Hi! Welcome to the session How to use a thematic campaign to boost your affiliates' reach, the case of Wikiluv's musica portuguesa. I'm Ruth Correia, I'm a Program Manager for GLAM Partnerships at Wikimedia Portugal and this is my first time presenting a session at Wikimedia, so I'm super honored that you took some time to watch it. I hope this is useful for you. In the next 20 minutes, I'll be telling you all about Wikiluv's musica portuguesa or Wikiluv's Portuguese music, how and why the project started, a brief overview of what we've accomplished so far and a few tips on how you can make the most of using a thematic campaign without making some of the same mistakes we did. Instead of focusing on the technical details or a step-by-step view of what we did, I will be mixing that with telling you what worked and what didn't, particularly in terms of community building and outreach work. And just a brief note, since this is a recorded session, if you have any questions or you would like to talk further, please feel free to reach out to me on the email you see on the screen. So here's a bit of context to start with. Wikimedia Portugal already has some fairly long history. The chapter was founded back in 2009 and for more than a decade, a community of volunteers steered a collection of activities that ranged from editing Wikipedia to running the local editions of Wikiluv's Earth or Wikiluv's Monuments to even organizing big wiki-themed conferences. Glam-wise, there have been some projects throughout the years, but most connections were short-lived. Compared to most of its European counterparts such as Spain, Italy or Germany, Wikimedia Portugal is a relatively small chapter. And while there is some stuff now, it is worth mentioning that Wikimedia Portugal's board and executive management is still ensured by volunteers. Last year there was a big change. In order to be able to pursue larger endeavors without overloading the volunteers, the chapter hired a couple of staff members to help promoting the ideals of free and open knowledge for all on a full-time basis. The first one was a Wikimedian in residence, which was me, hired to give direct support to projects which were already using Wikimedia tools such as MediaWiki and Wikibase at Narva, a local social sciences university. There was a second part of the role though. Part of the mission at Narva was finding new partners that were willing to share their work, content, data and multimedia on Wikimedia platforms. Creating a community from scratch where there is no organic involvement can be quite challenging. On top of reaching out directly to researchers and research centers, I also organized a series of events and training sessions about various Wikimedia projects and platforms catering to different needs as they arose. I talked from anything from CC licenses to Wikidata as you can see on the posters. And while these events worked to an extent, allowing Wikimedia Portugal to present itself to a wide range of new audiences, at some point it became clear that there was something missing. You see, these types of events are great to show external people what your affiliate user group or chapter is and what you've accomplished in the past and what the possibilities of Wiki work are. But they are not the best way to create meaningful action beyond their introductory stage. While we know the possibilities are endless, there's often an information overload for newcomers. For those who never created stuff on Wikiplatforms, it can be quite hard to understand how they can leverage the tools in a way that benefits their work and the surrounding community. Wiki means you can do anything, but you need to find a focus.  And so we started rummaging around this idea in August last year. And that's how Wikiluv's Portuguese music came about. Me and my colleague, Sofia Matias, who is the project manager at Wikimedia Portugal, realized that content and data about Portuguese music on Wikimedia platforms was either in complete or simply in existence. When I say music of Portuguese music, I mean music either made by Portuguese people and or music made by people that are in Portugal. Under this context, the campaign Wikiluv's music of Portuguese was developed as an aggregator. On one hand, it would anchor the outreach work of the residency at Nova, opening up the doors to a closer collaboration with the two research centers that specialized in music. And on the other hand, the wide scope of the project could enhance other partnerships for Wikimedia Portugal, particularly regarding cultural heritage. And so the project kicked off with an editathon co-organized with an archive devoted to the life and work of José Mario Branco, a singer, songwriter and musical producer. This archive is based at Nova University. This meeting allowed us to start an ongoing training process with the researcher responsible for the center. She learned the ropes on the first event, but took a while to feel completely at ease with editing. And so we started regular open editing sessions, which served as technical training grounds that allowed for her to develop her skills confidently. And that's the story of how we created our first power editor. On top of significantly improving the artist's biography, she proceeded to create the pages about his discography and artistic network. In less than six months, she has improved about 90 articles, ensuring their Wikipedia in Portuguese has high quality and well-referenced content about José Mario Branco, a major name in 20th century music and culture in Portugal, who is largely undocumented on the platform until now. And so this brings us to the next step. Pick a theme that you like and know. And it seems quite trivial, but it makes a huge difference when setting up a campaign like this. Obviously, the residency I was doing allowed for privileged contacts with researchers at Nova, who already had the knowledge and content to be placed on the various platforms. Nonetheless, beyond the residency, it really helped that both Sophia and I had worked in the music sector and were very passionate about the topic. Sophia had a background in a local association dealing with traditional music. I had been a music journalist and radio broadcaster, thus more focused on contemporary pop music. This made our approach a lot more complete, as we were able to identify potential partners from the beginning without having to dive too much into research. We also had lots of contacts and knowledge that proved to be particularly valuable. We were able to identify the gaps on Wikipedia almost organically, while immediately knowing who would be the best partner to fix them. It also made it easier to pinpoint key dates and events to get a bit of extra attention, especially at the kickoff. For instance, we knew that José Mario Branco Arcav was at Nova, and we used the anniversary of his death to celebrate him, serving as an anchor of that first event and sparking media interest and coverage. That first meeting spawned another two long-lasting relationships, one with Eurovisions, a group of researchers studying the Eurovision Song Context, with whom we co-organized an editing event in March 2023, and what is arguably the most important media partnership Wikimedia Portugal was able to tie in more than 13 years of activity. Building up on that first event about José Mario Branco, we secured a partnership with Antena 1, our public service radio station. Not only they advertised our activities, but also took an active role in them. On the left you see Nuno Golupin, the director of the radio station at the Eurovision event, speaking about the contest and its history. On the right you see Diogo Varela Silva, Trasinha Landairo and Pedro de Castro at an editing event that was held at Antena 1. This was quite an interesting one. On this session, they gathered friends and family, essentially artists who had worked with Celeste Rodrigues to give their testimonies on her life and work. Following her Wikipedia entry, journalists were able to publish features that corrected some of the mistakes that lingered on Wikipedia so that the Wiki article could be fixed accordingly following the rule of citing secondary references. And while the partnership with Antena 1 was great, as time went by, it also panned out that it lacked the focus that a long-term partnership needs, and so we're now recalibrating our relationship with them. For instance, working about artists with long career spans may have more references available, but sifting through the information and reorganizing it takes a really long time and requires multiple sessions. If you're looking for more immediate impact or you struggle with being understaffed, you're probably better off starting with smaller partnerships and activities. Narrowing the topics to smaller bits help you move forward, giving you the focus necessary to create meaningful action. And this is very clear when we look at the work we've been doing in the last few months with a couple of research projects. First, the Portuguese Early Music Database. The Portuguese Early Music Database is a digital archive of manuscripts with musical notation from the Iberian Peninsula, mostly written before 1650. We are working with them and using a combined approach of Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata to describe the digital objects that they host, so these manuscripts. The project is still ongoing and we basically still have to upload most of the manuscripts onto Commons, but for now we already have about 330 manuscripts created as objects on Wikidata with detailed metadata, including the material they're made of, the script style, the publication date, and owner institutions among other details. Which gives us this information box on Commons. We expect to upload the whole collection of Portuguese Early Music Database to Commons before the end of the year. Then we have Iconomus, which is a research project looking into music up, sorry, it's a research project looking into musical iconography in public spaces and art in Portugal, allowing to explore the history of musical instruments through these depictions. While the Iconomus project initial goal was to do something similar to what we were doing with the Portuguese Early Music Database, so using Wikidata to enhance the metadata and descriptions of the digital objects, in the end we had to do it in a distinct manner, as the nature of the shared media was very very different. Since we're often using excerpts of artworks, street art, and other visual artistic displays, we are now using structured data on Commons to describe these pieces instead of Wikidata. After that we will be using some of these images to illustrate and improve articles about musical instruments on Wikipedia and Portuguese, which brings us to the next tip. One size does not fit all. Different partners have different needs, priorities, and availability, and on top of showcasing some wonderful possibilities of working with the Wikimedia infrastructure, it's important to let them explore the platforms and figure out what they think works best for them. For both Portuguese Early Music Database and Iconomus, it took us a few hours of guided exploration to reach the best way of working such collections, regarding Iconomus for instance, after about eight hours of live work together, we're still tuning issues regarding data modeling. It's also important to respect the institution's time and nurture relationships even if they take a while to unfold. One of the partners we've started working with in the beginning was Lisbon's Music Records Archive, which is one of the few public music records archives that exist in Portugal. Due to a variety of circumstances, we weren't able to pursue a content partnership just yet. However, we kept a relationship ongoing with them, we invited them for our events and training sessions, and now we're actively planning future activities together starting next month, almost a year after our initial contacts. Things take time and exploration is inevitable. And this obviously goes for your project campaign as well. Our approach at Wikimedia Portugal may not fit your needs exactly, but hopefully with some iteration and exploration, you'll find whatever works best for you. As we can see here, there are multiple stakeholders that we'd like to cover in our work, but there's only a few of us working on this project, and so we really need to ensure we don't spread out too thin. We defined a set of priorities for the next year, and so here's our focus for the next 12 months. The main goal is continuing the relationships we started this year, particularly the ones with archives and research projects, as well as our work with antennas there involved as media. And we're also developing pilot projects with music festivals to put their photo archives on commons, as well as with music schools to work with students both on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, which takes us to the very last tip, take time to organize and reassess. There were things that worked well and others that didn't. We often worked rushed, and so we've taken a break this summer to look into the project and recalibrate our future work. We already have an activity plan and know who we'll be working with, and our goal is really to ensure that our partnerships are long-lasting and that things can scale up in the future in a sustainable way. Wikiluv's Music of Portuguesa is now Wikimedia Portugal's flagship project regarding land partnerships, steering much of the work we do. It serves as an anchor for regular technical training for new editors of Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata. It feeds non-music-related Wiki events. For instance, next month there will be a couple of sessions dedicated to it on Wikidata days, a three-day conference that we're hosting about Wikidata. And last but not least, it gives focus to our general work, pushing for more institutions and groups to share their knowledge and content in the freest manner possible on Wikimedia. So that was it. I hope it was useful to you. Thank you so much for your time. Once again, if you would like to know more about Wikiluv's Music of Portuguesa or share your feedback on the campaign or even this session, feel free to reach out to me using the email address you see on the screen. The video and the slides are both on Wikimedia Commons, so you can grab them and each one of those things that I've showed has the links for the galleries, the categories on Commons, the queries on Wikidata and the articles on Wikipedia. I hope you are having a wonderful time in Singapore and wherever in the world you may be. See you soon. Bye!


Okay, so everybody remember this, proximity is power. Run with the wrong people, don't be surprised when you end up in a place you didn't plan on being. Run with the right people, don't be surprised when you end up in a place you didn't know you could ever get to. Who you're running with, okay? Always find a bigger circle. Always find people who are crazier than you. Always find people who believe way bigger than you. Always find people that have been through hell and made it out and are willing to do it again. Find people who have changed. You guys, the whole goal for 2024 is to change until you change, not until the economy changes, not until the market changes, not until your manager changes, until you change, nothing changes.    That's not you. Dude, they're not your friends.   They were your friends when you didn't care. But when you level up instead of them calling, you're saying, dude, I saw you're really trying lately, man.  Still looks kind of weird, but I know you're gonna get better. I'm proud of you, keep it up.  They're making fun of you. They're not even your people.  Get out of your way.  It will show you very fast who supports you.  You must mature in this room today.   The reason why your wife doesn't have one is because she's immature. Your business is immature. Your leadership skills are immature. Your communication is immature. We all need to mature. And by the way, when we grow up, we get the life we want. Listen, that's why you can't be around people that play as little kids. That's why you gotta be around people that are psycho. That's why you gotta be around people that literally have so many rules and processes and place and disciplines and responsibilities being responsible. Do like, this is it. It sounds like a lot of work. You know what a lot of work is? Doing what you're doing now and not getting the life of the results you want. That's a lot of work, man. Like that's the key guys. Today in here, it's about altering your identity. It's about changing yourself. And you can decide to do it or not do it. There's 9 billion people in the world that are counting on you to become the example for them.  Here's what I'm here to tell you.  You've matured past them. When you win big, it's because you've matured up. Some of you right now, you're having conversations with the wrong people. Here's what I'll tell you. Your greatest circle, your greatest friends, you haven't met yet. They're coming in the new change because people that you wanna run with that are better than you, they're waiting for you to come up and they'll meet you there. This right here, this says help the customer with what they want and what they don't want. You guys get it? If I'm gonna fight with somebody, I need to know what we're actually fighting about and I know what they want and what they don't want. Can I ask you a question? If somebody's got a vehicle and it's got problems, do they want problems? What do they want? A vehicle with no problems. It gets very simple, it's just common sense. But people don't think about this because people try to force, okay?   That's all you're gonna do. What I need you to understand the difference between rich people and poor people are sales, which are commission pay plans, money made, money paid, and salaries. Do you understand people with salaries could get paid like salespeople, but they are afraid of sales. And that means they really don't wanna help anybody. So it means they really don't wanna be a service to anybody at all. And they think that they're the ones that are being good people and we're the bad ones, but really at the end of the day, people hate that no one's helping them be able to make decisions. That's why there's this thing called commission. Commission is as you helping someone see what the value is in doing this and how all the struggles staying the same, not getting these benefits, all this stuff, until they come over here, they don't get, they can't get any of that. So you must be really good at it. So what I always talk about is I'm like, okay, all we're gonna do today is a number one, I'm gonna help you help yourself. Number two, I'm gonna keep your goals at the center of the decision. Which means today, whether we say yes or no, we're just gonna look at the goals and if they make sense and it aligns, let's do it, if it doesn't, I don't wanna sell you anything anyway. Does that make sense?


Item number SCP-1291 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-1291 is to be contained in an empty Class IV refrigeration unit. SCP-1291 is to be restrained on a thermally insulated wheelchair to prevent injury. SCP-1291 is to wear a blindfold at all times. While interacting with SCP-1291 are to under no circumstances make direct skin-to-skin contact. In the event of accidental direct contact, affected personnel may request termination. Binding Maintenance Procedures Each week of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, SCP-1291 is to be taken to a specially prepared stadium box in Harris-Tedor Stadium at Mississippi River College to watch the football team, the moccasins, play. No civilians are allowed contact with SCP-1291, and any that recognize it will be turned away. The Mississippi River College moccasins are under no circumstances to be allowed to play in a BCS Bowl, or to leave NCAA Division I. The Foundation has arranged with the college to ensure the moccasins maintain a safe level of performance. The physical safety of SCP-1291 must also be ensured. Violations of the procedures strengthen SCP-1291's anomalous effects, and are therefore to be avoided at all costs. Description SCP-1291 is a Caucasian male with graying blonde hair of approximately 40 years of age, apparently possessed by an entity of unknown nature, designated SCP-1291-1. SCP-1291 is wheelchair bound, but records show that SCP-1291 stood 184 cm tall prior to gaining anomalous properties. The eye color of SCP-1291 is unknown, as cameras cannot focus with its eyes in the frame, and looking at them directly exposes the viewer to SCP-1291's deleterious mental effects. Though SCP-1291 is capable of vocalization and movement, it has so far not demonstrated any ability to speak coherently, cannot walk, and frequently attempts to move in ways not anatomically possible in a human body, necessitating its restraint. SCP-1291 not demonstrated physical strength above human levels. SCP-1291 has a body temperature of about 155 °C, and does not need to eat, drink, or breathe. Physical contact with SCP-1291 is universally fatal within a week, as it causes rapid growth of cancerous tumors throughout the body. Good exposure to SCP-1291 results in full sensory hallucinations and increasingly disorganized thought and speech patterns, developing within about 48 hours of exposure. By 96 hours of exposure, all subjects tested so far have been rendered comatose. These symptoms do not fade with time. Making eye contact with SCP-1291 causes immediate catatonia. If the binding maintenance procedures are not followed, the body of SCP-1291 will begin to degrade. Patches of SCP-1291's skin gain similar properties to its eyes, and its body temperature rises significantly. Additionally, ash starts to materialize on unobserved surfaces in an expanding area. It is believed that this represents a weakening of the effects keeping SCP-1291-1 contained within SCP-1291. These effects gradually diminish back to the baseline when proper procedure is restored. Prior to containment, SCP-1291 was Roy Wilson, the head coach of the Mississippi River College football team. Background research suggests Mr. Wilson had surface hand connections, though he was likely not a member. It is believed that he attempted to summon SCP-1291-1 to improve the Mississippi River College moccasin performance at football. To date, SCP-1291 has not acted in any way to affect the moccasins or their opponents. Addendum 1291-13 Attempts to abolish the BCS system for college football also seem to induce a degraded state in SCP-1291. Continuation of the BCS system is therefore a designated part of the binding maintenance procedures for SCP-1291. Document 1291-2 Recovered documents from the journal of Roy Wilson. Extranious material omitted. January 8th.  Another season passed, and our best chance for a year is squandered. 7-5. Better, but not even close to good enough. And with Vernon and Rhodes graduating, we lose half our defense. There's no way we do this well next season, even if Tanner lives up to his potential. I've done all I can. I want to tell these kids that we're going to do it next season. We're going to go all the way, but I can't lie to them, myself. January 18th. I have a very bad idea. Those folks from college, the sorcerers, magicians, for lack of a better word, sorcerers. I once tried their magic a little, and I think I had some talent at it. Perhaps I could try that? Assuming that stuff is even real and not the product of a different sort of experimentation from UT days. February 1st. It's real. It's not a trick of my memory. It's the answer I need. My old notes were right. I went from the MRC library straight through to a rather grander library. There's a way of walking, a way of thinking. It's not some mystical right. You just walk along to wisdom. Anyhow, I found some books. It's a library. That's what it's for. Magic to raise them around my team. Magic to wither my inner… opponents. February 2nd. Calling the power is easy. The challenge is channeling it safely. As near as I can tell, it's best to do this through binding a demon, spirit, so that it takes the brunt of the fulcrum effect. It's just energy balancing. Bind a spirit until the moccasins win a BCS bowl. Why isn't this stuff used more? February 4th. Raise some spirits with the rituals in the book. It's easy to do, but they can't help me. It's like that old joke where the genie says that peace in the Middle East would be easier than the saint winning the Super Bowl. I tell them I want the moccasins restored, but no, that's the one thing they can't do. There's got to be better than this at the far library. February 8th. Got one last book. They didn't want to let me check this one out, but I insisted. Not to try to summoning. Belied to be February 8th. Dread thing rose but bound, bound, bound. It shall serve.  Until we win, the feathered eye will turn its gaze to the world.


Okay, Shoshanim, Shfanpanim and Baby Seal. I'm a few days before my trip to Budapest. I will be in Budapest between January 16th and January 27th. If you want to have face-to-face personal counseling with me, please write to sanwaknin at gmail.com. January 16th, January 27th, if you want to have a session with me, meet me face-to-face and have nightmares for the rest of your life, please write to me on my e-mail. My name is sanwaknin, I'm the author of Malignan Self-Love, Narcissism, Revisited and a professor of psychology in various universities. Amongst them, SEAPS, Center for International Advanced Professional Studies, the Outreach Program of the SEAPS Consortium of Universities. And today we are going to discuss obsessive love, unrequited. Love that consumes you whole. Love that permeates every cell in your body. Love that takes over you. Love that is very reminiscent of phenomena such as addiction. This kind of love is pathological, it's dysfunctional. And of course, it has an etiology, psychodynamic roots, reasons in your psyche that hark back to childhood and other life experiences, object relations and so on. I'm going to discuss all this momentarily. Obsessive love, the main characteristic of obsessive love is the inability to put an end to it. In all other forms of love, even dysfunctional types of love, such as for example, dependency and so on and so forth, there is always an exit strategy of some kind.  The spell is gone. You can release yourself. You move to another city. You change job. You fall out of love. All other types of love allow you to free yourself from the shackles of a relationship that is not working, that's dragging you down. But in obsessive love, the harder you try, the more immersed and enmeshed you become. That's the paradoxical nature of obsessive love.  The more you contemplate your intimate partner, your relationship and the love, the more you imagine things, the more you try, the more you attempt to work out wrinkles and the more you run away, avoid, the more you invest in the management of the obsessive love, the more obsessive it becomes. Motionary investment, even negative investment, cements the unhealthy and unholy bond between you and your intimate partner in an obsessive setting. This is a very, very difficult situation.    There's very little you can do with anything at all. It's like a nightmare, like running faster and faster just to stay in one place. It's as if you hear footsteps to your back. Someone is coming to get you, to consume your whole, to merge and fuse with you to the point of disappearance. Obsessive love is about disappearing. It is a close cousin of death. It is a death wish. It's a self-destructive, self-loathing, self-hating, self-harming and largely self-trashing syndrome.   Somewhere in your mind, there is the underlying belief that you can find happiness only by seizing to exist and that existence and pain, presence and hurt go together. Emotions, intimacy, involvement, commitment, all of these pretend pain, agony. You don't want this pain.  You just want to close your eyes and go into eternal sleep. And what better cradle than your intimate partner? And this is the true character of obsessive love. It's a suicide act. It's about dying together. Underlying obsessive love, there are bed-object introjects. Now I recommend that you watch my previous videos about bed-object introjects, especially the video about you don't deserve to be happy. So what are bed-object introjects? These are the voices of significant others in your life, primary objects, caregivers, parental figures mostly, mother more specifically. These are introjects, voices, representations of these people, internal objects of these people that represent these people in your mind, snapshots of these people that have a voice.  And these are the bed-object introjects. And bed-object introjects spew out an endless stream of negative thoughts, automatic negative thoughts. Like, I don't deserve better, I cannot be loved, everything I try in a relationship will end disastrously, I will undermine myself and my partner, it will all end in a calamity, calamity, red wine. So all obsessive love is a way of validating, affirming and confirming the voices of the bed-object introjects, these negative, these automatic negative thoughts about yourself. Obsessive love is intended to prove to you yet again that the bed-object is right by failing in their relationship. And the only way to fail in obsessive love is to transform it into hell, into an infernal landscape, a Dantean hell. So obsessive love very fast evolves into a scene of mutual torment, gleeful torture, inflicting hurt and pain on each other as means of communication, hurting each other to the quick, horribly, in order to elicit an emotional response to get a rise out of the intimate partner, to restore a sense of commitment and emotional investment, I cheat on him, he will love me, he will love me again. It's a reclaim, a reclaim scenery, hurting the other partner is fulfilling their wishes, it's an act of love, sometimes selfless love. Obsessive love therefore is not love at all, it's a form of extreme hatred, and this is known as a bevelence. But obsessive love is also a fantasy defense. One of the sentences that keep replaying in the minds of people in obsessive love is, he is or she is the perfect match for me. She is my twin flame, my soul mate. It's a fantasy defense, narcissists enter some extent borderlines, take it a step further and they establish an actual fantasy, the shared fantasy and they invite in intimate partners. The shared fantasy of the narcissist is about a mother figure, the shared fantasy of a borderline is about an intimate partner who would regulate her, stabilize her, make her feel safe and finally engulf her and assimilate her. These are the fantasies that underline obsessive love and the borderline's love is always obsessive love. And to a large extent the narcissist's love, at least in the initial phases, love bombing, etc., is also obsessive love because it involves fantasy. It is not grounded in reality. It requires idealization of the intimate partner, imposing on the intimate partner unrealistic expectations and demands that are bound to set the intimate partner for failure, frustrate her and hurt her badly, pushing the intimate partner to do ego-dystonic things, things she feels uncomfortable with, actions that she hates, kind of brainwashing her and training her to not be herself. All these are features of obsessive love and then we have of course catastrophizing that I mentioned before. I will never find such a perfect partner again. He is so, so suited to my needs.  He is the only one who really understands me, cares for me and love me. No one has ever loved me before the way he does. It's about falling in love with the way you are loved. Obsessive love is a sick, malignant form of self-love because it's a way to experience self-love through the gaze of a dysfunctional, mentally ill other. In this sense, obsessive love is a form of trauma bonding as both partners traumatize each other and then reward each other. Hurt each other and then comfort each other. Cause each other, debilitating pain and then soothe each other. And so this creates intermittent reinforcement and trauma bonding. Obsessive love is a re-enactment, as I said, of early childhood conflicts, mummy issues usually, or later life conflicts with parental figures, including daddy issues. It's about regressing back to childhood. You see, if you regress back enough, if you reverse your life sufficiently, you end up not being. You end up re-entering the womb. And that's the foundation and core of obsessive love.  So obsessive love plays out a lot of parental conflicts within parental roles, but extinguishing parents. Parents who take away individuation and separation.  Obsessive love is an addiction, of course. Because it is an addiction, it's addictive. I don't recommend that you rush from one addiction to the next. If you have just miraculously exited an obsessive love relationship, don't rush into another relationship. Take your time. Get to know yourself. Realize what had happened. Find out your weak points, vulnerabilities and chinks in your armor. Tell yourself never again. Define the kind of intimate partner who would not put you through the grinder the same way. Create a job description. In case you cannot select a mate, you cannot team up with an intimate partner who is more healthy and more functional, don't have a partner at all. Give up on relationships for a while at least until you mature, until you grow up, until something happens, until you attend therapy for a considerable period of time. Don't just jump from one bed to another. Don't go. Don't transition from one sickness to the next. I used to work in rehab as a consultant and we tell addicts, alcoholics and so on that come to rehab. We tell them whatever you do, don't have a relationship because you can transition from substance addiction, substance abuse to an addictive relationship. It's also an addiction. Don't transition from one addiction to another. Obsessive love is also a religion. It makes sense of the world. It gives meaning to your life and to your behaviors. It is proscriptive. It informs you what not to do, how not to behave. And it is also prescriptive. It tells you how to act and how to behave.  Work hard on finding new sources of meaning. Volunteer. Join an organization. Go to all kinds of events. Adopt a hobby. Take on a pet. Start gardening or baking or I don't know what. Find meaning, sense, direction and goal orientation. Because these are the pernicious and poisonous gifts of obsessive love. It gives you the wrong impression that now your life is structured and it's going somewhere. Make a list of all the bad memories. Only the bad memories. As long as you can and then read aloud this list three times a day.  Three times a day for many months.  Remind yourself that obsessive love is just a form of dying.  Then read this list aloud several times a day.  Watch my video on no contact. It describes 27 strategies. Do not stalk your intimate partner on any social media.  And imagine your intimate partner with others. The more you do that, the more de-affected you become. The more you lose your attachment and emotional investment. If you imagine them with other people, this creates a lot of rage, anger, envy, negative affectivity. Imagining them with other people creates negative emotions that become associated with the intimate partner. And then you would never want to go back. There are many other advice, pieces of advice, suggest you go online and look how to cure obsession, how to heal from an obsession, obsession tips, obsession advice, etc., etc. But obsessive love is the most extreme, all-pervasive, comprehensive form of obsession.  It's about you. It's not about your intimate partner who is merely a tool, a tool for your own self-destruction. Love yourself. Watch my video on the four pillars of self-love. Love yourself. But don't love yourself through another person. That's always a bad idea. And definitely, don't love yourself through someone whose only love is self-love.  Stay away. You deserve better. You deserve true love. And you deserve to not obsess about it.


What's up, wonderful website creators? All right. So recently I was asked a question and somebody asked me, what do we do when we lose confidence as a web designer, you know, lose confidence and skills and abilities or just feel like, am I good enough? And this question, it was a great question. It's something that stuck with me for, for a few days.  I suffered from very poor confidence, extremely low self-esteem. And I never really had self-worth. It was pretty bad my entire life, even as a child. And it wasn't until about nine years ago, I started to rebuild myself. I started my journey where I basically started over and I learned to build confidence. I learned to build self-worth and self-esteem. So that's why when this question was brought up to me, it really, it hit me. And I've been working really hard on a personal level to develop confidence, self-esteem and to realize all those feelings and thoughts I thought about myself my entire life was just a lie. It was the lie. That's what I call it.  And it's that voice in my head that always tells me, not good enough, your failure and blah, blah, blah. You know, the voice that likes to just show up and hold me down and make me feel bad about myself. That's where I could be my worst enemy. So I've done a lot of work and I've done quite well with it. I'm in a really good position. Nine years and I've been working really hard constantly. I still am in the process to continuously work. But here's the thing. I'm still susceptible to having self-doubts, to losing confidence. And I have to be very vigilant on it. And as a web designer and as a creative and I could speak for myself and I know many other creatives and many of us that I know, we share these similar traits and some of the similar traits that we share are like perfectionism, you know, having that. It's never good enough syndrome, you know, another one is being very passionate, sometimes overly passionate and just having that drive to just want to just continuously do the best we can. You know, another one is a bit of being an introvert. Now, I know not every creative is like that, but these are common traits. Here's the thing. I could build an awesome website, put together a really dope design that does really well. Clients are super happy with it, but then also there could be case studies where we could see that this improved sales, engagement from their customers, improve and increase conversions. And when I get something like that, I have actual data and case studies and back it up. I'm on top of the world. My confidence is way high. I know without a doubt, hey, I can offer value to clients and I could really help them with their business. I'm not just talking like I could really do it. And even after having a really kick ass case study, I could fall right back and be working on a design and it just doesn't come out right. I go for inspiration on dribble, words.com. And I'm seeing some of these top designers. I'm like, why aren't my designs this good? And then I could start having self-doubt. I could start having all those feelings come back in. Like, should I even be doing this? And I have to snap out of it and I want to share with you just in case if you also can relate. And if you've gone through the same thing and if you felt the same thing, this is what I do when these feelings and this loss of confidence starts to creep in. I play the tape back. That's my secret. I play the tape back. I go back to the beginning of my journey, which is now a little over five years ago. A little over five years ago, I was computer illiterate. I didn't even know how to use a computer. I started from the very beginning self-taught. The first year wasn't that good. You know, I was just hungry, learning and excited. Second year started getting better. Third year did really well, had clients globally, started building a team, turned it into a company. Four year, learning the business side and it was just a valuable learning lesson. Fifth year, you see where I'm going. If I play the tape back from the very beginning, I start to recognize the progress and I start to look at the journey of it. And when I see it through that view and stop comparing myself to other designers, there's always going to be better designers out there. But when I focus on my journey, I look at my progress, that start to feel like, wow, I've come a long ways. Like I don't, I should not be feeling like I shouldn't be doing this. I should, these are the lies, the thoughts that go through my head because the truth is, I just continuously went up and I'm more than sure anybody feeling this, if you've worked hard, if you're passionate and learning, you're constantly pushing yourself and you're constantly driven, then I'm sure your journey has also been uphill because the more we do, the more experience, knowledge that we have, the more value we could offer clients, the more we could give to our clients and just to everyone in general. So that's my first like tool, my first, I don't know if I wanna call it trick or whatever, but it's what works for me. Another thing too, one more thing to do. And this is what I do also on a personal level as well as implementing it inside my design, my design progress and development. And that is to work on something that I call a SWOT analysis, SWOT. And that is to write down a list of your strengths and then a list of your weaknesses, a list of your opportunities and a list of your threats. Now I was given this exercise before by a business coach and when I did that, that opened up my eyes to a lot of things, especially my strengths. So I always thought my strengths were, I had a good eye for this or you know, something design related. But when I really took time to look at my strengths, these are strengths that are like core strengths. Everybody has them, you have them. You have core strengths within sides of you. All of us do. The key is to recognize it, become aware of it. Not just the weaknesses, but also the strengths. And when you really look at your strengths and you could become aware, then you could look at the opportunities that those strengths could give you. Your weaknesses, now you could look at those as well and this is where I need to improve on. Then you could also look at, you know, your threats, the things that'll hold you back that you need to be able to counter-react to. Now, just to give an example of strengths, these are my two top strengths. Empathy and the ability to get vulnerable. It wasn't anything design related, but empathy, the ability to get vulnerable. With empathy, I'm able to put myself in other people's shoes. I could put myself in my client's shoes. I could look at things from their point of view. I could also do it to their customers. I could step out of myself and I could relate. And then getting vulnerable. When I get vulnerable, it's like I am doing right here. I'm able to do this when I'm doing right here. I'm able to connect with people. I'm able to open up things that people I want to keep close, things that I used to always want to keep close. I learned to be vulnerable is actually a strength and I love it. I love it because I love connecting with people. I like people to know you're not alone. You know, you're feeling loss of confidence, low self-esteem, you're not alone, but it could be built up. You know, this is my story. This is what I went through and I share it in hopes that it could give some inspiration and it could just prove that it's possible. Well, that's it for tonight. Thank you for listening. And if you did find this useful, you know all that good YouTube stuff, like, subscribe, leave a comment too. Let me know if you have any practices or any tips on how to overcome a loss of confidence as a designer. I know the community would love to hear it and it'd be very helpful for others. All right, I'll be back soon with more web design related content. Thank you.


Hi, I'm Peter Burris and welcome to another Wikibon action item quick take. Jim Kobielus, Microsoft seems to be getting ready to do a makeover of application development. What's going on? Yeah, that's pretty exciting, Peter. So last week on the seventh, Microsoft added one of their developer days and now it's something called AI Platform for Windows. And let me explain with that why that's important because that is going to bring machine learning down to the desktop applications, anything that's written to run on Windows 10. And why that's important is that starting with Visual Studio 15.7, there'll be an ability for developers who don't know anything about machine learning to be able to, in a very visual way, create machine learning models that they can then have trained in the cloud and then deployed to their Windows applications, whatever it might be, and to do real-time local inferencing in those applications without need for round tripping back to the cloud. So what we're looking at now is they're gonna bring this capability into the core of Visual Studio and then they're gonna be backwards compatible with previous versions of Visual Studio. What that means is, I can just imagine and over the next couple of years, most Windows applications will be heavily ML enabled so that more and more of the application logic at the desktop in Windows will be driven by ML. There'll be less need for apps, as we've known them historically, prepackaged bundles of code. It'll be dynamic logic, it'll be ML. So I think this is really marking the end, but now the beginning of the end of the app era at the device level, I think. So I'm really excited and we're looking forward to hearing more about Microsoft's, where they're going with AI platform for Windows, but I think that's a landmark announcement. We'll stay tuned for it. Excellent. Jim Kobielus, thank you very much. This has been another Wikibon Action Item Quick Take.


I hope you guys are ready for 30 speed reviews. This is a series where I update you on all of the makeup that I've been testing. All of these products are products that have gone through a lot of testing before I felt comfortable putting them in this video, kind of closing the chapter of talking about these products with my final thoughts. They're one of my favorite videos to do and ones that I spend the most time on. So I hope you guys enjoyed it. Let's go ahead and get started starting off with complexion. The first product that I have is from Neutrogena. This is the radiant primer and serum. I picked this up from Target. It's pretty expensive. It was like $20. I would just save the money and buy a high end primer that works better. This is fine. It gives a glassy glow to the skin. Be careful because you can see the glitters in the skin. They aren't chunky or anything. It's not a product that I would wear on its own. It looks like you put on a product with glitter on top, but it has a really pretty wet glassy look to the skin which I think looks really great underneath a foundation but on its own it's not my favorite. This is a solid okay. I think it's a bit expensive honestly from the drug store so that's where I would kind of lead you away from this but it's not a bad product. Next up I have the NYX Plump Right Back Plumping Serum and Primer. This one is a lot different than the Neutrogena. It doesn't give us much glow to the skin but I feel like it kind of gets in the skin more and hydrates it more. It also has a bit more tact to it compared to the Neutrogena. You'll see in my demo I actually have the Neutrogena on one side and this on the other side. You can see how wet the Neutrogena looks but this one feels a little bit more intensely hydrating. I think this works better as a makeup primer than the Neutrogena because it does have that grip that the Neutrogena doesn't have but it's not gonna give you as glowy of an appearance but I think I prefer this just for my skin's need just because I would prefer something a little bit more intensely hydrating that goes into the skin as opposed to the Neutrogena which leaves the glow but on top of the skin it doesn't really aid the texture of your skin so yeah, I think I like this a little bit better than the Neutrogena but they are very, very different from one another and both I think are very, very solid primers. So this is a product that I've been testing literally for months. It's been in my speed reviews drawer for months before I actually felt comfortable talking about it. This is the Armani Fluid Shear Glow Enhancer in the shade number two. After months of testing this, months of not being sure how to use it, where I liked it, where I didn't like it, I decided I don't like this product. So I did use it today. I feel like there's a lot of glitter in here so if you have mature skin this is not going to be complimentary to your skin type. Even on my hand where the glitters stay it makes my hands look a lot more wrinkly. So I don't like the finish of this. I feel like even though it is glittery when I mix it into foundations it just completely disappears. I have used it all over the skin just as a primer base. It's too glittery for that purpose.  So ultimately after trying to figure out the best way to use this, literally for months this has been in the drawer to be put in this video once I felt ready to explain it. I just don't like it. I tried way too hard to get this to work for me and it didn't. Let's move into foundations. I have three. So the first one I haven't talked about on my channel but if you follow me on TikTok or Instagram I posted a short of the Lancome Taunts Idol Ultra Wear Care and Glow Foundation. This is their newest foundation. I believe it launched about a month ago at this point. Really excited because I actually got to do a campaign for this foundation on my page with the short form video but even though that was sponsored everything I said about it is true. This is one of my new favorite foundations for the Florida Summer Humidity because it does give me a medium coverage. It gives a very subtle glow. It's nothing like a glowy foundation but there is like a natural dew to it and it lasts in the heat. And I get a lot of sweat around the top of my forehead. It doesn't break down the foundation at all. So if you are looking for a long wear foundation this is amazing. If you do have dry skin my tip to you is to make sure that you do hydrate prior to applying this just because if your skin is dry this does have the tendency to show it because it is a little bit more of a matte finish. It is matte but it has kind of a natural glow to it that comes out as you wear it out. But anyways, this is super duper long wear. It's nice and thin. If you want the full demo and all of that definitely check out my Instagram or TikTok where I posted the video on this. It's really, really nice. I mean Lancome is known for their foundations and I feel good about this one.  I had been curious about this one for a while. This is a really good foundation from the drugstore. It gives a light coverage. It's not gonna give you a medium or full at all. It's very, very thin but it has such a dewy hydrated look to the skin. So if you're looking for something that's like coverage gives you a dewy look. I think you will really like this. It's very high quality. You wouldn't even know it's drugstore and it looks very different from the Lancome. I have this on this side of my face and pairing it against the Lancome I really saw how wet, dewy hydrated this looked and that really is a trending kind of finish on the skin right now. So I think a lot of people will like this.  If I'm being honest, the dropper right here doesn't work that good but it looks really healthy on the skin. Really great for every day. Very shocked by Neutrogena on this. It's a good one. I'm not wearing this one today and I'm not sad about it because I do not like this product. This is the Makeup Revolution Super Dewy Skin Tint Tint Moisturizer. I picked this up on a whim, hadn't heard anything about it. It's really, really bad. I actually wore this all over my face and I thought my makeup looked okay, nothing to write home about but when I wore this side by side with the Neutrogena I realized how unflattering this product is. It emphasizes texture. So if you have milk bumps, whiteheads, any sort of acne, anything like that on your face this literally just makes them pop out. It's the weirdest thing. When I had Neutrogena on one side of my face Neutrogena just looked so healthy, hydrated and smooth. And then there was a clear difference on the other side of my face that had this where all of my hormonal acne and whiteheads and all of that here were just like shooting out. It was not cute. So this I can't wait to feature in my worst of for this month because it's not good. I have one concealer for today's video. This is the Maybelline Super Stay Active Wear Concealer. I really wanted to try this because the Super Stay Foundation is one of my all-time favorites. And I actually heard a lot of you didn't like this one so I was like preparing myself. I actually really like it. So I can see why people wouldn't like it. It is a dryer based concealer and another con to it is it doesn't really resemble the foundation too much because the foundation has really full coverage and it's a really matte long wearing foundation. This is not full coverage. I would say it gives a medium coverage but I can definitely see some darkness peeking through. I think you benefit from a color corrector underneath but it does have a drier, more matte consistency which I can see being the issue for a lot of people. I will say when I put this down I'm always like it's a little dry but as the day goes on it looks better and better because I think it looks dry at first because it is a dryer concealer but then it kind of like freezes and stays that way to the point of it being quite long wear. So cons is it doesn't have as much coverage as I wanted and it is a bit dry. But overall I really like the wear on this and I think it certainly gets the job done as well. So I've been enjoying this but if you do not like dryer concealers this might not be for you. I'm actually gonna have to try this next time and make sure I really concentrate on the hydration of my under eyes to see if that will improve anything in terms of dryness but I'm not really too bothered by it. I have a couple of powders. So the first one that I have is from Revlon. I picked this up because I remember using this back in the day like years ago before I did what I do now this is the Revlon photo ready blurring powder and it said new and improved and I was like, let me take a trip down memory lane here and honestly I do like this powder and when I use it on its own I think it does look really nice but it's not super blurring which is what it's advertised as. It does the job, I don't feel like it's bad but I have it on this side of my face and I put it down I used a damp sponge but not too damp of course and it does a really nice job of setting my face but on this side of my face I use the Sigma soft focus setting powder in vanilla beam and I noticed how much more blurring the Sigma one is so now I like the Revlon less because the Revlon looked fine it kind of set the makeup and that's that but this actually blurred the skin I even ended up putting it on porous areas on this side that I used the Revlon just to blur it a little bit more and even everything out so while I liked the Revlon I don't like it as much anymore because I realized how much more blurring the Sigma is I love this Sigma powder it's one of my new favorite powders I've tried a lot of really good ones this year and this one is up there in terms of being really lightweight but blurring the skin I once again also used a damp sponge to apply this so this one is definitely a hit save the money on the Revlon pick this one up instead if you're looking for something more blurring couple of bronzers the first one is a cream bronzer from makeup revolution this is in the shade light I love this bronzer if it weren't for the packaging or the label you would not be able to tell that this was a affordable bronzer now it's not like a cream to powder it really is a true cream so it's gonna stay creamy on the skin I have it on this side of my face the tone itself is really beautiful it is quite a slick consistency like I said not cream to powder at all I use my sponge to apply it it's the perfect tone, perfect color perfect level of pigmentation perfect level of emollience I love this so if you're looking for a good cream bronzer from the drugstore this is one of my favorites I would say I definitely prefer it over the elf putty bronzer so yeah this one is really good one of my favorite cream bronzers I've tried at this price point and then I also do have a powder bronzer this is from Jacqueline Cosmetics these took so long to get to me that I never really got to review them but these are the pressed bronzers so I have two shades vitamin D and tan lines vitamin D is slightly more neutral I have that setting the cream bronzer because the cream bronzer wasn't very warm and then tan lines I have on this side of the face because it's more toasty on the skin it has more of a carmely undertone I love both it just depends what look I'm going for it has a very caramel mocha scent to it which I really love it's not overpowering but if you don't like fragrance in your cosmetics you might not like that but I like my makeup to smell like desert okay I can't complain I think this is a very nice bronzer formulation it's not anything to write home about you know it's not going down it's one of my all time favorite bronzers but I don't have anything bad to say about it it's a really solid powder bronzer blends out great applies a great level of pigmentation I like the shades that she has at least the ones that I picked up they smell delicious they get the job done so yeah I'm keeping these they are a very very solid bronzer I have a couple blushes so the first one is from MAC I picked this up from the cosmetic company store it's the glow play blush in totally same to you can get it on MAC anyways but I've got it because it was a really pretty light lilac-y kind of shade not flattering for my skin tone at all I was like kind of hoping that it could pool through and work for me but it just couldn't it looks way too light on me I look sick when I wear it I've been able to make it work with certain looks that I've done you know applying very complimentary colors to this but generally speaking when I just pop this on ooh it's such a bad color now the formula itself I really love I have a couple shades of this already in my collection which is why I tried to make this color work for me because I thought it would be really pretty with cool tone looks but yeah unless you're more on the fair side don't work about this I also have been using this blush palette from OFRA this is in collaboration with Atlam with Susan so I got a bunch of stuff from their project Influencer to Launch which is where they partner with a lot of influencers and she curated this beautiful blush palette with OFRA and I have to say these typically are in colors that I reach for but I've been reaching for this palette a lot the convenience I just love the overall look of it I think right now I'm wearing this shade this pools a lot warmer on my skin than it looks in the pan and OFRA is a solid blush formula nothing amazing but it really does work and I love a good blush palette I love having multiple options for my cheeks I love mixing and matching and all of that and I think overall this has been really really nice so if you want to support BLAM with Susan or you just want a really nice blush palette that you're able to take the pans out of I really like this I've been enjoying it a lot it's the kind of product where once I put in my drawers it's not going to stand out against all of my makeup but since it's been here on my desk I haven't been able to stop reaching for it for highlights I'm starting off with a cream highlight this is from Tarte this is the Maracuja Juicy Glow Cream Highlight in Champagne Glow this is one of the best cream highlights I've ever tried and that statement holds a lot of weight from me because I do not like liquid or cream highlights I'm a powder highlight kind of girl but this I even had powder on my skin and I applied this on this cheek and it melted in like butter didn't disrupt anything that's my big pet peeve about cream highlights is that they'll disrupt what you've got going on underneath not this so this is a really solid one I also have a powder highlight from Ofrah this came in Ali Dawson's bundle I do have her palette that I'm going to talk about in my palette rankings but she chose this highlight to be in the bundle it's all of the lights so it's a mixture I believe of existing Ofrah highlight shades Ofrah highlights are really really nice but they are very very blinding I have it on this side I've just been reaching for this one out of convenience I've been enjoying it a lot I've been enjoying playing with the different undertones it's a good highlighter if you're interested but just know she a bit blingy and the last blush bronzer highlight situation that we have is a palette this is from Physicians Formula and this is Kick Butt I really love this this is the Physicians Formula Butter Dream Team Palette any time they come out with these palettes I buy them because they're really great quality and they're the best value because if you buy these items individually Physicians Formula can be up there in price so here you have two bronzers, two blushes one highlight and one kind of multi-tasking complexion powder I don't really use that but I use everything else the highlight isn't too dark on me believe it or not but I love mixing and matching the bronzers I even demoed this blush right here because I thought it was so pretty it has a pretty glow if you want really good cheap products from the drugstore you get great value out of these palettes and I never have anything bad to say about these palettes because they're very good and these are options that I reach for all of the time especially when I see them at the drugstore I'm gonna pick them up if there's a new one so highly recommend this one really good quality really great colors this year the last complexion product that I have is from Kate Somerville this is the Uncomplicated SPF Makeup Setting Spray there are pros and cons to this product overall I'm gonna say I really enjoyed this product but I absolutely hate the application of this it is an aerosol can it's very potent I feel like I am spraying hairspray on my face and I have poo pooed on a lot of setting sprays in the past because I cannot stand the application I can't breathe when I spray it but I love the way this makes my makeup look so one thing you have to be careful about is when you spray it it will stick to the hairs on your face even if you shave your face it will find hairs to stick to so you can almost see like a halo around your face take your sponge press it in and normally that would be game over for me like it's horrible to apply and it gives me a halo of hair around my face but I swear to you when you push it in it completely changes the look of your makeup smooths everything out hydrates everything softens the look of your face it is like magic in a bottle you've got to work for it though because it is painful to apply but something about this really creates a very soft and smooth and hydrated look to the face it is so crazy Anna has SPF 50 which I mean always apply your sunscreen in the morning first thing but an extra layer won't hurt so yeah just know I hate applying her I really do but she does magic to my face very similar to what Charlotte Tilbury's does if not even better in terms of like what it does because my skin was looking a little dry and then I put this on and now my skin looks juicy alright let's move on over to the eyes the first product that I have is from Patrick Ta I've talked about this on my channel a couple of times so I'm gonna breeze by it this is the Patrick Ta Major Brow Defining Pencil if you like a really nice thin small eyebrow pencil I think you will like this it's not too creamy it's not too dry I honestly would probably prefer a little bit more dry but it really does allow you to get very individual hair like strokes I mean Patrick Ta just does a great job with his makeup line in general and I mean he stayed consistent with that statement when it came to this brow pencil I've been thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying it I think it's a good one next up I picked this product up at the drug store because of all the hype and I'm I don't like it this is the NYX the brow glue and people were swearing up and down that this is like glue for your eyebrows I strongly disagree maybe I have particularly stubborn eyebrows but I you know try and get a little bit of a fluffy brow going just to thicken the appearance of them but my eyebrow hairs fall like I've had to do this two, three times since first applying it to really liven them back up I mean the ABH is much better Patrick Ta has an eyebrow gel that's much better Benefits is much better yeah I'm not getting the hype about this I guess my eyebrows just don't like to listen but my eyebrows fall with that and then eyeliner I have been using the Hourglass Voyeur waterproof gel eyeliners once these set down they are not moving there's a ton of different colors I've only been playing with Obsidian which is a black and then Forest so I have Forest on my waterline it has not faded in my waterline at all and I have the black on Obsidian on the upper lash line and I've been enjoying using pencil liners lately even on the upper lash line so applying these they are very very creamy sometimes they kind of slip and slide but once you get them down like once they hit the skin they don't move so you can't even really blend them out which has been a bit difficult for me to understand because they really do glide across the eyelid but then you can't smudge it and I wish it had a little bit more dry time so that I could manipulate the product a little bit better but dang it stays so I think these are really really really good eyeliners but just know you get no smudge time with them but they stay put I've also been testing the one size fantasize mascara if you have small short thin sparse lashes anything like that I don't recommend this maybe if you have bigger lashes I'd feel differently but the wand is a little too fat so I do find it difficult to apply on my lower lashes they do give a little bit of volume not really so much length it's okay but I do find that this mascara also does flake a little bit so yeah I feel like if you have naturally thick full eyelashes you might like this but you know my fellow Asian lash girls and then the very last item I have for eyes is from Lily Lashes these are the 3d foam ink half lashes the style dreamy this is one of Lily Lashes newest collections it is a half lash collection obsessed with this collection and I'm talking about these now because and this is the only style that I've tried but Ulta for their 21 days of beauty sale they are going to have this collection for 50% off I highly recommend I think they just look so beautiful on my eyes but still natural they definitely elongate my eyes so yeah we're liking that we're liking that a lot all right finally to the last category lips we're gonna start off with this guy from Kapare this is the tripeptide lip cloud it's okay so I use this before makeup application but it doesn't have really any lasting power for a hydrating lip balm slash gloss kind of situation like this I would prefer if it was a little bit thicker a little bit more sticky because this is so thin almost like water I actually applied this three times before getting to my lips it does hydrate but it doesn't last long enough so you don't get that full intensive hydration for a long amount of time so while I do like it I wish it was a bit thicker I have a lot of other lip balms that I would prefer to sit on my lips during makeup application okay so next I want to talk about the rare beauty lip line so I got all of her lip liners and lipsticks sent to me so these are the kind words matte lip liners and then I also have the lipsticks so the lip liners themselves very very creamy really great color selection they're twisty upy and then you can pull out the sharpener to get a sharp line I find it a little bit hard to get a really defined line when I use these I normally have to go in with a concealer to kind of sharpen the line but they're very creamy easy to apply the lipsticks also feel very thin on the lips but in a good way very creamy but overall I'm not a big fan of these because anytime I wear these two together the rare beauty lip liner in the rare beauty lipsticks they don't last on me I don't know what it is I think they're almost like too creamy and too thin so they just wipe off so easily every time I wear these together and my lips are bare within the hour and I don't understand it because I like everything else about the product but longevity is a no on these particularly the lipsticks the lip liners last a little longer but dang they disappear okay also tried this formula from L'Oreal this is the glow paradise lip balm glow thing in shade 110 I don't like this on its own it looks a little dry on my lips considering the intended purpose of this product it's much better when you prep the lips and you have a lip liner underneath this is a lot more comfortable but yeah I mean there's a lot of these lip balm lip gloss hybrid lipstick kind of products out now and this isn't at the top of my lips it gets the job done works I don't dislike it but I would rather direct you to the glowing lip balms from Colourpop so these are from one of their newest collections I have quite a few of these in my collection now these are my favorite lip formula from Colourpop these are like a creamy pigmented lip balm lipstick hybrid not too pigmented though is a really plush and glowy look to the lips definitely my favorite product for the lips I can get at Colourpop so this collection can't remember the name of it at the top of my head but it's like summery colors I have on a more orange color in the demo but they do have a lot of neutral colors as well these didn't make it into my last speak reviews because I wasn't wearing them and then I was like you know what let me wear these so I can talk about them in the next speak reviews and I haven't been able to stop wearing them I'm obsessed with these the next product is something that I currently do have on my lips very popular product this is the Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Plum it went trending like super crazy trending on TikTok it's a beautiful product the M Cosmetics Lip Cushion is a product that I have that's very similar to this this gives a really smooth look to the lips very glossy it's almost a lip gloss in kind of a push-up form it has a very soft kind of minty feel to the lips that honestly feels really nice and cooling I really do like this I mean I don't know that it deserves the huge hype that it got but I think it looks really nice it lasts a pretty good time all things consider very comfortable hydrating plump on the lips so I can't say anything mad about it probably not a product that I'm inclined to reach for all of the time but a very good job and if you like that style of product I think you will like this and by the way I do have this shade peachy beige final two products we have this lip gloss from NYX this was highly recommended by you guys for me to try so it took your advice on this this is the this is juice gloss in the shade strawberry flex though I don't think the shade does too much it's very sheer but I love the scent smells like my childhood artificial AF strawberries but so yummy and this really is a very juicy hydrating lip it smooths right over the fine lines I love the wet do we look that this gives my lips I definitely want to pick this up in a few more shades if I'm able to what a standout gloss from the drugstore you guys did not lead me astray so beautiful really like this and they have so many flavors that really appeal to me so if you're looking for something super juicy and wet for the lips this is it and then finally I have four lip glosses from Nomad cosmetics this was from not the most recent launch but the launch before that I've never tried Nomad cosmetics lip glosses these are very bright vibrant multi-dimensional shades so they're not necessarily to my taste so I've been wearing them a ton but I gotta give Nomad credit where credit is due because the color that you see in the component itself is the exact look of the lips I mean just they killed it the glittery shade right here literally pulls as glitter on the lips and they're quite comfortable as well the shade in meow right here is like a pink and gold duochrome this is the most wearable one again you see the duochrome on the lips hot pink, purple they do a good job not colors that I would wear very often so I haven't gotten much wear out of them but I'm very impressed with the formula and integrity to the color okay you guys there we have it those are all of the 30 products that I am tying up with a little nice bow to give you guys my final thoughts on after testing these multiple times let me know down below your thoughts on any of these products what do you love what do you not love what do you agree and disagree with me on I would love to hear and start a conversation down below and I hope you guys are enjoying this speed review so make sure you will like this 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Hey there polycasters, Rob here. Welcome back to the show. So today we're gonna be talking about probably one of the most requested topics ever, carbon routing. So, routing itself is a very big topic and what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna break this into sort of a multi-part series. So today we'll be covering kind of the basics of routing and then we'll look at things like lazy loading and data and showing spinners and stuff like that, managing flash one styled content and also any questions or things like that you want me to cover, leave them down in the comments and we'll try and do those in some of these future episodes. To start us off, what we're gonna be building is a simple blog application that looks like this. So you can see here that I've got a few different sections that I can flip between, right? Art, film and photo, got some lovely nature photography here that I took off of the interwebs and clicking on any of these pictures will then show us the actual blog posts that we're interested in. And as we're doing this, keep an eye on the URL up here which is gonna be updating as we go and as we do our work. When we're talking about carbon route, we need to think of it as sort of like two separate pieces. The first is this element called carbon location and carbon locations job is just to watch the URL bar and either reflect the state of the URL or take any changes from our application and transfer those back to the URL. It does this using its route property which we're gonna expose in our application using a two way binding which we're also gonna call route. We then couple the carbon location with one or more carbon route elements. The carbon route elements take the route from carbon location, they bind to it using their own route property. They define a pattern which is sort of the URL that they're interested in that they wanna match. So in this case, we're saying the pattern is slash and then we're using this sort of token syntax to say anything after slash we'll refer to it as page. You could also have like a multi-part URL. So you could say slash foo slash bar slash colon some piece of data that you might be interested in. Once we have a little data token here we can expose that to the rest of the app using this data attribute and I'm just gonna call it page data. So if the user was on a page called slash foo in this case page data would equal. So let's see, I'll write it all out here. So it'd be page data dot page as that matches this token right here that we've just named page. Page data dot page equals foo. I know that this is good handwriting. Thank you. Whoever was like halfway through typing a YouTube comment I know, okay. I already know that it looks really good. Okay. Now anything after the pattern that we have not matched gets exposed to our application as the tail and I'm going to expose that using this binding called page tail. Now the idea of a tail is sort of interesting and basically what it allows us to do is kind of break up our URL into different sort of subsections that our app cares about. So I can bind the tail and sort of pass that into a child component and then that child component doesn't have to know anything else about the URL or even the entire rest of the application. All it knows or all it cares about is that one sort of piece of the URL that it is scoped to. So it allows you to create these sort of modular subsections in your app. The last thing I want to mention is this active attribute. So we can use this as kind of a flag to tell us when our carbon route is matching. Okay. Pretty simple. Now for the blog app that we're going to be building we need to think a little bit about the sort of like URL structure that we want to use. So in that application I'm going to start off with slash category and that could be art, film or photo. And then based on that category there's like two views that I could show. The first would be a list view of all of the blog posts. So slash art slash list. And then the other one would be an individual post. So slash art slash posts slash check out this rad lion thing, right? That's kind of the URL structure that we're going to be using for this app. We're going to have two views, list and posts. So with that in mind we're actually ready to go ahead and just start writing some code. So let's go over and hop into Adam. So in my next HTML file I have a blog app element and that's going to contain all the logic for our application. Inside a blog app I've gone ahead and I've imported carbon location. I've imported a carbon route. I've also pulled in iron selector and then I've pulled in an element called blog pages which we'll talk about in just a sec. Now inside of my template I'm going to go ahead and write out that carbon location. I'm going to take its route and expose that to the application as a scope variable called route. And then I'm going to bind that to a carbon route instance. So we'll link these two with that route scope variable. And then we're going to say that we want to match the pattern of slash colon category. We want to expose that data to our application as category data. And lastly, we want to take the tail. We want to take everything after the category and we want to expose that to our app as the category tail. Now with this in place I can go ahead and I can actually write a little menu whose state will sort of match whatever my URL is. So I'm going to use the iron selector element to do that and I'm just going to throw in some anchor tags inside of there. So I'll say an iron selector. The selected property will be category data dot category. We'll then say that it should use attribute for selected so we can give a unique attribute to all of our menu items to identify and sort of match against that category data property. So the attribute for selected. In this case, I'm just going to make one up. I'll make up an attribute called data page. And then I'm going to create three anchors. We'll duplicate this three times. Slash, the first one will be slash art slash list. The second one will be slash film slash list. We'll do slash photo slash list. Put the appropriate anchor text in there, art, film and photo. And then I'm also going to give each of these a data page. So data page equals art, film and photo. Now you may have noticed that I've used hash routing here. I've got this little pound symbol at the beginning of my URLs. I want to make sure to tell carbon location to use hash routing in our application because at the moment I haven't set up a fancy server for doing any sort of like index redirect or anything like that. We're just going to go ahead and use pretty straightforward simple hash routing. Use hash as path. We'll give that attribute to carbon location. And now it knows that anytime I update the URL, it should put a little hash in there. Okay, so with this in place, we may be ready to go ahead and actually test our application. So I'm going to go over here to Chrome and I'm going to hit the blog page. And we're going to see we get art, film and photo showing up. Those anchor tags are in place, right? When I click on them, you'll notice that the URL has now updated to reflect the state, right? Art, film, photo. If I refresh the page, we see that the state has been reflected to our menu. So now that we have our menu hooked up to our router, the next thing we want to do is create those two views. One for listing all of our blog posts and the other for actually showing an individual blog post. To do that, I will go back to Adam. And I'm going to, in my blog app application, create a main element. And I'm going to add that blog pages element that I showed before that I had imported there. And this blog pages element is kind of gonna be like a replacement for iron pages in our app. So I'm going to tell it which category is currently selected. I'll pass that in as category data.category. And then I'm also gonna tell it the current route. So I'll just pass that in as category tail. And this way blog pages doesn't actually sort of care so much about what the category URL looks like. It only cares about everything that comes after that. Basically, is this a list view or is this a post view? All right, over in our category pages element, the first thing I'm gonna do is create two carbon routes to sort of monitor list and posts. So we'll have a carbon route here. It's route is just gonna come in as route that again gets passed in by the parent here. Route equals category tail. So that's gonna be route. The pattern that we'll be matching on this first carbon route will be slash list. And then the last thing I wanna do is I wanna know when is this particular route active? So I'll say active equals, and I'll create a little scope variable called list active. Similarly, if someone wants to view an individual post, we'll do another carbon route. We'll set that route equal to the route. We'll set its pattern equal to slash posts slash. And then we're gonna have another token here. So we're gonna ask for the slug. Which post slug is the person looking for? And again, we'll also say what is currently active. So we'll say is post active. And lastly, we wanna expose the data for that slug to the actual post page. So we'll expose that as post data. Okay, so I've got these two carbon routes now coming from the tail of the previous page. And what I'm gonna do is take a list page element and a post page element and hook those up to the routes. So this part is pretty straightforward because much like a cooking show, I have already prepared these elements ahead of time. So I can just go ahead and drop the codes for them in here. We've got list page whose category comes from the parent. Remember, we took the category and we passed that into blog pages. So that's already available to us. And we're gonna set its active state to the list active scope variable. Similarly, we've got a post page element. Its post is gonna come from that post data.slug token. And it's also gonna have this little active attribute to tell us if that route is matching if that page is active as well. Now active in this case, this isn't like a fancy thing that these pages support or anything like that. If we actually crack them open and we look at their CSS, you can see that we just have a host selector on each of these. By default, they're display none. And when they have an active attribute, they're display block. So we're just gonna toggle which one is visible based on which route is currently active. Now inside of these elements, I'm not really doing anything too fancy. I have an IronAgeax tag, which is set to auto. And I'm computing the URL based on the values that are passed in. So on the list page, when you pass in a category, we figure out what the URL is to load some category JSON. And then we display that in this little template down here. Similarly for the post page, it's basically the exact same setup. I've got an IronAgeax tag inside of here. I'm computing the URL based on the slug that was passed in. And I also have kind of like a little template here that'll show the actual content for that post. One thing that I wanna make sure I do is when the user first comes to our site, if they just go to slash, I wanna redirect them to a section so that they see some initial content. And what I wanna do is probably redirect them to something like slash art slash list. So you see that whole list of art blog posts. So I'll go back to my blog app element and I'm just gonna drop in this attached handler where I'm gonna say if this dot route dot path is sort of null or undefined, then set the route path to slash art slash list. So now we sort of see the two-way nature of carbon location. So normally it passes a location into the page, but we can also sort of imperatively set a location and pass that back to the URL bar. So I think we've got all of our code here. We can actually switch over to Chrome now and preview this application. So we go back to Chrome, refresh the page, and now we can see we've got our entire blog listed out here for us. If you look at our sort of initial URL up here, it's redirected to art list. And I can go, I can change the different categories to look at film, photo, and scrolling around, I can click on any of these different blog posts and actually sort of see the content that they're displaying. So that about covers it for today. We've hit on the basics of carbon route, but there's still a lot more to cover, right? We can talk more about how to show spinners as we lazy load data, how we manage flash one style content, how we deal with scroll position as we change between the different sections. So I'll save all of that for a future episode. Now, if you yourself, if you have some questions or things you want to see as we keep exploring carbon route, please leave them for me down below in the comments or you can ping me on a social network of your choosing at hashtag ask polymer. As always, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time. Do you want me to tell some bad jokes? Okay, I got some bad jokes. Okay. Oh my God. Okay. Okay, Unihorse. 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From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. In Britain, demonstrators recently protested outside the Treasury to call on the world's richest countries to act against tax havens. These are countries or territories that have low tax rates for businesses. Companies can place their profits in tax havens to avoid the higher tax rates of countries where they earned the income. An investigation found that tax havens cost Africa $38 billion every year in lost taxes. Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan led the investigation. The demonstrators at Britain's Treasury called on Chancellor George Osborne to discuss the practice with finance ministers from other wealthy countries. Melanie Ward is with the enough for everyone if campaign. She said she believes many people in Britain and the world oppose such tax avoidance. Tax havens and low tax countries like Ireland are popular, but critics of tax havens say big companies transfer profits out of the countries on which their income depends. Ronan Polan is a professor at City University London. He says capital in some African countries is funding development in other parts of the world because of such transfers. The charity Action Aid says the brewing company SAB Miller uses a complex system of tax havens. It says this system moves profits out of the company's operations in developing countries like Ghana. SAB Miller denies any tax abuses. It says in 2010 it paid about $250 million in corporate taxes in India and sub-Saharan Africa. British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to discuss the issue of tax havens at the G8 leaders meeting in June. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.