close. I haven't really done the calculation to see how far off we might be if we tried to describe how much different our gravitational potential was. But what could be the effect of dark energy? Because now it is, of course, everybody, I want to put you in your last corner trying to understand if there is any effect that could be measurable. Of course, we know that the density would be something 10 to a minus 30, which is very low. Do you have any? Well, I don't know. I sort of dream that maybe some future atomic clock will be able to give us a different way of detecting either dark matter or dark energy by measuring the clock shift. Maybe if we send a clock outside the solar system, maybe we'll be able to. You've got another question up there. We have one here. So I don't know, but I dream that maybe these wonderful clocks can tell us things like that, but I'm not sure. Yes, we have a question from Zoom, which is if we started varying the strength of electric or magnetic field, does the speed of light remain the same or does it change? Okay, so you're saying, okay, so if I've understood the question correctly, it is, does the speed of light depend upon the ambient electromagnetic fields? And my understanding is that it does and it's an incredibly tiny effect. And I don't believe that anybody has ever seen it yet. And I think there was an attempt to measure it using one of these big accelerator magnets that had been decommissioned and then to build an interferometer where the light would go in one direction compared to the other. So now don't take this as gospel truth, but I just have this vague memory that somewhere in the theory of QED that if you have an incredibly strong field that you could change the velocity of light, funny things happen. The vacuum isn't empty. The vacuum is full of virtual particles. And if you put enough field on, then those virtual particles can, in fact, separate and you can have a breakdown of the vacuum. Well, if you can do that, then you can also polarize the vacuum. So the vacuum will have a different index refraction. It's a way my experimentalist's mind thinks of it. Probably not a very good theoretical way of thinking about it. But you'll have a vacuum that has a polarization. And I would guess that light would have a different velocity through such a thing.  And I know that no one has measured it yet. But maybe in the future people will. I hope that was the question. And I hope that my answer was sort of correct. Does anybody who actually knows about these things have something to say? Do you know something about it? I mean, you're from PTB. Why shouldn't you know? Not only are you from PTB, you're the president of PTB. Actually, I was the president. I'm retired. Now I'm the president of the German Physical Society. OK. Not quite as good. Less responsibility. OK. Good. Yes. Concerning the last questions. Actually, there's an experiment now designed where you have a very intense laser, which is actually polarizing the vacuum kind of. Because as you explained it, positron electron pairs. And then you come with the FAL X-ray radiation into that very intense field. And then there is a prediction that the polarization is shifted on the level of 10 to minus nine. And I think the experiments are just now at the point that you can possibly see that. OK. OK. Wonderful. Thank you. And I have a second comment, actually. Pre-sized clocks. So there was a recent experiment between three countries, UK, Paris, and Germany. Comparing three very different clocks, distant clocks connected via fibers. By fiber, yeah. Optical clocks on the level of 10 to minus 17, 18 even. And they were sensitive on a certain possibility of dark matter, so-called topological dark matter, which moves with the center of the galaxy. And these are kind of clumps, which could have a certain size. My understanding, I'm not an expert here. And this would show up in a different ticking of the clocks. And so they could exclude some specific parts of dark matter so far. Yeah. And another thing that comparing different clocks can do is to test for changes of the fine structure constant with time, which we don't know for sure that the fine structure constant is constant. But measuring different clocks with different atoms can get at that kind of thing as well. And one of the beauties of doing these experiments in Europe is you can run fiber. And these fibers use these wonderful techniques of two-way transmission to cancel out all the bad things that are happening in the fibers. Wonderful experiments. Oh, sorry. And I should have looked to you for who should get the next question. The assumption that the speed of light is constant is a theoretical assumption. There are, first of all, the photon could have a tiny, tiny mass. And so you would have a dependence on wavelength. More in general, quantum mechanical effects, quantum form could generate effects even in the absence of them, because then you could say, well, it's not the photon mass, but the mass of a zero mass particle. Actually, astroparticle physics experiments are studying these potentially these effects and they're searching for effects of the level of 10 to 19 seconds. So you would have photons coming from cosmological distances and different energy would arrive at the difference of a fraction of a second. And people are actively searching from that. So that's an interesting. Yes, and so far. Of course, it's outside your 10 to the minus 16 and so on. The limits on the photon mass are tiny. But anyway, conceptually, I think it's interesting that a physical question is, is the light constant or not? Well, another interesting point is that you can do a laboratory experiment to measure the photon mass by testing Gauss's law. See, if the photons have a mass, then Gauss's law isn't going to be true. And if you look in Jackson, there's a picture of this apparatus that measures the photon mass. And he describes that. And one of my colleagues who worked on the ampere experiment was the one who did that experiment. So it's kind of interesting that a laboratory scale experiment can also get a competitive value of the photon mass. But yes, all those things are. Since I had the microphone, I would like, well, first of all, to thank you. I really had a great time and enjoyed very much your talk. And then actually, I don't deserve this prize because I'm going to ask an outrageous question. But actually, I was confused by your point. And the point is about mass. We are studying and you're teaching about the difference between inertial mass and gravitational mass. And you presented two experiments where, in one, you're clearly measuring the gravitational mass because you were measuring with a force. And then other experiment. So when you're measuring a mass, so your unit of mass is really an inertial mass. No, you're right. The other way that I described really is measuring the inertial mass. And so, of course, maybe you know, when did people first think that there might be a difference? Was it Ed Foch or was it earlier? Was it Newton? Before Einstein, they were trying to measure. There is a whole history of measuring. Yeah, certainly Ed Foch. But then the equivalence principle, decay and so on. But the Tower of Pisa experiment, in a sense, tests that. But I don't think Galileo was thinking of it that way. But anyway, yes, that's absolutely right. And wouldn't it be amazing if some of these ways of thinking about mass revealed a non-proportionality between inertial mass and gravitational mass? And in fact, adam interferometers have been trying to look for that sort of thing already. So because, well, anyway. I have a microphone. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Okay, thank you very much for your interesting talk. I want to go back to ancient Egypt. Some people are saying that they're considered a drop of water as a kind of fundamental unit. So what do you think about that? Well, I don't know. The trouble with a drop of water is that how big a drop is depends upon what it's dripping from.  And I always wondered, what is the precision with which this drop? How much does it depend upon how hard I squeeze the bottle? And I decided it doesn't matter because it's medicine, not physics. But I think that if you have a relatively stable mechanical object, drops of water can be a pretty good timekeeper at the level of old pendulum clocks. In fact, water clocks were one of the ways in which people kept time in ancient times. So I've never looked into it. But I think that there's a good history with water clocks. So why not? Oh, so you're thinking of the drop of water as being a unit, say a mass or a volume, as opposed to how fast they drip, which is the only thing I was thinking about. No, you're right. And I haven't really thought about that at all. Except for the fact that I wonder, when you drop something out of an eye dropper, how big is that drop? And I just don't know. I don't know what kinds of things determine that. But apparently it's good enough for medicine. But when the doctor tries to adjust the dose of whatever she's giving me, she changes it by a factor of two to see if it'll make a change. So I'm not sure that it makes that much difference in medicine. But in physics, of course, it makes a big difference. So who's next? At the back. Yes. So I have a forward-looking question. The current definition of the second is down to a few parts in 10 to the 16, you said, right? So do you think we will ever have a similar level of accuracy with any of the other 16 units? And if so, which one will it be? Well, probably the closest one is the meter. And you look at the definition of the meter and you think, well, what limits it? And the answer is diffraction. If I want to measure a length using an interferometer, then I have to have a beam of light. And the question is, how big is that beam of light? Well, any size that is smaller than infinity means that the wave front of that beam of light is curved. And the curvature changes as I move my mirror. So there's always going to be some kind of a fundamental limit of my uncertainty about just how that curvature works. I mean, if I measure everything perfectly, then I could figure that out, but I can't. That is one of the key things that limits how good length measurements are. And I think they're on the order of a part in 10 to the 12 for the very best ones. So that's the closest thing. So that's still four doors of magnitude away from a part in 10 to the 16. And we're soon going to have clocks that are good to a part in 10 to the 19. I mean, right now, they're good to a part in 10 to the 18. So I think it's going to be very hard for any other measurement to catch up with time. But we still need those better measurements of time to do things like measure dark matter and measure whether the fine structure constant changes. So we need those extra decimal places for the measurement of time for sure. I mean, this question and answer session has been fantastic, but I did a terrible job. I mean, I was just the last question is how many more questions do we have? Because I mean, six o'clock is when I just looked. Six o'clock is when we have the reception. So if you ask me during the reception, I will try to give you an answer and I will give you gifts. Oh, okay. One more on Zoom. Okay. So last question on the Zoom is, is there any information or implementation plan implementation plan to emphasize the modified unit units in the syllabus of physics in the world? Well, I would think I'm not sure if there's a specific universal syllabus of physics, but I think that anybody today who's writing a book will incorporate all of these these new things into that book. So for example, if you many physics books have a table of fundamental constants at the beginning, and if they're good tables, they'll tell what the uncertainty is on those. And now a lot of those things that used to have uncertainties will no longer have any uncertainties. And I think that all the new books that are that are written will have these new features in them. And maybe they're all already books that have these new features. So thank you so much. And now we eat. Well, thank you so much for your hard work, how you thought it should be.


I welcome members to the 18th meeting in 2014 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee and asked members to switch off any mobile phones, as usual, please. We have apologies from John Scott and also from Richard Baker and I welcome in his place, Mary Fee. Gender item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. It's proposed that the committee takes items 5 and 6 in private. Item 5 is consideration of a draft of the committee's fourth quarterly report, and item 6 allows us to consider our approach to the legal writings, counterparts and delivery Scotland Bill. Does the committee agree to take those items in private, please? Gender item 2 is instrument subject to affirmative procedure. No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the HGV speed limit M9A9 trunk-ride regulations 2014 draft, nor on the Procedures of Crime Act 2002 amendment of schedule 4 Scotland order 2014 draft, nor on the land register of Scotland rate of interest on compensation regulations 2014 draft, nor the registers of Scotland information and access order 2014 draft, the registration of social workers and social service workers and care services Scotland amendment regulations 2014 draft, the national confidential forum prescribed care and health services Scotland order 2014 draft, nor on the provision of early learning and childcare specified children Scotland order 2014 draft. Here's the committee content with these instruments, please. Gender item 3 is instrument subject to negative procedure. The adults within capacity supervision of welfare guardians etc by local authorities Scotland amendment regulations 2014, SSI 2014 1 2 3. Regulation 5 inserts new regulation 2A5 in the adults within capacity supervision of welfare guardians etc by local authorities Scotland regulations 2002. The cross-reference in regulation 2A5A to regulation 2 1B of the 2002 regulations is erroneous as it is too specific. It creates uncertainty regarding whether the effect is to permit a variation of visits to intervals of not more than 12 months in respect of both the adults subject to a guardianship order and the welfare guardian or only in respect of the adult. The policy intention is to allow such a variation in respect of visits to both the welfare guardian and the adult. Does the committee therefore agree to draw the instruments, the attention of the Parliament under reporting ground H, as the meaning of the text inserted by regulation 5 could be clearer? Does the committee also agree to note that the Scottish Government has undertaken to bring forward an amending instrument to correct this error? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the regulation of care social service workers Scotland amendment order 2014, SSI 2014 1 2 9 nor on the title condition Scotland act 2003 rural housing bodies amendment order 2014, SSI 2014 1 3 0 nor on the children and young people Scotland act 2014 ancillary provision order 2014 SSI 2014 1 3 2 is the committee content with these instruments please. Agender item 4 instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure no points have been raised by our legal advisers on the plant health forestry fight of thoror Ramorum management zone Scotland order 2014 SSI 2014 1 2 2 nor on the land registration etc Scotland act 2012 designated day order 2014 SSI 2014 1 2 7 is the committee content with these instruments please. Thank you. Now that completes agenda item 4 and I move the missing into privates.


And I see Pete in the attendees, do you want me to add him as a panelist? Yeah, so let me just introduce so we're, of course, December 21, 2022 special meeting of the Conservation Commission. We are here to review a CR or on Market Hill. Yeah. Yeah, so I see Pete is here. Yeah, if you want to bring him in Aaron and we'll have him give us a brief description of the CR and then discuss. Yeah, and just so that everyone knows we we just I think this morning I just got the final CR language and I had a look at it Michelle also had a look at it we had a couple suggested changes, which I emailed to Pete at like 1130. And I don't know if all of the issues will be ironed out or how we want to address them but there's a couple things that were suggested changes. Okay, awesome. Yeah, I was going to ask most importantly has Michelle looked at this and Michelle if you want to handle this just kind of lead this discussion. Please go ahead I don't have any, you know, particular expertise to add here whereas you do so just say the word. Let me know when you're ready for me to give you some background. Yeah, Pete if you could give us a five minute background and kind of summary of the status and what we're trying to accomplish here that would be great. Thank you. At some point if you want me to screen share I can put up the locust map the resource map and maybe a picture or two. Okay, are you able to screen share right now as there's share screen button at the bottom of your zoom window. I can if I'm authorized to do that. Yep, you should be.


Hey Virgo, this is Kelly from House of Virgo. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new, please do hit that like share and subscribe button and personal reading links are below in the description box. You can also follow me on Facebook. The link is down there below as well. I'm most active on there. All right, Virgo. So okay, we have some cards flying out. We're gonna take a look at Love and see who's coming towards you in the month of January. Let me see here. Yeah, I just meant to say please be mindful that some of the messages may or may not resonate. So as always take with fits, leave the rest. There may be a Pisces coming towards you in January. Let's see. This person, you might have been separated from them for a while and it could be a return. This person coming back into your life in January. Also, Virgo, another message here is somebody is moving on from a past relationship and or has moved on or withdrew from a former relationship is looking for that Ace of Cups, a new beginning, a new potential love start with you. So I feel either it's with you in that they know you or they're coming in your direction. Okay, ready for love. And let me see what else with about this person. Okay, for some of you could also be a fire sign. Leo Sagittarius Aries. This person showing up very feisty, confident, self-assured. Okay, they could be on the cusp of Pisces and Aries also. Tell me about this Queen of Wands. Yeah, okay. This person's a very good communicator. They don't have any, there's no deception with this person.  And I feel like someone here is going to be initiating a conversation with you because the Ace of Swords is always a card about initiation. And it's also about talking things out or kind of like resolving issues and conflicts in order to have like a victorious outcome. Okay. So there's definitely someone coming towards you, whether it's in a fire sign, they could have their fire sign could be their sun, moon, rising, or Venus, or it's a Pisces same situation, but there's definitely clarity in communication, a new beginning in communication happening here. Okay. So you do have the death card. Okay. So there could be a Scorpio also in the situation involved, but I feel like someone is coming to clear the air about something that is over. Okay. Or something that has ended. New communication. Let me see. How will you meet or connect with this person in January? Okay. You could meet them at some type of a show, connect with them at some type of a show. Like the magician is always, you know, someone who's standing in a podium performing some magic tricks. Okay. So it could be some type of an entertainment venue you meet them at in January. It could be something as simple as a movie theater or a concert or some kind of a performance or you see them somewhere and you connect with this person. Doesn't also have to be entertainment. It could be somebody who works in holistic or the magical realms or someone who's in the tarot community. You could connect with them. It could also be somebody who is giving talks. They do talks or they're a speaker, a public speaker as well. So you could connect with this person at some kind of an event or something to do with an event. Okay. So five of sorts in the king of ones. Wow. Okay. So I feel like this person speaks to men about. This is weird. They either speak to men or they speak about men in regards to that five of sorts energy. Maybe they talk about bullying or harassment or they talk about violence or abusive relationships. I feel like something like that is connected to this person. Yeah. It's interesting. It's like, well, let me see what else they're giving me here. Yeah. Okay. That's what they're saying. They either talk about that about men who are like that or they talk to men about women who are like that. You know, they just speak on that is what I feel that that's like the most the strongest thing. And I know that's not going to happen for all of you. But as far as like asking where you will meet them, there's definitely some type of a conversation. Okay. Now let me get into a little more about this person. See what else spirit wants you to know about this person. Okay. This person has a lot of anxiety. They've healed it. They've overcome some type of anxiety disorder. Um, definitely like the public eye, I feel like this person, um, they get stage fright, they get cold feet. This is a person that has cold feet generally, you know, um, but with that's like before they come out into the open, they might have maybe they're shy or they might have something going on with them where, um, there might be a little bit of like nervous, like nervousness, um, going up before people, but the star makes me feel like this person is definitely in a healing position of some sort. They're all about renewal. They bring hope. They bring clarity. Okay. Um, for some of you, if this is somebody coming back into your life that you had connected with before where there was like a temporary separation, yeah, Virgo, I do feel like there's something different about this person now, especially with that star and the magician. Like I feel like this person has manifested healing to some degree in their life and they want to tell you about it. Um, they've put, put to death all, um, some past behaviors, anxieties or maybe, um, um, some control issues. Okay. Because the eight of cups is always something like where we retreat and we take that journey, you know, that spiritual journey, that healing journey. I feel like for those of you who have this past Pisces or person returning, whatever sign they might be, there is an energy of, um, this person's been on some kind of healing journey and they want to tell you about it, or they're going to come out into the open and start speaking on this. Okay. That's interesting. Okay. Four of pentacles. So this person's very selective with who they share their, uh, energy with, they're very selective with who they trust. Um, I feel like for some of you, if this is a past person, there is an energy of like, um, this person always held that hope that you and they could, you know, heal the relationship or fix a relationship between the two of you. Um, I'm also picking up Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini energy as well. Libra here. Okay. Yeah. I feel like this person seeks balance and fairness and the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Okay. Um, they're also giving me, um, this person had debts that they needed to pay and they're paying them now. They've been saving their money to pay off some debts that they've had. Um, there might have been a situation, um, in a relationship prior where there was someone who, um, wasn't sharing the wealth, quote, unquote, or they didn't have, um, they felt less of a person because they didn't have money coming in. I'm hearing that as well. Okay. Wow. There's definitely a new look. You have an ace of sorts and an ace of cups. So there's definitely a new beginning happening here. And you know what, Virgo, the aces are, as far as timelines go, they're always like immediate. It's like an immediate thing. So I feel like this is something that's going to happen pretty darn quickly. This new love start. So it could even be like in a couple of days. Some of you, it might've already happened. Um, it's going to be pretty fast. It could be within a week. There might be, um, for some of you, something new beginning, like pretty fast. No. Yesterday you had that someone's breaking no contact. So this could be the, um, the, the next day kind of energy, you know? Um, yeah, I feel like somebody was, didn't have what it took to be reciprocal in their relationships or in a relationship with you. I feel like, um, they didn't feel like they had enough to give or they didn't feel like they had enough to offer or they isolated themselves or they restricted themselves or were restricted. Okay. Um, they weren't capable of making due on payments that were owed. I feel like there's definitely some kind of shift. Um, I think I said yesterday, somebody went to the, uh, the school of growth and got their, um, their, uh, grown woman, grown man certificate diploma. They, somebody is graduating and, uh, kind of growing up in a lot of ways. I mean, this person just in some ways, some ways, there's some ways that really needed strengthening. So, you know, I know I sound like I'm being really fair and helpful to this other person, but I think like there's always room for healing if a relationship can be healed for others. This is just somebody new, like I said, who's wanting to connect, you know, um, is ready for love. They've looked past, it feels like on their, their previous relationships or things that they, that didn't work out and have been strengthening those areas so they could be primed for new love and new beginnings. So yeah, there's definitely, uh, somebody here is healed, you know, is really like turned around, sat with themselves and said, you know, I'm going to take accountability for some things that I've done here in that everything that's led up to why I'm on my own and why I'm single and I'm not in a long-term healthy relationship. And I feel like whoever this person is, whether it's a past person or somebody new, the energy is still the same. Okay. For this person making due on, um, debts and monies that they owe as well. Okay. So that pretty much is love. I just want to take a look and see what the love, uh, romance angels have to say about this love situation message here that I'm giving you. Let me say Virgo. What is one of the messages, romance angels messages for Virgo in regards to this love situation. Okay. Children. So your love life is being affected by children. This could also be an energy of two people who are acting like children and have like raised their vibrations and have basically, that's another word for matured. Okay. Or there are children involved in some type of connection that has a huge effect on, um, getting into a relationship either again or a new one. What else does Virgo need to know here? Okay. They gave me two cards. Okay. Keep an open mind. Your soulmate may differ from usual type and expectations. I feel like this person I do Virgo kind of get a sense that, you know, whoever this person is new or past, they're definitely going to be different. Okay. Um, different than what you expect or your usual type or what you were with before. And then you also have playfulness to recapture romance, allow your inner useful, youthful spirit of fun to shine.  Um, don't get into criticism or judgment or anything like that. Just kind of, I don't know, go dance in the fields with the flowers and the butterflies. Try to find that happy place, Virgo, um, with other people or this person.  That's for sure. All right, Virgo, let's take a look and see what your message is for, um, your, just you in general. Okay. Message is just for you in general in love all areas of your life. What does Virgo need to know? Not necessarily love, but it could be. Let's just see what comes out. Let's just Virgo need to know going forward in January. Okay. So the world card. So it looks like you're completing some kind of goal or lesson in January, which is great. You might be traveling or immigrating somewhere. There's definitely something that you've been working on. I see you finishing this thing in January, whatever it is. There might be a deadline. It's, there's, this is a card of accomplishment. So I do feel like, um, you know, a goal that you've had set for yourself, maybe you set something in the new year and your end goal date you're doing in an increments and the end of January was going to be your, um, you know, your increment date, your milestone. I feel like you're going to accomplish that and move on to the next level. Definitely. Um, so whatever that goal is that you've set for yourself, you definitely are moving on to the next chapter, the next level in January. Okay. For some of you, it could be around the 21st of January. So I mean, that's next week, right? I think, um, oh, it's the end of the week, the end of this week. Okay. Some of you, um, might be going back to school or there's just an energy here of learning some new skills. Okay. And also, um, maybe seeking mentorship for something in your life or, uh, seeking another person to kind of just lead the way for you with the three of pentacles. Um, there's a lot of teamwork and collaboration. I feel like people are going to be on board and are going to be willing to work with you or a person in particular, um, is willing to work with you. Okay. There's definitely a shift and a change and a new start because the world is the last card in the tarot deck.  Okay. So I do feel like there will be a person or people who are going to be supporting you and guiding you along the way in this new year as well. Um, let me see. This is either your learning or your teaching. Okay. So now you have again, you have, um, justice here. So I feel like this is a little bit of, um, you know what, Virgo, there's definitely some truth going to come out here. You're going to get some realization. I see some truths about some things like hardcore truth is big time clarity because the justice card, you know, she holds the sword. So, you know, that's like the ace of swords. And I did see you were going to get some truth and clarity. You're definitely going, but it's going to be fair and balanced. So I feel like there's doing away with black and white energy or black and white thinking. This is going to be more or less like, okay, well, yeah, there is a little bit of black in here and then there's also a little bit of white in here. So it's like, there's a little bit, it's not all bad. It's not all good. It's reasonable, fair and well balanced. Okay. Um, as far as Virgo, you know, like your ability to, um, have a cause and effect, I feel like you've got a win-win solution here when you get rid of black and white thinking. Um, it's a win-win when you're able to consider much like a judge all sides of the argument. Um, everything that's brought to the table so that you can give yourself or receive a fair verdict. You know, I just feel like they're saying all's fair and love a war. So something going on here with that. And it could even be for some of you, any kind of legal disputes, or if there's a divorce or a legal marriage or anything connected to that, I feel like there will be a fair outcome for both. And I feel like it'll be a win-win situation. Okay. So I like that. Um, I also see you getting very excited for some type of, um, opportunity or idea that you have going on in your, your creative space in January. I feel like, um, yeah, a lot of enthusiasm for you happening. I feel like you're trying to get active on a new project or you will be, or you have this new creative idea. And you might be talking to other people about this in, um, January, communicating lots of communication of your and your ideas happening here. And I feel like, um, there's a, there's a potential for a huge amount of growth.  Um, but this feels mostly along the lines of like a creative idea to get you from, um, the next, to get you to the next level. So I feel like there might be a lot of communication about that with other people, which is really going to pan out well for you. Okay. So yeah, now you have the page of PENICLE. So there's a lot connected as well to this energy where, um, it can involve finances. It can involve, um, a new job or a raise or, um, something to bring in more money. So I feel like that energy is definitely, you know, I feel like you're, oh my gosh, you're kidding. You also have the page of cups. So you have three pages in a row. My gosh. Um, all right, this is on like all levels. This is your creative. This is your finances work. And this is also love. Um, I feel like Virgo, you have like all these fantastic new ideas and there's a lot of communication. Um, there can be an apology as well from somebody. Are you giving one? And this is about you. So there's, uh, I mean, I just can't believe how those three pages flipped out like that. Um, hold on. I want to just, I feel like, um, whatever you're thinking about, there will be things you're manifesting that are coming to fruition. But I, I feel like with these three pages, threes represent, um, harmony, union, communication, enthusiasm, the birthing of something new, trinity, advancement, but the page energy is like, there's real, no timing connected to this. It's either that or this thing. Well, whatever you're trying to manifest or do is going to start happening before you're even ready. It might even be happening now. Okay. Um, some of you will just be getting these like downloads and getting clarity and it's like, Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh right. Oh right. Yeah. I can do that. And it just comes out of the blue. It's kind of like a little zinger that just hits you. So I love it. I love that energy for you. Okay. Well, you've got the four of swords in the reverse orgo.  Okay. Um, it's like, I am done my healing. I am, um, like burnout, I'm ready to act.  You're not waiting.  Let me go on to the next level. Whatever that is, it could be like a, you know, taking another semester in school and you're ready to go. It's just anything. Wow. There's the ace of swords again. That's what I'm saying. And that is the gigantic light bulb. Like so much clarity, crystal clear vision. Um, I mean, there's just so much happening here in all areas. And I feel like you're going to know what to do and what steps to take. If you're not already there now, um, it's going to come to you at least by the end of, um, this month. And I feel like that is in, you know, the only area it's not showing up in is, uh, the page of swords. And I feel like that's really great because the page of swords energy, um, generally refers to like curiosity, gossip, prying eyes. Um, you're bypassing all that. I feel like you've already done all of your leg work, all of your discovery work. Um, I feel like you've talked to as many people as you can. I feel like you've checked things out.  And now you're just running with like, okay, you got the truth. And now you can start moving forward whatever area all, and all those areas in your life. Okay. Let me just get one more card. Okay. Lovely. So you're ending with a ton of pentacles. So this is brilliant. This is definitely Virgo, whatever you're doing in your life right now, like, or whatever thoughts you're having, even as you're listening to this reading, whatever you're trying to implement, the path that you're on, you are right where you're supposed to be right now. And I think that that is some assurance you need to give yourself because that, you know, the 10 of pentacles is like complete stability, safety, security, structure, whether this is in business, finance, marriage, having that long term security. This is like everything brick by brick. You see all these bricks here that were laid to create that building. It's like all the bricks that were thrown at you in your life or ago, I think you took every one of those and you just began building your castles or your castle and brick after brick after brick. Like this outcome may not be at the end of the month, but it just feels like you're on your path. Keep putting those bricks, keep layering in your life, keep adding to, keep doing what you're doing, you know, consistency, like when you're building a castle, like Rome wasn't built in a day. And I just feel like that's a strong message that you need to remind yourself to not get discouraged, to keep moving forward brick by brick a little bit each day. I feel like you're definitely going to end up where your wishes are. Okay. Yes. Let me get them. I'm going to get a message of love here for you. See what the messages are here for you. Virgo, Virgo sun, moon, rising, Arvina. Somebody told me the other day they wanted to see me shuffling in the video. I don't know if you can hear it. Hopefully that's enough, but hey, there you go. Okay. So put away the computer, working less will help strengthen your relationship. And that just feels like, okay, you know, Virgo, in between every brick, there's a layer of mortar. And I feel like that mortar needs to be that time period in between your layering is when you need to like get your recharge, your energy, put away that computer, strengthen not only your relationship with a partner or with family or friends, but also with yourself and with the supernatural. Okay. Because a computer, while it does have many good facets to it, and it might be something that you're using to build your rebuild your life or build your life, you also have to understand that too much computer time can be a distraction from your goals or can burn you out. And you got to take those little mortar breaks. Let me see what else coming up here for you. Okay. Warning. Don't dismiss red flags. Okay. I don't feel like you will. I feel like you might be afraid that you're not strong or competent enough going forward, either in a relationship or with a past thing or just any area of your life. There might be a fear that you're going to miss red flags, but I don't really, I feel like that's just a little irrational based on everything you've been through. I feel like that's a confidence thing. I feel like as you move forward and you keep layering, you won't miss the red flags. I feel like you miss them if you try to build your castle in a day. I feel like if you do that, you're going to make huge mistakes. And I feel like for you, it's best to just pace yourself and take your time. Slow it down, right? Don't rush into any relationships. Don't rush into what you're trying to build. It's quality over quantity, right? So I feel like that's the strongest warning here for you. Okay. You've got someone here who's like crazy. Grip by obsessive thoughts of you. Okay. Huh. Well, for some of you, yeah, that's a message for others. There is something here where you might find yourself gripped by obsessive thoughts of what you're trying to accomplish here in your life, whether it's a person, place or thing or your goals. I don't know if that they're not telling you what to do about that, but I don't think obsession can be horrible if you're like obsessed with trying to get your health and in a better place. Or if you're obsessed with, you know, getting as long as you if you're obsessed with healthy things, I don't really feel like that's a bad thing. If you're obsessed with eating yogurt and eating well, if you're obsessed with exercise and you, but it's more of a passion, I think passion and obsession can tend to look similar. It's the problem. Well, the difference is that passion is short term where obsessions can be long term. So I don't know. I think maybe you might need to look at, are you obsessing over the right things, Virgo, or are you obsessing over unhealthy things? That might be something that you need discernment with. Okay. Let me see. Also, okay. So you do have stability. A relationship can stand the test of time, stability in self, relationship with self, with God, with the supernatural, with family, friends, a love relationship, you know, but that all comes back to you, right? A relationship can stand the test of time with stability. If you're bringing stability to the relationship and the other person is also bringing it, okay? You could be bringing stability to a relationship and somebody is not and they're being inconsistent. Well, yeah, the relationship could last, but for how long, right? This feels like a healthy, this healthy relationship can stand the test of time. Anything less than that? No, no good. What else do you need to know? Okay. Patience. Everything will unfold in divine timing. Hold on one sec. Okay. My grandson was crying a little there. Okay. So yeah, it's all about your patience, Virgo. Everything, just give it to God. Everything happens in divine timing. What's meant for you will never pass you by. What isn't will. Okay. So try not to stress over the things you don't have and be grateful for the things you do have. Let me get a, I felt like, let me see. All right. Let me try and see if I can get some names or other messages for you. Okay. A couple cards fell out. Okay. What am I picking up here? Okay. I just heard Will, William, and I heard Ted or Theodore. I don't know. Alvin and Chipmunks Theodore. Do I sound like Alvin again? Sorry. Theodore, maybe. Okay. Let me see. What else am I getting here, Virgo? Oh, let's see. Oh, okay. So I'm just seeing them. What is that called? They're just telling me when I'm looking at this card, you know how I don't know what it's called, where people stack those stones? I don't know if that's some kind of like meditation ritual or somebody takes a rake and does something with sand. Yeah. I know these, these here are not names, but there's something to do with like some kind of Zen. It feels like a Zen practice. Somebody does something with Zen practice. This is Zen work. I'm not sure. Okay. Okay. So we have the initial H. We have an A. We have a K. We have the letter N. We have the letter S. All right. They're giving me an R right now. Rachel. I just heard Rachel and they're giving me O. The letter O and also a B. Okay. Letter O and a B. Okay. Let me see. Huh. Somebody does something with flowers. Real big flower buff. Um, somebody's name is Lillian. They just said Lillian or Lee. All right. Um, oh, okay. Somebody is Arabic or speaks Arabic. Okay. Arabic or speak Middle Eastern or speaks Arabic from an Arabic country just hearing and okay. Yeah. The letter C and I'm also okay. That's weird. I'm seeing a bear trap like bear traps. I've never seen a bear trap in my life, except maybe on TV, but they're just giving you this image of a bear trap that's broken or somebody's trying to set up a bear trap or do something. I don't even know where you put bear traps. Like do people catch bears? I don't even know. Hold on. It's here for you. Sorry if it was short. I know they've been short, but I'll be back here tomorrow to give you another reading. So make sure you take the notification bell and turn your alerts on. You guys, thanks for being here in the chat. I'm just going to leave your reading there and I will see you all back here tomorrow. Don't forget to follow me on Facebook. The link is in the description box below. All right. Take care. Bye.


Also just a side note, our neighbor's dog is howling because he is alone, so if he interrupts this video I am so sorry, but this is the only time I had to film this video and the lighting is really good, so please Please bear with me on this one. Hello. Hello. My name is Laura And this is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video I Realized that I've acquired a few books Recently and there has been an update in my ability of buying books And I wanted to do one more haul before we got into the Christmas kind of holiday season Because I think I will do a final end of the year haul with everything I acquired for Christmas and for the month of December Which I will elaborate in just a moment so because of how many books I had bought recently for the Halloween spooky extravaganza I decided that I needed to be Regulated or just come up with some better strategy of buying books and that's when my husband tapped in and said I May spend only $20 a month on books no more If I want to spend less I can but I don't want to spend less So rather than doing these big at the beginning or at the end of the season hauls I will be buying anywhere from one new release book probably a hardcover to a few Thrift books Kind of like like discounted books. I Think every month at the beginning of the month. I'm going to put a poll on my Instagram So if you're not following on me on Instagram, you should definitely click You should look down below for my handle Which is just at large the library and follow me on Instagram so that every month you can vote in my poll on my story of should I buy a one new release book that I want to read or buy Books online at a cheaper price that I've been wanting to buy whether it's because I read the book and enjoyed it or I'm finishing a series whatever So definitely follow me on my social media to keep up to date with that I didn't do it once for my November books and I will get to that when I actually do the haul But so I'm doing a very small haul now And then I'm gonna do like the end of the year haul of everything that I got in December Like I said for Christmas and my December book of the month and what not so Yeah, I think that's pretty much everything. So let's just get into this little haul now so the first thing that I realized is that one of my current raids is actually a Book that I bought in the summer, but I don't think I ever included in a haul because I had this really big Summer haul and I'm not sure if I included this book in that or not. So just in case Curse of the Spectre Queen by Jenny Elder Moke. It is my current read. It's what I am focusing on reading right now It is like Indiana Jones, but with a female lead and for Irish slash Celtic mythology I've started reading this like I said, and I am enjoying it so far Then I recently bought from Thurth books the second book in the school for good and evil I've also mentioned this in some videos as it is on my TBR. Hopefully I will read it soon but this is by Soma and Shainani and This like I said, it's the second book I know that's getting a film adaptation and on Netflix next year I'm really excited to continue with the series before the adaptation comes out and then this month for November I decided to go or people voted on my Instagram poll to do multiple old books off of Thurth books that I've been wanting to get for a while and These I got the first two books in a series where I've read the first one But not the second one and I recommend the series all the time So it's about time that I actually got my hands on some physical copies And that would be Every Heart Adore by Shawna McGuire and then the second book Down Amongst the Sticks and Bones Also by Shawna McGuire. So these are the first two in the Wayward Children series Like I said, I read this one and I loved it I highly recommend it to everyone and so I'm finally going to be picking this one up soon I mean, they're nice and short, which is kind of nice But these were my picks for November of what I would buy and then I Have recently started getting into anime So I have a friend who is really big into anime and he finds like all the cute Anime to like all the adorable ones that just make your heart ache And so he's really got me into anime and I placed an order Through right stuff anime. However, not everything that I ordered was in stock. So I got Part of my order. So the first shipment that I got Has partial books from two different animes So the first one The first one is Horimia and I got the first second and fourth volume I Have read through volume six as I've been borrowing them from my friends But I really want to own all of them as well So this manga follows a girl who is very popular But she secretly has like not anger management issues But she has a secretly aggressive personality But she also takes care of her younger brother as her parents are constantly working all the time and then this follow And her name is Horimia Hori and then this also follows me a mura who he is A kid who isn't really seen by people He is known to be very gloomy and dark and people just kind of had this conception of him And he actually has a bunch of tattoos and piercings that he has to hide at school because you're not allowed to wear Jewelry or show tattoos or anything like that And so they start up an unlikely friendship between the two of them as they kind of discover each other's Alter personalities or alter egos Him with all of his piercings that tattoos and her as like this care angry caretaker of her little brother But they are so sweet and it is kind of a friend's to lover in that way But I love it so much. It is the cutest thing that the friend group is amazing and And there's also an anime of this as well. So every time I read a new volume in the manga I am watching the next episode in the anime as well And I love it so much then I also the other manga that I have started reading that I have Volumes 4 and 6 of is spy x family. So 4 and 6. I think I've only read the first 3 I think I've read the third one. I'm not 100% sure I have to check my goodreads But so a spy x family follows this spy who gets sent on a mission He's like going after information on this man or something. It's been a little bit But in order to do that He needs to get a daughter to send to the school where his target's Son goes to school but in order to get a daughter. He needs to get a wife So he's trying to form this family and what ends up happening It's not really spoilers.  I placed a very large order Yeah, so I'm starting to get into manga and he has my friend has also got me started on a couple others That I am reading But I need to not spend all my money So then the last few books that I have to talk about our books that were sent to me not by a publisher or anything Two of them were sent Because someone on Instagram was just giving away old copies of books and was randomly sending them out to people So I signed up and I received two books from that. I received the sergeant's daughter This is a memoir by Teresa Shelton and this is about Teresa whose father was a sergeant and I believe he was very abusive and so it's her growing up under his military style of use and it sounds very deep and I mean, it's a memoir so it's all true, but yeah, we'll see We'll see if I end up reading this because already I'm not someone who likes to read nonfiction. I Don't like reading nonfiction and I also just know that this is the kind of story that I wouldn't really be interested in so I don't know if I'm gonna keep this. It says it's an arc, but it was from like a long time ago Yeah, we'll see about this one and then the other one was the Philosopher's Flight and this is by Tom Miller and This follows the premise of I believe it's World War one It's during it's during the world war and it's the idea that Uh There is magic a little bit and the women tend to be better at flying So there are a lot of flying nurses, but there is this man who wants to fly as well as the women do and so he Like goes to an all-women school to study and all women magic and kind of just be the first man Which the concept in itself sounds interesting, but I'm not super I don't know. There's just something slightly off about it because like in so many books It's constantly the women are breaking through because you know in real life women are gaining rights and trying to fight for equality So to have a book where it's the other way around written by a man I think it's gonna be interesting. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little scared But only one way to find out so I am actually somewhat interested in reading this It's just not at the top of my TBR the final book that I received My friend gave it to me for free and she wants to know what my thoughts are on it So I will be reading it and that is the other side of perfect and this is by Mariko Turk and This sounds like such a wonderful book So this is about a girl who was at a dance school and she was training to be a professional dancer until one day She shattered her leg and so all of her hopes and dreams Kind of go down the toilet a little bit So she trades in this ballet school for a normal high school and she begrudgingly joins the musical I believe and She she finds a girl there that she might be attracted to she might be kind of cute and She kind of comes to terms with all of the racism that there is in the ballet world Now that she has a chance to step back and look at a different aspect of theater. She is Japanese American and so She it sounds like there's lots of issues with Racism in the ballet world, which there is So this is gonna be a really interesting book to read and I'm really excited and I am really happy to grow my ballet based Contemporary novels as I have a couple of them up there as I at one point did a Dance mostly ballet themed reading vlog So you should go and check that out if this sounds interesting. I read a bunch of ballet books It was fun, but yeah, so this this I have another one So those are all 12 of the books that I have recently acquired Like I said, this probably won't be the last haul that I do But I don't expect the final one to be very big either So I probably won't have near as many haul videos in the future just with this whole one Maybe two books a month thing But I will definitely be asking your opinions on whether I should buy one or multiple and Yeah, thank you all so much for watching Subscribe down below and click the bell so you're notified I post on Sundays and Wednesdays Otherwise, feel free to give this video a thumbs up Let me know if you've read any of these books and your thoughts and opinions on them I would always love to discuss anything bookish with you and Yeah, thank you all for watching again and until I see you in the next video. I wish you happy reading


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Hi, I'm Mr. T with RF Elements. In this video, I will introduce the Twistpart ecosystem. Twistpart is our patent-pending quick-locking Waveguide connector for 5 GHz unlicensed band, connecting RF radios to RF elements antennas with near-zero insertion loss, superb durability and remarkably easy handling. As with any RF connector, Twistpart has a female part on the side of the antenna and a male part on the side of the radio. A Waveguide is a type of transmission line, just like a coaxial cable, used to guide RF signal from point A to point B. But it has two advantages. First, it has near-zero loss, while coaxial cable loss can be as high as 10 decibels per meter. Waveguide loss is two orders of magnitude lower, making it practically lossless. Second, it is mechanically stable and extremely durable, because it is essentially a metal too. It is easy to manufacture and will withstand many reuse cycles. The mechanics of Twistpart deserve a special attention. The locking system is optimized for swift and effortless installation. Twistpart connects the radio and also mounts it at the same time. An elegant solution of two tasks integrated into one mechanism. Connect the radio to the adapter, insert into antenna Twistpart, rotate clockwise and you're done. Moving a radio is equally easy. Twisting the outer ring and reversing the movement, the radio is unlocked. Compared to lengthy attachment of the radio to a tower separately and plugging two cables in, Twistpart is ingeniously simple and much easier to work with. Again, insert, twist and Waveguide is securely locked in four points. Twist the outer ring and reverse the movement to release the radio. All that within seconds. There is no chance of accidental release or partial connection. Twistpart is either connected and locked or detached. Twistpart connection is stable mechanically and also environmentally. The arve environment inside Twistpart is protected from the outer elements and common particles ensuring reliable link operation. In case of condensed water, a drain hole on the antenna body ensures it does not accumulate inside. The simplest transition between a radio and the Twistpart Waveguide is realized on the PCB level by etching the feeding pins directly on the circuit board. To make Twistpart compatible with third-party radios, we have a solution called Twistpart Adopters. Twistpart Adopter converts the coaxial interface of third-party radios into male Twistpart interface. Each Twistpart Adopter accommodates a different radio, but they are practically identical on the inside. Two SMA connectors are attached to semi-rigid coaxial cables that feed the male Waveguide part. All this is fixed into a custom enclosure to fit a given radio. The semi-rigid cables used in Twistpart Adopters are high-quality cables with minor loss. On top of that, the cables are protected from the outside world by the Adopter body. This way, users don't need to handle them, making the cables remarkably reliable and durable. The radio is connected by pushing its body into the Adopter. After a distinct click, it is locked in place. Pushing the button at the bottom of the Adopter, the radio is released again. We have adapters for Ubiquiti, Microtik, Mimosa and Cambium radios. The bonus feature of the Twistpart Adopter for Prism and Airfiber radios is that you can safely store the GPS antenna under the cover. This way, it's protected from animals chewing on the cable. Every Twistpart Adopter works with each R-velements Twistpart antenna. If you have to change or add an antenna to respond to changing customer base, you do not need to buy a new Twistpart Adopter every time. Swap the antenna and you're good to go. This is the power of the Twistpart Ecosystem. It is compatible across all R-velements antennas. Migrating to other radio generation or brand is remarkably easy as well. Get the right adapter for the radio and keep using the same Twistpart antenna. If you are a radio, antenna or accessories manufacturer, they invite you to join our Twistpart Developer Program. You will get the reference hardware kit, documentation, certification and technical support needed to create your own product featuring Twistpart. If you're interested, contact us at info at rvelements.com.


At any one moment, very different levels of motivation and attention are evident within a classroom. Teachers know all too well that there is a strong link between motivation and attention, and that learning is based on a foundation of attention regulation. If this foundation is compromised, learning becomes unstable at best. While if we are truly motivated to engage in a learning activity, the greater attention we give this task. Knowing what to do, how to get started, what to focus on, what to filter out, and having the ability to sustain alertness and mental effort can be challenging for some students. It comes as no surprise then that problems in attention regulation negatively affect classroom functioning and optimal outcomes for deep learning. Whether in an early years, high school or adult learning setting, this provides unique contextual challenges for educators. A comprehensive psychological and neurological understanding of the executive function of attention is critical for teachers to move students from a surface learning stage to deeper engagement. Attentional functions are thought to represent relatively independent aspects of attention that are linked to separable brain regions and distinct neural networks. Within the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, research by Posner and colleagues has provided critical contributions to understanding attention. Their neural network model is of key importance to attention research and holds particular relevance to understanding the behaviors of classroom learning, the importance of regulating attention for learning, and the difficulties faced by some students. According to the neural network model, the brain's attentional system is made up of three distinct neural networks. The first network is called the alerting network. It functions to achieve and maintain an alert state for sustained attention. This is the ability to sustain attention over a period of time to a given task. Alerting, notes Greer, is the state of readiness to some form of sensory input. Teachers instinctively know they need to prepare students to receive input and use a range of strategies such as hand clapping or gestures to gain their attention. But there are many other sources of input that may divert students' attention once it has been gained, such as an unexpected thunderclap, a funny joke told by a classmate, or something else that is deemed as more interesting than the task at hand. Within the alerting network, a major control function that helps to sustain our attention during learning is called behavioral activation, the ability to stay alert and motivated to get the job done, even if the work is hard, boring, or uninteresting. Students with attention control weakness who experience this difficulty have a problem with their alerting network. It can be easily misunderstood as laziness, when in fact the alerting network simply doesn't activate appropriately to maintain motivation for difficult work. What makes it even more puzzling for parents and teachers is the fact that mental alertness isn't a problem when these students are doing activities that are intrinsically motivating, for example if they're engaged in computer games or aspects of schoolwork that they really love. This apparent contradiction is in fact the way that the alerting network actually works. Arousal or alertness is automatically activated for personally meaningful and motivating activities, but arousal or alertness requires activation for effortful learning to enable students and adults to follow through and persist with arduous, boring, or uninteresting work. The second network of the neural network model is the alerting network. The alerting network directs or orients our attention and it functions to select information for attentional focus while blocking out or ignoring irrelevant information. This is our ability to selectively focus on and attend to the relevant information while filtering out distractions to complete tasks. In classrooms where there are so many competing distractions, students need to learn to selectively focus their attention for most parts of the day. Students arriving late to class, others talking, bells and phones ringing, missing pencils or books, interruptions by announcements, smells of food wafting in from the canteen and outside sport activities are all competing for students' attention. When the orienting network is in operation mode, the attention filters are switched on. Students who experience impulse and attention control weakness typically are easily distracted, have difficulty following multi-step instructions and appear not to listen. They may daydream and mind wander because of distractions from internal events and they are off-task because they are tuning into the distractions. The third network is the executive control network. This network supports higher level control processes as it directs and controls both our thinking and our social behaviour. The executive control network helps us to plan and organise our work, work out what to do, where to start and how to start. Sequence the steps of a task, manage our time well so that we don't leave assignments to the last minute, start work without procrastinating, check for mistakes, keep a check on our social behaviour to make sure they are appropriate to the situation and problem solve efficiently when we strike a difficulty rather than get stuck in that difficulty. This executive control network is like the brain's project manager. In a classroom, students are constantly called upon to project manage their learning activities. Students can have the best cognitive and language abilities in the world, but unless they can plan and organise, start the task and maintain attention, sequence and time manage, using their working memories to hold information in mind while they work with that information and keep check of their progress, then they will not perform at their optimal best and deep learning will be compromised. Although each of the three networks is defined by some independence, a well functioning attentional system sees the networks working cooperatively together to produce effective and adaptive behaviours. It's all very well-noting the cognitive theories behind attention regulation, but what are some of the practical strategies teachers can use to develop attention leading to motivation for deep learning in the classroom? For example, how can teachers assist students with their alerting network when they display low motivation for effortful work? These students require considerable scaffolding of the use of helpful thinking by raising awareness of their own thoughts and helping them to understand that their thoughts have a critical impact on their performance, feelings, learning and social behaviours. The next step is to reframe these unhelpful motivational states by helping students to develop productive ways of thinking through positive self-beliefs and looking for the importance, value and possible interest in the learning task. Set children up for success by providing tasks of medium effort. Big-effort tasks are overwhelming and invite unhelpful thinking of task behaviour or work avoidance. It is more helpful to provide two tasks of medium effort than to give one big-effort task in supporting best efforts, persistence and helpful thinking. What about the orienting network? Here teachers can prompt for attention and focus listening prior to giving an instruction and be aware of background noise and distractions. A set line of physical activity is considered a defining feature of attention and reflective learning. Prompting children to check their physical activity and brain energy prepares them for listening. Consider providing information or instructions in both verbal and visual formats where possible to help children retain key details. Images, graphs and charts, mind maps, visual schedules, step planners, infographics and visual reference keys are all excellent models. And the central executive network? How do we help support the brain's project manager? The cooperative liaison between home and school is particularly important to children's learning of organisational skills and strategies. Daily organisational systems can be shared with parents. These might include organising school bags with specific pockets for lunch, permission slips and library book, organising schoolwork with colour-coded books or organising desk and work area. The use of step planners helps children develop a metacognitive perspective. Step planners outline all the steps involved in a task, reinforce verbal instructions and reduce working memory demands. Step planners could be completed on the classroom whiteboard or a small whiteboard on a child's desk with an arrow or a number to indicate each step. In today's world, the ability to focus is quite a challenge with so many competing distractions that are vying for our attention. Some say that we are living in a state of continuous partial attention and that our attention is in radar mode divided by multi-tasking and distractions. This brief sketch of the neural networks of attention serves as a baseline for understanding the critical importance of regulating student's attention for classroom learning. With these important skills, students are attentionally focused and ready for deep learning.


Russian colonel says Wagner revealed Chechen MP's co-ordinates to Ukrainian army. A senior Russian military official has said that private military company Wagner has tipped off Ukraine about the co-ordinates of Chechen MP Adam Delimkanov wounded in an artillery strike on Wednesday. Commander of the Russian Armed Forces 72nd Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Roman Venovitin On the telegram channel today that Wagner has cooperated with Ukrainian intelligence service and leaked information about Russian units yet again. Adam Delimkanov, a deputy in the state's Duma for Chechnya and the right-hand man of Chechen leader Ramzan Kalirov, has been severely injured in the Ukrainian artillery strike and is in a critical condition. Venovitin wrote, adding that Russia's losses in the targeted attack are significant. The colonel said this was not the first case of treason by Wagner. Venovitin claimed that by revealing Delimkanov's location Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozin avenged Ramzan Kalirov, who had earlier accused Prigozin of corruption within the army since 2006 and had threatened to reveal the source of the latter's wealth. Commenting on the Ukrainian artillery strike, Venovitin said that the wounded soldiers are provided with medical assistance. Perhaps this incident will finally force us to take all necessary measures against Prigozin personally and other businessmen from the command staff of the Wagner group who have always used Russia exclusively for personal enrichment, not shunning even direct cooperation with the enemy, the colonel wrote.