Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video, which are all of my travel based book recommendations. I'm going to go over a few books that I have read about traveling or experiencing new places that I would recommend for you to read. This is very much inspired by the fact that I will be doing a lot of traveling this summer and I am super excited for it. If you haven't heard about it, I have talked about it in quite a few of my recent videos, so maybe you should check those out for more details. But majority of these will be like contemporary rom-coms that are travel based, but not all of them. So make sure you watch through to the end if you're interested for other recommendations as well. With that being said, let's jump right into the video, shall we? The first book that I would recommend is The Layover by I believe Lacey Walden. So this is actually about a flight attendant who is going on her last flight after this she is done. She is going to settle down with like the love of her life. She is ready for a change in pace and she is so excited for this last trip because she gets to go to a tropical place, stay there overnight and have like a wonderful vacation as part of this last trip. However, she gets paired up with this other flight attendant who he is just a thorn in her side. He steals her parking spot. He is annoying.   And I loved the descriptions of travel in here and just kind of seeing things from a different perspective in terms of travel. So it's a very, it's a fun one to just kind of quick pick up and speed through. On a more serious note, I would also recommend a Cuban girls guide to tea and tomorrow and this is by Laura Taylor Nainey. This follows our main character who is Cuban American and there was recently a death in her family and she's kind of expecting to take over the family restaurant kind of bakery. But her family is like, no, go visit your sister in England because you need to just get away from this. You need to settle down and just kind of recover, process your grief. And so she goes to England and she works in the hotel kitchen where her sister owns and she meets this boy and he teaches her about sightseeing in England and tea and all those wonderful things. So if you need a travel base to Europe with baking, cultural baking influences of both English baking and Cuban baking, this is a very good one to read. Same continent and even almost on the same island in the UK, I would recommend the summer job. This is about our main character who she kind of just jumps around. She doesn't do anything long term and her friend is the wine person. She is the person who officially pairs wines with meals and gives customer wine recommendations. She has offered this amazing job in Scotland at this beautiful little kind of up and coming hotel. And her friend decides to not take this job and instead run away to Italy with this new boy. And her friend is like, well, free lodging, it's a job. So she takes her place. She decides she's going to go to Scotland and pretend to be this fancy fancy wine person. And it's hilarious. All the mischief she gets into because she doesn't actually know anything about wine, which is hilarious. So I very much enjoyed reading this one last summer. It was so funny. It was an absolute blast. Next up is one I'm sure you've heard about, but just in case you haven't read it yet or you've forgotten about it somehow. People we meet on vacation by Emily Henry. Yeah, makes sense. It's talking about vacation, right? So we have our main character who her job is to go on vacations and write about it and do recommendations kind of show like, oh, the perfect itinerary and hotel to stay at for this place. Oh, the fancy fancy. And she and her best friend, which are like opposites attract, but it's friends to lovers, they used to go on these vacations together. And then they had this huge falling out one summer and they haven't seen each other for a long time until she reaches out to go on another vacation together. So it's dual timeline between then when they were in college meeting each other, getting to know each other and going on these vacations versus now going on this recent vacation with all this awkwardness, but it's friends to lovers. I'm not a huge fan of the friends to lovers trope, but this was a good book. I think the opposites attract really helped me for this. But yeah, this has tons of little vacations in here and lots of different travel. So this would be very inspirational and really fun to just kind of dream and wish oh, what you can do if you were traveling. So if you haven't read this or really any Emily Henry book, you should definitely give it a chance. Then the final recommendations that I have on this list is not a contemporary romance. It is Rise of the Snake Goddess by Jenny Elder Moke. This is a 1920s gender swap Indiana Jones style story. So this is like the second book after the first one, which is Curse of the Spectre Queen and that follows Celtic mythology. And here you're following Minoan mythology. So our main character Sam and her best friend and her dates go to the island of Crete to solve this archaeological discovery, figure out what it means and find out where it can lead them. It's very adventure story, very mythology heavy, you know, and it's in Greece, which I had to read this as soon as possible because I am also going to Greece this summer. So I was definitely like mm-hmm. This is this is it. This is perfect. This would be a dream vacation for me. Honestly, going on like an archaeological dig and hunt somewhere, there doesn't need to be treasure. Okay, I don't I'm not in it for the treasure. I would just absolutely love to find something old and something like new to us. So I had a great time wishing I could be Sam in this book on the island of Crete, figuring out these puzzles based off of what they know of mythology. So yeah, definitely amazing. Thank you all very much for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. Be sure to subscribe and hit the bell. I post videos every week and I will continue to do so all summer. Make sure you comment down below what your travel recommendation reads are, what book just absolutely transported you to another place and either made you want to travel there or act like you were the main character and that you were traveling there. I would love more recommendations and to talk with you about these books. Otherwise, I do also have bookish social media links down below that you can follow me and my adventures on there. And if you're very interested in my travels this summer, I do actually have a second channel. It's quite new called languages with Laura, where I do language learning tips, but also I will be posting all of my travel vlogs there. So I'll have that link down below in case you are interested in seeing my travel vlogs later this summer. Yeah, again, if you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe, comment, all that good stuff. And until I see you all in the next video, I wish you happy reading.


This webinar will explain unpacking text-dependent prompts. Just as the quote in the black box says, every writer I know has trouble writing. And I know as a writer, when I get ready to start doing my writing, it's oftentimes how I interpret the prompt or how I determine what the prompt is asking me to write to our answer. And I'm going to be taking you on this journey today. If you notice in the lower right-hand corner, there is a link to access a resource page which goes into far more depth and what I'll be covering in this webinar. Let's talk first about Nebraska text-dependent prompts and what that structure actually is. They're written in the following three-sentence structure, and every prompt at any grade level is always written in this manner. The first sentence always sets up or causes for a lead-in with the passage or passages that the student is using being named or possibly a quote from a passage being present in order to help set what the student is going to be writing to. The second sentence in this structure always is the prompt. It's going to tell the student either to analyze or explain and then give it the instructions as to what they're actually supposed to do. And the third sentence is a common sentence that's common to every text-dependent prompt in the state of Nebraska. It always reads, write a well-organized response using specific evidence from the passage home story to support your answer. So you'll always see these three sentences, and they'll be in this order of one, two, and three. Another thing to understand is that from time to time, there's a belief that the prompts are a little bit more mature than what the writers need to... who are ready to respond to. But you have to understand that these prompts go beyond typically what a grade level would expect or the complexity that they would have. Notice that here I share with you that prompts should be written at the depth of knowledge level of a three. And that's just to increase the rigor of the test and to increase and stimulate the thinking of the students. Earlier, just a few seconds ago, I talked about the fact that in the second sentence, it's going to ask students in the prompt to either explain or analyze. It's very important that your students have an experience or know the definition of what the word explain means. In the case of a text-dependent prompt, explain asks in the prompt for you to give details about it or to describe it so that it can be understood. One of the most simple down-to-earth ways for you to share this with your students is that if they see the word explain in the second sentence of the prompt, it's asking you to tell why or how it occurs. It's more descriptive in its nature. Now, when we're asked to analyze, it's asking you to divide the whole into its parts, also to look in depth at each of the parts that are there and to use supportive arguments and evidence for and against. You also can analyze by showing how the parts interrelate to each other. So it's really important that this be in front of your students and they have a strong grasp of what the command verb explain is asking and what the command verb analyze is asking. Because it's asking them to move higher onto the Bluestack Sonomy, up until the level reaches of it, far beyond knowledge and comprehension. They want them to explain something or to analyze. Let's talk about the use of the verbs explain and analyze in our prompts. Now, explain generally grades five and six will have the verb explain within their second sentence of the prompt. While eighth grade and up will use the verb analyze most frequently. However, do not feel safe on that because either verb can be used in a prompt at any grade level. So it's very important that your students have a firm grasp again of the command verb explain and the command verb analyze. Let's look at some non-examples and examples of text-dependent prompts. In this chart, you're going to find all the non-text-dependent analysis examples on the left with the text-dependent analysis on the right. Let's read the first prompt on the right. It's on the left, excuse me. Give three examples of how animals sleep in different ways. And the text-dependent analysis prompt reads as such, both passages tell us about ways that different animals sleep in the wild. Explain why animals sleep in different ways. Write a well-organized response using specific evidence from both passages to support your answers. Let's go back to the non-text-dependent prompt on the left and let's do a little bit of analysis. Now, first of all, you know when you do text-dependent, anything that's text-dependent, it has to draw you back into the passage of passages or the form or the infographic or anything that it was presented to you to provide you with information. In this particular case, it asks the students only to give three examples of how animals sleep in different ways. This is not a text-dependent prompt because the students can rely upon their prior experiences, whether they be with text or with a personal experience or with by listening to something about examples of how students sleep in different ways. But when we look over here at the text-dependent analysis prompt, first of all, it asks you to use the resource in order to tell about ways that different animals sleep. In fact, it asks you to look at both passages about how they sleep and then specifically in the wild. Now, notice that we have the verb explain here, the command verb, so they have to explain, and that is tell how or why, and here's the word why right here, animals sleep in different ways. So that is what they're going to have to have as a focus of their text-dependent writing. Now, notice the third sentence says that they have to write a well-organized response using the specific evidence from both passages to support their answer. So in order for that answer to be correct, it has to have drawn evidence from both passages. So the students need to identify their evidence, make their claim, and then support their claim by evidence from both passages. Let's look at another set. And on the left, again, we have the non-example, and on the right, we have the example. Let's read the non-example first. Here it asks us to identify the literary devices the author uses in the story. Provide evidence from the story in your response. This prompt is a little bit closer to text-dependent analysis because as you notice in the second sentence, it's from the story. But it asks you in a very general way to identify the literary devices. In other words, name all of them that the author used in the story, or identify many or most of them. And then again, notice that it's provide evidence from the story. That's what makes it close, but it's not an in-depth depth of knowledge level three prompt. When we look at the prompt on the left, follow while I read, mood is the feeling or emotion that a reader experiences from a poem or story. Explain how the poem's word choice helps create mood throughout the poem. Write a well-organized response using specific evidence from the prompt to support your answer. Okay, let's look at the first sentence first. They quickly identify that mood is the literary device that they want the reader to focus on. Because they're talking about the feeling or emotion which they have to explain and they need to explain how the poet's word choice specifically the word choice which deals with mood helps create the mood throughout the poem. So when we look down below they have to write a well-organized response and they have to use specific evidence. Now, there is no way that a student cannot without going back into the text respond to this text-dependent analysis prompt. This is a graphic that might help you with your understanding and your student's understanding. Remember that any evidence in a text-dependent prompt is always found in the text. Not out of the text. We can see here where we have to go back into that specific reading but the picture below the students are experiencing through a hands-on experience which is outside of the text. So any information they're going to respond to the prompt on is going to have to come from the text. Let's look at a sample TDA prompts in on this slide we're going to look at grade 5 and grade 6 prompts. Let's look at that first sentence over here. It says walking on the moon and moon landing have similar themes. Analyze how both the story and the poem address the idea that space travel is fascinating. Write a well-organized structured response using specific evidence from both passages to support your answer. Let's look at the first sentence remember all Nebraska prompts are structured with three sentence structure so in the first sentence they identify that one passages name is walking on the moon and the other passages name is moon landing. We know that they have similar themes by what this first sentence shares with us. So they've set the stage for our writing. We're going to use those two pieces. Now it asks us to analyze. So we're going to have to look at the two pieces look at both of the story and the poem and address the idea that space travel is fascinating. So we're going to have to look and walking on the moon and find our evidence and we're going to have to look into moon landing to find our passages both of which share with us or possess the idea that space travel is fascinating. Then we have our third sentence which is write a well-organized structured response using specific evidence from both passages to support your answer. So remember when the students are writing they need to be writing specifically to and finding evidence in both passages. This is a sixth grade prompt. Let's read through this prompt together. In the last sentence of highway of water the author claims the Panama canal is a phenomenon. Analyze how the author supports this claim throughout the passage. Write a well-organized structured response using specific evidence from the passage to support your answer. So we have the three sentences typical Nebraska format and the first sentence names the passage that we have just read. It's called highway of water and it also says that the author claims the Panama canal is a phenomenon. Now phenomenon is bold word because it's probably unfamiliar to your students. In the actual prompt their phenomenon is defined for them so they know what it's meaning and its application within the highway of water because they're going to have to in the second sentence they're going to have to analyze how the author supports this claim throughout the passage. In other words the claim that the Panama canal is a phenomenon. So you're going to have to find it support it find it support it. So again the third sentence is similar and it's that they have to write a well organized response using specific evidence from the passage. So if you help your students break these prompts down it helps. Let's look at a seventh grade and then an eighth grade prompt. Follow along while I read the grade seven prompt. It said in labels for life the author states learning how to read a nutrition label is not only a great lesson in the key elements of nutrition but it's also a great way to learn about making better choices. Analyze how the author supports this statement throughout the passage. Write a well organized response using evidence from the passage to support your answer. So the first sentence tells us that the name of the author of the author's article is labels for life and then we have a direct quote from that that the author makes the claim that learning how to read a nutritional label is not only a great lesson in the key elements of nutrition but it's also a great way to learn about better choices. So sentence number one sets the stage for us. Now in sentence number two notice that our word, our verb is analyzed so we have to find the evidence and support the statement throughout the passage and we have to refer that back to the quote that's in statement number one. So we have to analyze how the author supports this statement throughout the passage. So again, sentence number three is very consistent in what it's asking the students to do. It asks them to write a well organized response using evidence from the passage to support their answer. So let's look at an eighth grade prompt follow as I read in the story oversleeping the author blends reality and fantasy analyze how this helps the reader identify with the main character. Write a well organized structured response using specific evidence from the story to support your answer. Alright, again the first sentence sets the stage for us. They have renamed the story here which is called oversleeping and it states to us also that the author blends reality and fantasy. So what are we going to have to do with the idea that the author blends reality and fantasy we're going to have to analyze. So we have to analyze how the blending of reality and fantasy help the reader identify with the main character of the story. So the first of all the writer has to identify who the main character is. Then they have to analyze how reality and fantasy are blended and how they can identify with the main character. Sentence number three is our typical structure where we have to write a well organized structured response using specific evidence from the story to support your answer. Remember you have to go back in to the text for the evidence not out of the text. So we're going to be always going back into the text for any of our prompts. This is probably the most vivid graphic that you can share with your students in order to help them better interpret and better define how to address a text dependent analysis prompt. I want you to keep in mind that this webinar is available 24-7 and you can watch our lesson as many times as you need. I again have added the resource page link here for you in the lower right hand corner. This link offers you not only access to this PowerPoint but there are passages in practices where I share with you how you would highlight a story or a passage in order to be able to identify the evidence that the prompt is asking you to explain or analyze. Thank you and I appreciate your attention to this webinar. We'll be talking to you again.


Everybody forced here ripping two boxes for Lewis and Lewis has a 2022 tops clearly authentic baseball It'd be cool to pull a soda and then there's a 2022 leaf auto multi-sport jersey there Good luck Lewis. Thanks again, man. Let's do the clearly authentic first. I haven't got to open any of this yet at least Yesterday did a bunch of group breaks on the baseball channel of it today. You get to see a bunch Looks nice for the authentic is fun. Who is it? It is a Ryan Velaid rookie auto Ryan Velaid not numbered On the blade not the biggest hill. Let's see a big jersey here for you, Lewis. Let's see a big jersey Leaf autographs multi-sport jersey Big name. Come on now That is a tight re-kill That's a solid one right there. It's high re-kill on the cheetah auto. There you go. It's right on the one Beckett authenticated on the jersey It's high re-kill I'd love to leave jerseys man. Always a fun rip Could make the dolphins pretty dangerous Player dude. There you go. Thanks again Appreciate it Lewis. We'll get the jersey and the card I'll see ya shortly


Maen nhw'n meddwl y gallwn ei ddechrau bod hi'n meddwl i gynnyddio'r hyn yw'r ddiyn nhw'n meddwl yma, sy'n meddwl am gyfnodau cyngor, gyngor Gwangham a'r mwyaf gyngor South Korea, ond wedi'i ddeg ar gyfer y newid astudio, a'r ddysgu argymau am y gwaith. A'r ystafell yma ar gyfer y gwaith gyngor Gwangham a'r ddysgu ar gyfer y gwaith gyngor Gwangham is I want to demonstrate by way of story three different points. The first area that I want to demonstrate is the extraordinary environment within which a country like Ireland operates. The second point that I want to touch on then is based on outlining my views regarding the environment within which Ireland is in, my then views regarding what are the principles that have underpinned our policy towards the European project across our 40 years of membership, and then use that to frame my own priorities during this time as Minister. I've had to be careful about using that language because of a number of smaller events I've referred to in my time in this ministry, which makes me sound like a priest. So really my time in this role. And then I'm going to conclude then by some comments on some very specific issues within which the European Union is engaged in at the moment, and within which Ireland is playing a part. But to go back to where I started with, the extraordinary story of Cy, of Gangman style, and what that tells us about the world within which we're located. Prior to July 2012, Cy was well known within South Korea, but he wasn't an international pop-star or figure like Lady Gaga or Madonna. Again, I'm breaking you ground. Lady Gaga, Madonna, Cy, beginning in the speech here, but bear with me. It's fair to say that he was not featuring in the playlists or dance floors of Ireland or Europe. If any of you were grooving away in a dance floor 18 months ago, it would not have been to Cy. All of this changed very quickly with the launch of his sixth album, which was called Cy Part One. Within one year of the release of this album and its single Gangman style that I touched on a moment ago, Cy had went from being a purely domestic figure to a globally recognised name, a global superstar. The Secretary General of the United Nations within 12 months of the release of that single met with him to discuss the role of music in world affairs. He received an audience with the Dalai Lama. President Obama referred to his music in a discussion regarding Korea, and he got to a point where from relative anonymity globally, within 12 to 18 months his song, his dancing was being imitated in living rooms and in dance floors all over the world. So, how did this happen? How did such a transformation occur? Well, the answer, as some of you may know, was through the role of social media. It was through the role of YouTube. His video, Gangman style, the single that I'm referring to, has now been viewed 1,773 billion times on YouTube. It's the first video ever to exceed the billion mark in terms of the number of people that are viewing that. So, just think about that for one moment. Within under 18 months, nearly 2 billion people have watched his video, and I'm reliably informed by somebody who I work closely with that this week it passed a 1.8 billion view mark. So, let's just think about that for a moment. Think about the impact that that can have on somebody's profile. But what that demonstrates more for me rather than just the impact on him is what that says about the communications revolution that's taking place within our world. What we now have is we have very deep and very profound integration, which is now such a daily part of all of our existence that we take these kind of extraordinary feats of communication absolutely for granted. We think this is a norm. We have interconnection, we have integration, and we have interdependence of the very deepest and of the most profound kind. And these concepts are absolutely essential if we're to understand what's happening in economies, whether these economies be global, whether they be European or whether they be national.  We've seen how a bubble in lending to low income families within America can have consequences that affect families all over the world and all over the developed world. We've seen how decisions in relation to the Greek financial crisis can have consequences that affect everybody. And what each of those two things demonstrates is that cause and effect and the flow between the two of them pays no respect to national boundaries. And this phenomenon, this trend is summed up under the phrase globalization, something that I think many of you will be well familiar with, which is a very technical phrase that belies a very, very profound transformation from local to global, the integration of local and national cultures, economies and societies into a globalised whole. And what is all this meant? Well let's just look at the economic consequence of this for a moment. And let me pick some examples of the benefits and then of the difficulties. Since 1950 global exports have grown per year by 6%. The United Nations calculates that since 1980 average incomes per head have increased by 70%. Within Europe across the same time period, which would be coming off a higher base, average incomes per head have gone up by 49%. And maybe there are two benefits, but let's look at the other side of the coin. Let's look at the difficulties that are inherent in this, widespread and absolute poverty across many parts of the world. The World Bank now estimates that there's 400 million children living in absolute poverty. Another example of the difficulty of all of this has been the development of financial instruments, whose complexity and difficulty to regulate nearly wrecked the entire global economy and nearly brought it to its complete needs there across 2008, 2009 and 2010. So globalisation is the defining political, economic and social characteristic of our era. It uniquely offers the opportunity and the framework within which countries have to live and have to respond, but also gives them an environment within which they're capable of prospering. And how is this? It does it by allowing access to wider markets. It does it by allowing national citizens to learn from other cultures and proudly share what they believe makes them unique with other people in a world in which physical distance no longer matters due to the digital transformation that I referred to earlier on. Now I do not believe that globalisation is something that is done to us. I don't believe it's something that's inflicted on societies by a powerful other. It's a direct consequence of our natural human desire to communicate, to share and to exchange. And because I believe these are traits that form an essential part of our own national identity, it's an environment within which Ireland can do well and does do well. Our size, our location and our history have deeply endowed us with an appreciation of how large forces can help us serve towards better days and how large forces can also capsise our efforts to protect and develop our states. But the other side of the coin which I touched on earlier on, the risks of financial deregulation, the threat of alienation, the damage to our environment and the possibility of the erosion of national traits are real, they're significant and they're present. As I've said, I believe this is the defining challenge that any state faces in how we respond to the transformative effect of globalisation. And I can see this very clearly in my time as Minister today. While still very early in my time as Minister, I've now attended two general affairs councils, one Eurogroup meeting, one Ecofin meeting, one Informer meeting of Ministers for European Affairs. I've addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly of the Northern Ireland, excuse me, Committee for the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister. I've addressed the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly on European Union Affairs and I've spent an awful lot of time in airports, on the roads, meeting many of my counterparts in other countries as I have meeting many of you. I recently attended the European Council with the Taoiseach. And from the end of August to the end of December, across that time period, I'll have performed 20 different engagements abroad, either in European institutions or in European states. And I can see again and again the threat that links most of those policy discussions is the effect of globalisation. It's evident in discussions on banking union, it's evident in discussions that take place in relation to national boundaries and in relation to the environment. So let me ring all that right back then to Ireland. Because having described the kind of world as it is, I then want to locate Ireland within that description. And I believe how we respond to that globalisation is our new national question. At different times in our history, that question has meant different things to different people. At one point it was about independence, at a different point it was about the location of our borders and our relationship with Northern Ireland. It then became about our relationship with the United Kingdom. But at each stage in that debate, the dimensions of it, the facets of it were nearly exclusively physical. And we now face a very different kind of a national question of how a small island, like Ireland, of the coast of Europe can prosper and respond to a globalised world. And this is very well expressed by Danny Rodrick, who's a Harvard-based economist, when he referred to the political trilemma, whereby countries cannot simultaneously achieve democracy, participate in economic globalisation and pursue national self-determination. At best he believes they can achieve two out of those three, but not all three of them. So all of this poses a very essential challenge to sovereignty. Philip Stevens of the Financial Times summed up this challenge well when in an address to this institute earlier on in the year he said that sovereignty is increasingly prized, but even as it is prized, this sovereignty is increasingly ineffective. So how has Ireland responded to this historically? Well the way we've responded to this is by our membership of the European Union and three core insights have motivated our choices and our membership. The first one is that shared sovereignty should be strengthened sovereignty. The states are differently, there are some issues which are beyond the grasp of any states, small or big, to deal with effectively on their own. The better states work together, the stronger their response to global challenges and opportunities. And then this leads very clearly on to the second principle and this second principle is that the institutions of the European Union offer the best way for Ireland within which this shared response can be developed and then implemented. And this is true of the community method, one of the cornerstones of the European project, which offers a guarantee of fairness by ensuring that the vital national interest of each country is recognised while enabling strong collaboration between each member states. And then this leads very directly to the final principle with all of this, that a European framework is the best platform for the advancement of the Irish national interest. And let me be really clear about this point, this framework doesn't subsume or replace a national interest, rather it offers towards the best opportunity within which it can be expressed. So to summarise, in the space between nominal sovereignty and effective sovereignty resides our membership of the European Union and this is an active space where Ireland collectively makes decisions on issues that impact on us and the people of Europe. But amidst all of this talk about sovereignty, methods, frameworks, gangman style and so on, I don't want to lose sight of one very key point in different language and this is this, that we're more effective together and we refers to the countries of Europe and on our own we're less effective to responding to things that the people of Europe and the people of Ireland care about, that's the essential point. So when we talk of banking unions, of economic unions, of fiscal unions, of transfer unions, let us first remember the essential union upon which everything else is built. A union of values and the continent that recognises the value of union, that's the starting point. And this thread, the link between sharing sovereignty to the community methods to advancing national interests inside the framework of the union has underpinned the policy of our state towards the European Union. So having put that framework in place, I want to now identify what my own priorities are going to be after the Taoiseach appointed me and these fit into four different areas. Engaging with Europe, accountable Europe and open Europe and effective in Europe and I want to address each in turn. Engaging with Europe, it's an evidence but nonetheless absolutely vital place to start. It's my commitment to maintain a high level of engagement with our friends in the European Union and we have 27 of them following our successful presidency of the Council of Ministers. As I mentioned earlier on, I will have completed 20 visits to member states, ministerial, our European Council meetings and European institutions by the time I get to Christmas. Many of these engagements have included meetings with local media, with officials, with business communities, with our Irish community to reinforce the message that Ireland is regaining its strength and will emerge as the first from our bailout in December. Include within these engagement priorities is the European Parliament. The Lisbon Treaty, as you all know, developed up the powers of the Parliament through increased decision making and this was hugely evident to us during our presidency of the Union. During that time we co-chaired 374 trilog meetings with the European Parliament and this partnership with the Parliament led to important decisions on banking union, the multi-annual financial framework and the finalisation of major policy programmes such as CAP and the Horizon 2020. And this brings me on nicely down to the concept of accountable Europe and what I'm referring to there is our engagement with Europe through the Forum of our Parliament of our Arachtas. Prior to my own appointment as Minister I spent six very, very happy years on the Joint Committee on European Affairs and as a senator I chaired the Arachtas Sub-Commission in Ireland's feature in Europe so I've real form in this area for God in this point. And what I want to do is I want to acknowledge the progress that has been made. This government has ensured that relevant policy committees are charged with engaging in their relevant area of European policy and debate. This is a big and welcome change and it's an important change from the old days in which you had the Joint Committee of European Scrutiny engaged in everything from banking union to eel fishing. Similarly, the pre-imposed European Council debates with the Tisha, the Tornish to Anay and the annual Europe Week in the Arachtas are good reforms but all that said we must look at doing more. So I'm therefore working with my department to put in place a review of what we're doing. I'm going to write each Arachtas committee to request their input into this process but based on my own experience I'm very clear on two particular areas. The first area is the role of mainstreaming and the progress that we've made in mainstreaming European issues into the main work of the Doyle under Shannon. The European dimension is too vital to set aside parliamentary deliberation. For that reason I believe that European scrutiny must continue to be a prerogative of both houses of the Arachtas. Anything else at all would be a regressive step. Secondly, the timing of when that engagement occurs is absolutely vital. If you engage with an issue in relation to a statutory instrument before it's due to be transposed it's too late. What we have to do is pitch that engagement at a different point and timing is so crucial in doing this. But while improving the role of the Arachtas within European scrutiny as part of my work and part of the work in relation to building an accountable Europe it doesn't form all of the work and that's why open Europe is so important. Within that area I'm prioritising three particular areas. The first one is the development of our Blue Star primary skill programme which is an amazing programme that I've had the joy of participating in. Where you talk to primary level kids about Europe, about its cultures, about its languages, about its history and seeing people and young boys and girls respond back to it is I believe an essential way of how we need to talk about Europe in the future. I want to bed that down and look at how we can improve us. The second thing I want to look at is the opportunity to put in place a similar programme, a transition year within our secondary skills and I'll be putting together a recommendation in relation to that by March of next year and then the final area I want to look at is how we talk to a particular part of our society which is the young men and women between the ages of 18 and 24. And there's lots of things that are going to be happening within the European framework across the coming year in relation to a digital Europe, in relation to the youth guarantee, in relation to the MFF but hopefully will allow people to see a different role of Europe within their young lives and I'd like to see can we use that as a platform of better talking to them about Europe as they're seeing that work take place. My final module is effective in Europe and this refers to how Ireland structures our engagement within Europe and two events have defined our recent relationship with the world and with the European Union. The first one is our successful completion of our seventh presidency of the European Union and the second one is our participation in the Troika-led programme of official aid. In July we completed the presidency. By Christmas, December in particular, we're going to exit the bailout programme. Hugely important things for our country. That therefore provides an ideal opportunity for us to refresh our relationship with the European Union and its institutions and to identify priorities for the coming years and review how we're going to achieve them. This is work that will obviously be led by the T-shirt and by the Tornishter but I'm determined to play my role within that. I'll play it as a member of the sub-committee of European Affairs of the Cabinet and I'll also play it through chairing an interdepartmental committee of senior officials that's been put in place to look at how we can structure and intensify our engagement with Europe and its institutions. This brings me on to concluding now with some comments and some of the current priorities facing Ireland and Europe and I want to touch on three particular areas. The first one I want to touch on is the debate and discussion that's taking place regarding strengthening economic and monetary union. The next area is the nature of our relationship between Ireland, the UK and the EU and the third area is the consequences of the economic crisis on European and Irish politics. But let me start with the middle one first. I want to begin with a reference to debate that's taking place within Britain. I've said recently to my UK counterpart Minister David Lidington in one of many constructive exchanges. The European Union is stronger with the UK in it. Stronger with the UK in it as a positive and committed member. This isn't just because of the strength and importance of the relationship between our two countries but also because what the UK brings to the EU, its policy debates and its institutions. And there's a country which frequently and very frequently votes on the nature of our relationship with the European Union. We absolutely respect the debate that is underway there. But it is vital to recognise that there are certain possible outcomes to that debate that could have profound consequences for Ireland and for our relationship with the UK. So I want to emphasise what I believe are two crucial points. And the first one is that while our membership of the Union like every other EU countries membership brings its very many particular challenges the underpinning rationale remains compelling. Participation in collective decision making enhances our sovereignty. It does not erode us. Ireland is an integracist and committed member of the EU community and will remain so. On such a vital topic of national interest we will not be cost in the slipstream of decisions that others make. Second, we welcome the decision on the role of member states within the EU but I am worried about the consequences of a discussion on the role of the UK outside of the EU. Suggestions that much would not change in practice are I believe wide of the mark. Both of our countries work together as equal members of the Union. We are inside the tent together. If we have to meet at the door of the tent to do business this relationship will change. We want to avoid that. We believe it should be avoided. 40 years ago Ireland and the UK took a step together which had the most profound effect on both of our countries. I would defy anybody to say this has not been for the better. In 1973 Ireland and the UK took that step because we believe that our people will best be served through the realisation of that natural tendency that I touched on earlier. The desire to share, to communicate and to exchange within a community of equals. 40 years has not changed that point. I want to move on to the economic crisis now. This is one that has raged across national borders. Contagion, which is never a nice phrase at the best of times has now acquired a powerful economic resonance. Much of the response to this crisis resides within national borders. Ireland has shown an unrelenting determination to fix all we can fix through tackling our national finances, regaining our competitiveness and prioritising job creation. I believe we have passed a pivotal moment in that journey today when our live register has moved below 400,000. Building on the growing progress that our economy is making in delivering sustainable job creation. However, this effort will work best when supported by a strong economic union. It's now apparent that we create the currency union, but not an economic union. The European semester process and the fiscal governance treaty are all crucial elements that have filled this gap. The missing foundation stone is the building of a robust and credible banking union. This is vital, vital not only for Ireland but for Europe. We have learned through bitter experience that when an individual country is unable to answer questions about how they regulate their banks or deal with the costs of their failure, the difficulties for society are just immense. Specifically, we must ensure the appropriate use of a European financial backstop arrangement which is supported by a strong and independent regulatory regime. For regulation to be European-wide, but the costs to be national is not a sustainable equilibrium. I want to conclude on that concept of sustainable equilibrium. Perhaps better expressed by paraphrase in WB8 when he asked in a different setting, in fact just over 100 years ago, he asked, can the centre hold? Children starting in our primary schools this year were born at the start of the crisis. They're not aware of the crisis, but their parents are. It's been a very long and unbelievably difficult five years. But the challenge that we now face is that many now doubt the success of current levels of economic political integration. Indeed, some people believe that those levels of integration are the cause of the difficulty that we're in. At the same time, we ask people for potential consent in the future for further levels of integration. We have to be aware of this tension. We can see a similar tension in relation to the existence of bailout programmes or external aid programmes. No country wants to be in a programme. At any time, other countries are understandably reluctant to fund them, to fund them. These undercurrents have to be recognised, we have to respond to them. And I think we need to do this in two ways. The first one is by how we talk about the crisis, by how we explain it to our people. And second by demonstrating the clear rationale and benefit of any future changes. To paraphrase Walter Pylestein, one of the first presidents of the European Commission, I think the first, but to state his insight in a different way, the rationale for integration can no longer just be its own logic. We have to pitch this differently. More broadly, we must make the case for Europe while acknowledging its difficulty and fixing its flaws. And look what I've just done. I spent over half my speech making the case for Europe and Ireland within Europe to a group of people that I hope are convinced of it in the first place. But that's the backdrop, the undercurrent, we have to have all of the time to when we talk about Europe and Ireland's relationship within us. Our natural instinct, as I said, is to co-operate and the European Union represents the best way of doing this in the face of challenges and opportunities that are too big for any country to deal with on their own. Which leads me nicely to my final point. Luc van Midlar, the Dutch political philosopher and the author of the recent book The Passage to Europe, recently wrote in that book of the European project when he said that no one ever sails in a notion of certainty. And he argued that when a storm becomes too fierce and the wind blows your boat towards an open sea, it's better to have a good compass than an anchor. This compass is our membership of a union which we voluntarily joined which allows us to participate in choices that impact our people, my country. If we're not at the table, the choices will be made anyway and the people would still feel their impact. So better to be at the table, better to be present. But to be present is not enough. We participate, we engage, we influence. We do our best to do all of those things. That is what is needed to make a difference to our people and we hope to Europe as well. And our recent presidency of the Council of the European Union was, I hope, an example of this. If I began with Gangnam style, it feels only appropriate with the week that's in us that I should end with Lou Reed. Though God only knows what he would think of inclusion and dissentance let alone this speech. He sang, you're going to reap just what you sow. Despite our current difficulties, we have benefits, we have contributors and Europe will play a crucial role in our recovery. Boss, here's the boss. This political structure, unlike a physical one, requires that foundations be always relayed, be always replenished through the continued consent of our people. In my time in this role and in the commitment of our government, I have determined to play my necessary part in this work. Thank you.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the start of the 11 show, Tottenham Hotspere vs Everton. Let's get right into it. Jordan Pickford in goal, right back, Sheamus Colman being playing well Sheamus, so what you will continue. On the left hand side, left back, Luca Dean, I think against Leicester, probably had this best performance obviously since not only the lockdown, football began, before that, probably for a while, he got up and down really well sitting in that first half and defended really well. The two centre backs, Michael Keane obviously being in excellent form, potentially man of the match in every game he's played so far, but he's been really, really good and we'll obviously need that against someone like Harry Kane and along the side of Mason Holgate who again is being equally good. And again, we'll need both of their attributes, both of their strengths, Mason Holgate a little bit quicker across the ground and Michael Keane so good in the low block and in the air, Tottenham choose to go long, so it's, yeah, those two are going to have to play well against Spades. Into midfield, on the right hand side, I've decided to go for Gibril Siddabi, he's back, he's fit, I think he can be the attack and threat that we need, but also the defensive cover we need to help Sheamus Colman and those two criss-crossing over each other. I don't think, whoa, we did enough for me the other night, although in the second half against Norwich I thought he played really well, but I thought against Leicester, I thought he looked a little bit lost on that right hand side, I think he's a player who prefers to play on the left hand side so I'm going to bring Siddabi in there and hopefully because I think Sheffield United showed that the best way to get a Tottenham is in between the full backs and the centre backs and that needs runners on either side. To gamble, really, to try and go past them and I think Siddabi will do that all day long, so that's why I've decided to bring him back into the side. On the other side, I've actually swapped the Woby to the left hand side and it's nothing to do with that Anthony Gordon, I thought Anthony Gordon was excellent. I just think that we've got a game on Thursday as well and I'll bring Anthony Gordon back for that game, no doubt. I think we need to have something off the bench as well in games like this and I think a Woby prefers to play on the left, I think it would be the bright time to put him back over there with Siddabi now available for the right and I just think with the game on Thursdays, as I said, Anthony Gordon, he's still young, the temptation would be to play him every single game of course it would, but I would just alternate him at the moment and just for the sake of the squad as well I think the amount of games we've got, I think it's not the worst thing in the world to just use a couple of other players. So I'm going to play a Woby on the left hand side allowing him to cut in and as I said, because Dean can go up on the outside that will allow a Woby to come inside and hopefully try and get between the full backs and the centre backs. The manager probably will go for Gordon, I just think that this could be the right opportunity just to play that. In the centre midfield, this is where it gets really, really difficult isn't it, because of the lack of centre midfield as you've got. Andre Gomes in there hasn't been at his best, but I think he's just got something that the other players haven't got. Another game under his belt is to say that his levels aren't rising and he won't get a little bit better, so Andre Gomes in there. The next one is a bit of a tough one really isn't it, because the manager obviously spoke about Tom Davis and how well he thought he was. I think this is his 100th Premier League game isn't it, if he plays or if he gets on. He was saying he's been brilliant forever and he's going to be brilliant forever in the future is really important. So does he go with Tom Davis because he needs a little bit more combativeness in there or does he go for Guilfee Sigarton? It's a really tough one, but I'm going to go for Tom Davis and I've literally just made that decision on the spot. I'm going to go for Tom Davis because I think the way that the Tottenham players, the Tottenham midfield run at you, I've just got visions in my mind of Guilfee Sigarton and Andre Gomes just running behind and trying to catch them. And I think if Tom does at least set up in a more defensive way then I think he can try and prevent that and that's a big if. But listen we just haven't got the options, it's really difficult. We just haven't got the options and I know Tom was poor against Norwich and he went off. But what can you do, you've got three at the moment plus Benny Benninghammy. We've got three centre midfielders and it's really difficult to just think of what we can possibly do to make it. You know Tom was excellent by the way when he came on against Leicester in a three. So does he go to a three? I don't think so because I think he wants... Does he play for Charleston wide left and maybe go for a 4-5-1? I don't know, he doesn't really seem to want to play a 4-5-1. He wants to play 4-4-2 and change it during the game. So the manager's got options but only within a small collection of players and this is the real dilemma. It's a real dilemma for me because it's very difficult picking a team. Without saying, we're just going to play exactly the same team we played the other day. So yeah, I'll go for Tom in there with Don Degolmish. And then with Charleston, he should be back up front with Don and Carver. And with Charleston gives you the option of someone dropping into that midfield. And just being almost at the point of a three and maybe that'll help them. But listen, we've got to go with these. We've got to have a goal because we need the three points.  If we want any chance of getting that at European place, we've got to go for a win. I think if we don't get three points against Bayer, there's nothing to be the very little chance we can get Europe. So we've got to go for the win. So we've got to have the team designed for that. So there you go. Pick the bones out of that one. What are your thoughts in the comments? Who would you go for? Who would you start for this very important game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Don't forget, give this video a like, subscribe. If you haven't already, if you want more great videos, join us over on Patreon. The link is in the description. And also if you buy any of the Everton, the new Everton gear, the new Hummel gear, there's a little link in our description. And if you go through that, we'll take you to the Everton website where you can buy all that. And we've got a very, very small, very, very small percentage of what you pay. You don't pay any more, but we've got a little percentage for sending people that way. You have enough of yours. You've enough of yours to buy Everton gear from there. We can buy our tea one night or something. No, but it will be appreciated. So if you get any of the new gear, go through that thing. 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What's going on everyone? Sam here, late in sports guard, drip in 2022, Penini National Treasures baseball hobby, four box full case break, number 11, random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website, under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Good luck everybody. Let's do some NT baseball. It'll be like what, three in the first one. Four, no, three in the first one. Two plates and a, like a true 101. Guys, you've got XR football, random division style. At the end of the night, last group break of the night with spots left still. That's the only group break with spots left tonight. So we'd like to jump in, grab some XR. Don't have a lot of XR left. So we'll be doing a ton more breaks of it. Gonna get that one-on-one per case, which is fun. Get all your case hits, the rated X, rated XR, rated X, XXR, whatever it is, and the base X as well. Off we go. We got a printing plate already. There's a Sheldon Noisy 25 of 25 for the athletics. 22 right here, Garber. 2022, empty. Byron Buxton, 28 out of 99. The personals are full, Kyle, unfortunately. We've got two cases of Super Jumbo and three Bowman Draft Jumbos. Got a Field Gear, 79 of 99. Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. for the Blue Jays. Player Warren Gladdy. That's gonna be a Drew Ellis, 24 of 25. Jersey Audit for the Diamondbacks. No, I don't know what comes out the 18th. Some other baseball product, I'm sure. Now, this release today, we've got a Isaac Parades, 42 out of 49 die-cut materials. Tampa Bay. First sighting today at Camillo Duval. This next card's massive. Do you see who it is? Yeah. 14 of 25. This is one of the biggest hits in this product, I believe. LeightonSportsCards.com. How about going to, who's got the team? Michael R. One of one, Wanderfranco Laundry Tag. But holy cow. Live on card, massive. Massive, massive card. One of one, dude. Holy cow. That's some serious heat. That is huge, dude. Bang, man. Let's go. We'll get that magged up. Oh, man. Congrats, Michael. That is massive, dude. Massive, massive, massive. All right. We've got printing plate auto. I think that's who I think it is. Spencer Strider. There we go. Congrats on that Braves. There you go, Joby with the Braves. No, these are hobby and these are $5.50 a box right here. Strider magnet is right. Here, TikTok. I'll show you one more time now that it's magged. There you go. Massive, dude. Unreal. All right. We've got, let's save the booklet again for last. We've got Romeo Gonzalez, 56 out of 99 for the White Sox. Nice one there. And legendary Material Triples. That's gonna be Bobby Thompson on the cut. Let's take a look really quick. Bobby Thompson. That's cool, man. That is New York Giants. So that'll revert to San Fran right there. That'll go to the San Francisco Giants. Really cool one there, man. Giants legend. One more time, everybody. I mean, that is just heat right there. Heater. One more time for TikTok. There's the Wanderer one-of-one just pulled in the last box. Nothing for free. Look at what it said. Now above that, the Conor Siebold going to the Red Sox field gear, 71 out of 99. That's true. Got one of 25. Boba Shutt. That's the hit of the night. Flair Warren. Yeah, definitely. Jeez, dude. That is Walter Alston for the Dodgers. It's going to a combo spot right here. This next one. Combo spots. It's gonna be another one-of-one this time. Mason Miller on the four-colored patch auto. Going to Joseph Pee. Congrats on that, man. Second one-of-one of the case. For third one-of-one, actually. There you go, Joseph. Congrats, buddy. Going to the... That's disgusting. Going to the Mets. 18 of 99. Patrick Mazzica. Yeah, they are looking at this break. Michael is doing this right now. This is nasty. How about a Stars and Stripes RPA? Josh Lowe. Holy cow. Look at the patch on that, dude. Rays are just murdering it right now. Murdering this break. Killing it, man. Congrats, Michael. That is just what gravy right there, buddy. Gravy. 18 out of 99. That's gonna be a Juan Yepez for the Cardinals. Going to the Mariners. That is gonna be a Noel V. Marte. 3 of 25. Congrats, Mariners. He's now a red. He's part of that Luis Castillo trade, but obviously this is a Mariners card, as it says Seattle. We've got three of 10. I gotta tell you what someone just said after. Three of 10. Albert Pujols. Ledger materials for the Cardinals. Boxes. What an insane couple of boxes we've had so far, man. Unreal. Unreal. Awesome that Wander's live in this, too, for on-card stuff, dude, because he wasn't live in a lot of Panini products, most Panini products. One-of-one. It's a one-of-one Wander. Got Ryan McKenna for the Orioles. Two of 10. Three-color patch. Letterman. Got Nick Castellanos. Deep Drive to left field. Three of 25. Two-color patch for the Phillies. It'll be worth more than that. That's gonna be a Greg Maddox for the Braves, 4 of 49. Let's go, Wayne. There you go. That's Arthur, I should say. There's a Jeter Downs for the Red Sox, 15 out of 99. This is the man that caused the Red Sox to basically now give Mukibets away for free. Congrats on that, Boston. Got Matt Tice, 22 out of 64. Okay, random numbering on the Jersey Auto. Congrats, Angels. Nice one there. That's gonna be at 51 out of 99. Kevin Bijio on the signatures for the Blue Jays. That's funny, Spencer. Got Eli Morgan. Nice one there. That's gonna be 13 out of 25 on the three-color Stars and Stripes RPA. What's up, Muk? Muk's dropping all my taglines now. What up, Muk? We've got a nice one here. That's gonna be a Vladimir Guerrero Sr. on the Hall of Fame Auto, 6 of 25. That's Exposed. We'll revert to the Nationals. Jonathan D, picking that one up. Okay, I'm gonna save the booklet again for last because we've got a Salvi Perez, 46 of 48. 48 home runs, treasured stats for the Royals. Heck of a signature. All right, we got a Dual Signature Materials, 20 of 99. That is Andre Jackson, Reed Detmerz. That's the Dual Rookie Pitchers for the Angels and the Dodgers. Got Michael R on the Angels and Dodgers. Joe Beat, so that'll be a random to both these teams at the end. Reed Detmerz, Andre Jackson. Cool one there. Both on card, which is nice as well. So that'll just be a random. Last box. If Jake was here for the Wanderer, what do you think he would have done? Oh, he had a seizure. That's Wanderer. That's gonna be Travis Demerit, I would say Demerit. The Braves, not sure on that one. 37 out of 99. No idea to be honest, Jack. Probably not that much, I would say. Josh Lowe, 299 for the Rays. Next up we've got, going to the A's, that's gonna be Eck, 2 of 25, Dennis Eckersley. Fair of in this break, at least. Dieter. It's gonna be Riley Adams, Rookie Signatures, 93 out of 99 for the Nationals. Followed by for the Red Sox, Connor Siebold. Nice one there.  Luis Gonzalez, 1 of 25, San Fran. Cool one there. Not the Luis Gonzalez, the new Luis Gonzalez. This one's sick. 83 of 99. How about an RPA? That's gonna be of John Heasley. This one's so nasty, dude. I've always wanted to pull a card like this. This next one is awesome, bro. Awesome. He's got this team. Got going to John B. How about 7 of 10? The 95 Braves, Maddox, Glavin and Smolz. Dude, that's so cool. Wow, Greg Maddox, Tom Glavin, John Smolz. That deadly, arguably the best rotation of all time. So cool, man. That's so awesome. We'll get that mag for you, Joe. That is fantastic card, buddy. Fantastic. Absolutely love that thing. Yup, three Hall of Famers right there. That's cool to move. Yup. I've always wanted to pull a triple of these three right here. Finally say I've done it. So cool, man. So cool. We've got a Nick Nashtrini for the Dodgers, 9 of 25, dual jersey auto. Have a go on, Kyle. See you later, man. Later, bud. And lastly, we've got a Harry Brasheen on the Jumbo jersey for the Cardinals. Is that game used as well? Yes, it is. Game worn. All right, let's do this random really quick and then we'll go on the, what's up, Jack? We'll do the recap. So we've got Andre Jackson, Reed Depmers. That's going to be a random between the two LA teams, the Dodgers and the Angels. All right, guys, again, doing the random for the Andre Jackson of the Dodgers and Reed Depmers of the Angels, dual booklet auto. Going to roll the dice, whatever team's on top after five times. We'll get the card. One, two, three, four, five. Going to the Angels. Going to the Angels. All right, here we go. Relics. We've got Dennis Eckersley. Who is that? Travis DeMarrick. Josh Lowe. Is that Maddox? Yeah, Greg Maddox. Nick Castellanos. Ryan McKenna. Walter Alston. Bo Bechet. Connor Siebold. Vladdy Jr. Byron Buxton. And Sheldon Neusey. We've got Autos. Nick Nasztrini. John Heasley. Luis Gonzalez. Connor Siebold. Riley Adams. Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Eli Morgan. Kevin Bijio. Matt Tice. Jitter Downes. Juan Yepez. Noel V. Marte. Patrick Mazzica. Romy Gonzalez. Spencer Strider. Comelo Doval. Isaac Paredes. Drew Ellis. Booklets. We had the Andre Jackson Reed-Dettmers. We had Harry Brasheen. Albert Pujols. And really cool one, Bobby Thompson. Magged cards. We had one of one, Mason Miller for the A's. We had this disgusting Josh Lowe. Six of 25 for the Rays. My favorite card I've pulled in a while. Prime Trio's. Greg Maddox. Tom Glavin. John Smoltz for the Braves. And the hit of the day so far. One of one, Wanda Franco. Laundry tag. RPA for the Rays. Unbelievable, man. Unbelievable. That will do it for the break. Thank you guys again. Next up, we've got another case.


Welcome back to the D5 tutorial series. In this lesson, you'll learn about applying post-processing and creating your output. Click on Effect and the Post Processing panel will come up. The first one to explore is Exposure. I don't suggest turning Auto Exposure on for interior scenes. If you realize your scene is relatively dark, try adding some lights instead of adjusting the exposure to a high value. This can lead to overexposure, especially in areas outside of windows. Next is Contrast. This parameter is used to adjust the contrast between bright and dark areas in your image. Then there's Highlight. Highlight controls the brightest area of an image. When an image is overexposed, try pulling the highlight control to the left to reveal the overexposed details. Next is Shadow, which is the inverse of highlight. It controls the darker parts of your image. Increasing this value will add more detail to the dark parts. Slope works much the same as contrast. White balance balances the color temperature of your image. Adjust this parameter to make your scene look warmer or cooler. Then we move to Tint. While color temperature ranges between the orange to blue spectrum, tint ranges between the green to magenta spectrum. Both parameters can be adjusted to create the perfect balance of colors for your scene. Blue makes metal and emissive materials brighter having a hazy and dazzling effect. Lens flare simulates the flare produced by a real camera lens when shooting a bright light source. Vignette is used to simulate the darkening of corners of an image. Chromatic aberration is the phenomenon of light rays passing through a lens focused on different points, depending on their wavelength. The right chromatic aberration value adds to the realism of renderings. Saturation controls the vibrancy and purity of the colors in your scene. For even more color adjustments, D5 provides color grading with the D5 widgets. Go to menu, preference, and then widget to activate color grading. If you're also a DaVinci Resolve user, you'll find this very easy to use. With this widget, you can adjust the global, highlights, mid-tones, and shadows separately. Now let's go back to the top and take a look at LUT. LUT or lookup table is like a filter template you can directly apply to your scene. D5 has some preset LUTs. You can try these one by one and adjust their intensity. Adding custom LUTs is also supported. For this scene, it doesn't need much adjustment, just a little bit of exposure and contrast. And then highlight and shadow. Since most of the materials here have a warm tone, let's lower the white balance value a little. Lastly is the saturation, and we're done. I would suggest avoiding too much adjustment for each parameter. Less is more and you can always turn to external editors such as DaVinci Resolve or Photoshop for more precise color correction. Next is creating your output, which can be an image, panorama, or animation. For image output, click on image in the upper right and you can adjust the field of view here. D5 provides several aspect ratios to choose from, including 16 by 9, 5 by 5 or 4 by 3 or you can create a custom ratio. Preset image resolutions range from 2K to 16K. Finally, there is an option for creating separate image channels that help with post-production and image editors such as Photoshop. You can select which channels you need to create. One thing I need to mention is that when you're in the image rendering tab, you still have access to environment and effect, which means you can still do composition work. If you go to menu, preference, and then widget, you can toggle on advanced image rendering for output in PNG, JPEG, TARGA, TIFF, and EXR formats. For the last step, hit the render button and select the location of where to save the file. After the rendering is complete, you'll find the file has been saved and named according to the current time. In this way, you don't have to worry about files getting overwritten anymore. Panorama output is almost the same, but one thing is different. There's no ratio option because most panoramas all have a 2 to 1 ratio. In D5, the ratio is preset and all channels are enabled to assist you with post-processing in your image editor. Creating your video output. Clicking on video will enter the video rendering tab. You can add up to 1000 video clips here. Using this tab, you can make keyframe animation. For example, if we want to move forward in this scene, we then add a camera, press W to move forward, add another camera, set a time, and then preview. Other parameters you can adjust include easy ease and keyframe interval. With auto keyframe interval enabled, D5 will automatically arrange the time for each camera for you. Of course, you can choose the custom option so you can set your own camera timings. Need to animate an object in your scene? I'll show you by using this character model. Place it here, click video rendering, set some cameras in the clip, and click on the model to see keyframe info in the upper right. Add one keyframe at the beginning, move the model, and add another keyframe a few seconds later. See that? Now it's walking. If you select rate matching, you'll see it's walking in a more natural way. Now we're ready to render. Select the resolution and format you want. I also suggest enabling NVIDIA DLSS by turning it on in the menu. This speeds up the rendering process by about two times. Finally, select the output location where you want to save the video, and the rendering begins. Render queue is also worth mentioning. You can add images, panoramas, and videos to the render queue for batch rendering. This saves you a lot of time instead of waiting in front of the computer. That's it for today's video. D5 render is an all-in-one solution that's easy to use. If you have further post-processing needs, I recommend Photoshop for images and DaVinci Resolve for videos. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next lesson.