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-4QSSFStk3E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QSSFStk3E | Chris Davis - Development of NCAR's Advanced Hurricane Research WRF | thanks greg uh this talk kind of follows naturally from naomi's presentation the subtitle here is explicit representation of convection that means not using a traditional cumulus parameterization so i have a lot of acknowledgements of various folks and there are even many more folks not on this slide that had a lot to do with this this does in fact involve the whole arw development that would be useful to have one slide on the acronym slide so what's the difference between these two apart from the replacement of an r with an h in the middle um really the cornerstone for all i'm talking about is the advanced research wharf which has now been around believe it or not for about 10 years non-hydrostatic model and its development was originally kind of motivated as a replacement for mm5 also wanted to couple with operations but convection was kind of a key phenomena that we wanted to to do in this model and it came up with the mall that was very good in numerix the ah the advanced hurricane research wharf is derived from the arw and differs not that much from it but let me explain a little bit about the philosophy here so we have this research community out here which includes a lot of people in this room since some of that effort develops new hurricane forecast techniques can which can be tested in the ahw you can look at this as the hurricane configuration of the arw and the warf data assimilation research testbed figures prominently into this as well for initialization and anything we do here if we like it can feed back into the arw and eventually become standard that everybody can use so that's kind of the philosophy here so if you see arw and ahw they really aren't that different but back in the early earlier days now for me earlier days here is uh going back seven years okay so i'm not going back 40 years going back seven years but this is one of the first sort of real-time forecast applications where we decided to go for resolution a grid spacing of four kilometers and not have any cumulus parameterization we actually did this during a severe weather uh field project called bamax which was back in the spring of 2003 and we started running this model every day and showing it to forecasters and they saw structures coming out of this we saw structures too that were really interesting and in fact in this case of a of a bow shaped convective system it kind of looks like the observations and here's a case of just strong but not so well organized convection in the model and the observations are producing a system that was kind of like that we saw this pretty much day in day out sometimes the high resolution model would produce just a nonsensical forecast but a lot of times it had a lot of information about structure well fast forward about four or five months and we enter hurricane season and we just said well what happens if we take this model and stick it over the atlantic ocean um without doing anything different do we get anything that makes any sense and along came hurricane isabel and this was one of the forecasts same configuration of the model four kilometer grid and here's the reflectivity field which shows some pretty realistic structures as compared with uh trim uh 85 gigahertz data and yeah there are a lot of differences here and in fact i think we're at least a category off in intensity but the point is we saw some promising aspects and you can start looking at this and say my gosh what's going on out here we got all this popcorn production but the basic line idea is that some of the asymmetries and structure in the interior of the storm were fairly well captured well that was encouraging but certainly uh one case means pretty much nothing so um i'll talk about a more systematic test in a minute but since 2003 a lot of things have happened uh the development of the moving nest as as bob talia said that's an absolutely critical aspect of all all this or at least some kind of mesh resolution refinement that follows the storm there's been various warf upgrades physics bug fixes of course and various other things improved flux formulations uh added a 1d ocean model which is really more like an ocean parameterization the 3d model is in progress and will really depend a lot on incorporating a lot of new things into the repository in this march release and advanced data assimilation so what i'm going to talk about in most of the rest of the presentation is this is what was done last year the high-resolution hurricane test where we thought where it was desired to see well what exactly do you get when you just go to high horizontal resolution high being transitioning this uh course resolution courser resolution with cumulus parameterization somewhere around the grid spacing of 10 kilometers down to something closer to one kilometer grid spacing what do you get so we use the same initial and boundary conditions the same physics parameterizations except the cumulus scheme however as as any any modelers will know the same physics of physics parameterization don't necessarily function the same way once you go to high resolution once you change the resolution but the settings are all kept the same the cases were selected by the hurricane center forecasters as difficult cases from 2005 and 2007 they're all atlantic storms and we think we have a statistically meaningful sample it's not large by operational standards but it is large by research standards so there are 69 forecasts and here are the storms the red indicates that they achieved category 5 but they were actually simulated throughout their life cycle so they had even the strong storms had weak phases and here's the list so 69 you can see they're not evenly distributed so emily ophelia wilma have more forecasts than any any other storm and there are some really tricky aspects to these here's our model configuration for this test now what's going to happen is everything the initial conditions are going to be exactly the same and the the domain configuration on the outer domain is the same and the only difference is whether we include these two nests or not and these two nests are drawn basically to scale they follow the storm wherever it goes in the domain there's already 34 levels you can read the one 1d ocean i won't really talk about that too much in the ensemble common filter this was a collaboration an ongoing collaboration still with the university at albany ryan torn 96 members relatively coarse grid and we've actually improved that since and in this case because the grade was rather coarse there was a bias in the initial intensity now i have to say something here because this doesn't involve bogusing at all there's no bogusing there's no synthetic observations going in here in fact there are no observations at all in the core of the storm the only thing that's assimilated is the position and the minimum sealable pressure it is certainly the case that especially for very intense storms on a 36 kilometer grid we will not replicate the observed intensity at t equals zero and that really wasn't the goal it was more just to come up with a initial state that was in dynamical balance with the model so that when we ran it forward we didn't get large gyrations which would obscure the signal that we were trying to see about the resolution dependence the drag and enthalpy exchange coefficients i put on here the main thing is that the ratio of ck to cd is about 0.6 at 30 meters per second and it does ramp slowly up to about one and we can argue all day about what happens out here um i really don't know what should happen this is just what we what we chose for these particular tests so let's get on to intensity two aspects here the root mean squared error and the bias the root mean squared error is going to be shown as a function of forecast leap time with these different symbols that i hope you can distinguish um the that are solid filled so the just look at the top section uh group of uh symbols the official forecast for these storms is down here and and i think this is why they picked these cases as being difficult because this is much larger than you would typically see at a 72 hour lead time what you see is the official forecast certainly does better than our our forecasts for the first 36 hours in a statistically meaningful way and my say statistically meaningful i did a a bootstrap a resampling test to to compute that the high resolution is in the gray diamonds and that is i'd say systematically better than the course resolution but the statistical significance is marginal except for 72 120 hours when you look over all forecasts all lead times the improvement from the high resolution is about eight percent in terms of root mean squared error and now the bias on the bottom the course resolution 12 kilometer has a negative bias which we're not too surprised about 12 kilometers is kind of marginal for resolving the inner core and the bias is about between 5 and 10 knots the high resolution has a bias of a few knots in the others in the other direction now if you remember the earlier talks from today uh one thing that definitely could be contributing to this is the fact that the the dissipation is going to be a lot less in the high resolution but what's interesting about it is these errors these small positive biases are all coming for weak storms not strong storms these negative errors for the course resolution are coming for strong storms not weak storms so the way errors are manifested is very different in these two systems so i don't think it's just the dissipation that's going on here and we can kind of quantify um whether the high risk where the high resolution helps in terms of the spectrum of intensity so basically what we've done is taken the the absolute the difference in the absolute value of error which is plotted on the vertical axis and this is a a joint histogram representation of the that difference plotted against observed intensity and you could do this as a scatter plot and you just get kind of a mess but this is sort of quantizing it into boxes and you can see that at low intensity uh there really isn't a whole lot of difference in in this plot it's pretty much the same uh there's not a lot you can say at high intensity you can see there the negative meaning there's larger error for the 12 kilometer forecast does start to manifest itself again that's not too surprising that's kind of what we thought so it is true that there is benefit for the more intense storms using this high resolution rapid intensification this is can the model detect a change of 25 an increase of 25 knots in 24 hours or better and it's set up as a standard two by two contingency table so your hit is where you predict the 25 knot change in the correct 24 hour period uh and a miss is obviously when for our false alarm is when you don't and the skill by that definition is highest for these high resolution forecasts which is interesting i should point out of course the official forecasts are not necessarily trying to predict the rapid intensification explicitly they have to be somewhat conservative so this is not necessarily a surprise there the main point is that you do gain something relative to the course resolution for rapid intensification the last thing really i'll talk about is the wind verification of wind radii starting to get in now to the structural aspects of these storms and what we did is is a very simple thing we computed the the extent the radial x the maximum radial extent of a given threshold of wind either 64 50 or 34 knots and we compared it with what was in the extended best track data and we bind basically the wind radii into roughly 10 equal bins going out uh in radius now this doesn't imply necessarily that that's the accuracy by which these these are estimated it was just a convenient way to quantize the results so i'm going to show here our again this joint histogram representation of predicted radius of of 34 knot winds in this case is down here observed radius of 34 knot winds is here so you'd like all your points to lie along the one one diagonal all your audio data to fill these boxes and of course it doesn't um but what was interesting at least to me is that it wasn't a total disaster there was definitely some uh reasonable clustering of of the forecasts along this one one line now on the left side is the high resolution forecast and on the right side of the course resolution forecast for the 34 knot wind radii and you can't see a whole lot of difference but i'm going to get to some statistics in a minute when you look at the 64 knot wind radius now we've changed our bin widths to 10 nautical miles again not that that's the inherent accuracy of the estimate but it was convenient for for stratifying the data you see again there's more or less data lying along this one one line and there's a but there is a fair bit of scatter and there's especially a lot of over forecasts in the 12 kilometer so the 12 kilometer ma grid is is predicting wind radii the extent of hurricane force winds to be too great so intensity was by us a little low the extent of the winds is too large and we can come up with a a threat score uh i'll just move on to the next slide here which estimates the skill in that in a space it's a lot like a standard equitable threat score the point i want to make about this is that as a function of lead time these scores are not that high 0.1 is pretty marginal skill but the interesting thing is the slow fall off with time for the 34 knot wind radii and that was that's an interesting sort of thing because it suggests that there really is a synoptic time scale governing the error uh the predictability of the of the outer wind radii and i think that's probably somewhat intuitive but what it sort of means is that maybe we can gain a lot by trying to improve the uh wind structure of the outer winds at earlier times if the decay if the error growth is fairly slow so some conclusions here for the resolution comparison i didn't show it but not surprising there was no significant track difference between high and course resolution there's slightly improved intensity for the nested runs uh like about eight percent overall it's not uh dramatic but it was there improved skill for rapid intensification and the wind radii for the nests i didn't really i didn't show that on the last slide um talk about it afterwards if you want gale radius error is governed by the synoptic scale all right well what are some next steps um certainly the high resolution data assimilation we haven't touched the inner core with data assimilation really and i think it obviously it's going to be an important part of progress in the next few years the outer domain seems to be a rather uh important thing choosing that correctly we've had some problems especially with hurricane fred this past year our domain just wasn't quite big enough to capture it so that's an issue i guess this and but i want to say something about and this was something raised this morning the predictability of how much we get out of data assimilation in the vortex core you don't really know how long that improved information will last so finally i want to put some put up here some needed advances for the advanced hurricane wharf research wharf and one as i already mentioned the 3d ocean model idealized vortex initialization several people are already doing this but it's not really part of the community package and i think that would be a very valuable tool moving nest in the ensemble framework that's something that's on our plate to try to do improved surface atmosphere exchange uh i would say we're we're moving rapidly in this direction but we definitely want to move in this direction um and lastly i want to emphasize this detailed diagnostic analysis that naomi was talking about there's so much data out there and just getting started at using it to do full three-dimensional comparisons of these storms is an important challenge but necessary to gain understanding of where these where errors are coming from that's all thank you | Developmental Testbed Center | UCJ4NdkQK875lM1X-oudv2rA | 2020-12-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,943 | 16,141 |
rqV4b_0OPoE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqV4b_0OPoE | Stretch & Tone - Prepare & Repair | [Music] hi everybody Victoria here from Sleek we're going to get started straight away this morning with this workout which is fantastic for both preparing and repairing your body brilliant for preceding any of your ballet classes or Sleek workouts also fantastic to finish off and lengthen out at the end of the day so let's put some music on and get going [Music] so sitting up tall on your mat rest your fingers we're just going to gently beat out the calves and hamstrings into the floor it doesn't matter if any wobbles I want everything to relax get rid of any tensions or stretch everything out now start to roll your ankles and gently let your hips open from side to side Circle the toes around mobilizing those ankle joints pointing both toes draw the heels together with the finger [Music] the finger can line with the spine activate the glutes and work into your lower back good keep strong and pulled up in those elbows as you gently lower down then drawing your heels up a little wider again we're going to drop alternate knees into the floor opening up through those hip sockets [Music] letting one leg fall in after the other and narrowing those feet bring the soles of the feet to the floor again putting fingertips forward send the hips up high now we're aiming for knees at 90 degrees creating a tabletop shape foreign glutes engaged as well as the arms start to fire up and this time as you lower down draw the soles of the feet together and take your hands to each ankle gently open up again and rock really soon to those hip sockets and this time as you come to your central alignment pull up energy up at the top of the head straighten into the spine now draw your forehead down to the sole of your feet curve and Arch the back and elongating from the top of the head pull out on a long diagonal to the top corner of your room good once more head your forehead to the soles of your feet make that curve press the elbows into the knees send the head out long diagonal run those ankles to make this happen straighten up and this time take hold and pull against your shins to release your upper back in a combo chest to ceiling coming back bring the back leg over your front coming down into your elbow just press this knee back and resist into your hand and bring it back down and send it back behind you just activate that gluten parallel again draw the knee to knee pushing back this time opening up to the hips and in front of the knee and send the foot back work the glute this time as you roll over bring the foot over thigh lower down draw your underneath leg towards your body gently pressing into the knee with that elbow can you extend your underneath leg Flex the foot to the ceiling good lower down twice more stretch and lengthen out the hamstring don't worry if you've got still a slight kink in that knee just get as straight as you can now at the top just release that ankle one more time releasing off all those little nerve endings and muscle fibers good and draw the leg down it's time to lower the leg and extend your arms to the side let the knee fall open then in the reverse lift it up and open press to the floor and turn your head in the opposite direction and lengthen out the leg and the bent arm out along the floor now stabilizing with both arms flat out to the floor rollers on the leg opening into the hips release the lower back sweep release the hips cross open as the legs come together this time rock onto your front hip bend your underneath leg top leg 90 degrees keep one long straight line along the front of your thigh or deep in a stretch in just a moment flex and release stretch out into those abductors and one more time Circle the anchor around [Music] [Applause] this time we're deep in this stretch send the leg forward Arch the back send behind you [Music] this time as you release bring the arm up and over with the leg and draw it a little closer towards your body trying not to dip lift up tall try to sandwich your thigh towards your rib cage Now guide this leg over take hold of your thigh spiral twist to place your back wall [Music] [Applause] [Music] on your recovery turn to face the side onto your hands and knees and contract up through the tummy and release send the head back the tailbone back and one more time draw in and this time tuck the toes underneath step back find a plank position and stabilize [Music] lift the bottom High press the heels to the floor lengthen out into the hamstrings the calves and achilles flatten your upper back now lifting the end to Demi Point drop through alternate feet massaging through the metatarsals and pushing right up onto full point if that feels good [Music] in that full point it's about the mobilization of all the joints on our feet and ankles good press both heels to the floor again and flatten send the weight back up and over into your planks strong shoulders down firing up all the muscles we need for either another workout or the rest of our day it's time as you lift the bottom you're going to drop the knees and send it back between our heels opposition stretch lengthen those fingers along the floor and this time we're going to draw the elbows in and class them behind our back push away and stretch the arms behind us slightly deeper second time through [Music] you'd release the hands back onto our hands and knees step back onto your plank hold strong across your shoulders glutes engaged good low those knees now dropping the hips I'll turn its side mobilize the lower back switch up and change and last time drop the bottom to the floor swing the legs around and on this side release into the legs give them a gentle beat out tall and then slowly roll those ankles round [Music] then point and draw the fingertips back push up and press the hips High foreign as you lower down draw the legs a little wider than shoulders and drop I'll turn at knee to the floor mobilizing those hips rotation inwards and outwards releasing into our lower backs as well then bring your feet flat up narrow them slightly same hip press 90 degree angle with those legs foreign [Music] draw the soles of the feet together take hold of your ankles and gently Rock from side to side and come to a static position lift up tall and drop your head forehead to soles and feet pushing the elbows out into the knees then send the head out on a long diagonal as if you had a piece of string pulling out and recover once more down to the soles of your feet and extend good recover and lift kombre pull off your shins at this time as you recover Rock onto your hip start by resisting push knee into hand hover and hold activate that outer hip then send it back and activate that glute engage your hamstring [Music] place the leg your arm in front push into that hand in up position with the leg lower down send the leg back behind you and rock back onto your forearms drawing this leg over your supporting leg back and draw your underneath thigh on our second side in towards our body pushing the elbow into the outer knee now three times extend in flexion heel to the ceiling trying to get a nice straight knee and lower again push and extend [Music] third time press the heel to the ceiling and circle get any cricks out of those ankles [Music] now drawing the leg into your chest once more extend out along the floor lengthen the arms either side lift the leg up and over press it to the floor send the head the opposite action cross ing the length in the bent arm and leg out along the floor horizontal lift up and run the Jean send the leg to the side full circle round through first let the hip come off the floor and full Rhonda's arm again up and Round And as the legs come together Rock onto your front hip good draw the leg back 90 degrees nice and straight from your hip to your knee nice and gentle to begin with bring that leg up and over [Music] and this time we're going to extend the leg out and back push into this stretch a little deeper chest goes forward leg goes further behind you and Ronda Jam even bigger this time draw the heel to the ceiling the leg to the ribcage good release it off bring the leg up and over around draw this [Music] stuff then as you uncurl come to all fours and on our second side same thing contract up through the tummy drop the head and in the reverse and the tailbone back mobilize that spine and curl up this time stepping back into your planks straighten out the body and neck have a hold and once more lift the tailbone High Press the heels into the floor stretch the calves and lift at any point and drop alternately pressing through those metatarsals working through those calves and once more pressing down into the floor lengthen the backs of the legs pushing back onto your plank position long and strong this time as you lower the knees lift the bottom high and send it back [Music] stretch the fingertips forward lower the head to the floor now draw your elbows in clasp your hands behind your back and push away [Music] release and slide stepping back to your plank position long and strong elongate that neck [Applause] and with some as you lower the knees drop the hips and stretch across the lower back [Music] and last time drop your hips to the floor bring your leg across and come to standing fully prepared fully warm for the rest of your workout or day | Sleek Technique - Ballet Fitness | UC0M_7uJKbtxtJS8VTp5NmEQ | 2022-10-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,764 | 9,333 |
SeSY7y6MvhQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeSY7y6MvhQ | 5 Periods until the End of the World! Hadith | five periods the prophet imated from his time to the end of this world first period of NAA when he was present among the human beings you know in this world second period of note these words on the pattern of in the footsteps of of third period of biting means to bite with your teeth biting Mia this was the M of the Muslims what happened in carala what happened to Madina in the incident of har could thing happened in it say but at least they were Muslims the fourth period that the prophet inated was it was a period of slavery at least throughout that period the monarchs were Muslims and I think it means the period of colonial rule the britishers the French the Dutch they were riness but the prophet said then again there will be a period of | Deen Islam Global (English) | UCwtViQPDoVb0RVNOoFTaZRg | 2024-02-23 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 144 | 749 |
VbremjDkXYg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbremjDkXYg | Tytan RE-Play's | Resident Evil: Dead Aim | #3 FUN-ters | hey guys and welcome back to a resident evil dead and when we last left off uh the game kind of gypsy switched us over to fong ling before we could save it which was a well interesting time uh yeah so we have uh the item that we needed which was the valve and shit's gone well shit's gone shitty really the game's flicked up the diarrhea dial and we're surrounded by enemies so let's go let's go fong run remember your training and you will make it back alive wait did they train you for zombie situations i'm gonna assume they probably do somewhere oh he just keep running long if you could run like a human i would appreciate ah that guy doesn't know where he is that's fine ah the way she flails her arms around is really um not good oh get wrecked wrong you are stone cold please don't tell me that door's locked doors locks i don't know what i was expecting to be honest uh oh my um yes right well um let's get the automatic out flick the selector switch to fun mode and hope for the re hope for the rest yes i guess so hope for the rest okay good stuff what is this a peashooter i mean i know resident evil likes to offset its uh automatic weapons by making them pathetically weak but come on man there we go uh relay please thanks mom there we go efficiently done uh efficiently done oh shut us out at least we should have shows how right let's go i've noticed these deads have not exactly furnished us with ammo and i don't know how far we have to go with a young thong here see you later buddy we don't have ammo to play with you as well i mean come on jesus we're only one woman here uh how are we doing oh jeez well thank god our american friend cleaned the place out for us you know fong how about showing a little bit of gratitude and maybe there is a kitten up a tree but that's on our to-do list okay we can't be everywhere at once ah man that was some intense stuff beauty and brain he said beauty and brains and the subtitle said something totally different here is our weeby bad guy you will not destroy this for me uh okay all right the discount hunters i remember the discount hunters so he said you will not destroy this for me when actuals oh god look at it oh that stance when the actual subtitles said bastard die well they certainly didn't spare too much expense with this game right now we have the shotgun which i'm going to assume is fantastic at range however we are going to be smart oh god what oh geez louise big papa jeez um right okay they're pretty pretty nippy apparently ouch my face um right oh with danger we're we're oh dear uh let's stop [ __ ] around then shall we i don't know what's going on wow wow guys wow uh press the escape button at the right time to avoid what a okay that actually puts us back here uh which is curious so we've just got to do that running bit with [ __ ] hmm okay well i mean that's fine if the game's just going to reset us to hear that that's fine i guess i'm going to meet you guys back up to where we were because we could we can skip these so that's something uh right so with fongling we're just gonna you know cheese it yeah we don't we don't care about those guys come on i don't care about killing them uh now you cannot open the door will not open the door have i forgotten something already okay let's do that oh man get back come on okay so there is kind of a quick turn thing i guess one of these does drop bullets as well so ah man okay cool um i don't want to go through there again it seems to be you cannot yeah fine so we actually do have to go through here that's fine we don't have time to read that bit of information uh how do i wanna do this you know what i'm gonna do guys i'm gonna get killed here and we're going to go back as our friend and i'm going to search this area and see what's actually in this area if we even can and then if there's anything interesting in here i'll bring you guys back otherwise i'll meet you back where we fought the uh where we fought the um discount hunters which were actually fairly savage okay so when we play as bruce there's actually nothing in here uh there is a pack of handgun bullets and that's that there's also a lock door that we need a key card for but we do not have a key card so let's have a look at this there is a letter in an envelope here waiters letter brother how is everything my life has taken a turn for the better because i'm on a luxury cruiser well actually i work as a waiter on a cruiser most passengers are well known and i've seen them before on tv my colleague told me that they come from various countries to discuss business and that's a world famous drug company owns this cruiser anyway i'm doing fine take care of mother for me loves to oh joseph carter well joseph carter you certainly picked the wrong ship to uh get a job on let me just say that much right okay well that does appear to be all that's in here it appears to be a well outfitted recreational center yeah if you want to you know spend your life wasting money i suppose that's what rich people do anyway down the line okay kind of made it back uh did a little bit of experimenting off camera the dodge against the zombies anyway uh appears to work very easily against the other enemies i'm not sure uh fong could you bleed to death over here please there we go right once more with feeling against these these discount hunters um you're a smart woman uh all right don't flatter her too much um right let's equip this and let's see if we can kill this one oh man that's gonna hurt okay right now now we've blasted a hell of a lot of ammo around can we oh god how do we even right how do we even like um the okay what what how do you kill these things what was that 20 handgun but no nearly 40 handgun bullets and two or three shotgun shells oh dear god um ah well this is gonna be hell i'll catch you in a second okay i think i'm kind of winning against these things kind of i don't know right he's gone come on i don't know how i did that i just got him in a corner and unloaded all of my handgun bullets into their face they're gonna be hard not again they're gonna be very hard try i'm not afraid to die or i'll never die okay so morpheus seems to be having a good fun time in there by himself um i'm oh god so now let's put us here we really juice through a lot of ammo huh yeah we really juice through a lot of ammo uh i'm not convinced this shotgun is a useful weapon well at least they gave us a save spot here let's take as many packs of bullets as we can okay good stuff yeah i mean that auto handgun is pretty bitching to be honest but those hunters they're gonna be something they're gonna be really something took me about five attempts to get those guys done and um yeah the bit that you just saw where i actually managed to kind of cheese one into a corner without the other one noticing me and blasting him in the face until he died that happened by luck i don't think i could uh replicate that if i tried but let's continue yeah shotgun not great apparently not uh not great uh tried to use the shotgun a few times and very weak effects now i'm not sure how many hunters we're gonna find in this game uh uh i have memories oh we have no map good excellent i have memories of there being a good amount of them in here but this just kind of makes me it reminds me why i don't play many games on hard because you spend eighty percent of your recording time replaying uh protections well maybe eighty percent a bit of a stretch um oh no they're zombies that's fine oh god that that that's not great oh god oh man um zombies hi right yeah these zombies just seem to like bullets apparently oh if you've got a reload you're buggered all right yeah ouch not good ammo reserves are pretty tanks already wait so they're like all getting all right okay so this semi-auto handgun you can actually buy in single shots as well just by tapping the button that's cool because that makes it infinitely more useful let's go back and pick up some more ammo from that save room that was kind of awful oh man not happy all right we have two packs of handgun bullets left so even like the basic even the basic like zombies are absolute bullet sponges right well which they shouldn't be because you know in resident evil um law i guess if you if you want to call it that one bullet to the head is enough to drop a zombie i think that's where a lot of the higher difficulty modes and games fall down as well the fact that they're just silly uh gears of war for instance ah really gears of war oh [ __ ] where did these guys come from like like what [Music] yeah the fact that enemies are spawning in behind me is is not good it's not a good fun time oh my god like you uh we may be dead here we are just about there oh god i'm determined to do it on hard but who enjoys playing games on harder definitely most like ah you know nev i've never understood it myself let's keep the shotgun maybe right now we know as soon as we go through here we're gonna have loads of runners spawn behind us right bruce you keep that shotgun close mate as soon as we hit there yeah you can hear them all coming through i think he's dead but it is kind of hard to tell when zombies are dead in this game he's not right he's gone just keep moving i really want a map kind of makes you nervous because although you've walked through into like a new area at any second zombies can just appear behind you at least that's the way the game makes you feel anyway okay oh is that a map is that a map yes a map lower decks map taken good good now unfortunately the lower decks are absolutely infested with zombies but that's fine okay let's try that again so we've got a lift there it actually shows you the lift goes down as well though spiral staircase we can go through the cargo room well can we let's see let's see what options are open to us i think you just said yeah that door's locked all right so we need a key card for that true entrance key card cool well we can hunt for one of those and if we need to we go down and research the lower decks pretty sure we're gonna have to do uh why do i get a hunter feeling here right looks like a freight loading entrance you can't go outside yeah it always reminds me of my friend actually who played um well rich who's been on this channel a few times he played uh last of us remake on ground difficulty which is the hardest thing of the game and it took him about i think we said now about four months to get through it and it oh hello it essentially revolved around oh madison yes please memorizing where every enemy is in the game their exact attack pattern the frame perfect dodges and stuff like that i always just stop and thought to myself you honestly is that honestly fun playing the same thing over and over and over again i mean different strokes different folks and all that stuff but right i remember this being a bad area i remember this something goes down in here i'm sure of it we'll get the crowbar and this looks like a report research report oh fun the special elite version has been modified for presentation it's faster and more powerful than a standard hunter this sample was created with a newly developed virus it attacks objects with its huge arms whilst its agility and striking power are outstanding it currently has a fatal flaw because an essential organ is exposed however this will be rectified in future models warnings strict secrecy secrecy access restricted we have succeeded in fusing the t virus and the g virus so it has electrical properties however after observing the prototype known as the t091 we have to concede that there is much room for improvement in this newest version version 092 we have finally been able to achieve a high voltage current which was our initial goal its electromagnetic barrier should make it near near and vulnerable now we require a human test subject that matches the conditions to experiment on and observe oh my oh you know what's so cool about the resident evil franchise and ceres as a whole is there's so much potential with the viruses and the monsters and stuff oh man you added the research report to your file good good um right well i'm my zombie sense is tingling should it be my mutant sense [Music] oh boy yeah this is the first boss i think yep oh boy morpheus oh hi it's interesting like morpheus becomes female at least female features useless uh [Music] right well um [Music] [ __ ] so i don't know how we're going to be fighting this dude uh uh dude um are we dead we're dead aren't we yeah we're basically almost dead do we just run i can't remember i have a feeling we just run because he does mention that our gun is useless yeah i guess so i guess that is the name of the game run and we've got a crowbar i don't know where we use the crowbar too hey is there like any grey launchers or something in any of these boxes oh ah yeah i remember him yeah i do remember this i'm guessing we can't oh hey fella look okay look look look i know we got off on the wrong foot all right amen like whatever you want to do with your body is up ooh up to you man i mean i don't judge this is back in 2002. if you want to grow heels and a fine rack and some rather lovely long hair ow and man if i must say your claws are fairly fabulous okay right flattery is not the way to this guy um yeah i'm pretty sure we just have to like run away so cargo room monitor room referencing oh god maybe the monitor room has something for us i don't know doesn't law knob is covered in blood that's good right can we examine our crowbar robot it's all for opening wooden crates i mean they're wooden crates here oh cruise belongings yes uh i mean that's it's not really that useful to be honest okay i'm just saying has anybody got a grenade launcher crewman's key card i mean sure that's oh hey sir look dude come on man you don't have to be a dick there's nothing in there really there's nothing in here look at least give me some stuff maybe some rubber boots because this guy's electric uh we can't carry any more hang on but why are so many people carrying um handgun rounds in their private belongings nothing of use ugh come on nothing of ow yeah that was my face uh we're like injured again oh boy it's gonna be one of those damn we're instantly here again cool good stuff good stuff nothing of any use um well well now you are dead gonna be like that gonna be like that okay well oh [ __ ] my ass okay well it looks at least to be honest that the game is actually fairly generous with its checkpoints so well i say that when we were fighting the hunters earlier it wasn't the best checkpoint it could have given us but you know vegas can't be jesus and where's that card where's that card what do you mean i'm sure it was in like the first one come on come on there we go right let's cheese it cheese it run run run okay luckily he does not appear to be brilliant at actually you know hitting us so there's that right use the card come on there we go unlock good good good good move move move must go faster must go faster must go faster hey phong check out her face like the present oh we're gonna be here now aren't we yup okay i mean sure right so we have to open the door because matey boy is banging down the other side morpheus isn't that interesting that he like kind of changes sex oh oh hey hi yeah i remember you guys um crap i don't like you guys i want to make that abundantly clear oh god ammo ammo magazine there we go there we go come to daddy you bastards there we go there's uh there's really no stopping those guys is there there's really no stopping those guys it's safer to attack consistent why thank you game ah i was curious about that at least we get a checkpoint here um what do we have not much we are okay so every time we take control of thong it looks like we keep the gear that she previously had uh not really a fan of that so we have got to go down there we've got to go down there with the hunters uh which is fine question how the [ __ ] do we fight the fun the punters the punters yes the hunters how do we fight the hunters i feel like that is a legitimate fair serious question how do we fight the hunters because they are basically impossible to kill um uh and we have no health and for some reason we can't reload this machine gun or this assault rifle i don't know why we have a magical machine gun or assault rifle that we can't reload i don't know where that makes sense oops oh boy okay okay okay that's fine right may the gods smile on our souls run run yes yes goods ouch my brain i don't oh god good yes yes get us stuck on the corpse that's wonderful right okay wait are you are you coming up the stairs can i shoot you i have no idea i have no idea if i'm actually shooting it and doing any damage to it i really wish we could aim down but i guess we can't no oh yeah we are actually hitting it we were yep now i don't really think we're doing a lot of damage to it but if we get the opportunity it looks like we can cheese enemies this way possibly really how strong are those i get the feeling that we have to go down here and do something and there's another one but that's okay i'll have your bullets so there are buttons here we can cut all right there's explosives there where there it is well the game is slowing down which is actually helping us out a reasonable amount um right of course we're dead no we're not um now we're dead uh wow i don't know yep uh-huh right i see yes quite right i don't know uh how i'm gonna be able to do this game on this difficulty uh i think i would rather restart it again um and obviously i will meet you guys back up to this point i'm gonna put it back down to normal just because this isn't fun for me well i don't know i think i probably could get my way through it maybe but what's more apt is i don't have time for this i've got two recording sessions a week and they are about for four hours each so about eight hours a week total recording time in i have to produce seven videos um yeah which actually doesn't sound that much but i like to over produce in case something happens um yeah so i'm not gonna be able to have time to get through this you know i think this could make a fun stream did i say fun box i think this could make an interesting stream uh at some point [Music] but yeah it ain't gonna make fun let's play i don't think so we're gonna drop it down and i will meet you guys back here and just it's gonna be interesting to see how much easier the game actually is till next time guys [Music] you | Tytan Gaming | UCrmxYrn0sC3jGsLYbgh8hHg | 2020-10-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,686 | 18,588 |
fT-NPMhOa5E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-NPMhOa5E | 3 Reasons To Consider Metal Roofing | these are three reasons why you should consider metal roofing for your home number one savings metal roofing can keep a home cooler and save up to 20% in air conditioning costs number two is cooling metal roofs accommodate to homeowners needs in both hot and cool climates and hot climate shingles are susceptible to curling cracking making your roof vulnerable for leaks and future storms metal roofing is the ideal choice and will withstand these blistering climates number three is higher resale value according to the metal roofing Alliance homeowners are able to recoup on average 85.9% of the roofs cost if you're considering metal roofing check us out on modernize.com so we can connect you to a local Pro | Modernize | UCf8d5UFzfs-pFXJtfEfAJJg | 2023-09-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 121 | 712 |
NZbL2VaO8Rg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZbL2VaO8Rg | How to Set up Trains, Signals and make them Efficient in Satisfactory!! | what's going on guys and welcome back to another satisfactory video where today i'm gonna be explaining to you about trains so let's talk about it also remember if you enjoyed this video please remember to give it a big thumbs up and subscribe to see future content so the first thing you need to do is unlock tier 6 and get monorail train technology once you have all of this all you need to do is open your build menu go on the left hand side click transportation scroll down and you can see railway transport and here you can see all your buildables next you're going to want to place your train station as you can see there is a little arrow indicating in the middle which way your train will depart from once it's unloaded or loaded so place that down once you have done that go into your build menu and you're gonna have multiple attachments this is gonna be your freight platform your fluid freight platform your empty platform and your empty platform with walkways these are exactly the same the other thing is they've got little walkways for you as a pioneer to walk across so as you can see the freight platform hasn't two inputs and two outputs for your conveyor belts and then the fluid station has two inputs and two outputs for your pipes and then of course we have the two empty platforms one with the walkways one without next is how to do rail lines so you just place it down like you normally would very much like a conveyor belt but then most people ask bits how do you do 90 degree turns so how you do this is i'm just going to demonstrate with a different foundation so you want to go one two three foundations out one's already done here two three then you're gonna wanna grab yourself your railway place it and then just place to the end of this foundation once your muscle memory learns that you would you won't need to kind of put these foundations down here and then you can just constantly build on from where you need to go and that is a 90 degree turn next up is your electric locomotives all you need to do is just air mount one train line place it and then you can see that it automatically builds onto it next you're gonna want your freight coils and a rule of thumb is that everybody should go by to keep optimal speeds for your trains it's for every one locomotive you're going to need four freight cars so that does mean if you have eight freight cars on the back you will need two locomotives on the front so next you can see we've set up a little circuit on how it will be obviously not on a global scale but on a miniature scale so you can replicate this into your own worlds so as you can see i have an orange station and i have a green one my orange one is gonna be where the train unloads so what i need to do is i need to go to my freight stations here click on them and then make sure it is set to unload just down here then you need to do this to all of your freight stations you would like to unload once you've done that check your other station to make sure they are set to load which by default they should be which they are next you're going to want to head into your train hit the q key and then name your train whatever you want it just you can be recognized and then if you scroll on the map here you can see what train stations are actually connected so we can see the orange station and the green station is connected to this train line i do have other train lines in this world but you cannot see them because this train is not connected to them stations next thing you want to do is head into your edit timetable and as you can see on the left hand side your stations are here so we want this to go to orange next because that is the next station on the train the route and then next will be green after that you could set up multiple train stations but we'll get to this later next you're going to want to click save changes and now you can see the next stop that is going to be here is going to be orange and if we click on turn on self driving and then hit q we can see it's doing it automatically now so what's going to happen then is your train is just going to continuously go on that loop and do the jobs that you have set it the next thing i want to talk about is train optimization and a lot of people always ask yeah but my trains bringing in enough items it's just that my factory's not receiving them do you know what's going wrong bits i'm like yes more than likely as you can see down here everything is running smoothly we have 780 items going into the storage but then 780 items out which does mean nothing is being stored and what happens is is when a train arrives like this is done it has suddenly stopped sending out the items so what that's doing is for the next possible 30 seconds whilst your train is unloading the next batch of items it's received from obviously green station it's not going to send any items out so how you fix this is you get yourself a line and make sure that both outputs are being utilized on your train station and send that in what's going to happen now is 780 is going into that line 780 is going into that line and 780 is coming out meaning now if we look inside of here 780 items per minute is being stored in the storage so always utilize both outputs into one storage because now we are sending 1 560 items per minute from the train station into the storage also outputting 780 to your base so once you've got that set up the train will come in unload like it normally does so let's just wait for this train to unload and as soon as it happens then two lines have now been cut off which does mean because we still have a storage these items are still going and if you look at these ones these are not so that means your factories or machines are not going to be receiving the items they need but because we have set up a 1560 output line here and a 780 going here it is now fixed and it's using the storage we have here so when this train is done then 2 will turn back on and life will continue in your factories also make sure you do it on the input side as well on any of your train stations next thing i'm going to show you is how to unload at specific locations this works exactly the same way for loading so as you can see we have added a new station we've called this one yellow and how we're going to do this is with empty platforms so what you do is you put down empty platforms where you want your train to ignore being loaded or unloaded if we go back into the train and then change the actual table we want it to go now to yellow to orange and then to green green is our input our collection point and orange in yellow is where we're going to be unloading so if we click save and then also then turn on self driving this will then do its job so as you can see now the train is entering at the station but the first two freight cars are not gonna get removed because there's no freight station there it's an empty platform so we can see the back two carriages are now being lifted and are going going to get stored and once it's done at the station you can see it now departing with two full carriages and two empty carriages but once we get to the orange station it is a different matter because the first two stations are unload our lord and the n2 is empty so the two on the uh the back end of the train and there's nothing's going to happen to him and then as you could probably have already worked out by now the train will be fully empty going to green station to fill back up again next thing i'm gonna do is we're gonna add a new train to the line so that means two trains are now operating on the same line so meet mr red he's gonna do exactly the same route as the blue one's doing but there's gonna there's gonna be a little bit of a problem so i'm gonna give him the exact same route save changes and turn on self drive the reason i might want to do this is because i want to move my items a little bit quicker around my world but adding two train lines is gonna have a bit of a problem they will collide so as you can see i am holding a block signal this is now indicating on these lines that everything is red so that's one color that is what is called a block so now all of that train line is under one line so if we head down here and if we put a um a signal at this entrance of this station and then go to the other side of the station and place one here you can see that train line has now gone to orange meaning if there is any train on that line this signal will tell you not to pass so as a train will now come along here and wait at this point until that area is clear so now we have another problem as you can see this signal is going no you cannot go this way because this line this red line is occupied and why that is is because that train is currently on the red line so what we need to do is we need to create more sections so what i'm going to do is right here at this train station is i'm going to put down another signal this then creating another color so this one has now gone to orange and this one has now moved to yellow so once this train has now left the yellow this one is like hey come on in you can now enter the yellow zone and that train will now enter that red zone once that train leaves that red zone over there so what you need to do is at every station is put down a block signal at the entrance and exit of your stations so now that's what i went and done and as you can see our track is like a rainbow we have different colored sections meaning if any train enters this orange section here this signal is gonna go no you cannot enter but the reason that is a green one is because there is another signal up here saying hey up you cannot pass this one because there is a train in my next section so once this red train here leaves this red area you will see this change to allow it to another train to access you ready boom the train has now gone to green meaning mr blue and then go into here and now this has gone back to a block because now he's entered but it also does mean if a train is halfway between crossing that section and it's got some freight cars in this section it's gonna be holding two blocks up so that means a trend it's technically saying there's a train in this one and there's a train in this one so that means this signal right here will tell mr red over here you cannot pass because there is a train in green but hopefully all that made sense and also check out these playlists here if you enjoy the content and want to see more and as always keep smiling | Bitz | UCLa4kFhK3uSTB3xegO6ny6A | 2022-03-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,119 | 10,549 |
6kKU0uV9u6E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKU0uV9u6E | KABE CROWN i760 LGB 6000 KM ROADTRIP REVIEW part 1 | Hello, hiking enthusiasts! I thought that I'd make a bit of a different video for a change, I usually always talk about tuning and building cars, dynoing cars and all sorts of stuff like that, but this time I thought I'd make an episode about traveling with the motorhome. We've reached Vaskikello with the family. It's a cool location where there's big copper bells, and there's also a restaurant, a fuel station, you can charge electric cars here. There's a cool toilet which is great for stopping on a roadtrip to use. This is the second time for us to be here. Last time, we visited Santa in Rovaniemi in our Adria Matrix Supreme, that was our very first own motorhome, and this time, I don't remember for how long we owned it, probably for around 1.5-2 years, we'v decided that we needed a bigger one now, and we've decided to take a step forward, though that step forward was quite huge, because this machine is costs twice as much as the previous one. I can't tell you yet if it's twice as good as the previous one, but you really can't compare them to each other, and one of the goals for this trip is to find out and test this machine in extreme cold, we're driving 1200km upwards towards Nordkapp, we'll see what the weather will allow us to do, but the important thing is to be back home before new years eve. Today is the 26th of december already, so there's not a lot of time to mess around. Basically, the plan is to drive upwards as much as we have the energy to, we'll go skiing in Ivalo, we'll test the car and experiment. I will definitely be telling you more about this new motorhome when we reach our destination or have a pause along the route, I'll be telling you about what I like about it, what I dislike, what I've changed on this machine and what I plan to change, because there isn't a product that's perfect, and since I'm a guy who deals with tuning cars, I'm never satisfied because I know you can always improve a product. I of course understand why some extras aren't installed on some vehicles, because if you spend 50€ more on a vehicle and you produce 1000 of them a year for example, everyone can do the math to figure out how much more it'll cost the manufacturer yearly. We'll continue our drive, we'll see how our trip will go, we'll definitely show you clips of our doings and then I'll tell you more about the machine itself, just as I promised. I'll tell you about what I've done and changed on it, what have we added onto it, what it even is, let's see if you have anything to ask or to add! Basically, when I decided to replace the Adria for a bigger machine, the main argument was that our Adria was only half-integrated, and each time the boys wanted to sleep in and the wife and I wanted to wake up earlier, to make coffee or pancakes for example, their bed was in the middle of the room. That stopped our life, we had to wake up the boys and send them to sleep in the back each time, and it was always like that, so we thought about looking for a fully integrated motorhome, where the bed location would be more forwards in the cabin, which would make our lives that much simpler. At the same time, our arguments were that the car shouldn't be any longer than 8 meters, because that's the length which fits most European camp sites, but even then there's already problems, it's fine up to 7.5 meters. Our Adria was 7.5 meters, so we started checking out these motorhomes, I even looked at ones with dually wheels in the back, which were closer to 9 meters. One of the huge advantages for those was, that their load capacity is huge, so you could take more things with you, and and those have a whole meter worth of more room inside, those usually have a one large storage area in them. I went and checked out a Carthago with dually wheels, but I eventually decided that I'd buy a machine through Motorhome, since I seemed to match with the salesman nicely, because it is very important after buying a 200000€ machine like this to have good support for maintaining it, adding extras, dealing with problems. I went to check out a Frankia, I test drove it, and it was rear wheel drive which was a big positive, that model was the last one with the V6 engine, it had the 7-speed automatic gearbox. I drove it for a bit, and I didn't feel like that machine was for me. It didn't drive like I hoped it would, because I was used to the Fiat Adria Matrix Supreme, it handled really well, so you could drive it quite quickly. That machine was really stable, though I had installed airbags onto it, but that wasn't something that would drastically change the handling. But, next to it, was standing this Kabe, and I decided to test drive it as well, because we had checked it out at a spring fair, the price was over 220000€, which was way out of our budget, it was very far from fitting in our budget indeed, and in addition to that, when the new Frankia had a full list of extras for that amount of money, such as solar panels and inverters, hydraulic stands and so on, then this specific Kabe behind me is without hydraulic stands, without A/C, without lithium batteries, it didn't have solar panels or anything, but at the same time, I'm a tinkering guy who likes to build on modify things to his own taste usually, according to my own likings, and throughout the years of my motorhome traveling experience, I've come to develop some special wishes and visions of what a motorhome should have, so I decided to get this Kabe, because it drove like a dream, it was quiet and nice, even that 2 litre engine didn't seem wrong, because that 9-speed gearbox made up for the lack of power. Though, it is indeed heavy, it doesn't have dually wheels in the back, the load capacity is quite near to the limit, but the driving feel and the interior, the quality of the furniture, I looked through this machine everywhere. The engine bay, under the machine, inside the machine, behind the panels, I hung on the doors, so I did some proper research. I understood, that this was the quality we were searching for. We'll give up a bit on the load capacity, we might give up on the length factor a bit, but this machine is just about less than 8 meters, if you put a snowball on the front of it, it'll be 8 meters. Now I'll be telling you after 5000km of test driving it, we've come to Lapland, we've been to Rovaniemi, we've been to the Santa village where we've spent time earlier as well, though this time we didn't stay for long, we continued our route straight to Ivalo, and without any plans, the idea was just to drive as far as the weather will let us to and according to how much time we seem to have. If it's boring at some place, we'd just continue driving to our next stop. Those roads, the night driving, those ups and down, those snowy icy roads, roads completely iced out, the lakes covered in ice, spruce trees bent down from the weight of the snow. What else did we see on the route, all sorts of animals, and the drive there was really cool and enjoyable in this machine, it was warm and cozy inside, but I'll also show you what I've already changed on the machine, and let's not get too technical just yet, I'll show you that later once we've left this forest here and started heading towards home, I'll tell you what I've changed on the technical side of this machine and what I've added onto it, but let's start from the outside. It's a Kabe Crown, it's a Krown i760 LGB, without the "T". Right now, it has some some winter tires on. At first, I put on some Continental studless winter tires, but I decided quite quickly, that studded tires are the proper choice for Lapland, because I already had experienced those Continental tires, and so I got some Hankook I-Pike studded winter tires, and they've been working really great, I'm very satisfied. What have I done to this machine? I installed extra lights here, I'll turn on the lights for a moment and show you what's been changed. But before I get the keys from inside, I'll show you these extra lights which I integrated behind the grille here, so they wouldn't stand out too much. Why I did that, was because it seemed to me that when I'm alone on a main road, I'd like some extra light to go with the high beams. That's the old people thing for 40+ year olds, they want more light. Their eye sight is the same as in their 30s, but they just need more light, nothing else! Anyway, these extra lights which are under a layer of ice right now, these are installed because when you reverse this machine and the mirrors are a bit dirty, which happens on these salty roads, then you can't tell where your rear corner is, so I decided to install such protruding lights here, and under here is an extra reverse light, you may be seeing it there. Oops, even I can't see it! Look, it's that thing there. That's a ledbar, and that ledbar has stayed clean for these several thousand kilometers, and there's one more trick when you take a look at the rear of the machine. That camera there, though a large piece of ice has fallen off it, but that camera was under a thick layer of ice, so that camera is useless after 100km of driving. Under here is a tiny extra camera, this is made by Garmin, and it has the Infrared function as well, so when I'm reversing in darkness, the rear of the machine is completely lit, and that ledbar gets it's signal from Canbus when I'm in reverse, it turns the ledbar on, lights up the rear, and it's superb! Firstly, you can use that camera while driving as well if you wish, to see who's behind you. But I don't understand why such 200000€ motorhomes don't have such things from the factory, the reverse light is this tiny strip here, which doesn't light up anything. You have to fit somewhere comfortably when you're reversing it, so you'd like to be sure there's no child or a pole for example behind the machine. At night around the Ivalo region where we went out skiing, we drove from the bottom skiing resort where we rented the equipment from, we drove up the mountain where the skied down from. I'm not much of a skier, but I filmed some, you'll see how I came down the mountain, of course for a moment my feet weren't the part of me in contact with the ground, but that isn't important. What I wanted to tell you, is that we parked up on the mountain, it was fantastic! It was about -6° to -7° outside, at night it got very cold, it started to get to around -15°, but since you're up in the clouds, it was a bit windy, and the air moisture was quite high. I thought that oh well, at least we tested the machine, we filled up 2 LPG tanks at home, We re-did the Webasto system a bit, so now I can control it with an app, so basically like right now, I can keep it going for the whole day. I can keep the machine warm off diesel and so it would be dead silent at night, and so the fuel pump wouldn't be clicking under my pillow, I turned the heat onto the gas mode, and in such cold, about 30% of a tank was used up in a day, and as of today, we've been out for 3 days, it's late at night right now, and we've only used up one tank worth of gas, which is a huge difference to what we experienced in the Adria years ago. But what I wanted to tell you about, is that those 2 LPG tanks, on the Kabe they're nicely in a warm room here, they're not cold, and I have some temperature sensors on them which are connected to the display, so I see the temperature of each tank. The tank which isn't used at the moment is always around 11-12°C in such cold, and the one in use, of course that one gets frosty on the bottom and it shows us negative temperatures, but the room itself there is warm, so the gas lasted almost until the end, there was no butane left on the bottom. Of course, we went to sleep at night knowing, that I have both tanks opened up, so when one gets empty at some point, it will switch onto the other tank. After half a night, I feel that it's getting cold, something's wrong, but I then discovered, though I just replaced one of the tanks, I'm using GasBank refillable tanks, there were 2 of them here, I forgot, that when you put in 2 tanks, you have to screw open the valve on the tank and then press a green button there, that's so the gas would reach the plumming, so when this one runs out, it could automatically change over to the other tank and you could calmly keep sleeping without panic. But for me, it got cold at night, it was suddenly 16° in the cabin, I wondered what happened now, what a Kabe test that would be, we'd go testing the Kabe on the North Pole and then freeze ourselves, but luckily without going outside, I turned on the diesel heater from the app, the diesel heated the cabin up through the heat exchanger and everyone was happy again. When I dressed up at morning and came outside, I discovered what the real gas problem was. Actually, I like when you have backup options, you get to monitor it really easily from the app, check where there's a temperature drop, where is there a problem, is the system working, and then of course turning on or off the system with a press of a button in an app. We'll keep on chilling, and once I feel like I want to tell you something about this machine, I'll be sure to tell you! And I actually have a lot to tell you about this machine about what I've done on it, so see you soon! | Racetunepro Car Tuners | UCmYzSFzvcSVeXHkkt_p8zMQ | 2024-02-24 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | detection | en | 2,520 | 13,294 |
4xSjHXITBlA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xSjHXITBlA | Education Day 2013 Part 3 - Lung disease in Alpha-1 affected children | why are you bringing a pediatrician in this whole deal and then i realized they're getting even with me and i'll tell you a personal uh clinical story that i had when i first started practice over 30 years ago i work at the baker clinic downtown and dan hasenoff one of the other pediatricians in my office at that time there was a lot of breastfed jaundice around and i said you know why don't we just check these kids phenotype for alfawana trips i was a hotshot young guy i said we'll uh we'll just see what happens and we did about seven cases we just said between us we'll just the next seven kids that come in with breast fed jaundice will do their pie type and all of them were mz we we never published it we we often wondered if we should have but i'll tell you when you see what happens later on with the concerns about confidentiality and labeling people these are huge issues for people for insurance and we've seen that in other diseases already in pediatrics we make these diagnoses early before there's any real problems and we create a tremendous amount of work for us as doctors trying to explain to people and then okay who else are we going to test and some people don't want to know sometimes the father isn't the father we have all those sort of issues so when he asked us to talk i i asked me to talk i said i'm not sure what i can tell you i can tell you i probably have more patients that i know of that have alpha anti-trips and issues than other people and we definitely been following this over the years i thought it was interesting when i was reading uh this brochure that was given out to you about uh the incidence of cf versus uh cystic fibrosis versus alpha one antitrypsin and uh we just had a meeting yesterday with uh dr mark montgomery from calgary who sort of runs he was the one that brought screening into alberta and actually our alberta numbers are one in 3 850 so you're very close to the same incidents in this province and again uh as dr cave said the their ethnicity issues and so the genetics become quite complicated and i thought it was interesting how all of these recommendations for us as pediatricians we'd never screen anybody right like i mean if you look at these recommendations there's no reason to do it but i think because i'm a pediatrician i think parents should know and when a kid's 18 he should know or she should know that she might be carrying one of these genes because i think it makes huge huge decisions for them because we now see it with the cystic fibrosis screening which is done in alberta and all across canada except quebec as an issue the other thing that i have found very interesting when you look at these various genes and the phenotypes the m zeds the s zeds the z-zeds our bodies have been organized very very efficiently you have to lose a tremendous amount of activity in an enzyme before you actually have trouble basically in the cystic fibrosis world and in the alpha one and trypsin world you have to have about only 10 to 15 percent of your functionality of your this enzyme then you have trouble if you have 50 percent you're fine we think and that's probably where we lie to a lot of people and that if you are an mz i'm sure you don't have perfectly normal lungs we'll find that out over time the the smoking histories in our practices and i'm sure dr cave can as a family doc when 20 years ago two packs a day was a common number as we've raised the price of cigarettes up it's come down down down we're the average smoker in my practice you know the parents half a pack a day i mean uh that's about it that's what they smoke so you know with all these screening things you're never going to get the 20 pack years anymore um so again i'm a little nervous about these these who we should be screening i got interested in it because i do take care of a lot of kids with asthma and some of these asthmatics don't behave like asthmatics they they end up getting way too many markings on their chest x-ray and they end up getting little pneumonias and things and when we finally discover that they do actually have one of these deficiencies in the alpha one we go back to basic pediatric lung clearance techniques to help them and we treat them more aggressively now in this country if you give a kid antibiotics nowadays you're considered evil uh you know we've had that crazy lady on tv going on and bugs don't need drugs if you have alpha wine anti-trypsin problem in your lung and you're not an antibiotic wrong now the antibiotic that we all love in our game is something called by accident clarithromycin is the generic name our great government if you think you got problems with this screening you wait till you get what happens next january when a new drug plan comes in uh which was totally glossed over by everybody in the budget um he's talking they're talking about bc pharmacare they've told people they'll give them 18 percent of the generic drug value clarithromycin which is now genericized in this country the government said we'll give you 18 percent of retail price they said guess what we're not selling it to you we're going to see more of that happen i think so by accident is the drug that we've really enjoyed having for our patients because it actually also has an anti-inflammatory effect so all of you in this room know that alpha-1 antitrypsin is there to neutralize the the neutrophil elastase that you're having whenever your neutrophils your white cells are out there busy doing their their job and in your body you have always these plus minus uh things that work all through your body so i think um with these these antibiotics uh they've been very good at helping us get rid of this and that by accident has been a wonderful drug so i'll even give prescriptions to patients when your kid sick started the other thing that we use a lot of is other techniques to get rid of the things in your lung which the other famous drug that we like is venolin cell butamol everybody thinks it's an asthma drug it's a great drug for anybody that coughs it does something else that everybody forgets about it doesn't just dilate your airway it also makes a little cilia which are the hair cells in your lung move better and i can get it up and out of your lungs better with venom and you ask anybody even the mothers love it when they're giving their kid venom they're sniffing the extra just so they feel better the other thing that um i think we're going to see a lot of in in this disease and other diseases that are genetic there is a whole bunch of modifier genes what we call modifier genes so if you have this gene and you have this gene you get this and what i've never understood uh you know dr yap with his uh kids that have renal fa or kid liver failure from zed and these the rest of everybody is fine their lungs are perfect like how's that all happen uh and then for us when we do all these lung function tests which by the time you look like you got copd and dr cave and i could have a little argument what is the difference between copd and bad asthma i'm not sure we could actually answer that easily there's going to be issues uh with that um the prolastin i followed that because i thought this is going to be great we're going to be able to give these kids prolastin stop everything right well guess what it doesn't happen we we can't figure out how to use it i've watched in the cystic fibrosis trials i thought it would fail because it's so complicated it's not that simple and the other sort of areas of research that we've been involved in is how to deliver drugs to the lung where the action should be and i would think over the next few years there's going to be some major breakthroughs in that and maybe we'll be able to do much better with the delivery of these drugs unfortunately we'll be stuck with you know health canada approvals which you guys deal with every day which which are a problem for us and to try to use something off label is very very difficult i the only other thing that i would say in pediatrics that we have watched is the lung function tests are totally useless to us as to trying to pick this stuff up we do use them more in pediatrics probably than adults because we have very good quick lung function machines in all of our with new computer technology we can do a lung function on you in in two minutes and tell you what's going on we don't have to do the big full body body box thing so i don't like i said i don't have a whole lot to tell you and i thought this was going to be more of a town hall meeting and wanted to hear the questions that you had and maybe uh go from there so i wanted to do it short he said i didn't have to talk along so i'll leave it there and open it up for general discussion | alpha1canadaTV | UC9Liw9L6_kfCn_SVQzW9_gw | 2013-09-09 | Creative Commons 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Tque493q0ys | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tque493q0ys | High-Intensity Professional CNC Router/3D Printer/Laser Engraver/Plasma/Other Table System Assembly | attach the caster foot plate to 4040 v slot by using m5 12 or 15 millimeters low profile screws please note that the countersunk holes of the foot plate should face outwards repeat this for other three measure 270 millimeters from the bottom and make a mark it is better to make multiple marks on the edge which is conducive to pinpointing the position insert three m5t nuts into one slot of 4040. attach the inside-out cranner to leg extrusion by using m58 millimeters low profile screws then fix above the mark on the adjoining edge repeat this for another inside-out corner repeat this for other three next we assemble the support first take a 20 60 frame extrusion please note that the length of this extrusion will vary according to different sizes make a mark in the center of frame extrusion first and then make another mark at a distance of 10 millimeters from the center replist this for another frame extrusion attach frame extrusion to the 2060 support or brace ensure that the brace is centered on the sides insert three m5t nuts respectively at one end of frame extrusion and brace extrusion attach the inside out corners to extrusions by using m5 8 millimeters screws adjust position align and tighten repeat this for other three next attach the support to the legs insert three m5t nuts into v-slot you can attach the leg to the frame by using m5 8 millimeters screws note that the ends of the frame should be flush with the edges of the 4040v slot you can also loosely the leg on the ground may need another people to help you to raise the frame assembly up and attach to the legs inside out corners using m58 millimeters screws into the m5t nuts repeat this for other three okay now that you have the bottom frame assembled let's move on take one more 20 60 frame side extrusion and slide in three m5t nuts on each side attach the side extrusion to inside out corner by using m5 8 millimeters screws adjust position align and tighten repeat this for another side extrusion with a l bracket in hand please note that the distance from the hole to the inner edge is different choose the hole closer to the inner edge pre-install m58 millimeters screw and m5 drop in t-nut make a mark in the center of each side extrusion then attach the l bracket to side extrusion align and l bracket flush with the top repeat this for other five you can also install the l brackets in other locations according to your needs prepare mdf or wood or ply or sheet or other material in your local market general thickness can be 12 millimeters or more here we use 15 millimeters and notch the corners 60 millimeters to allow shelf to fit repeat the previous steps to do the top frame extrusion assembly here we skip it assembly the inside out corner with three m5t nuts and m58 millimeters screws attach the inside-out corner to the top of the leg ensure you line them up flush with the top of the leg assembly another inside out corner then attach it to the adjoining edge at the top of the leg taking care to align them even with the top repeat this for other three legs repeat the previous steps to attach the frame extrusion assembly and side extrusions you may need another people to help you to raise the frame assembly up now we have finished the top frame assembly don't forget to attach the l brackets slide 6 m5 t nuts into slot of the left and right sides both shelves 3 on each end attach the inside-out corner using m5 8 millimeter screws into the t-nuts adjust and tighten repeat this for the other top three outers and bottom four outers now rotate the table onto its side and attach the four caster wheels attach the four caster wheels into the caster plates screw table top down to frame through the l brackets using cutting screws now we can move the table freely then add the material on top but no need to notch 60 millimeters corner finally using cutting screws to screw table top down to frame through the l brackets again congrats you can now put your machine on this strong table | YUYONG INDUSTRY | UC6ye_kb6PhS-T5OrV4AJKGw | 2022-08-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 734 | 3,998 |
HohPbPnzJE0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HohPbPnzJE0 | Eliminate Sexual Harassment & Assault | hi i'm major general linda singh the adjutant general of maryland april is sexual assault awareness and prevention month our goal is to eliminate sexual assault know your part do your part every service member at every level in our military must know understand and it hits your service values and standards in order to prevent a potential offender from committing a sexual assault or other inappropriate behavior know your part we all have a unique role in preventing sexual assault we must recognize our part in stopping this crime starting with our awareness and knowing when and where to safely intervene do your part we have to act if we see a crime or inappropriate behavior unfolding we need to step in and safely intervene to stop potential offenders from committing the act we each need to add our voice to the call to end this crime help is available 24 7. call 877-995-5247 for personalized advice and support or you can go to our website we need everyone's help to eliminate sexual assault know your part do your part thank you | Maryland Guard | UCLoS_PgQqiVx9aXoEh0eGFQ | 2015-04-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 183 | 1,039 |
ekxcDrxJ3r4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekxcDrxJ3r4 | Materialism and geometry | it's been a while since i released a video the reason basically is that i've been working on a couple of books one on planning and one on materialism and the reading for these books has left me less time to prepare videos however i have done a short one here based on some of the background that i've been researching on the ideas about materialism and geometry in particular now geometry is something which uses geometrical tools and reading newton a couple of days ago i found a very good quote from him emphasizing the close relationship that exists between geometry and mechanical actions or mechanical activities he says to describe right lines and circles are problems but not geometrical problems by a right line he means a straight line the solution to these problems is required from mechanics and by geometry the use of them when so solved is shown and it is the glory of geometry that from these few principles brought from without it is able to produce so many things so what he's saying is the principles of the straight line and circle come to geometry from without they come from practice they come from the practice of drawing lines and making circles with compasses there he goes on to say therefore geometry is found in mechanical practice and is nothing but that part of universal mechanics which accurately proposes and demonstrates the art of measuring let's take a historical example we'll look at greek temples classical architecture laid out its designs in terms of what's called the golden ratio and this applied not just to temples but also to blocks of flats tenements and what is this ratio it and why does it use this ratio it uses this ratio because it has a recursive defining relation look at this rectangle here there's a shorter side a and a longer side b and if a building is constructed to the golden ratio the ratio of the side a to b is the same as the ratio of side b to the entire the distance halfway around from down a and along to there a plus b the ratio of a to b is equal to the ratio of b to a plus b and this was held to be the ideal designing ratio for a building now the nice thing about it is it's it's a recursive defining ratio and by recursive decomposition you can decompose the golden rectangle into successively smaller ones so we take a golden rectangle which represents the whole facade of the temple and if you draw a square within this what's left over is another golden rectangle if you draw a square on the far left you're given a golden rectangle on the far right and again you can recursively apply this principle you draw a square on the bottom of this and you then get a golden rectangle above it and you can do that as many times as you wish and as you do that you get a succession of other measurements so the first application of this decomposition gives you the height of the top of the columns a couple more applications of the ratio give you the top of the pediment and the same procedure can be repeated to find other components now it's not just the golden ratio they use they use another um technique known as the circ the square halving technique which plato describes but i i won't show you the square halving technique just now and this is all related to the fibonacci series this is named after filo bernardo or sorry filo bonaccio who and it's a abbreviated fibonacci who's a an italian mathematician from about 1100 and the series starts off one one two three five eight 13 next one 21. each term is the sum of two previous ones now why have i got a cauliflower it's because it turns out that this ratio is the key to a whole series of things which occur in nature as well this defines a numerical ratio but also defines a geometric ratio and we now know that the shape of the whirls in a cauliflower are in fibonacci sequence and as you if you choose to draw it as a set of squares here's two squares of size one the next square has edge two the next square has edge three the following one has edge five five plus three the next one gives you eight eight plus five the next one is thirteen as you draw the sequence of squares the rectangle so formed converge on the golden ratio which first few digits is 1.6180 and it goes on the actual ratio is an irrational number but we can get arbitrarily better approximations of it by running further through the fibonacci sequence we can approximate this irrational number by taking successive members of the fibonacci series and taking the last two terms of the series taking the ratio of those and that gives us successive approximations to the fibonacci number but although we know it as the fibonacci series from a from fibonacci fibonacci didn't make his name on that he made his name as the guy we introduced indian decimal arithmetic to europe decimal number system we currently use and prior to him indian mathematicians had discovered what we now call the fibonacci series in the 6th century and he may have obtained it from them but this is still way after the ancient greeks so how did the ancient greeks know how to build this ratio had they discovered the fibonacci series maybe but we have no record of it they had a different way of doing it purely geometrical construct let's draw square a here you select the midpoint on the base call that c and put the needle of your compass in there you then set the radius of the compass to the top right hand corner of the square you then draw the arc this arc here and where the ark intersects the projection of the base you'd put up the right hand side of the golden rectangle so the greeks constructed the golden rectangle not by the fibonacci series but by the use of classical geometry by the use of squares and compasses the two basic the straight edge and the compass the two basic tools of geometry we can prove this let's assume that the length of a is two what we have here this shaded area is a right triangle since the side of the square is 2 the base here must be 1 and the height is 2. by pythagoras theorem we have the square on this side 4 plus the square on this side 1 total of five must be the square on the hypotenuse so the length of hypotenuse has be root five so we have a over b must be two upon one plus root five one here root five here because we know this arc of the circle is set by that diagonal so we know that b upon a plus b is going to be one plus root five plus three upon the upon 3 plus root 5 because if you go along here and up there you've traveled a distance 3 there and then root 5. we can prove these are equivalent you multiply above and below by one plus root five and that obviously reduces to two multiply above by one plus root five and you get one plus two root five plus five merge it together and it's 6 plus root 5 which is plus 2 root 5 which is obviously twice the base so you find them identical by that geometrical construction you have constructed the golden ratio now the greek architects used to make scale drawings of their buildings before they're put up and they used the construction shown earlier to establish the golden ratios between the parts of their drawing they could then measure off the distances on the scale drawings to give instructions to the building slaves now the problem with this is that if you measure things with paper and pencil your measurements are obviously done to a finite accuracy if you've got a ruler with millimeter gradations you can't measure more accurately than millimeters the drawing i used for the video here i set a to be 100 millimeters and the closest accuracy i could get to measuring b was 162 millimeters ideally it should be 161.80 more digits so i was off by at least two tenths of a millimeter but more accuracy is impossible on a small drawing but the thing about geometry is it can be replaced at larger scales the basic construction principle of using a square and an arc can be done on large scale using surveying instruments rods and chains the roman and greek surveyors had instruments that allowed them to use line of sight techniques to lay out straight lines with an accuracy of one part in a hundred thousand they could lay out a road such that if the road was a hundred kilometers long it would only deviate from the straight line by one meter this is done by sighting almost certainly without optical lenses so that's disputed but almost certainly without optical lenses by lining up a device called a grommer which gave you sighting wires held down by plumb lines and you line these up with posts which were set at successive distances and then the surveyors could measure the distance using chains now when you think of that construct that i showed you before all you actually need to do is measure the distance from point c to the top corner of the square so you're constrained by your accuracy of measuring the distance the reason why you use a chain run the rope is that the chain is less elastic than the rope and it's not going to be affected by dampness they could use a temple floor as a vast drawing board you first build the pediment to the temple the marble floor can then be polished and they can actually do accurate scale large scale drawings on that and greek temples have been found with lightly and sized markings on the floor which are the scale drawings of the other parts of the building and these then provide standard measurements of the golden ratios for other parts the point about this is it actually is very close to the londoness theory of knowledge mechanical materialism allows one material system the plan to act as a model for another the temple both are material the similarity between plan and building is assured by the repetition of the same constructive steps on a large scale therefore it's established by practice the constructed image is both objective knowledge of the building and in the terms of the philosopher aristotle the talos of the building the final cause of the building the physical modeling process allowed the coordination of multiple craft workers each constructing the sub-components the pillars splints etc whose individual dimensions were coordinated by the golden ratio now later on i may talk about the supports for other branches of maths but that'll do for now | Paul Cockshott | UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ | 2021-03-23 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,893 | 10,225 |
2BV-Rlpdg0E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BV-Rlpdg0E | STASIS (Ep. 12 - Rebecca) | welcome back to stasis we've got a strap down creature here that seems to need power for some reason I don't know if I actually want to give an hour but I guess I'm gonna have to anyway I think we know where to get those but before that and actually warm saying that i actually just thought of an idea on how to open those Power Cell things to actually get at the the power cells that I probably need to take and then put here yeah I've got an idea hmm well anyway before that let's go check out this glass wall because it's kind of glowing it seems suggestive what are you doing John trying to find a way through what if we just straight up shoot it if you want to if you want to break the glass wall i'm pretty sure that would work after all you did blow up like a one foot thick metal door bash it with the twisted metal I can try to make it set for the main break pour milk on it I think that will just break it all right forget that I've got an idea god this is really strange though like I don't this is another one of those adventure game things that frustrates me like I have a decent idea like okay it's obviously I need three power cells right and I know that there's three power cells that I could interact with back here so it's obvious that i need to get the three power cells and I've got an idea for how to do that and it's obvious that I'm supposed to put them here and then that's gonna do something that will allow me to progress but what isn't clear is what's my motivation for doing this right now my only motivation is it's the only thing that it seems like I can do but that's not a real motivation like why is my character doing this is it going to release the strap down creature and it's gonna break through the glass wall and attack somebody or something like what's gonna happen I don't have any real honest motivation to do this other than because it's an adventure game and it's the only thing I can do yeah alright let's go do it let's go do it will be the thing also for God's sake someone turn off that sink I don't waste any water come on no don't turn it back on I can't turn it off God in today's world you really need to be energy you really need to be water conscious like he has just wasted like that what a shame okay my idea is perhaps I poor bone mending glue into the hole and then shove the twisted metal inside aha oh that gives me an imprint it's not exactly what I was imagining doing with it would have really solidified that fast and that perfectly and it wouldn't stick to the metal so we just give me the imprint I mean it is you know it is meant for like for calcium it's meant to so you know stick between pieces of bone so I guess it is possible it's definitely plausible that it wouldn't really stick to metal you know just like you wouldn't use wood glue on metal hmm ok well that goes on the end of this and there we go in areas adjacent hmm it sounds like maybe I should take this one out last let's leave that for now let's do the birthing laboratory also I feel like when I take it out it's going to take off the life support and everything's going to die in here subject occasion and more equipment free yeah shed its gonna kill them I mean they're honestly they're basically already dead I hate to say it but it's true and their life is nothing but pain and suffering it honestly is probably for the best that they die but like just to talk about game design again for a little bit this is like making the problem even worse I'm being asked to take out this power cell which is certainly going to kill these test subjects which is a serious thing you know I'm killing these people am I murdering them uh I don't think so i think i'm putting them out of their misery but i'm still killing them this is a very serious emotional decision that i'm making right now and yet my motivation for doing it is sorry you gotta die cuz i need the power to put in the things cuz something will happen like where's my motivation ah sorry good thing I don't worry mmm I just realized I'm not gonna be able to get up the lift mi no no it looks like still has power okay we might be okay okay we're good I still don't know why I'm doing this why am i giving power to this strap down creature given the glass wall i'm pretty sure it's gonna like take off and get out of its restraints and break through the glass wall opening this up for me but who's to say it won't just kill me you and what does this thing need power for what am I actually powering up the laser oh I'm powering up the surgical laser that's for the laser well that makes more sense now well in that case I could yeah all right so I'm not actually releasing it good good one John good job maybe you should turn it first nice nice John nice try again almost there John cool let's walk oh let's walk behind the laser rather than in front of it you know just in case smell of freshly spilled blood and guts fills the air the creature has been cut raggedly in half well at least it died pretty much instantly you really can't get much more of an instant death and a massive death laser warning the environmental control and life support system has been compromised please report to the visitor center for further instructions melt the pieces of glass lay among the other splintered remains abnormal neural activity detected mmm-hmm maska zone that's not good sinister signs displayed along the walls animal testing gas mask zone I'd ask is it safe but at this point who even cares well that's obviously locked viewing portals for the dispassionate scientists of project seed oh my god a massive creatures human and hybrid huddled together in their final goodbyes some fought for a way out or held each other near as the gas pulled in chamber was constructed with the extra express purpose of filling it with a containable noxious gas this was the gas chamber literally a gas chamber were they killed subjects that they didn't need anymore it's no wonder they had problems with disposal look how many [ __ ] bodies they had look at how many test subjects they had the walls have been scoured with scratches broken fingernails are evidence of a desperate escape attempt the lights illuminate desiccated corpses and agony clenched fists into sharp our [ __ ] relief arey kept in cages the creature reeks as if it has been dead for some time malnourished desiccated is there anything for me to do in here it's an empty cage nah doesn't matter what do I still have parcel housing key gun you can imagine people being farmed through here like cattle is not a pleasant picture if I can shoot this door or something maybe I can like shoot through the portals to the gas pipe some I'd really don't know why I would want to do that though I think that would break it doesn't work like that now I don't see any reason why i'd actually want to get in here mmm probably not a good idea yeah I don't think there's any point hmm well in that case if there seems to be nothing in here and nothing to do in there then I need to get through here right how'd i do that i can't see it working like that must have missed something in here right there's got to be something in here just dead hybrid stead hybrids sweep the screen like a broom mmm distended limb drops quickly to the ground it may look dead but the drain thing can still move a little I supposed to talk with you doesn't seem like I can so it's not completely dead okay well that does not help anything I don't get it what am I supposed to do I can look at every single one that doesn't help oh I needed to trigger that things by walking by it and then the triggers a cutscene that's what he needed to do okay now i'm under dr. Malone's care his caring embrace I wonder if there's gonna be an escape the room kind of thing where's got me strapped down and he's about to cut off some limbs or something and I need to get out I know why you hear what you're talking about dr. you know I'll see you soon give my heart sing mr. Mara check you sneaky bastard not to worry I can speed up this little family reunion one of you done Rebecca she's right yeah is that a portal to another dimension you took away my life's work mr. manner check now let me return the favor case a little bit are they letting a creature into her place i'm off to deal with Judas okay hold on hold on hold on I think whoa what huh what the [ __ ] just happened huh why am i back here uh I don't understand all I did was press escape as soon as I had control of the mouse obviously was a time-limited thing and he was about to kill his daughter so I pressed escape to try to save the game and I'm all the way back here from before I put the power things in before I've even gotten the power things before I've used the laser what when's my latest a game Wow it never made an auto there's two problems here one had never made an autosave for any of that and secondly why would pressing escape take me to my why would it load my game just to press escape what the [ __ ] okay I guess I'll be back in like 10 minutes once I've done it all again thanks game okay let's try this again come on you can do it you're loading off of an SSD you can load the two megabytes of textures I know you know I'll see you soon give my heart's dude mr. marachek you sneaky bastard not to worry I can speed up this little family reunion what have you done Rebecca she's right yeah okay note to self don't press escape or the game instantly loads her last safe for no reason managing don't first escape numbers again Cobras escaped arrest escape faith hey Sanna noted okay so I think they're letting a critter one of those hybrids and wash I into her place i'm off to deal with judas so kind of think fast and don't puss escape oh [ __ ] you took everything right give me my stuff back [ __ ] John you could run John you want to run you don't feel like you don't feel like running okay cool I mean your daughter's only about to die or something who cares DNA scanner anything with that gas pipes to do oh I just don't is DNA into the scanner are losing in a nightmare I can't do it I just can't do it don't have a choice plan is a monster we need to find Ellen need to fight Rebecca's blood into the scanner now jon is banjo emotional still get help I don't think we still can save Alan disposed of biological material for processing at recycling stations 0314 I guess I guess I can go in there to get out of sleep let's fall you'll be okay he'll be okay I'm I'm of two minds right about now I'm thinking a couple things one thing is I'm really obviously really disturbed that his daughter just got murdered right in front of him at the same time I can't help but feel so frustrated that the pacing of such an important moment and the power of it is so diminished because of the ridiculous technical issues god what a bad time for that crap right before is seeing his daughter murdered in front of him there's some ah first getting stuck for a couple minutes because I didn't activate a secret trigger that triggered you getting gassed and Milan coming to pick you up and then after that having it reload my savegame from about 10 minutes ago just because I pressed to escape to save the game my god damn that just took away so much from the moment I was still my head was still wrapped up in those freaking frustrations and how much time had just been wasted and I was just annoyed with that it took away so much from the emotional impact of that scene this game is just shooting itself in the foot with the pacing so much Jesus I'm scared to press escape can i press escape here okay apparently safe to press escape here ah I'm depressed because of what happened and undepressed because of what happened around what happened this game could be so much better just dad I like this game I like it but it could be so much better and I keep seeing that like every time I play it I just think man this could be so much better man this could be so much better something I really want to mention though is whoever did the voice acting for John really did a great job he's he's really really good everybody else is is pretty fine too but he's the one that I think as had the most opportunity to show his range of emotions and he's done a great job he's really a good voice actor hmm the bright yellow hazmat suit pointlessly still protects the decomposing corpse from the toxic environment can I take your suit mmm i guess not but there's a glove five teflon fingers protrude from the impermeable glove okay least I could stick my hand into the gunk even if I can't stick my whole body who were you postal Duane eh Jones drainage service technician level 3 mm deleted in or damaged so they're not complete no seems complete abandonment no feeling like it the trail there's another one that cuts deep to be betrayed and abandoned by your own family well [ __ ] what can I say it's been 10 years since Maggie put my name of the progressive assisted selected suicide lottery for ten thousand dollars cash from the government no questions asked they said it was a fantastic deal all that cash and only a super slim chance that my name would be selected the state wins in the long run with one less welfare case and my family gets a cash bonus did I have a say in this no so April fifteenth rolls along and ban Just My Luck my name is picked along with a few thousand other unlucky bastards I did the only thing I could the only thing I've ever really done I ran i joined cane corporation and headed as far away from my blood sucking wife as possible I've worked my way up the ranks here level three gets me limited seed access which means I clean up some weird and disgusting [ __ ] but at least nobody talks to me or asks questions so that suits me just fine who cares at least I'm alive and kicking master of my own destiny keeping that in mind I've been stuck in this room for a few days now with only the dead as company nobody's looking for me but at least the bodies have stopped falling into the acid that's that green goo is my way out to a better place a sip of that [ __ ] and I'll be assisting my own goddamn suicide to anybody reading this please pass this message on to my wife [ __ ] you Maggie Jesus hold on wait let's go back up to the top progressive assisted selected suicide lottery uh I don't quite understand what that is but it sounds like you're gambling your own life for cash and most people don't get their names called but if you do get your name called it sounds like you die okay well I see the government of the future is running beautifully and ethically tough metal bars form a secure barrier to what lies beyond a controlled stream of corrosive liquid spills from the siphon oh that's acid I thought that was water okay so I need to like get up or something or maybe I need acid for the metal gratings well there's an air lock up there looks like i do need to get up and cushion is how over a long period the putrid acidic fumes have melted the balustrade place is freaking nasty okay what can I do with what I have all right I've lost most of my stuff I stoke up my personal data tag i don't know what the hell I'm gonna do with that I haven't used it in forever I guess has been on the acid okay stop no lights keep your head down and stay away from the walls and listen you'll hear him before you see him yes okay okay oh I was thinking of using the hazmat glove to stick my hand into something but it looks like I've just filled it up yeah he's on the grading there we go how that stuff is nasty milton has mac love sweet spice that was she got damn close calm yourself panic then you won't make it focus I made it I'm in a storage locker I don't think they saw me I'll be waiting religion processor has experienced a critical failure doctor for immediate evacuation the foul-smelling mountain of flesh crawls with several post-mortem insects hahahaha grizzly pile of meat AJ Schrader AJ Schrader what does that sound so familiar mmm hold on oh I think it's cuz it reminded me of Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad radical advancements and artificial technologies have resulted in Bionic arms and hands that are indistinguishable from real limbs this prosthetic arm is made from a synthetic steel and carbon fiber composite hmm I'm sure that'll come in handy oh god what the [ __ ] Oh mmm I still here grid crawling around in the meat I put a glove on it cool i wrapped in rubber I'm guess I'm gonna have to use it to do something with the electricity and the rubber will be to protect me from the electricity remember always put a rubber on your prosthetic arm safety first a series of interlocking teeth are wrapped around the mechanical wheels yeah it's going to use the arm I'm in the limb regeneration see Dellin she's in a storage bay she froze up I'm close that door is gonna kill me if I try to go through it right can I put something to like stop it from closing my personal data tags not going to work in fact the the door actually isn't even a hot spot okay let's save and then try to run through it I'm pretty sure he's just going to get squished oh you can't even get through it Kenny no apparently not oh I need to put something in the cogs um well I don't think my dad attack would work there either right this isn't it um no I need something else oh I've found my something else the child sized carcass appear soft and deflated brittle bones protruding the translucent skin at odd angles great let's put that in the cogs where it will crunch and bleed even more okay John what is it is she okay yes yes sir she's fine I'm going to have to find a way to get to the hangar careful keep her under the last time I mm-hmm Justin stasis ah no she's down the stasis we read the report right about her being uh well test subject one of the most smart and one of the best subjects no no she's not just in stasis I think she's just telling John that study doesn't give up let's go before it breaks almost I Bagga John I need to explain the situation well well and it looks like you brought on friend along well well [ __ ] and I'm still pretty far away terminal PDA refrigerators and massive thing I need to open the power pad all right man i thought would finish the game in this episode too but it looks like it's going to go on for a little bit more and i think i should end the episode here otherwise if i keep playing I feel like it's gonna go on a lot more and this will be like a two-hour episode alright so I hope you've enjoyed so far and I'll be back soon | Laila Dyer | UCyzFSsNQYoXBo4zjmTmncoA | 2015-09-23 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,601 | 18,612 |
CPwCai0bd64 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPwCai0bd64 | 0304 Decomposing a Complex Solution | the key to being able to deal with complex eigenvalues in the first order linear system is to be able to form the complex solution complex eigenvector e to the complex eigenvalue t and then split that complex solution into two real solutions to the system so let's look at the system defined by the matrix three minus four five minus five trace negative two determinant five characteristic equation eigenvalues minus 1 plus or minus 2y i'll calculate with minus 1 plus 2i you can verify that this is my adjusted matrix it meets the mark of an adjusted matrix second row and first order multiples each other and the main diagonal are only off by a sign in the real part i choose the complex eigenvector 2 2 minus i by switching the coordinates of the first row and changing the sign in front of the four i also reduce so that i'm dealing with smaller numbers and now i form my complex solution complex eigenvector e to the complex eigenvalue t i split the e to the minus one plus two i t into e to the minus t and cosine 2t plus i sine 2t now i have to multiply these three complex numbers 2 times cosine 2t plus i sine 2t and 2 minus i times cosine t plus i sine 2t i'll create two complex numbers and i want to split that into everything that doesn't have the i and everything that does have the i so in the first row 2 times cosine 2t has no i on it but 2 times sine 2t has an i coefficient with it so i'll put the 2 sine 2t in the i column and the 2 cos 2 t in the non-i column on the bottom i have to foil out 2 cos 2t has no i so i put that in the no i column and minus i times i sine 2t is actually minus i squared or plus 1 times sine 2t that also has no i in it it goes in this column on the left but the imaginary parts of 2 minus i times cos2t plus i sine 2t that that'll be negative cos 2t that has an i in it and 2 sine 2t that has an i attached to it they go in the i solution column this gives me two physical real valued solutions that are independent of each other linearly independent first is 2 cos 2t 2 cos 2t plus sine 2t times e to the minus t and the second is 2 sine 2t minus cos2t plus 2 sine 2t e the minus t their initial conditions are 2 2 and 0 minus 1 respectively so you see that they're linearly independent also you see that the initial values mirror the complex eigenvector we selected the coefficients of the complex eigenvector were 2 and 2 in the real slots and 0 and minus 1 in the complex sets this gives me the general solution y of t is k 1 y 1 plus k 2 y 2 and an example of a specific solution through 3 4. you can verify that that will be 3 halves times the first solution minus 1 times the second solution because 3 halves times 2 2 and minus 1 times 0 minus 1 would give me that initial condition of 3 and 4. | dave's web corner | UCBvOKbrlYeWDkHf1QigyEdg | 2021-05-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 572 | 2,753 |
J8LCZFv_SlI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8LCZFv_SlI | Final Fantasy VII Episode 1: The Mercenary | [Applause] [Music] Oh huh [Music] have you dahlia murder [Music] Oh who goes there you're up here we go the Final Fantasy 7 remake or at least the first chapter of it on the PlayStation 4 and waiting quite a while for this one and well let's get right into it gonna help hands where I can see them have fun I had previously played a demo of this game on this channel and that demo pretty much started at the point of eros or Eric they're quite sure what I'm gonna call her probably go back and forth during all this during the intro while she's staring at the Mako light and then she proceeds out into the road now that's where the demo started and in this one well it's started a little bit earlier with some flashbacks and here we are braiding the Mako reactor or mokou reactor there's another one I'm not sure how they really want that programs language I make an Advent Children they refer to it as motto I don't really care for Advent Children as a movie or even as continuation of the Final Fantasy 7 story it did continue with the story but I think they kind of lost their balls with it in a sense but anyway I don't want to talk about other than children here we have the Final Fantasy 7 remake the game we've been waiting for for so long in a game which I played a couple of hours of it so far and I have to say I don't know it's definitely gonna keep going with it and it's definitely adding a lot of more story to the game and a lot of it is pretty good additions some of it so what soldier boy steel is he one of us now he's kept balls this what was his name again cloud Cloud Strife right and he isn't a soldier anymore still he's a professional unlike the rest of us I'm glad to have him this is a one-time gig when it's done we're done breathe enjoy the work looks are with people nervous first I'd say you're not even leaving any bug come on you know buddy do something this crazy just for money they may not think you're a true believer but you know what I feel interested wait you better be worth the money mark every last Gill [Music] I had expressed this during my playthrough of the demo but I might as well repeated here because I don't expect anyone to go back and watch that this game has gone and put a little bit more effort more actually quite a bit more effort into trying to flesh out like individual aspects of the story some of the side characters and all that kind of stuff and one of the things that was immediately obvious to me is they were putting some effort into giving you a reason why cloud is taking part in this mission the first time in the original game it kind of seemed like Barret should have been able to handle the situation on his own big wedge and Jesse were wedge and Jesse were hold on I got the names mixed up Biggs and Jesse were probably the not the fat guy the two that aren't the fat guy seem physically capable enough and had Barret who's certainly capable of handing himself and there was keeper who didn't even go on this mission should have been able to go and handle everything that they were gonna go do here they didn't need cloud to guide them through the reactor they didn't mean him to unlock any doors he was just there to fight and he was just fighting alongside the other members of avalanche so it was a little weird like whether they did they really need him there in this game they're really pushing the fact that but he's here in order to engage all the guards they hide until he engages the guards and then he runs if they run past the guards and he fights him eventually of course Barrett's gonna join the team the battle team and he'll be fighting alongside cloud but [Music] this way not so fast we've got company just a little bit of background on the waves I am playing this this of course the PlayStation 4 version there is a PC version that will be released it has not yet been released some playing this from the ps4 I got my copy a little bit late so I ordered off the Amazon and the Kovach 19 is kind of [ __ ] all that up so I got a few days late but here I am starting it late but I'm gonna get through it but anyway I'm playing this on a Playstation 4 and I'm using remote play to cast the video to my PC which is recording it and then I'm going and putting the con commentary and after the fact I kind of wanted to do a blind playthrough with it which I am doing it's an actually a blind playthrough but my commentary is after the fact because I couldn't I knew there was gonna be long courage a time where I'm gonna get lost from the run back in circles or I'm gonna end up dying a bunch of times or something stupid garbage like that Plus would have been more difficult with this recording setup to record the commentary and have it not sound like [ __ ] so during all the cutscenes where there's dialogues and all that kind of stuff I returned the game to full volume and then otherwise I lower the volume so my voice doesn't clash well [Music] soldiers may attack on command but I hear they make good guard dogs - bet you've seen a few reactors so how do we get to the bridge above my cold storage ain't holding out on me are you stamps scared to fight the hand that fed him or is he a loyal little doggie have it your way mother we can do this with you or we can do this without you different reactor different layout depends when it was built never seen one like this but I'll manage don't you worry Biggs we'll have the door open soon in three - damn I'm good who's there dark wait it's over that's my line [Music] so far this game looks pretty damn good I mean I knew they weren't going to do anything truly groundbreaking they're using a young real engine here instead of whatever they're only rather good-looking game engine the used to 15 was but still they managed to well pretty good-looking game here it's a good thing I know someone who can get us the passcodes Eddie no one else I command will talk to us but what can you do and we're good careful in there I got this place covered [Music] looks like the elevators on another floor am i pushing that button so you know Tifa right it's not really my business but are you guys close [Music] crowd are you ignoring me [Music] t-phone hi these sewer ads appear to call themselves avalanche sir we are currently investigating whether they belong to the same group that made the attempt on your life rest assured our inquiries will not take much longer this pump sole purpose is to drain the planet drop why asleep why are we why you sit it is sucking up Locker it doesn't rest and it doesn't care you do realize what Marco is don't you Marco is the lifeblood of our world the planet bleeds green like you and me bleed red there you thinks gonna happen when it's all gone huh answer me you're gonna stand there and pretend you can't hear the planet crying out in vain I know you can you really hear that damn straight I do get help say that it kid I'd worry less about the planet and more about the next five seconds save the screaming for later [Music] our lives on the line now you listenin Merc one false move and that happens well so much for having cloud do all the fighting there are some places a sword just can't reach just bear with him for me would you you should have asked for more money sure [Music] unfortunately the recording quality of this playthrough is going to be a little bit lacking the PlayStation 4 version the standard version does display at a full 1080 1920 by 1080 and it looks pretty damn good not 4k or anything but it still looks pretty damn good unfortunately since I don't have a ps4 Pro I can't stream through remote play at a 1080p resolution to my computer so it's got to go away 1280 by 720 so will the image is going to look a little bit soft and of course I have to run it in her mirror so I can do this it's my editing and all that kind of stuff and then I got to send it out to youtube so the end result is not going to look incredible but it's gonna get the it's gonna get the point across fortunately this not much I can do about that so okay now we have Barret joining a party and the way he plays this skin game the way the game plays with Barret is quite a bit different than it does with cloud I imagine all the characters are gonna have these pretty significant differences with the way that they handle in combat which is a pretty big difference from the actual original second one which most of the characters were practically carbon copies of each other there were minor differences between them but they all controlled the same and for the most part they work with what we have here laser security system those things will hurt more than your pride if you're careless they'll cut you down to size and then sign I'm guessing you've done this kind of thing before yeah when they cycle off exactly I'll go first nothing like a little danger to get the blood pumping hey just keep those baby blues of yours on me I'm not sure anymore how long the first Mako reactor would end up taking a new player for this game but an experienced player someone who's played through it before and knows where to go and knows how to not [ __ ] around with bugs a lot kind of stuff we'll get through the first reactor in out maybe like 10 minutes or so speedrunners could probably do something crazy and do it faster but it's it wouldn't take long this they've beefed it up quite a bit it's gonna take like an hour an hour and a half not if you went before within first this does feel like it's working out quite a bit better than a live military because there are a lot of instances where characters are going to start just talking out of nowhere I've played games like that before trying to do a live commentary like Mass Effect and all that kind of stuff and it tends to be rather frustrating I start a thought I have to stop and let the characters talk and I try to get back to it and I start talking again so this is just gonna work out okay the sweeper now this was a this was not a mini-boss in the original game this was just a regular enemy that you encounter to a fight who remember correctly those the sweeper was actually the boss of this reactor in the demo so probably explain why it had a more of an elaborate design than most of the other things that you saw in the first reactor it was because it was perhaps originally supposed to be a boss but then they push to the side and turned it into a regular enemy and put the guard scorpion which had an even more elaborate design this thing takes a beating but it does die more like 20-something first soldier I mean you ain't that's got their break his brain could be the same as his age berrak comes across just a little bit of a child of course is the way this character was portrayed in the original game was none too flattering on him either having played this game for a couple of hours before I record to comment rate for this first episode I do have to say they do do Barrett right he's not quite the mr. t ripoff that he was [Music] that's our target the reactor core gotta set the bomb at the bottom let's get down there but he does get better treatment in this game and in the original game we'll see what we mean and what I mean in like the second episode he comes across as a much more of a charismatic leader and you feel like there's a reason why he'd be the leader of avalanche or at least this Avalanche cell oh you're choosing me over the reactor that's sweet but oh wait my turn go blow her mind I also say that I do like the remixes of the original music in the game now I consider the soundtrack for the original Final Fantasy 7 to be one of the most iconic soundtracks and gaming history like in fact I had a couple years ago I went and I listened to the soundtrack that the goose on YouTube or something and without looking at the screen and without without reading the descriptions or anything I was able to keep place where in the game probably every song was like this one was in this town this one was in this specific room this one was when this character appeared all that kind of stuff when it come to any of the other Final Fantasy games I cannot say the same because I tried and I couldn't do it no the pump it suckers back up oh this is the audio the music in the original game was so iconic it's basically an open invitation for them to go and just [ __ ] it out make some strange remix of the song that just punches me in the ears and I hate it all the way through but they did a pretty subdued number of changes they of course increased the quality of the audio the PlayStation 1 had pretty good sample playback audio for its day it did have the ability to do the ps1 had the ability to do read book audio but you can't do read book all to you all the way through a game that size so a lot of it was that sample playback audio and it sounded pretty good but not as not good enough for modern day [Music] all right let's see if little stamp really can bite the hand that feeds go on do the honors prove to me you're the man t4 says you are that you're one of us never said I was I'm just here for the Paycheck do the damn job [Music] what's wrong [Music] I'm fine what about the timer you'll call Merc pretty cocky ain't you dude awesome heads up what bigger now hey how do we fight so I say they do a pretty good I say they did a pretty good job of recreating the audio recreating the feel of the audio the original music was rather than just sort of copying its form now here we go this is the Scorpion Sentinel instead of the guard scorpion don't know why they chose to change the name it's possible that they the original game that had a whole lot of awkward translation in the parables that just kind of messed a lot of things up and I'm sure once we reach points of peace where the translation errors were in the original as long as I'm aware of them I'll bring it up but there are a lot of instances where characters would say something and it wouldn't be what it was intended or he said and it could leave us some kind of weird confusion like the character of Johnny in the original game wasn't supposed to okay but I don't know what the hell he was supposed to be but he goes and makes a reference that he knew Tifa and he knew cloud from me behind like he was one of the kids that lived and that was why Tifa Dooley was attached to him but apparently he wasn't supposed to be after some sort of a weird translation error so I don't know what the story was johnny is ghostery pretty sure Johnny's in this game so maybe we'll get a better idea so I'm just saying maybe the original name and Japanese properly translated or more appropriately translated would have been scorpion Sentinel instead of guard sorbian but in cases like that I don't know they could have named it either way probably if I were making the decision I would have called it the guard squirt angels to keep it consistent with the Western release released the Western release of the remake being consistent with the Western release of the original I wonder if all the bosses are going to be this elaborate as well this thing isn't just in this sort of battle arena jumping around and blowing [ __ ] up and not gonna surround and jumping back and forth it's crawling across the wall going out of range and shooting missiles down changing the way you have to fight the fight fairly often so that's it mixes things up of course in the older Final Fantasy games the turn-based systems you have different phases of the fight where the enemies would use perhaps get attacked it so where they gain some kind of an immunity do a bunch of different things like that now will the modern technology we have I guess they can go and make a much more elaborate version of that with this thing jumping all around and all that [ __ ] I wonder if it's going to start to wear on the eventually though how long these fights take this fight would probably go a lot quicker get a better idea play the game at this point like I'm for example I'm diving behind the scorpion here and I am I have a smoke alarm going off I have to check it out I wish I could say I knew what happened there when we smoke alarms went off went to check it out no fire nothing just it's functioning brand-new smoke alarm barred it like two weeks ago it's one of them sealed units too so I can't remove the battery you're gonna have to just sort of break it with stop her from going off and I gotta go get another one chorus where the hell am I gonna go get another one all the [ __ ] stores are closed okay well not let you do better right now got a killer and Scorpion Sentinel man this battle takes a long time this episode's gonna be like an hour long but on account of being stuck in this fight for a long period of time well anyway what I was saying before was I going in and running behind the Scorpion and attacking it from behind because that is where the breeder weak point is or it is the point of a lot of tactics at that when it has to shield but well I'm kind of screwing something up is I'm not actually targeting the piece that I'm supposed to be attacking so a lot of clubs attacks are hitting its legs and just not doing damage I've been in significant damage I'm also not in dodging out of the way fast avoiding damage so I look at I took all those hits actually doing some damage now there's also all the expertise among using magic properly damaged I continued playing this game for two or three hours after this episode will have ended so I got a better idea of how to gate play the game properly so no clouds unconscious great [Music] so I'm looking back in this now and realize that our [ __ ] being a dumbass the entire time anyway I'm gonna speed the gameplay up in order to get through the rest of this fight and here we are speeding things along I figure no one's really gonna be watching my stuff duck as a guide especially since this is a blind playthrough and a [ __ ] I don't know how to get through or anything I'm not gonna do it any better than you will so that watch the tail you don't wanna be hit by that lesion so what we don't get hit take cover behind that's a brief [Music] love it when [ __ ] blows up I guess the this space of a plate you knock the shields off the front legs so you can damage it more directly like that this end of the fight have actually a little bit easier than the other ones like a deal like don't shut up again they let out late nothing now the shields are off lights go too soon focus new focus soldier boy you ain't got a word about me mrs. Masha and down goes enough Oh the bar you hear that damn thing Suja how it's done come on we've got to move now shit's exploding early you know something that was completely lacking in the original game you fled and you had a timer and all that kind of stuff but there was no reason for a [ __ ] to be exploding around you so it didn't happen and always I thought it was always strange we have these games with like a countdown to a self-destruct and stuff is exploding as you're trying to get away and make me sense me like is it gonna explode in 19 minutes and 32 seconds or is it can explode now on this case the scorpion exploded and that makes some sense [Music] you okay join okay my hero hey we'll link up over there look after Jessie [Music] of course something along these lines happened in the original game where Jessie got her leg stuck and cloud had to sort of help her out so she could escape it happened a couple of times in this though [Music] overall though I think the characterization of of Jessie here is much better than it was in the original games you have much in the way of screen time so and all these other characters big switch and Jeff seeing all them they get more attention in this [Music] I've got to come find us the way out of here don't worry I'll be fine I've got soldier boy week ex-soldier boy here it is plainly clear by the way the other characters even bear it himself acting as it's the first time any of these people have ever done anything like this they're not the soldiers with that cloudy they are not the experienced terrorists that they probably want to trade themselves on you have these different characters like like geez either bigs or wedge huh definitely seems out of place Jesse's talking about like she's got to keep talking if she's gonna freak out so yeah they're legally not not they were not gonna succeed that file didn't come along in the original game they definitely came across as more capable during the mission at least once they left and they got back at their base or they were on the train and all that they came across like a bunch of idiots it was no wonder they got hot they're running around talking about everything embarrassing really loud obvious and I guess that's where it sort of came through that they were inexperienced they didn't know that'll keep their damn mouth shut had to have a low profile and this you're kind of seeing it during the initial mission being a little bit more consistent with the way that these characters acted and all that kind of stuff they are not they're not what they think cloud is this thing went down a lot quicker this time this place seems strangely large I mean a lot of hallways and rooms that don't seem to do anything mano-a-mano Jarvis another of the enemy types that are returning from the original game they weren't difficult to beat in the original and that with me now and the lasers are down so we don't worry about that but I did leave their boxes open that was nice of them they put them back now the Shock Troopers it's another enemy from the original game that they brought back to this and the shock trooper is the first of the regular enemies sort of brings out the fact that you can't just slash dodj they lost it'll take a lot of damage there we imagine so if you know how to fight that they're relatively easy but if you don't they're gonna kick your ass sorry for your record and it's this game is forcing you to kind of get used to the way it plays earlier on and of course the first don't you in the original say maybe it would take you 20 minutes or so so you get through that entire thing and the entire thing is basically your novice mission and your introduction this if it's gonna take an hour over an hour and a half or something like that you're gonna the initial enemies on the way in here the reactor are going to be your tutorials and the enemies on the way out are going to be moving up into the game that they can start ramping up the difficulty so that's probably what we're seeing here these things make an appearance it's ramping up as if folks are making it harder kind of backwards in terms of the way normal game design works for your first mission end to end is going to be just crazy easy cuz you gotta let the player get used to things this game doesn't really give you a minute to rest and minutes to think about what's going on you just action action action action is ramping up the difference that's a little bit strange but it doesn't get I I can imagine this tripping somebody up and that person might your stuff but I guess I kind of expected this plus I did play the demo and this happened in the demo so they still got a sword out fights not over yet so I can't go through the door come on Barrett what the hell you doing one more it is one more and the fair got that was nice just open the door buddy [Music] sir [Music] come on come on come on [Music] if I couldn't believe me you'd be the first to know I'll take 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0Yp2DmhUlco | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp2DmhUlco | Exploring New Approaches for Atrocity Prevention | welcome everybody I'm delighted to welcome you here to the u.s. Institute of Peace my name is Nancy lindborg I'm the president and CEO here and I'm delighted to welcome you to a really important conversation warm welcome to those joining us online and you can follow us on Twitter at us IP with today's hashtag people power for peace and of course that's the numeral for people power for peace I'm very happy to welcome the authors of the report we have two discussed here today Hardy Merriman who's the president of the International Center on nonviolent conflict or ICN C for short and Peter Ackerman the founding chair of ICN C and I want to give a special shout out to Peter because not only did he provide a lot of the early intellectual capital that created this body of research in the field he's also the co-chair of the u.s. IP international advisory council so we're very fortunate to benefit from his considerable insights in all dimensions as many of you no doubt know u.s. IP was founded in 1984 by members of Congress as a nonpartisan national but independent institution dedicated to preventing mitigating and resolving violent conflict and we do this by connecting research with policy with training with support for those on the front lines of trying to prevent involve and resolve violent conflict we have a long tradition of supporting research and practical approaches to preventing mass atrocities and genocide in 2008 some of you may remember we Co convened the genocide prevention task force co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and Secretary William Cohen so today's event is extra-special not because just the topic is so important and so germane to our mission but also because this is the inaugural event that we are co-hosting with u.s. IP and I CNC since we established an official partnership between our two organizations last April we're very pleased to have that opportunity to take what has been a long partnership on working together on research and program activities and this partnership really enables us to do so within a more formal framework and to expand our respective efforts into a important field of work that is very very important to our mission with some great partners so hang on so I can't think of a better way to christen the new partnership maybe if we had a few bottles of champagne but we'll get there so I know many many people in this room probably everybody who's in the room with us here today has watched you know with hope with great interest with awe at what has gone on around the world New York Times has dubbed this the year of the protest from Kazakhstan to Algeria to Sudan to Nicaragua to Hongkong it's been truly amazing and it's heartening to see that even as a you know we're so concerned about the rise of authoritarianism but so too is the number of people who are taking to the streets to raise their voice and demand greater accountability less corruption more responsiveness from their governments and we know that as inspiring as these movements are these very courageous citizens need support they need space to resolve the conflicts and to accomplish their goals our nonviolent action program supports activists and peacebuilding in some of these very tough environments from Nicaragua to Venezuela Afghanistan by providing trainings on strategic planning and integrating dialogue and direct action and this is seen especially through our guide on synergizing nonviolent action and peacebuilding happily known as the snap guide SN AAP you can find the snap guide online and I highly encourage you to check it out and share it with your networks and the Morea may be able to say more about that the name alone is worth the look snap so the report that we're going to discuss preventing mass atrocities does two very very important things it reaffirms existing research on efficacy of nonviolent resistance and u.s. ip's director Maria Stephan co-authored a study that examined 323 major violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 and found that nonviolent campaigns were twice as successful at achieving their goals as armed as insurgencies twice as successful secondly this report offers practical guidance for how the international community can best support movements without undermining their legitimacy their safety or their agency so I know this will be an amazing conversation we have an extraordinary panel to talk about these issues with us today and to kick us off I'm delighted to turn things over to the co-author of this report the president of ICN see somebody who brings more than 15 years of experience in the field of civil resistance to this conversation and a wonderful friend and partner Hardy Merriman [Applause] thank you so much Nancy the feeling is mutual it's great to be able to collaborate and partner with us IP not just today but in the future thank you thanks to the panelists thank you to all of you for coming out on this rainy day and so as Nancy said since 2002 I focused on nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world that are fighting for rights freedom and justice I take a social science approach to these movements trying to figure out in the most basic terms why do some movement succeed and why do others fail and in particular I emphasize in my organization the International Center on nonviolent conflict emphasizes the role of strategy and skills what kind of strategies are effective in what kinds of skills are needed for ordinary people who are facing oppression to unify themselves to organize and to wage civil resistance and win against unaccountable political systems so today I want to talk about external support to these kinds of movements to civil resistance movements and discuss this new international doctrine that Peter Ackerman and I are proposing called a right to assist or the the short version is r2a so the right to assist is a framework that would guide collaboration and international support to civil resistance movements that meet certain criteria around the world it's not just any movement we'll get into that Peter and I designed our to way in a way that is designed to engage a wide array of of international actors so it's not just a state centric model it's a model that would engage NGOs yes states multilaterals diaspora groups and a whole range of external actors to be supportive of non-violent human rights movements the goal is to incentivize the choice of non-violent civil resistance when groups decide to rise up and demand their rights and support that choice and we argue that if we can incentivize and support that choice we can reduce the probability of violent conflict and therefore reduce the probability of atrocities so my presentation today has four parts let's see great the clicker works so the first is define my terms real briefly what is civil resistance what do I mean when I say that then talk a bit about why civil resistance matters there has been a huge growth of research about the dynamics and impacts and outcomes of civil resistance movements around the world in no small part with Maria Stephan who's sitting right there as one of the prime researchers and particularly the the quantitative research has been very important over the last ten years we can make all kinds of claims now that we used to feel strongly about and now have data to support so the the right to assist argument that I'm going to make to you today draws on a lot of literature and research that really is just new and exciting and I think we're still grappling with what the implications are and this is one attempt to get to that so then I want to talk about external assistance itself and give a five-part typology of different forms of external support ranging from very sort of low threshold indirect not very interventionist support to progressively more targeted interventionist and challenging support and then Peter and I felt strongly that if we're talking about external assistance we really need to scrutinize our own ideas about this our own assumptions and so actually if you take a look at this special report about a third of it is us responding to possible points that people might raise of saying but what about this because we have to be really careful as external actors we all know that they're even good intentions can lead to negative outcomes so we are sort of offering this out as something for those two for people to consider we really welcome your comments critiques ideas feedback and we're hoping that people will run with this and want to take this add their research to it add their ideas to it and we start to develop a normative framework or actually full international doctrine around support to these movements so what is civil resistance so I'm gonna bet that the first image that comes to your mind when I say that is a starts with P protest right masses of people it's one of it is the most common image this is an image from Algeria earlier in the year where they through nonviolent means forced a political transition against a president who around the country for 20 years so this is very common their different variations of the protest image there's a large group of people there's the close-up there's focusing on a point of contention but they all give the idea of mass people at least say notice something and possibly demanding something new but that by itself is not civil resistance that's though generally what the media portrays mostly but here's another image of civil resistance where do you think this was taken this was taken in Khartoum in June of this year and here this is an incredibly powerful act of civil resistance it's a general strike repression was so severe people said we're not going to mass we're actually gonna stay home so if we want to get to a definition of civil resistance we need a definition that can bridge the protests the strike and a lot of things in between so here's just a basic definition civil resistance is a way for people often ordinary people who don't have any special power status or privilege to wield power without using violence and it consists of three kinds of acts the first is acts of commission where people do things that they're not supposed to do not expected to do or forbidden from doing protest when you're not supposed to protest sing a song when you're not supposed to sing a song where a certain color use certain symbols create new social or economic or political behaviors that are not expected or that are forbidden right there are lots and lots of ways we can do things we're not supposed to do right we can just think about all the rules in our lives written and unwritten and then each of those represents a possible point of disobedience civil resistance includes the opposite acts of omission where people don't do things that they're supposed to do were required to do so refusing to pay taxes not open not showing up for work working slow school boycotts not paying utility bills boycotts choosing to change buying patterns lots and lots of ways we can omit our conventional obedience patterns and then a combination of both so this would be for example creating alternative governance systems alternative educational systems alternative economic systems which some movements have done that's both an active omission and Commission so it's a simple definition and just one other point and then I'll move on is violence here is construed in a narrow sense of actually doing physical harm or threatening to do physical harm so if it's if an action is threatening to do physical harm we're doing physical harm it would not be civil resistance okay so with that people generally tend to do civil resistance when the conventional means of making change are not working right if they could change things using elections they alone they might do that it's a lot easier if they could change it just by petitioning the legal system and they have the capacity and access to do that they would probably do that but civil resistance is a response generally to truly unaccountable actions taken by power holders where the institutional means of changing that are failing and so around the world that's not surprising that as authoritarianism rises we're seeing a lot more movements to challenge that authoritarianism whether it's on grounds of corruption people want democracy people want rights or a whole range of other issues so why does civil resistance matter I'll give you four reasons all backed by data the first is that it's powerful right so for those of you who are familiar with this book of which Maria Stephan is a co-author Nancy mentioned that Maria examined with Erica Chenoweth over 300 nonviolent and violent movements over the last century in the core finding was that the nonviolent movements that were trying to get a political transition were twice as effective fifty-three percent success rate versus the violent ones which had a 26 percent success rate so a two-to-one differential in terms of success of non-violent movements versus violent movements and this is obviously a surprising finding right because the conventional assumption is that violence is the means of last resort violence is the strongest thing violence is what people should do when everything else is failing and yet over hundreds of cases over the last century we see a huge difference in the success rate of popular nonviolent and violent movements even against powerful authoritarian governments in addition the average nonviolent campaign was found to last only three years the average violent campaign was found to last nine years so some might argue that violence is more power it may not be as effective but it's faster and the data completely robutts that claim nonviolent movements take on average three years which is a long time if you expect to be successful in three to six months right three years is still a long time but it's a lot shorter than the alternative so another reason why civil resistance matters is that it's a driver of democratic development and this is one of the most replicated findings in the literature now it's been replicated seven or eight times where consistently people look with different methodologies at the relationship between nonviolent movements and democratic development and they consistently find a very strong relationship so just as one graph this is drawing from chenoweth and Stefan's work they looked five years after you have a nonviolent movement that succeeds it gets a political transition what happens and they found a 57 percent success rate so 57% of the time nonviolent movement yielded a democratic outcome it's not a hundred percent right forty three percent of the time it didn't I'm sure we can all think of cases where it didn't but it's pretty remarkable when you compare it to the prospects of violence for example which produced a democratic outcome six percent of the time another study done by Freedom House and also Peter Ackerman looked at also top-down transitions that did not have a nonviolent resistance component just negotiated roundtable transitions they resulted in a quote free society 14% of the time between the 70s and 2005 so as a comparative matter civil resistance has proven consistently to be one of the most effective ways to get out of authoritarianism interestingly enough even when nonviolent campaigns have failed they sometimes lead to a democratic outcome five years after a campaign failed that's the figure on the to your right there was still 35% of the time a democratic outcome so there's something in nonviolent resistance nonviolent civil resistance that has a democratizing impact even if the movements and media goals aren't achieving and this starts to get to the atrocity prevention and violence prevention piece civil resistance movements are significantly less likely to lead to mass killings in civil war than violent insurrection so I'm gonna talk about right to assist in a minute but my colleague Peter Ackerman and I who co-authored this report have been talking about right to assist for a long time and last year there was a remarkable finding about nonviolent movements and their probability that a mass killing will happen that propelled us to say okay now is the time to write this we have the data that we need so Erica Chenoweth looked looked at basically what's the general probability that you will have a mass killing when there's a national uprising it's just the generic probability okay doesn't whether the uprising is violent or nonviolent forget forget about that for a second and so what she found with evan per Koski her co researcher was that an uprising generically had a 43% chance of yielding a mass killing event and a mass killing is basically the a thousand civilians killed in a single continuous event it's basically an intentional targeting of a large number of civilians at one time right 43 percent of the time that happens and it makes sense because the literature on mass killings tell us that instability plus a threat to a government makes a government more likely to respond in this way but then the researchers look well let's see if the driver of instability is nonviolent or violent let's see if that changes and it changed it amazingly they found that when a non-violent campaign was challenging a government there was only a 23% chance of a mass killing when a violent campaign was challenging in government the probability of a mass killing was three times as high and this is really interesting because actually the nonviolent campaign is more threatening to the government has a greater chance of creating a transition than the violent one in still governments are much less likely to use this kind of do these kinds of killings and atrocities against nonviolent movements similarly the probability of civil war if you look 10 years after a non-violent campaign there was a 28 percent probability of civil war this is based on over 300 cases over the last century a 28 percent chance of civil war which we have which was the results of which we're seeing now for example there's the civil war in Syria in Yemen is a really hyper see it's an uncomfortably high percentage right I mean we shouldn't feel good oh that country it only has a 28 percent chance of resulting in civil wars is scary however when we compare it to a violent campaign the chance of civil war 10 within 10 years of a violent camp violent campaign or uprising is 43 percent so if people are going to rise up anyway and we'll get I'll get to this in a second because in general sooner or later under authoritarian regimes people do try to rise up shouldn't they be incentivized to choose a method that has a probability of a constructive outcome and a lower probability of devolving in the Civil War kept mass killings and so forth and I would add as well there may be things external actors can do to drive that 28% down okay last part of our literature review and then I'll get into write to assist so the data also tells us that civil resistance has proven remarkably effective even in highly challenging circumstances so one common refrain we might hear is that well nonviolent civil resistance can only work when there's a government that's not as brutal or in a society that is not fractured ethnically or when there's a certain level of economic development or when the movement is supported by outsiders or you know powerful countries like the United States or when the regime itself is very powerful and big so these have actually been tested in a growing body of research that says okay so let's control for that condition let's control for regime type and regime brutality and see if it see if it relates to movement emergence and outcomes and what we're finding remarkably is that it doesn't it doesn't of the six factors I listed there the one that is found to be significant is use of violent repression and use of violent repression against a nonviolent movement is found to reduce its chance of success by 35% 35% seems like a big number it is a big number but the conventional view is that if violence is used against a nonviolent movement it's a hundred percent effective right but that's not the case it's thirty five percent so when we look for example at the movement in Sudan that over months and months has so far transformed one of the most brutal governments of the last thirty years and a government that used a great deal of repression the repression was not enough to stop that movement and so this this is grounds tough grounds for hope so if these conditions don't determine a movements out by themselves then it must what we see is that skills strategic choices of movements matter yes repression might be used but the question is what's the movements counter strategy to it in Sudan one thing was a stay-at-home strike and it worked pretty well so there's an interaction between the conditions and movement phases and the strategies and skills that it meets those and how it overcomes or transforms them okay so the premise of the right to sis just to sort of summarize is that dictators are often challenged by their populations at some point right so instability is inherent in the authority in authoritarian regimes an authoritarian may look stable at the outside but how do they generally fall generally they're challenged by their own populations not always but often so we can see Sudan earlier in this year looks stable thirty years of the same government but wasn't we can look at Algeria earlier this year we can look at Russia where this picture was taken in August where 60,000 people showed up in Moscow just two contestants when they were being thrown by the government we can see Burkina Faso in 2015 transition there we can see Tunisia Egypt Syria again there's no guarantee that rising up non-violently is going to yield the best outcome Egypt has obviously struggled enormous ly in Syria there was six months of nonviolent depending on how you count primarily nonviolent resistance did then succumb to armed struggle thus we have this risk of civil war but all of these governments one could claim seemed stable at the outset and yet people rose up and so when we look at the map of the world now my question is where else will people rise up and when they do is the international community whether we put on our NGO hat our policy and you know government had multilateral hunter others prepared for this can we incentivize it are there things we can do to support it to avert outcomes like what we saw in Syria so if people are gonna rise up against governments eventually we know how they do that has major repercussions for mass killings for civil war one one brief stat I didn't mention to you is that two-thirds of atrocities occur during civil wars and so Peter and I developed this document around the right to assist and so it is as I said sort of a proposed international doctrine but right now it is simply a document that you have and you can think about this in a few different ways for it to be useful the first is that what's in here you can see it as just a set of common principles that you could read about and apply to your work if you are in an organization or you know Department right now it's designed to be useful even if you don't have a whole bunch of allies about guiding movement centered work whether you're a philanthropy or whether you're in policy or otherwise we could start to develop it as a normative framework maybe something short of a full international doctrine but something where if we get a number of people around the table who work with this and develop it we don't think we've found the answer we think we've started to work on an answer that could be developed further that could be grounds for collective action greater coordination in solidarity between external actors or over time if it proves it's worth it could develop into some sort of international doctrine with structures that could be developed to go with it now I mentioned that when Peter and I worked on this we wanted to get this to have this be not necessarily state centric right so for those who follow the atrocity prevention the prevailing international doctrine of the responsibility to protect which was used in Libya in 2011 looks like it will never be successfully invoked in the UN Security Council again at least his most coercive measures it will not be able to get past a veto we've seen atrocities since 2011 in Sudan in Myanmar in a variety of other places in Central African Republic that have wear responsibility to protect has been blocked in the Security Council so if we're gonna do something around a right to assist we want to get out of the idea that one state can veto and then the whole thing stops so this requires the designing of different sort of structures to think about how this could be invoked so let's talk about external support for a second so what kind of support makes a difference what can external actors do to answer this question we first have to ask well what's actually helpful right what's going to make a movement more effective so to come back to my earlier point about skills and strategy the data is telling us that those matter and so in our five-part sort of typology that we offer for supporting movements the first two were directly relate to skills and strategy so the first is simply public education make knowledge about civil resistance available accessible and attractive to people we know that if people don't feel like they have a choice or if people want to rise up violence can very quickly monopolize the conversation about what needs to happen if there's a demand for change and violence is the only product on the shelf people will eventually choose that so let's let's make conscious the fact that there is another alternative that it's more effective that it's more attractive to most people a lot of people that Chad the the the barriers of joining a violent uprising are huge basically have to give up your life as you knew it whereas in civil resistance thousands or millions of people can participate and still go home at the end of the day often this is much lower bart barrier to entry there are a lot of things that are attractive about it so how can this be communicated through a variety of institutions schools associations unions religious communities youth clubs they can different means television films music art literature cultural practices advertisements lots of ways to just make people aware of this and messages can be adapted to different languages history and cultural context so I'm not talking about importing something from the outside into various countries nonviolent civil resistance is something that is inherent in virtually every culture right so I don't know I have two kids they understand the power of non-violent dissent all children do right it's something deeper in our human psychology here it's not something that Gandhi created or that I and talking about is something I put my trademark on no every society has had some version of a strike or a boycott there is history and cultural practices around disobedience of unjust of unjust rule in every single society but are those elevated in ways that legitimize and hint that you know what just happened historically is not just a strike or a protest it's actually part of a much broader method of struggle that we can practice public education can also take the form of supporting research about movement effectiveness which obviously I think it's incredibly important because I'm drawing on it for this work supporting the development of new educational resources films translations videos website and so forth curricula supporting workshops supporting online classes fostering peer-to-peer interaction this all falls in the category of indirect support this is not going into another country trying to pick a particular movement trying to subversively get stuff into them this is aboveboard available to all comers just information the second is capacity building this is more targeted this is in our work at IC NC we respond to requests for act from from activists around the world we don't initiate contact but if they contact us and want something we try to help them so if they want it what can we you know what can external actors provide workshops for specific human rights groups and activists on a variety of skills right we're going way beyond just the protests here for movements that want to accomplish legislative gains or major political reforms they need insider knowledge access to institutional knowledge they need you know organizing knowledge about how to mobilize the society and a whole range of other things change is a team sport it requires a lot of different skills so providing workshops meeting people where they're at seeing what they needed trying to get that to them it's very simple offering convening space so that people can get together in dialogue it might sound so simple but the amount of good ideas that don't get acted on for lack of convening space or because they're missing a few hundred dollars is huge and people who have suffered under oppression have often been deliberately divided and ruled so err there's spaces that can be brought together intentionally that external actors can can provide where groups can rebuild trust rebuild social fabric so that they can work together there is room for small funding and in-kind support and small targeted grants and programs and this is this is something I'm more cautious about it's something that I see NC has done it's something that I think when done well can be incredibly effective I think providing funds to movements can also be quite risky if not done responsibly and so maybe we can get into that in the QA it's very useful when done well there are ways in which it can contaminate movement or cause all kinds of internal rivalries and squabbling so it's proceed with caution but there's a role for it the third is just supporting populations directly in conflict things like offering strike funds which the United States and European Union's did two pulls in the nineteen eighty when they were striking against Soviet rule legal aid for persecuted activists ensuring adequate medical care for victims of repression emergency assistance these are things that are done and what I'm trying to do is bring them all under a common umbrella of movement support so that rather than say each one is legitimately justifiable or exists on its own or has its own community of practice discrete from other communities of practice we can see that they're synergistic and start acting accordingly and just to find them internationally accordingly rather than saying well this particular form of supports is legitimate but this one may not be and we're not focused on that just this we need each other whatever your skill set is the fourth has to do with increasing the cost of repression so here naming and shaming perpetrators it would be great if there was a new level to this where if a movement of a certain size was met with violence by its government and it was exercising its rights to engage in nonviolent resistance if if the repression met a certain threshold say you know X number of people who were killed or certain abuses happen what if that triggered automatic international investigations so it wasn't a question of who's going to pick up the ball will that happen it was known by perpetrators ahead of time if we do this violence there will be investigations and targeted sanctions attending trials and public actions diplomats and others do this on armed civilian protection is another thing that can be done I think remarkably effective where civilians both foreign and from the host country are trained as neutral mediators and D escalators of conflict I think we need more research to show just how effective that's been but all the preliminary what I've seen is that it is incredibly effective back Communications Admiral Dennis Blair wrote a book several years ago in which he said that the US military has so many touch points with other militaries many of them informal through exercises joint exercises or contacts through war colleges why aren't we leveraging those when the movement rises up in another country if we know the officers in the other country who already have rapport with officers in this country can we connect them and get them talking targeted sanctions I'm almost done lobbying allies to stop supporting oppressive governments we know this matters of course we ourselves may have to look at our own government's practices as well elevating human rights and foreign policy trade and security policy possibly cutting off arms shipments I think generally there is a real need for rebalancing priorities internationally where trade and security policy don't necessarily always supersede human rights and democracy concerns and D recognition which is a separate matter that I won't get into now but it has to do with a government becoming so egregious that it passes a threshold where it actually gets internationally recognized for its sovereignty in the fifth and then I'll stop has to do with fostering political transitions just to be really clear about this this is really an if/then thing this isn't about external actors saying hey we'll give you transition support this is about ordinary people rising up engaging in civil resistance meeting violent repression and such that over time they conclude that they actually must change their government and if and when that happens the question is are they left with ad hoc very little sort of support for that when the government is doing major abuse or what can the international community do so providing pledges of assistance particularly after transition which can induce people in the government to think about whether the conditions might be better afterwards space providing space for opposition's to plan again so simple but so critical right providing space in the in the earlier example was about active strategizing well there's gonna be a political transition it's more about building structures that can be organized in and manage that transition election monitoring protecting whistleblowers and in do helping to induce whistleblowers from governments that are doing abuse and then also critically playing a watchdog role post transition because that's when gains can be lost so again many of these things are done we see them as related we see them as something that could fall under right to assist these are just examples and one last point I'll make and then I about two to hear from the panel is we actually soon will have research and data to show the effectiveness of a number of these different forms of external support Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth we expect over the next six months to nine months we'll have data that shows publicly the impact that some of these forms of support have had on movements and that can be a whole additional piece that enriches this conversation so concerns considerations and opportunities here's here's our own self-doubts that we that we air publicly in questions that might lead into dialogue what campaign should receive assistance Peter and I outlined three different criteria but there could be more its support for civil resistance synonymous with supporting regime change we answer that but we know that that's a question people might have what if external support is a harmful impact on a campaign what if external support contributes to societal instability what forms of external support are permissible under international law and how should our to a be invoked and who should exercise oversight again we've tried to get into some of that here but we'd love to hear your thoughts thank you great hearty thank you so much for that excellent presentation and warm congratulations to you and to Peter Ackerman for producing a really timely provocative well argumented report and I can't think of a more important topic to address at a time when as we've heard authoritarianism is rising globally civic space is closing so thinking about what forms of external assistance to activists and movements can be helpful I think is a really really important topic so my name is Maria Stephan I direct the program on nonviolent action here at the Institute and I have the distinct honor of moderating our panel this afternoon and we will be hearing from two activists and a practitioner who will be essentially reacting to the report in the Hardys presentation and speaking about how in their experiences they have kind of the pros and cons of various forms of external assistance and there are thoughts on whether there's a right to assist if you will so I'm going to briefly introduce the panelists and then we'll have a conversation and then we'll have plenty of time for Question and Answer with you all afterwards so first Chris Conde of the Shafi is a Sudanese activist peace and human rights advocate in an independent research consultant he was active in the student movement and against genocide and ethnic cleansing in Darfur and coos condi has worked for various organizations to promote human rights and support civil society in Sudan including the African center for justice and Peace Studies in the Sudan democracy first group next Alejandra Espinosa is the co-founder of voices of Nicaragua an initiative focused on youth and women that promotes a culture of non-violence human rights and social and economic development when the crisis in Nicaragua first broke out last year Alejandra managed a victim's assistance fund which guaranteed hospitalization for the injured and funeral expenses for fatalities then Ariella blade R is a program officer at wellspring philanthropic in the atrocities prevention and response program Ariella has worked for over 20 years in policy strategy and management in the I NGO multilateral and private sector as a human rights and humanitarian lawyer so I think we have an eminently qualified panel to spark the conversation this afternoon and we're gonna start with coos Conde who as we heard Sudan has experienced a significant political transition following a popular uprising that removed an accused war criminal from power earlier this year you were an activist in that movement and so I wanted to just start by asking you coos condi what has been your personal experience with external assistance and if you had a list one or two things that have been helpful and maybe less helpful or even harmful what would you say thank you for kind introduction and congratulation Hardy for this great work I really appreciate and this is also my second panel with agency for the first report on probability of atrocity in nonviolent movement and I am really happy to be here and thank you for the audience it's a privilege to come here today just a brief introduction I'm really happy to read this because all of you those ran by nature this was most dear and otro current government in the age of this state called strand for last 60 years and this because it has combined it elite ethnic elites autocracy and also religious ideology where it always justifies in one of three categories of any activists to be accused of crimes against state or extrajudicial killing or torture or all kinds of mechanism that made very hard for any activism to walk inside the country and so the the because of the war in 2005 this is therefore case was the first case to be submitted to the International Criminal Court in March 2005 and many of sudanese were hopeful that ICC could at least like put a little hope for the international community to up to at least provide justice after they failed to prevent the atrocity at the first place but this has never happened until today that is why I'm very happy to read on this approach because I personally coming from the country which is fragile state where people are continuously leaving a few because the state is hostile to them and I am very happy to read this because it is very hard to see people are killing in the village and you are waiting for that big room which is the UN Security Council to take a decision to help risco people it is not gonna happen and it felt several times it felt sin therefore it felt in South Sudan is fear central Africa it fears in Myanmar and it's going to fail fail fail fail and I think this mechanism provide another alternative on the the world not to stop like not with folded hands that there are things to be done to get back before that is like all of you know Sudan is a living example when you want to see that nonviolent movement works we had our country had 63 years old in the 63 52 years were ruled by the military dictators we have a violent movement start since 1955 which is with more than 40 years of the rebel movements that of fighting government but we have this is the third time that the nonviolent movement was able to tap or toe-to-toe to topple the dictator government and this time amazingly was happens by young people aged 10 to 25 but not that this time was happened by women and that is why it's a special moment for us to stand and acknowledge that this really practically worked but it also gives more hope and it's also participating the something else that I would like to say is that with my personal to come back to the question of my personal assistant that we receive I wouldn't have been here if there is no international assistance there was a time that I have to leave my country I was in Ethiopia I wa I had to leave it Olivia okay again and I was supported by an organization called Eastern horn African human right defenders project with defending the human right defender and they were able to relocate me to Uganda where have been safe and where I was managed to come back come here and be with you all here today so in personal experience I have spent in last six to seven years working on youth movement using my early experience when it was in university and also working with an organization that trying to promote democracy and I think one thing that one support that we received we received a lot of fun where we provide a youth camp and when I see these five frameworks of assistance I see that we went through all of this assistance and I think it was working because one last things that I remember I was part of was a youth camp where we young people from different part of Sudan came to plan actual nonviolent resistance action and go back in this was in new Kenya because it was a safe place for them to even build trust because the government security divides him and actually that was in April in November 27 that was the first time in history of Sudan that successful strike all over the country from east west north Center was secured in one day and this was an effective world because of that kind of meticulous planning from different group and they were able to take a collective collective action and that was really pivotal way for these groups to organize themselves and an honest tried new movement that culminated into a regime change so I am really I I feel as practically this worked in Sudan but also and it will work on other places but talking on Sudan contacts we also see that something that have delight the nonviolent movement was also from two thousand five two thousand six two thousand nine people were more dependent on international intervention people thinking Oh UN Security Council will use article 7 come back and catch all the criminals and we will have a country free of them and I think that somehow delayed the process also sometimes something that we also felt we had a movement in 2009-2010 and I think in that movement where some of the young people have been received selectively to get out of the country go somewhere get trainings and get some incentives have created some sort of disagreements among the youth groups that's why contextual understanding is pretty really important for these frameworks to to work so like that's all I could say thank you thank you very much coos condi and I think he mentioned a number of support options the human rights defenders fund the small grants the youth training you know in the whole idea of waiting for international event intervention you know not being the case and so drawing on other resources so thank you cos condi Alejandra the protests that began in Nicaragua last April were met with very harsh repression from both government and paramilitary forces and the opposition movement is currently demanding free and fair elections and so I wanted to ask from your perspective as a Nicaraguan activist what what are the most important things that external actors have done and could do to support a nonviolent peaceful transition in Nicaragua yes thank you very much for having me and this place is no not to share with all of you and [Music] first I want to explain how everything started in Nicaragua last April April of last year basically we were two different reasons why the protesters took the streets especially like the University study students and the older the older adults the main reason the first reason was the fire in India - it's a natural reserve and we were concerned about that fire and the second one was the government unilaterally reformed the social security law and which decrease that basically decreased the benefits for seniors and increase the contributions requirement and so the citizens the citizens and their right to legitimate right to protest peaceful protest they took the streets and the government respond with violating the basic human rights in Nicaragua that respond resulting in spends a spontaneous massive peaceful demonstrations in rural areas rural areas and in the cities and around a in the country and to be clear I want to just mention that before the April and 18th of a 28:18 we were we don't have any formal organization and of like a noble and resistant movement or whatever it was it was like a respond or when a show to support and assist and so and with a solidarity with victims of the repression and and you know when a strong commitment and conviction that the violence violence will never be justified in Nicaragua that's I think that's the most important thing now we have 300 people kill hundred people in in jail as a political prisoners thousands people injured and like political and socio-economic crisis that's that we are living right now I think the international community react pretty quickly condemned in the repression like the human rights violations in like in a miracle time I can say that and for example just ninety days we have the OAS condemning the the repression and they create in in real time during the repression they create a special a special group of working group at their way has to follow out what's going on Nicaragua and they traveled to Nicaragua in those days the international community reacted like each government react condemned in the human rights violations and the other thing is as a citizen with some privilege to be honest we mobilize each other to support victims of the repression no matter what like what if they were on the street of what came what they were doing is it was just a humanitarian support when the government starts to deny the attention in public hospitals and so that was something that really moved us like to support of these people and to be honest we cannot wait until the international community react support peaceful protesters and people with privilege we have to support them we have even when we are not involved in their demands if someone is dying if someone is denied in the someone is denied and attention to peaceful protesters or everyone we have to support them and when a incredible thing that happened was they when the government starts to crime in criminalized the protesters and the repression increased many people fled the country and they start to walk to Costa Rica and one important like justice of humanitarian support the Costa Rica they open the go the the borders and they they support all they increase like the the whole like immigration migration process or they improve their own migration process to a silo seek asylum seekers that's really important thing and I think really happened was like just in five months we have this day at the UN the Social Security Council and now it's in in the OAS hands that we have to try to solve all this descry psious unfortunately many countries like a most like the mayor of the countries are like really concerned about what's going on in a Corral and and how everything are being like happening right now and the other thing is they a one important thing that happened is before the crisis we don't have enough support from the international community or we don't have supported in civic engagement or participation and democracy values or all this stuff but the the small organizations who has been working and underground when the crisis start they they just like starts to support the energy also the the activists or later that they met before the crisis I think it's really important to like in those kind of situation I have like keep the connections with people on the ground and whenever something happened you you you can connect with them immediately or you can be a and they can they they will tell you or what what's really neat in that moment you don't we don't need to invite what we what the country's needs as a movement we we know what what can we do and for example science April 18 of 2a of 2018 we have many strikes marches Beach vigils and many things that were happening not just in Nicaragua run the war and condemning this the repression but we need a lot of tools a new tools in the international in the international community to support people in real-time I think save lives is the most important thing in no matter what if they were in one side and other side we need to save life thank you very much Alejandra those are really important messages and you also got interestingly at how outside actors can help prevent and mitigate repression through condemning violence and other means so thank you very much and finally Ariella so from your perspective as both an international legal expert and a philanthropist how does the right to assist resonate with you based on what you've heard from the panelists and from the report that you read okay I got this first the first hurdle is I got the microphone on thank you I just want to thank again Maria for your underlying research and for moderating hardy Peter for the report and the interesting merging of sort of this social science political science approach with what I feel is sort of the field that I work in the masa dia trust mass atrocity prevention field and so my reflections kind of round out things with that lens as to how this progresses the sort of mass atrocity frame does it cause harm does it hinder progress there and I in that vein I'm was very interested and I think my my colleagues here on the panel it's interesting really you called me a practitioner because I would say that's the last thing in comparison that I am really these are the practical examples that in my recent two years ago switched to philanthropy the intention is to support these so my first just general reflection here was that it's interesting that this report has used the responsibility to protect frame something really akin to the norm setting and the mass atrocity space but the question that arises for me is is this really a right or a responsibility and almost in the report right off the bat I would say Peter and harder you did a great job of restating the case that this is absolutely a right there's absolutely no prohibition that I can think of on it and and similarly we do have a responsibility to support these nonviolent means of achieving these Democratic gains and that we shouldn't really necessarily think about the responsibility to protect frame because it almost brings us back to that let's seek sovereignty let's get this back into the inactivity among states and let's get back into that you know sovereignty and non intervention principles so I would say that this is a strong principle and that I see you doesn't responsibility and it is absolutely right so that being said I think the key question that I'm reflecting on is as an external actor how can an external actor like the private foundations face that I occupy be helpful as opposed to a hindrance and I first think that I want to commend the author's for also recognizing so much more research to be done about this we're all flying by the seat of our pants we in many ways have no idea what we're doing particularly in the private philanthropy space and I'm again speaking from my personal philanthropic funder lens as opposed to my foundation in particular so in terms of that I think there's two sides of this do we help or hinder in this chart of external support we do we help or harm the movement itself and do we as external actors help our harm in reducing mass atrocities and those are not necessarily the same thing on the movement space I would say that a foundation like my own and many others understand that locally-grown movements and locally led engagements are important and lead to durable peace that being said we don't necessarily understand when wire how and I think that's really important and we certainly do not know how to fund those authentically in a way that does not change the purpose or shield from safeguard against repression and in general it's no mystery that foundations have their own strategy goals and outcomes and here Hardie you've made the very good point that it is important for these movements to authentically rise up to achieve their aims that's by nature at odds with the timetable and the outcomes and the process of which a foundation goes through so those are sort of limiting factors so that means that that the the needs that are identified have to be authentic from the ground and they have to be met immediately in as Alejandra put at the moment in response and that has to meet together and I think that rarely takes place and so I think yeah another area that the report could continue to develop is these experiences of how there are small funds emergency opportunities small targeted pots of money that can actually make a difference I'm happy to say that my particular foundation has a rapid-response emergency fund that put small funds into the hands of people we strive to get to the point in time where we can do something as small as gas money because the other thing is the model the foundation model is very specific of a certain amount of money to a certain legal framework of charitable status of certain reporting requirements and that is at odds with the mutual purpose so before you invite these external actors and take their resources understand that your different desires and process are early at odds and you need to line that up the second thing here is that do external actors help in the mass atrocity space does their entry assist with and support those endeavors which are intended to put an end to the ongoing or the threat of mass atrocities here we know a lot more about the extreme form of mass atrocities of genocides and interestingly enough in most cases the outside support does not help and unfortunately in most cases the genocide is either completed the act is done to completion or internal force is used and where it's unclear if anything that the it is prolonged or not by external actors so then when it comes to the general mass atrocities there's so much we don't know it's so context specific and in general I think here again it invites that question for more research if we're saying that we want to support movements and in that process we want to stop or mitigate atrocities we need to understand the invitation of those external actors comes with risk and not necessarily positive return the other thing I wanted to say is referencing off of my other you know colleagues here I think and the report I think Hardy and Maria's underlying research and Peter make a really strong case for how nonviolent means are effective can prolong can protect engage in a secrete a secure space mitigate violence and I think that it's really important to also recognize that women in leadership and nonviolent movements are doubly is effective I don't know what that number value would be but in the mass atrocity space I've seen a lot of great research about elevating women's leadership in all forms of the spectrum of peacebuilding whether it be in the response or the prevention side and by extrapolation and we see some research outside on the table so I wonder if there can be another dimension to this about how effective nonviolent movements are when women are in leadership and it's indigenous locally thank you so much Harry Ella that was super helpful and you know thank you for the words of caution as well and kind of the starting point of do no harm and recognizing kind of the the risks associated with outside support which are incredibly important for those on the outside to consider when it comes to external support so we've got about 15 minutes that remain so I think we should go directly to to discussion with the audience and maybe what I'll do is take two or three at a time and we'll see how many rounds we can get through so all the way in the back please and let's you'll probably need a mic so there we go thank you thank you and I I particularly appreciated this oh maybe just just say your name and affiliation and brief question thank you yeah my name is simon vilanis and I'm with the International Campaign for the Ranga and was a campaign director of no business with genocide and we really operate in the space I mean let's pull back a little bit I've been this unified field theory of assisting nonviolent movements I mean this was fascinating it's I think it's groundbreaking work and what interests me particularly is you know where we fit into this which is you know increasing the cost of oppression because you know we've been focusing on you know sanctioning bad actors through citizens actions in the case of Burma and their hunger and we've been pressure on Chevron to adopt a policy of not doing business with governments engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity and in response that they have publicly said that they are raising human rights issues with the government of Myanmar and we've been doing this also without the oil companies like totale even the Chinese national overseas oil Corporation which is also publicly traded so I'm particularly interested in because this is how this is how you know nonviolent movements here in the US just like during the campaign against apartheid kind of linked hands with nonviolent campaigns in South Africa and sort of turned around US policy from support for the apartheid regime and and corporate investment South Africa to divestment and US sanctions so you know I I'd be very interested in you know talking further and further discussion on how you know through tools like this by focusing on the fact that these these governments committing this oppression want and need foreign investment and if we put pressure on companies to not invest or not trade if that government crosses certain lines certain red lines you know we put another extra tool that's part of this unified field theory of tools in terms of external support thank you very much up here please my name is Effie ten bond with Oasis Network from Cameroon I'm going to speak in from that back drop because of an ongoing ongoing horrific atrocities in Cameroon I very much appreciate the presentation it's very rich a lot of things that I've learnt today from this and I appreciate the fact that we're looking at overcoming the present challenges especially with the responsibility to protect because we've come face to face it looks like a very concrete wall trying to find solutions with what's going on the question I have is what practical ways do we have in terms of not just the you talked about naming and shaming but we have actors in the Western world that put economic priorities above human rights the higher lobbies big muscles to block the media from covering what's going on political leaders will be cozy with dictators how do you go about those challenges that are real challenges great question so why don't we go to the back here thanks so much my name is Noah Rosen PhD student at American University my question is about how does this are to a framework that you've created traveled to civil war context given the statistic that Hardy shared with us that two-thirds of atrocities happen in civil wars and I'm especially thinking of the kind of nonviolent strategies that people like Ali Kaplan and Arkona and others have talked about in terms of active neutrality other nonviolent strategies for violence prevention what is the effectiveness of nonviolent strategies in civil war context do the same kind of external support mechanisms that you discussed apply to those kind of more localized movements against non-state actors often and what are some of the links that you see between these kind of local actions for violence prevention with nonviolent movements for more general social changes thank you great questions and since we're short for time why don't we take one more question from hi Ella with friends Committee on national legislation and I just had a quick question about the international support we're talking so far about benevolent international support but for example in Sudan right after the coup we saw Saudi and other Gulf partners flood money in to protect the military leadership that had taken over rather than pushed for a democratic transition so what's the international community's role in sort of countering those not so benevolent international actors okay those were meaty questions so we have the foreign investment in corporations question how to address things like lobbyists pressure and like preventing media and journalists from entering these conflict areas how well does this framework travel to civil wars and nefarious outside support and how that can be countered so go just maybe take take one that's pressing we'll make sure we get everyone has a voice thank you for your comment and for your valuable work it's a great example of things we missed and could have put in the report and and you know should be included next time as a example of international support I would point out that one split that we often see in governments that are doing abuse is a split between ikan actors who primarily think of their interests at the bottom line is economic interest versus political interests and what a civil resistance movement can do whether domestic or external civil resistance are both is split those interests where one says ultimately my highest value is getting back to business as usual and profitability and the other says ultimately our highest value is maintaining control no matter what and when the economic and political start to split it can lead to cascading effects so I would see I see what you're doing is very valuable and in that in that frame which I think we should be built out I'll stop there and reserve my right maybe see something later I had one response Thank You Ursula for your point and I think it's I have no great answer except that this is opening the Pandora's box and so if you were to maintain this as a doctrine then it is not restrictive to benevolent support and so and it would similarly have no restriction if we had such restriction then we would find ourselves in a position to not have that right to assist so I think it's a really important point for Peter and Hardy to consider as they continue to Ally this to a doctrine with a benevolent support party why don't you respond respond to that as well so it's funny you know I always bring more slides in a presentation than I have time to make and so two of my slides relate directly to what you're talking about because we know after the Sudanese interim I forget the exact acronym for it met with UA in Saudi they came launched a lot of repression and also when when the airport was shut down due to strikes Egypt said you know it will give you workers to reactivate your critical infrastructure so what is this this is authoritarians that have really for the last 15 years or more become much more deliberate and coordinated in challenging and becoming more effective it's depressing nonviolent movements it's very deliberate it's been building for a long time I would say it correlates quite well with the decline of democracy overall in the world which is documented over 13 years so in other words when a movement rises up now in a place like Sudan it is facing the local government and numerous other governments that want to work directly to mitigate the economic political or social impacts of that movement has oh did a strike shut down your infrastructure will help you are the imposing cost in your economy will help so we've seen this and I guess you know this is a really critical point to elevate on the other side who has movements backs is there coordination at what level this is what has been lacking so part of how we can see right to assist we made the case here that it could that it's it has a significant role to play in preventing atrocities in violent conflict it can also be construed to have a role to play in creating more global stability around you know stemming the decline of democracy its stemming the expansion of authoritarianism because external actors that support human rights and democracy have not been as organized I would say in the last 15 years as those that are seeking to stamp it out in particularly target movements so I see what you're saying consistent with that I also would say yes you open up right to assist and you say external support is legitimate and then various governments say well how about this support how about that support and want to use it for their own purposes we know that will happen criteria are very important that's something we hit on a lot in this report about what are the criteria for evaluating a movements impact and this is all stuff that has to be developed and then mechanisms need to be enforced when countries abuse' thanks sorry I'm brought back to Fletcher school like international law classes and then it's like who decides in these cases but anyhow yes I would like to answer their question about the love is in in the media in our case unfortunately we are like a small country and after months nobody cares about what's going on Iike now and we are just six million people Nicaraguans and sometimes it's not just someone who is trying to quit the topic on in media it's just we as a citizens are we are forgetting what's going on in some countries especially when the government's or big enterprises don't doesn't have any like economic interest in in those kind of countries for for that reason as a citizens for for us it's really important to keep that in the agenda in different countries in in in our country as well because sometimes like the people just want to like continue their lives because it's really hard if you think like that the whole atrocities that the way commitment it's really hard to to keep it and the most important thing to keep it in the agenda in the international community for me is the transition for the transitional justice in Macedon like in wars or human rights violations we can use that tool and in our case we should explore what how can we use the transitional justice because it's not just like we cannot get in those kind of like a situation we cannot just work on electoral system or democratic system or rule of law we have to work on justice we are we are like having all this pain in the society we have a traumatized society and and no matter what where what side you were you were during the during the repression or and the other thing is the type of repression change and sometimes it doesn't mean that we are not like a seeing people on the street dying on the street it doesn't mean that the repression is is not like continue we have to find or recognize the way that they have their repression continues and one thing is not just for me it's not just the right to protect to assist or to protect is there we had as a countries we have the obligation to support peaceful transitions is like a for me is something that is number that and it's not something that it's happening in that country it's something that happening around the world and impact in the whole like in the whole region in this case in Central America and one thing for me really important is use the technology that we have the now to see and the expertise the international expertise so we need to recover the confidence in in governments in rule of law and like easy things that we need to like recover that confidence right thanks alejandro so Chris Conde you have the final word we've got about a minute left okay thank you for a very good questions I I will just only react with our first question on spoilers which we call so there is not only locally spoilers it's always international spoilers and they come in different ways either autocratic relations or economic relations and I think that is what's something that the framework could have some kind of a way to deal with that with regard to to dealing with those spoilers and which happens in Insadong case Saudi Arabia UAE and an Egypt but also something else that I would also want to say about the nonviolent movement in war context I think after the spark of non-violent movement all over the Sudan and even before that in therefore there was always being a non-violent movement in the IDP camps so there is a larger IDP camp which are almost a liberated area there's nobody from the government could ever intro because of the resistance of the people and I think there is always whatever the situation there is the way that nonviolent movement was work also for instance when the nonviolent movement started forints we have a lot of large China investments in stock so the use went to Chinese embassy for three days the speak Chinese which are like students who professional Chinese language speakers they wrote banners they spend there for two days shouting and yelling at them and I think that has somehow an effect just to to finally wrap up also I would like say there is also as a type of for foreign assistance in Sudan case there is a very well organized professional Sudanese ds4 that played a very crucial role in the chain that happens and I don't know within this framework where this fall out but it is a very important and crucial something else also to to to think about there is a kind of a when the movement start in Sudan there is other protests in different countries for innocent in Ethiopia the suburbs supporting people in Sudan in Nairobi Kenya those has a very strong meaning also to the movement inside we will see the the and this also happens when they when they when the Kenyan protests the the the second election you will find the Ugandan opposition supporting leg you know proteus supporting baba in which is in Kenya and I think there is always this this kind of particularly country which has a popular connection social connections I think those kind of support also have a lot of all of them a lot of meaning in encouraging people to continue but also it put a lot of pressure diplomatic pressure from their government to act in favor and that's why there is a lot of other frameworks that are very useful for instance something that helps Sudan was the D recognition of the African Union to that a transitional military council is strong statement and condemnation from the US government European Union and UN Security Council later this was like the good things that I could ever remember the UN Security Council and African Union so so I think the the the those are like kind of things that happen but one general thing just for final to say is that the framework always I feel like it is start when already there is a movement and then the support comes on and I think we can think about how all the Development Fund and peacebuilding program have really anchored it from the beginning on building self-sustaining society this could hang with this could help in having this organic locally built movements and that like for instance thinking about exists strategy if I have five million dollars project in a country or in a community for three years I should from the beginning start when I and getting out what I'm gonna leave one of the things I could have organized community and that's where you will spend some of the funding for doing that and I think that would help to have any I think and there is a UN resolution or push building architecture we provide a lot of good things on what really international framework could support on this process so that's all I can say but I am optimistic and thank you Thank You Connie so just I wanted to formally thank again Hardy Merriman for co-authoring an awesome report in Peter Ackerman and thank you to our panelists for really you know supporting an enlightening conversation this afternoon I sense this is the beginning of a much longer conversation that certainly will continue to support at the Institute so thank you all for 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think make their own Eugene outsole the retail model was a director consumer online and relied on a built to order model where they started making your boot when you ordered it from time to time they had some made to order runs where you could vary some of the options covet caused the same production issues as all other boot makers where the supply chains were so stuffed up that build times just skyrocketed and obviously Vince saw the writing on the wall then if not before and started planning to to convert to a more and more ready to ship boots now don't discount this move uh so easily imagine building up production so that you put boots in the stock room instead of immediately earning money by shipping them out as they're built as a business advisor I can see this takes a long-term business Instinct not a small amount of work in capital put away to finance the production and some courage many of you are probably not small business owners out there but imagine if you were earning money as you sell your goods and then deciding to practically stop selling until you build up stock however you plan it there's going to be a hit on cash flow nevertheless they have started this and just a few weeks ago they announced at the end of June that all boots would be made ready to ship with only a few limited mtos that would be offered in future when they announced this I took a look at their website and where they once offered oh I don't know maybe uh 20 plus different types of boots to be built to order there were only five different makeups on the website and some of them with a really small range of available sizes I'm guessing and hoping for them that gradually this list of offerings will or has maybe since grown so go check out their website I will leave a link to their website below now it's not an affiliate link so I don't earn anything so if you decide to buy something from the website you can always come back here and leave me a super thanks by clicking the thanks button below okay now let's take a look at how these boots have worn over the last uh year and a half or so Honestly though I do have an insane number of boots and even though I'm starting to thin the herd and I'm selling some I still have a gigantic rotation that means I wear my boots regularly but not at all frequently enough to call them everyday boots although I do have the ones I reach out to a lot and then maybe a second tier that I reach out to more than the others and finally there are those that I sort of have to remind myself to wear this pair fits in that second category and in summary I kind of wear them heavily for a week or two and then I don't pick them up again for another couple of months if you twisted my arm I think I'd have to think back and say that I've worn these maybe about 120 130 times over the last 18 or 19 months and this is a big butt I think I have tended to wear them hard I pull them on when I'm working in the yard for example a couple of times I was doing some light construction work as I remodeled the kitchen and a bathroom or especially when I go out on Long full day or half day hikes around where I live or in Forest tracks like around here where I'm filming so they have seen some hard and rough use and I do feel that it's fair to look at them as long-term wear in that context now first of all the uppers have won really well when I first reviewed these I emailed Seidel to ask how the Leathers was tanned and I never got a reply but later they did get back to me after a few people told them about my video and they told me about the Limerick 10 inch it's combination Chrome and veg tan leather it's made on a base Chrome 10 inch and then retan with a ton of vegetable extract to give it the look and feel the veg tan leather without taking on the brittle characteristics and other unfriendly characteristics of veg tanning it's then treated with added wax and comes out as a waxy pull-up leather I have conditioned these a couple of times now using waxy balms like the iron Williams saddle conditioner and an Australian product called Oakwood which also includes includes some eucalyptus oils in the formula I prefer the waxy balms because the leather feels waxy rather than oily and I've avoided mink oil or neat's foot oil because I think that might wet and darken the leather each time the conditioner soaks in quite quickly as if the leather was dry but it's not really because you can feel the waxiness in it and you always get a really strong pull-up effect under the surface I found the leather to be really durable under some tough and Scratchy conditions over rocks and Fallen Timbers and Forest Trails and because of the waxy treatments quite water resistant as I tried over wet and muddy trails each time they get dirty that way I'll just wipe them off with a wet cloth let them dry brush them and then sometimes put some conditioner back on them they have become quite soft and supple in the last 18 to 20 months but not collapsed in some boots as the leather breaks in and softens the shaft starts to collapse which can look quite nice but in this case it has resisted creasing both at the ankle as well as at the verb part of that may be due to the thickness of the leather at about three and a bit millimeters thick that's without any lining and then talking about the lining the leather lining at the VAP also has softened I feel more so than in any of my other Truman boots I have a couple of pairs way older than these and I still feel a little Ridge at the edge of the lining around the sides of the VAP that sensation is completely gone on these everything about it has stood up to the mild abuse I've put them through all the stitches are still pretty good the three-quarter storm well looks as fresh as we're new and the soles which are Vibram uh have worn better than on some of my other Vibra mini lug boots the corner of the heels is showing some wear and the stitching on the sole and at the toe especially in the in the sides they're showing somewhere mind you a lot of the light wear characteristics that you see maybe because of my use of them mainly on unpaved tracks on softer sand on earth and mud there have been some gravel and Rock Stream Trails mixed in there but certainly not on concrete the leather laces they come with have stood up as well they've gotten soaked at times but I all I do is dry them out run some conditioners through them and they've come out really well the bright brass hardware has been great no tarnishing whatsoever and the speed hooks more like solid brass posts than just hooks have one uh better under the conditions than most other speed hooks for some reason these are the most comfortable Truman boots I own with maybe the smoke Rambler coming second help my review of The Smoke Rambler up here I wear these in size 8 as are all my Truman boots when my Brannock size is usually a US eight and a half that's my true to size so that old thing about taking a half size down is correct in Truman's at least in the 79 last for me I find the last is uh snug in the heel and the waist and wide at the ball of the feet and then it snugs back in at the toe box there's not a lot of value a lot of volume in the quarters on my feet at least so the InStep itself is quite snug and the use of these kilties it's more for looks than to Snug them up in fact I'm probably more comfortable without the kilties but they look kind of wicked though don't they lengthwise there's a little less than the usual half inch space at the toe box but not at all feeling short or tight I think that might be because of the way uh of the rounding of the vamp area into an almond toe I like this fit for hiking but not so much for working in I find in work boots I like a roomier toe box so that when you kneel or twist and turn or while standing on the ladder on top of a narrow cabinet your toes can move and kind of get a grip for hiking though you want your feet firmly snug up especially in thick socks so that you're getting purchase on the track and not twisting about which could sprain an ankle the soil construction is still pretty stiff I do think that they're as broken in as they're going to be and I kind of like them this way they Flex enough to have reduced any pre-breaking heel slip and the stiffness does help stability and rough Terrain so in summary if you haven't picked it up in my voice I do like these I picked them up in a Truman seconds and sample sale and since I've never seen them offered again I'm thinking they were samples that were made to test the design and the leather I'm really not sure why they didn't do a run of them because if it was an experiment a sample test it's a pretty successful experiment in my view um these were 374 or about a hundred dollars off regular built order price and being new and not being seconds to me they were a really good pickup in my opinion uh my little run of over a hundred ways and maybe I don't know 800 kilometers of hiking uh proves they're metal I think and I would buy them again well that's it like I said only a short update video so I hope you like it you know what to do though right click on the like button so that the algorithm guards know to spread this around and if you're not a subscriber well correct that now and click on the Subscribe button down there what's coming up next that you might miss if you don't subscribe well I'll be looking at a brogue country boot from English a historical boot maker Joseph Cheney a Red Wing boots comparison and a few more long-term Wear reviews so if you don't want to miss out make sure that you do subscribe so take care and until the next time see you again [Music] | Bootlosophy | UCvOnZ-BY0_XeMORFvScpSNQ | 2023-08-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,395 | 12,543 |
T8b5yiTmdvM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8b5yiTmdvM | Carolyn Cartier: The New Urban System in China: Administrative Divisions and City-Town Relations | my research program focuses on the administrative divisions which is the sub-national territory of China and what's interesting about that in China for example is that all cities are administrative divisions and that the government maintains powers to change the administrative divisions in many ways and so it's particularly interesting because there hasn't been too much research on it in the 1980s and 1990s many new cities were established we can see why they're established in what regions and in these years we can see how other kinds of detailed changes are established in relation to driving urbanization planning certain kinds of industrial growth even creating contexts for administering population or forms and hukou so administrative divisions seem really basic in a way but there's not much research on them we collaborate with researchers in China in order to try to understand why changes are being made and how they they come often take place before economic reforms and so they're not very easy to see but once you start to study them you can see how the government is changing you know what is an urban district changing the situation of towns below the county level to expand them and create new relationships between small cities and towns that's the new type organization that's now a national plan and so once you start to follow these kinds of changes then you can understand actually in much greater detail how economic element is unfolding [Music] | HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) | UCSalbWQqAFNWMj31Z1vDuCA | 2018-08-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 245 | 1,472 |
d_7_GRt4TxM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_7_GRt4TxM | A Fun Day Boat Fishing 🦑 Squid Bream Bass Wrasse Lobster & Brown Crab | well looks like we're going to be delayed in launching the boat this year we are prepping everything to go down but there's some 10 m Tides coming and there's uh strong winds you can probably hear it now actually we got it wind already but in a few days we're going to have even more there's several fronts coming up so anyway we're uh getting everything ready these will be the first pots to go well the older ones these ones here will be going down first and the other ones there on the left they're new ones but they'll be getting mixed in with some of the older ones but it's going well at the moment we'll be ready just got to wait for this weather to sort itself out right let's get back to today's video which was an interesting little video we did a fishing trip and we uh well I even tried for squid first time I've ever tried for squid in a boat so see how we got on [Applause] the sun rises once again and we're about to head out so we'll catch up with you when we're out there right we've made it out still a little bit dark but we need to be in the docks we're just doing these two sets then we're going fishing so we want to be out fishing for Dawn basically which is kind of light now I think what we'll do is we'll pull this one set and see how it does if it doesn't do that well then we might just leave the other set and do it tomorrow we'll we'll we'll make it up as we go kind of thing the usual we can always do the other side on the way back even if we really want to I just want to be out on the on the marks you know for the fishing so nice and early today out early back early we out I'm going to put you down soz I'm going to have to get ready for this long time yeah they both [Music] well I'll measure it though that Lobster there or just about uh that's about a half a centimeter under size and look at that full of eggs so it shows they breed even below sizeing which is fantastic means there'll always be a SI Lobster [Music] the that's what we want to see couple of baby lobsters but there a lovely crab in there yep thr it over crab yeah what a monster yes another Lobster again yeah I had it yeah let me get it let me get it because I'm going to drift I'm that's a NE as well that's that's lob we were talking about that yeah look how hard is just tip the p and try and push the other one down there we go nice male very hard shell that's excellent that is that's perfect y we'll be taking that one that one be for the table I [Music] think started we started fishing Rebecca had a bass I lost one or it came off before I got it anywhere near the boat and I've just gone to the bottom and I've just put a line down and um I got that off the back here is extremely Rocky around not quite as bad as it was further off there you go right under the boat see have a nice fish if you can see that without the sun being your eyes good one good heavy back Rebecca's now into a fish trailing The Reeling up oh that's not it's only in the mouth just about not too much pressure keep it in the water that was sketchy when I saw that H another bass little bit smaller that one but still a nice fish so we are doing some general fishing now just put a line down couple of bits of squid and a bit of Mackle on the bottom so PR op size 1 O's going to try and get some bream if not maybe I pull up they'll take it as well green green green Green unfortunately the camera is facing the wrong way and the sun's in their eyes so there it is another Breen another one it's the first one today actually but but I'm getting ahead of myself so hold on I'll just get another one get the Land There there we go squid we had a great big one follow up before that's why I put these jigs on and there we go we got one right going to get it off and get onto another one what we going to what we going to do with it so just picked up a cooker rash but as you can see that's not going back because you can see it's um swim bladder is blown out its gills and it's the damage that's done to the brain that's the problem so but it won't go to waste that's for sure nothing does on this boat right I'm going need CL for this getting the ready he's only got size 1 o hook on always a great size for a huge fish mind you you can get some bragging rights out of it I suppose so yeah lrf yeah lrf and what have you hooked this is the question I see it I see it looks bramy almost it does look like a bream he's not as big as I thought it was going to be actually still decent still decent just shows that someone put up a hell of a fight it's hooked nicely though yeah right I got to get back to it yeah grabs all of it are coming off the Box get to The Landing n again I I can get him in I can get him in another squid com around | Trojs Fishing | UCZ0lF8kYRdGg4PD7nT2Mwfg | 2024-04-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 991 | 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UR9KzvfZLqA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR9KzvfZLqA | Sesión 20-21-04-23-29750-8048-0048/2023-Rivera-Causative verbs part 2 | hello hello good evening hello hello can you hear me good evening teacher good evening how are [Music] you uh I'm great teacher nice how was your day it was a little a little easy nice good for you so you said you you said you live in Saga right yes what's the weather today right now is very hot teacher didn't didn't it rain no not raining today I hope um after class yeah I thought it it rained cuz I live near not so close but I live near and my city it rained all afternoon in city was city was raining yeah at the midday really but here yes but here not raining it didn't oh my gosh okay well I hope after the cloud rain so you can sleep like very fresh all right so yeah welcome to the class everybody body who else is there I can see Erica hello Erica how are you hello I'm doing the homework ah a little bit late but better late than never you know is the last thing that we lost I know um but you know there are some exercises that are a little bit confusing and this is what I was a helping some of your classmates because sometimes es especially in the exercises that where you have to type there are some um special answers that yeah sometimes it's because of the platform remember if one letter is wrong everything is wrong if you are typing the sentence and it is not the answer that the platform has so it will be a mistake even if your answer is correct so that's why if you have some issues take a screenshot and I will help you with that okay okay thank you no worries you're welcome so everybody what day is today huh today Friday Friday Friday and what happens with Fridays my body knows I like that any plans for the weekend everybody uhuh no plans yeah I have to work no plans anymore all right besides working do you have any plans any other plans or just worry yeah okay rest okay Nelson how about you what are your plans I don't I don't have social life oh my gosh so I have to work every single day okay that's yeah that's pretty sad well I hope you can rest at least a little Fe okay and the other ones everybody what are your plans for the weekend uhuh anyone else nobody my gosh sleep watch a movie watch Super Mario did you watch that movie everyone or not yet I haven't I wanted but I haven't okay well I can give you an idea about what you can do on weekend and is finish the platform H remember everybody next week is basically the last one okay so remember that before next Friday you have to finish the plat form okay you have to finish the four units and also the exam remember that in the section number four you have the last written exam so you have to finish it okay so again if you have questions with the platform with an specific exercise you can tell me and I will help you okay but just remember take a screenshot so I can see the information what is the exercise about so let's start do you remember the topic that we studied yesterday uhuh cativ yes very good the cativ and we studied two verbs do you remember the verbs makes and get and gets very good excellent so we are going to continue with that topic okay can you see the presentation everybody yes yes excellent so today is April 21st and as you said yesterday we were talking about the casaes and it's time to see the casa ties Bo but the part two and today we are going to see other two verbs that are very common to use in the causatives but let's see if you remember H the previous one so the class objective I need a volunteer for reading it please volunteer for reading me sure yes please plus objective just have let and help as a ctive verbs very good thank you so yesterday we talked about make and get so today we continue talking about positives but using let and help now if you remember well I'm going to stop sharing it let's see make how can we use make as a casaes what do you think for when someone putting my their authority authority that's correct and what is the structure do you remember what is a structure do I need make uhuh plus uhuh someone plus and bear in base form very good that's it and question do I need a preposition to no no no very good so if I use make for example if I say um let's see let's see the government makes me pay taxes is that a favor what do you think obligation ah very good it's an obligation is with the authority now what about the verb get what is the difference with get how can I use get get is not is not order is fa Maybe we can use it as a favor or what else it's a convince when someone convince you very good and what is the structure that I need get plus someone plus infinitive ver yes do I need a preposition yes in this case I do very good job so everyone exactly as you said m is basically when we forced to someone to do something and this is the structure as you said I need the verb in the base form but without the preposition okay my mother makes me clean the police May the thief surrender the government makes me pay the tax so they are using the authority now as you said with get is a little bit different here is about convincement someone convince me to do something and the structure is similar but the difference is that here I do need the infinitive that means the preposition to and here we got some examples and this is something that we studied yesterday is there any question everybody about the cativ with make and get uhuh any question no questions are you sure no one okay well if you don't have questions okay so if you don't have questions let's move on to the next one we are going to see the second part of the cative verbs and we are going to see the verb help and let I will need some volunteers for reading let me do it bigger who wants to read volunteers for reading me okay Jamie someone else me and Nelson okay Nelson you will be Mato Jamie you will be Angela go ahead I went into business as a ler since months ago but I barely get any customers I I help people find the best way out of legal trouble for CH price but they s to prefer the [Music] competition probably you need to define the brand of the service you are providing to improve the business how do I do that I just usually let customer do some promotion for me with business card your clients can help you to do all the advertising you already decide what kind of love you focus you focus on now you have to focus on the kind of clients you want to work with a Define the BRS you want thank you so if you see in this case we are just using cative and now we are using help and let so how these verbs Works let's find the structure structure in this case let's start with help we already know the meaning of help yes what is the translation for the he for help what is the translation Auda exactly if it is the verb Auda right so that is the meaning the same in the cativ is basically Aid someone or to help someone to do something give them a hand so help them here we got a special structure I need help someone the person who does the action and pay a lot of attention here I have two options with the verb help I can use the base for or without the preposition or I can use the infinitive that means with the preposition so both are correct okay let's see some examples movies in English have helped me and look at this you can say helps me improve my English or help me to improve my English both ways are correct and the same as we talked about yesterday we can use these verbs in all the grammar tenses in present in past in future and even in this grammar tense what is this grammar tense do you remember what is that grammar tense past particip close present present present particip present perfect okay the ver the verb is in the past participle correct but this one is the present perfect okay now the next example coffee helps people again you can say h coffee helps people um to concentrate or coffee helps people concentrate so you can use both with the preposition or without the preposition position understood everybody yes no a little bit a little bit okay let's do a practice so this topic can be a little bit more ER specific um sorry everybody could you listening to me perfectly yes yes okay so slow if you cannot listen to me let me know please okay let's see some examples again help someone base form of the verb or infinitive I need a volunteer for reading the first example please someone to read who wants to read okay me thank you go ahead the training help small business own owners replicate the success of big Brands a marketing expert could help you to understands the basic principles of branding thank you now check here the first sentence we are using the base form of the verb look we don't have the preposition to in the second example we do have the preposition to that means we are using the infinitive form of the verb so everybody here is up to you you decide which structure you will use you decide if you will use the base form of the verb or if you are going to use the infinitive form of the verb it's up to you okay now let's see some questions and I want you to answer look at the number one when was the last time someone helped you to do something so you have to use the structure when was the last time someone helped you to do something what do you think for example my father helped me to take my dog to the vet okay so in this case I'm using infinitive but if you want you can do it just with the base form of the verb it's up to you now everybody can you give me an example when was the last time someone helped you to do something huh my teacher me my husband help me to to clean the kitchen today all right very good my husband helped me it helped me can you repeat help me help me to clean the kitchen today for example yes very good so clean the kitchen today so in this case she used the infinity form perfect so it's up to you anyone else when was the last time time someone helps you to do something teacher I have a question go ahead you mentioned the phrase up to oh it means choose when you say up to or up to you that means that is your decision it's up to you is like to say depends on you depend ones that you prefer so it's up to you it's your decision okay okay thank you you're welcome Ian go ahead okay teacher I don't understand they use the infinity worries I'm going to explain remember everyone in English we have to type of verbs we have jarn jarn are the verbs that are ending in ing for example if I say cleaning oops cleaning this verb is ending ining in gerant when I have a verb with the preposition to and then the basic form for example to clean that verb is [Music] infinitive okay inini okay and then if you have a verb that for example says only [Music] clean base form form what is translation the the to clean in this case to clean is just Lim it's just that basic everyone if you use the verb in infinitive or in the base form all right cor so they don't have any conjugation INF or base form all right so in this case the preposition two it doesn't have a translation okay now why is this important because in English We cannot put two verbs together okay in this sentence I'm using help and this is something that I was explaining yesterday at the end of the class I don't know if everybody remembers I have the verb helped and then I have the verb do so I need to separate the verbs there are some verbs that are flexible there are some verbs that are not flexible help is a little bit flexible because you can decide you can use the infinitive or the base form so you can say as your classmates help me to clean infinitive or base form Infinity exactly C help mean exactly the base form so ay in sentence you decide for example imagine if I want to say my teacher helps well imp past helped me to understand the topic so Infinity exactly but if you want you can say this my teacher helped me understand the topic so that is the sentence you decide which one you will use is it clear okay that's the the the ver [Music] is so I can see Jamie and roselina lter there hands you're welcome so Jamie do you have a question yes I have a question go ahead I don't I don't have so so clear um I have an idea but I not clear when I can use um the ver in the in the head J room oh I'm giving you this concept just to be clear J do you remember present continuous in the present continuous for example I can say I am sleeping I am eating I'm using Jerry but also I can use J to separate the [Music] verbs like is flexible I like to play infinitive but also I can say I like play [Music] the topic is gern and infinitives I'm not sure if you already studied this topic or if you will see it maybe later in the next levels or you can search it on internet in English the rule is base formos H did I answer your question Jamie yes okay nice ER Rosalina did you have a question yes this is my question why why I need to use uh infinity ver if is cor use in in the same in the in the base form the be I don't understand I I I'm lost right now okay do you mean why do you need the infinitive form or the base form in this type of sentences is that your question yes okay perfect easy because I have the verb help and then in the same sentence look I have help but but what happened then I have the other verb take and I need to separate them look don't get confused some people think teacher say me not really okay and this is something that also I explained yesterday for example if you say I like um what was the sentence imagine if I say I like a lot play soccer a lot but even when I have the word a lot I always need the preposition to to separate them okay I like a lot to play soccer so is the same here me but even though I need to separate the verbs so help I have two options form that's the reason why we use the infinitive or the base form in this sentence at the contrary just imagine the example imagine that I say ER my father helped me took my dog to the vet simple past o but what will be the translation me papa no not really right so so my father helped me I'm not sure if I answer your question roselina is it clear yeah example in in this sentences my father helped me to take yes you have yes of course you have two options de see help me take or help me to take the translation is the same so perfect perfect don't do it yeah help but the other you need to use two H exactly got it corre excellent you're welcome so this is something important everybody help help is flexible all right for example if you remember make infinitive or base form base form base form make is not flexible make it's incorrect so another example get which form of the verb did I use with get infinitive exactly with get you cannot use the base form only the infinitive so that's the point and this is what you have to memorize some verbs flexible some verbs M they are not flexible okay got it yes clear as water or clear as or Chada or wello right I mean yesterday it was like Tamarindo so today is like it's like maruya yeah much better that's that's better okay next question have you ever helped a stranger do anything everyone imagine someone you don't know someone that is in the streets have you ever helped a stranger yes or no no never anyone you never help stranger okay but the boss is not an stranger yes when when when er hey you can get my the SE ah the pregnant woman do you mean do you mean the passengers in a bus I think so imagine what would be the sentence here you can say I have held for example a pregnant woman M ER to sit in the bus to se okay so you gave her your space your seat so she could it that's a good one anyone else have you ever helped a stranger uhhuh now yes teacher I I do gentlemen I lady in the class I see that okay Magdalena tell me what do you do yes I work at my home I at my house I work with the baches with if I don't work in that's my wife she got angry yes my oh my goodness be careful okay I am in troubles you are definitely be careful okay so everybody what do you do every day to help in your house try to give sentences following the structure remember help someone and then the verb What do you do every day to help in your house I help my I help I help my no I help my wife to to wash the dishes very good to wash the dishes that's a very nice sentence very good anyone else what do you do every day to help in your house I help my son to do the homework nice I help my son to do the hom workor very good anyone else or you don't help in your house my gosh well you can give me the sentenc in negative if you want for example I don't help to cook uhhuh um I help my mother to feel the pets very good how many pets do you have I have two dogs and one cat very nice so you see I help my mom to feed the pets so this is the way that we can use help as positives so remember the structure the secret is in memorize the structure you need the ver help then and you need the person someone you are helping to and then you need the verb and the verb you decide it can be in infinitive or in the base form as simple as that clear everyone clear as Maraj uhuh yes sure we have to to to learn that the be is flexible yes yes if you know if I have a list for example that that were flexible actually yes there is a list I'm going to try it but be honest with you the list is a little bit long because we are talking about all the verbs what I can do I'm going to try to do it during the weekend um exactly and uh la lista most likely will be like this um let me erase this like this for example verbs that can be followed is by infinitives [Music] okay all the time not options also you can have the option that says verbs that can be followed by Jons for example um want to for example I enjoy watching TV if you say I enjoy to watch TV no that's not possible and there is the last one that is verbs that can be followed by both infinitive or Jance and here we got the verb like so we can say I like to go or I like going so something like that okay okay thank you you're okay I will try to do it on weekends and I will try to search for at least the most common verbs now before continue I'm going to check attendance so everybody when you listen to your names say present um let's see Carlos Carlos okay um Christian Alexander okay very good ER Yasmin present very good Fatima Denise very good Gabrielle belan Gabriel ector Francisco nice Isabel Hernandez Isabel hernandes yes pres very good Ivan Guzman present very good Jamie Rael presenter very good hman hiron hman hon present nice very good Lucy Natalie very good Magdalena scante very good Nelson Antonio present very good Oscar Armando pleas very good pameela carolino present excellent Pamela you were in the class yesterday yesterday right yes the can connect okay but you are not sick right you okay no no no I'm fine I'm fine nice okay Rosel Al presentation very good um sing Adonai okay very good and Mna aling present very good okay so everyone we ready checked help okay now let's see the next verb and the next verb is let what is the meaning of the verb let let is basically give the permission okay help is when you give your help to someone when you Aid to someone let is not help let is give the permission what is the structure of this verb easy let then you need a person again and what do I need next look verb in the base form do I need a preposition to yes or no no no no exactly so let's see some examples my dad let me drive his new car look I'm using let I'm using the person and also I'm using the verb in the base form do I need the preposition too no I don't need it okay another example he let his girlfriend use his cell phone aha what do you think guys do you do that do you let your girlfriend use your cell phone or girlfriends do you let your boyfriend to use your cell phone no is is noar no oh my gosh so you see that is the sentence that is the structure that you need to follow so pay attention in the difference what you have to memorize is do you need infinitive or do you need a verb in the base form that's what you have to memorize let's see some examples oh these examples are on your manuals okay if you want to see this I need volunteer for Reading Please the first example me teacher yes please some companies let clients go through a service trial before they decide to for such very good so look I got this subject the verlet I have someone and then the verb in the base for but what happens if I have their person volunteer for reading the second example please teer yes go ahead an effective brand lets people explore the benefits of their products nice very good job what happens if it is third person we need to add the letter S and then always the verb in the base form what is the meaning of let again synon synonym is the G synonym of give but give a permission excellent L give a permission okay so let's do some examples we are going to see those sentences and we are going to try to use them in different grammar tenses for example let's do the first one in simple present the verb is stay what will be the [Music] sentence uhhuh and simple present I let my cat to stay in the house to stay can I say to stay ah very good stay stay stay I let my car I'm sorry my cat stay in the house what is the meaning the meaning is like I give the permission to my cat to stay in my house so that is the translation basically that is the me meaning okay let's do the next one in third person always simple present what would be the answer my sister let my sister let me use her uhuh use her cell phone good job very good okay let's try it with future you to use will instead of you will C you will you will let let let us cook some pork some pork that's the one very good very good okay so where we are going to try with the last one we H let's do it in simple past Ian do you have a question yes okay I I I am I I confused and they use the the the the words as oh let let me ask ask is I don't remember what what is the use the meaning the meaning exactly no problem us is when we are talking about we okay so remember we have the subject pronouns subject pronouns right I you he we okay that those are the subject pronouns but we have the object pronouns object pronouns or in this case me you is the same you he is do you remember him exactly so we we are going to [Music] use in this case the translation is you will let us what would be the translation but exactly so the translation will be to exactly yeah know I like that translation I like that so remember us is when we are talking about we okay posessive this is not a possessive this is basically the name of this one is objective pronouns objective pronouns exactly that's the rule okay exactly that is we how many people I don't know it's just we okay great okay thank the last one let's do it in simple past do you remember what is the past form of let let is the same are you sure let let let yes exactly I want you to be confident you know I remember one in in one group I had a student he was very confident all the time even when his answers were wrong but man he had a confidence that's amazing believe me at the end he got a job even when his English was wasn't good enough but he got the job because of his confident I mean he said if he said I am Barack Obama with the tone of voice and the authority that he said you could believe him that true so I want you to be confident okay so simple past we let him can I say to go or go go go that is the one so we'll let him go on vacation so that is the structure that you need to remember with let let someone and the verb in the base form is it clear everybody the structure of let yes yes a little bit yes it's clear but my problem when I talk in English I I add all the time the preposition for separate the per is is the per when you when you talk yes and what happens is that we are used to do that because all the time we always put the preposition to when you don't need to put the preposition to it's like you are hesitating right exactly but this is with the practice okay no worries later you will memorize it so practice let's try to practice speaking and in this moment I want you to participate okay think about this sentence but in simple past think about when you were younger when you were teenagers what didn't your parents leted you do when you were teenagers think about something that your parents didn't give you the permission so for example um they didn't let me of course go to parties okay how about you everyone another example right parent didn't let me a smoke very good didn't let me smoke cigarettes or or some or some or okay what else what didn't your parents let you do ahuh [Music] examples examples and my parent don't let me go to a lot of parties okay simple past can I say don't ah didn't ah very good so they didn't let me go to a lot of parties nice so you see we are using the structure just remember here we don't need a preposition to question number two volunteer for Reading Please what doesn't your B lead you to at work thank you simple present uhhuh think about your boss think about the activities that you cannot do a job so what doesn't your boss let you do at work my BS my BS doesn't let me late let me AR write late very good yes that's a good sentence very nice what else anyone else M teacher okay H Nelson and then ector my boss doesn't let me to get to get a day of a day of oh okay in this case is better if you say to take in this case take is better now my question is do I need the preposition to Nelson I listen the the previous sentence we have two but I my boss doesn't let me arrive they didn't let me okay we have to exactly very good so my boss that let me take a day off very good very good ector my bus doesn't let me listen music and the office oh good you are a slay my [Music] friend how about you Ian what does [Music] heavy rock music scorpion okay scorpion let's see okay what what doesn't your boss let you do at work okay in my case my boss doesn't let me ER live hairly okay very that's all all the time all the time all days Monday Tuesday Wednesday you can never leave early no oh my gosh okay very good very good okay and the last one everybody for the ones who have kids what activities don't you let your kids do if you don't have kids you can think about your nephews or maybe your if you had a pet activities that you don't let your pets do uhuh what do you think give me sent I don't I don't let my kids do noise okay at home or or into home oh at home you can say at home at home okay at very good very good what else another example everyone I don't my sister uh late can you repeat because I cannot hear you very well I don't let my [Music] sister go ah go out late go out go out late ah very good how old is your sister uh I don't I I think this this year um 12 ah yes she's very young all right nice yeah I like that very good hman you are a good brother excellent okay everybody so this is the structor that you have to use with let okay subject let someone and the verb in the base form if you see in this case we are using sentences in negatives but also we can use used it in affirmative for example tell me activities that you do let your kids do what are some activities that you give the permission to your kids for example I let my kids uhhuh give me examples affirmative sorry okay Magdalena and then uh play with their with their toys very good so you see affirmative very nice M I let my kids play the guitar very good how old are they six years okay very nice nice examples so everybody is it clear the structure yes or no 5050 60% 90% uhuh a little bit confused a little bit confusing okay who else everybody clear or not clear Meer yes clear okay well more or less okay let's do something because not everybody participated giving examples let's do some speaking practice okay and I'm going to say send the same questions on whatsapp's group in this moment we are going to use only the verb get okay so I'm sending the questions and we are going to go to the groups and answer the questions in the last question remember if you don't have kids I mean you can talk about someone else you can talk about ER your pets or or as Holman did you can talk about maybe your sister or your brother or your nephew if you her nephews okay so the idea is that everybody answer all the questions for this activity we only have five minutes so everybody let's go and practice remember In This Moment zero Spanish okay let's go to work please everybody enter to the groups okay let's go hello who am I with hello hello hello hi hi Felina how are you hello how are you my my okay I'm trying to say my my smart hi sorry hello hello hi hello Mir how are you bye fine fine Lucy you are sick yes Lucy sick yes [Music] sick okay okay we have to can somebody read read the the questions talk about the question the first question is what did your parents let you do when you were a teenager a lot of them for me yeah me [Laughter] too okay the first is the for it was the opposite that yeah really Yes actually they let me do I think almost everything not almost everything but I have a lot of permission when I was when you was teenager yes yes oh Freedom yeah in my case no my parents let me let me for example let me go out with my friends H in the night for example really seriously yes my parent didn't let me go to the the beach for example alone or with my friends or the Disco yeah for the yes the Disco yeah and during the night remember nothing yeah okay for me the hour to come home was I I when I was 13 13 the last hour 13 the L the last hour to go home was 6 and a half p.m. uhhuh when I was 15 it was 7 o'clock exactly and it was say it was like 10 or 11 oh no For Me Maybe Tomorrow say see you tomorrow to roselina actually actually I remember that I told him I told them okay I'm going to come early home wor G to come early and I was at the next day but early I was at 8 amm exactly 8 A.M o'clock it was early I didn't lie me just when I graduate to the university no no not to the university but when I study in the University they let me permission more thing that but when I was teenag impossible with them no something like that [Laughter] no okay I remember I remember yes we don't have television we early yes very early go to a sleep okay and and also we don't have light electricity okay so you have you have to to go to sleep early yes that's the question I remember too that my parents didn't let me go to play out when when it was raining I I I love when it's raining so I I I want to play in the rain and my parents didn't let me do it yes that they uh that's dangerous yes you are yes you're going to be sick yes yes I remember that okay if you want we go with the second question um what doesn't your boss let you do at work what about you ector uh my bus my BS D that let let me um um make uh make the report like I want like what like I want I want ah okay I want they you have like um a model or something like that yes they have they they oh you have a um a structure but I think the structure is very very simple boring Bor Bor okay uhhuh okay nice um my boss my boss in my case my boss doesn't let me eat um in the working hours so we have only we only have the the lunch time for it something you don't drink coffee during the work only only like something to to drink but something to eat no oh my God he he is he is so bad yes I can imagine and what about you Nelson in my case I can drink coffee and I can eat bread a piece of bread oh that's nice and also sometime when on Saturday I I buy a a bread and go to the war and and everybody drink coffee with a piece of bread oh yes in the afternoon yes maybe 9 a.m. ah in in the middle of the morning yes but my but my boss doesn't let me use earphone in our work but we can use if I want if I want a this I don't let h i don't let eat much very much in the night I think okay I I am I don't I don't let U I don't let play without finish uh homework okay good point and don't and don't let play without finish homework your homework M right [Laughter] condition it's example my my Dy my dad is uh I have uh 20 20 21 years old so more more quickly finishes your homework yes so getting relaxed huh oh you you you you you you can sleep in your work maybe not sleep but take maybe not sleep but medit could be [Music] medog yeah yeah maybe on your desk if you have your lunch time yes yes oh my goodness a little cat sorry is the name no no no no at the beginning actually at the beginning we think show me yeah no no speak English or Spanish no no hi no no how are you do you speak English or Spanish you know you know I I I have two things to say number one beautiful card I love it beautiful but number two I wish the same excitement that you feel when you see the the cat that's the same feeling when I say volunteer give me examples my in my case I tried to let them practice participate yeah OPP other guys practice ah yeah sure but don't don't give that don't don't give them so much opport I mean so much time don't give them so many opportunities you can always take those opportunities to participate okay now we don't have we don't have more time gossip stop sorry yeah go yeah it's a good conversation English I hope so I hope so okay we need to go back to the main room okay okay but but beautiful cat I love yeah yeah bye see you in my home let's go okay okay time's up let's go back to the main room we are going to wait for the rest of your classmates let's go back to the main room everybody some of your classmates are still in the breaking rooms we are going to wait for them all right all right let's go back let's see interesting answers I was listening to very talkative tonight because it's Friday H everybody's participating in the breaking rooms I like that okay easy difficult 5050 what do you think how was the practice uhhuh how was the practice interesting I like that what else how was the practice everyone nice because a lot of memories a lot of memories from America yeah I love her parents why because they love a lot of thing when she was teenager they let ha they let ha yes yes they let her a lot of things they let do okay they let her do they let her do a lot of thing when when she was teenager all right sounds good sounds good so I will asking randomly some of you let me pick someone I'm going to pick two Fatima hello Fatima hello teacher so tell me what didn't your parents let you do when you were a teenager um sorry repeat me please yes what didn't your parents let you do when you were a teenager I for me yes for my no you think about when you were a teenager the first question what didn't your parents let you do my parents let me oh negative didn't didn't let me out in the night go out go out in the night ah very good very good now pick one of your classmates please is okay Isabel let me ask you question number two what doesn't your boss let you do at work Isabel are you there okay I think he's not listening can you pick someone else um Jamie Jamie question number two what doesn't your boss let you do at work my boss uh [Music] doesn't let me dry so fast okay that sounds dangerous jery but good for your boss that's nice I like he he doesn't let you pick someone please okay ector okay ector question number three what activities don't you let your kids do um I don't let he she piercing use use piercing okay how is she ah 16 16 years old and she cannot let we're [Music] persons in the ear in the ear in the ears is in or on teacher in this case you can say on ears on because he's on a surface and a part of a body okay on on on here yes okay very good examples why when when when she older maybe like 40 40 years maybe so maybe maybe okay you know my parents were a little bit old-fashioned I never never had earrings on my ears never so I didn't like it and even now I haven't had drills on my ears I feel afraid yeah I don't have it and I prefer to stay like that good yeah it's painful my gosh I don't want to do that I proud you Pro of you proud proud uhhuh very good so everybody nice sentences now um let's do one more exercise and this is a written part okay I have five sentences and you have to complete the sentences using the verbs in parentheses so we have help satisfy in some examples you will use let in some other you will help uh use help just remember when we use help you can decide if you use the infinitive or the base form okay so I need a volunteer for the sentence number one what would be the answer Meer can I yes Mir go ahead think about how your business help your customers to satisfies or satisfies their needs all right just be careful helps try to exaggerate the letter s a little bit more because remember in this case is third person and here you decide to satisfy or satisfy very good I need a volunteer for the number two H I'm doing that homework go ahead so the number one says investors want let companies develop without a plan to improve business plans correct good I like that I like that I have a responsible student huh responsible after all liked it number three volunteer for H saying the sentence me yes please the play the play helps employees become part of the brand very good that's the one so again you can say helps employees become or helps employees to become you decide very good job number four volunteer can I yes please b a specific about a business brand h let consumers identify our products easily nice job I like that very good very good and the last one volunteer please only one oh my goodness [Laughter] yes go ahead please branding L the consumers a per per perceived perceived value to the product that's the one perceived value to the product very good job so easy everybody body just remember you just have to keep in mind what is the meaning of the verb and if you are going to use infinitive or the base form of the verb question so far any questions or are you ready for a surprised exam exam yes let's do an exam ready for the exam okay before the exam let's clarify some questions that you may have this is going to be easy everybody only about make let and help let's think about only this one I'm not going to use get in this exam no worries do you remember when we use make what kind of scenarios when use my treat like a bus I think correct like a when we use Authority so this is not polite right this is with the authority now in the structure I need make then and what do I need someone someone and verb and the base form very good verb in the base form do I need a preposition too no never good job okay let's continue with let what is the meaning of let let is a give a permission good permission give a permission okay what is the structure let someone someone be in the base form too how about health he is is help is help yeah I I like that definition you can say Aid okay aid aid aid someone okay structure help some or both and both both exactly you can use the verb in the base form or infinitive that's it okay the most important here is the two things the meaning and the type of verb that you will use are you ready for the exam ready ready that's attitude ex we know the the the go ahead go ahead okay look is make or let I'm sorry this make or or let the exam is you you you say make the exam or let's do the exam let's do the exam or let's take theam no make listen make I will make you do theam teacher is is authority authority yes it's not optional I will make you do the exam it's mandatory definitely Jamie did you have a question Er When the the word er Le is at a apostrophe and the letter s what is the meaning let in this case the meaning changed a little bit when we say let is the contraction of let us and this is when we give and this is when we give suggestions like what are the plans for the weekend hey let's go to the beach so bamos right in this case we are not giving permission we are not suggesting anything this is just to give an idea about what we can do so if you see is the same verb but in the context the meaning change so this is more this is more for suggestions okay okay yes excellent okay you're welcome exam look it's just about make let and help so I have here different sentences and you just have to choose what is the correct verb the points for this um exercise the key is to identify what is the meaning of the sentence for example in the number one John's mother used to clean up his room so what do you think what is the correct one makes make or let what is the intention of the sentence give a permission help or authority authority say let okay some people say let if you think that is let okay if you think that is make perfect but you have two options makes and make so you have to decide which one do you think is the correct one okay so make makes makes okay it's an exam so I'm not going to tell you right so you just have to choose the correct answer but try to identify the intention in the sentence in the second part H is the same but here you have to draw the word okay you can just helps made helped and let again in this scenario you just have to decide what is the intention for example my mother didn't me stay out late when I was young what is the intention in this sentence do you think that is like obligate someone to do something or give a permission help someone so if you think ah my mother didn't I will use mate okay if you think that made is intention look drag the word and put it here okay that's what you have to do in the next part at the end finished check my answers and take a screenshot of your score and the score send it on whatsapp's group is it clear the activity yes ready for the exam and some some of you look like very worried relax everyone come on let's practice okay I'm sending the link on whatsapp's group right now and also I'm sending it here in the chat open up the link complete the sentences remember I want you to take a screenshot and send it on whatsapp's group go ahead if you have a question about a vocabulary if you have some doubt you can ask me and I will help you for this activity we got 10 minutes everyone go ahead for I remember if you have questions if there is a word that you don't understand very well just let me know pay a lot of attention in the words pay a lot of attention in the verbs remember if you have auxiliary what happens with the verb okay that's the key be careful e I'm sorry but I don't know if am I the only one who has this problem what happened I cannot the the text box huh I cannot put it in answer in the you can you cannot draw it yes is there anyone who has the same issue everyone no me too me too okay look um well I don't know what happens remember the word lets you cannot use it you can use only helps made helps and lets so sometimes maybe I'm not sure if the website doesn't charge like maybe if you give a refresh maybe you can try it again because if you don't draw it I mean the system won't let you yeah right right now yes ER you need to put at the beginning the the beginning close close to the the war friends F fing something okay yes look thank you you're welcome yes is at the end the the at at the start at the beginning beginning the exactly it's at the beginning if you put it at the end it won't let you paste it uhuh yeah I'm sorry I forgot to mention that thank you teach thank you you're welcome okay everybody five more minutes I want to see 10 in this exercise go [Music] ahead why are you laughing roselina Elina or Ivan I thought it was Ivan laughing too I want to see 10 everyone 10 why are you laughing listen my name yeah you are laughing you finished no no okay four more minutes okay four more minutes go ahead everyone you can do it you can do it my not remember when you finish take a screenshot and send it in the group one of your classmates already finished and very good score I like that very good so everybody be careful try to read carefully and of course don't copy I just want you to see if you truly understood the topic I can put l sorry sorry okay but but you got a very good score I like that and and I can see that that was the word that you were trying to put no worries okay the problem is the mouse yeah I know I know no worries no worries but I can see you were're trying to put the correct answer okay I can see very good scores I like that very good job okay for the ones that already finished what do you think easy or difficult uhhuh how was the practice easy or difficult we have to think because when in in my case I it's difficult when use the auxiliary and past or present ah but the the form the ver the form is always in in the the base form when you use auxiliary yes that's but it's difficult to me identify when I when I inex some you are under pressure that's why yes but that's a good point and that is the key everyone if you see in the exercise when you see ah it has the auxiliary so I need the verb in the base form all right that is something that you have to keep in mind and also you have to identify what is the intention right you have to identify is is giving the permission is using the authority is helping okay okay so you have to try to think about it so that's is basically the most important things about cative verbs okay I know that is a little bit confusing but the more you practice the topic the more you will learn okay now H if you haven't finished do it do it I want to see all of your scores if you want to do it after the class because of the connection also you can do it now before continuing I'm going to check attendance so if you listen to your names say present um Carlos perect okay very good Christian Alexander okay very good Erica Jasmine present okay Fatima Denise present teacher nice Gabrielle Beltran ector Francisco present very good Isabel Hernandez very good Ivan Guzman present Jamie Raquel present good hman Saul present okay Lucy Natalie okay Magdaleno Magdalen scante okay Nelson Antonio present very good Oscar Armando okay there very good um Pamela Carolina present teacher very good rosalen Alvar presentation okay singai okay and Mna Elizabeth present very good okay everyone H wow it's very late I thought it was earlier okay we don't have H so much time so to finish this week in this class what is the other topic that we have been practicing during this week uhuh besides this cativ was another topic that we practiced during all this week what was it question teacher exactly thank you ector asking questions so during this week we practice questions in present in past so today we are going to have the last practice just to see if you are experts in the topic or if we need to practice it a little bit more and we are go H doing it through a game we just have five minutes so I think that we are not going to be able to finish it if you pick a number you will see a sentence and you just have to create the questions okay so girls you are first give me a number five which one five five okay the FL destroy my house ask a question using what the fla destroy my house so what happens here ask a question using what what destroyed your house what what destroyed your home what destroyed your home is that your final answer yes o okay look she said what destroy your house and actually that's a good option but remember simple past what do I need auxiliary in this case Erica you can say what did destroy your house that will be the correct one okay so you didn't say the auxiliary I cannot give you the points okay boys it's your turn give me a number number three okay tourists came to the island by boat ask a question using how how did come the tourists how did come the tourist is that your final answer help me gu boys okay how did okay ector said how did come the tourist the tourist in the Iceland okay to the Iceland to the isand okay look something good no hold on hold on good because you use the auxiliary but everybody remember the structure Double H question auxiliary subject verb and the complement so look you put first the verb and then the subject so the position was not correct but almost almost but even though I cannot give you the point I'm sorry hey it wasn't correct okay girls is your turn give me a number four Fatima I'm sorry number four four okay the residents liked the new skate park what did the resident like what did the resident like like okay the skate park or is that your final skate park what did the resident like nice job excellent you see you can do it you can do it boys give me a number 11 11 M okay I went to school by boss on Monday is similar the question actor this is similar okay boys go ahead how did I come to the school again how how did I come I come to the school okay how did I come to the school is that your final answer how did I come to the school yes yes I think okay look what happens here is the next one what is the verb when when go pass in the past and you are not using go you say come how did you come to school so be careful everyone if I say go let's try to use the same one and you didn't say you you say I how did I come to the school so two words but two words sorry okay because of the time no sorry okay because of the time girls this is the last one for you give me a number nine nine okay my sister visited an abandoned town with their parents who is your sister visit who did your sister visit are you sure is it is that your final answer okay who did your sister visit H okay be careful here what is the meaning of who I'm asking for people people right but my sister didn't visit people my sister visit um abandoned town I just want to know who did she go with so the correct question is who did my sister visit the abandoned town with right that is what I'm trying to ask for almost okay almost but I cannot give you the points okay boys this is the last one for you give me a number boys a number quickly because we don't have more time last one 14 14 okay I took a photo of you to keep memories easy wait take did uhuh did you take take why did take h photos why did take you take you take you take a photo why did you take a photo are you sure yes y yes very good boys finally okay it's a tie quickly one more question okay so let's pick seven he left his car in the car park okay like two girls okay girls can you repeat Erica where did he left the car where did he left the car where did he live where okay leave or left live live leave leave very good remember if you have the auxiliary the verb doesn't need changes anymore so that's correct okay the winners the girl a very good job very good job okay we don't have more time everybody this is a topic that you can continue practicing by yourself every single day asking question is important but even though in the next classes we can take like 10 minutes to try to review this topic again don't forget to work on the platform we are about to finish the course the next week is the last one so the next week we need to finish the 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4E9gV-jypSU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E9gV-jypSU | Federal Judge Laurence Silberman Criticizes Unfair Mainstream Media in Dissent. | [Music] 92 percent of republicans think media intentionally reports fake news democrats and non-leaning independents also feel this way but not nearly to the same extent welcome to the dumb dumb news channel i'm your host dum dum we got two more subscribers so the sub counter goes up if you're new here please make sure you like share subscribe and leave your comments below those sort of things help the channel grow i had a viewer who commented that most americans don't think that mainstream media is fake well i found this video from fox news now i'm not endorsing them but this video does a really good job of proving the point of media being biased or even having fake news the increased power of the press is so dangerous today because we are very close to one party control of these institutions one party control of the press and the media is a threat to a viable democracy two of the three most influential papers at least historically the new york times and the washington post are virtually democratic party broadsheets nearly all television network and cable is a democratic party trumpet even the government-supported national public radio follows along this next article reads gallup poll finds 84 percent of americans say media to blame for u.s political divide more than half of americans say their go-to news source has some form of bias further in the article it says a new poll released on tuesday shows americans have a growing distrust of the media with an overwhelming majority saying the press has a political bias and nearly half say news outlets display a great deal of bias i've always told people that media is usually controlled by a private party a private company and so they have their agenda which is to sell advertising and make money of course they're going to report on the news but they're each going to put their spin on it or bias on it now we're going to go over some video of an example of how the media is biased for or against somebody president biden's stumbling multiple times as he boarded air force one yesterday in the media taking a little bit different approach to covering compared to the last time a president had some trouble it was president trump at west point going down a ramp take a look he just has a hard time going down a gently sloping ramp but um do you see something possibly neurological that could be throwing off his balance the president himself is having momentary uh stumbles uh momentary lapses and you know looks restraining for a word when trump was having trouble walking down some ramp they were asking if he had some kind of brain problem but for joe biden they're saying oh well he's 100 fine then this is cnn june 15th 2020 why donald why the donald trump west point ramp story actually matters and now you have from mark 19 2021 white house says biden is 100 fine after he tripped boarding air force biden is jabbing back pointing to mr trump's slow descent down a ramp at a west point commencement earlier this year look at how he steps to look how i step watch how i run up ramps and heat stumbles down ramps okay come on this isn't the first time we've heard biden say things like this i remember him saying something about taking him outside and back at the gym and he called someone a lion-faced pony soldier and he challenged a big person to do push-ups but when it's on the other foot of course the left the woke tarts they don't want to hear it trump mocked by late-night hosts for slow walk down west point ramp uh guess how many times colbert and kimmel and fallon and seth meyers tackled joe biden falling three times up a ramp yesterday uh it's the number you get when you multiply something by zero zero because we don't offend anybody but we all know that if this was trump that was stumbling down the steps we would not hear the end of it for about three weeks before but since it's the democratic president we are not hearing anything about it well guys the numbers are out there that don't lie i suggest that you go out and find different sources to find out what's really happening out there that's the best way to stay informed thanks for watching leave your comments below for the dum-dum news channel i'm dum-dum | Dum Dum News Channel | UCqVu1aowWxAPvwuUV9bdp0g | 2021-03-23 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 770 | 4,213 |
NkGIMe2MiL4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkGIMe2MiL4 | THE BODY SHOP Drops Of Youth Range | *Full Review* | [Music] hello everybody and welcome back to my channel so in today's video i'm going to be reviewing the body shop drops of youth range i've already reviewed the vitamin c range and the tea tree range so go back and check on my channel if you want to go and watch those videos my favorite range that they actually do is the vitamin c range so i think that's one of my favorite videos that i filmed but basically in this video i'm going to go through all of the products that i've tried give my opinion and my review again this is just my opinion obviously everybody has their own opinions but this is mine based on my experience with the product so some things i can actually physically show you some things i can't show you because i've run out of them and haven't repurchased and some things i haven't actually tried so what i'm going to do is if i've not tried the product i'm just going to read reviews off their website because my laptop is literally sitting right here we are in an autumn background this is going to be my new autumn background i actually really like this like over three years ago when i first started this channel i would literally be at home and i would love to make like my backgrounds look really nice and have like autumn vibes or like christmas vibes and now i kind of slack on that but we're back i've got a little tree here look how cute that is and um yeah i'm ready to go so without further ado let's get into the video so first of all i'm going to show you products that i can actually physically pick up and show you and then i will go through the ones i can't show you and then at the end of the video i'll go through the ones that i haven't tried first of all we have the body shop obviously the body shop range but we first of all have the drops of youth liquid appeal these liquid peels in general are actually quite popular at the body shop they've got the drops of light one this one and then the vitamin c one i originally tried the vitamin c one i really really like that it makes my skin feel really clean and really glowy after i've used it and i've literally just run out of that one i did also have this one because when i used to do the body shop at home i did also have this one as well i think i used it for samples or something but yeah i really like this one as well but i think i definitely do prefer the vitamin c one i might do a whole video on the liquid peels just to kind of show how to use them and like what they're for but basically you just take a little bit rub it into your skin anywhere on your body but i just use it on my face and actually on my feet as well i use up my feet when i have a little foot pump a day and then it will rub off any kind of excess dry skin or dead skin cells or anything like that and i genuinely like i was very skeptical when i first tried their liquid peels and i thought you know is it just formulated so that it will like you know peel off you peel off itself if you know what i mean like is the formula of the product so that when it hits your skin and you start to go like that like the heat of your skin etc it will actually start to kind of peel up and you know whatever i did it one day and there was loads you know on my skin because i hadn't exfoliated in ages and then i tried it again the next day and because i'd already done it the day before literally hardly anything came off my face so they do work i am really pleased with this and i would recommend them as just part of your like little skincare routine it isn't an exfoliator it's different to an exfoliator i exfoliate with a scrub as well as using this i use this once a week but you could use it more than once a week i used to use it like three times a week but i just that's my routine right now love this product smells really nice and yeah if you're gonna get a liquid peel i personally would recommend the vitamin c one but obviously this is drops of youth it's meant to make your skin look youthful so it depends what kind of vibe you're going for but what the heck am i doing oh my god i've been clicking on things all i know is that when i've used a liquid peel my skin it feels so soft after i've used it so loving that one still using it still liking it would i repurchase it no i would re-buy the vitamin c one why is my hair so messy how i know i would rate that product the drops of youth one i would rate an 8 out of 10 and also price wise it costs jesus christ this website is annoying me everything keeps popping up and it costs 18 pounds 50 which i think is quite expensive but it will last you a long time next up we have a really good one now this is actually a product empty i probably mentioned it in a body shop empties video that i did a while ago if you want to go and check that out but this is the drops of youth essence lotion this is an absolute favorite of mine i have mentioned this many many times before and i've tried a couple of their other essence lotions on their website i've tried the oils of life one and the firming lotion i think it's like it's in a red packaging i can't remember what it's called but it's about firming and it's you know for slightly older people heck knows why i've got it but anyway this one i really really really really love i don't know if it works in terms of anti-aging or anything like that because i wouldn't be able to tell because i don't really have any wrinkles yet but it's so so so so so hydrating like honestly when i put this on my skin i can see how hydrated my skin is and it's so tacky like you put it on your skin and you just feel how tacky it is some people would hate that they would hate it because they may want their products to blend in and then you don't feel it on the skin this it does sink in after a while but when you initially put it on it's kind of sticky but in a good way i like that and my skin does feel really hydrated and in the morning my skin never gets dry it's just nice and plump that's how i would describe this product it makes my skin feel plump when i use it and also the next day so yeah i really really love this and i will be repurchasing this at some point but i still have things to kind of use up this costs 15 pounds is it worth the money i think if someone's got a discount oh talking about discount actually whenever i buy body shop products i'm actually buying off this girl now she's called emily she's so nice like she is genuinely really really nice i'm gonna buy all my stuff off her now if i ever need anything from the body shop i've recently just purchased the himalayan charcoal mask so hopefully that will come at some point and i will show you in a video but yeah she said to me because i said oh please can i link your page in my video description just in case anybody wants to use her somebody that's trusted and she said that if you message her on facebook or on her group or anything then you can use the code georgie15 so just tell her the code and that gets you 15 off so yeah i'll link her facebook group and also her instagram as well so just message her on there and just say oh georgie said um that this is her code georgie15 so i'll leave it on the screen and you can have 50 off so i thought i would just mention that um somebody that's trusted and also somebody that i really like and i didn't know her she's not somebody that i know from school or anything i met her through the internet and i really like her so i just wanted to mention that and she's bought some things off my website before as well so thank you very much but back to this product i would rate this a 9 out of 10. i really really love this and finally for things that i can actually show you physically right now we have this this is the drops of youth gentle foaming wash so this is a cleanser actually i am going to be making a video before christmas i've got all of my videos planned out from now until christmas because this is my favorite time of year and i like to plan and organize but i've got a video coming up before christmas where i'm going to be reviewing all of the cleansers that i've tried from the body shop because there's quite a few i'm not going to lie and what i like about them what i dislike about them etc which one's the best ones which one's the worst ones and why so that video is going to be coming in like a month or so i'm not sure but this is probably going to be included i'm definitely going to be including that video but this is a foam wash and basically i have run out of it now i ran out a while ago when when it comes to foam washes they obviously are very liquidy in the actual like packaging and then when you pump the product out little bubbles came out yeah look there we go foam comes out obviously it's just got a little bit left in it but it's a foam consistency like that and you might think like oh is that really going to cleanse my skin properly you know it's a foam it's coming from a liquid it's not really something that can be like lathered up when actually yes it is i literally like rubbed it into my skin and it smelled so nice my skin felt so fresh after using it definitely one of my favorites little spoiler alert that video that's coming soon but this is definitely one of my favorites really like this i think i personally like it because it makes my skin feel really clean and fresh and when i cleanse my skin that is obviously what i want some people like cleansers that make their skin feel really soft and kind of more hydrated however i prefer something that is a little bit more kind of cleaning and slightly more on the harsher side that just makes my skin feel like it is really really clean and refreshed and then i will go in with hydrating products like a moisturizer so that wash is 10 pounds so quite a decent price i personally think it lasted me quite a long time and i would rate that an 8.5 out of 10. i really like that one so next i'm going to be going through things that i can't physically show you but i've still tried so i have the drops of youth concentrate now i think they may have reformulated this recently since i've tried it not sure i think it says somewhere about that in the catalogue i don't know don't quote me on that but the one that i got i think was 30 mil yeah i think it's 30 mil and it's 26 pounds so it is quite pricey i do think it's quite pricey i probably have the empty of it in my cupboard but i can't bother to go and find that but yeah it is quite expensive and it is what some people would describe as a substitute for botox do i agree with that you know probably not but maybe like long-term results you might get that i find it a little bit annoying when i see people that have posted a picture saying one week after using this product and then on the first picture they've got wrinkles and on the second picture they have none you need to understand like when you're seeing these pictures there is face smoothing apps out there i use them myself on my instagram pictures you know it smooths out your skin a little bit i tend to just smooth like here here and here so the rest of my face isn't really smoothed out but that's the kind of thing that they will do to try and market you the product so it can be a little bit misleading but with a product like that it's not going to be instant results it's going to be something that's going to take a little bit of time at least so just bear that in mind but i don't have personal experience with whether that works or not because it's not aimed at my skin type just yet because i'm too young for this product only just um but yeah i liked how hydrating it felt it kind of reminded me slightly of this hydrating essence lotion because this one's a bit more thinner consistency but that one um the drops of use concentrate is a lot thicker again like it says concentrated you only need a small like a really small amount a little goes a long way so it will last you quite a long time even though it is kind of expensive in my opinion but yeah i i would say to really do your research into that product don't just look at you know if somebody's selling the product they may not give honest reviews if you know i mean you want to get reviews from people that genuinely have tried it so look on their website that kind of thing i don't have time on this video to go through all the comments and all the reviews for every single product i'm just gonna do that on the ones i haven't tried but yeah in my experience really really nice maybe if you're in the kind of 30 plus category that'll be a good one to go for but for me it just i couldn't see any results it was very hydrating i really liked that fact about it but i'm not gonna you know make stuff up and say you're gonna look like an absolute model when you use that product the drops of youth concentrate i would rate a a 6 out of 10 because i just don't know if it worked or not then we have the drops of youth bouncy eye mask i tried that on the website they make it look like it's quite big it's actually not it's a really small little pot but basically it's kind of like a i was gonna say a bouncy consistency but what does that even mean it's like a jelly consistency you press it and it's like yeah like kind of bouncy i don't know what i'm on about but you take a little bit of it pop it under your eyes and it must meant to kind of reduce wrinkles under your eyes etcetera bouncy eye mask um it's meant to make your under eyes look a lot younger in terms of wrinkles and things like that just look like you've got a lot energy get rid of kind of dark circles and that kind of thing but personally i passed that onto my mum because i just thought like do i really need this product at this stage of my life you know do do i actually enjoy wearing it you know it was quite sticky and i didn't really like having something that was so sticky underneath my eyes i have an eye cream now that all an eye gel so it's kind of similar in a way and it just sinks into the skin really quickly whereas this one's a lot more stickier and you can really feel it and to have something that's kind of sticky under your eyes can actually get quite annoying so just bear that in mind but overall i can't really give a rating on this product because if i'm honest i'm not the biggest fan of it i would probably give it a 4 out of 10 but i'm sure that there's people out there that really love it and they really get benefits from it but for me i just didn't really like the consistency of it or anything like that and it is 18 pounds so in my opinion that is quite expensive it's expensive for me some people go out there buying like 100 pound products or 200 pound products it's expensive for me and my budget and my money some people would look at this and say that's really cheap for an eye cream but for me and my little budget i think in comparison to the other products it's a little bit expensive and then finally for things that we've tried i have the drops of youth concentrate sheet mask they're sheet masks that they have on the website are five pounds i think that is expensive five pounds for a sheet mask that you use once that is really expensive in my opinion i know there are sheet masks out there that are a hundred pounds which just makes me feel uncomfortable about life but five pounds and you use it once i know some people say that you could like put it back in the packaging put it in the fridge or whatever and use it again i don't really do that i put the mask on my face and then leave it on for 15 minutes take it off any excess that's in the actual like packet i will wipe onto my skin and onto my face just so that i get maximum benefits from that product and i only ever would buy these if i was gifted them from friends or anyone or if i had a discount on them because i really love sheet masks but five pounds is expensive they used to be four pounds but they upped the price heavens knows why um but yeah it feels super hydrating this is the one that feels so hydrating on your skin plumping the skin if you want your skin to be really kind of plump and hydrated and just super super like i don't know like you just feel like water is in your skin then this is the one to go for so it is nice i would rate it an 8 out of 10 but for the price i just think just do you know what i mean does anybody else understand what i'm saying i don't know maybe i'm just being silly but yeah and then for the things i haven't tried we have i will literally just read off their website um and try and be quick the drops of youth cream sorry the drops of youth youth cream it says it helps your skin look beautiful bouncy and feel softer bouncy skin as bouncy as a trampoline the older you get the drier your skin becomes so you need more moisturizing hydrating products very true i think this is just something that you use daily almost like a moisturizer so yeah that's just what i think but i personally think you know the vitamin c moisturizer is where it's at there's 218 reviews overall star rating is 4.6 out of 5. someone said it's a must buy best face cream i've ever used somebody says it's a beautiful smell and not greasy someone else said it's amazing my skin was glowing now let's have a look at the not so good reviews right these are the bad reviews bear in mind that you know everybody's opinions are different somebody said a poor moisturizer this cream had absolutely no effect on the fine lines and didn't add much moisture either either it's definitely not an anti-aging product also if i applied makeup after applying the cream it left a white residue on my skin interesting um total waste of money wouldn't buy it again sometimes when you apply makeup on top of skincare products they can actually react and create like some kind of pilling effect or like peeling of certain things in the products which i've experienced before but not with this product because i haven't used it um somebody just put it's nearly all chemicals and then listed all the chemicals to be fair quite a lot of products are all chemicals but um no comment on that one then we have the drops of youth eye concentrate oh yeah that drops of youth cream is 23 pounds don't know if i mentioned the drops of youth eye concentrate this is 20 pounds i think this is expensive um okay so apparently it refreshes and awakens your eye area it's enriched with elder elderly's plant stem cells and it says our unique applicator instantly refreshes the eye contour and smooths the appearance of fine lines i think it's like a metal kind of applicator which would be quite cooling and would be quite nice to you know use under the you know the eye area and also it prevents kind of bacteria from your hands so maybe that's good i don't know um but it's 20 pounds and it's 10 milliliters um so yeah 123 reviews it's got a 4.2 out of 5 star rating the good reviews it says it's soothing and reduces bags immediately somebody just said love this product it's very refreshing somebody said it's botox in a bottle and they notice a massive improvement under their eyes after 10 days now for the bad reviews not the best purchase i've always used the drops of youth but this product is a waste of money the rollerball drags your skin you may as well just get you all right so if it drugs the skin that's not good because they always say to not drag under this area because it can cause wrinkles so maybe that's not a good thing to go for sorry my camera just cut off if you kind of experienced that um disappointing the rollerball is very stiff and not much product comes out until you squeeze it but you then end up with too much i felt a slight cornice when the product was applied but i would not say this made any difference i would recommend the aloe eye and lip contour care instead at least they made a recommendation of a different product that's a good that's a good honest review right so we've got that one yeah one more product the drops of youth bouncy sleeping mask this is 26 pounds so okay in price range what does it do for you um you just use it overnight put it on your skin overnight it's meant to make your skin feel plumper replenished refreshed i agree that it probably will make your skin feel quite plump because some of the other products like this one um does just make my skin feel plump ratings oh that's 26 pounds for 75 mil by the way um but ratings was or is there's 223 reviews and it's a 4.5 out of 5 star rating somebody says it's absolutely amazing i wake up my skin feeling and looking so soft and so fresh oh somebody thought it's okay i bought this because my skin had started feeling dry in the daytime i'm not keen on the texture it's too jelly like and therefore hard to get the right amount out of the jar yeah the bouncy sleeping eye mask is very jelly-like and like she said it's hard to get out the jar i agree with that for that so i feel like it's probably a similar product to the eye one somebody says it smells beautiful and feels good but blah blah blah so actually the reviews on this are not actually the greatest because this is meant to be um usually they promote like the best reviews first but they've kind of had a mixture so yeah not the best and i think that's everything yeah that's everything from the drops of youth range that's everything that i've tried myself or just reading reviews of things that i haven't tried you know i can't try everything not every product is meant for me i am going to be reviewing other ranges in the future not entirely sure which ones just yet but stay subscribed for that and also if you're interested in the cleansers video please stay subscribed any body shop content i will still be doing on my channel remember to go and check out the link to emily's facebook and instagram if you want to purchase anything and use my code georgie15 for 15 off but hope you enjoyed this video 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eeYUW3lh4uY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeYUW3lh4uY | 71.2 covid19 | greetings I just can't figure out what's going on so I switch devices so now I'm using my mobile device of course I'm going to have a completely different set of tools at my access to sort of operate and run this show I'm not seeing any of my chat right now so I'm not sure how that is going to affect my ability to [Music] move forward let's see ok supreme divinity greetings and salutations hello keyonnah thank you so much yeah this this may be a better option but it's gonna be problematic for me in that I'll now have to sort of prop the the phone up in a way that you can see me and I can see you but I can also be animated I tend to be animated when animate it when I talk and if I have to hold the phone during that process that could be a problem so Qian I'm gonna need your help I'm glad that the picture is clear and that everything is better it's just much smaller for me I'm having a little bit of a moment right now I'm trying to find the most appropriate way to mount my phone so that I can sort of talk and read your chat without having to keep up with it I think I might have found a resolution there we go greetings and salutations this Monday March 16th 2020 as we deal with life as we deal with love as we deal with reality and as we deal with kovat 19 so I pray all divine all blessed health and wellness on each and every one of you I pray that you are taking all necessary precautions greetings Michelle all necessary precautions and measures to protect both your family and yourself and your community and I pray that you are at this point taking this seriously this is indeed not a test this is not a drill this is real life and we only have one opportunity individually but also as a community to get this right so beware the precautions I'm hearing that all kind of craziness is happening out there in the world people having difficulties getting access to toilet paper and and cleaning supplies much of which I sort of was ready for to some degree because in this type of ministry we have certain products on hand anyway as a normal part of ritual cleanliness I'm surprised at the number of people who aren't washing their hands generally as a normal part of everyday life who aren't taking hygienic precautions as a normal part of everyday life and and it took something like this to sort of jar your attention to get you to to snap to to get you to do your part and and to now be be concerned what makes that difficult greetings Mia and anyone that I may have missed the chat in this format is popping up and disappearing so unless I'm fumbling with the phone and I know y'all don't want me doing that that would be a distraction I'm only seeing the chat as it shows up I'm so please type your questions in all capital letters kiona is gonna help me to maintain chat to some degree I'm still gonna reload the chat from my desktop I'm just not gonna broadcast a show from my desktop and so I might be able to be in the chat just as many of you are and then communicate the questions through kiona who is my chatroom monitor who helps me to keep some semblance of order in the chat because it's a big job to sort of talk and maintain my thoughts and respond to your questions and your ideas and then fumble with the chat to these bigger shows I just don't know how they're doing it without help without staff without hands on I don't know how they manage to do that that's a trick a little bit of magic I haven't figured out yet but I have managed to learn how to use what others might yeah I like that virgos and hygiene yes I'm sort of known for hygiene even outside of the scope of something like a kovat 19 I'm the kind of person you you can't call in my house because I've got a can of lice Oster in every corner in every room in the house the minute I detect a symptom I'm on it even in those last few days when we were filming and on set you know I also have Asperger's with some of you know so I play around with numbers and synchronicity and patterns a great deal in my head all that counting is going on even during normal functioning so I'm counting you know how many ethnicities are in the room how many men are in the room how many women are in the room but also who's sniffling and who's coughing and on a return day oh yeah the essential oils I get it all down the Florida water it's all within arm's reach trust me love it trust me so the next day we returned to to film in this particular project and of course I'm hypersensitive I'm knowing and aware and I can't help but sort of make this announcement that okay I've noticed some people you know a sniffling a little bit and coughing a little bit who weren't doing so the next day you know and we must maintain our precautions so as I was saying in the episode 71 before I had to go into seventy one point two I was very proud of the staff the crew the staff where we had location and holding the crew and the talent who were actually there for this particular project I was very proud I was very impressed by everyone's overall general awareness to hygiene people being conscious of wearing gloves even to you know pour coffee and and have access to snacks and and in the coming and goings of our general activity I think in a 12-hour day I must have washed my hands 16 times in that environment and then started counting days which would have been natural for me to do from the minute they said rap until the very present moment so we've had some interaction in social media Facebook Twitter you know Instagram etc and everyone's fine no one's had any symptoms no one's had a cough or sore throat issue or a nose issue or anything and so I'm grateful for that but I'm prepared to hunker down I'm prepared to be still I'm a pair to be quiet if necessary for an extended period of time as we as a nation and as a society as communities as families figure out what we're going to do and how we're going to continue to move forward in this apparent pandemic that we are now calling Kovac 19 as the knowledge continues to evolve I'm sure the community response will continue to evolve and then how we address it how we have talked about it how we look at it in social media will also evolve you mean second I'm trying to get into my chat keyonnah on my desktop I'm not seeing a whole lot of activity in my phone and I don't know if that's just because people haven't had much to say yet or if it has something to do with the difference in dynamic and how the chat moves oh wow yeah there's a lot in the chat I can see on my desktop that I'm not seeing immediately on my on my phone so I'm now on both my desktop and my phone so I can see the chat in all capital letters from my desktop while still being able to communicate with you thank you Takia jet for being able to communicate with you here there is a little bit of a delay I see so I'm going to have to pay attention to my phone as opposed to what's going on in my in my desktop I appreciate your questions your comments your requests do type them in all capital letters so they both keyonna my moderator and myself can see them and distinguish them from your well received all blessed love and peace and salutations and greetings that we share in this sacred space I want us to be a community particularly in this environment where we're now happen to utilize our virtual skills our online skills our social media communication our tools to carry on business that we might otherwise have to leave our houses for so indeed readings divination ritual work is still moving forward that which can be ordered that which can be bought that which can be mailed it's still moving forward but the ceremony that I have annually in the first week of April our Dan Obatala white ceremony will not be happening right now it's going to be delayed indefinitely until I get a better idea in terms of calendar and timing and in mobility both here in the city but also in terms of within the dynamics of the country I'll then come back and andrey addressed that ceremony and the participants the initiative whose initiations are incorporated into that ceremony I also have not had most recent communication with oba oba to LA from from la FA who also said that he would come and be a part of this ceremony so all of that would now have to be reorganized re coordinated in order to reorganize that annual white ceremony that we have here at the house and then set a new date to move that forward those who are initiating actively right now that's uninterrupted your ability to count your ability to read to study to learn new languages to incorporate new systems might even be a supreme divinity I'm going to respond that's a great question your ability to tap into some of the information that I am sharing that I'm gifting that I'm instructing in these processes might be a little bit easier for you right now now again I understand as I said in 71 I understand that some of you now have people in your house small children in your house are not working or other parties your house are not working so what's happening inside the dynamics of your household might have shifted to some degree but my hope is that we would now have an opportunity to read those books to memorize those dialogues to get our shrines together get our altars together to cleanse our creative spaces together and that brings me into supreme Divinity's question about cleansing before readings I don't think having cleansing done self cleansing is done before going into a reading is a bad idea in general whether it be now in this particular environment or in any particular environment the idea of me sort of allowing people into the house is it's temporarily on hold as always I've always been by appointment that has not changed in any way a person would still have to pre schedule prearranged an appointment with me in order to come into the house my virtual readings are still operative the ability to use Skype the ability to use my psychic world account to access services and divination is more useful now probably than ever before but in terms of cleansing is in general just sitting in the house fasting is a great idea right now when you're trying to conserve your food you're trying to conserve your paper products you're trying to be still some of us are more prepared for home study home education self employment home employment this is going to be new for others kyon I see you big question mark yeah supreme divinity uh-huh there's a delay between the desktop and and mobile yeah this is a time for us to do our self work this is the time to be still to be quiet to read those books to do that study to use our internet in our social media not just for entertainment and laughter and comedy and and and in some cases a little bit of foolishness but to now extend our social skills our communication skills and abilities to a greater degree so that we aren't all going out into these pronoun prohibited groups and and and prohibiting gatherings when I think historically when was the last time we you know groups were prohibited coming together in a group might have constituted you know gang affiliation 20 years ago or some kind of radical racial gathering during the civil rights movement or or during Jim Crow era when is the last time we were by law not to gather in large numbers not to come together in large groups so we're definitely passing through not just the eye of this germ needle but we're also passing through the eye of a cultural needle a societal needle we're just like in the in the days of 9/11 when we just could not imagine such a thing what's happening and happening in such a way and that we now had to live life differently this too is another passage since that life will never be the same again how we interact how we operate how we carry out our our daily lives and our daily activities will we get beyond this absolutely will we come together again absolutely and we'll move on to the next you know 100 year or 500 year pandemic or whatever this might turn out to be but this is not a time and and I don't want to sound like I'm you know in agreement with with the politicians or the media but this isn't a time certainly to panic this is absolutely the time to be doing your cleansing Labe tetes being aware of state of or the state of your head meditation prayer perceiving the outdoors perceiving the future perceiving a time in a day when we will not be under duress well we will not be under alert what we will not be as concerned you know as we are in this particular moment in time space imagine that there are those who sort of live it's their job to live in this state of alertness and then there are those in the spirit realm your your impacts who sort of lived in this sort of state of alertness all the time about energy not just germs but about energy about the transitions of auric energy and and and the and flow of belief and and what we envision in society and how that is often affected by I'm going to respond to that next our supreme divinity and thank you so much for your questions and your comments and for participating actively in the show I'm expecting exactly that thing that I'm now suggesting that we all begin to see more and more of as people begin to isolate self isolate in some cases mandated forms of isolation and separation in order to limit the progression of this disease and this dis dis this virus I don't want to start mincing words when we're talking about something so scientifically and medically relevant so meditating cleansing particularly if you already have your herbs and your cleansing products and and and those sorts of things already on hand the same this is now not the time to want a stockpile bleach ammonia toilet paper though we know and I know people personally who who sort of gone and who have done that and it has fed into this empty shelf thing that's going on right now where even in ordering products online you're finding that a lot of stuff is it's not on the shelves and I'm seeing in the news and in in my community people who are reporting back going to several stores and certain items are are not on the shelves I'm also concerned in predicting a time when you know people are photographing you know basements full of product base was full of toilet paper and base was full of clean supplies where people are going to have to protect themselves people are going to want to jack these these houses in these communities where people are so arrogantly displaying stock holds of product that you know heaven forbid we are in a parable of a soul so er if you've never read that book if you haven't as many times as I've mentioned it parable of a sower by Octavia Butler read that book right now sabrine divinity if you've never read that parable of a sore about Octavia Butler and it describes California and really the state of America in a similar scenario and there's a shortage of gas and this is shortage of water and I don't want to give away too much of the book and people are happen to stock hold storehouse certain items and that's one of the mysteries to the name of this book parable of the sower by Octavia Butler so you know again if you aren't already a clean person you don't already sort of pre-plan and keep a budget and sort of shop on a schedule then you're absolutely out now in competition with the rest of the world for many of the products that could very well become man all that we have for some time if they don't get some sort of grip some sort of control on on what's happening and and and on how it's affecting society so for my students for my initiates for my god children for those under the sound of my voice this is now the time to be operating in your meditations and your mantras pulling out your instruments your your paintbrushes and your crayons and your your pianos and your keyboards and your instruments and being creative if not mobile if not community active this is the time to imagine a better world a time to create a better world or maybe like my good friend your horror writer and a horror novelist this is the time to create the next great horror movie the next great thriller from the energy from the a shade that's being released right now all over the world by this pandemic this very few things that make their way through the news or through social media or through pop culture or or through conversation that touch everybody on the planet I can imagine there are very limited places and spaces right now where save locations in the world where there is no internet you know rural locations and third-world locations where there is no technology there are some places that still exist like that but I could imagine that there aren't many places in the world now where there's not an awareness that something dramatic is going on and so it's a rare opportunity that from the spiritual perspective that we have a unified connection a unified cypher in which to connect and and build relationship with every other person every other culture every other people on the planet I'm using my social media to talk to Brazil and talk to Ghana and talk to Nigeria and and and talk to Egypt and talk to places where there is internet there is access to Internet understand places like Ethiopia you just can't readily get on internet and and bring this type of information this type of news into your communities so we have a responsibility now than ever before to take care with what we talk about what we are sharing what we are projecting into the space to not be participants in fake news and and misinformation and and people are being sued for that by the way I know you've heard Jim Baker Tammy Faye Baker husband it's being sued by the federal government for false information false miracle products as it relates to this Kovac covet 19 and people's attempt to elicit money and control in favor and popularity off of the backs of pain and global and worldwide trauma if you have a question or comment please hit me with it in live chat type it in your questions in all caps greetings Martha Alecia Ross Tanya Williams yes planting herbs planting earth some of us are already in cycle with the spring and planting herbs bulbs you know fruit trees etc since Hurricane Katrina now more than ever the value of our gardens and those of us who have been doing that in drying herbs and and and freezing product for occasions just like this all of this sort of hokey New Age spiritual la-based talk and information is now more important than ever before now it has some foundation in which people can connect to their to their reality we don't want is the the falsehoods and the imagination to leak into reality and create mental and emotional pandemic like scenarios that only make the reality in which we are having to live with having to face right now that much more relevant I'm also considering particularly in these circumstances broadcasting more frequently but in shorter increments of time so I might broadcast 30 minutes 40 minutes twice a day or even three times a day moving forward depending on the schedule of course we're not filming anything right now so I'll absolutely have more scheduled save that of doing readings divination initiation remotely and virtually and more than ever it's important that you maintain your appointment times I have one client right now beloved you know I get it and I understand life is shifting right now but you got to maintain your appointment time I'm a little bit more flexible right now because of what we're all up against what we're all facing and addressing but now more than ever before it's important to maintain your commitments to appointment times and follow-up and giving others an opportunity to also access and utilize the ability to have access now virtually to me and to each other as we figure out how we move forward as a people as a society as a community as families with this pandemic that is co vid 19 I can't figure out how to see all of my chat ok I think I just figured it out so Alesha Ross yes keep work working on your plant team working on your herbs and your roots and whatnot supreme divinity is asking is it okay to use hoodoo if you are not an initiate to me and I'm not being Shady especially what you beloved that is the equivalent of can I administer medicine on myself without instruction so yes we have over-the-counter medications that we know we can all walk in and sort of buy and and utilize you know and that has changed over the years I can remember a time I can remember a time when you can walk into a Walgreens or Walmart and and buy and histamines and an allergy medication or all willy-nilly I can remember time when you could walk into a drugstore and buy codeine and and what's that Everybody Hates Chris mama used to give her family for any any accident they had she would administer this liquid medication in a bottle somebody help me if you ever watch Everybody Hates Chris his mama if it was a cold if they stuff they told she would administer this this liquid medication in a bottle robic testing that's right it was the robots that are over testing yeah so I can remember the time when you could walk in and and buy any of that you know straight off off the counter and and if we go back to my grandparents time you could legally buy cocaine heroin and all sorts of formats right out of your your drugstore did that make it right or wrong legal or illegal the right thing or the wrong thing to do is relevant on your knowledge your awareness your ability to want to do the study to read the bottle and to go beyond reading the bottle to hold that bottle up and type that in you know into your internet and then do some further research original entertainment just said religion can be crazy and and I agree because with religion we then start looking at faith belief in a way that we take in a different context to the faith we put in a robitussin bottle the face we put in in in the bottle of aspirin we take faith every time you open a can of something every time you open a bottle of something you know your you have faith that the water bottling company is doing exactly what they're telling you an advertisement that they're doing and that that water has been filtered and purified and came from the clearest you know stream in the most untouched region of the most forests reaches of the world you know analysis an abyss in a bottle and you paying four or five dollars for it and we often don't think of that as religion we often don't think of that as faith but we will then turn around and judge the person who puts more weight more belief and finds more consistency with what they can grow in their yard what they can harvest in nature what they can do in terms of spirit now as a spiritualist and I've said this before and many times on air I'm not sort of your hokey right brain sort of spiritualist um my mom is from a show-me-state you have to show me have to give me some kind of scientific relevance whether it be spiritual medicinal whatever that manifestation is so for instance my belief in crystal it's not just a faith-based thing something that I believe because of something I've read in a book or seen in them in a movie but it's basically my own test my own scientific based test my own ability to use crystals back in the 80s to disrupt technology at work consistently my own scientific test back in the 90s of using certain gemstones unawares to others because that wouldn't be a scientific test it's got to only be aware to a certain test group and unaware to another test group and then manifest some level of response and it's also why I often stress journaling and right now more than ever you've got a journal I'm journaling now even covet 19 I'm journaling the activity the conversation how my mom responds to it how my sister is is responding to it so yes beloved journal your dreams keep an accurate account of your dreams your vision sometimes you're not physically sleep sometimes you're in a daydream sometimes you're you know in your deep meditation stop breathe turn to the side take your note a grab your keyboard jot down that's a physical way of telling your left brain I acknowledge the importance of that information I've noted that information then breathe again and then go back into your your trance or your meditation in your state because we're going to find powerful information powerful trend it's powerful synchronicity come forward as we move through yet this challenge this newest challenge to humanity I also think about the ancestors for indeed the ancestors are and should be all in all things not just this particular challenge our first line of defense our ancestors and so I began thinking about the pandemics and epidemics and the Middle Passage and and white supremacy and and genocide and all the things that that many of us who are alive today have survived because someone before you in your lineage someone before you in your bloodline survived utilize this time to look at documentaries so I've been watching this ongoing series I think it's called the history of humanity on Amazon and it's you know talking about humanity from really the beginnings of time up to the present but from very different perspectives from a Dermalogica perspective or from from a perspective of warfare or from a perspective of technology I'm so it covers many areas of focus and concentration that we might be thinking about or even imagining right now so for what for instance it talked about the Black Plague and and how it devastated a great deal of the world population all over the world and and how it affect the economy and and how it affected and then created innovations that showed up in technology and in transportation each challenge that we faced as an individual as a community as a organized that's a a culture or a country or society has its pros and it's cons you know we learned the lessons there are certain loss losses and challenges that come with with learning those lessons and then there are those pros those positive those new innovations those new ideas those new technologies that then arise and come out of us being faced with challenges individual life challenges but also the more communal societal challenges in which we are faced with right now and yes indeed absolutely eating your fruits your vegetables your herbs listen understanding that you know we can't know all the side to get on board and we don't do this right now and today some of your stores don't even have toilet paper okay and when we consider changes in our diet in our eating there has to be some time there has to be a process your body is going to regenerate every cell within it every seven years every cell in your body regenerates so any new innovation that you make in terms of how you eat how you drink it's often not going to show up most immediately or most overnight you know but might need some time moving forward and now we're looking at not just what we're eating and how we're applying but gaining access to so as things sort of balance out in our shelves are sort of restocked some of our suppliers are restocked I'm sure many of you are now going to rethink how you shop how you buy what you stock you know moving forward what has shelf life versus you know those things that we need to quickly restock and I think some of us are still in terms of wishful thinking anticipating that this is going to dry up quickly we're anticipating warmer weather we're anticipating the spring in the summer we're anticipating science you know doing something making some sort of progress I'm gonna say in the coming 30 to 90 days that's us and it's sort of a natural cycle of life beloved who's asking the question about fruits and herbs in the chat it was right in my face a minute ago original entertainment herbs tend to possess healing meditative not meditative medicated properties that we can find in a dictionary find online that translates into nutrients vitamins mineral compositions that do both toxic but also helpful things in our body provided we know how much you know what combinations fruit on the other hand too has its nutrients its vitamins and its chemicals but I've been taught and and doctor say be taught that fruit also played a key role in terms of fiber metabolism and and sort of the process of things breaking down you can overdo one of anything you can get too much fiber you can get too much fruit you can get too much meat you can get too much of anything really so all diets must have some balance all nutrition must have some some balance so we eat in quantities and in portions often particular here in the West you know we followed that circle with the four sections in it and now that's been revaluated that we might need to readjust how we look at the food groups you know dairy versus your legumes versus your grains you know versus your fruits and vegetables and some of us need more of something than others there's a great deal of mis-education out there for instance I'm diabetic and I know other diabetics and it's a common notion that fruit carries high sugar and therefore we shouldn't have fruit but there is natural sugars and there are natural ways of processing sugars that are healthy healthy and an indeed crucial and necessary to nutrition as opposed to artificial and man-made produced sugars like cane sugar white sugar even synthetic sugars are being questioned in terms of their ability to mimic real sugar in the body your body still sort of responds to them acts like you know it's still getting real cane sugar even with some of the I was trying to get my chat box to open even with some of the artificial blue and pink and yellow and in other sweeteners that are all in the market so I tend to lean towards coconut for instance or fruits that have sugar honey even as opposed to cane sugar or even artificial sugars and and when looking at how do you save up stockpile store stevia that plant sugar substitute is a herb that you could be planning in your garden right now as we look at what are we going to plant in our gardens for 2020 stevia is a plant you used to be able to get it at Home Depot and and loaves I don't know how easy that's gonna be this season but stevia is a plant that can be grown and harvested naturally as a sweetener from your garden the Obey a Bible yeah I'm familiar with that many other books that are on the market I'm a proponent of reading everything beloved so people often ask me what should I read you know there's no top ten there's no specific set I think to be educated to be qualified to be knowledgeable one needs to read and study and reread everything that is available read the footnote the cliff note read the spine print do the research of the individual words and the word usage and indeed at a time like this one when we are looking for something to do which does not require being out in the public or out amongst you know groups of people this is the time now we can do intense and and and deep study my heart goes out for those who are going to now be affected in terms of their ability to work to make an income to feed their families to keep the lights and the power on to stay how it's going to be a challenging time for many of us and I want to do my part to the best of my ability in the arena in which I have my specialty in my expertise to support my community my family my friends my god children my initiative who support me I'm here to support you and vice versa and I look forward to many more opportunities now today and in the coming days for us to come together like this and to create new even more creative spaces like this for us to share our awareness our lose heaven forbid our needs as we move forward I can see a time when we might have to ration and share and trade and and barter by way of the mail 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TtnrSaBT9-o | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtnrSaBT9-o | Thought Wars: Objectivity in the Age of Trump (Community Matters) | [Music] think tech away civil engagement lives here ok we're back with community matters I'm JP gentle it happens to be Friday at 10 P 10 a.m. and I mean it I mean this show I really mean it this is about truth no is there truth anymore Julian Gore back assistant professor of journalism at UAH Manoa who thinks about this kind of stuff all day is that truth anymore truth is struggling to breathe right now I think a little bit you know some of us are I guess we're all trying to fight for the truth mean a lot of us are maybe half of us calling this show objectivity in the age that oh the thought wars objectivity in the age of Trump that's scary but it's okay because I'm scared anyway why do you call the show that why would I call the show that well I mean I think there's a you know if we're talking about objectivity there's a long-standing idea that that that should be a professional standard of journalism but it's become a real problem at different times in our history the notion of maintaining objectivity and and even a question of whether that's a sound idea or credo for journalism and I think this is one of those moments when we have to question whether it's working well you know I mean it really struck me the first time I saw where the New York Times would say the president falsely claimed is that and the other thing well the president said this in line and Wow and by the way it was a piece yesterday where earlier he was counted at five lives a day public statements now it's like twenty or thirty lives a day but he's ramping up he's ramping up to the midterm so he's lying more in order to confuse and deceive more people and it would be the argument but how do you deal with lies like that you just let him you know you let him go and you say well we're gonna do balance here or you call him out his lies I think you have to call them out as lies I mean I think you're always I think that the notion of objectivity and and and what follows from there suggests that there's there's maybe two different things that that that stand as important journalistic principles here and and on the one hand there's the idea that journalists should try and rise above their impulses to see things a certain way because they have certain predilection certain views that they're they come into every story with like I lean liberal I don't have a problem saying that so when I come into a certain story I have a certain bias if you will to see it that way I mean we might just call it a point of view because the word bias gets terribly thrown a lot around I study a lot the the rise of Nazism and and Hitler and so I may have a bias towards making connections between patty Ora and then the objective or subjective I think that that that in dangers objectivity I mean in other words that you know you could argue that the the idea of objectivity for journalism is to try and and recognize some of your predilections and and rise above and try and look at the facts coldly the opposite credo I think or or dictum that maybe we want to follow is and this was a comment from Scott Simon once made at NPR said the best journalism comes from somewhere and stands for something that's just simply the idea of being alone well every journalist writing or speaking any any message any who's always has a point of view but we all have a point of view the other thing is do we have a duty to sometimes stand up for what's right call it out yeah I mean if you're if it's nineteen thirty you know to take us out of the moment for a second and go that in nineteen thirty zero if if your New York Times foreign correspondent and you're sent to Berlin and it's nineteen thirty-five do you report on this rise of Adolf Hitler with objectivity and this kind of tone down impartial language or do you clang the alarm and tell people there is a incredibly cruel brutal barbaric dangerous force rising in Europe and that you might even be able to envision eighty million lives getting sucked into this this terrible I don't know why but that reminds me of the statement I have to Charlottesville you know you know white supremacist and ordinary people they both had their good and bad yeah remember that yeah yeah I mean and say you know really he's got to be called us so the question is there's all of this lie telling by the President of the United States and believed by a number of people my many people by the base believe it it seems to me they believe it more all the time the more lives more outrageous lies and and more the more these debates people believe in journalism has a duty to straighten out for example for example coming in on NPR there was a story about you know Trump's increased rhetoric now over the immigrant Caravan coming toward okay and he says he said in his own words he said if they're gonna throw stones we're gonna treat those stones as firearms I'm looking a fire back oh my god you know there could easily be violence on the border over the cz in its incendiary what he's saying and he's trying to arouse the base because there's an election in a couple of days but you know then and flip to the Democrats the Democrats are not talking about immigration they talk about health care which is you know how um relative to a war on the border yeah so you say why don't the Democrats and the press call Trump out about his remote remarks over immigration and instead of doing you know Fauntleroy on health care and in the middle of a crisis isn't it the duty of the Democrats and the press to tell it like it is well I you know what concerns me I mean sometimes you wonder how much they really understand these things sometimes you you think maybe there's just a problem with common sense here I'm a little concerned that the Democrats did the thing where they they pay the political consultants who pour over the data and found this these polls about polling really well on health care and thought well this is a this is an argument we can win and let's let's do this I don't understand how you can on the one hand say that young vote is so important and then I mean I teach students III think my students my students don't understand health care policy particularly well and they're not facing a lot of bills for that if I want to get a my classroom full of students to get out and vote I actually talked to them about the environment I mean I could talk to them about student loans or whatever I mean the economy is firing on all four cylinders right now you also have to deal with that issue but I mean we never want to talk about the environment right and or or the the whole idea of the truth and basic integrity and democracy under assault so yeah I think I think a few people have made the effective argument that you know you've got a match blow-by-blow and and you can't kind of camouflage yourself or try to hide from the fight that they want to have you got to you got to match the fight for what it is so I mean we're talking about kind of a duty of a journalist and I don't know where that is I mean conventionally the duty was the balance you know the objective it's a duty changed well you know that that's an interesting point that you make because maybe that's where you know come to think of it maybe maybe that's where we have two different things here because there's duty and then there's the notion of professional standards and maybe there's not they're not the same thing a long time ago walter Lippmann was one of the main voices that suggested that maybe objectivity you know not in so many words but essentially he made the he introduced the argument that maybe objectivity is one way that we could create a professional standard for journalism and that we could we could address a lot of the problems that journalism was having in 1919 so just pretty much exactly a hundred years ago to this week or the last couple of weeks when he was starting to do his first articles about this yeah but you know the on the other hand the idea of duty suggests a kind of moral imperative so maybe objectivity is a professional standard but the idea that a journalist has to also be a moral voice is a duty and and I think we're dealing with a paradox I think we're dealing with two things that are always in tension with one another you know saying what's right and standing up for what's right is not always the same thing as kind of trying to play this detached impartial referee of some kind because you're trying to play a referee of the facts but you're trying to play right and wrong about what's what's morally right and wrong you remember that blimp that caught on fire over new jersey Hindenburg yeah yeah Hindenburg yeah there was a journalist on early radio who was watching the thing go on fire yeah he was watching people being cooked and jumping out of the you know the the cabin there yeah and it was an awful thing to wash and I suppose there was a similar kind of phenomenon going on in 911 too where journalists would look up and see this really horrendous thing happening yeah and it would be reflected of course in his journalism how could you not you know as a human being forget journalists as a human being react through the Hindenburg or the 911 so if I see for example the country coming apart if I see children being shot at the border if I see things that are morally outrageous if I see things that did that threaten our lives together in this country can I get a little excited yeah I mean I think that that I you know one thing that you're bringing up there is just the idea that both in our journalism a minute ago we're talking about the Democrats and and sort of what their election strategy should be but I think in both cases there there is an imperative to to match the you know white-hot rhetoric or or or the or the the terrible circumstances you know to get back to the environment for a second I see horrific things happening with the environment I don't even hear them talk about it on cable news I hear a lot of shrillness on cable news but on some of the things they're just not even they're not even on the playing field you know they're not even talking about it's the most important issue facing humanity in the world well I mean that there was reports no we could debate whether the the the press got the science right and we were sort of talking about that up and down the hallway in my building with what some of the environmental reporters taking a close look but there was this report that got buried in the press this week that 60% more than half of the world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 it barely got a headline you know and I I've been I try to limit the amount of cable news I watch but I can be willing to bet you then it got almost zero time on MSNBC or CNN you know how much time did you know or to talk about the Democrats how much time did our great progressive Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail talk about the complete collapse of the ecosystem I'm talking about climate change specifically but the complete collapse of you know the extinction of species what they call the sixth extinction the idea that since the Ice Age we are now creating within a generation the kind of event that you know at a minimum you know arguably what we've already done since 1970 would take five to seven million years to recover from the damage we've done since 1970 I mean that's a longer length of time than human beings can comprehend given that we live for 70 years right well human beings as a species may not live that much longer yeah even the fact that we're going into the dark ages and hostility and hatred and ultimately that leads to war but I do think that there is a there's another thing going on I mean I think we'll do that you brought up a bunch of things to unpack there I mean on the one hand I think sometimes you know when I'm watching CNN as a as maybe a partisan if we're anti-trump from the get-go and we turn it on we may think that some of it may really register sometimes we may feel like they're just they're getting too wound up but if you're non partisan if you're someone is a bit confused and pivotal in whatever and you turn on CNN and they're really amping it up and it's not something that you particularly connect with it seems to reaffirm this whole thing of the Trump derangement syndrome so there is this issue of like a measured response but also the other thing to unpack from what you were saying is that they create an outrage or a suppose an outrage in one area maybe there are other areas like with the environment where they are creating outrages but they're not talking about it we're where we need to get outraged you know so they're always setting you know Trump is always setting the and that's a thing right in Media Studies we talk about agenda setting that we discovered you know and there's there's data too strong data now to back it up evidence to back it up that the media they originally said that the notion of agenda setting was the media can't tell you what to think but they can tell you what to think about well certainly that the president can tell you because he has such a bully pulpit what to think about but the the press hosta has to deal with that has to set its own agenda yeah well newscaster on Fox News recently called Fox News a propaganda organ I think that was a mistake I think he was castigated for saying that and after this break Julian I'm gonna ask you a question I often ask myself do you watch Fox News and if you do or even if you don't I like to know your views about it where it fits in the firmament of news and journalism all we'll be right back after this break hello my name is Stephanie mock and I'm one of three hosts think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii food and farmer series our other hosts are Matt Johnson and Hawaiian Weikart and we talked to those who 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and we're talking about thought wars objectivity in the age of Trump with a system professor Julian Gore back of the program the journalism program at UAH School of Communications so we left them hanging with my cliffhanger and so I'm gonna press that question do you watch Fox News yeah that's a tough question to me Jay put and put me on the spot because you know I teach a news literacy and I mean you know you know we wouldn't be doing our job we wouldn't age to students to to read a variety of sources from a variety of different points of view but I just found I find it increasingly hard to really spend a lot of time on the right link between Breitbart and Fox spent a lot of time watching it I just feel like I'm I know what the president's saying I'm inundated by his speeches and sound bites of him and you know I I feel like I end up following it very closely like he has the bully pulpit and and then you know I know what Lindsey Graham is saying I know what Brett Kavanaugh was saying I I feel like I've heard out a lot of the arguments and I've heard out a lot of the facts so I don't know maybe I'm not giving because I don't tune in on Fox News all the time the right-wing media enough of a fair shake but I I will say this in my defense maybe it's kind of a weak one you know people can make up their own mind but I don't think I I watch or read the the left-leaning or sometimes we call it the mainstream media with a complete you know like I just take it in like an empty vessel I I see I mean I feel like a lot of times I'm reading it for what's not there as much as what is there a lot of things about the New York Times and The Washington pose and the main cable stations that are quote-unquote left reading frustrate the hell out of me and it's not so much a left/right issue it's that I think they miss a lot of the really obvious story I think there's a huge disconnect a lot of times between our political conversation and or just our public sphere conversation if you want to call what we have a public sphere at this point and objective reality the two are not at all in line I mean like the amount of time that left-leaning media outlets have spent talking about the right and not about the huge amount of the country that just doesn't participate at all or seems to be adrift I mean you know the fact is is that okay to go back to this idea that I've read a lot about the 30s and 40s well I think a lot of people know when we look at like the history of Nazism a lot of historians write books about the average German you know what the hell was the average German doing during the rise of Nazism in 20 or 30 years historians are going to be looking pretty closely if we survive this are going to be looking pretty closely at what was the average American thinking what was the average American doing because we only have you know in the last election it was like 26% voted for Trump 26% voted against Trump that left like 48% of the country just on the sidelines and really like you think you can sit on the side I mean I was what happens if you do yeah I mean you know how do we call these people complicit do we call them collaborationists I think just calling them apathetic I don't think it'll educated you know we've forgotten the civic education and this is the price we're paying for it they don't care they don't know right they don't want to be involved they don't realize as a social fabric and democracy requires participation they realize that you know part of this is not only have we neglected in the education but by neglecting it as the story by by by burying the lead here missing the story it's gotten worse and worse so now you try and engage a non voter a nihilist or you know someone who voted for Gary Johnson or whatever their heels I mean I've done it a lot like on social media their heels are is dug in as the deepest partisan I mean nobody talks about that but you try and get somebody off of their position of like you know why they voted for Gary Johnson what they're gonna do this time around or whatever you're not going to find an easy person to change their mind their minds are made if they decided not to vote for they decided to vote for Harambee in the last election as much as we may disagree with that their minds are is made up as the people who were chanting CNN sucks or whatever at the Trump things or the partisans that we see at the liberal things wow it's a football game and you have your loyalty and your loyalty is unshakable even if you know at some level and you're thinking that Trump is lying 2030 times a day trying to you know when when Kelly when Kelly and Conway spoke in the course of the campaign yeah I want to take my personal experience when I watched her I couldn't stand it it was like having bugs all over me now I practiced law for a long time you know like 15 years and and I deposed a lot of people of deposition and in trial and I got I got to find out that the species lies people lie they lie for a purpose yeah they live for a bad agenda even a good agenda but they lie and and when they lie you the lawyer who was like on the other side of that you're concerned that the judge of the jury may be confused by the lie so you react I do anyway I did for all those years and when I saw Kelly and Conway lying I said you know I know she's lying I know that I can tell but can the judge of the jury that is the American people the base the voters who they know and it would so greatly concern me that they did not know that they would buy the lie you know I couldn't watch it right this is before the election I could not watch him and the same thing with Trump but when he lies I can't watch and Fox News I can't because I know they're lying and the reason is I'm afraid that the arbiter the judge the jury the people will be confused and it troubles me so greatly that they will accept the law and double down on the lie the way he does and I believe a lot of Trump errs out there they actually increasingly believe the lies so we have a deterioration of truth and therefore a deterioration of e yeah I mean there are a lot of disturbing questions there about why people lie in the first place and what the consequences of that are there are specific reasons why Brett Kavanaugh either shaded the truth or lied depending on how you want to look at it when he was on the stand about whether or not he has ever blacked out or about what the you know reference in his yearbook page to Ranade the being an alumnus of this girl this high school girl Renata said oh well that was just because we were friends that's why I called myself an alumnus of Renato and the inside joke about calling her you know a if you don't like me using that was all over the yearbook and well but you know the question that people didn't get to on cable news and as much as they prognosticated about it was why was he lying why he did a you know he's not a dummy when it comes to a legal proceeding or which is somewhat like what the hearing was and he made a calculated decision that it was better for him to if you want to call it shade the truth or lie than to come clean as risky as his strategy might be to do that under oath he looked at his chances and he said well if I come out and I tell the truth about the fact that maybe sometimes I blacked out as many of his classmates have said he did at the time or must've first of all they can't prove I ever blacked out they can't get in my head and second of all there were not alumnus I can get away with that I'm never gonna get prosecuted for perjury for doing that and if I admit it what kind of a can of worms is that going to open in terms of this proceeding pragmatics yeah and and then then the other side of it is what's the defense or what's the so the one question is why why they line what the consequences are Trump lies for different reasons a different diatribe but anyway the the other question is how you respond to that when you talk about Kellyanne Conway and her alternative facts you know we've been fixated on the idea that if we fat check if we pick out these individual things if Trump says this thing and we prove it wrong on this website PolitiFact then we've done our duty well the thing is if people if demagogues are in the business of creating myths like we talked about with the Nazis the idea the big lie okay that you you create some massive myth and if you bring people over the you know the river the what was the the Rubicon you cross the Rubicon with these people they'll believe anything you say that's what's happened or what's effective is that you create a simple problem a simple solution this is another take on the big lie that gurgles said that you take you create a simple problem a simple solution and you keep repeating that simple solution so what's wrong with our economy what's wrong with our society this invasion of brown people from the south and that's the problem you keep repeating that over and over well the the you know to combat that by fact-checking individual facts when it's a narrative is is like a Maginot Line you know the way the the French built a thing around the French border and then the the the Germans just came around through the metro line didn't work yeah you just go around it so and it doesn't you know so you can sit there trying to you know it's like whack-a-mole you're trying to hit all these individual facts and you're missing the fact that he's managed to sell the story and and the and the the the calling him to task is always later so when he makes the lie it has an effect when somebody calls him out it may not have the same effect because it's later and what troubles me and I put this to you as my last question cuz they're almost out of time yeah is it enough is it enough Julian to count the lies is it enough to say when the president says there's he lied or that he lied and the de counted me you know he had five lives today and in 30 you know tomorrow and all together 13 14 15 hundred lies I mean are we supposed to be bowled over by the fact that it's 1,500 that's a big number you know that's like the species that have been exterminated it's a big number how can we can't really fully appreciate it it's the press telling us the outrageous quality of a president lying do we get that or is that the new normal where people said Oh everybody lies you know it's locker room talk it's no big thing he has to lie that's his job fragment pragmatically speaking can the press do more about this well I mean you know this may sound like a strange response to it but I wonder you know like at a lot of universities they're shutting their philosophy departments and we've gotten really weak as a country at at just remembering some basic philosophical questions and issues I mean one of them would be like we talk about gun control for example and we never questioned our people fundamentally good enough as just a human race that everybody should be entitled to a right to a gun and we spent so many times so much time as liberals arguing regulation without saying wait a minute is there something about human nature and and and then the the Republicans say oh well we we need to deal with the mental health problem in this country well maybe the problem is is human nature but you know to the point about lies with this a simple philosophical point is that lots of little facts are not the same thing as the truth I mean we had a lot of uncomfortableness with Kelly and Conway talking about alternative facts but you know it gets a little bit blurry because on the other hand we're we're not just interested in little fact here little fact there little fact there either you know just like Kelly and Conway says well I can take the facts and do what I want with them well you know on the side that's trying to combat this we have to remember that it's not just about getting this fact this fact in this fact right it's about the truth the truth is not the same thing as an individual fact we've got to weave them together to explain what's really going on and so so even talking the way that I am now about some of the stuff about the basic philosophical grounding we used to have these debates in the 30s and 40s and 50s when a lot of problems of our modern democracy emerged and we've forgotten to have them a lot of times we act like the Constitution is engraved in stone and we forget some of the fundamental assumptions they had that I led them to create the the Constitution in the first place and beware maybe they got some of even those assumptions wrong by creating the system of the electoral college or the way we created you know as we're now seeing this issue of two senators in Wyoming and two senators in California so there's a lot there that just philosophically were we're not rising to the occasion of addressing some of the basic questions I don't think it has to be complicated you don't have to be referring to Kant or you know any of these Heidegger I don't even know my philosophy that well but you know just basic questions of like who are we where are we what do we believe in you know can we when when Facebook would just allow anything on the to allowed to happen in it on its page was it going back to the old beliefs of the Democrats have just let people argue it out and it'll work itself out and is that the problem or you know are there all these other variables that are tilting things so that the worst of human nature is coming out in the internet mmm this is humankind perfectible or imperfecta both can you fool all the people all the time we're gonna find out soon yeah so before we leave let's take a look at your book you wrote a book about Ben Hecht here's the cover of the book tell us in one sentence what this book is about well I mean I think one of the central ideas is is that hacked had very dark views of what I what he call what I call the soul of man so this idea of human nature that I've been talking about he thought that a lot of people might be motivated by the bigotry or dark impulses of prejudice and fear of the other and that's really come to rear its head in the last few years that if you could stir up the kind of tribalistic or bigotry the animosity that we have which is latent in us that you could really create havoc within a you know an undermine a democratic system right using Facebook you can accelerate that whole process thank you so much yeah we really preach to come down I want you to come down again can we talk about this all the time sure Julian Gore back thank you so much Aloha thanks [Music] | ThinkTech Hawaii | UCZ5BKpljxXj4Y8Ut164GnSg | 2018-11-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,721 | 29,444 |
Qqp8FJwl4LQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqp8FJwl4LQ | Deploying Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve | that doesn't even count insurance maintenance or the cost of the car American families are in desperate need of help this summer today we will begin the first in a series of three hearings that the select committee will conduct over the next two weeks to examine the Democratic New Direction energy plan that will not only provide consumers with immediate relief from skyrocketing Energy prices but also to provide long-term solutions that will reduce our energy dependence and help our economy the Bush Administration continues to oppose Democratic proposals that will provide consumers with relief right now and put us on a path to a renewable energy future in the long run our nation's strategic petroleum Reserve currently contains more than 706 million barrels of oil and is filled to over 97 percent of its capacity the highest level in its history more than two weeks ago speaker Pelosi called on President Bush to take action to immediately lower oil prices by deploying oil from this Reserve each day that passes without the Bush Administration taking action is another day that American families and our economy fall deeper into crisis we cannot afford to wait any longer deploying oil from the Strategic petroleum Reserve has driven down prices when it has been used in the past in 1991 when President Bush's father deployed oil from the reserve oil prices fell 33.4 percent in 2000 President Clinton conducted a Time exchange of oil from the spr and prices again immediately dropped by 18.7 percent and in 2005 when President Bush himself released oil following Hurricane Katrina prices fell 9.1 percent that's an average drop in the price of oil of 19.2 percent if we experienced a similar impact now it would mean a 25 reduction in the price of oil but President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress continue to oppose releasing oil to help consumers instead President Bush proposes giving away our nation's beaches and Wilderness areas to Big Oil the bush administration's own energy department has stated that drilling off our coast and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not produce any oil for 10 years and will have an insignificant impact on prices 20 years from now so all that President Bush vice president Cheney and other Republican leaders in Washington have to offer to Consumers who are being shaken down at the pump on a daily basis are the same tired drilling schemes that won't provide any relief whatsoever for 10 to 20 years that is the agenda of the American petroleum Institute not the American people in contrast Democrats in Congress want to provide American families with help in the next 10 to 20 days by deploying our nation's oil Reserve while President Bush is willing to deploy our National Guard Reserves to protect oil fields abroad he continues to refuse to deploy a strategic petroleum Reserve to protect American consumers here at home the Strategic petroleum Reserve is a powerful weapon that the American people have against Big Oil OPEC and the speculators and manipulators that are driving up prices and it is time for President Bush to use it let me now stop and turn to recognize the gentleman from Arizona Mr Shattuck for an opening statement thank you Mr chairman I'll insert my opening statement in the record however I will make a couple of quick comments uh first of all I want to welcome our Witnesses I particularly want to help Mr May who as I know working aggressively to help the airline industry my hometown is the base of an important airline in this nation and I know that the airlines have been crushed by the sudden spike in fuel prices I really hadn't intended to get partisan in this discussion however listen to you Mr chairman I feel somewhat compelled to do so uh certainly I I believe this Pro is one possible Avenue I voted for not putting any more oil into it earlier this year I think acknowledging that that either not putting more oil into the Strategic petroleum Reserve or taking some oil out of the Strategic petroleum Reserve is an intellectual acknowledgment that increasing Supply will have an effect on prices indeed that there is a link between Supply and prices and you say the president is not willing to release oil from the spro and there therefore that's damaging I would turn the tables on you and say regrettably your party is unwilling to do anything about Supply other than the spro and I would note that in the testimony of one of our Witnesses when the president earlier last week I believe on Monday or Tuesday announced that he was willing to open the outer continental shelf which we have put off limits and we put off limits back when gasoline prices were a dollar and thirty or a dollar and forty cents a gallon we continue to keep it off limits from any further production or exploration now that gasoline is four dollars and 12 cents a gallon but when the president left to the executive branch limit restriction on outer continental shelf drilling there was a drop of 6.48 cents in the price of a barrel of oil on the very next day the single largest drop in the price of oil in any one day since 1991. I don't think this is an issue on which we ought to be partisan I think this is an issue on which we need to be very concerned about American consumers particularly about those consumers who are in the worst financial position the people who drive the oldest cars because they can't afford new or more efficient cars the people who live the furthest from work because they can't afford live near where they work and quite frankly we need to be deeply concerned about the American economy it does not serve this nation for us as politicians to be throwing partisan shots back and forth at each other while American businesses for example the American Airline business are suffering when they have to compete with foreign competitors the weak dollar is an issue in this debate some people believe speculation is an issue in this debate and I think anybody with any rationality understands that the tight situation between supply and demand is a part of this problem if we don't address at least every conceivable Pro aspect of this issue and do everything we can we're not serving the American people well for that reason I do command you Mr chairman for holding this hearing and look forward to the testimony of our Witnesses great gentleman's times expired the chair recognizes the gentlelady from California Miss Solis thank you Mr chairman for having this hearing and I thank the witnesses for being here I just want to recall that the other day I while I was being interviewed by Fox News they asked me uh the anchor person asked me if there was really a crisis going on and if we should really be dipping into this bro and I said when is it not a crisis when our people have to pay 460 or more a gallon and people are losing their businesses and I'm talking about people from a district like mine where we've seen prices as high as four dollars for the last eight months and we see no relief and we find that a good number of them a good proportion are spending about 12 percent of their income just on Transportation many who are Transit dependent but many who are driving older cars this did not this crisis did not come upon us because of Democrats taking over the house a year ago this came about because of our lack of investment in renewable energies and yesterday I had the opportunity to hear Mr T Bone Pickens talk of about renewable sources and I was quite surprised to hear what he had to say very enlightened in fact that these are other issues that we need to be focusing in on it's not it can't just be about oil dependency and I think the public and even people from districts like mine get it they know that we have to change our course and we are large consumers of fossil fuels and we need to change that we do care about our planet and the climatic action that's going on we see a hurricane that's going to hit right now in Mexico and Texas it's further going to I think erode our our ability to obtain a more fossil fuel there but I think we need to be looking at investing in other Alternatives and that's what the New Direction in Congress is looking at so I thank our Witnesses and look forward to hearing from you thank you great gentle ladies time has expired the chair recognizes the gentleman from Oregon Mr blumenauer thank you Mr chairman um I appreciate the opportunity for us to explore with our Witnesses the implications of deploying the Strategic petroleum Reserve now given in the course of the last year they have essentially doubled the price of a barrel of oil on the World Market there's been what a two percent increase in World demand there's something else going on here um I seriously doubt that the prospect of some oil supply 20 years from now on the outer shelf or someplace else in the United States was responsible for a a reduction of six dollars a barrel I think the fact that we have been having serious discussion with speaker Pelosi and others including yourself Mr chairman about the wisdom of the redeployment of a small amount of this oil to Signal where we're going and the fact that over the course of the next two or three months there could be a deployment of a small amount of that Reserve but disrupting some of the strategies of people who would manipulate the market I think is very very important and I appreciate your leadership and that of the speaker zeroing in on this I look forward to flooring further with our Witnesses I think this is part of a multi-faceted approach in the short turn to try and squeeze the speculative bubble because there's clearly whether it's ten dollars a barrel or seventy dollars a barrel I don't know the witnesses we've heard before this committee and others have not been in agreement but there's clear that that is part of the issue put in place with a comprehensive approach to energy broadening our sources wherever they are and not being Reliant on a fossil fuel petroleum-based economy I welcome the call from the former vice president about setting our sights high it's something you and the speaker have been doing I look forward to exploring these elements with our Witnesses in a few moments thank you very much thank the gentleman the chair recognizes the gentle lady from Tennessee Miss Blackburn okay my the little button it's not working thank you Mr chairman and I thank you for the hearing and our Witnesses I thank you very much for being with us today we are looking forward to visiting with you and hearing what you have to say on uh the issue and on the release of the portion of the Strategic petroleum Reserve should that be undertaken but I will tell you that is an action that I do not support I don't think that oil should be taken out of the SBR unless there is a genuine emergency where supplies have been cut off and I think the situation that we face with instability in the Middle East shows us that an SBR release would not be the wisest move that we could make at this point I think this issue is very different than when Congress passed a bill with my support to stop filling the spr this brought more oil supply to the market it did not significantly affect our emergency supply and it provided temporary immediate relief to the American Consumer but what really is behind this initiative is I think the failure of the majority's leadership to have a comprehensive or a rational energy policy and they're not listening to what my constituents and certainly what most Americans are saying and what they are demanding of us when it comes to energy policy they want us the American people want us to get to work on this and to do something that is going to affect long term they want us to drill here drill now they want to end up paying less so I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say today and I appreciate the fact that we are having the hearing to approach the issue I yield back great gentle lady's time has expired the chair recognizes the gentleman from Washington State Mr Ensley I'd just like to say I think a small release from the spro is entirely appropriate but I want to respond to this sort of Continuum Canard that somehow Democrats aren't for increasing supply of energy in fact were for an increasing supply of energy as proposed by a famous Republican T-Bone Pickens who addressed our caucus yesterday and said we got enormous amounts of energy blown in the wind a fellow just invested four billion dollars of building the world's largest wind turbine Farm in Texas where Democrats are for is to really expand our source of energy but not just in oil and and we're seeing the doe that's told us we can have 20 percent of our electricity from electricity that can power our cars and this is the great vision that Democrats have of powering our cars with electricity either through the use of Lithium-ion batteries or throwers T-Bone Pickens has suggested displacing it use natural gas and use natural gas for cars rather than residential you can argue about which one is going to win the race natural gas or Lithium-ion batteries but Democrats are providing a vision for more energy we know there is not enough energy off of our Coastline to make an appreciable difference in the price of fuel because it's less than one half a percent of world oil supplies but we also know that we are blessed with enormous supplies of energy in wind in our water in our sunshine in our engineered geothermal and these are the sources of energy that finally can break the slavery that we now are suffering under to oil and the only way to break slavery in these chains of this addiction provide new sources of energy they're not oil we are for increasing Supply in the places where we can really make a difference and we're going to get that job done thanks great gentleman's times expire the chair recognizes the gentleman from California Mr McNerney thank you Mr chairman today's hearing is both timely and important I believe that the Strategic petroleum Reserve is the exact right tool to go after speculators and to make sure that the market is being controlled in a strategic way um we don't need to use very much of the Strategic petroleum Reserve small amounts uh 5 million barrels uh once a week or once a month should discourage speculation but I want to hear it from the experts to understand what you think is possible and how you think that will affect the market uh and if you think that that will discourage speculation and if so how and if not what can we do to make sure that does um so I welcome your testimony uh in in my district we've seen some of the highest prices of gasoline in the nation people are definitely hurting in fact I have to drive over a very large District so I feel the pain from high price of gasoline so we all want to find a solution I don't think it it uh it enhances the problem by pointing fingers at each other but it does enhance it by discussing a rationally what the future will look like how we can use a strategic petroleum reserve and what other long-term objectives we need to uh to go after so thank you Mr chairman great gentlemen's time is expired chair recognizes the gentleman from New York Mr Hall thank you Mr chairman um I would Echo uh Mr ensley's remarks and say I personally am uh I don't own any drilling equipment but I I'm not stopping anybody from Drilling in fact I'm I'd be very happy if the oil companies would drill on the 68 million Acres they've already leased and permitted in the lower 48 and adjacent uh offshore plots but that can't be and won't be the long-term solution because we just don't have and in fact the world will not have enough oil to last forever in New York this morning gas prices are averaging 4.27 4.27 in some places four dollars and fifty cents like the rest of the country they have been high for weeks and in the last week as the price of crude fell the price of gasoline at the pump continued to climb once again showing the disconnect that I think should be looked into by the CFC uh uh consumer products trading Commission in an area like ours we're commuting is not so much a lifestyle Choice as it is a necessity this is an economic for families that are already being squeezed by higher consumer costs we didn't dig our way into this hole overnight and we need to keep pushing the Visionary new solutions that this committee and this Congress have tried to advance advance President Bush has often alluded to the fact that he can't simply wave a magic wand to make gas prices go down but in fact he does have a magic wand to give us some slack immediately the spr the release of oil from the spr is a tested proven secure and effective method of calming markets and lowering prices the last three presidents have successfully used spr oil to head off serious economic damage and dangerous record spikes I would also note that the oil in the spr has been put there through the royalty in kind program for exploration of Public public lands meaning that the oil in the spr is the American people's oil and the administration should use it to help them now today I look forward to hearing from our panelists about the best way to do to do just that and I yield back great gentleman's time has expired and all time for opening statements has been completed we'll now turn to uh first witness Mr Kyle Simpson who is currently the policy director for Brownstein Hyatt Faber and Shrek Mr Simpson has formally served in a number of positions at the department of energy including associate deputy secretary of energy and Senior policy advisor to the secretary and those roles Mr Simpson's responsibilities included policy development and direction for the Strategic petroleum Reserve we thank you for being here today Mr Simpson whenever you are ready please begin thank you Mr chairman uh good morning to the members of the committee and thank you for asking me to appear here today the history of Market reaction to releases of crude oil from the reserve shows that strategically deploying oil from the spr is good public policy and can have an immediate beneficial impact on crude oil gasoline and other petroleum product prices spr experience also shows that the downturn of gasoline and other prices is apt to occur with the mere announcement or their anticipation of an announcement of a release I will focus on some of the details of the results of the actions taken by the reserve including the release of oil before the first Gulf War the announcement of the sale in 1996 the 2000 exchange of oil and the announcement of a release after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. each of these releases from the reserve are good examples of the implications that can be the result of a release they provide insights into the results of actions by the reserve in response to real anticipated or perceived oil and in some cases product supply shortages or to send messages to overly heated markets that the U.S government is prepared to use the reserve to protect consumers the sale of oil from the spr in concert with the first Gulf War was announced on January 16 1991 in anticipation of the impending conflict the disruption on which the finding was based had not actually occurred in the face of impending military conflict the administration utilized the spr's anticipatory authorities for the drawdown on January 17th the price of oil fell from 32.25 to 21.48 and stabilized in the Omnibus Appropriations act for 1996 the Congress directed doe to sell 227 million dollars worth of oil to achieve the overall budget Target for the year at that time retail gasoline prices were climbing shortly after the law was enacted at President Clinton implemented the sale of approximately 12 million barrels from the SBR the decision to sell the oil immediately resulted in a downturn in gasoline prices on April 29 and 30 that continued through the first week of October of that year the principal impact of the announced sale was psychological temporary temporarily halting the bullish pressures in the market and led to a reversal in both crude and product prices selling oil is not the only way the spr can be used to help alleviate price problems in 2000 home heating oil inventories were extremely low and President Clinton gave then secretary Bill Richardson the authority to exchange the third 30 million barrels from the spr to the market as a result as the chairman pointed out in his opening statement oil prices dropped 34 percent by the end of the year going from 30.94 to 20.38 20.38 per barrel after Hurricane Katrina prices began to rise very dramatically because of disruptions in productive capacity in the Gulf on September 2nd 2005 President George W bush issued a finding of severe energy Supply Interruption and directed the secretary to withdraw and sell oil from the reserve the announcement of after the announcement and that in each of these cases it's the announcement that causes the price to change the actual movement of oil occurs Weeks Later the price dropped from 69.50 to 66.91 the next day and continue to steady decline for several months the price did not exceed the peak until April of 2006 at that point the refilling of the reserve was suspended for another year uh it's difficult to know the exact impact of of a of a release but as these releases indicate the psychological impact and the fact that more oil is going into the market causes the price has caused the price to go down for extended periods of time it has to be a substantial amount of a release in order to have that effect but I think some of the proposals that are being considered today uh or by the Congress would be substantial I also want to point out that you have a unique opportunity to utilize the spr to address the current energy crisis in a way that can add to significant funding for new Alternative Energy clean energy for the future if you took the GAO advice to release oil light oil from the reserve which is all it contains right now in contrast to the for some 40 percent of heavy oil that our refining industry uses today and did an exchange over time and allowed the department to to make decisions as to when that oil would be would be so so released and when it would be brought back the price differential that GAO has estimated is about 12 a barrel between light and heavy oil if you monetized that differential over the the 70 70 million barrels you could bring in more than 800 million dollars into the government that that is not anticipated under the current budget and use that for many purposes but one that I would suggest would be is a down payment on the next generation of clean domestic energy resources I see that I'm about to run out I have run out of time so I would just want to point that out and make those suggestions I hope the history of the reserve has been helpful and I thank you for asking me to come today thank you Mr Simpson very much our next witness is Dr Joe roam who is a senior fellow at the center for American progress he also served in the department of energy in a number of capacities including acting assistant secretary and principal Deputy assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and renewable energy he has written extensively on the Strategic petroleum Reserve we welcome you Dr Rome thank you Mr chairman members of the committee I have three main points first we tried offshore drilling in 2006 and oil prices doubled second the only plausible remaining strategy for reducing oil prices quickly is opening up the Strategic petroleum Reserve while making a major push for oil conservation third I think we're going to sell off the Strategic Reserve by mid-century anyway so why not do it now when consumers need the relief and we can use the money to help end our oil addiction we must be honest with the public oil prices are headed much higher over the next five to ten years unless we jump start the transition to low-cost alternative fuels something even Oil Man t-boon Pickens has said some insist that more offshore drilling will lower prices but that is the one strategy we know has failed we tried opening up most of the Gulf of Mexico to offshore drilling two years ago but oil prices have doubled since then ending the moratorium on Coastal drilling where there is maybe one-fifth the oil already available for drilling in the Gulf offers no realistic hope for reducing oil prices indeed the bush administration's own energy experts have made the same point but selling a relatively modest amount of crude oil from the Strategic Reserve while promoting oil conservation could pop the speculative bubble and lower oil prices it worked very well when President Bush's father did it during Desert Storm as you heard from Kyle and as my chart in the testimony shows hopefully someone will flip that chart over there we as Kyle said we only uh the president merely announced that he would sell 34 million barrels and as you can see oil that had started to to spike up in price immediately collapsed and it was about a a one-third drop uh over the course of a day or two uh so what would so imagine what would happen if uh the current President Bush announced that he would announce today he was going to sell three times as much oil 90 million barrels over the next six months at the rate of 500 000 barrels a day I uh Advocate combining that sale with a strong push for oil conservation uh this president or more realistically the next president uh should use his bully pulpit to launch a national oil conservation education campaign urging consumers and businesses to take a variety of steps to reduce gasoline use that could easily double the oil provided by the Strategic Reserve now if oil prices did drop uh as a result of these actions as I expect then obviously that would vindicate this strategy but if oil prices did not drop that would merely demonstrate how useless the Strategic Reserve was in the first place uh and you know I I try to make this point in my testimony the Strategic Reserve is not strategic it was created at a time when people worried that countries could withhold oil from us but now we have a global market so that isn't possible we have replaced the possibility of oil shortages with the reality of rising prices so if we don't use the Strategic Reserve to deal with our current price spike when would we ever use it indeed I've asked people all the time name me a scenario in which we would use to strategic Reserve any significant fraction of it after all in the entire three decade history of the Strategic reserve a mere 32 million barrels were sold during crises and we now have 700 million barrels so we're not and I I think we're not going to keep this relatively useless reserve for many more decades as you know better than anyone Mr chairman we need to be almost completely off of oil by mid-century to avoid catastrophic global warming so sometime soon we're going to sell off this Bros oil because I can't imagine the taxpayers and and their representatives are going to seriously sit on a hundred billion dollars sitting under the mattress forever it's just it's not going to happen we're going to sell it off so why not do it now when we can use the price relief and we could generate tens of billions of dollars this year uh and in coming years some of that could help low-income families deal with high energy bills and some could jump start the transition to a clean energy economy and end our oil addiction gasoline prices are headed much much higher unless we begin an aggressive switch to the only domestic alternative fuel that is both abundant and much cheaper than gasoline namely electricity we need to start spending billions of dollars accelerating the deployment of plug-in hybrids Energy Efficiency recycled energy wind power solar photovoltaics and solar base load in conclusion some argue that oil prices will drop if we end the federal moratorium on Coastal drilling even that even though that would only deliver maybe a hundred thousand barrels of oil a day sometime after 2020. and I just don't understand how how anyone can believe in more Coastal Drilling and oppose releasing 500 000 barrels of oil a day starting now uh of course the first strategy would benefit oil companies and the second strategy would benefit the American people so that may explain who supports what thank you thank you Mr Rome and our Final witness uh is uh Mr Jim May Mr May is the president and CEO of the Air transport Association the nation's oldest and largest airline trade Association uh Mr May has been with ATA since 2003. we welcome you sir whenever you are ready please begin thank you Mr chairman I would I would note that one of the first things I did within two weeks of joining ATA in 2003 was to ask for a release from the spro where the publicly before the Senate energy committee so there is a little bit of precedent to our position first thank you and the other members of Congress and the committee for your leadership in assuring that we do not continue to fill this bro at these extraordinary prices I don't have to convince you that high oil prices are smothering our nation's families taking an especially heavy toll on Aviation but also Trucking and Agriculture and hospitality industry and other key sectors that help Drive the U.S economy or this morning oil was trading at about 126 and change versus 75 dollars a year ago that's well over four dollars a barrel for American families I would also note for you that due to limited refining capacity and Global demand jet fuel jet a which we burn costs as much as thirty dollars a barrel more than gasoline so we've been paying it you know upwards of 170 dollars a barrel which is uh significantly greater than in 2007 in fact we're going to spend 62 billion dollars as an industry domestically this year on fuel that's about 20 billion dollars more and accounts for the 10 billion dollars were projected to lose in this calendar year to give you a perspective on a per consumer base we're spending today about seven cents per mile for each of the passengers that we carry that's a fuel bill of about 420 dollars of per person and when you consider that our average a round-trip ticket across all classes and all distances is probably in the range of four to five hundred dollars you begin to get an appreciation for how difficult an equation we're trying to deal with and deal with it we are but not in happy ways we've cut thirty two thousand jobs over a hundred communities have lost service or will lose service and you know it is having a devastating effect on the economy a lot of reasons we've talked about them this morning the weak dollar increasing demand in developing economies insufficient exploration and refining capacity geopolitical instability and all of those things I would suggest to you that there are also a number of solutions in in no particular order increasing domestic Supply conservation alternative fuels is critical to the Future reining in unchecked speculation a subject that we've become well known for talking about for some period of time is critical and I think a third component the Third Leg of that stool if you will is a release from the Strategic Reserve now increasing our domestic supplies will reduce our dependence on foreign oil help lower prices I think a release from the spro is a good first step we have 706 million barrels it's over 97 percent full we suggest as the SEC as the speaker has that a 10 release which is roughly 70 million barrels would make a very Market increase you've heard the testimony this morning about pricing when uh President Bush did it back during Desert Storm it was about a 38 percent drop I would suggest a framework for that release one if it's going to be released don't let people know in advance don't let the markets know in advance just do it on a timed basis two make sure it's light sweet crude not sour that's being released three restore U.S commercial inventories they're down about 58 to 60 million barrels and that that roughly equates to the 70 10 percent that we're suggesting and finally two things dedicate the revenue as has been suggested this morning to uh development of alternative fuels we're working on biofuels projects for Aviation use for example and set up a framework for continuing to do this as conditions dictate triggers Target something of that sort that would be worthwhile so as I said we we think the speaker's proposal on a 10 percent release would be would be appropriate and positive I would also note that there is another Reserve it's the New England heating oil Reserve which could be worthy of consideration for a release and then a refill before the winner comes and finally Mr chairman um let me reiterate what what I what I started with we think this is a three-legged stool we think that rather than engaging in an exercise and who's to blame for high fuel prices Congress ought to immediately embark on a program of how we can share credit for solving the high fuel prices we need more Supply the Republicans introduced a package yesterday that many in the majority party won't like but I think it is absolutely worth consideration two I think as I've said before the speakers plan on releasing from the spro and three Mr stupak's pump act which I think does a terrific job of trying to attack rampant speculation in the marketplace we need all three and any other solution we've got thousands of people out of work more coming more communities are going to lose service and we need the Congress to address this before the August recess if at all possible thank you thank you Mr may very much and now we'll turn to questions from the committee of members uh Mr May one of the arguments that is made about the deployment of the Strategic petroleum Reserve is that we're not in an emergency uh what does the airline industry have as a response to that assertion uh Mr chairman I think there are at least 32 000 families who have had a breadwinner that's lost a job in my industry that would suggest this is absolutely an emergency I would suggest all of those communities that are losing service the people who can't move as efficiently and rapidly around the country would suggest this is an emergency I I support the continued use of the spro I think from a strategic tactical perspective it's important but I think there are also times when it ought to be used to address the economic emergency that exists in this country and and so I would suggest to you there is ample reason to have a controlled release Mr Rome Mr Simpson you both worked at the department of energy does the economic condition that we are now being confronted with qualify under the law as a situation where the president could deploy the Strategic petroleum Reserve Mr Simpson under the under the the law the definition of uh is really somewhat vague it can be interpreted in in many different ways there is a strong reluctance to use uh economic concerns but the definition of an emergency uh as a result of of inadequate supplies can be fairly Broad and the flexibility uh that the secretary has to do emergency or test drawdowns test sales different types of things is fairly discretionary so I if Mr May's definition of an emergency is people losing jobs I think that could be part of the definition do you agree with that Mr Wrong absolutely uh I would also add that if you had described current conditions today to us in the Clinton Administration and said would you release a spro now I think everybody absolutely would have I mean we debated it under situation that was far more mild than it is today what so Mr Simpson what are the if any operational obstacles to the deployment of the Strategic petroleum Reserve in the shot run um I don't think there are any uh operational obstacles to releasing it the implications of an exchange that I talked about uh would be actually positive in the long term for the reserve because we would begin to make the the capacity of the oil in the reserve more reflect the 40 percent of the refining industries use of heavy oil I think we're in we have uh we're we're in Jeopardy here we've got a hurricane coming in and down in Texas if it had turned South and gone into Mexico and disrupted some of the heavy oil production uh down there we wouldn't have a way to replace that heavy oil using the Strategic petroleum Reserve so you're saying releasing light crew now and replacing it with heavy crude is something which is consistent with industry practices and needs very much so okay thank you um and uh Mr Rome we've already seen A disruption of heavy oil imports from Latin America under Hugo Chavez's regime in 2002 both GAO and the department of energy have concluded that including some amount of heavy oil in the spr would would be wise do you agree with that conclusion Mr May that uh Mr Simpson just reached I'm not sure I followed the question Mr churn do I agree with which statement the statement that Mr Simpson just made that having more heavy crude would actually be something that could yeah I I I'm not an expert on heavy versus light I can tell you this that that to the extent you're releasing the light you're making it available to all of the refineries in the United States there are a number of refineries that cannot process uh heavy sour and and so replacing that with heavy sour is a is a perfectly sound strategy and releasing light sweet will have the most immediate impact on the refineries all being able to use it and for the consumer to get gasoline jet a diesel fuel Etc okay now let me just conclude by asking this question of each of you quickly if we did pass legislation which said to the president deploy 10 of the Strategic petroleum Reserve over the next five or six months without telling him which day of the week to do it uh but if there was something happening in Iran and Nigeria other parts of the world he could deploy a million barrels of oil on the couple of days before or after that incident and maybe not deploy anything for a week or so after that would that have in your opinion a downward pressure on the price of oil if the president had that Authority and had to deploy 70 million barrels over a five or six month period Mr Simpson uh I believe it would and in looking at the history I think that's that's the case if you add the government as a player and they're people who Advocate both sides but if you have to put the government in as a player it it makes it more difficult to accurately predict as speculators would like to do what the oil price would be in the future Dr Brown I would agree with that I mean obviously it assumes that the president would make use of that Authority but if the president were willing to make use of the authority I don't think it would have any question that it would it would have a downward pressure on prices Mr may it would have a downward presser okay thank you my time is expired the chair recognizes the gentleman from Arizona Mr Shattuck thank you Mr chairman Mr Simpson I want to begin with you I have some questions about your knowledge of prior drawdowns in your testimony how many drawdowns did you cover or or in your analysis uh four four in each of those instances prices fell yes um can you tell me what the percentage reduction was each time of the overall spro and five percent thirty percent fifty percent um it was not I'd have to go back and look at the math but it was in the range let's say they offered um 34 million Barrels in 1991 and we had about um I think about nearly 600 million barrels in the Reserve at that time so it would have been a um you know a five percent reduction um do you ever recall if any of them were more than the 10 which Mr May has expressed support for uh no they have not been okay you said that the current law is vague and the vagueness goes to the issue of whether it's supposed to be used for a military emergency I take it versus an economic situation like we face now is that right actually it's usually viewed as a as a supply disruption uh it's been used in the in 91 it was a military in 2005 it was a hurricane Mr Rome testified that he could see no circumstance under which our supply of foreign oil could be cut off um uh by closing apparently not the closing of The Straits of Hormuz nor a war with Iraq nor a war with the was whoever in the Middle East uh that under no circumstance because we have a World Market that our supply would be either cut off or dramatically reduced at least that's what I understood him and say I'll ask him in just a moment um uh would you agree with that there are circumstances where the global Supply could be diminished where a circumstance where the U.S supply could be cut off I don't think exists um right it could be reduced but not cut off right presumably um is there a safe in your mind or an unsafe level of drawdown that we could do 10 would be safe given what might happen to us that we don't answer fast fate versus uh 90 might be unsafe or or do you think it doesn't matter um I think the way the reserve is put together that if you talk about a 10 reduction and if some of the proposals that I've heard we would never actually be 10 short if you look at the reserve and let's just pick pick West Hackberry or Brian Mound they're they're comprised of many different caverns and so you could draw one Cavern down uh draw another one down then begin to replenish it as market conditions played I need to get to Mr ROM Mr ROM did I misstate your position well I thought I heard you say as a matter of fact I took notes that there just is no circumstance under which we would need to draw it greater than now and I presume that means even a war or even a cutting off of The Straits of Hormuz well what I tried to say was I ask people to describe me the scenario I have never heard a plausible scenario I mean if you shut down the streets of horror moves I mean I guess it would depend on the circumstances but obviously the price of oil would Skyrocket immediately and I'm not certain the Strategic Patrol Reserve would have any impact uh I mean but in 30 years we've never released more than 30 million barrels so it's it's very hard to say or sometime in the near future we're going to need 500 million barrels to to release it's just there's no historical evidence that any circumstance like that would ever happen Mr May uh as I understand your testimony it's essentially all of the above uh we at least a three-legged stool we need to be doing everything we can that is that is correct we support the continued existence of the spro but we think a 10 drawdown would be positive economic news uh we think that supply side has to be part of the equation you and I have talked about that many times in the past and we think that there there has to be a strong credible no-nonsense approach to speculation in the marketplace and think that Mr stupak's Bill does a terrific job of addressing that um you did two quick points and then I want to have a follow-up question Mr may you did note that the price of oil dropped 16 roughly following the president's announcement yes sir it's it's all due to ata's efforts on speculation congratulations appreciate that well I don't really care what I'm with you I don't care what the cause is I don't either I just and and I want to give everybody credit I don't want any for us I just want to get the prices down I like the idea let me ask you for one more piece of advice let's say that uh we pass legislation now uh directing say a 10 reduction in this Pro and we also pass the pump act uh Mr stupak had a witness at his hearing who I believe has advised your industry who said that if the pump act were to pass his testimony was price the price of oil would drop by 50 in 30 days Mr stupak himself being somewhat more humble and afraid that that might not be true on the floor last week said that he believed that the pump act were to draw were to be passed and signed into law and for the purpose of my question let's assume it is so we do this Pro and we do the pump act Mr stupak said the price of oil would drop by 30 percent in 30 days my question of you is let's assume we do both those before the August break to help the American people and let's assume that let's give Mr supac and the spro time to work let's say 45 days from now the price of oil is only is not down at all what would you then suggest we do uh Mr Shattuck at that point if first of all I very strongly believe that if you do both of those things it will have a huge impact downward impact on prices if God forbid it doesn't then I think you've got to go the supply side even though it may have a minimal short-term effect and there is going to be some short-term effect as well as long term uh I I I'm not I'm not smart enough to know beyond that what else there is to do do you buy the 30 to 50 figure I don't know that I buy 30 to 50 percent but but I what I do buy is most of the experts suggesting that the normalized cost of production which is the fancy term for what should oil sell for today in a real world market supply and demand being what it is China India dollar Etc is probably about 75 to 80 bucks a barrel and if it's trading at 126 this morning then we've got a long way to go to get there thank you gentleman's time has expired the chair recognizes the gentle lady from California Miss Solis thank you Mr chairman my question is for Dr Rahm you know when I go back to my district people say well why do we not have more Supply available and why are we not drilling what would your response be to average person on the street about what that means I mean clearly we have to articulate that what you said earlier about drilling that those supplies won't be made available for another 20 years what are some good things that we could be telling our constituents about the reality of what's really happening out well I think people need to understand that it is you know it took us two or three decades to get into this mess uh certainly many of us have been urging for quite some time that we need a much more aggressive strategy on fuel efficiency and alternative fuels I'm not certain that's a lot of comfort uh uh to your constituents I certainly would tell them that in 2006 Congress opened up most of the Gulf of Mexico uh to Drilling and according to the Energy Information Administration the bush administration's own eia there's about 41 billion barrels there and we've gotten that we've found about 7 billion in the last two years um now the the coastal drilling I don't know what else to call it because I think the public is confused they think we're not drilling offshore we are doing a lot of drilling and exploring offshore um according to the Ia there's about 18 billion barrels uh which is a lot less than what's in the gulf and it should be pointed out that of the 18 billion that the moratorium applies to 10 billion is off of California and I think if we left it up to the state of California they're probably we wouldn't be doing any drilling so we're not talking about much oil and I think the notion that if we opened up 40 billion Barrels in in 2006 to be drilled and since then oil prices have doubled the possibility that if you ended the moratorium to a lot less oil anything would happen to oil prices is absurd and I think it is incumbent upon political leaders like yourself to just give the public straight talk I understand that the higher oil prices are the more people believe hey we should we should drill more we are drilling flat out we have been and I'm sure you have the statistics that the Congress the White House has been opening up land onshore and off share for drilling I wanted to change the subject a little bit we we talk about uh gearing up for renewable energy new technologies we we had a Bill signed into law by the president last year our Energy bill that included uh Green Job the green jobs act can you give me some insight there about how this plays into getting our dependency off of fossil fuels and what that means and maybe also Mr may could talk a little bit about that too because of your industry and how you were driven and and how how this transition may impact your uh your area so very quickly sure well I think it's very clear this year we're going to send 700 billion dollars American consumers are going to spend 700 billion dollars overseas to purchase oil and and as as t-boon has said there's no prospect that that number is going to be lower for the next 10 years that's going to be seven trillion dollars obviously it would make a great deal of sense to spend money in this country on plug-in hybrids win power Solar photovoltaics Energy Efficiency and keep the money in America paying people to do insulation to build better cars Etc than to send trillions of dollars overseas so that is the criticism we get though if I could just quickly say is that we're actually going to decrease the number of jobs here at home so so that's an argument that is being used by the other side of the aisle against us now that if we reinvest it's going to take away from those jobs that currently exist like well we're importing almost you know about two-thirds of our oil so 700 billion dollars out of let's say a trillion we're going to spend on oil this year is just going to go to Saudi Arabia uh it's just going to go to Venezuela it's going to go to Russia it's going to make create jobs in those countries I don't see how that's 700 billion dollars can do anything for Americans if we could spend a couple trillion dollars over the next 10 or 20 years invest in this country and then reduce that from 700 billion dollars to a couple hundred billion dollars we'd be bringing back a half a trillion dollars each year keeping it in this country I just think it it makes obvious sense that that is the way to economic health and well-being Mr may just quickly I know what my times run out um I think that two quick points to make number one the Aviation Space the aviation sector uh feels that being environmentally sound is in its own best interest for one very simple reason we are totally carbon intense receive right now in terms of our fuel and so the less we burn the more environmentally friendly we're going to be and we are desperate to spend less money on fuel in whatever way we can Next Generation air traffic control you know winglets we can go down a long list of things that we're working on I'd love to hear more about what that cost would mean or or investment that would be made we'll we'll be happy to provide that to you thank you thank you Mr chairman okay gentle ladies times expired the chair recognizes the gentleman from California Mr McNerney thank you Mr chairman I'm sorry excuse me I don't recognize yeah I thought um excuse me thank you well I wanted to follow up on Ms Elise point uh because it seems to me that saving a quarter trillion half a trillion dollars reinvesting it here helping uh the United States moved from a position where we waste more energy than any country in the world to being ready for the next generation of Generation Um and I wanted to start Mr may just if we were to have 10 20 30 40 billion dollars over the course of the next five years that we can accelerate investments in helping Industries like yours reduce your carbon footprint sure what impact could that potentially make if there's an extra say 10 billion dollars available to subsidize a new generation of of aircraft retiring the elements of the fleet that may not be necessary because of changing uh configurations of the market what well the congressman the reality is we're in an economic crisis we're going to lose 10 billion dollars this year that's 10 billion dollars we're not going to invest new Boeing aircraft for instance or a number of other changes so you know trying to figure out what sort of national investment needs to be made I think should be a high priority and it ranges from uh more money going into the development of biofuels biomass Boeing has a project they did they debuted at the farnsboro air show just this last week to environmentally sensitive CTL to a whole range of different Technologies Next Generation air traffic control can save us billions and billions of dollars and and and hundreds of millions of metric tons of CO2 in in the uh in the course of a plane trip is the takeoff in the landing the most energy intensive part of the trip I'm gonna guess it is Congressman blumenauer but I am not sufficiently expert to answer that but without a doubt I can get an answer I would appreciate uh your uh information your reference uh that uh it's costing seven cents per passenger mile for future today uh I am interested in the in how that buries in terms of trip distance uh that that that figure is an average figure across all but I'll get you the detail great thank you very much um I am uh interested in in these this notion about uh a sustained drawdown for a while if we don't need uh 706 million barrels of oil and I think I'm not quite where you are yet Dr Rome but I do think there's strong evidence that we could get by with hundreds of uh millions of barrels less that that were transitioned into the fuel supply system so that there is something that's sustainable over the next two or three years and concurrently the revenue that is generated from that would be available to help the transition of Technologies to bump this up that it would be sort of a double benefit I mean I still am stunned that a two percent World increase in demand has over the course of the last year we've seen prices double there is something going on in terms of speculation and Market manipulation it seems to me without Quest question but using the spro and a significant amount of it for reinvestment as a longer term strategy so that we have a three to five year bridge that we can make a difference I'm wondering if if you would care to comment on that notion sure well we could sell 500 000 barrels of oil a day for four years and run through the entire spray so you can sort of decide for yourself how much of a spray you think we need uh it's hard for me to believe we need even half of the current sprow uh again we've if we had ha if the spray were half as big as it is now it would still be ten times the size of the amount of oil we've ever released during crises so you know running half a million barrels of oil a day for two years obviously uh would have an impact on prices and would generate a lot of Revenue uh to make to you know jump start the clean energy transition but you can ask Kyle's opinion yeah I I disagree somewhat with Joe I I do think we need to have a strong robust strategic petroleum Reserve I do however think we ought to use it it seems silly to have an investment of that magnitude in the ground and not be willing to use it for things like helping to pay for the transition the r d that we need for the next generation of clean energy but just would you feel comfortable if we were making a strategic allocation of a hundred to two hundred million barrels over the next two to five years as we're trying to work this through is that something that's within your comfort level absent some other development I I don't know that I would go that big I like the idea of this of this Exchange I think the exchange Works uh what we suggested in testimony congressman is that you set up a framework for how it would be used you may set Target prices a fill below a certain level as Congress has already directed uh release above a certain price level use it as a safety mechanism to balance out uh what's going on thank you very much thank you Mr chairman great gentleman's time has expired the chair recognizes the General in California Mr McNerney thank you Mr chairman Mr Rahm I was actually quite uh I don't say startled but surprised by your prediction that the spr would be gone by mid-century my personal feeling I think lies more with Mr Simpson we ought to keep that around specific for the kind of purpose that we needed for today to keep the market speculation in check and you've shown with your testimony that geez that's been done a couple of times in the past it works why don't we keep some of this stuff around just for that purpose of nothing else um but I believe that we're that there's a sufficient Supply oil out there today I'm not talking about five years from now or ten years from now but there's a sufficient supply of oil out there today at the spr can be used to start um a medium-term drop in the oil prices do you all agree with that the the spr can be used in in the light of a adequate Supply today to to initiate a medium-term drop in in prices I I believe it can and I think that you can if you do it right you can help also address the next problem which is we need to get off of oil so if you use the Strategic petroleum Reserve to help keep the prices in in a reasonable band whatever that may be and use the money that is generated to help develop the technology to move us on to the next Generation then it's serving the Dual Purpose and look could I just say sure imagine what happens if we don't use it now that means we're sending a signal to the market that there is never going to be a price or economic reason we will ever release it so that's just going to encourage the speculators hey they've got all this oil they're never going to use it's just crazy really well uh I see the Strategic petroleum I'm Reserve being used to decrease the price I think that's going to happen maybe in the next presidency but what I don't want to see is that uh since we're at importing what 60 to 70 percent of our Oil we're still a very high risk for our economy for our future but fortunately we have the technology coming out today uh with plug-in hybrids with all electric vehicles that if the FED does its job in encouraging the American consumers to become efficient within a decade or so we'll see most new vehicles being plug-in hybrids or all electric and the whole oil price issue will be a non-issue like it is today I mean I think that's perfectly within the realm of possibility do you agree with that um I agree with half of that I just think that what is happening in China and India means that uh if we did make this aggressive switch to plug-in hybrids we would Shield the American Consumer from high oil prices but I don't know that we would with lower oil prices because demand is just going to grow as you see the urbanization and industrialization of the developing world my reason for advocating the transition to clean energy and plug-in hybrids is that fuel is substantially cheaper than gasoline so if you own a plug-in hybrid you don't care really what the price of gasoline is I would hope if we could get China and India to transition over to electric vehicles and clean energy then we might be able to bring the price of oil down especially if we're manufacturing those items and sending them over there but so I I think we're pretty much on agreement if we get ahead of the efficiency curve then we're going to be insulated from the high PR from the high prices that are inevitably going to come one other question the Strategic petroleum Reserve is there it's a it's a resource for us is there a specific legislation that any one of you would recommend in terms of how we would legislate using that in the future uh there is a piece of legislation of H.R 6067 that was introduced by Congressman Lamson and co-sponsored by the chairman and and others on the committee uh that would uh create uh would cause an exchange and then would reinvest any Revenue that was gained as a result of the price differential between light and heavy crude would be invested in energy r d uh across the board that's been authorized by the Congress but the money's not been available to fully fund those programs thank you I'm going to uh yield back gentleman's time has expired the chair recognized the gentleman from The Awkward the hall thank you Mr chairman um Mr May it's good to see you again sir and uh it's a pleasure interested to see that you uh that ATA considers this an emergency my constituents considered this current situation in emergency in New York's 19th District uh I'm hearing from people who can't afford the gas to drive to a job interview I'm hearing from school districts who are wondering how they're going to power their buses and whether to be able to uh or whether it be required to reduce the number of bus runs by cramming kindergartners on the same bus with high schoolers to save on diesel fuel uh I'm hearing from families that are having to choose between uh an extra a third meal in a day and uh gasoline so as badly as the Gulf Coast was hit during Katrina and not to diminish by any means the suffering that they are still going through down there uh in the recovery uh the attempted recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita nonetheless the impression we have in New York in the 19th District anyway and and that I hear from others around the country is that as a whole our economy is suffering more today than it was during and after Hurricane Katrina the impact that there is being had by the increase in gas prices on the economy across the board whether it's aircraft uh cost of goods that it's uh being increased uh difficulty in tourism industry or Trucking industry or go on down the list is more widespread and more pervasive and more of a crisis than it was when we were hit by those two hurricanes in a row so I would make the argument that this is a crisis and that there should be a release I'm happy to hear all of you uh saying that and I guess the question is how much over what period of time um and I totally agree that using the uh benefit we're actually stand to uh for the first time maybe ever have the taxpayer sell something that it bought earlier and make a profit at it uh most of the oil there I would guess we bought it less than fifty dollars a barrel about 30. well I brought average around 30. so if we sell it at uh you know 120 130 whatever it may be may come down a little bit once this starts to be known it'll nonetheless be at least double what we paid for it and it is as uh Mr Simpson has said an opportunity for us to use uh this profit whether it's a swap or an outright sale to bring renewable fuels and alternative fuels to Market and start to get ourselves uh an alternative a competitor for oil last night tibune Pickens spoke to our caucus I understand he also spoke to the Republican caucus as well and uh he has a very interesting plan that he's heavily investing in in himself um which is to use the wind belt up the central part of the country from Texas uh to The Dakotas and and somewhat to each side and both coasts as well uh to produce enough electricity that we can replace the natural gas that's currently being used for power generation so that can be diverted to transportation and that much less liquid fuel used in our cars and trucks will mean more that can be used by the aviation industry and so on I think that um I see in my district I've helped to build uh with work gloves and a hard hat on down in the trench helped to put in geothermal systems that will cut air conditioning costs to practically zero and cut heating costs in the winter and our latitude to about 50 percent of what they currently are I could go on and on you know the story between the the air uh the solar the wind the geothermal the the tidal power and so on uh so the alternatives are there I want to ask a question uh which will probably use up the rest of my time many of uh my constituents are already being asked to make lock-in purchase agreements for home heating oil for this coming winter and are experiencing some serious sicker shock looking at five dollar heating oil whereas last year it was two dollars or something so how could a release from the spr best help to take the edge off of home heating oil prices in addition to gasoline and I would ask you starting with Mr Simpson if you get any chance of that please well I think you could go back to the uh the The Exchange that occurred in in 2000 and it was precipitated by a concern about heating oil at that it was a physical shortage of heating oil that they were concerned about at that time but if you could release oil have it refined into heating oil and and it's it's the price of the oil that's going to drive the cost of the heating oil so if you if you can put enough into the market that it that it does stop some of the speculation and allows the price to get back to what many have uh suggested is a much lower price under the fundamentals uh there's time to do that before the winter heating season thank you well I would just say you know if we released half a million barrels of oil a day for let's say six months that should drop the price substantially uh and that would obviously benefit uh people who drive cars who fly planes and and who have to heat their homes with oil if it didn't reduce the price of oil substantially that would tell us something very important which is that we are in a very big long-term uh Supply demand uh mismatch and we had better work really hard to do what t-boon says so I think we you know I just think that we should find out how much speculation how much uh froth there is in the market versus how much the price is actual Supply demand Trends and releasing a fair chunk of oil from this Pro would tell us that very quickly Mr May Mr Hall um I I'm noted at the outset of my testimony that this is this is not an issue that simply affects Airlines or truckers or agriculture or retail or the hospitality industry but consumers everywhere and I think anything this Congress does and I've recommended three legs to that stool uh anything you do to bring prices down is going to have a sweeping effect across the whole economy and I think it will impact the the constituents in Poughkeepsie who are worried about home heating oil for the for the winter as it would in Wisconsin or anyplace else where it's particularly cold and it's going to make a difference for transportation it's going to be make a difference for the hotel and lodging industry that is having such a tough time because we're cutting back on the number of flights going to a lot of these different destinations so I I think the sooner the better the or widespread the more sweeping the relief the Congress can provide the better thank you your sensing Brenner thank you very much Mr chairman now technology has failed with microphones on the Republican side I guess I should say I'm not surprised but uh uh that that being said you know let me say that um uh release of crude oil from this bro is going to be temporary at best and it will cool the Futures Market there's no question about that but if Dr rahm's fear is right that there is something more to this than speculation and a bubble that has been created it seems to me that everybody's going to have to step back and look at what to do and we've heard an awful lot of opposition led by the speaker of the house on the other side of the aisle against drilling anywhere and I would hope that if there is a release from this bro and nothing happens relative to uh immediate relief that is significant enough to make a a dent in the economy for the better then it's my hope that my friends over on the other side of the aisle will realize that drilling is at least a part of the answer I think that we on our side of the aisle most of us at least myself included know that drilling is not the exclusive answer but we think it should be a part of the answer and they don't so the only observation that I would make is I think that releasing oil from this Pro is worth a try but if it doesn't work then we've got to do something more fundamental and we ought to do it in September before this Congress adjourned sign a die I yield back thank you um Mr Cleaver thank you Mr chairman um Mr Pickens T-Bone Pickens suggests that unless we reduce our dependence on foreign oil that that a barrel of oil could rise to 300 dollars a barrel uh is is that an exaggeration or do do any of you see that as the next normal um well let me say I don't think there's any question that uh if we don't get off of our current path on oil oil prices are headed much higher and and the CIBC actually projects two hundred dollars a barrel of oil in two years um so no I don't think I don't whether it's you know 250 200 250 300 it's hard to say over 10 years what he said right in over 10 years I think that's reasonable uh I I think uh it's absolutely reasonable because after all it looks like current prices of oil aren't destroying demand or generating huge amounts of extra Supply and demand is just going to keep going up because of China India and other countries so you know at some point you the price has to rise until demand is destroyed or there's a lot of more Supply one of those two things has to happen or else prices just keep Rising Congressman I'm going to take a a somewhat different view uh I I think that my colleague is correct here in in one respect on the other hand I I think there's there's there's there's been great joy in sport taken in predicting 150 200 and plus dollar oil by a whole lot of folks in the trading Community who are delighted to see the expectation of uh increasing prices become a very profitable sideline and uh I'm not I'm not at all happy with it with that with that byproduct of the speculation uh that that is assisting in the process of driving prices up I do think there is a speculative bubble and I happen to believe that the marginal cost of production for oil is somewhere in the in the 65 75 85 dollar range and that it's it's realistic to expect hundred dollar oil just as easily as it is two hundred dollar oil and that's a that's a somewhat different View uh Mr clearwright one thing it's kind of hard to argue with Boone Pickens with as much money as he's made and and the predictions that he's made uh I think the price could go up and the price could go down but the one thing that we we may not have a lot of control over that but we've got tools that we can use to keep us from having to be in this situation there are many technological advances that are either out there to be deployed or just over the horizon that if we can get some some pressure released by by trying and I thought Joe's point was great if we release oil from the reserve and it works to drive prices down great if we release oil from the reserve and it doesn't work that's a wake-up call and we've got to get out of this situation and we have the tools to do that what would be the a reasonable test period to see whether or not uh the release of oil from the reserve is is uh impactful on the economy I mean is it uh for one quarter do we should we wait a year I mean uh if it if it if it doesn't drop the prices of prices at the pump uh I mean you think people are scared because of Freddie Mac and and Fannie Mae uh I mean you that would create generate I think a crisis in this country I've changed my I used to think we had a transportation-based economy I think we now have a confidence-based economy you know if you don't if the confidence of the public drops we're in trouble so uh what period of time uh I I happen to support it but I'm I'm also at the same time uh frightened by the prospects of it not dropping the prices of oil could I just say that one of the reasons why no one ever uses the spro is that it's always argued in the highest levels of the government that that will show that the government is scared and it's a crisis and that's why we're they're releasing the spro so they never release the spro for that reason and so as I say I personally think this bro is relatively useless I would say three to six months if if the gov if the president announced that he's going to sell half a million barrels a day for three to six months and he started doing it and nothing happened uh then people should panic because that means t-boon is probably right and we are headed to 300 unless we really make a concerted effort to end our addiction to oil and that I think would be worth knowing also and and I would say I think three to six months history shows that the if the announcement is made you see the reaction and and then you begin to see it it takes time to get into the gasoline markets because it takes time to refine the product that you that you've already got but I would also make an observation that I wouldn't say I'm going to release 500 000 barrels a day every day for the next three to six months I'd say we're going to release a set amount of oil and make it 70 million barrels or 90 million barrels and then let that that uncertainty as to when that oil is going to come out will further Tamp down the markets but if you and they might sell it all at once uh but they might trickle it out and let it go at different times uh I apologize for being laid out uh I was over at the house in another meeting um so you may have already dealt with this but uh do you have any any dates or times I I probably should know this when we deployed uh the reserves previously you may have already talked about it sure and and in 1991 right before uh Desert Storm uh and and I will expand a little bit on what I said earlier the president announced on January 16th that he was we were going to attack Iraq and that we were going to release 34 million barrels from the Strategic petroleum Reserve the next day the price of oil dropped by 30 a third ten dollars I want to point out that that was not the only thing that caused that to happen uh in October of the of the previous year after the the invasion of Kuwait had had occurred uh there was a test sale Secretary of Energy said you know we haven't used the Strategic petroleum Reserve in a while not sure the companies really are aware of how to interact with us on this so we're going to do a four million barrel test sale which was a pretty good forecast that they were that the government was going to use it that actually helped dampen prices a bit in the fall and then there was a coordinated effort with the International Energy agency our allies going into the war that they released some oil it was a coordinated effort then president made his announcement and the price just dropped and they actually didn't sell the 34 million barrels they only sold 17. but the Market's stabilized and then there's 1996 when the Congress directed the department of energy to sell 227 million barrels of oil to help balance the budget it was enacted into law signed by the president I think on April 26th prices of gasoline were Rising dramatically particularly in California there had been a Refinery fire and some other things that were a whole multitude of things coming in place and President Clinton made it an interesting decision so it's smart to sell oil from the reserve if you've got to raise 227 million dollars why not sell the oil as fast as you can while the prices are high and get value for the taxpayer back it was a very good move coincidentally the price of gasoline dropped the next day and continued to fall through October of that year the heating oil exchange in 2000 as is another example where there was a shortage uh price dropped I think around 30 percent at that time and then after Hurricane Katrina even though the problem after Hurricane Katrina was more of a a refining capacity problem or at least equally a refining capacity problem because the refineries got flooded out as it was a loss of production the fact that they released oil from the announced the release of oil from the reserve caused the price to drop fairly dramatically one one more question that I apologize but when we have people with your expertise here I want to try to squeeze or drop from you uh if uh and this is I'm asking you to be Swami's almost I guess but if if the U.S uh released from strategic uh petroleum Reserve uh 200 barrels or 300 barrels whatever uh some a large number and then Japan also announced that they were going to release uh a couple of hundred uh thousand barrels do you uh and our friends around the the world if we have any uh left and they I mean what what do you think that that would have even a a greater impact and and the success in dropping the price at the pump would be a lot more significant if more than the U.S announced uh a drop uh that they were going to release the Strategic petroleum Reserve in large amounts all that's worked in the past so I would think the more oil you could put into the market the better the the result would be and again I I think the other impact would be is it would send a signal to the market that those reserves weren't in fact just dollar you know money stuffed under a mattress that was never going to be used but in fact we would actually use it for this very purpose as long as the market thinks we're never going to use it then the speculative bubble is just going to grow thank you Mr chairman Mr chairman thank you I just wanted to ask one more question and before I do I wanted to uh with all due respect uh refute the statement by the ranking member that Democrats are against Drilling in fact last week I believe we voted for the drill act that attempted to make uh oil companies drill on the 68 million acres in the lower 48 and some of the 20 million Acres that are available in Alaska that they are sitting on and not drilling on coincidentally that same day the administration announced a sale of 2.6 million million acre lease sale of 2.6 million acres in the npra in Alaska which obviously they could have done last week or last year or five years ago whenever we were not stopping them uh and we are are absolutely for drilling on the land that is already leased and there's plenty of that but the question I have here goes to refining capacity uh it's my understanding that there was one application in the last 30 years in this country for a Refinery it was granted and that Refinery was never built uh is that accurate to your knowledge uh there haven't been any refineries built in in the last 30 years I think that's right uh but not it's not for because the applications are being denied uh it's it's not necessarily it's a very complicated obviously process to to do an a green build of a Refinery it is also not true that we have less refining capacity than we have actually a lot more refining capacity than we did 30 years ago there's it's been expansion expansions of existing facilities I just quickly because I were over time already but I just wanted to say my understanding is that our refineries are today are running at just below 90 percent does that sound that sounds about right about right so to be clear um given the market calming impact and Supply increasing impact of a release from the spr there should not be any Credence to arguments that a lack of refining capacity would mitigate the effect of an spr release so that's true because you're releasing oil into a global even though that oil would stay in the United States it means there's some oil that would not then have to come in here that could go to other places and it would have a Global Effect thank you okay I just wanted to clarify that refining capacity doesn't stand in the way of a releasing the Str having the desired effect and um I want to thank you all for your uh for your testimony and yield back thank you Mr Hall uh the the uh the acting chairman just departed he has a bill on the floor which makes me the acting chair and the ranking member I'm all-powerful now who better yeah this is this is I've been waiting for this for years uh but uh but uh if if if if we can you know maybe close out the the the the the uh this session by uh looking let's look at the other side of of all of the things we've been talking about uh there are those who would suggest that because uh uh oil is uh finite that we are foolish to release the Strategic petroleum Reserve uh and think that we'll drop the oil prices and that everything is going to be fine everybody's going to be happy divorces will be reduced life is is good again and uh the truth of the matter is um we we we're dealing with a finite uh uh substance and and that uh the next generation will will deal with this problem unless we deal with it uh there are some things happening um consumption has dropped uh Americans are uh grudgingly moving from the the 12 cylinder cars uh uh Amtrak ridership is up in my community the the area transportation authorities buses uh are increasing the ridership uh the uh the big bus companies in the country are riding in fact some of the Amtrak lines uh uh are sold out of seats of because of people making long-term plans for uh Thanksgiving and Christmas I mean they're selling out uh on Amtrak uh all the way into December uh and deaths automobile deaths are are down because the people are not driving I mean you look at at a number of the indicators and you think well you know maybe Americans need to face the reality that uh prices at the pump uh you know are not going to go down and and our society would be better off if they didn't because we can now start doing what we should have done um is that too tough uh a philosophy I mean you're not going to expect any candidate to say that but uh in in reality Justin here where nobody is listening what what do you think well let me obviously we have squandered the last two or three decades and all the analyzes show is that you know cars last 20 years and and uh Behavior patterns become very ingrained so yes um if you want to get off of our current path you have to work really hard for 10 15 years like t-boon Pickens or vice president Gore has said otherwise oil prices are are headed up I think the American public has figured that out which is why they're buying different cars and changing their behavior I don't view that as an argument not to sell off the sprawl I mean if and I just repeat what I said in my testimony one of two things will happen either oil prices will drop or they won't if they drop that's a good thing the spro has worked if they don't then we've learned that we're in a very big problem that in fact it is we're at peak oil or near it which I think is actually the case in which case it will be incumbent on on Congress to take the very strong action that people have been urging to finally end our addiction to oil so yeah I think the American consumers need to get used to four dollars oil and it will then be five six seven unless their their representatives you know take pretty strong action to reverse course and I would just add to that a release from this from the reserve is not going to be a permanent solution it has not been in history and it won't be again but we've we've when we're in an era now where prices are are higher it is remarkable to me the number of new Energy Technologies that are coming out at in these and the pace at which they're coming and to see t-boon Pickens come out and propose what what he proposed is is is fairly remarkable but I think we've been in a high price situation for a long enough time now that we're beginning to see a transition in the way American consumers think they are buying smaller cars uh they're parking the Tahoes they're they're they're they're taking mass transit uh if improving the efficiency of their homes uh which is a very useful thing and but there's no reason to to put them at the mercy of those who would drive the price up higher than the market fundamentals would be the price is not going to fall back down to a point where I think we're going to see a just oh gee that was a bad six months Congressman at the risk of prolonging this um I think the equation is real simple the longer you debate this the longer you talk about it the more people that are going to lose their jobs the more communities that are going to lose service it's time to have the Congress do something and as quickly as possible because it is a crisis thank you thank you um we appreciate you coming and we'll since no I'm the power here we're going to increase your honorariums for appearing before this uh committee and we appreciate I think all members which will have a time to uh submit remarks uh to the chairman for uh Records we appreciate very much your your time and I appreciate your your talent uh you're very informative appreciate it very much and hopefully we will act quickly that's one of the positives we've gotten from this uh hearing today thank you very much thank you Mr John | HouseResourceOrg | UCuwpe69VxVzy4maI6ymmm6A | 2011-04-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 15,873 | 84,675 |
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45bAJBjw9AA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45bAJBjw9AA | BBN S7:E10 - Building Bird Nests, Birds Eating Blossoms, New Species of Frogs, Barn Owls | [Music] foreign [Music] welcome back it's so nice to be outside migratory birds are slowly arriving here the other day Brown thrashes stalled by for a quick snack under my bird feeders and finally after about four months of dancing around my bird feeders evening grosbeaks decided to help themselves to some sunflower seeds that was so worth the wait many of you probably know that we work closely with Wild Birds Unlimited stores their employees and their owners are so knowledgeable and so nice Peter Anderson works in the Wild Birds Unlimited store that's located in Arlington Virginia and recently he's taken up a very interesting hobby building birds nests not for the birds to use you know outside but more for educational purposes for the past few weekends he's actually been giving presentations at this storm Peter has put together a presentation for us so I'm gonna let you watch it in a second but if you have any questions or if you're curious to learn how to make bird's nest yourself please feel free to reach out to Peter enjoy hi my name is Peter Anderson I'm an artist and naturalist based in the DC area I have a bit of an unusual hobby that I'd love to share with you I build replica bird nests from scratch come let me show you so how did this unusual hobby begin it all started when I was around the age of 12. I was reading a copy of a book titled the race to save the Lord godberg by Philip booze an enlightening breakdown of the timeline of events that eventually led to the probable extinction of the ivory build woodpecker in one section of the book whose gives an overview of the famous naturalist John James audubon's interactions with the infamous bird a brief description of audubon's Youth is given describing him as having filled his room nests and bird eggs for some reason that line struck a chord with me I wanted to do that too I already possessed a deep interest in Birds however and was keenly aware of how illegal immoral and unsanitary such an Endeavor would prove to be not wanting to break any laws or most of all Harmony Birds I decided to do the next best thing make my own I picked up my copy of Peterson's Field Guide to Eastern bird nests purchased some plastic eggs at the craft store and began doing my best to replicate what I saw in the book also doing as much research as I could online nest of each species of bird is every bit as unique as themselves perhaps this is why I find them so beautiful a vast array of styles and materials that birds use all held together through the miraculous prodding of Beaks and kicking of feet perfect round cups holding the most precious of gems eggs the beginning of every bird I have a strict code I do not use any artificial adhesives in my work I adhere to the methods and materials a given species of bird uses as closely as they possibly can for example Robins always mix together mud and grass and Great Crested flycatchers always add snakeskin to their nests I poke prod and weave press shape and Shuffle using my hands and a pair of tweezers to mimic the movements of beak and breast and wing and Claw always striving for as authentic a look as possible each project usually takes a day or two to complete depending on the size and habits of the subject species nests built inside of cavities like those of chickadees and tit mice are relatively easy to make taking less than an hour if the materials are all at hand while those of open nesting species like Cardinals and blue jays are much more involved and can take me significantly longer I have encountered a special challenge in replicating the nests of species that use spider silk in their construction like verios hummingbirds and warblers I use raw unspun silk from silkworms dipping it in sugar water to help make it sticky I have tried to use real spider silk and found it to be an unforgiving material almost impossible for me to work with I'm still not sure how the birds do it new projects always provide new challenges and I'm constantly learning as I go along and continue to be inspired by these marvelous natural works of art I hope that you are too thank you so much for joining me if you'd like to follow my work you can find me on Facebook Instagram and Twitter under the handle Birdman Pete thank you so much [Music] Michael Groves has a big blossoming cherry tree but recently birds have been plucking the petals off the flowers so he's wondering why they're doing it apparently certain songbirds do eat the Buds and Blossoms of several fruit trees in the spring mainly because they're highly nutritious the flowers might even have more nutritional value than the buds Birds might also be going after the Sweet Taste of the blossoms caused by the nectar within some of them these Buds and Blossoms usually become available in late winter as early as February when other natural foods are quite scarce so the early birds that Feast upon this food source gain an advantage over their competitors it likely helps them survive the winter better and could possibly assist in putting them in a good nutritional state for breeding although this has not yet been proven it's not just cherry trees either other flowering trees and shrubs chosen include pear apple Peach crab apple red maple Plum and even forsythia and it's not just one bird species that's discovered this food source Cedar Wax Wings American goldfinches Cardinals Blue Jays both purple and house finches Northern Mockingbirds and evening grow streaks all relish these Buds and Blossoms is it bad for the trees well according to the experts the feeding Birds act like a natural pruning service generally taking the excess blooms some claim that purple finches help the tree to grow larger Fruit by pruning the blossoms in other words of every Blossom turned into a fruit one would end up with an overabundance of fruit which would have to be dealt with in any case so less energy put into an excessive number of fruits should mean more energy going into the surviving fruits and if it looks like the birds are just cutting off the blooms and discard them to the ground it could be that they're being selective and just eating those blossoms and buds are the most nutritious in the same fashion that white breasted nut hatches that prefer to eat sunflower seeds that offer the most nutrition or if it's the nectar they're looking for they could be harvesting that food and discarding flowers it's just a different way to enjoy the trees let's face it our birds have to live too yeah okay I know that our show is all about birds but this exciting new discovery in the amphibian world is just too juicy to pass up and it does have a strong avian connection it's a well-known fact that frogs all over the world are in trouble for various reasons including loss of water habitat fungal skin diseases caused by climate warming and the pet trade so we welcome the good news from a team of Australian scientists that they have recently discovered five new species of frogs in very wet Mountain Forest areas in Papua New Guinea naturally frogs also have Myriad enemies all wanting to make a meal out of them and thus they have got to find ways of avoiding that fate the tadpoles of one of the new Frogs La Toria nespella hatched their eggs in rain-filled tree holes out of sight so they can at least develop into juvenile frogs but what about after leaving the safety of the tree cavity you ask well these amazing little frogs have evolved a most unusual defensive mechanism that's unheard of anywhere else in the entire world of wildlife they have actually evolved both color and patterning that closely resembles bird droppings which are basically white with dark spots in the middle to put in the words of one of the scientists it is a form of defensive masquerade I mean how hungry would a predator have to be to eat a frog that's covered in bird turd and would they even be able to find them I gotta Wonder though how in the world of this adaptation come about that the initially and purposely seek out Birds to poop on them did the frogs living near a dense bird Colony survive better than others that did not someone has simply got to do a study on that no matter where you are in the world if you see a bar now I'm sure you'll recognize it immediately there are 28 subspecies of barn owl and all of them have that heart-shaped face if you have a rodent issue put up a barn owl box to attract a mating pair because they'll take care of all your rodents barn owls eat over 2 000 rodents per year they are nocturnal birds so you won't see them during the day unless you stay outside for about an hour after Sunset they have incredible hearing and they see it really well at night they can hear their prey under a layer of snow and under really thick vegetation besides the rodents they also help themselves to European starlings and red wing blackbirds female barn owls are slightly larger than the males and they tend to have darker plumage and more markings and that North American bar now is a larger and wider than the European Barn owls Adele barnellos are rather loyal Birds you know they're loyal to their Partners they are loyal to their nest side it's only The Young and the immature barn owls that tend to spread out in search of new adventures during that breeding season some of them will go as far north as actually here in southern Quebec they breed here but they don't stick around here in the winter it's too cold for them barn owls a nest in cavities and all sorts of cavities and they do love human barns they will even use them during the winter for roosting hence their name barn owls they tend to have two Broods per season but in warmer climates they breed all year around so many pretty women on our May photo consoles I hope you had a chance to look at all the pictures let's check out the top five [Music] here's the third place [Music] the second place [Music] and the grand prize winner congratulations everybody well it's nesting season it's all about family so June's theme is We Are Family all right everyone time to say goodbye enjoy all the migratory Birds this beautiful weather I'll catch you in two weeks | BBN - Brome Bird News | UCVn3xz-O12Fr28z7EjzCs5g | 2023-05-09 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,858 | 10,163 |
p6jlytDKk0s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jlytDKk0s | Best Remedies for Saturn | Ascendant Group Specific | Shani Jayanti 2021 | New Saturn Remedies | | namaste coming thursday the 10th of june 2021 is a very awesome day this day is the birthday of lord sat in this particular video i am going to give you a few miraculous remedies to alleviate the sufferings caused by sat oh of course causes a whole lot of sufferings being the significant of the suffering itself right jayanti is a day when we celebrate the birthday there are three things three stories that are attached to the birth of saturn or another childhood the first thing is that once saturn wanted to meet shiva but shiva was not wishing to meet him and then there was a long story like you know someone say that shiva was being afraid of coming under the site of saturn whereas someone says that shiva was testing saturn whatever be the case it is traditionally taken that shiva is the guru of saturn so if sadness connected to your ninth house of guru receptor or the fifth house student or the third house of gurudesha you should worship shiva to alleviate the suffering of sanctuary and you can do this by doing sunni with young can also be done by those people who are suffering from the bad transit of saturn known as when the saturn is in the 12th house the same house or the second house from moon or kentucky and the saturn is in fourth house from little moon or shanida yeah when the saturn is in the eighth house these positions from the ascendant respectively the 12th house the ascendant house the second house the transit of saturn in these houses from the ascendant is also quite detrimental problematic it is issues in life but before predicting any of these things don't forget to check the question ascendant and move respectively for the case how to analyze the planetary planets at some other day is also a very powerful remedy if you are going through a bad saturn transit about the chance of the shaft transit or if you are going through a bad saturn in that scenario i will recommend doing conjunction to alleviate the suffering of saturn and specifically you know you can do the remedies in two way first you can start you can take a sinkhole for that to alleviate the suffering of saturn i will do this much monthly power this much per day for one year six months four months whatever you take you started from the sunni jmp that is the 10th of june 2021 or if you cannot do it every day every day then you can just on the 10th june 2021 around evening at the time of sunset remember saturn becomes strong in the night time not in the daytime so around the evening on 10th june 2021 you take a spa you take a pledge that i am going to do this particular mantra for so and so times say hundred times thousand times are going to do so and so is that for say 10 times 12 times 21 times 27 times 51 times whatever and taking a pledge you do this and when you take the pledge clearly market that i am doing this to elevate this this and this suffering that i think is caused by saturn and do that particular remedy this way it will be more beneficial to you it will be more better for you to go this particular way along with this hanuman lord hanuman when saturn was being hanged in the jail of ravana it was hanuman who freed saturn who relieved saturn who helped saturn come out of the jail so that day saturn told to lord and one that whoever will worship you i will never trouble that person if you want to you know one sipping shiva is the way to getting knowledge from saturn worshipping shiva is to make saturn your brother because if you she was the whole world and because saturn also takes shiva as this guru and you also take ship as your guru saturn actually becomes dubai for people belonging to other ascendants making saturn as your friend or brother is not a very good uh thing to do because saturn is not loading houses in your horoscope right so in that scenario to alleviate the suffering to alleviate the problems to elevate the miseries of saturn you should be under the disciples of lord hanuman of course like ship lord hanuman can also be taken as a guru by any anyone so you know if you are struggling finding a guru if you are struggling finding a receptor if you are struggling finding a way out remember that there is no option there is no substitute for having a real living guru because you know the real living guru can talk to you he can guide you you can talk to many times you can discuss your problems with him that you cannot do with hanuman or you cannot do this but still but still to those unfortunate people who are not able to find a guru in real life they can take hanuman or shiva as the guru specifically for those ascendant people who don't have saturn as a good planet generally people belonging to aries and scorpio ascendant pisces and then sagittarius ascendantly leo ascendant for cancer ascendant for them saturn is not a lot of good houses so they cannot do the shiv remedy as i just told right so these people should do the hanuman remedy because being signified by mars in astrology of course these people uh being born in or having their moon in leo cancer aries scorpio sagittarius or pisces will have mars as a lord of the house right so in that scenario they should worship hanuman and worshipping hanuman you can do a mantra for hanuman i will tell you the simplest mantra for hanuman is to chant the name of ram right that is one of the you know easiest hack that i can use the duality you want to make shiva makes you happy that you know everyone meditates on you the whole world learns meditation from you but you meditate on whom and she uh told paroti that i meditate on ram so when you go to a shift temple and take the name of ram she opens his eyes to look at you that who is this person who is taking the name of the one who i am right so another hack is to go to the temple of hanuman and take the name of ram because hanuman have rama in his heart always the life of hanuman is dedicated to rama right so if you want to make hanuman happy you should do jaishina or om ram ramayanam to protect yourself from any type of problem in life specifically those people who are not initiated into tantra or those people who don't believe in tantra or specifically for version of people to come out of black magic or any kind of suffering any kind of any kind of you know negativity bad thoughts you know and bad applications any kind of which are this particular mantra is very good specifically if you want to please hanuman directly you know like worshipping rama is a shortcut please hanuman but if you want to go the long term i directly want to worship then this particular mantra um and all of these three mantras are focused on a particular aspect of hanuman which if you do after taking a pledge on the day of sunni that distance june 2021 or from 10th of june 2021 or from shania maharashtra then i'm pretty sure that only in 40 50 days it will create miracles in your life but if it does don't forget to give me a feedback and if it is not able to do a miracle in your life then you are not doing the right remedy in that particular slide you go get a consultation all right along with this doing hanuman continuously for 100 days our other two remedies to get the blessings of hanuman and save yourself from the grief misery and humiliation caused by sadness and 100 days inaudible without break is a very strong remedy because in harmony itself it is written that literally means that whoever reads and manchester 100 times he gets free from all the kind of bondage and he gets the ultimate happiness he gets the supreme happiness alive right so if you can chant hanuman one part per day then it is good if you can chant hanuman in 10 days 100 times in 10 days that is 10 recitations per day then it is even better if you can change 100 times the same day that it is even more better but please take pledge keeping everything in mind if you take a pledge and if you are not able to complete it then it creates unwanted sufferings in your life and then to find the remedy of broken pledge find the remedy of you know a pledge which was not fulfilled is quite problematic and in that particular scenario if there will be more sufferings than good results in life right so these are two particular remedies that i will want to share with you based on your ascendant for the 10th of june 2012 that's the sunni day along with this if you really want like you know if you want to classify saddle if you want to make sure that you always get favors from saturn right now the first two remedies are for the specification of saturn to make saturn happy to you know you just uh you know save yourself from the bad aspect of saturn but what about making saturn your evolution what about getting good results from saturn if you want to take good results from saturn i will tell you two remedies particularly remedy number one is to light a oil dia that will be good so lighting every day is very good lighting it only on saturdays is also good right so you start doing it from sunny the 10th of june 2021 right and then continue doing every saturday so once you do it on 10th then you do it on 12th of june 2021 that is that is the first saturday from 12th of june 2021 continue doing it every saturday and if you are really in a big mess big trouble and originally wanted the help of sand and then in that scenario you should be doing it every day lighting oil yeah lighting up oil lamp below right people tree is the you know people tree is the home of many gods people tree is considered very sacred and it also makes saturn quite happy so lighting oil you can take any oil ccmc till oil any oil you can take that's using seed oil is better kill oil is also good any other oil you can also take even the coconut oil can be taken by the way and for particularly those cases you know for females the coconut oil lamp is quite uh strong quite powerful females will get extremely benefited if they you know light the coconut oil by the way there is some secret procedure uh before that also that i am not wishing to tell right now only once once again right so if you light a oil lamp below people tree every saturday or every day that will serve as a very good remedy for saturn get help from saturn to get support from saturn to make saturn beneficials beneficial for you beneficial for your chart specifically even specifically if you want to make this remedy even more powerful then make the lamp of flow right so like if we make chapatis take float take atta give it the shape of the give it the shape of a lamp and then put oil in inside it and then light it that will be even more stronger remedy strong even more stronger version of the same remedy right that is one remedy to make saturn your good friend along with this another remedy there is a very strong remedy and if you you know if you do it if you do it then you know you're sure to get uh some realizations on the way as well right so this is not only a material remedy to get the beneficial results of saturn also but this is also a remedy which opens the you know spiritual channels in your life it is also a remedy which you know cursed your karma it is also remedy freedom from bondage it is also remedy that uplifts your mental status that is to donate money to people suffering from leprosy suffering from loss of limbs and people suffering from diseases such as tb etc if you can find a person like this or give him some donation if you are not able to find a person like this then you can search for an ngo who serves such people you know people who have lost their lips people suffering from diseases such as leprosy or people are suffering from you know other diseases which are hereditary and which have no cure is specifically leprosy in people who have lost their limbs if you can donate them or if you can donate to an ngo which helps such people that will be a very very strong remedy to make saturn your friend and along with making saturn your friend it will also open the spiritual path for you it will also be a very good way for your spiritual placement your uh every type of conflict materially and you know it will open the spiritual way and moreover this this is a remedy that actually cuts your karma that actually cuts the burden of the karma it actually relieves you from the burden of the karma right so that is uh one more remedy for the saturn saturn is a darling of many astrologers by the way and saturn when beneficial can make you a king and saturn when malefic makes you go from door to door without getting an idea of what should be done next so saddle when angry on you make you wonder aimless wonder whereas saturn when happy makes your king makes you a person who sits at his place and people come to offer him everything this is what saturn does this is this is how saturn works right if saturn is good you will be sitting at your home and people will come to you and will still take all of my books take all of my knowledge take all of my money take all of my power and you will automatically people will automatically come to you and want to sacrifice these things to you and saturn is good whereas we are saturn whereas on the other hand when saturn is bad then you will have to go to you know go to places to places people people asking for help asking for idea and there will be local to help you right and i will tell you three things more about saturn you know first of all if you really want to get good results of saturn never ever treat bad with your servants if you treat bad with your servants you will have very bad results of that you know i know a case of a child a very big you know very quite an influential person i know about this child and you know his child spoiled in his for 50s now have lost everything in life why because he used to slap he used to physically beat his servants you know so if you want to have good results of your satin always do good with your servants even if they are bad to you you know if your servants have you know stole something from you if your servant is lying to you if your servant is not being faithful to you make a note that saturn is not testing it right and make sure not to behave better make sure to be good with them then saturn will bless you otherwise if you behave badly with your subjects if you behave badly with your subordinates if you give badly to those people who are not in power in front of you in that particular scenario saturn is never going to be happy on you no matter how much repetition that's the first thing to say the second thing that i will tell you about saturn is you know about it just it is related to shoes if you want good results of saturn never wear a shoe that is sturdy even if your shoes are bright enough to see the face still before wearing them clean them never wear untidy shoes if you want your satin to be good always clean your shoe before wearing it as a remedy to saturn and if you are really suffering very hard by the placement of the saturn in the 12th house by the placement of the saturn in the tenth house by the placement of the saturn sixth house or by the placement of the saturn's third house in that scenario donate shoes to children and you need it and third thing i believe many people go to saturn temple and light the lamp when you go to saturn temple you will find a people tree in the temple and you will find the idol of saturn in the temple never ever light the lamp never ever light the dia in front of the saturn idol always light it in front of the people saturn is inimical towards the fiery planets sun and mars so don't light the dia don't light the lamp in front of the saturn still or in front of the idol of saturn but always light the lamp below the people make a note of these points the remedy is told to start doing it from the tenth of this month and prefer june 2021 right i think that i have clearly explained everything that needs to be done if there is something left you can ask for a clarification in the comment section of the video best of luck for your life may you prosper day by day thank you you | Shubham Alock Astrologer | UCfyLpBgzsLpuHxUpASGtfgA | 2021-06-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,106 | 16,046 |
m45Gmuu20rk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m45Gmuu20rk | Amret_customer_services&complaint_handling | Actually Amret has a clearly communicated complaint mechanism process and a management that value the benefit of an effective complaint mechanism. We have one customer service unit manager, with him six responsible staff for customer service standards, complaint handling and call center. And the team is under the roof of Marketing Department. Our customer service policy was developed and approved by our Board of Directors during 2014. In order to insure that our staff comply with the standard quality of customer services, we also provide the customer service policy to our staff and new entrees. We also have a regular schedule for the field coaching for the real practice. We have branch evaluation. In each of the branch, we have one provincial marketing officer in charge of conducting on a quarterly basis, evaluation of the branch level : the physical appearance of the branch and also interview five of our clients in order to assess what is their evaluation of the customer service provided by our staff. So, after conducting the evaluation, the provincial marketing officer will sit down closely with the branch manager to see the gaps and develop a clear action plan. We have one standardized questionnaire : How do you feel when you go to our branch office? How fast do you spend time with our services with the counter staff? How do you feel with the environment of our branch ? Is it messy, dirty or clean enough for you ? We try to improve from the grass root level. For example when you start enter into our branch office the first one you will see is our guard whether he is polite with you, get warm welcome. An then, the Officer Customer Service at each branch, she will guide you, "ok, you can go to this counter, this counter..." Even the counter staff, he also welcomes you with our culture as well. All the staff has to wear the uniform of Amret. By Monday, every one has to wear the green color. It is our standard policy. The same standard we have for our back office staff and our front office staff. Then we have another part for our complaint handling. For the complaint handling we can complain through our call center, branch suggestion box, and oral face to face complaint. For the call center, our staff serves the clients nine and half hour per day, from Monday to Friday and Saturday morning. And for the suggestion box, the role of marketing officer, he will collect by monthly to see the type of complaints and categorize the complaints as well. Whether the complaint can be solved by branch level, provincial level, or need to go to the head office level for the solving. And the last part for oral complaint, whenever the client cannot read or write, our staff will record the complaint, and submit it to the chief of the counter to consolidate and bring it to our marketing officer. And the marketing officer has to consolidate it for all the branches and send it to our head office staff for the cross check and validation and follow whether the complaint is solved properly and on time with our clients. Mostly, we see that the number of the calls is increasing from year to year. Because in our forms, we have : "if you have any inquiry call this number...." In each of our village association, we put in place the clients rights. Clients have the right to do like this, like this... and the last line, "you can complain to our customer service through this call". The total calls for the call center is around 15 000. The majority of the calls is related to asking informations about the loans, around 75, 76%. And around more than 15 (%) related to the saving products. We also notice that when the clients complain on our products, around 1% complain about our customer service at the Branch. Even though the number of calls is increasing from year to year, the number of complaints is dropping down. There is 66 complaints during 2013 declining to 44 complaints in 2014 and during 2015, 33 complaints. We can take immediate actions to solve the problems, that's why the number of complaints is decreasing from time to time. | Alia développement | UCp2JOuSgP3ysk9t8dhjB18A | 2016-10-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 719 | 4,073 |
JbPU_AIFbzE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbPU_AIFbzE | Ontario Road Signs - Part 2 - Regulatory Signs - Q&A | [Music] ontario road signs [Music] regulatory signs this road is an official bicycle route watch for cyclists and be prepared to share the road with them you may park in the area between the signs during the times posted this is usually used in pair or groups [Music] snowmobiles may use this road do not enter this road do not stop in the area between the signs this means that you may not stop your vehicle in this area even for a moment used in pairs or groups do not stand in the area between the signs this means you may not stop your vehicle in this area except while loading or unloading passengers this sign is also used in groups or pairs do not park in the area between the signs this means you may not stop your vehicle except to load or unload passengers or merchandise used in pairs or groups [Music] do not turn left at the intersection do not drive through the intersection do not turn to go in the opposite direction you turn do not turn right when facing a red light at the intersection do not turn left during the time shown this parking space is only for vehicles displaying a valid accessible parking permit [Music] no bicycles allowed on this road no pedestrians allowed on this road do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] you | All About Canada | UCWEyE8hH1cJvVVv5EG5AwXA | 2022-06-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 233 | 1,252 |
QIymHirsDKg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIymHirsDKg | A4827663 Kobe | Poodle | oh this little fluffy person is coo bay and co-pays ID number here at the baldwin park shelter is a 4827 663 a little male gray and white miniature poodle mix he's about 8 years old but boy you wouldn't know it he's got to be very great medium energy and just loves everybody he came in here as an owner surrender on May seventh because they had landlord issues honey after eight years but he's uh he's at loves loves loves other dogs he met with another dog over here couple minutes ago and he stood up on his hind legs and just waved at this dog fur must have been 15 seconds wasn't it so miscellaneous this is just ended up toooo cute and he's dead one of our volunteers gave him a spa treatment so he's very fluffy din porches right now he does have a cataract problem and he has a heart murmur which is usually a medication issues not really an expensive one but you know he's an eight year old guy he's getting up there but a lot of life a lot of love left and Oh is he handsome this isn't about you can take to your outdoor cafes because he loves everybody he wants to meet and greet dogs and people so you will have a great time with him he's just a sweetheart come on and meet Kobe and take him home with you is available right | United Hope for Animals | UCi0mfPhDghGV3jQS1TJSqig | 2015-05-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 246 | 1,236 |
B5OHFuFRPjw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5OHFuFRPjw | Woodstock, or, The Cavalier | Sir Walter Scott | Action & Adventure Fiction | Audio Book | 4/13 | Chapter eight of Woodstock this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by Tom Bragg Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott chapter 8 for there and the lofty air was seen to stand the stern protector of the conquered land drawn that look with which he wept and swore turned out the members and made fast the door ridding the house of every knave and drone forced though it grieved his soul to rule alone the frank courtship crab leaving carnal Everard to his meditations we follow the Jolly Cavalier his companion who before mounting at the gorge did not fail to treat himself to his morning draught of eggs and muscadine to enable him to face the harvest wind although he had suffered himself to be sunk in the extravagant licence which was practiced by the Cavaliers as if to oppose their conduct in every point to the preciseness of their enemies yet wild rake well borne and well-educated and out with good natural parts and a heart which even debauchery in the wild life of a roaring Cavalier had not been able entirely to corrupt moved on his present embassy with a strange mixture of feelings such as perhaps he had never in his life before experienced his feelings as a loyalist led him to detest cromwell from another circumstances he would scarce have wished to see except in a field of battle where he could have had the pleasure to exchange pistol shots with him but with this hatred there was mixed a certain degree of fear always victorious forever he fought the remarkable person whom Wild Rick was now approaching had acquired that influence over the minds of his enemies which constant success is so apt to inspire they dreaded while they hated him and joined to these feelings was a restless meddling curiosity which made a particular feature in wild rakes character who having long had little business of his own and carried nothing about that which he had was easily attracted by the desire of seeing whatever was curious or interesting around him I should like to see the old rascal after all he said were but for to say that I had seen him he reached Windsor in the afternoon and felt on his arrival the strongest inclination to take up his residence at some of his old haunts when he had occasionally frequency that fair town and gay or days-but resisting all temptations of this kind he went courageously to the principal in from which its ancient emblem the Garter had long disappeared the master to whom wild rake experienced at his knowledge of landlords and hostelries had remembered a dashing mine host of Queen Bess as school had now sobered down to the temper of the times shook his head when he spoke with the Parliament wielded his spigot with the gravity of a priest conducting a sacrificed wished England a happy issue out of all of her difficulties and greatly lauded his Excellency the Lord general aldrig also remarked that his wine was better than it was want to be the Puritans having an excellent gift at detecting every fallacy in that matter and that his measures were less and his charger is larger circumstances which he was induced to attend to by mine host talking a good deal about his conscience he was told by this important personage that the Lord General received frankly all sorts of persons and that he might obtain access to him next morning at eight o'clock for the trouble of presenting himself at the castle gate and announcing himself as the bearer of dispatches to excellency to the castle the disguised Cavalier repaired at the hour appointed admittance was freely permitted to him by the red coated soldier who with austere looks and his musket on his shoulder mounted guard at the external gate of that noble building while Drake passed through the underwear door court gazing as he passed upon the beautiful chapel which had but lately received in darkness and silence the UH non 'red remained to the slaughtered King of England rough as wild rake was the recollection of this circumstance affected him so strongly that he had nearly turned back in a sort of horror rather than face the dark and daring man to whom amongst all the actors and that melancholy affair its tragic conclusion was chiefly to be imputed but he felt the necessity of subdue all sentiments of this nature and compelled himself to proceed in a negotiation entrusted to his conduct by one to whom he was so much obliged as Colonel Everard at the ascent which passed by the round tower he looked to the instance staff from which the banner of England was want to float it was gone with all its rich and blazonry it's gorgeous court rings and splendid embroidery in its room waved that of the Commonwealth the cross was st. George in its colors of blue and red not yet intersected by the diagonal cross of Scotland which was soon after assumed as if an evidence of England's conquest over her ancient enemy this change of in Sons increased the Train of his gloomy reflections and which although contrary to his want he became so deeply wrapped but the first thing which recalled him to himself was the challenge from the sentinel accompanied with a stroke of the butt of his musket on the pavement with an emphasis which made wild rakes start whither away and who are you bearer of a packet answered wild rake to the Worshipful the lower general stand till I call the officer of the guard the Corporal made his appearance distinguished above those of his command by a double quantity of band round his neck a double height of steeple crowned hat a larger allowance of cloak and a treble proportion of Sauer gravity of aspect it might be read on his countenance that he was one of those resolute enthusiasts to whom oliver owed his conquests whose religious zeal made them even more than a match for the high-spirited and highborn Cavaliers who exhausted their valor in vain defense of their sovereigns person and crown he looked with grave solemnity at Wilde Drake as if he was making in his own mind an inventory of his features and dress and having fully perused them he required to know his business my business said Wilde rake as firmly as he could for the close investigation of this man had given him some unpleasant nervous sensations my business is with your general with his Excellency the Lord general that would say replied the Corporal thy speech my friend savors too little of the reverence due to his Excellency damn His Excellency was at the lips of the Cavalier but prudence kept guard and permitted not the offensive words to escape the barrier he only vowed and was silent follow me said the starched figure whom he addressed and Wael Drake followed him accordingly into the guardhouse which exhibited an interior characteristic of the times and very different from what such military yeah follow me said the starched figure whom he addressed and Wild Rick followed him accordingly into the guardhouse which exhibited an interior characteristic of the times and very different from West such military stations present at the present day by the fire sat two or three musketeers listening to one who is expounding some religious mystery to them he began half beneath his breath but in tones of great volubility which tones as he approached the conclusion became sharp and eager that's challenging either instant answer or silent acquiescence the audience seemed to listen to the speaker with immovable features only answering him with clouds of tobacco smoke which they rolled from under their thick moustaches on a bench layer soldier on his face whether asleep or in a fit of contemplation it was impossible to decide in the midst of the floor stood an officer as he seemed by his embroidered shoulder belt and scarf round his waist otherwise very plainly attired who was engaged in drilling a stout bumpkin lately enlisted to the manual as it was then used the motions and words of command were twenty at the very least and until they were regularly brought to an end the Corporal did not permit wild rake either to sit down or move forward beyond the threshold of the guardhouse so he had to listen in succession to poise your musket rest your musket [ __ ] your musket handle your primers and many other forgotten words of discipline until at length the words order your musket ended the drill for the time by name friend said the officer to the recruit when the lesson was over if Freya answered the fellow with an affected twang through the nose and what besides a Fram Ephraim cob from the goodly city of Gloucester where I've dwelled for seven years serving a presence to a praiseworthy cordwainer it is a goodly craft answered the officer but casting in nylock with ours doubt not that thou shall be set beyond nine all and I last boot a grim smile of the speaker accompanied this poor attempt and upon and then turning round to the Corporal who stood two paces off with the face of one who seemed desirous of speaking said how now corporal what tidings here is one with a packet and please your excellency said the Corporal surely spirit does not rejoice in him seeing i esteem him as a wolf in sheep's clothing by these words wild rake learned but he was in the actual presence of the remarkable person to whom he was commissioned and he paused to consider in what manner he ought to address him the figure of Oliver Cromwell was as is generally known in no way proposing he was of middle stature strong and coarsely made with harsh and severe features indicative however of much natural sagacity and depth of thought his eyes were gray and piercing his nose too large and proportion to his other features and of a reddish hue his manner of speaking when he had the purpose to make himself distinctly understood was energetic and forcible though neither graceful nor eloquent no man could on such occasion put his meaning into fewer and more decisive words but when as it often happened he had a mind to play the orator the benefit of people's ears without enlightening their understanding Cromwell was want to invest his meaning or that which seemed to be his meaning in such a midst of words surrounding it with so many exclusions and exceptions and fortifying it with such a labyrinth of parentheses that there one of the most shrewd men in England he was perhaps the most unintelligible speaker that ever perplexed an audience it has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the protectors speeches would make with a few exceptions the most nonsensical book in the world when he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous concise and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood it was also remarked of Cromwell that though born of a good family both by father and mother and although he had the usual opportunities of education and breeding connected with such an advantage the fanatic Democratic ruler could never acquire or else disdain to practice the courtesies usually exercised among the higher classes in their intercourse with each other his demeanor was so blunt as sometimes might be termed yet there was in his language and manner of force and energy corresponding to his character which impressed aw if it did not impose respect and there were even times when that dark and subtle spirit expanded itself so as almost to conciliate affection the turn for humor which displayed itself by fits was broad and of a low and sometimes practical character something there was in his disposition congenial to that of his countrymen a contempt of folly a hatred of affectation and a dislike of ceremony which joined to the strong and transit quality qualities of sense and courage made him in many respects not an unfit representative of the democracy of England his religion must always be a subject of much doubt I probably have doubt which he himself could hardly have cleared up unquestionably there was a time in his life when he was sincerely enthusiastic and when his natural temper slightly subject-to hypochondria was strongly agitated by the same fanaticism which influenced so many persons of the time on the other hand there were periods during this political career when we certainly do him no injustice in charging him with a hypocritical affectation we shall probably judge him and others of the same age most truly if we suppose that their religious professions were partly influential in their own breasts partly assumed in compliance with their own interest and so ingenious is the human heart and deceiving itself as well as others that it is probable neither Cromwell himself nor those making similar pretensions to distinguished piety could exactly have fixed the point at which their enthusiasm terminated in their hypocrisy commenced or rather it was a point not fixed in itself but fluctuating with the state of health of good or bad fortune of high or low spirits affecting the individual at the period such was the celebrated person who turning round on wild rake and scanning his countenance closely seemed so that'll satisfied with what he beheld that he instinctively hitched forward his belt so as to bring the handle of his TUC sword within his reach but yet folding his arms and his cloak as if upon second thoughts laying aside suspicion or thinking precaution beneath him he asked the Cavalier what he was and whence he came a poor gentleman sir that is my lord answered wild rig last from Woodstock and what may your tidings be sir gentleman said cromwell with an emphasis truly I have seen those most willing to take upon them that title bear themselves somewhat short of wise men and good men and true men with all their gentility yet gentleman was a good title in Old England when men remembered what it was construed to mean you say truly sir replied wild Gregg suppressing with difficulty some of his usual wild expletives formerly gentlemen were found in gentlemen's places but now the world is so changed you shall find the broidered belts has changed placed with the under spur leather sayst thou me said the general I profess thou art a bold companion that can bandy words so wanton ly thou rings somewhat too loud to be good metal methinks and once again what are those eggs with me this packet said wild rake commended to your hands by Colonel Markham Everard alas I must have mistaken thee answered Cromwell mollified at the mention of a man's name who he had great desire to make his own forgive me good friend for such we doubt not thou art sit thee down commune with thyself as thou mayst until we have examined the contents of that packet let him be looked to and have what he lacks so saying the general left the guardhouse where wild rake took his seat in the corner and awaited with patience the issue of his mission the soldiers now themselves obliged to treat him with more consideration and offered him a pipe of Trinidad oh and a blackjack filled with October but the look of Cromwell and the dangerous situation in which he might be placed by the least chance of detection induced wild rate to decline these hospitable offers and stretching back in his chair and affecting slumber he escaped notice or conversation until the sort of aid to camp or military officer and attendants came to summon him two Cromwell's presence by this person he was guided to a posture and gait through which he entered the body of the castle and penetrating through many private passages and staircases he at length was introduced into a small cabinet or parlor and which was much rich furniture some bearing the royal cypher displayed but all confused and disarranged together with several paintings and massive frames having their faces turned towards the wall as if they had been taken down for the purpose of being removed in this scene of disorder the victorious general of the Commonwealth was seated in a large easy chair covered with damask and deeply embroidered the splendor of which made a strong contrast with the plain an even homely character of his apparel although in look and action he seemed like one who felt that the seat which might have in former days held a prince was not too much distinguished for his own fortunes and ambition while Drake stood before him nor did he ask him to sit down Pearson said cromwell addressing himself to the officer in attendance waiting the gallery would be within call pearson bowed and was retiring who were in the gallery beside worthy mr. Gordon the Chaplin was holding forth but now - Colonel Overton and four captains of your Excellencies regiment we would have it so said the general we would not dare any corner in our dwelling where the hungry soul might not meet with mana was the good and carried onward in his discourse mightily born through said Pearson and he was touching the rightful claims which the army and especially your excellency hath acquired by becoming the instruments in the great work not instruments to be broken asunder and cast away when the day of their service is over but to be preserved and held precious and prized for their honorable and faithful Labor's for which they have fought and marched and fasted and prayed and suffered cold and sorrow while others who would now gladly see them disbanded and broken and cashiered eat of the fat and drink of the strong ah good man said Cromwell and did he put touch upon this so feelingly I could say something but not now begone Pearson to the gallery let not our friends lay aside their swords but watch as well as pray Pearson retired and the general holding the letter of ever art in his hand looked again for a long while fixedly at vile Drake as if considering and what strain he should address him when he did speak it was at first and one of those ambiguous discourses which we have already described and by which it was very difficult for anyone to understand his meaning if indeed he knew himself we shall be concise in our statement as our desire to give the very words of a man so extraordinary will permit this letter he said you have brought us from your master or patron Markham Everard truly an excellent and honorable gentleman as ever bore a sword upon his thigh and one who I've ever distinguished himself in the great work of delivering these three poor unhappy Nations and sent me not I know what thou wouldst say and this letter he hath sent to me by these Clark or secretary in whom he hath confidence and in whom he praised me to have trust that there may be a careful messenger between us and lastly he hath sent thee to me do not answer I know what that would say to me who albeit I am of that small consideration that it would be too much honour for me even to bear a halberd in this great and victorious army of England I'm nevertheless exalted to the rank of holding the guidance and the leading staff thereof nay do not answer my friend I know what that would say now when communing thus together our discourse taketh and respect what I have said a three-fold argument or division first as a concern a ThighMaster secondly as it concerns us and our office thirdly and lastly as a touch of thyself now as concerning this couldn't worthy gentleman Colonel Markham Everard truly he hath played the man from the beginning of these unhappy buffetings not turning to the right or to the left but holding ever in his eye the mark at which he aimed I truly a faithful honorable gentleman and one who may well call me friend and truly I am pleased to think that he does so nevertheless in this vale of tears we must be governed less by our private respects and partialities than by those higher principles and points of duty whereupon the good Colonel Markham Everard hath ever framed his purposes as truly I have endeavored to form mine that we may all act has become as good englishman and worthy patriots then as for Woodstock it is a great thing which the good colonel asks that it should be taken from the spoil of the godly and left and keeping of the men of Moab and especially of the malignant Henry Lee whose hand had ever been against us when he might find room to raise it I say he hath asked a great thing both in respect of himself and me for we are of this poor but God the army of England our holden by those of the Parliament as men who should render and spoil for them but Beno sharer of it ourselves even as the buck which the hounds pulled to earth furnish a--the no part of their own food but they are lashed off from the carcass with whips like those which require punishment for their forward 'no stock reward for their services and I speak not this so much in respect of this grant of Woodstock in regard that perhaps their Lordships of the council and also the committee men of this Parliament may graciously think they have given me a portion in the matter in relation that my kinsman des Moreau hath an interest allowed him they are in which interest as he hath well deserved it for his true and faithful service to these unhappy and devoted countries so it would ill become me to diminish the same to his prejudice unless it were upon great in public respects thus thou seest how it stands with me my honest friend and in what mine I stand touching thy masters request to me which yet I do not say that I can altogether or unconditionally grant or refuse but only tell my simple thoughts with regard thereto now understands to me I doubt not now Roger while Drake with all the attention he had been able to pay to the Lord general speech had got so much confused among the various clauses of harangue that his brain was bewildered like that of a country clown when he chances to get himself involved among the crowd of carriages and cannot stir a step to get out of the way of one of them without being in danger of being ridden over by the others the general saw his look of perplexity and began a new oration to the same purpose as before spoke of his love for his kind friend the colonel his regard for his pious and godly kinsmen master des burro the great importance of the palace and Park of Woodstock the determination of the Parliament that it should be confiscated and the produce brought into the coffers of the state his own deep veneration for the authority of parliament and is no less deep sense of the injustice done to the army Howard was his wish and will that all matters should be settled in an amicable and friendly manner without self seeking debate or strife between those who had been the hands acting and such as had been the heads governing in that great national cause how he was willing truly willing to contribute to this work by laying down not his commission only but his life also if it were requested of him or could be granted with safety to the poorest soldiers to whom silly poor man he was bound to be as a father seeing that they had followed him with the duty and affection of children and here he arrived at another dead pause leaving Wilde rei'kas uncertain as before whether it was or was not his purpose to grant Colonel Everard the powers he had asked for the protection of Woodstock against the parliamentary commissioners internally he began to entertain hopes that the Justice of heaven or the effects of remorse had confounded the Regicides understanding but now he could see nothing but sagacity in that steady stern eye which while the Tarun poured forth its periphrastic language in such profusion seemed to watch with severe accuracy the effect which his oratory produced on the listener he GAD thought the Cavalier to himself becoming a little familiar with the situation in which he was placed and rather impatient of a conversation which led to no visible conclusion or termination if Noah were the devil himself as he is the devil's darling I will not be thus knows led by him I'll embrace get a little if he goes on at this rate and try if I can bring him to a more intelligible mode of speaking entertaining this bold purpose but a half afraid to execute it Wael Drake lay by for an opportunity of making the attempt while Cromwell was apparently unable to express his own meaning he was already beginning a third panegyric upon ever ardh with sundry varied expressions of his own wish to oblige him when while Drake took the opportunity to strike in on the generals making one of his oratorical pauses so please you he said bluntly your worship has already spoken on two topics of your discourse your own worthiness and that of my master Colonel Everard but to enable me to do mine errand it would be necessary to bestow a few words on the third head the third said cromwell i said wild rake which in your honors subdivision of your discourse touched on my unworthy self what am i to do or what portion am i to have in this matter Oliver started at once from the tone of voice he had hitherto used and which somewhat resembled the purring of a domestic cat into the growl of the tiger when about to spring thy portion jailbird he exclaimed the gallows thou shalt hang as high as Haman if thou betray counsel but he added softening his voice keep it like a true man and my favour will be the making of thee come hither thou art bold I see those somewhat saucy thou hast been a malignant so writes my worthy friend Colonel Everard but thou has now given up that falling cause I tell thee friend not all that the Parliament or the army could do would have pulled down the Stewart's out of their high places saving that heaven had a controversy with them well it is a sweet and comely thing to buckle on one's Armour and behalf of heavens cause otherwise truly for my own part these men might have remained upon the throne even unto this day neither do I blame Annie for aiding them until these successive great judgments have overwhelmed them in their house I'm not a bloody man having in me the feeling of human frailty but friend whosoever putteth his hand to the plow and the great acting's which are now on foot in these nations had best beware that he do not look back for rely upon my simple word that if you fail me I will not spare on you one foots length of the gallows of Haman let me therefore now at a word if the leaven of thy malignancy is altogether drugged out of thee their honourable lordship said the Cavalier shrugging of his shoulders has done that for most of us so far as cudgelling to some tune can perform it hast thou said the general with a grim smile on his lip which seemed too intimate that he was not quite inaccessible to flattery a truly now does not lie in that we have been an instrument neither are we as I have already hinted so severely bent against those who have striven against us as malignant as others may be the Parliament men best know their own interest in their own pleasure but to my poor thinking it is full time to close these jars and to allow men of all kinds the means of doing service to their country and we think it will be thy fault if thou art not employed to good purpose for the state and thyself on condition now put us away the old man entirely from thee and give us the earnest attention to what I have to tell thee your lordship need not doubt my attentions of the cavalier and the Republican general after another pause as one who gave his confidence not without hesitation proceeded to explain his views with a distinctness which he seldom used yet not without his being a little bias now and then by his long habits of circumlocution which indeed he never laid entirely aside save in the field of battle thou seest he said my friend how things stand with me the Parliament I care not who knows it love me not still last to the Council of state by whom they managed the executive government to the kingdom I cannot tell why they nourish suspicion against me unless it is because I will not deliver this poor innocent army which has followed me in so many military actions to be now pulled asunder broken piecemeal and reduced so that they who have protected the state of the expense of their blood will not have perchance the means of feeding themselves by their labor which methinks were hard measure since it is taking from Esau his birthright even without giving him a poor mess of pottage Esau is likely to help himself I think replied while Drake truly thou sayst wisely replied the general it is ill starving an armed man if there is food to be had for taking nevertheless far be it for me to encourage rebellion or want to do subordination to these our rulers I would only petition an ado and becoming a sweet and harmonious manner that they would listen to our conditions and consider our necessities but Sir looking on me and estimating me so little as they do you must think it would be a provocation in me towards the Council of state as well as the Parliament if simply to gratify your worthy master I would act contrary to their purposes or deny currency to the Commission under their authority which is as yet the highest and the state and long may it be so for me to carry on the sequestration that they intend and would it not also be said that I was lending myself to the malignant interest affording this den of the bloodthirsty and lascivious tyrants of your to be in this hour a day a place of refuge to that old and inveterate Amalekite Sir Henry Lee to keep possession of the place in which he has so long glorified himself truly it would be a perilous matter am I then to report said wild rake and it please you that you cannot Colonel Everard in this matter unconditionally I but taken conditionally the answer may be otherwise answered Cromwell I see thou art not able to fathom my purpose and therefore I will partly unfold it to thee but take notice that should thy tongue betray my counsel save and so far as carrying it to thy master by all the blood which has been shed in these wild times thou shalt die a thousand deaths and one do not fear me sir said wild rake whose natural boldness and carelessness of character was for the present time borne down and quelled like that of a falcons in the presence of the eagle hear me then said Cromwell and let no syllable escape thee now is now not the young Liam they call Albert a malignant like his father and one who went up with the young man to that blast ruffle which we had with him at worst her may we be grateful for the victory I know there is such a young gentleman as Albert Lee set out said wild rake and knowest thou not I speak not by way of prying into the good Colonel secrets but only as it behooves me to know something of the matter that I may best judge how I underserve him no stone not that thy master Markham Everard is a suitor after the sister of this same malignant a daughter of the old keeper called Sir Henry Lee all this I have heard said while drink nor can I deny that I believe in it well then go to when the young man Charles Stewart fled from the field of Wurster and was by sharp case in pursuit compelled to separate himself from his followers I know by sher intelligence that this Albert Lee was one of the last who remained with him if not indeed the very last it was devilish like him said the Cavalier without sufficiently weighing his expressions considering in what presence they were to be uttered and I'll uphold him with my rapier to be a true chip of the old block ha sweary slough said the general is this thy Reformation I never swear so please you replied wild rake recollecting himself except there is some mention of malignant sand Cavaliers in my hearing and then the old habit returns and I swear like one of gorings troopers out upon me said the general what cannot avail thee to practice a profanity so horrible to the ears of others and which brings no emolument to him who uses it there are doubtless more profitable sins in the world than the barren and unprofitable vice of swearing was the answer which rose to the lips of the Cavalier but that was exchanged for a profession of regret for having given offence the truth was the discourse began to take a turn which rendered it more interesting than ever to Wilde Drake was therefore determined not to lose the opportunity for obtaining possession of the secret that seemed to be suspended on cromwell's lips and that could only be through means of keeping guard upon his own what sort of house is Woodstock said the general abruptly an old mansion said Wilde ray can reply and so far as I could judge by a single night's lodging having abundance of Backstairs also subterranean passages and all the communications underground which are common in old Ravens nests of the sword and places for concealing priests unquestionably said Cromwell it is seldom that such ancient houses lack secret stalls where and mu of these calves of Bethel your honors excellency said wild rake may swear to that I swear not at all replied the general dryly but what thinkest thou good fellow I will ask the a blunt question where will those two worst or fugitives that thou water stove be more likely to take shelter and that they must be sheltered somewhere I well now then in the same old palace with all the corners and concealment where of young Albert has been acquainted ever since his earliest infancy truly said wild rake making an effort to answer the question the seeming indifference while the possibility of such an event and its consequences flashed fearfully upon his mind truly I should be of your honors opinion but that I think the company who by the Commission of Parliament have occupied Woodstock are likely to fright them thence as a cat scares doves from a pigeon house the neighbourhood with reference of generals Despereaux and Harrison will suit ill with fugitives from Wurster field I thought as much and so indeed would I have it answered the general long may it be ere our name shall be aught but a terror to our enemies but in this matter if thou art an active plotter for thy masters interest thou mightst I should think work out something favourable to his present object my brain is too poor to reach the depth of your honorable purpose said wilde rake listened in and that be to Prophet answered Cromwell assuredly the conquest at worst er was a great and crowning mercy yet might we seem to be but small than our thankfulness for the same did we not do what in us lies towards the ultimate improvement and final conclusion of the great work which has been thus prosperous in our hands professing in pure humility and singleness of heart that we do not in any way deserve our instrumentality to be remembered nay would rather pray and entreat that our name and fortunes were forgotten then that the great work were in itself incomplete nevertheless truly placed as we now are it concerns us more nearly than others that is if so poor creatures should it all speak of themselves as concerned whether more or less with these changes which have been wrought around naught I say by ourselves or our own power but by the destiny to which we were called fulfilling the same with all meekness and humility I say it concerns us nearly that all things should be done in conformity with the great work which have been wrought and is yet working in these lands such as my plain and simple meaning nevertheless it is much to be desired that this young man this King of Scots as he called himself this Charles Stewart should not escape forth from the nation where his arrival has wrought so much disturbance and bloodshed I have no doubt said the Cavalier looking down that your Lordships wisdom hath directed all things as they may best lead towards such a consummation and I pray your pains may be paid as they deserve I thank thee friend said Cromwell with much humility doubtless we shall meet our reward being in the hands of a good paymaster who never passeth Saturday night but understand me friend I desire no more than my own share and the good work I would heartily do what poor kindness I can tear worthy master and even to you and your degree for such as I do not converse with ordinary men but our presence may be forgotten like in every day's occurrence we speak to men like thee for their reward or their punishment and I trust it will be the former which thou in nine office will bear it at my hand your honor said while Drake speaks like one accustomed to command true men's minds are likened to those of my degree by fear and reverence said the general but enough of that desiring as I do no other dependency on my special person that is alike to us all upon that which is above us but I would desire to cast this golden ball into your master's lap he hath served against this Charles Stewart and his father but he is a kinsman near to the old nightly and stands well effected toward his daughter thou also will keep a watch my friend that ruffling look of thine will procure thee the confidence of every malignant and the prey cannot approach this cover as though to shelter like a Coney in the rocks but thou wilt be sensible of his presence I make a shift to comprehend your excellency said the Cavalier and I thank you hard we for the good opinion you have put upon me and which I pray I may have some handsome opportunity of deserving that I may show my gratitude by the event but still with reverence your excellency scheme seems unlikely while Woodstock remains in possession of the SEC West raters both the old Knight and his son and far more such a fugitive as your honor hinted at will take special care not to approach it till they are removed it is for that I've been dealing with either songs of the general I told thee that I was something willing upon slight occasion to dis possess the Sechrist raters by my own proper warrant although having perhaps sufficient authority in the state both to do so and to despise the murmurs of those who blame me in brief I would be both to tamper with my privileges and make experiments between their strengths and the powers of the Commission granted by others without pressing need or at least great prospect of advantage so if thy carnal will undertake for his love of the Republic to find the means of preventing its worst and nearest danger which must needs occur from the escape of this young man and will do his endeavour to stay him in case his flight should lead him to Woodstock which I hold very likely I will give thee an order to these Sechrist raters to evacuate the palace instantly and to the next troop of my regiment which lies at Oxford to turn them out by the shoulders if they make any scruples I even for examples sake if they dragged Esper out for most though he be wedded to my sister so please use her said wild rake and with your most powerful warrant I trust I might expel the commissioners even without the aid of your most warlike and devout troopers that is what I am least anxious about replied the general I should like to see the best of them sit after I had nodded to them to be gone always accepting the worshipful house and he was named our commissions around but who as some think we'll be done with polity Sara it'd be time to renew them therefore what chiefly concerns me to know is whether thy master will embrace a traffic which hath such a fair promise of profit with it I'm well convinced that with a scout like Lee who has been in the Cavaliers quarters and canst I should guess resume thy drinking ruffianly health quaffing manners whenever thou has to mind he must discover where the steward hath Wisconsin himself either the young Lee will visit the old one in person or he will write to him or hold communication with him by letter at all events Markham Everard and now must have an eye in every hair of your head while he spoke a flush passed over his brow he rose from his chair and paced the apartment and agitation woe to you if you suffer the young adventurer to escape me you had better be in the deepest dungeon of Europe then breathe the air of England should you but dream of playing me false I have spoken freely to the fellow more freely than as my want the time required it but to share my confidence is like keeping a watch over a powder magazine the least and most insignificant spark blows the e to ashes tell your master what I said but not how I said it by that I should have been betrayed into this disc temperature of passion begone Sarah Pearson shall bring the sealed orders you'd stay thou has something to ask I would no said wild rake to whom the visible anxiety of the general gave some confidence what is the figure of this young gallant in case I should find him at all raw bones swarthy lad they say he has shot up into here is his picture by a good hand sometimes since he turned round one of the portraits which stood with its face against the wall but it proved not to be that of charles ii but of his unhappy father the first motion of cromwell indicated a purpose of hastily replacing the picture and it seemed as if an effort were necessary to repress his disinclination to look upon it but he did repress it and placing the picture against the wall with drew slowly and sternly as if in defiance of his own feelings he was determined to gain a place from which to see it to advantage it was well for a wild rake that his dangerous companion had not turned an eye on him for his blood also kindled when he saw the portrait of his master in the hands of the chief author of his death being a fierce and desperate man he commanded his passion with great difficulty and if on its first violence he had been provided with a suitable weapon it is possible Cromwell would never have ascend tyre in his bold ascent towards supreme power but this natural and sudden flash of indignation which rushed through the veins of an ordinary man like Wilde Drake was presently subdued when confronted with the strong yet stifled emotion displayed by so powerful character as Cromwell as the Cavalier looked on his dark and bold countenance agitated by n-word and indescribable feelings he found his own violence of spirit died away and lose itself and fear and wonder so true it is that as greater lights swallow up and extinguished the display of those which are less so men of great capacious and overruling Minds bare aside and subdue and their climax of passion the more feeble wills and passions of others as when a river joins a brook the fiercer torrent shoulders aside the smaller stream wild rakes stood a silent inactive and almost terrified spectator while Cromwell assuming a firm sternness of eye and manner as one who compels himself to look on what some strong internal feeling renders painful and disgustful to him proceeded in brief and interrupted expressions but yet with a firm voice to comment on the portrait of the late king his words seemed less addressed to Wilde Drake than to be the spontaneous unburdening of his own bosom swelling under recollection of the past and anticipation of the future at Flemish painter he said that Antonio Van Dyck but a power he has steel may mutilate warriors may waste and destroy still the king stands uninjured by time and our grandchildren while they read his history may look on his image and compare the melancholy features with the woeful tale it was a stern necessity it was an awful deed the calm pride of that I might have ruled worlds of crouching Frenchman or sublet aliens or formal Spaniards but its glance has only roused the native courage of the stern Englishman lay not on poor sinful man whose breath is in his nostrils the blame that he falls when heaven never gave him strength of nerves to stand the weak rider is thrown by his unruly horse and trampled to death the strongest man the best Cavalier Springs to the empty saddle and uses bit and spur till the fiery steed knows its master who blames him who mounted aloft rides triumphantly amongst the people for having succeeded where the unskillful and feeble fell and died verily he hath his reward then what is that piece of painted canvas to me more than others now let him show to others the reproaches of that cold calm face that proud yet complaining eye those who have acted on higher respects have no cause to start at painted shadows not wealth nor power brought me from my obscurity the oppressed consciences the injured liberties of England with a banner that I followed he raised his voice so high as if pleading in his own defense before some tribunal that Pierson the officer in attendance looked into the apartment and observing his master with his eyes kindling his arm extended his foot advanced his voice raised like a general in the act of commanding the advance of his army he instantly withdrew it was other than selfish regards that drew me forth to action continued Cromwell and I dare the world i living or dead i challenge to assert that i armed for a private cause or as a means of enlarging my fortunes neither was there a trooper in the regimen who came there with less of personal ill-will to yonder unhappy at this moment the door of the apartment opened and a gentlewoman entered who from her resemblance to the general although her features were soft and feminine might be immediately recognized as his daughter she walked up to cromwell gently but firmly passed her arm through his and said to him in a persuasive tone father this is not well you have promised me this should not happen the general hung down his head like one who was either ashamed of the passion to which he had given way or of the influence which was exercised over him he yielded however to the affectionate impulse and left the apartment without again turning his head towards the portrait which had so much affected him or looking towards wild rake who remained fixed an astonishment end of chapter 8 chapter 9 of Woodstock this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott chapter 9 dr. go to go to you have known what you should not Macbeth wild rake was left in the cabinet as we have said astonished and alone it was often noised about that Cromwell the deep and sagacious statesman the calm and intrepid commander he who had overcome such difficulties and ascended to such heights that he seemed already to be stride the land which he had conquered had like many other men of great genius a constitutional taint of melancholy which sometimes displayed itself both in words and actions and had been first observed in that sudden and striking change when abandoning entirely the dissolute freaks of his youth he embraced a very strict course of religious observances which upon some occasions he seemed to consider as bringing him into more near and close contact with the spiritual world this extraordinary man has said some times during that period of his life to have given way to spiritual delusions or as he himself conceived them prophetic inspirations of approaching grandeur and of strange deep and mysterious agencies and which he was in future to be engaged in the same manner as his younger years had been marked by fits of exuberant and excessive frolic and debaucheries something of this kind seemed to explain the abolition of passion which he now manifested with wonder at what he had witnessed while Drake felt some anxiety on his own account though not the most reflecting of mortals he had sense enough to know that it is dangerous to be a witness of the infirmities of men high in power and he was left so long by himself as induced him to entertain some secret doubts whether the general might not be tempted to take means of confining or removing a witness who had seen him lowered as it seemed by the suggestions of his own conscience beneath that lofty flight which in general he effected to sustain above the rest of the sublunary world and this however he wronged Cromwell who was free either from an extreme degree of jealous suspicion or from anything which approached toward bloodthirstiness Pearson appeared after a lapse of about an hour and intimating to wild rate that he was to follow conducted him into a distant apartment and which he found the general seated on a couch his daughter was in the apartment but remained at some distance apparently busied with some female needlework and scarce turned her head as Pearson and while Drake entered at a sign from the Lord general Wilde Drake approached him as before comrade he said your old friends the Cavaliers look on me as their enemy and conduct themselves toward me as if they desired to make me such I profess they are laboring to their own prejudice for I regard and have ever regarded them as honest and honorable fools who were silly enough to run their necks and to nooses and their heads against stone walls that a man called steward and no other should be king over them fools are there no words made of letters that would sound as well as Charles Stewart with that magic title beside them why the word King is like a lighted lamp that throws the same bright gilding upon any combination of the alphabet and yet you must shed your blood for a name but thou for thy part shalt have no wrong from me here is an order well warranted to clear the lodge at Woodstock and abandon it to thy masters keeping or those whom he shall appoint he will have his uncle and pretty cousin with him doubtless fare thee well think on what I told thee they say beauty is a lodestone to yonder long lad thou de SWAT of but I reckon he has other stars to present to direct his course than bright eyes and fair hair be it as it may thy nose to my purpose peer out peer out keep a constant and careful lookout on every ragged patch that wanders by hedgerow or lane these are days when a beggar's cloak may cover a king's ransom there are some broad Portugal pieces for thee something strange tonight pouch I ween once more think on what thou hast heard and he added in a lower and more impressive tone of voice forget what thou has seen my services to thy master and yet once again remember and forget wild rake made his obeisance and returning to his Inn left Windsor with all possible speed it was afternoon in the same day when the Cavalier rejoined his round had friend who was anxiously expecting him at the end and Woodstock appointed for their rendezvous where hast thou been what has thou seen would strange uncertainty as in nighlok's and why does thou not answer me because said wild rake laying aside his riding cloak and rapier you ask so many questions at once a man has but one tongue to answer with and mine is well nigh glued to the roof of my mouth will drink unloosen it said the colonel though I dare say thou has tried that spell at every Ale House on the road call for what thou it stabbed man only be quick Colonel Everard answered wild rake I have not tasted so much as a cup of cold water this day then thou art out of humour for that reason said the colonel have they sore with brandy of thou wilt but leave being so fantastic and unlike to thyself as thou show us in the silent mood Colonel Everard replied the Cavalier very gravely I am an altered man I think thou dost alter said Everard every day in the year in every hour of the day come good now tell me hast thou seen the general and got his warrant for clearing out the sequest raters from Woodstock I have seen the devil said Wilde Drake and have as thou sayst got a warrant from him give it me hastily said Everard catching at the packet forgive me mark that wild rake if thou knewest the purpose with which this deed is granted if thou newest what it is not my purpose to tell thee what manner of hopes are founded on thy excepting it I have that opinion of the mark Everard but thou wouldst as soon take a red-hot horseshoe from the anvil with my bare hand as receiving to it this slip of paper come come said Everard this comes of some of your exalted ideas of loyalty which excellent within certain bounds drive us mad when encouraged up to some heights do not think since I must need speak plainly with thee that I see without sorrow the downfall of our ancient monarchy and the substitution of another form of government and instead what ought my regret for the past to prevent my acquiescing and aiding in such matters as are likely to settle the future the royal cause is ruined that's now in every Cavalier in England sworn the contrary ruined not to rise again for many a day at least the Parliament so often drafted and drained of those who were courageous enough to maintain their own freedom of opinion is now reduced to a handful of statesmen who have lost the respect of the people from the length of time during which they have held the supreme management of affairs they cannot stand long unless they were to reduce the army and the army late servants are now masters and will refuse to be reduced they know their strength and that they may be an army subsisting on pay and free quarters throughout England as long as they will I tell they wild rake unless we look to the only man who can rule and manage them we may expect military law throughout the land and I for mine own part look for any preservation of our privileges that may be vouchsafed to us only through the wisdom and forbearance of Cromwell now you have my secret you are aware that I am not doing the best I would but the best I can I wish not so ardently as thou perhaps yet I do wish that the king could have been restored on good terms of composition safe for us and for himself and now good wild rake rebel as thou thinkest me make me no worse a rebel than an unwilling one God knows I never laid aside love and reverence to the king even in drawing my sword against his ill advisers plague on you said wild rake that is the very cand of it that's what you all say all of you fought against the king and pure love and loyalty and not otherwise however I see your drift and I own that I like it better than I expected the army is your bear now an old null is your bare word and you are like a country constable who makes interest with the bare word that he may prevent him from letting brew and loose well there may come a day when the Sun will shine on our side of the fence and thereon shall you and all the good Fairweather folks who love the stronger party come and make common cause with us without much attending to what his friend said Colonel Everard carefully studied the warrant of Cromwell it is bolder and more peremptory than I expected he said the general must feel himself strong when he opposes his own authority so directly to that of the Council of state and the Parliament you will not hesitate to act upon it said Wilde ring that I certainly will not answer never ardh but I must wait till I have the assistance of the mayor who I think will gladly see these fellows ejected from the lodge I must not go all together on military authority if possible then stepping to the door of the apartment he dispatched a servant of the house and quest the chief magistrate desiring he should be made acquainted that Colonel Everard desired to see him with as little loss of time as possible you are sure he will come like a dog at a whistle said wild rake the word captain or Colonel makes the fat citizen trot in these days when one sword is worth fifty corporation charters but there are dragons yonder as well as the grim face nay whom I frightened the other evening when I showed my face and at the window thinks thou the knaves will show no rough play the generals warrant will weigh more with them than a dozen acts of parliament said Everard but it is time now eatest if thou hast in truth ridden from windsor hither without baiting I cannot about it said wild rake I tell thee your general gave me breakfast which I think will serve me one while if I am ever able to digest it by the mass it lay so heavy on my conscience that I carried it to church to see if I could adjust it there with my other sins but not a whit to church to the door of the church thou meanest said Everard I know thy way thou art ever want to pull the hat off reverently at the threshold but for crossing it that day seldom comes well replied wild drink and if I do pull off my caster an eel is it not seemly to show the same respects in a church which we offer in a palace it is a dainty matter is it not to see your anabaptists and brownest sand the rest of you gather to a sermon with as little ceremony as hogs to a trough but here comes food and now for a grace if I can remember one ever odd was much too interested about the fate of his uncle and his fair cousin and the prospect of restoring them to their quiet home under the protection of that formidable truncheon which was already regarded as the leading staff of England to remark that certainly a great alteration had taken place in the manners outward behavior at least of his companion his demeanor frequently events the sort of struggle between old habits of indulgence and some newly formed resolutions of abstinence and it was almost ludicrous to see how often the hand of the neophyte directed itself naturally to a large black leather and Jack which contained two double flagons of strong ale and how often diverted from its purpose by the better reflections of the reformed Topor it seized instead upon a large viewer of salubrious and pure water it was not difficult to see that the task of sobriety was not yet become easy and that if it had the recommendation of the intellectual portion of the party who had resolved upon it the outward man yielded a reluctant and restive compliance but honest while Drake had been dreadfully frightened at the course proposed to him by Cromwell and with a feeling not peculiar to the Catholic religion had formed a solemn resolution within his own mind that if he came off safe and with honour from this dangerous interview he would show his sense of heaven's favor by renouncing some of the sins which most easily beset him and especially that of n temperance to which like many of his wild compeers he was too much addicted this resolution or vow was partly Prudential as well as religious for it occurred to him as very possible that some matters of a difficult and delicate nature might be thrown into his hands at the present emergency during the conduct of which it would be fitting for him to act by some better oracle than that of the bottle celebrated by Rabelais in full compliance with this prudent determination he touched neither the ale nor the brandy which were placed before him and declined peremptorily the sack with which his friend would have garnished the board nevertheless just as the boy removed the trenchers and napkins together with a large black jack which we have already mentioned and was one or two steps on his way to the door the sinewy arm of the Cavalier which seemed to elongate itself on purpose as it extended far beyond the folds of the threadbare jacket arrested the progress of the retiring Ganymede and seizing on the blackjack conveyed it to the lips which were gently breathing forth the aspiration damn I mean heaven forgive me we are poor creatures of clay one modest Sat must be permitted to our frailty so murmuring he glued the huge flagon to his lips and as the head was slowly and gradually inclined backwards in proportion as the right hand elevated the bottom of the pitcher Everard had great doubts whether the drinker and the cup were likely to part until the whole contents the latter had been transferred to the person of the former roger wilder extented however when by a moderate computation he had swallowed at one draught about a quart and a half he then replaced it on the solver fetched a long breath to refresh his lungs bad the boy get him gone with the rest of the liquors in a tone which inferred some dread of his constancy and then turning to his friend Everard he expatiate 'add in praise of moderation observing that the mouthful which he had just taken had been of more service to him than if he had remained quaffing Health's a table for four hours together his friend made no reply but could not help being privately of opinion that while Drake's temperance had done as much execution on the tankard in his single draft as some more moderate Topher's might have effected if they had sat sitting for an evening but the subject was changed by the entrance of the landlord who came to announce to his honor Colonel Everard that the worshipful mayor of Woodstock with the master hold enough were come to wait upon him and of chapter 9 chapter 10 of Woodstock this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by Tom Bragg Woodstock or the Cavalier I Sir Walter Scott chapter 10 in the goodly form of the honest mayor there was a bustling mixture of importance and embarrassment like the deportment of a man who was conscious that he had an important part to act if he could but exactly discover what that part was but both were mingled with much pleasure at seeing ever art and he frequently repeated his welcomes and all Hales before he could be brought to attend to what that gentleman said in reply good worthy Colonel you are indeed a desirable sight to Woodstock at all times being as I may say almost our townsman as you have dwelt so much and so long as the palace truly the matter begins almost past my wit though I have transacted the affairs of this borough for many a long day and you are come to my assistance like like tank rum deus ex machina as the ethnic poet hath --it said master hold enough although i do not often quote from such books indeed master Markham ever odd or worthy Colonel as I ought rather to say you are simply the most welcome man who has come to Woodstock since the days of old King Harry I had some business with you my good friend said the colonel addressing the mayor I shall be glad if it should so happen at the same time that I may find occasion to pleasure you or you are worthy pastor no question you can do so good sir interposed master holt enough you have the heart sir and you have the hand and we are much in want of good counsel and that from a man of action I'm aware worthy Colonel that you and your worthy father have ever born yourselves in these turmoils like men of a truly Christian and moderate spirit striving to pour oil into the wounds of the land which some would rub with the vitriol and pepper and we know you are faithful children of that church which we have reformed from its papist achill and prelate achill tenets my good and Reverend friend said every word I respect the piety and learning of many of your teachers but I am also for liberty of conscience to all men on either side with sectaries nor do I desire to see them the object of suppression by violence sir sir said the Presbyterian hastily all this hath affair sound but I would you should think what a fine country in church we are like to have of it amidst the errors blasphemies and schisms which are daily introduced into the church and kingdom of England so that worthy master Edwards and his gangrena declare a--the that our native country is about to become the very sink and cesspool for all schisms heresies blasphemies and confusions as the army of Hannibal was said to be the refuse of all nations calavius omnium gentium believed me worthy Colonel the day of the Honourable house view all this over lightly and with the winking connivance of old Eli these instructors the schismatic s-- shoulder the Orthodox ministers out of their pulpits thrust themselves into families and break up the peace there of stealing away men's hearts from the established faith my good master hold enough replied the colonel interrupting the zealous preacher there is ground of sorrow for all these unhappy discards and I hold with you that the fiery spirits of the present time have raised men's minds at once above sober minded and sincere religion and above decor and common sense but there is no help save patience enthusiasm is a stream that may foam off on its own time whereas it is sure to bear down every barrier which is directly opposed to it but what are these schismatic Oh proceedings to our present purpose why partly this sir said hold enough although perhaps you may make less of it then I should have thought before we met I was myself I Nehemiah hold enough he added consequentially was forcibly expelled from my own pulpit even as a man should have been thrust out of his own house by an alien and an intruder a wolf who was not at the trouble even to put on sheep's clothing but came in his native wolfish a tire of buff and bandolier and held forth in my stead to the people who are asked to me as a flock to the lawful Shepherd it is too true sir mr. mayor saw it and strove to take such order to prevent it as man might though turning to the mayor I think still you might have striven a little more good now could master hold enough do not let us go back on that question said the mayor guy of Warrick or Bevis of Hampton might do something with this generation but truly they are too many and too strong for the mayor of Woodstock I think master mayor speaks very good sense said the colonel if the independents are not allowed to preach I fear me they will not fight and then if you were to have another rising of Cavaliers there are worse folks may rise than Cavaliers said hold enough howl sir replied Colonel Everard let me remind you master hold enough that is no safe language in the present state of the nation I say said the presbyterian there are worse folk may arise than Cavaliers and I will prove what I say the devil is worse than worst cavalier that ever drank a health or swore an oath and the devil has arisen that Woodstock Lodge I truly hath he said the mayor bodily and visibly in figure and form an awful time we live in gentleman I really know not how I am to understand you said ever art why it was even about the devil we came to speak with you said the mayor but the worthy minister is always so hot upon the sector ease which are the devil's brats and nearly akin to him said master hold enough but true it is that the growth of these sets has brought up the evil one even upon the face of the earth to look after his own interest where he finds it most thriving master hold enough said the colonel if you speak figuratively I have already told you that I have neither the means nor the skills sufficient to temper these religious heats but if you design to say that there has been an actual apparition of the devil I presumed to think that you with your doctrine and your learning would be a fitter match rim than a soldier like me true sir and I have that confidence in the Commission which I hold that I would take the field against the foul fiend without a moment's delay said hold enough but to the place in which he hath late appeared being Woodstock is filled with those dangerous and impious persons of whom I have been but now complaining and though confident in my own resources I dare venture and disputation with their great master himself yet without your protection most worthy Colonel I see not that I may with prudence trust myself with the tossing and goring ox des burrow or the bloody and devouring bear Harrison or the cold and poisonous snake Blitzen all of whom are now at the lodge doing licence and taking spoil as they think meat and as all men say the devil hath come to make a fourth with them in good truth worthy and Noble sir for the mayor it is even as master hold enough says our privileges are declared void our cattle seized in the very pastures they talk of cutting down and dis parking the fair chase which has been so long the pleasure of so many Kings and making wood stock of his little notice in a poultry village I assure you we heard of your arrival with joy and wonder that you're keeping yourself so close in your lodgings we know no one save your father or you that I'd like to stand the poor Burgesses friend in this extremity since almost all the gentry round are malignant sand under sequestration we trust therefore you will make strong intercession on our behalf certainly master mayor said the colonel who saw himself with pleasure anticipated it was my very purpose to have interfered in this matter and I did but keep myself alone until I should be furnished with some authority from the Lord general powers from the Lord general said the mayor thrusting the clergyman with his elbow dust I'll hear that what [ __ ] will fight that [ __ ] we shall carry it now over their necks and Woodstock shall be brave Woodstock still keep thine elbow from my side friend said hold enough annoyed by the action which the mayor had suited to his words and may the Lord's sin that Cromwell proved not a sharp to the people of England as thy bones against my person yet I approved that we should use his authority to stop the course of these men's proceedings let us set out then said Colonel Everard and I trust we shall find the gentleman reasonable and obedient the functionaries lahic and clerical assented with much joy and the colonel required and received wild rakes and putting on his cloak and rapier as if he had been the dependent who's part he acted the cavalier contrived however while doing these menial offices to give his friend a shrewd pinch in order to maintain the footing of secret equality between them the colonel was saluted as they passed through the streets by many of the anxious inhabitants who seemed to consider his intervention as affording the only chance of saving their fine Park and the rights of the corporation as well as of individuals from ruin and confiscation as they entered the park the colonel asked his companions what is this you say of apparitions being seen amongst them why Colonel said the clergyman you know yourself that Woodstock was always haunted I have lived there in many a day said the colonel and I know I never saw the least sign of it although idle people spoke of the house as they do of all old mansions and gave the apartments ghosts and spectres to fill up the places of as many of the deceased great as had ever dwelt there nay but Colonel said the clergyman I trust you have not reached the prevailing sin of the times and become indifferent to the testimony in favor of apparitions which appear so conclusive to all but atheists and advocates for witches I would not absolutely disbelieve what is so generally affirmed said the colonel but my reason leads me to doubt most of the stories which I have heard of this sort and my own experience never went to confirm any of them I but trust me said hold enough there was always a demon of one or the other species about this Woodstock not a man or woman in the town but has heard stories of apparitions in the forest or about the old castle sometimes it is a pack of hounds that sweep along and the whoops and hollows of the huntsman and the winding of horns and the galloping of horse which is heard as if first more distant and then close around you and then anon it is a solitary huntsman who asks if you can tell him which way the stag has gone he is always dressed in green but the fashion of his clothes as some 500 years old this is what we call demon meridian ohm the noonday Specter I worthy and reverend sir said the colonel I have lived at Woodstock many seasons and have traversed the chase at all hours trust me what you hear from the villagers is the growth of their idle folly and superstition Colonel replied hold enough a negative proves nothing what signifies craving near pardon that you have not seen anything yet earthly or beard of the other world to detract from the evidence of a score of people who have and besides there is the demon nocturnal the being that walketh by night he has been among these independence and schismatic slashed night I Colonel you may stare but it is even so they may try whether he will mend their gifts as they profane they call them of exposition and prayer but sir I trow to master the foul fiend there go with some competent knowledge of theology and an acquaintance of the humane letters I and a regular clerical education and clerical calling I do not in the least doubts at the colonel the efficacy of your qualifications to lay the devil but still I think some odd mistake has occasioned this confusion amongst them if there has any such in reality existed Despero is a blockhead to be sure and Harrison is fanatic enough to believe anything but there is blood son on the other hand who believes nothing what do you know of this matter good master Maher in sooth and it was master Blitzen who first gave the alarm replied the magistrate or at least the first distinct one you see sir I was in bed with my wife and no one else and I was as fast as as a man can desire to be at two hours after midnight when behold you they came knocking at my bedroom door to tell me there was an alarm in Woodstock and that the bell of the lodge was ringing at that dead hour of the night as hard as ever at rung when it called the court to dinner well but the cause of this alarm said the colonel you shall hear were they carnal you shall hear answered the mayor waving his hand with dignity for he was one of those persons who will not be hurried out of their own pace so mrs. mayor would have persuaded me in her love and affection poor wretch that to rise at such an hour out of my own warm bed was like to bring on my old complaint the lumbago and that I should send the people to alderman Dutton alderman devil mrs. mayor said I I beg your reverence is pardoned for using such a phrase do you think I am going to lie Abed when the town is on fire and the Cavaliers up and the devil to pay I beg pardon again parson but here we are before the gate of the palace will it not please you to enter I would first hear the end of your story so the kernel that is master mayor if it happens to have an end everything hath an end said the mayor and that which we call the pudding hath to your worship will forgive me for being facetious where was I oh I jumped out of bed and put on my red plush bridges with the blue nether stocks for I always make a point of being dressed suitably to my dignity night and day summer or winter Colonel Everard and I took the constable along with me in case the alarm should be raised by nightwalkers or thieves and called up worthy master hold enough out of his bed in case it should turn out to be the devil and so I thought I was provided for the worst and so away we came and by-and-by the soldiers who came to the town with master Tompkins who had been called to arms came marching down to Woodstock as fast as their feet would carry them so I gave our people the sign to than pass us and out marchis as it were and this for a two-fold reason I will be satisfied interrupted the colonel with one good reason you desired the Redcoats should have the first of the fray true sir very true and also that they should have the last of it and respect that fighting is there a special business however we came on at a slow pace as men who are determined to do their duty without fear or favor when suddenly we saw something white haste away up the Avenue towards the town but six of our constables and assistants fled at once as conceiving it to be an apparition called the white woman of Woodstock look you there colonel said master halt enough I told you there were demons of more kinds than one which haunt the ancient scenes of royal debauchery and cruelty I hope you stood your own ground master mayor said the colonel I yes most assuredly that is I did not strictly speaking keep my ground but the town Clark and I retreated retreated colonel and without confusion or dishonor and took post behind worthy master hold enough who would the spirit of a lion threw himself in the way of the supposed specter and attacked it with such a [ __ ] re of Latin as might have scared the devil himself and thereby plainly discovered that it was no devil at all nor white woman nor woman of any color but worshipful master Blitzen a member of the House of Commons and one of the commissioners sent hither upon this unhappy sequestration of the wood chase and Lodge of Woodstock and this was all you saw of the demon said the colonel truly yes answered the mayor and I had no wish to see more however we conveyed master Blitzen as a duty bound back to the lodge and he was ever monitoring by the way how that he had met a party of scarlet devil incarnate marching down to the large but to my poor thinking it must have been the independent dragoons oh it has passed us and more incarnate Devils I would never wish to see sad wild Drake who could remain silent no longer his voice have suddenly heard showed how much the mayor's nerves were still alarmed for he started and jumped aside with an alacrity of which no one would at first sight suppose a man of his portly dignity to have been capable Everard imposed silence on his intrusive attendant and desires to hear the conclusion of this strange story requested the mayor to tell him how the matter ended and whether they stopped the supposed specter truly worthy sir said the mayor master holdin up was quite venturous upon confronting as it were the devil and compelling him to appear under the real form of master Joshua Blitzen Member of Parliament for the borough of little faith in sooth master mayor said the divine I was strangely ignorant my own commission and its immunities if I were to value opposing myself to Satan or any independent and his likeness all of whom in the name of him I serve I do defy spit at and trample under my feet and because master mayor is something tedious I will briefly inform your honor that we saw little of the enemy that night save what mastered Letson said in the first feeling of his terrors and save what we might collect from the disordered appearance of the Honorable Colonel Despereaux and major-general Harrison and what plight were they in I pray you demanded the colonel why worthy sir everyone might see with half an eye that they had been engaged in a fight wherein they had not been honoured with perfect victory seeing that General Harrison was stalking up and down the parlor with his drawn sword in his hand talking to himself his doublet unbuttoned his points on trust his garters loose and like to throw him down as he now and then trod on them and gaping and grinning like a mad player and yonder sat des burro with a dry Patil of sack before in which he had just emptied and which though the element in which he trusted had not restored him sense enough to speak or courage enough to look over his shoulder he had a Bible in his hand forsooth as if it would have itself make battle against the evil one but I peered over his shoulder and alas the good gentleman held the bottom of the page uppermost It was as if one of your Musketeers noble and valued sir were to present the butt of his piece at the enemy instead of the muzzle it was a sight to judge of schismatic spy both in point of head and end point of heart in point of skill and in point of courage Oh Colonel then was the time to see the true character of an authorised pastor of souls over those unhappy men who leap into the fold without due and legal authority and will forsooth preach teach and exhort and blasphemously turned the doctrine of the church saltless porridge and dried ships I have no doubt you were ready to meet the danger Reverend sir but I would fain know of what nature it was and from whence it was to be apprehended was it for me to make such an inquiry said the clergyman triumphantly is it for a brave soldier to number his enemies or inquire from what quarter they are to come no sir I was there with match light and bullet in my mouth and my Harker bus shouldered to encounter as many Devils as hell could pour in where they come to us as motes in a sunbeam and although they came from all points of the compass the Papists talked of the temptation of since Anthony Shaw let them double all the myriads which the brain of a crazy Dutch painter hath invented and you will find a poor Presbyterian divine I will answer for one at least who not in his own strength but his master's will receive the assault of such sort that far from returning against him as yonder poor hound day after day and night after night he will at once pack them off as with a vengeance to the uttermost parts of assyria still said the colonel I pray to know whether you saw anything upon which to exercise your pious learning saw answered the divine no truly I saw nothing nor did I look for anything thieves will not attack well-armed travelers nor will Devils or evil spirits come against one who bears in his bosom the word of truth in the very language in which was first dictated no sir they shun a divine who can understand the holy text as a crow is said to keep wide of a gun loaded with hail shot they had walked a little way back upon their road to give time for this conversation and the colonel perceiving it was about to lead to no satisfactory explanation of the real cause of alarm on the preceding night turned round and observing it was time they should go to the lodge began to move in that direction with his three companions it had now become dark and the towers of Woodstock arose high above the umbrageous shroud which the forest spread around the ancient and venerable mansion from one of the highest turrets which could still be distinguished as it rose against the clear blue sky there gleamed a light like that of a candle within the building the mayor stopped short and catching fast hold of the divine and then of colonel Everard exclaimed in a trembling and hasty but suppressed tone do you see yonder light I married - I said Colonel Everard and what does that matter a light and a garret room of such an old mansion as Woodstock is no subject of wonder I trow but a light from roselyn's tower as surely so said the mayor true said the colonel something surprised when after a careful examination he satisfied himself that the worthy magistrates conjecture was right that is indeed Rothman's tower and has the drawbridge by which it was accessible has been destroyed for centuries it is hard to say what chance could have lighted a lamp in such an inaccessible place that light burns with no earthly fuel said the mayor neither from whale nor olive oil nor beeswax or mutton suet either I dealt in these commodities Colonel before I went into my present line and I can assure you I could distinguish the sort of light they give one from another at a greater distance than yonder turret look you that is no earthly flame see you're not something blue and reddish upon the edges that bodes full well where it comes from colonel in my opinion we had better go back to sabi to town to leave the devil in the red coats to settle their matters together for tonight and then when we come back the next morning we will have a pool with the party the chances to keep a field you will do as you please master mayor said Everard but my duty requires me that I should see the commissioners tonight and mine requires me to see the foul field said master hold enough if he dare make himself visible to me I wonder not that knowing who is approaching he takes himself to the very citadel the inner in the last defenses of this ancient and haunted mansion he is dainty I warrant you and must dwell where is a relish of luxury and murder about the walls of his chamber in yonder turret sind Roselyn and in yonder turret she suffered and there she sits or more likely the enemy in her shape as I have heard true men of Woodstock tell I wait on you good colonel master mayor will do as he pleases the strong man hath fortified himself in his dwelling house but lo there cometh another stronger than he for me said the mayor who I must unlearn it as I am unwarlike I will not engage either with the powers of the earth or the Prince of the powers of the air and I would we were again at Woodstock and Harkey Goodfellow slapping wild Drake on the shoulder I will bestow on me a shilling wet and a shilling drive that would go back with me dad's Zuko's master mayor said wild rake neither flattered by the magistrate's familiarity of address nor captivated by his munificence I wonder who the devil made me in you fellows and besides do you think I would go back to Woodstock with your worshipful khan's head when by good management I may get a peep of fair Rosalind and see whether she was that choice an incomparable piece of ware which the world has been told of by rhymers and ballot makers speak less lightly and one can leave friend said the divine we are to resist the devil that he may flee from us and not to tamper with him or enter into his counsels or traffic with the merchandize of his great vanity fair' mind what the good man says while Drake said the colonel and take heed another time how thou us suffer thy wit to outrun discretion I am beholden to the Reverend gentleman for his advice answered Wilde Drake upon whose tongue it was difficult to impose and he curbed whatever even when his own safety rendered it most desirable but gadzooks let him have had what experience he will in fighting with the devil he never saw one so black as I had a tussle with not a hundred years ago how friend said the clergyman who understood everything literally when apparitions were mentioned have you had so late a visitation of Satan believe me then that I wonder why thou darest entertain his name so often and so lightly as I see thou dost use it in thy ordinary discourse but when and where didst thou see the evil one ever art hastily interposed lest by something yet more strongly alluding to well his imprudence choir should and mere wantonness betray his interview with the general the young man raves he said of a dream which he had the other night when he and I slept together in victory as chamber belonging to the Ranger's apartment at the lodge thanks for help at a pinch good patron said wild rake whispering into Everards ear who in vain endeavoured to shake him off a fib but never failed a fanatic you also spoke something to lightly of these matters considering the work which we have in hand were the colonel said the Presbyterian divine believe me the young man my servant was more likely to see visions than to dream merely idle dreams in that apartment for I have always heard that next to Rosamund's tower in which as I said she played the wanton and was afterwards poisoned by Queen Eleanor Victor Lee's chamber was the place in the lodge of Woodstock more peculiarly in the haunt of evil spirits I pray you young man tell me this dream or vision of yours with all my heart sir said wild ring then addressing his patron who began to interfere he said tush sir you have had the discourse for an hour and why should I not hold forth in my turn by this darkness if you keep me silent any longer I will turn independent preacher and stand up in your despite for the freedom of private judgment and so Reverend sir I was dreaming of a carnal divertissement called a bull baiting and we thought they were venturing dogs at head as merrily as air I saw them at at Barry bull running and we thought I heard someone say there was a devil come to have a sight of the boring well I thought that GAD swoons I would have a peep at his infernal Majesty so I looked and there was a butcher in greasy woollen with his steel by his side but he was none of the devil and there was a drunken Cavalier with his mouth full of oaths and his stomach full of emptiness and a gold-laced waistcoat in a very dilapidated condition and a ragged hat with a piece of a feather in it and he was none of the devil neither and here was a Miller his hands dusty with meal and every atom of it stolen and there was a Ventnor his green apron stained with wine and every drop of its sofisticated but neither was the old gentleman I looked for to be detected among these artisans of iniquity at length sir I saw a grave person with cropped hair a pair of long ish and projecting ears a band as broad as a slobbering bib under his chin a brown coat surmounted by a Geneva cloak and I had old Nicholas at once and his genuine paraphernalia by Shan Shan said Colonel Everard what behaved thus to an old gentleman and a divine nay let him proceed said the minister with perfect equanimity if thy friend or secretary is jiving I must have less patience than becomes my profession if I could not bear a nice bull chest and forgive him who makes it or if on the other hand the enemy has really presented himself to the young man in such a guise as he intimates wherefore should we be surprised that he who can take upon him the form of an angel of light should be able to assume that of a frail and peaceable mortal whose spiritual calling and profession ought indeed to induce him to make his life an example to others but whose conduct nevertheless such as the imperfection of our unassisted nature sometimes rather presents us with a warning of what we should shun now by the mass honest domine I mean reverence sir I crave you A Thousand pardons said Wilde rate penetrated by the quietness and patience of the presbyters rebuked by some George if quiet patience will do it thou art fit to play a game at 4 O's with the devil himself and I would be contented to hold stakes as he concluded an apology which was certainly not uncalled for and seemed to be received and perfectly good part they approached so close to the exterior door the lodge that they were challenged with the emphatic stand by a Sentinel who mounted guard their colonel a virag replied a friend and the Sentinel repeating his command stand friend proceeded to call the Corporal of the guard the Corporal came forth and at the same time turned out his guard colonel Everard gave his name and designation as well as those of his companions on which the Corporal said he doubted not there would be orders for his instant admission but in the first place Master Tompkins must be consulted that he might learn their honors mind now sir said the colonel do you know in who I am presumed to keep me on the outside of your post not if your honor pleases to enter said the Corporal and undertakes to be my warranty but such are the orders of my post Nathan do your duty said the colonel but are the Cavaliers up or what is the matter that you keep so close and strict to watch the fellow gave no distinct answer but muttered between his mustaches something about the enemy and the roaring lion who goeth about seeking whom he may devour presently afterwards Thompkins appeared followed by two servants bearing lights and great standing brass candlesticks they marched before Colonel Everard and his party keeping us close to each other as two cloves of the same orange and starting from time to time and shuddering as they pass through sundry intricate passages they led up a large an ample wooden staircase the banisters rail and lining of which were executed in black oak and finally into a long saloon or parlor where there was a prodigious fire and about 12 candles of the largest size distributed in sconces against the wall there were seated the commissioners who now held in their power the ancient mansion and royal domain of Woodstock end of chapter 10 | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2017-08-05 | Creative Commons 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KotthpYvfDY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KotthpYvfDY | Gleanings in Buddha Fields | Lafcadio Hearn | Culture & Heritage, Essays & Short Works | 2/4 | section 5 of gleanings in buda fields this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverbox.org recording by marianne spiegel gleanings in buda fields by levcadio hearn dust let the bodhisteva look upon all things as having the nature of space as permanently equal to space without essence without substantiality i have wandered on the verge of the town and the street i followed has roughened into a country road and begins to curve away through rice fields toward a hamlet at the foot of the hills between town and rice fields a vague unoccupied stretch of land makes a favorite playground for children there are trees and spaces of grass to roll on and many butterflies and plenty of little stones i stop to look at the children by the roadside some are amusing themselves with wet clay making tiny models of mountains and rivers and rice fields tiny mud villages also imitations of peasants huts and little mud temples and mud gardens with ponds and humped bridges and imitations of stone lanterns toro likewise miniature cemeteries with bits of broken stone for monuments and they play at funerals bearing corpses of butterflies and semi cicada and pretending to repeat buddha's sutras over the grave tomorrow they will not dare to do this for tomorrow will be the first day of the festival of the dead during that festival it is strictly forbidden to molest insects especially semi some of which have on their heads little red characters said to be names of souls children in all countries play at death before the sense of personal identity comes death cannot be seriously considered and childhood thinks in this regard more correctly perhaps than self-conscious maturity of course if these little ones were told some bright morning that a playfellow had gone away forever gone away to be reborn elsewhere there would be a very real though vague sense of loss and much wiping of eyes with many colored sleeves but presently the loss would be forgotten and the playing resumed the idea of ceasing to exist could not possibly enter a child mind the butterflies and birds the flowers the foliage the sweet summer itself only play at dying they seem to go but they all come back again after the snow is gone the real sorrow and fear of death arise in us only through slow accumulation of experience with doubt and pain and these little boys and girls being japanese and buddhists will never in any event feel about death just as you or i do they will find reason to fear it for somebody else's sake but not for their own because they will learn that they have died millions of times already and have forgotten the trouble of it much as one forgets the pain of successive toothaches in the strangely penetrant light of their creed teaching the ghostliness of all substance granite or gossamer just as those lightly found x-rays make visible the ghostliness of the flesh this their present world with its bigger mountains and rivers and rice fields will not appear to them much more real than the mud landscapes which they made in childhood and much more real it probably is not at which thought i am conscious of a sudden shock a familiar shock and know myself seized by the idea of substance as non-reality this sense of the voidness of things comes only when the temperature of the air is so equitably related to the temperature of life that i can forget having a body cold compels painful notions of solidity cold sharpens the delusion of personality cold quickens egotism cold numbs thought and shrivels up the little wings of dreams today is one of those warm hushed days when it is possible to think of things as they are when ocean peak and plain seem no more real than the arching of blue emptiness above them all is mirage my physical self and the sunlit road and the slow rippling of the grain under our sleepy wind and the thatched roofs beyond the haze of the rice fields and the blue crumbling of the naked hills behind everything i have the double sensation of being myself a ghost and of being haunted haunted by the prodigious luminous specter of the world there are men and women working in these fields colored moving shadows they are and the earth under them out of which they rose and back to which they will go is equally shadow only the forces behind the shadow that make and unmake are real therefore viewless somewhat as night devours all lesser shadow will this phantasmal earth swallow us at last and itself thereafter vanish away but the little shadows and the shadow eater must as certainly reappear must re-materialize somewhere and somehow this ground beneath me is old as the milky way call it what you please clay soil dust its names are but symbols of human sensations having nothing in common with it really it is nameless and unnameable being a mass of energies tendencies infinite possibilities for it was made by the beating of that shoreless sea of birth and death whose surges billow unseen out of eternal night to burst in foam of stars lifeless it is not it feeds upon life and visible life grows out of it dust it is of karma waiting to enter into novel combinations dust of elder being in that state between birth and birth which the buddhist calls it is made of forces and of nothing else and those forces are not of this planet only but of vanished spheres innumerable is there ought visible tangible measurable that has never been mixed with sentiency atom that has never vibrated to pleasure or to pain air that has never been cry or speech drop that has never been a tear assuredly this dust has felt it has been everything we know all so much that we cannot know it has been nebula and star planet and moon times unspeakable deity also it has been the sun god of worlds that circled and worshiped in other ants remember man thou art but dust a saying profound only as materialism which stops short at surfaces for what is dust remember dust thou hast been sun and sun thou shalt become again thou has been light life love and into all these by ceaseless cosmic magic thou shalt many times be turned again for this cosmic apparition is more than evolution alternating with dissolution it is infinite metamp psychosis it is perpetual palingenesis those old predictions of a bodily resurrection were not falsehoods they were rather foreshadowings of a truth vaster than all myths and deeper than all religions sons yield up their ghosts aflame but out of their graves new sons rush into being corpses of worlds pass all to some solar funeral pyre but out of their own ashes they are born again this earth must die her seas shall be saharas but those seas once existed in the sun and their dead tides revived by fire will pour their thunder upon the coasts of another world transmigration transmutation these are not fables what is impossible not the dreams of alchemists and poets drost indeed may be changed to gold the jewel to the living eye the flower into flesh what is impossible if seas can pass from world to sun from sun to world again what of the dust of dead selves dust of memory and thought resurrection there is but a resurrection more stupendous than any dreamed of by western creeds dead emotions will revive as surely as dead suns and moons only so far as we can just now discern there will be no return of identical individualities the re-apparition will always be a recombination of the pre-existing a readjustment of affinities a reintegration of being informed with the experience of anterior being the cosmos is a karma merely by reason of illusion and folly do we shrink from the notion of self-instability for what is our individuality most certainly it is not individuality at all it is multiplicity incalculable what is the human body a form built up out of billions of living entities an impermanent agglomeration of individuals called cells and the human soul a composite of quintillions of souls we are each and all infinite compounds of fragments of anterior lives and the universal process that continually dissolves and continually constructs personality has always been going on and is even at this moment going on in every one of us what being ever had a totally new feeling and absolutely new idea all our emotions and thoughts and wishes however changing and growing through the varying seasons of life are only compositions and recompositions of the sensations and ideas and desires of other folk mostly of dead people millions of billions of dead people cells and souls are themselves recombinations present aggregations of past knittings of forces forces about which nothing is known say that they belong to the shadow makers of universes whether you by you i mean any other agglomeration of souls really wish for immortality as an agglomeration i cannot tell but i confess that my mind to me a kingdom is not rather it is a fantastical republic daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in south america and the nominal government supposed to be rational declares that an eternity of such anarchy is not desirable i have souls wanting to soar in air and souls wanting to swim in water sea water i think and souls wanting to live in woods or on mountain tops i have souls longing for the torment of great cities and souls longing to dwell in tropical solitude souls also in various degrees of naked savagery souls demanding nomad freedom without tribute souls conservative delicate loyal to empire and a fetal tradition and souls that are nihilists deserving siberia sleepless souls hating inaction and hermit souls dwelling in such meditative isolation that only at intervals of years can i feel them moving about souls that have faith in fetishes polytheistic souls souls proclaiming islam and souls medieval loving cloister shadow and incense and glimmer of tapers and the awful altitude of gothic glooms cooperation among all these is not to be thought of always there will be trouble revolt confusion civil war the majority detest this state of things multitudes would gladly emigrate and the wiser minority feel that they need never hope for better conditions until after the total demolition of the existing social structure i an individual an individual soul nay i am a population a population unthinkable for multitude even by groups of a thousand millions generations of generations i am eons of eons countless times the concourse now making me has been scattered and mixed with other scatterings of what concern then the next disintegration perhaps after trillions of ages of burning in different dynasties of suns the very best of me may come together again if one could only imagine some explanation of the why the questions of the whence and the wither are much less troublesome since the present assures us even though vaguely of future and past but the why the cooing voice of a little girl dissolves my reverie she is trying to teach a child brother how to make the chinese character for man i mean man with a big m first she draws in the dust a stroke sloping downwards from right to left so and then she draws another curving downwards from left to right thus joining the two so as to form the perfect g or character hito meaning a person of either sex or mankind then she tries to impress the idea of this shape on the baby memory by help of a practical illustration probably learned at school she breaks a slip of wood into two pieces and manages to balance the pieces against each other at about the same angle as that made by the two strokes of the character now see she says each stands only by help of the other one by itself cannot stand therefore the g is like mankind without help one person cannot live in this world but by getting help and giving help everybody can live if nobody helped anybody all people would fall down and die this explanation is not philologically exact the two strokes evolutionarily stand for a pair of legs all that survives in the modern idiograph of the whole man figured in the primitive picture writing but the pretty moral fancy is much more important than the scientific fact it is also one charming example of that old-fashioned method of teaching which invested every form and every incident with ethical significance besides as a mere item of moral information it contains the essence of all earthly religion and the best part of all earthly philosophy a world priestess she is this dear little maid with her dove's voice and her innocent gospel of one letter verily in that gospel lies the only possible present answer to ultimate problems where its whole meaning universally felt were its whole suggestion of the spiritual and material law of love and help universally obeyed forthwith according to the idealists this seemingly solid visible world would vanish away like smoke for it has been written that in whatsoever time all human minds according thought and will with the mind of the teacher there shall not remain even one particle of dust that does not enter into buddhahood end of section 5. section 6 of gleanings in buda fields this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by marianne gleanings in buddha fields by lufkidio hearn about faces in japanese art 1. a very interesting essay upon the japanese art collections in the national library was read by mr edward strange at a meeting of the japan society held last year in london mr strange proved his appreciation of japanese art by an exposition of its principles the subordination of detail to the expression of a sensation or idea the subordination of the particular to the general he spoke especially of the decorative element in japanese art and of the ukiyoyi school of color printing he remarked that even the heraldi of japan as illustrated in little books costing only a few pens each contained an education in the planning of conventional ornament he referred to the immense industrial value of japanese stencil designs he tried to explain the nature of the advantage likely to be gained in the art of book illustration from the careful study of japanese methods and he indicated the influence of those methods in the work of such artists as aubry beardsley edgar wilson steinlin ibbels whistler grasset charit and lantrek finally he pointed out the harmony between certain japanese principles and the doctrines of one of the modern western schools of impressionism such an address could hardly fail to provoke adverse criticism in england because it suggested a variety of new ideas english opinion does not prohibit the importation of ideas the public will even complain if fresh ideas be not regularly set before it but its requirement of them is aggressive it wants to have an intellectual battle over them to persuade its unquestioning acceptance of new beliefs or thoughts to coax it to jump to a conclusion were about as easy as to make the mountains skip like rams though willing to be convinced providing the idea does not appear morally dangerous it must first be assured of the absolute correctness of every step in the mental process by which the novel conclusion has been reached that mr strange's just but almost enthusiastic admiration of japanese art could pass without challenge was not possible yet one would scarcely have anticipated a challenge from the ranks of the japan society itself the report however shows that mr strange's views were received even by that society in the characteristic english way the idea that english artists could learn anything important from the study of japanese methods was practically poopooed and the criticisms made by various members indicated that the philosophic part of the paper had been either misunderstood or unnoticed one gentleman innocently complained that he could not imagine why japanese art should be utterly wanting in facial expression another declared that there could never have been any lady like the ladies of the japanese prince and he described the faces thereon portrayed as absolutely insane then came the most surprising incident of the evening the corroboration of these adverse criticisms by his excellency the japanese minister with the apologetic remark that the prince referred to were only regarded as common things in japan common things common perhaps in the judgment of other generations aesthetic luxuries today the artists named were hokusai toyokuni hiroshiji kuniyoshi kunisada but his excellency seemed to think the subject trifling for he took occasion to call away the attention of the meeting irrelevantly as patriotically to the triumphs of the war in this he reflected faithfully the japanese zeitgeist which can scarcely now endure the foreign praise of japanese art unfortunately those dominated by the jostan natural martial pride of the hour do not reflect that while the developments and maintenance of great armaments unless affected with the greatest economical caution might lead in short order to national bankruptcy the future industrial prosperity of the country is likely to depend in no small degree upon the conservation and cultivation of the national arch sense nay those very means by which japan won her late victories were largely purchased by the commercial results of that very art sense to which his excellency seemed to attach no importance japan must continue to depend upon her aesthetic faculty even in so commonplace a field of industry as the manufacturer of mattings for a mere cheap production she will never be able to undersell china 2. although the criticisms provoked by mr strange's essay were unjust to japanese art they were natural and indicated nothing worse than ignorance of that art and miscomprehension of its purpose it is not an art of which the meaning can be read at a glance years of study are necessary for a right comprehension of it i cannot pretend that i have mastered the knowledge of its moods and tenses but i can say truthfully that the faces in the old picture books and in the cheap prince of today especially those of the illustrated japanese newspapers do not seem to me in the least unreal much less absolutely insane there was a time when they did appear to be fantastic now i find them always interesting occasionally beautiful if i'm told that no other european would say so then i must declare all other europeans wrong i feel sure that if these faces seem to most occidentalists either absurd or soulless it is only because most occidentalists do not understand them and even if his excellency the japanese minister to england be willing to accept the statement that no japanese woman ever resembled the women of the japanese picture books and cheap prints i must still refuse to do so those pictures i contend are true and reflect intelligence grace and beauty i see the women of the japanese picture books in every japanese street i have beheld an actual life almost every normal type of face to be found in a japanese picture book the child and the girl the bride and the mother the matron and the grandparent poor and rich charming or commonplace or vulgar if i am told that trained art critics who have lived in japan laugh at this assertion i replied that they cannot have lived in japan long enough or felt her life intimately enough or studied her art impartially enough to qualify themselves to understand even the commonest japanese drawing before i came to japan i used to be puzzled by the absence of facial expression in certain japanese pictures i confess that the faces although not even then devoid of a certain weird charm seemed to me impossible afterwards during the first two years of far eastern experience that period in which the strangers apt to imagine that he is learning all about a people whom no occidental can ever really understand i could recognize the grace and truth of certain forms and feel something of the intense charm of color in japanese prince but i had no perception of the deeper meaning of that art even the full significance of its color i did not know much that was simply true i then thought outlandish while conscious of the charm of many things the reason of the charm i could not guess i imagined the apparent conventionalism of the faces to indicate the arrested development of an otherwise marvelous art faculty it never occurred to me that they might be conventional only in the sense of symbols which once interpreted would reveal more than ordinary western drawing can express but this was because i still remained under old barbaric influences influences that blinded me to the meaning of japanese drawing and now having at last learned a little it is the western art of illustration that appears to me conventional undeveloped semi-barbarous the pictorial attractions of english weeklies and of american magazines now impress me as flat coarse and clumsy my opinion on the subject however is limited to the ordinary class of western illustration as compared with the ordinary class of japanese prince perhaps somebody will say that even granting my assertion the meaning of any true art should need no interpretation and that the inferior character of japanese work is proved by the admission that its meaning is not universally recognizable whoever makes such a criticism must imagine western art to be everywhere equally intelligible some of it the very best probably is and some japanese art also is but i can assure the reader that the ordinary art of western book illustration or magazine engraving is just as incomprehensible to japanese as japanese drawings are to europeans who have never seen japan for japanese to understand our common engravings he must have lived abroad for an occidental to perceive the truth or the beauty or the humor of japanese drawings he must know the life which those drawings reflect one of the critics at the meeting of the japan society found fault with the absence of facial expression in japanese drawing as conventional he compared japanese art on this ground with the art of the old egyptians and held both inferior because restricted by convention yet surely the age which makes leo koan a classic ought to recognize that greek art itself was not free from conventions it was an art which we can scarcely hope ever to equal but it was more conventional than any existing form of art and since it proved that even the divine could find development within the limits of artistic convention the charge of formality is not a charge worth making against japanese art somebody may respond that greek conventions were conventions of beauty while those of japanese drawing have neither beauty nor meaning but such a statement is possible only because japanese art has not yet found its winkelman or its lessing whereas greek art by the labor of generations of modern critics and teachers has been made somewhat more comprehensible to us than it could have been to our barbarian forefathers the greek conventional face cannot be found in real life no living head presenting so large a facial angle but the japanese conventional phase can be seen everywhere when once the real value of its symbol in art is properly understood the face of greek art represents an impossible perfection a superhuman evolution the seemingly inexpressive face drawn by the japanese artists represents the living the actual the everyday the former is a dream the latter is a common fact three a partial explanation of the apparent physionomical conventionalism in japanese drawing is just that law of subordination of individualism to type of personality to humanity of detail to feeling which the miscomprehended lecturer mr edward strange vainly tried to teach the japan society something about the japanese artist depicts an insect for example as no european artist can do he makes it live he shows its peculiar motion its character everything by which it is at once distinguished as a type and all this with a few brush strokes but he does not attempt to represent every vein upon each of its wings every separate joint of its antenna he depicts it as it is really seen at a glance not as studied in detail we never see all the details of the body of a grasshopper a butterfly or a bee in the moment that we perceive it perching somewhere we observe only enough to enable us to decide what kind of creature it is we see the typical never the individual peculiarities therefore the japanese artist paints the type alone to reproduce every detail would be to subordinate the type character to the individual peculiarity a very minute detail is rarely brought out except when the instant recognition of the type is aided by the recognition of the detail as for example when a ray of light happens to fall upon the joint of a cricket's leg or to reverberate from the male of a dragonfly in a double-colored metallic flash so likewise in painting a flower the artist does not depict a particular but a typical flower he shows the morphological law of the species or to speak symbolically nature's thought behind the form the results of this method may astonish even scientific men alfred russell wallace speaks of a collection of japanese sketches of plants as the most masterly things that he ever saw every stem twig and leaf he declares is produced by simple touches of the brush the character and perspective of very complicated plants being admirably given and the articulations of stem and leaves shown in a most scientific manner the italics are my own observe that while the work is simplicity itself produced by single touches of the brush it is nevertheless in the opinion of one of the greatest living naturalists most scientific and why because it shows the type character and the law of the type so again in portraying rocks and cliffs hills and plains the japanese artist gives us the general character not the worrisome detail of masses and yet the detail is admirably suggested by this perfect study of the larger law or look at his color studies of sunsets and sunrises he never tries to present every minute fact within range of vision but offers us only those great luminous tones and chromatic blendings which after a thousand petty details have been forgotten still linger in the memory and there recreate the feeling of what has been seen now this general law of the art applies to japanese representations of the human figure and also though here other laws come into play of the human face the general types are given and often with a force that the cleverest french sketcher could scarcely emulate the personal trait the individual peculiarity is not given even when in the humor of caricature or in dramatic representation facial expression is strongly marked it is rendered by typical not individual characteristics just as it was rendered upon the antique stage by the conventional masks of greek actors 4. a few general remarks about the treatment of faces in ordinary japanese drawing may help to the understanding of what that treatment teaches youth is indicated by the absence of all but essential touches and by the clean smooth curves of the face and neck accepting the touches which suggest eyes nose and mouth there are no lines the curves speak sufficiently of fullness smoothness ripeness for story illustration it is not necessary to elaborate feature as the age or condition is indicated by the style of the koi fear and the fashion of the dress in female figures the absence of eyebrows indicates the wife or widow a straggling dress signifies grief troubled thought is shown by an unmistakable pose or gesture hair costume and attitude are indeed enough to explain almost everything but the japanese artist knows how by means of extremely delicate variations in the direction and position of the half-dozen touches indicating feature to give some hint of character whether sympathetic or unsympathetic and this hint is seldom lost upon a japanese eye again an almost imperceptible hardening or softening of these touches has moral significance still this is never individual it is only the hint of a physionomical law in the case of immature youth boy and girl faces there's merely a general indication of softness and gentleness the abstract rather than the concrete charm of childhood in the portrayal of mature types the lines are more numerous and more accentuated illustrating the fact that character necessarily becomes more marked in middle age as the facial muscles begin to show but there is only the suggestion of this change not any study of individualism in the representation of old age the japanese artist gives us all the wrinkles the hollows the shrinking of tissues the crow's feet the gray hairs the change in the line of the face following upon loss of teeth his old men and women show character they delight us by certain worn sweetness of expression a look of benevolent resignation or they repel us by an aspect of hardened cunning avarice or envy there are many types of old age but they are types of human conditions not of personality the picture is not drawn from a model it is not the reflection of an individual existence its value is made by the recognition which it exhibits of a general physionomical or biological law here it is worthwhile to notice that the reserves of japanese art in the matter of facial expression accord with the ethics of oriental society for ages the rule of conduct has been to mask all personal feelings as far as possible to hide pain and passion under an exterior semblance of smiling amiability or of impassive resignation one key to the enigmas of japanese art is buddhism 5. i have said that when i now look at a foreign illustrated newspaper or magazine i can find little pleasure in the engravings most often they repel me the drawing seems to me coarse and hard and the realism of the conception petty such work leaves nothing to the imagination and usually betrays the effort which it cost a common japanese drawing leaves much to the imagination nay irresistibly stimulates it and never betrays effort everything in a common european engraving is detailed and individualized everything in a japanese drawing is impersonal and suggestive the former reveals no law it is a study of particularities the latter invariably teaches something of law and suppresses particularities except in their relation to law one may often hear japanese say that western art is too realistic and the judgment contains truth but the realism in it which offends japanese taste especially in the matter of facial expression is not found fault with merely because of my newtness of detail detail in itself is not condemned by any art and the highest art is that in which detail is most exquisitely elaborated the art which saw the divine which rose above nature's best which discovered supramundane ideals for animal and even floral shape was characterized by the sharpest possible perfection of detail and in the higher japanese art as in the greek the use of detail aids rather than opposes the aspirational aim what most displeases in the realism of our modern illustration is not multiplicity of detail but as we shall presently see signification of detail the queers fact about the suppression of physionomical detail in japanese art is that this suppression is most evident just where we should least expect to find it namely in those creations called this miserable world pictures or to use a corresponding western term pictures of this veil of tears for although the artists of this school have really given us pictures of a very beautiful and happy world they professed to reflect truth one form of truth they certainly presented but after a manner at variance with our common notions of realism the yukiyo yi artists drew actualities but not repellent or meaningless actualities proving his rank even more by his refusal than by his choice of subjects he looked for dominant laws of contrast and color for the general character of nature's combinations for the order of the beautiful as it was and is otherwise his art was in no sense aspirational it was the art of the larger comprehension of things as they are thus he was rightly a realist notwithstanding that his realism appears only in the study of constance generalities and types and as expressing the synthesis of common fact and the systemization of natural law this japanese art is by its method scientific in the true sense the higher art the aspirational art whether japanese or old greek is on the contrary essentially religious by its method where the scientific and the aspirational extremes of art touch one may expect to find some universal aesthetic truth recognized by both they agree in their impersonality they refuse to individualize and the lesson of the very highest art that ever existed suggests the true reason for this common refusal what does the charm of an antique head express whether in marble gem or mural painting for instance that marvelous head of leokothia which prefaces the work of winkelmann needless to seek the reply from works of mere art critics science alone can furnish it you will find it in herbert spencer's essay on personal beauty the beauty of such a head signifies a superhuman perfect development and balance of the intellectual faculties all those variations of feature constituting what we call expression represent departures from a perfect type just in proportion as they represent what is termed character and they are or ought to be more or less disagreeable or painful because the aspects which please us are the outward correlatives of inward perfections and the aspects which displease us are the outward correlatives of inward imperfections mr spencer goes on to say that although there are often grand natures behind plain faces and although fine countenances frequently hide small souls these anomalies do not destroy the general truth of the law any more than the perturbations of planets destroy the general ellipticity of their orbits both greek and japanese art recognized the physionomical truth which mr spencer put into the simple formula expression is feature in the making the highest art greek art rising above the real to reach the divine gives us the dream of feature perfected japanese realism so much larger than our own as to be still misunderstood gives us only feature in the making or rather the general law of feature in the making six thus we reach the common truth recognized equally by greek art and by japanese art namely the non-moral significance of individual expression and our admiration of the art reflecting personality is of course non-moral since the delineation of individual imperfection is not in the ethical sense a subject for admiration although the facial aspects which really attract us may be considered the outward correlatives of inward perfections or of approaches to perfections we generally confess an interest in physiognomy which by no means speaks to us of inward moral perfections but rather suggests perfections of the reverse order this fact is manifested even in daily life when we exclaim what force on seeing a head with prominent bushy brows incisive nose deep set eyes and a massive jaw we are indeed expressing our recognition of force but only of the sort of force underlying instincts of aggression and brutality when we commend the character of certain strong aqualine faces certain so-called roman profiles we are really commending the traits that mark a race of prey it is true that we do not admire faces in which only brutal or cruel or cunning traits exist but it is true also that we admire the indications of obstinacy aggressiveness and harshness when united with certain indications of intelligence it may even be said that we associate the idea of manhood with the idea of aggressive power more than with the idea of any other power whether this power be physical or intellectual we estimate it in our popular preferences at least above the really superior powers of the mind and call intelligent cunning by the euphemism of shrewdness probably the manifestation in some modern human being of the greek ideal of masculine beauty would interest the average observer less than a face presenting an abnormal development of traits the reverse of noble since the intellectual significance of perfect beauty could be realized only by persons capable of appreciating the miracle of a perfect balance of the highest possible human faculties in modern art we look for the feminine beauty which appeals to the feeling of sex or for that child beauty which appeals to the instincts of parenthood and we should characterize real beauty in the portrayal of manhood not only as unnatural but as effeminate war and love are still the two dominant tones in that reflection of modern life which our serious art gives but it will be noticed that when the artist would exhibit the ideal of beauty or a virtue he is still obliged to borrow from antique knowledge as a borrower he is never quite successful since he belongs to a humanity in many respects much below the ancient greek level a german philosopher has well said the resuscitated greeks would with perfect truth declare our works of art and all departments to be thoroughly barbarous how could they be otherwise in an age which openly admires intelligence less because of its power to create and preserve than because of its power to crush and destroy why this admiration of capacities which we should certainly not like to have exercised against ourselves largely no doubt because we admire what we wish to possess and we understand the immense value of aggressive power intellectual especially in the great competitive struggle of modern civilization as reflecting both the trivial actualities and the personal emotionalism of western life our art would be found ethically not only below greek art but even below japanese greek art expressed the admiration of a race toward the divinely beautiful and the divinely wise japanese art reflects the simple joy of existence perception of natural law in form and color the perception of natural law in change and the sense of life made harmonious by social order and by self-suppression modern western art reflects the thirst of pleasure the idea of life as a battle for the right to enjoy and the unamiable qualities which are indispensable to success in the competitive struggle it has been said that the history of western civilization was written in western physiognomy it is at least interesting to study western facial expression through oriental eyes i have frequently amused myself by showing european or american illustrations to japanese children and hearing their artless comments upon the faces they're in depicted a complete record of these comments might prove to have value as well as interest but for present purposes i shall offer only the results of two experiments the first was with a little boy nine years old before whom one evening i placed several numbers of an illustrated magazine after turning over a few of the pages he exclaimed why do foreign artists like to draw horrible things what horrible things i inquired these he said pointing to a group of figures representing voters at the polls why those are not horrible i answered we think those drawings very good but the faces there cannot really be such faces in the world we think those are ordinary men really horrible faces we very seldom draw he stared in surprise evidently suspecting that i was not in earnest to a little girl of 11 i showed some engravings representing famous european beauties they do not look bad was her comment but they seem so much like men and their eyes are so big their mouths are pretty the mouth signifies a great deal in japanese physiognomy and the child was in this regard appreciative i then showed her some drawings from life in a new york periodical she asked is it true that there are people like those pictures plenty i said those are good common faces mostly country folk farmers farmers they are like oni demons from the jikoku buddhist hell no i answered there's nothing very bad in those faces we had faces in the west very much worse only to see them she exclaimed i should die i do not like this book i said before her a japanese picture book a book of views of the tokaido she clapped her hands joyfully and pushed my half inspective form magazine out of the way end of section six section 7 of gleanings in buddha fields this is the librivox recording or librivox recordings in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the leanings in buddha fields by lafcardiohan chapter 6 ningyo no haka manyamwan had coaxed the child indoors and made her eat she appeared to be about 11 years old intelligent and pathetically docile her name was ini which means springing rice and her frail slimness made the name seem appropriate when she began under manyaman's gentle persuasion to tell her story i anticipated something queer from the accompanying change in her voice she spoke in a high thin three-tone perfectly even a tone changeless and unemotional as the chanting of the little kettle over its charcoal bed not unfrequently in japan one may hear a girl or a woman utter something touching or cruel or terrible in just such a steady level penetrating tone but never anything indifferent it always means that the feeling is being kept under control there were six of us at home said ini mother and father and father's mother was very old and my brother and myself and a little sister father was a hyoguiya a paper hanger he papered sliding screens and mounted kakemono mother was a hairdresser my brother was a dentist to a seal cutter brother and mother did well mother made even more money than father we had good clothes and good food and we never had any real sorrow until father felt sick it was in the middle of the hot season father had always been healthy we did not think that his sickness was dangerous and he did not think so himself but the very next day he died we were very much surprised mother tried to hide her heart and to wait upon her customers as before but she was not very strong and the pain of father's death came too quickly eight days after father funeral mother also died it was so sudden that everybody wondered then the neighbors told us we must make an ingunhaka at once or else there would be another death in our house my brother said they were right but he put off doing what they told him perhaps he did not have money enough i do not know but the haka was not made what's a ningyo no haka i interrupted i think manyamon may answer that you have seen many ngo no haka without knowing what they were they look just like graves of children it is believed that when two of a family die in the same year a third also must soon die there is a saying always three graves so when two out of one family have been buried in the same year a third grave is made next to the graves of those two and in it is put a caffeine containing only a little figure of straw varaningio and over the grave a small tombstone is set up viewing a caimeo footnote the posthumous buddhist name of the person buried is childhood from the tomb or hakka and of footnote the priests of the temple to which the graveyard belongs ride the cameo for the little gravestones by making a ningyo no haka it is thought that the death may be prevented we listened for the rest ini the child resumed there were still four of us grandmother brother myself and my little sister my brother was 19 years old he had finished his apprenticeship just before father died we thought that was like the pity of the gods for us he had become the head of the house he was very skillful in his business and had many friends therefore he could maintain us he made 13 in the first month that is very good for a sea cutter one evening he came home sick he said that his head hurt him mother then had been dead for 47 days that evening he could not eat next morning he was not able to get up he had a very hot feather we nursed him as well as we could and set up at night to watch by him but he did not get better on the morning of the third day of a sickness we became frightened because he began to talk to mother it was the 49th day after mother's death the day the soul leaves the house and brother spoke of it as if mother was calling him yes mother yes in a little while i shall come then he told us that mother was pulling him by the sleeve he would point with his hand and call to us there she is there do you not see her we would tell him that we couldn't see anything then he would say ah you did not look quick enough she's hiding now she has gone down under the floor mats all the morning he talked like that at last grandmother stood up and stamped her foot on the floor and we approached mother speaking very loud taka she said tucker what you do is very wrong when you were alive we all loved you none of us ever spoke unkind words to you why do you now want to take the boy you know that he is the only pillar of our house you know that if you take him there will not be anyone to take care for the ancestors you know that if you take him he will destroy the family name ochaka it is cruel it is shameful it is wicked grandmother was so angry that all her body trembled then she sat down and cried and i and my little sister cried but our brother said that mother was still pulling him by the sleeve when the sun went down he died grandmother wept and stroked us and sang a little song that she made herself i can remember it still oh yeah no children without parents like seagulls of the coast evening after evening the sleeves are wrong the retidori indiscriminately applied to many kinds of birds is he used for seagull and the cries of the figar are thought to express melancholy and desolation hence the comparison the long sleeve of the japanese robe is used to wipe the eye as well as to hide the face and moments of grief to wring the sleeve that is to ring the moisture from a tear-drenched sleeve is a frequent expression in japanese poetry and a footnote so the third grave was made but it was not a ningyo no haka and that was the end of our house we lived with kindred until winter when grandmother died she died in the night when nobody knew in the morning she seemed to be sleeping but she was dead then i and my little sister were separated my sister was adopted by a tatamia a madmaker one of father's friends she is kindly treated she even goes to school afushiku nakoto akomata ani murt maniamon then there was a moment or two of sympathetic silence innae prostrated her safe and thanks and rose to depart as she slipped her feet under the thongs of her sandals i moved towards the spot where she had been sitting to ask the old man a question she perceived my intention and immediately made an indescribable sign to my neiman who responded by checking me just as i was going to sit down beside him she wishes he said that the master will honorably strike the mating first but why are asking surprise noticing only that under my unshot feet the spot where the child had been kneeling felt comfortably warm manyamon answered she believes that to sit down upon the place made warm by the body of another is to take into one's life or the sorrow of another person unless the place be stricken first whereas i sat down without performing the ride and we both laughed ini said many one the master takes the source upon him he wants i cannot venture to render many amounts on horrifics to understand the pain of other people you need not fear for him in a end of section 7 section 8 of gleanings in buddha fields this is a diprivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liprivox.org recording by abbayi in april 2018 gleanings in buddha fields by love cardio hearn chapter 7 part 1 in osaka when i send a high place and look about me lo the smoke is rising the cooking ranges of the people are busy song of the emperor nintoku one nearly 300 years ago captain john cerris visiting japan in the service of the right honourable company the merchants of london trading into the east indies wrote concerning the great city of osaka as the name is now transliterated we found osaka to be a very great town as great as london within the walls with many fair timber bridges of a great height serving to pass over a river there as wide as the times at london some fair houses we found there but not many it is one of the chief seaports of all japan having a castle in it marvelous large and strong what captain serry said of the osaka of the 17th century is almost equally true of the osaka of today it is still a very great city and one of the chief seaports of all japan it contains according to the occidental idea some fair houses it has many fair timber bridges as well as bridges of steel and stone serving to pass over a river as wide as the thames at london the yodogaba and the castle marvelous large and strong built by hideyoshi after the plan of a chinese fortress of the han dynasty still remains something for military engineers to wander at in spite of the disappearance of the many storage towers and the destruction in 1868 of the magnificent palace osaka is more than two thousand five hundred years old and therefore one of the most ancient cities of japan though its present name a contraction of oye no saka meaning the high land of the great river is believed to date back only to the 15th century before which time it was called naniwa centuries before europe knew of the existence of japan osaka was the great financial and commercial center of the empire and it is that still through all the feudal era the merchants of osaka were the bankers and creditors of the japanese princes they exchanged the revenues of rice for silver and gold they kept in their miles of fireproof warehouses the national stores of cereals of cotton and of silk and they furnished to great captains to sign use of war hideyoshi made osaka his military capital iayasu jealous and keen feared the great city and deemed it necessary to impoverish its capitalists because of their financial power the osaka of 1896 covering a vast area has a population of about six hundred seventy thousand as to extend and population it is now only the second city of the empire but it remains as count okuma remarked in a recent speech financially industrially and commercially superior to tokyo sakai and hyogo and kobe are really but its outer ports and the last named is visibly outgrowing yokohama it is confidentially predicted both by foreigners and by japanese that kobe will become the chief port of foreign trade because osaka is able to attract to herself the best business talent of the country at present the foreign important export trait of osaka represents about 120 million dollars a year and its inland and coasting trade are immense almost everything which everybody wants is made in osaka and there are few comfortable japanese homes in any part of the empire to the furnishing of which osaka industry has not contributed something this was probably the case long before tokyo existed there survives an ancient song of which the burden runs every day to osaka come a thousand ships junks only in the time when the song was written steamers also today and deep sea travelers of all rigs along the wharves you can ride for miles by a seemingly endless array of masts and funnels though the great trans-pacific liners and european male steamers draw too much water to enter the harbour and receive their osaka freight at kobe but the energetic city which has its own steamship companies now proposes to improve its port at a cost of 16 million dollars an osaka with a population of two millions and a foreign trade of at least 300 million a year is not a dream impossible to realize in the next half century i need scarcely say that osaka is the center of the great trade guilds and the headquarters of those cotton spinning companies whose meals kept running with a single shift 23 hours out of the 24 turn out double the quantity of yarn per spindle that english meals turn out and from 30 to 40 percent more than the mills of bombay every great city in the world is believed to give a special character to its inhabitants and in japan the man of ozaka is said to be recognizable almost at sight i think it can be said that the character of the man of the capital is less marked than that of the man of osaka as in america the man of chicago is more quickly recognized than the new yorker or bostonian he has a certain quickness of perception ready energy and general air of being well up to date or even a little in advance of it which represent the results of industrial and commercial intercompetition at all events the osaka merchant or manufacturer has a much longer inheritance of business experience than his rival of the political capital perhaps this may partly account for the acknowledged superiority of osaka commercial travelers a modernized class offering some remarkable types while journeying by rail or steamer you may happen to make the casual acquaintance of a gentleman whose nationality you cannot safely decide even after some conversation he is dressed with the most correct taste in the latest and best mode he can talk to you equally well in french german or english he is perfectly courteous but able to adapt himself to the most diverse characters he knows europe and he can give you extraordinary information about parts of the far east which you have visited and also about other parts of which you do not even know the names as for japan he is familiar with the special products of every district their comparative merits their history his face is pleasing nose straight or slightly aqualine mouth filled by a heavy black mustache the eyelids alone give you some right to suppose that you are conversing with an oriental such is one type of the osaka commercial traveller of 1896 a being is far superior to the average japanese petty official as a prince to a lackey should you meet the same man in his own city you would probably find him in japanese costume dressed as only a man of fine taste can learn how to dress and looking rather like a spaniard or italian in disguise than a japanese 2. from the reputation of osaka as a center of production and distribution one would imagine it the most modernized the least characteristically japanese of all japanese cities but osaka is the reverse fewer western costumes are to be seen in osaka than in any other large city of japan no crowds are more attractively robed and no streets more picturesque than those of the great mart osaka is supposed to set many fashions and the present ones show an agreeable tendency to a variety of tint when i first came to japan the dominant colors of male costume were dark especially dark blue any crowd of men usually presenting a mass of this shade today the tones are lighter and grays warm grays steel grays bluish grays purplish greys seem to predominate but there are also many pleasing variations bronze colors gold browns tea colors for example women's costumes are of course more varied but the character of the fashions for adults of either sex indicates no tendency to abandon the rules of severe good taste gay colours appearing only in the attire of children and of dancing girls to whom are granted the privileges of perpetual youth i may observe that the latest fashion the silk upper dress or hawori of geisha is a burning sky blue a tropical color that makes the profession of the wearer distinguishable miles away the higher class geisha however affects sobriety in dress i must also speak of the long overcoats or overcloaks worn out of doors in cold weather by both sexes that of the men looks like an adaptation and modification of our ulster and has a little cape attached to it the material is wool and the colour usually light brown or grey that of the ladies which has no cape is usually of black broad cloth with much silk binding and a color cut low in front it is buttoned from throat to feet and looks decidedly genteel though left very wide and loose at the back to accommodate the bow of the great heavy silk girdle beneath architecturally not less and fashionably osaka remains almost as japanese as anybody could wish although some wide thoroughfares exist most of the streets are very narrow even more narrow than those of kyoto there are streets of three-story houses and streets of two-story houses but there are square miles of houses one story high the great mass of the city is an agglomeration of low wooden buildings with tiled roofs nevertheless the streets are more interesting brighter quainter in their signs and sign paintings than the streets of tokyo and the city as a whole is more picturesque than tokyo because of its waterways it has not inaptly been termed the venice of japan for it is traversed in all directions by canals besides being separated into several large portions by the branchings of the yorugaba the streets facing the river are however much less interesting than the narrow canals anything more curious in the shape of a street vista than the viewer looking down one of these waterways can scarcely be found in japan still as a mirror surface the canal flows between high stone embarkments supporting the houses houses of two or three stories all sparred out from the stonework so that their facades bodily overhang the water they are huddled together in a way suggesting pressure from behind and this appearance of squeezing and crowding is strengthened by the absence of regularity in design no house being exactly like another but all having an indefinable far eastern queerness a sort of racial character that gives the sensation of the very far away in place and time they push out funny little galleries with balustrades barred projecting glassless windows with elfish balconies under them and rooflets over them like eyebrows tears of tiled and tilted awnings and great eaves which in certain houses throw shadows down to the foundation as most of the timberwork is dark either with age or staining the shadows look deeper than they really are within them you catch glimpses of balcony pillars bamboo letters from gallery to gallery polished angles of joinery all kinds of jutting things at intervals you can see mattings hanging out and curtains of split bamboo and cotton hangings with big white ideographs upon them and all this is faithfully repeated upside down in the water the colors ought to delight an artist umbers and chocolates and chestnut browns of old polished timber warm yellows of mattings and bamboo screens creamy tones of stuccoed surfaces cool grays of tiling last such vista i saw was bewitched by spring haze it was early morning 200 yards from the bridge on which i stood the house fronts began to turn blue farther on they were transparently vapory and yet father they seemed to melt away suddenly into the light a procession of dreams i watched the progress of a boat propelled by a peasant in straw hat and straw coat like the peasants of the old picture books boat and man turned bright blue and then gray and then before my eyes glided into nirvana the notion of immateriality so created by that luminous haze was supported by the absence of sound for these canal streets are as silent as the streets of shops are noisy no other city in japan has so many bridges as ozaka words are named after them and distance is marked by them reckoning always from koraibashi the bridge of the koreans as a center people find their way to any place most readily by remembering the name of the bridge nearest to it but as there are 189 principal bridges this method of reckoning can be of little service to a stranger if a businessman he can find whatever he wants without learning the names of the bridges osaka is the best ordered city commercially in the empire and one of the best ordered in the world it has always been a city of guilds and the various trades and industries are congregated still according to ancient custom in special districts or particular streets thus all the money changers are in kitahama the lombard street of japan the dry goods trade monopolizes hon machi the timber merchants are all in nagabori and nishiyokobori the toy makers are in minami kiyohojimachi and kita mido maye the dealers in metalwares have andoji bashidori to themselves the druggists are in doshio machi and the cabinet makers in hachiman tsuji so with many other trades and so with the places of amusement the theaters are in the doton body the jugglers singers dancers acrobats and fortune tellers in the sennichimae close by the central part of osaka contains many very large buildings including theaters refreshment houses and hotels having a reputation throughout the country the number of edifices in western style is nevertheless remarkably small there are indeed between eight and nine hundred factory chimneys but the factories with few exceptions are not constructed on western plants the really foreign buildings include a hotel a prefectural hall with a mansard roof a city hall with a classical porch of granite pillars a good modern post office a mint an arsenal and sundry meals and breweries but these are so scattered and situated that they really make no particular impression at variance with the far eastern character of the city however there is one purely foreign corner the old concession dating back to a time before kobe existed its streets were well laid out and its buildings solidly constructed but for various reasons it has been abandoned to the missionaries only one of the old firms with perhaps an agency or two remaining open this deserted settlement is an oasis of silence in the great commercial wilderness footnote the foreign legations left osaka to take shelter at coba in 1868 during the civil war for they could not be very well protected by their men of war in osaka kobe once settled and the advantages offered by its deep harbour settled the fate of the osaka concession and footnote no attempts have been made by the native merchants to imitate its styles of building indeed no japanese city shows less favor than osaka to occidental architecture this is not through want of appreciation but because of economical experience osaka will build in western style with stone brick and iron only when and where the advantage of so doing is indubitable there will be no speculation in such constructions as there has been at tokyo osaka goes slow and invests upon certainties when there is a certainty her merchants can make remarkable offers like that to the government two years ago of 56 million dollars for the purchase and reconstruction of a railway of all the houses in osaka the office of the assay shimbun most surprised me the acai shimbun is the greatest of japanese newspapers perhaps the greatest journal published in any oriental language it is an illustrated daily conducted very much like a paris newspaper publishing a four-year tong translations from foreign fiction and columns of light witty chatter about current events it pays big sums to popular writers and spends largely for correspondence and telegraphic news its illustrations now made by a woman offer as full a reflection of all phases of japanese life old or new as punch gives of english life it uses perfecting presses charters special trains and has a circulation reaching into most parts of the empire so i certainly expected to find the asahi shimbun office one of the handsomest buildings in osaka but it proved to be an old time samurai yashiki about the most quiet and modest looking place in the whole district where it was situated i must confess that all this sober and sensible conservatism delighted me the competitive power of japan must long depend upon her power to maintain the old simplicity of life 3. osaka is the great commercial school of the empire from all parts of japan lads are sent there to learn particular branches of industry or trade there are hosts of applications for any vacancy and the business men are said to be very cautious in choosing their dichy or apprentice clerks careful inquiries are made as to the personal character and family history of applicants no money is paid by the parents or relatives of the apprentices the term of service varies according to the nature of the trade or industry but it is generally quite as long as the term of apprenticeship in europe and in some branches of business it may be from 12 to 14 years such i am told is the time of service usually exacted in the dry goods business and the duchy in a dry goods house may have to work 15 hours a day with not more than one holiday a month during the whole of his apprenticeship he receives no wages whatever nothing but his board lodging and absolutely necessary clothing his master is supposed to furnish him with two robes a year and to keep him in sandals or perhaps on some great holiday he may be presented with a small gift of pocket money but this is not in the bond when his term of service ends however his master either gives him capital enough to begin trade for himself on a small scale or finds some other way of assisting him substantially by credit for instance many deci marry their employer's daughters in which event the young couple are almost sure of getting a good start in life the discipline of these long apprenticeships may be considered a severe test of character though adechi is never addressed harshly he has to bear what no european clerk would bear he has no leisure no time of his own except a time necessary for sleep he must work quietly but steadily from dawn till late in the evening he must contend himself with the simplest diet must keep himself neat and must never show ill-temper wild oats he is not supposed to have and no chance has given him to sow them some that she never even leave their shop night or day for months at a time sleeping on the same mats where they sit in business hours the trained salesmen in the great silk stores are especially confined with indoors and their unhealthy pallor is proverbial year after year they squat in the same place for 12 or 15 hours every day and you wonder why their legs do not fall off like those of daruma footnote in japanese popular legend daruma bodhidharma the great buddhist patriarch and missionary is said to have lost his legs during a meditation which lasted uninterruptedly for nine years a common child's toy is a comical figure of daruma without legs and so weighted within that no matter how thrown down it will always assume an upright position and footnote occasionally there are moral breakdowns perhaps the deci misappropriates some of the shop money and spends the same and riotous living perhaps he does even worse but whatever the matter may be he seldom thinks of running away if he takes a spree he hides himself after it for a day or two then returns of his own accord to confess and ask pardon he will be forgiven for two three perhaps even four escapades provided that he shows no sign of a really evil heart and be lectured about his weakness in its relation to his prospects to the feeling of his family to the honor of his ancestors and to business requirements in general the difficulties of his position are kindly considered and he is never discharged for a small misdemeanor a dismissal would probably ruin him for life and every care is taken to open his eyes to certain dangers osaka is really the most unsafe place in japan to play the fool in its dangerous and vicious classes are more to be feared than those of the capital and the daily news of the great city furnishes the apprentice with terrible examples of men reduced to poverty or driven to self-destruction through neglect of those very rules of conduct which it is part of his duty to learn in cases where deji are taken into service at a very early age and brought up in the shop almost like adopted sons a very strong bond of affection between master and apprentice is sometimes established instances of extraordinary devotion to masters or members of masters households are often reported sometimes the bankrupt merchant is re-established in business by his former clerk sometimes again the affection of a deci may exhibit itself in strange extremes last year there was a curious case the only son of a merchant a lad of 12 died of cholera during the epidemic a decci of 14 who had been much attached to the dead boy committed suicide shortly after the funeral by throwing himself down in front of a train he left a letter of which the following is a tolerably closed translation the selfish pronouns being absent in the original very long time in august help received honorable mercy even not in words to be declared now going to die unfaithful in excess yet another state in making rebirth honorable mercy will repay spirit anxious only in the matter of little sister or noto with humble salutation that she be honorably seen to supplicate to the august lord master from mano yoshimatsu 4. it is not true that old japan is rapidly disappearing it cannot disappear within at least another hundred years perhaps it will never entirely disappear many curious and beautiful things have vanished but old japan survives in art in faith in customs and habits in the hearts and the homes of the people it may be found everywhere by those who know how to look for it and nowhere more easily than in this great city of shipbuilding watchmaking beer brewing and cotton spinning i confess that i went to osaka chiefly to see the temples especially the famous tennoji tenoji or more correctly shitenoji the temple of the four deva kings is one of the oldest buddhist temples in japan it was founded nearly in the seventh century by umayadu no oji now called shotoku taishi son of the emperor yeome and prince regent under the empress suiko 572-621 a.d he has been well called the constantine of japanese buddhism for he decided the future of buddhism in the empire first by a great battle in the reign of his father yomei tenor and afterwards by legal enactments and by the patronage of buddhist learning the previous emperor bitatsu tenno had permitted the preaching of buddhism by korean priests and had built two temples but under the reign of yome one mononobe no moriya a powerful noble and a bitter opponent of the foreign religion rebelled against such tolerance burned the temples banished to priests and offered battle to the imperial forces these tradition says were being driven back when the emperor's son then only 16 years old vowed if victorious to build a temple to the four deva kings instantly at his side in the fight they towered a colossal figure from before whose face the powers of modiya broke and fled away the route of the enemies of buddhism was complete and terrible and the young prince thereafter called shotoku taishi kept his vow the temple of tennoji was built and the wealth of the rebel modia applied to its maintenance in that part of it called the condor or hall of gold shotoku taishi enshrined the first buddhist image ever brought to japan a figure of nyo irin kwanon or kwanon of the circle of wishes and the statue is still shown to the public on certain festival days the tremendous apparition in the battle is said to have been one of the four kings bishomon by saravana worshipped to this day as a giver of victory the sensation received on passing out of the bright narrow busy streets of shops into the mouldering courts of tennoji is indescribable even for a japanese i imagine it must be like a sensation of the supernatural a return in memory of the life of 1200 years ago to the time of the earliest buddhist mission work in japan symbols of the faith that elsewhere had become for me conventionally familiar here seemed but half familiar exotic prototypal and things never before seen gave me the startling notion of a time and place out of existing life as a matter of fact very little remains of the original structure of the temple parts have been burned parts renovated but the impression is still very peculiar because the rebuilders and the renovators always followed the original plans made by some great korean or chinese architect any attempt to write of the antique aspect the queer melancholy beauty of the place would be hopeless to know what technology is one must see the weirdness of its decay the beautiful neutral tones of old timbers the fading spectral grays and yellows of wall surfaces the eccentricities of disjointing the extraordinary carvings under eaves carvings of waves and clouds and dragons and demons once splendid with lacquer and gold now time whitened to the tint of smoke and looking as if about to curl away like smoke and vanish the most remarkable of these carvings belong to a fantastic five-storied pagoda now ruinous nearly all the brazen wind belts suspended to the angles of its tears of roofs have fallen pagoda and temple proper occupy a quadrangular court surrounded by an open cloister beyond our other courts a buddhist school and an immense pond peopled by tortoises and crossed by a massive stone bridge there are statues and stone lamps and lions and an enormous temple drum there are booths for the sale of toys and oddities there are resting places where tea is served and cake stands where you can buy cakes for the tortoises or for a pet deer which approaches the visitor powering its sleek head to beg there is a two-storied gateway guarded by huge images of the knee or knee or with arms and legs muscled like the limbs of kings in the assyrian sculptures and bodies speckled all over with little balls of white paper spat upon them by the faithful there is another gateway whose chambers are empty perhaps they once contained images of the four deva kings there are ever so many curious things but i shall only venture to describe two or three of my queerest experiences first of all i found the confirmation of a certain suspicion that had come to me as i entered the temple precincts the suspicion that the forms of warship were peculiar as the buildings i can give no reason for this feeling i can only say that immediately after passing the outer gate i had a premonition of being about to see the extraordinary in religion as well as in architecture and i presently saw it in the bell tower a two-story chinese-looking structure where there is a bell called the indono kane or guiding bell because its sounds guide the ghosts of children through the dark the lower chamber of the bell tower is fitted up as a chapel at the first glance i noticed only that a buddhist service was going on i saw tapers burning the golden glimmer of a shrine incense smoking a priesthood prayer women and children kneeling but as i stopped for a moment before the entrance to observe the image in the shrine i suddenly became aware of the unfamiliar the astonishing on shelves and stands at either side of the shrine and above it and below it and beyond it arranged hundreds of children's e-high or mortuary tablets and with them thousands of toys little dogs and horses and cows and warriors and drums and trumpets and pasteboard armor and wooden swords and dolls and kites and masks and monkeys and models of boats and baby tea sets and baby furniture and whirly gigs and comical images of the gods of good fortune toys modern and toys of fashion forgotten toys accumulated through centuries toys of whole generations of dead children from the ceiling and close to the entrance hung down a great heavy bell rope nearly four inches in diameter and of many colors the rope of the indoor kane and that rope was made of the bibs of dead children yellow blue scarlet purple bibs and bibs of all intermediate shades the ceiling itself was invisible hidden from view by hundreds of tiny dresses suspended dresses of dead children little boys and girls kneeling or playing on the matting beside the priest had brought toys with them to be deposited in the chapel before the tablet of some lost brother or sister every moment some bereaved father or mother would come to the door pull the bell rope throw some copper money on the matting and make a prayer every time the bell sounds some little ghost is believed to hear perhaps even to find its way back for one more look at loved toys and faces the plaintiff murmur of namu amirbutsu the clanging of the bell the deep humming of the priest's voice reciting the sutras the tinkle of falling coin the sweet heavy smell of incense the passionless golden beauty of the buddha in his shrine the colorific radiance of the toys the shadowing of the baby dresses the variegated wonder of that bell rope of bibs the happy laughter of the little folk at play on the floor all made for me an experience of weird pathos never to be forgotten not far from the bell tower is another curious building which shelter is a sacred spring in the middle of the floor is an opening perhaps ten feet long by eight wide surrounded by a railing looking down over the railing you see in the dimness below a large stone basin into which water is pouring from the mouth of great stone tortoise black with age and only half visible its hinder part reaching back into the darkness under the floor this water is called the spring of the tortoise kame ii sui the basin into which it flows is more than half full of white paper countless slips of white paper each bearing in chinese text the kaimyo or buddhist posthumous name of a dead person in a matter recess of the buildings it's a priest who for a small fee writes the kaimyo the purchaser relative or friend of the dead puts one end of the written slip into the mouth of a bamboo cup or rather bamboo joint fixed at right angles to the end of a long pole by aid of this pole he lowers the paper with the written side up to the mouth of the tortoise and hold it under the gush of water repeating a buddhist invocation the while till it is washed out into the basin when i visited the spring there was a dense crowd and several kaimur were being held under the mouth of the tortoise numbers of pious folk mean time waiting with papers in their hands for a chance to use the poles the murmuring of namu amira butsu was itself like the sound of rushing water i was told that the basin becomes filled with caimio every few days then it is emptied and the paper is burned if this be true it is a remarkable proof of the force of buddhist faith in this busy commercial city for many thousands of such slips of paper would be needed to fill the basin it is said that the water bears the names of the dead and the prayers of the living to shotoku taishi who uses his powers of intercession with amidah on behalf of the faithful in the chapel called the taishi door there are statues of shotoku taishi and his attendants the figure of the prince seated upon a chair of honour is life-sized and coloured he is attired in the fashion of 1200 years ago wearing a picturesque cap and chinese or korean shoes with points turned up one may see the same costume in the designs upon very old porcelains or very old screens but the face in spite of its drooping chinese mustaches is a typical japanese face dignified kindly passionless i turned from the faces of the statues to the faces of the people about me to see the same types to meet the same quiet half curious inscrutable gaze end of section 8. | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2018-04-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 14,049 | 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O3hYNP9ojks | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hYNP9ojks | The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ did THIS during Ramadan? (I expected something else....) | discover the exquisite beauty of Islam with our exclusive poster collection showcasing the 99 Names of Allah each poster meticulously presents the Arabic name pronunciation and English translation embodying the essence of our creator elevate your surroundings with these highquality designs that not only Serv as art but also offer a glimpse into the profound beauty of E Islamic culture immerse yourself in the collection and unveil the magnificence of the 99 Names links in the description [Music] box oh right guys welcome back to the channel if you're new M's Bobby guys the following video that I'm react to is out of self-interest if you will because as you guys I am fasting as well of course Ramadan Mubarak and therefore my question is how did the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam eat during Ramadan so today on the channel one Islam Productions we're going to check out the routine of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam during Ramadan so as you guys know I reverted to Islam last year so this is my second Ramadan already and and when I wasn't a Muslim I found it always very strange looking at certain Muslims when they would break their fast and they would indulge in all kinds of junk food they would eat breakfast lunch and dinner in one sitting Gorge themselves on food and for me this defied fasting this didn't make any sense whatsoever isn't this about humbling ourselves getting closer to God what's the point even in fasting all day just to then break it and indulge in all kinds of gluttony now that I'm a Muslim myself and this already being my second Ramadan looking at those practices I don't see religion I see culture cultural practices that made it into the religion certain Customs ethnic Traditions recipes from Mama and Grandma and what not but what does the religion truly teach what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam really eat so today inshallah we're going to find it out guys before we start the video as always if you enjoy my work leave me a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check out the links in the description box to further support my work and now with no further Ado let's have a look many times people say what was the routine of our prophet during the month of Ramadan and they failed to know that the prophet Alam and his companions lived the whole year as if it was Ramadan yeah that's a good point the only Edge that Ramadan had was that they would raise the bar during the month of Ramadan so the prophet Alat as a means of preparation he used to fast the vast majority of the month before Ramadan which was shaan and some say that he used to fast it all so that when Ramadan was due people would hit the ground running they're used to fasting they're used to night prayer they used to reciting the Quran the prophet Alat wasam used to give the Glad Tidings of Ramadan to his companions where he said oh people this month has come and in it there is a night that is better than a thousand months right whoever is deprived from doing good in it he's deprived from all goodness and no one would be deprived of its goodness except someone who is doomed and wronged and we never know when it is right used to fast every single day of Ramadan of course so what was special in his fasting nothing much he used to have the pre-dawn meal and he used to say that eat theur because having is a Baraka is a blessing and he used to instruct us to lay the to the very last moment before thean of and he used to break his fast question to you guys the sheh just said that the prophet would delay his until the very last moments before the Adan before fud I on the other hand heard that it is custom to stop eating 10 minutes before the Adan so which one is right what do you guys think let me know in the comments moment before thean of F and he used to break his fast immediately once the sun had set and he used to say the people would be in good terms they will be all right as long as they hasten in breaking their fast okay so this is something that I actually learned after last year's Ramadan when I was already done with it a brother told me about it because I would actually delay myar I would feel pretty hungry at 3: to 4:00 p.m. but around 6:30 when it was time for E man I felt fantastic I felt great and I want to keep on fasting in those days I even said man if I could I would just keep on fasting to the very next day this how good I feel right now so I kept on delaying it and sometimes I would have ifar two or 3 hours after M which is now I know not good this not what you should do however I learned that after last year's Ramadan now I know and now I'm going to break my fast immediately of course but there is really wisdom in it because it protects us from going to extremes yet again the time is set we know from when to when we should fast so we shouldn't go to any further es skepticism if you will throughout the day it was the normal day the prophet used to bathe wash his head he used to use the Miss swack frequently without any problem even while he's fasting even after and before the break uh before the sunset there's no problem in that because the prophet used to do it all the time the prophet used to travel through ra throughout Ramadan sometimes he used to go for battle and go out in Expeditions and he would instruct the Muslims to to break their fast if they were to fight so that they would become stronger so the prophet used to travel and he used to fast while traveling and sometimes he used to break while traveling we know that the Battle of Badr and the conquest of mecah were in the month of Ramadan I thought they were fasting it is not true what so many of us do in Ramadan when we think it's a time of being tired being lazy not able to I have another question guys yet again let me know in the comments because from what I heard during the Battle of bad it was fought in a fasted State that's at least what I've been told and this is why I believed man this such an epic battle the Muslims are fasting and they're still fighting and Performing to such a level so please let me know in the comment section yet again if this is true I like to believe it's true it would make the battle of course so much more grandiose and epic this wasn't the case at the time of the Prophet The Companions and all the Muslims throughout these centuries they used to be active even if it were Ramadan I know a lot of people who go to the gym while fasting I know people that go and play tennis while fasting fasting and this does not hinder them from offering night prayer with and having a good F and reading great portions of the Quran yeah I know people too that play tennis and go to the gym tennis I would recommend it's fine you can play tennis whilst fasting the gym I wouldn't recommend so much you could technically go to the gym just before ifar sure you could do that but you need to replenish the body because it's unnatural state to break down muscle tissue as you do in the gym and then to not eat it is definitely not recommended and you cannot compare it to the time of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because they were not breaking down their muscles yes they were doing work they were fighting Etc they were in movement that is for sure but they were not breaking down muscle tissue and requiring such an extent of protein as you do when you work out so that's definitely not recommended the shackles we tend to tie ourselves in that prevent us from moving forward fasting is not something that hinders us from behaving working and being active sure absolutely it's all in here the prophet Alat wasam during Ramadan used to pray night prayer as every other night but in Ramadan he prayed Twi and night prayer is divided into sub categories such asud W all of this is called night prayer in Ramadan the prophet used to do that in congregation he led his companions in three to four nights and then he stopped because he feared that Allah might make it mandatory obligatory upon the Muslims and he did not want to burden his um and that is why when the prophet died and the Revelation was over may Allah be pleased with him went into the Masjid once and saw the people praying during Ramadan nighttime either alone or in patches so he said that if we combine all the Companions and all the people to pray behind one IM that would be a good thing so he revived the sun of the Prophet which he had done three or four nights and he appointed okay interesting so by this standard wouldn't this be considered an innovation then if the prophet himself said that he doesn't want to burden his um but then Umar decides to have it during Ramadan to me this sounds like an innovation then please let me know what you guys think about this and moreover what do you think about is it mandatory or is it simply something that you can do pleased with them to lead the people in they used to lead the people from after is till just before fer time and the people used to carry staffs and sticks to lean on because it was they were too tired to stand this is how the companions used to spend their time during night time in Ramadan and the prophet alai wasam used to also encourage the Muslims by saying whoever prays night prayer during Ramadan out of conviction and anticipation of the reward Allah would forgive his previous sins and the prophet used to what did he eat perform CAF or seclusion in the last 10 nights of Ramadan tracing and trying to pursue the night of decree which is better than a thousand month he never missed this except once and his wives used to perform with him as well in the Masjid and this is where the should be done how what was prominent all right this video opens up even more questions I'm still waiting for the food part this is why I actually clicked on it but nevertheless I'm learning more things here so does this mean that the prophet went into the Masjid with his wives was there no segregation whatsoever yet again for the thousandth time today please let me know in the comment section in Ramadan that the prophet used to revise the Quran every single night with jiel and he would revise the whole Quran during Ramadan except in the last year before his death he revised it twice rather than once and also IB Abbas tells us that the prophet Alat wasam was as generous as the wind and he would be mostly more generous during the month of Ramadan when jiel used to revise the Quran with him this means that the Quran ignites the will to give in charity because it makes you believe in the promise of Allah that if you give Allah would double that to 10 times to 700 times for you only if you believe therefore Ramadan is like any other month but the rewards multiply and the atmosphere supports you to go ahead and Excel and raise the bar and do exactly as the prophet Alam had done but what did he eat trying to achieve the most possible reward wordss from Allah Asel by utilizing every moment during your day and during your night I pray to allaha that he makes this Ramadan the best of all Ramadan that we had ever witnessed with the grace of Allah subhanal oh no all right and this is it an amazing video many many new questions however absolutely no explanation whatsoever of what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam ate during Ramadan this is why I clicked on this video initially anyways I'm going to cut it off here because I asked you guys so many questions and you can answer them in the comment section down below now I'm going to look for another video in which I will finally inshah find out what the prophet ate guys nevertheless if you enjoyed the video leave it a thumbs up subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and check out the links in the description box below to further support my work and now as always may God bless you all much love and peace | Bobby's Perspective | UCrR45-PQv6TCwUCSPJ1ud2g | 2024-03-16 | Creative Commons 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TTBjGs3hg7Y | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBjGs3hg7Y | GOGGLEBOX big name Sandra Martin kicked afield Panto about rudiments night toughness Breaking News | The former Gogglebox favourite has been kicked out of panto for reportedly boozing before going on stage. Sandra Martin, 55, joined the cast of Aladdin to play the Spirit of the Ring but messed up her lines on the opening night and sparked suspicion she was in fact drunk. Panto bosses didn't even wait for her to finish the show, and sent her home after the first half, with a dancer stepping in for Sandra - who sadly lost her sister to Dementia in August - on Sunday (10 Dec 2017). The theatre told The Sun that Sandra would not be returning for 'health reasons'. A source said: 'Staff noticed she was noticeably impaired during the performance.' Production boss Eddie Dredge added: 'We wish her all the best.' Sandra refused to comment on the reports but took to to apologise for her absence Sandra wrote: 'Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Booooyackaaaaa xxxx.' Sandra in August that her sister had died after suffering from dementia. The TV star announced the devastating news on before being supported by fans. 'MY SISTER PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. SHE HAD DEMENTIA. AM ON MY WAY TO SEE HER AND FAMILY'S. WANT TO BE ON LINE FOR A FEW DAYS. BUT AM OK EVERY 1' Sandra wrote. Sandra appeared on Gogglebox since 2013, and announced that she had quit the show after four and a half years to 'move on' to other projects. Speaking on This Morning, she said: 'Well, yeah, I am going to miss it, but I decided at that time I wanted to move on to other things. | NY News 365 | UCoiIb7pYXqYSlxd_M3wX7fQ | 2017-12-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 265 | 1,461 |
R9tGUjDCT74 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9tGUjDCT74 | CardboardGeek unboxes Undaunted: North Africa | hello cardboard geek here and today i'm unboxing undaunted north africa it's about a month overdue due to various things getting in the way so with no idea i'll try and make this really really quick let's get this cut open or not as the case may be let's try that again all right there we go right let's shrink wipe off been sat here for a month waiting for me to do this so this is good i hope uh and georgia north africa is the sequel to undaunted normandy uh the main difference with this one is that instead of each card being an individual soldier in a platoon uh each set of cards is an individual soldier and they've added tanks for a start um let's see what we've got inside they're pretty normal underwater normally advert which would expect i've been rather impressed by osprey's products because they seem to manage to border the line between um good games quality and price which is kind of important especially in the current climate um the shame still no real solo mode yet uh there is due one out quite soon so yeah we've got the raw books as usual scenario book uh lots of lovely scenarios in there uh it looks like a particularly normal layout uh for this game and you've got uh bits and pieces now where you put them and the rulebook which is again comprehensive quite deep but well laid out lots of lovely pictures uh explain everything you need to know a little bit on the vehicles there in fact uh which all have crew which can get out get in move it about you've got here uh long range desert trucks and the italian tanks um it's interesting for me because i have italian heritage so um it's a bit like you know you have to suffer a lot more jokes beyond the italians and it's a bit like well they won't really like that um but uh all the same and you've got your counters like where you were all nice visually graphic um obviously those ones being um desert group these ones being italian and uh we have some buildings on this one which provide cover areas and there are the vehicles we have a light truck we have a tank several tanks different ones all undoubtedly covered in scenarios usual d10 it's quite nice uh all the tiles which you don't have to pop because they're all pre-popped which is kind of nice let me just uh pull them out there we go all the way down there so you've got all your tiles double sided with your woodies in your desert and you set out for it he tunes lumpy dunes so get that pull away and then we got the cards where we have the platoons oh and i was warned about this this is not good the box design isn't brilliant the dip down here on the insert here only goes halfway down when you put your cards in there which means you can't get your cards out i was pre-warned and the thing is and what's really frustrating about that is this top one is cut all the way to the bottom so you can do this you can do that one you can't do on the cards and the cards are the ones more like to get damaged i'm also noting that they're very tight so i'm wondering how good that will be for sleeves all this said i mean that is pretty much it in the box there's not a lot to go in there uh i mean the undaunted series has a quite a big following it's well thought of uh it's a good two player game i think everyone is really really hope waiting for next year for the uh proper um solo mode um and don't let me just quickly get some of the cards out so graphically all very nice and uh they've carried on the little thing from the previous where the name is on them but each set in this case the name is the same for the different people and yeah the fresh ones there it's when all in all it's nicely put together there's a bit of popping to do which we all like and uh pretty much what you expect for the money which is good it's just a shame now the only thing i can comment on is the insert could be improved and the thing is i know they've tried to improve on the insert in the last time and they're forming a visual so i'll spray please all that out in future if you can it would be nice because i've got several of your games now and actually i've not really been disappointed by any of them so with that this is kabul geek i'm signing off i hope you enjoyed that is quite short sharp one today and uh i'll see you on the next unboxing which hopefully will be something like they live bye | CardboardGeek | UCfKUANEBPcJ-zT9_ub4Lzow | 2020-08-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 857 | 4,331 |
WsC2Muu-33o | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsC2Muu-33o | NEW WWE Ultimate Edition Figures Revealed! Series 21! | what is good everybody today we're back with brand new WWE action figure news and I was legitimately about to walk out the door cuz I got to catch a flight out to Philadelphia because tomorrow is WWE world and I want to be there for all of the good you know good festivities man it's going to be epic weekend can't wait for Wrestlemania weekend as we approach here dayby day man but this news just broke just a couple hours ago so I got to get on it before we get the hell out of here man but we have WWE Ultimate Edition series 21 finally revealed to us man and I got to be I don't know how I'm feeling about it I don't really know if I particularly enjoy these things but we're going to get in all the details we're going to break down all of it get into the lore of these action figures tell you what I like and don't like we have four ultimate editions that we're going to talk about in this video all brand new all out there probably going to see them at world I imagine they're going to be on display which we will see in just a day or so so I can't wait for it man let's shut the hell up and dive into it man Ultimate Edition series 21 in this set we've known about it for a while probably 5 months at this point we've known that it's kind of been on the on the horizons Ultimate Edition series 21 Cody rhods Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn let's start things off with Cody rhods man this figure is going to be highly sought after for a few different reasons it is as WrestleMania 39 gear but instead of the cloth Goods of the Mattel Creations exclusive this is actually going to be a molded jacket just like the aew Supreme from Jazz wees they are trying their handed a sculpted on jacket which looks pretty damn good for the most part I'm going to break down everything about this figure cuz I'm I was lowkey pretty disappointed when I saw this figure and you're probably thinking oh my God here we go but just just bear with me just hear me out Brad hear me out this is what you come here for to listen to the details right here man so looking at this figure I love Cody rhods I've been waiting on this figure if you guys know me you know that I've been waiting on this figure specifically for quite a while so I you know I've been on the I've been like I planted the flag I've been holding the damn flag for this figure we knew this figure was on the horizon for a while man in the Wrestlemania 39 gear let's start out with the head sculpts and then we'll work our way down here first of all the the one head sculpt is looks like the one that was on his basic and his top pcks figure which I don't particularly like you know this this head sculpt has been used so much nowadays you know it's sit on multiple Basics we've seen it on Elite we've seen it on this figure now and I know I've talked about this before but the defining moments head sculpt for whatever reason looks way better than this and I'm pretty sure they're the same sculpt it's just that paint apps are different I really wish this would have been the torn peek head sculpt and again I think they're very similar and they may even be the same sculpt it's just something about that Tor pet Cody head sculpt that was Perfection so I do hate that we didn't see new head sculpts here but you do have this one which isn't bad I just I think I'm going to swap mine out but we also have the screaming head sculpt which I don't mind a lot of people don't like it I don't mind it I like it he still has a tattoo on the neck I it's still not that close to his ear man it's there's a gap between his ear and the neck tattoo I wish they would take it off the head sculpt but that's a whole another thing there but the rest of this body man you guys are going to notice on the figure he does have the Seth Rollins torso which I think is a great change you know last time he did have that that other torso that was very B a lot of people did not like it on his Mattel Creations exclusive and that's one of the reasons why that figure was docked so many points that's why it wasn't up in people's top of the top ultimate editions even though they were really hyped to get a Cody ultimate and it was Mattel Creations exclusive made to order this this is the Torso that a lot of people wanted they want that Seth Rollins torso and we pitched this because you know Seth Rollins and Cody rhods share the same Elite torso so if they share the same Elite torso why wouldn't they share the same ultimate torso and so that was kind of people's you know that was their gripes and it it made perfect sense and this is awesome I'm glad to see this torso on Cody they also included chest ha he's got the dream tattoo all the all the checks and balances that we like to see that looks good I like everything about that going down into the gear here it is his Navy gear which looks really good I I like this gear actually I know he took the L in this gear but I still like the gear it reminds me a lot of George Washington I like it a lot I mean a lot of his gears remind me of George Washington but I digress I actually like this gear a lot you're also going to notice he has knee pads man that is something that's interesting because when they showed off the first prototype Matel Creations exclusive Ultimate Edition Cody rhods back at the Hogan beach shop he had knee pads on that figure and then they ended up not putting them on the final product and I think it works better for Cody when you don't include the knee pads and it's weird because you know guys that wear tights sometimes they include knee pads and sometimes they don't and I think that I think people's biggest gripe if they're going to include knee pads it needs to be every time and if they're not going to include knee pads it needs to be every time you know what I mean so he does have knee pads on there I it would be awesome if you remember remove the knee pads the design was still underneath the knee pads now I don't know if that's the case or not I might ask Mattel about this personally but removing those knee pads and having the designs underneath all you'd have to do is remove the knee pads but I'm not sure I'm not I'm not entirely sure if the knee pads or the designs of the tights are on the knees themselves you know so we'll have to see about that but also These Boots man these boots are new boots These are newly sculpted boots they finally got Cody rhod's boots accurate these are no longer the same ones that he's been getting you know those Heath Slater ones or those Santos Escobar ones or you know that they actually have brand new these are brand new sculpted boots that look really good they look just like his boot mode and the gold accents on here look amazing I really like these you don't get a great look at all you know the boot in its entirety but you can make it out enough that it is a new boot mold so I am excited to finally have that new boot mold in there and also another thing about this figure man is the jacket and the weight belt is really where a lot of people are having problems with this figure let's get into the weight belt first man you guys know that this figure is debuting the new weight belt mold for the WWE action figures from Matel and you know I feel like a lot of people would say that Jacks and Jazwares kind of perfected it you know Jax is probably the best they had that perfect thickness to it and it looks like a clipped on weight belt and it looks really good and then Jazz wears did a similar thing their belts are a little skinny however they still look like you know there's a belt looped through and it's pulled down and on this one man I don't like this belt mold you know really it didn't improve I guess it improved a little but it did you know we waited so long for a weight belt mold and I still don't like this weight belt I don't like that you have that Peg sticking out of it and you have that I don't mind the hole I just think they should have put the peg on the opposite side so when you wrap it around and you stick it you know you stick that Peg Down in the Hole you don't see the peg whatsoever the peg would be on the inside of the belt so when you're holding the belt you can't see the peg either so there's just a big thing there like is it the biggest deal ever no but you know we waited so long for that weight belt and then to get this new weight belt and it still not be the way we wanted it to be I don't know man it's it's just I don't know it's not that big of an improvement in my opinion is what I'm trying to say now it's still better than the other one the other one didn't even have you know a buckle or anything this one does seem to have a buckle on there it's just not I don't know maybe it'll be better when we get in hand maybe we see better images of it you don't have like fantastic images of it here anyways so it's kind of hard you know so maybe that'll change but I don't know just looking at it on the front of the figure like actually fastened it just doesn't look like a weight belt so I don't know you guys can let me know what you think of that also with the jacket on this Ultimate Edition Cody Road jacket the parts that are black on this jacket are supposed to be Navy so this this is inaccurate this is supposed to be navy blue instead of the black and I guess it it's like not the biggest deal of all time like I said but you know you want these things to be accurate you want it to look like it did at WrestleMania 39 and it's clearly black compared to the navy blue on the attire and it kind of throws off the how much the attire meshes together and so yeah that's kind of a problem for me I mean you could you know repaint it I guess but I know a lot of people aren't going to want to do that maybe we can can do that on surgery or what have you you'll also notice that the arms on this ultimate have the pins in there these are like that that kind of shock me I did not expect to see pinned arms here on this Cody rhods Ultimate Edition so you do have the pins in the arms as well and then it doesn't have the big wings from his entrance at Wrestlemania 39 now the wings were removable there are images of him doing his entrance where he took the Wings off I think he took them off before he got in the ring if I'm not mistaken but the wings are missing the big old wings that he had that would really threw this figure over the top maybe they couldn't include it in the budget and whatnot but also the back of the jacket the shape is a little bit off at the bottom there on the bottom part of the jacket which isn't the biggest deal either I I'm just you know pointing out things that I notice when I look at the figure but all in all I'm still excited for the figure because I've been waiting on this figure for so long I love the new boot mode I love this attire I love that they changed the the Torso to the Seth Rollins torso I didn't want an AJ Styles situation right I didn't want to have you know 13 Ultimate Edition Cody's and all of them have that bum torso so making the switch now now any future Cody rhods Ultimate Edition is going to have the Seth Rollins torso which I think is a massive uh upgrade so I I like that so I like the figure I just think that some of the details could have been executed better I wish it had the wings I wish that some things were different and we're going to do our best to try and fix it up but I don't know I was kind of low-key disappointed in some aspects of this figure but I'm still hype for it I still think it's going to be a great ultimate still you know unbelievable jacket and whatnot even if it's not completely accurate I'm still looking forward to this figure and this jacket and everything that goes on with this figure man so yeah I'm I'm hyped for the figure even though you know some of those details aren't completely 100% accurate let me know what you guys think what are you what are you feeling completely overlooking all these issues or what what do you Happ let me know down in the comment section below but we also have a look at Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens let's start things off with Sami Zayn here now first of all on the Sami Zayn I do not like this smiling head sculpt he just looks kind of derpy to me I don't know it's I don't know if it's the sculpt or if it's like the eye print maybe the eye print kind of messed up a little bit or something but he looks a bit Derpy there but he is going to come with the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships the gears that they come with are the Wrestlemania 39 Main Events versus The Usos we figured that that would probably be the case and it is they are in their wrestle Zania Hollywood shirts here and not my favorite gear of all time but we figured this was going to be it and it's an epic moment that should be replicated so every figure in this wave is from WrestleMania 39 you have all the baby faces from the main events of night one and 2 of WrestleMania 39 so that's pretty cool I I like the selections here I don't have a problem with it they're epic moments that are in case forever in figure form but you do have this yelling expression too with Sammy and his hair is all messy it looks weird because the hair is messy it kind of like throws off the I don't know like I don't know I guess it's accurate to a moment in time when his hair was messy but I don't know I feel like that's a design choice that I probably wouldn't have liked I think just resting hair or I don't know it just looks a bit thick or something like that to me you guys could I love the lightness though the lightness looks great I like the screaming expression always appreciate a good screaming expression and it doesn't look like honeycomb math it actually this is an appropriately good screaming head sculpt it's just the hair M looks a little bit weird from this photo here but it could look bit different in person you'll also notice that his shirt is going to be no Velcro so he is going to have a full T-shirt with no Velcro on it which is epic and then you know this figure it I can't tell exactly what torso this is it almost looks like a brand new torso if I'm not mistaken but I could be wrong about that it may just be one of the reused it could be like the the Jeff Hardy torso or something like that I can't tell from this juncture like that second Ultimate Edition and um The Smiling head sculpt in this this photo here with the white background looks a lot better than it did with the gray background I think maybe there was a glare on his eye and it made him look Derpy or something like that but I mean this is basically an ultimate edition conversion of his last few elite figures right it's it's not I do like the elite 106 head sculpt I think it looks just like Sami Z but getting a Sami Zayn ultimate is cool I'm excited for the figure just to have Sami Zayn here and they don't have the pwg logo by the way they they couldn't get that one in there unfortunately so that is kind of cheeks but we are also going to take a look at Kevin Owens here I also want to point out is it me or do these figures look really plain in the in the packaging do they look Bare Bones they look Bare Bones to me they look like they come with nothing I know they do come with things like you have three pairs of interchangeable hands two championships three interchangeable heads and cloth Goods it just looks bare in the packaging for some reason maybe it's cuz there's so much space between the accessories or something but nothing nonetheless man we're getting into Kevin Owens you guys know I've been waiting on Kevin Owens here I really like this smiling head sculpt I think it looks really good brand new head sculpt there we do also have the same matching tag titles to go with your Sami Zayn figure he has that same wrestle xania shirt no Velcro on there but the one thing that's weird about the Kevin Owens figure is he actually has this weird sculpted torso underneath here and uh when you zoom in on this thing it just looks weird like the proportions between the shoulders and the Torso and the arm it just looks very odd and uh this isn't the Torso that I thought they would go with it's very unique here I don't know if this is the mankind Ultimate Edition torso I think it is the mankind Ultimate Edition torso but uh I was thinking they would go with the George The Animal steel and just paint it black or something because I do believe that Kevin Owens does wear a compression black shirt underneath his shirts you know to kind of give him that slim fitting look and it's just I don't know I I could also see that you know if you're an athlete and you wear compression stuff it just kind of makes you feel more put together so you're not all over the place I don't know you guys can let me know what you think there but I don't know this torso just looks weird and I I feel like once you put the shirt on there it looks a bit boxy in certain instances you guys can let me know what you think there I still like the figure a lot I love Kevin Owens but I think in certain images with that torso on there it makes him look boxy and then this is another point to add man we need that new arm mod man we got to have an arm mod for guys like Kevin Owens and Mankind and these things man they're not super skinny arms like Seth Rollins or Finn Balor and those guys don't have super skinny arms I'm just saying you shouldn't use the same mold for Finn Balor that you do with Kevin Owens on their arms in my opinion so I would like to see a bigger armold for guys like that but you don't want them super jacked either you know you don't want them looking like Brock Lesnar or something like that so there needs to be a better armold I think a good place to start would be the greatest hits Legends British Bulldog figure that figure has really good arms and another great example is like Elite 35 Luke Harper biceps those are pretty much perfect and hell even the Bray Wyatt Ultimate Edition arms would be money without any tattoos on it I think that would be perfect for guys like Kevin Owens so those are just some ideas there but I'm still excited for the Kevin Owens I don't really care for the elite 101 head sculpt that they included but we have so many Kevin Owens head sculpts you could pop on there the pist off from the elite 91 or other things like this so I don't really have an issue with that but he does come with fists he's got the Ricochet kawhai Leonard style hands he has the yelling head sculpt which is brandu which I do like I do like the yelling expression for KO there oh he yells every time he comes to the ring and then the smiling expression which I also like so I like all the head sculpts here for Kevin Owens besides the elite 101 which I mentioned but I don't know you guys can let me know what do you think of Ultimate Edition series 21 we are going to see these in person in uh just a matter of hours really so that should be fun to actually see these in person and I also think we'll see Ultimate Edition Series 22 some other things at World this is just you know and I also believe that Amazon will typically leak a new Figure Set that's Amazon exclusive the morning of reveals it happens every time it happens at Comic-Con it happens at Wrestlemania so it won't shock me if we see new figures like that but nonetheless man that is Ultimate Edition series 21 but we also had a leaked out it was similar to The Legends figures man we had a leaked out screenshot of one of those Target you know inventory Checker deals and they have this Ultimate Edition Undertaker now we did see a there was a like a test shot or a prototype that kind of got leaked I never put it in a video however we do have a 2009 version of Ultimate Edition Undertaker now it's kind of bumy because it's it's from 2009 I would really wish would have went a little bit earlier than that because this is a gear we've already seen in Elite Series 8 and greatest hits so it would have been cool to get a different gear how however I must say that this torso looks fantastic and I know we don't have great images of it we're going to see this guy in person at world I imagine it's probably going to be I would imagine this is going to be Target exclusive Legends ultimate edition Undertaker if I had to guess but everything I'm seeing from here looks good I like these head sculpts you got the World Heavyweight Championship you get this cloth robe or entrance coat you get the Hat this looks like a badass figure and I'm really liking the Torso that I'm seeing from here and maybe this is an indicator of some future Undertaker figures we could get with this singlet torso that looks to be a brand new torso here on this Undertaker it makes him look jacked and God I've been waiting on that man I felt like his first Ultimate Edition it was way too like disproportionate and you couldn't get a good crunch in there because it had that rubber molding piece this looks like money this is a perfect base for any Undertaker you want to make you know from this era of takers so very hyped for this Undertaker looks badass and again this comes off of a little Target screen thing from uh inventory Checker or something like that similar to how we saw the elite or the the Legends 23 series with Rosie and Jamal similar pictures like that so I imagine that these figures will probably have brand new images or this Undertaker figure will probably have brand new images uploaded probably the day that you're seeing this video there's probably better images out there as you're seeing this but uh nonetheless I wanted to you know discuss all these details here man but that is pretty much going to wrap up the news man we are just a day away we're almost there man we're going to see all the figure reveals and going to be out there at Philly for Wrestlemania should be fun man but I want to know all of your thoughts on these ultimate editions down in the comments section below man where do you stand let me know what you're thinking down below man but I'm getting out of here huge shout out to our Patron members of the MDT YouTube channel man thank you guys so very much for your continued support over there and if you guys are out in Philly you see me this weekend or this week man be sure to stop and and chat figures or whatever you want to say man I always enjoy talking with everyone so that is going to wrap the video follow me on Instagram Twitter and Tik Tok on my dam toys I'll see you guys in the next video let me know your thoughts on these ultimates and I'll check you guys [Music] later | My Damn Toys | UCNKDPYyiF_XY4hYAkBuU_TQ | 2024-04-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,473 | 22,550 |
AQXS55pinio | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXS55pinio | Legislative district of Iligan | Wikipedia audio article | the legislative district of elegant is the representation of the highly urbanized city of Iligan in the various national legislatures of the Philippines the city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district history prior to gaining separate representation areas now under the jurisdiction of Iligan were represented under the Department of Mindanao and Sulu 1917 to 1935 the historical and out province 1935 to 1961 region 12 1978 to 1984 and Lanao del Norte 1961 to 1972 1987 to 2010 by virtue of being classified as a highly urbanized city in 1983 Iligan was granted separate representation for the first time in the regular bat Assange Pambansa electing one representative at-large in 1984 however under the new constitution which was proclaimed on the 11th of February 1987 the city was grouped again with Linnell del Norte and placed in its first congressional district this district elected its first representative to the restored House of Representatives starting that same year Iligan regained separate representation with the passage of Republic Act number 9700 24 on the 20th of October 2009 which segregated the city from the first District of Lanao del Norte to form its own congressional district starting in the 2010 elections loan district population 2015 340 2618 at large defunct see also legislative district of Mindanao and Sulu legislative district of Linnell legislative districts of Lanao del Norte references | wikipedia tts | UCqKZqRCjBaE6TBfi_JQc8ag | 2018-11-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 240 | 1,506 |
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CaqYpNSA98g | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaqYpNSA98g | Sufi George solves the poverty crisis. | good evening my fellow citizens as your president I feel it incumbent upon me to address the poverty crisis in America now poverty is Nature's Way of screwing over the lazy scumbags in our midst people say let them be poor Mother Nature knows best people say if they want money let them get a job those whiny Beggars say there are no jobs but this toxic trash this heap of useless Humanity these people as president these are my people too so let me say this I will lend a hand first I can say this you don't always need a job to Make It in America you can make it on your own so here's my program for all you drunk despicable dropouts it's called the poverty relief measure and it legalizes blow jobs this program doesn't cost you a dime all you need is a toothbrush and suddenly you're self-employed a proud entrepreneur owner you may be skeptical at first that you can make a decent living at giving blow jobs but there is a great demand for blow jobs the government alone has numerous job openings but of course Wall Street gets first pick you say you don't know how to give a I have these suggestions for you lifted from my job's creation Bill education you can learn for free on the internet skill training practice on your friends motivation become really good at it set your Gohan aspire to be the best because let me tell you this right now if you give somebody a bad they might punch you in the head and not pay you for it now let's talk about wages how much can you make giving blow jobs earnings levels vary a lot but I can tell you now that if you look like a filthy Dirtbag you will have to work for a minimum wage but it is tax free until you reach a tax bracket a a clean beautiful babe on the other hand can earn more and more yet if she can deep throat the cost for setting yourself up in this business is nothing a toothbrush and some people like to buy knee pads and that's about it you can even skip paying for lunch if you swallow if you must start at the bottom invest those first dollars into cleaning up your image appearances do count that is how you climb the ladder of success in America now most of you are not going to start out with a job on Wall Street or in the government so here's an idea for getting started in real estate they call this marketing technique firming if you live somewhere knock on every door in your neighborhood let them know that anytime someone wants a they just ring your doorbell you might want business cards too but because list yourself as an ecstasy specialist no that sounds like drugs drugs are bad are a good list yourself as something good like oral therapist so get out there and let's solve the poverty crisis now | George Arthur Lareau | UCLmGPBQSONmT62Ic2HCAnAQ | 2012-09-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 516 | 2,680 |
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Food, Wine & Good Times - Tasting & Talking: Kopke VS Alto Pina (Douro on Setúbal action) | [Applause] foreign [Music] thank you and welcome to the good morning Portugal good times of food and wine club mainly the wine club tonight and you'll have seen on the hit intro there it's normally me and Gary Austin but we have a different Austin in an unexpected Austin in the bagging area and this evening so to speak I hope he doesn't mind me referring to him like that here he is ladies and gentlemen thank you so not the Gary Austin Butler I've got a boxing match to go to soon so hurry up come on we won't keep you because it's probably double time on sociable hours and that sort of thing so yes I'm very good of you to fit Us in Terence how are you this evening I'm very wet very well very wet very wet no take two very well right excellent and not wet at all good um just sit on a tea towel um and we'll we'll try not to keep you any longer than possible how do you think I managed to get Elevate so high oh we've got we have some extra special guests tonight people have not met yet um and Gary so Gary Austin is here Linda Austin of course as well uh both regulars and Mainstays of the good morning Portugal wine club let's give them a nice big round of applause and bring them onto the screen good evening to you all how are you good evening so who have we got with us tonight then did I hear a Scottish accent there yes yes I'm Norman with us for the first time here on the good morning Portugal wine club thank you so much for being here um how do you feel about being here this tonight yeah good fun good laugh yeah yeah well is that what they told you yeah okay Wayne and good evening to you Linda how are you I'm fine thank you Carl excellent um very well been out and about in caldash terenure today had a nice easy going afternoon and uh Mrs M took a sneaky photograph of me asleep on a park bench in the um which is now circulating the internet in quite an embarrassing way um but I need a little snooze that's just it happens doesn't it get to a certain age in an afternoon no it's not that I had a nice um glass of Estrella beer in the smash Cafe there um so that doesn't really count as it beer no this is the first serious drink of the day and so those rumors of me drinking in the park this afternoon are so untrue um shame when you Mrs M for trying to embarrass me like that let's come back to terenceon who has this fabulous idea tonight this is a break with tradition Terrence normally we are reviewing one wine you appear to have two in your bucket there foreign that we're going to get through everything so um it's exciting because really what we've got are on the agenda tonight is five ways to evaluate wine um because I only know two or three so I thought it'd be good you know to actually get the full whack yeah um we've got a piece of truly amazing advice at the end for all whiners out there that you know want to make a good purchase and um probably something never done on the wine club before oh yeah so you can see there's a lot to get through um you can you Excel to yourself yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah seconds out round one oh really I mean that's that's cut with a bottle of wine drink it get a slightly Tipsy and talk about it but you're giving us some really good nothing wrong with that okay nothing wrong with that but um because I can't actually you know I'm not very good at doing that I need you know well I'm just one of these guys you need a bit of structure why am I here where are we going what are we doing what's my reason yeah my resume and that's why you sent me a 27 uh a frame PowerPoint presentation that we'll go through before we do any drinking this evening is that right exactly exactly okay it's here somewhere no before anyone turns off no Death by PowerPoint here but we do have those extra items life hacks by the sound of it wine hacks different ways of tasting wine and something we've never seen before on the good morning Portugal wine club well I'm well up for this thank you so much brilliant brilliant so shall I get stuck in yes right first thing on the agenda is uh obviously I've built this up as a mysterious guest yes which I'm going to bring on now right all the way from Berlin fresh in from Berlin right well one and truly another bloody Austin bring him on come on Benny The Bean hello [Applause] how great to see you here look at this very nice how are you it's been a while yeah I'm great thank you doing really well excellent excellent good and so you're just nice all good how was Berlin oh it's never Berlin really it's great I love you I'm so sorry to hear that you liked it excellent yeah so what's cool about Berlin then I mean I guess you know when you're a young man it's an exciting City to be in right uh there's so much there you know got all the nightclubs techno different bars you know there's so much going on the people they're great as well very Chinese people everywhere you go yeah that in the background fantastic did you pick up any new bartending tips or alcoholic insights in a good way alcoholic insights many okay so what's popular in Berlin then when it comes to the booze um one thing that I used to drink quite a lot in Berlin was Riesling they have a white wine there called police link it's not I swear yeah not from Berlin per se it's from uh further south the name of the place Escapes Me couldn't even be a wrestling couldn't it I mean is that the area it's from or is that is that just the name of this stuff all right and it is quite sweet so what you drink it very cold Germans like to drink some certain alcohols don't they you're supposed to drink it cold but you know there's different types as well for instance the further south you go you know to yourself the wine Council naturally it's got more sunlight it's got a different environments different types of minerals in the soil so it becomes sweeter whereas North it doesn't have as much access to sunlight so it becomes a bit more sour a bit more acidic right okay brilliant so you've clearly had a good time in Berlin and what are you helping uh Terence out this evening yes sir very good excellent okay there's a lot more than I do yes thank goodness you're here Ben um and we have all we've already got someone heckling I think you are not live well we suppose there's somebody yeah right yeah yes we are live what's it all this about why are people being like this tonight um you have us from the United States Colorado well good evening to you Autumn Aspens uh Carl's vid last vid did not take any comments super disappointing this is not a happy bunny with us tonight let's see if we can turn this around tonight here is the like well thank you for that um and please don't take it away again uh some folks do not use Facebook or Whatsapp it's true isn't it I guess there there may be a one-man Crusade against uh whatever it's called Uh Zuckerberg's Empire there um so autumn Aspens take it easy you have a little sip of wine let's get in the spirit of this we're definitely live and we're glad to have you calm down uh lovely to have you here with us tonight so back to you Terence right okay well obviously uh today we've got two wines we've got the eltapina and the yeah so may I just uh let's just clear that off both chosen for their do blonde tondra value by the sound of it well there is a there is a video to make me strange sounding wines but this is probably not it and just have a look at the old dirt label and um any comments really on that label who do you think that's kind of aimed at and how does that sit on the Shelf let's go to your basement so to speak and Ask Gary and Linda and Norman and Nikki there what how is this occurring to you have you regular visitors to Portugal uh Norman and Nikki no no okay my first time oh wow okay so how well first things first and how are you like important yeah really nice fantastic um and then you see a label as Terence is asking there well how does that hit you it does look rather sophisticated doesn't it historic yes historic Nikki yes okay all right and as well it's from right Terence it is that's correct or how do you say uh I say settle bowel okay so if we can get the pronuncia right yeah um we're doing lessons in Portuguese as well and the the other one I wanted to show was um the cop car yes yeah now when we look at that label what do we think hold on hold it there let's let me zoom in a bit closer to you there yeah well that has a certain cachet about it that I think Gary might pick up on what do you think when you see that Gary I don't find that very attractive that label the other one is classic it's kind of um maybe a little bit conservative but the other one just looks a bit sort of uh Bargain Basement sort of label to me just looks a bit excuse me if there's any um Russian people Russian well that's that's funny because when I looked at the label I thought it was probably aimed at the German Market because of the typeface I thought it looked quite Eastern European although it's a it's a Portuguese wine it's from the Doro but doesn't it look also like some of the um bin bin stamps that you have in the port uh in the pool that's how it looks to me in that label you know they might have taken this to Heart what you're saying because when I went into liquido and asked for the Vino Brown cook for the cop que Duro and she said she said something to me which I didn't understand but I pretended I did and then she took me over to the to the shop where this wine was and and there it is you're seeing that cocky yeah yeah and they may have changed they might have changed this in it like in line with what you're saying that people don't like that label or misunderstand it so yeah yeah it looks it looks a bit Army Surplus special didn't it yeah it does a bit yeah for sure for sure so that fascinated me with them being you know fairly close together on in the old wine racks and that kind of got me thinking you know the marketing Behind these things and I thought well you know what what do they taste like um but I think really what we'll do is just give a kind of brief rundown very quick won't hang around too much on you know what gives them their perspective um or respective tastes now I I've written a a fair bit I'll give you that way I've got a typeface I can see apparently according to them according to the info information on the on the labels right the um the Copco is displaying the quality and Excellence that distinguished the oldest port wine copter uh or Copco Doro a doc White shows an appealing bouquet with hints of tropical fruit some minerality I don't know what that means but it sounds good and floral notes voluminous and fresh it's a balanced charmingly exuberant wine perfect with salads um and fish although I've mistyped that and put finish not a nice piece isn't that a furniture polish perfectly finished probably I see the altapina this is this is what's on the label now I've had to adjust some of the English here okay because it wasn't actually making any sense so forgive me altapina if I have misquoted you so have some tolerance there but it's the outer peanut is located in a landscape dominated by beautiful cork trees in the south of Portugal where for more than 100 years was planted the largest Vineyard that has ever existed in our country the Rio Frio Vineyard now correct me if I'm wrong but Rio Frio means Cold River yes yeah the winemaker uh I'm gonna he's in Portuguese it would be Jane but it's Jamie uh Kendra uh when producing this wine took advantage of all the richness and quality of grapes creating a refreshing full-flavored wine with some notes of sweetness and highlights of wood imbued from the pressing process I've added the last bit because the word imbued because it didn't make sense what was actually on on on the label so that's what kind of wines we're dealing with tonight but we'll have a quick comment on the soils yeah yeah heavy soils yeah tell everyone yeah go on because that's that's that's easier to read well something we found quite distinctive about the doorway region is the quality of the soil itself it's got a large percentage of sediment from schist and granite no these are great because they bring a lot who knows sorry they're good for drainage as well you know not they make sure the vines don't um have too much water and they don't dilute too much which also contributes towards the acidity so you know the door Road Valley great soil quality excellent excellent and it I think the important thing is the shift elements I'm not joking we know schisters slate but it's just in case yeah I think you're talking shifts seriously [Music] I'm so sorry sorry so um and that's the Dora region which is a famous famous region I mean world renown perhaps not so world renowned is the settlebell region um its climate is a delicate balance between the core miss the ocean uh and the west and the hotter allentasia because we all know that when we go south of Elizabeth it gets flat and it gets hot and this obviously has a um an effect on on the wines apparently this provides depth of fruit flavors with wines of poise okay now I've been trying to look up where Poise is and I've had no luck at all I like a nice play with my wife Terence looks into the orchestra pit all together now so the region benefits from a diverse range of soil types and I'll quickly go through this um basically cool it's a mixture of clay um which is great for minerals and um sort of retaining water because remember the further south you go um you're going to need something to retain water because it's drier in the north Duro wetter climate um and colder here it's not so much and also you've got um a big Limestone sort of component to the soil which apparently is good for holding heat in the soil so it's the same up in the Duro is that this um content in the soil basically warms up through the day and then overnight when temperatures can drop you know fairly low here it keeps the heat in the soil it's like a central heating system um so really it's this balance between the clay um which is the water retention and um the other elements like the Limestone which drains but also provides Heat um so overall the clay Limestone soil Matrix fan insettable region provides a favorable environment for great cultivation it helps to regulate regulate allow you it helps to regulate water availability contributes to the acidity mineral qualities of the wine and allows for the gradual ripening of the grapes and I think that's the key element all these combine into like a slow ripening process and that's where it gets a lot of its flavor from so that was the soils a bit of backstory there well a few comments uh Joel Mendoza is smiling from Crystal Palace tonight looking like you you look like you might have been in Crystal Palace in another lifetime there Terence hello from Ohio or is it hello from the alley Pally um hello from Ohio from Tom Smith a cop key don't know who F you Facebook user is tonight uh is that you possibly Michael kopkey makes excellent quality ports haven't tried this is very true I'm concentrating on on one white wine that they produce but if you delve deeper you'll find that I think they've been going from the 1600s which is a fair amount of time and famous in the kind of like Duro region and also yes if you're in the Duro good chances you're going to produce Port yes they certainly do don't they uh cop key is oh that's that's Tom proving that we are live uh there it is live enough thank you Tom uh yes cop key is not an attractive name for a wine this evokes hints of miserable Slavic dystopian winter nightmare co-written by Kafka and Dostoevsky sorry to sound horribly racist and so you should no good good comment good comment it's very erudite uh correct me if I'm wrong says Dougie Butch the bar and doubt are nearly the same area yes uh the wines are are the wines are really are they really that different can't say we're going head to head on Duru versus de ball tonight um to my knowledge Turbo's a bit further south you know Dow is next to the door of yeah or Eastern and interior than the the um it's not a coastal at all we're doing a complete tour of Portugal here aren't we it's more sort of you know um often Mrs M is here not drinking at the moment it has to be said um often high quality wine or Port is bottled in an understated spot it's the way with the port isn't it um expensive bottles and highly designed labels are for X4 so there you go Ruby says um Limestone and granite just the flavors I'm hoping for and Joelle did think it was Russian at first look oh and it's Mark Rigby hello mark on my smartphone rather than computer so thank you for your input and intelligence in this department tonight is that your bottom coming into my shot there Mrs M thank you okay back to you Terence okay right so I'd like to do swiftly moving on as they say is um now now we've kind of established how we came to choose the wine and what it's all about in the soils and all that we're really trying to move on to the a way to analyze the qualities of wine um and basically there are five sorts of of quality so categories thank you thank you sir um I wonder if you could pass me one of those lemons ah of course and if we show it to the screen oh I say nice lemons yep nice lemons same about the boat race right yeah I recognize those lemons of my bloody gardening no so that's a kind of visual clue now we need to when we're looking at the five elements and perhaps you might want to broadcast this over the over the airwaves here yeah um what what do you think the lemon is the clue to here what's one of the qualities of wine that we're looking at and it got any ideas Norma Nikki Gary Linda what would you say what is this the internet acidity zesty zesty acidity yeah I've heard days like that myself Norman should we go with the siddique acidic guys so let's let's pour some wine and let's evaluate I thought he'd never asked so should we pour some coffee first yeah it's a copy but this is lovely birthday right so let's have a go at this and remember we're thinking about acidity right there we go going in I don't get much acidity there me neither no I'm a scale of one to five I'd probably give it about a two two on acidity we're in the annex Ed so the annex okay so over to the annexed what is your acidity rating oh well I mean the wine not any of you personally it's a slightly different one from here it is a cop car but it's the the reservable one oh so it might be slightly different um it's a mid-range two to three I think acidity yeah two it's not up I said it I don't think it's it's I'll give it a tune a general General consensus there not not an acidic experience so far either right but sweet is not the counterpart to acidity is it nice oh that's a great question that's it I can always say that's a question for the ages very scientific yes sir yeah so we I think both of us are doing [Music] I think the general consensus is two really two of everybody's saying two yeah they're about yeah so we're all two there okay so we'll just putting acid two okay what what grapes are used in each of our uh fermentations here I've got to get my flipping camera out for this because I can't see this this is a great question which is which is another question of the Ages which is another thing that we'd like to put out to people is what kind of grapes do you think these two bottles contain right now that may involve some homework okay because I've tried to find out and my extensive uh research on chat GTP is reveal the confusing pictures intelligence for tonight's presentation oh yes I know no levels of depravity right then so we haven't done the house cleaner yeah acidity ah okay I've got to keep this in my other hand so yes see this is this is what I like and you feel fully laden this is happiness and happiness remember we're doing acidity so that's a bit more acidity this way I'm getting the same levels not not yeah yeah what do you think what I said yeah I would have said it as a slightly more acid but not enough to knock it up an entire yeah I remember so maybe bang on there buddy push a 2.5 maybe at a push or we're gonna we're going to fractions now they're really good attractions and I totally agree with you there okay yeah this is curious this is this one because you taste it you think it's going to be sweet and then suddenly it doesn't go sweet it goes yes Gary on the nose it's like it's gonna be a sweet one right yeah the first like yeah but I agree with that which I would think then if that's the case it might have a Moscow tunnel in this somewhere now this very oh oh that's a big wine in the settable region isn't it yes it is quite kind of quite famous for the musket Tower yeah so that's very astute just sort of throw that one in yes okay so we're all agreed on that any comments coming in Paul uh Carl whatever your name is I'll go with Carl tonight well I'm I'm interested to hear from from Norman and Nikki first visit to Portugal and a first Portuguese wine tasting presumably what what are you making of it so far is this quality isn't it yeah it's good quality rain and it's a nice place as well it's not doesn't break the bank indeed oh and it's yeah it's just and there's so many different ones oh there's just so much choice you get so much Choice it's red and white I love port and this is heading in that direction so the cooker to me is heading in that heading down the port region for me so the fact that you've explained that cop can make Port makes an awful lot of sense yeah it might even be from the barrels it might be another reason that it's kind of got that yeah yeah Sandalwood okay so what we're going to give to as a you know a mark therefore a final Mark or in terms of its acidity or or or we're dealing with acidity we've all decided that altapena is 2.5 uh yeah yeah I just said slightly more maybe three maybe three three okay okay I I think we're on the same the same wavelength there okay so it's part of the next clue now has anybody got any idea yeah what category can this be then oh um [Laughter] ripening up the grapes like the skin like the skin in the sun almost you're almost almost there it does have something you know skin whitening The Grapes there we go so our next category is tannings are wines on tannings okay have you got anything to say about tanning's and wine bin uh tanning's unwind yeah um you put me on the spot a bit it wasn't okay while you're mulling that over I will say this category confuses me greatly tannins what is a tanning yeah tannins um you know I don't know whether you're getting from the barrel you know an Oaky flavor whatever but really tannins appear in things like um fruits like red fruits or tea or coffee all full of tannins a good point there because sometimes when a Wine's got a lot of tanning it's an indicator that they've left the skins on the grape during the fermentation excellent It's All About the Skins being left on really and how much kind of like tannins left in the wine generally speaking younger wines have a higher you know higher tanning than all the wines do yeah the time goes on they kind of lose that a little bit which is a quality in itself yeah I think it's time to provide a sound effect now it's a that's the only way I can describe a tanning it's that kind of Tang in your mouth when it sticks to the top of your mouth and the cheeks and yeah not something I particularly like Italian it's not um you know let's say when it comes to tanning it's the lower you you lower the number the better so if we give it a one out of five that's a better rating yeah so we're looking for Less odds let's all let's all fix our mind on tanning foreign grapes but like red fruit red grapes coffee tea etc etc all produce a lot of tanning so we're gonna go 1.5 open to the rest of the panel shoot yeah not a lot in that is that the super magic game the Superman games I tend not to like the taste of tannins and that's why I'm not of that that a big red wine fan sorry for all those red ones I'm swearing I know but definitely the cop is more for me than the other one so I wouldn't know how to think about it like that from a grading respect I just know that feels almost heavier to me um yeah almost slightly oily oily oily that's a good one yeah with the Duro one I I can smell Sandalwood yeah that's a joke definitely talk to me yes which is why it's kind of awkward it was that Chardonnay kind of thickness it does leave a little bit of a residue on your teeth but not much not like a red wine would no that's another way of picking that up all those flavors or or Sensations you described just evoke teacher's breath to me on the teacher breath index um I never let my teachers get that close to school a lot lighter and cleaner isn't it yeah totally definitely what do you saying yeah it's not heavy on it that's hardly anytime any of that at all I don't think there's much tanning the cop could for me no but this one's more in the Elder peanut really necessary what do you think 0.5 so you think it's low I think the answer penis got lower lower tanning than the copper that's for sure okay more of a white wine are generally yeah low scores on the doors Okay so that's um tannins acidity taken care of now this is going to be so obvious right the next category is cocaine sweets oh yeah Suddenly It's like a episode of Hawaii Five-0 okay good ah come on sweetness it can only be sweetness it can only be sweetness okay sweetness sugar content okay so let's go for the health uh not in the El to Peanut the Duro the cop car yeah hey and let's see what kind of sugar content that's got this super dry isn't it I'd say are we marking it low this time as well the less sugar it's got the lower the mark the the more sugar yeah the less sugar it's got the lower the mark okay right the less sugar it's got the lower the mark so it's it's not one of the sweetest it's definitely not one of the driest as well you know I think it's fairly in terms of sweetness it's a very well balanced wine I think yeah three three on the old uh sugar content we're going less yeah me too yeah yes two maybe two and a half two two two two yeah two tops two Tops on the cop kiss weakness yeah either no we have a lot of different varieties the three of us certainly different people so on here that's that's the version of it I have and Mike yeah splitter we've got this one here we we our bottle is a really expensive bottle I'm not supposed to say that the only one we could find it's probably more expensive than your bottle yeah you know God sakes you can tell we're fancy men but I don't think it's four times the quality yes so often we discover right okay so what are we going to give the Cocker you guys two times I think it's quite sweet person it may be maybe due to different uh all right so even the year that I'll buy into them 2019. yeah you see well well we'll talk about that later yes we will um but uh let's move on to the outer Pina now and we're rating sugar value it's definitely sweeter is one of those things that you you know your tongue your tongue is getting a lot of sugar with that definitely sweet help to Pina I think it's all in terms of sweetness yeah okay so let's see what these guys but I think you're right this one definitely let's go to the NX and in the annex your sweetness rating please definitely sweeter yeah slightly sweeter yeah only a bit though too much yeah we're going three three months three yeah man I just don't know what kind of el chapino you've got there but it's uh the same as you got exactly the same one if I can just digress for a second what did everyone have for dinner nothing yet you guys had salad did you have any any kind of dressing with the salad um CSI CSI wine tests yes I am because what I'm trying to hint at you know hit here is that um sometimes when you eat something it takes away from it takes away from a flavor if that makes any sense the next thing you have is going to be less salty we've had something sweet and actually the next thing together would be less sweet uh okay yeah true yeah salad and chicken salad there's a lot of chicken and salad really okay okay well we're just wondering what did you have for dinner we had a chicken supreme we had chicken supreme did you okay yes and chips that's it that's the difference we have sugar on your chips oh no no okay so that that's that one cell we can definitely say are we saying that the altapine is sweeter than the coffee yeah yeah only just these are very dry wines to my palette right okay now the next the next category please sticking to our Eastern European theme uh vodka what could this you know what could this mean how drunk it gets you uh explosive capability yeah yeah now we'll be waiting the uh our next category is alcohol content so which one tastes stronger which one tastes a bit dryer yeah which one do we think is 13. powerful yeah I guess which one's kind of drier which goes more oomph E I think because it's got more more um more of that sort of spirity taste of Port 40 taste yeah I don't know I reckon that we could give the um dryness it's quite strong hold on get it on the back can you see all right I I sorry I cheated here my both of my um are 30 the ones have in front of me are 13 . dry they are how much of an oomph they have so oh okay yeah well yeah definitely the top key again dryer yeah but if that's more sophisticated in a way it is you know it just it does seem to be um I don't know if this is the kind of Duro effect and I I don't need to ask you this too it's part of this to take Duru down a peg or two because the dura region is legendary of course around the world the other the other regions of Portugal have to kind of play up to that punch up to that weight in a way don't they because the reputation is around the world was this an effort to do that in a way to see if the stabile could have a little pop at the door Ben ah that wasn't our primary intention no he's had the wrong hole probably yeah yeah it was all there but um are we giving equal amounts of alcohol you've definitely got a bit more oomph to it and maybe you know actually yeah I'll give the answer peanut too it's quite smooth it goes down very easily yeah and alcohol they're both the same percentage but it doesn't have that same amount of power doesn't hit you it's smoother isn't it yeah less um Okay so we've gone through acid or acidity yeah what comes next give you a little clue here oh my God on Earth what on Earth um sausages [Music] uh talcum powder rating I don't know what what is it okay okay um with the body what do we mean by body body is the depth of flavor that a great variety you can have what wine can have so how it evolves in the mouth how it hits the tongue initially that's what we're talking about when it comes to body so how long it lasts in a way yes but there's other factors you've got to take into there as well like how it evolves in that period That's lasted so it's like the journey that it takes and the kind of like tastes and Aromas it produces on the palate yes like the personality of the wine almost right exactly so this is really quite important this yeah maybe the central thing it's what people pay a lot of attention to yeah okay so let's do the body so that seems to kind of travel on and I'm still getting tastes lemony tastes at the end more um a little bit of the elderflower in there and stuff [Music] um but it seems to last about I don't know five eight seconds worth yeah with the cop car I think that's about right as well I think that the flavor of it's quite consistent as well but it doesn't really evolve too much yeah you know we maintain those almost citrusy tastes yeah there's a lot of citrus in that now what about the eltapena feel free to drink oh yes I think it will thank you well that's actually got quite a long flavors yeah with the ultra pain I'm getting almost peachy Peach and pear Caskey because it has very peachy and you know yeah almost fruit notes to it right so if we said longevity well what what a body all right we're onto body yeah it's not just longevity out of like five what would we give um the copper I'm genuinely confused with this one in my opinion I think that the cop could last just a little bit longer than the altopena but the altopena revolves in the mouth differently if that makes any sense right the altopia 10 changes flavor whereas the cup remains fairly consistent okay numbers what's a numeral value of all that I would give the Cocker maybe you know it feels like I should give it a four but I don't think it does it's worked its way to be that because it's rain too consistent so maybe a 3.5 or I'll go with that and the El to Pina the Alta Pina I this is in my personal taste I brought I prefer the cupcake personally it's more it speaks more to me but to try remain as objective as possible I think I'd have to give it the same score because it's you know it's definitely different they've got very different qualities I honestly I think you've got that bang on there because I'm like you know which ones which one's the best it's a bit unfair to pin you know in terms of body to pin them up against each other because they both they're so different well they're so different but you know in the terms of body they've got the same type of effect um no I can't go with that I don't agree with that right an intervention coming in from the MX the cop car has got a a longer steady development of flavor a far more than the Elder Peanut the ultra peanut does exactly what its red neighbor does and that comes in with a big boost of taste as a you know a big entrance and then just Tails away this one has got like quite a long a long duration too so if you're talking body and like endurance of taste cupca probably three and a half um ultipee nap three and that's what you like about this [Laughter] did somebody mention a big opening or something means a big big this is what you like about Steve Miles isn't it Gary yes is is the the brassiness of them it's just the honesty of it you know there's no pretension with these wines big entry I think was a key phrase well what do you do in your own time um he had a big entry yeah a big a big a big star burning and you know exactly what you're getting and there's no sort of sub guessing it tells you what it is before you actually get it basically yes yes yeah okay brilliant so that was fascinating because we came out about equal but you guys pretending to go for the uh the the the longevity and body of the El tepina am I yeah longer sorry longer steady flavor but intensity short based intensity goes ultiprina because it comes banged like all yeah right so it's a bit more brutal a bit more forceful probably yeah okay and and you guys all agree with that yeah well sorry Nikki and Norman go on and Linda's carry on please one you'd probably know more about weight than me so would you reckon then well you drink it more than me what would you say for me I know we've got a slightly different one but the cop car is definitely more I'm going to use the word powerful it's it definitely lasts longer it's definitely just feel stronger to me um but I think that's a combination of everything we've discussed it feels a bit drier it's yeah yes I think yeah the older pin is so much lighter in fact it's almost a surprise how much of a kick it gave you when you first taste it but it doesn't definitely last as long as the cotton yeah well done well done okay so um I think we're over to human the next day to me right um you know for this brief period I've been learning a bit of magic and exactly just to take magic of wine the magic of wine so I've got to watch or something I was gonna smash him up unfortunately I haven't no you know I'll just use a statue yeah okay okay I will put the statue into my magic bag he does this all the time that's how you got it in advance let me talk you through the relevance of this statue um which has a wine connection um the relevance of this statue is we call it the winky trophy in these parts and for obvious reasons yeah um and it's a kind of like trophy that's awarded to the crappiest worst pool player of um who whomever's playing and currently the holder is garva of the great Garbo and um Fair go to him he's been the holder of this for many years now not because he's played that much but because um Carry On young man um oh no I don't want you to get known as the holder of the winky then literally in central Portuguese known as the holder of the winky trophy now the connection is we drink a lot of it it's a kind of a ward which is kind of um haunted Garbo yeah many years now because he keeps trying to arrange tournaments to get you know so he can come out on top and some other loser gets the gets the the statue which they have to keep by their business right yeah that's the other rule of it so we're currently in the period of obviously with Norman being here and everything we're worried about Norman about his quality of Paul because he's not all too much really really is he you know you say Gaz has gone really quiet you're gonna find Ace of watch now isn't it it's a watch who's watching we smashed up hope to you Ben uh you've given me the wrong bag no [Music] no no I haven't ever um that's a mighty watch only 10.99 um anyway moving on but no just just let's have a look at these pieces and see what we've got and see whether we can repair anything I'm getting top notes of Tommy Cooper oh again oh no it's even looking a bit more artistic Now isn't it don't don't think Gary you're gonna you're gonna use that and say we'll play for that because all right I'm not keeping that by the side of my bed all right here's another contest for you can you tell me what part of the anatomy that is it's a buttock isn't it yes it's a bird talk I genuinely thought there was a watch in there that we bought for 10.99 you gave me the wrong bag awkward isn't it anyway moving swiftly on by Winky [Laughter] so we've had the smash up yeah yes so really what we've got to do now is all together focus our minds apart from Gary who's in a bit of a shot because he's missing that trophy straight away there's an honest mistake guys yeah it happens to anyone oh dear he's not happy anyway don't let him up okay we've got to figure out the winner okay between these two wines so I think we should charge our glasses again we haven't covered one important category which you always do when we're looking at Wines and that's color color Yes color oh yes there's a vast difference between these two fellas well you're the one I'm guessing in your left hand is the altapino right it's a much more honeyed uh look isn't it going round well I never and this one's the uh well ours aren't too different though I think this is really a difference of uh the cop car has got all right yeah I don't remember which one's which is going so well I'm joking thank God for that in color right a bit more to say please respectively out of Pina coming out slightly worse on that one in terms of color Yes in terms of color Yes right okay because I think it's better I actually prefer the ultra peanut yeah yeah because that one looks a bit like a urine sample have you got what Euro you've got of altapina there [Music] anybody can see it Burger this may be an important factor because of the disparate colors obviously you guys mind you we don't know what kind of color you've got a slightly different cop car there haven't you you've got the result you have it as this this one yeah right is the big reveal this is a 2013 right oh my gosh and it costs four times more than that this was near 13 euros so theoretically should be four times better so I'm gonna ask the panel is it four times better no no definitely four bottles of this to be fair though ultipina RRP is 8.99 isn't it and it was just a superb um like end of bucket bargain or something at Pingo at 299 which is I was delighted so I found that yesterday yeah it's absolutely incredible and it's I mean I'll do like the jolliness of its Fruity Fruity nose uh or what and the cop key is definitely a bit more sophisticated but like you're right that much more sophisticated I'm not sure I wish I could stop packing to pay full attention to this says on a way to get to she's coming is she coming over I see yes yeah come and see us soon I get into hacking in California Douglas has woken up again uh that Duru Joby is amazing value I've drunk it quite a lot I usually get it a pinger dose but I've seen it in the two which one Doug are you talking about the cop here are you talking about the Alta peanut you see for a man who drives a roller that's a sort of label I'm thinking he's going to be yeah so on the badge of the Blazer he's got a Blazer he's got a cravat and he's pouring this isn't he he's not going to be pouring something that looks like it's been done by a stencil kit for a children's Christmas present that's the amazing thing yeah I think it's all about marketing at the end of the day and we're coming and progressing to our final choice okay but the two labels I look at the eltapina there's something a bit pretentious like you say it's the bed sewn onto the uh blazer from marks and Spencer yeah okay if we're looking for several row yeah yeah we're probably looking towards the copkin even though it's packaged or it's kind of visuals appear you think have got that kind of stamp um painted effect that you'd get I don't know at some DIY store or something like that yeah yeah it's probably because it's meant to appeal I think I'm taking a gamble on this to the markets uh Germany around there where that type of typeface is accepted a lot more all right let's have a quick look at them both then on the screen as you can see here copy you see sometimes that's white Graphics coming out of black isn't it that makes it look even more stenciled yeah um and they've got their special stamp there as well the CN cupcake established whatever in 1638 I mean that is a well-established brand for sure isn't it and then the ultipina as you say on the right there is a little bit more busy and Conjuring up something or other isn't it in your imagination about what you think and wine label might look like okay those are good points but really we're coming to the kind of conclusion of this uh you know clash between North and South oh yeah yeah probably an unfair one we've got a bit of a journeyman and a bit of like a um Sugar Ray Leonard yeah which one's which the ultra peanuts your Sugar Ray isn't it oh no so I guess again take two yeah no definitely the Copco is a Sugar Ray um that's amazing foreign okay we're going to jump in feet first here because obviously this is just us but when we tried it well tell me what you thought when we tried it the first time the first time I thought here's the staple Summer Wine for this year I can see myself out there by the pool having a glass of this very nice want a nice Rooftop Bar and update the staple Summer Wine for this year Lisbon Rooftop Bar a bit of [ __ ] kit if you will [ __ ] key cop car yeah cookie why would you choose that you know for your rooftop bar in Lisbon it's a wine that I'm you know this is all down to personal taste really it's a wine that I can identify with you know it's got a long no lives long on the tongue it's got those citrusy notes that I like it's not too sweet as well you know it's not too acidic I just think it's a very well balanced wine overall um I think you heard it first here whiners yeah okay for you then it's the cop car and this it Doug did buy the cup no when he says Posh labor which one is he talking about Doug can you be clear about this okay so it's six seconds I mean it looks Posh but then you've got the you know we're So Posh we don't care stencils you know going on as well so which one was it was it Copco or altapina please Doug but clearly um you enjoyed it whichever whichever it was turned out to be let's go to the annex and our special guest tonight who've joined this first time here in Portugal um thank you for for being with us and and having a little bit of a fun learning about um how we tasted right over here in Portugal under the very careful support and uh tutorship of uh Terence Austin and Ben Austin there so thank you very much gentlemen thank you for putting so much into that you did say you had a lot to get through and you've timed it beautifully we're just coming up to the air we'll hang out a little bit more but thank you so much a pair of you that's fantastic we have just one more if we can hold on there's no no there's no rush out of five don't we yes sorry back to you um well let's let's um settle the battle of the wines North and South what do we we know which way we're going yes what about you guys down in the basement for me it's the um sad it's a Sam so any reason yeah boy every chance I actually don't like the taste of the cop car at all I don't like the smell of it and I don't like the taste the lindrometer is just seven minutes I've been sipping it and I'm still that night okay so it sounded peanut for me okay Linda I mean it's it to us it's just black and white isn't it really yeah you know what you did yeah but the more I've drunk the more I can cope with oh I see faint praise but I like strong red wine so it's interesting because you're not really a wife yeah but you've been drinking some wine I could drink that I could drink a bottle of that no problem yeah oh yeah but which do you prefer the that's because let's get more of a kick to it yeah like I like strong uh yeah yeah Lynn doesn't like this one but I prefer that one that seems about for the red wine drinkers Gary um this is very difficult to explain I understand again the complexity of a Duro right and what it tries to tell us it's that you know the the extra little bit of quality that you're putting in and the route from A to B and all that sort that goes in between it put I have to go to the orthopedic because I just prefer the taste um and also um it's not quite as as bitter as the as the Duro and of course as I always tend to do these days as a complete package of wine this being four times more expensive than that in my book should be superb and it's not it's not it's not it's not clearly not the only thing I don't like about the ultra peanut is the smell I'm not quite not quite with that the the the Duro yeah that's got a better smell this doesn't even like that smell there you go yeah amazing it's brilliant really because I if I was gonna if I was a betting man which obviously I'm not um I would have bet that Gary would have gone with the classic quality velvety Copco yeah I think I think if you put that up against a nice per Shaker it'll kick its ass to be honest but we should have that one we should build that one up you know World Cup get its ass kicked by Shaker Colombian boxes doesn't it good um you can open your eyes next round The Rumble in central Portugal okay interesting bringing up a shake into it yeah can I can I give you my view on this now because yes please I'm not eating anything with this and that's been really dangerous quite frankly came home and and Ben you made a really good point about you know what you've eaten most recently of course can affect the your perception of a wine on the way home I ate some um some what do they call it what do our kids call it snide Pringles you know some copy Pringles not even the real Pringles which mess up your taste buds but some French coffee Pringles of roast chicken flavor and and two mini um apple turnovers that was asking for trouble wasn't it yeah in a hurry on the way home that's not that is not the the kind of um the the little appetizers of a wine tasting Champion right yeah my taste recipes MSG fighting for Supremacy on my tongue and then I and then I come to taste these now the altapina has a has a fruity nose on it which is would be okay if you weren't eating but and the cop key is is crying out for the roast chicken which is being prepared in the room next to me here so I think I think this is going to change again when I drink some more of this with some roast chicken the cop key with food I think will be a very different experience and and you were talking about rooftop or a swimming pool the outer [ __ ] I think has got it for the you know the quaffing by the pool and on the rooftop wow yes and the and then the cup he's gonna need some food to go with it I think and that's what I'm looking forward to doing nice bit of fish without something maybe yes it is more sophisticated than copy I think and it needs some food to go with it I never really thought about it it's got a velvety almost buttery here so that would be very complimentary Lobster yeah um please ask us foreign from Frank tonight I think he's in Canada as we speak um ill real Pringles are bad enough knockoff ones must be groomed they're French French knockoff Pringles with a rust chicken flavor that with a cup of apple turnovers I mean you know yeah living the dream it tells that together yeah and I think the lady in the liquid are kind of knew when I walked in that's what I'd been doing she was she was polite enough but I think she knew that I had been eating knockoff Pringles and blue apples I don't know what I want it enough but slightly judgmental exactly what depends on context and time of day Etc there's uh Max Mark isn't it and Antonio is here although everyone a lot to you Antonio we're drinking two of your great Portuguese wines here cupcake and the altopina and we've had a great time doing it under the leadership of Terence and Ben Austin this evening great job gentlemen are we going to go to the final walks in out of five you've got a terrific memory much better than mine we are going to the final piece of advice now which is the final answer first then advice oh sorry all right we're going to go to a life hack now we're going to go to a wine stroke life hack courtesy of Terence who's done a lot of work this evening so thank you very much for that Terence Austin a great job you and to Ben Shame about the winky trophy um you know I don't know what happened to that 1099 watch because that I've sort of putting the band let's go let's go to this this anyway let's move on to happiest stomping grounds now yes higher planes of moral advice change the movement probably one of the best pieces of advice I've had recently which I discovered and is the reason that I have my guest here tonight because he's quite a clever land right and do learn a lot from him is that um he's got a piece of advice about the purchasing of wine which and it's diminishing okay it's it it's ebbing away as we speak this opportunity and I'm not selling anything I'm it's not sponsorship deal or anything like that but he's got he's got a cracking piece of advice which I've experimented with regularly and it holds a lot of water over to you yeah some of you may already know be familiar with this concept but some of you may not but you know we have um years are very different some are hotter summer colder some bring more rain some don't and when it comes to Wine you know something agricultural the year is very important for instance I think in my opinion 2019 was a very well balanced year we had a decent amount of rain good amount of sun in more recent years such as 2020 you know 2021 it's been very hot not a lot of rain which in turn would mean that you know well depending on the great variety could make it more acidic it can make it drier it could make it it could have a whole variety of effects you know so paying the year is something we tend to overlook sometimes but it should be something that we pay a bit more attention to yeah and your recommended year is obviously 2019. yes I think that's a solid year now unfortunately what's happening is and I I can attest to this is that year by year month by month even day by day obviously these ones have been sold so my advice is go out and buy pretty much not most but you know don't worry about what you're buying of 2019 because I've never been disappointed good advice 2019. I have never bought based on year so thank you for that I'll try that Ben it's a great idea for 2019. okay let's try 2019 and so for next time let's taste let's make sure we get a 2019 bottle I don't know who wants to to pick that up but we'll we'll be back on the first Monday of July well I've got a piece of inside information the winky trophy is the next guest oh really yeah so we're gonna have to get some sellotape ads yeah oh how's it looking Ben here we are in 2023 um it was a very wet winter from last year how's this how is this looking for wine producers this year well again you know it's something that every different Region's got a different climate so it'll affect different regions differently for instance when we go up north to the region of Vineyard towards Braga you know naturally a very wet climb it doesn't get a lot of exposure to sunlight you can tell because when you look at the vines of Vino vert they're three meters off the ground they're very tall they want sunlight but they can't get it right so there's something a bit more wet may have a negative effect on that you know too much rain you know whereas regions like the alantasia that have gone through a bit of a drought recently May benefit from this so you know we've got a very Portugal's got a beautiful amount of biodiversity in different climates so it'll be very interesting to see how it affects each one differently very good okay so there you go a little tip to choose on year I wonder if that's transferable to life advice as well with the friends you have um okay so thank you Terence Austin Ben Austin and the odd the whole Austin household basically um thank you so much our special guest Nikki and Norman for being here tonight we'll have a little bit of a lock in if you're okay with that oh yes yeah and a last comment we didn't hear from I didn't read that Barack forgive me your comment earlier on look I'm awake for this one we appreciate that we do we do appreciate the special people make to be awake during the show actually was awake last night early this morning oh dear sorry to that sick pup could have used a drink then and uh your final comment tonight and thank you Frank for popping in this evening how's Canada Franklin thank you but yeah it does not make a huge difference in white wines however red wine it does make a difference especially if you're looking at a Bordeaux the complexity of wine can be determined by how old or young it is so that to bear in mind in combination with Ben's excellent advice and we should read this out do you remember these days Gary when uh Penny and Doug used to clash politically how could you it's like putting a couple of angle grinders together wasn't it wasn't it fantastic those were happy times uh the wine club looks quite safe now pen isn't around anymore and I don't know what emoji that is face orange frowning face orange frowning I think we can guess can't we it's not the Margaret Saturn Emoji but anyway maybe best at least said about that the better thank you the Austin's all of you and thank you to Norman and Nikki thanks you to everybody who tuned in tonight we didn't do a final score did we we you think the cop key is the winner but are you going to do some more are you going to do some marks out of five for the cop key and the ultimate I mean I I can I can you know tot up really but I'd be I'm a liar I just always I'd always leave you know with the with the cop could copy cop car it was always going to come out in front into me I'm amazed because it was an it was like I would have put my house on it all right and then South Africa go to the annex what how would you let's go to Norman and Nikki marks out of five for the cop kit it's grown on me so but again I think that's alcohol levels in my body it doesn't make it so I'm gonna go four four and a half garlic it's nice and the altapena four and a half I could drink that like you were saying I could drink that on its own it's light enough I could drink that on his own whereas again I agree food with Cocker yep uh Gary and Linda your marks Linda let's go to you first hang on drum roll I like pale topina I'd give that give that a four yeah and put the [ __ ] it's not to my taste probably two and a half um an appeal to the was it the Human Rights Convention in the haze and the United Nations in a kind of joint United Way United Way as they do in the United Nations yes it was cruel shame on you yeah hi Gary I'm kind of kind of happy that Linda went first because she makes my marking sound a bit better the um you know I'm not a white wine fan generally um and the auto cleaner with its value um but three Euros yeah yes it's a good solid little drink it's honest it does what it says on the tin I'm gonna go um 375 375 okay Linda just had another sip on the cup key there I think yeah I think so yeah um I'm not going to be playing with your ladies with the price of paid for it okay remember nearly 13 euros yeah that hurt three oh my word I think now we I paid what was it about seven for this the cop car and we did and we totally enjoyed it I don't know what you're drinking there man this should be the best because it's 2013. yeah it's got a you know the years it's got that you should have full taste for everything right I expected so much from this wine and I was disappointed on that slightly awkward note thank you very much everybody um for being here this evening let's just let that hang in the air they're like a bad smell and um no I'm just going to say with you you know you've always got to leave a cliffhanger for the next episode so you know hopefully a 2019 next time great job wasn't the fact that Gary had to dig deep 15 euros plus right should we just go downstairs yeah well I'll tell you what we'll do we'll nip downstairs and we'll give him a taste of this yeah what would you need now to add to the difficulty in the atmosphere is it just stop oil protester coming in yeah everybody always wearing orange next month's wine we're going to do if you're looking do it's we're doing some um biological wines somewhere yes we're doing two ones again side by side they are white and I'll publish them up on the the the wine site so you can see them is it the alantasia one with the rabbit or the hair on the I bought that in in the supermarket this weekend I think we're doing a um Monte Veil which is an organic which you can get if you can at the moment get it in um Littles very cheaply there we go the other one is uh molcata which is uh probably a little bit more expensive so just I'll put them up so you can see them fantastic so we won't get any climate protesters because we will be going for a biological and organic wine next time under the leadership of Gary Austin the Austin brothers are nailing this frankly the whole Austin family are thank you so much for tonight uh don't go anywhere because we have a little lock in behind the scenes as the awkwardness continues off camera thank you thank you okay 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VoMVQsXhd7A | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMVQsXhd7A | Why Are Confucianism and Taoism Important? | [Music] most courses on world religions are set up so that students work through a fairly standard list of religions much as we are doing in this class the religions on the list are presented serly one after another as self-contained systems that function independently of each other in this model there's sometimes opportunities to compare religious Traditions by considering areas of overlap between them as well as identifying areas of significant difference this approach makes a lot of sense it helps us sort out and examine each tradition on its own terms a bit like examining an organism under a microscope it also fits well with our Western assumption that someone who is religious will belong to or practice just one religion what logically flows from this view is is that if someone wants to adopt a different religious identity he or she must convert replacing one tradition with another studying or thinking about religion this way however doesn't always reflect how religious Traditions actually function in society or how they are lived out by real people a case in point is China where the complex religious landscape challenges many of our long-held assumptions about what it means to be religious and even the nature of religion itself for much of the last 2,000 years what is constituted Chinese religion is the interplay between Confucianism Daoism and Buddhism and the popular practices and beliefs that either derive from or are associated with them this Triad has historically been referred to as the Sania or three teachings and it has so deeply penetrated every sphere of Chinese life over the centuries that it is often impossible to distinguish one religion from the others of the Sania or three teachings both Confucianism and Daoism emerged in China during the 6th Century BCE Buddhism however was an import from India arriving sometime during the 2 Century BCE in the accompanying image you can see confucious handing over the infant Buddha to Daoism founder ly for much of the last 2,000 years the three teachings were never practiced or understood in isolation from each other in China in describing the relationship between these primary strands of Chinese religion the 6th Century CE scholar Lee shikan said that Buddhism is the sun Daoism the moon and confusion ISM the five planets for him each tradition had unique qualities and specific roles but they were all necessary components of one system other Scholars went beyond this to stress the unity of the three teachings suggesting that they were in many ways fundamentally the same or even just one tradition with few exceptions Confucianism Daoism and Buddhism have existed in harmony partly because they have each made unique contributions to Chinese religion in practice people not always consciously have often drawn upon aspects of the three Traditions to address different concerns liui a Chinese scholar of the late Song Dynasty in the 13th century CE summarized their contributions by noting that Buddhism is for the cultivation of the Mind Daoism is for the training of the physical body body and Confucianism is for the governance of the world having examined Buddhism in the last module we will turn our attention to Confucianism and dosm in this section focusing on the historical context in which they emerged and the kinds of concerns that preoccupied the founders by the time that Confucius was born in the 6th Century BCE the ancient Xiao Dynasty had progressively lost much of its power and China had deteriorated into Political chaos and internal Warfare although his family had been aristocratic in the past confucious grew up in poverty trying to support his brother and mother despite these challenges he managed to study and was eventually recognized for his abilities and intellect and was able to become a teacher confucius's early career was promising and he amassed many followers in students who were interested in his ideas for moral and political reform and a return to stability ultimately however he was not able to convince those in power to consider his proposals and at the age of 50 he retired to a life of writing teaching and working with ancient texts according to religion scholar Houston Smith the violence and death that confucious saw all around him caused him to devote his life to the question question how can we keep from destroying ourselves how he approached this question can be found in the analex a record of confucius's thought and sayings which was compiled by his followers following his death in this work it becomes clear that confucius's vision of an ideal Society required attention to ethical Behavior at every level of society and a sound education system the two together would lead to good government these ideas would eventually become the foundation of Chinese society and are still influential today the details surrounding the origins of Daoism are much less clear two figures ly and wangi are traditionally recognized as the founders of Daoism although what is known about them is more myth than history in fact it's not altogether clear whether ly actually existed or if he was a composite figure tradition however would make ly an older contemporary of confucious and the author of the famous da dasing although little is known about him there seems to be more certainty regarding the actual existence of xang zi who can be dated to the 4th Century BCE the book that is attributed to him theang Z is considered the second most important text in Daoism Daoism takes its name not from its Founders but rather from the ancient Chinese concept of Dao which originated long before figures like ly and jangi what they did however was to reframe and expand the concept of Dao literally the path or the way the term Dow is notoriously difficult to define or even describe in fact in the daing Lai says that the Dao is nameless and mysterious impossible to pin down he said that the Dow was Timeless or Eternal and it was also creative or generative continually giving rise to all that is one might imagine the Dao as the underlying principle of the universe or the order of nature itself dosm and Confucianism emerged in the same period of conflict and upheaval Daoism responded very differently however instead of trying to create the perfect society as Confucianism attempted to do Daoism advocated a completely hands-off approach one of non-doing or non-action this idea is encapsulated in the concept of woo way a state where one's actions are aligned with nature rather than against it water is a great example of woo way it flows in the direction of least resistance it exerts no effort and has no independent purpose as you work through the learning materials on both Confucianism and dosm you'll discover that they can be very abstract reflecting the philosophical nature of the Traditions you'll also find areas of more concrete application such as how they've influenced Chinese society and are experienced by people in their daily lives | Connor Ross Aldridge | UCp2uJ-FpwN1tFxdiaRoMTBA | 2023-11-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,180 | 6,996 |
L6qBjHoidgc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6qBjHoidgc | Black people | Wikipedia audio article | black people as a term used in certain countries often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations as such the meaning of the expression varies widely both between and within societies and depends significantly on context for many other individuals communities and countries black is also perceived as a derogatory outdated reductive or otherwise unrepresentative label and as a result as neither used nor define different societies applied different criteria regarding who is classified as black and these social constructs have also changed over time in a number of countries societal variables affect classification as much as skin color and the social criteria for blackness vary in the United Kingdom black was historically equivalent with person of color a general term for non-european peoples in South Africa and Latin America mixed-race people are generally not classified as black in other regions such as Australasia settlers applied the term black or it was used by local populations with different histories and ancestral backgrounds topic Africa topic northern Africa the Romans interacted with in later conquered parts of Mauritania an early state that covered modern Morocco Western Algeria and the Spanish cities ceuta and melilla during the Classical period the people of the region were noted in classical literature as Maori which was subsequently rendered as Moors in English numerous communities of dark-skinned peoples are present in North Africa some dating from prehistoric communities others are descendants of the historical trans-saharan trade in peoples and/or and after the Arab invasions of North Africa in the seventh century descendants of slaves from the Arab slave trade in North Africa in the 18th century the Moroccan Sultan moulay ismaïl the warrior king 1672 217 27 raised a core of 150,000 black soldiers called his Black Guard according to dr. Carlos Moore resident scholar at Brazil's University of the state of Bahia in the 21st century afro multiracial --zz in the arab world including arabs in north africa self-identify in ways that resemble multiracial x' in latin america he claims that black looking Arabs much like black looking Latin Americans consider themselves white because they have some distant white ancestry Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had a mother who was a dark-skinned Nubian sudanese woman and a father who was a lighter skinned Egyptian in response to an advertisement for an acting position as a young man he said I am NOT white but I am not exactly black either my blackness is tending to reddish due to the patriarchal nature of Arab society Arab men including during the slave trade in North Africa enslaved more black women than men they used more black female slaves in domestic service and agriculture than males the men interpreted the Quran to permit sexual relations between a male master and his female slave outside of marriage Sima Malik at a manuka man-sex leading to many mixed-race children when an enslaved woman became pregnant with her Arab masters child she was considered as um will adorn mother of a child a status that granted her privileged rights the child was given rights of inheritance to the father's property so mixed-race children could share in any wealth of the father because the society was patrilineal the children their fathers social status at birth and were born free some succeeded their fathers as rulers such as sultan ahmad al mansur who ruled morocco from 1578 to 1608 he was not technically considered as a mixed-race child of a slave his mother was Fulani and a concubine of his father in early 1991 non-arabs of the Zaghawa tribe of sudan attested that they were victims of an intensifying arab apartheid campaign segregating arabs and non-arabs specifically people of nalada descent sudanese arabs who controlled the government were widely referred to as practicing apartheid against Sudan's non Arab citizens the government was accused of deftly manipulating Arab solidarity to carry out policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing American University economist George aat accused the arab government of sudan of practicing acts of racism against black citizens according to AIT in sudan the arabs monopolized power and excluded blacks Arab apartheid many African commentators joined AIT in accusing Sudan of practicing Arab apartheid topic Sahara in the Sahara the native Tuareg Berber populations kept Negro slaves most of these captives were of nylon t'k extraction and were either purchased by the Tuareg Nobles from slave markets in the western Sudan or taken during raids their origin has demoted via via Hagar berber word I been Harun st. a bender which alludes to slaves that only speak a nilo-saharan language these slaves were also sometimes known by the borrowed songhay term Bela similarly the Sahrawi autochthonous of the Western Sahara observed a class system consisting of high castes and low castes outside of these traditional tribal boundaries were Negro slaves who were drawn from the surrounding areas Horn of Africa in parts of the Horn of Africa the local afro-asiatic Hamitic semitic speaking populations have long adhered to a construct similar to that of the sahara Nile and Maghreb in Ethiopia and Somalia the slave classes mainly consisted of individuals of nylon tick and Bantu origin who were collectively known as Sheng kala and add own both denoting Negro these captives and others of analogous morphology were distinguished as solemn Bahria in contrast with the afro-asiatic speaking nobles or Sabah QA wih red men the earliest representation of this tradition dates from a 7th or 8th century BC inscription belonging to the kingdom of damat topic southern Africa in South Africa the period of colonization resulted in many unions and marriages between European men and been - and Khoisan women from various tribes resulting in mixed-race children as the European settlers acquired control of territory they generally pushed the mixed-race and been - in Khoisan populations into second-class status during the first half of the 20th century the Afrikaner dominated government classified the population according to four main racial groups black white asian mostly indian and colored the colored group included people of mixed been - poison and European descent with some Malay ancestry especially in the Western Cape the coloured definition occupied an intermediary political position between the black and white definitions in South Africa it imposed a system of legal racial segregation a complex of laws known as apartheid the apartheid bureaucracy devised complex and often arbitrary criteria in the population Registration Act of 1945 to determine who belonged in which group minor officials administered tests to enforce the classifications when it was unclear from a person's physical appearance whether the individual should be considered colored or black the pencil test was used a pencil was inserted into a person's hair to determine if the hair was kinky enough to hold the pencil rather than having it passed through as it would with smoother hair if so the person was classified as black such classifications sometimes divided families Sandra Lyon is a South African woman who was classified as colored by authorities during the apartheid era due to her skin color and hair texture although her parents could prove at least three generations of European ancestors at age 10 she was expelled from her all-white school the officials decisions based on her anomalous appearance disrupted her family in adult life she was the subject of the 2008 biographical dramatic film skin which won numerous awards during the apartheid era those class tests colored were oppressed and discriminated against but they had limited rights and overall had slightly better socio-economic conditions than those class tests black the government required that blacks and collards live in areas separate from whites creating large townships located away from the cities as areas for blacks in the post apartheid era the Constitution of South Africa has declared the country to be a non racial democracy in an effort to redress passed in justices the ANC government has introduced laws in support of affirmative action policies for blacks under these they define black people to include Africans colorants and Asians some affirmative action policies favor Africans over collar ins in terms of qualifying for certain benefits some South Africans categorized as African black say that collar ins did not suffer as much as they did during apartheid colored South Africans are known to discuss their dilemma by saying we were not wide enough under apartheid and we are not black enough under the ANC African National Congress in 2008 the High Court in South Africa ruled that Chinese South Africans who were residents during the apartheid era and their descendants are to be reclassified as black people solely for the purposes of accessing affirmative action benefits because they were also disadvantaged by racial discrimination Chinese people who arrived in the country after the end of apartheid do not qualify for such benefits other than by appearance collar ins can usually be distinguished from blacks by language most speak Afrikaans or English as a first language as opposed to Bantu languages such as Zulu or cosa they also tend to have more European sounding names than bend to names topic Asia topic Western Asia topic Arab world historians estimate that between the advent of Islam in 650cc and the abolition of slavery in the Arabian Peninsula in the mid 20th century 10 to 18 million black Africans known as the Zant were enslaved by Arab slave traders and transported to the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries this number far exceeded the number of slaves who were taken to the Americas several factors affected the visibility of descendants of this Diaspora in 21st century Arab societies the traders shipped more female slaves than males as there was a demand for them to serve as concubines in harems in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries male slaves were castrated in order to serve as harem guards the death toll of black African slaves from forced labor was high the mixed-race children of female slaves and Arab owners were assimilated into the Arab owners families under the patrilineal kinship system as a result few distinctive Afro Arab communities have survived in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries as a consequence of slavery genetic studies have found significant African female mediated gene flow in Arab communities in the Arabian Peninsula and neighbouring countries with an average of 38% of maternal lineages in Yemen are of direct African descent 16% in Oman Qatar and 10% in Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates distinctive and self-identified black communities have been reported in countries such as Iraq with a reported 1.2 million black people and they attest to a history of discrimination these descendants of the sand have sought minority status from the government which would reserve some seats in parliament for representatives of their population according to Al Amin and Mazrui at all generally in the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring countries most of those a visible African descent are still classified and identify as both black and Arab Iran Afro Iranians are people of black African descent residing in Iran during the Kjar dynasty many wealthy households imported black African women and children as slaves to perform domestic work this slave labor was drawn exclusively from the Zandt who were bent to speaking peoples that lived along the African Great Lakes in an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania Mozambique and Malawi topic Israel about 150,000 East African and black people live in Israel amounting to just over two percent of the nation's population the vast majority of these some 120,000 are bata Israel most of whom are recent immigrants who came during the 1980s and 1990s from Ethiopia in addition Israel is home to over 5,000 members of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem movement that are descendants of African Americans who emigrated to Israel in the 20th century and who reside mainly in a distinct neighborhood in the Negev town of Damona unknown numbers of black converts to Judaism reside in Israel most of them converts from the United Kingdom Canada and the United States additionally there are around 60,000 non-jewish African immigrants in Israel some of whom have sought asylum most of the migrants are from communities in Sudan and Eritrea particularly the Niger Congo speaking nuba groups of the southern nuba mountains some are illegal immigrants topic turkey beginning several centuries ago during the period of the Ottoman Empire tens of thousands of Zanjeer captives were brought by slave traders to plantations and agricultural areas situated between Antalya and Istanbul in present-day Turkey some of their descendants remained in situ and many migrated to larger cities and towns other black slaves were transported to Crete from where they are their descendants later reached the Izmir area through the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923 or indirectly from a village in pursuit of work topic southern Asia the city are an ethnic group inhabiting India and Pakistan whose members are descended from Bantu people's in the macron strip of the Sindh and Balochistan provinces in southwestern Pakistan these been two descendants are known as the McCraney there was a brief Black Power movement in Sindh in the 1960s in many city are proud of and celebrate their African ancestry topic southeastern Asia Negritos are believed to have been the first inhabitants of Southeast Asia once inhabited Taiwan Vietnam and various other parts of Asia they are now confined primarily to Thailand the Malay Archipelago and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Negrito means little black people in Spanish Negrito is the Spanish diminutive of negro ie little black person it is what the Spaniards called the Aborigines that they encountered in the Philippines the term Negrito itself has come under criticism in countries like Malaysia where it is now interchangeable with the more acceptable samang although this term actually refers to a specific group negritos in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in general face lots of discrimination usually they are marginalised and live in poverty unable to find employment that will take them topic Europe topic Western Europe topic France while census collection of ethnic background is illegal in France it is estimated that there are about 2.5 to 5 million black people residing there topic Netherlands Afro Dutcher residents of the Netherlands who are of black African or afro-caribbean ancestry they tend to be from the former and present Dutch overseas territories of Aruba Bonaire curaçao Sint Maarten and Suriname the Netherlands also has sizable Cape Verdean and other African communities topic Spain the term Moore's has been used in Europe in a broader somewhat derogatory sense to refer to Muslims especially those of Arab or Berber descent whether living in North Africa or Iberia Moors were not a distinct or self-defined people medieval and early modern Europeans applied the name to Muslim Arabs Berbers black Africans and Europeans alike Isidore of Seville writing in the 7th century claimed that the Latin word Morris was derived from the Greek more'n which is the Greek word for black indeed by the time Isidore of Seville came to write his etymologies the word Morris or more had become an adjective in Latin for the Greeks called black Morin in is adores de Moors were black by definition afro Spaniards are Spanish Nationals of West Central African descent they today mainly come from Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Ghana Gambia Mali Nigeria and Senegal additionally many afro Spaniards born in Spain are from the former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea today there are an estimated 600 83,000 afro Spaniards in Spain topic united kingdom according to the office for national statistics at the 2001 census there were over a million black people in the United Kingdom 1% of the total population described themselves as Black Caribbean 0.8% us black African and 0.2% as black other Britain encouraged the immigration of workers from the Caribbean after World War two the first symbolic movement was those who came on the ship the Empire Windrush the preferred official umbrella termas black and minority ethnic VME but sometimes the term black is used on its own to express unified opposition to racism as in the South all black sisters which started with a mainly British Asian constituency and the national black police Association which has a membership of African African Caribbean and Asian origin you topic Eastern Europe as African states became independent in the 1960s the Soviet Union offered many of their citizens the chance to study in Russia over a period of 40 years about 400,000 African students from various countries moved to Russia to pursue higher studies including many black Africans this extended beyond the Soviet Union to many countries of the Eastern Bloc topic Balkans due to the slave trade in the Ottoman Empire that had flourished in the Balkans the coastal town of all change in Montenegro had its own black community as a consequence of the slave trade and privateer activity it is told how until 1878 in all change 100 black people lived the Ottoman army also deployed an estimated 30,000 black African troops and cavalry men to its expedition in Hungary during the Ostrow Turkish war of 17 16 to 18 topic Oceania topic indigenous australians Indigenous Australians have been referred to as black people in Australia since the early days of European settlement while originally related to skin color the term is used today to indicate Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry in general and can refer to people of any skin pigmentation being identified as either black or white in Australia during the 19th and early 20th centuries was critical in one's employment and social prospects various state-based Aboriginal protection boards were established which had virtually complete control over the lives of Indigenous Australians where they lived their employment marriage education and included the power to separate children from their parents Aborigines were not allowed to vote and were often confined to reserves and forced into low-paid or effectively slave labour the social position of mixed-race or half caste individuals varied over time a 1913 report by sir Baldwin Spencer states that the half-castes belong neither to the aboriginal nor to the white yet on the whole they have more leaning towards the former one thing is certain and that is that the white population as a whole will never mix with half castes the best and kindest thing is to place them on reserves along with the natives train them in the same schools and encourage them to marry amongst themselves after the First World War however it became apparent that the number of mixed-race people was growing at a faster rate than the white population and by 1930 fear of the half-caste menace undermining the white australia ideal from within was being taken as a serious concern dr. Cecil cooked the Northern Territory protector of natives noted that generally by the fifth and invariably by the sixth generation all native characteristics of the Australian Aborigine are eradicated the problem of our half-castes will quickly be eliminated by the complete disappearance of the black race and the Swift submergence of their progeny in the white the official policy became one of biological and cultural assimilation eliminate the full blood and permit the white admixture to half-castes and eventually the race will become white this led to different treatment for black and half caste individuals with lighter skinned individuals targeted for removal from their families to be raised as white people restricted from speaking their native language and practicing traditional customs a process now known as The Stolen Generation the second half of the 20th century to the present has seen a gradual shift towards improved human rights for Aboriginal people in a 1967 referendum over 90% of the Australian population voted to end constitutional discrimination and to include Aborigines in the national census during this period many Aboriginal activists began to embrace the term black and use their ancestry as a source of pride activist Bob maza said I only hope that when I die I can say I'm black and it's beautiful to be black it is this sense of pride which we are trying to give back to the aborigine sick today in 1978 Aboriginal writer Kevin Gilbert received the National Book Council award for his book living black blacks talked to Kevin Gilbert a collection of Aboriginal people's stories and in 1998 was awarded but refused to accept the Human Rights Award for Literature for inside black Australia a poetry anthology an exhibition of aboriginal photography in contrast to previous definitions based solely on the degree of aboriginal ancestry in 1990 the government changed the legal definition of aboriginal to include any person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives this nationwide acceptance and recognition of Aboriginal people led to a significant increase in the number of people self-identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander the reappropriation of the term black with a positive and more inclusive meaning has resulted in its widespread use in mainstream Australian culture including public media outlets government agencies and private companies in 2012 a number of high-profile cases highlighted the legal and community attitude that identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is not dependent on skin color with a well-known boxer Anthony Mun Dean being widely criticised for questioning the blackness of another boxer and journalist Andrew Boldt being successfully sued for publishing discriminatory comments about aboriginals with light-skinned topic other John Caesar nicknamed black Caesar a convict and bushranger with parents born in an unknown area in Africa was one of the first people of recent black African ancestry to arrive in Australia at the 2006 census 248 thousand six hundred five residents declared that they were born in Africa this figure pertains to all immigrants to Australia who were born in nations in Africa regardless of race and includes white Africans topic north america topic Canada black Canadians as a designation used for people of black African descent who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada the majority of black Canadians are of Caribbean origin though the population also consists of African American immigrants and their descendants including black Nova Scotians as well as many African immigrants black Canadians often draw a distinction between those of afro-caribbean ancestry and those of other African roots the term African Canadian is occasionally used by some black Canadians who trace their heritage to the first slaves brought by British and French colonists to the North American mainland promised freedom by the British during the American Revolutionary War thousands of black loyalists were resettled by the crown in Canada afterward such as Thomas Peters in addition an estimated 10 to 30,000 fugitive slaves reached freedom in Canada from the southern United States during the antebellum years aided by people along the Underground Railroad many black people of Caribbean origin in Canada reject the term African Canadian as an elysian of the uniquely Caribbean aspects of their heritage and instead identify as Caribbean Canadian unlike in the United States where African American has become a widely used term in Canada controversies associated with distinguishing African or Caribbean heritage have resulted in the term black Canadian being widely accepted there topic United States there were eight principle areas used by Europeans to buy and ship slaves to the Western Hemisphere the number of enslaved people sold to the new world varied throughout the slave trade as for the distribution of slaves from regions of activity certain areas produced far more enslaved people than others between 1650 and 1910 point to four million enslaved West Africans arrived in the Americas from the following regions in the following proportions Senegambia Senegal and The Gambia 4.8% upper Guinea guinea-bissau Guinea and Sierra Leone 4.1 percent windward coast Liberia and Ivory Coast 1.8% Gold Coast Ghana and east of Ivory Coast ten point four percent Bight of Benin Togo Benin and Nigeria west of the Niger Delta 20.2% Bight of Biafra Nigeria east of the Niger Delta Cameroon Equatorial Guinea and Gabon 14.6% west central Africa Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola 39.4% southeastern Africa Mozambique and Madagascar four point seven percent the variant neger and Nagar derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word Negro black and from the now pejorative French negra Negro etymologically Negro noir negra and niger ultimately derived from nigrum the stem of the latin niger black pronounced near which in every other grammatical case grammatical gender and grammatical number besides nominative masculine singular his ni G R the R is drilled by the 1900s Niger had become a pejorative word in the United States in its stead the term coloured became the mainstream alternative to Negro in its derived terms after the civil rights movement the terms colored in Negro gave way to black Negro had superseded coloured as the most polite word for African Americans at a time when black was considered more offensive this term was accepted as normal including by people classified as Negros until the later civil rights movement in the late 1960s one well-known example is the identify by Reverend Martin Luther King jr. of his own races Negro in his famous speech of 1963 I have a dream during the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s some african-american leaders in the United States notably Malcolm X objected to the word Negro because they associated it with the long history of slavery segregation and discrimination that treated african-americans as second-class citizens or worse Malcolm X preferred black to Negro but later gradually abandoned that as well for afro-american after leaving the Nation of Islam since the late 1960s various other terms for African Americans have been more widespread in popular usage aside from black American these include afro-american in use from the late 1960s to 1990 an African American used in the United States to refer to black Americans people often referred to in the past as American Negroes in the first 200 years that black people were in the United States they primarily identified themselves by their specific ethnic group closely allied to language and not by skin color individuals identified themselves for example as a Chandi Igbo Bakongo or Wolof however when the first captives were brought to the Americas they were often combined with other groups from West Africa and individual ethnic affiliations were not generally acknowledged by English colonists in areas of the upper South different ethnic groups were brought together this is significant as the captives came from a vast geographic region the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the southeast coast such as Mozambique a new African American identity and culture was born that incorporated elements of the various ethnic groups and of European cultural heritage resulting in fusions such as the black church in African American English this new identity was based on Providence and slave status rather than membership in any one ethnic group by contrast slave records from Louisiana showed that the French and Spanish colonists recorded more complete identities of the West Africans including ethnicities and given tribal names the u.s. racial or ethnic classification black refers to people with all possible kinds of skin pigmentation from the darkest through to the very lightest skin colors including albinos if they are believed by others to have African ancestry in any discernable percentage there are also certain cultural traits associated with being african-american a term used effectively as a synonym for black person within the United States in March 1807 Great Britain which largely controlled the Atlantic declared the transatlantic slave trade illegal as did the United States the latter prohibition took effect the first of January 1808 the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so after protecting the slave trade under article 1 section 9 of the United States Constitution by that time the majority of black people in the United States were native-born so the use of the term African became problematic though initially a source of pride many blacks feared that the use of African as an identity would be a hindrance to their fight for full citizenship in the u.s. they also felt that it would give ammunition to those who were advocating repatriating black people back to Africa in 1835 black leaders called upon black Americans to remove the title of African from their institutions and replace it with Negro or colored American a few institutions chose to keep their historic names such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church African Americans popularly used the terms Negro or colored for themselves until the late 1960s the term black was used throughout but not frequently since it carried a certain stigma in his 1963 I have a dream speech Martin Luther King jr. uses the terms Negro 15 times and black 4 times each time he uses black it is in parallel construction with white for example black men and white men with the successes of the civil rights movement a new term was needed to break from the past and help shed the reminders of legalized discrimination in place of Negro activists promoted the use of black as standing for racial pride militancy and power some of the turning points included the use of the term black power by Kwame Toure Stokely carmichael and the popular singer James Brown song say it loud I'm black and I'm proud in 1988 the civil rights leader Jesse Jackson urged Americans to use instead the term african-american because it had a historical cultural base and was a construction similar to terms used by European descendants such as German American Italian American etc since then African American and black have often had parallel status however controversy continues over which if any of the two terms is more appropriate Maulana Karenga argues that the term african-american is more appropriate because it accurately articulates their geographical and historical origin others have argued that black is a better term because African suggests foreignness although black Americans helped found the United States still others believe that the term black is inaccurate because African Americans have a variety of skin tones some surveys suggest that the majority of black Americans have no preference for African American or black although they have a slight preference for black in personal settings in african-american in more formal settings in the u.s. census race definitions black and African Americans are citizens and residents of the United States with origins in sub-saharan Africa according to the Office of Management and Budget the grouping includes individuals who self-identify as African American as well as persons who emigrated from nations in the Caribbean and sub-saharan Africa the grouping is thus based on geography and may contradict or misrepresent an individual self-identification since not all immigrants from sub-saharan Africa are black the Census Bureau also notes that these classifications are socio-political constructs and should not be interpreted as scientific or anthropological according to US Census Bureau data African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American the overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities approximately 95 percent immigrants from some Caribbean Central American and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term recent surveys of African Americans using a genetic testing service have varied ancestries which showed different tendencies by region and sects of ancestors these studies found that on average African Americans have 73 point to 280 point nine percent West African 18 to 24 percent European and 0.8 to 0.9% Native American genetic heritage with large variation between individuals topic one dropped rule from the late 19th century the South used a colloquial term the one dropped rule to classify as black a person of any known African ancestry this practice of hypo descent was not put into law until the early 20th century legally the definition varied from state to state racial definition was more flexible in the 18th and 19th centuries before the American Civil War for instance President Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white less than 25 percent black according to Virginia law at the time but because they were born to slave mothers they were born into slavery according to the principle of party's sequitur vent room which Virginia adopted into law in 1660 to outside the u.s. some other countries have adopted the one-drop rule but the definition of who is black in the extent to which the one-drop rule applies varies greatly from country to country the one-drop rule may have originated as a means of increasing the number of black slaves and was maintained as an attempt to keep the white race pure one of the results of the one-drop rule was the uniting of the african-american community some of the most prominent abolitionists and civil rights activists of the 19th century were multiracial such as Frederick Douglass Robert Pervis and James Mercer Langston they advocated equality for all topic blackness the concept of blackness in the United States has been described as the degree to which one associates themselves with mainstream african-american culture politics and values to a certain extent this concept is not so much about race but more about political orientation culture and behavior blackness can be contrasted with acting white where black Americans are said to behave with assumed characteristics of stereotypical white Americans with regard to fashion dialect taste in music and possibly from the perspective of a significant number of black youth academic achievement due to the often political and cultural contours of blackness in the United States the notion of blackness can also be extended to non black people Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president of the United States because as she put it he displayed almost every trope of blackness Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting mr. Clinton according to Tony Morrison the Nobel prize-winning novelist is our first black president the first to come from the broken home the alcoholic mother the under the bridge shadows of our ranking systems thus we may have lost the mystical power to divine diable ism but we can still divine blackness by the following symptoms broken homes alcoholic mothers under the bridge habits and presumable from the rest of Arthur Miller's senescent musings the tendency to sexual predation and too shameless perjury about saying some black activists were also offended claiming that Clinton used his knowledge of black culture to exploit black people for political gain as no other President had before while not serving black interests they cite the lack of action during the Rwandan genocide and his welfare reform which Larry Roberts said had led to the worst child poverty since the 1960s others cited that the number of black people in jail increased during his administration the question of blackness also arose in the Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign commentators have questioned whether Obama who was elected the first president with black ancestry is black enough contending that his background is not typical because his mother was white American and his father was a black Kenyan immigrant Obama chose to identify as black and African American in July 2012 ancestry.com reported on historic and DNA research by its staff that discovered that Obama is likely a descendant through his mother of John punch considered by some historians to be the first African slave in the Virginia Colony an indentured servant he was bound for life in 1640 after trying to escape the story of him and his descendants as that of multiracial America since it appeared he and his sons married or had unions with white women likely in ventured servants and working-class like them their multiracial children were free because they were born to free English women over time Obama's line of the Bunge family as they became known were property owners and continued to marry white they became part of white society likely by the early to mid 18th century topic race-mixing in the united states race-mixing in the united states took place between free Colored People Native Americans and European Americans in Virginia Negro former slaves who had maintained their freedom married Native American women topic Latin America approximately twelve million people were shipped from Africa to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade from 1492 to 1888 of these 11.5 million of those shipped to South America and the Caribbean Brazil was the largest importer in the Americas with 5.5 million African slaves imported followed by the British Caribbean with 2.76 million the Spanish Caribbean and Spanish mainland with 1.5 9 million Africans and the French Caribbean with 1.3 2 million today their descendants number approximately 150 million in South America and the Caribbean in addition to skin color other physical characteristics such as facial features and hair texture are often variously used in classifying peoples as black in South America and the Caribbean in South America and the Caribbean classification as black is also closely tied to social status and socio-economic variables especially in light of social conceptions of blank' amento racial whitening and related concept topic Brazil the concept of race in Brazil is complex a Brazilian child was never automatically identified with the racial type of one or both of his or her parents nor were there only two categories to choose from between an individual of unmixed West African descent and a very light mulatto individual more than a dozen racial categories were acknowledged based on various combinations of hair color hair texture eye color and skin color these types grade into each other like the colors of the spectrum and no one category stands significantly isolated from the rest in Brazil people are classified by appearance not heredity scholars disagree over the effects of social status on racial classifications in Brazil it is generally believed that achieving upward mobility and education results in individuals being classified as a category of lighter-skinned the popular claim is that in Brazil poor whites are considered black and wealthy blacks are considered white some scholars disagree arguing that widening of one's social status may be open to people of mixed race a large part of the population known as Pardo but a person perceived as pret Oh black will continue to be classified as black regardless of wealth or social status topic statistics from the years 1500 to 1850 an estimated 3.5 million captives were forcibly shipped from west central Africa to Brazil the territory received the highest number of slaves of any country in the Americas scholars estimate that more than half of the Brazilian population is at least in part descended from these individuals Brazil has the largest population of afro-descendants outside africa in contrast to the US during the slavery period and after the Portuguese colonial government in Brazil and the later Brazilian government did not pass formal anti-miscegenation or segregation laws as in other Latin American countries intermarriage was prevalent during the colonial period and continued afterward in addition people of mixed-race Pardo often tended to marry white spouses and their descendants became accepted as white as a result some of the European descendant population also has West African or Emer Indian blood according to the last census of the 20th century in which Brazilians could choose from five color ethnic categories with which they identified 54% of individuals identified as white 6.2 percent identified as black and 39.5% identified as Pardo Brown a broad multiracial category including tri-racial persons in the 19th century a philosophy of racial whitening emerged in Brazil related to the assimilation of mixed-race people into the white population through intermarriage until recently the government did not keep data on race however statisticians estimate that in 1835 roughly 50% of the population was pret o black most were enslaved a further 20 percent was Pardo Brown and 25 percent white with the remainder Amerindian some classified as Pardo were tri racial by the 2000 census demographic changes including the end to slavery immigration from Europe and Asia assimilation of multiracial persons and other factors resulted in a population in which six point two percent of the population identified as black 40% as Pardo and 55% as white essentially most of the black population was absorbed into the multiracial category by intermixing a 2007 genetic study found that at least 29% of the middle-class white Brazilian population had some recent since 1822 in the end of the colonial period African ancestry topic race relations in Brazil because of the acceptance of miscegenation Brazil has avoided the binary polarization of society into black and white in addition it abolished slavery without a civil war the bitter and sometimes violent racial tensions that have divided the u.s. are notably absent in Brazil according to the 2010 census 6.7 percent of Brazilians said they were black compared with 6.2 percent in 2040 3.1 percent said they were racially mixed up from 38.5% in 2010 Elio Ferreira da Rojo Brazil's Minister for racial equality attributed the increases to growing pride among his country's black and indigenous communities the philosophy of the racial democracy in Brazil has drawn some criticism based on economic issues Brazil has one of the largest gaps in income distribution in the world the richest 10% of the population earned 28 times the average income of the bottom 40 percent the richest 10% is almost exclusively white or predominantly European in ancestry one third of the population lives under the poverty line with blacks and other people of color accounting for 70% of the poor in 2015 United States African Americans including multiracial people earn seventy six point eight percent as much as white people by contrast black and mixed-race Brazilians earned on average 58% as much as White's in 2014 some have posited that the facts of lower socioeconomic status for people of color suggest that Brazil practices a kind of one-drop rule or discrimination against people who are not visibly European in ancestry the gap in income between blacks and other non-whites is relatively small compared to the large gap between whites and all people of color other social factors such as illiteracy and education levels show the same patterns of disadvantage for people of color some commentators observed that the United States practice of segregation and white supremacy in the south and discrimination in many areas outside that region forced many African Americans to unite in the civil rights struggle whereas the fluid nature of race in Brazil has divided individuals of African descent between those with more or less ancestry and helped Stane an image of the country as an example of post-colonial harmony this has hindered the development of a common identity among black Brazilians though brazilians of at least partial african heritage make up a large percentage of the population few blacks have been elected as politicians the city of Salvador Bahia for instance is 80 percent people of color but voters have not elected a mayor of color journalists like to say that US cities with black majorities such as Detroit and New Orleans have not elected white mayors since after the civil rights movement when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 protected the franchise for minorities and blacks in the South regained the power to vote for the first time since the turn of the 20th century New Orleans elected its first black mayor in the 1970s New Orleans elected a white mayor after the wide-scale disruption and damage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 critics note that people of color have limited media visibility the Brazilian media has been accused of hiding or overlooking the nation's black indigenous multiracial and East Asian populations for example the telenovelas or soaps are criticized for featuring actors who resemble northern europeans rather than actors of the more prevalent southern european features and light-skinned mulatto and mestizo appearance Pardo's may achieve white status if they have attained the middle class or higher social status these patterns of discrimination against non-whites have led some academic and other activists to advocate for use of the Portuguese term Negro to encompass all African descended people in order to stimulate a black consciousness and identity this proposal has been criticized since the term Pardo is considered to include a wide range of multiracial people such as cabacas mestizos assimilated Amerindians and tri-racial 'he's not only people of partial African and European descent trying to identify this entire group as black would be a false imposition of a different identity from outside the culture and denied people there are other equally valid ancestries and cultures it seems a one drop rule in Reverse topic Colombia afro-colombians are the second-largest African Diaspora population in Latin America after afro-brazilians topic Dominican Republic the first afro dominican slaves were shipped to the Dominican Republic by Spanish conquistadors during the transatlantic slave trade topic Mexico 200,000 slaves were shipped from West Africa to Mexico by Spanish conquistadors the history of these Afro Mexicans was hidden until 2016 racism against them in dark skin generally in Mexico and most of Latin America is prevalent topic Puerto Rico you Spanish conquistadors ship slaves from West Africa to Puerto Rico afro Puerto Ricans in part tres descent to this colonization of the island topic Venezuela most black Venezuelans came directly from Africa having been brought as slaves during colonization others have been descendants of immigrants from the Antilles in Colombia the blacks were part of the independence movement and several managed to be heroes there is a deep-rooted heritage of African culture in Venezuelan culture as demonstrated in many traditional Venezuelan music and dances such as the tambour a musical genre inherited from the blacks of the colony or the ioan era music or the gate azul yonder that both are a fusion of all the three major peoples that contribute to the cultural heritage also the black inheritance is present in the gastronomy there are entire communities of blacks in the barlavento zone as well as part of the believe our state and in other small towns they also live peaceably among the general population in the rest of Venezuela currently blacks represent a relative majority in the Venezuelan population although many are actually mixed people topic see also African Diaspora afro phobia black British black Canadians black Hispanic and 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MXS42J1ni8k | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXS42J1ni8k | Stories of Don Quixote - Chapter 5: The Library | Chapter five of stories of Don Quixote written anew for young people by James Baldwin this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org stories of don quixote written anew for young people by james baldwin chapter 5 the library read by Aaron Lib woods really the next morning the curate and the barber came again Don Quixote was still sleeping indeed he did not awake until the day was more than half gone we have come to remove the cost of his illness said the curate and he asked the niece to give him the key to the room where her uncle kept his books here it is she said and I hope you will make clean work of it they unlocked the door and went in the housekeeper following them there ranged neatly on the shelves they saw hundreds of large volumes and the goodly number of small ones the curate began to read the titles wait wait cried the housekeeper she ran out and soon came back with a sprinkling can full of water here doctor she said take this and sprinkle every nook and cranny in the room some unseen sorcerer may be looking among the books and the water will drive him out the curate smiled and did she desired then he asked the barber to hand him the books one by one well he opened them and examined the title pages they are not all equally bad he said perhaps there some that do not deserve to be burned oh no cried the niece do not spare any of them every one is bad every one has helped to undo my uncle they're working off through the window into the garden said the housekeeper then we will carry them around into the back yard and burn them where the smoke will not annoy anybody they worked all the morning often the curate would find the volume over which he would linger for some time he would turn the leaf's lovingly and look slightly at the pictures it was a great pity to Bernard he was whisper and then he would lay the book aside for his own reading but most of the volumes however were romances of knighthood and have really no value the quick eye of the curate easily detected such trash as these and they were cast out and doomed to destruction towards noon everyone began to tire of the business it's no use to examine anymore of these volumes so the curate they're all bad cast the mound cast them out the housekeeper was delighted a bonfire was kindled in the backyard and while the curate and the barber were resting themselves she threw into it not only the butcher's had been condemned but also the pleasant volumes which the good curate had decided to spare for his own edification thus the goods sometimes perish with the bad in the afternoon Don Quixote awoke from his long sleep he was so bruised and so lame however that he could not rise you can only lie in bed and feebly mutter the names of the housekeeper and his niece they brought him some food and when he had eaten it and he fell asleep again and his best to let him rest was for the curate and they left him alone for two whole days the night did not go out of his room that he was well cared for and though he suffered not a little he was never heard to complain well he does lay helpless in his bed the curate and the barber paid frequent visits to the house they spent much time in stopping at the door through the room where the night's library had been this they did so cunningly the housekeeper herself could not tell exactly where the door had been if you cannot find the room he will soon forget about the books of the curate on the fourth day Don Quixote was able to walk about a little but he did not seem to feel sure of himself or of any object about him the first thing he did was to look for his library he went feebly up and down the long hallway trying to find the door he felt of the wall he groped here and there and stare confusedly around him at length he gave up the search that he said not a word to anyone the next day he spoke to the housekeeper I do believe that I have lost the way to the study what study asked the woman there is no study in this house I feel quite sure that I once have a study with many books in it said Don Quixote oh that was long ago answered the housekeeper but during your sickness one of those wicked enchanters about whom you have read ran away with it he took not only the room but all the books that were in it Don Quixote groaned yes uncle said the niece and enchanter did it he came one night riding on the dragon he alighted and went into your study in a little while he flew out through the chimney he left the house so full of smoke that we could not see our own eyes we looked everywhere for your library but could find neither room nor books and I think I know who it was so Don Quixote it was that famous enchanter Freston he has a spite against me and he's my worst enemy you are right uncle's to the least it was either fresh turn or phiston at any rate his name ended with tio n he has a bad fellow answered the knight no doubt he will trying to do me some other mischief he knows where I live and will come often when I'm not afraid of him someday I will meet him in fair fight and vanquish him then he arose and with his feeble hands took down the sword which had been hanging over the mantelpiece ever since his sad return he felt its edge and murmured Freston Freston thou shalt yet learn of the prowess of the Vallauris don quixote de la mancha end of chapter 5 | Under The Home | UCA3Jjy_DRm0BAytUm4AqHiQ | 2018-04-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,061 | 5,427 |
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64jYMwMlvUQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64jYMwMlvUQ | The Streetsblog Carolers: “Andrew, the Two-Faced Gov’nor” | [Music] and drew the two-faced governor says that he will fix the train but when it comes to funding everything he disdains all of the other leaders say cars must be charged the fee it's called congestion pricing and he says he agrees but when Bush did come to shove Andrew backed away said people love their Chevrolet sons will never wait to pay so that's where the governor left us who is an absentee if he won't fix the subway he'll go down in for me if he will fix the subway he'll go down in in for me [Music] [Applause] | Streetfilms® | UCHbMevniQEQnGZ4npjYSfaw | 2018-12-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 102 | 525 |
7BBk3FRZoYU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BBk3FRZoYU | BITCOIN MAKES ONE OF THE BIGGEST INFLOWS EVER. SELLOFF COMING? | welcome digital asset news to get top stories in crypto and bring out a bite sized pieces today i've got some pretty interesting things going on first up we're going to talk about uh the bitcoin exchange inflows to exchanges and how this could be an indicator of things to come in september potentially selling off also take a look at a really fantastic website it's pretty funny it's called bitcoin or shite.com then we're gonna talk about ethereum and the fees that are going on how it can be fixed and finally we'll do a cardano update so uh first of all let's talk about what's going on today today it is sunday and we've got uh 2.11 trillion dollars not too bad right 2.11 trillion dollars in the market cap we'll take it and uh look i know recently i haven't been putting out videos lately i've been super busy with that uh charity obstacle course event for kids that we do here once a year and uh now that that's over as of yesterday i should be able to put out more videos but it was a great experience i love doing those things and uh here we are back in the market so look bitcoin price is 48 000 all that stuff but there's one thing i want you to notice right here this thing called the average daily sentiment and it is 50 out of 100 which is essentially neutral well it's 50 50 right so what we're using is trade the chain it's great for sentiment analysis i always say if you're going to be a trader you know get as much information as you can fundamental analysis technical analysis and also sentiment analysis and you can just see that right now people don't know where things are going that's going to play a part and what we're going to talk about next but they're kind of like on the fence and i think it's because of this september september issue coming up and what could happen next month but anyhow bitcoin is teetering around 49 000 could be 50 000 you know any time who knows ethereum has dropped a little bit but still actually it's now 24 hours have been 0.17 so still hang around 3 200 bucks hasn't gone below 3 000. cardano's on an absolute tear almost three bucks it will go higher than that i think we'll see how it all goes and uh you know some other things have done really well let's see anything going on today for the one hour 24 hours whoa 13 for internet protocol amazing all right and then real quick you want to take a look at some projects over the next hour as far as sentiment analysis do as much research as you can take a look at these there we go take a look at red coin revain decred flow dapper and some other stuff in silica so that is trader chain link in the description but let's just jump into this big story which i think is really what is the pulse of this market we're looking at bitcoin exchange inflows so first of all if you're new to crypto welcome thanks uh thanks for dipping your toes into the waters i gotta tip my hat i think it's the best time to be involved and uh here's the thing this is from sentiment and sam penn states that uh bitcoin just made history with its largest day of exchange inflows since june 19 2019. these days are now tied for the largest inflow of all time with 1.68 million bitcoin flowing to exchanges on these days so if you're new just so you know when uh people uh take their bitcoin off or their cryptocurrency off the exchanges that's good news because usually what happens is they're like hey i want to hold this i want to hold on to this for a long time i don't trust the exchanges we know they get hacked so i'm gonna put into cold storage and not touch it for a while that's good that means that uh you know if there's the same demand and there's not a much or not as much supply price usually goes up now the opposite actually happens and that's what they're talking about here they're saying look uh these inflows are massive it's tied for the most since 2019 and what that means is people are going you know what i don't know what's going on but i'm gonna put on the exchanges in case something happens or i have a plan to sell because the only way i can sell it i mean there's other ways i guess you i guess you can do it you know if you get a friend or whatever but uh that's the easiest way put on exchange and start selling so right now you got to think to yourself what's going to happen no one knows and that's why we took a look at that sentiment analysis and we're at a 50 50 50 out of 100. so look here's the thing if you're like me and you're just a you know regular investor these these types of things you're like fine do whatever you want to do if you have to take profits that's fine but i don't care about what's happening in the short term i don't care what's happening next week i don't care having that next month i don't even care what's happening until the end of the year quite honestly actually i'm looking out one year three year five years ten years and that's really where the money is made it's just sitting on your hands and doing nothing which leads me to my next point and this is a great website called bitcoin or shit.com and i'm just quoting it's not a big profane guy there's what it is and i actually stole this from guy from coin bureau he tweeted this and i thought it's fantastic and i've actually sent this to all my friends and family i thought it was hilarious and uh it's funny but it actually has a real world point and the point here is that look if you would have just invested been an investor and not bought stupid stuff you'd be way ahead and here's the thing here's another thing i will tell you i've been talking to all my friends and family since 2017 about crypto you know how many people have actually invested in a crypto three three people and we talk about all the time and we laugh our heads off about our gains and all the all the slope all the people that weren't exuberant enough to actually get into where we're at we'll just say that and uh this is a great website which i i shared with them like hey remember that thing i was talking about well here you go so if you click here if you have bitcoin instead of astro world tickets whatever the heck those are you'd have 2 600 bucks this was in 2018. and then it says uh if you bought bitcoin instead of a phillips hue led you'd have 33.50 because the philips flash light came out in 2012. now some people actually need light so whatever else if you bought bitcoin instead of a pornhub premium you'd have 1500 bucks because pornhub premium i guess was in 500 i have no idea what that website is anyhow if you bought bitcoin instead of a impossible burglary of 500 bucks and you get what i'm saying here so the big thing is this i do not care what's happening next week or next month if you just look long term that's where all the money's made you don't see the top richest people in the world they're not trading they're not doing swing trades and day trades and stuff like that they're investors they've built businesses they built corporations they've invested into fantastic companies they just sat in their hands did nothing so just remember that when there's a big huge influx of price action all right so that's that's it with that let's move on to our next piece which is ethereum fees can be fixed you gotta love that right ethereum fees can be fixed i own a lot of ethereum and everything i talk about this channel i'm pretty biased just so you know that but uh i also own a lot of cardano i own a lot of avalanche and a lot of tazos i found a lot of stiffer things because i don't know what's going to be the winner and ethereum could be the winner i think it can be fixed but here's a problem i think it's the problem we all know about so this quick article says that ethereum fees jumped 154 since last week i know we had that eip 1539 but that was not designed to reduce gas fees you can burn a lot of ethereum so maybe in the future that will help and of course you can tip your your operators uh the people who are actually the miners to get things going but in all honesty as far as fees it's super pricey so here's what's going on uh ether fees have jumped since august 21st spiking 154 percent and whatever so fees are are high you can go anywhere else and you can take a look at the fees like on this one you're looking at openc oh my god the max fee was 2200 bucks and then this was for uh uniswap over here on the right hand side looking at a 400 fee and you were geez you weren't even buying that much stuff and it's the same thing all the way around so when i say it can be fixed well here's a couple projects you can take a look at uh they're called uh optimism right here optimism and arbitrarum haven't done i've done a deep dive on those maybe we'll do some later but just take a look at those additionally there are other projects that aim to crush ether gas like fuel dot sh aztec network startwear startwear.co loopring is another one i've used it does actually do well when you can you know if it has the liquidity in it and hermes dot io and don't forget about matic so the thing i want to bring to everybody's attention is that this can be fixed and you have to take a look at history real quick just to make sure because when we talk about these things i'll get to this in a second when we talk about all these things about well you know ethereum sucks because the fees are so high or ethereum is awesome and it's going to fix the fees when ethereum 2.0 comes out it could it definitely could you have to remember take a look at at the history of technology in the past did you think amazon i mean amazon at one point sucked it was all did you use amazon the very beginning it took a long time these are pretty high and uh the selection was just atrocious but what they did in the background was they worked like mad and they bought up all the different warehouses out there and bezos was a maniac and he made things run and another thing facebook right now would have gone blipped out of existence if it didn't upgrade everything not facebook itself of course it steals all our data but if it would have not upgraded and bought instagram and whatsapp and everything else around it it wouldn't even be here so it is the project that can upgrade and can scale and do all those things get the partnerships that is going to make it can a theory be fixed yes is it great right now no it's awful and this leads me to one of my next points and i just want to bring this up real quick because it does kind of bother me a little bit which is um these nfts that are built on ethereum this is just so people can make a lot of a good amount of money and uh that's really what it comes down to nothing wrong with that that's fine but as far as like helping out i mean the unbanked and the underdeveloped uh type of industries out there nfts is not it nfts like these cyberpunks like look at this look at these prices for cyberpunk if you bought a cyberpunk congratulations for you making a ton of money right but you're looking at like uh this one here cyberpunk 888 it was bought for 2.87 million so all those gas fees we just saw they don't care about gas fees because they're making a boatload of money and uh fedenza crypto punk 973 again tons of money so this is not going to be sustainable as time goes on and hopefully they can fix it like i said a lot of car down i earn a lot of ethereum and cardano and taves all that stuff i hope they're all big winners i think there's big enough space for them but i just don't know but this is not what cryptocurrencies assets were supposed to be it was supposed to help a lot more people than just a bunch of people get loaded that's all i can say to it anyhow let me know what you think there's nothing wrong with making a profit let me just say that i mean look look i've worked my entire life building businesses and here i am but uh at some points you know these things get a little ridiculous hopefully they can be fixed all right let me know what you think in the comments section let's move on to our next piece uh quick karnano update so real quick this was their ecosystem on may 12 2021 look at that just a little bit here little blips here so let's fast forward june july august to about three and a half months or so now here's their ecosystem and they're just kind of blowing up so when people talk about you know what's going on and what could be the big thing i just referring to charles hoskinson's amas and updates and stuff like that so he just did an update this was a couple days ago he said a couple of things first of all this on thursday it was their go or no-go day and he says we everybody sat down a bunch of the developers the team they went over all the different checklists and they said go go go go go it's all green and they're going to hit their mark as far as the 12th of september to bring about smart contracts and then he said as far as the bugs right now he goes you know we haven't we've gone through our checklist doesn't some of those big problems we're gonna go forward and uh and he didn't make a really good point which was this i gotta upgrade him and he's right he goes for all these like d5 products that are out there he goes you know a lot of times it's not the developers money that is being into that protocol it's the people that put their money into it that lose a lot of money because of a rug pull he goes so that's what we're trying not to do explicitly so these things that were due yes it takes time yes it takes a little bit of effort but uh in the long run and he says i think it's best for everybody gotta agree anyhow and that's it for today so look um this is a quick sunday i think uh tonight i'll be with uh with george cryptos or us and uh james and the best answers the dca show that'll be later tonight and uh looking forward to talk to those guys because they've been really in the know about what's going on i've been kind of busy but that is it so if you stuck with me all the way to the end first of all 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JcMZwm7NDgk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMZwm7NDgk | ITW Season 5 Ep# 579: Jerusalem Captured, Dismantaled & Burned By The Babylonians | Produced by ReSermon.com Please Open Your Bible To Jeremiah 52: 6. We've got a parallel from 2 Kings 25: 3. Jeremiah's story says this. Verse 6. On the ninth day of the fourth month, Now that would be the end of June in 587 BC, that we're talking about here. It is the end of the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. The famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. So there's nothing left, they are digging through trash, chewing on bits of leather, trying to find something of nutritional value. And this is exactly what was prophesied would happen. Remember that Ezekiel went through a period of time where he ate starvation rations, or bare subsistence rations that he was cooking over manure in order to up to have something to eat. And am his prophetic pantomime was demonstrating that it would be even worse for the people in Jerusalem when the siege was coming to a close. Verse 7. Then a breach was made in the city, So the battering rams finally knock enough blocks apart from one another that the walls began to cave, allowing for soldiers of Babylon to make their way into the city. And so when they saw that there was happening, Verse 7 Continued: all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. So what happens is, there's already a plan for evacuation in mind for the king and his inner circle for his security forces, that the moment that they realize the Babylonians are going to come into the city by force, in the middle of the night, King Zedekiah is going to be snuck out of a little access point on the eastern side of this administrative government complex. We're talking about into the Kidron Valley, somewhere not too far away from the modern southeast corner of the Temple Mount. So somewhere in that little valley area, he's going to sneak out of a little access point in the wall. And this was also predicted by the pantomime of the prophet Ezekiel. You'll remember that in the middle of the night, he dug through a portion of a wall and took his things through the hole and escaped into the night, and later was able to explain that that's what's going to happen with the King Zedekiah, whenever the Babylonians take the city. Well, here it's actually happening. And so they went in the direction of the Arabah. The Arabah is the desert region along the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea valley. So Zedekiah and his guys, they get out on that east side of the city of Jerusalem. They make their way up and over the on the Mount of Olives, and then eventually they dropped down into the Jordan valley, down on the plains of Jericho. But they're not going to get away. Verse 8. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, No doubt, they had forces that were dedicated to going around the city under siege to see if there was any evidence of people trying to escape.. And so once they saw that, they tracked him down and they caught up with them down near Jericho [CM1] And all his army was scattered from him. As soon as his security forces saw the approaching might of the Babylonian army, they were out of there. They abandoned their king like a bad habit. Verse 9. Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, So Nebuchadnezzar is not actually at the siege of Jerusalem because it was going to take a good long time., He remained up at his administration headquarters in Hamath, in which Riblah [CM2] is a couple hundred of miles north of Jerusalem, almost to the Euphrates river but not quite. So once the king is captured, he is taken all the way up there and he passed sentence on him. And you might remember that there was a prophecy made to Zedekiah, that “you will go to Babylon, but you will never see it.” You remember that? Well here's how that prophecy comes to pass. Verse 10. The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, They were also in the entourage that was trying to escape. and Also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. So people that were in this leadership council that was trying to sneak out of the city at the last second. They get captured and they are all killed in front of King Zedekiah. Verse 11. He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. So exactly as was predicted. He sees king of Babylon face to face – that was prophesied. He sees the deaths of his sons, his heirs. He sees the deaths of his inner counsel. And then his eyes are burned out of his head. And then he's taken to Babylon, so he goes to Babylon, but he never sees it. He is kept in custody until he finally dies. Now his brother, Jehoiakim, is in exile up in Babylon. He's kept under some sort of detainment, but he will eventually be released from that detainment. Not so for king Zedekiah, because Jehoiakim actually surrendered as a young man to the king of Babylon, as he was told to do by the prophecies of Jeremiah. And so one of these guys obeyed God and the other didn't. And so one of them will be released from custody later. At this point, Nebuchadnezzar sends his representative to finish up the punishment of this rebellious city. And that is recorded, the part that I Want Us To Read, In 2 Kings 25: 8. 2 Kings 25: 8. In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month-- So, Zedekiah’s boys are dead by now, and he has been blinded and he has being transported Babylon. So, about a month after the siege breaks through the wall. That was in the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. So this guy arrives on the 7th day of the 5th month, which means that we're talking about the tail end of July in 587 BC. And he has been put here to carry out the task of dismantling whatever is of value at Jerusalem and taking it away and burning all the rest, destroying all the rest. Verse 9. And he burned the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. Let's leave the King's passage and go back to Jeremiah. Because I want to talk to you a little bit about the dating. We know that the servant arrived on the 7th day. In Jeremiah 52: 12 it says, Jeremiah 52: 12. In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. So we've got a couple of different dates here. We've got an arrival date, the 7th, and the burning date, which is the 10th. Now we have complications here, thanks to rabbinical traditions, that have incorrectly identified the day of Jerusalem’s destruction as the 9th day of this 5th month, the 9th day of the month, Ab. And I have no qualms in saying that those rabbis are wrong. I don't know how they came to select the 9th day of the 5th month as the day that the burning happened, but Josephus himself, in his wars of the Jews, book number 6, when talking about the day of the destruction of the temple, he knew in AD 70, and he was an eyewitness, so he knew exactly what day of the calendar it was. This Is What He Says: This is a sub section 249 in book number 6. So “Titus, [that's the future emperor] retired into the tower of Antonia [that's the palace fortress complex to the northwest corner of the temple of the first century] and he resolved to storm the temple the next day, early in the morning, with his whole army and to encamp round about the holy house. But as for that house, God for certain long ago, doomed it to the fire., And now the fatal day was come, according to the revolution of ages., It was the 10th day of the month, Luz [or Ab] upon which it was formerly burnt by the king of Babylon. And although these flames took their rise from the Jews themselves and was occasioned by them, for upon Titus’s retiring, the seditious lay still for a little while and then attack the Romans again, and then those that guarded the holy house fought with those that quenched the fire that was burning in the inner court of the temple. But these Romans put the Jews to flight and proceeded as far as the holy house itself, at which time one of the soldiers, without staying for any orders, without any concerned or dread upon him, of such great an undertaking, being hurried by the certain divine fury, snatched somewhat of the materials that were in the fire and being lifted up by another soldier, he set fire to a golden window through which there was a passage to the rooms that around about the holy house on the north side of it, and as the flames went upward, the Jews made a clamor, such as so mighty affliction required, and ran together to prevent it, and now they spared not their lives any longer, nor suffered anything to restrain their force since the holy house was perishing for whose sake it was that they kept such a guard about it.” So, Josephus says, “the fire that burned down the temple shrine building started on the 10th day of the 5th month of the Jewish year.” Just like, he says, the fire that burned down the temple [the first temple] on the 10th day of the 5th month of the Jewish year, and that's exactly what it says in Jeremiah 52 as well. So this idea that the 9th of Ab is the anniversary of the burning of the temple is just flat out wrong. It contradicts inspired scripture. It contradicts older historical documents than the rabbinical documents that list the 9th day as the day. Now, why am I making a big deal out of that? It's one of the reasons why I don't trust the rabbinical literature for historical information, because it is often proved to be wrong. So I don't recommend that you go to it as a historical source or even as a traditional source because we know it's often wrong in that as well. All right, so let's get back to the Jeremiah passage which starts describing what happens next, as the temple is burned down, and this commander, this representative of Nebuchadnezzar, is carrying out his master's orders regarding the rebellious city of Jerusalem. And keep in mind, God is the ultimate one that's causing all this to happen because of the sins, over generations and decades, of the Judean kingdom. So verse number 14 of Jeremiah, 52. Jeremiah 52: 14. All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. So they burn all the flammable houses, or portions of the houses that were flammable, in the city of Jerusalem, and then they tear down the exterior wall of protection. Verse 15. And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. Now that is a process that takes time. It didn't just all happen on one day. We know from other passages that the people who surrendered and the people who were captured alive were taken to the city of Ramah, a few miles north of the city of Jerusalem, and that became their internment camp. That became their temporary quarters until they were processed and prepared for transport to Riblah, where king Nebuchadnezzar has his administrative headquarters right now. And then some of them will be killed because their rebellion, their fighting against the Babylonians is considered to be treasonous, while others who cooperated by surrendering, or others who were noncombatants, that were captured or even rescued, they will be processed for relocation somewhere in the Babylonian empire. So they will be part of the exiled group. And then there will be a small number that they will leave in the country of the of Judea, to work the land, to pay the Babylonians with the produce of the land. Jeremiah 52: 16. But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen. Then we start talking about his dismantling of the useful material. Verse 17. And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. So way back at the time of Solomon, he had experts in forming bronze. Make these 2 great bronze pillars at the front of the temple shrine. Building these pillars stood under the great big, tall tower at the front of the temple building.. Those pillars were called Jachin and Boaz [CM3] Their names form a sentence in Hebrew, “He shall establish in strength.” And it was between these pillars that the kings of Israel took their oaths of office. While those pillars are now being cut up into pieces to be sent to Babylon, where they will be then repurposed. The water stands and the great big bronze basin, the great big bronze see, the water tank, that was used around the shrine building, those are being cut up and transported in smaller pieces, back to Babylon, where they will be probably melted down and used for whatever it is that the Babylonians want them. Now you might wonder, “well, what about those full sized bronze bulls that the water tank used to sit on the top of? ” Those disappeared a long time ago. Those were actually taken during the time of the Assyrians. Verse 18. And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; 19 also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. So these things were used in temple worship temple services. Well, the temple is going to be totally torn down, it's going to be gone. It's going to be erased. So these things have no purpose at Jerusalem anymore. And so they're going to be taken away as well. Verse 19b-20. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 20 As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, [a] and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight. Now, as I’ve already said, the bronze bulls had already disappeared, but their weight was known, that was all in the records. And so that all gets entered into the records of things removed or accounted for by the Babylonians. As for the pillars, the height of one pillar was 18 cubits. It's circumference was 12 cubits. It’s thickness was 4 fingers, and it was hollow. It had had a capital of bronze, the height of one capital was 5 cubits. We talked about the sizes of all these things, way back when we were talking about building the temple. And so what happens is, before they're cut up, before they're removed, they're measured and accounted for against probably Jewish records, to make sure that everything Is There. 2 Kings 25: 22 is next, which go through a lot of the things we're just talking about until finally we get down to this account in verse number 22. 2 Kings 25: 22. And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor. So as he is resolving this rebellious city, this rebellious country, King Nebuchadnezzar, or his representative, Nebuzaradan, takes one Israeli person, one Jewish person, who has capability, who seems to be willing to cooperate with the Jews, and declares that he's going to be the new Babylonian governor of the Jewish region, and over all of the Jews that are going to remain in place. So Gedaliah is a New Name For Us To Know Well. Jeremiah Chapter 39: 11. Jeremiah 39: 11. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying, So this is instruction given by king Nebuchadnezzar to Nebuzaradan before he heads south to Jerusalem, and he's going to carry it out in the 5th month, as he's taking things apart and burning the city down to the ground. Here's his instruction, verse 12. It's the instruction about how to deal with Jeremiah the prophet, because of Nebuchadnezzar, knows about Jeremiah the prophet. He's had reports about him and he knows the Jeremiah’s been working for 40 years, trying to tell the people that when the Babylonians come, you need to surrender. So from Nebuchadnezzar’s viewpoint, Jeremiah is a good guy. He is a true prophet because he predicted that this would all happen. So he wants him tracked down and treated well. “Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you.” So, Nebuzaradan’s order is once you find Jeremiah the prophet, you make sure he's good and healthy and safe and secure and then whatever he wants to do, you help him get it done. Verse 13. So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris [these are military titles, some of them] Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon 14 sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. So now they've got control of the city. They've got control of the palace. They also have control of the prison, where Jeremiah is located. And so they find him among the prisoners and they took him out and then they did this. Verse 14b. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people. So they rescue him and they put him in the custody of the new governor of the Jewish people under Babylonian control. And the next part of the story is how Jeremiah, kind of travels in this process, with Gedaliah, up to Ramah, which is kind of the encampment where all of the people taken out of the city of Jerusalem are being sorted through. It's the administrative encampment nearest Jerusalem. So tomorrow we'll talk about Jeremiah at Ramah. Produced by ReSermon.com | ReSermon.com: helping your sermon finish well. | UCcQSriGAKAqyfz3Y78zGvsA | 2022-04-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,380 | 18,358 |
5kX-WlbMDlo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kX-WlbMDlo | The Envelope Paradox | when Josh won a quiz game Kira the quiz Master allowed him to take his pick from two envelopes containing money she told him that one envelope contained twice as much as the other Josh had no way of telling which envelope contained the most so he picked up random he took the one on the left he opened it and found a hundred dollars Kira then offered to let him swap envelopes and take the one on the right instead but if he swapped he couldn't then swap back Josh figured that if he swapped he had a 50 chance of getting two hundred dollars and a 50 chance of getting fifty dollars an expected value of 125 dollars compared to the expected value of 100 if he stayed with the one on the left so he decided to swap Kara asked him if he would have swapped if the amount in the left envelope had been different again he thought the same logic would apply whatever amount he found the expected value would always be increased by 25 if we swap to the one on the right he explained Akira that whatever amount he found in the one on the left he would be better off taking the one on the right Kira said then why didn't you take the one on the right in the first place there seems to be a paradox here we pointed out that Josh had no way of telling which was the better envelope to take yet we have an argument that he should have known to take the one on the right if you can't work this out and would like to know the resolution go to m1maths.com click extras for teachers then the yellow PD button then select envelope paradox | M1Maths | UC9rtfgdb07ZwiCiPuu5Pusg | 2023-04-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 300 | 1,521 |
D_fMVmQBRxs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_fMVmQBRxs | The Qur'an testifies to Shirk! 🔥 | Bob | Speakers' Corner debate | when a matter has been decided by allah and his messenger why is muhammad a partner with allah answer that question does it say allah alone no does it say when allah has communicated to muhammad no what does it say when a master has been decided by allah and his prophet whatever the prophet said so the fact quran is saying it's not fitting for them to have an opinion and the whole point of islam is that the lama are giving out their opinions on everything he's silent now mohammed did so that is muhammad participating [Music] can you tell me why the quran makes mohammed tell me why is a dog better than me why is a dog better than me why is your dog better than me you see they're afraid bro bro why is why is mohammed the partner of allah come here stop running you're too happy to be scary you're such a happy guy come on bro answer the question answer the question answer the question why why is muhammad a partner of allah answer that question bro why is mohammed a partner what is who's his messenger why is muhammad a partner with allah answer that question that's what your quran says are you calling your quran [Music] you stand up to the devil and he runs away there you go and he they run from answering simple questions who is he calling a liar his quran says this when a matter has been decided by allah and his messenger the quran is saying that muhammad partnered in a decision can you answer that here's what your quran says are you listening has been decided by allah and his messenger why is muhammad participating in a decision yes i agree i wasted my breath by quoting their quran he doesn't speak for himself everything he speaks his way okay so nothing comes from him brilliant now let me reply okay i'm now going to reply let's have a conversation and his messenger so it's a partnership in deciding the matter are you saying your quran is wrong that's the testimony of allah there we so why is muhammad participating in the decision yes is [Applause] me [Music] pray five times a day because he pray five times a day where does muhammad say that in hadith in the hadith yes all those hadiths from allah health they're from the russia so that is participating in the decision i'm going to prove to because muhammad said that the sun sets in a puddle of mud was that from allah from allah so [Music] you're saying it doesn't speak for yourself you jump from one so every word so to be clear so every word in mohammed is that what you're trying to do every word so every word you said it not me testifies [Applause] through the prophet he told the prophet some some stuff this is basic islam this is this is true islam basic islam pray five times a day where is that command in the quran in prophet in the prophet yeah so the quran is not lying completely and his messenger complete they go together like this where does the quran tell you to use hadiths you have to obey allah and obey the rasool that but he's dead no he was alive no he was alive the hadiths are not the rasool yeah but the reason is he told this no who said this no the hadiths are the book they're not the prophet the prophet no who the people who made the hadith are the ones that told you the hadith how many even your hadith chains say that someone said to someone who said to someone who said to send you and how do you know how do that doesn't prove anything and you have agreed that's not saying hadiths where's hadiths we obey him the hadiths of the book you're commanded to obey allah same okay that's a liner i'll tell you why it's a lie why why because the first written hadiths appear a hundred years after the prophet and i'll tell you why he doesn't have one because there was never any book written at the time of the prophet apart from what became the quran it was the hadith written the first ever written hadiths were written 100 years after the prophet they were traced back to one person and there was less than 100 hadiths in that compilation if memory serves me correct fast forward another 100 years and then you get 5 000 hadiths going back to that same person now i don't remember the names i will have to go and get them but what he didn't show what he did not show was any command in this book to follow hadiths he quoted a phrase that said obey allah and the prophet which conquers with that when a decision is made by allah and the messenger you obey it but that means that muhammad is a partner with allah in making decisions and that and that is the testimony of your quran that's what alice says who should i believe allah or you there you go has been decided by allah that doesn't say just allah no does it say allah alone no does it say when allah is communicated to muhammad no so the messenger is participating in the decision meeting everything that's the messenger and this is what the quran goes on to say it's not fitting for muslims to have any opinion about their decision that's weird the whole point of fake and fatwa is that you do give your opinions about these kinds of decisions that's the whole point of islam is that allah gives you the quran hundreds of years later muslims made up some hadiths and then the scholars give their opinion about what you do on it so the fact is the quran is saying it's not fitting for them to have an opinion and the whole point of islam is that the llama are giving out their opinions on everything he's silent now what's your what's your reply quran is valid for all time and all places is it yes great what does it say go on they have a right to interpret that quran now it's different than a thousand years ago yeah so they have is open to enter to to explain to people what you can do what you cannot do can i reply to that yeah okay so he said that the quran is applicable to all times in all places but he needs some knowledge hi everybody oh you want to listen you asked me to listen so listen listen how does the quran describe that you should end your fast does anyone know the verse yes we know the verb what is the verse according to the quran about how you know to end your fast or to start your father you see the the the white line with the with the black line the sun so you can start first right how do you do that in iceland in greenland where the sun only rises two times a year with the time he says is that what the quran said no what he said was that the quran said the quran is an opinion it's not an opinion but allah says you but in greenland yeah the sun only rises two oh wait no it doesn't say that when the quran says that the matter has been decided by allah telling muhammad oh wait it doesn't say that when the quran says that a matter has been decided by allah and the messenger it is not fitting for the muslim to have an opinion but the quran says fasting is decided by the rising and the setting of the sun but muslims give an opinion that if you're a muslim in greenland and you can't see this rising in the setting of the sun then you do it by the time of saudi arabia yes yes so they're contradicting their own proof of story end of game end of debate go and reply to that reply to my argument this is no argument there is no argument you decide if i've just made them ladies and gentlemen did i just make an argument yes yes yes yes you notice he's not arguing with the argument and the reason why he's not arguing with the argument why is because islam is intellectually busted [Music] if your book literally tells you if god gives you a decision you can't have an opinion on it and then god gives you the decision about how you know when to start and end your fast and then we find an example where god's message doesn't apply and you give your opinion then you've contradicted your own book and furthermore in all places tell me why it's not an argument tell me why it's not an argument because because our book is open i mean if you cannot we have knowledge we cannot reach you have to follow the imma so do allah they tell you that you can do this you cannot it's open so listen to this argument his argument is we follow the ulama in what they say about the quran says but the quran never tells you who the alarmer is so in other words you're deciding who the alarmer is and every muslim makes up different collections do the salafi agreement with the do the the salafi agree with the shia about who the alarm is we agree with staff we disagree with staff what is the problem no i said about who the alarmer is what do i mean you can't even answer the question show me in the quran who what the criteria that the quran gives for identifying the olama are we just choose them i'm not stupid what about the mutasa lights talk to me straight what about the mutasi lights they were sunnis should we follow the scholars of the mutasa light we have a book we have the sunnah we have make a mistake it's possible answer my question i'm telling you i'm going to answer my question your question even the scholar yeah made a mistake yeah it's possible that's not my question i'm kidding you that wasn't my question [Music] my question actually was bye so what you've got ladies and gentlemen is that muslims say we have to follow the scholars in what the scholars tell us the quran says but the quran gives you no categories by which you can identify the scholars and what you actually find when you look into islam is that every group of muslims have their own scholars and they all disagree and they're all different why is that because the perfect quran didn't tell you how to identify the scholars each group of muslims just identify their own group of scholars and then their own group of scholars say the quran means this but a different group of muslim scholars will say the quran means that so for example amongst muslims there is a debate amongst the scholars some muslims believe that allah really does have a hand and a shin and a face and eyes other muslims following other scholars believe that when the quran says that allah has a hand it's not literal it isn't a reality so in other words the idea that we just follow what the scholars say the quran is is actually utterly useless because who your scholars are depend on who you like and who you dislike who you find convincing and who you don't the quran gives you no criteria to choose your scholars and your scholars are telling you lots of different things on every single aspect of sharia law one second by contrast a christian can be a disciple of jesus in every circumstance in every condition in every time and in every place why why because christianity doesn't work as a religion of rules decided as don't do and do christianity works as a system of ethics it gives you a description of the character that you should become and if you become the right character you'll live out the right life in every circumstance and that's the difference between christianity and islam christianity and islam has another difference it's called the freedom of the gospel there is no one right way of doing good there are lots of ways of doing good and so christians can fast in lots of different ways but muslims have a particular way of fasting given by their quran that they can't always follow but a christian because it's a virtue ethic system confessed in every condition and circumstance because they make a personal commitment about how they fast what they offer to god in sacrifice christians are fasting right now in lent and every christian can participate because there is a freedom to do good there is no doubt that there are some ways of doing good that are better than others and we acknowledge that as christians which is why as christians we are called to compete with one another in doing good and by competing in doing good we identify the best way to do good any questions so we might as well stop okay yeah let's stop you're gonna stop where you start out why are you gonna stop because you can't have a conversation you can't have a conversation no you can't have a conversation that's the reason why i have tried [Music] [Applause] i'm flattered that you think i've got an audience of millions because i haven't but why did the dawah team lie about the christian faith such as [Music] i believe in three gods prove that i believe in three gods also no no no no bro what does trinity mean what does trinity you don't even know what the word means do you not believe in the holy spirit trinity means try unity holy spirit what's he describing holy spirit what's trinity describing why do you have to lie about christianity why why are you lying about christianity are you a christian do you believe in three gods live love are you a christian do you believe in three gods do you are you a christian do you believe in three gods so here you go you're lying about christians [Applause] bro do you believe in three gods so you're lying about christians you're lying about christianity what the brother doesn't understand is that i've got the microphone so he's literally talking to himself right now whilst i talk to the microphone he's talking to the microphone and i've got the microphone so what you saw there ladies and gentlemen is that he lied about christians on camera [Music] you | SOCO Films | UCyDS9p6NWHpU9XbbbYLFLBw | 2022-04-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,508 | 13,180 |
60EA-aOXaTo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EA-aOXaTo | Our 42nd Country together: Liechtenstein | and here was our 42nd country together lanstein on the way back from our winter vacation in Austria lonstein was just a 30-minute detour as we have never visited it and were wondering what was lonstein we made the detour and entered a new country together Lin is actually super small it's a 25 kilm along principality located near the Alps between austrialia and Switzerland and is a German speaking country so let's see what lonstein has to offer after a final breakfast in austrialia we say goodbye to my family and hit the road toward lonstein the drive was really pleasant as we were driving with the Alps in the background as there weren't really any border we were quickly there and it was easy to get in our first stop was vus the capital of lonstein where we parked in the City Center Parking which was free as it was Saturday that's it 42nd country lonstein that's a big lady V was super small and mostly consisted of One Main Street there were a few museums to visit like the post Museum which displayed stamp on the street a replica of the vadu castle that cannot be visited as it is the official residence of the prince of lonstein and the tourist center what was nice though was to always be surrounded by the [Music] Alps at the end of the Main Street we visited the vad cathedral or Cathedral of St Florent with its neogothic [Music] Style [Music] so Tina can you please uh tell us your first uh thought about lonstein there is this nothing there is this lovely Street an amazing castle that you can't visit and mountains around beautiful mountains around a few weird sculpture about woman's body from there we walked back to the other side of the Main Street where we discovered the town hall as well as a huge group of Chinese traveler there seemed to be some kind of event between China and lonstein at that time yeah it well we could then uh get [Music] sandes we then hop back on our car and drove to Gutenberg Castle located in the south of the country but before arriving there we made a quick stop in a supermarket to get lunch we must admit that the supermarket wasn't dreamy and there weren't many option for us gumber Castle is actually one of the five castle of the principality and one of the two that have survived intact until the present day there was a beautiful little hike to reach the castle as the castle h Hill was filled with Vineyards once again the castle cannot be visited but we could enter inside its inner Court where we made a small te break as it was super windy up there we quickly returned to our car and drove back [Music] home [Music] and that was the end of our 42nd country together where we stayed less than 2 hour but we believe that lonstein could be much better and much more beautiful for hiking in [Music] summer [Music] | Alex & Tina - TheDailyPackers | UCbWtGKWHO3EYQfAatqc4PaQ | 2024-04-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 517 | 2,778 |
o_ScB3__5pY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ScB3__5pY | Corvette C6 CARBON FIBER Hood LE MANS Style Install! Anderson Composites | but check this hood out i love it hey guys welcome back to the channel i'm warrick and you're watching gas tax garage today we are switching out my c6 corvette hood with an anderson carbon fiber hood so let's jump right into it [Music] if you're new to the channel thanks for stopping by if you're a longtime subscriber always good to have you back just a reminder this is the last month to win your 6 400 sonic toolbox all you got to do is be subscribed to the channel leave a comment below every comment is one entry one entry per video and how to earn bonus points is go to gastax.com support the channel buy some merchandise and every dollar you spend gets you three entries to win sixty four hundred dollars of sonic tools [Music] all right guys it's been a while since i have filmed or worked on a car right here is my 2008 z06 corvette i absolutely love this thing i never was a corvette fan until my buddy got a corvette told me the specs and i tell you what i love it i don't ever want to get rid of it and i've been tracking it quite a bit i have more miles on the track on this car than actually on the road that's why i got the super sweet wing 71 inches it's an apr carbon fiber wing on the back i will be doing a review on that shortly and i'll be going over my track times at road america waiting for them to flag me for something because i'm too damn good one thing this thing does suck at is it gets hot super hot well i guess when you drive as good as me it's bound to get hot so in order to help everything cool down my brakes my engine all the fluids i decided to go with this le mans style carbon fiber vented hood now if you don't track a lot or if you daily drive this apparently this is not a good hood because you know all the water just goes straight in luckily i have a four car garage and i will be keeping this baby inside but i think this is a relatively easy install so let's get removing this hood take some parts off of this hood put them on there and throw this around and see how it looks all right so guys to remove the hood pretty simple you got two bolts down here on either side we need to take the locking hardware off um i clearly am missing one of those little uh stoppers if you can see that so i guess we're not gonna take that off or maybe there's only one i don't know but no there should be two anyways i'll take that off and transfer it but check this hood out i love it i don't know how smart this is to do with one person but i don't have more than one person yet i'm going to move you so i don't squish you round of applause for the good catch [Applause] but now my ratchet's inside [Applause] yeah so if you're doing this yourself and you don't want to scratch your paint i would put protection here and there and then undo the first the lower bolts first and then use it as a pivot and now it is all done done so i'm gonna take it off all righty they have a little pico point at the front so just put a uh rag down there and now i'm gonna flip this around and see what accessories we're gonna remove from this to mount this so let's just feel the weight difference here okay that's pretty light maybe double double the weight i'm not really worried about weight because you've seen me they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine but you just can't get into it because they would never understand the fastest way to drop weight in my race car is actually me to lose weight so what anderson does say you need is you need heat protection on here which to me seems pretty crazy so i have some adhesive reflective heat tape but there's not much surface area on here i could see putting one big piece here one here a little bit here here to me it just will look it will look like a hack job so i'm actually going to mount this on once it's on i will figure out the heat obviously they say if you don't put heat tape there's no warranty is what it is but let's see what needs to be removed so i need to order another one of these because clearly i'm missing one i need to remove these uh clips but i can do that after i've mounted the hood uh and once it's standing vertically there uh this does come with new hardware so that's nice and then i will just use some blue loctite so let's get this installed one thing they also say is they do not want you to use uh hood struts or shocks i don't know if you guys remember a couple videos ago these sharks could not hold up the stock hood so i replaced them with brand new shocks but i kept the old ones because they are worn out and weak so i will use them so i've already voided my warranty which i don't care about that way i can open the hood at the track to let it cool down but since those ones are weak already they shouldn't have excess force on this hood all right i don't really think you need any protection over there because it doesn't touch there since i'll just be laying the hood down like this so i just got some towels there i will leave these pieces of wood on there oh yeah so much lighter all right so the hardware that came off is 13 millimeter the hardware that comes with it is a 9 16. i am not going to lock tight it just yet obviously i want to see fitment first so it looks like this needs to be lifted up a bit my milwaukee compressor might be able to help out it feels like it's cross threading a little let's reposition this much better just try to get all the full bolts in a little bit and then i can screw around have you guys seen my chair what do you think link down below if you want one anyways so those are all hand tight let's remove these and fool around with fitment all right these are removed these are metric uh for whatever reason uh 10 mil they are just shipping hardware here is your actual hardware for when you remount the hooks all right guys well it's raining it's pretty humid so i had to turn on the fan hopefully you guys can hear me obviously you want to be careful tightening these down i'm just going until it's like right there and then hang tight there we go this is a different hood but let's see if i can zoom in if you see right behind the bottom bolt you can see where the old washer used to be on the bracket same with the top i'm going to try position those bolts where they were different hood but it should technically line up to the same area that way we shouldn't have any problems so i'm going to give that a go also i just turned off that gopro because it was doing this oh okay look how humid it is it's fogging in the lens so i guess this is a one camera operation today those are all tightened once this fitment's fine once i tweak it i'll just undo one bolt lock tight and put it in now i'm going to replace these shocks with the worn out ones and then we're going to see how it fits let's remove this before i forget about it [Applause] so you can see how weak these old ones are because this one held it up by itself this new one and now this uh old one can't even hold it up so that's what i want i want both of them to be able to hold it up uh not to force pressure onto the actual carbon fiber i may i mean these shocks when i lift this hood up at the track i'm going to have to wedge something in there i don't want to put the heaviest struts in there it'll break something [Applause] okay this gap right now looks a bit bigger than here but it's not in position okay it won't close so yeah so you can see the hood is a bit this way so something's going to come down on this side and then it should straighten it out let's get that done well there you have it guys look how awesome that looks so it's pretty contrasty on the camera more so in person but still contrasty in person it looks so weak carbon fiber right there a little bit different weave but overall i think it looks sweet let's actually close the garage door so we can see that weave on the wing so that looks sweet love it i would love it love it oh sweet guys so i actually when i ordered this i found somebody that ordered the exact same one and he installed it about a month ago on facebook i'm gonna contact him to see if he put any uh heat protection on there because i want to take this for a drive and once i hear from him i will either put some of this on and then i'll film myself putting it on or i'll take it for a drive um but yeah well for you guys it's gonna be about three seconds and now we're gonna jump into the car and go for a drive [Music] so [Music] i have driven about 40 miles i'm going to illia to help him with some drone filming uh my airbag lights on it goes on and off depending on my position on my chair there's a loose connection in my seat so i need to fix that anyways uh the hood so far it looks kind of badass from this angle i don't know if you can see that but it is staying at 190 degree temperature i don't recall what it was before but uh one of the reasons ilya and i got the same car or one of the reasons i copied earlier was uh so we can compare things so since i'm going there i'm gonna see what his car runs at uh when it's up to temp and if it's running at 220 right in the middle which cars normally do then we're saving some 30 degrees which is going to count nicely on the track i also believe it's going to add some down force um once i put that front splitter on it's going to drive more air inside the engine compartment and then come out the top here giving me some front wheel down force and help my turning out so yeah so far i like it well guys i got some footage with ilia and now we're doing some photos at the spot where i destroyed my drone i do have a little dirt on my wheels there but uh yeah the hood is good ilia's car is actually running 20 or 30 degrees cooler than mine so i must have run hot period but that's the hood right there i think it looks sick [Music] so hopefully there was a little bit of footage of the hood honestly uh [Applause] now i'm questioning why my car is running a bit hard cause elias is running 20 degrees cooler 20 30 degrees cooler and he doesn't have uh the vents on there uh maybe i need a coolant flush or something but either way i'm not too worried because it seems fine it's not overheating it's still under the middle heat but uh one thing you can do i don't know if you can see it on camera probably not you can see all the heat escaping uh like a mirage so that's pretty cool so far i love the look i don't know if i'm gonna add insulation the guy on facebook never got back to me um yeah so next up on the channel i have to do the front splitter i'm getting new tires i have to put a tow hook on the front and the rear and then i'm gonna go over all the issues i've had with this in the last couple of months due to i guess covered manufacturing problems or so on who knows and then i'll also be going over all my track experience but guys do yourself a favor leave a comment below to get your one entry for the 6400 sonic toolbox and if you want even more entries support xtelgic and i by clicking the other link down below and buying some merch i've got a couple ideas on what merch is going to be coming out next for me because clearly you guys don't give a about my logo which is understandable but maybe some chunky is the new hunky shirts might work for you big guys out there or 0.0 i don't run but anyways guys until next time i'll see you then | Gas Tachs | UCY-OetNAlsS3OaREdIXgFhg | 2021-10-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,313 | 11,344 |
xNwIw10xv_I | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwIw10xv_I | Patriot Prime Reviews Alpha Customs Weapon Pack for Siege Barricade | patriot prime reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age viewer discretion is advised hey what's going on guys patriot prime here once again with another video review but before i get started i need you guys to do me a favor if you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of patriot prime reviews please hit that subscribe button right now it won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously now on to the review and the items i'm looking at in this review is a brand new weapon set from alpha customs for siege barricade this weapon set includes one illegally modified stun baton one shotgun a flashlight two k on guard machine pistols a stun pistol two knuckle spikes two shoulder weapon mounts two shoulder mini guns two beam emitters or missiles and one decepticon prototype pistol so now let's take a look at this weapon set on war for cybertron siege barricade and welcome to patriot prime [Music] reviews now before we get started alpha wanted me to let you guys know that the weapons i'm about to show you are in fact prototypes and the finished products should be available at the time of this video's release on his facebook page or his ebay page and i'll put a link to both of those in the description of this video now the first weapon we're going to look at is the illegally modified stun baton let me get barricade out of the way so my camera will focus on this this is a pretty cool little weapon i love the molded details on it you can tell how it's illegally modified you've got a stun baton right here but you've got three serrated blades on the end i think that's really cool and that looks good on barricade let's say you attach a stun baton like so so i dig that that looks awesome of course you can swing it around like so that is really cool really adds to the viciousness of the character the next weapon we're going to look at is the shotgun i really like the looks of this as well if you guys recall from my barricade review i used a titan's return excuse me not titan's return but a combiner wars shotgun when i displayed my barricade so i will definitely be using this i love the looks of this i love the paint scheme how it looks burnt there on the end with some carbon scoring that is really cool a nice weapon let's go ahead and put that in barricade's hand see how he looks so there you go you got barricade with the shotgun with the stun baton he's ready for some fighting the next item we'll take a look at is the flashlight this is designed to look like a maglite what law enforcement uses another really cool design with lots of nice sculpted details let's go ahead and remove barricade stun baton and put the flashlight in his hand so there we go not sure why barricade would need a flashlight considering he has headlights there on his chest but still a really cool addition it really fits the police officer theme you can also slide it in underneath so he's shining it right in the autobot's eyes what are you doing here that is really really cool now the next features i like or next accessories is these right here these are the shoulder mounts you can attach two different weapons to these and these will go right here on top of barricade shoulders where the stock weapons go you've got the little tab right there that'll match into the tab on top of his shoulder so we'll get both of those in and just to let you guys know these mounts will work in vehicle mode now you have a couple different options for the mounts you have these beam emitters which i think look like missiles but that's what they're called beam emitters very well sculpted lots of nice details and they just simply slot right in to the shoulder mounts quit throwing them across the table there so there we go there is barricade with the beam emitters and i think that looks really good i dig it it's very g1 looking well considering g1 barricade was a hot pink race car now another option and my favorite option for these is the little mini guns i love these things look at the sculpted details on those those are really cool and these fit in the same way these beam emitters do let's go ahead and remove those and with the mini gun you take the longer end and that's what slots in to the hole get that in there and now we have barricade with the many guns on his shoulders and i love that he is totally bad ass looking now alpha kudos on this one that is awesome next up we have the stun pistol so this is kind of like a taser nice paint applications there looks really really good let's go ahead and take the flashlight out we'll put the taser or the sun pistol in his hand so now he can tase you with his hand and blow you away with this hand so another fine piece of weaponry for barricade next up is these k on guard machine pistols and these kind of look like the stock pistols that barricade came with except they're on black or excuse me except they're painted black and this is to represent how the pistols looked in barricade's artwork now unlike the stock pistols these do not connect to each other so these are to be wielded individually so let's go ahead and remove the shotgun and the stun pistol and we'll put these in hand of course you got the handle here and there's the painted clip up top slide that one in there and there we have barricade wielding his machine pistols now you can mount these on the shoulders it takes a little work but you want to use the clip section here actually let's use this one the clip section will fit into the tab on his shoulder it's a little tight but there is an option that you can use next up is the spiked knuckles and these are awesome i have a set of siege knuckles for barricade that say punish and enslave but i really dig these one these ones these these are friggin autobot tenderizers right here so let's go ahead and put those in barricades hands they slide in just like so that one's a little tight there we go so there we have barricade ready for some melee combat and i love that that is awesome looking it's really cool i love the looks of the spike knuckle guards and lastly we have the decepticon prototype hand cannon and if you're a fan of the 1986 transformers movie this one looks a little familiar this is the weapon that megatron used to get those final blasts in on optimus prime another very well sculpted weapon i love the paint scheme very generation one let's go ahead and put that in barricade's hand see what it looks like see what it looks like that's another one that's a little tight but there we go there's a perfect fit if there's somebody who's going to be wielding a prototype weapon it would be barricade i want to give alpha customs a big shout out and thank you for this siege barricade weapon set barricade has become one of my favorite transformer characters one of the best things to come out of bay verse and i'm so happy that hasbro decided to give him a g1 style treatment in the new modern line this weapon set really adds to the character and i love how you can really mix and match them see how now i have the gatling guns on the forearms the machine pistols on the shoulders he's got the shotgun this the stun baton i think this looks awesome and that's how my barricade is going to look on my display shelf now if you want a set of these for yourself as i said in the beginning i'm going to put links to alpha customs ebay and facebook page in the description of this video now guys if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when i upload new reviews once again this is patriot prime signing out hula [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] | Patriot Prime Reviews | UCvTEl-XHO9BY3_I1Zssfmjg | 2020-09-26 | Creative Commons 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sJPGRHEE68c | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJPGRHEE68c | VLOGGERS VS REACTORS, WHO MAKES MORE MONEY ON YOUTUBE ? WATCH THIS BEFORE STARTING A YOUTUBE CHANNEL | welcome back ladies and gentlemen guys there is something I want to address very quickly as possible I want to do it I want to address it very quickly very very very very quickly now oh YouTube It's All About it's all about YouTube oh YouTube reactors and uh YouTube vloggers Travelers I I you see everyone let me tell you something if you are a reactor on YouTube there is something you don't know that I want to tell you today number one you're going to have a lot of people hating on you do you get me number two you're gonna have a lot of people reporting your video today if you do not support them Black Beauty said the same thing you know black beauty is a smart she's very smart you know Black Beauty TV very smart very smart smart girl smart lady she will she will never she will never display she will never show anyone's video on on her Channel but guys let's let's go to this video reactors those who react to videos as I told you if you are if you are a reactor number one people will be hating on you number two number two as I told you a lot of people will be reporting oh my God today I'm really really hot over here number two a lot of people will be reporting your video so the algorithm you realize that the way your your like recently when this uh this evil lady this evil girl gave me uh a strike this this evil lady Laurie when Lauren gave me a strike it has really really slowed my oh my my thoughts they algorithmic that's really really slowed me it has really really slowed my channel down the way my views used to come I'm not getting it that way so now I have now I have to put in hard work to to to cover it up again so guys so being a reactor you are going to face a lot a lot lot of or difficulties hatred uh comments like you're gonna have so so so much so many people hating you so much enemies do you uh do you get my point those are some of the actually uh being a reactor it's it's something else and it and and it takes time for your YouTube channel to grow do you get my points and it's it's very easy very very very easy for you to lose your YouTube channel because today you are talking about this person he saw her fans might not like it the next day you are talking about so oh so do you get me so uh reaction channels they have so much disadvantages it's easy for you to lose your channel one time because every day maybe you talk about a water Maya his fans will imagine that their what am I as fans imagine the amount of them was reported me and imagine those of you Modesta Black Beauty my sweethearts Black by the way guys Black Beauty has sent me an email telling me uh uh Pastor you didn't enter my ISO black beauty is asking me if I'm a married man or if I have a girlfriend like Beauty as I told you in the email and I will get back to you at the right time Black Beauty you the edge of my eyes hey this YouTube Street you know be small people are even falling in love marriages are happening Black Beauty said pastor boxman you will enter my eyes hey are we going to Sudan black you want to take me to Sudan anyway let's see what will happen so guys as I was saying so these are some of the things so if you are reacting you have to react very very well do you get my points some of you your videos are always being reported but the reason why YouTube is not getting you to nail you is because they didn't they you have not used any of your enemies content you know like that oh like like like the audio I like the video I did allowing oh oh reported and then gave me a copyright strike for three months you've got to punish you very well don't go and restart that uh uh that's a strike you too they will give you you get Triple I told you you allowing you get Triple triple strike USA posa posa you alone wait and see so guys if you want to last longer on YouTube then please know how to react did you get me know how to react but I will tell you there is one sweet thing also about reactors there is something sweet about those who react to videos like what I'm like sometimes I do react to some things but for me I hit them hard I hit them hard I hate flowering very hard he came here so she gave me a strike and the strike she gave me the strike she gave me really really pained me I felt so bad I felt very very bad but right now I've let it go now I'm okay right now I'm still doing myself I've just got I've just learned the lesson you get my point too oh now vloggers or Travelers for bloggers and travelers it's not easy for you it's not easy for for YouTube to to to block them or bring all or it's not easy bloggers these guys are traveling they are showing you things unless they go to a country that they shoot some part of the country that is not nice and those people from that country will start reporting that particular video but apart from that being a vlogger apart apart from that being a being a vlogger is is very good because you are all you are all every day you are doing you you are not taking from here you are not taking from there you are not taking you are taking from everywhere put it together before you come and present it to your viewers or present it to YouTube or present you to the world you get my points reactors have to put things together this one pick this one pick this one before they give it to you but Travelers or vloggers they are on on the go giving it to you but let me tell you one thing the other good side about being a reactor is is that every day you have something to say that is one good thing about being a reactor like every day you have something to say because you are always listening watching trying to pick from here pick from here pick from here before you give it out to your people so uh being a reactor always unless you are tired and you you don't want to speak because being a reactor every day there is something there to talk about every day there must be something there to to talk about do you uh do you get me so ladies and gentlemen to those of you to those of you who keep saying that oh reactors they don't make money they don't make views blah blah blah blah you are lying to yourselves I'm telling you those who reactors on YouTube are making money because every day in a day they can release more than three to two they can release more than two videos or two videos a day but and every day they have something to say maybe today you did a video you have 2K or 5K tomorrow or maybe the same day you have two videos or three videos that are working for you put 5K views 10K views 7K views put them together and you are monetizing all of them that is one good thing do you get me so if you check it and check it very well reactors also seems to make a lot of money on on YouTube as for them as for travelers and vloggers yes I know they can also sit down and do what we are doing but they are not used to it they are used to traveling so if they are not traveling they are just the adamans or maybe they'll go live but those who react is something they do on a daily basis every day they have to bring something out so that is it God bless everyone for watching me and remember to be part of the family I love you and I'm out of this place Black Beauty you'll hear from me bye | BOXXMANN THE LEADER | UC4fd1CbbOLLk9JXIVZZHu5A | 2022-11-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,464 | 7,208 |
Oz1g0e6hMMM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1g0e6hMMM | PMAP 8141 • (1) Capitalism and measurement: (6) Downsides of capitalism | [Music] so we keep talking about how great capitalism is and how great all of this economic growth is and how we're ensuring equal access to everybody and making the world just a better place through all this innovation and that's true in part living standards have increased over the past 200 years that's great we all have fridges and iPhones and yay technology but that growth has not been equally distributed and so a really good example of this is this picture right here so I lived in Egypt for a couple years I did a master's degree at the American University of Cairo which used to be located in downtown Cairo right off of Tahrir Square which is where the Arab Spring protests happened in 2011 it's kind of main downtown Cairo these old buildings from the early 1800s it was a really cool campus there but when I got there they had just finished building a brand new campus it was like an hour outside of the city in a place called New Cairo there was this brand new development this is what New Cairo looks like right now it's in the middle of the desert here outside of kind of the main Cairo downtown metropolis area there is green grass and kind of these prefabricated buildings and stuff when I was there there was like nothing there was the campus for the American University of Cairo and that was all way to take this bus that sometimes took up to two hours to commute out to the campus now it's more developed but each of these developments here have they're all gated and they have guards outside of each of the gates and each kind of neighborhood is responsible for paying for guard services and it's it's where most of the ultra-rich in Cairo are moving to they're leaving the main city and they're moving out into the outskirts into these these newer developments far away from the city and it's it's because Egypt has had kind of lots of growth in in their economy but that growth has not been equally distributed it's been a few people at the top a few main companies that get government contracts and relatives of those those people working in those firms that are kind of benefiting from this this economic development the rest of Cairo this is part of or near downtown here this is an area called the city of the Dead this is an old Islamic graveyard here you can see these different tombs here and people live in their graveyards this is like the ultra poor kind of end up here they're way locked out of kind of the new developments in New Cairo you can tell there's all sorts of anxieties buy from these rich people out here in the outskirts they have all sorts of high security gates keeping people out they're afraid of having kind of the poor people come out to see the rich people and so it's a country that like everybody has faced the same kind of development and growth in GDP per capita but it's wildly different depending on what kind of like depending on your job and depending on your economic circumstances this story is not played up just in Egypt it's played out all over the world even in the United States we have rampant inequality we're following the Great Recession in 2008-2009 the recovery from that on average has been great everybody's kind of back to normal from pre recession times before kovin nineteen hit and destroyed everything but those gains were not felt by everybody lots of people got jobs back but it was jobs working for uber and driving for lyft and kind of doing gig work and not doing like actual jobs with 401ks and kind of the standard middle-class jobs those have been disappearing and shrinking in exchange for kind of the gig economy and so but then there are other people have been benefiting greatly from this gig economy so you have like uber executives and lyft executives and other people who are profiting wildly Amazon has been insanely profitable especially in the world of kovat 19 where everybody has to order things online it's just been fantastic for them but awful for the rest of us and so these games that you get from capitalism and technological growth are not I'm kind of equally distributed there are losers and so what I what I'm calling this section here is one one-and-a-half cheers for capitalism instead of three cheers for capitalism because yes it's providing great technological growth we have washing machines we have these great things that that save us tons of time and kind of liberate us and it's fantastic but also bad things happen there's this inequality where not all of the gains from this capitalist technical technological growth are spread equally both within countries and between countries um so this this chart here was in your in your reading it's actually really ugly chart I hate it because it's this 3d chart and it's really hard to read but what it's essentially showing or trying the show is these bars here that start at the beginning and go back towards the end these are the the deciles of the population in the country so this is like the bottom 10% of of income earners and this is the top 10% of income earners so each of these chunks represents 10% of people in the country and so this is what inequality the world of inequality looked like back in 1980 where if you were at a country like China you had very low annual income here low GDP per capita but it was low all across the board the highest earners the guys way back here they weren't earning terribly too much compared to the poorest earners if you look at Brazil their lowest earners were earning very low but their highest earners we're kind of back here there was kind of some rich oligarchs here the higher the the bars in the back is kind of the larger the wealthy class and the more money the wealthy class has and so this what the world looked like a 1980 relatively flat except you do have countries like the United States where that's a like the the top 10% of earners do have tons of money but it's not like terribly tons but when we move to 2015 look how much the world changes here China would used to be down here is now up here they're far richer than they were but if you look in the back there's a massive chunk their top 10% of the country is earning like way more than half of the money that the rest of the country is earning if you look at Norway in the United States and we had a more developed countries here there's massive inequality where the top 10% of earners are earning a ton of money compared to kind of the bottom 10% here another way of looking at this is like CEO pay in relation to the lowest earners or the median earners any company CEOs by themselves are earning like hundreds of times more than the end of the average worker because these gains from capitalist growth are not being spread equally throughout or within all of these countries but also across all of these countries Nigeria has had all sorts of they've benefited from all sorts of economic development they have oil fields they have all sorts of things but because of how the global capitalist market system works they've had unequal access to kind of global markets and so they're not as well off as the United States and Europe and other other wealthier countries and there are a whole host of historical reasons for that the legacy of colonialism legacy of imperialism they're kind of down there at this end because historical legacies and so there's all sorts of inequality within countries also across all of these countries within countries this inequality is also very closely linked to other dimensions specifically race there's this fascinating whole research project by a guy named a reg Teddy where he's dedicated his whole research agenda to studying inequality across all sorts of dimensions and so this paper they're looking at racial dimensions and what they find is that if you look at this first result here black Americans and American Indians have much lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility than whites leading the persistent disparities across generations what that means is if you are born in the bottom 10% of income earners if you're born into a poor family upward mobility means that you can move up to kind of the middle class or the upper classes or kind of higher levels of earnings and what they find is white people are able to move up at slightly higher rates it is hard to move up depending on where you're born but compared to black and Native Americans it is a huge stark difference on what they find here this is kind of the the shocking finding from their study here is that controlling for prints all income and a whole bunch of other confounders black boys have lower incomes in adulthood than white boys in 99% of census tracts in the United States so pretty much universally all around the country black males are a huge disadvantage compared to white males because of capitalist structures that have been built and the economic system that we have which relies on labor from poorer people to prop up the whole economic system this is this became especially obvious during the early days of the Cova 19 pandemic where essential workers were either medical workers like doctors who were working in ICU units but also the janitors providing the the cleaning services for those for those ICU units and grocery store workers and delivery people and all sorts of kind of essential workers largely those essential workers were black and Latino Americans and because of that they were the most exposed to the corona virus and the early days of pandemic and so in New York City which was one of the main hotspots in the spring of 2020 over 60% of the kovin 19 dead were black and Latinos because they were the main essential workers that were the frontline people that had to keep working to keep the capitalist system going and that was like awful and that's the house the system has been set up over hundreds of years and so one of the things we'll talk about in this class here is how we can help dismantle these systems that are kind of structurally set up to disadvantage specific groups of people we can use public policy to to adjust for that to not just adjust now but also make reparations for the past we can do all sorts of other we have lots of policy levers that we can work with to try to improve these these disparate outcomes here and so this is one thing that like capitalism's not the greatest it has all sorts of issues with inequality so throughout the semester we're gonna explore a couple of questions related to this we're gonna explore why capitalism is associated with growing inequality and then how democracy can theoretically help curtail this this inequality but even then as we'll learn about the next session democracy is not a silver bullet for this there are special interests and other trends and democracies that make it really hard to make any sort of policy changes because the rich are able to shape public policy in their favor which then makes them richer and then grows inequality and it's not great so we'll talk about that throughout the semester um so inequality not great another issue with capitalism is that there's all sorts of environmental damage that comes from it if we remember from the beginning of the session we talked about how firms take inputs and capital to create stuff so inputs are things like money or natural resources and capital and like that can actually really uses labor or people to create stuff with that and when there are natural resources that just kind of exists out in the world the natural tendency is to go get them and - over mine and over forests and - over fish because it's just out in the world later in the semester we'll talk about something called the tragedy of the Commons where it's kind of human nature to overuse stuff that is free because there's no cost to use it and so because of that there's all sorts of environmental damage that comes from collecting the inputs but also from producing the outputs if you look at carbon emissions over time right around late 1800s when we had this huge technological revolution that we talked about at the beginning of the class session for today carbon emissions skyrocketed and because of that the co2 in the atmosphere also skyrocketed and then global temperatures have been rising constantly because of that but this is all because of technological change that's been spewing out more and more carbon and then the effects of this aren't also going back to inequality they're not spread equally the people most vulnerable to climate change at this point are generally poorer people living on the coastlines and they have no way of getting out of the coastlines because they can't sell their houses because nobody wants to buy their houses they're gonna be flooded in 10 20 years and so again kind of the costs of of having all this environmental damage are not equally borne by everybody and it disadvantages all sorts of people and it's destroying the world which is not great so some other questions we'll explore throughout the semester here are why is it so hard for democracies specifically to address climate change it's really hard for like the United States even pre um Donald Trump to agree on how to curtail carbon emissions and we'll talk about why in other sessions in the future and then we'll talk about can capitalists institutions even do anything to address cap to address climate change is there any sort of market-based Magic Bullet that we can use or do we just need public sector interventions or like how do we even try to fix this with capitalism and there might not be an answer um capitalism might not be able to do any to address climate change there are schools of thought that just say the only way to fix the climate is to like abolish capitalism and change to a completely different system for providing goods and services to people so we'll talk about that later in the semester and different ways of potentially approaching that so those are our one-and-a-half cheers for capitalism yay it creates lots of stuff but leads to all sorts of inequality and environmental damage so it's not all just perfect shiny happy unicorns so capitalism | Andrew Heiss | UCLPjEoLyfXlLinJz5trfTaQ | 2020-06-05 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,554 | 14,156 |
CmJgkgLR-hs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmJgkgLR-hs | Formatting a Web Query in Excel | so one of the things we can do now that we are importing from the web is we can still use the same idea we can still actually pull in the same connections that we had before this time because it's a web style one when we click on properties we see we still get the same options we can control when it refreshes but when I come into definition this is where things are a little different it's because it's a web query instead of a database query however I still can come in here and go to edit query and we get to see the dialog box we still see the file aware it's located and we can actually control what gets imported but one of the things we can do is we can also come in here and select this options button that's actually going to allow us to now take say for example the formatting with it notice what we have over here in Excel is not what we saw over here on our website or if I say full HTML formatting what that does is now whatever HTML formatting is over here is now going to be over here as well let's hit okay well we import that we okay that and when we hit refresh look at what just happened in all of our information has now been formatted just like it was an HTML | Adam Gaweda | UCYJgPerIeSixzceOoOarvYw | 2015-07-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 241 | 1,181 |
WeFJYS3isig | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeFJYS3isig | Mark Bowden and Body Language: 42Courses with The Behaviour Panel | because you don't you don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and and you don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and you for your opinion to be accurate and right hello intelligent beings of this marvelous planet welcome to learn from the brands our podcast for you from 42courses.com where we learn bite-sized wisdom from the world's best brands today we have an incredibly smart charismatic and compelling guest mark boden has been voted the number one body language professional in the world for two years running mark is the founder of communication training company truth plane whose clients include leading business people politicians presidents of fortune 500 companies and prime ministers of g7 powers with years of experience training people across the globe on how to use digital media most effectively mark is now even a trainer for zoom equipping their new employees with best practices around virtual communication his tedx talk has reached millions of people and he is regularly called upon by media to comment on body language around elections and debates most recently appearing on the dr phil show mark has written four books on body language and human behavior including recent bestseller truth and lies what people are really thinking in case it's not yet clear he's one of the world's foremost authorities on non-verbal communication i am personally thrilled to have him here today please welcome mark bowden thanks bren thanks for having me here really appreciate it thanks for the great introduction and for people that don't already know you mark shame on them but please give them your branding my branding oh so like this i'm mark boden i'm an expert in human behavior and body language i help people all over the world to stand out when trust gain credibility every time they communicate including some of the leaders of the g7 yeah and i wanted to start with this mark because you work with actors i've heard in your past as well and ceos and politicians so which of these typically is the most narcissistic um gosh that's really that's a that's a that's a tough one because we've all got it we've all got a little bit of that uh in us on a on a spectrum and it kind of depends on i mean look you've got people who are who are more narcissistic than than other people and i wouldn't pick on one particular trade uh around around that i think often it just depends on the situation it's it's putting the people in the right context that triggers that and and sometimes quite understandably pushes them into being you know self-centered maybe a little more self-centered rather than narcissistic which is a whole different other other area um just to speak a little bit about what you do in addition to the intro um you know lots of people that are with 42 courses they're in small companies and some are in big corporations around the world and um so what kind of training do you give to people over zoom currently because of covering conditions what do you do for people in the workplace yeah so what i'm really focused on at the moment because you know right now we're hopefully coming towards the end of the health crisis that the world has been in for the last kind of year and a half if not a little bit a little bit more so i've been really focused on how do you stand out when trust in getting credibility via this modality here when there is a camera in front of you and more specifically as well from your work from home office because the health crisis really changed our ideas and maybe ideals around what it is to be a professional communicator or communicate in a professional manner so i've been helping people all over the world with that at all kinds of levels uh including zoom themselves so i now train uh the zoom executives people who are now being onboarded into zoom and zoom sales team and exactly how to do this really well and and actually you you do one-on-one as well and i've heard you in another podcast speaking you even help people like in preparation for giving a eulogy yeah yeah absolutely yes i mean i've helped people in all kinds of situations i've helped a number of people on on eulogies which is a really kind of well very special thing to to be asked to get involved with and to help people with because well what a big you know it's a really big moment and a lot of people are are watching and and there's there's so much weight put on that moment not only by other people in the in the let's call it audience um but also on the person themselves giving that eulogy they want to do it right and they want people to walk up to them afterwards i mean they want to do it right for that person you know who they're giving the eulogy of they want to do it right for themselves and really express themselves and they do quite rightly want people to walk up them afterwards and go that was really nice thanks very much for that they want to do right by that audience as well so there's a lot of factors in there to get right and it's a it's a lot of uh pressure i haven't had to do it myself but um but i have helped a lot of people with it and i've it's been lovely when they've come back to me and said that went really well it would and one of their main things is is they don't they don't want to they don't want their emotions to take over to the extent that they cannot deliver it they want to get that right uh combination of having really true feeling in there but still being able to deliver for the audience and it is quite a hard thing to do yeah and yeah you talk about helping people and that's you know you're educating and that's a lot of what you do and your book truth and lies audiobook nice it's everywhere you need to get it because it's uh it's it's what people are really thinking and i would say if you are interested in people you should read this book okay um and it's it was interesting for me when i started reading it you you jump straight in with a body language myth buster as it were i think it might be your pet peeve about people if you cross your arms then you know if this then that is this your pet peeve about the simplistic analysis yeah so often we call that absolutists you know if this then that if crossed arms then closed which is just okay well that's true until it isn't and it very often isn't true and so that's okay if you keep getting that wrong if you keep getting that analysis wrong so long as there aren't very big stakes on getting it wrong but there could be enough stakes on getting it wrong but it really messes things up by having that if if this then that analysis so really um truth and lie is what people are really thinking uh and thanks for showing them those uh those digital versions there it's always great to see those what i say it is is what it really is is a book on critical thinking disguised as a book on body language because the publishers came to tracy myself and said um and said okay we want you to book a read write a book on reading body language and i said well i don't really want to do that there's so much out there already some of it's really already really good some of it's really not good at all and i was just i just didn't know what if anything i could really add to that because the previous books were on how to really present your body language to influence and persuade and then the third book that i wrote was on how to deal with difficult situations tame the primitive brain how to deal with difficult what seemed like difficult people but really it's about how to manage yourself with an understanding of evolutionary behavioral psychology so so this fourth book they said write a book on body language and immediately we said yeah no and then thought about it for a few moments and went shouldn't have said no actually should have should have said yes and then when well what would a really good book on reading body language be and came up with this idea well it would be a book on thinking better about people how do you think more accurately about people and how can you use body language to help and critical thinking more importantly to help you think better about people so to your point um brent you know all the work that i do is really about understanding people better and tr and and for me trying to help people have a better life by understanding people better all i'm trying to do is trying to help yeah that's all that's all i'm doing and that there is a fantastic methodology in the book i won't give it away because i want people to go and read the book but uh it's like a little checklist for every situation so you can judge it in a better way and i was just wondering like in your non-work life outside of work uh how do you use your body language skills in the everyday um so i try in terms of like consciously reading other people's body language um or anal you know better work use of the word is analyzing better anal you know analyzing what's going on try not to because you know that would be a really annoying person to be around because it's like i'm consciously judging you while we're trying to get on and have a a relationship together and so you've got to get the right combination of just trying to work out what matters and what doesn't matter like what is like if you are if you are lying to me what does it matter anyway why is that so important giving that lying is one of our most important social skills as is telling the truth it more becomes about are you lying to me when you shouldn't be or are you telling me the truth when you shouldn't be that's that's the more and and how's that and am i picking up on that and how is that making me feel right now and is that good or if it feels bad should i just continue with it anyway because a bit of bad feeling is part of life anyway and i've got to push on through and just manage that bad feeling that's that's coming because you know what could come at the end of that is a really strong important relationship so look there's there's it's complex it's human it's this human dynamic so it's super complex what i try to do is create really simple models so people can get in get a handhold on that complexity and hold on there for the long term rather than relationships kind of slipping from them or communication slipping from them because they couldn't quite get a grapple on it because it's super slippy and and and and uh and complex anyway i'm not sure that really answers your question but it but it but it but that's what came to mind for so but are you able to switch it off are you able to switch all your expertise off or it's still there and you just don't react to it well yeah so so the expertise yes of course because because that's a critical thinking process and that you really have to decide to do that because it's quite uh it's not very critical thinking is not very energy efficient so so the brain doesn't really want to do it it would rather make snap judgments so so critical thinking yes you have to switch switch on and it'll switch off on its own pretty quickly especially under stress and pressure it'll just turn itself off the snap judgments that i make you know my instinct no that's my instinct is no better than yours or anybody else's okay our instincts if you're alive and i'm alive our instincts are pretty our instincts are pretty good okay the key is is can i switch on my critical thinking and therefore know that i sh i might be able to think differently about the instinctual reaction that i've had because my instinct is biased and it's biased to my survival right now and not biased towards truth or fact or um or accuracy is probably the best way to say it my instinct just like yours doesn't care about being accurate okay it wants to be safe today accurate tomorrow and so and so that's why we have to question our instinct but we don't have to but if if you are going to be a good analyst of people and non-verbal communication you have to question your instinct because your instinct is in it for you not the majority out there again i hope that makes sense yeah yeah um another simplistic thing about uh that people talk about when they're entry body language analysis let's say is of course the famous handshake and i just want to speak about just go back five years the trump handshake which was you know the media were obsessed with it trudeau i think was the first to really you know to overcome it and come in extended arm coming in hot is it true mark that you trained justin trudeau you know what i don't tell anybody about the clients that i train so even if i did or even if i didn't there's no way that i would deliver that information right here right now else how would i ever how would i ever work but but but uh you know it could look it could easily look like i did i you know i can see that for sure okay but leading on from that there's an interesting sentence in the book it says all body language is a display of power or as a response to a display of power can you elaborate on that a bit yeah so that's a model that's a model about body language which means it's not necessarily accurate but it's helpful so so when you hear that it would be very easy for somebody to go well hang on i don't think it is and that's fine like go away and go i don't think it is and create your own model around this this is my model okay the all body language is a display of power or response to a display of power and the model really works if you understand power as just being the the interplay of forces whatever forces uh are around so look i'm reacting all the time to the forces uh around me i've got some i've got some big lights here now and again and every time my my head turns over here suddenly i get this big bright light in my eyes and that's gonna do stuff to my to my pupils and so i'm responding to the display of power over over here yeah now what i could do is open my eyes wide like this in order to try and um try and fight back against that powerful light and go there's no way you're gonna make my pupils dilate look i'm gonna i'm gonna now swamp myself with even more light so that's why i say it's a response to power or or a display of of power because it's an easy way to start thinking about stuff so whenever i see an interaction and i want to go let me start thinking about that i start to go well what is the power being being displayed here or what is the power being responded to here it's a way of starting to think about this it's not necessarily where i end but it's often where i'll start on that okay i want to move on to your ted talk because it's uh i saw it a very long time ago and it's uh it's fascinating and if if you haven't seen it anyone watching i'll put the link in the description and on the podcast as well um and you spoke really eloquently and it's got such a lovely arc to that speech and um it resolves with you know you you saying how being open with your body language leads to new connections and new possibilities yeah i i'm not afraid of public speaking i i've just come from uh quite a few many years in corporate and uh i had lots of people uh say you know any tips and this kind of stuff um many introverted people and i just wanted to know have you ever trained someone have you had a great success with someone who fears getting on stage that's almost like a phobia and they've overcome that oh totally yeah yeah constantly yes uh one specific example that comes to mind was one client of mine uh this while back now they would literally come out in what they call in north america hives but i'd call it bots okay they come out in in spots especially around the neck chest area and right up into the um into their uh lower left neck area would they say their face would get saved the unconscious mind is quite quite impressive in that it would go i'm not gonna spoil your face but i'm gonna let you know that we shouldn't be doing this okay i'm gonna let you know what's going on here anyway they would they would come out in in those hives and yeah i stopped that completely now this is not a some kind of mystical uh kind of thing there's a there's a pro there's a there's a process the kind of double prong process that we go through here one is understanding the trigger for this and and and how this has come about and why the body might and the mind might be being really helpful right now because the moment you make your body and your mind really unhelpful it's like wow why'd you keep doing that to me why is that why is that happening i wish it wouldn't happen you're fighting a couple of things that are just basically in charge of all of this and it's it's it's nonsense to try and fight them they're keeping you alive the same part of the body which is giving you those that reaction is running your heart at the moment it's just trying to help so you've got to acknowledge that and then not acknowledge how helpful it's trying to be right now and then um first of all do that sometimes i think acknowledge where this reaction has come from as well and as otherwise it is this kind of ghost that you don't quite understand that keeps walking around with you which is you know managed to attach itself uh uh you know to your back there's lots of lots of metaphors being used there that other other psychological ideas used but um uh so there's that but then the major thing is a physical counter measure is using the body on purpose in order to start to send bigger and stronger signals to uh that that part of the mind that's been trying to save your life send bigger stronger signals that this is this is okay this is gonna be all right that you are confident instead of unconfident in that situation or or nervous or anxious in that situation so yeah that that's been dealt with uh a number of times um you're a fantastic public speaker mark and um another it brings to mind uh sir ken robinson another famous ted talk and um he spoke of course about that schools kill creativity in some cases and uh i've heard you speak in other podcasts that you know you're a dyslexic and it's uh it wasn't a great time for you at school chris the founder of 42 courses also dyslexic super smart guy like yourself super creative lifelong learner um what do you think is uh would be something that you would like to see in schools that could be done differently than this old traditional model that can bring out creativity that can instill confidence for things like public speaking things that are very useful in the adult world yeah so so i think the key here and specifically around dyslexia because that's really all that i i you know know about is um simply and this is not my idea this is an idea that other people have come up with is first of all for people who are dyslexic to get uh seen a bit earlier to get diagnosed or just or just the id the the potential that that there may be some dyslexia to come up a little bit earlier and then for the the behaviors and the skills especially that come out of dyslexia for those to be uh championed a little bit a little bit more rather than when i was at school and you know this didn't happen to every dyslexic that i know some had a great had a great time but for me i was part of that group who were um stupid lazy not trying um you know and and and the confusion was was tricky because i was so advanced it would seem in in some areas and so disadvanced it in some areas it was confusing for everybody it was confusing for the teachers it was confusing for me it's like all they could work out was well it must be that you're just stupid or lazy well they made me go for lazy a lot more because because at some levels there was there was such a high ability it would seem that it was it was totally incongruent and they didn't know what to do with that incongruency and so therefore because they were adults and i'm a kid like what do i know how do i know like if the adults don't know what if all they can do is get angry annoyed upset and kind of aggressive around it uh what what am i left with with doing i'm just uh i'm just a kid at school i mean i don't even get to decide whether i show up or not i kind of got to go i've got you know it's the law that i show up in this environment where everybody seems to get just a bit upset about about me so so it was i think the more that could be changed um and i know it is changing in a in a lot of places but the more it can change better off everybody else will be because you see this world around you that you that you like right now uh dyslexics invented that like we came up with this stuff for you right now so so the the more you encourage us uh the better it's it's gonna be so so you know encourage us we're okay yeah it's it's it's a gift in a way i mean i've spoken to chris the founder of 42 courses and he saw the sir kane robinson uh speech and he said because it's essentially a call to arms right for for change and and chris said yeah okay i'm gonna change the world a little bit and i'm gonna make uh e-learning that is accessible fun motivating so that you get to the finish and everything so in in that way it's a complete advantage for chris it's a it's it's a gift yeah well learning's great like learning's superb because because because everything can be learned you know everything there isn't there isn't anything on the planet that you can't learn to be better at and that if you've got the right teaching or you know good teaching that you can be better at it uh than you were yesterday like learning means you can be better than you were yesterday like every day you can get better at something like that no yeah practice as well so there's learning and there's practice you know and there's just thinking about stuff that you've learned and practicing and then thinking about it but you know so there's some other elements as well but like what a brilliant world where you can go you know oh i could i could be better at this tomorrow by tomorrow i could be a lot better at this so learning is is fantastic so you know my hat is off to anybody who wants to create learning for people because it's just it's just helpful isn't it there's no downside to being helpful wholeheartedly agree yeah and another huge learning that you give the world so generously is the behavior panel and for people that don't know could you just give us a little summary of what the behavior panel gets up to yeah so uh behavior panel is the youtube show uh that i'm part part of with scott and greg and chase there and we kind of look at um uh popular culture like things that are in the news a lot of true crime as well that people seem to be really super you know interested in which is great and we analyze videos from a body language and behavior point of view often from an interrogation point of view as well and we just try and be helpful about being a how you might go about analyzing what's going on i think often to help people understand other people better and sometimes to help them know that they can feel a little safer in the world and that they can use some of their cognitive abilities to make sure they and the people they love are in safer places for them in general in in a lot of the world right now in uh not necessarily in the majority but a lot of the world right now it's it's it's a pretty safe place as to how it often you know may have been in in past history and longer history but all the same it doesn't hurt to have a little bit of knowledge so you can feel a little bit more confident um you know about about the world so that's what we're trying to do yeah every video is just completely absorbing intriguing informative um is there one that stands out for you which has been the the most intriguing for you as a as a parent yeah yeah like prince andrew is a great one i i love prince andrew um because yeah because it's a it's an utter disaster it's not a disaster um and and there's so there's so many layers of human behavior going on there so you know not only deceit but um the arrogance um and and you can you can see how this is and he has a lot of and and he has a lot of knowledge of how to resist interrogation and resist this um this interview that's going on and and so he has that he has knowledge he has ways of dealing with with that but he also has a huge amount of arrogance at the same time and so that makes him very um susceptible to to what happens and the interviewer is phenomenal phenomenon yeah and and you see her working against and and her her skill and power in working against what he's trying to do to resist the interview that's going going on here um one of the things she does is leave space or a pregnant pause that's a good thing to know if you are asking someone if they are telling the truth or not right just give them space totally totally ask ask good questions and shut up is the key um and a lot of it is about you as the interviewer being able to manage yourself and the social awkwardness of leaving a lot of space and not jumping in and helping people and saving their saving their life especially when they're high status so so andrew there is putting on the high status and it would be very easy for the interviewer there to unconsciously jump in and save his life and help him and she is brilliant at bolting herself down holding it down and not falling for for any of any of that um also he's border into a supremely kind of high-ranking place he's borrowed his mum's house yeah yeah for this not even borrowed it really because i think i think the story is is that is that he wasn't you know he's surreptitiously borrowed it knowing the status that it will have but she's brilliant she's shown up in in in a military jacket herself she's either consciously or unconsciously she's understood some of these cues that will that will that will go on she's brilliant brilliant so it's great to watch her great to watch him and is there anyone any other subjects that's been on the behavior panel that you would say like okay yes we unpacked it but you really do not have to be a a behavior expert to see that this person is being deceitful hmm his here's here's the thing i think i think everything that we've looked at depending on your bias it would be very easy for you to see see stuff that or have an analysis that we don't have so i think it's always is as obvious as it might look to us or other viewers it's always worth taking the time to go look let's let's unpack this let's really look at this in detail so that people are able to see stuff that they may have missed or check out their own bias around it so i so i think i think no i think everything is worth in in investigating and nothing is there going guy you know you don't have to be an expert to because you don't you don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and and you don't have to be an expert to have an opinion and you for your opinion to be accurate and right but at some point you're kind of guessing and you just guessed right what we're trying to do is go what are the possibilities here let's unpack the possibilities and then start to make a conscious judgment um that can be against our own bias so sometimes i'll look through a video and i'll do it first of all from a really positive bias and then i'll do it from a negative bias and then i'll put the two things together and go so i'm so i'm now switching on a specific radar to look for data to confirm either end of the bias which again is not something that most people do and it's hard work because now you're fighting a bias or you're or it's easy work because you're just going look there's there's my bias it it it falls into my bias so that's that's the job of of critical thinking i think we're trying to do our best as a group creating some a piece of critical thinking and hopefully that's why it's so interesting to people or it's one of the reasons why it's so interesting i i think so and obviously it's interesting to such a broad spectrum of people because you've gone in all just over a year i think you've gone from zero to like 260 000 subscribers right now and yeah one thing i think is really interesting i love to see the progress of the backgrounds and now have you been pulling these guys and saying look marketing let's get your books let's get your courses in the background let's get your lighting correct are you the leader in that sense no not at all when when we first started i already had these the book posters up here because that's what i already had up there and and and a few weeks after that i think the other guy started going hang on that's kind of maybe a good idea we should you know stick some branding up there and um so i already had that going on because i've been showing up on on video doing this kind of thing for years um already um but i think i think everybody all of us have thought about well how do we light ourselves better how do we show up on camera better you know everybody's in in improving you know i've gone from uh i've gone from you know when we were first doing this let me just switch uh switch cameras for you here when we were first doing that this you know this was this was pretty much the view that that everybody was was uh was getting it was that one there and and now you know we've changed we just you know now you're getting something way way better yeah like yeah like this but it's still not still not perfect and you know what if when this is over um you know we may well uh we may i may well need to rebuild this in a studio somewhere and for people who want to like really pro up their background there's so many helpful videos that you've done you've done lighting you've done the mics you've done everything all set up stuff so check out mark bowden on there on youtube um now i wanted to ask uh obviously there's quite a bit of a slant to american true crimes on the behavior panel will there be uh room in the future do you think for more uk based grounds harold shipman or anything like that yeah i think that's interesting so i mean anything where there is good as good a quality video as possible because we're using you know we're a youtube show so it is it is a visual medium though that though i know a lot of people you know listen to it as a as a podcast which is great as well they like to hear our chat they like to you know they like to be doing something else at the same at the same time uh which is great we love we love that uh but yeah anything that there's great a lot of people have been asking for for for jimmy savile uh and i can quite see why uh because that that whole thing is extraordinary and i know uh you know and i think um there's obviously the louis thoreau uh video with him yeah also a great interview i can't remember his name now but one of the guys who was editor of one of the red top papers in the uk did an even probably an even better uh i think a hard talk okay maybe video with him okay very where jimmy eats uh eats a banana in order to you know it basically is interrogation resistance he eats a banana that's his he is you know like like everybody who can be very helpful or very nice not a pacifier uh an objective no it's a barrier yeah it's a barrier and it's a distraction it's like because because because the interviewer comes in there into a really hot area and he just gets out a banana and starts eating a banana and it's like now what do we do now what do we do because he's now got the audience in his hands because it's jimmy savile eating a banana which you can't top you can't top that you can't he now owns the whole territory it is you know sad to say but it's genius it's genius i just want to ask you about another subject of the behavior panel but in a roundabout way just two lead-up questions um i'm a huge fan of malcolm gladwell um yeah and in talking to strangers i think it was he he said that humans are terrible at knowing if people are telling the truth or not but you're saying it can be overcome and and i mean you know gladwell's being being a good kind of generalist you know humans are terrible which humans where when like when like i think you know here's what i know um here's what i know is is lying is one of our most important social skills as is telling the truth accepting a lie is one of our most important social skills as is telling the truth so when gladwell says hey human beings are really bad at being able to tell if somebody's lying well yeah if we i don't know whether it's that they're bad at it or they're good at knowing when to accept that lie because it benefits them and it benefits the group as a whole i've not read that that book i'm dyslexic i try to read as few books as i humanly can because it's it's really hard it's not impossible for me but it's damn hard work so so and also here's my problem is when i read books um i think i've read them and so and so people come to me and they go so if you read that book and i go yeah i have they go well what did you what did you make of it and i go well and i start and they're like how did where did you like how's that in the i didn't get that from the book at all um and i for a time i just thought i was my you know i was reading better than anybody else like i understood stuff better than anybody else that was kind of my assumption now my assumption is is that reading is so hard for me i make it up i'm just making up what i've read so i can get so i can feel like i've read the book and so i come up with ideas in the book that aren't in the book and and some of the ideas are really good so i go ah it's about this they're like people are like wow that's amazing that's a really good idea anyway so i haven't read bladwell's book what i assume is going on here is that he's not he isn't potentially quite understanding or doesn't want to put in because it doesn't suit him that um that there might be an advantage to being a bad at detecting lies he's made it a disadvantage he's gone well we're a bit rubbish as human beings at detecting lies no it could be a real advantage just imagine going out into the world and you could detect every lie and inaccuracy that was happening out there like how would you how would you have a conversation with with a friend like how would you get on because you'd be like any exaggeration you'd be able to see that their unconscious mind knows it's an exaggeration it's like so how would they tell you a story it's the opposite of ricky gervais is the invention of lying almost right itself is the opposite yeah yeah exactly and because you know ricky's comedy is all about as is a lot of great if not all great comedy is all about being socially inept is all about getting it wrong and therefore being the outsider the clown is a complete outsider because the clown which rich ricky is the clown doesn't see the world the same way as everybody else and so they're a social um outsider that's why the little tram you know charlie chaplin's all always on his own tries to make relationships but they all fold you know they all close down and he moves on to the next place because he's outside of society he sees the world in a different in a different way isn't able to socially uh integrate and that's why you know comedy is full of people doing the most socially undesirable thing at exactly the wrong time and we go oh what an idiot you should have said and but there's an an element of truth in that because the clown is is saying the truth when most other people aren't going to tell you that the truth anyway yeah that's locked into that direction there very interesting i just want to return to gladwell because yeah yeah um he's also said on many keynote uh speeches and stuff he said that you know it would be very strange if he if he didn't change his mind about things like every five years perhaps as he learns more and more and there's adam grant's latest book which is called think again and malcolm gladwell says in talking to strangers i think again it is i think it's talking to strangers he says that amanda knox subject matter of the behavior yeah yeah he's totally innocent because there is not a shred of evidence against her so i'm just wondering if you you know we're in a room with malcolm gladwell would you say that well you know we've had a look and maybe you could think again or um yeah i mean i don't know whether i'd go to that because i don't know how much it really interests him you know or useful you know the reason we talk about amanda knox is simply because the people who are interested in what we do said hey will you look at amanda knox um you know so so why is gladwell looking at amanda knox because it proves his point so so i i you know look he believes she's not she's not guilty and beliefs are interesting because beliefs are what we know to be true and require no more evidence around so i'm sure me showing up and going well here's my evidence would change his mind not one job because he believes he doesn't know like he just believes it from from the stuff that he's put together that's good i'd like that's great for him i'm i'm i'm all for him carry on keep keep going as you were as you were mr gladwell okay go forth my my my good man um now at the same time our our audience are going gosh we don't quite quite know because we've looked at or we've looked at everything out there just as maybe gladwell has done we've looked at everything out there and still we're undecided around this so all we're doing is going well here's a little bit more for you to look at from our area of expertise and thinking and see what that little bit more for you does for you does it help you does it does it does it push your your assumptions about this does it reinforce your assumptions about about this but i'm i'm pretty convinced that uh malcolm gladwell would not care one jot about what i said about i would be i'd be slightly disappointed if he was like if i can change your mind yourself you do yourself a disservice now mark i've used up so much of your valuable time i just want to finish with a very left field question that i had lots of fun with in interviews when i was uh working in big company um you have to choose to fight between a horse sized duck quack quack or 100 duck-sized horses or 100 small horses so a huge duck or 100 very small horses so which do you choose to fight and why yeah here's the thing this is what's going to happen is is my dyslexic thinking kicks in and background and that's why it's interesting and the and institute you know and the worry about institutional ideas and i suddenly start breaking your question so i'm just going to carry on um well i have an easy choice which is the 100 hundred duck-sized horses um because because i can hide from them i believe i can place myself in a in a building that i see so i've just avoided the whole fight thing from moment one but i have chosen um i think i think i can protect myself from a hundred duck-sized horses whereas a a horse-sized duck like horses are horses are powerful anyway but ultimately i think horses are quite quite domesticated and passive whereas ducks i think are still white and it may be a wild duck as well like you haven't been really i mean you didn't say it was a wild there aren't many wild horses out there anyway are there but wild ducks there's plenty of wild ducks and so if you're thinking like a wild duck as a as a horse that could be quite dangerous and i'm even thinking you know i could build quite a strong building and and the horse sized duck could be able to kick it in so i've got no protection around that i can't even because i'd need some time like i'm not gonna go straight into the fight like i need some time to like you know be in a be protected for a bit and go how are we gonna deal with this okay let's have a quick think at least a quick think about this without being attacked because if i'm being attacked by either one you know and in a fight my chances of thinking about this you know and i've got no training the thing is is that you resort back to your you know under stress and pressure you resort back to your training well there was no you know where i trained there was no module on on fighting fighting either a hundred uh you know duck-sized horses or one uh horse-sized duck so i got no i got no training to resort back to so i need time to think first of all and so so i think i'll have more time to think with those duck-sized uh horses for example they can't fly for a start okay so they can't so they are ground they are all uh on on on the ground so so you know so you know and even just having this time not being in a fight i've realized okay great so so um uh ducks duck-sized uh hang on duck-sized horses yes okay so the horse-sized duck can fly that's flipping dangerous isn't it because now that's a predator from above and the sides okay the duck sized uh the the hundred duck-sized horses cannot fly that's just like right that's just like rats that's just like they're just that's why you know would you rather have an attack of rats or an attack of pigeons like you know uh pigeons are more annoying i think pigeons are more annoying you know because you can't stand on a chair with a pigeon it will it's up in the air anyway anyway you can see how my thinking goes on this it's quite an interesting uh what answers have other people given uh incredibly varied i have to say about it hundreds of times but yours was the most extensive and analytical and interesting i would say but it's a cross-reference question it confirms what you already know about the person and it shows that you have a great analytical mind as in truth and lies you give people the the methodology the template to to judge the situation to you know get a better um feeling for it for yourself so thank you for the 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VtnbK3JRAzY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnbK3JRAzY | Science and technology in the People's Republic of China | Wikipedia audio article | science and technology in China have developed rapidly during the 1990s to 2010's the Chinese government has placed emphasis through funding reform and societal status on science and technology as a fundamental part of the socio-economic development of the country as well as for national prestige China has made rapid advances in areas such as education infrastructure high-tech manufacturing academic publishing patents and commercial applications and is now in some areas and by some measures a world leader China is now increasingly targeting indigenous innovation and aims to reform remaining weaknesses topic history China was a world leader in science and technology until the early years of the Qing Dynasty Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as paper making printing the compass and gunpowder the four great inventions contributed to the economic development in Asia and Europe Chinese activity started to decrease in the 14th century unlike in Europe scientists did not attempt to reduce observations of nature to mathematical laws and they did not form a scholarly community with criticisms and progressive research there was an increasing concentration on literature arts and public administration while science and technology were seen as trivial or restricted to limited practical applications the causes of this great divergence continued to be debated one factor is argued to be the Imperial examination system which removed the incentives for Chinese intellectuals to learn mathematics or to conduct experimentation after being defeated repeatedly by Western nations in the 19th century Chinese reformers began promoting modern science and technology as part of the self strengthening movement after the Communist victory in 1949 science and technology research was organized based on the model of the Soviet Union it was characterized by a bureaucratic organization led by non scientists research according to the goals of central plans separation of research from production specialized research institutes concentration on practical applications and restrictions on information flows researchers should work as collectives for society rather than as individuals seeking recognition many studied in the Soviet Union which also transferred technology the Cultural Revolution which sought to remove perceived bourgeois influences and attitudes caused large negative effects and disruptions among other measures it saw the scientific community and formal education attacked intellectuals were sent to do manual labor universities and academic journals were closed most research ceased and for nearly a decade China trained no new scientists and engineers after Mao Zedong's death S&T was established as one of the four modernizations in 1976 the new leader Deng Xiao ping an architect of the Chinese economic reform was a strong promoter of S&T and reversed the policies of the Cultural Revolution the Soviet inspired system was then gradually reformed media began promoting the value of s and T scientific thinking and scientific achievement the third and fourth generations of leaders came almost exclusively from technical backgrounds the State Council of the People's Republic of China in 1995 issued the decision on accelerating S&T development which described planned science and technology development for the coming decades it described S & T as the chief productive force and affecting economic development social progress national strength and living standards S & T should become closely associated with market needs not only Soviet style in stitute should do research but also universities and private industries state institutions should form joint ventures with Chinese or foreign venture capital in order for S&T developments to reach the industry S&T personal should become more occupationally mobile pay should be linked to economic results and age and seniority should become less important for personal decisions intellectual property rights should be respected information exchange should improve and there should be competition and open bidding on projects the environment should be protected Chinese indigenous S&T in certain key areas should be especially promoted public officials should improve their understanding of S&T and incorporate S&T in decision making society including Communist Party youth organizations labor unions and the mass media should actively promote respect for knowledge and human talents during the last 30 years China concentrated on building physical infrastructure such as roads and ports one policy during the last decade has been to ask for technology transfer in order for foreign companies to gain access to the Chinese market China is now increasingly targeting indigenous innovation during this period China has succeeded in developing an innovation infrastructure founded on the establishment of over 100 science and technology parks in many parts of the country along with encouragement of entrepreneurship outside the state-owned sector yip and McKern argue that chinese firms have evolved through three phases as their innovation capabilities have matured and that by 2017 many of them are of world standard they are now strong competitors in the China market and increasingly in foreign markets where they are establishing local operations topic techno nationalism while the term techno nationalism was originally applied to the United States in the 1980s it has since been used to describe nationalistic technology policies in many countries particularly in Asia Chinese techno nationalism is rooted in the country's humiliation at the hands of more advanced countries in the 19th century indeed China's leaders like those of other countries have long seen scientific and technological development is vital for achieving economic affluence national security and national prestige lacking indigenous technological intellectual property and innovation of seen as key national problems the 21st century has thus seen a series of central government initiatives designed to promote indigenous innovation and technological development more generally in China these include the national medium and long term program for science and technology development 2006 220 the strategic emerging industries initiative the internet plus initiative and the made in China 2025 program among others through these initiatives the Chinese state has intervened in the economy in a variety of ways to promote national technological development and reduce reliance on other countries prioritized industries and firms are protected and guided there are systematic efforts to replace foreign technology and intellectual properties with indigenous technology foreign companies are given many incentives for technology transfer and for moving R&D to China at the same time the technological abilities of domestic companies are supported in various ways such policies have generated considerable conflict between China and developed countries particularly the United States although China has often proved inflexible when its policies have been challenged nationalism and nationalistic achievements have been seen becoming the main ideological justifications and societal glue for the regime as Marxism loses influence some science and technology mega-projects has been seen as questionable trophy projects done for propaganda purposes with Chinese state controlled media being filled with reports of Chinese achievements topic gross domestic expenditure on research and development in its medium and long term plan for the development of Science and Technology 2006 to 2020 China fixed itself the target of devoting 2.5 percent of GDP to research and development by 2020 between 2003 and 2012 gross domestic expenditure on research and development GERD rose from one point one three percent to one point nine eight percent of GDP suggesting that the country was on track to meet its target the research firm battle estimates that China's GERD will exceed that of the United States by 2023 however several convergent factors cast doubt over the accuracy of battles prediction the deceleration in China's rate of economic growth in 2014 the considerable drop in industrial production since 2012 and the major stock market slide in mid-2015 after progressing rapidly for a decade GERD stabilized at 2.0 seven percent of GDP in 2015 China devoted 5.1 percent of total research spending to basic research in 2015 according to the UNESCO Institute for statistics this is up from 4.8% on average over the past decade but less than in 2004 6.0% the prolonged policy focus on experimental development has resulted in enterprises contributing three-quarters of Chinese research spending seventy seven percent of total expenditure on R&D in 2015 enterprises focus onyx Bera mental development which accounted for as much as 97 percent of their total research expenditure by 2015 business enterprises contributed 60% of gerd in 2000 and 74% in 2008 in 2004 74% of gerd went on experimental development China aims to increase the share of basic research to 15% of total research spending by 2020 topic institutions the State Council of the People's Republic of China is the top administrative organ in China immediately below it are several ministries and ministry level organizations involved with various aspects of Science and Technology the State Council science and education leading group consisting of the leaders of the major science bodies attempts to organize the national policy efficiency of overall coordination has been questioned with various agencies seen as having overlapping missions and rivalries for resources and sometimes engaging in wasteful duplication the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China formerly the state Science and Technology Commission is the body primarily responsible for Science and Technology strategy and policy it also administers national research programs S&T development zones and international cooperation the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China oversees education as well as research institutes at universities several other ministries such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China are also involved in S&T the national planning office of philosophy and social sciences directs planning for social sciences and philosophy the Chinese Academy of manses Cass is the most prestigious professional science organization in China with China's scientific elite being members it directs many research institutes research programs graduate training programs and gives influential advice the Chinese Academy of Engineering CAI gives important advice but unlike the caste does not have research institutes of its own the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Cass has a similar role to cast for social sciences and philosophy there are also many more narrow academies such as the Chinese Academy of fishery sciences the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSF C gives grants to individual researchers after peer review the People's Liberation Army General armaments Department directs military R&D the national scientific and academic organizations affiliated to the China Association for science and technology are also important forces in scientific and technological research research is carried out by governmental research institutes in higher learning institutions and by private enterprises local governments have become increasingly important in R&D funding and may now contribute up to half of government spending intense rivalry for research and high tech industry has been argued to sometimes create wasteful subsidized overcapacity dispersal of efforts better centralized in a few localities and Puli judged bureaucratic subsidizing of technologies that soon become outdated topic national programs as of 2010 China's national R&D programs encompass the key technologies program renamed in 2006 as G Chun or support national high technology program 863 program national basic research program 973 program spark program rural technology torch program new technology commercialization by creating special high-tech zones and incubators key laboratories program engineering research centers state key and new product program Innovation Fund for small and medium-sized enterprises special technology development project for research institutes action plan for promoting trade by science and technology national new products program agricultural S&T transfer fund the major national programs received fifteen to twenty percent of government R&D spending in 2010 they funded research after a stated competitive proposal procedure in universities institutes and enterprise important project may receive funding from several programs the programs have arguably had a strong effect but have also been involved in scandals corruption and fraud they have been accused mainly of producing derivative works rather than driving innovation and it has been claimed that they ignore merit in selecting projects in favor of cronyism China is trying to improve their efficiency through measures such as more peer review and evaluations topic economic and technological development zones [Music] based on the success of the special economic zones of the People's Republic of China China has created economic and technological development zones they have the purposes of building up high-tech industries attracting foreign investment increasing exports and improve the regional economy they are considered to have been very successful and have been expanded from an initial 14 to 54 topic education and R&D personnel in the first participation of Chinese student in an international student assessment test the 2009 program for international student assessment 15 year old students from Shanghai ranked first in all of the three categories mathematics science and reading the Chinese students scored particularly well compared to other nations in mathematics one explanation for the Chinese results may be a culture emphasizing education and competitive examinations and more time spent studying in part due to less participation in activities such as sports teaching have become a higher status occupation also industrialized Shanghai which has done important educational reforms may not be representative for the rest of China while there was no evidence of cheating or technical problems with the testing Shanghai which attracts many immigrants from the rest of China may have allowed particularly good students to study in the city and the students may have been told that the test was important for China's image the OECD director of the testing Andreas Schleicher said that the results were expected to produce astonishment and had been examined for accuracy by international experts after the OECD received the shanghai scores he also said that the results refute the commonly held hypothesis that china just produces rote learning and large fractions of these students demonstrate their ability to extrapolate from what they and apply the knowledge very creatively in novel situations in 2015 four major cities in China were tested resulting in much lower scores 531 in mathematics 518 in science and 494 in reading China has become of the world's biggest sources for research and development personnel between 2000 and 2008 the number of engineers and scientists more than doubled to 1.5 nine million relative to population size this is still low compared to major developed nations like the United States and Japan but the gap is rapidly closing the number of doctorate Awards in science and engineering have increased tenfold since the early 1990s the number of students in general at universities increased from 1 million to 5.4 million during the 1998 to 2007 period in 2009 alone China produced over 10,000 PhD engineering graduates and as many as 500,000 BSC graduates in engineering mathematics information technology and computer science more than any other country the c9 Lee pitched as China's Ivy League is an alliance of nine elite Chinese universities which receive a high amount of national research funding and produce a large share of national research output Chinese universities contribute an unusually large share of patents the universities receive about half of R&D money from private enterprises eight out of nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China have engineering degrees 2.25 million students have studied abroad since 1978 340 thousand was studying abroad in 2011 which was an increase by 20 percent over the previous year in total 818 thousand 400 have returned to China with the occurring in particular in recent years 186,000 200 returned to China in 2011 which was an increase by 38% over the previous year China offers several benefits for high achieving foreign educated Chinese who return to China students are now also returning because increased job opportunities unlike previously when many stayed abroad due lack of jobs in China a 2009 study found that only 10% of Chinese students plan to stay in the United States due to visa restrictions fear of lack of job opportunities and belief that US growth will lag behind average world growth rates 52% believed that the best job opportunities were in China which was in marked contrast with earlier surveys 74% felt that the best days of China's economy was coming 68 percent intended to start businesses when they returned for an educated students often provide crucial Science and Technology knowledge management skills and innovation abilities for scientific research and industry the senior management in high-tech companies are often foreign educated topic Chinese diaspora overseas Chinese as is the case for other diasporas and their homelands have contributed significantly to China's development they have been seen as an important channel for bringing trade investment and modern technology to China by both commercial activities and public nonprofit cooperation by using brain gan to attract highly educated overseas Chinese to return to China to work China has made significant improvements in its innovation ecosystem although there are some limitations to how sustainable this technique may be topic industrial espionage one of the objectives of Chinese intelligence activity abroad is alleged to be industrial espionage as well gaining military technology also private companies have been accused of espionage intelligence agencies suspect that thousands of Western companies may have been affected by data breaches that can be traced back to China topic international cooperation the China Internet Information Center stated in a 2005 article that China had intergovernmental cooperative S&T agreements with 96 nations cooperative S&T programs with 152 nations and regions and participated in more than 1,000 international S&T cooperative organizations NGO international exchanges and cooperative activities had increased the China Association for science and technology and related organizations as well as the National Natural Science Foundation of China participated in many cooperative international organizations Chinese researchers held two hundred and eighty-one leading posts on international organizations expert committees and held 293 executive member director or high-level positions topic technology transfer and R&D by multinational corporations in the early 1980s foreign companies began transferring technology by licensing agreements and sales of equipment later in the 1980s many multinational corporations started transferring technology by entering into joint ventures with Chinese companies in order to expand in China China in the 1990s introduced increasingly sophisticated regulations of foreign investment by which access to the Chinese market was traded for technology transfer the entry of China into the World Trade Organization in 2001 required this practice stop critics argue that it continues Chinese critics have argued such technology transfer may be useful for catching up but does not create new cutting-edge technologies China has increasingly encouraged multinational corporations to create R&D centers in China Chinese critics have argued that foreign owned R&D mainly benefits foreign companies and removes many talented Chinese researchers from indigenous companies and institutions Chinese supporters have argued that the foreign R&D serves as a role model and encouragement for indigenous companies and creates skilled communities from which labor and knowledge can easily flow to indigenous companies in 2010 there were 1,200 such R&D centers and 400 out the fortune 500 corporations had created such R&D centers corporations have argued that this is a necessity in order to adapt products for the local requirements of the Chinese market as well as it being essential for maintaining global competitiveness to make use the many available Chinese engineers and scientists China is now ranked first when multinational corporations are asked in which nation future R&D centers are most likely to be located topic innovation a 2005 report found serious shortcomings to China's national innovation system there were problems with services to help turn S&T work into results and the allocation of national funding to support S&T was far from optimal sometimes researchers became short-sighted if they get too close to the market another serious problem was that companies facing severe competition looked first to purchase foreign technology rather than investing in developing technology and technology development capacity at home in China many of the patent applications came from medium-sized enterprises 70 since small enterprises invest little in research China's hierarchical top-down society where Authority is greatly respected and feared has been argued to stifle creative debate China in a 2006 report outlined policies for improving innovation they include 20 large mega projects in areas such as nanotechnology high-end generic microchips aircraft biotechnology and new drugs this is combined with a more bottom-up approach on a Silicon Valley model consisting of small startups venture capital and cooperation between industry and universities it has also been argued that China is the world leader in making small innovative improvements to existing designs one example is continual improvements to the design of power supplies making them gradually smaller less expensive and more energy efficient this may not create completely new products or create headlines but may be more important for creating employment a 2016 NBER paper found that the Chinese economy is becoming increasingly innovative the study found that rising labor costs in China and expanded market opportunities in the world economy were the main drivers behind innovations the study also found that state-owned firms innovated less than private firms even though state-owned firms received far greater subsidies topic procurement the central Chinese government a large buyer of high-tech products in 2009 proposed controversial policies demanding that companies selling to it promote Chinese innovation and that the products sold are free of foreign intellectual property the most controversial parts were later withdrawn but local Chinese government's continued to use procurement to encourage indigenous innovation topic intellectual property effective protection of intellectual property has been seen as weak there has been an increasing recognition of that this discourages indigenous innovation and efforts has been made to strengthen the system China has been accused of not protecting foreign intellectual property and tacitly allowing such technologies to be copied and claimed to be Chinese intellectual property and even of directly facilitating the transfer of foreign technological intellectual property from corporations to Chinese companies companies are required to divulge to Chinese authorities the inner workings of many technologies in the name of national security and have accused the Chinese security forces of illegally sharing this technology with civilian industries topic patents in 2011 China became the nation with the greatest number of filed patent applications however this reflects in part that the government gives companies incentives for filing patent applications regardless of if eventually granted the percentage of patents applications in China filed by Chinese companies rose from less than 52% in 2006 to nearly 73 percent in 2010 World Intellectual Property Organization data shows that Chinese companies have also become more important regarding patents overseas with Chinese companies now being on place two and four regarding number of patent applications filed by individual companies China aims to transform the economy from made in China to designed in China and from contract manufacturing to having brand name companies with resulting improved profit margins China lags behind the United States for several patent indicators in 2013 US residents filed two hundred and eighty seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-one patents almost the same number as non-residents two hundred and eighty three thousand seven hundred and eighty-one in China on the other hand just 17 percent of patents were filed by non-residents and there were as many as seven hundred and four thousand nine hundred and thirty six resident applications to the Chinese state intellectual property office this compares with 21 percent of patent applications involving non-residents in Japan in addition although China is catching up fast it still trails the USA Japan and the European Union for the number of patents in force China counted 1851 triadic patents in the USPTO database in 2012 compared to fifteen thousand three hundred and ninety one for Japan thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy eight for the European Union and 13,000 785 for the United States among patents filed with the Chinese state intellectual property office in 2013 just over half sixty four thousand one hundred and fifty three of those filed by non-residents one hundred and twenty thousand two hundred were granted this compares with one in five for residence China's global share of triadic patents rose from 0.5% to 3.6 percent between 2002 and 2012 over the same period the Republic of Korea almost doubled its own world share to 5.5 percent up from 2.8 percent in 2012 Japan the European Union and the United States continued to dominate global patents accounting for twenty nine point six percent twenty six point nine percent and twenty six point five percent respectively this means that the big five accounted for 92 percent of the triadic patents in the world in 2012 topic standards to encourage innovation and avoid foreign intellectual property China has been developing indigenous technical standards one example is the td-scdma 3g standard critics have seen it as costly and delaying 3g introduction while supporters argue that it has increased technical abilities and experience which has increased Chinese competitiveness regarding 4G long term evolution time division duplex is being implemented as China's indigenous 4G standard topic academic publishing the Royal Society in a 2011 report on academic publishing stated that in share of English scientific research papers the United States was first followed by China the UK Germany Japan France and Canada the report predicted that China would overtake the United States sometime before 2020 possibly as early as 2013 China's scientific impact as measured by other scientists citing the published papers the next year is smaller although also increasing an analysis of ISI Web of Knowledge data found that China had increased its share of the most highly cited science articles from one point eight five percent in 2001 to eleven point three percent in 2011 by 2014 China could surpass Germany in the UK and be ranked second after the United States the share of the United States declined from sixty-four point three percent to fifty point seven percent during the same ten-year period a 2009 study of Chinese social science studies in the Social Sciences Citation Index found a slow increase until 1999 the 1999 to 2007 period saw a very rapid increase however in 2007 China still only contributed 1.3 9 percent of the studies and mainland China only surpassed Hong Kong in 2006 economics and business had larger share than social political and communication science and psychology the low share of social sciences compared to Natural Sciences may reflect that this is a common pattern in Asian nations that Chinese social scientists publish in national journals not included in the index and have less career incitements regarding publishing in international journals and that state ideology and control is more important for social sciences than Natural Sciences in China Natural Sciences are administered by the Ministry of Science and Technology while social sciences are administered by the National Planning Office of philosophy and Social Sciences which may hinder interdisciplinary collaboration articles published in China related to basic medial science and clinical research and indexed by PubMed increased on average by 31.2% and 22% each year between 2000 and 2009 randomized clinical trial were about one third of clinical research articles however in 2009 this still represented only 1.5 percent of worldwide clinical research articles and 1.7 percent of worldwide randomized clinical trials clinical research education for medical students and the involvement and the supporting environment for medical doctors regarding clinical research have shortcomings science metrics a Canadian data analysis company predicted that in 2010 China would publish as many Natural Sciences and engineering peer-reviewed papers as the United States in 2015 China is predicted to publish as many papers as the u.s. across all fields in 2030 China is predicted to surpass the u.s. in life and Social Sciences there are 8,000 journals and 4,600 in scientific fields almost all China science organizations publish their own journal the government owns or supports most journals with only a small number being privately owned the publish or perish system has been argued to contribute to many low quality journals and articles that are infrequently cited and also to plagiarism and fraud the Chinese government has put into place stricter regulations punished or terminated some journals and aims increase quality control and peer evaluation of journals as well as to create 5 to 10 large publishing groups as part of the reforms in 2012 the China Association for Science & Technology which oversees 1,050 journals in a declaration listed various forms of misconduct plagiarism and fraud and as well the penalties for perpetrating and such as written warnings blacklisting contacting the researchers home institution or funding agencies or public disclosure it has also been seen as important by increasing pressure on other journals and by informing editors who may not know that some actions such as favoring researchers based on personal relations are unacceptable China also plans to give substantial financial incentives to top journals based on factors such as the Chinese and international impact factor it has been questioned if this will have an effect on the many poor quality journals who in return for money help researchers fill their institutional requirements for published papers topic state-owned enterprises Chinese state-owned enterprises are owned by a variety of actors such as local governments and governmental agencies they may benefit from advantages not available for smaller more innovative firms which have been seen as problematic in 2010 state-owned enterprises won many biddings for renewable energy projects since they did not have worry about paying off investments for several decades could ignore risks and costs the owners may attempt to protect their enterprises from competition by regulations or otherwise use their influence in an unfair manner which may stifle more innovative private competitors private enterprises surpassed stated owned enterprises during the 2002 to 2007 period regarding rapidity of increase of research spending patent applications and R&D laboratories the number of research scientists and engineers increased rapidly in private enterprises while they declined in state-owned enterprises topic corruption concerned about corruption in Chinese science some Chinese scientists including professor Liu Ming lumen G of Jiujiang University in his 2005 book critique of the academic evaluation system Shui Xiu ping gog du pie pan argued that interference from government officials and university bureaucrats makes peer-review far less effective in china than it could be the time scientists spend cultivating politically influential people is lost to scientific research Luo argues that the command economy mentality of measuring everything by the numbers combined with pervasive political interference results in a great waste of money human talent as well as considerable corruption in Chinese science a 2008 investigation into a certification for high-tech enterprises allowing large tax breaks and other advantages found that more than 70% of the enterprises had gained this under questionable circumstances and an investigation of a sample found that 73 percent did not pass the requirements topic Awards the state Science and Technology prizes including the state preeminent Science and Technology award are the highest honor in People's Republic of China in science and technology in order to recognize citizens and organizations who have made remarkable contributions to scientific and technological progress and to promote the development of Science and Technology topic specific areas of R&D the 13th five-year plan for the national economy and social development 2016 to 2020 will initiate the key scientific and technological innovation 2030 project in the following key areas aero engines and gas turbines a deep-sea station quantum communication and quantum computers brain sciences and brain research the project also encompasses nine other sub projects including an innovative seed industry smart grid space terrestrial Information Network intelligent manufacturing and robots topic agriculture there is a lack of arable land and water which means only new technology can increase the output of Chinese agriculture former president Jiang Zemin's has therefore called for a new revolution in agricultural science and technology restrictions and regulations concerning genetically modified foods have been introduced or proposed after widespread public concern China has been buying millions of foreign breeder animal as well as large amount of foreign seamen and livestock embryos in order to rapidly improve the genetics of Chinese livestock more advanced agricultural methods such as increasing use of pesticides has contributed to concerns regarding the food safety in China topic aquaculture and fishing in 2008 the fishing industry in China accounted for 34 percent of the global output aquaculture in China had more than twice the output of capture fishing and contributed sixty two point three percent of the global aquaculture output the rapid growth of aquaculture is in part due to Chinese research such as regarding the artificial breeding of cops topic chemistry materials science and nanotechnology a 2012 study found that China's share of academic papers in the field of nanotechnology had increased from less than 10 percent in 2002 nearly a quarter in 2009 and had overtaken the United States for first position however China was less influential in the top three journals and regarding citations suggesting a lesser quality in terms of the density of publication however the United States remained ahead with 68 point seven six articles on nanotechnology per million inhabitants compared to twenty five point four four per million for China in 2014 China was in second place for the number of patents granted a number of bodies have been created to establish national standards and ensure oversight according to the institute of scientific and technical information of china which is affiliated with the Ministry of Science and Technology China contributed about one quarter of all academic articles published around the world in material science and chemistry and 17% of those published in physics between 2004 and 2014 but just eight point seven percent of those in molecular biology and genetics this nevertheless represents a steep rise from just 1.4 percent of the world share of publications in molecular biology and genetics over 1999 to 2003 KPMG in 2010 predicted that the Chinese chemical industry will become world's largest producer by 2015 the Chinese government aims to make China self-sufficient regarding petrochemicals and plastics with the exception of the roar feedstock of oil and gas the Chinese industry is increasing R&D in order to create higher value products using more advanced technology another development topic deep-sea exploration China is developing its deep-sea exploration capabilities such as by the jielong submersible with an eye to future applications such as deep-sea mining topic electronics and information technology in 2009 China manufactured 48 point three percent of the world's televisions forty nine point nine percent of mobile phones sixty point nine percent of personal computers and 75 percent of LCD monitors indigenously made electronic components have become an important source of recent growth topic artificial intelligence on the 8th of July 2017 the Chinese state council announced plans to turn China into the world leader in artificial intelligence AI by 2030 seeking to make the industry worth 1 trillion yuan the state council published a three-step roadmap to that effect in which it outlined how it expects AI to be developed and deployed across a wide number of industries and sectors such as in areas from the military to City Planning according to the roadmap china plans to catch up to current AI world leaders technological abilities by 2020 make major breakthroughs by 2025 and be the world leader in 2030 topic drones and robotics China is the leader in drone technology it is the first country in the world to create large-scale transport drones as well as the first to produce an amphibious drone Chinese drone companies such as DJI and E hang Beijing Yi hang creation Science and Technology conquered majority of the civilian drone industry with DJI alone dominating 85 percent of the global market share he hang also created the world's first flying taxi drone he hang 180 for an eco-friendly low altitude autonomous aerial vehicle capable of providing transportation and medium distance communication in some regions such as the Pearl River Delta manufacturers have problems with labor shortages raising wages and higher expectations regarding work from more highly educated young people this has increased the demand for industrial robots as of 2017 China is the largest user and producer of robotics technology as well as the first country in the world to perform an automated dental implant it is the largest and fastest growing robotics market in the world and plans to manufacture at least 100,000 industrial robots annually by 2020 you topic software industry the Chinese software industry in 2010 had a higher than 15% share of the world's software and information service market and had been growing by an average 36 percent each year during the previous decade Chinese IT companies have been moving away from narrow downstream services and products to having a full range China with the active support of the Chinese government is a leading pioneer in Internet of Things technology according to the China internet network information center there were seven hundred and fifty-one million Internet users as of 2017 with fifty three point two percent of the population being Internet users the number of mobile Internet users reached seven hundred and twenty four million with high penetration rates for mobile phones and broadband internet by 2017 China has the largest e-commerce market in the world worth one point one three two trillion dollars with a significant lead on other markets and almost tripling US market the second largest in 2017 there were more than one point three six billion mobile subscribers in China with the number of fixed line subscriptions hitting 310 million the number of 4G uses increased significantly hitting nine hundred and thirty two million by August 2017 by 2020 china plans to adopt 5g network nationwide state-owned China Telecom has already deployed 5g oriented seer and frontal network unveiling that it will be conducting commercial trials of 5g technology in 2019 and carry out Network field trials in six Chinese cities in the latest sign of China's determination to lead the global deployment of the next-generation mobile technology topic micro processors China has its own versions of micro processors manufactured and developed domestically which also used to build the world's most powerful supercomputers topic supercomputing supercomputing in China has expanded rapidly supercomputing effects the possibility to do cutting-edge research in many areas such as design of pharmaceuticals crypt analysis natural resource exploration climate models and military technology as of 2017 China had 202 of the 500 greatest supercomputers in the world far exceeding any other country including the US which has 143 in addition to possessing the top two most powerful supercomputers China is developing the capacity to manufacture the components domestically and plans to be the first to build an exascale supercomputer China may also be planning to create much more powerful large-scale distributed supercomputing by connecting its supercomputer centers together dia nhe one was through a period in 2010 2011 the world's fastest supercomputer in June 2013 TI a nhe - the successor to TI a nhe one took the crown from its predecessor in 2016 China's new supercomputer some weight I who light became the world's most powerful supercomputer significantly surpassing TI a NH e two's capabilities by three folds while using chinese made chips this signals China's success not only in the supercomputing industry but also its domestic chip making technology topic semiconductors China's semiconductor industry has despite extensive governmental support had many problems in areas such as innovative new designs this may be due to factors such as poorly guided state and local government support for soon outdated technologies and geographically scattered efforts lacking engineering education and poor protection of intellectual property this may change by factors such a new emphasis on market mechanisms rather than direct support concentration of efforts return of Chinese who have studied abroad increased pressure on foreign companies to transfer technology indigenous Chinese technological standards and increased demands for indigenous technology in the local market the country has rapidly progressed in the semiconductor industry while backing its largest ship maker and developer Ching hua uni group with a 150 billion dollars funding to secure China's dominance in the semiconductor technology and build a world-class semiconductor industry over the next five years topic energy as China rapidly industrializing power consumption and power generation are also increasing as well as research on these issues topic power generation and transmission Cole is predicted to remain the most important power source in the near future and China has been seen as the world leader in clean coal technology in 2009 China become the world's largest investor in renewable energy technologies nuclear power is planned to be rapidly expanded with China wanting to maximize self-reliance in nuclear reactor technology manufacturing and design although international cooperation and technology transfer also encouraged advanced pressurized water reactors such as the CPR 1000 and the ap1000 of the mainstream technology for the near future later very high-temperature reactors such as pebble-bed reactors are a priority by mid-century fast-neutron reactors are seen as being the main technology china in 2012 intended to spend 100 billion dollars on smart grid technology during the next five years to install 300 million smart meters before 2016 and to become the world leader in electric power transmission ultra-high voltage electricity transmission in China is being introduced order to reduce transmission losses is increasing focus on environmental concerns and renewable energy technology topic entertainment the Chinese animation industry and access to the latest technology such as 3d computer-generated imagery technology is actively supported by the Chinese government and included in the latest national planning in part this may be because of a desire to increase Chinese soft power the same technology as in Hollywood is available and much post-production is outsourced to China successful indigenous artistic creativity is seen as a problem and may be restricted by factors such as production being aimed at getting government patronage rather than public approval censorship and some storylines base on Chinese culture not appealing to foreign audiences DreamWorks Animation in a joint venture with Chinese companies will set up a studio in Shanghai that may eventually get bigger than DreamWorks HQ in part to avoid to quota restrictions on foreign films with China within a decade having been predicted to become the world's biggest cinema and entertainment market Disney has also entered into a partnership in order to help develop the Chinese animation industry the China research institute of film Science and Technology and the China Film Group corporation developed and in 2012 put into commercial use the d-max motion picture film format as well as associated technologies it has been described as a competitor to IMAX and as laying the foundation for Chinese film projection technology using indigenous Chinese technology and intellectual property topic environment-friendly technologies rapid industrialization has been accompanied by many environmental problems and rising pollution in China one part of the Chinese response involves advanced technology such as the world's largest high-speed rail network and high fuel efficiency requirements for vehicles China is rapidly expanding its wastewater treatment systems and power plant emission reduction systems due to the Chinese water crisis as well as for future exports China is building up its desalination technological abilities and plans to create an indigenous industry some cities have introduced extensive water conservation and recycling programs and technologies topic health you topic biotechnology and genetics monitor group in a 2010 report predicted that China within a decade will become the world leader in discovery and innovation in life sciences some research is seen as less controversial in China than elsewhere such as research regarding the genetic causes of intelligence BGI formally Beijing genomics Institute has been described as having the world's largest DNA sequencing facilities stem cell research and stem cell treatments are less controversial in Chinese culture which have supported Chinese research as well medical tourism to China in order to receive experimental and often unproven therapies in 2012 a regulatory crackdown was instituted which may increase the ability of the Chinese industry to get approval for sales of future therapies to other nations more generally China aims and has made progress towards becoming a world leader in regenerative medicine which also includes areas such as tissue engineering and gene therapy China in 2011 stated that biotechnology including bio pharmacy biological engineering bio agriculture and bio manufacturing was a major priority for science and technology spending biotechnology will be used to enhance economic development as well as for improving Chinese environmental protection nutrition healthcare and medicine the Chinese government's expects biotechnology to add 1 million jobs during the 2011 to 2015 period topic brain research on the 22nd of March 2018 an agreement was signed establishing the Chinese Institute for brain science Beijing the launch of this Institute may represent a significant departure from the current policy focus on applied research and development once completed the new brain Institute will serve as a core facility for the country's planned project to study the human brain the Institute will not be part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences rather it will collaborate with the Academy along with Beijing's are the leading biomedical institutions including Ching hua University Peking University and the Academy of military Medical Sciences the new Institute will probably receive funding both from the National Natural Science Foundation and from the mega science programs within the scientific and technological innovation 2030 project in March 2018 the government announced plans to place the National Natural Science Foundation under the Ministry of Science and Technology but the implications of this latest reorganization of science are unclear as the two agencies have different missions in support of basic research topic pharmaceuticals and medical technology Merrill Lynch predicted in 2011 that China would become the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market in 2013 and the largest in 2020 the chief executive of hoffman-laroche in 2012 stated a few years ago many Chinese life sciences scientists had to leave China but that many were now returning to conditions often better than in the West regarding laboratories funding and political support for the industry counterfeit drugs have caused a number of scandals as well as being a problem for drug development and authorities have increased regulations and enforcement a 2011 report by PwC stated that a decade earlier China barely had any presence in the medical technology industry but its abilities had been rapidly growing China could well become more important than Europe by 2020 topic machine tools development of advanced machine tools such as computer numerical control machine tools are seen as a priority and supported by the Chinese government china is the world's leading producer and consumer of machine tools a 2010 US government report stated that US export controls have advanced 5-axis machine tools were ineffectual due to the technical capabilities of Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers topic military technology one example of new Chinese military technology is the DF to 1d anti-ship ballistic missile which reportedly has contributed to a quick and major change in u.s. naval strategy China is developing anti-satellite weapons and plans to make the navigational bedew system global by 2020 other new technologies include Chinese anti-ballistic missile developments the Chengdu j-20 fifth-generation jet fighter and possibly electromagnetic pulse weapons Chinese reconnaissance satellites are according to a 2011 report almost equal to those of the United States in some areas in which China had almost no capability a decade earlier despite increased defense spending China's share of the world's import of arms is rapidly falling in part reflecting the increased abilities of the indigenous military production China is also developing power projection military capabilities such as through the Chinese aircraft carrier program and the Tai Po 7-1 amphibious transport dock 15 to 28 percent of governmental R&D expenditures may go to military research according to some unofficial estimates the Chinese defense sector remains almost completely state-owned but military equipment production has been reorganized into corporate bodies allowing limited competition and the defence patent system has been reformed to allow greater rewards to innovative enterprise individuals the organizational structure has shed civilian applications while at the same time cooperation with the civilian sector has increased and state supported civilian research sometimes have dual use applications Chinese jet engines remains a problematic area that has caused concern at the highest levels with China still being largely dependent on imports from foreign manufacturers one possible explanation is a continued Soviet style fragmentation of the research and production line into many isolated units having little contact with one another causing problems with overall standardization integration and quality control more problems from this maybe duplication of efforts dispersal of efforts an unproductive competition over patronage causing problems such as dishonest reporting of problems high-precision jet engines may be particularly sensitive to accumulated quality problems topic history of China's hydrogen bomb China successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on June 17 1967 at Lotte no nuclear weapon test base in Mallen shinjang also known as test no 6 inches China became the fourth country to have successfully developed a thermonuclear weapon after the United States Soviet Union and the United Kingdom the device was dropped from a Hong 6 Chinese manufactured to 16 and was parachute from an air burst at 2,000 960 meters the bomb was a three-stage device with a boosted u-235 primary in you 238 pusher the yield was 3.3 megatons it was a fully functional full-scale three stage hydrogen bomb tested 32 months after China had made its first fish and device China thus produced the shortest fission to fusion development known in history China had received extensive technical help from the Soviet Union to jumpstart the nuclear program but by 1960 the rift between the Soviet Union and China had become so great that the Soviet Union ceased all assistance to China 1 thus the number-6 test was indeed an independent endeavor after the induced military and economic sanctions enacted by the superpowers at the time the United States and the Soviet Union China's h-bomb was different from the traditional teller ulam configuration as an advantage it was completed without the calculations needed from supercomputers which would consume a lot of time to shrink the size of the weapon the reflectors were made parabolic with the solid fusion fuel located at the foci it is also known as human design or you dang design as human made major contributions included the solutions to a series of fundamental and critical theoretical problems of nuclear weapons which led to breakthrough of the unique drogyn bomb the goal of China was to produce a thermonuclear device of at least a Megaton in yield that could be dropped by an aircraft or carried by a ballistic missile several explosions to test thermonuclear weapon designs characteristics and yield boosting preceded the thermonuclear test one topic mining and rare earth industry advisory firm the beijing axis director Lillian luca in 2010 stated that China was becoming a world leader in mining technology technological solutions were initially concentrated on achieving massive low-cost production but increasing emphasis has been placed on environmental and safety issues in part reflecting greater concern in China with environmental issues China was already a world leader in certain areas such as rare earth elements China has imposed export quotas on rare earth elements ninety-five percent of which are mined in China citing environmental issues that has been accused of wanting to force high-tech industry using rare earth elements to move to China finding rare earth elements is only the first and some argue the easiest step other steps towards manufacturing such as refining is controlled by China and Japan with the previously dominant United States having lost all of its producers and much of its fundamental technological ability with the number of scientists and engineers in the area declining dramatically topic polar research the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic administration CAA organises China's scientific program for both the Arctic and Antarctic polar research by China in particular in Antarctica has been growing rapidly china now has three Antarctic research stations and one in the Arctic on the Norwegian island of Svalbard topic space science the Chinese space program is a major source of national pride in 1970 the first Chinese satellite Dongfang Hong I was launched in 2003 China become the third country to independently send humans into space with yang Levi's space flight aboard Sheng jo5 in 2008 China conducted a spacewalk with the Shengo 7 mission in 2011 tiangong 1 was launched which was the first step towards a Chinese space station around 2020 the active Chinese lunar exploration program includes a lunar rover in 2013 and possibly a manned lunar landing in the 2020s experience gained from the lunar program will be used for future programs such as exploration of mars and venus china plans to launch five commercial satellites for foreign customers in 2012 and aims to capture 15% of the commercial launch market and 10% of the satellite export market by 2015 in 2011 China launched a total of 19 rockets which was the second most after Russia the 500-meter aperture spherical telescope completed in 2016 is the world's largest radio telescope topic textiles China in 2012 produced more than one-third of the developed world's apparel import but the share has been decreasing in recent years as low technology and labor-intensive production has been moving to regions like Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe topic transportation transportation infrastructure continues to be rapidly developed the National trunk highway system was in 2011 estimated to surpass the u.s. interstate system in length many Chinese cities have or are planning to build metros or other forms of rapid transit topic commercial aircraft the state-owned Commack aerospace manufacturer aims to reduce Chinese dependency on foreign companies for large passenger aircraft the future see 919 aims to be completely made in China topic motor vehicles the automotive industry in China is the world's largest producer of Motor Vehicles however China's indigenous car companies have had difficulties on the global market and the growing electric vehicle market has been seen as way to remedy this China in 2010 proposed controversial legislation requiring foreign electric vehicle producers to form minority joint ventures and share technologies with Chinese car makers in order to get market access a 2011 report financed by the World Bank stated that China was becoming the world leader on electric vehicles topic Shipbuilding in 2009 2010 China become the world's largest shipbuilder but South Korea regained the top position in 2011 in part due to more advanced technology China is developing its technological abilities and competition is expected to increase topic trains the BBC wrote in a 2011 article on high speed rail in China that China in 2005 had no high-speed railways in 2010 it had more than Europe and in 2012 China was expected to have more than the rest of the world combined China demanded that foreign companies wanting to participate had to share the technology some 10,000 Chinese engineers and academics then in three years produced a faster Chinese high-speed train that China is now exporting it to other nations topic see also Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Engineering Chinese Academy of Social Sciences CST any T CER any t history of science and technology in the People's Republic of China list of Chinese inventions scientific publishing in China science in newly industrialized countries made in China 2025 China United States trade war 2018 present topic source this article incorporates text from a free content work licensed under cc-by-sa ego 3.0 unesco science report towards 2030 UNESCO UNESCO publishing to learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles please see this how-to page for information on reusing texts from Wikipedia please see the Terms of Use | wikipedia tts | UClqS6IYGeofUnMEBJmSzf2g | 2019-03-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 9,277 | 60,664 |
MAB4-YhR7LM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAB4-YhR7LM | Chapter 12: Raggedy Ann's New Sisters | chapter 12 of raggedy an stories by Johnny gruell this LibriVox recording is in the public domain chapter 12 Raggedy Anns new sisters Marcela was having a tea party up in the nursery when Daddy called to her so she left the dollies sitting around the tiny table and ran downstairs carrying raggedy Anne with her m mama daddy and a strange man were talking in the living room and daddy introduced Marcel to the stranger the stranger was a large man with kindly eyes and a cheery Smile as pleasant as raggedy ANS he took Marcella upon his knee and ran his fingers through her curls as he talked to Daddy and Mama so of course raggedy Anne liked him from the beginning I have two little girls he told Marcella their names are are Virginia and Doris and one time when we were at the seashore they were playing in the sand and they covered up Freddy Doris's boy doll in the sand they were playing that Freddy was in bathing and that he wanted to be covered with the clean white sand just as the other bathers did and when they had covered Freddy they took their little pales and shovels and went farther down the beach to play and forgot all about Freddy now when it came came time for us to go home Virginia and Doris remembered Freddy and ran down to get him but the tide had come in and Freddy was way out under the water and they could not find him Virginia and Doris were very sad and they talked to Freddy all the way home it was too bad they forgot Freddy said Marcella yes indeed it was the new friend replied as he took took raggedy ant up and made her dance on Marcella's knee but it turned out all right after all for do you know what happened to Freddy no what did happen to him Marcella asked well first of all when Freddy was covered with the sand he enjoyed it immensely and he did not mind it so much when the tide came up over him for he felt Virginia and Doris would return and get him but presently Freddy felt the sand above him move as if someone was digging him out soon his head was uncovered and he could look right up through the pretty green water and what do you think was happening the tide fairies were uncovering Freddy when he was completely uncovered the tide fairies swam with Freddy way out to the undertoe fairies the undertoe fairies took Freddy and swam with him way out to the roller fairies the roller fairies carried Freddy up to the surface and tossed him up to the spray fairies who carried him to the Wind Fairies and the Wind Fairies Marcella asked breathlessly the Wind Fairies carried Freddy right to our garden and there Virginia and Doris found him none the worse for his wonderful Adventure Freddy must have been enjoyed it and your little girls must have been very glad to get Freddy back said Marcella raggedy Anne went up in the air on the tail of a kite one day and Fallon was lost so now I am very careful with her would you let me take raggedy Anne for a few days asked the new friend Marcella was silent she liked this stranger friend but she did not wish to lose raggedy an I will promise to take very good care of her and return her to you in a week will you let her go with me morcella Marcel finally agreed and when the stranger friend left he placed raggedy Anne in his grip it is lonely without raggedy Anne said the dollies each night we miss her happy paint to smile in her cheery ways they said and so the week dragged by but my what a chatter there was in the nursery the first night that raggedy Anne returned all the dolls were so anxious to hug raggedy Anne they could scarcely wait until morcella had left them alone when they had squeezed raggedy an almost out of shape and she had smoothed out her yarn hair patted her apron out and felt her shoe button eyes to see if they were still there she said well what have you been doing tell me all the news oh we have just had the usual tea parties and games said the Tin Soldier tell us about yourself raggedy dear we have missed you so much yes tell us where you have been and what you have done raggedy all the dolls cried but raggedy an just then noticed that one of the penny dolls had a hand missing how how did this happen she asked as she picked up the doll I fell off the table and lit upon the Tin Soldier last night when we were playing but don't mind a little thing like that raggedy Anne replied the penny doll tell us of yourself have you had a nice time I shall not tell a thing until your hand is mended raggedy an said so the Indian ran and brought a bottle of glue where's the hand and Raggedy asked in my pocket the penny doll answered when raggedy Anne had glued the penny doll's hand in place and wrapped a rag around it to hold it until the glue dried she said when I tell you of this wonderful Adventure I know you will all feel very happy it has made me almost burst by Stitches with joy the dolls sat upon the floor around raggedy Anne the T soldier with his arm over her shoulder well first when I left said raggedy Anne I was placed in the strange your friends grip it was rather stuffy in there but I did not mind it in fact I believe I must have fallen asleep for when I awakened I saw the stranger friend's hand reaching into the grip then he Lifted Me from the grip and danced me upon his knee what do you think of her he asked two three other men sitting nearby I was so interested in looking out of the window I did not pay any attention to what they said for we were on a train and the scenery was just flying by then I was put back in the grip when next I was taken from the grip I was in a large clean light room and there were many many girls all dressed in white aprons The Stranger friend showed me to another man and to the girl who took off my clothes cut my seams and took out my cotton and what do you think they found my lovely candy heart had not melted at all as I thought then they laid me on a table and marked all around my outside edges with a pencil of clean white cloth and then the girls restuffed me and dressed me I stayed in the clean big Light Room for 2 or 3 days and nights and watched my sisters grow from pieces of cloth into rag dolls just like myself your sisters the dolls all exclaimed in astonishment what do you mean raggedy I mean said raggedy Anne that the stranger friend had borrowed me from Marcella so that he could have patterns made from me and before I left the big clean white room there were hundreds of rag dolls so like me you would not have been able to tell us apart we could have told you by your happy smile said the French Dolly but all my sister dolls have Smiles just like mine replied raggedy Anne and shoe button eyes the dolls all asked yes shoe button eyes bragged Anne replied I would tell you from the others by your dress raggedy Anne said the French doll your dress is 50 years old I could tell you by that but my new sister rag dos have dresses just like mine for the stranger friend had cloth made especially for them exactly like mine I know we could tell you from the other ragd dolls even if you all look exactly alike said the Indian doll who had been thinking for a long time how asked rag an with a laugh by feeling your candy heart if the doll has a candy heart then it is you raggedy an raggedy Anne laughed I am so glad you all love me as you do but I am sure you would not be able to tell me from my new sisters except that I am more worn for each new rag doll has a candy heart and on it is written I love you just as is written on my own candy heart and there are hundreds and hundreds of the new rag dolls asked the little Penny dolls hundreds and hundreds of them all named raggedy an replied raggedy then said the penny dolls we are indeed happy and proud of you for wherever one of the new raggedy and doll goes there will'll go with it the love and happiness that you give to others end of chapter 12 end of raggedy and stories by Johnny growell these stories read 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AQmMe2IeGPU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQmMe2IeGPU | Property and the Social Order | Hans-Hermann Hoppe | I first want to explain to you what I consider to be the problem of social order Alone on his Island Robinson Crusoe can obviously do whatever he pleases for him the question concerning rules of orderly human conduct and of Social cooperation Simply does not arise This question can only arise once a second person namely Friday arrives on the Island Yet even then the question remains largely irrelevant so long as no scarcity exists Suppose the Island is the garden of Eden All external goods are available in Super Abundance They are free goods just as air The air that we breathe is a free good [than] normal circumstances Whatever a crusoe does with these [goods] his actions have no repercussions Neither with respect to his own future supply of such goods nor Regarding the present or future supply of the same goods for Friday hence it is impossible that a conflict concerning the use of such goods can arise between crusoe and Friday [A] conflict is possible only if Goods are scarce and Only then is there a need to formulate rules that make orderly conflict free cooperation possible in the Garden, Edan only to Scarce Goods exist A person's Physical Body and It's standing room Crusoe and Friday each have only one body and can stand only at one place at a time Hence even in the garden of Eden conflicts between crusoe and Friday can Arise namely if crusoe and Friday Would want to occupy the same standing room simultaneously? without coming into physical conflict with each other accordingly even in the garden of Eden rules of orderly Social conduct must exist namely Rules regarding the proper location and movement of human bodies and Outside the Garden of Eden in the realm of all around scarcity there must be rules That regulate the use not [only] of personal bodies, but of everything that is scarce such that all Possible conflicts can be ruled out [as] this is the problem of social order in the history of Social and political thought Myriad Proposals have been offered as solutions to the problem of Social order and this multitude of mutually incompatible Proposals has contributed to the widespread belief that the search for a single correct solution is futile and Illusory Yet a correct solution does exist There is no reason to just to succumb [to] Moral relativism Indeed the solution to the problem of social order has [been] known for hundreds of years The solution is the idea of Private property Now let me formulate the solution first for the special case represented by the Garden of Eden and then for the general case represented by the real world of all around scarcity In the garden of Eden [the] solution is provided by the simple rule Stipulating that everyone may place or move his own body wherever he pleases provided only that no one else is already standing there and occupying the same space [and] Outside the Garden of Eden in the realm of all-around scarcity the solution is provided by four logically interrelated rules first Every person is a private exclusive owner of his [own] physical body in fact Who else if not? Crusoe should be the owner of Crusoe's body Friday or Friday and Crusoe jointly Yet these solutions Somebody Else owns my body or that my body is owned jointly by myself in somebody else Yet these other rules Would not help avoid conflict Rasa it would create conflict and make conflict permanent second every person is a private owner of All Nature given Goods That he has perceived as scarce and put to use by means of his body before any body else has done, so again who else if not the first owner a First user should be their owner the second user or the first and the second user jointly Yet again such Rulings would be contrary to the very purpose of norms namely of helping to Avoid Conflict rather than to create it third Every person who with the help of his body and his originally appropriated Goods Produces Nupro [product] thereby becomes the proper owner of these products Provided only that in the process of production. He does not physically damage the Goods [Owned] by other persons and Force once a good has been acquired through first two original appropriation or been produced Ownership it in it in such a good can only be acquired by means of a voluntary contractual transfer of its property title from a previous to a later owner I Will spare myself here the task of providing a detailed? ethical as well as Economic justification of these rules I have done this elsewhere if you look in my book on Theory of Socialism and capitalism you find detailed justifications of these rules or in my book on the ethics and economics of private property [however] a few statements in this connections are in order contrary to the frequently heard claim that the institution of private [property] is only some sort of convention it must be categorically stated that a convention serves a purpose and It is something to which an alternative exists the latin alphabet for instance Serves the purpose of written communication [and] there exists an alternative to it Such as for [instance] the cyrillic alphabet that Is why it is referred [to] as a convention? what however is the purpose of action norms if No interpersonal Conflict existed That is if due to some pre stabilized harmony of all interests No situation ever arises in which two or more people want to use one and the same good in incompatible ways Then we would not need any norms It is a purpose of norms to help avoid otherwise unavoidable Conflict Now a norm that generates conflict rather than Help avoid it is contrary [to] the very purpose of norms it is a dysfunctional norm or a perversion and with regard to the purpose of conflict avoidance The institution of private property is definitely not just a convention because no alternative to it exists only private exclusive Property makes it possible that all otherwise unavoidable Conflicts can be avoided and only the principle of property acquisition through acts of original appropriation performed by specific individuals at specific points in time and at specific locations makes it possible that Conflicts can be avoided from the beginning of Mankind Onward since only the first appropriation of some previously Unappropriated good can be conflict free simply because by definition No one else had any previous dealings with this good now as Important as this insight is that is the insight that the institution of private property? Ultimately grounded in x of original appropriation is without alternative [given] the Desire even the goal of Conflict free interaction and of peace it is not sufficient to [establish] A functioning social order For even if everyone knows how conflict can be avoided it is still possible [that] people simply do not want to avoid conflict because they expect to benefit from it at the Expense of others in fact as Long as mankind is what it is There will always exist murderers robbers thieves thugs and con artists and That has people who do not act according to these rules that I mentioned before Hence every social order if it is to be successfully maintained requires institutions and mechanisms Designed to keep such rule breakers in check how to accomplish this task and by whom the standard Reply to this question is to say this task that is the enforcement of law and order is the first and primary duty indeed the res or d'etre of the State in Particular this is also the answer given by classical Liberals such as my master Would wish for mises? Whether or not this answer is correct Depends on how state is defined the state according to the standard definition Not just a definition [that] I just arbitrarily Assume here according to the standard definition is not a regular specialized firm [Rozzie] the State is defined as an agency. That is characterized by two unique logically connected features The first one is the state is an agency that exercises A Territorial Monopoly of ultimate decision-making That is the state is the ultimate arbiter in every case of conflict in court including Conflicts involving itself it allows no appeal above and Beyond itself and second the state an agency that exercises A Territorial Monopoly of taxation that is it is an agency that? unilaterally fixes the price that private citizens must pay for the state's service as ultimate judge and enforcer of law and order now as widespread as a standard view concerning the necessity of the institution of the state as a provider of law and order is it stands in clear contradiction to elementary economic and Moral laws and principles first off Among economists and philosophers there exist two near universally accepted propositions the first one is every Monopoly is bad from the Viewpoint of Consumers not from the Viewpoint of the producer every producer loves to be a monopolist Monopoly is here understood in its classic meaning as an exclusive privilege granted to a single producer of a commodity or a service or as the absence of free entry into one particular Line of production only one agency agency a may produce a given good or service x such a Monopoly is bad for [consumers] because shielded from potential New Entrance into a given area of production The price of the product will be higher and the quality will be lower Than would otherwise be the case under competitive conditions and the second almost universally accepted proposition among economists and philosophers is The production of law and order that is off security is a Primary function of the state as I just defined it security is here understood in the wide sense that is adopted in the American declaration of independence namely as A protection of life property and the pursuit of happiness From domestic violence it is from Crime as well as external or foreign aggression that is of war Now both of these propositions are apparently incompatible with each other This however has rarely caused any concern among Philosophers and economists and Insofar as it did concern Any problems for them? The typical reaction has been one of taking exception with the first proposition the Monopoly proposition Rather than the second one that we need a monopolist of law and order yet there [exist] fundamental theoretical reasons and Mountains of empirical Evidence That it is indeed [the] second proposition That we need a monopolist to protect us. Which is false as a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision-making and of law enforcement [the] [state] is not just like any other monopoly such as a milk or a car monopoly that produces milk or cars of comparatively lower quality and higher prices in Contrast to all other Monopolists the state is not only prot only Produce inferior Goods lousy goods But bad's or non goods in fact the state must first produce beds such as Texas for instance before it can produce anything that might be considered a lousy product If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict Then it is also a judge in all conflicts in evolving itself consequently instead of merely preventing and resolving Conflicts A Monopolist of ultimate decision-Making will also cause and provoke conflict in Order to settle it then to his own advantage That is if one can appeal to the state only for Justice justice will be necessarily perverted in favor of the State Constitutions and supreme [courts] notwithstanding These constitutions and courts are always state Constitutions and state courts and whatever Limitations on state action they may set or find Invariably is decided by agents of the [very] same institution under consideration predictably then the definition of property and protection will be Continually altered and the range of Uris diction expanded to the state's advantage The idea of some given eternal and immutable law that must be discovered will completely disappear [and] will be replaced by the idea of law as Legislation that is as arbitrary state made law moreover as Ultimate judge the state is also a monopolist of taxation. That is it can [unilaterally] without the consent of everyone affected determine the price that it's subject must pay for the state's provision of perverted law however a tax funded life and property [Protection] [Agency] is a contradiction in terms It is an expropriation property protector motivated then as everyone is by self-interest and by the disutility of labor, but equipped with a unique power to [tax] State Agents will Invariably strive to maximize expenditures on protection and almost all of [a] nation's wealth can be conceivably consumed by the cost of protection and at the same time to minimize the actual production of protection the more money one can spend and The less one must work for it the better off one is Now apart from the fundamental error of statism statism in General additional errors are involved in this special case of a democratic state a detailed treatment of this subject again has been provided by myself in another book of mine a Democracy the God that failed But I want to make at [least] a brief mention on this The traditional pre-Modern state form is that of an absolute monarchy? Yet monarchies were faulted in particular also by classical Liberals such as mises for being incompatible with the basic principle of equality before the law monarchy instead arrested obviously on personal Privilege thus the critics of monarchies argued the monarchical state had to be replaced by a Democratic one in opening participation and entry into [a] state government to everyone on equal terms not just to an hereditary class of nobles it was thought that the principle of equality of all before the Law had been satisfied However this democratic equality before the law is something entirely different then and incompatible with the idea of one universal law equally applicable to everyone Everywhere and at all [times] in fact the objectionable Schism and inequality of a higher law of Kings versus A subordinate law of Ordinary subjects is fully preserved under democracy in the separation of public versus private law and the supremacy of public law over private law under Democracy Everyone is equal insofar as entry into government is open to all on equal terms Everyone can become king so to say not only a privileged circle of people Thus in Democracy no personal privileges or privileged persons exist however functional privileges and privileged functions continue to exist public officials as long as they act in an official capacity are governed and protected by public law and Occupy thereby a privileged position Visa [V] persons acting under the mirror thority of private law in particular Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through, Texas that is they do not as every private law subject must earn their income through the production and the subsequent sale of Goods or services to voluntarily buying or not buying consumers [razza] as public officials. [they] [are] permitted to engage in and live off What in private dealings? between private law subjects is considered theft and stolen loot Thus privileged and legal discrimination and the distinction between Rulers and Subjects will not disappear under democracy to the contrary [Roz's] N. Being restricted to princes and Nobles under Democracy Privileges will be available to everyone Everyone can engage now in seft and live off stolen. Loot if only he becomes a public official predictably then under democratic conditions the tendency of every Monopoly of ultimate decision-making to increase the price of justice and to lower its quality and Substitute injustice for Justice is not diminished, but is actually Aggravated as an hereditary Monopolist a king or a prince Regards the territory and the people under his jurisdiction [as] his personal property and engages in the monopolistic exploitation of this property under Democracy Monopoly and Monopolistic Exploitation do not disappear Rasa. What happens is simply this? instead of a prince and a nobility who regard the country as their private property [a] temporary and Interchangeable caretaker is put in monopolistic charge of the country the caretaker does not own the country But as long as he is in office he is permitted to [use] it to his and his prodigious Advantage He owns its current use or what is called [Yuzu] frucht But he does not own its capital stock This does not eliminate exploitation to the contrary it makes exploitation less Calculating and carried out with little or no regard to the capital stock exploitation becomes short-sighted and Capital consumption will you systematically? Promote it. Let me just give an example. I can give you a house and Make you the owner of the house or I can make you a temporary caretaker of a house For four years you can try to get as much out of the house as you want But you cannot pass it on as an inheritance [you] cannot sell it in the market and so forth will you treat the house in a different way? Whether you are [a] private owner who can pass it on in the form of an inheritance Or will be you just a temporary caretaker Who cannot pass it on you cannot sell it in the market and the answer is should [be] Clear as daylight of course if you are only a temporary Caretaker of the house you try to run down the capital get as much out of it in a short a possible time as Possible whereas as a private owner you will try to preserve the value of it in order to pass it on in some sort of intact form to the next generation [democratic] politicians Are people who try to Rob the country as quickly as possible? Because after four years they have no chance to Rob anymore after eight years whatever the term is now if the state and Especially is a democratic state then is demonstrably incapable of creating and maintaining social order if instead of helping Avoid conflict the state is a source of permanent conflict and if rather than assuring Legal Security and predictability the state itself continuously generates insecurity and unpredictability through its legislation and replaces constant law with flexible and arbitrary legislation then inescapability the question arises as to what is then the correct and Obviously none status solution to the problem of enforcing social order now the solution is what I call a private law society that is a Society in which every individual and institution is subject to one and the same set of laws no public law granting privileges to specific persons or specific functions, and no public property exists in this society There is only private law and Private property equally applicable to each and every one No one is permitted to acquire property by any means other than through original appropriation production or Voluntary Exchange and no one possesses a privilege to text and expropriate Moreover in a private law society no one is permitted to prohibit Anyone else from usIng his property in order to enter any line of production He wishes to enter and compete against whomever he wants to compete specifically regarding the problem at hand that is in a private law society the production of security of law and order will be undertaken by freely financed individuals and agencies Competing for a voluntarily paying Clientele or non paying Clientele Just as a production of all other goods and services now it would be presumptuous to wanting to predict the precise shape And form of the security industry that would emerge within the framework of a private law Society however it is not difficult at all to predict a few central changes that would fundamentally and [favourably] distinguish a competitive security industry from the present all too well known status production of injustice and order first off But in a complex [society] based on the division of labor Self-Defense will play only a secondary role as I will explain in a moment It should [be] emphasized from the outset that in a private law society everyone's right to Defend oneself from aggression against one's person and property is entirely undisputed in Distinct contrast to the present situation to this present status situation which renders people increasingly unarmed and defenseless against aggressors in a private law society no restrictions on the private ownership of firearms and other weapons exist everyone's Elementary right to engage in self-Defense to protect his life and property against invaders would be sacrosanct and As one knows from the experience of the not so wild wild west as well as numerous recent empirical investigations into the relationship between the frequency of gun ownership and crime rates more guns Imply Less crime Recalls [is] Norwegian incident that just happened for 40 minutes this guy was shooting down people Now would that have been possible if people had been armed He might have killed a single person and then he would have been dead himself Just in as in today's complex economy we do not produce our own shoes or suits or telephones, but partake in the Advantages of the division of [Labour] so it is also to be expected that we will also do so when it comes to the production of security Especially the more property a person owns and the richer a society becomes Hence most security services will without doubt Be provided by specialized agencies competing for voluntarily paying clients by various Private police insurance and arbitration agencies if unwanted to summarize in One word the decisive difference and advantage of a competitive security industry as Compared to the current status practice this word would be contract The state [as] the ultimate decision-Maker and judge operates currently in a contract less legal vacuum There exists. No contract between the state and its citizens [it] is not contractually fixed what is actually owned by whom and What accordingly [is] to be protected it is not fixed. What service the state is to provide? what is to happen if the protected was the allegedly protected people Think that the state failed in its task of protecting them [rather] the state Unilaterally fixes the rules of the game and can change them per legislation during the game obviously such behavior is inconceivable for freely financed security providers just iMagine a Security provider whether that is a police an insurer or an arbitrator? Whose offer consisted in something like this I? Will not contractually guarantee you anything I? Will not tell you what specific things, I will regard as you are to be protected property nor will I tell you what I obliged myself to do if According to your opinion. I do not fulfill my service to you, but in any case I reserve the right [to] Unilaterally Determine the price that you must pay me for such undefined service now any security provider would immediately disappear from the market due to a complete lack of customers each private freely financed security producer instead must offer its protective clients a contract and These contracts must in order to appear acceptable to voluntarily paying consumers Contain clear property descriptions as well as clearly defined mutually mutual services and obligations Moreover each party to the contract for the duration and until the [fulfillment] of the contract would be bound by its terms and conditions and every change in terms or conditions Would require the unanimous consent of all [parties] concerned? specifically in order to appear acceptable to security Buyers These contracts must contain provisions About what will be done in the case of a conflict or a dispute between the protector [our]? was the insurer and his own protected or insured Clients and Also must have provisions What will happen in the case of a conflict between different protectors or different insurers? and their respective clients and In this regard [only] one mutually agreeable solution exists in these cases of Conflicts between Insurers and insured protectors and protected or different protection agencies and so forth [in] these cases the conflicting parties must contractually agree to arbitration by a mutually trusted but independent third party and as Sword party this [search] party [too] is freely financed and stands in competition with other arbitration agencies and its clients [that] is the insurers and the insured Expect of these arbitration agencies that they come up with a verdict that is Recognized as fair and just by all sides because only arbitrators capable of forming such Judgments that are deemed just and fair by all sides will succeed in the arbitration market arbitrators that are incapable of this and that are viewed as biased or Partial will disappear from the Market no one will choose them in another case where? Arbitration is needed Now from this fundamental advantage of a private law society or other advantages follow first off competition among police insurers and arbitrators for paying Clients would bring about a tendency Toward a continuous fall in the price of Protection [per] insured value Thus rendering protection increasingly more affordable whereas under present monopolistic conditions the price of Protection will Steadily arise and become increasingly unaffordable Furthermore as I have already indicated protection and security our goods and services that compete with other goods and services if More resources are allocated to protection Few work can be expended on cars vacations food and drink also resources allocated to the protection of One group Let's say people living on the pacific for instance compete with resources x that For the protection of another group that is let's say people living on the atlantic [as] a tax funded protection monopolist the states allocation of resources Will necessarily be? Arbitrary there will be over production or under production of Security as compared to other competing goods and services and there will be over protection of some Individuals or groups or regions and under protection of other groups or regions? indistinct contrast in a system of freely competing protection agencies all arbitrariness of allocation all Over or under production would disappear protection would be accorded the relative importance that it has in the eyes of voluntarily paying consumers and no person group or Region would receive protection at the expense of any other one Each and everyone would receive protection in accordance with his own payments the most important advantage of a private Contract based production of law and order however is of a qualitative nature first there is the fight against crime the state as we know is notoriously inefficient [in] this regard because the state agents and Trusted with this task are paid out of Texas that [is] independent of their productivity Why should one work if one is also paid for doing nothing at all in Fact it can be expected that the state Agents take an interest in maintaining a moderately high crime rate because this way they can justify ever increased funding were for state agents the victims of Crime and the indemnification and compensation of such victims plays at best and Negligible role the state does not Indemnify the victims of crime they are supposed to protect you But they don't do anything in order to help you if they fail in this task to the contrary the harmed victims are still further insulted by making them as taxpayers pay for the incarceration and the rehabilitation of criminals Should he ever be captured the situation in a private law Society is entirely different? security providers in particular insurers Will have to indemnify their clients in the case of actual damage Otherwise they would simply not find any clients and hence they must operate efficiently in this regard They must be efficient in the prevention of crime for unless they can prevent a crime They would have to pay up Further even if a criminal act could not be prevented they must be efficient in detecting and recovering the stolen loot because otherwise they must pay to replace these goods and in particular They must be efficient in the detection and apprehension of the criminals for if the criminal is Apprehended or only if the criminal is apprehended is it possible for the insurers to make the criminal pay? for the compensation on to the victim and Thus reduce their own costs of operation Moreover A Competitive and contract based security industry as a general piece promoting effect States are as I have already explained by Nature aggressive institutions They can cause or provoke conflict in [Aura] to then solve it to their own advantage or put differently as Text funded Monopolists of ultimate decision-making States can externalize the costs associated with aggressive behavior on to others namely the hapless taxpayers and Accordingly they will tend to be more aggressive These are V their own population and also Visa Vie Foreign us then normal firms or normal people would ever be [Indistinct] contrast competing private insurers are by Nature defensive and peaceful organizations on the one hand this is because every act of aggression is costly and an insurance company engaged in aggressive Conduct would require comparatively higher premiums involving the Loss of clients to cheaper non aggressive competitors and On the other hand it is [not] possible to ensure it oneself against every conceivable risk Rather it is only possible to [insure] oneself against accidents. That is risks over Whose outcome the insured has no control and to which [he] contributes nothing Just it is possible to insure oneself against the risk of deaths and fire for instance But it is impossible to insure oneself against the risk of committing suicide Tomorrow or setting one's own house on fire similarly it is impossible to insure oneself against the risk of business failure or Of unemployment, or of disliking one's neighbor Four in each case one has some control over the event in question most significantly the uninsurable 'Ti of individual actions and sentiments in Contrast to insurability of excellence Implies that it is also impossible to ensure oneself against the risk of damages resulting from one's own prior aggression or provocation Instead every insurer must restrict the actions of his clients so as to exclude all Aggression and provocation on their part that is any insurance Against social disaster such [as] crime must be contingent on the insured submitting themselves to specify norms of civilized non aggressive conduct furthermore due to the same reason and financial concerns Insurers will tend to require That their clients abstain from all forms of vigilance [or] vigilante justice excePt perhaps under quite extraordinary circumstances because vigilante justice Even if it is justified Invariably causes uncertainty and provokes possible third party intervention By obliging their clients instead to submit to regular publicized procedures Whenever they think that they have been victimized these disturbances and associated costs can [be] largely avoided and Lastly it is worthwhile pointing out that while States [aztecs] funded agencies can and do engage in the large-scale prosecution of victimless crimes such as illegal drug use prostitution or gambling [z] so-called crimes victimless crimes would tend to be of little or no was in a system of freely financed protection agencies because Protection against such victimless crimes would require higher insurance premiums but since these crimes unlike genuine crimes against persons and property Do not create victims very few people if [any] at all would be willing to spend higher insurance premiums on such Protection against something that does not victimize them still more While states as I have already said are always and everywhere eager to disarm its population and [Thus] [robit] of an essential means of self-defense private law societies are characterized by an unrestricted right to self-Defense and Hence by Widespread private gun ownership and weapons ownership in General Again, just imagine a security producer who demanded of its prospective clients That they would first have to completely disarm Themselves before it would be willing to defend the clients life and property now correctly everyone would think of this as a bad joke and Refused to accept such an offer [hand] me over all of your knives, and then I will protect you You know what's up then? Freely Finance insurance companies that demand that potential clients first hand over all of their means of self-defense as a Prerequisite of protection would immediately arouse the utmost Suspicion as to their true motives and they would quickly go bankrupt in their own best interest then Insurance companies would actually reward armed clients in particular those client who are able to certify some level of training in the handling of Arms been charging them lower premiums Reflecting the lower risks that they represent in the same way as insurers Nowadays charge less if home owners have an alarm system or a safe installed So what a trained gun owner? represent a lower insurance risk Last and most importantly a system of competing protection agencies would have a two-fold impact on the development of law on the [one] hand it would allow for a greater variability of law Rather than imposing a uniform set [of] standards [onto] everyone as under statist conditions protection agencies could compete against each other not just through prices, but also through product differentiation there could exist side by side for instance Catholic protection agencies, or insurers applying Canon law Jewish agencies applying Mosaic law and Muslim agencies applying islamic law and agencies applying secular law of one variety or another all of them sustained by a voluntarily paying Clientele Consumers could choose the law applied to them and their property and no one would have to live under foreign law and On the other hand the very same system of private law and order production would promote a tendency Towards the unification and harmonization of law because the domestic so so-called domestic Catholic Jewish Roman Islamic law and so forth would apply obviously only to the person and property of those who had chosen this [or] Canon law for instance would apply only to professed Catholics and deal solely with [Intra] Catholic conflict and conflict resolution Yet it is Obviously also possible of course that a catholic might have a conflict with a subscriber of some other law code let's say a muslim if both law codes [reached] the same or a similar conclusion then no difficulties would arise however if Competing law codes arrived at distinctly different conclusions Si would at least in some cases a problem arises the Domestic intra law would be useless obviously but naturally every insured person would want protection against this contingency of intergroup Conflicts as well and each insurer would have to have provisions in his contract What do we do if such conflicts break out between a jew? Going to Jewish courts and an islamic person going to an islamic court So domestic law would be useless but naturally as I said every person would want protection against the contingency of Intergroup conflicts as well and in this situation it cannot be expected that one insurer or one the Subscribers of would [into] subscribers [of] its law court simply subordinate their own judgment to that of another Insurer and it's law [raza] as I have already indicated before in this situation there exists only one credible and Acceptable way out of this predicament from the outset every insurer would have to be contractually obliged to submit itself and its clients to arbitration by an independent third party This party would not only be independent But at the same time it would be the unanimous choice of both parties It would be agreed upon because of its commonly perceived Ability to find mutually agreeable [ther] solution solutions in cases of intergroup conflict and disagreement if an arbitrator failed in this task and Arrived at conclusions that were perceived as unfair or as biased By either one of the parties by either one of the insurers or of their clients This person or this agency would not likely be chosen again as an arbitrator in the future and as a result of the constant cooperation of various insurers and arbitrators the tendency Toward the Unification of property and contract law and the harmonization of the rules of procedure Evidence and Conflict resolution would be set in motion Thus in buying protection Insurance every insurer and every insured person becomes a participant in an integrated system of Conflict avoidance and peacekeeping every single Conflict and damage claim Regardless of where and by or against whom would fall in the Uris diction of one or more? Specific insurance Agency and would be handled either by an individual's insurers Domestic Law or by the International or universal law provisions and procedures agreed upon by everyone in Advance and at Miners' but administered and conducted by arbitration agencies so hence instead of permanent conflict in dress and legal Insecurity as under the present status conditions in a private law society peace Justice and Legal security would hold sway Thank you very much | misesmedia | UCmT6-ChKpaiIVu2fhEIsNtQ | 2011-08-19 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 6,242 | 37,278 |
4ND5oNx2byc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ND5oNx2byc | Topological Phases of Matter with Ultracold Atoms and Photons - Lecture 1 | okay so is that now working great so thank you very much and thank you so much to the organizers for inviting me to come and give these lectures it's a great pleasure to be here I have very fond memories of coming to a school and workshop quite like this a few years ago that was really useful so it's great to be back and I'm gonna be telling you about something that's a little bit outside of perhaps the main thrust of this school so I'm not really talking about quantum information or those sorts of things but another aspect of modern advanced quantum science which we hope is also taking us on a path towards some future quantum technologies so the organizers have asked that I divide up my lectures in order to first give you a bit of an introduction to topological phases of matter because that's not being covered elsewhere in the school so the first two lectures are going to be from quite a traditional condensed matter perspective about what is a topological phase of matter what types of topological phases of matter do we know about and are interested in and give you some examples of the toy models that we use to see these topological effects and then in the third lecture I'm going to move on to how we realize topological phases of matter using cold atoms and in the fourth lecture how we do this with photons and I will hope to convince you that there are very good reasons why we should be trying to do this with cold atoms and with photons and how this can help us learn more about these topological phases of matter but also have some quite interesting possible applications and reach some new regimes that we haven't been able to see with just solid state materials ok so as with all the lectures today do feel free to ask questions as we go through we also I think have the question time at the end of the afternoon so do come and ask more then and I've also already put my slides up on the website so the slides will have a lot of references on them because I want to give you all of the resources you need if you want to go and find out more so don't worry about writing all of the references down these are all available on the website so you can check that okay so let's start with this topological phases matter and the key references as promised here's the long list for the first two lectures so I just want to show you a couple of my favorite references in particular the seminal example of a topological phase of matter is we'll see is a quantum Hall effect and the classic quantum Hall effect book is this one but also there have been these very recent lecture notes by David tank Cambridge which are wonderful introduction to quantum Hall physics and fractional quantum Hall Physics topological phases of matter is a very new field and as such has also spawned quite a few very recent reviews so in particular these are the two classic reviews on topological phases topological insulators and topological superconductors sorry this one and this one this is Barry phase effects and this one is a very recent one about classification of topological phases as we'll come on to and I just want to mention we have probably the first textbook of the field which is this book by Ben avec which is well worth it if you want to get your hands into the research it's got lots of examples lots of questions and there's also an excellent online course that you can do so it has all of the questions and tutorials that is accessible here so as I say all of this is available on my slides on the website so you don't have to write it down but those are some great references for everything that I'll be talking about in the next two lectures and then I'll give you more references as we move on to the cold atoms and photons so what is topology let's just start with the very basic idea of topology that we get from mathematics and for instance we can talk about topology is a way to classify different types of surfaces so this is a example that I'm sure many of you have seen before which is how can we tell whether an orange is different from a doughnut and the idea is that these surfaces regardless of the local geometrical details are characterized by a global topological invariant and in this case that invariant is the genus it is the number of holes that this surface has and so this is a little animation that I stole from Wikipedia which is showing you that as you take this coffee mug and you deform it into a doughnut you're keeping the number of holes the same and that means that this surface has always got the same topological class it always has a genus equals one even though you're twisting and smoothly deforming it so the idea is that in mathematics we have sometimes got these global properties they are integers which is one of the reasons they're so robust because you can't change an integer continuously you have to do something dramatic you've got a tear a new hole in order to get from one genus to another genus and these are properties that can be used to classify different surfaces now what about physics standing here is physicists then what really started this idea of can we do these same sorts of topological phases but now with solid state systems was beginning beginning with the discovery the experimental discovery of the quantum Hall effect in the early 80s and this was discovered by klaus von Kling and others and he won Nobel Prize in 1985 for realizing that when you take a cold quasi dimensional 2d electron system and you change the magnetic field that you're putting perpendicular to the surface and you measure injecting currents and measuring the whole voltage so the voltage perpendicular to the current that you inject that you see these amazingly robust plateaus in the hole resistance so the hole resistance being related to the hole voltage and the current in this way and these plateaus are incredible because they are quantized buried very robustly and precisely as h over e squared with an integer and this integer N and this precision is so good that this is becoming our best definition of electrical resistance and H over E squared that's so robust and it doesn't depend on details of all the geometry of the sample if you have a sample with disorder it's still robust and this really posed the mystery of why how can we get something that is this robust and it was Salas David Thewlis and others who showed shortly after this experimental discovery that the reason this is such a robust phenomenon is because this is the first example that we know of a topological phase of matter and you probably heard about this in the news because this was of course part of the Nobel Prize in 2016 so I was very excited about that especially because it meant there were popular science articles that I could give to my parents so that they had some hope of understanding what I do it didn't really work but at least it gave a bit more incentive to this field and brought a bit more of a highlight but this is just the first example what we realized since the early 80s is that topological phases of matter are actually a very very broad class of systems and it's actually a whole other way to understand and classify different phases of matter so the phases of matter as you learn them in undergraduate physics and most varsity's is that we have this paradigm of spontaneously broken symmetry for instance so you can think of the difference between a disordered magnet where the spins are pointing everywhere and then as you cool it down or as you change other parameters you go through the transition and the spins align and to get a ferromagnet and so that's an example of in the disordered state you have a local order parameter like the magnetization which is zero and then as you go through the transition you have that local order parameter taking a nonzero value so we can say that in that paradigm different phases of matter are characterized by different values of that local order parameter and a spontaneously broken symmetry now topological phases of matter are also very distinct phases of matter but do not fit into this paradigm because we don't have local order parameters we have global topological invariants in analogy to that genus that I was talking about a moment ago and I'll tell you some more about the topological invariants and we also can't think about the spontaneous symmetry breaking in the same way we can't think about if we see a system that spontaneously breaks a particular symmetry then that's the topological phase it doesn't work like that symmetry is important but plays quite a different role so it's another paradigm of phases of matter but one that is generating an awful lot of richness as we'll see through these lectures oh if I skipped slide no I think that's okay yes so why am i standing here well from my title I'm not talking about electrons really I'm actually photonics and called atom person so I personally work on topological phases and photons and called atoms because we have much greater controllability and tune ability of those systems so it's a wonderful playground for engineering different Hamiltonians that we really want to see the topological properties of and also I'm excited about how we can use the cold atoms and photo to explore new things that weren't possible with just electrons and solids and this is going to be the focus of lecture three in lecture four and I also want to say I feel like I should situate myself within the school because it's maybe not so obvious where I fit in but this is a very exciting area that's getting a lot of attention at the moment and it's very useful because it's showing us how we can use these cold atoms and photons to simulate to do quantum simulation of interesting effects and also there's this hope that maybe some of the stuff will have some practical applications so what is topological interface of matter okay the shorter answer is the wave function we're talking about the topology of the wave function the more precise answer for these lectures is I'm going to be talking about topological band theory so that means that I'm really limiting myself to systems where we can talk about the single particle energy bounds of a system so typically we're talking in the first two lectures just think about electrons moving in a solid so we have electrons in a periodic potential and through blocks theorem we know that the electron wave function can be decomposed into the plane wave and the periodic block function and those periodic block functions have got satisfied block Hamiltonian and the energy bands so we can plot them in the Brillouin zone in this way and I'm interested in the topology of those eigen States those block states here and how those block States vary over the energy band and what topology we can assign to that I'll talk more in detail about this of course but here's just an example of a topological system where a with each energy band we can associate an integer this is called chair number there are other possibilities and I'll talk a lot more about chair numbers so don't worry but the idea is that these eigenstates taken together as an energy band have got some topological properties now when is this good well this is good for many many topological phases matter that we're interested in so yeah sorry it's actually so it's the same in this particular model this is actually a half a harsh data model with flux equals one-fourth so it's got this it's actually got a symmetry between the top and the bottom so the band's look actually the same so in this case they've got the same topology the top band and the bottom band yep which is a characteristic just of this model okay so this and this is also an example of a particular model which will show the quantum Hall effect so I'll introduce this later so integer quantum Hall effect can be understood with this single band independent energy band theory approach as can topological insulators so okay I'm using terminology which means that I say topological insulator for time reversal invariant topological phases in a way that I will define later some people in the field use topological insulator to mean top everything including quantum Hall systems but I'm going to be a slightly different with that terminology just to warn you but it should be clear as we go through and the other thing that we can talk about is strictly speaking when we don't have these are electron energy bands but when these are quasi particle bands so if we're talking about the topology of for instance quasi particles in a superconductor or superfluid that also fits within this particular paradigm now what topological band Theory cannot do is it cannot tell you about systems where really strong interactions are important so for instant fractional quantum Hall physics we cannot describe just using the single electron picture all the time and that's very interesting and that's a whole other talk in itself the reason that I have chosen to focus on the topological band theory is because that's where the fields of cold atoms and photons currently is we're at the stage and called atoms and photons that we're really good at getting topological bands that are single particle energy bands but we can't yet do the strongly correlated topological physics that's what we'd like to do but we're not there yet so to help you understand the state-of-the-art this is the way that I'm structuring this talk so within topological band theory we have bands but what does it mean to say a band is topological and how can we say that this band has got a different topology to some other band well a very useful concept is that of topological equivalence which is saying that we can define two bands as being topologically equivalent if we can smoothly deform one band into the other band without changing without closing the band gap and this is crucial so this is just a schematic of what I mean by this this is taking the same model that I showed you before so it's the hofstadter model and in this particular case there's a parameter don't worry about these details but just think there is some parameter of the Hamiltonian that I'm in tuning and as I tune this I can go from a system which is topologically trivial to a system which is topologically non-trivial and the only way that this can happen is if at the point where the transition occurs which is corresponding to sorry this is a projector I don't think is shown let me just see okay so I'm afraid this is a little bit hard to see but this picture here corresponds to in this regime this picture here corresponds to exactly at this transition you can see all this on the slides online so check there if you're not sure and at this point the gaps close so you can see that that here now we have these band touching points and that is required for the topology to change okay and this is part of what we mean by topological robustness because anything that we're doing to a band as long as we're not closing that energy gap is preserving the topology of the eigenstates so that's one of the central ideas and that's one of the reasons why topological physics is so interesting because it's very very robust because if you add perturbations if you add stuff to your system that changes the band structure a little bit provided you don't do something so dramatic that you close the band gap your topology stays the same any physical quantities that depend on that topology will stay the same here I'm so here for instance I'm talking about the topology of the single band so if you in if you were to when you want to define a topological invariant you could assign it to this band on its own or you could assign it to a group of bands and then that topological invariant would not change even if you had band gap closings within the group of bands that you selected so you can choose basically you're choosing how much of your spectrum you want to group together here I'm grouping together this band okay technically here I have two bands so group those two bands together and here I can have band gap closings within these two bands but because the topology I'm talking about is as that as a unit that's okay yes so we'll come on to that so that is that okay this is where the words apology has two meanings so that means the topology of the parameter space in terms of how the block states are connected to the other block states but then we can talk about the topology of the eigenstates themselves so how those eigenstates change and that's the topology that I'm assigning this index to here so in in yes so in some sense the because of the the period boundary conditions it's always a torus but how those eigenstates are actually winding on that torus is what I'm calling this topological index I'll show you some more examples later yes so bandgap is is crucial in the sense of the bandgap is what is protecting the topology so when the bandgap is going to zero then you will see for instance with the topological properties that I define that that's the point where you can get the topological transition between two topological states so as long as the bandgap stays open I'm in 1 topological phase it was there another question yeah no that's a very good point it is not a chance at all so you can show that the sum of the chair numbers over the whole system have to add up to zero that is a fundamental property of the chair numbers in yeah so that is not a chance at all it's the symmetry we can talk more about it later okay so another point that arises from this which is one of the reasons why people love topology is because I've just said that the bandgap is crucial so open bandgap can be in a topological phase and then at this band gap closing we can have the bulk topology of the band changing so here for instance the lowest band has topological index Tran number zero and here it is one and at the point where we get the transition from one to the other the band gap closes now you can turn this around here I plotted this as a function of the tuning parameter but what if now I had a topological material next to a vacuum so an interface between a topological material and a vacuum then the vacuum would be like it was on this side and the topological index the topological material would be like it was on this side and what I've just shown you and you would be able to see perfectly if the slider come out well is that at this point here the band gap closed because we had to have the band gap closing to have the transition and that means there must be gapless modes confined to boundaries of topological materials so because between non topological and topological so topological and the vacuum we have to have the band gap closing means there will always be gapless modes at the surface of a topological material and we'll see that this is one of the reasons we really love topological physics because those gapless modes can be very very special and that's called the boundary correspondence just to say it's much deeper mathematically but I'm not going to go into that now I did say that symmetry played a role so what is the role that symmetry plays well it is a guiding principle for us so we want to be thinking about what kinds of symmetries are possible in our system and that will allow us to talk about what types of topology are possible what types of topological phases a matter of possible and so in a moment I'm going to show you the classification table but firstly I just want to say so we can obviously think about crystals that have certain spatial symmetry so certain types of reflection or glide symmetries or rotation symmetries and those are great they give us extra constraints that can also lead to interesting things but those are not very generic those are very easy to break you know you add a defect and you can easily break a reflection symmetry so what we tend to do is we tend to ignore these symmetries at least at the lowest level is not being so interesting and focus on the most generic symmetries that we can possibly have in a quantum system and the most generic symmetries that we can have our time reversal symmetry and particle-hole symmetry so time reversal symmetry you can just think of okay so what does time reversal symmetry do well it's like reversing the direction of time so for instance if we have a Hamiltonian as a function of momenta it should flip the momenta but the system should remain on variant under this and this time reversal operator is an anti unitary operator that reverses that we will define for particular models but that is going to reverse the direction of time in our system another generic symmetry that we can have is particle-hole symmetry and so we'll see this particularly for for instance systems like superconductors and we have whole classes of topological superconductors that have particle-hole symmetry and so that's saying that the symmetry of having a particle is related to if you you can either add an extra at school or you could take out a whole and you could add a whole take out so then we also have combination of the particle hole and the time reversal symmetry which we call the chiral symmetry and between them these symmetries are the most generic things that we can think about and what they have done very recently starting from 2009 is classified what possible topological phases of matter are possible so here I am NOT deriving this I'm afraid because derive deriving this is very very complicated but these are references where you can find everything discussed in much more detail but I want to use this as the structure for the discussion that we're going to have so we're interested in these kind of generic symmetries and we're going to be talking about different examples from this table so what really am I talking about here so first off let's look at the symmetry table so this is called sometimes the tenfold way because these are the ten possible symmetries that we can have with those time-reversal particle hull and chiral now you can show that time reversal symmetry operation if you have tapti being the time reversal operator that T squared has to be plus or minus 1 come and ask me afterwards if you want to know more details about that but that means for time reversal symmetry we have three options we can have plus 1 0 and minus 1 and next lecture I'll show you an example of plus 1 and minus 1 and 0 means it's broken particle hole we have the same three options because we also have to have that P squared equals plus or minus 1 so we have 0 plus or minus 1 here 0 plus or minus 1 here and then chiral is a product of time reversal and particle hole and that just gives us one extra class on top of the other 9 so these are the generic symmetry classes and then according to the dimensionality this is the table of topological in it's possible for the permeance and I love this because this to me is a bit like a periodic table is to a chemist I look at this table to see where am i what is possible so if you have an if you have for instance a system that has none of these symmetries and you're in dimension 3 then you look here and you see at zero and that tells you straight away you can't have a robust topological invariant in that type of system if instead you're in dimension 2 you see Zed and that says you can you can have an integer topological invariant and this is just I should say for the non-interacting fermionic Hamiltonians with these types of symmetries we can also consider adding back in those spatial symmetries we can also consider classifying defects and we can also say something about gapless systems but I'm not going to say anything about that and so this is what people kind of a referring to when they're talking about topological phases matter it's this table and what we can explore within it but be careful because just because there is an entry in that table that says Z or Zed - it doesn't mean that you're always going to be in a topological phase when you're in that symmetry class because zero is a perfectly fine topological invariant and zero means it's topologically trivial so this is why it's very different to the spontaneous symmetry breaking paradigm because just because we're in a particular symmetry class does not mean we are guaranteed to have non-trivial topology we actually do have to calculate and check and see what our system is doing so why is the symmetry important at all well it tells us where to look you know so straight off I can say if you have no symmetries and you're in three dimensions there is nothing topological in a robust sense you maybe could add some extra reflection symmetry and get something kind of topological but it's not really robust you can break it really easily but also it tells us within a particular symmetry class what kinds things can we do to that system and keep it topological so if we have a topology that relies on time reversal invariance and we add some magnetic impurities that break time reversal invariance okay our topology is gone you know it's not robust so this tells us what we can do while keeping that topological class and now I want to get to what I'm actually going to tell you about so I can't tell you about all of those classes but I'm going to tell you about some of the most important entries in this table and in particular I'm going to focus the rest of today and probably a bit up next time on the quantum Hall class so quantum hall classes are in the first row so they break time reversal invariance so we saw that already because we were talking about quantum Hall effect of a 2d electron system in a magnetic field and a magnetic field an external magnetic field breaks time reversal symmetry because it forces electrons to be chiral and that you can't reverse without reversing the sign of the magnetic field so that's breaking time reversal symmetry they also don't have any of these other generic symmetries so we're in this class a and one of the reasons that we love this class so much and I spend so much time on it is because it if you want to talk about cool things that you could do applications it's actually kind of the most interesting class because it's really really robust because I've already broken all my symmetries which means all the perturbations I add are going to stay within that symmetry class now the other things I do want to talk about are a bit about topological insulators so they're a bit like Class A but now with a time reversal symmetry and this is what really sparked off this explosion in the field in 2005 was the discovery of these topological insulators theoretically the theoretical prediction and understanding of them as I say if you add some magnetic impurities then you can break these so I don't like them as much but they're very very beautiful then there's also in particular some other classes that I'll talk about yes which model just very briefly and these classes here which you can see have got particle-hole symmetry and so that means we're talking about topological superconductors and those are very cool because as we'll see they can have modes in them that are my Arana modes that people are interested in because of their interesting non-abelian properties and statistics that takes us in the direction towards topological quantum computing okay so I apologize for not having derived this table but this is a picture to have in your mind of a plethora of possibilities and now let's dive in and see what a particular example of a topological phase actually means so the 2d quantum Hall effect let's go back to this so just to recap what I said before we have a system where we can have these plateaus in the whole resistance and this is an integer and this integer we're going to show is related to the sum over the occupied churn numbers of bands so I'm going to define for you what a chair number is I'm going to talk about how we get them and this chair number leads to this robust behavior and as we said it's very robust because this is a very robust topological class we can add disorder to the system we can do crazy stuff to the system as long as we don't close those band gaps then or the band gap at the Fermi energy in this case is the crucial one as long as we don't close that we're going to have the same topological behavior and also I said something about this bulk boundary correspondence about the gapless modes and one of the reasons we love quantum Hall is because the gapless modes are actually one-way propagating chiral edge States in this case which means that at the edge of the system we have a SAN edge state that connects the valence band in the connection band that is only in one direction so as a group velocity that for instance in this case is always positive and connecting the two bands so classically you can understand this because classically if we have these electrons which are charged particles moving in a magnetic field in the bulk of the system they're doing closed cyclotron orbits but at the edge of the system we can see something special can happen because as an electron tries to do a cyclotron orbit it's bouncing off the edge of the system it skips along the bottom and a quantum version of this are these chiral edge States that come through the bulk boundary correspondence so what is a chair number how do we get to a chair number well I'm going to take a step back and introduce it through something called the berry phase and one of the reasons I've chosen to do this is because this way of understanding the chair number has really inspired a lot of the work in cold atoms and photonics as we'll see in a little bit so what is a berry phase as we'll see berry phase is very intimately related to these topological properties now we're considering just a Hamiltonian that depends on a set of parameters so R 1 R 2 R 3 it doesn't really matter what they are these could be external fields for instance it could we could be talking about a spin in a magnetic field and this could be the direction of that magnetic field now what I'm going to consider is I'm going to consider the case where we have we know the normalized non-degenerate eigenstates of this system you can generalize this you can talk about degeneracies but it complicates things too much for what i want to present here so we just have this Hamiltonian and these are the eigenstates anavar now we ask ourselves what happens if we take a state prepared at and with our at time equals 0 so n over R 0 and we evolve it under adiabatic variation of the parameters so I just said these states are non degenerate which means that we have an energy gap and this is one of the ways that the energy gap is going to come in and play a role and now we adiabatically evolve it within that lowest eigen state which means that we're not including the possibility that the state could transition so if we evolve it it's got to stay in the same state of course at a different point in the parameter space and then up to the possibility of having a face factor okay that's all it can do and we know how to treat adiabatic quantum evolution we can plug this into the Schrodinger equation so I h-bar D by DT of this state has got to be the Hamiltonian with this time dependence on that state but if you just plug this in you can see that you have two ways that this D by DT can act on the state you're putting in it can bring down this phase it can be D theta by DT or it can act directly on that eigenstate because that is also a time-dependent eigenstate and on the other side on the right hand side you're just getting the energy back out because you acted with the Hamiltonian now I multiply from the rights by n by the same eigen state and I use that these are normalized orthogonal eigen States such that on this side multiplying by n is just giving me this h bar d theta by DT here I of course just have the en and I've taken this over to the other side now where I keep I change the sign because it's over on the other side the N D by DT and okay so I've just taken this simple idea plugged it into the Schrodinger equation and said let's see what happens well that's a differential equation that I can solve I can integrate that with respect to time and my phase this phase I don't know what it is is got to be the integral over time of the energy as a function DT prime so en r of T prime DT Prime and then this quantity here which is telling us about how the eigenstate is changing so what does this mean well the first part you should all recognize there's just a dynamical face that's just the dynamical phase that we always get in quantum mechanics so when eigenstate evolves with E to the IET over H bar the other part is something that you may or may not have seen in your undergraduate course and this part is what I'm most interested in this is going to be the Barry phase so you can see that we have this differentiation with respect to T prime so it's telling us about how those eigenstates are changing but to make it a bit clearer let's just change the variables to get out that time dependence so now instead we differentiate with respect to the parameter R and now outside we have a dr by dt prime okay so and then very roughly using physics mathematics then we see that what we end up with is a phase that depends on how the parameters change so it's only depending on the contour that we took in that parameter space not on the explicit time dependence so it doesn't matter if we went fast or he went slow it just matters where we went and this is why we call it a geometrical phase because it only depends on where we went in parameter space not on dynamically how fast we went okay so actually people knew this a long long time ago like this is really something that you can write down right from the beginning of quantum mechanics back in the 1920s but people thought ah well this doesn't really matter because in quantum mechanics we have gauge freedom we're free to choose the gauge of our eigenstates so if we change that gauge that means that we can multiply our eigenstates a Prower to dependent base factor what happens to that berry face well this is an extra face factor that we now have here that we put in to this and we can see we get the same state the same expression but now we also have this gradient of the gauge that we chose that gauge function and so if we just integrate that then you can see that if we choose these two bits of the gauge function correctly then surely we should always be able to cancel out that berry face so how can this be an important physical quantity because it's gauge dependent we just choose that KY at the end of our evolution and the KY at the beginning of the evolution so that we cancel this out and that's what they thought they just thought well this we can always make go away so it can't be physical and it took until Michael berry in the 1980s to say wait a second what if I don't consider just any evolution but I consider evolution that goes in a circle that's a closed evolution where my starting and finishing point is the same thing well then I actually have a problem because I said that I was going to choose this gauge and I decided I wanted to choose a smooth gauge and a gauge that led to single definition of my eigenstates everywhere but now this condition the fact that I want this e to the I Chi of R T to be the same as e to the I Chi of our zero I want those two factors to be the same in order to have the same definition that to have my eigen state single valued within this gauge that means that this difference between these two things has to be two pi times an integer I've lost the ability to choose the gauge in order to get rid of that berry face and that means that the berry phase is physical and gauge invariant modulo two pi for a closed contour so it's not always gauge invariant we only really talk about berry phases that are associated with these closed contours but that's already great and this is a new aspect of quantum mechanics that we'll see is very very important and actually of course is much wider than the narrow consequences and topological phases are matter that I'm going to be talking about today so I don't have that long left which is okay because I might have been going slowly but I'm doing about the pace I wanted to do so this is good so how do we think about this berry phase well one of the things that I always like to picture in my head is parallel transport of a vector so oh yeah sorry that's zero oh sorry this is not the berry so the berry phase itself this is just that the the gauge function is the gauge function condition so it's that the berry phase is gauge invariant up to 2 pi yes no no you have to do a closed contour and then you can get the gate so once you do a get a closed contour you can have the berry phase itself being equal to anything it's just that if you were to change the gauge you could get a 2pi addition to that that would actually be the same physical thing which you can see as well because it's a phase factor yep oh yeah so I was just talking about this analogy with so this is how I like to visualize it so if you think about parallel transport of a vector that means that we take the surface and we move vector as according to particular mathematical rules on a closed contour and then we look when we come back to the same point whether that vector has rotated and actually one thing we know is that if we have a flat system a system with no Gaussian curvature then that vector will not rotate but if we have a system that has some curvature for instance a sphere then that vector does undergo a rotation and that rotation is related actually to the solid angle that is enclosed it's related to the Gaussian curvature of the surface and what we're doing here is kind of a bit like parallel transport we're actually doing a version of parallel transport but as is defined for eigenstates and the Associated fiber bundles so mathematically the maths is more involved but this is a good basic analogy if you want to I think in the next slide I have okay in a few slides then I will have a reference to nakahara geometry and topology and physics which is a great reference that talks about these ideas of the the fiber bundle and how the is related but this is the picture that I have in mind and that inspires us to introduce some other concepts so just like that Gaussian curvature that led to a rotation of the vector we can talk about a very curvature that leads to this berry phase okay so what am I actually doing here I'm just taking the expression for the berry phase and I'm saying let's call this part of the integrand something called a berry connection so you know the berry phase is this but I'm going to take this part of it and call it a berry connection which is telling us basically the parallel transport condition and that is related to a curvature so just as we could integrate the gaussian curvature to get the rotation of the vector so we can think about integrating this berry curvature to get the berry phase and these are very nice subsidiary concepts to introduce as we shall see one of the important things to note is that this berry connection is actually gauge dependent so it's a really really tricksy thing you don't want to spend too much time talking about berry connections because they can be deceiving but the berry curvature is lovely because it is fully gauge invariant as you can see by just plugging in what a gauge transformation does into these quantities and one of the things that is very very powerful in particular in cold atoms is this idea that actually we can make a beautiful analogy here as well with magnetism so this berry phase is a phase that we get when we do this closed contour and that is very similar to the phase that we would get the Aronoff bond phase if we inked in circle a certain amount of magnetic flux so you can think about the berry phase as being a measure of how much flux of this magnetic flux is through this contour you can think about the berry connection as being like a magnetic vector potential magnetic vector potential is also engaged dependent so if the analogy is very deep here as we'll see and you can think about this very curvature as being like a magnetic field so these are some very very useful concepts and now we're going to see how we can push this one step further and that is to make the connection now back to topology so everything I just told you about was geometrical because you can see that what I'm talking about are local properties of this parameter space I'm not talking about a global topological invariant yet I'm talking about the local properties so what about global topology well in mathematics there's also an in a connection between local geometry and global topology which is the Gauss boune theorem and that is as stated here that the integral of the Bary of the gaussian curvature over a closed surface is related to the genus of that surface this is the topological invariant of surfaces that we met earlier in this talk and actually we have the analogy here which is that the integral of the Buried curvature over a closed surface is a topological invariant an integer called the first Chen number okay so I'm technically at the end of my time so I can leave the derivation of exactly why this is and why this is an invariant to next time but yeah this will be the subject then of where we'll pick up tomorrow will be how do we see that integrating the Bary curvature over a closed surface has to give us an integer and then how do we see that that integer is the first Tran number of those energy bands that I talked about at the beginning okay thank 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U02lbdIbQRs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02lbdIbQRs | Motivating students during distance learning | poetry discussions using Parlay ideas & Google Meet | hello i'm thor gunnels today we'll be exploring the web apps parlay and google me integrated together to facilitate a discussion of poetry and motivate students these are web apps that can be used simultaneously to organize discussions inspire dialogue and offer a safe space for students to interact before we get started don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking on our logo during the video also leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right corner here's how to get started integrating parley and google me during a discussion of poetry first thing you want to do is prepare your class for the discussion you need to have google meet set up as well as parlay you also need to have a bomb selector for discussion but we'll get to resources for that later first i want to walk you through how to set up parley go to parleyideas.com from there go and click the get started button for teachers then you're going to want to click the sign up with google button which allows the google integration so you can have your google classroom be part of this as well there are three buttons as you come in this is my google this is my parlay so i'm going to walk you through this there's a new roundtable browse universe and then this teacher resources at the bottom these are already pre-planned lessons and many different topics you may want to look at this sometime for today though we're just going to be looking at starting a new round table over here while we're on the screen there's where your profile is you can change your picture over here you can do a number of things here too and here's all your courses okay clicking on new round table and ask what course is this for i only have one so i'm going to click that um online would be a more exhaustive sort of lesson that could be even outside of class that you could embed into a google classroom you could do a number of things with it what we're doing today is just an integration for a face-to-face discussion using meat so what we'll do is click on a live round table all right from this screen there are a number of things that open up for you uh first off this is sort of like a back button it allows you to go back and make this into an online roundtable if you feel like this live discussion is not going to be enough for you uh here are a number of live discussions that you get here you get nine free with parlay so right now it's opened up during the summer times you can see that there are more in here the green one is one that i have live it's a dummy one that i'll show you in a second here's where you invite your students you can share a join code you can link this to a document you can also import them through a roster here and you can also link out with this button right here to your google classroom which is really cool so you definitely want to have that in there you can change the name of the live discussion here if this is your first round table you might want to watch this video with your class it walks them through the features of parlay but also how to have conversations in sort of a simple manner also this one here is a teacher video that walks you through the functions of parlay and what it does down this side of the screen you can do export data you can edit as an assessment you can do all sorts of things over here summary comes up with different bars graphs even a word art that shows you the number of things that were said and by whom here's a little waffle at the top with more resources for you if you click on teacher resources it actually opens an entire google folder on your drive of things that you can do and questions answered by parlay if you click on the questions you can type in a guiding question right here that shows up on all the students notepads or their devices okay so that could be something too if you want to make sure that they've got something to see when they log in okay so that's the teacher side i'm going to go ahead and click over to my live and you'll see i've got a dummy student account set up let me show you what that looks like okay when the students come in i think it's going to look like this if there was a question posed it's going to be up at the top they can type their responses here to show you on your screen what they're thinking or they can just use this as sort of a thinking space when they're ready to discuss they can click on these buttons at the bottom which tap them in and out okay so they've got a new idea they can type in what's their new idea they can type it in down here and it shows up at the top i'm just going to put one word in here to show you what it does okay i'm going to see the word hey over on the teacher screen there's the kid tapped in okay and when they want to remove themselves they click tap out challenge is similar who are what are you challenging you know this is just a similar thing that you can do instead of a new idea you can sort of go i don't believe that or i want to challenge your idea build on also who or what are you building on you can put the person's name in here you can build the concept and then finally you have this last thing here it loads is a question which is just a basic question what are you who are what are you questioning it could be the activity it could be the poem itself i mean you may be completely not sure about what's going on okay if we click over to the teacher screen again let me show you what we've got okay you see the poem also there's a couple of things here you see there's a little hands at the top and then there's an ear this corresponds to the same thing on the student screen when you click on the hands it's giving them a high five students can do this to each other too and it's cool because it shows up on their screen like that also if you click on the ear you want to hear from that person also students can do that to each other so they can see that too on the teacher screen if you see like three or four of these clicked right here it means three or four people want to hear what this kid has to say okay now from the teacher screen there's a couple other things you can do you can remove the kid from the chat so if they haven't tapped out you can tap them out you can also tap them back in if they've forgotten and they want to talk you can also nudge them so if they look like they've got something to say on google meet you can go ahead and nudge them and say hey did you mean to say something or i think you really need to bring that up you can cancel that out you can also put in a poll you can create a poll and do this at any time which is a nice little feature in case you want to do a check for understanding a little word up here if it says 54 tap what that means is i've had this open the entire time um since there are only nine of these you can run this same live session over and over and over again so if you want to do it all day long you certainly can okay all right so there's the teacher screen there's the student screen let me go ahead and show you on meat all right on meat you know how to start these already so i'm not going to do that i do want to show you a couple of extensions first off down at the very bottom in the comments in the description section you're going to see that we have some information for you here's a handout that we've got that's google meat enhancements there's nod meat attendance grid views snap camera visual effects and dual lists i'm going to go over three of these with you the first one is nod and here it is right here it looks like this little thumbs up right here if the students download this and if you download it it also allows the students to give a thumbs up if they hear something they like they can also do a thumbs down they can wave they can clap students can also raise their hand so if you maybe don't see them on parlay you can go oh did you have a question and you can address it here another one is called grid view and i've got great view running right now but you can't see it because of chat but so the chat is something you also want to have open while you're doing discussions because kids are going to have a tendency to want to type into here and they want to talk about things on here and they're going to talk to parliament at the same time so your job is just basically an air traffic control to keep things running i'm going to close that grid view up at the top it's right here and if you enable grid view by default it pops up what this allows is more than the usual 16 max in here you can get 50 60 people in here at one time if you want to also when people are talking it lights up in this green and then finally you've got this duelist which is really cool if you want dual monitor support ta-da here you go you don't have dual monitors i'm talking to you on a laptop so i've got this on one screen i've got this on the other and what this allows you to do is to have parlay discussions going on in one screen and this over here and then if the kids are also talking to you on chat they could be doing this at the same time they can also be giving thumbs up to each other they can be raising their hand there are a number of things that can go on at the same time so what are you going to discuss well we're going to discuss some poetry slide this over here all right down at the bottom again we have some links and we have some information for you here's a teach living poet infographic with a number of new poets uh poets that are alive poets that have uh some things to say that may speak to a current generation uh there's also a wave wakelet down at the bottom which has similar poets but this also links out to other information too like the full videos and web pages and so on here's an example of one thing that you could do in the united states of anxiety you could play him doing a spoken word version of this you could have this observe you can put this on the screen you can also print it and you can put it on your document camera there's a number of things that you could do that could make this very helpful for you during a discussion okay so anyway if you see that having all of this together at the same time is an ideal situation and kids are really going to enjoy this if you have any questions please reach out and talk to us and we'll be more than happy to answer anything for you thanks so much for watching be sure to like comment or reply to one of our other videos or share the playlist below subscribe to our channel and enable notifications so you don't miss out in the next episode don't forget to check out our other resources like this cast podcast and see what else is going on in horry county schools be sure to follow at deerdisc is on social media or 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RKEXWWZbYvI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKEXWWZbYvI | Social enterprise working to build communities | [Music plays] ( Emmanuel Bakenga) My name is Emmanuel Bakenga. At Green Connect I am a Support Worker and I supervise volunteers. What I love most about my job is the way I connect with people from different backgrounds, different cultures, different race. (Jess Moore) Green Connect recovers waste and grows fair food. By which we mean, food that’s good for those who eat it, those who grow it and the planet. We also employee former refugees and young people to do this work and we do this with our community. (Jo Barraket) Social enterprises are basically businesses that exist for a social or environmental purpose rather than maximising profits to shareholders. (Jess Moore) There are people who want to make communities better. Those people have come together around social enterprise and they have showed leadership to try and solve some of our biggest problems. (Tara Penales) What’s important to me about buying my food from Green Connect and supporting their enterprise is that my daughter and all the kids that are growing up in the area near this farm can see that food comes from somewhere, and they can grow it within their own spaces so that they’ll have that connection to land and to people. (Emmanuel Bakenga) Working for Green Connect impacted my life in many ways. It’s promoted hope, not just for me but for other refugees as well, to live and stay in this place and call it their home. (Jo Barraket) Social enterprises operate in every industry of the Australian economy. Any business you can think of could potentially be a social enterprise, community owned banks, non-profit owned cinemas. There are all sorts of services that social enterprises provide. (Mark Jensen) I’m Mark, I work for Bushlink. One year ago I started to help with the schools and the community, too. (Cathy Hockey) So at Bushlink we are social enterprise and we basically exist to create a network of environmental project teams, made up of people with intellectual disability. Without us they would usually be working in a segregated type of environment. (Deborah Barr-Dix) It’s good for the children; it teaches them about diversity and about working with everyone and it’d be amazing if other schools could follow our lead. (Ollie) My favourite part of today was doing the planting, and working as a team. (Natalia Fustin) I love this job from my heart because I have a lot of skills, a lot of experience, I learn a lot from my boss and my trainer. (Cathy Hockey) When people champion the program or advocate for us and get in touch with schools or councils, it really, really helps us to grow. (Jo Barraket) There’s a lot of interest in social enterprise at the moment and rightly so. The most important thing we can do as consumers is to buy from them. So community members who are aware of social enterprises can tell others, because they‘re popping up all the time everywhere. (Jess Moore) It’s so important for people to know that getting involved not only makes a difference, it’s the only reason projects like this can grow into the future. [Music plays] | NSW Climate and Energy Action | UCsC_bAKo4Bja4gocNVnwZ8A | 2017-05-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | detection | en | 527 | 3,061 |
m_qaFgNZ6XQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_qaFgNZ6XQ | HE HAS MY WELFARE CONSENT | foreign discount and some reward because you are our loyal customer for a long time you feel on time you'll never miss any payments right no I've never missed a payment no is that why you're calling I didn't miss a payment I just paid it I just paid it never miss any payment that's all right oh okay yeah so there's a reason you are eligible to getting some shopping reward credits in your checking account for the next one year for being a loyal customer so let me apply the shopping reward credit do you use credit card debit for a Visa card credit card credit card what do you need yeah I don't know I gotta look at it okay go and get it okay like what do you need this for I don't understand [Music] shopping reward credits and you're checking it out for the next one year for being a loyal customer so that's the reason in order to apply the reward we need to verify some basic details so like what's the expiration date of the debit card which one you have 8 24. and the monkeys a it's August 24 right yeah okay it's under my name hey would you Airy a r i e is my first name [Music] Jose p-u-s-a-y Airy poussey okay okay I got it not sure I look at the back side of the car you see a three biggest small number what's the number uh zero eight six okay okay now Mr and Harry so at least get me your home address like your services so I could be able to send a mail at your mailing address it's 100 Main Street Moravia New York 13118 you see a long number yes so like our 48 space 48 space 48. you got it yeah four four four digits four digits yeah I see them yes so what's the number why do you why would I give you my credit card number okay I have told you we are going to apply the reward on that card so that's the reason we leave the number so I could be able to apply the rewards oh okay five three nine four nine zero four five nine three six four six four zero five let me repeat three nine four nine zero two five no nine zero four five nine zero four five Herman oh it's four five okay so ten nine three six four yeah and then six four zero five yeah okay so let me check the details here please see on the line okay will you tell me sir are you getting any government help to pay me or do you pay bill by your own self okay to build my my own self who else would pay you well I understand that who else would pay my bills I wish somebody would I wish somebody would buy the bills yeah do you have any email do I have an email yes p-u-s-a-y 23 gmail.com that's right okay give me a second okay okay sir I got it uh like uh would you tell me say how many appliances do you have in your home like do you have a washer a washer what kind of washer wash it like a dryer yeah you mean like for the laundry stuff yeah yeah right oh yeah I got one um okay so say I have a washer I got a washer oh do you have a dryer I got a dryer yes that's where the clothes go after they come out of the washer right so do we have yeah okay microwave a microwave yes just said yes no today you need to say I have a microwave why pardon why do I need to say I gotta got it if I just told you yes I do don't you believe me you prefer verification purpose sir oh I have a microwave yes say what I have a stove you do you have to say not mine mine too oh I'm confused yeah I got a stove so do you have a TV TV yeah so see I have a TV I have a TV we have air conditioned now okay do you have a plumbing system a what system Plumbing no no like a LED like a fan like a what like a fan sir a fan pan like a fan like a balancer it's 20 degrees out what do I need a fan for oh okay I understand sir oh no do you have a refrigerator a refrigerator yeah yeah I have a refrigerator yeah of course I do this verification purpose you need to say I have a refrigerator I have a refrigerator okay so how old is your appliances I I do not know I don't know Okay so five years you pay your bills on monthly basis so you must have to say monthly I have to say what monthly monthly what pardon I don't know what you're talking about monthly monthly what okay so you pay bill like more monthly basis of course I do I understand so now I'm giving you your discount on your electric bill for the next three years so just hit three-year discount okay what do I do just count three year discount s on your electric Bill how much 35 35 percent yeah just a minute just a minute just a minute get outside Sparky get outside okay no what do you want me to do I have to say three-year discount so I need your permission to apply discount yesterday you you have my my consent you have my welfare consent duck outside right now remember do you hear me just a minute [ __ ] the duck got in the house okay I live on a farm oh yeah the cows live in the barn and I live in the house okay yeah Farm farmhouse so do you have any rough idea like how big is your farm how big is my farm yes sir 13 acres Acres yeah I understands are great yeah the cows eat a lot of grass and then I oh I've owned it for 65 years oh you are under all 65 years okay go ahead so say send me each and everything in writing so everyone writing writing okay go ahead send it you need to say send me each and everything in writing yeah go ahead okay okay that's why I'm going to transfer these cars okay we're gonna do uh listen to me or verification purpose you need to say send me each and everything in writing yes I go ahead with me one okay send me each and everything in writing okay yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no no no [Music] why am I saying all this stuff okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay see any promotional ad on internet oh I looked at ads on the internet yeah no no say I did not see I didn't see I do see them I look at them all the time well then I would be lying right oh I understand okay so do we have a panel paper with you yes okay go ahead my name is Kevin Henry who carried handy Kevin Henry yeah okay now write down my contact number okay it's 3.7 347. 667 okay your phone number that's not enough numbers okay seven is not enough numbers okay okay William slow down four four nine three okay now let me transfer to my supervisor he'll guide you better okay what you gonna do just one minute hello uh hello Miss Erie how are you doing well Aries my first name poussey is my last name uh I say that because right yeah foreign yeah so I believe I'm talking with offer yes I pay my electric bill all the time and I don't know well I just paid it I told the other man that what I told them I already paid it I know your face that I pay that on time so that is a reason you are Elisabeth [Music] foreign [Music] I told the other man I live on a farm how come I gotta do all this stuff all over again I told the other man yes I do when you confirm the name of the appliances that you have you have right now in your farm I have a general electric and I have an LG and uh Samsung all right so tell me let me help you about it we have a washer and a dryer yes I do you have to say I have a washer dryer I have a refrigerator I have to say what why do I I did like I said that I don't know why I got to say that but because right now sir this call is recorded for your protection by the battery Business Bureau you got this thing I should dryer you do I say I have a voice I'm glad you do I've got one too all right so please take your name sir again um a-r-i-e Arie read that again Airy a-r-i-e is my first name my last name is poussay p-u-s-a-y Airy poussey Harry s-a-r-r-y Harry no a-r-i-e-erry Erie I'm Greek Airy poussey p-u-s-a-y are you writing this down sir yes okay sir you are right now as we tell you are getting a um if you need any service regarding your appliances you give us a call um okay go ahead all right so right now in the future if any of the thing goes damaged due to any weight and phase just need to give it give me a technician I thought it was to reduce my bill all right are you there yeah I don't understand can do it I I thought it was to reduce my electric bill and you're talking about a technician don't you write this down I don't get this 100 Main Street Moravia New York 13118 all right it's 100 Main Street Moravia 131 yes all right announcer right now in the future if you need any service regarding your annual collection please give us a call at plus technician and he will be going to do all the things for you because you always pay the bill on time and you never miss it what about the discount yeah you are also getting the discounts and I'm telling you because right now for example any of the thing goes damaged due to any weight and period all right you just need to give us a call so just be on the line with me okay all right so are you there you there yes can I ask you a question though first on the technician I don't understand what scam this is hello stupid [Music] | Wenja92 Scam Detective | UCTX-RT-q5rgr-AX25jNkLDw | 2023-01-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license 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DoBK0rbvSW0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoBK0rbvSW0 | Baptists | Wikipedia audio article | Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only believers baptism as opposed to infant baptism and doing so by complete immersion as opposed to a fusion or sprinkling Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the tenets of soul competency Liberty salvation through faith alone scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice and the autonomy of the local congregation Baptists generally recognized two ordinances baptism and the Lord's Supper diverse from their beginning those identifying as Baptists today differ widely from one another in what they believe how they worship their attitudes toward other Christians and their understanding of what is important in Christian discipleship historians trace the earliest Baptist Church to 1609 in Amsterdam Dutch Republic with English separatist John Smith as its pastor in accordance with his reading of the New Testament he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults Baptist practice spread to England where the general Baptists considered Christ's atonement to extend to all people while the particular Baptists believe that it extended only to the elect thomas hell ways formulated a distinctively baptist request that the church in the state be kept separate in matters of law so that individuals might have freedom of religion hell ways died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of english dissenters under king james the first in 1638 roger williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries the First and Second Great Awakening increased church membership in the United States Baptist missionaries have spread their faith to every continent topic origins baptist historian Bruce Gourley outlines four main views of Baptist origins the modern scholarly consensus that the movement traces its origin to the 17th century via the English separatists the view that it was an outgrowth of Anabaptist traditions the perpetuity view which assumes that the Baptist faith and practice has existed since the time of Christ and the succession dispute Baptist succession ism which argues that Baptist churches actually existed in an unbroken chain since the time of Christ topic English separatist view Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English separatist movement in the 1600s the century after the rise of the original Protestant denominations this view of Baptist origins has the most historical support and as the most widely accepted adherence to this position consider the influence of Anabaptists upon early Baptists to be minimal it was a time of considerable political and religious turmoil both individuals and churches were willing to give up their theological roots if they became convinced that a more biblical truth had been discovered during the Protestant Reformation the Church of England Anglicans separated from the Roman Catholic Church there were some Christians who were not content with the achievements of the mainstream Protestant Reformation there also were Christians who were disappointed that the Church of England had not made Corrections of what some considered to be errors and abuses of those most critical of the church's direction some chose to stay and try to make constructive changes from within the Anglican Church they became known as Puritans and are described by Gourley as cousins of the English separatists others decided they must leave the church because of their dissatisfaction and became known as the separatists historians traced the earliest Baptist Church back to 1609 in Amsterdam with John Smith as its pastor three years earlier while a fellow of Christ's College Cambridge he had broken his ties with the Church of England reared in the Church of England he became Puritan English separatist and then a Baptist separatist and ended his days working with the Mennonites he began meeting in England with sixty to seventy English separatists in the face of great danger the persecution of religious nonconformists in England led Smith to go into exile in Amsterdam with fellow separatists from the congregation he had gathered in Lincolnshire separate from the established Church Anglican Smith and his lay supporter Thomas hallways together with those they led broke with the other English exiles because Smith and hallways were convinced they should be baptized as believers in 1609 Smith first baptized himself and then baptized the others in 1609 while still there Smith wrote a track titled the character of the beast or the false constitution of the church in it he expressed two propositions first infants are not to be baptized and second anti Christians converted are to be admitted into the true church by baptism hence his conviction was that a scriptural church should consist only of regenerate believers who have been baptized on a personal confession of faith he rejected the separatist movements doctrine of infant baptism paedo baptism shortly thereafter Smith left the group and laymen Thomas hallways took over the leadership leading the church back to England in 1611 ultimately Smith became committed to believers baptism as the only biblical baptism he was convinced on the basis of his interpretation of scripture that infants would not be damned should they die in infancy Smith convinced that his self baptism was invalid applied with the Mennonites for membership he died while waiting for membership and some of his followers became Mennonites Thomas hell ways and others kept their baptism in their Baptist commitments the modern Baptist denomination as an outgrowth of smites movement Baptists rejected the name and a Baptist when they were called that by opponents in derision Macbeth writes that as late as the 18th century many Baptists referred to themselves as the Christians commonly though falsely called Anabaptists another milestone in the early development of Baptist doctrine was in 1638 with John Spilsbury a Calvinistic minister who helped to promote the strict practice of believers baptism by immersion according to Tom nettles professor of historical theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary spills buries cogent arguments for a gathered disciplined congregation of believers baptized by immersion as constituting the New Testament church gave expression to and built on insights that had emerged within separatism advanced in the life of John Smith and the suffering congregation of Thomas Hill ways and matured in particular Baptists topic and a Baptist influenced view a minority view is that early 17 th century Baptists were influenced by but not directly connected to continental Anabaptists according to this view the general Baptist shared similarities with Dutch Waterland or Mennonites one of many Anabaptist groups including believers baptism only religious liberty separation of church and state and Arminian views of salvation predestination and original sin representative writers including AC underwood and william r Estep Gourley wrote that among some contemporary baptist scholars who emphasize the faith of the community / soul liberty the Anabaptist influence theory is making a comeback however the relations between Baptists and Anabaptists were early strained in 1624 the then five existing Baptist churches of London issued a condemnation of the anabaptists furthermore the original group associated with Smith and popularly believed to be the first Baptists broke with the water lender Mennonite and a Baptists after a brief period of association in the Netherlands topic perpetuity and succession view traditional Baptist historians write from the perspective that Baptists had existed since the time of Christ however the Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions rejecting this view in 1859 proponents of the Baptist succession Astoria to ative you consider the Baptist movement to have existed independently from Roman Catholicism and prior to the Protestant Reformation the perpetuity view is often identified with the trail of blood a booklet of five lectures by JM Carroll published in 1931 other baptist writers who advocate the succession Asteria Baptist origins are John T Christian Thomas Crosby G H orchard J M cramp William Cathcart Adam Taylor and DB Rea this view was also held by English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon as well as Jesse Mercer the namesake of Mercer University in 1898 William Whitsett was pressured to resign his presidency of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for denying Baptist succession ism topic Baptist origins in the United Kingdom in 1612 Thomas hallways established a Baptist congregation in London consisting of congregants from smites Church a number of other Baptist churches sprang up and they became known as the general Baptists the particular Baptists were established when a group of Calvinist separatists adopted believers baptism the particular Baptist's consisted of seven churches by 1644 and had created a confession of faith called the first London confession of faith Baptist origins in North America both Roger Williams and John Clark his compatriot and co-worker for religious freedom are variously credited as founding the earliest Baptist Church in North America in 1639 Williams established a Baptist Church in Providence Rhode Island and Clarke began a Baptist Church in Newport Rhode Island according to a Baptist historian who has researched the matter extensively there is much debate over the centuries as to whether the Providence or Newport Church deserved the place of First Baptist congregation in America exact records for both congregations are lacking the Great Awakening energized the Baptist movement and the Baptist community experienced spectacular growth Baptists became the largest Christian community in many southern states including among the black population Baptist missionary work in Canada began in the British colony of Nova Scotia present-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the 1760s the first official record of a Baptist Church in Canada was that of the Horton Baptist Church now willful in willful Nova Scotia on the 29th of October 1778 the church was established with the assistance of the new light evangelist Henry aligned many of aligns followers after his death would convert and strengthen the Baptist presence in the Atlantic region two major groups of Baptists formed the basis of the churches in the Maritimes these were referred to as regular baptist Calvinistic in their doctrine and free will Baptists in May 1845 the Baptist congregations in the United States split over slavery and missions the home mission society prevented slaveholders from being appointed as missionaries the split created the Southern Baptist Convention while the northern congregations formed their own umbrella organization now called the American Baptist churches USA ABC USA the Methodist Episcopal Church south had recently separated over the issue of slavery and southern Presbyterians would do so shortly thereafter topic Baptist origins in Ukraine the Baptist churches in Ukraine were preceded by the German and a Baptist in Mennonite communities who had been living in the south of Ukraine since the 16th century the first baptist baptism adult baptism by full immersion in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river in Huell in the yellows of that Grad region now crop even its key region in a German settlement in 1867 the first baptist communities were organized in that area from there the Baptist movement spread across the south of Ukraine and then to other regions as well one of the first baptist communities was registered in kiev in 1907 and in 1908 the first all-russian convention of Baptists was held there as Ukraine was still controlled by the Russian Empire the all-russian union of Baptists was established in the town of yekaterinoslav now Negro in southern Ukraine at the end of the 19th century estimates are that there were from 100,000 to 300,000 Baptists in Ukraine an independent all Ukrainian baptist Union of Ukraine was established during the brief period of Ukraine's independence in early 20th century and once again after the fall of the Soviet Union the largest of which is currently known as the evangelical baptist union of ukraine topic Baptist affiliations many Baptist churches choose to affiliate with organizational groups that provide fellowship without control the largest such group in the u.s. is the Southern Baptist Convention there also are a substantial number of smaller cooperative groups finally there are independent baptist churches that choose to remain independent of any denomination organization or Association it has been suggested that a primary baptist principal is that local Baptist churches are independent and self-governing and if so the term Baptist denomination may be considered somewhat incongruous in 1925 Baptists worldwide formed the Baptist World Alliance BWA the BWA now counts 218 Baptist Convention's in unions worldwide with over 41 million members the BW A's goals include caring for the needy leading in world evangelism and defending human rights and religious freedom though it played a role in the founding of the BWA the Southern Baptist Convention severed its affiliation with BWA in 2004 topic membership topic statistics today more than 100 million Christians identify themselves as Baptist or belonged to Baptist type churches there are 48 million Baptists who belong to churches cooperating with the Baptist World Alliance many Baptist groups including the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist Bible fellowship do not cooperate with the Alliance Baptists are present in almost all continents in large denominations the largest communities that are part of the Baptist World Alliance are in Nigeria 3.5 million and Democratic Republic of the Congo two million in Africa India 2.5 million in Myanmar 1 million in Asia the United States 35 million in Brazil 1.8 million in the Americas in 1991 Ukraine had the second largest baptist community in the world behind only the United States according to the Barna Group researchers Baptists are the largest denominational grouping of born-again Christians in the USA a 2009 ABC and EWS belief net phone poll of 1022 adults suggests that 15% of Americans identify themselves as Baptists a large percentage of Baptists in North America are found in five bodies the Southern Baptist Convention SBC National Baptist Convention NBC National Baptist Convention of America Inc NBC a american baptist churches USA ABC and Baptist Bible fellowship international be BFI topic qualification for membership membership policies vary due to the autonomy of churches but the traditional method by which an individual becomes a member of a church is through believers baptism which is a public profession of faith in Jesus followed by water baptism most Baptists do not believe that baptism is a requirement for salvation but rather a public expression of one's inner repentance in faith therefore some churches will admit into membership persons who make a profession without believers baptism in general Baptist churches do not have a stated age restriction on membership but believers baptism requires that an individual be able to freely and earnestly profess their faith see age of accountability topic baptist beliefs and principles Baptists like other Christians are defined by school of thought some of it common to all Orthodox and evangelical groups and a portion of it distinctive to Baptists through the years different Baptist groups have issued confessions of faith without considering them to be Creed's to express their particular doctrinal distinctions in comparison to other Christians as well as in comparison to other Baptists most Baptists are evangelical in doctrine but Baptist beliefs can vary due to the congregational governance system that gives autonomy to individual local Baptist churches historically Baptists have played a key role in encouraging religious freedom and separation of church and state shared doctrines would include beliefs about one God the virgin birth miracles atonement for sins through the death burial and bodily resurrection of Jesus the Trinity the need for salvation through belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God his death and resurrection grace the kingdom of God last things eschatology Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth the Dead will be raised and Christ will judge everyone in righteousness and evangelism and missions some historically significant Baptist doctrinal documents include the 1689 London Baptist confession of faith 17:42 Philadelphia Baptist confession the 1833 New Hampshire Baptist confession of faith the Southern Baptist Convention's Baptist faith and message and written church covenants which some individual Baptist churches adopt as a statement of their faith and beliefs most Baptists hold that no church or ecclesiastical organization has inherent authority over a Baptist Church churches can properly relate to each other under this polity only through voluntary cooperation never by any sort of coercion furthermore this Baptist polity calls for freedom from governmental control exceptions to this local form of local governance include a few churches that submit to the leadership of a body of elders as well as the Episcopal Baptists that have an Episcopal system Baptists generally believe in the literal second coming of Christ beliefs among Baptists regarding the end times include amillennialism dispensationalism and historic premillennialism with views such as post millennialism and Predator I'm receiving some support some additional distinctive Baptist principles held by many Baptists the supremacy of the canonical scriptures as a norm of faith and practice for something to become a matter of faith and practice it is not sufficient for it to be merely consistent with and not contrary to scriptural principles it must be something explicitly ordained through command or example in the Bible for instance this is why Baptists do not practice infant baptism they say the Bible neither commands nor exemplifies infant baptism as a Christian practice more than any other Baptist principle this one when applied to infant baptism is said to separate Baptists from other evangelical Christians Baptists believe that faith is a matter between God and the individual religious freedom to them it means the advocacy of absolute liberty of conscience insistence on immersion as the only mode of baptism Baptists do not believe that baptism is necessary for salvation therefore for Baptists baptism as an ordinance not a sacrament since in their view it imparts no saving grace topic beliefs that vary among Baptists since there is no hierarchical Authority in each Baptist Church is autonomous there is no official set of baptist theological beliefs these differences exist both among associations and even among churches within the associations some doctrinal issues on which there is widespread difference among Baptists are eschatology Calvinism vs. Arminianism the doctrine of separation from the world and whether to associate with those who are of the world speaking in tongues and the operation of other charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit in the modern church how the Bible should be interpreted hermeneutics the extent to which missionary boards should be used to support missionaries the extent to which non-members may participate in the Lord's Supper services which translation of Scripture to use see King James only movement dispensationalism versus covenant theology the role of women in marriage the ordination of women as deacons or pastors attitudes to an involvement in the ecumenical movement topic controversies that have shaped Baptists Baptists have faced many controversies in their 400 year history controversies of the level of crises baptist historian walter cherdon says the word crisis comes from the greek word meaning to decide certain rights that contrary to the presumed negative view of crises some controversies that reach a crisis level may actually be positive and highly productive he claims that even schism though never ideal has often produced positive results in his opinion crises among Baptists each of become decision moments that shape their future some controversies that have shaped Baptists include the mission's crisis the slavery crisis the landmark crisis and the modernist crisis you topic missions crisis early in the 19th century the rise of the modern missions movement and the backlash against it led to widespread and bitter controversy among the American Baptists during this era the American Baptists were split between missionary and Auntie missionary a substantial secession of Baptists went into the movement led by Alexander Campbell to return to a more fundamental church topic slavery crisis topic united states leading up to the American Civil War Baptist's became embroiled in the controversy over slavery in the United States whereas in the first Great Awakening Methodist and Baptist preachers had opposed slavery and urged manumission over the decades they made more of an accommodation with the institution they worked with slaveholders in the south to urge a paternalistic institution both denominations made direct appeals to slaves and free blacks for conversion the Baptist's particularly allowed them active roles in congregations by the mid 19th century northern Baptists tended to oppose slavery as tensions increased in 1844 the home Mission Society refused to appoint a slave holder as a missionary who had been proposed by Georgia it noted that missionaries could not take servants with them and also that the board did not want to appear to condone slavery the Southern Baptist Convention was formed by nine state conventions in 1845 they believed that the Bible sanctions slavery and that it was acceptable for Christians to own slaves they believed slavery was a human institution which Baptist teaching could make less harsh by this time many planters were part of Baptist congregations and some of the denominations prominent preachers such as the Rev basil Manley senior president of the University of Alabama were also planters who owned slaves as early as the late 18th century black Baptists began to organize separate churches associations and mission agencies blacks set up some Independent Baptist congregations in the south before the American Civil War white Baptist associations maintained some oversight of these and after a slave rebellion required a white man to be at church services in the postwar years freedmen quickly left the white congregations and associations setting up their own churches in order to be free of white supervision in 1866 the consolidated American Baptist Convention formed from black Baptists of the South and West helped Southern Association set up black state conventions which they did in Alabama Arkansas Virginia North Carolina and Kentucky in 1880 black state conventions United the national foreign mission convention to support black Baptist missionary work to other national black conventions were formed and in 1895 the United as the National Baptist Convention this organization later went through its own changes spinning off other conventions it is the largest black religious organization and the second largest Baptist organization in the world Baptists are numerically most dominant in the southeast in 2007 the Pew Research Center's religious landscape survey found that forty five percent of all African Americans identify with Baptist denominations with the vast majority of those being within the historically black tradition topic Caribbean islands a healthy Church kills error and tears evil in pieces not so very long ago our nation tolerated slavery in our colonies philanthropists endeavored to destroy slavery but when was it utterly abolished it was when Wilberforce roused the Church of God and when the Church of God addressed herself to the conflict then she tore the evil thing to pieces CH Spurgeon and outspoken British Baptist opponent of slavery in the best war cry 1883 elsewhere in the Americas in the Caribbean in particular Baptist missionaries and members took an active role in the anti-slavery movement in Jamaica for example William Knibb a prominent British Baptist missionary worked toward the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies which took place in full in 1838 nib also supported the creation of free villages and sought funding from English Baptists to buy land for freedmen to cultivate the free villages were envisioned as rural communities to be centered around a Baptist Church where emancipated slaves could farm their own land Thomas virtual missionary minister in Montego Bay also was active in this movement gaining funds from Baptists in England to buy land for what became known as virtual free village prior to emancipation Baptist Deacon Samuel Sharpe who served with Virgil organized a general strike of slaves seeking better conditions it developed into a major rebellion of as many as 60,000 slaves which became known as the Christmas rebellion when it took place or the Baptist war it was put down by government troops within two weeks during and after the rebellion an estimated 200 slaves were killed outright with more than 300 judicially executed later by prosecution in the courts sometimes for minor offenses Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves for example Jamaica's Calabar high school named after the port of Calabar in nigeria was founded by Baptist missionaries at the same time during an after slavery slaves and free blacks formed their own spiritual Baptist movements breakaway spiritual movements which theology often expressed resistance to oppression topic memory of slavery in the American South the interpretation of the American Civil War abolition of slavery and post-war period has differed sharply by race since those years Americans have often interpreted great events in religious terms historian Wilson Fallon contrasts the interpretation of Civil War and reconstruction in white versus black memory by analyzing Baptist sermons documented in Alabama soon after the Civil War most black Baptists in the south left the Southern Baptist Convention reducing its numbers by hundreds of thousands or more they quickly organized their own congregations and developed their own regional and state associations and by the end of the 19th century a National Convention white preachers in Alabama after reconstruction expressed the view that God had chastised them and given them a special mission to maintain orthodoxy strict bibletump personal piety and traditional race relations slavery they insisted had not been sinful rather emancipation was a historical tragedy in the end of Reconstruction was a clear sign of God's favor black preachers interpreted the Civil War emancipation and Reconstructionist God's gift of freedom they had a gospel of liberation having long identified with the book of Exodus from slavery in the Old Testament they took opportunities to exercise their independence to worship in their own way to affirm their Worth and dignity and to proclaim the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man most of all they quickly formed their own church's associations and conventions to operate freely without white supervision these institutions offered self-help and racial uplift a place to develop and use leadership and places for proclamation of the gospel of liberation as a result black preachers said that God would protect and help him in God's people God would be their rock in a stormy land the Southern Baptist Convention supported white supremacy in its results disenfranchising most blacks and many poor whites at the turn of the 20th century by raising barriers to voter registration and passage of racial segregation laws that enforced the system of Jim Crow its members largely resisted the civil rights movement in the south which sought to enforce their constitutional rights for public access and voting an enforcement of mid-century federal civil rights laws on the 20th of June 1995 the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution renouncing it's racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery more than 20,000 Southern Baptists registered for the meeting in Atlanta the resolution declared that messengers as SBC delegates are called unwaveringly denounced racism in all its forms as deplorable sin and lament and repudiate historic acts of evil such as slavery from which we continue to reap a bitter harvest it offered an apology to all african-americans for condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime and repentance for racism of which we have been guilty whether consciously or unconsciously although Southern Baptists have condemned racism in the past this was the first time the convention predominantly white since the Reconstruction era had specifically addressed the issue of slavery the statement sought forgiveness from our african-american brothers and sisters and pledged to eradicate racism in all its forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry in 1995 about 500,000 members of the 15.6 million member denomination were African Americans and another 300,000 were ethnic minorities the resolution marked the denominations first formal acknowledgment that racism played a role in its founding Topic landmark crisis Southern Baptist landmark ISM sought to reset the ecclesiastical separation which had characterized the old Baptist churches in an era when interdenominational union meetings were the order of the day James Robinson Graves was an influential Baptist of the 19th century and the primary leader of this movement while some land markers eventually separated from the Southern Baptist Convention the movement continued to influence the convention into the 20th and 21st centuries for instance in 2005 the Southern Baptist International Mission Board forbade its missionaries to receive alien immersions for baptism topic modernist crisis the rise of theological modernism in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries also greatly affected Baptists the landmark movement already mentioned has been described as a reaction among Southern Baptists in the United States against incipient modernism in England Charles Haddon Spurgeon fought against modernistic views of the scripture in the downgrade controversy and severed his church from the Baptist Union as a result the northern Baptist Convention in the United States had internal conflict over modernism in the early 20th century ultimately embracing it too new conservative associations of congregations that separated from the convention were founded as a result the general association of regular Baptist churches in 1933 and the conservative Baptist Association of America in 1947 following similar conflicts over modernism the Southern Baptist Convention adhered to conservative theology as its official position in the late 20th century Southern Baptists who disagreed with this direction founded two new groups the extreme liberal Alliance of Baptists in 1987 and the moderately liberal co-operative Baptist Fellowship in 1991 originally both schisms continued to identify as Southern Baptist but over time became permanent new families of Baptists topics see also Baptists portal list of Baptist confessions list of Baptist denominations list of Baptists English dissenters and a Baptists topic references topic bibliography Bumstead JM 1984 Henry align 1748 to 1784 hand sport NS Lancelot press Christian John T 1926 history of the Baptists to Nashville Rodman press kid Thomas s & Barry hankins Baptists in America a history 2015 Leonard bill J 2003 Baptist ways a history Judson press ISBN nine seven eight oh eight one seven oh one two three one one comprehensive international history Torbett Robert G 1975 1950 a history of the Baptist's Valley Forge PA Judson press ISBN nine seven eight oh eight one seven ooo seven four five right Stephen 2004 early English Baptist 1603 249 topic further reading Bebbington David Baptists through the centuries a history of a global people Baylor University Press 2010 emphasis on the United States and Europe the last two chapters are on the global context BRAC nee William H a genetic history of Baptist thought with special reference to Baptists in Britain and North America Mercer University Press 2004 focus on confessions of faith hymns theologians and academics brac nee William H ed historical dictionary of the Baptists 2nd ed Scarecrow 2009 Cathcart William ed the Baptist encyclopedia 2 Vols 1883 online Gavin's Raymond the perils and prospects of southern black leadership Gordon Blaine Hancock 1884 to 1970 Duke University Press 1977 Harrison Paul M authority and power in the free church tradition a social case study of the American Baptist Convention Princeton University Press 1959 Harvey Paul redeeming the south religious cultures and racial identities among Southern Baptists 1865 to 1925 University of North Carolina press 1997 chairman Christine Lee Southern Cross the beginnings of the Bible Belt 1997 Isaac rhy evangelical revolt the nature of the Baptist's challenge to the traditional order in Virginia 1765 to 1775 william and mary quarterly 3 d s ur 31 july 1974 345 268 life and practice in the early church a documentary reader New York University Press 2001 pp 5 to 7 ISBN nine seven eight zero eight one four seven five six four eight five kid Thomas s berry hankins Oxford University Press 2015 Leonard bill J Baptists in America Columbia University Press 2005 menikoff Aaron 2014 politics and piety Baptist social reform in America 1772 18 Wipf and stock publishers ISBN nine trillion 780 1 billion 630 million 870 2823 Pitts Walter F old ship of Zion the afro Baptist ritual in the African diaspora Oxford University Press 1996 ralick George champions of the truth fundamentalism modernism and the maritime Baptists 1990 Canada Spangler Jule I'll be coming back tests conversion in colonial and early national Virginia journal of southern history vol 67 issue 2 2001 PP 243 plus stringer Phil the faithful Baptist Witness landmark Baptist Press 1998 Underwood ACA history of the English Baptists London Kings gate press 1947 Whitley William Thomas a Baptist bibliography being a register of the chief materials for Baptist history whether in manuscript or in print preserved in Great Britain Ireland and the colonies 2 vols london Kings gate press 1916 222 doo-doo reissued Hildesheim georg ohms 1984 ISBN three billion four hundred eighty seven million seventy four thousand five hundred sixty-seven Wilhite david he 2009 the Baptist's and the Sun the Filioque clause in non creedal theology journal of ecumenical studies 44 to 285 - 302 Will's Gregory a democratic religion freedom Authority and church discipline in the Baptist South 1785 - 1900 Oxford topic primary sources Macbeth H Leon Edie a sourcebook for Baptist heritage 1990 primary sources for Baptist history McKinnon Steven a ed life and practice in the early church a documentary reader 2001 McGlothlin WJ e d baptist confessions of faith philadelphia the american baptist publication Society 1911 topic external links Oxford bibliographies baptists 2015 by Janet more linman Baptists ickerly | wikipedia tts | UCV5cie6grszX4UTDJzpFOyA | 2018-11-24 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,570 | 35,492 |
9Se248HAW60 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Se248HAW60 | CURRENT FAVES | bloopers hey everyone I wanted to do something a little bit different and share with you five of my current favorites for the month of October these are all music related favorites so stay tuned if you want to know what they are the first thing I'm loving this month is a huge of channel that I've discovered very recently I want to do quick shout out to max Bailey who is a pro violinist slash violist and one of his videos popped up on my recommended page and I I was just hooked the moment I clicked on one of his video tutorials in particular I love his video on the left hand action where he talked about how the motion starts at the bass knuckles when you're lifting and dropping your fingers onto the fingerboard the concept of fling fast without much effort really resonated with me because as you guys will know I am working my way through the first four pages of Tchaikovsky which requires super fast fingers so what I'm planning to do is to apply some of the principles that he talked about in the videos to shred a ik and hopefully this will make my playing a little bit faster I will have a link to Max's videos in the description below because I'm sure you guys won't want to check out the video tutorials for yourself next up is my earpiece which you won't catch me playing the violin without wearing one eye I don't know about you guys but for me I just can't play without wearing one anymore because my ear has gotten pretty sensitive ever since I started learning how to play and so what I do is I just take one of these guys I can get it out here and place it in my left ear and it really helps to cut down the volume of my violin thanks to oka from violin lab for introducing them to me I think that was over three years ago but I'm just really impressed by the way that they've designed this it basically filters out background noise and it works really well in protecting your ear from the sheer volume of the violin so highly highly recommend this of course I have to mention the violin concerto that I'm loving this month which is Mozart number three I printed out a copy of the score from imslp and this piece is pretty long 15 pages long but compared to Tchaikovsky which is 31 pages well let's just say that this piece is a little less daunting but only by just a fraction it's it's still really hard I decided to study this piece because I feel like it's been a while since I practiced playing staccato notes properly and the space is littered with staccato notes so it's a good fix for me moving on to my next favorite which is the malleus rosin that i showed you guys in a first impressions video last year I exclusively been using this rawson since then and I have to say that I really love the formulation of this one and how easy it is to clean off the strings as well after playing the only possible drawback of liking this one so much is that the Verna del rawson that I also got last year is not getting any love so what I initially thought was I was going to switch through the burn Adal soon as the warmer months came but the mallas rosin seems to work just as well even in warmer conditions so I stayed with it and finally my favorite artist of the month is Yehudi Menuhin I'm sure many of you guys will already know him I recently saw a BBC documentary about him and it was absolutely fascinating but the first time that I learned anything about Yehudi was when I was exploring how to play the violin without the shoulder rest which was around this time last year and I encountered a video of him teaching little ones how to hold the violin with an emphasis of not raising the shoulder when you're doing it that way so that was really interesting for me to watch and so I highly recommend checking out the documentary if you haven't seen it yet especially if you're really interested in learning about the great masters I think you'd really enjoy it and yeah let me know in the comments section below if you have any recommendations you know for classical music related films that you think I I'd enjoy watching I would love to check them out and thank you so much for watching this video I will see you on my next one bye [Music] | ViolinDots | UC_8-rn042E3-0VdcTCbPvBg | 2019-10-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 800 | 4,170 |
GIoqs0eTAmU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIoqs0eTAmU | Strength vs concentration of acids | Acids and bases | meriSTEM | so when we're talking about acid and based solutions we need to be very clear about exactly what it is that we're talking about and if i take the second one of these first concentration of an acid is about the ratio of acid to water now often when we're young we we have drinks to which we add water like cordials and so therefore we use words like oh it tastes really strong well what we mean is really concentrated we need to add a little bit more water or this tastes really weak which is our way of saying there's just too much water here i can't taste much else as chemists we need to realize that these sort of common uses of these words are actually incorrect and we need to realize that when we're describing the ratio of acid to water in any solution we're talking about its concentration so therefore we talk about a concentrated solution which is a high solute low solvent in our example there would be lots of acid molecules or ions to low water or a dilute solution and the dilute solution is one in which we have low solute to high solvent so in other words lots more water in our dilute solution than there is in our concentrated solution so that's one way of describing acid and base solutions but what about strength if strength isn't about the amount of water what is it about well the strength of an acid is its degree it's actually a measure of its degree of ionization and if we were to talk about a base then it would likewise be its degree of ionization or dissociation how readily the ions separate into water you can also talk about the relative ease with which either water molecules will take that proton that acids can donate uh or pull apart separate the ionic bonds between the ions in a base so the strength of an acid is a measure of the degree of ionization so for example if we look at something very simple such as hydrochloric acid when this is in solution it's going to form hydrogen ions and chloride ions if there are lots of these and few of these then we would say this is a strong acid and in fact that is the case for hydrochloric acid however if we had an acid where there was lots of the hcl molecule for example or the acid molecule and few of the ions then we would call this a weak acid so the terms strong and weak are associated with the degree of ionization for hydrochloric acid the first one is the correct one it's a strong acid because it fully ionizes in water all of the hcl molecules are actually ionized to form h plus or hydronium ions h3o plus with water and chloride ions so we can have a strong concentrated solution or a strong dilute solution we can also have a weak concentrated solution and a weak dilute solution so these these terms are not interchangeable they have specific meanings and descriptors when we use them about acid and base solutions | meriSTEM Education | UCTqd2vJGF5ff2oYUuc4UyCg | 2021-07-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 533 | 2,816 |
0oNZUU43Fog | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNZUU43Fog | LCD - Polynomials | (male narrator) In this video, we are going to take a look at how we can find the least common denominator when those denominators are made up of polynomials. We have already said, to find the LCD, we use all factors with highest exponents. However, in order to use all factors, this means we must first factor each of the polynomials. Let's take a look at some examples where we have to do just that. In this problem, we want the least common denominator of these two polynomials. To find all the factors, we need to find...we need to factor each polynomial first using the AC method. Multiplying to -18 and adding to 3 will be 6 and -3. Because we have a 1 in front of x squared, we know our factors are x plus 6 and x minus 3. For the other polynomial, using the AC method, we multiply to -21 and add to 4. This is done with 7 and 3, if the 3 is negative. This means we have: x plus 7 and x minus 3. Now that it's factored, we can find the least common denominator-- or least common multiple-- by listing out all the factors with highest exponents. We see we have a factor of x plus 6. We also have a factor of x minus 3. We also have a factor of x plus 7. Notice, however, we already have x minus 3 in our list. Thus, there is no reason to list it twice. We would want to check to make sure we're using highest exponents on each of these factors. Because none of the factors have any exponents on them, we also don't need any exponents in the least common denominator. The least common denominator, then, of x squared, plus 3x, minus 18; and x squared, plus 4x, minus 21, must be x plus 6, times x, minus 3, times x, plus 7. Let's take a look at one more example where we find the LCD by factoring. Using the AC method on these polynomials, we would want to multiply to 25 and add to -10. This would be -5 and -5. This is interesting to us, because the -5s match. It means we have a perfect square. Recall that we factor a perfect square by taking the square root of the first term and the last term-- x and 5--and the sign from the middle. We can factor our second polynomial using the AC method as well. Multiplying to -20, adding to -1; and this is done with 4 and 5, where the 5 is negative. Because we have a 1 in front of the x squared, we have x plus 4, times x, minus 5. Now that we know the factors, we can list all the factors in the least common denominator. Notice, we have a factor of x minus 5. We also have a factor of x plus 4. There is no need to list the x minus 5 again, as we already have it as part of our least common denominator. All that is left to do is attach the highest exponents to each factor. Notice one of the x minus 5s had an exponent of 2. This means in the LCD, the x minus 5 must also be squared. There are no exponents on the x plus 4 factors, and so, we don't need one on the x plus 4 factor. This gives us our least common denominator of x minus 5 squared, times x, plus 4. Finding the least common denominator is simply done by factoring all of the polynomials, listing all the factors only once, and then using highest exponents. | Tyler Wallace | UCe7rd4o8i5YBqrQjIcSpkUQ | 2011-05-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 616 | 3,075 |
s9NaPwUEECA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9NaPwUEECA | THE LONG AWAITED MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT ACQUISITION PROJECT READY TO PURCHASE IN 2021 | [Music] [Applause] [Music] the philippine air force is preparing to reintroduce one of its long-forgotten projects which it now plans to re-implement under fiscal year 2021 the philippine air force's long-range patrol aircraft lrp acquisition project is originally a horizon one phase priority project under the revised afp modernization program but the project hit several setbacks after a successful start a few years ago as part of the proposed procurement submitted by the department of national defense dundee to the senate during its fy 2021 budget hearing the lrpr project was among those proposed to be included as part of the 5 billion pesos unprogrammed appropriations to the afp modernization programme due to the long dormancy of the project there appears to be a lot of changes in the project there were several offers made again to the philippine air force as it actually kept the lrpr project opens to proponents to provide offers these are the aircraft platforms competes 1. airbus c 295 mpa asw persuader it has commonality with the existing c295m fleet of the philippine air force the asw variant could be too expensive and beyond philippine air force budget slower than atr 72 and q400 2 ptd icn 235 220 mpa this is the cheapest among the platforms offered it can provide asw capability this is the shortest cabin space slowest speed one less operator space as per p a f in four three leonardo atr 72 mpa asw this platform is cheaper than c 295 mpa potentially able to provide asw capability within philippine air force budget for bombardier q 400-8 mpa saab swordfish q400 this is the fastest and best performing platform among the other competitors but this is the shortest range narrowest cabin most expensive platform to operate and sustain aircraft manufacturer is not the integrator sub pal aerospace iai etc philippine air force need two units of maritime patrol aircraft the project's budget is 5 976 million point zero zero pesos see you in the next video don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel thank you | CChannel Ca | UCCJtKfPQk86-pJ-ED50yv8Q | 2020-11-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 346 | 2,042 |
UTjDTZVn4PI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTjDTZVn4PI | Shorter Sutta on Emptiness 2: Earth | good morning so here's a spectacular view of the sunrise from the top of Arunachala Mountain Pose wait a minute that's just a photo on my iPad well oh wait wait wait a minute in another minute it's it's just a reflection in this mirror on my on my messy old cluttered desk so what's real [Music] nameste so what was that all about well if you remember from the last episode the last quote concludes thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there whatever remains he discerns as present there is this and so this his entry into emptiness accords with actuality is undistorted in meaning and pure so our problem is we are not seeing what is there instead we're seeing something that's not there what do I mean by that well in the apparent view of Arunachala from the top you see the shadow of the mountain going off into the distance so you're not seeing the mountain you're seeing the shadow of the mountain you see but I bet everybody in their minds thought of Arunachala and saw our natural of the mountain and then the camera zooms out a little bit and you see oh actually it's just a picture on an iPad see the apparent perception of the mountain is the conclusions that we draw the models that we make in our mind which aren't really there they're just thoughts and the picture on the iPad represents the inputs of the senses which again are just thoughts well you can call them perceptions but what is a perception it's just a thought about what is there and the thought isn't the thing and then the camera pulls out even more and you see that the whole thing is a reflection in a mirror and the mirror represents awareness so if the picture on the iPad represents consciousness and perception and the subject object duality the mirror represents the singleness of perception and the fact that whatever you put in front of a mirror the mirror adopts its quality so what we think life is all about the contents of awareness which in most cases is consciousness and it's objects in other words sense perception but if we zoom out a little bit more we see that no actually the reality is we're looking in a mirror called awareness and awareness is so big that the whole universe shows up in it God and everybody so how big is awareness how big of a space are we see and the trick that I'm trying to teach you is not to be aware or not to focus on the contents of awareness but to focus on awareness itself so in other words it's like the mirror reflecting itself a mirror can't do that but awareness can because awareness is the void awareness is emptiness awareness is what always is there what never changes what is unborn and therefore deathless awareness is you yourself yeah your self is an emptiness and that's why most people are never aware of their self they never take their self into account but they remain fixated on the contents of awareness which is consciousness and its objects the senses and their perceptions so remember the Buddha's teaching is apophatic he doesn't talk about what's there he talks about what's not there so because of our conditioning we have a hard time computing this we are so trained up so conditioned by positivism we have a hard time keeping in mind what's not there and we only see what we think is there in our little model of reality but as we saw just zooming out a little bit can change that whole model profoundly so with that I want to continue reading in the Chula Sonata suta the next section is about the perception of Earth further on the monk not attending to the perception of human being not attending to the perception of wilderness attends to the singleness based on the perception of Earth his mind takes pleasure find satisfaction settles and indulges in its perception of Earth just as a bull's-hide is stretched free from wrinkles with a hundred stakes even so without attending to all the ridges and hollows the river ravines the tracks of stumps and thorns the craggy irregularities of this earth he attends to the singleness based on the perception of earth his mind takes pleasure find satisfaction settles and indulges in its perception of Earth he discerns that whatever disturbances that would exist based on the perception of human being are not present whatever disturbances that would exist based on the perception of wilderness are not present there is only this modicum of disturbance the singleness based on the perception of Earth he discerns that this mode of perception is empty of the perception of a human being this mode of perception is empty of the perception of wilderness there is only this non emptiness the singleness based on the perception of Earth thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there whatever remains he discerns as present there is this and so this his entry into emptiness accords with actuality he's undistorted in meaning and pure this is beautiful huh he is not seeing the earth with what does he say all its craggy irregularities he is seeing the element earth or rather the state of matter earth and because he's concentrating on that all these other perceptions perceptions of being the human being perceptions of the wilderness all the different details are not there and he perceives their lack as emptiness so that's how we have to train ourselves to see not only what is there but what is not there when we concentrate on our senses what is not there is awareness so our awareness falls into the black hole of emptiness and we miss it to contrast this let's look at another quote from another sutra the famous mullah Perry is souped up there is the case monks wear an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person who has no regard for noble ones who is not well versed or disciplined in their Dhamma who has no regard for men of integrity is not well versed or disciplined in their Dhamma perceives earth as Earth perceiving earth as earth he conceives things about earth he conceives things in earth he conceives things coming out of Earth he conceives earth as mine he delights in earth why is that because he has not comprehended it I tell you you see the difference the ordinary uninstructed man which is in Buddha's language is called poo to Jinnah does not see what is not there he only sees what is present and then he projects all this ego stuff he conceives of earth he has an idea about her if he has a model of Earth what is earth for him well maybe it's a piece of land huh if he's a farmer he thinks oh this is a piece of land I can farm if he's a construction guy he thinks oh this is a piece of land I can build on if he's a financial wizard he thinks this is a piece of land I could buy and make a profit on reselling a real estate Speculator if he's a conservationist he thinks this is a piece of land I can use to protect endangered species and so on and so and so forth according to his background his intention who he thinks he is and then he starts to project things on it oh I can build this I can do that I can you know turn this into a profit this way or that way or the other way I could bring people out here and give tours you know whatever so then he conceives things coming from the earth I can get this from that earth I can get that from it I can make a profit and then he conceives earth as mine why because his bias is he wants to justify the story that I exist and so to prove the existence of this non-existent entity called I which is only a thought he projects the idea of mine into everything that he perceives this is nuts this is a mental disease and we all have it is called ego the only one who can help us with it is ourselves we have to do the work to pierce through this self created illusion and see the reality compare this with the monk that the Buddha talks about who he says whatever disturbances that would exist based on the perception of human being are not present or would exist based on the perception of wilderness are not present this is not present that is not present he sees so many things as absent he sees the emptiness that's the difference between a well-trained monk a meditator and an ordinary person the meditator is aware of the negative spaces of the emptiness and finally he perceives his own self in terms of the ego being absent thus he regards it as empty of whatever is not there so you see this is the value of emptiness it makes a sane it helps us stop this disease of ego projection where we conceived all kinds of imaginary things and project them on what's really there the monk sees whatever is absent is absent he sees whatever is present as present he doesn't try to project anything or overlay anything huh like what's that called assisted reality or enhanced reality whatever he only sees what's there he doesn't make up any stories about it he doesn't try to claim it as mine you see this is the root of all the troubles all the suffering in the world and all the problems in life and if you can stop this one bad habit you will improve your mental health your quality of life your quality of consciousness and your intelligence far beyond the ordinary unschooled human being and you will come that much closer to the ultimate reality of Nibbana all tut said buddha sorry and I | Consciousness Research Centre | UCC-FfMy1QYBFlh-peycrrCA | 2019-05-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,709 | 9,183 |
A68sI_jHfuY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68sI_jHfuY | Ghost Stories: Wakenhyrst - How It Happened | hello i'm michelle paver and i wrote wakenhurst which has just been published wakenhurst is a quintessentially gothic novel that means an inhuman something from the past erupting into and threatening the characters in a remote isolated setting wakenhurst is set in the early 1900s in an isolated manor house in the fens the last remaining stretch of the ancient marshlands which once drowned most of eastern england the heroine maude is a young upper class girl whose life is dominated by her father he's fanatically religious he actually hates women but he's secretly haunted by guilt we don't know why and one day in the local graveyard he finds the remains of a medieval painting devils dragging sinners into hell his guilt starts to surface maude's life becomes a battle of wills with her father is he going mad or is there really something inhuman out there in the fence the bones of the story came to me in just a few weeks and completely by chance which actually when you think about it is pretty gothic i was in a second-hand bookshop and i found a book written by a medieval mystic called marjorie kemp and she's just so weird that i knew i had to use her then i went to an exhibition of paintings by a mad victorian artist called richard dad and he painted the most incredibly strange very detailed pictures of fantastic creatures and he did all this in an asylum after he'd murdered his father with an axe but what really sparked the story was when i read about the remains of a medieval painting of devils dragging sinners into hell which had been found in the 1890s in a churchyard in an isolated country church and as soon as i read this i had a very strong image of a man standing in a graveyard in long grass looking down and a painted medieval devil staring back at him well that rich brew came together and became wakenhurst you can either read it as a tale of murderous obsession a descent into madness or you can read it as a story of demonic possession it's up to you either way i think it's the best thing i've ever written and i really hope you enjoy it you | Michelle Paver | UCE4m4mN4zZjNLLT9qCWblYw | 2020-11-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 385 | 2,080 |
KItyTEnNo_M | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KItyTEnNo_M | Nuclear Energy is far from dead | yesterday was a fun day for me personally while I was waiting to pick up bright new world's director and doctoral researcher been heard at the globe on airport I met lemon be debe Minister of Forestry environment climate change and natural resources and spoke with him about Gambia's plight for sustainability when Ben finally arrived we went to meet up with Generation atomic to have some interesting conversations while we were driving from the airport to Bonn we had some pretty interesting insights and one of them is that nuclear isn't that at all Ben was being a bit tentative and honored and understandably so we are all prone to some bias after all but here's the lowdown on how we got to this conclusion France backs off on their intent to stop using nuclear power because it's incompatible with their goals of decarbonizing in fact they already are decarbonized by a great degree and become aware of this just now which is strange because they have had nuclear power for decades Poland has committed to building nuclear power plants and gradually phase out their coal burning facilities Rolls Royce recently presented a new small modular reactor concept Switzerland has augmented their reactors to include low falling capabilities terrestrial energy a Canadian molten salt reactor startup has just passed an essential pre-licensing night milestone meaning that we are one tangible step closer towards the commercialization of the integral molten salt reactor and do note that they are currently in pole position given the robust nature of their organization and the intent with which they move forward it is highly likely the they will finish first the Russian nuclear giant rose Atum is selling reactors like cookies particularly in the Arabian Peninsula but also with strong possibilities in Africa and Asia China is finishing their first ap1000 sandman one and that's it for this brief list of positive things happening in the nuclear world the only thing we may note is that the EU and the US have some catching up to do no more no less we need to rethink our regulatory strategies we need to rethink nuclear as a whole in the meanwhile the rest of the world is forging ahead into a new era of nuclear power many people claim that there's no nuclear Renaissance that's only true as long as you view the EU and the US as the center of the world which in effect lags behind the rest of the world let's stop necessity it's not only that nuclear is not dead but also that it is required to solve climate change I'm not going to re-examine everything I'm going to point you out to some actualities as it's needed I would even say required academics are always tentative and cautious and when I say that he 100% wws roadmap of Jacobson has been refuted those with those who are familiar with it agree but also always tentatively add well we might still be wrong but for all intents and purposes we may call it reviewed it and it should be retracted I won't claim credit for it though but do know that I know the roadmap intimately and have written a comprehensive non-academic yet well source critique but the real heavy hints came from been heard and Christopher clad but the real heavy hitters came from Ben and Christopher clack who wrote articles respectively called the burden of proof and evaluation available for reliable low-cost great power with 100% wind water and solar most important was the observation a friend of mine made and I am not going to name him not because I want credit for it but because it is relevant and given the current state of affairs I won't do things that hurt others in their plight against Jacobson's nonsense his observation Jacobson has now built an entire business around his wws thesis and managed to attach wealthy individuals to it like DiCaprio Ruffalo and Bill Knight but also many more if his thesis fails their business falters now there's always the possibility of there being a strong confirmation bias that keeps these people from dropping jacobson but the entire idea behind the so-called solutions project which is basically a strong lobby for a misguided form of environmentalism is faulty and it serves only to put us on the back track as it purposefully and actively seeks to have nuclear power in the process I said this earlier and I repeat if Jacobson is aware of the mathematical physical and geological arguments against this thesis and he tries to sweep them under the rug then he is a morally reprehensible person to show you that he is the opposite of a true academic let me show you his modus operandi if you are a simple concern but well-informed person and question him directly he will deflect by seeing that you are not an academic and you shouldn't have to listen to you in fact he will block you as has happened to me if you are an academic but not in the energy or climate change field and you challenge him you will deflect by saying that you've not produced any research papers on the project on this subject and he will dismiss anything you say out of hand even if you have evidence to support your claim but worst of all if you are an academic with expertise of energy matters and have published multiple peer-reviewed papers and you challenge him backed up with more than 20 expert peers he will fabricate a situation in which he determines the untruths makes them known demands your paper to become retracted and if that doesn't happen you will try to coerce a retraction by filing a civil lawsuit it's not based on the contents of the paper by the way it's based on the fact that he claimed that there were untruths and turns it into a libel case let it be known that the paper written by clack and all is probably the best refutation to mark C Jacobson's Oh faulty fabrication and exposes the flaws with pinpoint precision the lawsuit doesn't change a thing about it what a more optimistic note let's consider the work of Michael Shawn Berger the director of environmental progress he has been zipping around the globe to keep countries from veering off course he's had success in South Korea where a referendum has forked the government's plans to try 8 to try a shutdown of their nuclear industry which would be an incredible shame as South Korea is one of the world leaders in terms of building new state-of-the-art reactors and maintaining and excellently operating fleet of nuclear facilities he also traveled to Germany to attend CU p23 together with james hansen and also remains active in the u.s. one of the focal points being the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant one of the best-kept nuclear facilities in the face of the planet plan to be shut down at 2025 which is premature is entirely unwarranted and it would set back the local economy in San Luis Obispo County but also deprived the state of California of millions of kilowatt hours of carbon free and reliable energy kolobok Tannen wrote an article called decarbonizing city's helsinki metropolitan area where he explains how one can create fuel heat and electricity for an entire city using advanced new nuclear reactors and finally energy for humanity published the European climate leadership report please check out all of these articles and groups they are quintessential in our fight to keep low carbon environmentally sound energy on the table I'll reiterate energy for Humanity environmental progress generation atomic and bright new world you will find links in the description below thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe and share this video you | Thies the Atomic Jedi | UClAcmfVpcKCEmHG3VrBh6-A | 2017-11-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,315 | 7,525 |
n0lhopkWgss | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lhopkWgss | The Foundation of Nutrition: Chlorella and Spirulina | hi folks dr. Bob McCauley I'm going to explain to you today why these little tablets are the foundation of nutritional health okay if you have ever watched me before any of my videos ready to my books or done anything get it on or website you know that I'm a huge promoter of spirulina and chlorella now what are these two foods while there are two types of algae and they are completely different from one another chlorella is a green algae and spray lien is a blue-green algae technically it's a cyanobacteria but they're completely different foods if you look at the nutritional profile you're going to say hey these are about the same but really when it really comes right down to it they're totally different or they're just a completely different foods and that's why you want to try to include them both in your diet but why are these the foundation of nutritional health well I'm going to tell you why now first of all as I've said many times before if you're vegetarian or vegan or if you're not doesn't matter but it in particular if you're vegetarian or vegan I happen to be a vegan I don't eat any meat fish eggs or dairy you really need to get these two foods into your diet and you need to do it like right now all the people say I would have I try to become a vegan or vegetarian and I failed I got sick I got an emu I got iron deficiencies whatever it's because they don't have these two foods in their diet I am constantly harping on these because they are amazing foods they're the healthiest foods on the planet and that's why they should really be considered the nutrition of the foundation of our nutritional health and this is what I use this is the backbone of my nutrition and you know your body can heal itself of any disease but you need to put the right foods into it and they start with spirulina and chlorella they're the only two foods in the world that you could survive on exclusively eat exclusively and be healthy there are no other foods in the planet you can do that with period there's schools you can survive on but if you really want to get all the nutrients all your basic nutrients spirulina and chlorella are going to do it and that doesn't mean you've gotten every single nutrient in the world I despair leaning karela because that's not true either but you're getting all the basics now these foods are 60% protein the highest of any foods they have 20 different amino acids in them they've got the complete range of them and you know they're predigested amino acids meaning they're ready to be formed into proteins and chains immediately unlike an animal protein that you need to break down the protein into amino acids and then reforming into the human protein that's the way it works okay but not with a plant protein such as spirulina and chlorella or any other plant protein for that matter because it's predigested ready to be formed into amino acids you've got this really huge complement of nutrients in both of these foods that make them the most that have the most broadest array of nutrients of any foods in the world and the most nutritionally dense foods so there's almost no waste at all when you're eating spirulina and chlorella there's nothing it's just pure food spray in a very high-energy food and chlorella very detoxifying food chlorella it has about 20% fiber and it is unique dietary fiber it's the best in the world it binds with heavy metals herbicides pesticides other toxins and pulls them out of the body it also any anything that's in the food any toxin that's in the chlorella this really no matter even if you put into your body it's going to remain bound with the food and it's not going to displace into the body but as far as nutritional foundation these are the foods you should be be using because as I said the broadest array of nutrients of any food the most nutritionally dense food they've got of course your perfect complement of fats proteins carbohydrates and let's go into the fat for a second fat well you've mainly got you've got all sorts of different fatty acids in there essential fatty acids but mainly al la lal qila nelec acid in chlorella very difficult to find in any other foods GLA almost impossible to find in any other food Gamelin oh look at some spirulina so you get all your essential fatty acids and that's why I said at the beginning of this you can live on these foods exclusively but these are the backbone these are the foundations that I use and for your diet and this is what you should be using you take a small handful of spirulina and or chlorella with every meal and that is all the protein you need for that meal if you want to eat meat fish eggs are very strictly for the taste this is the way you got to look at these two foods again nothing comes close to the ^ these two foods don't let anybody tell you differently because they don't know what they're talking about these are grown in control cultivated in controlled environments and ponds they're not taken out of the wild out of a lake or the ocean or any of that kind of stuff very important where they're scrutinized very very highly for heavy metals herbicides pesticides we've got all the tests reports all that kind of stuff so they're very clean foods but this is the foundation that I use for my nutritional health and it's exactly what you should be using to I dr. Bob McAuley see you next time if you like my videos and you like all natural health and that's what we're all about here and that's what I'm all about it's just my lifestyle you know click some of the other videos watch them and don't forget to subscribe see you next time | Dr. Bob McCauley | UCiuiqHXrWtXNDug0LptvNbw | 2017-03-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,044 | 5,621 |
NoamHu119dQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoamHu119dQ | Marty and Michael - Fully Actual podcast 17 | [ __ ] drag it into the woods and and I buried her there before hey guys it's [ __ ] that's the [ __ ] Marion Marco [ __ ] off can't fool imma let you come when I just straight out of the streets we are whole rats we got hood rats today we got the beef sorry about the late podcast coming out we were in Sydney and it was also a real [ __ ] up story on there so it's hard to edit yeah we had to cut a fair bit and if yeah and if for some whatever reason and we can get into trouble it's not true but if we can't get into trouble then it is all definitely have a 100% tree anyway what we lost subscribers from that story we definitely lost dignity dignity and like pride that we don't have any or self-respect and like we didn't have any anyway yeah wild a little bit but yeah now that's gone no I'm I'm went as soon as I rip the actually soon as I ate dog [ __ ] yep so when you were seven mmm we were at a Facebook event with lots of other [ __ ] people lots of other [ __ ] Facebook so uh come come around content creators from all over Australia to Facebook headquarters in Sydney and we'll have a chat about everything and then about 80 of us rocked up and you know lots of cool people there some like you know old TV celebrities lots of people from Facebook and Instagram and then they taught us how to do Instagram stories yeah which we already knew how to do and they told us a how to monetize Facebook videos which we already do yeah we do know how to do that but you have to do most things but we sort of met some cool people I guess yeah we met some cool people so that was nice yeah but yeah seven hours of listening to things that we already know how to do yeah and the flights each way cost us about 150 yeah so all three we got to invoice him yeah yeah although sent an email and I think you can it was for such a small amount you know true because I don't think 152 even really like to have fifty a hundred and fifty dollars yeah yeah what are they were coins or something hundred and fifty dollar coins I don't know I don't really anything under than $500 you don't even mention it I usually don't even say the number unless it's 500 yeah yeah I've seen you tell people would add on more money to pay for things if sometimes I'll drop $400 just it falls out of my pocket $400 worth of coins and I don't pick it up your order and me will pay for it either then you'll pay for it again and will not even get that meal again you'll just pay for it twice sometimes I just like to order things here and then you'll throw it in the bin or just leave it I'll just order and then walk away ordering the best part it's quite fun anyway what else happened this week if you went to the movies in-store Toy Story 4 yeah is it good yes aura [ __ ] what else I am not drinking for 6 weeks 6 weeks gone sober it's 1 week yesterday not even a problem he's [ __ ] he wouldn't even attempt to do that because he's [ __ ] use every day two cans a week but yeah I'm just not touching it for six weeks what do you replace it with water and milk why milk I don't know there's just goats in our neighbor's yard no you know cows think [ __ ] yeah you know there was but no arrests call it away I think you were escorted away someone in the area was uh sexually assaulting them you take him up today [ __ ] them no no they got roughed up a bit though I know you're [ __ ] roughed up cool bruises all over their hips one had a snapped hoof ones face was beaten so badly both its eyes were closed in and you could hear it moon all night but so they had someone in the area there was doing that to them so that remove them from the neighborhood so now you can just have a goat milk yeah yeah I just can't feed on the goats it was the person [ __ ] the cows interested in the goats no no goats are like it's like another animal it's gassing okay pretty gross you even think like that yeah yuck the cows are fine right oh you know obviously people out there do that that's that's up to them maybe maybe they shouldn't have been so violent but at the end of the day some things get people off something kept yeah things don't some things don't get them off something's do the cows might have liked it as well until they got beaten up after I think they like that too like they can take quite quite a hefty beating their heavy solid creatures quite a heifer beating yeah it was it must have been 45 to an hour's worth of hay makers just left right Hawks - that [ __ ] thing's had to get it to the state that it was lucky was it cornered in a small little backyard so the guy whoever did it just had to sort of heard it into the corner isolated and then just [ __ ] laying to the thing bang bang bang bang nobody was puffed he was so puffed after why who did it was so physically exhausted I had to go to lie down for two seconds [ __ ] it after he beat it I know that was a bit of fondling and [ __ ] half way through it okay I would imagine will the cow be able to see I'm not sure to be honest I haven't spoken to it well no one has spoken to it whoever did it but it's alive yeah yeah yeah last I saw it was still moving [Laughter] all right let's [ __ ] talk today's date is the 27th of the 6th 2023 and on this day the world's first ATM was installed in London in 1967 and that ATM is still there imagine seeing the first ATM you wouldn't trust it if I can trust them do there's cards back then or do you just go and say what like it well how does it work back then it's like like 50 years ago so what they're put cards in like I wouldn't trust an ATM if it was the very first one I would never use it oh my god I think I think a really clever thief had installed it and that wanted to take my money anyway in 1979 heavy heavy weight Muhammad Ali retired for the third time what why would he I guess he's just what he got bored and he didn't have any enough Parkinson's yet who would win out of Floyd Mayweather and the two different weights just everyone be the same weight yeah well he would win because he's just so much bigger doesn't either what he flies like a butterfly and then he approached he stings like a cockroach in 1988 mike tyson k odes michael [ __ ] in 91 seconds did you know that Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist yeah I did know that anyway famous birthdays khloe kardashian turns 34 Wow there you go she's only four years older than me so I'll see that up she's the prettiest one to me now she's um she looks like the what's it called the [ __ ] thing that runs through the bushes a Yowie yeah yeah it looks like a Yowie Khloe Kardashian I'm pretty sure that's the one okay Tobey Maguire who played original spider-man turns 43 all these now 43 Wow all right when he played to spider-man the original he was only 19 no yeah that was like 15 years ago so you would have been [ __ ] out age 19 43 like that there you go guys those your birthdays in anyone elses birth doubt they're statistically some of our viewers it will be their birthday because we have millions of millions of views and listen so happy birthday average your birthday out there you get out there and you got you [ __ ] you have a you're gonna have a good day you get put them put your mates around it and you have a party celebrate it put a drink put a drink down and drink it and then don't don't go to work or you hope not on your birthday right all right then that brings us to our next segment which has been yep it's got a new name short though yeah yeah well it's just it just simply says here in brackets um the noise that a llama would make if being chased by a wolf that's the new segment name nod that's not the name but he wants obviously wants me to try and make that noise alright so I imagine that noise would be so this is the title a segment would be and of course this segment we just answer fan questions so we have some fan questions sent in via Instagram and now we answer them right now first one is from Francis X Co she or he is asked when are your going to do some crazy [ __ ] like you've been doing we can't really do that crazy [ __ ] Walker's Facebook YouTube Instagram us but hmm here's the but we are starting our own little subscription website wwm Rd and Michael comm we got merged there we are our cheeky there's guns we sell guns we sell guns real guns so if you and also we're going to be starting ace all of our deleted [ __ ] all this [ __ ] we can't put online anymore we're gonna upload there so and all you have to do it's like $5 a month or some [ __ ] it's not available right now we'll let you know it is but yeah so that's what we're putting on that crazy sheet mm-hmm yeah the reason we can't do as psycho a [ __ ] anymore is because we will get deleted from the internet yeah we'll lose everything yeah it sucks hard now the next questions from Tyler under school Hill with four else god my eyesight's going and he or she has asked why are you guys so much better than Paris Hilton well Paris Hilton is partly responsible for the [ __ ] chain of hotels that she owns the Hilton's and part of the reason I guess that we're much better than her is because she runs a disgustingly [ __ ] unorganized [ __ ] up hotel chain and charges people thousands of dollars that's why no her parents - and she's an entrepreneur [ __ ] off she's going hear a song that she made like 10 years ago it is [ __ ] even though the stars are blind or some [ __ ] it makes me sick yeah look she's she was a sex symbol when we were growing up but [ __ ] me she's far from a business person and her channel hotels can get [ __ ] I can get [ __ ] hard did you ever watch the simple life with her in it yeah I did I love that show next clip or check out this this is about fair she probably listens and watches but anyway one of their fans Michael's got his screen saver on his phone because she's so [ __ ] morphed and [ __ ] ha oh man will probably have to blow that that would kill her okay my don't know what it is now that's what we love to talk about yes yes yes no sorry [ __ ] cars this is from tae tae eh eh eh EE which of course spells Tait ie is serial considered soup great question I think maybe the devil we'd have to look up the definition of know because you cereals got crunch soup is like a syrupy what about what about pumpkin soup with croutons in it what's what's it I've never heard of is a small dry bit of bread very crunchy very crunchy yeah you mainly have bread with soup well there you go so you're saying it's not soup because it's crunchy pumpkin soup with croutons is also crunchy I think we need no because you don't have milk in soup you can what about if you had a creamy Asian type of soup I'm sure that would be some sort of cream creamy milky dairy product in there for shizzle we'd have to look up the definition of soup to answer this properly but I don't think that cereal is true because maybe it's not something and it's cooked it could be a criteria of soup you know cold soup yeah but it's already been cooked yeah next question ah he's from Lachlan McDonald Donald with a Triple D on the end how do you come up with your pranks great question great question great question great question it's just been years of just we've always [ __ ] with each other since high school yeah so it's just a matter it's just an opportunity it's just a matter of [ __ ] we just around each other so much and then we like to [ __ ] with each other so we just randomly just I don't know it's hard to explain if something will just happen we'll be in a certain scenario and then they're on opportunity will spring up where one of us can [ __ ] with the other and then I'll Burke ah that's a good idea let's keep doing that it's constant to with my tea because what he will do even though I was at the airport the other day and I had to go through security any yell out at me as I went through and since I beeped because we've got so much juries he's like Oh get rid of the drugs Michael get rid of the drugs and they're begging begging the staff to strip-search him he was there for a long time kept me there for like 15 minutes which was hilarious hilarious almost mr. plain very funny very very funny joke find friends that you can prank and don't take life too seriously and then it becomes like just everyday I favourite anything you gotta be a bit twisted on all about always be looking for a way to [ __ ] with someone always it's always on your mind alright though that's that's question questions all right the next segment has been renamed and this time it's a foreign word I believe I'll have to check my pronunciation I'm not sure what language it is but um it looks a heavy a heavy word so the next segment is called [Applause] that sounds a bit German I'd say maybe like Turkish Turkish yeah maybe like the Turkish way to say hello do you want to come over for a cup of tea yeah that sounds like the way they talk I guess and that's how you accept in Turkish yeah until you say yes I would love to come over for a cup of tea in Turkish I think we're not a hundred percent sure on that 97 percent sure yeah we're almost almost sure all right and this is a segment of course where we just read news headlines and and then just comment on the [ __ ] things all right our first headline is from The Daily Mail and they have said trying to pop it was the worst thing I could have done how a man's tiny pimple turned into a lump the size of a golf ball and it could have killed him holy [ __ ] this in six weeks a Queensland man smells it turned into a golf ball-sized pimple oh it turned out to be a common type of cancer called squamous cell carcinoma so it's not a [ __ ] pimple Daily Mail it is a cancer Jesus so god that headline is so misleading and that I want to just [ __ ] hit someone dude if I ever met one that worked for that company I would go and do jail time it's not a pimple at all yeah next stories from Metro come to death by a bit it was [ __ ] today many animals now the animals getting back at humans look if I was put in a room with a camel I think I can [ __ ] it to death before it [ __ ] maid of death it'd be fun trying be a bloody good laugh try the way to die a Randy camel has killed its woman owner after apparently trying to engage with her the ten month old animal weighing a hundred and fifty kilo knocked exotic pet lover Pam Weaver to the ground before trying to straddle her o husband knoll who gave her the camel as a 60th birthday present in March returned home to discover his wife's body on Saturday that's [ __ ] up that's one of the worst ways to go I think Oh imagine if you could choose your how embarrassing also dude the husband would be so like firstly he created that situation by buying the camel but managing like he it'd be a little bit jealous too because it's like you you fight and he got the pilot I let the creature in or the man if it was a man camel in to [ __ ] my wife and then kill it yeah he got the last the camel got the last [ __ ] the last load upper and then she died and imagine the funeral the Snickers that you'd be snickering everywhere I don't want to be able to keep a straight face she died doing what she loved getting [ __ ] by a hundred and fifty kilo camel oh and they'd have a heat they would have a huge [ __ ] indeed the the animal had a history of erratic behavior often trying to straddle other species you know including the family's pet goat Wow so this camel is just a [ __ ] freak well could a very muscular hind legs taut tied up a body a little bit like a cow long thin muscular neck hmm yep that's a good-looking thing there hahahaha - volumptuous jumps on its back yeah we're a bond - long thick hair oh I'm gonna run your fingers through no I speak bulging white eyes yeah clean white teeth yeah that's it whoa there you go so don't get a go near [ __ ] camels anyone who lives near camels don't go near them or don't turn your back to them because they could [ __ ] you to death yeah you could get [ __ ] to death by a camel if you lay your guard down you always be on guard you always be ready for a [ __ ] if you're around a camel so Egyptians be careful pretty sure we've got camels in Australia horse we do they're everywhere all through the [ __ ] middle of it all through the middle of it neither be gras yeah all right the next door is from the Daily Mail it kept me to eat later a Russian man looking like a mummy is rescued after spending a month inside a bear den after the predator broke his spine and saved him for a future meal whoa actually saw this on face we're gonna think this is semi-legit yeah he looks quite dirty doesn't he they've just got photos of him and he looks like a he looks like he's alive it looks like he's a very thin old man he's balding and he's just covered in dirt and blood and Wow there you go the bear was saving him for a future meal how did he get out I think if someone must have found him oh my dude is rescued from Bear Den that is that's a story Wow you'd think that [ __ ] that would be you think you'd become friends with it yeah I know what you'd [ __ ] do to the bear what would I do with it you'd try and [ __ ] it mate he's got a broken spine yeah you've got arms free oh yes yeah you try and toss it off for sure oh yeah you could still perform I'll definitely try and befriend it and if that meant performing sexual acts to survive yeah of course I would do that I think anyone would be needy okay so I would I'll try and convince the bear that there you know it's it's better keeping me alive by tossing it off giving it fellating it would you suck it off yeah of course yep I would suck a bear off to save my life I think anyone will you do it because you okay yeah hmm you like okay I guess I don't care a bear's not a cow I say that with pride I would suck a bear off to save my life yeah but yeah bears aren't cow fine I'm curious yeah anyway next story is from US news Florida man with no arms charged with stabbing man with scissors now the [ __ ] does this wag a 46 year old homeless man with no arms was arrested in Miami Beach Florida for stabbing another man with a pair of scissors using his feet whoever got stabbed is a [ __ ] idiot yeah yeah just walk away from if you see a freak with no arms sprinting towards you're crawling towards you or whatever you call it and it's got scissors in its toes back up first of all and all like run away or or just like punch it like if it's um shoot it dead it's already half dead it's got no arm so you just like it's only got a little bit of range with its legs so you can just easily avoid it it dodged you use your [ __ ] dodge ball and get it to the ground remove the scissors and then just [ __ ] have a feel of it easy sexually you sold that anything anyone tries to kill you you have a license to sexually assault them that's true you can feel them up put your thumb in them do whatever you want cuz I've just tried to hurt you yeah they're not gonna go to the cops I just tried to kill you and put away this put it this way like murder is worse than sexual assault yeah so you haven't really done anything wrong or they've done just a little bit more wrong so you'll be fine I'll get the scissors and cut his legs off see how he stares people then the mirror and they have said you can now buy a scented flatulence pills which make fart smell like roses Jesus you'd have to be so [ __ ] worried about your farts not to buy these some people like have bad fights all the time yeah well he'll have undies not being invented that that just to hold on to it holy [ __ ] we'll put that on our shop we'll put that on our merch store check our shop will have absorbing smells fart absorbing underwear for the sick [ __ ] of the world hmm that is the end of story time for this week which brings us to our next segment which has been renamed so this segment is called and basically this is a segment where we just talk about an old story and this week the story is about love oh this is not this is about hate that is bad [ __ ] this is a story about love compassion it's a story about hope it's a story about inspiration it's the time we it's our favorite brawl that we've ever been in cuz we want we've been many a brawls not for a long time but because we were quite cheeky back when we used to get on the [ __ ] diesels and more often than not we get the [ __ ] beaten out of us ha ha ha ha ha yeah we did but this time we won all right so this is a particular story let me set the scene for you this happened about three weeks ago how long ago do you reckon 10 years [ __ ] I always pretend years Oh is 19 I reckon happened about 10 years ago we were at the races it's like a big you just go on watch horses run around a [ __ ] field and get pissed during the day you pay like yeah it for you ticket and you get free piss all day we was a big group of friends and which helped and I can't even remember how it started I know I can show you how it's done yeah Michael is usually at the beginning of all of our brawls so go on Michael take it from here well I was I had one of our dear friends at the time Jessica her name was got bullied by another girl for her skin she had bad skin at the time so she had pimples in it upset her I felt bad for our friend so I went and hurt the other girl who paid out our friend would use with a physical feature about her would you say well well yeah she had a bad haircut so I I just said you know you like yeah there's a bowl cut a girl had a bowl cut so that's that you're worthy you should be bullied if you have a bowl cut especially even both sexes it you're a dude or a chick it's [ __ ] to have that haircut anyway she hit me and I said that doesn't change the way you look still and she then she's hit me again she slapped you yeah she kept slapping microwave as you said like [ __ ] a group of guys behind her and then so everyone just sort of came together there's lots of pushing and yelling and but we it was sort of cool down fizzled out and then we went our separate ways and then about three hours later we I was you know without group of guys and Michael was a couple of metres away and I remember seeing their group of guys talking and an edging closer to Michael and as I watch this is gonna be a fight here there's gonna be a [ __ ] fight and sure enough seconds later they came what they were is straight for the back of my head punching and I was like I had a rip shirt I was so fine I went down to the ground and yeah Michael went down we all ran in and just picked him all off and it was one by one yeah just like and we were all like and just beat the [ __ ] out of them and this never happens in brawls again we were and we were left completely unscathed and that's not even the best part they were all [ __ ] up and then and then the cops came with cops yeah and then water so apart and then the witnesses like no no these guys started it so they all got [ __ ] kicked out and escorted out by cops probably absolutely piss and blood all over yeah we were just laughing and smile you know I love doing the kiss blowing a kiss to someone when they're like walking away with security or a cop has 'm is the best feeling they would have felt like [ __ ] Oh start a [ __ ] fight and then ah get a kicked out in a school a bike up then touch any of us apart from me but I like I'm invincible so it's fine yeah anyway this shows that get into fights kids and win I only get into fights are you're gonna win and if someone's throwing a fish to you get out of the way dodge it and make sure you connect with your fears yes sir and then throw a punch bag and hit them in the face don't not hit them and if you miss then you could be off-balance and then they could try and eat you again which in which case you again just move your head out of the way and only do it if they [ __ ] is over yeah which is most people so doing anyone that pisses you off even if they haven't turned the first swing just go up and King here people usually when they're not looking I find is most effective if they have their back to you be wined up [ __ ] let them have it right at the base of the spine kill them yeah so if if you're if you're listening out there just just [ __ ] go out and [ __ ] start King hit and cons practice on your parents and that's the time that's our favorite brawl story all the others are [ __ ] cuz we get our asses kicked by yeah I've had locked yours remember the time I couldn't eat for like three months with usually but we are usually overwhelmingly outnumbered yeah one time I got hit and I couldn't open my mouth for three months well I ate was McDonald's chips because you could slide I mean I lost a lot of weight yeah fights don't get into them really kids unless you're gonna win yeah we were joking don't get into broad unless you are confident that they deserve it and that you're going to win yeah unless you have to hmm self-defense hmm and all you use a gun to shoot him yeah yeah always be packing heat or if you're in a you can't afford a gun you like this [ __ ] your kitchen that has so many where there's like an array of different types of knives can't just to have one all the garden shed axes ague rakes I've killed someone with a rake was it a human no [ __ ] it was a [ __ ] what a cow oh no I wasn't a cow was like a car and even know what it's call it's like a little possum thing okay sugar glider no it was like it had like a beak or platypus now I had feathers and AH a duck not a but it was running on two human legs so a mythical creature maybe I don't know whatever it was it's dead at the rake and I slapped it I slapped it to death that's cute alright this brings us to our final segment which of course has been renamed to segment 5 prank hall there you go that's actually what it's been renamed to let's hope that that name sticks and this yeah it's pretty self-explanatory it's nice having a segment that actually applies to what the segment is about it's just a prank call it's just have their office in Milton they're in in in Brisbane they sell concrete and yeah just let him know that he's he's doing better alright for this week's prank hall I'm going to have tourettes this is offensive this is very offensive but there's probably like what 0.0001 percent of the population have tourettes yeah so but yeah like this the if you have Tourette's and you hear this you shouldn't be offended by this it's just what [ __ ] people with Tourette's sound like sometimes if I had Tourette's and someone was making fun of me and will not make him funny me was trying to sound like someone with Tourette's that'd be funny is it he's funny [ __ ] sake it's like sometimes you get like you pretend to have a lazy eye and like that's does that mean that everyone with a lazy eye should be offended yeah well that's the thing about being offended it's a joy choice you know offended [ __ ] you don't need to be offended just choose not to be offended so for this week I will be pretending to have Tourette's whilst ordering pizza from dominos should we go with an Asian restaurant again all right here we go we're calling a Thai restaurant this time just because the painted places are on to us my restaurant I've got Tourette's I've got Tourette's hey would I be able to please place a pickup order do you guys have what sort of courage do you guys have again what which which are the main types of [ __ ] it's an upper wall can I just get the green curry please can I get do you guys have prawns [ __ ] all over the bricks pardon all right sweet can I just get a prawn green bucket piss it up the wall can I just get what are the levels of of spicy tits tits and milk all right let's go fingers fingers super hot please and then do what what types of rice will rise to you guys I'll just have the coconut rice please I'll just have the regular fire yeah yeah can I also get [Music] brick in my house no he's also get some spring rolls please and I'm just waiting for my friend also a what are the curries do you guys have sorry sorry I'm just master Mancari that's the one master mouth shut yeah massaman curry please beef please piss in my [ __ ] [ __ ] up [ __ ] to death just a for beef please beef curry with that can I get a super spicy farm there's a brick in my house you [ __ ] myself have your car can I also get sort of drinks can I also get the prawn rolls did you say sorry I'm just hey sorry I'm just gonna have to cancel that although my mother that mother's just come home with a gun and she said I'm not allowed to order any food so sorry about that having to rest me yeah that stressed me out man we are that is that's our new place to call screenshot that number we are calling them every week yeah well they just have work she just put up with a lot of [ __ ] know what I said I can't remember what I said yeah you got pretty [ __ ] up it was really hot distracting at how cool she was we brought anyway why it was just I couldn't I was like it kept thinking to myself ah the [ __ ] is she okay with me saying I reckon she caught on to the fact that you were mentally disabled or some [ __ ] more intense as it when but anyway man well that was impressive like yeah you had me in stitches yeah she was she didn't find it very funny she's one of that cash very good caller oh good she's a good colleague I could she's a bright colleague he's good work colleague like colleague all right so this week coming up we've filmed two videos today you might be able to see my lips are very bruised we did the Kylie Jenner video the challenge and it works yeah for certain people that can get their lips in there I couldn't get the suction well I think that Michael is a little scared of what it was going to look like so he didn't really commit chose looks over science yeah but yeah so new videos coming down next Bishop gonna die sooner back to normal upload time every Monday for podcasts and if you have a time go to our website and don't buy anything just have a have a look like most people do they you know they'll put it there the products in their cart and then come checkout time they won't [ __ ] press the button and don't forget that we are the best we're the best we're the best weather the best we're the best weather the best for the best | Marty and Michael Fully actual | UC_wC2z3W8M95TdkcV92eBoA | 2019-07-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 6,046 | 31,298 |
uno_zw0I1Zk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uno_zw0I1Zk | A focus on Information Literacy | if there is one skill that we should be teaching across content areas it's information literacy what do you do in a world that has too much information a world where you can access the information the moment you need it the moment you want it what are the skills you need to know and be able to understand in that world and chat GPT is just another way to access all of that information you know it's uh it's going to have bias in it as well I mean we're going to be seeing that come out uh what a great another kind of lens to look through like is there bias in its responses um I I don't know I think there's so many things that we can use it for in the classroom that blocking it and telling kids oh you can't use this while you're at school or all you have to do is flip your phone over to your 5G and use it | Jeff Utecht | UCiop2Zu7-WNjRcVK7KOE9CQ | 2023-01-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 168 | 812 |
9tWRL5bqWYU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tWRL5bqWYU | STRANGLEHOLD WALKTHROUGH PART 1 THIS GAME IS EPIC! | hello guys and welcome to another video today I'm playing strangle hold and uh it's a pretty old game it says most destructible environments ever created so let's see if this is true first off I'm just going to be putting uh okay well looks like this game doesn't have subtitles so I guess I'll just have to be kind of quiet when they're doing stuff so uh yeah anyway let's go to normal and see what happens my friend gave me this game for a gift um I don't know how I'm going to go but uh let's see how we perform curious about your missing cop send one man to callon square find the golden rabbit one man one hour one man it's a trap Captain I walk in there my cover's blown and there'll be two missing cops relax everybody this guy doesn't give us orders I'm not sending in one man I'm sending in a whole SWAT team no you are not you're not giving orders either tequila we got a missing cop and only one lead you stand in the SWAT the lead dies with my family one guy'd be crazy to go in there you used to be that crazy guy Jerry what happened if I was that missing cop I hope one of want to go sounds Terminator they just get in my way tequila don't it's a setup I hope so I hate to think they were wasting our time tequila get back here all right let's uh let's see what we can do here so um I don't know any of the controls so hopefully it'll tell me that in a second all right well walking into an Alleyway that's fine normal stuff all right so all right press LT oh yeah dive and shoot run oh no that tucks all right now I know how to duck oh yeah did you see that skill bro all right uh oh God oh God oh God ah I'm trying trying controls bad controls bad controls bad oh do not just see that I'm so bad at aiming holy crap oh did you see that oh my god oh by the way there's no like extra knife button it's just like if you get close to someone and you and you press oh he's already dead okay well not dead but getting there so I couldn't do anything um pick up Health oh right there all right cool I've got that sort I hate it how you just like run over tables all the time that'll get really annoying I'm not sure if I no I think I need to go around here to access Mission information anytime from your headset press okay investigate the market search for the golden rabbit sign all right um let's see if this works all right so that just goes to my phone this no doesn't open all right by all right when something is highlighted press LT to interact with the object okay oh God B bam bam bam okay oh bomb ah that hurt all right ready ready what oh oh did you say that that was so Sky skylish I was going to say skylish oh bro bro oh oh look at this no apparently not all right all right all right is there anyone else here anyone else want to die today I want to LT it please Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam I'm such bad aiming oh god oh I like it how this game is like straight into action it's so cool oh god oh looks like I have stamina or something something to tell me that I can't do cool tricks anymore bro okay to perform styish skill oh okay okay cool so I for got oh okay okay that gives me Health all right sweet find and collect paper cranes okay uh oh paper crane all right okay which way this way let's go Bruh Bruh going to wreck g g oh don't smoke bad for you what are you doing what what was the point of that you just wasted like 15 bucks 20 bucks who knows I don't I don't I don't do that who am I looking for huh oh that guy no okay obviously wasn't suspicious according to him oh rabbit that's a guy oh man I'm going to wreck him why am I rushing he's not even moving oh now he is oh no oh God he's dead no oh watermelon save me oh that's awesome watermelon skills bro wow oh head shot oh God all right get down get down keep thinking I'm about to die then it's just like no that's just a part of the LT how do you knife wait I really want to figure out how to freaking knife I don't think we can knife actually I don't oh oh God how much ammo do I have oh I still have like one0 oh God this game is so sick Bro oh God bam oh he just got shreked oh yeah just start straight through that mofo B bam bam bam bam use it use health health all right oh shre shre oh that don't even stand a chance oh hey bam oh God uh I may have just killed myself well uh that happened oh well let's um continue all right all right pick up this weapon boys oh and it auto switches when I lose all my ammo that's amazing this game is amazing oh I can hit but I have to be really close like I said before I thought I need to like heaps of editing but honestly there's just so much action just all the time oh God get down get down I didn't want to press that oh God that is such a good mechanic get down get down get down get down oh God I missed him completely oh my God this game is intense oh my God I don't even need to reload ever I just have unlimited ammo well not unlimited ammo I don't need to reload ever how amazing is that oh God oh God oh God Hallelujah okay there they are oh he got wrecked he got mofo oh oh okay wrecked oh boys boys you can't touch me no no no I'm not having that oh do you see that switch all them fast switches bro that is so sick oh God better put up my health all right this way I'm glad that there's a clear path cuz this place looks like it could be freaking are you serious do you know how many people I just killed okay I don't think I'm going to get wrecked anyway okay you're in a standoff you have to take out the enemies at a at a time by wait what by aiming with the right stick and shooting with the RT Dodge their shots with the left stick oh oh [ __ ] okay I got him now what oh shoot okay I'm oh right okay I get it I I can't I can't it puts off your aiming when you're like trying to move all right I totally just didn't get what what was happening then but now I do oh bro oh my God goingon to live goingon to live oh God oh God oh God please please please I can't answer the phone right now phone I'm in freaking tense moments here ah oh my God I'm too good for this game oh God I don't know wait where's the highlighted object oh is this it no that's not highlighted all right where oh Health hello hello Health um where do I go oh hello um how do I how do please is that highlighted or am I just [ __ ] that looks highlighted that looks freaking oh my god oh is it up here oh okay well after struggling trying to find the way through I finally found it aha oh yeah whoa sweet skills bro let's go okay is it through there or through the wall I think us through the door um press RB manually enter and exit okay okay what is this oh okay sweet okay so that slows it down what about nothing all right oh Precision aiming unlocked oh that looks sweet that looks so cool all right oh I'm sorry I just wrecked your day oh my God this game just keeps on giving this game just keeps on giving where do I go I got to grab the things all right all right all right come on come on come on how do I Sprint I can't I'll just dive I'll just dive everywhere oh in the eye you can't see no more you can't can't see no more you can't see no more oh god oh he got mold oh no I can't see I can't see down out oh no he missed he dodged that whoa what a mofo right where am I meant to go can someone someone help me please okay can I oh he got through the door all right that's okay I went down there and there's nothing open but now there is so that's all right oh my God I'm going to have to end the first episode here so thanks for watching guys and I'll see you in the next one woo bye w | Skpo Cod Clan™ | UCkWA0wzs7YWYlSV2AQ2neFQ | 2015-07-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,583 | 7,547 |
omugne-svZ4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omugne-svZ4 | INTERVIEW 🎙️ Tim Barber of Exabel discussing Alt Data, their Benefits and Challenges | [Music] uh we're a software company based in oslo in norway we provide a software platform that helps investment management firms of all different shapes and sizes to incorporate alternative data into their day-to-day um decisioning and workflow so we sell to we actually have two different routes to market funnily enough we sell direct to buy side investment firms that could be very large organizations big hedge funds big pension funds all the way down to small family offices anybody that's in the business of managing large amounts of cash um and investments we also have a partner program which is very successful where we provide our technology to alternative data vendors to provide a front-end graphical user interface for their data so that they can provide curated insights into their data to their customers as well so we've kind of served the market in two different ways i see most investment firms want to use alternative data it doesn't matter whether their kind of discretionary fundamental investment approach or whether they have a more systematic quantitative approach there is a role for data to be played in both of those sort of scenarios working with alternative data is difficult because hey there's a lot of it um and it's it it works at a massive scale so interpreting and organizing data is a real challenge it's a challenge in terms of uh skilled resources and it's a challenge in terms of the technology that you need to do it so if you imagine somebody's working with maybe four or five different types of data if you don't have the right tooling around that you need you need a lot of data scientists to manage the data and then you need you typically use things like jupiter notebooks or excel to kind of try and manipulate it which is a specialist skill set so by providing a platform that you can bring all of your data into one place which is kind of key to it it's data in one place um it means that you have one platform with one user interface that you can manage all of that data which it solves a really big problem so it's about managing the data in the first place and then providing tools around the data that you can use to do some of the sophisticated things you want to do from everything from correlation analysis through to building investment models or strategies so it's a it's a combination of having the data managed in one place and then the tools that you need driven through a gui interface so that you don't you can kind of de-skill it from a technical point of view and and make it makes the investment management teams much more self-sufficient um yeah i mean technically it's uh it's a fully cloud-based platform um we host in in uh in google cloud we partner with what we call ground truth data providers which is factset and visible alpha to bring ground truth data into the platform that we can provide to our customers we then ingest all sorts of different data either through our partnership program so it's pre-loaded into the platform or customers can bring their own data into the platform as well through our api or through a snowflake integration so once data is in you then manage it all it sits in a library structure so it's easy to discover it's easy to manipulate you can do signal transformations and then once the data is in you then can start using the various applications that we provide as part of the tool in order to do the research and analysis and the decisioning that you need to make we think of alternative data as a life cycle it starts with evaluating data to see whether it's useful then um organizing the data in in a way that makes it accessible and usable and then using it and then start monitoring it and maintaining it and then adding to it so it kind of goes full cycle so that's how we think about data within the platform self-sufficiency equates to efficiency and scalability for an investment firm so i think what we do is we first of all we make the data accessible it's not obfuscated it's not confined to a technical domain when you put data into exile it becomes all in one place and that place is the business so it's accessible it then that drives adoption of data across the business um and it helps to scale the use of data within our clients businesses we provide tools that make it very high utility so you get a lot of value out of the platform as well and then ultimately that leads to much more scalable use of data within the the investment firm because people are self-sufficient and they're not relying on scarce resources which inevitably creates bottlenecks in their workflow so that's kind of that's kind of the essence of it our customer base is very diverse actually we have customers with 600 billion dollars of assets under management who manage huge um pension funds and then we have people who use it um for um much smaller applications in in sort of single person family offices it's it's a very broad range but the toolkit is uh is applicable at lots of different scales of business | Beryl Elites | UC9xP6fruLiRlwcHplFqmQpw | 2022-07-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 910 | 5,012 |
1NF99lSdKCE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NF99lSdKCE | Riana Pfefferkorn - Compelled Device Decryption and 5A - DEF CON 27 Crypto and Privacy Village | here is our first speaker and also part of the CPB staff so please welcome Rihanna peppercorn good morning thank you so much for coming this early still nursing your you know still nursing last night's drinks deep in your brain cells but I appreciate you coming so I only have 20 minutes so I'm gonna go through this real quick before we dive in though a couple of big Ettore disclaimers I am a lawyer but I am NOT your lawyer nothing that I say here is legal advice and all of these are just my own opinions man not just not those my employer a note on the scope of this talk here are some things that this talk is not about this talk is not going to be about searches that occur at the United States border that is like the upside down it's like a whole other can of worms and so I'm not going to be talking about searches that occur in that context we're assuming that everything that I'm talking about today occurs within the United States if you are curious about that the Electronic Frontier Foundation hasn't asked the FF panel this weekend as part of main DEFCON you can go and ask them about it I will also have a list of suggested resources at the end if you're curious about this topic this talk is also not going to be about the Fourth Amendment the Fourth and Fifth Amendment's protect overlapping but different sets of Rights the Fifth Amendment is going to be what we're talking about today the Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable government searches and seizures and it sets forth the conditions for the issuance of warrants for this talk we're going to assume that a valid warrant has already been issued for the electronic device for which there is a compelled decryption demand why are we assuming that well the Supreme Court says that the police need a warrant in order to get into your smartphone to search and seize your smartphone they have to have a warrant first that's also standard practice for searches and seizures of other types of computers laptops desktops external hard drives all of those typical practices to get a warrant for those two so law enforcement cannot compel you without such an underlying legal authorization as a warrant to decrypt your device for them they can ask you now and ask you to voluntarily consent to decrypt your device for them but they cannot compel you absent some underlying legal authorization and that typically will mean a warrant or a separate court order that is meant to give effect to that underlying warrant with that said there are plenty of ways that there can be problems under the Fourth Amendment with the device warrant yeah with a warrant for a device the Fourth Amendment prescribes such conditions as particularity as not having something be over broad and have a fishing expedition so those are challenges that have been brought in the past to device warrants but we're not going to concern ourselves with the Fourth Amendment issues today and again if you're interested in Fourth Amendment issues with device warrants I'll have some suggested reading at the end of the talk so what is this talk about this talk is about the Fifth Amendment now the Fifth Amendment protects a number of Rights actually there's a grand jury clause there's the takings clause there's the double jeopardy clause but the one that we're focusing on today is the self-incrimination clause no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself that sounds fairly straightforward right you can't be compelled to testify against yourself it sounds simple it's not Fifth Amendment law is a big hairy body of law it's very complicated but I only have twenty minutes so I'm gonna give you the very sort of high-level version of this today well what's the Fifth Amendment got to do with encryption anyway well the issue is that when the device is encrypted that can impede the execution of a search and seizure warrant the police can't get into it okay so in that case law enforcement has a few different options for what they can try to do in order to get access to the decrypted data on a device one is to try and seize a cloud backup of the contents of the device so if you backup your iPhone to your iCloud account the police can go to Apple with a separate warrant and say give us the contents of that iCloud account but what if you don't back up your device what if the backups aren't very recent well then that's not gonna be very useful to them another option would be to try to make Apple or Google unlock the phone but that hasn't been a good legal option since 2016 when the FBI threw down with Apple and lost and it hasn't been a good technical option in recent years because both iPhones and androids it's now useful disk encryption typically turned on by default and so at this point not even the manufacturers of those phones can extract data in readable form for law enforcement another option would be for the police to use either a home rolled or third party vendors data extraction tool that can extract readable data even from a locked phone such as a cellebrite device or a great key device and those work sometimes but they don't necessarily work consistently on every model of phone every version of the OS and there's this cat-and-mouse game between the manufacturers on the one hand and the makers of these tools on the other where the manufacturers such as Apple are always trying to close the vulnerabilities that enable those tools to work in the first place so what's the final option that the police could try that's the one we're going to talk about today which is to try and force the device owner to decrypt the device for the police and that's where the 5th amendment comes in so the idea of invoking your Fifth Amendment rights against being compelled to decrypt isn't new I've been told that this was a topic of discussion on the cypherpunks mailing lists back in the 1990's the first court decision on this issue came in 2007 that involved an encrypted partition on a laptop but it's become more relevant now in recent years because as mentioned full disk encryption is now very prevalent especially on smartphones and even on laptops sometimes as well it's often the default or it's very easy to turn on so the user doesn't have to install and fiddle with a separate piece of software in order to encrypt their device or their files and now there are multiple means to decrypt you can use a passcode password passphrase I'm just going to say passcode for the most part even though those are all separate distinct things but you can also use a biometric such as your face or your fingerprint so we've seen more court cases on this issue really multiplying in recent years and those cases have given rise to some general trends in the law but that law is still unsettled it's still evolving the Supreme Court hasn't yet weighed in so is there a general rule overall that we can glean from these cases well kind of does the Fifth Amendment protect you from being compelled to decrypt now when I say defendants I'm mostly gonna refer to defendants in this talk but the Fifth Amendment does not just cover defendants people who are something other than people who are currently being criminally investigated or who are already indicted and being prosecuted can invoke their Fifth Amendment rights it may have very good reason to do so if the police have a device warrant for your device it might not just be because you're a defendant it could be because you are a witness it could because you because you are a victim of a crime so when I see defendants I don't just mean defendants the general rule that arises is that if you use a biometric you can be compelled to decrypt your device for law enforcement because a biometric is something you are if you use a passcode to decrypt typically you can't be compelled to unlock because a passcode is something that you know but there are exceptions to each of these things that I'm going to explain now in order to understand the jurisprudence on Fifth Amendment and compel decryption there are two key concepts that you need to understand one of them is called the active production doctrine and the other is the foregone conclusion doctrine so the act of production doctrine comes out against a background where typically the government can compel people to hand over documents or information that they have think of subpoenas think of warrants but this doctrine is an exception that allows the government to conduct investigations gather evidence gathered documents while still protecting people's constitutional rights and it starts from the premise that acts not just words can count as testimony something you do can be testimonial not just something that you say so the very act of producing evidence can on its own have communicative aspects when you are handing over evidence in response to a demand from law enforcement you're testifying to the fact that that evidence exists that you possess it you have custody or control over it and that that evidence is authentic and that you think it's responsive to the demand that you've been given so if the act of producing evidence would mean testifying against yourself then you can't be forced to hand that evidence over even though there's a warrant for it but not all acts of production are protected the Act must be compelled if you hand something over voluntarily there's no Fifth protection it must be incriminating meaning that compliance would put you in legal danger and it has to be testimonial an act is typically considered testimonial if it discloses the contents of your minds but if it gives no indication of your thoughts or knowledge then it's not testimonial this is a concept that the courts have really grappled with in the context of compelled decryption it's given them some trouble it's been sort of hard to croc and so the typical example that they turn to is one that the Supreme Court has used to illustrate what would and would not count as testimonial the Supreme Court has said that surrendering the key to a strongbox is not testimonial or as revealing the combination to a wall safe would be testimonial the latter is testimonial because it forces you to disclose the contents of your mind the former is not testimonial because there's no thought process involved in handing over a key it's still incriminating if you have to hand over the key to a box full of crimes but it's not testimonial so it doesn't fall within the scope of the Fifth Amendment right in that example using something physical versus using the contents of your mind is going to come into play when we talk about biometrics versus past codes but first I mentioned that there's one other doctrine that you need to understand in order to to grok that the minute law on this topic and that's the foregone conclusion doctrine so in general as I just said testimonial acts of production get Fifth Amendment protection but there is an exception that's the foregone conclusion exception an act of production is not protected by the Fifth Amendment if the information that the Act conveys is a foregone conclusion that adds little or nothing to the sum total of the government's information basically the foregone conclusion exception will kick in if the government already knows the information is trying to compel from you from some other source that is the Act isn't telling the government anything that they don't already know and so that act can be compelled if it's a foregone conclusion that evidence exists that you possess it and that it's authentic then the foregone conclusion exception will defeat an invocation of your Fifth Amendment rights why would the police want to compel you to do something that they already know well if your business partner rats you out and says there's evidence on that guy's computer of tax fraud that tells the government the information that they would need as a basis for compelling you to to hand over and decrypt your computer for them but it doesn't put those files in their hands they still need you to decrypt the device for them to have those actual files in their hands so how does this apply when we can come to the context of compelling people to decrypt their devices so in general for biometrics the courts say this does not count as testimonial because it's something you are it's your fingerprint it's your face the courts have compared this to the compelled exhibition of a bodily characteristics such as handing over a blood sample a voice exemplar or putting on a piece of clothing to see if it fits or not and they say this is much more like a strongbox key than the combination to a safe even though the courts have acknowledged that this doesn't really fit neatly into these boxes because when you are producing your body you're still also producing the decrypted contents of your device but this is where the courts have generally landed there have been a couple of cases that have said that a biometric is still testimonial but the only four judges have said this so far two of them have been overturned on appeal and we're waiting for a decision on a third that came out in January and the rationale that those judges said was touching your finger to a sensor on your phone is testimonial it's testifying that you have possession that you have control over the device in one of those courts has said this isn't the same as just comparing your fingerprint to a fingerprint that was lifted from a crime scene it's much more like your physiological responses to a polygraph test which the Supreme Court has said is testimonial but on appeal the courts have struck those down and said no this is not testimonial as long as the agents are the police agents who are executing the warrant are picking your finger they're just going to put each the way that these orders are typically drafted now a lot of the times it means that the executing officer will just depress each of your fingers onto the sensor until they get to the finger that unlocks it and the courts there say there's no need to invoke your thought process at all you could be unconscious and you could still have your finger pressed to the sensor on your phone so there's no contents of your mind being used there so in some if you use a biometric you're probably out of luck when it comes to the Fifth Amendment by contrast a passcode is universally considered to be testimonial because you're decrypting what the passcode is using the contents of your minds and that would seem pretty open-and-shut except you remember that I talked about the foregone conclusion exception well that exception will defeat a Fifth Amendment claim if the government can show that already knows the information that would be conveyed by you're compelled active decryption well what information is that here's where the courts have split the courts don't agree on the proper focus of the foregone conclusion analysis some courts have said that the government has to show that it already knows that there are incriminating files that exist on your decrypt encrypted device whereas there are other courts have said all the government has to show is that it knows that the defendant knows the passcode that's a much easier test to meet it's not going to be a high bar in most cases for the government to be able to show that you already know how to unlock your own phone so that is not a very defense friendly test but overall the government will be in the best position if we can show it either way if it has a evidence to show both that you know the passcode and that it knows the files already exists on the device because given that the law is very unsettled a lot of courts haven't been faced with this issue yet and so if they don't know the government doesn't know whether the courts going to go with the passcode test or the files test they want to be able to show it both ways all right so what evidence have the courts used to establish that the foregone conclusion applies these are some real-world examples defendant talked to the cops and admitted that the device was his or the defendant admitted to the cops that there was illegal stuff on the device or the defendant voluntarily decrypted the device for law enforcement even let law enforcement go through the unlock device and see that there were incriminating files on there but before the police could get a warrant to search and seize the device the device had encrypted and locked itself up again or the defendant had told other people that there was incriminated stuff on the device or even showed it to them and those people went and told the cops so the government does not bad a thousand when they argue foregone conclusion it depends on the amount of evidence that they have but it has a pretty good batting average and so the fact that courts consider passcodes to be testimonial isn't necessarily the great news that it might seem to be so the upshot is that it depends whether the Fifth Amendment will protect you from being compelled to decrypt your device if you use a passcode you have way better odds than if you use a biometric but the foregone conclusion exception can still get you it's hard to predict in advance whether a Fifth Amendment claim is going to succeed because the law is still evolving the courts don't all use the same analysis and outcome is often really fact dependent specific facts matter a lot what the cops already know matters the less information that they have the harder it is for them to argue that the foregone conclusion exception should apply the wording of a warrant or court order matters the wording can raise facial fourth or fifth amendment problems that could make the warrant potentially invalid how the cops execute the warrant matters even if the wording is perfectly fine the way that the police execute that warrant and carry it out might still violate the Fifth Amendment so even though all those courts said a biometric isn't testimonial because the cops are pushing your finger onto the sensor if the police said you pick the finger that unlocks the phone then you're using the contents of your mind to this select which finger it is and I think a court might say in that case that is testimonial and so far which court you're prosecuted in also matters because not all of the courts have gotten around to this question yet there are only two federal courts of appeals that have weighed in on this question those are the third and eleventh circuit courts of Appeal and only two state high courts state supreme courts have weighed in soon we'll see three more decisions that are currently pending and for my money the worst state that you can be in for this is Florida Florida is part of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals so if you're in federal court that test will apply but if you're in state court there have been two different state-level appeals courts that have come out in three different cases and they have disagreed with each other even from case to case so the Fifth Amendment analysis meaning your constitutional rights will vary depending not only on whether you're in federal or state court but sometimes even what part of the state you're in and all that suggests to me is that we really need to have a consistent rule there won't be one until the Supreme Court weighs in and that might be a couple years yet if they decide to take it up and we don't know whether they're going to decide that this is interesting enough for them to get around to it I would like to see them take this issue up because this this type of issue has been coming up more and more it's only going to keep happening more often and there should really be a consistent rule that would give predictability and consistency not only to the police so that they know you know how they can carry out these orders what they can ask for what they can't but also for all of us not only for you to know what your rights are if this situation arises but also because it's really stupid as a matter of public policy for your constitutional rights to depend on whether you just happen to pick a biometric or a passcode which leads to totally divergent potential legal outcomes and your threat model for what you selected probably has nothing to do with thinking what if I get arrested or there's a warrant for my device at some point your model might be that you have an abusive partner or an abusive parent in your home who might want to unlock your device using your finger while you're asleep to get access to your device it might be that you just want the convenience of being able to unlock your phone dozens of times a day as we all do and you don't want to spend a bunch of time doing it maybe a biometric is better for you in that instance or maybe you're a parent and either your kid will try and enter your passcode enough times and it will break your phone in order to try and get in and play games or if you have a biometric maybe they'll try and unlock your phone or your tablet while you're asleep and by in game Pokemon on your credit card so what should you do and again not legal advice the common-sense stuff would be think twice before you blab about or show off the illegal that you have on your phone especially to the cops and stay out of Florida that's not just Fifth Amendment advice that's just life advice but seriously for now if you're probably going to be better off using a pass code over a biometric or passcode plus biometric than just normal biometric maybe you typically prefer to use a biometric but if you are going into a situation with a heightened risk of arrest such as a protest maybe you want to switch to the passcode temporarily or you can enable a feature that is now on both iPhones and Android phones it's called panic button on iPhone and lockdown mode for Android which will bring up the option to temporarily disable a biometric and require you to enter a passcode or a pattern instead this feature has recently come in handy in real life during the Hong Kong protests that were happening if the police have a warrant and they demand that you decrypt get a lawyer the PFF is around they know some good lawyers go and talk to them if you don't have it already if you want to voluntarily consent to decrypting your device you might have very good reasons based on your particular circumstances to do so just understand that you are giving up some potential Fifth Amendment and maybe Fourth Amendment defenses that you might otherwise be able to bring in if you are getting prosecuted that you are giving up by involuntarily consenting to open your device for them if you want to invoke your Fifth Amendment right say it out loud sick clearly be unequivocal about it the right is not self-executing if you just don't say anything you waive it this is stupid but you have to affirmatively say I'm invoking my Fifth Amendment right not to be compelled to decrypt this because you don't have the right to make me incriminate myself and if you invoke your rights and that doesn't work and the court still rules against you it is possible that if you still refuse to comply you might be held in contempt of court but I would think I am just about out of time for this so don't ask me about the contempt issue that's the Electronic Frontier Foundation but thank you very much for coming you now have a grasp of this very complicated area of law now you know how it works and you can explain it to all your friends at your next protest that you go to so here are some resources if you are interested I'll take Q&A in a moment but I just want to end with a call to action lately the FBI director and the Attorney General have both been saying that they want to pursue some legislative or other type of solution to give law enforcement guaranteed access into your device and if you don't like that idea tell your Congress person thank you we are getting a mic set up and we have a human mic stand right here who so come in and form a from an orderly line so we have about five minutes what's that the title slide from the very front for the reverse questions at the microphone please now again as Briana said we've got to cut it off at five minutes to make room for the next talk but if you flow back through the village Rihanna I believe will be there to answer follow-on I'll be around today and tomorrow at the village all right hey I want to know what's this stand-up proof for the foregone conclusion is that preponderance clear and convincing of beyond a reasonable doubt it depends so the police have to show with reasonable particularity that they know that there's incriminating stuff like on your device that they know that the files already exist but there's been some variance in the standard that the courts have used in what level of evidence is enough so it depends hey awesome talk I remember a Fourth Amendment case where someone was being interviewed like at their door and they jumped back and slammed the door from the cops and that was interpreted as well you're fleeing so now the Fourth Amendment we can override and push in is there any case law yet or would you would anticipate if someone used a duress function on the phone like during a law enforcement interaction would that be considered or someone I'm sure would try to say well you were attempting to flee the evidence or destroy the evidence and it's not the same as just taking the phone in a neutral interaction that's a great question so I think it depends what the direst function does if it is just the lockdown mode or the panic button I don't think that that could be construed as destruction of evidence because it's not destroying anything it's just scrambling it with encryption it cause it's still there it can be decrypted so nothing is being destroyed however when I've heard people theorize about creating a duress function that would just go through and write zeros over everything on your phone that probably would count as destruction of evidence and I always say that's probably a bad idea that took care of 90% of our questions okay given the current makeup of the Supreme Court and how like slowly with justices get replaced whatever what would they do now with that this fifth amendment question that you said that they need to weigh in on I mean if they can stop sexually harassing people long enough to decide I don't know that's a good question you might think I will say you might think that a conservative justice would be reflexively anti defendant that's not always true the late Justice Scalia was actually one of the best defenders of the rights that criminal defendants have but I think that's because he thought that as soon as you've satisfied all of the procedural niceties then you could just throw the book at them but I don't know how this Court would come out I don't think there has really been a lot of Fifth Amendment cases in this line I will say at the most recent Fifth Amendment case that the Supreme Court has thought has considered that I can consider off the top of my head is the one I referenced which is the one that says you have to affirmatively outloud express that you are invoking your right to remain silent so if that's the way that they think about these issues I don't know what will happen I have another question regarding the foregone conclusions yeah you have to be able to prove that you either know the passcode or have access to device or they can prove that they know incriminating files are on the device now if they know that you have incriminating files on that device it but they obtain that information in an encore divisible way it was not legal it was without a warrant in which they obtained that knowledge would that still qualify that's a great question I wish I knew the answer to it I would certainly raise it if I were defense counsel for trying to get a to get evidence excluded but I don't know the answer to that and to be clear the foregone conclusion doctrine is complicated so the courts have really struggled with all of this stuff so it's not just me who's confused Thanks hi I'm not sure if you brought this up before or if it even matters but what about face ID well if they just hold your phone from your face so like I said in general the police need a warrant to search your phone so if they don't have a warrant and they just hold it up to your face I would try and get that bounced if they do have a warrant and they just hold it up to your face you know hopefully you get the chance to invoke your Fifth Amendment right beforehand but that's certainly I think a worry that a lot of people have and that might militate against deciding to use face ID if that's something that you're worried about I would try and challenge that especially by saying like you didn't even give me the opportunity to invoke my constitutional rights but certainly a worry that is prevalence not just you yeah all right thank you very much I'm sorry we do have a hard cutoff however Rihanna's gonna be right over there with a little knowledge thank you [Applause] | DEFCONConference | UC6Om9kAkl32dWlDSNlDS9Iw | 2019-11-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,280 | 29,097 |
0RjWqp2gi4A | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RjWqp2gi4A | 1 John 3:11-24 Love your Brother - Bro Joshua Gander | first John three Laura maybe you uh there's basically spirit of these words that are spoken you will control the horse okay first John chapter three guys behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world North us not because it knew him John beloved now are we the sons of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and every man that had this hope in him purifies himself even as he is pure whosoever committeth sin transgresseth transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law and he know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that committeth sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose of son of god is manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil whosoever is born of God does not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of god in this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother for this is the message that he heard from the beginning that we should love one another not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore he slew him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous Marvel not my brethren if the world hate you we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth and death whosoever hated his brother is a murderer and he know that no murderer murderer hath eternal life abiding in him hereby perceived weed that the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to late lay down our lives for the Brethren but whoso hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him my little children let us not love in Word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth and hereby we know that we are the truth and shall assure our hearts before him for if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and North all things beloved if our heart condemn us not that had we that have we confidence toward God and whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing to his sight and this is the commandment that we should believe on the name of the son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us this commandment and he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us for the spirit was by the spirit which he has given us amen lord I pray that you all fill brother Africa under with her spirit and that of his words flow purely and into the hearts of the people here and think about some like Lord Jesus my friend amen amen amen so we're dealing with the second part of first John chapter 3 there love the Brethren love the Brethren is the title of this message so this is another message in the book of first John we're trying to first do it as being a message that is from the beginning so this is pointing again back all the way to John chapter 1 which points all the way back to Genesis chapter 1 specifically in this context the Bible refers to the story of Cain and Abel and if you would look at verse 11 it says for this is a message which he have heard from the beginning that we should love one another the story then goes back all the way back to Cain and Abel which is in Genesis chapter 4 and you can begin there and this is specifically referring to Cain which is the poor example of this he's of that wicked one and he slew his brother the Bible says here and wherefore slew he did because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous keep your finger there in first John chapter 3 we're gonna go back and learn something from Cain their Genesis chapter 4 the Bible doesn't lie when it says this is the story of her from the beginning this is a message that you have heard from the beginning we're waiting back in Genesis chapter 4 and Sinnott just entered in in the previous chapter unto mankind and immediately the message is portrayed that he ought to love one another and it is not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother but rather there's a greater message that we should love when he limits learn through this Genesis chapter for waited there at the beginning says this and Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bare Cain and said I have gotten a man from the Lord she again bare his Abel and Abel was a keeper of the sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground and in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect you Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell and the Lord said unto Cain why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen if that would do us well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door and unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him Cain talked with Abel his brother and it came to pass when they are in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him the Bible in context the 1st John chapter 3 talks about Cain's works being unrighteous and his brothers being righteous and this was the main area of dispute between the two of them what works are presented here well if you look in verse 3 you'll see the works of Cain in the process of time it came to pass Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering of the Lord that is his works that is his presentation unto God verse 4 says and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof and the Bible recorded this and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering which was of the flocks and the fat thereof and he had not respect unto Cain and his offering which was of the plants and vegetation and fruits of the ground the Bible says in verse 7 if that would do us well shalt thou not be accepted this is God's talking specifically to King if you do well shall you not be accepted and if you do not well well then sin lieth at the door so doing well you're accepted not doing well you have now chosen sin which lies at the door now what makes these works well because what I believe happened here we know that the Bible of course that sin is the transgression of the law so could it be that this law had already been laying down that the offerings unto God we're not to be fruit of the ground were not to be vegetation and that sort of thing vegetables at first but rather they were indeed to be of the flocks and of the herds the bottom of course that these are both given as offerings and yet the Lord respected one and the Bible in first John chapter 3 calls these works the one works were even the other works were good quit often we use this as an illustration of came bringing his own works which is him telling the ground the Bible records by interpretation of the Old Testament or the New Testament talking back to the Old Testament in exposition it says that they were both works well why were they both work because I believe they were both in commandment or in contradiction to a commandment I believe that this is actually showing us that the works we're unrighteous because the command was not followed and the works were righteous because the command was followed and what was the command that you are to bring to the offering of the Lord of the Sheep of the flock and of the fat thereof just like we see recorded throughout all of the Old Testament and even into the New Testament without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins in other words an offering cannot just be of some vegetation it must have the shedding of blood associated with it why because it's a type as a picture of Jesus Christ who was the Lamb to come slain from the fountain the world indeed and therefore pictured throughout all of history of mankind so what does this story yes it does show us that there was a command given that was broke and I believe that to be true because of the shedding of life from the New Testament upon the old specifically what we saw in first John the works not being right but what does it teach us about loving our brother obviously it's a very unloving thing to slay your brother of course but the statement comes maybe even clearer when we see verse 9 and what it says here it says and the Lord said unto Cain where is Abel thy brother and he said I know not am I my brother's keeper yes the Lord am I my brother's keeper am I to keep my brother look at him well the answer is yes he is his brother's keeper and this is where the truth from first John I believe comes into fruition that he was to love his brother he was to be his brother's keeper he was to keep his brother he was to retain to possess to honor to preserve to guard to protect to keep his brother and when God asked him that question where is your brother God knew for well because his brother's blood was already crying up from the ground but God simply asked that question to prove that truth that he had already had this conversation with Abel and they already knew the bond that they had one with another why because again first John tells us that this is a message which you have heard from the beginning which means not just me hearing it from the first time I read Genesis I believe Adam II came table had already heard that same message that she ought to love one another gotta love your brother and so he says where is your brother he says am I my brother's keeper yes you are you are to love your brother you to retain them possess them keep them preserve them protect them to come to them all of those ideas go with the idea of keeping and this is the poorest of example we have because what it says you to love your brother you can go back to first job when he says you are to love one another immediately the Bible records at first John not as Cain here's your bad example not as Cain are you to love one another why because he was of that wicked one is the poorest example and he's actually compared to as the world around us and you'll read that as you go down and diverse their team so if Bible says in verse 12 not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous and that says verse 13 Marvel not my brethren if the world hates you so just as Cain hated his brother because his works were evil and his brothers were righteous Marvel not brethren if the world hate you because their works are evil and your works are righteous because of your works the world is going to eat you but be of good cheer verse 14 says this we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death so we have passed from we abide not in death because of our love because that same Envy that was within pain is not or rather should not be a part of the Christians heart when you look upon your brother who is doing righteous things and you look upon his works do you have that same feeling as Cain where you are welled up with envy and hate on your brother that ain't right but it's something I believe that Christians could fall into it is an envious heart and why do we get it most often because our only works are unrighteous we will look on the righteous deeds of our brother and begin to envy them and that's how that Wells up that's how that same feeling builds up within your own heart it's like this the same way as the story of Cain and Abel was there was a direct command given one chose to obey and one chose to disobey in the same way in the Christians life direct commands are given one chooses to obey Him one chooses to disobey and that same mentality of Cain who was of that wicked one who is that terrible example can well open the Christians heart who is not doing the works when they looked on their brother and they begin to envy and hate them because they are doing what they know in their hearts they should be that's where that envious heart comes from but it should not be among us we've passed from death unto life and it's because we love the Brethren that we because begin to see this happen he that loveth not his brother abideth in death and you don't want to be abiding in death verse 14 love is not equals abiding in death so those two are synonymous those two ideas so this is another I didn't even if you REBOUND brief verse 14 we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth and death and I believe this is another one of those choosing passages there is another one of those ideas where we need to not get these two ideas mixed up and we're saying okay well that guy hates his brother so he's automatically not safe he's abiding in death he's not saved because when we do that we're negating many scriptures that have Christians behaving in in ways that are synonymous with the unsaved world and then we just start pitching everybody as if they are all not safe look at this this is another verse that just as Christ charges the Christian abide in me and I envy that's a commandment to abide in Christ that means we have the choice whether or not we are going to abide in him and I would say that if you as a Christian are not abiding in Christ you are probably abiding in death is one of the two Christ is life he is the light of the world he is the life of all mankind right John chapter 1 records this so if you're not abiding in the true vine which is light which is life you are choosing to abide in death and it's no wonder that you hate your brother when you're abiding in death and you see them in light by contrast the two are oppositely opposed this is another one of those passages I believe where the Christian needs to look at it and it's talking in harsh words it's talking to the Christian as if they're as King as if they are of that wicked one as if they're of the world because they're hating their brother John isn't holding back here he's trying to talk to believers as he has been through this whole book and trying to make the point clear that if you are not living right you are abiding in death and you might as well be of that wicked one you are of no eternal value to the kingdom of God you are not benefiting anybody your faith is without words therefore it is dead being alone it is not doing for your brethren what it should be and therefore it's useless that was his release receive not the grace of God in vain in other words you receive that grace of God he should walk in those trees he should be doing good works especially unto your brethren the first 15 assistants he's gonna get really hard on the person who is hating their brother who so ever hated his brother is a murder and he know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Derek that's it he's not safe right no I believe again he's just stressing this point these people aren't necessarily unsaved because we have to remember again the context of this book it's always speaking to brethren this passage is speaking specifically about his brother if you hate your brother the context is that you are injuring remember the Bible just said in verse 1 it said Behold what manner of love the father restored of us because yea that we should be called the sons of God and there is that brother relationship being established even within this chapter but this is again a very strong rebuke hey you're hating your brother because your works are unrighteous and your envying his righteous works you're a murderer and we know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in here that verse 15 is connecting us back to verse 12 when it says as Cain right we are connecting the dots here we are pointing the idea of the murderer to the world to the wicked one as Cain to highlight the fact that if you are acting like Cain you're acting like a child of the devil and when you're acting like a child of the devil it is no wonder that you are exhibiting without fault the works of the flesh that are associated with it being hatred one to another hatred towards your brother look at these glaciers chapter 5 keep your finger there I just want to show you just what our flesh is capable of because again we can say okay this murder of course he's not saved because he has no eternal life abiding in him but again remember that remember the two natures remember that the same blood bot born again cleansed revived alive inner man and then the man that that abides in which is full of flesh right which which has that flesh that warith and lust if against the soul so Galatians chapter 5 in verse 19 highlights what that flesh is capable of and I believe leaving with in living quickening quickening spirit within it Galatians chapter 5 and verse 19 now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which i tell you before as i have also told you that's the day which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God speaking of the works of your flesh and we know that flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of God by default so therefore those works will not inherit the kingdom God because that flesh will be put off before the resurrected spirit of yourself is revived and will inherit the kingdom of God this is just bringing me more to that point that when we read the passage in 1st John chapter 3 again it's talking to Christians in a very firm and forward type of language whereby John isn't giving any wiggle room to the Christian believer that hates his brother especially in this context the Christian believer that hates his brother because he is envious of the greater works that he is doing than these comparing yourselves amongst yourselves you're not what the Bible records this we need to understand that while some people may be doing greater works than us that should not be motivation for us to envy them which will make us into a hateful person towards them that should motivate us to bring ourselves up to their same level or to recognize that hey not everybody is currently all at the same level and just have grace with even ourselves as we grow in Christ then this mentality can destroy a Christian it says especially a newborn babe in Christ you looks at other people and think oh man they're doing all these great works they're doing all these great thing and they're either gonna get defeated by looking at their brother and not comparing up to his level again comparing yourselves amongst ourselves you're not wise or they're going to get that other affect when they look at them and they envy them and they hate them and they and they are of that wicked water behaving as if they are because they are just linking their acting just like King so we see then that a believer can act in all these works of the fudge murder was mentioned in that we see that a believer can act in the works of the flesh hatred was one of those variants was one of those there's all of these works the flesh that go along with that same idea of hating your fellow believer but the contrast is this we are commanded to love one another and this is how the world and our brethren perceive who we are in Christ whatever sixteen s is hereby perceive we the love of God remember we learned earlier about Romans chapter five and verse eight when it says God commendeth his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us hereby perceive we the love of God this is goes on to the same vain sense because he lay down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren so we perceived the love of God because he laid down his life for us in that same way for $0.17 but whoso hath this world's good and see if his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him and remember we've talked about before that the love of God in him is simply the exhibition of God's almighty all-powerful love just flowing through a believers that seeing compassion as God's heart yokes with my heart and is able to go forth and love other people when I said God's love was commended or proved because he laid down his life for us but the love of us should be perceived in that same way as we laid down our lives for others the Bible says this greater love hath no man than this then that a man lay down his life for his friends as John 5:13 greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends that is the ultimate exhibition of love that a man can show for another man is to lay down his life for them and God did that only he did even better he laid down his life not for his friends before his folks for his enemies God laid down his life for those that even in order that he might save them God's not asking the Christian to lay down their lives for those that hate him that's how he exhibited his love to the whole world but he's charging that we lay down our lives for our brethren and the specific example that he gives here is whoso hath this world's good and withholdeth or shutteth up his bowels of compassion his heart of compassion towards his brother who has a need that is associated with the world in other words money food shelter just a basic generic needs that anyone you had if he was to do that well then how'd well if the love of God in this man this is what is perceived in other words the Christian who has the ability to help the other Christian when he doesn't there's no perception of the love of God in him no one is going to look at him and go yeah that's a great Christian man notice the world is not seeing the surrounding people around the situation the brother himself is not seeing the love of God in him this man is no better than Cain who was of that wicked one who was a murderer God wants us rather to love one another we cannot compare to the love of God who laid down his life for his enemies and God's not asking us to he's asking us to do something even easier which is simply laying down our lives for our brothers doing all we can to pick them up to help them to lift them up to encourage them to strengthen them in their time of need that's what we are to do as Christians we will never compare to the great love wherewith God hath loved us like it said in John chapter first John chapter 3 where there in the beginning of this chapter at verse 1 what manner of love hath the father bestowed that we should be the sons of God we can't compare to that kind of great love its far-reaching that a man can ever obtain to that kind of love but that love of God does dwell in us through the Spirit of God which is given unto us and thereby thereby a measure of that should be able to be dispersed within the confines of what the Scriptures asks for us and the confines of the scriptures asked us to simply bless your brother help your brothers strengthen your brother lift them up in any way possible verse 18 my little children let us not love in Word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth this is the charge to Christians love in deed and in truth don't just say it show it don't just say I love you man I've been praying for you bro show it give help hug if appropriate nurture surprise care for encourage pray for not just in word but but in deed and in truth do unto your brother as you have done unto you love indeed and the truth exhibit that love of God which is in you believer to the utmost of your ability to the best of your capability love your brother it's it's it should be natural but for some of us sadly we've let roots of bitterness grow up in us and it's not so natural anymore but let's get back to that let's get back to that love let's get back to what God commands of it and the only way we can do it is through the power of God Almighty Himself because it's his love to begin with we're simply imparting it to others verse 19 hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him we can know that we are of the truth we can know that we ourselves are of the truth assuring our hearts before God because we naturally love the Brethren now have you ever been in the situation where you have met liebherr for the first time you first realized that you're actually both safe and immediately you're connected one to another you're close one with another you talk about things as if you known each other for years that is the assurance in your heart that is the knowledge that you are of the truth of this Bible verses talking about you can know that your heart is assured before God because you have that immediate love bond with the Brethren I'm sure we've all experienced that at one time or another the reason why we are bonded in that fashion is the same way that siblings are bonded in that same fashion because they have the same father because they're related because there's something conjoining them which they can never change they have the same root they have they are of the same offspring and that is the reason that is the testimony into our own hearts now that is just one of the let's say spiritual or physical realities that we can perceive that we are of the truth and our hearts can be assured before them verse 20 says this if our heart condemn us because this happens sometimes right because our heart isn't always telling us the right things right so we shouldn't base everything on unlike what I just said just because I get along with a Christian right away I'm just assuring my heart our heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it the Bible records this so we can't just always trust those things ultimately your real assurance of salvation comes from what do you believe about the scriptures have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for your salvation do you believe that you have to earn salvation do you believe that once you're saved you are safe forever if you believe on Christ and Christ alone for your salvation that is your hope of glory that is your firm foundation amen your trust of your salvation apart because your heart is deceitful above all things but the Bible does record this that we can know that we have the truth and our hearts be assured before him if we do have that bond brother if we do have that love for the Brethren but for if our heart condemn is verse 20 God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things and this is the only time that that the Bible records this where it says you know your heart will deceive you but God knoweth all things in other words he's in control of things that are far beyond what you are fleshly feeling or heart would desire or know even of itself first we want beloved if our heart condemn if not and we have confidence toward God so what this is basically saying is we need to bypass that heart feeling in order to have confidence with God so yes that will give you an inner testimony of your love for God in your relationship with God if you have love for the Brethren but by past that understand that your heart will condemn you but God is greater than your heart and your great confidence before God should not come from that feeling that you have for the Brethren but it should be through faith in him and that should always overcome that should always be far surpassing any kind of feeling that you would have won for them but this does not negate the truth that's being preached here the truth is being preaches we need to have love for another and it takes it as far as to say that if you don't you're of Cain you're of that wicked one you are in bondage unto the world you are a murderer at least acting like it as a Christian and then it says this that there is an emotional feeling there is a bond an it that should be natural within the believer in order to have them yoked with the believer but greater than all of these is the love of God and the truth which he displays through his scriptures and that is where you need to have confidence what I believe this is saying is that you're not always going to feel in love with your brother you're not always going to feel like they've treated you right like you could think about Jesus he came into his own his own received him not he came into his own with great love and compassion for them and they stomped on him they drug him through the mud they beat him they whipped on the scourge him threw him on a cross and let him hung there hanging there until he died you are not always going to feel this great love for them but your confidence towards God will allow you to exhibit that love toward them the Apostle Paul said this he said the greater I am loved the less I be loved in other words the greater Paul got into his ministry and is just closer with God and was bursting at the seams with love for the care of the many churches with which he had over all of Asia the greater that his love was for them the less he was loved in other words he was decreasing his Christ was increasing he was constantly being put down mocked ridiculed just just treated as the offscouring of the world and though his heart was bursting out with love for his brethren the love of God living in him and going through him he was not always in that situation where he had that great love for them but he displayed it and because he was able to display that it was proof it was it was the testimony it was the perception that others would see when they looked at him and they would say he has great love for God he is of God and you see how that perception of him would be depicted by how he behaved towards his brother and that was the tell it wasn't a perfect Apostle Paul's salvation he didn't look at his love towards the Christian as a proof of his salvation though that love did testify of the love of God which is in him that came from God himself to have love for these he simply exhibited what was naturally in him and it was seen by others the Apostle Paul stood firm on the Word of God the truth of the scriptures and yet he still was able to behave himself in that fashion and he did that by choice verse 22 says and whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight so the confidence that you have that you are believing on God you are not succumbing simply just to a feeling that's in your heart but you have confidence towards God is that confidence will carry out through the rest of your walk the Bible says here is whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are more pleasing and sunny so that confidence will bring confidence into your ministry into your prayer into your soul-winning into your study into your sanctification and yes even into the keeping of God's commandments within this context because your confidence is not based upon your feelings and how you perceive others in the Christian realm because your love is simply the option of the love of God which dwelleth in you and is coming forth because God so loved the world Josh can so loved the world then your confidence in that truth will transform into the rest of the areas of your life and you will find more growth and more strength and more promise in the areas of keeping his Commandments and what is another one of his Commandments rape we find in this passage loving your brother this is just one of many areas where the Christian again will show forth a perception that he is in Christ that he is loving the Brethren that he is of God that he has called the sons of God and it's not just in word but it's in deed and in truth and that is the ultimate goal of every Christian that they are walking in deed and in truth doing those things that are well pleasing in his sight verse 24 and he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he giving us and this is how it all rounds itself out into the fullness of the teaching that's being explained here is that it's not just an act it's not just a deed but it's the fulfillment of the keeping of of what the Spirit of God teaches us essentially when you're saved that spirit comes in that's the love of God dwelling in you that's the love that's going to be an offshoot into your ministry your prayer your soul-winning your study the every aspect of your entire life is going to come through the fact that the spirit resides in you and because that spirit spirit dwelleth in you because you know that you are saved because that spirit dwelleth in you now you are in the prime position you're in a perfect position to love the Brethren to keep all the other Commandments such as they be given to you and then again is not going to have anything to do with your salvation okay don't get hung up on the fact that this portion of Scripture is very firm comparing the person that doesn't love his brother to that of a murderer we're not saying that that person is now not saved because if they've testified of the truth then they're safe they're born again right their firm foundation is what they believe about the scriptures what we are saying is that their heart could be condemning them we're recognizing that their heart has condemned them to a point where they're acting just as if they're of the world just as that wicked one they're acting just like the world around them as murderers indeed and it should not be why because that spirit dwelleth in you and though the flesh and the spirit are constantly working against each other Christians you have to choose you have to choose to abide in the spirit or you have to choose to abide in the flesh the Bible says here he that keepeth the commandments dwell in him and he in him and hereby know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he this let your faith and your trust and your actions and the Danes be be planted on the foundation of the fact that the Spirit of God dwelleth in use the Spirit of God uses the power that he has given you to do good works to do mighty deeds to do great acts sometimes that's so much as loving of brothers sometimes that's so much as getting some sin out of your life but when you have the foundation that you're not just doing acts out of Word or because your heart tells you to do something or because some part of your flesh thinks that that would be better for you you're going to follow that foundation what we need to do is have confidence in God and the confidence of God will allow us to love the Brethren allow us to do all sorts of commandments that God has commanded us and we'll do it with a new sense of zeal and a new life that goes far beyond never mustard in another [Music] | Sound Words | UCE8uRjPOwTxhTSEnCqugEdw | 2019-02-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 6,838 | 35,410 |
Q47WqhoLdAo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47WqhoLdAo | Assassins Creed Valhalla - PART 39 Jorvik, Pricking the Needle (XBOX ONE S) | this area is off limits the armex trade depot this must be where the merchant's wares are being kept the dog master i do not see him is he here keep working you have no business here he has a loud mouth usually stands right around here yarping hard to miss [ __ ] off there must be another way in the depot is well guarded by the red hand the order has a stake in these darks what are you doing you're supposed to be in the market [Music] i cannot believe this black cloth on their store assault someone else will take care of it but you are playing with fire the needle is known to sting for far less than this it seems like the complaints by the merchants never reached the council um so stop there dudes [Music] so [Music] seized exotic wares these are worth plenty something that could be on the red hands agenda accumulating wealth the sting of a needle i'm on his trail so the dark master seizes carco and resells it through merchants in the marketplace the ones involved their black class may be able to get their attention by showing some silver around the marketplace so sorry follow me i hear this marketplace sees its fair share of silver path through i have something that may interest you you will want to speak to grigore the dark master sorry who are you someone who wants to do business with gregory i don't know your face and i've said too much already please go hey did i hear you talking about silver i'm looking to spend the lunch some not fork it over to some street beggar hi i'm no baggy adults i'm with the big dogs you mean the needle you have something he wants if you truly want to make a trade head to the statue near the east gate i shall watch yourself around here young one oh me please have a bigger sword than a lot of them sooner guide me empty carts and a black cloth marking the house hiding among the rat's needle fitting there must be another way in [Music] best not to draw attention here sound of metal a workshop in the sewers what is the needle's operation all this silverware some still in their crates has this all been ceased as well no please don't do this i promise i promise you you're silver next week hey stop do that you're raven bait [Music] all this silver that is being minted into coins i'm not surprised to find you creeping down here you you don't belong down here we run a clean dark in jorvik i believe those were your words and yet here i find you swimming in silver from all the wares you've ceased are you the needle or just another of his pawns you have it all wrong the fabric of this world has been used up torn shredded you see someone must be there to stitch it back together someone with a firm yet steady hand who can thread the needle someone like me you are [ __ ] poet but at least my question is answered yes well we all have our weaknesses yours appears to be the iron between us i think your men are going to stop me i would not undermine them so the red hat are loyal to our cause which is more than i can say for the merchants make it quick meet me in the marketplace when you are done no running from the wolfpack oh come come walk with me it is good to walk good to take in the air the sights the sounds the smells please gregory i i i didn't think you'd mind it was just a few coins i understand it's not your fault it was mine for thinking you had anything but empty air between your ears with all the silver i've given you i have nothing left to feed my children let alone myself please understand oh dear god merchants of jorvik i promised you a future life with opportunity and what was the one thing i asked in return do you remember loyalty loyalty let this serve as a lesson should any of you think it a good idea to threaten my operation i must be careful i run this operation i do the thinking you do is your toll [Music] hey what are you it's funny as a child i thought of snow as the tears of god frozen by our sins weak with hunger i stared into the sky hoping it was me he went for me he sought to save but god did not save me the vault did he took me to a fine house it gave me hearty meals a warm bed for the first time someone extended the hand showed me kindness compassion and it was then that i made a vow i vowed to never turn my back on he who was there for me when god was not so you served the vault knowing full well what he was a part of the order made our paths intersect i owed them a debt and i repaid it by saving this city from its own destruction a life debt is a strong motivator it took hold of this one's who god drove it and never let go yet not with the same compassion you were shown too many have suffered by your hand in pursuit of this course you're right perhaps i deserve this death but i am but one cog in a large wheel one that still turns unhindered not for long where you have gone there will be no tears waiting for you oh what news do you bring the needle will never sting again well done who was hiding behind the name my love there has been an attack at the markets the dark master gregory is dead the needle sold off the where as he ceased to collect silver for the vault he had no such authority why would anyone believe him the council seal that rat this is getting out of hand how he was able to obtain this is concerning i must return and prepare for the ultimate feast but i will do so with a bent ear and a keen eye be safe one down two left the christian text will lead to another i'm sure of it search the archives | Loose Rocket | UCfgkn_hHDsJ2IFr-WqUqtLA | 2021-01-09 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,088 | 5,473 |
yvHKZi4IUFg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHKZi4IUFg | 2012 Presidential Plenary by Audrey Kobayashi: The City Beyond Symbolism | now I have the great pleasure of introducing Audrey copia own Audrey is the current president of the Association and she's been absolutely wonderful to work with she's made so much progress for our discipline and continues to to forge to lead us forward in so many ways she's also organized this tremendous opening session on a very important topic so Audrey if you would please thank you Doug good evening everyone it's just great to see this wonderful turnout and well this is my dream panel so I want to start by thanking all of them for being here one of the one of the privileges of the president is to put together a dream panel and this is it I want to welcome all of you very warmly to the 108th annual meeting of the AG and this is the largest AG annual meeting and therefore i believe the largest international gathering of geographers ever in one city so how scary is that so thank you all for coming and for attending this session tonight we're going to hear from five individuals who represent the very best scholarship and social action devoted to social justice and human rights geographers are part of a discipline in which contributing to the betterment of humanity is a very large part of our scholarship nearly four decades ago when David Harvey wrote social justice in the city the discipline was a turning point and I know there are many in this room who will remember those times and although I cannot say that issues around achieving justice including violence racism poverty have gone away I can say with a lot of confidence and some pride that geographers have made a difference in addressing those issues made important contributions and several of them are with us tonight but tonight's session was motivated by a need to look at society today at the changes and challenges occurring within a context that you all know well of economic restructuring shifting regimes of governance revision of the roles and responsibilities in civil society and also shifting patterns of disenfranchisement for marginalized groups that include the growing ranks of the poor in this country and elsewhere sexual minorities people of color and recent and undocumented immigrants so that the title of this session which is a kind of broad title that I hope fits the city beyond symbolism was inspired by a piece by Princeton University's Cornel West who along with talk show host Tavis Smiley recently conducted a national tour entitled the tour against poverty and he broadcast interviews from across the country one of those interviews was in fact with Grace Lee Boggs who clearly inspired him to write the following and I'm going to quote just briefly from Cornell west King weeps in his grave he never confused substance with symbolism he never completed flesh and blood sacrifice with a stone and mortar edifice we rightly celebrate his substance and sacrifice because he loved us all so deeply let us not remain satisfied with symbolism because too often we fear the challenge that he embraced so the five individuals speaking tonight have also never confused substance with symbolism they're all academics who have made social justice from the grassroots the center of their careers and who have in various ways showed courage and leadership in the face of political opposition and i think i can say have shown that they love us deeply our first speaker is frances fox piven distinguished professor of the city of university New York graduate center professor Piven is an original thinker and tireless activist who is well known for maintaining the courage of her convictions in addressing social issues she is past president of the American Sociological Association and past president of society for the study of social problems and past vice president of the American Political Science Association she is a recipient of many awards and I'm not going to list too many because I know you want to hear from her but including the president's award of the American Public Health Association and the American Sociological Association career award for the practice of sociology she is also the author of many books and I am NOT going to list all of those that the first was regulating the poor which one the sea right Mills award poor people's movements which is that one of the first things that I give all my graduate students to read the new class war why Americans don't vote why Americans still don't vote the war at home and most recently challenging Authority how ordinary people change America I am absolutely delighted and honored to introduce tonight frances fox piven Thank You Audrey and I'm delighted to be a geographer for the night or who knows maybe I really am a geographer you hard to tell sometimes this is my town New York City I grew up here and I want to welcome you to New York but I have some bad things to say about my city I have to welcome you to a city that is the capital the center of financial capitalism a financial capitalism that is running the world ragged welcome welcoming you to a city where predatory real estate has been out of control for decades destroying working-class neighborhoods that I knew when I was growing up and destroying the Warrens of little commercial enterprises where i prowled and explored as a child instead we have these gleaming glass towers and the people and the little businesses are gone I have to welcome you also to a city that xn plus the extreme inequality that has been the product of the financial capitalism out of control the head of the Jamie parrot said not recently not long ago pointed out that if New York City were a country and it was ranked among the countries in terms of its degree of income concentration new york city would be 14th among 134 countries so welcome also you know the poorest urban county in the country the Bronx is only 15 miles from Wall Street so welcome to a city that exemplifies the moral issues and the intellectual and practical problems associated with the extremes of social injustice that have been created by financial capitalism out of control it's a good place to have this conference not only that I think you came at the right time suddenly it's not so gloomy suddenly there seems to be the possibility that the forces of the capitalist system can may be halted and even turned aside or turn back you know in American history the great moments of humanizing and democratic reform have always come from the bottom from the rise of insurgent protest movements even the establishment of a republic a democratic republic but a republic at least with some of the elements of electoral representative democracy even that was the result of a kind of insurgency of artisans and dirt farmers in the Revolutionary era and these ordinary people were empowered at the time because colonial elites needed them in their war with England that was in a way in a leet war but it was a war into which ordinary people were able to enter because you couldn't make a war without ordinary people to read the muskets and shed the blood and provide the wealth with which the war was fun or think about the great struggle which dominated the 19th century for the emancipation of the slaves who had brought here who had been brought here by merchant capitalists well that movement which began in the 1830s and was responsible for the Civil War it resulted in at least a formal emancipation of the freedmen or think about the populist movement of the late 19th century early 20th century a movement of ordinary farmers who were being squeezed by the railroads each of these movements won something formal emancipation of the slaves the populists movement didn't win but it gave rise to the Progressive Era legislation the labor movement forced government to put governmental authority behind the right to unionize and some rights at least two strike or the civil rights movement which finally forced the realization of the hopes of the abolitionists those were protest movements of incredible sweep and scope and daring and courage well I think we're on the cusp of another such movement and we desperately need it because after nearly half a century now of the domination of financial capitalism our country has really all of our achievements some of which took decades even centuries they have been twisted and turned aside we need a another protest movement to recover what we have lost and to try to move forward now why do I say maybe there were on the but another social move I mean occupy of course I assume don't geographers love occupy I mean when has there been a movement that sort of asserted the geographers credo that space occupying space can be a lever for social transformation hug occupy take it to your bosom it is your movement it really is so well movements do two things two kinds of achievements movements communicate in a way that penetrates rides right over the diverse kinds of propaganda that are produced by money in the control of the media and control of the political parties but movements with their drama there exhortation their flags their songs movements can really dispel the fog of propaganda at least for a while so that's one thing that movements do the other thing that movements do is that movements cause trouble movements cause movements are constituted in a way by the withdrawal by ordinary people of their cooperation no we're not going to go to work we're going on strike in fact we're not going to go to school we're going to block the highways we're now taking our milk to market and those acts of defiance cause institutional disruption that contributes to the extraordinary communicative power of movements but it does more than that it exerts real pressure on the authorities in these institutions for the restoration of normalcy by making concessions to the movement so in the absence of these kinds of movements and we're very fortunate that we have had successive periods of movements in the absence of the movement American politics and the American economy and American society returns to its default position which is a position of money domination of course how could votes overpower the money that drowns the electoral system so so far occupy has succeeded in the first stage of the movement their rhetoric has been brilliant we are the 99 percent we're occupying Wall Street of course they were four blocks north they were not on Wall Street but they were occupying they weren't demonstrating that meant they weren't going to go home at sundown and the idea had so much traction it spread around the globe and it was it was what they call spark whenever social scientists don't understand something they use the metaphors of spark or match or whatever it was the spark and it was amazing and it was so amazing that after a couple of months the mayor's decided they had to clear out these encampments because they were rhetorically so persuasive half of Americans were saying they agreed with occupy well so that was an accomplishment you could see Obama responding to it in his proposals that came after occupied a little bit more populist a little bit more concerned about jobs a little bit more intent on redistribution but now we have to occupy forcing occupy out of the parks the mayor's I think made a big mistake they forced occupy to move maybe a little bit quicker than they would otherwise have moved to the second stage of the movement the disruptive stage of the movement and that's where we are now occupy has moved out into the neighborhoods where it's helping people to resist house foreclosures occupy has moved into labor actions with the longshoremen the Communication Workers of America for example occupy today I heard occupy the securities exchange commission I have to say I don't know what that is because I haven't been home but occupy has moved into the challenging and disruptive phase of a social movement there will be setbacks movements don't occur in one grand fourth of July explosion they're very uneven interrupted their setback they occur again but I think we can look forward to a period of maybe eight or ten years of resistance and protest in the effort to hold back the forces of financial capitalism that is destroying my city for the people who lived in it and an effort to give us two transformative examples of how we can organize society I thank you am i what I'm under my time okay I was so sure I was over my time thank you for listening to me our next speaker is not in the room however she will be in a moment Grace Lee Boggs is a much honored philosopher and public intellectual whose major writings include revolution and evolution in the 20th century written with James Boggs conversations in Maine exploring our nation's future with a number of co-authors living for change in autobiography and recently the next American Revolution sustainable activism in the 20th century with Scott Qureshi gay at 97 years old grace remains very much in demand as a public speaker an exceptional community activist a very active community activist and a weekly columnist for the Michigan citizen I was very interested to read Danny Glover's introduction to her recent book in which he says of grace that her approach is not just sitting around in some isolated place talking about what we should be doing but doing it herself and I think that captivates in a few words if anything can the life of Grace Lee Boggs who is one of the most amazing women in the United States today here's grace you you have an audience here of Occupy Wall Street what do you want to say to them I want to say thank you for breaking through the silence thank you for starting a movement but you have a long way to go this enemy of ours is not just Wall Street it's the whole culture it's a way of looking at us and valuing ourselves in each other and how you are going to move beyond challenging Wall Street how you're going to move to become part of the solution it's not gonna be easy you have to have to do a lot of thinking you have to look at how you yourselves have become part of this culture you have looking after look at how many of you would be happy if you could be some part of Wall Street and become part of the corporations if they would give you jobs there's a long road ahead because you have the opportunity to create something new that's based on completely different values but you're going to ask me thinking about values and not just about abuses you begin with the demonstration you begin with the protests but you have to move on from there and that's what I see happening now with Occupy Wall Street that people are righteously rightfully protesting the corporations and the domination of the culture by the corporation said the suffering that that is inducing but out of the process they have to move to another stage they have to begin doing something that doesn't depend on unexposed the enemy that you have to begin becoming the solution yourself rather than protest suit and challenge you the enemy we need people to be reinventing the institutions of our society reinventing work so that we don't think that having a job and being able to pay the bills is what being a human being is all about reinventing education so that our young people are able to see themselves as part of the building and the rebuilding of our country so many institutions of our society need reinventing need rethinking and you need to do that you nothing and not be satisfied with rebelling you have to understand we're at one of those turning points in history where we need revolution and revolution means reinventing culture you scott qureshi gay is an urbanist and historian currently the director of Asian Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan he is also an activist who has worked with Grace Lee Boggs for many years and he is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs centered to nurture community leadership which is based in Detroit his book shifting grounds of race black and japanese-americans in the making of multi-ethnic Los Angeles received the American historical associations 2008 Albert J beverage award for this is a little long the best book in English on the history of the united states latin america or canada from 1492 to the present he is he is also the co-author with with grace of the next american revolution sustainable activism for the 21st century well thank you Audrey and thank you to the Association I am NOT a geographer but I've learned so much from geographers over the years that I'm very honored to be here with you at your gathering and I bring warm greetings from Grace Lee Boggs who would love to be here if she could at the age she's actually 96 though she won't be 97 until June but it's become much harder for her to travel and she already had another trip scheduled to the west coast next week at UC Berkeley one of the events you'll be doing on a mini trip we're doing on March second she'll be doing the conversation with Angela Davis on revolution and that will actually be streamed and it'll be online so you'll have a chance to see that if you're interested I am also not a New Yorker so I'm very happy to be here with you but I'm going to talk about my adopted hometown Detroit and how the sentiments that Grace Lee Boggs expressed in that video that we just saw really emanate from her many many years over half a century now of living in Detroit and really feeling the pulse of the city and I'm going to talk about particularly how Grace and her late husband James Boggs developed the concept of moving from rebellion to revolution Detroit is known in political issue for 22 major feds quickly in social movement history for the rise of organized labor and industrial unionism during the 1930s and for the 1967 urban rebellion and more broadly the Black Power movement and in some versions of history many versions of dominant discourse history these are seen as high points and low points but rise and fall of the city and I'm going to challenge that narrative in a short period time going to paint with a very broad brush but I'm going to talk about this concept of moving beyond rebellion and defining revolution and social transformation four times rebellion as Gray said is an important stage in social transformation breaking the threads that are holding the old order together but then challenging us to move towards the next stage okay so I'm going to base what I'm talking about today on a book i co-authored grace called the next American Revolution just very quickly for those of you who don't know more about her as i mentioned she's going to be 97 in june she got a PhD in philosophy in 1940 and since that time her entire adult life she's been community organizer philosopher and revolutionary activists Chinese American born in this country but really has become an Insider within the black community throughout her life best known in her early years for working very closely with CLR James developing concepts of Marxist humanism being involved in tied to pan-africanism and the decolonization movements and then in her middle years working very closely with James Boggs an African American auto worker and organic intellectual in Detroit they were deeply at the heart of the civil rights of black power movements in Detroit and and since her husband's passing in the 1990s Grace has really been tied to the idea of Detroit as a city of hope or as she sometimes calls it a the aspiration via choppas of the north and if she were here today she would want us to start with the question what time is it on the clock of the world and I see that we're in the middle of three really key historic trends first the u.s. is becoming majority people of color since I Detroit became majority black majority people color a long time ago we are in the middle of the decline of American global hegemony and of course we're living through the decline or already the collapse of industry in some cases and more generally in economic crisis and these three phenomenon are very very evident in Detroit and so I'm sure everyone has some image of Detroit that comes to mind it may come from actually being in the city it may come from just hearing urban legends of the other city but everyone in this country has some image of Detroit and mostly outsiders would think about what's missing from Detroit so what's missing today our jobs the real unemployment rate is estimated to be around fifty percent development thirty-eight percent of the city is either vacant land or abandoned structures there's a dearth of consumer outlets particularly corporate consumer outlets there are no chain supermarkets in the entire city there are no department stores no shopping malls there's not a walmart target costco sam's club best buy toys are as low as you can go down the line I think there's I can count three big box stores of any kind in the entire city public services are being cut left and right the city is under a tremendous strain right now to cut its budget it's been threatened with insolvency it's been threatened with a takeover by an emergency manager in which case all elected officials would be stripped of their powers and Detroit of over the years lost much of its white population you can see in the numbers Detroit grew to be one of the largest cities in the country during the Age of industrialism at that time it was predominantly white it's shrank in population as industry decline and is now over 80% african-american so when we think about all the things are missing well one obvious demand people could be making is how do we get those things back how do we get back the jobs how do we get back the the union membership how do we get back the contracts to security the benefits the public employment the public services and it makes sense that people would be trying to reclaim what was lost but history moves on and so one of the things we are really focused on in Detroit not just grace on myself but all of the community organizers were involvement all the grassroots movements is recognized that we need to make a paradigm shift at this moment in history at this moment at this time on the clock of the world towards thinking about social justice in a new way during the industrial age we live through the high period of economic growth unionization and the redistribution of surplus value in Detroit was very very iconic for its unions for its factories for being the Motor City and many people look upon those as the good old days in fact for some people they really were the good old days but we can also see that the American dream of the middle class standard of living while it was creating great unprecedented levels of security and stability and comfort for some particularly workers who had never before achieved that level of living was also built on racism militarism and consumerism or what martin luther king called the giant triplets at the core of oppression in America and so in this post-industrial age how can we see Detroit as a site for new revolutionary possibilities for a new vision of social justice at a time when the surplus value is not being produced the way it once was how do we see the deficits in Detroit as challenges and opportunities and how do we look at Detroit as being at the core of a dying Empire and seeing the death of empire as bringing forth Liberatore possibilities so what does it mean what are these possibilities that we can think of today grace bogs often talks about Detroit as having the place and space to begin anew and so it's so exciting to see more and more geographers engaging with Detroit that there is a privileged position even though obviously there's a lot of suffering and neglect and hardship in the city that there's a privileged position to live on the margins of the global capitalist order and we can begin to think of revolution not simply as the seizure of state power as was very predominant in the 20th century or the redistribution of the spoils of empire that have been produced but instead revolution as a new beginning a challenge to reconstruct human relations from the ground up to go beyond the stage of fighting for equal rights and citizenship within the system to go beyond protesting what we were against to go beyond pointing out the ways in which minorities have been oppressed and to begin to move towards creating a participatory democracy when it's so clear that our current model of representative democracy has been corrupted in is failing and that we develop forms of dizzam that can prefigure new models of community education and work and obviously I not going to try to go deeply into those other than to put that image out there but I want to talk particularly about the idea of work because grace mentioned it in the video and of course Detroit is known so much for its history of labor organizing but how do we move from the concept of labor organizing as important as a stage of that was in assuring dignity in having collective bargaining rights in giving voice to workers the thinking about reimagining work to moving from the era of Ford ism and Taylorism and scientific management and large-scale production back towards reclaiming a sense of scale and a sense of humanity that goes along with craft and and industries or not even industries a work and production modelled on creativity how do we move back from dekhe modifying the earth going back from going back to earth instead of thinking about land as a commodity how do we move from consumerism to a sustainable model of work and production and distribution and how do we as grassroots communities in Detroit and as people all over the US in the world challenge market dependence return a sense of local self-reliance and have an economy rooted in interdependence how do we think about Detroit not as a Motor City company town but as the site of grassroots community building and with that I want to really leave you with a different symbol of Detroit so I love Motown music it's a great nickname we all have t-shirts that say Motown on it but we want to move from the symbol of 20th century Detroit being the factory and of course there are so many abandoned factories now there's symbol of the collapse of that industrial order towards the new symbol of 21st century Detroit that is starting to catch on not just in the city but all around the country really all people from all the world are coming to Detroit so people that once came to see Detroit and witnessed the marvels of technology and industrialization and mass production and to see the Ford river rouge plant that once employed a hundred thousand people are now coming to Detroit to see urban gardens right and so just want to leave with a very quick tweet from Naomi Klein who said quoting Grace Lee Boggs the vacant lot represents the possibilities for Cultural Revolution the possibilities for imagining a new way of living imagining a new type of community a new relationship to the earth a new relationship to each other and a new sense of interconnectedness so that was a tweet that Naomi Klein gave from Grace Lee Boggs and on that note I will end and move on I think it is fair to say that his many publications have influenced the field of social justice in geography profoundly they include the right to the city social justice and the fight for public space the people's property the people's property power politics and the public with linds daily and justice power and the political landscape with Kenneth all week I am delighted that Don is with us here tonight I know that he will be familiar to many of you in the audience and welcome him to the podium like a Cornel West and Tavis Smiley but not with any of their eloquence I too am I going I'm going to take you on a tour against poverty 2012 marks the hundredth anniversary of the famous San Diego Industrial Workers of the world free speech fight in early January to that nineteen twelve the San Diego County Council passed an ordinance outlying street speaking in a 49 block area of downtown though with exceptions carved out specifically for the Salvation Army and other religious organizations working at the behest of prominent san diegoans that is representatives of regional capital the council sought to put an end to racial oratory from the socialists the single tax league and especially the Industrial Workers of the world the IWW fought back and by March 1912 the fight was fully engaged with Wobblies and their allies militant in the refusal to either abide by the ban or with police move on orders that allowed the police to break up meetings anywhere in the city members of the powerful merchants and manufacturers association led by sugar magnate John speckles were equally militant advocating full-bore even armed response event against the free speech fighters on march forth the san diego union added its voice advocating the hanging of those who defied the speaking band there are no hangings but there were there was significant violence Emma Goldman was abused and her consort Ben Wrightman was driven out of town into the desert made to run the gauntlet tarred and feathered and left to find out find his own way back to the city or to die hundreds of militant workers and dozens of their supporters working-class and bourgeoisie alike filled the prisons fearful that the unbridled violence of the merchants and manufacturers vigilantes was giving the state a bad name california governor Hiram Johnson eventually threatened to activate the military and begin arresting the vigilante leaders rather than the IWW with that threat the vigilantes back down in the street speaking ban was repealed the IWW s demands in San Diego were deceptively simple but they implicated a complex and a depressing geography of injustice in and beyond the American West they fought for one thing the ability to exercise the First Amendment right to speak on the street a right that most courts had hitherto simply not recognized this was a demand that garnered considerable cross class support and was less tactically very smart but it was also organizationally necessary the IWW ideas in ideology were anathema to what wobblies called the kept press or the capitalist press even more publicity for iww organizing efforts was effectively banned from all but the IWW sown radical papers street speaking was not an end in itself but it means forgetting the IWW ideology into the years of hoped for converts it was a tool for organizing it was a tool for organizing made necessary also by the geography of production the IWW sought to radically transform a primary focus for iww organizing in the American West and to some degree back in the East were migratory workers who went often who when working often lived in company controlled labor camps between jobs they returned to the city living in rooming houses in hobo jungles and hanging out on the streets checking in with a highly exploitative labor sharks that is labor contractors located in and around Skid Row under these conditions control the street corner implied potential control over regional labor and thus production networks taking and taking to the streets was a necessary and a strategic act it was a means of remaking a system of production that was hyper exploitative it was a me a way to create as the IWW put it a new world out of the shell of the old the merchants and manufacturers understood understood this very well that's why the response was so violent the governor understood this well too which is why after threatening to activate the military he worked even harder to develop a progressive regime of speech there would protect formal rights while assuring they never had much real effect his goal was not to ban the IWW but to take the sting out of them although it should be noted that the sting was actually taken out whatever the progressives like Hiram Johnson intended through force when the IWW is outlawed during World War one the road from San Diego in 1912 to the suppression of the IWW in 1917 nonetheless ran straight through Sacramento and not only because the Progressive Era California Commission of immigration and housing impaneled by Governor Johnson the same year as the San Diego fight played such a crucial role in Washington sponsored espionage against the Wobblies it was also because the road through Sacramento was the highway along which the 1914 Kelly's army thought it would march on its way to Washington to demand work with decent pay for the unemployed Kelly's army started in San Francisco where it was met with much hostility as it mustard its forces in a series of encampment South of Market march through Oakland where it also met much estas tility and descended thousands strong on Sacramento where it can't near the Statehouse demanding release and provisions for their march tolerated at first indeed the encampment became something of a tourist attraction for radicals and for tourists alike the sheriff soon deputized hundreds of what he called upstanding citizens who formed the core of a counter army of 800 including several fire companies swooped into the account meant spraying powerful hoses arresting identifiable leaders and routing the marchers Kelly's Army's occupation of prime space in California's capital had become intolerable to both capital and to the state the self-same gubernatorial administration that had put a stop to the bloodshed and at least formally upheld the rights of militant workers two years earlier in san diego now cheered on the sheriff from behind the scenes as did much of the kept press the reports in the New York Times of Kelly's army being routed for example are practically gleeful with its route Kelly's army dissipated but the political and economic currents it symbolized continued to royal in rural California encampments of dissatisfied or striking workers were a regular part of the landscape throughout the latter half of the 1920s and into the 1930s especially is ethnically Mexican agricultural workers group militant in the last couple of years of the decade often forced into striking strikers camps as they were shut out of company housing in the labor camps militant workers found that taking an occupying space was vital to organizing resistance against and within the very spaces of injustice that defined their lives they were met up and down the state with impressive violence violence designed not only to break up their power but also and especially to reassert control over the spaces that made their power possible power that by the mid-1930s seemed to portend a radical change in the long-standing structure of injustice that marked the California valleys as with the IWW a generation earlier the demands of strikers were often deceptively simple a small rise in wages or demand the government disarmed the farmers but they implicated a whole spatial system of production at reproduction and as such could be little tolerated not only by organized agribusiness but also by the larger state apparatus for everything else they were the development of the farm security administration labor camps in the latter half of the 1930s worth much a means to quell dissent to business as usual as they were a means to least nominally protect the rights of workers in the fields on the National Front the well-known bonus March of 1932 also made clear the limits of tolerance for poor and working people's movements when Hoover grew tired of the 15 to 20 thousand veterans and their families who descended on Washington to demand payment promise for 1945 be moved forward to meet immediate needs in 1932 he sent in the army the US Army which had not been used against the US people since the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 an army commanded by Douglas MacArthur to clear out occupied buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue sending in tanks using live ammunition and volleying round after round of tear gas MacArthur marched on to Anacostia where the bonus marchers had established and integrated orderly carefully organized camp a camp that authorities nonetheless claimed endangered health and safety and set it on fire by the time MacArthur's scorched earth policy had run its course to veterans and two babies were dead the bonus Expeditionary Force had been routed and its leaders either bought off or sent into hiding as with the IWW taking space by taking space the bonus marchers were able to articulate demands that were quite simple but which implicated a structure of inequality a ubiquitous geography of injustice that extended well beyond those immediate demands as was made plain in the very integration of the bonus encampment in the midst of hyper segregated Washington poor and working people's taking and occupation of space a necessary precondition to their exercise of power is simply intolerable especially if they seek to organize and governor govern that space on their own rather than unsettled bourgeois societies terms know where has this been clearer in the last three decades and in the encampments of homeless people this is true whether the encampment is overtly political like the community for creative non-violence is Reagan Ville encampment in Lafayette Park from the White House in the early 1980s the Supreme Court's dismantling of which provided the legal pretext for clearing out the occupy DC encampments earlier this winter it's as important there as it is is of less overtly political tent cities like the one on the banks of the American River in Sacramento that Oprah discovered in 2008 the Camden one cleared out by cops after being tolerated by city fathers for much of the winter in 2009 or the st. Petersburg Florida one cops took box cutters to destroying donated tents and illegally confiscating belongings in 2007 at st. Pete tent city resident Brad Bradford accurately put it every time we get leadership they get a bus ticket out of town alternative organization alternative modes of life autonomy all made possible by the occupation of space even by the poorest most marginalized among us for whom housing markets and housing programs have little but disdain must it seems be destroyed and destroyed they are that is the history of every autonomous account meant of homeless people there is whether that destruction takes the form of outright annihilation as with the innumerable raids on homeless encampments in Miami in the 1980s and 1990s in which cops seemed to relish in lighting residents belongings on fire or chasing the campers from pillar to post through the scrub and wasteland of the river bottom as in Sacramento or calling in the architects and the philanthropists to create paternalistic fenced heavily policed curfew controlled homeless camp grounds as in ontario california or Pinellas County Florida the demands of homeless city residents are complex especially in comparison to the IWW back in 1912 they might include access to decent physical and mental health care to jobs to a safe space over which they have some sovereignity to shelter within which they have some autonomy to decent nutrition or to just being left alone to drink or smoke or get high with their friends pleasures that you and I more or less take for granted but they implicate a startling simple geography a geography and which in City after City there is just about no place where they can be at all a city that simply has no room for them certainly not on their own terms tent city like iww street corner speaking like Kelly's Army's encampment like the bonus camp it seems must be destroyed across the country outright destruction of tent city police raids that include Jalen's confiscations and often destruction of homeless people's property takes a common form first the health inspectors are sent in then the city passes an emergency ordinance declaring the tent city a health hazard and often inventing new laws against camping in public a deadline for homeless people clearing out is announced in advance of the deadline charities and city employed social workers move in may i'm offering a bus ticket perhaps a temporary housing voucher maybe a space in an overcrowded in dangerous shelter sometimes even job counseling many tent city residents do not accept these preferring the community and the comradeship they have developed the new ways of living over uncertain temporary and often the infantilizing ministrations of the social service network the deadline comes and homeless people together with their supporters and advocates brace for a raid and plan modes of resistance usually passive nothing happens the deadline passes the supporters go home the homeless people let down their guard in the middle of the night one to five or seven days later the police sweep in accompanied not by tanks as were used against the bonus marchers but by dump trucks and even bulldozers rousting homeless people from their tents gathering up tents and other accoutrements of camping arresting or merely moving on homeless people destroying the physical manifestations of camping they have somewhat autonomously created a form of community that has reduced to bear life as it seems to be nonetheless portends another world being possible a world of mutuality more than competition of solidarity more than the manic striving that defines most of our lives the Occupy movements demands if it can be said to have any or complex as those of any homeless tent city residents and occupy encampments like their predecessors in Spain and Greece implicated geography that is just as simple if now more universalized there is little or no space for us not on our terms anyway and not unless we take it and that's what occupy did in City after City it took space in taking space it created a space for experiment and experiment in living otherwise in organizing relations with each other not subservient to the creation and circulation of capital it created a space for experimenting with new if sometimes highly localized islands of Justice in a wide sea of injustice occupy encampments with all their contradictions enforced by the class war we anak you asleep all neoliberalism based on a model of accumulation and wealth distribution with all its contradictions that makes all of us the existential equivalent of homeless tent city residents in our own homes and in our own cities little wonder then that the mode of assault on the Occupy movement has been exactly the same as it has been on tent cities the pattern is the same in large part because the stakes are the same if now on a larger scale the lesson of history from the IWW 100 years ago to the present is one of the simultaneous necessity and the impossibility of taking and holding space if a more just geography and life is to be made taking and holding space is necessary because it provides not only the means by which it is possible to experiment with new forms of life new modes of cooperation new modes of solidarity within its geography that is manifestly opposed to all of these taking and holding space is impossible because doing so necessarily threatens vested interests threatens those who profit from the current arrangement of things taking and holding space necessarily calls up the power and often the violence of both private interests and a state that must protect those self same interests state power and state violence predictor II as the IWW so clearly showed in San Diego a hundred years ago and out of those those contradictions the IWW helped pave the way for a liberal free speech regime commensurate with liberal capitalism and to some degree welfare capitalism to make no mistake this was a huge advance in a primary legacy of the IWW even as during World world one it was destroyed as an organization and its anarcho-syndicalism buried the Occupy movement has resurrected some of that old anarcho-syndicalist spirit and in its attempts to reformulate it to find ways to create a new world out of the shell of the old has become just as intolerable to settle power as the IWW itself was cities it seems have no choice but to destroy the occupation to eliminate the space of descent to the degree that occupy can reclaim and hold again space to the degree that can resist the move on regime that is marked policing for more than a century now just as homeless people do every time their encampments are destroyed then to that degree it has the opportunity to push even further this deceptively simple the impossible yet necessary task that wobbly set for themselves a hundred years ago that is the revolutionising of the geography in which we bought in which we must all live thank our fifth speaker tonight is also known to many in the room professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore known to most of us is Ruthie is professor of earth and environmental sciences at City University of New York Graduate Center her book golden gulag prisons surplus crisis and opposition in globalizing California was the winner of the ASA's a romero first book award and she's working on three book projects with interesting titles Life in Hell or how capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism must fire our political imaginations big things landscape state form and the infrastructure of feeling as well as a collection of essays on raised polity and place Ruthie how is everyone it's been a long day I know a lot of people only just got here okay here we go thank you so much Audrey for inviting me to join my distinguished colleagues and thank you all for coming out this is a hard room to look at but I'll do my best I'll do my best to have my eyes over here all right this talk is called notes on revolution from an internationalist abolitionist perspective and this talk is for Clyde Adrienne woods we're approaching the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising one that Mike Davis dubbed rightly multicultural in the peopling of its manifest dismay the immediate cause was the acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers who beat the crap out of motorist out of black motorist Rodney King and whose deeds circulated the globe thanks to the surprise energetic filming of the incident by a nearby resident a white working-class man called George holiday the deeper cause was the result of a generation long counter-revolution coupled with capital flight and both individual and social wage squeezes on the one hand and the unloved of iron fist to deal with the dispossession and the displacements on the other where I to show some slides today most would be pictures photos of people rising up of people on the move of people locked up of people locked out of people organizing against their own abandonment but at least one of the slides where this show you the slides today would be a picture that shows the decline in employment in Southern California and the cumulative effect of structural adjustment produced by capital flight in the sense of moving out of Southern California but also of moving into machinery wherever the machinery might be located and the reconstitution of industrial labor sectors the point the point is is I have argued elsewhere the reconfiguration of labour markets mirrored the explosion of prison growth not just numerically but demographically across a generation now a generation is a long time but osita CLR James teaches us a revolution takes place because people are so conservative they wait and wait and wait and try every Mortal thing until they reach a stage where it is absolutely impossible to go on and then they come out into the streets and clear up in a few years the disorder of centuries that's from modern politics 1960 now the counter revolutions aim was to obliterate radical organizing especially black and other third world peoples in the u.s. along with radical white anti-colonial anti-capitalist individual group individuals and groups they these organizations all had long complicated histories of internationalism whether it's communists pan-africanist seeeeee parts of revolutionary cadres associated with the Mexican Revolution and so forth this political alienation or counter-revolution took many forms and expressions including for example the 1988 general criminalization of young people of color and poor young white people in California under a law titled the street terrorism prevention and enforcement act back to nineteen ninety two a moment before the uprising began on April the 29th 1992 several hundred people in South Central Los Angeles had just concluded a historic game truth in the breach opened by the organized abandonment the characterized post vietnam war era los angeles street gangs reorganized territory and people in sometimes benign but also and by the late 1980s and early 90s often murderous ways but as the result of an extra legal police murder of a former gangster a one-day truce was established in order to allow the dead man's family from various City territories to attend his funeral I've written about this day and it's aftermath in a few places and you can read about it in my book if you wish but today i want to emphasize another aspect of that truth at the funeral at the young man's funeral the imam of a local independent mosque invited the gangsters to come to his neutral site to continue dialogue the funeral had become a political protest and that expression of antagonism toward the police produced an opening for the gangsters to explore stopping the work of being unbanned to police deputies killing each other in the course of seeking a language to express what the truce could be initially a few of the gang members who were also students in the local in one of the community colleges in LA looked into test texts that for them adequately expressed the sensibility of irreconcilable territorial and identity rien differences because that's how they felt going into the truth that they had irreconcilable territorial and identity rien differences so in order to find a text they read and used a number of United Nations Security Council resolutions written to conclude the six days war and then the 1973 war in the Mideast but in the course of consolidating and expanding the truth many people from organizations that had roots in radical struggle came to the table to talk politics with the gangsters these organizations sometimes tiny were composed of people who had not been murdered who had not been driven into exile or hounded underground by the u.s. counter Lucien they might be decembe lling but they were still there and new formations suffering under the same way of criminalization and constant hunting influenced the development of political consciousness taking place at the truth table thus the Imam was joined by people who had been members of the Black Panther Party for the self-defense the Communist Labor Party the black awareness community development organization founded by a black man who converted to Islam while in prison but also they met with people who were members of the Los Angeles eight a group of seven Palestinians and a kamian woman who was married to one of the Palestinians who who had been charged under the macaron Walter act as providing help and support to a terrorist organization now they had been charged for being terrorists because they had possession of and had been distributing not as paid distributors but two people who were interested the newspaper of an organization that's long been banned by the United States called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and so the Los Angeles eight had been going through year after year after year of criminal court cases sometimes in custody and sometimes not but they brought the discussion of what their view of the Middle East was to the gangsters table as a result the template for the truth derived from the UN Security Council while never actively disavowed as far as I know was superseded by an internationalist sensibility concerning the dispossession concerning dispossession settler colonialism and difference from the Imam they learned that the Prophet teaches that God created difference so that we might get to know one another the difference underlies what should be the social rather than what is racist ethnic exclusion thus the infrastructure of feeling that made possible this piece was actually in the longer term and internationalist political sensibility the foundation of the black radical tradition at Cedric Robinson teaches it to us in my view this shaped the possibility for national gang convenings which came on the heels of this truth and truth is throughout the United States and the deep decline in intra national warfare between and among the dispossessed and if you want to measure this measure it in the decline in homicide rates for example and it made it created the possibility for looking beyond for looking beyond so the gangs having repurposed a document that seemed to give them the foundation for a certain kind of peace through political engagement with long time activists redefined what peace should be not in a progress to liberalism but in the movement to renovate and make critical already existing activities in order to remake the world where they live what they did what for me the infrastructure of feeling consists of was to select and then reselect their ancestors to take Raymond Williams this idea of tradition down to the ground for a look at it in so doing they realized how their lives while circumscribed by the territorial boundaries of stuff established through their warfare and policing were not so local as one might have imagined by circulating for example in and out of the prison system in the prisons in California in rural California that middle set of slides that Don showed and also circulating between southern california and the places in texas and louisiana where most of their parents or grandparents had migrated from they developed a consciousness about territory space and boundaries that change their entire sense of the political possibilities of the world in which they live so in particular in circulating through prisons which became steadily blacker during this time they met more and more people from a number of different places and sort of across the racial ekstrom where millions in those places in prisons where millions and millions of modestly educated women and men mostly of color spend part or all of their lives locked in cages the gangsters repurpose their purpose and in so doing enabled a renovation of the remnants of the organization's of which I spoke so we have this dialectical process at work meanwhile what the contract on America took a bipartisan project prison expansion and made it the explicit platform that can join racism and its partial and doing through law to a means through law to redo racism again Newt Gingrich taught his acolytes quote you favor a political revolution you want to replace the welfare state with an opportunity Society you favor workfare over welfare you want to lock prisoners up and you're actually prepared to give up some political pork barrel to build as many prisons as you need now remember i said prison expansion was bipartisan so Gingrich the opportunist ever see it sees this and made it part of the radical right of the republican party's agenda while mass incarceration was already well underway in the 1980s as child poverty increased and still increases in the 1990s it took yet another leap just a huge leap in this century mass incarceration and the longest wars in US history shaped consciousness in many ways but more more more than that they expose people to group differentiated vulnerability to premature death which is my definition of racism the underlying and renovated organizing that the gang truce story is an example of rather than the cause or heart of continue to gain strength and direction over those same two decades with a concept abolition leading at an edge for abolitionists freedom remains on one not only for the descendants of African slaves but for all dispossessed people's by organizing around mass incarceration and immigrant detention we try to connect struggles waged against settler colonialism for the ability and struggles for the ability for all people to organize themselves to win equality which is not the same as becoming homogenized into an undifferentiated liberal subject fast forward to the occupations in the USA the Lord occupy is fraught and I wish to recognize both the problem with the word and the fact that historically taking back by for example when it pelts here was also called an occupation liberate is probably better but it needs to be distinctively so not as a new round of property expropriation but rather something open for use but not alienation we might call it a Commons the idea of a gift rather than a mortgage comes to mind the OWS is movements look to Tahrir Square and there as their inspiration but also they sit as it were on top of intensive and extensive organizing to end mass incarceration to end the wars to end criminalization as an all-purpose displacement of social problems from their true cause to effective scapegoating many of us have accepted invitations to speak at the occupations or Liberation's and we are rather insistent that the activists embrace some particularities while they also insist on their non-institutional non leader character the latter is not quite true that they have no leaders in the former that they're not institutional is quite quite worrying for example when the General Assembly in wall street here began to convene people who travel the uprisings around the planet and the experiments in alternative self-governance that we are all learning more and more about especially in geography they noted that presence of people at Wall Street who had spent a lot of time in the fabled el alto in Bolivia learning there how to lead by obeying that makes them leaders in Wall Street even if they're not losses but I also worried that the refusal to make demands is an uncanny echo a not repurposing of the anti state state that similarly refuses the vision of well-being of welfare that is the nape flu plus ultra of equality writ large I worry as much as anybody does about how the revolutions in North Africa and West Asia will resist the blandishments of an erotic culture as George Kent brilliantly said of Richard Wright's Adventures of Western culture and certainly the anti state state forum seems appealing because it seems when not thought through to be the antithesis of authoritarianism rather than the disguise through which growing US domestic authoritarianism launched well before either 911 or 81 1990 precedes the black radical tradition and the blues epistemology the great contemporary expression of the black radical tradition framed and argued by the late great quiet Adrian woods gives us the means and opportunity to think through the material conditions of now and the ideological possibilities and constraints that tend to make now not conducive or conducive to a better later through planning the 20th century was completely shaped by racism both its implementation and the fight against it and here I need to make an aside about the performance effect some of you think when I say racism I'm talking about black people because I'm black that's ridiculous the 20th century was completely shaped by racism I've been reading endlessly histories about the Hitler's Empire and and that part of the country of the world between the wars it was completely shaped by racism not just partly right in the 21st century the modalities of apartheid remains central to the practices of urban and not urban rural and not rural capitalism this technology okay all right in the 21st century the modalities of our time remains central to the practices of urban and not urban rural and not rural capitalism a blues geography which is effectively what I have presented this evening is a way to make away and if we plan to win then we have to plan with anti racism centrally on the anti-capitalist genda how to do how to achieve how to renew big things thank you thank you busy thank you especially for that hello I want to congratulate dong on what was us a skillful and learned paper and especially for bringing to our attention the mighty accomplishments of the first international of which the IWW was one I would only say this there is a bigger idea that came out of the first international the early communist movement the early socialist movement and the brothers and sisters of the Industrial Workers of the world and that is the idea of one big union of all workers intellectual workers such as yourselves physical workers all workers and that the secondary to that and this came out during the occupation in Oakland the idea of a general strike this is not something that can be done overnight but if geographers organized if others organize it can happen and I thank you dawn for allowing me to think of that idea let this move across the room from Mike 2 Mike hi um thank you all that was really amazing sorry I'm gonna ask Don a question again sorry the rest of you I think you make a really great argument about the role of space and autonomous spaces in the right to the city and etc but I don't know made me wonder when you brought up occupy because when I guess to put my context out there i'm from montreal and so what happened and i worked with in some context with people who were organizing at occupy and what happened is this sort of ultimate desire to keep this autonomous face that they had created led to things like calling police on homeless people who are in encampments or like overly extra radical people working very closely with police to maintain this autonomous space for them to continue this movement so I'm wondering if you could speak to a potential danger in romanticizing physical spaces in this process take everything that I said only in relationship to what Fran and Scott said and grace right that's that's the answer that will help guard against the romanticism that's that you I think rightly identified the heart of what i was saying so so friends point about about moving on to the next phase is a crucial one right Grace's point about imagining what happens next it's the same argument that Ruthie is making is and planning for it is absolutely crucial as well and these are things that I did not cover at all so only listen to what i said in relationship to these I want to ask each of the panelists if they'd like to make it just a quick response yeah I would like to make a quick response and it's this that the way that people try to secure space ordinarily just mimics and reproduces capital of space that people imagine this is for my exclusive use rather than this is for my use and we definitely see scandalous behavior toward homeless people through in many many of the occupation sites around the United States by contrast in Los Angeles for example homeless people unless la Skid Row have been organizing themselves for a very long time and it is one of the key experiments of the Los Angeles Police Department whether they can wipe that out and there's a book people who edited it or sitting right under my nose is called freedom now that you all should get from amazon that is a fantastic book about what's been going on in LA Skid Row politically over the last I don't know while I think occupy and its resonance across the country and then across the globe although occupy itself was a reflection of protests that had started earlier in Spain and in Egypt and Tunisia but i think this worldwide series of uprisings is a big movement is already a big movement and it's going to last for a while but i think in observing this movement we have to take account of the fact that movements are by their very nature big amorphous complicated different kinds of groups with different issues with different ideological principles with different attitudes toward violence for example or different attitudes toward space indeed movements are tangled and difficult and there will be there'll be arguments they'll be factional fights the movement will stall everybody will say well I guess it's over but it won't be over it'll well up again I mean that's the nature of this animal which is it's it's it's not a bureaucratic operation it's no created by a state it's created by the reactions and the imagination and the energy of people responding to a constellation of changes that they cannot tolerate and that's going to be kind of disorganized but I think we have to live with it because it's the only thing we have to save us from planetary destruction and from capitalist destruction it's got to have a final word yeah I want to pick up where Ruthie left off because I know la very well too in addition to Detroit in LA space has been so privatized the Commons has been taken away even Skid Row now is being gentrified la had this very thriving urban garden community garden that was taken back by developers with the aid of the city and Detroit has so much space that's been abandoned by capital right and that Detroit has so much space to become what Harvey calls the space of hope spaces of Hope right and so we need to see that as an opportunity so Detroit should not be seen as sort of the exception to what's going on the rest of the country it's paradigmatic its collapses paradigmatic of the racism and dislocation and violence inherent in capitalism that it also can be compared to attic of a new space of hope that we're trying to create all over the place I'm the last thing I just want to mention was you know I didn't have enough time to talk about I didn't have enough time to say as much about how much the what's happening the movement in Detroit today is rooted in the blues epistemology in the black community organizing tradition as well and so when we think about the civil rights movement it wasn't just a movement for public accommodations and voting rights it was building a new model of a beloved community out of oppression and out of struggle it was building models of conflict resolution and restorative justice that are so important now when we see heightened levels of state violence and repression and imprisonment it was building models of education through the freedom schooling movement even through the Black Panther Party and through the Black Power Move it was creating models of community health when these things weren't being provided by the state or when the state was providing a discriminatory or or in some cases even you know uh detrimental models of health and education for the black community other people of color so I just wanted it make sure to make that point thank you I think there's no question that geography at least tonight goes beyond symbolism David Harvey by the way very much wanted to be here and I think if he were he'd be very happy to have heard the speakers tonight but he is very far out of the country but sent his best wishes thank you to all the speakers thank you to all of the audience especially those who have stayed and we're running a few minutes over this has really been the dream panel come true thank you | American Association of Geographers | UC6Ce1JR4Qf4egQAqtxiwJrA | 2012-03-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 11,702 | 67,198 |
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HyeXA6wQRhE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyeXA6wQRhE | DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019: How to start contributing to Drupal without Code | well here's me thinking that everyone was here to see the security for the Empress II think and you're not so delighted to see how many people have turned up actually my first presented this at jeepers camp London and it was a similarly large number of people attending that so here we go so my name is Paul Johnson I'm a director at Seton digital we work with a lot of membership based organizations charities and government through to higher education building people websites but actually that's not what I'm here today to talk about if you have any questions afterwards I'm very active on Twitter I'm PD Johnson there and on Drupal to hawk you can also email me I'd love to talk more about it afterwards so first of all I'd like to talk about my personal contribution journey that started back in 2011 at Drupal con London I like maybe you are were eager to get involved but I didn't really quite know what my place was I was no longer a developer and I kind of took me a while to find my place and hopefully by the end of this session maybe you will find yours too so my passion Falls well outside the the code I'll have to capture the moment telling people story through the lens I can often be found in the contribution room a Drupal event but I'm not coding I'm editing photographs I might be writing a blog post or driving through people's social media so you might say I mean impostor it seems I'm amongst friends as well they because there's much more to this thing called ripple down the kodaline so what are we going to live in a session so I want to explain why contribution without code is so valuable the motivations that you might have to contribute why working together is better the way you can go to find places to contribute and how to get started and you are no better place than the DrupalCon to do that so according to open source guide our website a common misconception about contribution into open source is that you contribute code align maybe that's because open source is source as in kite and maybe this is subconscious think and historically open source projects have neglected non code contributions but you'll be doing the Drupal project a huge favor by offering to pitch in with these types of non code contributions and for a long time the GV project has recognized the importance of these kinds of contributions indeed trace has said fostering the Drupal community is actually more important than managing the codebase itself so the man at the top thinks is a good idea so why do people contribute well often people say that it proves their existing skills they get to meet new people who may be interested in the same thing as then maybe they want their mentors and they want to help teach others it also helps you to build public artifacts that can help to grow your reputation and map to your career further maybe employers will see them with the outputs that you've produced and we can see that with the celebration of things like a pitch deck in the session that was just on in the main stage by definition all your open-source activity is public which means you get free examples of what you're good at you could also learn people skills so open-source offers lots of opportunities to practice leadership and management such as resolving conflicts even organizing teams of people maybe even prioritizing work so we do have an excellent mechanism to track contributions and historically it's been used to track code but also we can now track non code contributions say lots of events like Drupal Camp London that my local unconference in Manchester they have issue queues where you can go and comment and say I spoke at this event and you get recognition on drupal.org that you've made a non code contribution and there are more and more people doing this now so all the speakers at this event will benefit from this mechanism and that's really good for growing your visibility and also your employer gets recognized so it actually has an effect positive effect on your employer so that they start to become more visible on the on drupal.org in the marketplace but personally I'm more fuelled by the the the human side of things just a kick that I get if someone says that yeah they've achieved something because of something I've done or they've liked something I did or I just seeing somebody grow as an individual it's really powerful so I asked Twitter and why members of the Drupal community contribute and this is what they said so I've done a benjamin over in australia she spends nearly all of their time trying to persuade people to contribute and she feels like it's a virtuous cycle and the more that you pretend the more you get back as well there Paul Raoul who helps to organize do become London wanted to put something back into the community that helped him when he was younger and now he's one of the leading forces in jury of London and then we've got Baris he always felt it was just fair to do something for all the knowledge that he's got out of the Drupal project and he's been responsible for her helping to organize the blue spot she was happening tonight and then you've got struck with some of these names well that's he talks he's an owner of a business but he likes to know that his team has started to learn faster by working with other people who've got common goals and interests there are people who have gone before him and his team we're not learning things twice and then you've got kissed and over in the USA she likes to support people that are doing a lot more than her so she often works as a facilitator there not a super valuable contribution so she's working in things like the contribution sprints so hopefully you can see something where she resonates with you from your perspective so but I also hear a lot of people saying well there's something that's holding me back so I'm intimidated and I don't know where to start that's the fair thing to say because when you get to Drupal dog it's not even entirely there most welcome in place and Rachel who's taking photographs at the moment is actually working on a project which will mention later about how we can improve that experience and you can be a key part of that this week so there are plenty of people in our community Kathy was on mentioned on stage earlier and she's an awesome individual she's one of the mentors and she gets a real kick out of helping people to start their contribution journey so perhaps go and have a look on slack for people like heard there is a contribution rim in slack and don't worry about big groups there are lots of intimate ways in which you can just you know one-to-one or in small groups that you can participate yeah it doesn't have to be one of these big showy activities I don't have enough time to contribute well Suzanne Yoshi recognizes that every small contribution helps and there are lots of ways to provide valuable input which doesn't involve a lot of time so even just providing your opinion on something is really valuable or even just sharing on social media is a contribution to g4 because we're getting the word out there and there's a really good place to go I'll show you slides afterwards but this dis no don draper dog has got tons of 30-minute tasks and it is divided into lots of different disciplines so I defy you to find something that you wouldn't wouldn't save you I'm new to Drupal and I've got nothing valuable to offer oh you do as a new community member you are new uniquely placed to offer a fresh perspective a new set of eyes in your opinion or to review user experiences or even wording that we use your knowledge is really valuable because you come with that open mind and new perspectives particularly in the usability of our system so that were really good to see you start doing some work that so there's every reason why you should get involved and I also want to mention that contribution is better together Afrin Smith github stated the open source in body is a model for people to work together building something greater than they can create on their own and so it's the benefit of many eyes and this chap and doctor bear noted Belbin did some research proved that working together whether died people with a diverse mix of behaviors is possibly the best way to operate and I just want to quickly skim through his model the Belby model which has been around for a long time he saw that there are nine different archetypes and you're likely to be a combination of some of them and each one has strengths allowable weaknesses which is very interesting to me and don't be surprised if this person does so every single person has something they're really good at but then maybe something they're not good at and if you put two people that have got the strengths in the areas where someone's got weaknesses you start to get something very very powerful so these are quite dense pieces of information and I recommend that you go and have a look afterwards but perhaps if you skim through these you can start to see in these descriptors some of your own personal traits so the resource investigator is it has positive nature finds ideas and brings them back the team worker helps the team to gel the coordinator focuses the team on objectives and delegates work appropriately well very different personalities here the plant uses their inquisitive nature to find ideas and bring them back and you've got the monastery evaluate who's got a logical I making impartial judgments and so on so we've got the shaper who provides necessary drive to ensure that the team keeps moving the implementer needed to plan a workable strategy and carry out things that efficiently as possible what I suggest you do is I found a really good self evaluation tool so there's a bitly shortcut there and try it yourself and you might find out that you're slightly different to who you thought you were and knowing about the Belva models really helpful and remembering it about yeah how you might what sort of teams you might seek to go and join or maybe and you can see an opportunity where there's a team that has not got the skills that you possess and also forgive yourself the things that you're not so good at it's actually archived in common there's nothing wrong with you at all and if you do that success should fine so now it's time to get specific I set up I would send you away with some things that you can do this week or in the future and so I want to start you on your non code contribution so I've broken it out into my own different groups I've got customers hopefully maybe we've got some end users Drupal here maybe agency leaders promoters creative people facilitators and connectors so here we go so first of all there's a great place to go to on drupal.org duple slash contribute there's a whole load of ideas that might get you started but that's just driving so a customer he might not be so apparent as to what you could do perhaps you're a product owner or a project manager or a concert manager or an owner themselves so case studies are a really valuable way to contribute to Drupal because it grows this body of evidence that ripples being used in lots of different areas so there may be another organization that you are similar to that would like to benefit from Drupal but digitally these reassurances from someone else like them so we work with a lot of unity universities and they tend to be quite tribal in the way they work it's not really helpful make your users available to researchers so we're looking to make dramatic improvements in the way that Drupal is works in the backend so that people can be more efficient and so people who managing content that would be a great way to to help so Suzanne who was on stage earlier developing web has got a blog about that you can get involved why don't you speak to other organizations like you in the UK we have an organization called open charity where a lot of the nonprofits and charities actually come together a bit like Drupal con but in a small scale and they sharing ideas and maybe you could do that in your sector as well also engage with promote Drupal and so that's been driven mostly by agencies so we really like to have your participation there also organisations take you safer if you're in an agency or you're an organisation yourselves it's actually very surprising how few organizations have registered on drupal.org now this is really useful for you to grow your reputation or your clients reputation and add its it might end up where there's a collaboration on you working on something really difficult to solve or it could be a way of you surfacing yourselves to make yourself known that you have Drupal requirements for staff and you may lead to leader up to speaker opportunities that events like this as well so being visible laundry of dogs really important some of these organizations are the ones in the UK dive cherry-picked that used rifle also how about providing some financial support to maybe the Drupal Association so you can have a membership based a member organization organization or you could become a supporting partner to go that little extra so that helps with things like and making sure the Drupal dogs there and other events like this happen and it can be from as little as thirty dollars a year or why don't you speak at an event like this there's nothing more interesting than either an agency or a client speaking at an event and we start to we'll all grow together it's a virtuous cycle okay so we've got founders managers and salespeople are agencies sales people you might be surprised can actually make a contribution to Drupal so educate your clients about open source and the Drupal Association support your staff in their attendant events like this Lobby or staff to attend meetups and maybe speak as an agency leader I find it incredibly frustrating that my staff don't want to do that willingly sometimes we have to persuade them and give them time to contribute back it does give you better visibility in the marketplace on drupal.org and I can say not just anecdotally but in actual fact that we actually have a client in the room today that was discovered us through and reborg and make sure that you are registered on Drupal planet so there's a really vibrant writing ethos in Drupal and there is a syndication tool on Drupal tool called planet you can register your agency or your organization on there to go out to a very large audience each time you publish a blog post so it's a really good thing and we'll say we've already there's a new area called agency marketing on Drupada org you should take a look at that and maybe make your office space available to meetups and maybe the global sprints there's some happening I think in February and enter the splash awards day actually happening tonight but that's there's some more coming up at the next gerbilcorn which are global awards I definitely would check them out and submit a case study to the pitch deck why not self your organization or your agency it'll all about raising your profile Jordan met and over in America he works for Palantir and he says that the increase with ability of status within the community which this generates health drive sales and also retain or recruit front furthermore the leadership of an organization attend chief executive officers meetings and summits brilliant from most transfer there's a CEO dinner tomorrow evening that's being organized by one shoot and Danny Cali olia XO vague yes and also participate in survey so there is a state of Drupal annual survey and is also the CEO survey they all help to crawl to run better businesses so there's no end of opportunities here which may not be a mmediately apparent when you go on to Drupal dork so ya caught Brock wits is in charge of the web form module and he's talking about something which is similar to the issue that we were talking about the privacy where evaluators often wonder whether things are supported and where can I go for help well there are fundraising initiatives to help ensure that there is that support through open collective and here's one of them this session today has been recorded and it's Kevin bull is involved in that he was here this morning setting it up and he's had a decrepit slide he recorded a thousands sessions by January when I first did this session now it's 2000 they're all on YouTube massive library of learning materials can't do it with a little bit without a bit support okay over to the promoter so this is a really powerful blog that I read by Sara watch a butcher I really can't say her name and it was some title don't feel like an expert share anyway basically what she's saying is there is no magical amount of experience that will suddenly make you worthy of sharing your ideas to the world do it anyway and I kind of live that mindset and yeah writing is a really great way of getting more ideas in from other people and opinions but also just you know making an idea better write about your experiences intrigue or create conversations and debate write tutorials about a project edit and create documentation you don't need to ask for permission to go and edit documentation just go for it write tutorials about the project and how it can be used and then is a good offer and promote really again creatives so the write at a user experience design and a visual design and the content strategy expert and even the translator so Christina the trim lass was on stage and her team are developing the new theme for the admin of Drupal Clara I spoke to her this morning if you go into slack and look at the admin UI that channel and the admin UI design channel there's plenty of conversations going on oh I should welcome some more support from creative designers if you've got UX skills there's a usability issue key which I've linked here and the accessibility team are always looking for help and it's lacking in most areas testing user experience UI changes and there's no coding required whatsoever and this is where you need to go and start and there's an if you cue there so you can go in it for us to start off with the issues if you go by status of needs review that would be a really low bar for you to start your experience there in fact I've just got a screenshot here this is exactly what you do to fill the needs of news review is just basically the final stage before something can be committed and there's also guidelines here so there are issue queues for content so you can go and read applications for companies to be listed on drupal.org there are case studies as well and and all you need to do is go and look at the issue follow the guidelines it's a self-guided thing and it takes about ten or fifteen minutes but you're making a real difference because there's actually a backlog of case studies which need approved Andre pod org and it makes sure that the the marketplaces is still up to date and relevant and baddest idea basically we need a lot more people to do that and also translations that are two areas where you can start to contribute if you're multilingual we'd love to have you work in localized reporter or dares a mechanism there to provide skills there and also there's a bar for birds of a feather conversation on Tuesday tomorrow where I can actually help you to start participating in the translation movement of the pitch deck we absolutely got sixteen languages at the moment and they just seem to be growing so this whole like global initiative going on right now and also documentation is important it's a huge barrier to entry for new people and so you may be new to the project but you're just perfectly placed to be able to review the documentation so there's a bit link here where there's a project that's been run by Rachel to improve the first-time contributor experience and also in your documentation so if you can speak to Rachel afterwards or go and speak to Matthew about cliff and that would be wonderful at a facilitator so we're nearly there we've got educators project managers agency owners events organizers mentors these are people that can help to have this to achieve their potential so Shannon Vettes talks about how Drupal actually changed her complete career path she started on really small projects just as a beginner and she had a really warm welcome to the core team she would never excelled in a career to the level experienced yesterday without the experience that she's had and she's absolutely dying to welcome you as well so and she can be found here and she has an open invite if there's any project managers out there who want to start getting involved in helping with Drupal project and do reach out to it I think she's probably here at the conference today and and also as the proverb says it takes a village to raise a child it takes a community to raise a healthy open-source project last year's Drupal Europe this was the embodiment of that forty people volunteering their skills all essential to the smooth running of the event most of them were non code contributions so these are the mentors the contribution event that happens this Thursday a lot of these people will be here again and there is a table for promote rupal already and for this but there will be lots of opportunities for non code contributions and jibril camps and Drupal events really can't happen without people like you and making them run smoothly developers are not particularly good at organizing things say and I think there's a lot of people in the room who probably are and also just an informal way and you are the types of people perhaps project managers pm's agency owners managers who are really good at helping other people to succeed and so there's you can facilitate very beneficial conversations lots of activities are happening finally we've got the connector so the sales person the recruiter yes you can contribute to your social butterfly you are great at work in the room speaking to people listening to their story maybe finding other people who are like like them you have a hugely valuable role to play as an introducer not necessarily at the same event and over time you're bound to meet people share common interests and in doing so you are contributing to a fundamental fundamentally to open source working together so just to wrap up this week at Drupa con Amsterdam we have the first time contribute to workshops part one and two on Tuesday in G 109 at 10:30 and that would be a really great place to be loads of people there to help onboard you and and to find ways in which you can start to get involved does it provide people table in the diamond lounge all week hopefully they'll be somebody's up there to have a chat with you could even be myself or Rachel and we also have the mentor contribution on Thursday and you Roper for you too so that's a room which is hopefully not too scary for someone who's never contributed before to be loads of people there who will welcome you friendly faces and then there's a pitch tape off on Tuesday and that's it so to wrap it up non-code contribution is of equal importance to code team collaboration leads to high performance teams non-code contribution takes many forms you can start really really small and let's start this week you're in the best possible place for that to happen and that's taking a bit long that's supposed to put you thank you for listening anyone have any questions okay thank you did you have any questions you have any questions afterwards | Drupal Association | UCAJALvsCWz8Kh6wOySHUJAA | 2019-10-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,275 | 23,535 |
6AcTNrqKygI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcTNrqKygI | 2017-05-03 Members’ Statements | it is now time for members statements the member from niping thank you very much uh speaker speaker this is the story about uh Ernest gilmet uh we first met at the ribbon cutting uh of the Canadian hearing Society he couldn't hear but his interpreter Beth was there to assist our conversation he loved life he loved to joke and he loved his Tim Hortons he also loved to flirt with the ladies and he rarely ever paid for those Tim Hortons speaker Ernest died on April 16th at the age of 86 his friends came to my office last week I knew them and they told me the story of ernest's death although he was in the hospital they felt that he died alone now I know the Frontline healthcare workers at the northb Regional Health Center did absolutely everything to make Ernest feel comfortable and safe uh as he went through his last struggle but that's what they do speaker and they do a remarkable job what was missing was his interpreter's friendly face and familiarity Earnest was old school he used old school sign language uh with lots of nuances but his interpreter is in her eighth week of the Canadian hearing Society strike there are only a few freelance interpreters for the entire North and the hospital did bring one uh in two or 3 days a week but that's very little interaction for someone of that age age hospitalized for 5 weeks left with only their own thoughts going through their mind speaker I urge all parties to resolve the strike uh as another death did occur in Thunder Bay thank you and there are similar concerns in Sudbury further member stat the member from Wellen thank you speaker uh today I rise in support of Bill Hodson a member of the niagar peninsula conservation Authority board who is being censured by the board because he dared to express legitimate and valid concerns about a questionable RFP they recently issued our community has raised serious concerns about the board's lack of operational accountability and financial transparency the auditor general intervened offering an impartial audit one the board declined perhaps fearful of what the AG May uncover the board issued its own RFP except it reported back to the very people it was supposed to be auditing the public called follow we wrote letters councelor Hudson did what was right he questioned it the mpca retracted the RFP and decided to go back to the AG it's clear that the npca board chair Sandy andanada in attempt to cover up his and some of his board members own actions will stop at no end to silence anyone who seems to disagree the majority of elected Municipal officials and our communities are fed up it's time for the government to appoint a supervisor to oversee this npca today I stand alongside local counselor Hodson to send a strong message to the npca board chair Sandy zato and his cohorts we will not tolerate bullying and we will always stand up for transparency and accountability thank you point of order the chief govern whip Mr Speaker I want to commend the member on that statement and say I agree with her that's not a point of order and I wish I would have caught it quicker further member statements from Wellington hton Mr Speaker I'm glad to inform this house today that Ellis Dawn infrastructure healthc care has been selected as the preferred proponent proponent to design build and finance the new grow Memorial Community Hospital in the township of Center Wellington this latest announcement in the government's multi-stage approval process brings us closer than ever to the commencement of construction of our new Groves hospital my involvement in this issue began around 2002 or 2003 when the Groves hospital administrator first came to my office to tell me that the hospital had a plan for redevelopment but it seemed to be stuck at a preliminary stage she asked me to make inquiries I replied that I would support whatever plan for redevelopment of the hospital that was submitted to the ministry and the community was behind and would want to help in any way I could and so our work began there were many ups and downs twists and turns and even a complete revision of the Redevelopment plan and let me be clear I'm not pretending to be the architect but by setting aside partisan differences and seeking to work across party lines with no fewer than five Ministers of Health for more than a decade we slowly but surely made progress towards our vision of a new hospital for our growing Community I want to express my sincere thanks to all mpps past and present who have supported the grov proposal but we need to save our most generous expression of appreciation to grov staff and volunteers our donors successive County of Wellington councils and staff successive Township of Center Wellington councils and staff the adjacent municipalities in the hospital's catchment area our local Linn indeed the entire Community for having the vision the patience and the perseverance which has brought us finally to the conclusion of the planning process we look forward to seeing construction begin very soon thank you very much Mr Speaker the member from Windsor toy speaker we had a special guest at our day of morning ceremony in Windsor last week silver curus is 13 now she lost her dad Sam to a workplace accident when she was seven she wrote this poem when she was 10 called my daddy When I close my eyes at night I make a wish with all my might that my dad will come home safe to me do you think that that could ever be I know my dad is up in heaven he's been there since I was seven he sets up there and watches over me he keeps me safe as as I can be I miss my dad every day will anything ever be okay I miss his hugs I miss his kisses but most of all I miss our reminiscence of all the fun we had together in Sun and in rain and all kinds of weather my brothers are brave they pretend they don't care but I'll tell you a secret they hide it in there it's not fair to lose a dad it makes me sad it makes me mad dad shouldn't die just going to work it just isn't right the danger May lurk if I could change things here's what I do I'd invent a new workplace something new a place where no one could ever get hurt it would be like magic do you think it would work no more tears and sadness no more missing and Badness every mom and dad would come home safe a world like that would never chafe when you go to work today play it safe make it okay so you didn't go home safe and sound to kiss your kids and be around I love you Dad love silver thank thank you further members statements the member from stormat D South Gary thank you speaker Gary County has been the Forefront of agricultural excellence and Innovation since its Inception in the late 1700s as a home for Scottish settlers last Saturday I was honored to attend the 17th induction ceremony of the Gary agricultural Wall of Fame this year's ceremony honored three pillars of our local agricultural Heritage William and Margaret Van de came to Canada in from Holland in 1951 and like many of our Dutch farmers of that day build a diversified farming business involving mares Hogs SS dairy cows and cash crops William was the founding member of the quickley cheese manufacturing association and represented the count County pork producers Bruce Sova born and raised in Glen Roy was a Dairy Farmer who set up his own monthly Dairy testing records keeping a head of the dairy herd Improvement Association Beyond farming and raising four Sons with Chris Smith Bruce was an active participant in this community Through the charland junior Farmers the gunary MK committee gunary cheese producer Association Hospital board and the local Municipal Council the wall of fame has also recognized all the glenary County DA princesses speaker it was amazing to see the successes of this group of ladies they went on to be teachers principes high ranking government and private sector managers at a much higher rate than the rest of the community is is clear to me that the leadership skills learned through this program paid off in Spades and the community was truly the winner speaker I want to thank president Bruce McDonald and the board for a fantastic event thank you thank you further members statements further member stav the member of Halbert and coral L Brock um thank you Mr Speaker last year hospitalizations for mental disorders Rose in Ontario by 67% my area's Central East Lyn has the second highest number of active mental health cases in the province and yet they are not receiving the support they need based on the government's moving on Mental Health strategy there are at least 890 children with mental health challenges in the city of cor the Lakes alone and no 24/7 integrated Children's Mental Health Service in the community studies show that kids suffering from mental health issues do much better if they are able to stay at home which is why it's important to have local services that are closer to home these children have to go to Peterboro or Ontario showers which are both under resourced and overc capacity the petor Regional Health Center's emergency department is running at 113% capacity and it's not hard to see why they are simply not equipped to provide appropriate care for children suffering from mental health issues children on weight lists for treatment are often hospitalized before they can receive care only to be put back on a wait list of up to 18 months after they are discharged they miss school and work opportunities while being denied care sadly some children even take their own lives as they languish on weight lists children in Ontario need mental health services now I urge the government to take real action and address the urgent need for dedicated Mental Health Services not only in my writing but across Ontario thank you Mr speaker thank you I thank all members for their statements at | OntarioLegislature | UCTj8uOe-T0TQmbe6Y3LuAXw | 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xD6cqksKw3o | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD6cqksKw3o | Soft Boundary K-Means Clustering | we've been talking about k-means clustering and just finished looking at the Hard boundary version of the algorithm with the hard boundaries our class labels are one class or another class and there's no real sense of in-betweenness and when we're updating the cluster means we take all of the samples that have been assigned to say cluster K and we compute an average location for our new cluster mean and when we do this the samples that are very near a cluster the cluster boundary have equal weight in this computation as those that say are nearer to the cluster mean or to those that are far away from any of the boundaries but still within the cluster K region and we'd like to be a little bit fuzzier about how each of those points pulls on the cluster mean it's also possible with the hard boundary approach for the learning algorithm to get stuck into a cycle where some points are very near the cluster boundary on one side other points are very near the cluster boundary on the other side and in one iteration they're they're in that configuration and then the next iteration they they flip to the other side of the boundary and the algorithm can actually just continue to flip back and forth so we so it never really settles out into a single solution so the soft boundary approach tries to solve these various problems and what we do instead of assigning each sample to a particular cluster we actually do this assignment in a probabilistic way so the first thing we get out of this is we have probabilistic labels so this feels a lot like say the logistic regression kinds of methods that we used to do classification the other key difference is that when we go to estimate the cluster means the different points get to contribute to that new cluster mean estimate as a function of what that probability is so if we're really sure that a sample belongs to a cluster it gets to pull on that sample mean a lot if we're much closer to the boundary then those points are going to play less of a role in re-estimating those cluster means so let's go ahead and take a look at the mathematics behind this right the first thing we're going to do is Define a new variable here and I'm going to refer to this as p i k so this is we're going to interpret this variable as the probability that sample I belongs to class K and there are a variety of ways we can Define this I'm going to Define it in one particular way and and that looks like this so it's e to the minus beta and then we're going to look at the distance between our cluster Center K and our sample I and that is divided by a sum Over All over all clusters and again it's e to the minus beta m j minus x i so by defining things in this way this actually feels a lot like softmax we've talked about the intuition behind that one of the differences here is we've introduced this beta hyper parameter we'll talk about that toward the end and we're Computing the score in a very specific way and here the score is how different the sample is from the cluster mean by Computing this p in this way what that implies if is that if I take a sum over all of the P's for a given sample then that is equal to one and and again that's what we mean by probability is that all of the probabilities have to sum to one so just for illustration purposes let's imagine that we have a scenario where we have some set of cluster centers and we'll do M3 over here and I have some sample x i if we imagine so there there's a particular distance between uh each of the cluster centers and this sample x i we imagine taking say this M2 and moving it away so the new M2 comes out to be over here the only thing that we've changed is the distance between M2 and and x i and the distance between x i and the remaining clusters hasn't changed so the implication is that when we move M2 further away the way we're Computing this P up here means that P I2 is going to go down because the distance is getting bigger and because we are dividing by the the sum of these terms and that means that all of the other K's all of the other p i K's not equal to two these are going to go up because again that full sum has to be equal to one so that's so that's point one the the other point let me illustrate with a slightly different situation imagine I have say our m0 and we'll have the same constellation here of of clusters so that dividing line the the equidistant point is sitting somewhere around here so the dividing line between M2 and M3 sits somewhere about in here and the dividing line between M3 and m0 sits somewhere about in here so if we imagine now some X I uh sitting out over here it's much closer to to M3 than any one of the other cluster centers so its probability is quite high it's close to one if we imagine that moving that point closer and closer to this boundary that probability is going to be dropping and the probability especially for M2 is going to start to go up since we're getting closer to M2 really aren't changing our distance to m0 or M1 all that much so those probabilities are not going to change likewise if we take this point we start moving it in this direction that probability again for M3 is going to drop but the probability that's going to increase mostly is is this probability for class zero so the the key Point here is that as we get closer to the dividing lines that those probabilities drop in favor for the probabilities of the classes that are on the other side of the dividing line for points that are very far away from all of the other clusters those probabilities are going to be assigned to something close to one and that's not going to change as we move this point around a little bit all right so that's the intuition behind the probabilities so now let's talk about the other half of the learning algorithm which is the step of assigning new cluster centers and it turns out that the the algorithm looks very similar to what we had before so our MK now is going to be assigned a weighted sum of the X I's and in this case the weights are not based on those B's they're based on the probabilities so it's a sum over all samples p i k times x i and divided by foreign okay so so quite literally we've just re replace the B terms with the Pik terms here and and that's the essence of the difference between the hard boundary approach and the soft boundary approach so to sum up the key ideas here with the soft boundary k-means clustering approach is that samples that are near boundaries not only do they have a probabilistic labeling but they contribute to the cluster means all right so to to sum up the soft boundary k-means idea so first off as a sample gets closer to a boundary between two different clusters first off it has an interesting uh probability uh it doesn't have a crisp assignment to one cluster or the other and secondly it's going to contribute to the update of the cluster means in a fuzzy way in fact it's going to contribute to both clusters on either side of that boundary and and in particular as that point crosses the boundary by just moving a a small amount across the boundary its contribution to the cluster mean computation really doesn't change all that much so the implication here is that the learning process is a lot more stable we get away from this situation where the learning algorithm gets into a cycle where it's moving that dividing line uh such that points are flipping back and forth uh from one side to to the other and then back again one of the consequences is that we've introduced a new hyper parameter and this is the that beta term that we were looking at when beta is very small what this means is that no matter where a sample is in the feature space all of the classes get some interesting probability assigned to them so you end up with a very smooth probability assignment and then as that beta term gets larger and larger we tend to concentrate that probability onto one or a very small number of classes so sometimes you'll see in the documentation that beta is being referred to as a sharpness parameter all right so that's the the essence of uh the soft boundary idea and now it's time to play with a little bit of code we'll focus on the hard boundary case that's what's available in scikit-learn but you do need to know that this soft boundary approach is also sitting out there | Machine Learning Practice | UC8nFan5wplnzzsWLTjKGi0g | 2022-12-01 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,590 | 8,337 |
Noy6bd4Ae6k | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noy6bd4Ae6k | Pride and Prejudice (version 3) | Jane Austen | General Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Romance | 3/6 | chapter 24 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in september 2007 chapter 24 miss bingley's letter arrived and put an end to doubt the very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in london for the winter and concluded with her brothers regretted not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in hertfordshire before he left the country hope was over entirely over and when jane could attend to the rest of the letter she found little except the professed affection of the writer that could give her any comfort miss darcy's praise occupied the chief of it her many attractions were again dwelt on and caroline boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy and ventured to predict the accomplishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former letter she wrote also with great pleasure of her brothers being an inmate of mr darcy's house and mentioned with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to new furniture elizabeth to whom jane very soon communicated the chief of all this heard it in silent indignation her heart was divided between concern for her sister and resentment against all others to caroline's assertion of her brothers being partial to miss darcy she paid no credit that he was really fond of jane she doubted no more than she had ever done and much as she had always been disposed to like him she could not think without anger hardly without contempt on that easiness of temper that want a proper resolution which now made him the slave of his designing friends and led him to sacrifice his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination had his own happiness however been the only sacrifice he might have been allowed to spot with it in whatever manner he thought best but her sisters was involved in it as she thought he must be sensible himself it was a subject in short on which reflection would be long indulged and must be unavailing she could think of nothing else and yet whether bingley's regard had really died away or were suppressed by his friend's interference whether he had been aware of jane's attachment or whether it had escaped his observation whatever were the case though her opinion of him must be materially affected by the difference her sister's situation remained the same her peace equally wounded a day or two passed before jane had the courage to speak of her feelings to elizabeth but at last on mrs bennett's leaving them together after a longer irritation than usual about netherfield and its master she could not help saying oh that my dear mother had more command over herself she can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him but i will not repine it cannot last long he will be forgot and we shall all be as we were before elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude but said nothing you doubt me cried jane slightly colouring indeed you have no reason he may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance but that is all i have nothing either to hope or fear and nothing to reproach him with thank god i have not that pain a little time therefore i shall certainly try to get the better with a stronger voice she soon added i have this comfort immediately that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself my dear jane exclaimed elizabeth you are too good your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic i do not know what to say to you i feel as if i had never done you justice or loved you as you deserve miss bennett eagerly disclaimed all extraordinary merit and threw back the praise on her sister's warm affection nay said elizabeth this is not fair you wish to think all the world respectable and i hurt if i speak ill of anybody i only want to think you perfect and you set yourself against it do not be afraid of my running into any excess of my encroaching on your privilege of universal goodwill you need not there are few people whom i really love and still fewer of whom i think well the more i see of the world the more i am dissatisfied with it and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or since i have met with two instances lately one i will not mention the other is charlotte's marriage it is unaccountable in every view it is unaccountable my dear lizzy do not give way to such feelings as these they will ruin your happiness you do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper consider mr collins's respectability in charlotte's steady prudent character remember that she is one of a large family that as to fortune it is a most eligible match and be ready to believe for everybody's sake that she may feel something like regard and esteem for our cousin to oblige you i would try to believe almost anything but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this for were i persuaded that charlotte had any regard for him i should only think worse of her understanding than i do now of her heart my dear jane mr collins is a conceited pompous narrow-minded silly man you know he is as well as i do and you must feel as well as i do that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking you shall not defend her though it is charlotte lucas you shall not for the sake of one individual change the meaning of principle and integrity nor endeavor to persuade yourself or me that selfishness is prudence and insensibility of danger security for happiness i must think your language too strong in speaking of both replied jane and i hope you will be convinced of it by seeing them happy together but enough of this you alluded to something else you mentioned two instances i cannot misunderstand you but i entreat you dear lizzy not to pain me by thinking that person to blame and saying your opinion of him is sunk we must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured we must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded in circumspect it is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us women fancy admiration means more than it does and men take care that they should if it is designedly done they cannot be justified but i have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine i fear i am far from attributing any part of mr bingley's conduct or design said elizabeth but without scheming to do wrong or to make others unhappy there may be error and there may be misery thoughtlessness want of attention to other people's feelings and want of resolution will do the business and do you impute it to either of those yes to the last but if i go on i shall displease you by saying what i think of persons you esteem stop me whilst you can you persist then in supposing his sisters influence him yes in conjunction with his friend i cannot believe it why should they try to influence him they can only wish his happiness and if he is attached to me no other woman can secure it your first position is false they may wish many things besides his happiness they may wish his increase of wealth and consequence they may wish him to marry a girl who has all the importance of money great connections and pride beyond a doubt they do wish him to choose miss darcy replied jane but this may be from better feelings than you are supposing they have known her much longer than they have known me no wonder if they love her better but whatever may be their own wishes it is very unlikely they should have opposed their brothers what sister would think herself at liberty to do it unless there was something very objectionable if they believed him attached to me they would not try to part us if he were so they could not succeed by supposing such an affection you make everybody acting unnaturally and wrong and me most unhappy do not distress me by the idea i am not ashamed of having been mistaken or at least it is light it is nothing in comparison of what i should feel in thinking ill of him or his sisters let me take it in the best light in the light in which it may be understood elizabeth could not oppose her to wish and from this time mr bingley's name was scarcely ever mentioned between them mrs bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no more and though a day seldom passed in which elizabeth did not account for it clearly there was little chance of her ever considering it with less perplexity her daughter endeavored to convince her of what she did not believe herself that his attentions to jane had been merely the effect of a common and transient liking which ceased when he saw her no more but though the probability of the statement was admitted at the time she had the same story to repeat every day mrs bennett's best comfort was that mr bingley must be down again in the summer mr bennett treated the mata differently so lizzy said he one day your sister is crossed in love i find i congratulate her next to being married a girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then it is something to think of and it gives her a sort of distinction among her companions when is your turn to come you will hardly bear to be long out done by jane now is your time here are offices enough in meriton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country let wickham be your man he is a pleasant fellow and would jolt you credibly thank you sir but a less agreeable man would satisfy me we must not all expect jane's good fortune true said mr bennett but it is a comfort to think that whatever of that kind may befall you you have an affectionate mother who will make the most of it mr wickham society was of material service in dispelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of a long born family they saw him often and to his other recommendations was now added that of general unreserved the whole of what elizabeth had already heard his claims on mr darcy and all that he had suffered from him was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed and everybody was pleased to know how much they had always disliked mr darcy before they had known anything of the matter miss bennett was the only creature who could suppose there might be any extenuating circumstances in the case unknown to the society of hertfordshire her mild and steady candor always pleaded for allowances and urged the possibility of mistakes but by everybody else mr darcy was condemned as the worst of men end of chapter 24 chapter 25 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in september chapter 25 after a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity mr collins was called from his amiable charlotte by the arrival of saturday the pain of separation however might be alleviated on his side by preparations for the reception of his bride as he had reason to hope that shortly after his return into hertfordshire the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men he took leave of his relations at longborn with as much solemnity as before wished his fair cousins health and happiness again and promised their father another letter of thanks on the following monday mrs bennett had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his wife who came as usual to spend the christmas at longborn mr gardner was a sensible gentleman-like man greatly superior to his sister as well by nature's education the netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade and within view of his own warehouses could have been so well bred and agreeable mrs gardner who was several years younger than mrs bennett and mrs phillips was an amiable intelligent elegant woman and a great favorite with all her long-born nieces between the two eldest and herself especially there subsisted a particular regard they had frequently been staying with her in town the first part of mrs gardner's business on her arrival was to distribute her presence and describe the newest fashions when this was done she had a less active part to play it became her turn to listen mrs bennett had many grievances to relate and much to complain of they had all been very ill used since she last saw her sister two of her girls had been upon the point of marriage and after all there was nothing in it i do not blame jane she continued for jane would have got mr bingley if she could but lizzy oh sister it is very hard to think that she might have been mr collins's wife by this time had it not been for her own perverseness he made her an offer in this very room and she refused him the consequence of it is that lady lucas will have a daughter married before i have and that the long-born estate is just as much entailed as ever the lucases are very artful people indeed sister they are all for what they can get i am very sorry to say it of them but so it is it makes me very nervous and poorly to be thwarted so in my own family and to have neighbors who think of themselves before anybody else however your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts and i am very glad to hear what you tell us of long sleeves mrs gardner to whom the chief of this news had been given before in the course of jane and elizabeth's correspondence with her made her sister a slight answer and in compassion to her nieces turned the conversation when alone with elizabeth afterwards she spoke more on the subject it seems likely to have been a desirable match for jane said she i am sorry it went off but these things happen so often a young man such as you described mr bingley so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks and when accident separates them so easily forgets her that these sorts of inconsistencies are very frequent an excellent consolation in its way said elizabeth but it will not do for us we do not suffer by accident it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before but that expression of violently in love is so hackneyed so doubtful so indefinite that it gives me very little idea it is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance as to a real strong attachment pray how violent was mr bingley's love i never saw him a promising inclination he was growing quite inattentive to other people and wholly engrossed by her every time they met it was more decided and remarkable at his own ball he offended two or three young ladies by not asking them to dance and i spoke to him twice myself without receiving an answer could there be finer symptoms is not general incivility the very essence of love oh yes of that kind of love which i suppose him to have felt poor jane i am sorry for her because with her disposition she may not get over it immediately it had better have happened to you lizzy you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner but do you think she would be prevailed upon to go back with us change of scene might be of service and perhaps a little relief from home may be as useful as anything elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with his proposal and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence i hope added mrs gardner that no consideration with regard to this young man will influence her we live in so different a part of town all our connections are so different and as you well know we go out so little that it is very improbable that they should meet at all unless he really comes to see her and that is quite impossible for he is now in the custody of his friend and mr darcy would no more suffer him to call on jane in such a part of london my dear aunt how could you think of it mr darcy may perhaps have heard of such a place as grace church street but he would hardly think a man's ablution enough to cleanse him from its impurities where he wants to enter it and depend upon it mr bingley never stirs without him so much the better i hope they will not meet at all but does not jane correspond with his sister she will not be able to help calling she will drop the acquaintance entirely but in spite of the certainty in which elizabeth affected to place this point as well as the still more interesting one of bingley's being withheld from seeing jane she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her on examination that she did not consider it entirely hopeless it was possible and sometimes she thought it probable that his affection might be reanimated and the influence of his friend successfully combated by the more natural influence of jane's attractions miss bennett accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure and the bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time then as she hoped by caroline's not living in the same house with her brother she might occasionally spend a morning with her without any danger of seeing him the gardener stayed a week at longborn and what with the phillipses the lucas's and the officers there was not a day without its engagement mrs bennett had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister that they did not once sit down to a family dinner when the engagement was for home some of the officers always made part of it of which officers mr wickham were sure to be one and on these occasions mrs gardner rendered suspicious by elizabeth's warm commendation narrowly observed them both without supposing them from what she saw to be very seriously enough their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy and she resolved to speak to elizabeth on the subject before she left hertfordshire and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment to mrs gardner wickham had one means of affording pleasure unconnected with his general powers about ten or a dozen years ago before her marriage she had spent a considerable time in that very part of derbyshire to which he belonged they had therefore many acquaintances in common and though wickham had been little there since the death of darcy's father it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring mrs gardner had seen pemberley and known the late mr darcy by a character perfectly well here consequently was an inexhaustible subject of discourse in comparing her recollection of pemberley with the minute description which wickham could give and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor she was delighting both him and herself on being made acquainted with the present mr darcy's treatment of him she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it and was confident at last that she recollected having heard mr fitzwilliam darcy formally spoken of as a very proud ill-natured boy end of chapter 25 chapter 26 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in september 2007 chapter 26 mrs gardner's caution to elizabeth was punctually and kindly given on the first favorable opportunity of speaking to her alone after honestly telling her what she thought she thus went on you are too sensible a girl lizzy to fall in love merely because you are warned against it and therefore i am not afraid of speaking openly seriously i would have you be on your guard do not involve yourself or endeavor to involve him and an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent i have nothing to say against him he is a most interesting young man and if he had the fortune he ought to have i should think you could not do better but as it is you must not let your fancy run away with you you have sense and we all expect you to use it your father would depend on your resolution and good conduct i am sure you must not disappoint your father my dear aunt this is being serious indeed yes and i hope to engage you to be serious likewise well then you need not be under any alarm i will take care of myself and of mr wickham too he shall not be in love with me if i can prevent it elizabeth you are not serious now i beg your pardon i will try again at present i am not in love with mr wickham no i certainly am not but he is beyond all comparison the most agreeable man i ever saw and if he becomes really attached to me i believe it will be better that he should not i see the imprudence of it oh that abominable mr darcy my father's opinion of me does me the greatest honor and i should be miserable to forfeit it my father however is partial to mr wickham in short my dear aunt i should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy but since we see every day that where there is affection young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into engagements with each other how can i promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow creatures if i am tempted or how am i even to know that it would be wisdom to resist all that i can promise you therefore is not to be in a hurry i will not be in a hurry to believe myself his first object when i am in company with him i will not be wishing in short i will do my best perhaps it will be as well if you discourage his coming here so very often at least you should not remind your mother of inviting him as i did the other day said elizabeth with a conscious smile very true it will be wise in me to refrain from that but do not imagine that he is always here so often it is on your account that he has been so frequently invited this week you know my mother's ideas as to the necessity of constant company for her friends but really and upon my honor i will try to do what i think to be the wisest and now i hope you are satisfied her aunt assured her that she was and elizabeth having thanked her for the kindness of her hints they parted a wonderful instance of advice being given on such a point without being resented mr collins returned to hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted by the gardeners and jane but as he took up his abode with the lucas's his arrival was no great inconvenience to mrs bennett his marriage was now fast approaching and she was at length so far resigned as to think it inevitable and even repeatedly to say in an illnated tone that she wished they might be happy thursday was to be the wedding day and on wednesday miss lucas paid her farewell visit and when she rose to take leave elizabeth ashamed of her mother's ungracious and reluctant good wishes and sincerely affected herself accompanied her out of the room as they went downstairs together charlotte said i shall depend on hearing from you very often eliza that you certainly shall and i have another favor to ask you will you come and see me we shall often meet i hope in hertfordshire i am not likely to leave kent for some time promise me therefore to come to huntsford elizabeth could not refuse though she foresaw little pleasure in the visit my father and mariah coming to me in march added charlotte and i hope you will consent to be of the party indeed eliza you will be as welcome as either of them the wedding took place the bride and bridegroom set off for kent from the church door and everybody had as much to say or to hear on the subject as usual elizabeth soon heard from her friend and their correspondence was as regular and frequent as it had ever been that it should be equally unreserved was impossible elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over and though determined not to slacken as a correspondent it was for the sake of what had been rather than what was charlotte's first letters were received with a good deal of eagerness there could not but be curiosity to know how she would speak of her new home how she would like lady catherine and how happy she would dare pronounce herself to be though when the letters were read elizabeth felt that charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen she wrote cheerfully seemed surrounded with comforts and mentioned nothing which she could not praise the house the furniture neighborhood and roads were all to her taste and lady catherine's behavior was most friendly and obliging it was mr collins's picture of hansford and rosings rationally softened and elizabeth perceived that she must wait for her own visit there to know the rest jane had already written a few lines to her sister to announce their safe arrival in london and when she wrote again elizabeth hoped it would be in her power to say something of the bingleys her impatience for this second letter was as well rewarded as impatience generally is jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from caroline she accounted for it however by supposing that her last letter to her friend from longborn had by some accident been lost my aunt she continued is going tomorrow into that part of the town and i shall take the opportunity of calling in grosvenor street she wrote again when the visit was paid and she had seen miss bingley i did not think caroline and spirits were her words but she was very glad to see me and reproached me for giving her no notice of my coming to london i was right therefore my last letter had never reached her i inquired after their brother of course he was well but so engaged with mr darcy that they scarcely ever saw him i found that miss darcy was expected to dinner i wish i could see her my visit was not long as caroline and mrs hirst were going out i dare say i shall see them soon here elizabeth shook her head over this letter it convinced her that accident only could discover to mr bingley her sisters being in town four weeks passed away and jane saw nothing of him she endeavoured to persuade herself that she did not regret it but she could no longer be blind to miss bingley's inattention after waiting at home every morning for a fortnight and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her the visitor did at last appear but the shortness of her stay and yet more the alteration of her manner would allow jane to deceive herself no longer the letter which she wrote on this occasion to her sister will prove what she felt my dearest lizzie will i am sure be incapable of triumphing in her better judgment at my expense when i confess myself to have been entirely deceived in miss bingley's regard for me but my dear sister though the event has proved you right do not think me obstinate if i still assert that considering what her behavior was my confidence was as natural as your suspicion i do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me but if the same circumstances were to happen again i am sure i should be deceived again caroline did not return my visit till yesterday and not a note not a lie did i receive in the meantime when she did come it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it she made a slight formal apology for not calling before said not a word of wishing to see me again and was in every respect so altered a creature that when she went away i was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer i pity though i cannot help blaming her she was very wrong in singling me out as she did i can safely say that every advance to intimacy began on her side but i pity her because she must feel that she has been acting wrong and because i am very sure that anxiety for her brother is the cause fit i need not explain myself father though we know this anxiety to be quite needless yet if she feels it it will easily account for her behavior to me and so deservedly dear as he is to his sister whatever anxiety she must feel on his behalf is natural and amiable i cannot but wonder however at her having any such fears now because if he had a dog cared about me we must have met long ago he knows of my being in town i am certain from something she said herself and yet it would seem by her manner of talking as if she wanted to persuade herself that he is really partial to miss darcy i cannot understand it if i were not afraid of judging harshly i should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all this but i will endeavor to banish every painful thought and think only what will make me happy your affection and the invariable kindness of my dear uncle and aunt let me hear from you very soon miss bingley said something of his never returning to netherfield again of giving up the house but not with any certainty we had better not mention it i am extremely glad that you have such pleasant accounts from our friends at hansford pray go to see them with sir william and mariah i am sure you will be very comfortable there yours etc this letter gave elizabeth some pain but her spirits returned as she considered that jane would no longer be duped by the sister at least all expectation from the brother was now absolutely over she could not even wish for a renewal of his attentions his character sunk on every review of it and as a punishment for him as well as a possible advantage to jane she seriously hoped that he might really soon marry mr darcy's sister as by wickham's account she would make him abundantly regret what he had thrown away mrs gardner about this time reminded elizabeth of her promise concerning that gentleman and required information and elizabeth had such descend as might rather give contentment to her aunt than to herself his apparent partiality had subsided his attentions were over he was the admirer of someone else elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all but she could see it and write of it without material pain her heart had been but slightly touched and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice had fortune permitted it the sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable but elizabeth less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in charlotte's did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence nothing on the contrary could be more natural and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both and could very sincerely wish him happy all this was acknowledged to mrs gardner and after relating the circumstances she thus went on i am now convinced my dear aunt that i have never been much in love for had i really experienced that pure and elevating passion i should at present to test his very name and wish him all manner of evil but my feelings are not only cordial towards him they are even impartial towards miss king i cannot find out that i hate her at all or that i am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl there can be no love in all this my watchfulness has been effectual and though i certainly should be a more interesting object to all my acquaintances where i distractedly in love with him i cannot say that i regret my comparative insignificance importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly kitty and lydia take its defection much more to heart than i do they are young in the ways of the world and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome young men must have something to live on as well as the plane end of chapter 26 chapter 27 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in september 2007 chapter 27 with no greater events than these in the long born family and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to merit in sometimes dirty and sometimes cold did january and february pass away march was to take elizabeth to huntsford she had not at first thought very seriously of going fever but charlotte she soon found was depending on the plan and she gradually learned to consider it herself with greater pleasure as well as greater certainty absence had increased her desire of seeing charlotte again and weakened her disgust of mr collins there was novelty in the scheme and as with such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters home could not be thoughtless a little change was not unwelcome for its own sake the journey would moreover give her a peep at jane and in short as the time drew near she would have been very sorry for any delay everything however went on smoothly and was finally settled according to charlotte's first sketch she was to accompany sir william and his second daughter the improvement of spending a night in london was added in time and the plan became as perfect as plan could be the only pain was in leaving her father who would certainly miss her and who when it came to the point so little liked her going that he told her to write to him and almost promised to answer her letter the farewell between herself and mr wickham was perfectly friendly on his side even more his present pursuit could not make him forget that elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention the first to listen and to pity the first to be admired and in his manner of bidding her idea wishing her every enjoyment reminding her of what she was to expect in lady catherine de berg and trusting their opinion of her their opinion of everybody would always coincide there was a solicitude an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with the most sincere regard and she parted from him convinced that whether married or single he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing her fellow travelers the next day were not of a kind to make her think him less agreeable sir william lucas and his daughter mariah a good humoured girl but as empty-headed as himself had nothing to say that could be worth hearing and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the shays elizabeth loved absurdities but she had known sir williams too long he could tell her nothing new of the wonders of his presentation and knighthood and his civilities were worn out like his information it was a journey of only 24 miles and they began it so early as to be in grace church street by noon as they drove to mr gardner's door jane was at a drawing room window watching their arrival when they entered the passage she was there to welcome them and elizabeth looking earnestly in her face was pleased to see it helpful and lovely as ever on the stairs were a troupe of little boys and girls whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing room and whose shyness as they had not seen her for a 12 month prevented their coming lower all was joy and kindness the day passed most pleasantly away the morning and bustle and shopping and the evening at one of the theaters elizabeth then contrived to sit by her aunt their first object was her sister and she was more grieved and astonished to hear in reply to her minute inquiries that though jane always struggled to support her spirits there were periods of dejection it was reasonable however to hope that they would not continue long mrs gardner gave her the particulars also of miss bingley's visiting grace church street and repeated conversations occurring at different times between jane and herself which proved that the former had from her heart given up the acquaintance mrs gardner then rallied her niece on wickham's desertion and complimented her on bearing it so well but my dear elizabeth she added what sort of girl is miss king i should be sorry to thank our friend mercenary pray my dear aunt what is the difference in matrimonial affairs between the mercenary and the prudent motive where does discretion end and avarice begin last christmas you were afraid of his marrying me because it would be imprudent and now because he is trying to get a girl with only ten thousand pounds you want to find out that he is mercenary if you will only tell me what sort of girl miss king is i shall know what to think she is a very good kind of girl i believe i know no harm of her but he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune no what should he if it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because i had no money what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about and who was equally poor but there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions toward her so soon after this event a man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe if she does not object to it why should we her not objecting to it does not justify him it only shows her being deficient in something herself sense or feeling well cried elizabeth have it as you choose he shall be mercenary and she shall be foolish no lizzy that is what i do not choose i should be sorry you know to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in derbyshire oh if that is all i have a very poor opinion of young men who live in derbyshire and their intimate friends who live in hertfordshire are not much better i am sick of them all thank heaven i am going tomorrow where i shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all take care lizzy that speech save us strongly of disappointment before they were separated by the conclusion of the play she had the unexpected happiness of an invitation to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of pleasure which they propose taking in the summer we have not determined how far it shall carry us said mrs gartner but perhaps to the lakes no scheme could have been more agreeable to elizabeth and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful oh my dear dear aunt she rapturously cried what delight what felicity you give me fresh life and vigor how dear to disappointment and spleen what are young men to rocks and mountains oh what hours of transport we shall spend and when we do return it shall not be like other travellers without being able to give one accurate idea of anything we will know where we have gone we will recollect what we have seen lakes mountains and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene will we begin quarreling about its relative situation let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travelers end of chapter 27 chapter 28 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007. chapter 28 every object in the next day's journey was new and interesting to elizabeth and her spirits were in a state of enjoyment for she had seen her sister looking so well as to banish all fear for her health and the prospect of her northern tour was a constant source of delight when they left the high road for the lane to hansford every eye was in search of the parsonage and every turning expected to bring it in view the palings of rosings park was their boundary on one side elizabeth smiled at the recollection of all that she had heard of its inhabitants at length the parsonage was discernible the garden sloping to the road the house standing in it the green pails and the laurel hedge everything declared they were arriving mr collins and charlotte appeared at the door and the carriage stopped at the small gate which led by a short gravel walk to the house amidst the nods and smiles of the whole party in a moment they were all out of the shades rejoicing at the sight of each other mrs collins welcomed her friend with the liveliest pleasure and elizabeth was more and more satisfied with coming when she found herself so affectionately received she saw instantly that her cousin's manners were not altered by his marriage his formal civility was just what it had been and he detained her some minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her family they were then with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance taken into the house and as soon as they were in the parlor he welcomed them a second time with ostentatious formality to his humble abode and punctually repeated all his wife's office of refreshment elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory and she could not help fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room its aspect and its furniture he addressed himself particularly to her as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost and refusing him but though everything seemed neat and comfortable she was not able to gratify him by any sigh of repentance and rather looked with wonder at her friend that she could have so cheerful in air with such a companion when mr collins said anything of which his wife might reasonably be ashamed which certainly was not unseldom she involuntarily turned her eye on charlotte once or twice she could discern a faint blush but in general charlotte wisely did not hear after sitting long enough to admire every article of furniture in the room from the sideboard to the fender to give an account of their journey and of all that had happened in london mr collins invited them to take a stroll in the garden which was large and well laid out and to the cultivation of which he attended himself to work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures and elizabeth admired the command of countenance with which charlotte talked of the helpfulness of the exercise and owned she encouraged it as much as possible here leading the way through every walk and crosswalk and scarcely allowing them an interval to utter the praises he asked for every view was pointed out with a minuteness which left beauty entirely behind he could number the fields in every direction and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant clump but of all the views which his garden or which the country or kingdom could boast none were to be compared with the prospect of rosings afforded by an opening in the trees that boarded the park nearly opposite the front of his house it was a handsome modern building well situated on rising ground from his garden mr collins would have led them round his two meadows but the ladies not having shoes to encounter the remains of a white frost turned back and while sir william accompanied him charlotte took her sister and friend over the house extremely well pleased probably to have the opportunity of showing it without her husband's help it was rather small but well built and convenient and everything was fitted up and arranged with the neatness and consistency of which elizabeth gave sean at all the credit when mr collins could be forgotten there was really an air of great comfort throughout and by charlotte's evident enjoyment of it elizabeth supposed he must be often forgotten she had already learned that lady catherine was still in the country it was spoken of again while they were at dinner when mr collins joining in observed yes miss elizabeth you will have the honor of seeing lady catherine de berg on the ensuing sunday at church and i need not say you will be delighted with her she is all laughability and condescension and i doubt not but you will be honored with some portion of her notice when service is over i have scarcely any hesitation in saying she will include you and my sister mariah in every invitation with which she honors us during your stay here her behavior to my dear charlotte is charming we dine at rosings twice every week and are never allowed to walk home her ladyship's carriage is regularly ordered for us i should say one of her ladyship's carriages for she has several lady catherine is a very respectable sensible woman indeed added charlotte and a most attentive neighbor very true my dear that is exactly what i say she is the sort of woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference the evening was spent chiefly in talking over hertfordshire news and telling again what had already been written and when it closed elizabeth in the solitude of her chamber had to meditate upon charlotte's degree of contentment to understand her address in guiding and composure and bearing with her husband and to acknowledge that it was all done very well she also had to anticipate how her visit would pass the quiet tenor of their usual employment the vexatious interruptions of mr collins and the gaieties of their intercourse with rosings a lively imagination soon settled it all about the middle of the next day as she was in her room getting ready for a walk a sudden noise below seemed to speak the whole house in confusion and after listening a moment she heard somebody running upstairs in a violent hurry and calling loudly after her she opened the door and met mariah in the landing place who breathless with agitation cried out oh my dear eliza pray make haste and come into the dining room for there is such a sight to be seen i will not tell you what it is bake haste and come down this moment elizabeth asked questions in vain mariah would tell her nothing more and down they ran into the dining room which fronted the lane in quest of this wonder it was two ladies stopping in a low phaeton in the garden gate and is this all cried elizabeth i expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden and here is nothing but lady catherine and her daughter lamb idea said mariah quite shocked at the mistake it is not lady catherine the old lady is mrs jenkinson who lives with them the other is mr berg only look at her she's quite a little creature who would have thought that she could be so thin and small she is abominably rude to keep charlotte out of doors and all this wind why does she not come in oh charlotte says she hardly ever does it is the greatest of favors when mr bird comes in i like her appearance said elizabeth struck with other ideas she looks sickly and cross yes she will do for him very well she will make him a very proper wife mr collins and charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies and sir william to elizabeth's high diversion was stationed in the doorway in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him and constantly bowing whenever mr berg looked that way at length there was nothing more to be said the ladies drove on and the others returned into the house mr collins no sooner saw the two girls and he began to congratulate them on their good fortune which charlotte explained by letting them know that the whole party was asked to die at rosings the next day end of chapter 28 chapter 29 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 29 mr collins's triumph and consequence of this invitation was complete the power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wandering visitors and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his wife was exactly what he had wished for and that an opportunity of doing it should be given so soon was such an instance of lady catherine's condescension as he knew not how to admire enough i confess said he that i should not have been at all surprised by her ladyships asking us on sunday to drink tea and spend the evening at rosings i rather expect it from my knowledge of her affability that it would happen but who could have foreseen such an attention as this who could have imagined that we should receive an invitation to dine there an invitation moreover including the whole party so immediately after your arrival i am the less surprised at what has happened replied sir william from that knowledge of what the manners of the great really are which my situation in life has allowed me to acquire about the court such instances of elegant breeding are not uncommon scarcely anything was talked of the whole day or next morning but their visit to rosing's mr collins was carefully instructing them in what they were to expect that the sight of such rooms so many servants and so splendid at dinner might not wholly overpower them when the ladies were separating for the twilight he said to elizabeth do not make yourself uneasy my dear cousin about your apparel lady catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter i would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superior to the rest there is no occasion for anything more lady catherine will not think the worst of you for being simply dressed she likes to have the distinction of rank preserved while they were dressing he came two or three times to their different doors to recommend their being quick as lady catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner such formidable accounts of her ladyship and her manner of living quite frightened mariah lucas who had been little used to company and she looked forward to her introduction at rosing's with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at st james as the weather was fine they had a pleasant walk of about half a mile across the park every park has its beauty and its prospects and elizabeth saw much to be pleased with though she could not be in such raptures as mr collins expected the scene to inspire and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost sir lewis to berg when they ascended the steps to the hall mariah's alarm was every moment increasing and even sir william did not look perfectly calm elizabeth's courage did not fail her she had heard nothing of lady catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation from the entrance hall of which mr collins pointed out with a rapturous air the fine proportion and the finished ornaments they followed their servants through an anti-chamber to the room where lady catherine her daughter and mrs jenkinson were sitting her ladyship with great condescension arose to receive them and as mrs collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be hers it was performed in a proper manner without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary in spite of having bennetts and james's sir william was so completely awed by the grander surrounding him that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow and take his seat without saying a word and his daughter frightened almost out of her senses sat on the edge of her chair not knowing which way to look elizabeth found herself quite equal to the scene and could observe the three ladies before her composedly lady catherine was a tall large woman with strongly marked features which might once have been handsome her heir was not conciliating nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank she was not rendered formidable by silence but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative at tone has marked her self-importance and brought mr wickham immediately to elizabeth's mind and from the observation of the day altogether she believed lady catherine to be exactly what he represented when after examining the mother in whose countenance and deportment she soon found some resemblance of mr darcy she turned her eyes on the daughter she could almost have joined in mariah's astonishment at her being so thin and so small there was neither in figure nor face any likeness between the ladies mr berg was pale and sickly her features though not plain were insignificant and she spoke very little except in a low voice to mrs jenkinson in whose appearance there was nothing remarkable and who was entirely engaged in listening to what she said and placing a screen in the proper direction before her eyes after sitting a few minutes they were all sent to one of the windows to admire the view mr collins attending them to point out its beauties and lady catherine kindly informing them that it was much better worth looking at in the summer the dinner was exceedingly handsome and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which mr collins had promised and as he had likewise foretold he took his seat at the bottom of the table by her ladyship's desire and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater he carved and ate and praised with delighted alacrity and every dish was commended first by him and then by sir william who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said in a manner which elizabeth wondered lady catherine could bear but lady catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration and gave most gracious smiles especially when any dish on their table proved a novelty to them the party did not supply much conversation elizabeth was ready to speak whenever there was an opening but she was seated between charlotte and mr berg the former of whom was engaged in listening to lady catherine and the latter said not a word to her all dinner time mrs jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little mr berg ate pressing her to try some other dish and fearing she was indisposed mariah thought speaking out of the question and the gentleman did nothing but eat and admire when the ladies returned to the drawing room there was little to be done but to hear lady catherine talk which she did without any intermission till coffee came in delivering her opinion on every subject in so decisive a manner as proved that she was not used to have her judgment controverted she inquired into charlotte's domestic concerns familiarly and minutely gave her a great deal of advice as to the management of them all told her how everything ought to be regulated in so small a family as hers and instructed her as to the care of her cows and her poultry elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others in the intervals of her discourse with mrs collins she addressed a variety of questions to mariah and elizabeth but especially to the latter of whose connections she knew the least and who she observed to mrs collins was a very genteel pretty kind of girl she asked her at different times how many sisters she had whether they were older or younger than herself whether any of them were likely to be married whether they were handsome where they had been educated what carriage her father kept and what had been her mother's maiden name elizabeth felt all the impermanence of her questions but answered them very composedly lady catherine then observed your father's estate is entailed on mr collins i think for your sake turning to charlotte i am glad of it but otherwise i see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line it was not thought necessary into louis de berg's family do you play and sing miss bennett a little oh then sometime or other we shall be happy to hear you our instrument is a capital one probably superior to you shall try it someday do your sisters play and sing one of them does why did not you all learn you ought all to have learned the miss webs all play and their father has not so good in income as yours do you draw no not at all what none of you not one that is very strange but i suppose you had no opportunity your mother should have taken you to town every spring for the benefit of masters my mother would have had no objection but my father hates london has your governess left you we never had a governess no governess how is that possible five daughters brought up at home without a governess i never heard of such a thing your mother must have been quite a slave to your education elizabeth could hardly help smiling as she assured her that had not been the case then who taught you who attended to you without a governess you must have been neglected compared with some families i believe we were but such of us as wish to learn never wanted the means we were always encouraged to read and had all the masters that were necessary those who chose to be idle certainly might i no doubt but that is what a governess will prevent and if i had known your mother i should have advised her most strenuously to engage one i always say that nothing is to be done in education without steady and regular instruction and nobody but a governess can give it it is wonderful how many families i have been the means of supplying in that way i am always glad to get a young person well placed out four nieces of mrs jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means and it was but the other day that i recommended another young person who was merely accidentally mentioned to me and the family are quite delighted with her mrs collins did i tell you of lady metcalf's calling yesterday to thank me she finds miss pope a treasure lady catherine said she you have given me a treasure are any of your younger sisters out miss bennett yes mom all all put all five out at once very odd and you only the second the younger ones out before the elder ones are married your younger sisters must be very young yes my youngest is not sixteen perhaps she is full young to be much in company but really mom i think it would be very hard upon younger sisters that they should not have their share of society and amusement because the elder have not the means or inclination to marry early the last born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth as the first and to be kept back on such a motive i think it would not be very likely to promote sisterly affection or delicacy of mind upon my word said her ladyship you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person pray what is your age with three younger sisters grown up replied elizabeth smiling your ladyship can hardly expect me to own it lady catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer and elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence you cannot be more than twenty i am sure therefore you need not consider your age i am not one and twenty when the gentleman had joined them and tea was over the card tables were placed lady catherine sir william and mr and mrs collins sat down to quadrille and as mr berg chose to play at casino the two girls had the honor of assisting mrs jenkinson to make up her party their table was superlatively stupid scarcely a syllable was uttered that did not relate to the game except when mrs jenkinson expressed her fears of mr berg's being too hot or too cold or having too much or too little light a great deal more passed at the other table lady catherine was generally speaking stating the mistakes of the three others or relating some anecdote of herself mr collins was employed in agreeing to everything her ladyship said thanking her for every fish he won and apologizing if he thought he won too many so william did not say much he was storing his memory with anecdotes and noble names when lady catherine and her daughter had played as long as they chose the tables were broken up the carriage was offered to mrs collins gratefully accepted and immediately ordered the party then gathered round the fire to hear lady catherine determine what weather they were to have on the morrow from these instructions they were summoned by the arrival of the coach and with many speeches of thankfulness on mr collins's side and as many bows on sir williams they departed as soon as they had driven from the door elizabeth was called on by her cousin to give her opinion of all that she had seen at rosing's which for charlotte's sake she made more favorable than it really was but her commendation though costing her some trouble could by no means satisfy mr collins and he was very soon obliged to take her ladyship's praise into his own hands end of chapter 29 chapter 30 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 30 so william stayed only a week at hansford but his visit was long enough to convince him of his daughter's being most comfortably settled and of her possessing such a husband and such a neighbor as were not often met with while sir william was with them mr collins devoted his morning to driving him out in his gig and showing him the country but when he went away the whole family returned to their usual employments and elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not see more of her cousin by the alteration for the chief of the time between breakfast and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden or in reading and writing and looking out of the window in his own book room which fronted the road the room in which the lady sat was backwards elizabeth had at first rather wondered that charlotte should not prefer the dining parlor for common use it was a better sized room and had a more pleasant aspect but she soon saw that her friend had an excellent reason for what she did for mr collins would undoubtedly have been much less in his own apartment had they sat in one equally lively and she gave charlotte credit for the arrangement from the drawing room they could distinguish nothing in the lane and were indebted to mr collins for the knowledge of what carriages went along and how often especially mr berg drove by in her phaeton which he never failed coming to inform them of though it happened almost every day she not infrequently stopped at the parsonage and had a few minutes conversation with charlotte but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out very few days passed in which mr collins did not walk to rosings and not many in which his wife did not think it necessary to go likewise until elizabeth recollected that there might be other family livings to be disposed of she could not understand the sacrifice of so many hours now and then they were honored with a call from her ladyship and nothing escaped her observation that was passing in the room during these visits she examined into their employments looked at their work and advised them to do it differently found fault with the arrangement of the furniture or detected the housemaid in negligence and if she accepted any refreshment seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that mrs collins's joints of meat were too large for her family elizabeth soon perceived that though this great lady was not in commission of the peace of the county she was a most active magistrate in her own parish the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by mr collins and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome discontented or too poor she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences silenced their complaints and scold them into harmony and plenty the entertainment of dining at rosings was repeated about twice a week and allowing for the loss of sir william and there being only one card table in the evening every such entertainment was the counterpart of the first their other engagements were few as the style of living in the neighborhood in general was beyond mr collins's reach this however was no evil to elizabeth and upon the whole she spent her time comfortably enough there were half hours of pleasant conversation with charlotte and the weather was so fine for the time of year that she had often great enjoyment out of doors her favorite walk and where she frequently went while the others were calling on lady catherine was along the open grove which edged that side of the park where there was a nice sheltered path which no one seemed to value but herself and where she felt beyond the reach of lady catherine's curiosity in this quiet way the first fortnight of her visit soon passed away easter was approaching and the week preceding it was to bring an addition to the family at rosings which in so small a circle must be important elizabeth had heard soon after her arrival that mr darcy was expected there in the course of a few weeks and though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their rosin's parties and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless ms bingley's designs on him were by his behavior to his cousin for whom he was evidently destined by lady catherine who talked of his coming with the greatest satisfaction spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration and seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by miss lucas and herself his arrival was soon known at the parsonage for mr collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into huntsford lane in order to have the earliest assurance of it and after making his powers the carriage turned into the park hurried home with the great intelligence on the following morning he hastened to rosings to pay his respects there were two nephews of lady catherine to require them for mr darcy had brought with him a colonel fitzwilliam the younger son of his uncle lord and to the great surprise of all the party when mr collins returned the gentleman accompanied him charlotte had seen them from her husband's room crossing the road and immediately running into the other told the girls what an honor they might expect adding i may thank you eliza for this piece of civility mr darcy would never have come so soon to wait upon me elizabeth had scarcely time to disclaim all right to the compliment before their approach was announced by the doorbell and shortly afterwards the three gentlemen entered the room colonel fitzwilliam who led the way was about 30 not handsome but in person and addressed most truly the gentleman mr darcy looked just as he had been used to look in hertfordshire paid his compliments with his usual reserve to mrs collins and whatever might be his feelings toward her friend met her with every appearance of composure elizabeth merely curtsy to him without saying a word colonel fitzwilliam entered into conversation directly with the readiness and ease of a well-bred man and talked very pleasantly but his cousin after having addressed a slight observation on the house and garden to mrs collins sat for some time without speaking to anybody at length however his civility was so far awakened as to inquire of elizabeth after the health of her family she answered him in the usual way and after a moment's pause added my eldest sister has been in town these three months have you never happened to see her there she was perfectly sensible that he never had but she wished to see whether he would betray any consciousness of what had passed between the bingleys and jane and she thought he looked a little confused as he answered that he had never been so fortunate as to meet miss bennett the subject was pursued no father and the gentleman soon afterwards went away end of chapter 30 chapter 31 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 31 colonel fitzwilliam's manners were very much admired at the parsonage and the ladies all felt that he must add considerably to the pleasures of their engagements at rosings it was some days however before they received any invitation thither for while there were visitors in the house they could not be necessary and it was not till easter day almost a week after the gentleman's arrival that they were honored by such an attention and then they were merely asked on leaving church to come there in the evening for the last week they had seen very little of lady catherine or her daughter kernel fitz william had called up the parsonage more than once during the time but mr darcy they had seen only at church the invitation was accepted of course and at a proper hour they joined the party in lady catherine's drawing room her ladyship received them civilly but it was plain that their company was by no means so acceptable as when she could get nobody else and she was in fact almost engrossed by her nephews speaking to them especially to darcy much more than any other person in the room colonel fitzwilliams seemed really glad to see them anything was a welcome relief to him at rosing's and mrs collins's pretty friend had moreover caught his fancy very much he now seated himself by her and talked so agreeably of kent and hertfordshire of traveling and staying at home of new books and music that elizabeth had never been half so well entertained in that room before and they conversed with so much spirit and flow as to draw the attention of lady catherine herself as well as of mr darcy his eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned towards them with the look of curiosity and that her ladyship after a while shared the feeling was more openly acknowledged for she did not scruple to call out what is it that you are saying if it's william what is it that you are talking of what are you telling miss bennett let me hear what it is we are speaking of music madam said he when no longer able to avoid a reply of music then pray speak aloud it is of all subjects my delight i must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music there are few people in england i suppose who have more true enjoyment of music than myself or a better natural taste if i had ever learned i should have been a great proficient and so would anne if her health had allowed her to apply i am confident that she would have performed delightfully how does georgiana get on darcy mr darcy spoke with affectionate praise of his sister's proficiency i am very glad to hear such a good account of her said lady catherine and pray tell her from me that she cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal i assure you madam he replied that she does not need such advice she practices very constantly so much the better it cannot be done too much and when i next write to her i shall charge her not to neglect it on any account i often tell young ladies that no excellence in music is to be acquired without constant practice i have told miss bennett several times that she will never play really well unless she practices more and though mrs collins has no instrument she is very welcome as i have often told her to come to rosings every day and play on the piano forte in mrs jenkinson's room she would be in nobody's way you know in that part of the house mr darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt's ill breeding and made no answer when coffee was over colonel fitzwilliam reminded elizabeth of having promised to play to him and she sat down directly to the instrument he drew a chair near her lady catherine listened to half a song and then talked as before to her other nephew till the latter walked away from her and making with his usual deliberation towards the piano forte stationed himself so as to command a full view of the fair performance countenance elizabeth saw what he was doing and at the first convenient pause turned to him with an arch smile and said you mean to frighten me mr darcy by coming in all this state to hear me i will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well there is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others my courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me i shall not say you are mistaken he replied because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you and i have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment and occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own elizabeth laughed heartily at this picture of herself and said to colonel fitzwilliam your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me and teach you not to believe a word i say i am particularly unlucky at meeting with a person so able to expose my real character in a part of the world where i had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit indeed mr darcy it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in hertfordshire and give me leave to say very in politic too for it is provoking me to retaliate and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear i am not afraid of you said he smilingly pray let me hear what you have to accuse him of cried colonel fitzwilliam i should like to know how he behaves among strangers you shall hear then but prepare yourself for something very dreadful the first time of my ever seeing him in hertfordshire you must know was it a ball and at this ball what do you think he did he danced only four dances though gentlemen were scarce and to my certain knowledge more than one young lady was sitting down in one of her partner mr darcy you cannot deny the fact i had not at that time the honor of knowing any lady in the assembly beyond my own party true and nobody can ever be introduced in a ballroom well colonel fitzwilliam what do i play next my fingers weight your orders perhaps said darcy i should have judged better had i sought an introduction but i am ill qualified to recommend myself to strangers shall we ask your cousin the reason of this said elizabeth still addressing colonel fitzwilliam shall we ask him why a man of sense and education and who has lived in the world is ill-qualified to recommend himself to strangers i can answer your question said fitzwilliam without applying to him it is because he will not give himself the trouble i certainly have not for talent which some people possess said darcy of conversing easily with those i have never seen before i cannot catch their tone of conversation or appear interested in their concerns as i often see done my fingers said elizabeth do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which i see many women's do they have not the same force or rapidity and do not produce the same expression but then i have always supposed to be my own fault because i will not take the trouble of practicing it is not that i do not believe my fingers as capable as any other womans of superior execution darcy smiled and said you are perfectly right you have employed your time much better no one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting we neither of us perform to strangers here they were interrupted by lady catherine who called out to know what they were talking of elizabeth immediately began playing again lady catherine approached and after listening for a few minutes said to darcy miss bennett would not play at all amiss if she practiced more and could have the advantage of a london master she has a very good notion of fingering though her taste is not equal to ann's and would have been a delightful performer had her health allowed her to learn elizabeth looked at darcy to see how cordially he ascended to his cousin's praise but neither at that moment nor at any other could she discern any symptom of love and from the whole of his behavior to mr berg she derived this comfort for miss bingley that he might have been just as likely to marry her had she been his relation lady catherine continued her remarks on elizabeth's performance mixing them with many instructions on execution and taste elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility and at the request of the gentleman remained at the instrument till her ladyship's carriage was ready to take them all home and to chapter 31 chapter 32 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 32 elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning and writing to jane while mrs collins and mariah were gone on business into the village when she was startled by a ring at the door the certain signal of a visitor as she had heard no carriage she thought it not unlikely to be lady catherine and under that apprehension was putting away her half-finished letter that she might escape all impertinent questions when the door opened and to her very great surprise mr darcy and mr darcy only entered the room he seemed astonished too on finding her alone and apologized for his intrusion by letting her know that he had understood all the ladies were to be within they then sat down and when her inquiries after rosings were made seemed in danger of sinking into total silence it was absolutely necessary therefore to think of something and in this emergence recollecting when she had seen him last in hertfordshire and feeling curious to know what he would say on the subject of their hasty departure she observed how very suddenly you acquitted netherfield last november mr darcy it must have been a most agreeable surprise to mr bingley to see you all after him so soon for if i recollect right he went but the day before he and his sisters were well i hope when you left london perfectly so i thank you she found that she was to receive no other answer and after a short pause added i think i have understood that mr bingley has not much idea of ever returning to netherfield again i have heard him say so but it is probable that he may spend very little of his time there in the future he has many friends and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing if he means to be but little at netherfield it would be better for the neighborhood that he should give up the place entirely for then we might possibly get a settled family there but perhaps mr bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighborhood as for his own and we must expect him to keep it or quit it on the same principle i should not be surprised said darcy if he were to give it up as soon as any eligible purchase offers elizabeth made no answer she was afraid of talking longer of his friend and having nothing else to say was now determined to leave the trouble of finding a subject to him he took the hint and soon began with this seems a very comfortable house lady catherine i believe did a great deal to it when mr collins first came to huntsford i believe she did and i am sure she could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful object mr collins appears to be very fortunate in his choice of a wife yes indeed his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of the very few sensible women who would have accepted him or have made him happy if they had my friend has an excellent understanding though i am not certain that i consider her marrying mr collins as the wisest thing she ever did she seems perfectly happy however and in a prudential light it is certainly a very good match for her it must be very agreeable for her to be settled within so easier distance of her own family and friends an easy distance do you call it it is nearly 50 miles and what is 50 miles of good road little more than half a day's journey yes i call it a very easy distance i should never have considered the distance as one of the advantages of the match cried elizabeth i should never have said mrs collins was settled near her family it is a proof of your own attachment to hertfordshire anything beyond the neighborhood of longborne i suppose would appear far as he spoke there was a sort of smile which elizabeth fancied she understood he must be supposing her to be thinking of jane and netherfield and she blushed as she answered i do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family the far and the near must be relative and depend on many varying circumstances where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant distance becomes no evil but that is not the case here mr and mrs collins have a comfortable income but not such a one as will allow of frequent journeys and i am persuaded my friend would not call herself near her family under less than half the present distance mr darcy drew his chair a little towards her and said you cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment you cannot have been always at longborne elizabeth looked surprised the gentleman experienced some change of feeling he drew back his chair took a newspaper from the table and glancing over it said in a colder voice are you pleased with kent a short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued on either side calm and concise and soon put an end to by the entrance of charlotte and his sister just returned from her walk the data surprised them mr darcy related the mistake which had occasioned his intruding on miss bennett and after sitting a few minutes longer without saying much to anybody went away what can be the meaning of this said charlotte as soon as he was gone my dear eliza he must be in love with you or he would never have called on us in this familiar way but when elizabeth told of his silence it did not seem very likely even to charlotte's wishes to be the case and after various conjectures they could at last only supposed his visit to proceed from the difficulty of finding anything to do which was the more probable from the time of year all field sports were over within doors there was lady catherine books and a billiard table but gentlemen cannot always be within doors and in the nearness of the parsonage or the pleasantness of the walk to it or of the people who lived in it the two cousins found a temptation from this period of walking feather almost every day they called at various times of the morning sometimes separately sometimes together and now and then accompanied by their aunt it was plain to them all that colonel fitzwilliam came because he had pleasure in their society a persuasion which of course recommended him still more and elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in being with him as well as by his evident admiration of her of her former favorite george wickham and though in comparing them she saw there was less captivating softness in colonel fitzwilliam's manners she believed he might have the best informed mind but why mr darcy came so often to the parsonage it was more difficult to understand it could not be for society as he frequently sat there ten minutes together without opening his lips and when he did speak it seemed the effect of necessity rather than of choice a sacrifice to propriety not a pleasure to himself he seldom appeared really animated mrs collins knew not what to make of him colonel fitzwilliams occasionally laughing at his stupidity proved that he was generally different which her own knowledge of him could not have told her and as she would like to have believed this changed the effect of love and the object of that love her friend eliza she set herself seriously to work to find it out she watched him whenever they were at rosings and whenever he came to huntsford but without much success he certainly looked at her friend a great deal but the expression of that look was disputable it was an earnest steadfast gaze but she often doubted whether there were much admiration in it and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind she had once or twice suggested to elizabeth the possibility of his being partial to her but elizabeth always laughed at the idea and mrs collins did not think it right to press the subject from the danger of raising expectations which might only end in disappointment for in her opinion it admitted not over doubt that all her friends dislike would vanish if she could suppose him to be in her power in her kind schemes for elizabeth she sometimes planned her marrying colonel fitzwilliam he was beyond comparison the most pleasant man he certainly admired her and his situation in life was most eligible but to counterbalance these advantages mr darcy had considerable patronage in the church and his cousin could have none at all end of chapter 32 chapter 33 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 33 more than once did elizabeth in her rambles within the park unexpectedly meet mr darcy she felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought and to prevent it's ever happening again took care to inform him at first that it was a favorite haunt of hers how it could occur a second time therefore was very odd yet it did and even a third it seemed like willful ill nature or a voluntary penance for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her he never said a great deal nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much but it struck her in the course of their third rank contra that he was asking some odd unconnected questions about her pleasure in being at huntsford her love of solitary walks and her opinion of mr and mrs collins's happiness and that in speaking of rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house he seemed to expect that whenever she came into kent again she would be staying there too his words seem to imply it could he have colonel fitzwilliam in his thoughts she supposed if he meant anything he must mean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter it distressed her a little and she was quite glad to find herself at the gate in the pales opposite the parsonage she was engaged one day as she walked and perusing jane's last letter and dwelling on some passages which proved that jane had not written in spirits when instead of being again surprised by mr darcy she saw on looking up that colonel fitzwilliam was meeting her putting away the letter immediately and forcing a smile she said i did not know before that you ever walked this way i have been making the tour of the park he replied as i generally do every year and intend to close it with a call at the parsonage are you going much farther no i should have turned in a moment and accordingly she did turn and they walk towards the parsonage together do you certainly leave kent on saturday said she yes if darcy does not put it off again but i am at his disposal he arranges the business just as he pleases and if not able to please himself in the arrangement he has at least pleasure in the great power of choice i do not know anybody who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than mr darcy he likes to have his own way very well replied colonel fitzwilliam but so we all do it is only that he has better means of having it than many others because he is rich and many others are poor i speak feelingly a younger son you know must be inured to self-denial and dependence in my opinion the younger son of an earl can know very little of either now seriously what have you ever known of self-denial and dependence when have you been prevented by want of money from going wherever you chose or procuring anything you had a fancy for these are home questions and perhaps i cannot say that i have experienced many hardships of that nature but in matters of greater weight i may suffer from want of money younger sons cannot marry where they like unless they like women of fortune which i think they very often do our habits of expense make us too dependent and there are not many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some attention to money is this thought elizabeth meant for me and she coloured at the idea but recovering herself said in a lively tone and pray what is the usual price of an earl's younger son unless the elder brother is very sickly i suppose you would not ask about fifty thousand pounds he answered her in the same style and the subject dropped to interrupt the silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed she soon afterwards said i imagine your cousin brought you down with him chiefly for the sake of having someone at his disposal i wonder he does not marry to secure a lasting convenience of that kind but perhaps his sister does as well for the president and as she is under his sole care he may do what he likes with her no said colonel fitzwilliam that is an advantage which he must divide with me i am joined with him in the guardianship of miss darcy are you indeed and pray what sort of guardians do you make does your charge give you much trouble young ladies of her age are sometimes a little difficult to manage and if she has the true darcy spirit she may like to have her own way as she spoke she observed him looking at her earnestly and the man room which he immediately asked her why she supposed miss darcy likely to give them any uneasiness convinced her that she had somehow or rather got pretty near the truth she replied directly you need not be frightened i never heard any harm of her and i dare say she is one of the most tractable creatures in the world she is a very great favorite with some ladies of my acquaintance mrs hurst and miss bingley i think i have heard you say that you know them i know them a little their brother is a pleasant gentleman-like man he is a great friend of darcy's oh yes said elizabeth dryly mr darcy is uncommonly kind to mr bingley and takes a prodigious deal of care of him yes i really believe darcy does take care of him in those points where he most wants care from something that he told me in our journey hither i have reason to think bingley very much indebted to him but i ought to beg his pardon for i have no right to suppose that bingley was the person meant it was all conjecture what is it you mean it is a circumstance which darcy could not wish to be generally known because if it were to get round to the lady's family it would be an unpleasant thing you may depend upon my not mentioning it and remember that i have not much reason for supposing it to be bingley what he told me was merely this that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage but without mentioning names or any other particulars and i only suspected it to be bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer did mr darcy give you reasons for this interference i understood that there were some very strong objections against the lady and what arts did he use to separate him he did not talk to me of his own arts said fitzwilliam smiling he only told me what i have now told you elizabeth made no answer and walked on her heart swelling with indignation after watching her a little fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful i am thinking of what you have been telling me said she your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings why was he to be the judge you are rather disposed to call his interference officials i do not see what right mr darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination or why upon his own judgment alone he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy but she continued recollecting herself as we know none of the particulars it is not fair to condemn him it is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case that is not an unnatural surmise said fitzwilliam but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly this was spoken ingestingly but it appeared to her so just a picture of mr darcy that she would not trust herself with an answer and therefore abruptly changing the conversation talked on in different matters until they reached the parsonage there shut into her own room as soon as their visitor left them she could think without interruption of all that she had heard it was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected that could not exist in the world two men over whom mr darcy could have such boundless influence that he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate bingley and jane she had never doubted but she had always attributed to miss bingley the principal design and arrangement of them if his own vanity however did not mislead him he was the cause his pride and caprice were the cause of all that jane had suffered and still continued to suffer he had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate generous heart in the world and no one could say how lasting and evil he might have inflicted there were some very strong objections against the lady where conor offers williams words and those strong objections probably were her having one uncle who was a country attorney and another who was in business in london to jain herself she exclaimed there could be no possibility of objection all loveliness and goodness as she is her understanding excellent her mind improved and her manners captivating neither could anything be urged against my father who though with some peculiarities has abilities mr darcy himself need not disdain and respectability which he will probably never reach when she thought of her mother her confidence gave way a little but she would not allow that any objections there had material weight with mr darcy whose pride she was convinced would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friends connections than from their want of sense and she was quite decided at last that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride and partly by the wish of retaining mr bingley for his sister the agitation and tears which the subject occasioned brought on a headache and it grew so much worse towards the evening that added to her unwillingness to see mr darcy it determined her not to attend her cousins to rosings where they were engaged to drink tea mrs collins seeing that she was really unwell did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from pressing her but mr collins could not conceal his apprehension of lady catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home end of chapter 33 chapter 34 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 34 when they were gone elizabeth as if intending to exasperate herself as much as possible against mr darcy chose for her employment the examination of all the letters which jane had written to her since her being in kent they contained no actual complaint nor was there any revival of past occurrences or any communication of present suffering but in all and in almost every line of each there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style and which proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone had been scarcely overclouded elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal mr darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings it was some consolation to think that his visit to rosing was just to end on the day after the next and are still greater that in less than a fortnight she should herself be with jane again and enable to contribute to the recovery of her spirits by all that affection could do she could not think of darcy's leaving kent without remembering that his cousin was to go with him but colonel fitzwilliam had made it clear that he had no intentions at all and agreeable as he was she did not mean to be unhappy about him while settling this point she was suddenly roused by the sound of the doorbell and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being colonel fitzwilliam himself who had once before called late in the evening and might now come to inquire particularly after her but this idea was soon banished and her spirits were very differently affected when to her utter amazement she saw mr darcy walk into the room in a hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better she answered him with cold civility he sat down for a few moments and then getting up walked about the room elizabeth was surprised but said not a word after a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner and thus began in vain i have struggled it will not do my feelings will not be repressed you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression she stared coloured doubted and was silent this he considered sufficient encouragement and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately followed he spoke well but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness and of pride his sense of her inferiority of its being a degradation of the family obstacles which had always opposed to inclination were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding but was very unlikely to recommend his suit in spite of her deeply rooted dislike she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection and though her intentions did not vary for an instant she was at first sorry for the pain he was to receive till roused resentment by his subsequent language she lost all compassion and anger she tried however to compose herself to answer him with patience when he should have done he concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which in spite of all his endeavors he had found impossible to conquer and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand as he said this she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favorable answer he spoke of apprehension and anxiety but his countenance expressed real security such a circumstance could only exasperate father and when he ceased the color rose into her cheeks and she said in cases such as these it is i believe the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments about however unequally they may be returned it is natural that obligation should be felt and if i could feel gratitude i would now thank you but i cannot i have never desired your good opinion and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly i am sorry to have occasioned pain to anyone it has been most unconsciously done however and i hope will be of short duration the feelings which you tell me have long prevented the acknowledgement of your regard can have little difficulty in overcoming it after this explanation mr darcy who was leaning against the mantlepiece with his eyes fixed on her face seemed to catch her words with no less resentment than surprise his complexion became pale with anger and the disturbance of his mind was visible in every feature he was struggling for the appearance of composure and would not open his lips till he believed himself to have attained it the pause was to elizabeth's feelings dreadful at length with a voice of forced calmness he said and this is all the reply which i am to have the honor of expecting i might perhaps wish to be informed why with so little endeavourite civility i am thus rejected but it is of small importance i might as well inquire replied she why with so evident the desire of offending and insulting me you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will against your reason and even against your character was not this some excuse for incivility if i was uncivil but i have other provocations you know i have had not my feelings decided against you had they been indifferent or had they even been favorable do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining perhaps forever the happiness of a most beloved sister as she pronounced these words mr darcy changed color but the emotion was short and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued i have every reason in the world to think ill of you no motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there you dare not you cannot deny that you have been the principle if not the only means of dividing them from each other of exposing one to the center of the world for caprice and instability and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind she paused and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an heir which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse he even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity can you deny that you have done it she repeated with assumed tranquility he then replied i have no wish of denying that i did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister all that i rejoice in my success towards him i have been kinder than towards myself elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil reflection but its meaning did not escape nor was it likely to conciliate her it is not merely this affair she continued on which my dislike is founded long before it had taken place my opinion of you was decided your character was unfolded in the recital which i received many months ago from mr wickham on this subject what can you have to say in what imaginary act of friendship can you hear defend yourself or under what misrepresentation can you hear impose upon others you take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns said darcy in a less tranquil tone and with a heightened color who that knows what his misfortunes have been can help feeling an interest in him his misfortunes repeated darcy contemptuously yes his misfortunes have been great indeed and of your infliction cried elizabeth with energy you have reduced him to his present state of poverty comparative poverty you have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him you have deprived the best years of his life of that independence which was no less his due than his desert you have done all this and yet you can treat the mention of his misfortune with contempt and ridicule and this cried darcy as he walked with quick steps across the room is your opinion of me this is the estimation in which you hold me i thank you for explaining it so fully my faults according to this calculation are heavy indeed but perhaps added he stopping in his walk and turning towards her these offences might have been overlooked had not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design these bitter accusations might have been suppressed had i with greater policy concealed my struggles and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified unalloyed inclination by reason by reflection by everything but disguise of every sort is my abhorrence nor am i ashamed of the feelings i related they were natural and just could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections to congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said you are mistaken mr darcy if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way then as it spared the concern which i might have felt in refusing you had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner she saw him start at this but he said nothing and she continued you could not have made the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it again his astonishment was obvious and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification she went on from the very beginning from the first moment i may almost say of my acquaintance with you your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance your conceit and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others were such as to form the groundwork of deception on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike and i had not known you a month before i felt that you were the last man in the world whom i could ever be prevailed on to marry you have said quite enough madam i perfectly comprehend your feelings and have now only to be ashamed of what my own had been forgive me for having taken up so much of your time and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness and with these words he hastily left the room and elizabeth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house the tumult of her mind was now painfully great she knew not how to support herself and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half an hour her astonishment as she reflected on what had passed was increased by every review of it that she should receive an offer of marriage from mr darcy that he should have been in love with her for so many months so much in love us to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friends marrying her sister and which must appear at least with equal force in his own case was almost incredible it was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong affection but his pride his abominable pride his shameless a vowel of what he had done with respect to jane his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging though he could not justify it and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned mr wickham his cruelty towards whom he had not attempted to deny soon overcame the pity which the consideration of his attachment had for a moment excited she continued in very agitated reflections till the sound of lady catherine's carriage made her feel how unequal she was to encounter charlotte's observation and hurried her away to her room end of chapter 34 chapter 35 of pride and prejudice by jane austen read for librivox.org by karen savage in october 2007 chapter 35 elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts and meditations which had at length closed her eyes she could not yet recover from the surprise of what had happened it was impossible to think of anything else and totally indisposed for employment she resolved soon after breakfast to indulge herself in air and exercise she was proceeding directly to her favorite walk when the recollection of mr darcy's sometimes coming there stopped her and instead of entering the park she turned up the lane which led farther from the turnpike road the park paling was still the boundary on one side and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground after walking two or three times along that part of the lane she was tempted by the pleasantness of the morning to stop at the gates and look into the park the five weeks which she had now passed in kent had made a great difference in the country and every day was adding to the verger of the early trees she was on the point of continuing her walk when she caught a glimpse of a gentleman within the sort of grove which edged the park he was moving that way and fearful of its being mr darcy she was directly retreating but the person who advanced was now near enough to see her and stepping forward with eagerness pronounced her name she had turned away but on hearing herself called though in a voice which proved it to be mr darcy she moved again towards the gate he had by that time reached it also and holding out a letter which she instinctively took said with the look of haughty composure i have been walking in the grove sometime in the hope of meeting you will you do me the honor of reading that letter and then with a slight bow turned again into the plantation and was soon out of sight with no expectation of pleasure but with the strongest curiosity elizabeth opened the letter and to her still increasing wonder perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter paper written quite through in a very close hand the envelope itself was likewise full pursuing her way along the lane she then began it it was dated from rosings at eight o'clock in the morning and was as follows be not alarmed madam on receiving this letter by the apprehension of its containing any repetitions of those sentiments or renewal of those offers which were last night so disgusting to you i write without any intention of paining you or humbling myself by dwelling on wishes which for the happiness of both cannot be too soon forgotten and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion should have been spared had not my character required it to be written and read you must therefore pardon the freedom with which i demand your attention your feelings i know will bestow it unwillingly but i demanded of your justice two offenses of a very different nature and by no means of equal magnitude you laid last night to my charge the first mentioned was that regardless of the sentiments of either i had detached mr bingley from your sister and the other that i had in defiance of various claims in defiance of honor and humanity ruined the immediate prosperity and blasted the prospects of mr wickham willfully and wantonly to have thrown off the companion of my youth the acknowledged favorite of my father a young man who had scarcely any other dependence than on our patronage and who had been brought up to expect its exertion would be a depravity to which the separation of two young persons whose affection could be the growth of only a few weeks could bear no comparison but from the severity of that blame which was last night so liberally bestowed respecting each circumstance i shall hope to be in the future secured when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read if in the explanation of them which is due to myself i am under the necessity of relating feelings which may be offensive to yours i can only say that i am sorry the necessity must be obeyed and further apology would be absurd i had not been long in hertfordshire before i saw in common with others that bingley preferred your elder sister to any other young woman in the country but it was not till the evening of the dance at netherfield that i had any apprehension of his feeling a serious attachment i had often seen him in love before at that ball while i had the honor of dancing with you i was first made acquainted by sir william lucas's accidental information that bingley's attentions to your sister had given rise to a general expectation of their marriage he spoke of it as a certain event of which the time alone could be undecided from that moment i observed my friend's behavior attentively and i could then perceive that his partiality for miss bennett was beyond what i had ever witnessed in him your sister i also watched her look and manners were open cheerful and engaging as ever but without any symptom of peculiar regard and i remained convinced from the evening scrutiny that though she received his attentions with pleasure she did not invite them by any participation of sentiment if you have not been mistaken here i must have been in error your superior knowledge of your sister must make the latter probable if it be so if i have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her your resentment has not been unreasonable but i shall not scruple to assert that the serenity of your sister's countenance and heir was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that however amiable her temper her heart was not likely to be easily touched that i was desirous of believing her indifferent is certain but i will venture to say that my investigation and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears i did not believe her to be indifferent because i wished it i believed it on impartial conviction as truly as i wished it in reason my objections to the marriage were not merely those which i last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside in my own case the want of connection could not be so great and evil to my friend as to me but there were other causes of repugnance causes which though still existing and existing to an equal degree in both instances i had myself endeavoured to forget because they were not immediately before me these causes must be stated though briefly the situation of your mother's family though objectionable was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently so almost uniformly betrayed by herself by your three younger sisters and occasionally even by your father pardon me it pains me to offend you but amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations and your displeasure with this representation of them now to give you consolation to consider that to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your elder sister then it is honorable to the sense and disposition of both i will only say father that from what passed that evening my opinion of all parties was confirmed and every inducement heightened which could have led me before to preserve my friend from what i esteemed a most unhappy connection he left netherfield for london on the day following as you i am certain remember with the design of soon returning the part which i acted is now to be explained his sister's uneasiness had been equally excited with my own our coincidence of feeling was soon discovered and alike sensible that no time was to be lost in detaching their brother we shortly resolved on joining him directly in london we accordingly went and there i readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice i described and enforced them earnestly but however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination i do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage had it not been seconded by the assurance that i hesitated not in giving of your sister's indifference he had before believed her to return his affection with sincere if not with equal regard but bingley has great natural modesty with a stronger dependence on my judgment than on his own to convince him therefore that he had deceived himself was no very difficult point to persuade him against returning to hertfordshire when that conviction had been given was scarcely the work of a moment i cannot blame myself for having done thus much there is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which i do not reflect with satisfaction it is that i condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town i knew it myself as it was known to miss bingley but her brother is even yet ignorant of it that they might have met without ill consequence is perhaps probable but his regard did not appear to me enough extinguished for him to see her without some danger perhaps this concealment this disguise was beneath me it is done however and it was done for the best on this subject i have nothing more to say no other apology to offer if i have wounded your sister's feelings it was unknowingly done and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient i have not yet learned to condemn them with respect to that other more weighty accusation of having injured mr wickham i can only refute it by laying before you the whole of his connection with my family of what he has particularly accused me i am ignorant but of the truth of what i shall relate i can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity mr wickham is the son of a very respectable man who had for many years the management of all the pembaly estates and whose good conduct in the discharge of his trust naturally inclined my father to be of service to him and on george wickham who was his godson his kindness was therefore liberally bestowed my father supported him at school and afterwards at cambridge most important assistance as his own father always poor from the extravagance of his wife would have been unable to give him a gentleman's education my father was not only fond of this young man's society whose manners were always engaging he had also the highest opinion of him and hoping the church would be his profession intended to provide for him in it as for myself it is many many years since i first began to think of him in a very different manner the vicious propensities the want of principle which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments which mr darcy could not have here again i shall give you pain to what degree you only can tell but whatever may be the sentiments which mr wickham has created a suspicion of their nature shall not prevent me from unfolding his real character it adds even another motive my excellent father died about five years ago and his attachment to mr wickham was to the last so steady that in his will he particularly recommended it to me to promote his advancement in the best manner that his profession might allow and if he took orders desire that a valuable family living might be his as soon as it became vacant there was also a legacy of one thousand pounds his own father did not long survive mine and within half a year from these events mr wickham wrote to inform me that having finally resolved against taking orders he hoped i should not think it unreasonable for him to expect some more immediate pecuniary advantage in knew of the preferment by which he could not be benefited he had some intention he added of studying law and i must be aware that the interest of one thousand pounds would be a very insufficient support therein i rather wished than believed him to be sincere but at any rate was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal i knew that mr wickham ought not to be a clergyman the business was therefore soon settled he resigned all claim to assistance in the church were it possible that he could ever be in a situation to receive it and accept it in return three thousand pounds all connection between us seemed now dissolved i thought too will of him to invite him to pemberley or admit his society in town in town i believe he chiefly lived but his studying the law was a mere pretense and being now free from all restraint his life was a life of idleness and dissipation for about three years i heard little of him but on the deceased of the incumbent of the living which had been designed for him he applied to me again by a letter for the presentation his circumstances he assured me and i had no difficulty in believing it were exceedingly bad he had found the law a most unprofitable study and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained if i would present him to the living in question of which he trusted there could be little doubt as he was well assured that i had no other person to provide for and i could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions you will hardly blame me for refusing to comply with this entreaty or for resisting every repetition of it his resentment was in proportion to the distress of his circumstances and he was doubtless as violent in his abuse of me to others as in his reproaches to myself after this period every appearance of acquaintance was dropped how he lived i know not but last summer he was again most painfully obtruded on my notice i must now mention a circumstance which i would wish to forget myself and which no obligation less than the present should induce me to unfold to any human being having said thus much i feel no doubt of your secrecy my sister who is more than 10 years my junior was left to the guardianship of my mother's nephew colonel fitzwilliam and myself about a year ago she was taken from school and an establishment formed for her in london and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it to ramsgate and there also went mr wickham undoubtedly by design for there proved to have been a prior acquaintance between him and mrs young in whose character we were most unhappily deceived and by her connivance and aid he so far recommended himself to georgiana whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness to her as a child that she was persuaded to believe herself in love and to consent to an eloquent she was then but 15 which must be her excuse and after stating her imprudence i am happy to add that i owed the knowledge of it to herself i joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement and then georgiana unable to support the idea of grieving and defending her brother whom she almost looked up to as a father acknowledged a hole to me you may imagine what i felt and how i acted regard for my sister's credit and feelings prevented any public exposure but i wrote to mr wickham who left the place immediately and mrs young was of course removed from her charge mr wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune which is thirty thousand pounds but i cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement his revenge would have been complete indeed this madam is a faithful narrative of every event in which we have been concerned together and if you do not absolutely reject it as false you will i hope acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards mr wickham i know not in what manner under what form of falsehood he had imposed on you but his success is not perhaps to be wandered at ignorant as you previously were of everything concerning either detection could not be in your power and suspicion certainly not in your inclination you may possibly wonder why all this was not told you last night but i was not then master enough of myself to know what could or ought to be revealed for the truth of everything here related i can appeal more particularly to the testimony of colonel fitzwilliam who from our near relationship and constant intimacy and still more as one of the executors of my father's will has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions if your appearance of me should make my assertions valueless you cannot be prevented by the same course from confiding in my cousin and that there may be the possibility of consulting him i shall endeavor to find some opportunity of putting this letter in your hands in the course of the morning i will only add god bless you fitzwilliam darcy end of chapter 35. | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2020-03-18 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 22,382 | 122,014 |
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some of the notables that won't be included in it is Kevin VanDam ought to fo and there's a bunch of them that really aren't going there's other ones like Edwin eavers I didn't see Jason Christie on there either so there's a lot of great anglers that come be coming in into or joining FLW and making these super tournaments but these guys also for the first time in a year and a half have to pay it to an entry fee but hold on here's some of the things I I find a little odd about the whole thing first they're not gonna do em in law for rules they're gonna have to go back to fishing five fish five biggest fish weighed in do the whole way in thing come across the stage do all that stuff that they haven't done in a year and my my thoughts are I think this is actually good hold on Mike's coming out common or get Mike in here hey there I can see ya I can't hear ya hello now oh I can hear ya how are you man hello I can hear you there's our boy cat Mike from tackle web's hi man dragging today my internet oh is it good videos there we go oh yeah hey how are you I was talking about look how I'm lookin like alfalfa the hell ah yeah I'm been able to get trimmed up oh I got trimmed up nice hair coat with mohawk gave me oh yeah yeah Sonia wanted to do that I said no no no no I was talking about these super turn to FLW and majorly fishing we're gonna do can you can't hear me yes yes did you hear did you hear about this 53 anglers from major league fishing are gonna go fish this super tournament for FL WN and it's I think it's gonna be kind of weird cuz these guys are gonna be going back to having to fish for five fish instead of as many fish as they can catch don't you think do you think there's gonna be any overlap or any issues up before these guys going back you think it's just gonna be normal these guys are pros any problems they're gonna enjoy it yeah be honest yeah they're gonna have people rooting for them and showing up at the weigh-ins yeah we're gonna get back to the roots and be like yeah man this is fun Oh hold on hand sanitizers let me hit hand sanitizer um yeah I've been trying to I've been thinking about because not everybody's is going like Kevin VanDam isn't gonna be in there but our boy Edwin Devers is gonna be there so that's great because that promotes our tackle webs yeah that'll be helpful yeah yeah long as he does well yes well well that was the other thing what happens if 53 of these guys come up and like ten or twelve or let's say in the top ten eight of the top ten are FLW guys where does that pet blade really fishing affects it does it I mean oh these guys have always been big time guys anyways everybody has bad tournaments in the FLW guys have been fit format but that's all double you guys aren't you know it's not that major of a drop I don't believe no no I am yeah guys like John cog there's a lot of studs oh yeah for sure I'm bass fisherman in the butt wouldn't it make a great tournament wouldn't it make a great story for the FLW guys to just crush it I mean really good defensive right yeah would be hard to get somebody to actually take happy we'll be the only ones let's be honest yeah just like when major efficient was leaving the best we were the only ones to be honest about things yeah I mean there's everybody has some kind of vested interest in these things and they're like I feel like oh I shouldn't affect the bass you know I shouldn't talk bad about bass or I shouldn't talk about management bass or a major league fishing or any of that and not many people were and oh no I mean a week I caught curry from it you know you you were there when Dave Mercer tried to choke me to death a lot of people got buried before yeah a lot of us you know a lot of people gave us grief for it but it's not that it was it wasn't unfactual know when you're talking truthful yeah and you know there were problems with both those entities so we'll see yeah I can make hey if it happens we're gonna blast it yeah I gotta be honest I'm looking for I actually think we should be covering Chickamauga of the first one because I have a place we have a house to stay at I know we have we have more than one house to stay at we have several friends that live right there on Chickamauga that would be more than more than excited to have us up there more than excited to come up there and cover it I'm not joking yeah I'm not joking yeah I think I think I think it's one of those that we got a I I we got a look at him and try to put maybe plan because if FLW comes out and kills it I think it'll be awesome not to mention you know I won't be there I should be it that's his home lake so that's great last time they were out there I think it was Aaron Martens was the the winner or something like that so he won't be out there but you got like Andy Montgomery who's like the FLW god he's the greatest of all time after FLW he'll be back there and he's wonderful up there but also my boy John Murray who I went fishing up there at Chickamauga over the winter with major league fishing is gonna be in it so you know Wesley straighter there's gonna be a lot of good good anglers are gonna be in it but I gotta be honest I want to see John Cox go up there from FLW and just rip them new butts choking I just want to see John Cox tear some asses up and just go this is why you should have had me on major league fishing I mean I'm looking good man it would be good well I mean at least the FLW guys are used to us kind of calling on them and talking to him we call the bay jellyfishing guys and they don't they don't know they don't even remember how to do interviews anymore they're just lost I mean it's it's like they they go a year and a half without having any any media following and the next thing you know they don't they don't know what the media is all they worry about is the media with MLF I'm pissed off about it I'm sick of it so yeah I'm rootin I'm rootin for an F hell W just complete annihilation I wanted to win everything we yes complete sweep sweep I'm bringing a broom with me when I go to chicken bagua so well it'll be fun to see what's what's happening let me write hey we're getting back into tournaments Oh what and that's a good thing man that's exciting yeah yeah I mean I think I think it was something to talk about yeah well I think majorly fishings done a great job of of putting on like something almost everyday until here recently and then they've just completely dropped off here recently but I know everyone's excited about basket and back into it and you know Bass having a full full tournament schedule I'd really love I'm disappointed that majorly fishing only has like two more tournaments for the rest of the year you know how about a tournament in July in Florida yeah I know honestly what are your thoughts on that I know we have we have other work we have it I'm not the best hot is madam in that swamp ass hot like even in 800 1200 feet of water if you don't get on dolphin early enough yes and they'll be out there to get it's hot and they'll be out there I'll be out there for I mean that if you win your day with the biggest fish it's a hundred grand so you know those guys are beginning they're not they're not really giving up on little things they're gonna be going all out for that big fish gotta get it yeah and those dis pickles gonna be real oh yeah yeah we don't get some rain here soon they're screwed there we going fishing in a pool alligator and alligator holes yeah okay well I had someone ask you real real fast everything sells me go ahead of my story though yeah we fished a wahoo turn them into a LaMotta at Holiday out and we even pulled back into the thing we caught a small wahoo just legal it's probably like 12 pounds we stuck it in the cooler and drove and we were gonna check out the weigh-in on the way back home we're dreaming we drove in there and the board was completely and we took it up and there was a guy anyways who's away master Nate Tony at the time and man he sure enough we were the only one to walk only team to win a wahoo and the guy was literally his hand was shaking handing over to check to us like $6,000 person shut up so can you imagine like yeah here's here's that one point six pounds here you go I think it's gonna be tough to be honest I think they'd have a tough time down here I bet you're like a five six will probably win because it'll be well you want to it honest you want to probably do real well Shaw will do real well down here so will Bobby Lane will do probably pretty well so there'll be a few guys the Florida guys probably will do decent but there will be some guys that just completely suck it up and blank so okay quick question before I call Kyle Wiltjer how is the how is the boat running that's what people have been asking any updates on the boat we are doing some prep work it's running good yeah running well I guess I've been doing a you know homeschooling so I should use that proper yeah I teach you terms we're doing we've got some inventing we're trying to put a bow mount old tear on the stern of the boat and see how it runs so I'm gonna do a bunch of punch holes no we're doing a bunch of three things that we're gonna do record it before I go and get it refi the glass because if I mess up or I don't want want it and I got a whole I don't I haven't read fiberglass my mistakes when I get it done all in one time I don't want to have to go back I got a patch of things so we've been filming some of that stuff on how to install the old Tara we'll be putting in poles on batteries how to put the Optima batteries together up and so forth but it's been running well you know we've gotten we took some shots on it we did some shoots and yep yeah and I can't wait to get it get it real in here shortly now that you know they lifted the ban on us and we can actually be together yeah less than six feet with people yeah and we can get in reaching out to some people we can all hold hands finally again okay I have Kyle Walters waiting for me thank you dude good luck man yes oh yeah do yes yes we do you'll see ya next week yes let's do it next week yeah for sure we'll try the trolling motor awesome everybody have a good Memorial and yes awesome dude thank you man I'll talk to you soon later brother later okay that was cat Mike as I bring myself in and can't bring myself out okay so I'm gonna call Kyle so this while you wait on I'm gonna do the coast of sunglasses and I'm gonna call Kyle at the same time so I'll see in a few seconds [Music] is no no you're fine we're live now how are you shut your mouth did not just do that we shall watch - how big is that fish where are you fishing I'm fishing on Lake Westpoint in Georgia we've been out here like 10 minutes and I just caught this six actually site fishing and we've got another two and a half so I'll give I'll give everybody a little you and me turn early look at that this is how we do it look at that big sucker dude what did you catch it on top water frog top water front I just I hope they're on a seven plus six rod and 65 pound braid but you still get their bearings a little bit harder like two or three minutes ago I guess I'm saying nice that's what you get when you got cholera on the bike that yeah that is what you get how are you man everybody if you this is kyle wiltjer elite angler youtuber great youtube channel i met him at this we met at the st. John's in we yes after day one end day to me yes I have a story I needed to tell you I couldn't tell you after while we were there but so do you member so it was day two you caught that ten pounder right yep so so John Cox and I are very close friends so he he goes he's he's like waving me over like chapman come here come here I go over to his boat he Yanks out like a 96 or 97 I'm like oh my gosh you've got the biggest fish of the tournament this is great news this is great news so then he goes up to the weigh-in and you're exactly in front of him right so in the middle of him I don't know if you remember he looks down at his phone and he texted me he goes the dude in front of me has a bigger fish than me I'm like shut your mouth oh I walked over there and then you get up and get all this praises and John brings up his and his looks tiny compared to yours it was the best thing ever well John's a good dude and you know he always catches ten pounders so just let me have one time they let me let me have it one time in Italy that was an awesome tournament for you to be honest that was first elite tournament what was your thoughts he made this to the final day what how did the what were you thinking after that so that tournament was one that it kind of fit my style because the way that I like to fish I like to run around and I do a thing called keeping everything honest that means like if I want a pattern of fishing you know three quarters of the way backs and creeks if I'm running to another Creek I'll stop and hit something in the main river for just a minute just to see if something's going out there so after our to postponed days you like we had an off day and then like to postpone days so we had like three days off of the off of the lake so you really had to go out there with a complete open mind and figure out what was happening every single day and I had on top of that the water dropped like a foot and a half because the wind and it's a tidal fishery so we had like every unknown you could possibly have in bass fishing we had it going that day so getting out of there with the top 10 I was really happy with all the unknown going on that I was able to put a little bit of something together and get out there with a decent finish but that was a nerve-wracking tournament you know the the problem with me is my only fear is not making a mistake as far as like catching the fish or landing a fish or breaking off my fear is making a bad decision and whenever you have all those unknowns going in you know going easy to make bad decision so I'm really happy that I was able to make decent decision to get out there with a good finish did you have like when you were when you guys did have your practice was your practice really were you really successful at your practice or was it really tough pretty good for me actually I was pretty dialed in on the first day I got there like first time I ever saw the st. Johns River I drove down the lake and I saw this small little backwater that was little bit deeper than the rest pull up in there and fill a frog with some duck weed it gets to two and a half founders go to the next when I catch a 5:00 sunlight okay I run around I'm working bunch of duck we bout on fishing more of it so like the second day I go and I fished shallow a little bit skipping a frog around some bushes and docks and I catch a couple more two and a half pound or so and I didn't fish much at all in practice really I was really scouting around because such a big vast place and you've got to check all the water color and see exactly where keeps the current and where you know the tide really sucks stuff out of so it's really a place where you want to take in how vast it is well yeah in practice I was really able to you know kind of call my shots and go back in these pockets and catch some fish consistently they were pretty good ones you know I'm 2 pounds less fish which in Florida you have a lot of big ones but the males are really really small so catching those 2 to 3 pounders is very important in Florida because if you get you know eight pounder then for one pounders you don't got that good of a bag but you got two and a half's back it up all of a sudden you're you know you're way up there so practice was real consistent for me but the tournament you know as everybody knows it kind of went off the rails for everybody how did you get introduced in the outdoors did your dad take you fishing when you're younger who got you who got you started my dad he likes to deer hunt a lot more he doesn't fish very much at all like I don't think he's ever thrown a baitcaster to this day except for maybe a few times he just you know he had a boat that was meant primarily for deer hunting and he took me out fishing it and a local lake one Tuesday evening whenever I was probably like eight or nine years old he took me out and there was a Tuesday night tournament and we I got to see it blast off and there was like 30 boats all of a sudden when it clicked at 5 o'clock just took off running down the lake like everybody's running 65 70 miles an hour running their fishing spot and just seeing what they were doing I was young and it just like opened my eyes to what exactly is bass fishing so from then until now I've been completely obsessed with it and go as much as possible and I absolutely love it every single day how is this this whole you know you've been a professional fisherman for years but you never usually have this many days off or this much time home I know you just got married I think you got married just a little bit before we met how has how how is this whole virus has I mean I guess it's fun to be home but are you silly have you been able to get out there go fishing as much yeah you know a lot of the lakes around me I've always travelled a ton in like late February to March April May you're always traveling to it so this year I actually got to spend a lot of time on the lakes where I normally don't get I miss you know most of the best bad fishing I miss most of that pre-spawn or the best postpone so this year I really got to take advantage of that but don't get me wrong how much further been traveling around and trying to figure out these big tough Fisheries but this shutdown should have been a time for me to really get ahead on the social media you know do more stuff with the youtubes and get everything in order but I kind of use this as more of a time just to be straight up late I was just down just down in Destin Florida for a week you know lay it on the beach so I should have use it a little bit more productively but I just didn't are you excited to get back at it I mean the next what's your next where is the next tournament for the leaps June 10th is day one on Lake Eufaula so I should just spent five days in a row on Lake Eufaula right before it went off limits it went off limits May the 10th was the last thing it's there and I fished the 6th through the 10th straight up graphing because I know it's gonna be an offshore offshore deal in that Lake primarily it's going to be offshore unless the lake comes up and get stained you can still win shallow but for the most part is gonna be an offshore deal so that's the problem with this is I'm I feel like my strong suit as bass fishing is pre spawn spawn and postponed and summertime offshore stuff I struggle with terminus in a row where you kind of gotta get out there a little bit deeper and it's gonna be it's gonna be a bit more of a struggle than normal but I got the confidence we can figure something out did you when you go to like do you follow do you do you don't do any you don't put a rod a lure in the water at all you're just simply driving around uh so in five days I like 55 hours on my boat of just that's just straight up while it's cruelty and graphing I did I can't drive ba but so much shallow grass that's gonna progress I tried to graph primarily but I did have to pull over and skip a frog or skip some doctor stuff we call some real real nice ones have them some really nice fish but I probably only fished a two hours max any day for the most part I'm out there 1213 hours and I'm graphing 10 or 11 it'll do so it's frog fishing like your specialty you've said frog like 15 times you you like throw on a frog don't you this time of year and lure any time of year when they're biting it that's all I can pretty much think about like I could be fishing a ten boat tournament where I think they're gonna be biting a frog and I can't sleep oh just something there's something about skipping that frog way back under a bush and then getting a bite that you can't even see you pretty much got a always tail hunter you skip on your bush you turn your ear and work your frog cuz you got to hear it I see you yeah they're just something about catching them that way on a big rod big line that is so much fun for me so we had a question as as i zoom it mark asked what rod and reel set up for using when you're fishing a frog okay so I go rod than most people because so I use a seven foot six heavy fast it's a point blank blank that I actually build all my rods myself so I use a simplest six point length in a Shimano Corrado 70 XG s 8 to 1 I use a little bit longer rod than most people because I am throwing braids and if you use something like a seven foot ride that just has you know a fast tip whenever you set the hook only like 20% of that 7 foot 3 rod is loaded so if that fish makes a fast run or if you get out of position at all you have no room for error and if I use that 7 foot 6 ride I've got like 4 or 5 feet of line boat up in that ride so if that fish runs or something I just have a little more leeway and I can keep more pressure on that fish for longer and my style for fishing the Frog is whenever I set the hook on a fish I pull as hard as I can and reel as hard as I can until I boat swing them in the boat so that's I feel like if you give them time to jump they you might lose them but it gets up here and ski them to the boat swing them in the boat I got you know heavy gauge hooks big line nothing's gonna fail I just got to get them in the carpet then I can sit there and play around with them and put them in laughs well nice I like that um have you been I mean you you were you do you play poker for the longest time for years and years have I are you still playing any poker or is is fish and taking over everything so fishing is definitely taking over almost everything for the past like two years but I do still play poker a decent amount I have a onap I play on this you know for real money and then I play on the computer a lot a real money well like right now everything's shut down yeah yeah there was a casino open somewhere I'd probably be in there would be live streaming from a poker that I know my dad's missing it I know my dad's missed it too but but you know it is what it is so so you're looking forward to the rest of the wreck you got a great start to start off with I mean are you what what place are you going to are you the most excited about going fishing so you know I think some of those New York Lakes like Champlain kayu the st. Lawrence River is gonna kind of be a curveball for me because I'm not really strong as far as smallmouth go but I do know how to fish current so that's to be kind of a we got to see how that one goes but Cayuga and Champlain are going to be a lot of largemouth fisheries and those large those largemouth up there in New York they bite like nothing I've ever seen for like you get around them you catch them it's like the Tennessee River you're around the fish you're gonna get them to bite so I'm excited to go up there and play around on cayuga or Lake Champlain just see what I can figure out I've never been to either one of those and that's another thing I really like I really like going lakes I've never been to and trying to figure it out you know in the three days of practice or deer in the tournament so I'm looking forward to those two for sure what about the tournament November I mean how that's gonna be unbelieving to have it's gonna be cold as hell start off with your right so I'm a little worried about that last tournament for everybody to be honest right the good thing is it's gonna be in Texas so if it was gonna be like Chickamauga or somewhere like that where it really does get really cold in November it would be even worse but yes it's going to be colder than average and the thing about that lake is Lake fort gets beat up worse than probably any lake in the country so all those fish they have came off bed they're going to get beat up beat up beat up until November before they you know they're gonna there's nothing any more major transition you don't till the end alright in the spring there's a major transition of them deep to shallow you can catch from shallow you know you cha it's just gonna be a tough tournament but hopefully we'll be able to catch some big largemouth there cuz it is like pork and there's like a ton of 12 to 14 pounders got there every year are you a good just just because I'm hearing rumors as I put up air quotes are you good do you like fish in Texas just out of curiosity I've never been affected never fished in take really yeah I'm hearing rumblings that that's where the classic is gonna be next year I'm down for that the thing about Texas is if we go to a class down there March they're gonna be a little bit further along so you know there'll be a little more bed fishing in play than most classics most classes are always a pre spawn deal so if we go to Texas in March or something like that which I have not heard this rumor at all I think I'm just saying that's you know there we look for bad fishing going on in that class to give us in Texas then there usually is like on Conroy a couple years ago the classic there was actually some bad fishing happening so I'd be okay with that you know they're up they're shallow they're trying to do their deal I think I could you know pluck a few but we got to make it to the classic we really worry about that yeah well that's the goal I mean the classic angler of the year I mean if you had to pick one if you could say I'm gonna win the Bassmaster Classic in my career with the leaps or when anglers or what would be more important to you angrily for sure yeah because I mean the classic I'm not trying to take anything away from the classic is huge but it's only 15 fish like really 15 fish can win you the biggest term in the world angler of the year you got to catch a whole bunch more than 15 to win that sucker so it just shows that you're a little bit more skill to win angler of the year so that's my go a hundred percent I won't anger it a year more than anything in the world but you know I'm a rookie now so we got a well we'll work our way yeah after your first I know when you when you were down here in Florida you it was still you were still like almost Brandt you're still brand new on the elites but you were brand new with elite sponsorship stuff when you have such a good tournament did that does that help you talk to people and get the you know start to work with other sponsors it kind of you know it all the all the deals are kind of doing in late summer yeah so as far as like any big corporations they're all their stuff is already gonna be full so I'm not going to see any benefits from that until til later but you know I did get a lot more you know notoriety and stuff like that the YouTube channel blew up for a while and I did get a lot more smaller company that you know you know reached out but that stars like the big mega sponsorships I won't see anything for that like the end of the year so we have fingers crossed for that I'm rooting for a big check this year yeah that I I'm looking I'm looking forward to by the way I should get into the YouTube channel the YouTube channels great how long have you been doing this the putting videos out and is it you and most of the time I see your you your wife in there and I think I think so and and but do you edit them all yourself I mean is it you guys doing it all so at first it all me doing it and then for the past probably four or six months my wife Hunter has been doing almost all the editing so I'm like she takes care everything she makes sure my batteries are charged still up in my GoPros make sure he thinks plugged up SD cards are clear and she does all the editing so it's a lot harder it's easier for me to do the editing because I can remember exactly where I caught the fish yeah I might have heard like a thirty minute clip there's a fish in there somewhere she doesn't like when that happened so what I try to do is I'll try to turn the camera off right after I catch a fish it's lighter soon right they'll drop to the end of clip if she can find it but you know it does still kind of help I might say something you know in the middle of a 20 minute cliff I might just say something that would be like a good you know verbal transition and then I got to kind of go back and tell her you know I said this it'll be a good way to transition from spot to spot or technique the technique but yeah she does for the last while she been doing almost all the editing and then for how long I've been doing the YouTube channel I think I started it in late October or early November of 2018 so I guess like a year and a half now and I've been really happy with the steady growth and YouTube is a very different beast than most other social media yes 99% of my comments are you know overwhelmingly positive oh yeah my wife Hunter does some tic TOCs and like 99% of her comments 999 probably like 55 percent of her comments are like straight haters yeah but the YouTube industry is not like that at all like everybody is like they appreciate you putting out the content everybody understands it takes a lot of work and they're really on board with whatever I'm doing and you know the YouTube has been huge for me interacting with people interacting with fans I love talking to people especially about fishing I even call them fans because I feel like most of them are like peers you know but for the most part that's the best part about YouTube is how much I can interact I try to reply to as many comments as I possibly can and you know I feel like that goes a long way so yeah I put a lot to bear to see it kind of taken shape now yeah oh no I know I know I know how hard it is for me doing it and how I you're killing the game on on it it's always fun to see not to mention to be honest I think I told you your wife after you caught that 10-pound the best mic I let me go back to st. John's my favorite part of the st. John's was well there were a few things I mean I got to talk to Dave Mercer and he and I got to not be hating each other anymore because you know I think you don't know about that which is good so clear in the air with Mercer was great the second thing was was man your wife was so proud of you catching that ten pounder I remember sitting there and talking to her because I was I think you had to talk to somebody else before you talked to me and she was crying in joy because a house how happy she was for that day for you and it was like one of the best things I've ever seen in this sport ever in 13 years of doing this right it just it's a big drilling don't because it's like the first day of the tournament is nerve-wracking and the second day of the tournament you still got to catch on but after you know we knew I made it to day three we knew I think the worst I could have possibly done was 20th place yeah so like all the pressures off 20th place in your first elites not bad at all no so it was a huge deal where she was super proud that all the work I've put in had actually you know turned into a positive result because it doesn't matter how much work you put in a lot of times you don't get the result you might deserve and then sometimes you get a result that you didn't deserve that you know was good so it was just good she was really happy and relieved that a positive result came out of all this work we've been put into it so hopefully we'll make her cry eight more times this year well now you don't want to cry too much let's let her cry when when that angle earlier the classic or something like that III think well I like I said I think you're killing the game with the YouTube channel because I know how hard it is to do it and and honestly after the after the first day I met you I came home and uploaded the video overwhelmingly I mean overwhelmingly everyone said go find Kyle for Day two okay okay yeah I'll I'll do another I'll find him you know let's hope he does and like I said you pull out that ten pounder and you're the person before John was the funniest thing because John came over to me afterwards and he's sitting there talking to me they go you didn't get the ginger ginger giant bass it was done before you and he's like Kyle got it I'm like oh it's just too funny that's I wouldn't know aware that a John Cox you know I knew he had a giant one I knew it was close to ten pounds but I didn't know he was upset about it you know after I weighed in the fish I was kind of being pulled in every single direction I wasn't you know what happened that day and how that happened you know more than just catching that 10 pounder I was really proud of the way that day happens because I found that place in practice and I went and ran everything I ran on day one and I didn't catch anything so I was riding I left like an hour and a half early because I was like I got to hit this one spot right here and catch a couple of keepers off I go in there and I lose a four pounder then I catch a three-and-a-half oh yeah and I kept in so making that adjustment on the water that day and figuring out what they were you know wanted for that day I was you know very proud of that because that's the decision that I made that worked out the ten pounder is just so it's a great bonus and all that stuff but I was really proud of the decision that I made to adjust and change and relocate I drove like 40 miles yeah and then you know put up in that little Ocklawaha whatever it's called River and then call it you know most of my fish for that day so making that adjustment I'm super proud of that did you make an adjustment with baits too was there something that you noticed in the that water or something was happening and you just said did they want a slower presentation did they want something chunkier was there something that happened that made you do it there so I think what happened was there was a wave of fish that had pulled up to spawn and that was that a down on the south end like all the way down below like Lake Dexter they're a little bit further along yeah so I'm I moved way up closer to the to the launch closer to Palatka and then I think the fish were a lot more pre-spawn at that time so I used the exact same bait the exact same well not the exact same pattern because I did run a little bit different pattern but I use the exact same bait because then pre-spawn fish like to pull up on those mats and I was using an ounce and a half weight to punch in there and catch up so I didn't change baits but I you know I changed locations and found that the fish were in a different state yeah yeah that's awesome well I don't want to keep you from fishing because of quite honestly I'm looking behind you like that like doc oh my gosh you had like all that structure under didn't under my buddy up there throwing opera right now is he's salty so that six pounder was awesome we saw it swimming down the bank and I told her I said look man I call it a four pounder so I threw to the other side of the blue that's the way the fish was going ight which that frog twice that fish came out came unglued on it one of the coolest bites I've ever seen in my life it was so awesome and now he was catching one on top with her so bad he did he was like I gotta make sure he doesn't do little circles with the trolling motor just tell not to just keep it straight down the bank dude I really appreciate the time today thank you very much please tell your wife I said hello everyone needs to go check out his channel and YouTube and Facebook it's Kyle welcher fishing you know kind of watch your fishing com2 I think correct but yeah so YouTube Kyle Wiltjer Instagram and Facebook Kyle ultra fishing and I do have a website but uh I appreciate you having me old man we got to do this again soon please no problem no problem anytime okay I tell everyone I said hello and I'll talk to you soon thank you brother amen litora there is the man crapola why does it do that Kyle Wiltjer make sure you go to his channel Kyle Wiltjer fishing con go to his youtube channel and his Facebook page show him some love and go subscribe and watch some of the great videos that he puts out you can't beat a more in all honesty the guy has so much energy and there's he has just he's just real it's like it's I'm trying to not get these I mean Kyle's in a huge name but like Todd and all these other people like our boy Jason and other people I don't want to my goal is let me take this off is to try to get real people on here and let's let's have a real conversation on everything that's going on let's not I'm trying to make this a lot more entertaining and and really to be quite honest having a little bit more time to talk to people I think really helps people break down the walls a little bit more than what we can do on the radio show so I thank Kyle for a for his time and yeah super down-to-earth and and just the one of the good news goods out good dudes out there we're gonna have a monster bass rick on here he had some things that came up so he couldn't come on today but we'll try to reschedule that hopefully we hear from him I should mention I'm gonna do I'm in the process of doing the ultimate and buy ultimate I mean the serious ultimate subscription box deal I'm gonna put all of them I'm gonna put four or five up against each other for this month they include I just got it yesterday warrior tap hold on warrior tackle box this will go up against mystery tackle box will go up against monster bass and will go up against one other one which I don't remember what the name of it is the other one is named of course I can't find it in my email it would it would make Oh real tackle box so real tackle box and this Warriors tackle box I've never opened never had any dealings with at all so we're gonna we're gonna put four of them up against each other maybe there's might be one more to four or five them up against each other and we're gonna really we're gonna really see which one is the best let's let's take a real look at them what quality products we are do they give us full packs the whole nine yards for one month and so that's coming up there's also a bunch of new stuff that we have going on some new some closer looks you got to see some of them yesterday I should mention that tomorrow these boxes are rated in Steve scale well yeah well rate them we're gonna all rate them to be honest Joe well rate them for whatever they're all bass oriented I've tried to make sure that they are all priced the same amount so like the monster bass I think is like thirty to thirty thirty dollars thirty two dollars whatever it is this this warriors box was thirty four dollars and then the real the real tackle box I think was with they charge shipping which I didn't like was still in the thirty thirty five dollar range and the mystery tackle box is the elite box so I think that ones might be a couple dollars more but overall all of them are generally the same amount we're gonna see what what quality products we get and what quality products we don't get well let's I want to let's really look at it because quite honestly I don't want you guys gonna spend your money on one that is crap like let's see let's see which ones are good and which ones are bad so that one is coming up there will be a closer look video sent up tomorrow of the salmo what is it called of the salmo replicant bluegill there's the big one our schedule for YouTube is gonna change starting this week it used to be Monday Friday and then this video from now on it's gonna be Monday this on Wednesday Thursday morning or Thursday afternoon will be a closer look or a fishing video so we it whatever it's gonna be it's gonna be Monday Thursday Saturday from now on I to be honest Jason I'm partial to one two the same one that you're partial to that's the truth and III know I know it's in the monster bass one and we've I did the monster brass opening but I'm gonna compare that one to the other ones and I mean monster bass puts out arguably one of the best boxes in here now I said I wasn't gonna compare this one to the floor to tackle club one only because I didn't feel like it was fair to put the floor to tackle club one in because that is based for me that is a custom box designed exactly for me so I'm not gonna put up the floor to tackle box against the other ones because I just don't think that's fair because the floor to tackle one always comes in and it's everything I'm using so I'm gonna be happy with everything that in there these ones I'm not sure what I'm gonna get I'm not sure what comes in the mystery tackle box I'm not even sure what's in this warrior tackle box or the real tackle box I don't know what's in them so well well let's we'll do a comparison and we'll see which one we think is better because if you're gonna buy one or give one as a gift which is in most cases what you do which would be the one that you should spend your money on them so we're gonna look at that a little bit better detail so tomorrow there will be a closer look and there will be of course Saturday there'll be another closer look Saturday morning at 9:00 I'm gonna upload the new shad replicant chat for salmo so you'll get three of the represent chats and then we'll start the new cycle of Monday Thursday and Saturday from here on out man good interview from Kyle guys I really appreciate y'all coming on here I appreciate you all participating and just you know showing the love make sure you go to Kyle's YouTube channel and subscribe I will put this on our YouTube channel just after this so go there and check it out and we I'm starting to do our our box to 5,000 that's what I'm doing so if you have friends tell them about the channel because I'm telling you that box it only owned even though it only has three lures in it right now this is gonna be what I call the ultimate crank bait box I'm gonna fill it up with crank baits and this is one of the things look you can see all my new lights this is gonna be one of the things that I give away at 5,000 subscribers so and not to mention he had a fish on there to your right with a six pound surprises he thank you Jason everyone check out Jason's channel too Jason back fishing so I always say something nice about you Jimmy I always say something nice I say nice everything nice about everyone there's only a few people I talked crap about and then when I talk crap about them they kill me for it just joking just joking anyway guys next week live from the castle we'll be in this is German or this is German there'll be some new things and we got a whole bunch of new stuff coming out for the channel wait till you see some of the the new stuff that's coming out so it should be good how do I like these boxes I like truthful truth be told I'm not a humongous fan of that one that one kind of is it's really hard to get the crankbaits in I don't know why I will say I used the terminal 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ci1zt6hNQbc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1zt6hNQbc | Bohemia | Wikipedia audio article | Bohemia Bohemia Czech CG German bowmen polish checky French Boheme Latin Bohemia Italian Bois Mia is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the present-day Czech Republic in a broader meaning Bohemia sometimes refers to the entire Czech territory including Moravia and Czech Silesia especially in a historical context such as the lands of the Bohemian crown ruled by bohemian kings Bohemia was a Duchy of great Moravia later an independent principality a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a part of the Habsburg monarchy and the Austrian Empire after World War one and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia between 1938 and 1945 border regions with sizeable german-speaking minorities of all three Czech lands were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland the remainder of Czech territory became the second Czechoslovak Republic and was subsequently occupied as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1969 the Czech lands including Bohemia were given autonomy within Czechoslovakia as the Czech Socialist Republic in 1990 the name was changed to the Czech Republic which became a separate state in 1993 with the split of Czechoslovakia until 1948 Bohemia was an administrative unit of Czechoslovakia as one of its lands xeam since then administrative reforms have replaced self-governing lands with a modified system of regions craw hay which do not follow the borders of the historical Czech lands or the regions from the 1960 and 2000 reforms however the three lands are mentioned in the preamble of the Constitution of the Czech Republic we citizens of the Czech Republic in Bohemia Moravia and Silesia Bohemia had an area of 50 mm 65 square kilometers 20100 2 square miles and today is home to approximately 6.5 million of the Czech Republic's 10.5 million inhabitants Bohemia was bordered in the south by Upper and Lower Austria both in Austria in the west by Bavaria and in the north by Saxony and lusatia all in Germany in the Northeast by Silesia in Poland and in the east by Moravia also part of the Czech Republic Bohemia x' borders were mostly marked by mountain ranges such as the bohemian forest the ore mountains and the kirk enos a part of the tsunade's range the Bohemian Moravian border roughly follows the Elbe Danube watershed topic etymology in the second century BC the Romans were competing for dominance in northern Italy with various people's including the boy the Romans defeated the boy at the Battle of Placentia 194 BC and the Battle of Mutina 193 BC after this many of the boy retreated north across the Alps much later Roman authors refer to the area they had once occupied the desert of the boy as plenty and Strabo called it as boy oh hi mom the earliest mention was by Tacitus as Germania 28 written at the end of the 1st century AD and later mentions of the same name or in Strabo and Velle as Podrick Ulis the name appears to include the tribal name boy plus the Germanic element asterisk Hymas poem whence gothic Hames German himat English home this boy hymen was apparently isolated to the area where King mera buds kingdom was centered within the hercynian forest the Czech name shichi is derived from the name of the Slavic ethnic group the Czechs who settled in the area during the 6th or 7th century AD topic history you topic ancient Bohemia Bohemia like neighboring Bavaria is named after the boy who were a large Celtic nation known to the Romans for their migrations and settlement in northern Italy and other places another part of the nation moved west with the Helvetii into southern France which was one of the events leading to the interventions of julius caesar's Gaulish campaign of 58 BC the emigration of the helvetii and boy left southern Germany and Bohemia a lightly inhabited desert into which Subic people's arrived speaking German a clang guaa jiz and became dominant over remaining Celtic groups to the south over the Danube the Romans extended their empire and to the southeast in present-day Hungary where Dacian peoples in the area of modern Bohemia the mark Amani and other Subic groups were led by their King Mara Buddhist after suffering defeat to Roman forces in Germany he took advantage of the natural defenses provided by its mountains and forests they were able to maintain a strong alliance with neighboring tribes including at different times the loogie Quoddy Hermann Dori SEM nons and burry which was sometimes partly controlled by the Roman Empire and sometimes in conflict with it for example in the 2nd century when they fought Marcus Aurelius in late classical times in the early Middle Ages two new Subic groupings appeared to the west of bohemia in southern Germany the allamani in the Helvetia desert and the Bavarians by very many Subic tribes from the bohemian region took part in such movements westwards even settling as far away as Spain and Portugal with them were also tribes who had pushed from the east such as the Vandals and Alan's other groups pushed southwards towards Pannonia the last known mention of the kingdom of the mark Imani concerning a queen named fraternal as in the 4th century and she was thought to have lived in her near Pannonia the Suebi and Lango Barty who moved over many generations from the Baltic Sea via the Elbe and Pannonia to Italy recorded in a tribal history a time spent in bei me after this migration period Bohemia was partially repopulated around the 6th century and eventually Slavic tribes arrived from the east and their language began to replace the older Germanic Celtic and Sarmatian ones these are precursors of today's checks though the exact amount of Slovak immigration is a subject of debate the Slovak influx was divided into two or three waves the first wave came from the southeast and east when the Germanic Lombards left Bohemia see 568 ad soon after from the six 30s to six 60s the territory was taken by Samos tribal Confederation his death marked the end of the old Slavonic Confederation the second attempt to establish such a Slavonic Union after Karen taenia in Carinthia other sources descriptio civitate 'm at regional ad september the Varia 800 to 850 divided the population of Bohemia at this time into the Mara honey maar Hirai bhai mare bogey money and friggin ayo the suffix on ER nee means people of Christianity first appeared in the early 9th century but only became dominant much later in the 10th or 11th century the ninth century was crucial for the future of Bohemia the manorial system sharply declined as it did in Bavaria the influence of the central friggin AO Czechs grew as a result of the important cultic Center in their territory they were Slavic speaking and thus contributed to the transformation of diverse neighboring populations into a new nation named and led by them with a United Slavic ethnic consciousness topic Prem ezel dynasty Bohemia was made a part of the early Slavic state of great Moravia under the rule of Swat I plucked the first are 872 894 after sois duplex death great Moravia was weakened by years of internal conflict in constant warfare ultimately collapsing and fragmenting due to the continual incursions of the invading nomadic Magyars bohemia x' initial incorporation into the Moravian Empire resulted in the extensive Christianisation of the population a native monarchy arose to the throne and Bohemia came under the rule of the pre mislead dynasty which would rule the Czech lands for the next several hundred years the pre misled secured their frontiers from the remnant Asian interlocked yours after the collapse of the Moravian State by entering into a state of semi vassalage to the Frankish rulers this alliance was facilitated by Bohemia's conversion to Christianity in the ninth century continuing close relations were developed with the East Frankish Kingdom which devolved from the Carolingian Empire into East francha eventually becoming the Holy Roman Empire after a decisive victory of the Holy Roman Empire in Bohemia over invading Magyars in the 955 Battle of Lake felt bowls Laos the first of Bohemia was granted the March of Moravia by german emperor otto the great bohemia would remain a largely autonomous state under the holy roman empire for several decades the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire was definitively reasserted when Jaromir of Bohemia was granted fief of the kingdom of Bohemia by Emperor King Henry ii of the holy roman empire with the promise that he hold it as a vassal once here iakh you pied prague with a German army in 1000 for ending the rule of bully swath I of Poland the first to use the title of King of Bohemia where the pre misled Dukes Rada slobbed the second 1085 and vladislav the second 11:58 but their heirs would return to the title of duke the title of King became hereditary under autocar the first 1198 his grandson Autocar the second king from 1253 to 1278 conquered a short-lived empire which contained modern austria and slovenia the mid 13th century saw the beginning of substantial German as the courts ought to replace losses from the brief Mongol invasion of Europe in 1241 Germans settled primarily along the northern western and southern borders of Bohemia although many lived in towns throughout the kingdom topic Luxembourg dynasty the House of Luxembourg accepted the invitation to the bohemian throne with the marriage to the Prix mislead heiress Elizabeth and the crowning subsequent of John the first of Bohemia in 1310 his son Charles the fourth became King of Bohemia in 1346 he founded Charles University in Prague central Europe's first University two years later his reign brought Bohemia to its peak both politically and in total area resulting in his being the first King of Bohemia to also be elected as Holy Roman Emperor under his rule the Bohemian crown controlled such diverse lands as Moravia Silesia upper lusatia and lower lusatia brandenburg an area around nuremberg called new Bohemia Luxembourg and several small towns scattered around Germany topic hussite Bohemia during the ecumenical Council of Constance in 1415 Jan Hus the rector of Charles University and a prominent reformer and religious thinker was sentenced to be burned at the stake as a heretic the verdict was passed despite the fact that HUS was granted formal protection by Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg prior to the journey HUS was invited to attend the council to defend himself in the Czech positions in the religious court but with the Emperor's approval he was executed on the 6th of July 1415 the execution of HUS as well as five consecutive papal Crusades against followers of HUS forced the Bohemians to defend themselves in the hussite wars the uprising against Imperial forces was led by a former mercenary Jan's iske of track na as the leader of the hussite armies he used innovative tactics and weapons such as howitzers pistols and fortified wagons which were revolutionary for the time and established syska as a great general who never lost a battle after Zisk his death broke up the great took over the command for the army and under his lead the Hussites were victorious for another 10 years to the sheer terror of Europe the hussite caused gradually splintered into two main factions the moderate you track lists and the more fanatic Tabor Heights the you track lists began to lay the groundwork for an agreement with the Catholic Church and found the more radical views of the Tabor Heights distasteful additionally with general war weariness and yearning for order the utrecht wrists were able to eventually defeat the Tabor Heights in the Battle of Lipan II in 1434 Sigismund said after the battle that only the Bohemians could defeat the Bohemians despite an apparent victory for the Catholics the Bohemian you track lists were still strong enough to negotiate freedom of religion in 1436 this happened in the so called Basel compacts declaring peace and freedom between Catholics and Utrecht lists it would only last for a short period of time as pope pius ii declared the basel compacts to be invalid in 1462 in 1458 gorge of pota Brady was elected to assent to the Bohemian throne he is remembered for his attempt to set up a pan-european Christian League which would form all the states of Europe into a commune based on religion in the process of negotiating he appointed Leo of roz matal to tour the European courts and to conduct the talks however the negotiations were not completed because Georgia's position was substantially damaged over time by his deteriorating relationship with the Pope topic Habsburg monarchy after the death of king louie ii of hungary and bohemia in the Battle of Mohacs in 1526 Archduke Ferdinand the first of Austria became the new King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent state of the Habsburg monarchy Bohemia enjoyed religious freedom between 1436 and 1620 and became one of the most liberal countries of the Christian world during that period in 1609 holy roman emperor rudolf ii who made prague again the capital of the empire at the time himself a roman catholic was moved by the bohemian nobility to publish mayest is rudolf ana which confirmed the older confession boa mecca of 1575 after emperor matthias the second and then king of bohemia ferdinand ii later Holy Roman Emperor began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia the resulting Bohemian revolt led to outbreak of the 30 Years War in 1618 elector Frederick v of the electorate of the Palatinate a Calvinist Protestant was elected by the Bohemian nobility to replace Ferdinand on the Bohemian throne and was known as the winter king Frederick's wife the popular Elizabeth Stuart and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia known as the winter queen or Queen of Hearts was the daughter of King James the sixth of Scotland after Frederick's defeat in the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 27 Bohemian estates leaders together with Jan Jess Aeneas rector of the Charles University of Prague were executed on the Prague's Old Town Square on the 21st of June 1621 and the rest were exiled from the country their lands were then given to Catholic loyalists mostly of Bavarian and Saxon origin this ended the pro Reformation movement in Bohemia and also ended the role of Prague is ruling city of the Holy Roman Empire in the so called renewed Constitution a 1627 the German language was established as a second official language in the Czech lands the Czech language formerly remained the first language in the kingdom however both German and Latin were widely spoken among the ruling classes although German became increasingly dominant while Czech was spoken in much of the countryside the formal independence of Bohemia was further jeopardized when the Bohemian diet approved administer reform in 1749 it included the indivisibility of the Habsburg Empire and the centralization of rule this essentially meant the merging of the Royal bohemian Chancellery with the Austrian Chancellery at the end of the 18th century the Czech national revival movement in cooperation with part of the bohemian aristocracy started a campaign for restoration of the kingdom's historic rights whereby the Czech language was to regain its historical role and replace German as the language of administration the enlightened absolutism of joseph ii and leopold ii who introduced minor language concessions showed promise for the czech movement but many of these reforms were later rescinded during the revolution of 1848 many Czech nationalists called for autonomy for Bohemia from Habsburg Austria but the revolutionaries were defeated the old bohemian diet one of the last remnants of the independence was dissolved although the Czech language experienced a rebirth as romantic nationalism developed among the Czechs in 1861 a new elected bohemian diet was established the renewal of the old bohemian crown kingdom of Bohemia Margraviate of Moravia and duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia became the official political programme of both Czech liberal politicians and the majority of bohemian aristocracy state rights program while parties representing the German minority and small part of the aristocracy proclaimed their loyalty to the central istic Constitution so-called were fast songs after the defeat of Austria in the austro-prussian war in 1866 Hungarian politicians achieved the austro-hungarian compromise of 1867 ostensibly creating equality between the Austrian and Hungarian halves of the Empire an attempt by the Czechs to create a tripartite monarchy austria hungary bohemia failed in 1871 the state rights program remained the official platform of all czech political parties except for social democrats until 1918 topic 20th century after World War one Bohemia as the largest and most populous land became the core of the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia which combined Bohemia Moravia Czech Silesia Upper Hungary present-day Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia into one state under its first president Tomas Masaryk Czechoslovakia became a Liberal Democratic Republic but serious issues emerged regarding the Czech majority's relationship with the native German and Hungarian minorities following the Munich Agreement in 1938 the border regions of Bohemia historically inhabited predominantly by ethnic Germans the Sudetenland were annexed to Nazi Germany this was the only time in bohemian history that its territory was politically divided the remnants of Bohemia and Moravia were then and x-two by Germany in 1939 while the Slovak lands became the separate Slovak Republic a puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945 Bohemia without the Sudetenland together with Moravia formed the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia reichsprotector at Bowman and Marin any open opposition to German occupation was brutally suppressed by the Nazi authorities and many Czech Patriots were executed as a result after world war ii ended in 1945 the vast majority of remaining Germans were expelled by force by the order of the re-established Czechoslovak central government based on the Potsdam agreement and their property was confiscated by the Czech authorities this severely depopulated the area and from this moment on locales were only referred to in their Czech equivalents regardless of their previous demographic makeup the Communist Party won the most votes in free elections but not a simple majority Clement Gottwald the Communist leader became prime minister of a coalition government in February 1948 the non-communist members of the government resigned in protest against arbitrary measures by the communists and their Soviet protectors in many of the state's institutions got willed and the Communists responded with a coup d'etat and installed a pro Soviet authoritarian state in 1949 Bohemia ceased to be an administrative unit of Czechoslovakia as the country was divided into strait of regions that did not follow the historical borders in 1989 Agnes of Bohemia became the first Saint from a central European country to be canonized by Pope John Paul the second before the Velvet Revolution later that year after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 the territory of Bohemia remained in the Czech Republic the new constitution of the Czech Republic provided for higher administrative units to be established providing for the possibility of Bohemia as an administrative unit but did not specify the form they would take a constitutional act in 1997 rejected the restoration of self-governing historical Czech lands and decided for the regional system that has been in use since 2000 petter P 3rd former Czech Prime Minister and president of the Senate at the time remained one of the main advocates of the land system claiming that the primary reason for its refusal was the fear of possible Moravian separatism Bohemia thus remains a historical region and its administration is divided between the Prague central Bohemia poles n Karlovy Vary loose T mad labem Liberec and Herodotus králové a regions as well as parts of the Pardubice vise escena south bohemian and south Moravian regions in addition to their use in the names of the regions the historical land names remain in use in names of municipalities cat astrology agraphia names the distinction and border between the Czech lands is also preserved in local dialects topic clad scowl the area around kludge go check clad schoo german Glatz latin Glacia in southwestern Poland was culturally and traditionally a part of Bohemia kludge Kol and has now been a part of Lower Silesia since its conquest by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1763 referred to as little Prague German kleine Prag the klochkova lis region on the NYS a collage career was the focus of several attempts to reincorporate the area into Czechoslovakia one of several polish Czechoslovak border conflicts the last attempt occurred in May 1945 when Czechoslovakia tried to annex the area on behalf of the Czech minority present in the western part of the collage Co Valley and known as the Czech corner pressure brought on by the Soviet Union led to a ceasing of military operations with the Czech minority being expelled to Germany in Czechoslovakia according to canon law of the roman catholic church the area remained part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague until 1972 capitalizing on interest regarding the clad schoo area in the Czech national psyche a special tourist area in the naka district has been designated as the clad schoo borderland tourist area tourism district Czech thérèse teach go blast clad scape romizi this area entirely within the Czech Republic was formerly known as the Jura sects region czech juris cuff crotch adders pack rocks Czech adders Basque a scaly topic traditional administrative divisions craw hey of Bohemia during the kingdom of Bohemia that kind German fetching 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1QkHfo7esjw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkHfo7esjw | Unwrapping the Scriptures with Bishop Ed Udell | well hello this is Bishop Ed Udell and I'm here once again to share some very important information with you and I hope that you would enjoy what I'm about to share with you and I hope you're understanding that we are just sharing a little bit of every lesson we share it could take two or three hours really I could take two or three hours but we're sharing a little bit to and I encourage you go and read the word of God for yourself don't trust a bobbin head read it pray before you read it and then read it and pray again so welcome to unwrapping the scriptures with your host of Bishop Ed udel and I'm teaching from the Union Gospel Press Bible expository and Illuminator this is the fall corner for September October and November 2023 now for today we are sharing information that's going to really help you I hope that you get something out of this and that you study you need to study yourself and don't trust other people to tell you what you they think and mean you need to study study yourself the Bible is that study I mean you study your study to show yourself fruit of God a Workman that need not be ashamed rightly by the word of God so for today our subject Israel the time is 1316 BC and the places are near gilgad and the Jordan River Valley and Moab are Texas from the Book of Judges chapter 3 verses 15 through 25 and verses 29 through 30. we also have some scriptures that are related Exodus chapter 3. verse 7 through 9. Exodus chapter 2 verses 23 through 25 Exodus Exodus chapter 17 verses 8 through 15 and Deuteronomy chapter 25 verses 17 through 19. I hope you've got that if not listen watch it watch it again and take some notes now in many verse for you to remember comes from Judges 3 15. I'ma share it from the Orthodox Jewish Bible and I asked for uh forgiveness for all those who really can speak Hebrew and all the Jewish people say he just messed that word up uh I'm trying folks here it is from the Orthodox Jewish Bible but when cried on Hashem Hashem raised him up and Messiah Ehud bengala from A Tribe of Benjamin a man left-handed and by him said unto eggline Village mob now in the world English Bible WB here's what it sounds like but when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh Yahweh raised up a savior for them I had the son of Gara the benjamite a left-handed man the children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglin the king of Moab oh this could make it exciting television special oh drama adventure oh assassination you know I tell you the Bible is exciting now here's a scripture lesson text but I'm gonna read to you from World English translation but when the children of Israel cry to Yahweh Yahweh raised up his Savior for them he had the son of Gareth and Benjamin a left-handed man the children of Israel sent tribute by him to edlon the king of Moab hehad made himself a sword which had two edges a cubit in length and he wore under his clothing on his right line he offered the tribute to eglon King of Moab now Eglin was a very fat man when Erhard had finished offering the tribute he sent away the people who carried the tribute but he himself turned back from the stone Idols that were by gilgan said I have a secret message for you okay the king said keep silence all who stood by him left him ihad came to him and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room he had said I have a message from God to you he rose of a sea he had put out his left hand and took the sword from his right thigh and thrust him into his body they handled also went in after the blade and the fat clothes on the blade for he didn't draw the sword out of the body and it came out behind that he had went out onto the porch and shut the doors of the upper room on him and lock them after he had gone his servants came and saw that the doors left a room were locked they said surely he is covering his feet in the upper room they waited until they were ashamed and behold he didn't open the doors of the upper room therefore they took the key and opened them and behold their lord had fallen down dead on the floor they struck at that time about 10 000 men of Moab every strong man and every man of Valor no man escaped so Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel and the land had rest 80 years this lesson text is available in over 150 versions so feel free to read the one that will best help you to understand in your own language to bless this sharing father our creator we ask you that the eyes at sea and the ears that hear will help the heart and mind understand [Music] what is being shared at this time let it go deep into their heart to give him understanding of what happened was a plan of yours bless every viewer every listener in the name of the Messiah your son Jesus Christ the Messiah amen okay let me read a little bit here uh it is often said that the one thing man learns from history is that he does not learn from history today we see once strong and prosperous Nations following the same course the biblical principle is clear and history abundantly confirms it without repentance and spiritual awakening countries will fall by the wayside and they fall on the Wayside of History all because they have not learned from history the children of Israel did not learn from history either despite glorious victories and ignominus defeat due to sin they continue to fall into sin and idolatry leading to harsh servitude but God remained that faithful you see the Hebrews and the Jewish people listen we are a lot like them God allows us to be blessed and we make promises oh we're going to do better we're going to live for you we're not going to sin nowhere but in a few days maybe a few weeks a few months a few years we have forgotten about what we uh promised the Creator we just are out here sinning have a good time feeling good and there are times the Holy Spirit that's from God Taps us on our shoulder and says in my ethnocentricate word watch it buddy watch it watch it you're going down oh this is cool this is this is this is all right come on man this is all right I mean it's not I'm not that bad and the holy spirit continues to work but at some point the Holy Spirit leaves you alone and let you do whatever you want to do let's look at today's aim facts to show how he had delivered the people of Israel from the moabites using the strength God gave him is to see back in those days many people were right-handed very few were left-handed so when you went in to see the the king they would pat you down on the left side to make sure you didn't have a sword or knife that's interesting they forgot there were some left-handed people so they kept their sword on the left on the right side okay now here's the principle to show that God cares for his people and delivers them through leaders who act how on his strength that's how he delivers them on his strength here's application to establish that Yahweh God provides the leaders we need as well as a strength goals leaders need to help us here's some practical pointers in fact there are seven is number one in his Mercy God answers the cries of his children at just the right time number two God's empowerment does not preclude our proper preparation number three it is not wise to let curiosity override sound judgment number four God's message to man mankind is not always a positive one number five the wise person plans ahead number six God rules over the choices of even unrighteous people number seven with God nothing is impossible so we want you to understand that and go read this lesson for yourself it's one of the most interesting lessons I mean like I say it could really be a TV special if people want to look at this yeah through it I'll tell you it is really fantastic now I want you to understand something each of us have a responsibility to seek the Creator for ourselves I know a lot of people don't believe in what we call God or yah Yahweh the Almighty there's about 31 or more name types that we give the Creator and since the sixth century we've been calling this creator God either God or G Dash D because in some religions saying the whole name the name is too holy and before that that you want to allow to pronounce what you thought it was his name they had to write it there's a lot of history on who is this creator and there are all kind of creation stories from other religions but what religion or faith would dare say they serve the true and Only God of all gods and how can even Christians say there's only one way to heaven one one not many ways you see when Christians say those kind of things that others hear it it makes them it makes the other people kind of frustrated like oh you think you are so mighty there's only one way to God and we say yes it's only it's only one way other folks teach there are many ways to God choose a way best for you and you will eventually get to Paradise or other names that they use heaven just choose choose do your best do the best you can and some teach after you've done your best and you die don't worry you'll come back again and get it more right you may come back as a worm or snake a pig a cow something you know some say maybe you come back as a tree uh and and you keep on going through this evolution until you finally get it right and when you get it right guess what you get to go to paradise and live like you've never lived before live better than the richest people on this Earth ah real life but then some say wait a minute there can't be all these gods that can offer you a plan to spend time with him forever and very few religions say you need help I've given you some information but over the centuries you need help so we're going to have an angel come down and choose someone just to write out 10 things if you all could just do these 10 things because you you're making up all these rules and everything no no no no just work on these 10. and then Along Comes the Messiah Yeshua or some kind of Jesus he comes along and he says I am the son of Yahweh what does it say I mean he said and then and then he goes on and said uh I'm gonna die he said okay but I'm gonna come back alive say what and when I come back alive I'm gonna do some things and then I'm going back to where I came from say what yeah I'm going back to the place where you call Heaven a paradise but this time I came as a baby died as a man next time when I come I'm gonna come back as a ruler as a king as a lion and a lamb they go what man what is he talking about but you have to go back and look at the ancient scriptures about who was going to be greater than Moses all the people who followed the law of Moses up until about the first century that's all they knew if you could follow the law of Moses you're doing pretty good but then along comes from other people there called rabbis they say well to do this you gotta do this this this this this this this this in fact what Moses has get us good but he didn't show you how to do them we're going to show you how to do them uh and so there's gonna be about 660 points and if you get every point just right give money to the poor do good to other individuals do your best and come to our religious meeting often often and and and take one day of the week and just rest from everything because Yahweh made everything that we see and this this has confused people 's I used to teach what you see is all there is the elements of moon stars sky water Earth animals that God made all you know all of that that's all they knew they didn't know about the universe that goes on and on and on and on and even now people have powerful telescopes and they're discovering what we thought was end of space is not it's continuing and some are saying uh why is it continuing Others May teach or some things are imploding uh will will there be be a time when that dark matter that dark space will suck everything into it and no more big bang their Theory there's nothing and we'll all be doomed if we're still alive but a lot of people don't read they read just what they want to believe they don't look at other things and consider is it possible the creator has been creating things for not 100 years or a few thousand how about a few million or a few billion or a few trillion what if this creator has always existed and just been creating things for eons and what if we can't ever see him even though he said I'm gonna send my son and people teach the son is God that's like me saying my mother is a great person and I'm her son so I am my mother almost every Seminary Christian Seminary teaches that that God is the holy spirit God is Jesus uh and Jesus Is God Jesus is the holy spirit Jesus is also Jesus and for some cultures that's very confusing instead of saying this son came from the Creator and in essence he is God in a way because everything that he does he said everything I do I do at the instruction of my father I do nothing of myself I don't make up any new ideas what I do I carry out my father's and folks say well well you see uh but then God died for all of us well well God died for all of us God Never Dies he doesn't get sick he's full of energy and electricity and all things and it never dies but that's too too great for us to comprehend so we we make up things and we give this Yahweh God features like us and because when it says and God looked people say oh yeah God has eyes you know it doesn't mean he has eyes or God lifted my spirit uh it doesn't mean God took his hand and lifted you up he lifted you up spiritually but we have put too many human characteristics to what we call yah or Yahweh God because he can see he can hear he gets angry and we just think oh God is like I am no no no no no no no no don't go there these are characteristics of the Creator it does not mean he has hands and eyes as we have but he can see he can sense he can feel he has feelings like us he doesn't have a body like us he's not some like giant human way up in the eons no you have to read what the book he has allowed others to write through his spirit so you say you mean God wrote the Bible in a way this God Yahweh is also spirit and he was able to put into the into the minds of other individuals who could write and there is there are some original words written by people who felt like God gave Yahweh God gave them these exact words and they put it down as they heard or as they felt but after many Generations translations it may not be the exact word of Yahweh but he that he gave it to certain individuals but like my mom would say whether you want with the Hebrew the Greek or whatever translation there's enough written down in whatever Bible you want to use there's enough written down there to let you know you're going to either wind up in hell or have the opportunity to go to heaven and she says whichever way it is it's up to you so she said I don't quibble over what name I call him or the name of the church or what Jesus whatever it is become a part of that and don't worry about it because your mind is not big enough to wrap it around this this sense of Yahweh God and try to understand him we have a book yes it may have been written by by many individuals I think 40 people men and women wrote the original what they call the Holy Bible but it has been translated it's been in what um not only English but Hebrew and Aramaic Syria uh Syrian it's been translated and so we do our best to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us to explain to others what this Bible is trying to say to help you become the best person that you can be a lot of people are trying to become their best people and we we oh we fail but with Yahweh God His Holy Spirit so you someone said wait a minute Bishop are you saying if the holy spirit is part of God and the Holy Spirit is in you Bishop you Dell are you saying too that you are part of God that's right now I am not perfected yet I don't do everything right but I'm on my way so there's a lot of things that need to be explained it's almost like if you allow uh you know trying to explain to a five-year-old about mathematical equations they do work and they are true but trying to teach a child pathirians uh words or a triangular theology uh you know trigonometry the child might read the book as he grows but very few children can take up an advance math book and understand it without the background of basic mathematics so you start somewhere basic mathematics are basic learning about Yahweh God that's where you start you gotta start somewhere and because you don't understand all that you want to understand does not mean it isn't right it just means you have not prepared yourself to understand the basics and when you understand the basics that's a good start and then you work on sanctifying yourself what does that mean you work on asking Yahweh God to help you everything wrong that you think do see whatever you ask yahwe God and then you got power too if there's certain habits you have you know supposed to say I I can't quit this habit I I I no no you like it you like it and you don't spend the time it takes to dislike it like going on maybe a seven day fast or 14 day fast 21 day you know no food for several days no water land before Yahweh God say I've got this problem with money or with women or with lying or whatever it is but sometimes we enjoy our sins and we get we give God a little times that I got this problem but I'm doing my best and I'm sorry okay I'm cool no no no you work on sanctifying yourself and you ask the holy spirit that part of God that helps us to sanctify you totally is called holy you know uh just all of you and it I know this is going to be easy you have to so say if it was easy to be Sanctified everyone would want to be because it means I'm getting closer to God I'm doing better and I I don't do this this this this a lot of us could do some pretty good Pharisees by saying I don't do this I don't do this I don't ah I'm pretty good of course I do this here without you know that's that's not human nature no the Holy Spirit which is a part of God is available to come into each one's life and work with your mind soul body of spirit to sanctify you entirely because you cannot do it by yourself and don't think you can you can you can be Sanctified in a day a week a month a year it's it's a Contin it's almost like you know what if you took a bath I'm sorry not you said I'm clean now now I'm clean forever thank God I'm clean but no no if you don't take a bath more often than once to a month or once a year the people you are around won't be able to handle you because you stink you said but I took a bath last year that's wonderful that's the beginning but you have to keep taking a a bath because you're around dirt you're around things that will harm your body harm these cells harm the tissue harm the the skin so these germs you've got to constantly wash take a bath wash your hair clean out your ears clean under your arm you've got to constantly work on you now if you live in a place where almost everyone has a bad odor because there's very little water everyone in that area becomes accustomed to everyone else who cannot take a bath often it's no problem we all smell if I lived in an area like when I helped out with Hurricane Katrina we lived in a a warehouse and until we got these things set up for for you know showers some of us could not take showers we did our best we can we turned on a spigot and try to wash our face and brush our teeth and throw water under our arms uh that was the best that we could do but when we got these showers and places to really use a fresh water to wash our face and our teeth and everything else we all smell better see sin is like that you can say oh God forgive me in the name of Jesus and at that point you feel for forgiven you feel refreshed You Feel clean but give it a few hours or a few days or a few weeks you're almost back to your old self why because you stop sanctifying yourself you stop allowing the Holy Spirit to work on your mind clean up your thoughts help you to be a better individual it takes all of my time is gone oh my goodness it was getting I hope you all got something out of this but my time is really gone now I want you to join us again here next week for another episode of unwrapping the scriptures we're with your host Bishop Ed yudel and our friends Kenneth a sponsor Keith Edgar and then a cushy matalilla Don kakavecos Ted Simonson Jerry I Wagner Thomas R Shamara Arnold G Frederick bomb Daryl W McKay and others from Union Gospel Press thank you for your time for allowing me to share this with you and I hope what I've shared will cause you to do some more research because there's a lot of research in just one verse take your time and yes do the best you can but do it often and don't make an excuse for your sins until we meet again may God bless all of you real good | Ed Udell | UCwlPglkpR5rZo8AhFLa9gMQ | 2023-09-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,170 | 20,853 |
8hJuXCWVzGQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJuXCWVzGQ | USNI's Annual Meeting - 11 May 2022 | at leonardo ds we take pride in ensuring our forces own the edge by providing them our most advanced technology as expert integrators innovators and trusted advisors we meet the immediate needs of warfighters in the field while envisioning force modernization solutions of tomorrow with our experience and real-world ingenuity warfighters have the solutions they need to deliver a thoughtful and forceful response to evolving threats so they own the edge learn more at leonardo drs.com own the edge all right good afternoon welcome to the 149th annual meeting of the u.s naval institute and to our members and supporters here with us and our members who are joining us virtually we're very glad to see so many here i'm pete daly ceo and publisher and i ask everyone now that we've just asked you to sit down to stand up and say the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you we'd like to thank our sponsor leonardo drs for helping make this event possible for most of our events we don't charge admission and we do this with the generous support of individual and corporate sponsors so we thank them it's now my honor to introduce our board chair secretary bob work was the 32nd deputy secretary of defense serving under three different secretaries and two administrations he also served as the under secretary of the navy from 2009 to 2013. currently he's president of teamwork llc he's a senior council for defense counselor for defense at the center for new american security and the telamus group he's a senior fellow at johns hopkins apl and he's a principal at west ezek west exec advisors also an independent director for raytheon he's also served as the co-chair of the national security commission on artificial intelligence he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the marine corps through the nrotc program at the university of illinois in 1974. during his 27-year military career he held a wide range of command leadership and management positions he's been a member of the naval institute since back when he was an illini in 1974 and he served as the chairman of our board the chair of our board since 2019 let's welcome the honorable bob work [Applause] well it's a beautiful day in annapolis and it's great to see you all here today chairman daly members of the u.s naval institute foundation members of the u.s naval institute board members of the institute ladies and gentlemen it's so great to be here this is the first annual meeting we've ever had in the jack c taylor conference center this spectacular venue uh you know this was built through covid and it's on time on budget in fact it's totally paid for and it is going to be the centerpiece of the institute in terms of bringing people together and discussing hard issues for the next century um you know this really gives us a home field advantage uh in being able i think when people see this it's going to become a center for wargaming i think a lot of people inside the beltway once they find out about this place will swarm here so it's just good to be here for the first uh annual meeting for the 149th annual meeting now you all know the naval institute is an open independent nonpartisan forum for discussion about the naval services uh i've been a member of the institute since i was the second lieutenant in 1974. uh it's just in my view one of the finest magazines the proceedings if you've been following the american sea power project which was inaugurated last year i've just been a slew of articles that talk about how important naval power is to the united states of america look we are in a unprecedented time enormous changes in the international security environment we're in the midst of an echo i mean a technological tsunami this is exactly the time when there are military technical revolutions and we change the way we think about the character of war and we change the way we organize and we change the way we fight and one of the best ways to think about that is in an open forum like the u.s naval institute which thinks about these naughty problems and gives the leaders of the naval services a lot to think about you know more than 75 of all our articles are from active duty practitioners they're the greatest strength of the institute so with all the advanced technological challenges like artificial intelligence quantum computing 5g additive manufacturing synthetic biology the way the navy is organized and will fight is changing today and will continue to change and so i couldn't be prouder to be the chairman of the u.s naval institute board and i want to welcome you all here this afternoon thank you so much for coming i hope you've had a chance to look through this uh just eye-watering facility and i look forward to the meeting so thank you again go navy beat army okay okay thank you sir and i have one housekeeping item uh before my update on the state of the institute and that's that we will do questions and answers at the end of my remarks and also at the end of the american c power panel uh discussion uh there's going to be standing mics they're positioned already down here at the front and if for those who are tuning in virtually please tune in to annualmeeting at usni.org send us your question and we just only ask that the people who ask a question a identify yourselves and b ask a question so the naval institute's emerged very strong from the test of 2020 and 2021. we've greatly improved the reach of the institute we continue to deliver impactful high quality content we continue to digitize our content and upgrade our technology we completed a very successful comprehensive fundraising campaign we constructed and delivered the jaxy taylor center and overall we made good decisions navigated well and delivered on the mission and emerged with our best bottom line in decades and all of this happens because we have a dedicated staff who are true believers and there's a there's an expression that you always find the most about people find out the most about people when things don't all go right and uh there was a test as i mentioned in 2020 and 2021 and our staff showed me a lot and i'd like to ask the staff of the naval institute many of whom are here tonight to stand up and be recognized thank you we have a most impressive board of directors and it's now official that we elected three new board members former under secretary of defense ms ellen lord former ambassador and retired four-star admiral harry harris and former att o and former blue jacket submariner bill hannigan we re-elected three directors too the honorable christine fox brewer admiral retired peg klein and admiral retired mike rogers we appointed lieutenant salaam keiko usn to continue our initiative to have younger active duty and more diverse voices on the board admiral sandy winnefeld wrapped up a six-year run on the board where he made a huge contribution at a very critical juncture in the institute's history he's been published in proceedings at every level from midshipmen to o10 and continues to write in the magazine three generations of winnefelds have been essay winners and he will be missed we also say farewell to lieutenant james barksdale and captain scott smith who each served a year on the board thank you and we also thank major general tracy king who has served as our liaison we have three active duty liaisons who support us in our board of directors deliberations and he represented obviously the united states marine corps thank you the editorial board is vital to the credibility of the open forum all the members are active duty they all work above and beyond in their primary jobs their day jobs in the navy marine corps and coast guard their active duty perspective provides an invaluable view and course guidance for proceedings we can sit here and think we remember the halcyon days of our time served but we really depend on those practitioners who are serving today newly elected to the ed board are lieutenant commander michelle foster captain tom clarity commander davier crooks sergeant major anthony easton lieutenant andrea howard major brian kerr lieutenant commander tyson meadors commander scott wells and lieutenant colonel adam yang congratulations to them all special thanks to our departing members captain james carolland captain scott smith lieutenant colonel will stanky and captain josh taylor special shout out to scott smith for his leadership on the ed board during a challenging year many members of the editorial board are here i hope you can meet them and they're here with us tonight in person and several are also joining us online virtually we thank our terrific naval institute foundation trustees for volunteering their time and their steadfast 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the ark from the past to the current to the future and we're tapping into new markets with new readers with our naval history special editions in an effort to promote and preserve naval history blending the past with the present expands our reach into previously untapped territory we're doing partnerships with youtube creators which has spurred renewed interest in classic titles like ward carroll's punk's trilogy and bolstered our popularity with new books like paul stilwell's battleship commander and creators like terkinfell ward carroll the battleship new jersey and military aviation are working in association with the press to promote a variety of new titles we're excited by these and the new opportunities to promote our authors and our books the american sea power project started and chair work mentioned this but started in 2021 in january and it continues the naval institute's long legacy of thought leadership related to naval power from time to time the global security 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to see so many of you here tonight uh i get the best part of the evening because i get to announce the names of uh so many award winners as pete mentioned the naval institute's been running sa contests since 1879. we currently have about 12 annually they run the gamut from the coast guard and marine corps essay contest to the general prize essay contest midshipman and cadet a great deal of proceedings content comes from our essay contest because not only do we publish the top three prize winners but we also assess every essay that comes to us for whether we should publish it or not and probably 30 or so of what you see in proceedings every month comes from an essay contest pete often likes to say we we act like our essay contests are the buffalo we use every piece of them um it's also important to note that our essay contests are judged in the blind we don't know there's one person on my staff who knows the identity of both the essay and the author the rest of us who evaluate them in our editorial board when they judge them they don't know who the author is as we are judging the quality of the essays and we like it that way it makes our essay contest a true meritocracy may the best ideas and the best writing win the first contest winners to be recognized tonight are from the midshipmen and cadets sa contest which is open to anyone in a commissioning program for the navy the marine corps the coast guard and the merchant marine including the service academies nrotc and officer candidate school this year's third prize winner is cadet first class logan tobias u.s coast guard for his article the schoolhouse always wins which offers insightful advice for changes to training and education at the coast guard academy and cadet tobias is joining us virtually tonight logan the floor is yours good afternoon i i wish i was able to join you in person uh but i'm immensely grateful uh to prevent to be present today virtually so so thank you for that opportunity my essay the schoolhouse always wins refocusing the coast guard academy's priorities identifies and offers actionable solutions to what i believe is a skewed focus on academics over military training at the united states coast guard academy which is leading to the unintended consequence of the coast guard lacking officers who want to go afloat which is an issue that has been looked at in previous proceedings articles my argument while primarily informed by my cadet experience is that formal policies such as the current cadet ranking system and military training calendar graduate ensigns less operationally competent than their potential i believe it is breeding a culture or cadets learned that your calculus test is more important than your navigation brief and early grad school or shore assignments are the paths of high performers but mind you in times of crisis world war ii vietnam our services junior officers quickly assumed command of small boats and operated with technical and professional competence established in their military training the current practicum in the ways i detail on my essay graduates officers uninspired to answer that call to see call to action during the next flash point in the great power competition as far as impact goes i hope that my viewpoint as a future officer is considered as the coast guard academy continues its long history of refining its process of building leaders of character but more than anything i want to encourage others to take a critical solution-oriented look at how we are training our leaders and preparing them for the threats of tomorrow every single professor and military leader at the academy is focused on serving america but there are different opinions on the how i greatly appreciate the independent forum offered in proceedings that enables everyone to put forward their ideas and propose solutions and i strongly believe it's important for all military members even green soon-to-be ensigns like me to write if my essay even slightly influences the leadership development program of the world's greatest coast guard academy that is more than i could ever hope for and thank you so much for your time today and for considering my essay for this contest [Applause] sir that is the future we love you all second prize in this contest this year went to midshipmen first class matthew martin u.s navy for his essay building midshipmen to rebuild a culture about how the coveted lockdown of 2020 and 2021 impacted the naval academy and how midshipmen have had to adapt and rebuild the culture of the brigade unfortunately midshipman martin was not able to join us tonight first prize in the midshipmen and cadets essay contest goes to midshipman first class robert hatfield iii united states navy for his essay commerce warfare capabilities as an act of deterrence this essay will be in the june issue of proceedings my staff and i've been working with midshipman hatfield this past week on it and it demonstrates that midshipman hatfield has been paying close attention to the writings of mahan corbett and more recently nick lambert please welcome to the stage midshipman hatfield [Applause] thank everybody here so much i'd like to say a special thank you to the naval institute for pushing uh young naval officers to really try to think deeply about our profession i think that's something that we lose sight of a good bit is the profession that we're actually going into in spite of all the school and every thing uh special thanks to my friends and family to include my first ost skipper paul giara for encouraging me so much to write for this as well as the whole naval academy history department particularly commander armstrong and many others who have influenced me along the way there that really did kind of i would not think the way i do about the naval service that we have if it was not for that history department and those classes that i got to take there and those people i've gotten to meet my first history writing partner happens to be my fiance with me here today so i'm especially thankful to that department but yeah my essay in short is just one midshipman's interpretation of how i think we could possibly stay away from a chinese-american conflict it's talked so much about how we're gonna fight one day and it's it's preached as almost gospel nowadays and i think we have other options besides just letting that be prophecy thank you [Applause] the second group of essay contests we're going to recognize today are those who won the leadership essay contest sponsored by the late dr jack london third prize in this contest goes to lieutenant commander brian harrington u.s navy for his essay trust starts on the deck plates which is coming in the june proceedings and lieutenant commander harrington joins us virtually good evening and thank you for the opportunity to publish my essay and be a part of this event in 2010 i had the unique opportunity as a surface warfare officer to deploy to iraq with riverine squadron 1. my experiences in that environment have shaped my approach to being an officer and now after returning to see for my department tours and having time to reflect i believe there are some things that are worth sharing with my fellow junior officers in an age of great power competition where a great deal of dialogue surrounds the next big thing be it hypersonics ai or next generation platforms we cannot lose sight of the human element in warfare and its fundamental importance to our role as leaders i hope this essay can provide some useful insight into that realm this is not the first essay i've submitted to proceedings although it is the first one to go to print i find that writing helps me organize my thoughts whether it's going to be published somewhere or like in most cases for my eyes only i'd like to thank my shipmates for allowing me to be part of a successful team and i thank you all for the opportunity to share my thoughts second prize in the leadership essay contest was won by lieutenant commander courtney callahan u.s navy for her essay eliminate toxic leadership which could be found in the may issue of proceedings unfortunately lieutenant commander callahan could not be with us this evening now before i announce the first prize winner i'd like to ask dr jennifer london to join me on stage dr london's late husband jack london a naval academy graduate former board member of the naval institute and his company caci supported this contest for many years now and we cannot thank them enough first prize in the leadership essay contest went to major brian kerg united states marine corps for his essay leading through defeat which appeared in the april proceedings this is not the first time major kirk has appeared on this stage in january he gave a superb talk about being a marine corps officer to an audience of 400 naval academy midshipmen right here as part of our warfighter series ladies and gentlemen please welcome major brian kerg [Applause] so first of all i'd like to offer my sincerest thanks to the united states naval institute for providing a forum for discussing topics like this to the sponsor of this award to include the late dr j phillip london and his family for sponsoring this year's leadership essay contest so why this essay ultimately it was a product of grappling with my own feelings about how the war in afghanistan ended and by responsibility as a professional naval officer the u.s withdrawal from afghanistan elicited visceral reactions from all of us particularly those of us who served in that country and endured what every service member endures in war it made us wonder if our sacrifices were worth it and if our brothers and sisters in arms who'd given the ultimate sacrifice had done so in vain and despite offering blood sweat treasure and tears we found ourselves once again ending a war in what history will likely call a defeat the passion this solicits is real it is possible and very human to succumb to doubt anger and fear and to lash out loudly in search of catharsis but such a reaction is a resignation of our duties as leaders it is harmful to public discourse and it sets a poor example to those we lead this is not the way as leaders we are obligated to take these very real authentic and sometimes agonizing feelings and turn them into something productive that can serve those we lead and inspire them to meaningful action this essay aims to do just that it does so by encouraging us to keep faith with our fellow service members to keep faith with our allies and partners and to keep faith with the next generation by learning from the past it is my sincerest hope that this essay serves as at least one example on how to productively channel our experiences into authentic reflection and proper discourse thank you very much now it's my pleasure to introduce the winners of the 2021 general prize essay contest since 1879 this contest has been our flagship contest the list of past winners reads like a who's who of famous naval leaders and famous naval thought leaders then commander alfred thayer mahan took honorable mention in this contest in its first year so think about that for a second proceedings alfred thayer mahan honorable mention not first prize other winners over the years include notable sea service leaders many writing before they achieved their highest rank and fame rear admiral stephen b luce lieutenant ernest j king lieutenant ned beach lieutenant commander later senator sam stratton captain wayne hughes lieutenant commander james devritis commander sandy winnefeld and rear admiral jerry holland are just a few of the notable winners of this contest the general prize essay contest is funded by andrew and barbara taylor we thank them for their proud and consistent sponsorship of this grandfather of all of our contests so i'd like to just a round of applause for the tailors this year we received 135 submissions to this contest a record number in the six years i've been on the staff and i suspect a record number of all time all three of these winning essays are thought provoking and beared directly on the challenges facing today's sea services and they will appear in the june issue of proceedings this year's third place winner is captain sam tangredi the united states navy retired sam has been writing for proceedings for decades and he won second prize in this contest in 2001 he is the lydos chair of future warfare studies at the naval war college his essay is titled keep war confined to the seas sam will receive a medal and a check for two thousand dollars he is already a life member of the naval institute and he pre-recorded his remarks last week hi i'm sam tang ready and i would like to thank each of you for your support for the u.s naval institute not just because you're supporting the institute but because your support and the institute is critical to defining the future of the department of the navy and our nation since the establishment of the naval institute not a single idea not a single lawn adopted by a department of the navy was not first identified discussed debated refined within the pages of our journal proceedings sometimes this discussion within proceedings occurs years before the idea actually enters the general defense debate your support is critical for defining the future i argue that the naval institute is more efficient and effective in generating these ideas that even the official organizations established to perform such a function even my own naval war college does not do it as effective as the naval institute why because it is an open forum it allows for discussion from all those interested in national security ranging from admirals and often discussing official policies to junior officers often describing ways of operating the different than official policies to enlisted who are contributing their professionalism to civil servants who are also contributing to professionalism to interested citizens who want a nation that is secure it does this consistently as has done it for many years and it does it because of your support also thank you the support for my own writing i am honored for to accept this award uh the article and will be coming out in the june issue and i urge you all to read it basically it's a critique of why if we do involve ourselves in a conflict with the people's republic of china we have to be careful about striking targets within chinese mainland it's also a critique of the concept of inter integrated deterrence that's now become being part of the national defense strategy there are other great ideas that are just waiting for publication and they will be into the forum because of your support so thank you very much and i'm always interested in collaborating with any of you to work on these ideas thank you and i wish you a good meeting this year's second place winner is lieutenant commander brian hayes united states navy reserve retired his article the myth of maritime counter insurgency is the latest salvo in a debate that has been in the pages of proceedings since hunter steyer's 2019 prize-winning sa the south china sea needs a coin toss brian's essay is exceptionally well written and argued but spoiler alert it will not be the last article we published on this topic as the july issue will see the kickoff of a maritime counterinsurgency project so brian you'll have lots more ideas and articles to argue against in the coming months brian receives a medal a check for three thousand dollars and a one-year extension to his membership in the naval institute ladies and gentlemen lieutenant commander brian hayes [Applause] as a life member of the naval institute and someone who has read and enjoyed proceedings for nearly 25 years i've always considered the general prize to be the highest honor for an author in our profession i'm honored to be recognized with this year's second prize and i'm extremely grateful to andrew and barbara taylor for their generosity in supporting this essay contest my wife dr tara burke could not be here with me tonight due to a work commitment however i'm glad to have here my father-in-law edward brady of the u.s naval academy class of 1963. although ed chose to serve in the united states army he's maintained a lifelong interest in the sea services and he was a friend of the late captain wayne hughes who received an honorable mention in this contest in 1981. i can't think of more elite company than writers like captain hughes for an author in our profession and i'm extremely proud to join the list of general prize honorees thank you [Applause] the first place winner of this year's general prize essay contest actually proves my point about judging in the blind and you'll you'll recognize that in a second the article is called don't buy warships yet and it's a provocative argument that plays very well in the ongoing discussions about great power competition force structure and procurement strategies the winner is first lieutenant david allman alabama air national guard lieutenant allman receives a gold medal a check for six thousand dollars and a one-year membership of the naval institute lieutenant allman please join me on the stage [Applause] thank you bill it's great to be here i want to express my thanks to the editorial staff at the institute the distinguished guests in the crowd and perhaps most importantly my mom who's able to be in attendance tonight it's a wonderful honor to be selected as winner of the general prize fundamentally my essay is about time it's about what in my opinion we can and can't do now and what i think we must do now to in order to ensure we can compete effectively in the future there's a growing consensus that although we might be in a long-term strategic competition with china this decade represents the period of maximum danger to put it bluntly we simply cannot due to budget constraints for structure requirements and political willpower build enough traditional warships to solve all of our problems instead i believe we need to focus on being able to deliver the maximum number of weapons possible to reduce risk this decade this means investing in quantities of precision guided munitions and the platforms necessary to deliver them simultaneously we need to invest in our maritime infrastructure to ensure that we can build the fleet we need in the 2030s and beyond in order to compete globally well i look forward to the discussion that this paper generates and look forward to discussing that with many of you all here afterwards i wanted to use this time to ask something of you my fellow company grade and junior officers and in fact the midshipmen here on the yard are the pool from which the strategists and service chiefs of the service chiefs of the 2030s and 2040s will be selected we're engrossed in learning our tactical craft getting underway surviving to the merge taking the hill but for many of us we have a deep and abiding interest in how our tactical efforts have operational level impact and ultimately strategic success you all can help this room has hundreds of years of experience in defense issues and maritime operations in particular i've been very fortunate in my life to have benefited from the advice wisdom and reading recommendations in numerous mentors but not everyone is so lucky i ask of you to think of that midshipman or 01 today and think how you can assist them in their learning journey to ensure we have the brain power needed to compete over the next several decades together we can ensure that the armed forces are prepared not only physically and tactically but intellectually to prevail in peace and if necessary in war thank you [Applause] well said now it's my honor to introduce the 2021 proceedings author of the year you've already met him he's major brian kerr united states marine corps it would have been hard to read proceedings last year and not see an outstanding article or commentary by major kirk he was prolific he took second prize in the naval intelligence essay contest second prize in the marine corps essay contest he co-authored a professional note on the information environment he wrote a number of insightful commentaries in addition brian was a finalist for author of the year in 2020 based on a similar output of impressive work and we are incredibly pleased to welcome him to our editorial board ladies and gentlemen a round of applause please for the 2021 proceedings author of the year major brian kerr [Applause] hello again struggle with my notes writing is one of the most effective and far-reaching ways that military members can lead i've been fortunate to find resources and mentors who helped me cultivate my own writing ability over my career i've been additionally lucky in finding leaders who inspired me to take the leap and submit my work for publication i'm deeply grateful that we have in the form of the naval institute an organization that dares us to read think speak and write the naval institute does not exist by accident and it is carried forward by the committed efforts of people who care deeply about our profession and the security of our nation i sincerely hope that my own contributions continue to help develop the sea services our service members and perhaps inspire others to offer their own contributions as we struggle with the riddles of war that must be solved to safeguard our nation and our interests thank you [Applause] okay now i get to pinch hit for the editor-in-chief of naval history magazine eric mills eric is recovering from bionic man surgery right now he'll be back in the office better stronger faster than before in a couple weeks but in the meantime i get to introduce the naval history author of the year through the years naval history magazine has benefited greatly from being able to present works by many of the top names in the field and today we are pleased to recognize just such a distinguished contributor as our 2021 naval history author of the year that is dr john prados dr prados is a senior analyst at the national security archive and the author of more than 20 acclaimed books related to intelligence and military history one of the most famous of his works combined fleet decoded was named a notable naval book of the year by the u.s naval institute in 1995 and his valley of decision the siege of caisson which he co-authored was named a naval institute notable naval book of the year in 1991. dr pratos has been a frequent and valued contributor to naval history for many years his article the navy's biggest betrayal which appeared in june 2010 remains one of the magazine's most top viewed articles online of all time but today we honor him for a pair of standout features that appeared in 2021 his first intel assignment tokyo published last june took readers to pre-world war ii japan where u.s navy officers were gathering vital intelligence on the ambitious japanese warship building program and the growing threat that would soon manifest itself at a place called pearl harbor dr prados returned to our pages in december with pearl harbor at 80 a thought-provoking 80th anniversary retrospective on the evolving perceptions of the seven december attack the lively feedback and discussion generated by this article proved just how enduring a subject this is and how for many history really does matter naturally that's something we are always glad to see in addition to naval history dr pratos's articles and reviews have appeared in scientific american vanity fair journal of east west studies the washington post the boston globe the new york times the los angeles times the journal of american history and elsewhere we are gratified to be able to stand alongside these many noteworthy publications in being a venue for dr prados's prodigious talents and historical insights and so without further ado we proudly present the 2021 naval history author of the year john prados [Applause] ladies and gentlemen secretary layton director of work admiral daly mr hamlet i'm very happy to be with you i'm honored to appear today this is a distinguished assembly i never expected to be here that was a complete surprise to learn that i had been singled out it's a pleasure to receive naval history's author of the year award thank you very much in the past i had written for both proceedings and for native history quite a lot in all and the institute had published two of my books both of the ones that uh mr hamlet mentioned but i was not thinking of any of that rather i was thinking about annual commemorations of the pearl harbor tragedy and how each year in succession there seem to be fewer and fewer veterans of the events present while the disputes over what happened at pearl harbor who was responsible for those things continue to rage um the point has been reached that there are only a handful of veterans of pearl harbor to appear achieved i thought we should do something to help mark the 80th anniversary because coming up to the events i suspected there would be less and less [Music] uh attention paid to the events thinking over the subject it occurred to me that after all of these years even decades the same controversies about the attack remain unsettled so i tried to illuminate them through the device of reviewing recent historical revelations and writings about the day of emptying i hope i have succeeded in that endeavor thank you very much for this award it's a pleasure to be with you here [Applause] thank you dr prados i will now follow by the director of the naval institute press adam kane for the presentation of the press author of the year thank you bill and thank you everybody for attending tonight it's wonderful to see so many faces live and in person as the director of the press it's my pleasure to announce the naval institute press author of the year an award that is annually given to the author whose book shapes our understanding of naval history our maritime or military past or a national security related topic uh the 2022 author of the year is paul stillwell for his book battleship commander the life of admiral willis a lee this biography of lee chronicles his naval experience both as an officer and individual who helped shape the navy uh and ships that he would later command particularly when he was placed in command of task force 64. uh an american led naval or an and led american naval forces to victory in a tight turning battle near guadalcanal in november of 1942. paul himself has deep connections to the navy and to the naval institute a retired naval officer he has long been one of the navy's foremost historians and a friend to many who championed the preservation of our naval history he is also a prior award winner he was recognized in 1993 for his book golden 13. congratulations tonight paul on being recognized as our author of the year once again for your terrific biography of willis ali paul [Applause] it is a thrill to be here thank you i am most grateful for this award because i have such high regard for the naval institute and what it does i will add parenthetically that 60 years ago yesterday i raised my hand and enlisted as a semen recruit in the u.s naval reserve at the time i thought the navy would just be something to get through before i went on with the rest of my life little did i dream that the navy would become the rest of my life and i am so grateful for that this is a wonderful anniversary gift i was inspired by serving in the crew of the battleship new jersey in 1969 the year i joined the naval institute and while there i learned of this great admiral willis a lee who had had his flag in the same ship 25 years earlier so sort of shipmates with some distance in between but he was largely unknown except to a few historical specialists his life was almost waiting to be revealed and so i started the research and it took 45 years to get it done but worth waiting for i hope producing this book has been a team effort at the press i salute acquisitions editor glenn griffith who was my shepherd throughout the process press directors rick russell adam kane janice jorgensen a longtime friend who provided oral history help and always moral support and comfort for the production of the finished book susan corrado and rachel crawford did yeoman work and jackie barnes and jack russell have done a great job in promoting it i had to go back and find people who had known lee or who'd correspond with those who knew lee i went to versailles kentucky and met a lady probably in her 80s her husband evan had done the research for a book on lee and then he died before he could get it written and she turned over everything no strings attached things i could not have found from any other sources included was a handwritten letter from chester nimitz in rock island illinois i had great help from lee's nephew don seiters and from the family historian his sister-in-law margaret allen then i went to pennsylvania to interview gilliam ertzen and his wife mary gill was lee's flag lieutenant saw him on a daily basis from 1942 until the day lee died so you could not get a more intimate look than the erzons provided i am grateful to the many others who shared their recollections because he did not produce any reminiscences of his own so it was through the eyes of others and what i learned is that lee was a shining example of the principle that loyalty down produces loyalty up finally i salute the team at home my wife karen whom i've been married to for nearly 52 years our sons joseph robert and james they have lived with this project for many many years and now it has come to fruition thank you very much [Applause] all right that concludes the awards portion of our annual meeting program i will now turn the stage back over to admiral daily and we will move forward okay well congratulations again to all our essay award winners and authors of the year let's give them one more hand [Applause] as i mentioned earlier i think we are at a critical juncture where we need debate not just among navy marine corps and coast guard professionals but also with national leaders and the american public about the vital contribution of sea power to national security the american sea power project just entered phase two as we mentioned going from ends to the ways of strategy we're very honored to have three of the distinguished article contributors to the series with us here tonight and i'll do introductions and then ask them to come up together on the stage the honorable john f layman served six years as secretary of the navy in the reagan administration he's chairman of jf layman and company a private equity investment firm he served 25 years in the naval reserve as a naval aviator in other extensive national service he was a staff member for dr henry kissinger on the national security council he served as a delegate for the force reductions negotiations in vienna and his deputy director of the u.s arms control and disarmament agency he served as a member of the 9-1-1 commission professor sarah sally payne is a is the william s sims university professor of history and grand strategy at the naval war college she lectures in geopolitics mao zedong world war ii the chinese civil war the russo-japanese korean vietnam and cold wars she spent over eight years overseas including taiwan and japan and a year each in china and russia her focus on the relations among china russia and japan as well on the as well as on the operational and strategic effects of naval blockades commerce rating naval coalitions peripheral operations and non-military uses of navies our third panelist is dr thomas g menken who's president and chief executive officer of the center for strategic and budgetary assessments he's a senior research professor at the johns hopkins university's paul h nitsa school of advanced international studies he's currently serves as a member of the congressionally mandated national defense strategy commission his previous government career include services deputy assistant secretary of defense for policy planning from 2006 to 2009 he helped craft the 2006 quadrennial defense review and the 2008 national defense strategy he served 24 years as an officer in the u.s navy reserve to include tours in iraq and kosovo i asked them all to come up and join me on the stage thank you [Applause] let's have a seat i've been looking forward to this discussion and uh we thought we'd just go right into a discussion and uh we also just to remind we'll have an opportunity for questions and answers um from the audience started up here with a few uh a few icebreakers so the first one you know it reminds me secretary layman that when you served as secretary of the navy there was no uh no concern about what the threat was you knew what the threat was it was well established and uh you know it seems like in our recent history we've had problem deciding who the threat is and so the key advantage i think you had back then as you knew with a clear-eyed view who the pacing threat was and as late as 2016 dod wasn't allowed to call the prc a competitor much less a pacing threat and only recently has the national defense strategy called out the prc as the pacing threat and to further complicate things they're meeting and exceeding their stretch goals in many ways so some of the voices that thought that we had enough time on this till the next century or the next decade in the 2030s now you hear some pretty responsible and experienced voices say maybe 2027 maybe 2028. so uh dr menken you wrote that we suffer from a critical deficit in strategic thinking about the most consequential challenge of the of the decade which is of the current era which is the rise of china and the threat it poses so i'll start with you and secretary lehman and i'll start with uh dr menken how does being late to recognize the china threat and the acceleration of its efforts affect our strategy and do we have the right element of urgency right well thanks first off i mean it's it's an honor to be here with you all uh this afternoon and be here with the uh the award winners share the stage with you admiral was secretary layman and my long time uh naval war college colleague uh professor payne but look we we are late to the game um but that's sort of the american way right i think it's it's it's deeply encoded in our in our cultural dna that we believe in cooperation and can't we all just get along and aren't we all just the same and whether it's the challenge posed by china today the the challenge posed by the soviet union at the beginning of the cold war challenge posed by imperial japan nazi germany uh in the 20s and 30s we're often late to the game um but we're we're in the game and as you say i think it it it's important that we now have a discussion a debate and action uh when it comes to thinking about not just 21st century competition but the growing possibility of 21st century great power conflict and i think one of the other kind of cultural traits we have uh as as americans i think it's as westerners more broadly is we we we think that um saying something makes it happen so talking about conflict somehow is going to make it happen now the historian in me uh is it pains to find a case when that actually has been the case in the past where merely saying something the magic power of words has caused a war as opposed to differences of interest and uh and aggression so i think we in fact we need to shift from worrying about saying things making it so to actually we do need to say things and we need to say things as part of a professional discourse to develop strategies to develop concepts and also saying is not is is no longer sufficient we also have to be doing as well uh so from an organization that traditionally talked about thinking two to three decades in the future know the time to not just think but do is is is now thank you and uh for secretary lehman do you think that being late to the party has hurt us and how do we make make up ground what is the urgency today well i think uh uh i agree with uh my compatriot here that we're always late to the party and that's the nature of democracy there i can't think of any event uh in the past 300 years where a true democracy has been ahead of the game so that's the reality what we do now that we do i think as a as a nation a public a uh uh and intellectually recognize that we face some very uh serious and uh existential problems and adversaries the beginning of wisdom is to recognize that and to build a strategy i think there are two things that are most heavily missing today in our navy and marines that is that there is a as i've railed like the crazy uncle in the attic on this for some years we have adopted a culture since uh since the scandals of of the 90s of zero tolerance and and this is a very toxic and uh dangerous position to have our navy uh walking around bragging about uh not accepting any any mistakes by our young upcoming uh officers and ncos never has this been part of the culture in the navy now it is and it's got to be dropped right away because it is it is driving out all of some of the best people i've written previously that uh the four five stars that won world war ii in today's navy could not get promoted beyond lieutenant maybe lieutenant commander in leahy's uh case but they they made mistakes all leaders all great leaders make mistakes in in youth and learn from them we allow no mistakes uh one dui and you're out that's crazy i mean when i went through flight school you had to have at least three duis to get through so we're we're really uh conditioning our young uh our young leaders that have what it really takes and that is a minority in any group uh we're convincing them over time much as these wonderful people that you've selected correctly for for awards they still have the fire in the belly but we are grinding that out of them we no longer you know when nimitz put his uh first command on the rocks there was a protective society that saw in him a really major potential leadership and they protected him they punished him but they didn't throw him out today you throw out somebody that puts puts their ship on the rock so that's the biggest problem the next and it comes directly from the fact that we drive out so many of our real thinking leaders at a young age is we have no strategy we haven't had a strategy really since uh uh since the reagan bush era and uh the the uh the problem is that this is sort of the first period of 30-some years where the navy has not had its strategy i mean we went all through the 20s and 30s developing in wargaming the rainbow war plans that those were strategies we included britain and germany and quite a few other surprising uh examples and of course japan so we've got to get back to strategy first because it's got to be strategy then requirements how many ships how many jets submarines do we need and then uh we've got to go out and sell that it's not we've had to reverse in the last uh couple of decades that we go oh well the strategy comes from the budget we wait for we have a budget cut passed by congress well sir you've touched on culture the need for strategy uh recognizing that some of the risk takers have been driven out and i was going to ask dr payne who's up at the war college and we talked about the urgency and the clarity that comes with knowing who you're going to fight is is what secretary layman just said about the last 30 years was that a problem because we didn't have that the identified specific threats that we'd had before and only are now coming back to that what's your view did we need that to get to get it right i think the threats have been similar they're the continentalists and the continentalists want to divide the war world into spheres of influence and you've had fascist variants of this over time and we in the west want a universal world order based on universal rules to minimize transaction costs this is how you build uh prosperous societies and we look at and you ask well why do we come late to the game because we're looking at the continentalists and going you can't be serious right you really don't want to do this world war looks this way and even the victors in some respects it's peric that you're better off not fighting these things however um i think it's really important to understand the difference between a maritime outlook on this on trade the navy is so intimately connected with with trade in fact it's a service that is most intimately connected with a civilian economy and the navy doesn't get credit because it's often pursuing negative objectives preventing people from doing crazy things to inter interrupt the commons and things like that and so a good navy day is when precisely nothing happens so it looks like well what did the navy do for me lately a lot and uh so i don't think the the it's we are late to the game the problem is continuous with continentalists trying to cause all sorts of troubles and we now we thought it was china and for the moment it's now vladimir putin working his magic but i think one of the things that americans should be really aware of is one of our greatest gifts is the gifts of geography which is sanctuary at home and during world war the last uh hot war world war no one could touch us at home and that's not true anymore so when you're developing your strategy to deal with china uh do uh think about not cornering them in such a way when they decide that their last day is also going to be our last day when they come in it's something that we need to consider this time around thank you um you know one one item that was mentioned earlier by one of our award winners was the idea of integrated deterrence and it figures um in the national defense strategy which mere mortals haven't been able to read yet but there are like a two there's like a two page unclassified piece but a lot of references to integrated deterrence and as i understand it integrated deterrence is all domain deterrence but i was struck by a comment that general berger made last last fall and he said how good is your deterrence if you watch the chinese take those atolls build mountains of sand construct the runways build the revetments put the missiles in and what what did what is deterrence if you don't deter that so uh it strikes me that the chinese have an idea of deterrence that's whole of government they'll threaten they'll cajole they'll use all their elements of power are we being smart about that and i'll i'll start with dr menken well you with in mentioning integrated deterrence you you threatened to bring out the grammarian in me um and maybe it's appropriate my high school english teacher who i owe so much to just passed away a couple weeks ago at the age of 97 and she always taught you know that the noun's more important than the adjective so uh whether we're talking about hybrid warfare or integrated deterrence let's focus on deterrence and at least for me i tend to go the other way which is to be very specific who is it that we seek to deter from doing what and then and then how uh you know are we seeking to deter xi jinping from using force against taiwan um and unless and until you can have that type of a a focused appreciation i think it really is hard to deter now to this to but to the to the point of the contrast between the way we think about deterrence you know i'd say in in the west in the united states and here i'm really uh stepping on professor payne's uh territory but compared to the way the chinese seem to formulate it look we are we're uh we're uh we're splitters not lumpers right so we tend to think about all these elements of national power and we tend to be organized according to those uh elements of national powers and as the the founders intended we we tend to be organized poorly uh to execute those those elements of power right we're not we're not designed for the efficient uh use of all these instruments uh again uh like like authoritarians are you look at the chinese view i think it's a much more graduated view you know we think of war versus peace i think they see a much more uh graduated continuum um we think of you know is it we think about the dime or god help us the dime fill or i'm sure it's gotten if the acronym like all other acronyms kind of grows uh we break things down um so i think thinking in terms of integrated deterrence for us doesn't come naturally and i think we should ask why that is and again i think a lot of that is is encoded in our cultural dna and it's encoded in our laws and until we conquer that i don't think we're going to have a lot of success and more broadly i don't think we're going to out authoritarian the authoritarians when it comes to harnessing all of our natural national assets thank you i was going to throw that next to secretary lamancy if you had an idea about this idea of deterrence do we have it right i think some of the recent ukraine russia stuff has taught us what works what doesn't mostly what doesn't but i wanted to throw it to you yeah i think the deterrence uh is exactly the heart of what uh what we're we're all about and deterrence is nothing complex it's just convincing your potential adversaries that if they choose to use force against us and us being our selves and our allies that they will suffer far more than uh than they can hope to gain deterrence is not working today because uh the chinese and the russians and the iranians and the north koreans see us as a declining power the new budget that goes to the hill two weeks ago calls for cutting the navy reducing the number of ships uh how is that integrated deterrence this is you know uh it's something that has to be believable and understood by our potential adversaries in simple declarative sentences if you do this these are going to be the consequences and we had a big debate about this in in the 80s because we had a president who said our strategy for the cold war is we win they lose and that was his strategy and so we set about we the naval services the air force and also the army laterally we set about demonstrating that to the to the soviets and the only way you can do that is to go up there and show them you can do it and they can't stop us and we're not doing any of that today and uh so we're not deterring i don't think we're deterring uh uh putin in uh uh in the current war and ukraine i don't think we're really deterring i think putin is deterring the chinese from going into taiwan but uh i don't i don't think we are so that is the heart of it that's what we've got to focus on how do we be believable to our adversaries as we are serious and that's what we don't have well you know deterrence is so much in the eyes of the receiver and uh dr payne you've spent so much time over there when you look at what we're sending knowing what you know from your experience over there having spent so much time in asia are we sending the right thing to get the right response first i'm going to make a caveat for anyone who wears glasses you go into the oculus and they they go well is this lens better or is that lens better this one better that when you mull it over which one's worse i can tell you that each time i write a book i get one click a little better so what i'm giving you is not 20 20. and also one of the keys when you're assessing others is you have a hypothesis of what you think they're thinking or what they're doing and i encourage you to get comfortable with the counter argument because when you realize the counter argument's right and you're wrong adopt the counter arguments so that being said um the problem with putin and xi jinping in my books and maybe i'm wrong because only their psychoanalyst would probably know for sure and that guy's probably dead anyway i think they're both on death ground at home in different ways and putin's really done a job with ukraine on cornering himself and by death ground i mean they have only their only hope of probably physical survival is to keep marching forward because of xi jinping he well he cheated on a deal he shouldn't have actually become the head when he did it was boshila i believe was the guy whose turn was had come up and now that guy's in jail with his wife and putin they both ultimately have these non-performing economies this is a problem with being a continentalist you drive the car into the ground if this is your operating way you're running an economy this is why americans are so opposed to continentalists it doesn't work and then it makes them grabby and desperate for other people's stuff so this is one this is a problem when you want to deter someone who's on death ground uh it's difficult and the soviets were a much more organized system uh putin started out as a street thug and he's 20 years in this is what it looks like and uh xi jinping sadly never had a good education he is a cultural revolution etc so um if you can't deter them and maybe you can encourage them to make really rotten decisions that waste money like thinking a train system is ever going to deliver anything but big big debts that no one's ever going to pay you for so the more they want to invest in train systems to nowhere you know particularly now that it's all dead ended you can't go through russia and ukraine now with that train system and as for the islands i mean it's great they've told us exactly where their stuff is i guess we know where to get rid of it right it's like hello there they are and he's invested xi jinping on this 24 7 surveillance system which if you think of the cost we decided to surveil each other in the united states the way they're doing it and getting everyone to rat out each other it would just wreck your economy and that's where they're going so since we may not be able to deter well let's keep encouraging the bad decisions and the latest with putin if he decides that he has to go home to mother which would be xi jinping and he's going to try to reverse all these energy flows and the reason they don't go east is because it's not efficient to do it that way so great let's go be inefficient for the bad guys it's going to do a reversal of the mongol yoke and this terminology comes from russian history when the mongol yuan dynasty contoured both china and russia the russians were their tax collectors and they really didn't much like it putin is in real danger of becoming of the pawn of xi jinping and that is a situation which you could actually love because they'll hate each other they always have and making them work this is what eisenhower noticed making them work closely together is a good thing because they don't work well together at all that is good insight for dr menken uh you know you you know there's folks that assume always and it drives me well that the maneuver force of the navy is somehow more vulnerable than fixed bases ashore like one old weapon hits one old russian ship and people go woof we got to draw some big conclusions from that you know ships can sink and uh you conclude that the u.s military quote the us military in conjunction with allies and partners should create the virtues of mass without the vulnerabilities of concentration can you expand on that little aspect sure look i think the um in an era of you know widespread ubiquitous precision which is where we are right better part of a century into the precision strike era it started in in world war ii it's kind of fully mature now what what you can what you can find you can hit it is easier to hit fixed targets than mobile targets it's easier to hit mobile targets today than it was 20 or 50 years ago but there's still there's still a difference there but in this era it doesn't make sense to aggregate large you know large dollops of military power in a vulnerable way and whether that's on land or whether that's on sea or whether that's in space so we need to do is figure out how to how to mass effects without creating you know really lucrative lucrative targets um i think precision strike and and advances in in isr really give us all sorts of opportunities to do that and i think particularly when coupled with geography i mean one of those things that just doesn't change or changes over the course of millennia so that we don't almost almost don't notice um and i think there the the geography of the western pacific in particular is really advantageous to us there are fixed locations they happen to be our allies or our friends and we want to be there and we want to defend them for all sorts of other reasons we are going to be there and we are going to defend them but we also have the expanses of the of the oceans that's our maneuver space and and we need to use each of those those fixed locations and the maneuver space to to our best advantage back to you know looking at things from uh you know from beijing things look a lot different right those those friends those al jing of getting out and getting access to the broad oceans so i think we're actually in a pretty favorable position if if we if we really double down on the things that that confer advantage there so for secretary layman you know the [Music] the very success the very success that you had back in the 80s has presented some problems now because the aircraft carriers that were built the late 60s nimitz design which was nimitz was mid 70s and then most of those ships commissioned on your watch the back in the 90s we were authorizing in the late 80s we were authorizing four or five ddgs a year and now here we are also recapitalizing the strategic nuclear deterrent and the navy's been told to self-fund the strategic nuclear deterrent so you mentioned earlier you know we're not really selling it we're not we're not formulating a strategy we're not compelling and the budget was disappointing what what can we do to change that calculus because if you look at maneuver warfare if you look at the indo-pacific if you look at china as the pacing threat it's got maritime all over it a really good question because you know in 1981 it was a similar situation uh we laid out a strategy to be able to prevail against the soviet union and we pretended we had it we went up uh up north to the norwegian sea and around the cape in august eight months after the president was inaugurated with 83 ships and four carriers but we had no ages we didn't have the ants we had no uh uh seawiz we had no real hardly any uh so but we knew that we had to have a layered defense and we had the outer air battle which had been conceptually provided by three previous cnos and it required seven layers of defense one layer you can always penetrate going all the way back to the first carrier in 1917 if you look at the uh debate in parliament there's nothing new you know carriers could not survive why are we spending uh this you've got dirigibles and you've got bombers that can drop bombs on them and uh but it's uh the problem we have is we really as has been i think well said we have not maintained deterrence so instead of seven layers uh right after uh the end of history in 1991 and there was no more threat and the best our defense budget was cut 40 percent uh the seven layers were reduced to three and a half right they canceled the phoenix missile which is the best in the world for reaching out uh 200 miles the f-14 with its magnetron radar could see far better than any fighter in the in the world the aegis cruisers were early retired uh the first five of them we had uh everything all four of the long-range aircraft that the navy was developing and had developed were canceled and it was it was just crazy we cut our ability to defend our fleet nobody wants obviously to mass all your goodies in an easy target we weren't doing that at the time but today we only have the f-18 which is a third the range and payload of the f-14 it's slower it's not an interceptor it's a uh it's it's a good bomber yeah that's a a good strike fighter we don't have uh anything like the kinds of weapons uh in enough numbers you know here we are now we've given away most of what we have for the key uh air defense systems and we've got to restock and now it's tough tough time to restock so uh we we've really got to recognize that you are going to get hit i mean we had 1700 kamikazes with very smart guidance systems who were adapted to the adapted to the uh to the as our ships over a thousand of them figured out how to get their dive bombing pop-ups and so forth they then went to sea skimmers and they were very effective the they we lost effectively 34 destroyers they didn't all sink but they were put totally out of action we had five big carriers hit although none of them sank and uh four of them were able to be put back into into service the big the big issue is building ships to go into harm's way that can survive of course you're going to get hit you're not going to get it as often as an air force base or an army division if you go to all-out war but you're going to get hit much rather being a target going 35 knots that has a thousand watertight compartments and three armored decks and triple under keel protection uh but you're going to get hit and we do we no longer in our present situation after all the cuts that were never made up uh we we can't deal with the kind of stream raids even that that we face then with the backfire and their big uh s4 anti-ship missiles we've got to get that back and we've got to spend and we've got to get up and to congress and sell and explain to them that's why nobody's been doing that why i don't know it's marketing i think it comes down to marketing and so for dr payne i wanted to just shift a moment because of your specialty you know dr nick lambert argued in his article that the current globalized economy presents naval challenges and opportunities fundamentally different than what were posed in world war ii in essence he art he argued for a broader strategic role for naval forces and protecting our own allies and mostly based on economics do you think that the navy is being properly used are we too much force on force or should we look much more closely at this economic aspect of warfare i'm surrounded with a great deal of expertise here and i'm just going to make a comment about a navy mission that i think would be helpful to consider and then i got people to know more about it than i do and happy to hear counter arguments is that the lifeblood of the international system even as we return some supply chains home is the fact that we all trade with each other and this is all maritime trade and oh by the way we communicate on the web and everything else is by cables under siege etc and then this you can make a very powerful argument to congress about that the whole economy just depends on this and you all don't see anything because it's all working today but the moment gets threatened you're going to have a heart attack about this and we seem to have some objective examples from kovid and the disruptions we've seen we couldn't even make mass like the one i was wearing today it's incredible and i think a role and then i'll stand to be corrected on either side of me that i think navies need to consider is convoying and also if we get into a real problem with china i would think china's not set up to do a global war why because it imports energy and food and that's a real problem in wartime oh and by the way it has way too many neighbors and most of their neighbors hate them for excellent reasons and then it is surrounded by narrow shallow island cluttered seas that in wartime become kill zones do we technically don't have to go there they of course do because they live there so uh on if you're going to shut down chinese trade or portions of it i presume it's through impounding merchantmen oh by the way it's great that they own the merchant so it makes it more fun when you impound them right we haven't actually had a big merchant marine since the civil war we got rid of ours then the big one um but in thinking in terms also of convoying stuff we assume all these mega ships get through who knows what the countermeasures of other people will be but if you want to protect trade and that will get the attention of all the wall street bottom line kind of people thank you now it's going to open it up i'll ask one more question but then i ask people to come up to the mics and be free to ask a question and i hope you take advantage of the excellent folks we have here on the panel but i'd like to just ask one more question if you had to pick just one or two things that are due now for the navy and the marine corps what would you pick as your due now just one or two and i'll i'll go to you first uh secretary layman well i've already said what we i firmly believe we have to do soon and one is to change this corruption of of navy uh culture and get rid of zero tolerance it is it's it's destroyed morale it's it's driven top-notch people out and then that's the beginning of wisdom then the second most urgent thing is to declare to first it's not look good as everybody knows good strategy is not uh 180 pages long it's simple declarative uh sentences that are impeccable logic just like reagan started out and then we followed up by saying okay yeah we're going to go up up to the norwegian sea where we can really kick ass and you can't stop us we're going in the fjords and operate our carriers there they can't can't find us and in other words to to project that you know what you're doing and you are going to win but we did as i mentioned earlier this was all bluff in 81 82 because we didn't have those weapons but we did have previous naval leaders that insisted that what was needed to to deal with the soviet and the chinese threat was developed and was there when an administration that wanted to build the navy and increase in you know i was told by every admiral really in the beginning the first weeks i was in office that oh congress will never support that reagan increased defense in in the three initiatives he did in the first year by 20 and today you talk to the navy uh programmers about this oh no they'll never congress will never sit still for that well they weren't sitting still for it until the navy went up and told them why and showed them the rationale and the logic that was behind it so first get rid of zero tolerance and second let's build a strategy even if we can't uh can't flesh it out in the first couple of years we can bluff we can let them know that this is what we're gonna do and when we get it we're we're really gonna be able to cream you guys and that's really what won the cold war because they could see that the free world was developing it was building its defenses and then of course we threw in the cy war by having uh star wars which nobody believed in and we got bob balor to go out and find the titanic and uh show our robotics to the russians and they said my god what what else do they have if they're showing us this so it's you know it's it's leadership it's leadership uh and we've got to get back to it dr payne i guess two things uh one as a professor i guess i take an academic look define your policy objective which i believe is maintaining the rules-based global order and if that's the case uh what are the naval missions that instead of thinking of the operational level they've got certain forces and i got certain forces and how in this particular battle i wipe out larger numbers of their forces or whatever it is but think about uh the political effects of what you do etc and then now for heresy uh and this is an outsider's view uh after working for over 20 years for the navy i think your promotion system is in terrible shape and here's my reasoning i look at fat leonard that went on for years everyone knew about it they must have you can't be that stupid not to know about it do you have two aegis destroyers that can't navigate in peace time you have uh major weapon systems that are just a mess that don't do the basic stuff they're supposed to and i look at the promotion system and what it does is the no fault thing is one of them another one is uh it uh it penalizes truth to power also it penalizes bad news to power that accurate bad news timely would be early that's not career enhancing and um i as far as i can tell it uh moral cuddler courage is another thing that gets penalized and it needs to be fixed i actually think there's a fairly easy way to fix it enable war college if you all made that a project for one of the classes and they divide divided up to groups competitive you would learn exactly how to fix the navy promotion system but um it's uh the pr and so now we've got leadership and ethics that's a misidentification of the problem the problem is that people are incentivized to make poor leadership decisions or unethical decisions because in order to get promoted to the next rank you have to play certain uh rules anyway so now i'm going to get ushered out of the room you do bring up you do bring up an excellent point you show me any organization where it's one strike and you're out people will lie cheat and steal and not tell the truth because the consequences are horrible and um lethal so dr menken you get the last one before we have somebody come up to the mic yeah so one word focus right so as a global power it's extremely difficult for us to focus we need to focus focus on the strategic challenges focus on the concrete operational challenges and vigorously ruthlessly game them out debate them discuss them take no prisoners um just you know just as we've done successfully in the past uh it time times clock clock is ticking so focus we need to we need to really focus thank you as i offer i think some people are approaching the mic here good afternoon and thanks for your time secretary layman i'm struck by your comments about uh the maritime strategy would you identify yourself i know i'm sorry uh real retired mike mann and i've been a member of the naval institute since 1968 although pete doesn't recognize that exactly kid broke in service and i have all the proceedings since 68. um what do you think of the commandant of the marine corps exec expeditionary advanced based operations as a construct for a strategy to deter uh he's you know he's effectively driving the navy to buy upwards of 50 to 80 amphibious ships and he's wrapped himself around the distributed maritime operations i mean together those two things seem like a potential maritime strategy and effective maritime strategy but it really questioned the logic of putting a small group of marines on an island somewhere and turning them on with anti-ship cruise missiles and anti-submarine capabilities what do you think what do you think of all of that i i think he's the only chief who's really thinking out of the box and you're right he's it's raising all sorts of of uh issues but i think he's right i think he's valley valid that we should there are 50 000 islands in the pacific 50 000 and most of them are uninhabited but many of them uninhabited you could put a force in there that could uh fly like a butterfly sting like a bee and then move on and uh you know it's it's nothing there's nothing new in the world and strategy and the civil war was hit them where they ain't well that's what he's trying to do i think he's thinking too much in the box about the size of the force structure that he needs he needs more aviation he's cut aviation much too short because the naval department the marines and the navy have no replacements and essentially neither does the air force so you lose start losing aircraft like the russians are in in ukraine and you've got nothing to replace them so i think that he's started the kernel of thinking outside the box the last thing we want to do is send a fleet into this south china sea the the uh the objective of the chinese is to have six carrier battle groups to be able to go out and and establish their suzerainty in the first at least first two uh rings of islands uh so i i i applaud what he's doing uh and he's demonstrating how terrible the terrible things that goldwater nichols have inflicted on our senior leaders in the pentagon everything has to be integrated everything has to be joint well there's some islands that you don't need uh an army division for there you know my experience has in studying many of the writers in this room today their histories of strategy in world war ii and other uh other wars is the the concept that the services can't live together is one that is located here in washington but every time we needed the air force or the air force needed us we worked it out the air force equipped their f-111s and their b-52s and and the b-1s with mine laying capability with harpoon missile shooting capability nobody we didn't have to be told by congressional staffers who were the people who drafted gold water nickels it was common sense and good leadership good leaders don't need to be told oh you should understand you should go to you should spend four years of your career uh as uh on a staff reading newspapers instead of being out at sea where you learn not to run into each other sorry i'm i'm still i'm still waiting for my first day of jpme so i i'm relating to this i'm going to go over here to robbie harris right uh robby harris a former naval person um fantastic panel uh thank you much and thank you pete for the uh uh this annual meeting the best ever i think so thank you very much hey um a number of people believe that the root cause of navy's problems today is gold water nickels and if you if you fix gold water nickels navy's problems go away uh i would like for the panel to react to that do you agree with that who should go first i'll i'll i'll take a look i'll take a stab at it which is you know somebody who's been a you know uh uh an academic for a good part of my uh career it's a wonderful academic question but it is that right i mean it's the world that we live in we live in the post-1986 era so um we got we gotta move on with the tools that we have uh yeah i yeah yeah i plead innocence i i plead guilty i think it's the worst piece of legislation that has weakened our defense uh severely the fact that it takes us now 25 years to develop a simple it's not so simple but it's a lot simpler the f 35 and the same actually the f 22 took two years longer than that to get the first squadron io ioc and our adversaries do it in seven years we used to do it in four years the from the back of the envelope uh the air force developed the minuteman and deployed it for its complete field four years before minuteman was operational we did the the polaris project new submarine new launching system new solid fuel new missile integrated missile new guidance system for the sub uh inertial guidance system entirely new brand new uh guidance stellar inertial guidance for the missiles we did it in four years from literally the back of the envelope or it was a napkin i guess that and the deployment of the george washington fully operational four years and now it takes us it takes us by direction in in the regulations the defense acquisition regulations it takes minimum of five and a half years just to get an agreed integrated requirement this is unilateral disarmament that's why we're in the state we're in it's a lousy piece of legislation and has got to be reformed or ignored and move on we're going to we're going to put you down as a no this gentleman over here was next hi i just want to echo what the previous person said this has been a great panel enjoyed it i also want to put a plug for usni's emails and you know it's the best thing out there it's great having those every day to actually get the the straight facts moving on from that um i sort of like to turn this to the political standpoint and going back to 1981 um the secretary layman correct me if i'm wrong but you had a lot of bipartisan support in the house and senate at that time it wasn't overwhelming but she had a lot he also had some incredible leaders like senator john warner at that time how long may he live i look at now and looking at the republican party that used to be a strong supporter and you see it now that they aren't supporting it you see people like trump and people who have trump's endorsements suggesting very strongly we shouldn't be doing anything to help ukraine so i guess this sort of looks as in a larger thing if we want to rebuild the navy if we want to do the things we need to be and it seems as though we need some sort of bipartisan support does anybody have any thoughts on that do we need it how do we get there any any ideas absolutely that is a critical point we could not have done in the reagan administration what was done without the bipartisanship in the previous administration we had a president who was an a a continentalist not a navalist but we had a defense leadership uh that really i think understood they they they uh they knew we had sooner or later to deal with what the soviet union was doing in its uh stealing technology and building a large navy and and so harold brown the secretary of defense a lifelong democrat kept all these navy programs alive the slick 32 all of the seaways all of the aegis everything that won the cold war for the navy was kept alive and funded uh in in the the previous two administrations and uh they built the capabilities not in the numbers but they no yeah they they developed paid to develop it all we had to do was say i'll buy this and this and this and this and this while we were bluffing the the world saying we can already deal with the backfire stream raids when we couldn't but we three years later we could and proved it so uh yes we've got to get to buy back to bipartisanship and i think the armed services committee uh uh today certainly in the senate i'm less familiar with the house but the senate armed service committee does have that spirit it's pretty pretty uh uh bipartisan of course with scoop jackson and uh the uh of john tower and john warner of leaders of both democratic side and republican side uh they were lib the democrats tended to be fairly liberal except the southerners uh on social issues and but strong on defense even though their administration wasn't when a republican administration came in we had that bipartisan support on the hill and you know i spent half my time as did most of the defense officials up on the hill for at least the first half of the year not just testifying but lobbying taking taking them to lunch and and working the staffers i don't get the sense that that's happening today you've got to sell you've got to you've got to declare in simple declarative sentences what you're why you're up here what is the strategy and be able to explain the strategy and have every sailor and every naval ship understand it because it's just a few logical syllogisms to explain we're not doing that in defense of the current cno you know i interviewed him a couple weeks ago and really looked deep into what he was doing with the budget especially because it has been you know a subject of some discussion and uh it basically occurred to me that there's many similarities to what you just described you had that post-vietnam era where they kept those fires burning it was like the monks up in the up at the top with the original hebrew and latin greek texts but they kept those fires burning and he basically submitted a budget where he said look i look at this as three things readiness capability and capacity and if i can't buy the capacity now i got to do the first two and it reminds me a lot of what you just said and i think that we're talking about these numbers these big numbers like 500 if you include the unmanned and partially or optionally manned and i think that's what he's trying to do and i also think that um you know maybe as part of selling it they got to get out from under the self-funding the strategic well that's a good point because the the armed services committee in the last budget that john mccain produced in the senate armed service committee had that come out of a pool and that it was you know the the budget would be would fund the strategic pool the air force uh needed a new bomber the they needed a new icbm to put in the holes and the navy uh needed new uh boomers and uh and out of that the army was supposed to pitch in a third to this this pool and trump accepted it and made he's the one that changed it so that only the navy paid for the boomers and only the air force paid for the bomber and and the missile and the army got off scot-free and and ended up during that administration the army got three to five percent more than the other service other two services every year for what i know uh tom you get something yeah look i mean i think we should talk about where we are right now which is i think you know we are in a very fluid moment in history when it comes to our national defense our our national security and things are i always like to say things are inconceivable until they become conceivable and i think with the you know the the war that's going on now in ukraine the demonstration of just what you know a glimpse at what 21st century high-intensity warfare actually looks like and entails and will entail i think it's waking a lot of people up and so i think you know those those embers are burning and we'll have to see how they you know how they're how they're ignited but i think it was to you know to sally's previous point um look i think by and large whether it's the american people or members of congress they want to do the right thing they just don't know what the right thing is and they need people to help them understand what the right thing is and because i think by and large the people that i grew up with in southern california they assume we're all doing the right thing they pay their taxes they you know they were and they think we're we're doing the right thing and so i think we need to you know be good stewards of their resources and good stewards of their trust so i don't know if you gotta weigh in on that before we go to our last question well i'm thinking about it's uh everyone's talking here and oh i think of uh history there are certain eras or periods that are absolutely pivotal where i mean every it's always ongoing change but sometimes it's just whatever is happening in the future it's going to be really different from the past and for me covid has changed all sorts of things like how we're going to work in the future etc and understanding how we're going to work for supply chains all sorts of things and now of course this war in ukraine and i believe i'm not the only person who's figured out that the world has changed because you can watch european leaders from big countries in europe to small they have reassessed on a dime and then you've brought up the point that we have a whole series of equipment that was bought a long time ago and actually it's probably fortunate it's all going bad right now because we're at a pivotal moment where now what you're doing is so valuable with your american c prime uh power project is this is the moment to really think carefully of what sort of platforms do you need uh i don't i'm not advocating uh prematurely getting rid of big things that we have but we're watching ukraine taking well i realize the russians are incompetent i got that uh even i figured that out but we're watching small things taking out big things and thinking about how we want to invest in the future so in a weird way this is actually a good moment to rethink things and also i'm going to make a plug for democracy is that the problem we think of these dictatorial places that boy they can get things done yeah they can look at all the bad decisions xi jinping and putin are making what person in their right mind would make these decisions that we have a very messy process but it uh our messy squabbling with each other is how we get good decisions and um and wondering what the one one of the questions you sent around was about what are the instruments of national power how do you integrate them that's what the cabinet's called that all those portfolios those are the instruments of national power so actually i think we're going to be in a good place and the fact that you all are here and engaged is part of the good place we'll all work together and make these things better you're here here here okay i see that kevin wenstein has conceded his spot and now this will be our last question because we're in overtime extra time whichever way you want to look at it is a very high level question then based on the last 70 days of really incompetence that we've watched from the russian army armies they don't trust their junior ncos they don't trust their junior officers and the corruption is rampant i mean five days of food gets ordered and three days gets delivered and it seems like it crosses over to the navy are the chinese any better in their planning and control and warfare capabilities than what we're watching on television at the moment thank you i don't know the answer to your question but as a historian just watches the chinese in action and if you look at the statistics on chinese on how many of them have died violent deaths over the last 300 years it's huge and if you look at it you notice that it's mostly chinese like han chinese that's the predominant ethnic group killing other han chinese and it's not a mark of good strategy if that's what you're doing and um the levels of disorganization if you think about the cultural revolution i get it a while ago etc but xi jinping is busy closing down the private sector the people that you all admire and are impressed with the achievements of it's not the the it's not the communist party it's just the regular old citizens who were released and allowed to do things well that's all being closed uh down now my understanding that on their navy ships they got this mishmash of soviet parts they sort of glued together and now we've watched some of the soviet stuff in action i guess you all can analyze it better than i do and my understanding is their naval stuff isn't that impressive and china of course has bought all this stuff and and copied it all down and you know memorized it thrice so um don't count i think they probably are incompetent uh why would they trust each other and um autocracies have no respect for the young right isn't that what you're seeing in russia the corrupt oligarchs do their thing who cares about the the 18 year olds who get drafted same thing that'll be the same in china but how would a don't assume a cooperative enemy it's better to chicken little it and the sky is falling and you'll come up with a good strategy okay tom 10 feet tall or look i think the uh we've gone through two phases of thinking about china as an adversary and i think we're entering the third so the first was basically ignoring it dismissing it wishing it away then the second phase was they're 10 feet tall they're superman they can do anything and where at the beginning of good strategy is is this third phase which is like any other competitor they've got strengths and they've got weaknesses just like we've got strengths and weaknesses what we need to do is figure out how to apply our strengths against their enduring weaknesses the things that they just can't do anything about because of the nature of their regime the nature of their society so hopefully and again i would i would hope the naval institute i'll trust enabling students be part of this conversation we're we're at a mature enough phase of that of that conversation where we can talk about see we have about china in in public and talk about the other c competition or conflict in polite circles and we can actually have informed strategic discussions about their strengths and their which are considerable their weaknesses which are also considerable our strengths and our weaknesses secretary lehman last word well uh i i hate to have a last word that i can't bloviate on i just have to agree with dr payne yes i'm i'm very optimistic i think we've got the whole cards and we've got the geography and uh we would really have to screw up more than we have ever screwed up to lose those advantages well i want to thank our panel dr menkin dr payne secretary layman for an excellent discussion we've gone a few minutes over but let's give them all a hand thank you don't we get a curtain or a set real quick we're giving each of our panelists it doesn't quite uh cover their precious time but a copy of war transformed naval institute press book by mick ryan great thank you thank you very much thank you superb thank you thank you doctor i think it's less than twenty dollars well just before we all uh part the room oh thank you annual meeting and uh and we've got a slide up here which is a call to action but i'm often asked by members you know pete how can i help and of course members can help by being engaged and your very presence here tonight is wonderful and support us through donations and your membership itself but i put out a special call to action tonight because members frequently tell me that they have a niece a nephew a grandchild a neighbor a friend and often they're people who serve and that were influenced by one of you and you convinced them to join to serve and so i'd just like to put out the challenge tonight that every member get a member it would help us a lot as we try to refresh and reseed the youth the vibrancy the energy for the naval institute for the next 149 years so i ask you to consider that call to action so thank you all for 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v0S6PJxKd2A | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0S6PJxKd2A | PLAYSTATION 4 PRO UNBOXING! | hello everyone welcome to the nation and today I have a pretty exciting video first off I just want to say I am in the new room that I will be moving into very very shortly as you can see we have it all cleared out we still have to get new carpet and paint the walls and stuff but i thought i might as well just show you guys a little bit of what the room is going to look like i don't know if this will be your perspective when i get completely in here and i'm making videos on the desk and everything but this is the new desk all right here that i'm using and i'm excited because today we have something big we have got a playstation 4 pro unboxing for you guys today now I recently just bought this at best buy and I'm super freaking excited to get into it and to cut it open not cut open to cut open the box and get to the opening and start playing with this baby so I'm going to bring it over here right in front of camera and we're going to open it up open this first box and slide this off slide the pretty off here I got this big white part i'm going to open this box i'm going to probably open this in light down like this so I can kind of show you guys everything um quick start guide don't need that no one ever does that and pull this little thing out and just because I like to keep the suspense up and I like to go exciting things second I'm going to open this up and here we have the plug in cord for the playstation 4 pro actually looks a little bit different then the plugs do for the other play stations are the pleasant to three and four i noticed got another one of those kind of not that great PlayStation headset gotta charge another charging cable for my controller and that's going to be really useful and then in here I can get this open all right yep we've got the brand new controller they do have a minor change I have you have an hdmi cord as well which is very nice nothing on that they do have a slight change to the new controllers of the ps4 pro they added a little bit of a light bar up at the top just like a little line that lights up so you can see what color this is without like flipping your controller up feels really nice feels about the same looks like they change the colors and stickers a little bit which is really nice it's got more of a matte finish right here on leg in between the buttons and d-pad instead of like a shiny which I like that better won't get as many fingerprints on it and overall it feels nice feels just like the old ones I like it a lot the buttons are a little bit springier as well as far as the options and share buttons and like I said it has the light on it so that's very nice right there and now we get to the big part this is exciting Wow okay I'm going to go ahead and take this off alright let's get this off and this off and go ahead and open this up there's the front so i'll go ahead and flip it over so oh that looks so nice i'm so excited now they change the look at this as well if you didn't know on the bottom now all the rubber things are no longer like a big of line there now like little X's and triangles and circles and squares like the PlayStation buttons back here on the back I'm not sure why that little stickers there I guess that's that might be the hard drive or the replaceable hard drive or whatever um and so they brought back the optic because they actually took off the optic cable as far as with the PlayStation slim they got the land and they got a USB in the back which I really like because now I can plug it in my headset to the back and not have to worry about it sticking out in the front and they've got the optic cable the PlayStation camera port HDMI and power port which is like I said a little bit different then they have been in the past and if you look it up like the air put it up like this it's a shiny like a chrome PlayStation symbol there you can see my camera my brand new camera that i got for christmas the first video i'm actually using it on and then if you look at the cross section it looks like pancakes or waffles or a layer cake or something like that there's a little port here it has like an X X triangle square and circle on the circles like a little port I don't know what that is interesting and then here on the front they changed it they're actually little buttons now so you got the button line it's got the power button and the eject button as well as the CD Drive obviously and the two other USB so I am super excited to get in and start using this in my setup as opposed to the older playstation 4 i'm going to be selling the older plus playstation 4 on ebay i can link it if i get it up on the earth later on i might link it because the video will go up before i have it listed for sure um but here's a sick new baby i love it i can't wait to play it hopefully we can get some 4k games gameplay as well because i'm excited for that i'm really excited to get 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05NxNgtRn1U | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05NxNgtRn1U | BUILD MODEL TOWN FOR INTERNED JAPANESE [ETC.] | [Music] [Applause] the caravan of Japanese own trucks and pleasure cars heads inland from the Pacific aliens ordered out of strategic coastal zones they are allowed all the personal belongings and household goods they can carry escorted by troopers they go to make their homes under Uncle Sam surveillance for the duration here in the land of Buffalo Bill the government is erecting model camp towns towns in which they live unmolested not as prisoners but free to work and paid by the United States government [Music] bathtubs yes all the comforts of home the Japanese in America are finding Uncle Sam a loyal master despite the war and here are american-born Japanese repaying that loyalty although their ancestors came from the Land of the Rising Sun these young Americans are volunteers in the US Army ready to fight and die defending America the country of their birth [Music] studying gas tactics all the strategy of modern warfare they are proving a formidable and valuable combat unit of the US Army and on payday they invest in war bonds like all good Americans [Music] juist wingless wonder from the drop words of US aviation experts it looks like an animated bug for a flying flounder but from such radical designs as this come the airplanes of tomorrow the inventor clay 130 horsepower motor get some 25% more speed in the wingless plane than in a model of conventional design but will it fly here's the answer a perfect takeoff and capable of making 3 miles a minute some bug air minded america organizes its civilian pilots for patrol duty out over the vast open spaces of the West taking off on regular scheduled flights they range the skyways keeping an eagle eye on the lookout for trouble they're down below a plane that's crashed by two-way radio the patrol flashes the location of the wreck headquarters relays the message to a mounted unit and in a matter of minutes a fully equipped rescue party is on the way [Music] reaching the scene more quickly because of the air patrol they're able to rush the injured pilot to a hospital a dramatic example of how civilian pilots are helping America's war effort and here's the US Navy was bummer the Boeing C Ranger sistership of the Army's famous Flying Fortress [Music] taking to the water for its first test flight sea Ranger is said to be the heaviest armed and armored ship aloft its cruising range is a navy secret but it'll carry a bigger bomb load a greater distance than any plane wind service [Music] wings over America guarding the highways and the skyways [Music] the farm of Joseph Marquis is typical of the self-sufficiency of rural Canadians they raised their own sheep and from the wool they even make their own clothing they produce their own milk and turn their own butter making more available for the soldiers [Music] boots for an army no just the family and what appetites giant loaves of bread 6 and 1/2 feet long our baked every day from wheat grown right on the farm there are four sons in the Canadian Army and today they come home to celebrate their parents 25th wedding anniversary when the whole clan gathers there are 22 in all [Music] they produce all the food they need except sugar and mama rations that you might call this Quebec biggest single meal a typical Canadian family all working to help win the war a bottle is broken upon the bow of a new United States destroyer and down the waves goes another warship to join America's fast-growing seven ocean Navy in another yard another destroyer is ready ships that used to take two years to build now completed in seven months spectacular tribute to the genius of American workmen from coast to coast records are broken one-yard flashes three destroyers launched in 28 minutes another wires for ships go down the waves within an hour [Music] [Applause] [Music] transports building on 24-hour production schedule seven days a week are being completed even faster than warships in one working day alone u.s. yards gave the Merchant Marine 27 brand-new cargo ships here goes another a sideways launching but it gets there just the same American industry is breaking even its own records [Music] Washington the new united states chief of staff admiral william delay he takes over his new post personally appointed by president roosevelt the admiral was formerly ambassador to Vichy Massachusetts Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands now visiting Princess Juliana in the United States leaves her home nearby to inspect the Corps of seasoned US troops making one of her few public appearances since the war the woman who ruled an empire of 75 million people sees her new allies pass in review sees in these American troops the hope of the United Nations New Mexico cracked Bamba dears of the Army Air Force load live eggs aboard their bombers for an attack upon a battleship 1,000 miles from the ocean together they wing their way aloft their 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qS41Fvyg3Ng | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS41Fvyg3Ng | Hazbin Hotel is Frustrating | So the full season of Hazbin Hotel has finished on Amazon Prime, and I… didn’t really like it. Now before you send me down to Hell myself, I want to clarify that I don’t hate this show. It has a lot of good parts to it, I’d even say some REALLY good parts! If anything it makes me frustrated because it’s JUST good enough for me to care about it. But… (inhales heavily, hissing) ohhh is it messy. In case you’re not aware, Hazbin Hotel is created by Vivienne Medrano, the famously professional and uncontroversial creator [D.M.: Being sarcastic there, Daniel?] who’s managed to build a massive following from her work online. The pilot for Hazbin Hotel debuted in 2019 after years of production. I remember seeing clips and rough animations of it circulating on Tumblr as far back as 2017 and I wasn’t even actively following it. And it’s proved to be a hit. Both Hazbin Hotel and its spinoff Helluva Boss have become, dare I say, THE indie animation productions on YouTube. They may not have been the first, but their success stories are perhaps the most prominent. It’s an underdog story, which makes me feel bad to say that I’ve always felt mixed about Spindlehorse Toons’ output. I’ve even got an in-progress script about Helluva Boss that I’m going to finish when they complete the season. But I digress. Hazbin Hotel, pilot in 2019, and it got picked up for full production by not one, but two studios, one of them being A24. Now this did get me excited, A24 generally likes to make good things, I always love to see a new release from them. The other studio is Bento Box, which… ... wait I recognize them! A decade ago they produced one of my favorite YouTube channels ever, Glove and Boots! Huh, I wonder what else they’ve been doing lately? Oh they made Bob’s Burgers, I’ve heard that’s good. And they also made- (horrific screaming) So... ... what happens when a studio known for making unique ideas into award-winning films collaborates with a studio known for making… [D.M.: Paradise P.D... One of the worst cartoons I've ever seen. Makes Family Guy and South Park look outright tasteful. A friend made me join him to binge the first season and a half; I hated it to the point we are no longer friends after that experience.] (clears throat) Well you get Hazbin Hotel the series! And here’s the thing, I’ll start with a positive: I like the idea of the show. Lucifer’s daughter Charlie, Princess of Hell, believes that she can reform sinners into good people and enable them to get into Heaven. I like the idea of damned souls getting one more chance for redemption. It’s a very humanistic concept. And I really appreciate when the show is about this except it gets shunted aside almost immediately. Right from the very opening of the first episode, we learn about the lore of the universe, how Lucifer and Lilith shared the Apple of Knowledge and evil was born and Hell was made, so on and so forth. Charlie Morningstar (narrating): "And as the numbers of Hell grew, so did its power." "Threatened by this, Heaven made a truly heartless decision: that every year they would send down an army, an Extermination, to ensure Hell and its Sinners could never rise against them." Oh... So, really, this is about control and fear. Charlie obviously knows this because she’s reading the Book Of The Show to us, so she’ll take that into account when she makes her pitch to Heaven- Charlie: "Our shared problem of overpopulation in Hell!" Ookay, she doesn’t know things she should obviously know. Not a great way to start the series. And this line actually ruins more of the show than you think, but I’ll get back to that. For now, let’s just focus on this debut episode of the show, which is... kinda bad. Even people who like the series seem to agree that it’s a poor first impression. And there’s a few reasons for that. First of all, the series just assumes that you’ve seen the pilot, which exists on an entirely different platform. Honestly, if you’re watching this series and this video, you probably did see the pilot. But there must be some people who first hear about this series from the Amazon ads and then jump in. I can’t help but wonder if they’d be a bit lost? Anyways, the first episode splits its time between Charlie doing the important leg work, and the rest of the gang who are... trying to cut together a new commercial for the hotel... And it's not as interesting as it sounds. I really wish we could have had something a little more interesting for everyone to do in the first episode. Honestly thinking about it, I don’t know where the screentime goes in this episode, so little happens in it! And then you have the songs, and you know, Helluva Boss is known for its musical numbers, which are often impressive. But in this show, well… (sighs) it’s a mixed bag. Vaggie: "How could they want this soon after-" Charlie (singing): "I can do this, somehow I know it." Charlie (singing): "Today is gonna be a fuckin' happy day in Hell!" I just have to say, I know a lot of people aren’t happy about the 'If ___ Show or Movie was Written By Vivziepop' meme, but, I mean, if the shoe fits… Adam: "Do you KNOW who I am?" "I'm fuckin' Adam!" "I'm the original DICK!" "All dicks descend from me!" "You think you want drummer dick?!" "No way!" "I'm the dick-fuckin'-master!" (Adam chews loudly and obnoxiously) "So, anyway, and then we fucked, and it was awesome." To be fair, outside of this episode the language isn’t nearly as obnoxious. It’s just this one. Along with such a weird use of screentime, characters not knowing things that they should know, it just makes for a very weak start to the series. Who even wrote this episode? Oh... Vivziepop wrote the first episode entirely herself. And it’s her only solo writing credit in the series. This one. The one everyone agrees is the worst one. Oh... ... Hazbin Hotell if it was written by Vivziepop! Okay, for real, I’m gonna move on now. And, actually, let me pull aside to talk about some ways I’m not going to criticize this series. No it’s not bad because they use lots of bad words. Uncut Gems has the fourth highest rate of 'fucks-per-minute' out of any movie and I consider that film a masterpiece. Also, yes it is really funny how obviously Viv’s been inspired by the Once-ler fandom and the Human Bill Cipher Art of mid-2010s Tumblr. But, I’m not really interested in trying to break down the character designs and quote-unquote “proving” whether they are good or bad. If you WANTED to hate Hazbin Hotel, oh there’s plenty to get mad at. If you wanted to endlessly Tweet about it being problematic, there’s plenty of ammunition to use for the discourse. A lot of people have already taken it up as their full-time job. That’s not what I want to do here. I’m not interested in addressing whether this show portrays things in a problematic way, and I don’t even think it’s my place to decide. I don’t want to hate this show, I never want that to be my goal. I’m more interested in pointing out the ways the series doesn’t fill out the full potential of its own elements. Those are the key words here. Missed potential. Most of my criticisms are things you can look at on the surface level and say 'Well that’s not necessarily a bad thing,' and you’d be right, but it’s the way that these parts are organized that make them less than their sum. Obviously to have this discussion, I’m going to need to get into spoilers here, so fair warning, okay, here we go. Like I said, I love the core idea here. Charlie wants to redeem sinners so that they can go to Heaven, and thus be saved from the yearly Extermination. But because of what we hear and see in Episode 1, the show ends up not really being about that. The conflict instead becomes about 'fighting against and stopping Heaven's armies.' That’s what the last quarter of the season is exclusively focused on. That means the actual central conceit of the show, redeeming sinners, becomes only secondary. But the show seems to pretend this isn’t even an issue. Vaggie: "Sinners are desperate..." "Maybe desperate enough to try anything to escape the Extermination?" (Charlie gasps) Charlie: "This is the perfect time to recruit more sinners for the Hotel!" But you don’t even know if they’re going to be allowed into Heaven! It goes unresolved for so long that even when the show tries to get back to redeeming sinners once in a while, I’m just thinking… 'Well, Heaven still isn’t going to accept them'. That problem’s not getting addressed here. And in Episode 6, there’s a whole trial in Heaven that reasserts yes, this is the new conflict of the show. Episode 6 also crystallizes another issue I have with the storytelling here. So it turns out that the yearly Exterminations are actually not known to the people in Heaven. Already I’m not a big fan of that choice, it shrinks the conflict down and makes it feel smaller than I had imagined, but maybe they’re going to do something with it? After all, Adam is reminded: Lute: "What was the Seraphim's one rule?" (Adam groans) Adam: "No one but the Exorcists can know about the Exterminations. I know. Fine." (slurp) Okay, this is a good setup, there’s probably some really drastic consequences if this information gets out. And sure enough at the trial, he blurts it out, even after being warned by the Seraphim a second time. Oh man, he’s done it now! What’s going to happen now that he’s spilled this terrible secret in the middle of court?! Well… uhm... Heaven’s Charlie equivalent is pretty upset about it. And uh… Um… Yeah, this series has a big problem with set-ups and payoffs. Something will be set up that seems like it should have a big payoff later, and it ends up being weak, or a payoff will happen without a strong set-up to establish it. Charlie is explicitly told that to win over a crowd of people, she has to convince a crabby old lady who proceeds to heckle her entire presentation. However is Charlie going to persuade her? Oh, it doesn’t matter any more, she gets addressed with one line in the next song, it wasn’t actually that hard. She was just a one-time gag. Adam draws up a list of rules in court about what makes a person good, and it’s presented like it’s kind of funny and meaningless. But then later in the episode it’s presented as an actual set of criteria? And the episode ends lingering on a shot of it, giving it more gravity. So it... was important after all? Vox presents this shiny new thing directly to the audience, a security system to answer the oncoming Extermination. Oh hey, this seems relevant to the conflict at hand, could perhaps be a rival solution to the Hotel, throw a wrench into Charlie’s outreach. But it’s never brought up again. I guess it’s also just a gag that just… forgot to be funny? This results in a narrative experience where it feels like things happen for very little reason, where the rules shift about suddenly. And sometimes, the rules don’t even exist. Charlie: "Wait, none of you know what gets someone into Heaven?" Sera: "This questioning stops now." Again, I know this is being done intentionally, to make us question the authority of whatever divine judgment is being meted out off-screen. Maybe we get to see it in the next season? But the flipside of this is that we now have no metric to measure Charlie’s progress. The whole point, of the Hotel, is to redeem people to send them to Heaven, and the simple question of 'what do you need to get into Heaven?' is so crucial to this plan that we need an answer. Even an answer as simple as 'you get into heaven because we say so' would be something. Having it be a question mark makes this very critical mechanic of the world vague and confusing. It makes me not care about it! And before anyone tries to bring up outside lore, if it’s not in the text of the show then it doesn’t count. The vagueness extends to the setting and its rules. The show takes place in literal capital-H Hell. So obviously, bad people are going to be doing bad things around here. But the gravity of those sins is treated weirdly. Cannibalism is just a little quirk in this neighborhood, but scamming people with the media is seen as a scummy thing to do. Shoving a ball of wire up someone’s bootyhole is a gag in a song. See, they like it! But spiking someone’s drink at the bar is a no-go. Valentino has Angel Dust literally chained in a contract, and he’s portrayed as entirely unsympathetic and immoral; Alastor has Husker in a very similar if not identical position, but he still gets to be a quirky silly boy. The common denominator seems to be whether or not the person doing an action is on Team Hazbin Hotel. Put another way, rather than a character’s morality being defined by their actions, they are instead good or bad based on whether they are a protagonist or antagonist, and then the morality and gravity of their actions are weighted accordingly. And while again I’m not looking to make any kind of moral judgment about how the series handles its subject matter, this flighty approach to the setting’s ethical logic makes it hard to take it seriously when we suddenly see a disclaimer about sexual assault at the beginning of Episode 4. And it’s all made even more confusing with the wild pacing of the season. Entire months will pass by between episodes with little more than a line about it. Wh-wh-what are you doing in that time? You can’t really tell me they’ve just been doing trust falls for months. It adds onto all the other issues I’ve mentioned. The plot details are nebulous, it’s hard to get a grip on what’s at stake. Important elements will be introduced moments before they are relevant and then there’s a fifty-fifty chance that you’ll even hear about them in passing again. It makes for a very inefficient and frustrating style of storytelling. Honestly I think a lot of ‘problematic’ things that people accuse this show of in the discourse aren't just unintentional, but were actively meant to be addressed. The series is just that bad at telling its story, and it fails the concepts that it’s trying to bring to life. Because here’s the thing, beneath the slipshod storytelling, the show remains, much to my chagrin, just good enough for me to stay invested in it. Some of the songs feel out of place and forced, and then Poison comes out of nowhere and is great! Most of the humor is akin to Adam calling himself the Dickmaster, and then there’ll suddenly be jokes I really like. Charlie: "Webster's Dictionary defines 'redemption' as-" Adam: "Objection! Lame and unoriginal!" Sera: "Sustained. No further dictionary references please." Charlie: "Right! Okay... Umm... Uhh..." And the characters are actually all pretty good. In fact, let me give some unqualified praise for a moment. Alastor is hands-down the best character in this show. I just love his whole shtick, the voice and the mystery, how we find out little bits and pieces about him. The spiel he gives Charlie about the power of a smile and using it to throw your opponent for a loop really emphasizes how deliberately he’s leading everyone on, even taunting her about how little he lets her know. And what’s more, I love that we the audience don’t know yet how he really feels about the hotel. There’s strong indicators that he’s actually invested in its success, but then you go 'Oh wait, he’s doing something kinda tricky again,' and it leaves us questioning. And these bits are peppered all through the season. I have no notes on this guy, I like him. Now to be sure some of the other characters took longer to grow on me, sometimes they lurch back and forth, but in the end they all get at least interesting, and I found myself actually caring about them. Yeah, even Angel Dust. Angel “I Can Suck Your Dick” Dust. During Heaven’s trial in Episode 6, a lot hinges on the choices he makes while out on the town. I found myself actually leaning forward a bit to see what he was going to do. And we see he’s not only learned to care for other people around him, but also gained the strength to stand up to the abusive Valentino. That’s not a good moment, that’s a great moment! This is what I wanted the show to give me more of. Husker goes from being some gruff demon cat to establishing an actual rapport with the others, and we see that he’s actually pretty cunning and wise, just down on his luck. His predicament is communicated in a visually interesting way. And of course, Keith David is really able to sell his songs. Yeah, the man can sing, plot twist I know. I actually quite enjoy the portrayal of Lucifer in this show. Yes, he’s a twink in formal wear again. But I like that he clearly wants to be a better father for Charlie and yet struggles with how to do that. Ironically the King of Hell feels like he has the purest intentions in the whole place, and it makes him a refreshing presence amid the rest of the cast. Charlie and Vaggie’s relationship is actually really nice. I like that you can really feel they care for each other rather than us just being told they care for each other. There are productions that I overall like better than this show that don’t nail the dynamic nearly as well. But then… (sighs) I find myself flip-flopping back. That’s what makes talking about this show so frustrating. I’ll find myself liking some element, and then it falters at a crucial point. Yeah, I like Charlie and Vaggie’s relationship. And in Chapter 6 they face their biggest obstacle yet, When, plot twist! Vaggie was actually an angel who had taken part in the Exterminations in the past. How sickening for Charlie, however will she get over this?... Eh, she talks about it with the queen of the cannibals for a bit in Episode 7, and she gets over it. Over it to the point that Vaggie is comfortable cracking jokes about it in the finale. And the thing is, I actually like the logic that Rosie uses with Charlie. Rosie: "Isn't that silly hotel of yours all about redemption?" Charlie: "Yes?" Rosie: "Perhaps this girl... is tryin' to redeem herself too?" That’s a really good way to tie the personal stake of this conflict into the overall point of the show. But I wish we had more time to linger on it. I wish we had more time to see and feel the trust getting rebuilt between them. Also Episode 7has this line: Vaggie: "Wait, you know I'm an exorcist? How?" Carmilla Carmine: "You have a giant X over your eye, and wield an angelic spear." "It's not rocket science." That… that’s an angelic spear? Were… we supposed to know that? I thought that was just A spear. I thought that's just how they were drawn in this show. It’s not just me, I’ve talked to other folks who watched the show, some of them didn’t pick it up either. Imagine how much more impactful this reveal could have been. Perhaps earlier in the series, Charlie tells someone about how she found Vaggie wounded after an extermination and saved her, taking the angelic spear that we then hold up to look at. Give this a clearer setup so that we can feel betrayed like Charlie, when we realize we’ve been lied to as well. Or look at Episode 5, which is the introduction of Lucifer, who again I like as a character concept. We see him get jealous of Alastor whom he sees as usurping his role as a father figure. Okay, good conflict being set up. Then they roll into a song about it, which is a bit rushed but alright, we’ll see where this goes. Mimzy (singing): "It's meee! Yes it's meee!" (Daniel groans) And then the song is crashed… ...by fucking Mimzy. [D.M.: Daniel has an intense, almost irrational hatred for Mimzy.] [Daniel: I don't hate her, she just doesn't deserve to exist <_<] And now as the episode is already trying to juggle the introduction of one new very important character, it also has to carve out room, for Mimzy. And after taking up all this screen space in this very important part of the show, she does not appear again for the rest of the season. Mimzy serves four roles in the show: she’s another person from Alastor’s past, telling us he’s been around; she instigates the secondary conflict of the episode by intentionally luring her creditors to the hotel; she refuses to dedicate herself to reform, causing Alastor to forcefully send her away, giving us a hint that he might actually care about the hotel; and she tells us about Alastor’s reputation and past as the Radio Demon. Let’s go through these one by one. The first function has already been served by other elements within the series, we know that a lot of people know Alastor. This is a weak and superfluous reason to have Mimzy exist. The second and third functions, I’d argue, could be better filled by an existing character. Maybe Angel Dust or Sir Pentious backslide a bit, they do a bad thing and bring trouble to the hotel. Then Alastor can confront them and demand to know if they’re actually serious about rehabilitation. We still get his character moment and we could give these guys something to do besides literally eating popcorn and riffing on the drama. Angel Dust: "Ooh, drama." (munching and chuckling) Angel Dust: "This is really gettin' good." Sir Pentious: "Ahhh, that was sssweet." We don’t need the show telling us how to feel, I can make my own emotions thank you very much. Anyways, that just leaves the bit of Alastor’s backstory, which could easily be communicated to the audience by any number of characters. In fact… idea: Have Vaggie ask why everyone is so afraid of Alastor, and someone could go 'Seriously? You never heard of him?' as a way to subtly foreshadow that no, Vaggie never did hear of him because she’s not actually from Hell. Sure you’d have to retcon the fact that she was the one telling Angel Dust about Alastor in the pilot, but hey, the episode’s already retconning that Angel Dust was told about Alastor anyways, so what’s the harm? Mimzy’s very existence actively harms the story. By removing this one element from the show, the other elements can be made stronger. There are so many similar instances I could point to where the story could be tightened. And when we look at the finale, we can see this method of storytelling come to a head. So, I have made my peace that the climax of this season is going to be Charlie leading her gang in a big battle against the forces of Heaven. The last episode had them getting the manpower and weapons needed to fend them off. But, oh no, all seems lost! How will they get out of this?... Uh, Lucifer saves them. The guy we saw in one episode who hasn’t been seen since, not even earlier in the finale. Now the on-paper fact of 'Lucifer saves his daughter at the last second' isn’t inherently bad. It’s the execution that fails the concept. I even like this character, but I don’t think he should have taken the victory away from Charlie. It makes Charlie feel a lot weaker as a character. And the show, again, points this out: Katie Killjoy (broadcast): "In an unseen (sic?) turn of events, our demonic head honcho Lucifer stepped in to save his daughter's ass in the last moment." Once more, the series being aware of this doesn’t automatically excuse it. Is his intervention supposed to cement a theme of the importance of family? I don’t think Lucifer had enough of a presence in the show for that to be strong. But at least he doesn’t actually finish off Adam, that’s saved for Charlie as a dramatic moment to defeat her nemesis since the very first ep- oh... ... Wait, no, sorry, that’s wrong. (clears throat) ... Adam’s death is saved for Vaggie, as a way to finally truly overcome her past and- Oh, uhm, uh. Sorry, got-got it wrong again, uh... It's Niffty. (thud) Charlie: "Niffty?!" Niffty: "Stab! Stab stab! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Niffty kills Adam. A running gag character who’s more gag than character, delivers the knockout blow to the season’s main antagonist. [D.M.: Adam looks a good deal more than knocked out.] You can say that it’s a final thumb of the nose at someone who’s so obviously a douchebag, Like, 'Oh, he doesn’t deserve a better defeat.' But, is it really worth it, when any number of other options could have had a more satisfying punch in the story? It also doesn’t help that other aspects of the finale feel weightless. The Vees are back, and their role is to basically riff on the whole ordeal. Which gets irritating... really fast. If I wanted to watch this episode as a reaction video I would have looked it up on Twitch instead of Amazon. Alastor’s defeat at Adam’s hands feels more like a minor setback. The way he sinks into the ground, I thought it was a tactical retreat and he’d be back later in the fight. And then you have Sir Pentious’ death. Sir Pentious: "Fire!" (dramatic music) Adam: "Oh, what?" (zap!) "Ha ha ha ha! Ahh, that coulda been ugly." (gasps and exclamations of dismay) Charlie: "Noo!" Yes, again, I know it’s supposed to be a gag. It can still be followed by just a couple more seconds of gravity at the sight of a character we’ve followed and I assume we’re supposed to care about getting atomized by Adam. Oh wait no, he’s, uh, alive again. And he’s… in Heaven? Wait, is this what happens to souls that die in Hell? Because they never explained that to us in the series, despite it being an incredibly crucial plot point. Maybe they’re going to tell us next season! Oh, and it turns out Charlie’s mom is in heaven, and she might do something next season! And the Hotel gets rebuilt! And maybe, the next season will actually focus on them redeeming people! You know, the whole POINT! Of the series! (very angrily) I guess we gotta wait to the next season to see all that! We have to wait for the NEXT SEASON to get the BASIC ANSWERS of HOW THIS WORLD WORKS! But I don't know! Maybe we should have gotten some of that information and payoff, IN THIS SEASON OF THE SHOW- (calm again) I want to say again, I don’t hate this series. It has concepts and characters that I want to love more than I do. But the show keeps getting in its own way. Interesting conflicts aren’t given the time they need to flourish, important stakes aren’t given the clarity they need to be meaningful. So much of it is played off as a gag and while once again, I get it’s intentional, something has to matter. Something has to have gravity here. Because by the end it feels like all we’ve seen is… a teaser for Season Two of Hazbin Hotel, where maybe we’ll get to see Charlie and her Hotel actually do her thing. I like to believe a rising tide lifts all boats, and that the success of Hazbin Hotel can leave doors opened in its wake. For that I am happy for its mere existence. I just wish it could be better, and I think it can be. Maybe next season. Maybe... ...Or maybe… ... 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M7Kq3JWDvok | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Kq3JWDvok | How to Get SHOOTING BADGES in NBA 2K22 Current Gen! Fast and Easy Shooting Badge Method! | do you guys want to get 25 000 shooting badge points per game and 75 000 per hour if you do make sure to watch this whole video because i'm going to show you guys how to get shooting badges in nba 2k 22 current gen fast and easy with the best shooting badge method and throughout this video i'm going to give you guys tips to make this method as easy as possible before you guys start any games you want to head over to options go to settings and make sure you put your game on superstar difficulty normally in other 2ks i would just put mine on pro difficulty and as i get a couple badges move up to all-star but this 2k is really easy to shoot and as you move up in difficulty you'll get a multiplier to your badge progress so you want to just start on superstar difficulty i like to make my quarter length five minutes just because i feel like my player doesn't get tired as much as when it's on 12 minutes but this is really preference also you guys want to go into controller settings and turn your shot meter off because if you know how to time your jump shot and you time it well you'll get a boost if your shot meter is off and the last thing you want to do before you start any games is go to the jumpstart creator or the animation store and get yourself a jump shot that you know how to time when you're on defense with this method you want to press left on the d-pad call it 2-3 zone and then press left on the d-pad again and call a half-court trap this will make double teams happen a lot more and possessions will go by way faster which is what you want in shooting badges method because at the end of the day this means you'll be getting way more shots when you're on offense you want to run up the court just walk to the three-point line and then instead of pressing square to pump fake you want to press triangle and circle at the same time to do a pass fake because you do get a penalty for pump faking then you want to flick your right stick to the left or to the right to do a jab step like that the defender will back up or he'll stand still not do anything and then you just shoot the shot and you can get an easy green as you can see the shot was wide open and this works almost every time i would say it works 9 out of 10 times the defender will just stand still leaving you with enough space to be open or he'll just back up and you'll be wide open and on this build i have an 83 pointer and i can green easily on superstar so if you have lower than an 83 pointer you could still try out superstar but you might want to lower it to all-star pro just do whatever you're comfortable with whatever you can make most of your shots with you just want to use the highest difficulty that you can consistently hit shots with when you're using this method you want to make sure you get a good jab stab animation so right here after i pass fake you can see my left foot is the foot i can pick up so you don't want to flick your right stick to the left you're just going to get that jab step animation but if you flick it to the right it goes across your body and you can create a ton of space another tip that i like to do towards the beginning is suit from one spot only just because you can get your hot zones way faster and hot zones will make it way easier to shoot obviously it's still easy to shoot this build has an 83 pointer and i can green consistently on superstar but hot zones are only going to make things easier also you don't need to pump fake every time with this method if you realize that you're open you can just shoot the shot and honestly with how easy shooting is in this game you can probably green 20 to 25 contested shots when it comes to badges the first badge you want to max out is hot zone hunter assuming you have hot zones then once you max that out you want to max out stop and pop after that you want to max out sniper then you want to max out limitless spot up and then if you have any extra badges after that you want to max out dead eye and then green machine and then volume shooter and if you upgrade these badges in this order it should make this method way easier when you first start out on your my player you're not going to get too many shooting badge points my first game i only got 4 000 my second game i got 6.5 000 but as you get more badges and vc to upgrade your three-pointer and you get more minutes in my career you should be able to get twenty thousand to twenty five thousand shooting badge points per game and that's how you can get anywhere between sixty thousand and seventy five thousand shooting badge points per hour | IcyJosh | UCfz5h8dREs4sIrn69SCdGsA | 2021-09-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 924 | 4,592 |
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