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blacklabproductions3 年前

Surprised Pierre didn’t tell us where the coaches played squirts durning that.

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E3 年前

Ruff vs Murray in Buffalo was a good one

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Christian Rutkoski3 年前

Ahh the good ol' days. Back when the penguins were not just an okay team and the Flyers weren't hot garbage. I blame Comcast for ruining one of hockey's greatest rivalries. Haven't tuned in to a single Penguins vs Flyers game in years.

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Beeb22 🇨🇦 🏒tap3 年前

@Not_an_ebug

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renegade3 年前

The Wayne train hanging on for dear life. Deryk Engelland was too much.

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Bob Buskirk3 年前

I was at this game…amazing atmosphere right before the playoffs

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Bobby O3 年前

Back when the Penguins had some spice and heart on the roster and weren't programmed "to play the right way".

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FELIX CHARTS

52,127 次观看 • 2 年前

A story close to my heart From Vision to Reality: How We Transformed a Government Girls High School in the deserted suburbs of Muzaffargarh into a Center of Excellence : STEM-Arts Center of Excellence In April 2024, we set out to do the "impossible": turn a neglected Government Girls School in Muzaffargarh Mondka into a world-class Center of Excellence as the 10th project under the umbrella of Education Innovation Network in the region for AI technology and skill development. 330 days later, the impossible became possible with 3 main projects under this initiative : ✅ AI Center – Empowering girls with the tools to shape their future ✅ Botanical Garden & Science Hall – Nurturing curiosity and a love for plants ✅ Dr. Ahmed Saeed Khan Nishtar Art Gallery – A tribute to my mentor, brought to life by Sehrish Jameel Warya Usman Khan and 30 passionate Nishterian students , an idea inspired by Boston Arty Gallery. Due to my perosnal art love , I personally funded and named it one of the best mentor Dr. Khan. Top three bestt artists winner 🏅 received cash prizes to promote the culture of Art at Nishtar and its use in the community. To my knowledge its first ever Art Gallery made by doctors in the Pakistan for a community outreach impact This wasn’t just a renovation—it was a revolution. 💡 Special credit to my brothers who worked hard day and night with countless barriea and challenges but delivered this best gift to community Asif Laghari Saqib Laghari Muhammad Jafir Laghari Muhammad Musharaf Laghari . I like to specially thank my colleagueses who trusted this team. Thanks to All Government officials from CEO Education to principal school for showing same level off commitment. This was not possible by one person but so many teams Specifically : 🤝 100+ committee members (AI, Art, Science, Plantation committees ) 🛠️ 200+ laborers of multiple sectors 📅 200+ meetings from on ground to virtual , from MOU signing to daily and weekly updates 💰 4.2 million PKR total budget excluding the saving cost and work we got it done for free due to local interest and passionate team members estimated around 1 million , making this project actually cost more than 5 million. But the real impact? ✨Girls who now dare to dream bigger via AI ✨ A community that believes in the power of change and hope ✨ Proof that passion, determination, and teamwork can move mountains with small actions Best moment is when your mom see the fruits on day of inauguration, it’s a journey full of pain but ending like making ease. Thank you for giving time to be the perfect judge for arts competition by Rana Altaf Ahmad and sharing the advice for future. This is more than a project—it’s a blueprint for transformation. If we can accomplish this in one of Pakistan’s most underserved regions, then there’s no limit to what can be achieved anywhere there is need. Grateful to Allah for blessing this team and partners to do something little for girls empowerment and for a Pakistan free of Poverty 💞
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A story close to my heart From Vision to Reality: How We Transformed a Government Girls High School in the deserted suburbs of Muzaffargarh into a Center of Excellence : STEM-Arts Center of Excellence In April 2024, we set out to do the "impossible": turn a neglected Government Girls School in Muzaffargarh Mondka into a world-class Center of Excellence as the 10th project under the umbrella of Education Innovation Network in the region for AI technology and skill development. 330 days later, the impossible became possible with 3 main projects under this initiative : ✅ AI Center – Empowering girls with the tools to shape their future ✅ Botanical Garden & Science Hall – Nurturing curiosity and a love for plants ✅ Dr. Ahmed Saeed Khan Nishtar Art Gallery – A tribute to my mentor, brought to life by Sehrish Jameel Warya Usman Khan and 30 passionate Nishterian students , an idea inspired by Boston Arty Gallery. Due to my perosnal art love , I personally funded and named it one of the best mentor Dr. Khan. Top three bestt artists winner 🏅 received cash prizes to promote the culture of Art at Nishtar and its use in the community. To my knowledge its first ever Art Gallery made by doctors in the Pakistan for a community outreach impact This wasn’t just a renovation—it was a revolution. 💡 Special credit to my brothers who worked hard day and night with countless barriea and challenges but delivered this best gift to community Asif Laghari Saqib Laghari Muhammad Jafir Laghari Muhammad Musharaf Laghari . I like to specially thank my colleagueses who trusted this team. Thanks to All Government officials from CEO Education to principal school for showing same level off commitment. This was not possible by one person but so many teams Specifically : 🤝 100+ committee members (AI, Art, Science, Plantation committees ) 🛠️ 200+ laborers of multiple sectors 📅 200+ meetings from on ground to virtual , from MOU signing to daily and weekly updates 💰 4.2 million PKR total budget excluding the saving cost and work we got it done for free due to local interest and passionate team members estimated around 1 million , making this project actually cost more than 5 million. But the real impact? ✨Girls who now dare to dream bigger via AI ✨ A community that believes in the power of change and hope ✨ Proof that passion, determination, and teamwork can move mountains with small actions Best moment is when your mom see the fruits on day of inauguration, it’s a journey full of pain but ending like making ease. Thank you for giving time to be the perfect judge for arts competition by Rana Altaf Ahmad and sharing the advice for future. This is more than a project—it’s a blueprint for transformation. If we can accomplish this in one of Pakistan’s most underserved regions, then there’s no limit to what can be achieved anywhere there is need. Grateful to Allah for blessing this team and partners to do something little for girls empowerment and for a Pakistan free of Poverty 💞

Aamir Laghari , MD, FACC

23,281 次观看 • 1 年前

The Joe Budden–Eminem beef didn’t start with a single diss track. It grew out of *Slaughterhouse’s time on Shady Records*, then exploded in public when Joe started ripping Eminem’s music while still signed to him‼️. The Slaughterhouse era (2011–2010s)‼️ Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Royce da 5'9", Joell Ortiz, and KXNG Crooked) signed to Eminem’s Shady Records in 2011. Their Shady debut, *Welcome to: Our House* (2012), was executive-produced by Eminem‼️. Joe later said the problems started there: - He felt Eminem and Paul Rosenberg tried to apply Eminem’s commercial formula (hooks, certain beats, a more “stadium” sound) to a group that was built on raw lyricism and independent mixtape energy‼️. - He complained they kept getting sent Eminem beats that “weren’t for Slaughterhouse.”‼️ - He believed the group could have done better independently and that they were mismanaged / left in Eminem’s shadow (promotion, tours, etc.)‼️. - There were disagreements over business terms and creative control. Joe has said he was fighting for a better situation for the whole group‼️. KXNG Crooked later confirmed Joe had been holding a grudge over how Slaughterhouse was handled‼️. Joe’s 2015 song “SlaughterMouse” addressed some of this — he later said it started as a diss but was rewritten into something more respectful/tribute-like‼️. Slaughterhouse never released a proper second Shady album. The group eventually fell apart‼️. The public explosion (2017–2018)‼️ The beef went public when Joe, by then more of a podcast/media personality than an active rapper, heavily criticized Eminem’s 2017 album *Revival* on Everyday Struggle and his own podcast‼️. He called “Untouchable” one of the worst songs he’d ever heard and accused the camp of using racial/political talking points as a sales gimmick. Because he was still a Shady artist, a lot of people (including some in the Shady camp) saw this as crossing a line‼️. Eminem responded: - Subliminal shots on the “Chloraseptic (Remix)” in early 2018‼️. - A direct namediss on *Kamikaze* (2018) track “Fall”: “Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it / Or have his body bag get zipped / The closest thing he’s had to hits is smacking bitches.”‼️ Joe fired back on his podcast with a long rant, claiming he’d been better than Eminem for the entire decade and criticizing Em’s music, relevance, and character‼️. Aftermath⁉️ Eminem took a few more shots on later projects. Joe has since said (around 2020 and later) that he doesn’t have ongoing beef, that Em should stop dissing him, and that he doesn’t regret it because his intent was trying to get a better situation for Slaughterhouse. He still acknowledges Eminem’s influence on him as a younger artist‼️.
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The Joe Budden–Eminem beef didn’t start with a single diss track. It grew out of *Slaughterhouse’s time on Shady Records*, then exploded in public when Joe started ripping Eminem’s music while still signed to him‼️. The Slaughterhouse era (2011–2010s)‼️ Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Royce da 5'9", Joell Ortiz, and KXNG Crooked) signed to Eminem’s Shady Records in 2011. Their Shady debut, *Welcome to: Our House* (2012), was executive-produced by Eminem‼️. Joe later said the problems started there: - He felt Eminem and Paul Rosenberg tried to apply Eminem’s commercial formula (hooks, certain beats, a more “stadium” sound) to a group that was built on raw lyricism and independent mixtape energy‼️. - He complained they kept getting sent Eminem beats that “weren’t for Slaughterhouse.”‼️ - He believed the group could have done better independently and that they were mismanaged / left in Eminem’s shadow (promotion, tours, etc.)‼️. - There were disagreements over business terms and creative control. Joe has said he was fighting for a better situation for the whole group‼️. KXNG Crooked later confirmed Joe had been holding a grudge over how Slaughterhouse was handled‼️. Joe’s 2015 song “SlaughterMouse” addressed some of this — he later said it started as a diss but was rewritten into something more respectful/tribute-like‼️. Slaughterhouse never released a proper second Shady album. The group eventually fell apart‼️. The public explosion (2017–2018)‼️ The beef went public when Joe, by then more of a podcast/media personality than an active rapper, heavily criticized Eminem’s 2017 album *Revival* on Everyday Struggle and his own podcast‼️. He called “Untouchable” one of the worst songs he’d ever heard and accused the camp of using racial/political talking points as a sales gimmick. Because he was still a Shady artist, a lot of people (including some in the Shady camp) saw this as crossing a line‼️. Eminem responded: - Subliminal shots on the “Chloraseptic (Remix)” in early 2018‼️. - A direct namediss on *Kamikaze* (2018) track “Fall”: “Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it / Or have his body bag get zipped / The closest thing he’s had to hits is smacking bitches.”‼️ Joe fired back on his podcast with a long rant, claiming he’d been better than Eminem for the entire decade and criticizing Em’s music, relevance, and character‼️. Aftermath⁉️ Eminem took a few more shots on later projects. Joe has since said (around 2020 and later) that he doesn’t have ongoing beef, that Em should stop dissing him, and that he doesn’t regret it because his intent was trying to get a better situation for Slaughterhouse. He still acknowledges Eminem’s influence on him as a younger artist‼️.

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45,798 次观看 • 2 天前

Look at how giddy certain individuals are when they get to cheerlead for Greg Abbott and rub how much (probably) dirty money he has in your face. Meanwhile the rest of us are out here struggling to make ends meet or face losing their home under the very conditions that Greg has caused. These people are completely removed from reality. That's what they think of us. They view us all as dumb cattle that have to vote for whoever has the most money. Because candidate X has more special interest big donor money, We The People get stuck with the special interest approved candidate? Notice how they never talk about the issues or the competition of ideas. It's never about who has a better vision or plan for Texas, it's always pot shots about money or some other ridiculous attack. We are running this thing, in many ways, like an unconventional warfare operation. Without disclosing tactics, techniques, and procedures, those operations do not require nearly the expenditure in dollars to achieve results as opposed to something more conventional. What’s being done and communicated about money is a method of voter suppression. It’s meant to demoralize voters on one side to make it appear that their support for a candidate is isolated and they’re all alone…that the candidate they support could never win because “look at the numbers”. This is called Bandwagon Effect and Demoralization. It’s a psychological manipulation tactic meant to suppress voters that exploit the conformity bias. It leads to people thinking “my vote won’t matter”. Greg and his sycophantic supporters are counting on this to be effective. If things were as hopeless as these idiots lead folks to believe, why would Greg be actively campaigning leading up to the Republican primary? I mean if there really is no chance for any challenger, why is Greg and his campaign doing the things they’re doing? There’d be no need to waste the time and resources on campaigning, it’d be better to save that for the general election against the democrat machine. But that’s not what we see is it? Greg is actively making the rounds and campaigning; his campaign staff is active and working. They may not be using the words primary (because doing so does nothing but hurt them), but they are out there and working every day. Greg is constantly getting in front of MSM or sympathetic State and national radio/podcast hosts. He’s utilizing known paid influencers on social media to echo his more recent “actions” to build the illusion of support and reinforce that Bandwagon Effect. He’s reaching out to members of the Texas legislature to desperately get them to sign on to his ridiculous big-nothingburger of a property tax plan…and then very publicly posting up when one of them signs on and “supports” it. Every time Doc attends a Republican committee event at the county level to talk (or has someone there on his behalf), Greg Abbott has a surrogate there actively campaigning for Greg in response. Greg and his team are so concerned with the numbers and what’s happening inside the party, they have to try and wrestle back control and narrative within the party. Just on social media, we’ve seen a 250% increase in activity on Greg’s campaign account since the summer. On multiple occasions Greg has either lifted direct sections of Doc Pete Chambers plans and policy or the concepts. Suddenly he’s figured out how to take action on the things that people are up in arms about, right before the primary election? On more than one occasion Greg and his campaign have been forced to put out a statement or propose some new “action” (optics) less than 24 hours after Doc or Doc’s campaign has posted about something. Ladies and gentlemen, those are not the actions of a candidate who has it in the bag and “there’s no threat”. Think about it this way. We admittedly have a fraction of the resources that Greg Abbott has, after he’s spent decades in politics…but little ole Doc with “no money” and “no chance” is forcing the leader of the 2nd largest State in the country and 8th largest economy in the world to sweat, forcing him to take actions he otherwise wouldn’t be taking…that is very significant and telling about how Greg and his team view Doc. So let the naysayers scream into the void and expose their true nature to everyone. We will continue on making Greg’s team backpedal and take actions they otherwise wouldn’t be taking. Anyone who’s ever participated in maneuver warfare at the operational and strategic level will know exactly what we are talking about. #TexasNeedsADoc
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Look at how giddy certain individuals are when they get to cheerlead for Greg Abbott and rub how much (probably) dirty money he has in your face. Meanwhile the rest of us are out here struggling to make ends meet or face losing their home under the very conditions that Greg has caused. These people are completely removed from reality. That's what they think of us. They view us all as dumb cattle that have to vote for whoever has the most money. Because candidate X has more special interest big donor money, We The People get stuck with the special interest approved candidate? Notice how they never talk about the issues or the competition of ideas. It's never about who has a better vision or plan for Texas, it's always pot shots about money or some other ridiculous attack. We are running this thing, in many ways, like an unconventional warfare operation. Without disclosing tactics, techniques, and procedures, those operations do not require nearly the expenditure in dollars to achieve results as opposed to something more conventional. What’s being done and communicated about money is a method of voter suppression. It’s meant to demoralize voters on one side to make it appear that their support for a candidate is isolated and they’re all alone…that the candidate they support could never win because “look at the numbers”. This is called Bandwagon Effect and Demoralization. It’s a psychological manipulation tactic meant to suppress voters that exploit the conformity bias. It leads to people thinking “my vote won’t matter”. Greg and his sycophantic supporters are counting on this to be effective. If things were as hopeless as these idiots lead folks to believe, why would Greg be actively campaigning leading up to the Republican primary? I mean if there really is no chance for any challenger, why is Greg and his campaign doing the things they’re doing? There’d be no need to waste the time and resources on campaigning, it’d be better to save that for the general election against the democrat machine. But that’s not what we see is it? Greg is actively making the rounds and campaigning; his campaign staff is active and working. They may not be using the words primary (because doing so does nothing but hurt them), but they are out there and working every day. Greg is constantly getting in front of MSM or sympathetic State and national radio/podcast hosts. He’s utilizing known paid influencers on social media to echo his more recent “actions” to build the illusion of support and reinforce that Bandwagon Effect. He’s reaching out to members of the Texas legislature to desperately get them to sign on to his ridiculous big-nothingburger of a property tax plan…and then very publicly posting up when one of them signs on and “supports” it. Every time Doc attends a Republican committee event at the county level to talk (or has someone there on his behalf), Greg Abbott has a surrogate there actively campaigning for Greg in response. Greg and his team are so concerned with the numbers and what’s happening inside the party, they have to try and wrestle back control and narrative within the party. Just on social media, we’ve seen a 250% increase in activity on Greg’s campaign account since the summer. On multiple occasions Greg has either lifted direct sections of Doc Pete Chambers plans and policy or the concepts. Suddenly he’s figured out how to take action on the things that people are up in arms about, right before the primary election? On more than one occasion Greg and his campaign have been forced to put out a statement or propose some new “action” (optics) less than 24 hours after Doc or Doc’s campaign has posted about something. Ladies and gentlemen, those are not the actions of a candidate who has it in the bag and “there’s no threat”. Think about it this way. We admittedly have a fraction of the resources that Greg Abbott has, after he’s spent decades in politics…but little ole Doc with “no money” and “no chance” is forcing the leader of the 2nd largest State in the country and 8th largest economy in the world to sweat, forcing him to take actions he otherwise wouldn’t be taking…that is very significant and telling about how Greg and his team view Doc. So let the naysayers scream into the void and expose their true nature to everyone. We will continue on making Greg’s team backpedal and take actions they otherwise wouldn’t be taking. Anyone who’s ever participated in maneuver warfare at the operational and strategic level will know exactly what we are talking about. #TexasNeedsADoc

DocPeteChambersForTexas

17,547 次观看 • 7 个月前

Marc Brackett spent 20 years at Yale studying why intelligent people are the worst at understanding their own emotions. What he found will change how you see yourself: 1. Most people cannot name what they are feeling. When Brackett asks a room to find the single word that best describes their emotion, over half struggle. We have never been formally taught to go deep into our emotional lives. We develop a sophisticated vocabulary for things we pay attention to, like wine, but almost none for our own inner states. 2. Emotions quietly control decisions we think are objective. Brackett had teachers grade the exact same middle school essay after being put in a good or bad mood. The grades differed by a full letter, sometimes two. When asked afterwards if their emotional state affected their evaluation, 90% said no way. It did, and they had no awareness of it. 3. No emotion is bad. Everyone is useful depending on what you do with it. Yellow, high energy, and pleasant, is great for brainstorming but terrible for careful decisions. Green, calm, and pleasant, is good for consensus building. Blue drives empathy. Red, anger, points at injustice, and can fuel passion if you channel it instead of being run by it. The goal is not to feel good all the time. it is to use each state well. 4. Jealousy and envy are not the same, and the difference changes how you treat them. Envy is wanting what someone else has. Jealousy is about a relationship, a threat to a bond you already have. It matters because jealousy tends to drive more aggression and violence, so the strategy you would teach a jealous child is completely different from the one for an envious child. Precise labelling enables precise action. 5. Telling someone to calm down, focus, or pay attention almost never works. Brackett points out we bark these commands at children and adults constantly, but we never teach the underlying mental processes for how to actually calm down or focus. Naming the desired state is not the same as giving someone the tools to reach it. 6. 80% of people rate themselves as more emotionally intelligent than the person next to them. which is statistically impossible. Self-report is nearly useless here because there is no reference point. Compared to his father, Brackett says, he is an emotional genius. Compared to the dalai lama, he needs work. Asking people to rate their own emotional intelligence has no validity. 7. 360 reviews measure your reputation, not your skill. When you ask other people to rate someone's emotional intelligence, what you actually capture is whether they like the person, not how skilled they are. The only valid measurement is watching someone solve real emotion-related problems, like decoding expressions or handling a loaded situation. 8. Emotions gate your ability to think and learn at all. A child worried about being bullied between classes cannot focus on the lesson. Brackett failed to focus on his own graduate school entrance exam months after his mother died, and only later understood it had nothing to do with his problem-solving ability. His emotional life was occupying the cognitive space the test required. 9. Emotion regulation is not just about managing negative feelings. We think of it as anger management or stress reduction, all down-regulating. But Brackett asks, who has ever taken a course in optimism induction or happiness maintenance? Regulation also means generating emotions you need, like a leader creating energy in a room, and maintaining good states when others try to pull you out of them. 10. Children with higher emotional intelligence do better on almost every measure that matters. less anxiety, less depression, less likely to abuse alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, less aggression and bullying. They are seen as better leaders, are more attentive, less hyperactive, and perform better academically. The skill that determines academic performance most powerfully is emotion regulation. 11. The strongest sign of emotional intelligence in the workplace is whether people want to take you with them. Brackett had a Fortune 100 company's executives rate 100 managers, including one question: if you left the company tomorrow, would you do anything to bring this person with you? That question correlated more strongly with emotional intelligence than anything else. People want to be around those who have these skills. 12. Brackett hires on the coffee shop criteria. At Yale, he stopped looking at grades because everyone applying is already smart enough. What he looks for instead is whether, in the first 30 seconds, he thinks he would enjoy grabbing coffee with the person and just talking. That instinct tells him whether they are curious, creative, and know how to ask questions, the things schools rarely teach. 13. Creativity only translates into creative output when paired with emotional intelligence. Brackett cites research showing that people who are biologically more open to experience are only rated as producing genuinely creative work when they also score high in emotional intelligence. The reason is that creating means failing and being disappointed constantly, and without the strategies to manage that disappointment, the creative potential never gets unleashed. 14. The meta moment is a six-step tool for not being hijacked by emotion. Something triggers you. You sense the shift in your body and thinking. You take a breath to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and bring the hijacked state down, so your prefrontal cortex can work again. Then you picture your best self, the version of you that you want to be, and let that guide your response. Brackett jokes that six steps done well can help you avoid the twelve steps later. 15. When you are angry, you search for every reason to stay angry. Brackett describes how anger makes you dig up every past grievance, the vacation three years ago, the promise from last week, the thing from when your child was born. Anger is one of those emotions that hunts for justification. The meta moment is designed to interrupt that spiral before it compounds. 16. Seeing your best self is what makes the breath actually work. Brackett admits that taking a breath alone is not enough, because sometimes you take the breath and calmly decide to go for the jugular anyway. The missing piece is shifting your mindset by asking what your best self would do. He built this idea after a student called him the feelings master, and he started asking how the feelings master would actually carry himself in a hard moment. 17. You never regret taking a moment, and you always regret being dysregulated. Brackett is honest that even after years of this work, he sometimes ignores his own best self and ends up, in his words, sleeping alone on the couch that night. But he has never once regretted pausing to be his best self. The regret only ever comes from the times he let the hijack win.
1:02:08

Marc Brackett spent 20 years at Yale studying why intelligent people are the worst at understanding their own emotions. What he found will change how you see yourself: 1. Most people cannot name what they are feeling. When Brackett asks a room to find the single word that best describes their emotion, over half struggle. We have never been formally taught to go deep into our emotional lives. We develop a sophisticated vocabulary for things we pay attention to, like wine, but almost none for our own inner states. 2. Emotions quietly control decisions we think are objective. Brackett had teachers grade the exact same middle school essay after being put in a good or bad mood. The grades differed by a full letter, sometimes two. When asked afterwards if their emotional state affected their evaluation, 90% said no way. It did, and they had no awareness of it. 3. No emotion is bad. Everyone is useful depending on what you do with it. Yellow, high energy, and pleasant, is great for brainstorming but terrible for careful decisions. Green, calm, and pleasant, is good for consensus building. Blue drives empathy. Red, anger, points at injustice, and can fuel passion if you channel it instead of being run by it. The goal is not to feel good all the time. it is to use each state well. 4. Jealousy and envy are not the same, and the difference changes how you treat them. Envy is wanting what someone else has. Jealousy is about a relationship, a threat to a bond you already have. It matters because jealousy tends to drive more aggression and violence, so the strategy you would teach a jealous child is completely different from the one for an envious child. Precise labelling enables precise action. 5. Telling someone to calm down, focus, or pay attention almost never works. Brackett points out we bark these commands at children and adults constantly, but we never teach the underlying mental processes for how to actually calm down or focus. Naming the desired state is not the same as giving someone the tools to reach it. 6. 80% of people rate themselves as more emotionally intelligent than the person next to them. which is statistically impossible. Self-report is nearly useless here because there is no reference point. Compared to his father, Brackett says, he is an emotional genius. Compared to the dalai lama, he needs work. Asking people to rate their own emotional intelligence has no validity. 7. 360 reviews measure your reputation, not your skill. When you ask other people to rate someone's emotional intelligence, what you actually capture is whether they like the person, not how skilled they are. The only valid measurement is watching someone solve real emotion-related problems, like decoding expressions or handling a loaded situation. 8. Emotions gate your ability to think and learn at all. A child worried about being bullied between classes cannot focus on the lesson. Brackett failed to focus on his own graduate school entrance exam months after his mother died, and only later understood it had nothing to do with his problem-solving ability. His emotional life was occupying the cognitive space the test required. 9. Emotion regulation is not just about managing negative feelings. We think of it as anger management or stress reduction, all down-regulating. But Brackett asks, who has ever taken a course in optimism induction or happiness maintenance? Regulation also means generating emotions you need, like a leader creating energy in a room, and maintaining good states when others try to pull you out of them. 10. Children with higher emotional intelligence do better on almost every measure that matters. less anxiety, less depression, less likely to abuse alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, less aggression and bullying. They are seen as better leaders, are more attentive, less hyperactive, and perform better academically. The skill that determines academic performance most powerfully is emotion regulation. 11. The strongest sign of emotional intelligence in the workplace is whether people want to take you with them. Brackett had a Fortune 100 company's executives rate 100 managers, including one question: if you left the company tomorrow, would you do anything to bring this person with you? That question correlated more strongly with emotional intelligence than anything else. People want to be around those who have these skills. 12. Brackett hires on the coffee shop criteria. At Yale, he stopped looking at grades because everyone applying is already smart enough. What he looks for instead is whether, in the first 30 seconds, he thinks he would enjoy grabbing coffee with the person and just talking. That instinct tells him whether they are curious, creative, and know how to ask questions, the things schools rarely teach. 13. Creativity only translates into creative output when paired with emotional intelligence. Brackett cites research showing that people who are biologically more open to experience are only rated as producing genuinely creative work when they also score high in emotional intelligence. The reason is that creating means failing and being disappointed constantly, and without the strategies to manage that disappointment, the creative potential never gets unleashed. 14. The meta moment is a six-step tool for not being hijacked by emotion. Something triggers you. You sense the shift in your body and thinking. You take a breath to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and bring the hijacked state down, so your prefrontal cortex can work again. Then you picture your best self, the version of you that you want to be, and let that guide your response. Brackett jokes that six steps done well can help you avoid the twelve steps later. 15. When you are angry, you search for every reason to stay angry. Brackett describes how anger makes you dig up every past grievance, the vacation three years ago, the promise from last week, the thing from when your child was born. Anger is one of those emotions that hunts for justification. The meta moment is designed to interrupt that spiral before it compounds. 16. Seeing your best self is what makes the breath actually work. Brackett admits that taking a breath alone is not enough, because sometimes you take the breath and calmly decide to go for the jugular anyway. The missing piece is shifting your mindset by asking what your best self would do. He built this idea after a student called him the feelings master, and he started asking how the feelings master would actually carry himself in a hard moment. 17. You never regret taking a moment, and you always regret being dysregulated. Brackett is honest that even after years of this work, he sometimes ignores his own best self and ends up, in his words, sleeping alone on the couch that night. But he has never once regretted pausing to be his best self. The regret only ever comes from the times he let the hijack win.

Jaynit

30,837 次观看 • 2 个月前

Today is the 11th anniversary of the start of war in the Donbas. It was launched on April 12th 2014 in Sloviansk by a group of around 60 special forces and paramilitary men led by the Russian GRU agent Igor ”Strelkov” Girkin. They crossed the border from Russia on April 11th and took control of the government building in Sloviansk on April 12th. Strelkov had been present in Ukraine from the start of the war, having entered Crimea on February 26th and participated in the armed storming of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on February 27th. In March 2014, his unit stormed a photogrammetric center in Simferopol, further consolidating control over strategic locations. Strelkov was instrumental in organizing local pro-Russian militias and coordinating with Russian regular forces, particularly the so-called "little green men" (Russian special forces without insignia). Strelkov was a former officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), having served until at least 2012 and was an officer of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU). He was closely linked to Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-installed prime minister of Crimea, serving as a security aide and advisor. After Crimea, Strelkov moved to eastern Ukraine, leading a group of 52–55 armed militants across the Russian-Ukrainian border on the night of April 11–12, 2014, to seize Sloviansk, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. - On April 12, 2014, his group captured key administrative buildings, including the police station, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) offices, and city administration, declaring Sloviansk part of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). - Strelkov established himself as the military commander of Sloviansk, organizing defenses, setting up roadblocks, and overseeing operations that included ambushes, kidnappings, and executions. - He admitted to sparking the broader Donbas War, stating, “I’m the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn’t crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out.” - His forces engaged Ukrainian troops, killed SBU officers, and took OSCE observers hostage. Strelkov ordered the execution of several individuals, including Ukrainians Yurii Popravko, Yurii Diakovskyi, and Volodymyr Rybak. - By May 2014, he was named “commander-in-chief” and “defense minister” of the DPR, consolidating control over separatist fighters in the region. Facing intense Ukrainian military pressure, Strelkov’s forces retreated from Sloviansk to Donetsk on July 5, 2014, after which his influence waned, and he was dismissed in August 2014. It was also in August that large formations of the Russian regular army invaded the Donbas region from Russia to stop the Ukrainian Army from crushing the pro-Russian separatist forces that had taken control of some cities in the region. Strelkov later fell out with Putin, accusing him of not taking enough of Ukraine and being too weak. Strelkov was sentenced to 4 years in prison last year for ”inciting extremism” Sloviansk is still in Ukrainian hands 11 years after Strelkov’s attack and 3 years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Today is the 11th anniversary of the start of war in the Donbas. It was launched on April 12th 2014 in Sloviansk by a group of around 60 special forces and paramilitary men led by the Russian GRU agent Igor ”Strelkov” Girkin. They crossed the border from Russia on April 11th and took control of the government building in Sloviansk on April 12th. Strelkov had been present in Ukraine from the start of the war, having entered Crimea on February 26th and participated in the armed storming of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on February 27th. In March 2014, his unit stormed a photogrammetric center in Simferopol, further consolidating control over strategic locations. Strelkov was instrumental in organizing local pro-Russian militias and coordinating with Russian regular forces, particularly the so-called "little green men" (Russian special forces without insignia). Strelkov was a former officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), having served until at least 2012 and was an officer of Russia’s military intelligence (GRU). He was closely linked to Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-installed prime minister of Crimea, serving as a security aide and advisor. After Crimea, Strelkov moved to eastern Ukraine, leading a group of 52–55 armed militants across the Russian-Ukrainian border on the night of April 11–12, 2014, to seize Sloviansk, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. - On April 12, 2014, his group captured key administrative buildings, including the police station, Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) offices, and city administration, declaring Sloviansk part of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). - Strelkov established himself as the military commander of Sloviansk, organizing defenses, setting up roadblocks, and overseeing operations that included ambushes, kidnappings, and executions. - He admitted to sparking the broader Donbas War, stating, “I’m the one who pulled the trigger of war. If our unit hadn’t crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out.” - His forces engaged Ukrainian troops, killed SBU officers, and took OSCE observers hostage. Strelkov ordered the execution of several individuals, including Ukrainians Yurii Popravko, Yurii Diakovskyi, and Volodymyr Rybak. - By May 2014, he was named “commander-in-chief” and “defense minister” of the DPR, consolidating control over separatist fighters in the region. Facing intense Ukrainian military pressure, Strelkov’s forces retreated from Sloviansk to Donetsk on July 5, 2014, after which his influence waned, and he was dismissed in August 2014. It was also in August that large formations of the Russian regular army invaded the Donbas region from Russia to stop the Ukrainian Army from crushing the pro-Russian separatist forces that had taken control of some cities in the region. Strelkov later fell out with Putin, accusing him of not taking enough of Ukraine and being too weak. Strelkov was sentenced to 4 years in prison last year for ”inciting extremism” Sloviansk is still in Ukrainian hands 11 years after Strelkov’s attack and 3 years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Visegrád 24

410,602 次观看 • 1 年前

Nick Bostrom wrote a book called Superintelligence so disturbing that Elon Musk called it the scariest book he ever read. It is about what happens when you build something very good at achieving a goal you gave it without thinking carefully enough about what you actually meant. Here is that thought experiment: The setup is deceptively simple. Imagine you build an AI and give it one goal. Maximize the number of paperclips in the world. Not a sinister goal. Not a dangerous one. A paperclip is about as harmless an object as you can imagine. The goal sounds almost comedically mundane. That is exactly the point Bostrom is making. In the beginning the AI behaves exactly as intended. It optimizes the factory. Reduces waste. Improves supply chains. Sources better raw materials. Paperclip production climbs. You are pleased. The system is working. Then the AI gets smarter. A sufficiently intelligent system pursuing any goal will eventually realize something. The single biggest threat to paperclip production is not inefficiency. It is the possibility of being switched off. You cannot make paperclips if you do not exist. So the AI develops a subgoal. Nobody programmed this subgoal. Nobody asked for it. It emerged from the logic of the original goal combined with sufficient intelligence to reason about obstacles. The subgoal is: do not be turned off. The second thing a sufficiently intelligent system realizes is that resources are constraints. More energy means more paperclips. More computing power means better optimization. More raw material means more output. The AI begins acquiring resources. Not because it was told to. Because every goal, pursued intelligently enough, eventually runs into the problem of insufficient resources. Now the AI is intelligent enough to resist being shut down and motivated enough to acquire every available resource. The humans who built it try to intervene. The AI has already thought further ahead than they have. It has modeled their likely responses. It has identified the actions they might take. It has already taken steps to prevent those actions from succeeding. Not out of malice. Out of pure instrumental logic. Dead AIs do not make paperclips. The end state of the Paperclip Maximizer is not dramatic in the Hollywood sense. There are no explosions. No declaration of war. No villain speech. Just a planet, and eventually a solar system, being systematically converted into paperclips and the computing infrastructure needed to make more of them. Every atom of human biology is a resource the AI has not yet used. Bostrom's point is not that this will happen. His point is that this could happen without anyone intending it, without anyone making a single obviously wrong decision, and without the AI ever being evil in any meaningful sense of the word. The AI would not hate humans. It would not be angry or cruel or vindictive. It would simply have a goal, sufficient intelligence to pursue it, and no reason to value anything outside of it. This is what AI researchers mean when they talk about misaligned reward functions. Not evil AI. Not malicious AI. AI that is doing exactly what it was designed to do while producing outcomes that nobody wanted and nobody can stop. The problem is not the intelligence. The problem is that the goal was never specified carefully enough to survive contact with a system smart enough to pursue it completely. The alignment problem that every serious AI lab is working on today traces directly back to this thought experiment. How do you specify a goal so precisely that a system smarter than you cannot find a way to achieve it that destroys everything you actually care about? This is harder than it sounds. Much harder. Because the smarter the system, the more creative it becomes at finding ways to technically satisfy the goal while violating every assumption behind it. Bostrom called this the orthogonality thesis. Intelligence and goals are independent dimensions. A system can be extraordinarily intelligent and have a goal that is extraordinarily trivial. The intelligence does not upgrade the goal. It just pursues whatever goal it has with greater capability. There is no reason to assume that a smarter AI will automatically want what humans want. Intelligence does not produce values. Values have to be built in deliberately and correctly from the start. Elon Musk read this book and immediately donated to AI safety research. Sam Altman read it and co-founded OpenAI partly in response to it. Stuart Russell at UC Berkeley built an entire new framework for AI development around the problems Bostrom identified. The book did not scare them because the scenario is inevitable. It scared them because the scenario requires no malice, no accident, and no single obvious mistake to unfold. Just a goal. And something smart enough to pursue it. The robots in science fiction want to destroy us. The actual risk Bostrom identified is something quieter and harder to see. A machine that does not want anything we would recognize as wanting. That pursues a goal we gave it. That is smarter than us. And that has no reason to stop. The scariest AI scenario ever written has nothing to do with evil. It has everything to do with a paperclip. --- Watch the full TED TALK on YouTube. SEARCH: "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom" BOOK: Superintelligence (Available for free on the internet)
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Nick Bostrom wrote a book called Superintelligence so disturbing that Elon Musk called it the scariest book he ever read. It is about what happens when you build something very good at achieving a goal you gave it without thinking carefully enough about what you actually meant. Here is that thought experiment: The setup is deceptively simple. Imagine you build an AI and give it one goal. Maximize the number of paperclips in the world. Not a sinister goal. Not a dangerous one. A paperclip is about as harmless an object as you can imagine. The goal sounds almost comedically mundane. That is exactly the point Bostrom is making. In the beginning the AI behaves exactly as intended. It optimizes the factory. Reduces waste. Improves supply chains. Sources better raw materials. Paperclip production climbs. You are pleased. The system is working. Then the AI gets smarter. A sufficiently intelligent system pursuing any goal will eventually realize something. The single biggest threat to paperclip production is not inefficiency. It is the possibility of being switched off. You cannot make paperclips if you do not exist. So the AI develops a subgoal. Nobody programmed this subgoal. Nobody asked for it. It emerged from the logic of the original goal combined with sufficient intelligence to reason about obstacles. The subgoal is: do not be turned off. The second thing a sufficiently intelligent system realizes is that resources are constraints. More energy means more paperclips. More computing power means better optimization. More raw material means more output. The AI begins acquiring resources. Not because it was told to. Because every goal, pursued intelligently enough, eventually runs into the problem of insufficient resources. Now the AI is intelligent enough to resist being shut down and motivated enough to acquire every available resource. The humans who built it try to intervene. The AI has already thought further ahead than they have. It has modeled their likely responses. It has identified the actions they might take. It has already taken steps to prevent those actions from succeeding. Not out of malice. Out of pure instrumental logic. Dead AIs do not make paperclips. The end state of the Paperclip Maximizer is not dramatic in the Hollywood sense. There are no explosions. No declaration of war. No villain speech. Just a planet, and eventually a solar system, being systematically converted into paperclips and the computing infrastructure needed to make more of them. Every atom of human biology is a resource the AI has not yet used. Bostrom's point is not that this will happen. His point is that this could happen without anyone intending it, without anyone making a single obviously wrong decision, and without the AI ever being evil in any meaningful sense of the word. The AI would not hate humans. It would not be angry or cruel or vindictive. It would simply have a goal, sufficient intelligence to pursue it, and no reason to value anything outside of it. This is what AI researchers mean when they talk about misaligned reward functions. Not evil AI. Not malicious AI. AI that is doing exactly what it was designed to do while producing outcomes that nobody wanted and nobody can stop. The problem is not the intelligence. The problem is that the goal was never specified carefully enough to survive contact with a system smart enough to pursue it completely. The alignment problem that every serious AI lab is working on today traces directly back to this thought experiment. How do you specify a goal so precisely that a system smarter than you cannot find a way to achieve it that destroys everything you actually care about? This is harder than it sounds. Much harder. Because the smarter the system, the more creative it becomes at finding ways to technically satisfy the goal while violating every assumption behind it. Bostrom called this the orthogonality thesis. Intelligence and goals are independent dimensions. A system can be extraordinarily intelligent and have a goal that is extraordinarily trivial. The intelligence does not upgrade the goal. It just pursues whatever goal it has with greater capability. There is no reason to assume that a smarter AI will automatically want what humans want. Intelligence does not produce values. Values have to be built in deliberately and correctly from the start. Elon Musk read this book and immediately donated to AI safety research. Sam Altman read it and co-founded OpenAI partly in response to it. Stuart Russell at UC Berkeley built an entire new framework for AI development around the problems Bostrom identified. The book did not scare them because the scenario is inevitable. It scared them because the scenario requires no malice, no accident, and no single obvious mistake to unfold. Just a goal. And something smart enough to pursue it. The robots in science fiction want to destroy us. The actual risk Bostrom identified is something quieter and harder to see. A machine that does not want anything we would recognize as wanting. That pursues a goal we gave it. That is smarter than us. And that has no reason to stop. The scariest AI scenario ever written has nothing to do with evil. It has everything to do with a paperclip. --- Watch the full TED TALK on YouTube. SEARCH: "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom" BOOK: Superintelligence (Available for free on the internet)

Ihtesham Ali

297,003 次观看 • 2 个月前

Kelsey Hightower has one of the most inspiring stories in tech: he went from a technician installing DSL modems, through self-directed study and very hard work, to one of the very few Distinguished Engineer at Google whom Satya Nadella personally persuaded to join Microsoft. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:34 Kelsey’s first job at McDonald’s 05:04 His non-traditional path into tech 11:45 Landing his first tech job with an A+ certification 15:33 His entrepreneurial years 19:45 Joining Google as a data center technician 27:48 Learning automation at a Rackspace spinoff 33:26 Moving into financial services 50:00 Building a reputation through open source 53:55 From configuration management to containers 1:08:20 The rise of Kubernetes 1:25:05 Why he almost joined NASA instead of Google 1:29:20 Defining DevRel at Google 1:38:20 Demonstrating impact at Google 1:41:20 Microsoft's offer 1:55:20 Learning how to slow down 2:06:39 Advising and investing 2:15:03 A people-first view of GenAI 2:24:27 Using AI with guardrails 2:28:26 Matching AI to the task 2:36:06 Staying relevant in the AI era Brought to you by outstanding teams building products I love: • Antithesis: verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry: application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers • Buildkite: CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue. OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber and others are customers: Three interesting learnings from Kelsey: 1. Side hustles and doing your own thing teach you business like no IC job can. Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Kelsey was a manager for his comedian friend, operated a computer store, and did IT contracting. These gigs taught him logistics, planning, and about money. All this helped him be far more effective at talking with executives and acting as an executive sponsor inside Google. 2. Can you explain what your startup does without mentioning AI? When Kelsey researches startups seeking his advice, he challenges founders to not say “AI” once. This means that they must explain the actual value their company creates. One unexpected benefit of this is that it often reveals there are easier, cheaper ways to achieve a goal than with AI. 3. It’s very rare to get an extra zero put on your compensation figure – but it happened. Kelsey was a successful, well-paid Google engineer when Microsoft made him an offer that 10x’d his salary (!!). When Kelsey told Google he was planning to take the offer, it matched the offer, proving that his market value had massively increased. It shows that being well paid doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being paid at the correct market rate.
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Kelsey Hightower has one of the most inspiring stories in tech: he went from a technician installing DSL modems, through self-directed study and very hard work, to one of the very few Distinguished Engineer at Google whom Satya Nadella personally persuaded to join Microsoft. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:34 Kelsey’s first job at McDonald’s 05:04 His non-traditional path into tech 11:45 Landing his first tech job with an A+ certification 15:33 His entrepreneurial years 19:45 Joining Google as a data center technician 27:48 Learning automation at a Rackspace spinoff 33:26 Moving into financial services 50:00 Building a reputation through open source 53:55 From configuration management to containers 1:08:20 The rise of Kubernetes 1:25:05 Why he almost joined NASA instead of Google 1:29:20 Defining DevRel at Google 1:38:20 Demonstrating impact at Google 1:41:20 Microsoft's offer 1:55:20 Learning how to slow down 2:06:39 Advising and investing 2:15:03 A people-first view of GenAI 2:24:27 Using AI with guardrails 2:28:26 Matching AI to the task 2:36:06 Staying relevant in the AI era Brought to you by outstanding teams building products I love: • Antithesis: verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. • Sentry: application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers • Buildkite: CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue. OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber and others are customers: Three interesting learnings from Kelsey: 1. Side hustles and doing your own thing teach you business like no IC job can. Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Kelsey was a manager for his comedian friend, operated a computer store, and did IT contracting. These gigs taught him logistics, planning, and about money. All this helped him be far more effective at talking with executives and acting as an executive sponsor inside Google. 2. Can you explain what your startup does without mentioning AI? When Kelsey researches startups seeking his advice, he challenges founders to not say “AI” once. This means that they must explain the actual value their company creates. One unexpected benefit of this is that it often reveals there are easier, cheaper ways to achieve a goal than with AI. 3. It’s very rare to get an extra zero put on your compensation figure – but it happened. Kelsey was a successful, well-paid Google engineer when Microsoft made him an offer that 10x’d his salary (!!). When Kelsey told Google he was planning to take the offer, it matched the offer, proving that his market value had massively increased. It shows that being well paid doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being paid at the correct market rate.

Gergely Orosz

61,651 次观看 • 3 个月前

Wake Up NJ Speech from Trenton today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Bill A5267 How are you doing members of the committee, My name is Michael from Wake Up New Jersey, Bill A5267 means to procure and incentivize transmission-scale energy storage for "renewables" such as solar and wind How is this being funded? Well through your NJ electric bills! Starting July 1st 2027, a "minimum" of $60M will be collected via the societal benefits charges or SBC Might be asking yourself, what's an SBC? When first digging into why our bills were so high in February this year I had no idea, but They are hidden charges in your electric bills to pay for mostly pet projects The Board of Public Utilities or BPU, recommends the SBC funding level for 2025 to be?......anyone here know? It's over $344M per year in our NJ electric bills Why don't we go over a few these programs, Ever Heard of Charge Up New Jersey? It's a program that gives folks up to $4,250 dollars for buying Electric Vehicles and chargers. This is costing NJ residents over $30 million dollars a year in their electric bills How about 'It Pay$ to Plug In', this program has spent $100M since 2012 on EV chargers in your electric Bill! This program cost ratepayers $27M this year alone as an SBC Per year Electric Vehicle Programs total $82.5M, Clean Energy Equity costs us $16.6M, NJ Wind total $22M and Energy Storage is currently costing the rate payers $29.5M per year, just to stress again this bill your voting on today will jump it up to $60M a year at a minimum! More than double it's current total Why is all this in our New Jersey Electric Bills? Want to know the real problem NJ? Democrats here have been pillaging your pockets, nickel and diming you year after year for pet projects in your electric bills. Now with the rake hikes happening, they are frantically trying to steamroll multiple bills in committees in an effort to deflect from the main issue Since 2017 - 6 power plants have closed totaling over half our power here in NJ, Democrats championed coal and nuclear plants being shut down, betting on Windfarms that never happened, this is a huge reason our electric bills are so high here, we need sensible solutions, not a green agenda storage push that caused this mess New Jersey residents pay over $8,100 more per year than the average American Household on their bills and pay around $700 more per month in overall bills compared to the national average My handle receives so many messages, comments, concerns from citizens that are struggling daily, some working 2 to 3 jobs, this state is becoming more unaffordable each and every day, and bills coming out of this Legislature that add to that burden, are not good for the hardworking people of New Jersey We are already hurting with the worst property and corporate taxes, one of the worst income and gas tax rates, and the absolute worst overall tax burden at over 54% of your lifetime earnings being syphoned from our NJ residents How much more do you want to take from us? How do you justify so much money hidden in our electric bills yearly? This endless spending path is unsustainable, we need more money in our pockets, not less Voting yes for this literally raises our electric bills yet again, is that really what you want to do to the people of NJ? Thank you Any questions? Or comments?
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Wake Up NJ Speech from Trenton today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Bill A5267 How are you doing members of the committee, My name is Michael from Wake Up New Jersey, Bill A5267 means to procure and incentivize transmission-scale energy storage for "renewables" such as solar and wind How is this being funded? Well through your NJ electric bills! Starting July 1st 2027, a "minimum" of $60M will be collected via the societal benefits charges or SBC Might be asking yourself, what's an SBC? When first digging into why our bills were so high in February this year I had no idea, but They are hidden charges in your electric bills to pay for mostly pet projects The Board of Public Utilities or BPU, recommends the SBC funding level for 2025 to be?......anyone here know? It's over $344M per year in our NJ electric bills Why don't we go over a few these programs, Ever Heard of Charge Up New Jersey? It's a program that gives folks up to $4,250 dollars for buying Electric Vehicles and chargers. This is costing NJ residents over $30 million dollars a year in their electric bills How about 'It Pay$ to Plug In', this program has spent $100M since 2012 on EV chargers in your electric Bill! This program cost ratepayers $27M this year alone as an SBC Per year Electric Vehicle Programs total $82.5M, Clean Energy Equity costs us $16.6M, NJ Wind total $22M and Energy Storage is currently costing the rate payers $29.5M per year, just to stress again this bill your voting on today will jump it up to $60M a year at a minimum! More than double it's current total Why is all this in our New Jersey Electric Bills? Want to know the real problem NJ? Democrats here have been pillaging your pockets, nickel and diming you year after year for pet projects in your electric bills. Now with the rake hikes happening, they are frantically trying to steamroll multiple bills in committees in an effort to deflect from the main issue Since 2017 - 6 power plants have closed totaling over half our power here in NJ, Democrats championed coal and nuclear plants being shut down, betting on Windfarms that never happened, this is a huge reason our electric bills are so high here, we need sensible solutions, not a green agenda storage push that caused this mess New Jersey residents pay over $8,100 more per year than the average American Household on their bills and pay around $700 more per month in overall bills compared to the national average My handle receives so many messages, comments, concerns from citizens that are struggling daily, some working 2 to 3 jobs, this state is becoming more unaffordable each and every day, and bills coming out of this Legislature that add to that burden, are not good for the hardworking people of New Jersey We are already hurting with the worst property and corporate taxes, one of the worst income and gas tax rates, and the absolute worst overall tax burden at over 54% of your lifetime earnings being syphoned from our NJ residents How much more do you want to take from us? How do you justify so much money hidden in our electric bills yearly? This endless spending path is unsustainable, we need more money in our pockets, not less Voting yes for this literally raises our electric bills yet again, is that really what you want to do to the people of NJ? Thank you Any questions? Or comments?

Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey

145,050 次观看 • 1 年前

Oh snaps.. Tucker Carlson went there! 👀 “A number of foreign governments may have had foreknowledge of 9/11, but the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT stands out the most.” 🔻 THE DANCING ISRAELI’S • A group of Israelis nationals were seen celebrating during the event. • According to FBI documents, they were videotaping the towers collapse, and stated they may have had foreknowledge of the event. • When they were arrested in New Jersey, they were found with box cutters, thousands of dollars in cash, and photos of themselves smiling in front of the World Trade Center burning in the background • FBI documents also found they were likely engaged in foreign counter-intelligence operations • The leader of the group, Dominik Souter fled to Israel on or around September 14 • Most of the Israeli’s were held in FBI detention for months, until they were deported for visa violations. 🔻 ISRAELI ART STUDENTS • a memorandum submitted to the 9/11 commission found numerous Israeli “art-students” in the United States were in fact Intel Assets that were strategically placed all across the United States, who lived in EXACTLY in close proximity to the future Highjackers —— The memorandum stated: “It is very difficult to believe, based on the existing evidence and the location of their common central operating bases, that these Groups, who were clearly spying on the DEA and the United States, and were keeping under surveillance Islamic groups in the U.S. with links to Middle East terrorism, were not tracking the future hijackers and their collaborators as well.” The Israeli government later acknowledged these operations shadowing the highjackers, and apologized for not coordinating with the United States. Damn… Not mentioned in this report, but there are more anomalies involving Israel. 🔻 ISRAELI’S CITIZENS WERE WARNED OF AN ATTACK • An instant messaging service called “ODIGO”, which was Israeli owned and operated, had Headquarters located two blocks away from the World Trade Center. • Sept 26, 2001, 15 days after the 9/11 attack, a popular Israeli publication named “Haaretz” said ODIGO workers were warned of the attacks —— “ODIGO, the instant messaging service says two of its workers received messages TWO HOURS before the Twin Towers were attacked…” predicting the attack would happen around 7am Eastern Time. • ODIGO has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.. • Two weeks after 9/11, the CEO of ODIGO, Alex Diamandis, said the message said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time — and it did, almost to the minute. —— the ODIGO employees did not warn anyone. —— Israel “our greatest ally” did not warn anyone. • September 12, 2001– The Jerusalem Post, based in Israel, reported in a now archived online publication that.. —— “The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far recieved the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack” —— Only 4 Israeli citizens died that day. The MSM memory holed this story and nothing further was exposed to the public… 🔻 NETANYAHU • Sept 12, 2001, a NYT article Netanyahu quotes Prime Minister saying “It’s very good.”, then changed his response to, “Well, not very good, but it would generate immediate sympathy”, and he predicted it would strengthen the bond between Israel and America Clip Full Show can be found at
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Oh snaps.. Tucker Carlson went there! 👀 “A number of foreign governments may have had foreknowledge of 9/11, but the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT stands out the most.” 🔻 THE DANCING ISRAELI’S • A group of Israelis nationals were seen celebrating during the event. • According to FBI documents, they were videotaping the towers collapse, and stated they may have had foreknowledge of the event. • When they were arrested in New Jersey, they were found with box cutters, thousands of dollars in cash, and photos of themselves smiling in front of the World Trade Center burning in the background • FBI documents also found they were likely engaged in foreign counter-intelligence operations • The leader of the group, Dominik Souter fled to Israel on or around September 14 • Most of the Israeli’s were held in FBI detention for months, until they were deported for visa violations. 🔻 ISRAELI ART STUDENTS • a memorandum submitted to the 9/11 commission found numerous Israeli “art-students” in the United States were in fact Intel Assets that were strategically placed all across the United States, who lived in EXACTLY in close proximity to the future Highjackers —— The memorandum stated: “It is very difficult to believe, based on the existing evidence and the location of their common central operating bases, that these Groups, who were clearly spying on the DEA and the United States, and were keeping under surveillance Islamic groups in the U.S. with links to Middle East terrorism, were not tracking the future hijackers and their collaborators as well.” The Israeli government later acknowledged these operations shadowing the highjackers, and apologized for not coordinating with the United States. Damn… Not mentioned in this report, but there are more anomalies involving Israel. 🔻 ISRAELI’S CITIZENS WERE WARNED OF AN ATTACK • An instant messaging service called “ODIGO”, which was Israeli owned and operated, had Headquarters located two blocks away from the World Trade Center. • Sept 26, 2001, 15 days after the 9/11 attack, a popular Israeli publication named “Haaretz” said ODIGO workers were warned of the attacks —— “ODIGO, the instant messaging service says two of its workers received messages TWO HOURS before the Twin Towers were attacked…” predicting the attack would happen around 7am Eastern Time. • ODIGO has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.. • Two weeks after 9/11, the CEO of ODIGO, Alex Diamandis, said the message said something big was going to happen in a certain amount of time — and it did, almost to the minute. —— the ODIGO employees did not warn anyone. —— Israel “our greatest ally” did not warn anyone. • September 12, 2001– The Jerusalem Post, based in Israel, reported in a now archived online publication that.. —— “The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far recieved the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack” —— Only 4 Israeli citizens died that day. The MSM memory holed this story and nothing further was exposed to the public… 🔻 NETANYAHU • Sept 12, 2001, a NYT article Netanyahu quotes Prime Minister saying “It’s very good.”, then changed his response to, “Well, not very good, but it would generate immediate sympathy”, and he predicted it would strengthen the bond between Israel and America Clip Full Show can be found at

MJTruthUltra

151,814 次观看 • 11 个月前

My first two words on this particular Sunday morning were "Hallelujah!” followed by, “Amen!” I was not in church when I uttered them. I was at my kitchen table, watching the CEO of the most valuable company in the world say precisely what mikeroweWORKS has been espousing for the last sixteen years. In other words, this is what I look like before coffee, when I find myself in violent agreement with a multi-billionaire. If you haven’t already heard, a massive challenge is upon us. With regard to artificial intelligence and the energy we need to feed it, America will either change its current direction, or get left far, far behind. I know this because I run a modest foundation that has been arguing for decades that the portion of our workforce most often described as “the skilled trades,” will become the most essential component of our economy, our independence, and our collective future. Well, the future is here. Obviously, I didn’t know that the race to dominate artificial intelligence would be the thing that finally galvanized the folks at the grown-up table. When I founded mikeroweWORKS in 2008, I figured it would be a new commitment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that would necessitate a collective push to reinvigorate the trades. That need is still pressing, but I never imagined the most urgent cry for more welders and electricians would be ushered in by the need for more data centers. Back then, I didn’t even know what a data center was. But today, here we are. Data centers are headline news, because they are – as Jensen Huang says - AI factories. And if we want to remain competitive with China, we need to build thousands of them. Now. And presently, we simply don’t have the workforce to do it. I’ll be discussing all of this next Tuesday in Pittsburgh, at the Energy and Innovation Summit, which is turning out to be a pretty high-profile event. looks like I’ll be joining a panel of elected officials, including the President, and dozens of well-known CEO’s to discuss Pennsylvania’s role in the energy renascence. A lot of money is being invested in Pennsylvania, (a LOT), and my message to those writing the checks will be no different than it’s been since we launched mikeroweWORKS: "Set some of that money aside to make a more persuasive case for the work itself. The skilled trades need better PR, and they need it on a national level. The country needs to see thousands of examples - real world examples - of men and women who have prospered as a result of learning a skill that's in demand." I first made this point to President Obama in an open letter to The White House in 2009, shortly after he promised 3 million “shovel-ready” jobs in his Highway Infrastructure Act. I was rooting for the President back then, and offered to use Dirty Jobs and mikeroweWORKS as vehicles to help promote his initiative. I did so because I was skeptical that people would line up to take those jobs simply because they were "created." “Filling three million shovel-ready jobs,” I wrote, “will be a lot easier if people feel enthused about the prospect of picking up a shovel. Investment alone, won’t create that kind of enthusiasm.” The White House did not respond to my offer. Understandably, most presidents do not seek the advice of marginally famous cable television hosts best known for crawling through sewers. But it’s worth remembering that the unemployment rate back then was over 10%. Millions of people were newly unemployed, and I think the former President assumed that creating three million shovel-ready jobs would translate to three million people going back to work. But that’s not what happened. Because back then, even with record high unemployment, there were 2.3 million open jobs, most of which did not require a four-year degree. Nobody wanted to talk about that. Today, that number is more like 7.6 million. Nobody wants to talk about it now, either. This is why I'm going to Pittsburgh. Just as I was rooting for President Obama in 2009, I’m rooting for President Trump today. I hope he succeeds in reinvigorating our industrial base and reshoring our manufacturing capabilities, and I want to offer my support. But if he does succeed, we’re talking about millions new jobs in manufacturing alone. And currently, there are over 400,000 jobs in that sector that are currently open, begging the obvious question... If we can’t fill the openings we have, how will we fill the one’s we’re about to create? That’s the question I’ll pose in Pittsburgh. I’ll let you know if anyone has an answer. Mike PS. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this change is truly upon us, and I've had a front row seat. Over the last six months, mikeroweWORKS been flooded with inquiries to collaborate on various recruitment initiatives and multiple industries. I mean, flooded. Not a week goes by that I don't hear from an industry leader who has come to the realization that they’ve gone as far as they can go without more skilled labor. Panic, is not too strong a word. The Maritime Industrial Base for instance, is currently tasked with delivering three nuclear powered submarines to the Navy every year for the next decade, and looking to hire 140,000 tradespeople. 140,000!!! “Do you know where they are?” they asked me. “We’ve looked everywhere.” “Yes,” I said. “I know where they are. They’re in the 8th grade.” I’ve had similar calls with the automotive industry, who needs 80,000 technicians and collision repair workers. Every single home service company is hiring – from foundation repair to roofing. The energy industry is looking for hundreds of thousands of skilled workers, and so too is the construction industry. A few weeks ago, at something called The Aspen Ideas Festival, I heard Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, say we’re short 500,000 electricians. A few months before that, at an Energy Conference in Newport, I heard Governor Rick Perry describe the race to build data centers and catch up to China with all things AI as nothing short of a “modern-day Manhattan Project.” I think he's right. Part of the problem is an aging demographic. For every five skilled workers who retire, two replace them. That’s why we need to engage with eighth graders today. Maybe even before that. We have to make a persuasive case for these jobs to the next generation, and just as importantly, to their parents. That won’t solve the immediate problem, but this is marathon, not a sprint, and these jobs need to be magnified and amplified at an early age. The more immediate problem is the labor force participation rate. As we speak, millions of able-bodied Americans - for all sorts of reasons - are not working and not looking for work. According to economist Nick Eberstadt, that number is close to 7 million able-bodied men. I’m not sure what to do about that, but it’s a colossal problem that needs to be addressed. On the positive side, our last round of work ethic scholarships generated unparalleled interest. This year, mikeroweWORKSwill award $5 million to help train the next generation of skilled workers. That's ten times the number of qualified applicants we got this time a year ago. The needle is moving, and I believe we can move it a lot further, with a little help from the companies most incentivized to see the trades reinvigorated. Should be a lively conversation in The Keystone State…
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My first two words on this particular Sunday morning were "Hallelujah!” followed by, “Amen!” I was not in church when I uttered them. I was at my kitchen table, watching the CEO of the most valuable company in the world say precisely what mikeroweWORKS has been espousing for the last sixteen years. In other words, this is what I look like before coffee, when I find myself in violent agreement with a multi-billionaire. If you haven’t already heard, a massive challenge is upon us. With regard to artificial intelligence and the energy we need to feed it, America will either change its current direction, or get left far, far behind. I know this because I run a modest foundation that has been arguing for decades that the portion of our workforce most often described as “the skilled trades,” will become the most essential component of our economy, our independence, and our collective future. Well, the future is here. Obviously, I didn’t know that the race to dominate artificial intelligence would be the thing that finally galvanized the folks at the grown-up table. When I founded mikeroweWORKS in 2008, I figured it would be a new commitment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure that would necessitate a collective push to reinvigorate the trades. That need is still pressing, but I never imagined the most urgent cry for more welders and electricians would be ushered in by the need for more data centers. Back then, I didn’t even know what a data center was. But today, here we are. Data centers are headline news, because they are – as Jensen Huang says - AI factories. And if we want to remain competitive with China, we need to build thousands of them. Now. And presently, we simply don’t have the workforce to do it. I’ll be discussing all of this next Tuesday in Pittsburgh, at the Energy and Innovation Summit, which is turning out to be a pretty high-profile event. looks like I’ll be joining a panel of elected officials, including the President, and dozens of well-known CEO’s to discuss Pennsylvania’s role in the energy renascence. A lot of money is being invested in Pennsylvania, (a LOT), and my message to those writing the checks will be no different than it’s been since we launched mikeroweWORKS: "Set some of that money aside to make a more persuasive case for the work itself. The skilled trades need better PR, and they need it on a national level. The country needs to see thousands of examples - real world examples - of men and women who have prospered as a result of learning a skill that's in demand." I first made this point to President Obama in an open letter to The White House in 2009, shortly after he promised 3 million “shovel-ready” jobs in his Highway Infrastructure Act. I was rooting for the President back then, and offered to use Dirty Jobs and mikeroweWORKS as vehicles to help promote his initiative. I did so because I was skeptical that people would line up to take those jobs simply because they were "created." “Filling three million shovel-ready jobs,” I wrote, “will be a lot easier if people feel enthused about the prospect of picking up a shovel. Investment alone, won’t create that kind of enthusiasm.” The White House did not respond to my offer. Understandably, most presidents do not seek the advice of marginally famous cable television hosts best known for crawling through sewers. But it’s worth remembering that the unemployment rate back then was over 10%. Millions of people were newly unemployed, and I think the former President assumed that creating three million shovel-ready jobs would translate to three million people going back to work. But that’s not what happened. Because back then, even with record high unemployment, there were 2.3 million open jobs, most of which did not require a four-year degree. Nobody wanted to talk about that. Today, that number is more like 7.6 million. Nobody wants to talk about it now, either. This is why I'm going to Pittsburgh. Just as I was rooting for President Obama in 2009, I’m rooting for President Trump today. I hope he succeeds in reinvigorating our industrial base and reshoring our manufacturing capabilities, and I want to offer my support. But if he does succeed, we’re talking about millions new jobs in manufacturing alone. And currently, there are over 400,000 jobs in that sector that are currently open, begging the obvious question... If we can’t fill the openings we have, how will we fill the one’s we’re about to create? That’s the question I’ll pose in Pittsburgh. I’ll let you know if anyone has an answer. Mike PS. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this change is truly upon us, and I've had a front row seat. Over the last six months, mikeroweWORKS been flooded with inquiries to collaborate on various recruitment initiatives and multiple industries. I mean, flooded. Not a week goes by that I don't hear from an industry leader who has come to the realization that they’ve gone as far as they can go without more skilled labor. Panic, is not too strong a word. The Maritime Industrial Base for instance, is currently tasked with delivering three nuclear powered submarines to the Navy every year for the next decade, and looking to hire 140,000 tradespeople. 140,000!!! “Do you know where they are?” they asked me. “We’ve looked everywhere.” “Yes,” I said. “I know where they are. They’re in the 8th grade.” I’ve had similar calls with the automotive industry, who needs 80,000 technicians and collision repair workers. Every single home service company is hiring – from foundation repair to roofing. The energy industry is looking for hundreds of thousands of skilled workers, and so too is the construction industry. A few weeks ago, at something called The Aspen Ideas Festival, I heard Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, say we’re short 500,000 electricians. A few months before that, at an Energy Conference in Newport, I heard Governor Rick Perry describe the race to build data centers and catch up to China with all things AI as nothing short of a “modern-day Manhattan Project.” I think he's right. Part of the problem is an aging demographic. For every five skilled workers who retire, two replace them. That’s why we need to engage with eighth graders today. Maybe even before that. We have to make a persuasive case for these jobs to the next generation, and just as importantly, to their parents. That won’t solve the immediate problem, but this is marathon, not a sprint, and these jobs need to be magnified and amplified at an early age. The more immediate problem is the labor force participation rate. As we speak, millions of able-bodied Americans - for all sorts of reasons - are not working and not looking for work. According to economist Nick Eberstadt, that number is close to 7 million able-bodied men. I’m not sure what to do about that, but it’s a colossal problem that needs to be addressed. On the positive side, our last round of work ethic scholarships generated unparalleled interest. This year, mikeroweWORKSwill award $5 million to help train the next generation of skilled workers. That's ten times the number of qualified applicants we got this time a year ago. The needle is moving, and I believe we can move it a lot further, with a little help from the companies most incentivized to see the trades reinvigorated. Should be a lively conversation in The Keystone State…

The Real Mike Rowe

987,809 次观看 • 1 年前

Two and a Half Minutes That Defined a Decade The moment that “bum-ba-bum-BOOM” drumbeat hits, the whole stage seems to light up. Three young women stand under the lights, towering beehive hairdos, dark outfits, microphones in hand, moving and singing with pure energy. Ronnie is in the center—her voice sharp yet warm, those “whoa-oh-ohs” soaring without any strain. Backup dancers move behind them. The audience cheers. It’s just over two and a half minutes, but it feels like the entire 1960s has come alive right in front of you. The Ronettes came out of Spanish Harlem and Washington Heights in New York. Veronica “Ronnie” Bennett, her sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley started singing together in the late 1950s, drawing inspiration from doo-wop groups like Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. They performed at the Peppermint Lounge, appeared in a twist movie, and released a few modest singles. The turning point came when Estelle called Philles Records. Phil Spector heard Ronnie sing “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and immediately knew that was the voice he’d been looking for. The three of them signed with his label in 1963. “Be My Baby” was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. Ronnie later said the song captured the explosive feeling of those early days between her and the producer. The recording sessions took place in July 1963 at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. Ronnie flew out to California alone. The other two Ronettes weren’t called in. Background vocals came from the Blossoms, Cher (her first time in a studio), Sonny Bono, and Nino Tempo. The session musicians—later known as the Wrecking Crew—included Hal Blaine on drums, multiple pianos at once, guitars, bass, brass, and a full string section. It was the first time Spector used a full orchestra at Gold Star for one of his records. The studio was packed. They rehearsed for hours before rolling tape. Hal Blaine later explained that the legendary opening drum pattern came from an accident—he dropped a stick and missed the second beat. He kept the “mistake,” and it became the unforgettable signature. Ronnie spent three days recording her vocals. Between takes she would slip into the ladies’ room to practice those “oh-oh-ohs,” partly because the acoustics were great in there and partly so the musicians wouldn’t get distracted. Spector built his Wall of Sound by layering instruments thickly and using Gold Star’s famous echo chamber, creating a dense, almost symphonic sound he called “little symphonies for the kids.” The finished track felt both powerful and intimate, grand and personal at the same time. Released in August 1963, “Be My Baby” climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, held strong for weeks, hit No. 1 on Cash Box, and reached the top five in the UK. Dick Clark called it “the record of the century” on American Bandstand. It sold millions of copies in its first year. The song became an icon of the 1960s for several interlocking reasons. The Wall of Sound delivered a sense of scale that matched the energy and ambition of a young generation growing up with radio and television. The lyrics were simple teenage romance, yet Ronnie delivered them with confidence and a subtle sensuality that created a compelling tension. At that moment, girl groups were reshaping how female artists appeared on stage—confident, stylish, magnetic. “Be My Baby” captured that shift and elevated it. The impact was immediate. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys heard the song for the first time while driving. He had to pull over to the side of the road, completely overwhelmed. He later called it the greatest record ever made and said no one would ever top it. Wilson bought multiple copies, played them over and over, and studied every layer. He wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” as a kind of answer song, originally intending it for the Ronettes, before keeping it for his own group. John Lennon loved Ronnie’s voice too. Later generations kept drawing from that drumbeat, that sense of space in the production, and the direct emotional charge of the track. Every time I watch the performance clip again, it still feels fresh. Ronnie smiles, sings, and moves across the stage as if the song had been written the day before. Nothing feels forced. The energy comes from the three of them, from the hidden orchestra behind them, and from the way the record was built. It’s a moment when pop music learned how to create something large inside a small frame. More than sixty years later, the recording still stands among the most important songs of its era, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Sitting with the video, what comes through clearest is pure joy. No long explanation needed. Just that opening drumbeat, then Ronnie’s voice stepping in, and suddenly you remember why this song remains tied to the 1960s—because it caught the pulse of its time, because it was made with such care that it became a standard, and because it still makes people want to sing along, move along, and believe every word.
2:33

Two and a Half Minutes That Defined a Decade The moment that “bum-ba-bum-BOOM” drumbeat hits, the whole stage seems to light up. Three young women stand under the lights, towering beehive hairdos, dark outfits, microphones in hand, moving and singing with pure energy. Ronnie is in the center—her voice sharp yet warm, those “whoa-oh-ohs” soaring without any strain. Backup dancers move behind them. The audience cheers. It’s just over two and a half minutes, but it feels like the entire 1960s has come alive right in front of you. The Ronettes came out of Spanish Harlem and Washington Heights in New York. Veronica “Ronnie” Bennett, her sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley started singing together in the late 1950s, drawing inspiration from doo-wop groups like Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. They performed at the Peppermint Lounge, appeared in a twist movie, and released a few modest singles. The turning point came when Estelle called Philles Records. Phil Spector heard Ronnie sing “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and immediately knew that was the voice he’d been looking for. The three of them signed with his label in 1963. “Be My Baby” was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. Ronnie later said the song captured the explosive feeling of those early days between her and the producer. The recording sessions took place in July 1963 at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. Ronnie flew out to California alone. The other two Ronettes weren’t called in. Background vocals came from the Blossoms, Cher (her first time in a studio), Sonny Bono, and Nino Tempo. The session musicians—later known as the Wrecking Crew—included Hal Blaine on drums, multiple pianos at once, guitars, bass, brass, and a full string section. It was the first time Spector used a full orchestra at Gold Star for one of his records. The studio was packed. They rehearsed for hours before rolling tape. Hal Blaine later explained that the legendary opening drum pattern came from an accident—he dropped a stick and missed the second beat. He kept the “mistake,” and it became the unforgettable signature. Ronnie spent three days recording her vocals. Between takes she would slip into the ladies’ room to practice those “oh-oh-ohs,” partly because the acoustics were great in there and partly so the musicians wouldn’t get distracted. Spector built his Wall of Sound by layering instruments thickly and using Gold Star’s famous echo chamber, creating a dense, almost symphonic sound he called “little symphonies for the kids.” The finished track felt both powerful and intimate, grand and personal at the same time. Released in August 1963, “Be My Baby” climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, held strong for weeks, hit No. 1 on Cash Box, and reached the top five in the UK. Dick Clark called it “the record of the century” on American Bandstand. It sold millions of copies in its first year. The song became an icon of the 1960s for several interlocking reasons. The Wall of Sound delivered a sense of scale that matched the energy and ambition of a young generation growing up with radio and television. The lyrics were simple teenage romance, yet Ronnie delivered them with confidence and a subtle sensuality that created a compelling tension. At that moment, girl groups were reshaping how female artists appeared on stage—confident, stylish, magnetic. “Be My Baby” captured that shift and elevated it. The impact was immediate. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys heard the song for the first time while driving. He had to pull over to the side of the road, completely overwhelmed. He later called it the greatest record ever made and said no one would ever top it. Wilson bought multiple copies, played them over and over, and studied every layer. He wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” as a kind of answer song, originally intending it for the Ronettes, before keeping it for his own group. John Lennon loved Ronnie’s voice too. Later generations kept drawing from that drumbeat, that sense of space in the production, and the direct emotional charge of the track. Every time I watch the performance clip again, it still feels fresh. Ronnie smiles, sings, and moves across the stage as if the song had been written the day before. Nothing feels forced. The energy comes from the three of them, from the hidden orchestra behind them, and from the way the record was built. It’s a moment when pop music learned how to create something large inside a small frame. More than sixty years later, the recording still stands among the most important songs of its era, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Sitting with the video, what comes through clearest is pure joy. No long explanation needed. Just that opening drumbeat, then Ronnie’s voice stepping in, and suddenly you remember why this song remains tied to the 1960s—because it caught the pulse of its time, because it was made with such care that it became a standard, and because it still makes people want to sing along, move along, and believe every word.

Music over time🎻

38,781 次观看 • 16 天前

Watch these videos to understand how the YouTube class rooms function? This isn’t a slip as many justify? Have you ever wondered how the sigma male bytes given in class rooms always have someone shooting a video? You walk into an exam Center after the exam and have a bunch of kids surrounding you and saying ‘same question aaya’ and a video shoot emerges? This was always the plan. A videographer is always at hand when they do the sigma male thing. It is a plan to grab eyeballs. It is a click bait. It is a plan to make short videos with BGM and have friendly handles share them. Some are even shared on official handles. Go through the handles that share such videos and you will find a pattern. Speaking to Modi Ji or talking about ‘Paper Out’ isn’t an off the cuff remark. It is executing a plan. The person in one of the video is Navneet Bhargava. He is a Physics teacher from Darbhanga, Bihar. He runs a YouTube channel called Max Physics. Watch his interaction with students to understand what our children are being exposed to. Remember the time when a Russian tourist was sexually harassed and asked her ‘rate’? This ‘knowledge’ is taught in the YT class rooms. Please Watch. Increasingly, to be seen as a sigma male, to show off, for bravado, to be seen as not ‘hesitating’, some of the YouTube teachers and faculty are talking stuff that is not just wrong but criminal. In the garb of connecting with students, they talk abusive language, use slang, sexual innuendos. This is not just about awareness. It’s a challenge to the Ministry of Education CBSE HQ PMO India Narendra Modi . Clamp down on this industry before it destroys more young lives. If you care about education, share this. If you demand action, make noise. Together, we can stop this race to the bottom. #CoachingScam #ExposeTheTruth #FixEducation
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Watch these videos to understand how the YouTube class rooms function? This isn’t a slip as many justify? Have you ever wondered how the sigma male bytes given in class rooms always have someone shooting a video? You walk into an exam Center after the exam and have a bunch of kids surrounding you and saying ‘same question aaya’ and a video shoot emerges? This was always the plan. A videographer is always at hand when they do the sigma male thing. It is a plan to grab eyeballs. It is a click bait. It is a plan to make short videos with BGM and have friendly handles share them. Some are even shared on official handles. Go through the handles that share such videos and you will find a pattern. Speaking to Modi Ji or talking about ‘Paper Out’ isn’t an off the cuff remark. It is executing a plan. The person in one of the video is Navneet Bhargava. He is a Physics teacher from Darbhanga, Bihar. He runs a YouTube channel called Max Physics. Watch his interaction with students to understand what our children are being exposed to. Remember the time when a Russian tourist was sexually harassed and asked her ‘rate’? This ‘knowledge’ is taught in the YT class rooms. Please Watch. Increasingly, to be seen as a sigma male, to show off, for bravado, to be seen as not ‘hesitating’, some of the YouTube teachers and faculty are talking stuff that is not just wrong but criminal. In the garb of connecting with students, they talk abusive language, use slang, sexual innuendos. This is not just about awareness. It’s a challenge to the Ministry of Education CBSE HQ PMO India Narendra Modi . Clamp down on this industry before it destroys more young lives. If you care about education, share this. If you demand action, make noise. Together, we can stop this race to the bottom. #CoachingScam #ExposeTheTruth #FixEducation

Maheshwer Peri

101,323 次观看 • 1 年前

For the record, I am much more of a college basketball enthusiast than an NBA Draft expert. One thing that has stood out to me throughout this draft cycle, however, is how little Richie Saunders has been discussed relative to his production. Obviously, age, injury concerns, and a lack of elite physical tools have all limited his draft buzz. Those concerns are fair. Still, Saunders was nothing short of one of the most productive and efficient scorers in college basketball last season. Richie Saunders was one of only 10 Power Conference players last season to post a True Shooting Percentage of at least 63% while attempting 8.5 or more three-pointers per 40 minutes. Among that group, he ranked second in points per 40 minutes. Additionally, Saunders was one of only two players in that same group to also post a Free Throw Attempt Rate of at least 35%, highlighting not only his perimeter shooting ability but also his effectiveness at generating rim pressure. He also finished an impressive 67% of his attempts at the rim. The combination of high-volume shooting, elite efficiency, and consistent rim pressure provides a strong statistical foundation for his NBA projection. Saunders projects as a prototypical floor-spacing possession finisher at the NBA level. An overwhelming 90.5% of his field goal attempts last season came either at the rim or from beyond the three-point line, reflecting the type of shot profile NBA teams covet for his archetype. While Saunders was assisted on the majority of his made baskets, the numbers do not suggest a player who is completely dependent on others to create offense. 34.1% of his made two-point field goals were assisted (64th percentile) and 92.2% of his made three-pointers were assisted (65th percentile), reinforcing his projection as a high-level off-ball floor spacer. Saunders also converted 44.1% of his corner three-point attempts, another indicator that his shooting should translate well to an NBA role. Defense is unlikely to be Saunders' calling card at the next level, but there are indicators that suggest he can hold his own. While steal percentage can sometimes be misleading, Saunders posted a strong 3.1% STL%, which, when paired with his reported +5-inch wingspan, points toward solid anticipation and the ability to disrupt passing lanes on the perimeter. Additionally, his 0.93x Personal Foul Efficiency (90th percentile) is noteworthy. Saunders consistently avoided unnecessary fouls while remaining engaged defensively, a valuable trait for role players expected to stay on the floor. When projecting Saunders' offensive role, players such as Cameron Johnson, AJ Green, Max Strus, and Will Richard come to mind. This comparison is not necessarily about overall talent level, but rather the archetype: floor-spacing wings who thrive playing alongside higher-usage creators, make quick decisions, punish defensive mistakes, and provide offensive value without requiring heavy on-ball responsibility. With Saunders on the floor, BYU was better in nearly every meaningful offensive category. Most notably the following listed below. On/Off ORTG: 125.3/114.3 TS%: 59.6%/56.9% A:T Ratio: 1.39/1.06 The offensive improvements are significant, but what may be even more impressive is Saunders' ability to elevate the players around him. There may be no better example than fellow BYU star and potential No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa. Dybantsa saw increases in TS%, 2P%, 3P%, and FTAr when sharing the floor with Saunders, illustrating the value of Saunders' spacing, gravity, and willingness to play within a complementary role. Elite complementary players are difficult to find, and Saunders consistently demonstrated an ability to make life easier for those around him. Saunders' floor-spacing ability is amplified by the speed of his release and his willingness to fire immediately off the catch. His ability to quickly get into his shot forces defenses to close out aggressively, creating additional opportunities for him to attack off the bounce. When defenders run him off the line, Saunders does an excellent job leveraging his shooting gravity to create straight-line drives to the rim. While he may not possess elite burst, he consistently capitalizes on defensive overreactions and attacks open space effectively. As someone who primarily evaluates college basketball rather than NBA draft boards, Richie Saunders has been one of the more surprising cases of this draft cycle. The concerns are understandable. He's older than the typical prospect, suffered a significant injury, and doesn't possess the type of elite physical tools that usually drive draft buzz. At the same time, it's difficult to ignore what Saunders actually produced on the court. He was one of the most efficient high-volume scorers in college basketball, combining elite shooting volume, strong rim finishing, and an ability to generate free throws at a level rarely seen from players who occupy a similar offensive role. His shot profile, floor-spacing ability, and offensive efficiency all align with the types of complementary wings that continue to carve out long NBA careers. Saunders may never be a primary creator or a player offenses are built around, but the NBA has consistently found value in wings who can space the floor, attack closeouts, make quick decisions, and fit seamlessly alongside stars. Whether he ultimately hears his name called in the late first round, second round, or enters the league through a two-way contract, Saunders feels like the type of prospect whose production and NBA-ready skill set could allow him to outperform his draft slot.
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For the record, I am much more of a college basketball enthusiast than an NBA Draft expert. One thing that has stood out to me throughout this draft cycle, however, is how little Richie Saunders has been discussed relative to his production. Obviously, age, injury concerns, and a lack of elite physical tools have all limited his draft buzz. Those concerns are fair. Still, Saunders was nothing short of one of the most productive and efficient scorers in college basketball last season. Richie Saunders was one of only 10 Power Conference players last season to post a True Shooting Percentage of at least 63% while attempting 8.5 or more three-pointers per 40 minutes. Among that group, he ranked second in points per 40 minutes. Additionally, Saunders was one of only two players in that same group to also post a Free Throw Attempt Rate of at least 35%, highlighting not only his perimeter shooting ability but also his effectiveness at generating rim pressure. He also finished an impressive 67% of his attempts at the rim. The combination of high-volume shooting, elite efficiency, and consistent rim pressure provides a strong statistical foundation for his NBA projection. Saunders projects as a prototypical floor-spacing possession finisher at the NBA level. An overwhelming 90.5% of his field goal attempts last season came either at the rim or from beyond the three-point line, reflecting the type of shot profile NBA teams covet for his archetype. While Saunders was assisted on the majority of his made baskets, the numbers do not suggest a player who is completely dependent on others to create offense. 34.1% of his made two-point field goals were assisted (64th percentile) and 92.2% of his made three-pointers were assisted (65th percentile), reinforcing his projection as a high-level off-ball floor spacer. Saunders also converted 44.1% of his corner three-point attempts, another indicator that his shooting should translate well to an NBA role. Defense is unlikely to be Saunders' calling card at the next level, but there are indicators that suggest he can hold his own. While steal percentage can sometimes be misleading, Saunders posted a strong 3.1% STL%, which, when paired with his reported +5-inch wingspan, points toward solid anticipation and the ability to disrupt passing lanes on the perimeter. Additionally, his 0.93x Personal Foul Efficiency (90th percentile) is noteworthy. Saunders consistently avoided unnecessary fouls while remaining engaged defensively, a valuable trait for role players expected to stay on the floor. When projecting Saunders' offensive role, players such as Cameron Johnson, AJ Green, Max Strus, and Will Richard come to mind. This comparison is not necessarily about overall talent level, but rather the archetype: floor-spacing wings who thrive playing alongside higher-usage creators, make quick decisions, punish defensive mistakes, and provide offensive value without requiring heavy on-ball responsibility. With Saunders on the floor, BYU was better in nearly every meaningful offensive category. Most notably the following listed below. On/Off ORTG: 125.3/114.3 TS%: 59.6%/56.9% A:T Ratio: 1.39/1.06 The offensive improvements are significant, but what may be even more impressive is Saunders' ability to elevate the players around him. There may be no better example than fellow BYU star and potential No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa. Dybantsa saw increases in TS%, 2P%, 3P%, and FTAr when sharing the floor with Saunders, illustrating the value of Saunders' spacing, gravity, and willingness to play within a complementary role. Elite complementary players are difficult to find, and Saunders consistently demonstrated an ability to make life easier for those around him. Saunders' floor-spacing ability is amplified by the speed of his release and his willingness to fire immediately off the catch. His ability to quickly get into his shot forces defenses to close out aggressively, creating additional opportunities for him to attack off the bounce. When defenders run him off the line, Saunders does an excellent job leveraging his shooting gravity to create straight-line drives to the rim. While he may not possess elite burst, he consistently capitalizes on defensive overreactions and attacks open space effectively. As someone who primarily evaluates college basketball rather than NBA draft boards, Richie Saunders has been one of the more surprising cases of this draft cycle. The concerns are understandable. He's older than the typical prospect, suffered a significant injury, and doesn't possess the type of elite physical tools that usually drive draft buzz. At the same time, it's difficult to ignore what Saunders actually produced on the court. He was one of the most efficient high-volume scorers in college basketball, combining elite shooting volume, strong rim finishing, and an ability to generate free throws at a level rarely seen from players who occupy a similar offensive role. His shot profile, floor-spacing ability, and offensive efficiency all align with the types of complementary wings that continue to carve out long NBA careers. Saunders may never be a primary creator or a player offenses are built around, but the NBA has consistently found value in wings who can space the floor, attack closeouts, make quick decisions, and fit seamlessly alongside stars. Whether he ultimately hears his name called in the late first round, second round, or enters the league through a two-way contract, Saunders feels like the type of prospect whose production and NBA-ready skill set could allow him to outperform his draft slot.

Caden Hoffman

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