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EeGACRcal7A | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeGACRcal7A | Dr. Benny Negalur: Brain and Liver Control of Glucose Metabolism | so much Dr Pratap and I also congratulate Dr bansi for having wonderful programs in a good scientific session year after year and he's a true leader for us going back to liver and brain [Music] um control of diabetes let's first understand the normal physiology of glucose hemostasis as we have learned in medical school we know that glucose is maintained tightly between the range of 80 to 120 by the action of two hormones insulin and glucagon which had the effects on various tissues of the body and are regulated by the liver which is the main regulator and then also by the brain which you will subsequently see it also depends on the uptake of glucose in the peripheral tissues and these changes are seen when these Regulators get disrupted it is not only the liver but brain is an important regulator of glucosamostasis and as you can see here the excess nutrients that come to the brain centers like hypothalamus is basically responsible for sensing the nutrient excess or the lipid oxidation that happens in the hypothalamus mainly in two separate set of neurons one is the Palm C neuron and the neuropeptide Y and the aguti related protein these are basically have to have a good balance to increase or decrease appetite and maintain the energy activation of the Ponce receptors will give rise to a decrease in the food and intake and also have its impact on the on the liver by decreasing the the hepatic glucose output whereas activation of the neuropeptide Y will cause hypophagia and energy excess which gives rise to obesity so the brain and the hypothalamus mainly has a marked regulatory effect on the liver controlling the hepatic glucose output it all in type 2 diabetes it starts with overeating and inactivity where there's excess fat especially in the viscera and the ectopic sites and this gives rise to the deposition of this fat in tissues like the liver giving rise to a fatty liver and also in the pancreas around the heart and in the muscle disturbing the hyperglycemic control and giving and a risk factor for type 2 diabetes which subsequently gives rise to uh characteristic atherogenic dyslipidemia increase in leptin decrease in adiponectin and finally having its effect on the endothelial vascular function and also on the heart giving rise to the macro and the microvascular complications as we can see that this physiology is Disturbed in type 2 diabetes when there is an insulin deficiency and the uptake of glucose in the tissue is reduced because of the deposition of excess fat in the ectopic sites and the regulation or the hepatic glucose output is is Disturbed both in the FED State and the fasting state it is a lipotoxicity in the liver that gives rise to hepatic insulin resistance and as you can see on the right hand side figure that the insulin resistance actually causes disturbance of the post receptor chemicals and primarily because of excess diacyl crystalline which which actually upregulates and down regulates the messengers which I will show you in the next slide altering the glucose production and and causing hyperglycemia in effect this is a simple nice little diagram to understand this you will see in the normal liver when there is adequate amount of insulin there are two Messengers in the liver one is foxo and the second is the strep I see there is an in increase activation of the fox so will decrease degrees the glucose in the liver and decrease the hepatic glucose output at the same time in adequacy of insulin will increase the strep I see and increase the triglyceride maintaining normal levels of glycerides or vldl and also normal level of glucose but what happens in selective insulin resistance as happens in type 2 diabetes insulin deficiency will decrease the insulin action on the liver it will down regulate the foxo messenger which actually gives rise to increase glucose production and increase in the hepatic glucose output but it does the opposite to the strep I see it upregulates the step I see increases the triglyceride so in type 2 diabetes a selective insulin resistance will not only give rise to hyperglycemia but it will also give rise to hypertriglyceridemia and the effects of this along with the inflammation and the oxidative stress which Dr Drew mentioned will give rise to an etherogenic hyper trial heterogenic hypertriglyceridemia alteration of the coagulative pathway increasing the C-reactive protein increased fibrinogen increase increasing Pi one and a low HDL increase small dense LDL and increased triglyceride the perfect setting for atherogenicity and increase in coronary artery disease and this is the ominous octet as you have seen it is not only the liver but there are other drivers as well but today I will talk mainly about the regulation of the brain in glucose hemostasis let's understand this from the beginning we know that glucose is the only fuel that enters in sufficient amounts to support the energy requirements in the brain but insulin is not the major regulator of glucose in the brain even though the brain is insulin independent it is still insulin sensitive the amount of insulin in the brain is 10 to 100 times higher than in the plasma and why is it that the insulin levels in the brain is high because insulin is produced by the brain tissue the neurons and the astroglia tissue it actually is the second pancreas when the glucose enters the cell it act it forms ATP closes the potassium Channel opens the calcium channel and then secretes insulin inside the cell itself and therefore the brain is not really dependent on the insulin that comes from the circulation totally or having said this you'll see that the insulin is required in the brain mainly to increase the neurotransmittal levels to produce glucose utilization and also it enhances memory at optimal dose insulin receptors are present in the in the hypothalamus in the hippocampus and we know that the hippocampus is the center of all memory it is present in some parts of the temporal robe and also in the frontal cortex thereby if there's an insulin deficiency it will give rise to cognitive dysfunction and glucose dysregulation besides the insulin produced in the brain tissue itself insulin can also come from the circulation in two forms once it comes into the CSF by the choroid plexus and which is a very very slow process and the second is it comes in the through the blood brain barrier only in specific areas there are about five to seven areas which are which are amenable to entry of insulin into the brain otherwise in the rest of the brain the blood-brain barrier is so tight that insulin cannot enter the cells easily this is very very restrictive the action of insulin on the brain and the and the sensing of the nutrients that go into the hypothalamus the lip basically the lipid oxidation that happens in the hypothalamic cells in the palmsion and the neuropeptide Y then produces a closure of the potassium channels activates certain areas of the brain to stem and and passes the information why the vagus to the liver so the impact or the glucose or the sensing of the nutrients in the brain has a lot of impact on the liver regulation either increasing or decreasing the hepatic glucose production but it is also the brain insulin resistance that happens in type 2 diabetes at the hypothalamic region also in the forebrain that can increase appetite it can produce a hypothalamic hypogonadism it can also produce termia by decreasing fat activity and besides the regulation on the liver it also has an impact on hypoglycemia we've heard of recurrent hypoglycemia producing hypoglycemia Associated autonomic failure and in addition to this there is cognitive dysfunction and mood disorder as we see this in many of our patients defective sensing induces a reduction in the insulin's ability to block the hepatic glucose production the insulin action also decreases the synapse formation decreases the synaptic vesicles by acting on the cholesterol synthesis insulin action is required for cholesterol synthesis and we know that cholesterol is a large part of the formation of brain tissue because of the defective cholesterol there is behavioral changes cognitive dysfunction and decrease in endocrine regulation and we spoke of hypoglycemia which is half in recurrent hypoglycemia especially seen in type 1 patients there is an autonomic failure and the patients are not able to recognize the low sugars we've heard of patients saying my sugar is 40 but I'm not having any symptoms and generally we tell our patients the symptoms of hypoglycemia this is because of the autonomic failure that happens with an brain or Central insulin resistance not only that this insulin resistance increases the Tau phosphorylation increases the amyloid deposits and the neurofibility targets giving rise to Alzheimer's disease which is also known as type 3 diabetes and you can see the pattern of the brain in just like it shows in Alzheimer's disease increase insulin resistance was associated with a similar pattern in the scan as seen in the classical isami's disease liver as we know collects the fats to your ptosis finally going into stratohepatitis and liver fibrosis it actually perpetuates hyperglycemia type 2 diabetes metabolic syndrome and this perpetuates more of hepatic failure finally giving rise to the complication of carne artery disease and also hepatocellular carcinoma this is a meta-analysis showing that nafld is a risk for type 2 diabetes the hazard ratio is 2.44 it the microbiota is also involved because of the increased permeability giving rise to the invasion of bacteria into the cells and also in the liver so finally is metabolic syndrome an infectious disease that's a big question serum alanine alt is an indicator of health and disease this was a Korean study actually they said that the liver is the cause of all diseases and therefore when they do their insurance program they also estimate the alt and they say that the alt if it is increased it can give rise of 4C diabetes in the patient and so the premium is higher in Korea hepatogenes diabetes I think Dr methyl will tell you more of this this is identified in chronic liver failure patients even without diabetes and it can give rise to hyperglycemia in patients of cirrhosis or end-stage hepatic failure there is you can distinguish between the two but the complications of liver related complications are higher in patients of hepatogenesis diabetes how can we change all this lifestyle intervention we know has a great impact on hypoglycemia and also on Obesity but it has been shown from the scans that aerobic exercise not only affects the glycemic control but also increases the gray and white matter volumes in older patients and therefore it is beneficial to have a good regulator from the brain cells bromocriptine as we know the quick release actually resets the hypothalamic influences of high glycemia and increases to the panamaic activity in the morning decreases the sympathetic activity and also the serotonergic activity thereby decreasing the hepatic glucose output sulfonylureas have the effect on the potassium channels as we know this patient has dense syndrome d e and d and this dense syndrome has neonatal diabetes as well as neurological symptoms the same impact the potassium channels happening in the beta cells also in the brain cells and therefore correction of the potassium Channel activity or closure can also treat dense syndrome and neonatal diabetes glp is a growth factor in the brain it protects against oxidative stress and prevents apoptosis and it has been shown the deletion of glp receptor impedes learning and long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus and giving glp analog can be beneficial it also produces way to loss and this weight loss has an impact on fatty liver in fact more than 10 percent weight loss can also reverse fatty liver in the initial stages metformin they say is not intrinsically toxic hence you should not withdraw metformin even if there is an abnormal alt AST ratio and there is no need to routinely measure trans minuses on giving metformin you can still continue that sglt2 also is has great promise in hepatic liver disease and fatty liver and nafld and it is also a as we have heard several times that it could it is in the first line treatment of dual and triple therapy in diabetes as well Sarah Glitters are a pipar alpha and Gamma Agonist treatment for nafld has shown great promise it is it has shown a decrease in the liver fat and thereby good results in fatty liver so all in all all the liver and the brain are very instrumental in the control of glycemic regulation the brain has an impact on the liver metabolism and the hepatic glucose output and that's how the brain and the liver control the glucose metabolism thank you very much | Rx-Tv | 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-2Qlrge4P5E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Qlrge4P5E | Scientific Realism Day 05 - Clip05 | not a is not best described as a search for truth about reality nor is science best described as a problem-solving activity with instrumental ends nor is science best described as the knowledge paradigms that characterize science in any particular discipline at any particular time rather he said science is best described as a certain professional ethos as a way of going about the construction of knowledge what is this ethos he said it's characterized by a number a number of points here universalism is the first one and by universalism um what he means something different to the way i've been using it um up to date uh what he meant here is that that the claim does not depend upon the identity of the person making the claim and to quote him it does the claim does not depend upon race nationality religion class or the personal qualities of the person making the claim the claim stands on its own two feet as a claim he he argued that that's a characteristic of the scientific pursuit that it is the claim is impersonal now you'll note that this is very ideal it's very idealistic you'll note that claims made by some people carry a lot more weight than claims made by other people claims made by a professor with a nobel prize are different to claims made by a junior phd student it's obvious isn't it so merton here is talking in an ideal sense he's talking about a scientific ideal more than a scientific reality but the scientific ideal is carried forth in a number of important ways for example in most site most natural sciences the scientist attempts to write him or herself out of the picture it's not acceptable in most disciplines to to say i discovered that such and such or i did this or i did that right the use of the personal pronoun is not acceptable in most natural scientific disciplines you must always use the always use the passive voice and the imperson as though it's the scientist had nothing to do with it it really is just nature speaking it really is just the objective truth here it's not what i'm saying you know it's what happened in the test tube it's what happened in the petri dish it's what happened when i ran the computer what happened when the computer code ran you don't even say what happened when i ran the computer code okay so it's carried forth there it's also carried forth in blind peer reviewing which is again normative in most scientific disciplines papers get sent out for review and the reviewer doesn't know the identity of the person who wrote the paper and the person who wrote the paper does not know the identity of the reviewer that is an attempt at mertens to institutionalize and materialize merton's uh universalism communism communism he's not referring of course to matsutung or karl marx russia and so forth what he refers to there is that the product of science the knowledge that science generates is communally owned not privately owned it's owned by science it's owned by everybody not just not just somebody that the originators of a theory or a scientific you know or some scientific area can claim credit uh for that and will be given credit for that but they must put their work out into the public for everybody to be able to access and everybody to be able to use and they cannot determine how it will be used they must allow it to be criticized they must allow it to be amended and changed and altered and built upon so it's public property science is public property you know according to the merton's ideal now again you're very you i'm sure in all of your minds you're thinking but what about patents that we take out but what about private research which is subject to intellectual property rights and so much of research today is conducted not by public institutions like the university of colombo but it's conducted by private institutions like ici exxon mobil and and what have you who all of whom put far more money into scientific research than public institutions do so again the merton's idea of communism in science falls short of the ideal but still it survives in some places there are public access journals that are free and are made freely available public libraries try to make this freely available the internet has been a great resource for merton's communism the internet has made the data much more widely available than used to be the case so in my universities my university rules that all of my work and all of my data subject to ethics clearance must be put in the public domain and it's part of my job to put all of my work free of charge in the public domain i do that through the internet and the data goes into data repositories and other workers other researchers are able to access those data repositories and are able to access and use my data for whatever purpose they wish massachusetts institute of technology it's got exactly the same policy many universities around the world have got this same policy in order to try to hold back the forces of uh privatisation of knowledge i guess disinterestedness is um is the third one here where the scientists are asked to remove their personal interests from their work remove their personal interests from their findings they're expected to report results fully even if the results don't support the theory that they want it to support even even though um uh even though it may or may not um advance their career you know to to publish these results uh the ideal is that they will is that they will do so it should rule out scientific fraud of course people you know scientific fraud of course is very poorly regarded perhaps even more more so than fraud in the business community is poorly regarded and and it's heavily sanctioned so the the ideal of disinterestedness lives on in in that sort of way although you know and i know of many | ucscmedia | UCGjZu_eytzt6nky0XQ5PtEw | 2012-04-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license 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koMaJNrUW2U | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMaJNrUW2U | 3rd Street Market Hall #Shorts #YouTubeShorts | southeast Wisconsin has many food halls but let's explore a newer one the Third Street Market Hall what was once the legendary Grand Avenue Mall in downtown Milwaukee is now a lively open market style 40,000 ft Food Hall featuring all local food vendors in neighborhood bites from breakfast lunch and dinner Wisconsin Classics to ethnic Fair there are plenty of delicious food options to satisfy your taste buds the Third Street Market Hall is in good company with other buzzing food haul options like Crossroad collection North Avenue Market Sherman Phoenix and the Milwaukee Public Market just to name a few | LookForwardWI | UCwsiITlUWOteKeCjip2k0kQ | 2024-03-01 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 102 | 609 |
rfM7JrtakQM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfM7JrtakQM | Riccardo Petrella - How will history judge global institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and UN? | word Bank MF are so called Breton wood institutions that dealing with just financial and economic aspect United Nations are totally different as you know IMF work Bank do not belong to the United Nations and this was a us unfortunately don't consider me anti USA but it's your country that does things that are not good it's not me that I'm B United Nations didn't want they wanted to separate institution plon woods and United Nations and they wanted to be the Bron Woods in tion where just the rule established by the [Music] wildness United Nations where spontaneous deliberate choice of each stat to be part of the United Nations and the United Nations uh have uh a strong basis based on the principle of national sovereignity why I me for the word bank no the forly the members of the MF and World Bank are uh s independent the facto the mechanism is that only some countries have the power decision and one country has the power of blocking everything which means that in the IMF as World War Bank the total Alliance of all members cannot impeach United States to decide but United States alone can impeach the mechanis to decide this is not based on the principle National sovety this of the hierarchy and this normal because these were institutions uh created by the Winer IMF were their statues have been slightly modified since the 44 45 when they have been the whereas the United Nations have been built in later and uh so having said this now I can uh make different comments IMF and World Bank are the instruments of the powerful of the powerful St ironically enough the subtitle of the World Bank is we fight against potys I love because how you can mystify the reality in such a formal way is an excellent intelligence power over those who have built the World Bank uh the World Bank is an instrument of a favoring the most rich the most powerful to control the development in the world because all World program all economic aid or program or or loans that the World Bank does is according to the principle of the richest of the the winner and for instance since 78 the soall remember um a strategy of conditionality of adjustment structure structure adjustment policy no wor the one was that you a state if you want a loan you must adopt and follow the principles of the World Bank which are liberalization deregulation privatization competitiveness the new tables of law which I mentioned in my first comment and this is was the conditionality and one of the most important conditionalities since 92 which was imposed on the occasion of the first Earth Summit in real the jio for the world he Heth uh development sustainable well that the first conditionality was regarding common goods you want loans in order to uh modernize your water pum water P line system okay I give you the money but you liberalize you deregulate the privatize this is the princi of conditionality and or today the bank want a country ask money for building up hospitals okay I give you the money you liberalize previz deregulate put on competition on the market the health services and I wouldn't say that this is very good for people this is very good for the world back and I would not say that they do in order to fight against the poverty they give money and they increase the impoverishment process over those who need your MF MF is a stability institution is a short term you have a problem of liquidity problem of uh money uh availability you don't have in order to uh um equalize your budget or in order to stabilize well they give you a loan but again once you get the loan from a shortterm uh from IMF then you must apply normally people are consider but this is normal no that if I give you a lo you mustey to my rules what one thing is that you establish rules that respect okay I can pay you reimburse you for that it's okay but this does not mean that give you because you give me a loan the indefinite for in time alone indefinite time for 20 30 years that you become owners of my economy so this is very bad so I my judgment is that the sooner we change MF and the World Bank the better will be for you regarding United Nations we have to do a moderate a balanced assessment uh though of course uh bureaucracy un bureaucracy is subject submitted to the rules of the most powerful uh States still you have in the bureaucracy and the all movement Associated the Civil Society with un uh supported activities and we have organization like forance un DP United Nation development program which is the strongest or agency in the UN system uh you have a good people and they try to go to do things but in the last 15 years following the word soal Global compact very about the global company which is a contract between the secretar General of the United Nations and multinational company that pay since the Secretary General has money shortage for their own budget for their own functioning are the contribution of the multinationals that enable the General Secretary of United Nations to go because the United States the people member states the state don't want to pay and United United States again it's always late in two years three years in paying the the share that each state must pay so they have problem of liquidity of and This Global compact has allowed the general secretary to have new fresh money and means that multinationals are now in the process of un deliber deliberations not directly on the on the votes at the end but they are part of the process they're now in the process since then F accept without protesting a lot of things done by Agro food multinational other agencies included the mdp now they must accept a lot of things so I have the impression that there's been a a regression of the capacity of the UN to be an independent uh organ or institutions is a the private interest they have never been independent by statutes from political interest of the states this is accepted this is normal is in the treaty but before they were independent from nonstate and today they are not only dependent from State interest from the strongest state but are depended also on the private multinational this is a Pity I can uh give enormous evidence I have no time to do but I can can s to you uh reference of this increasing dependence of the United Nation in the water area in the Water Area they are more and more following the strategy of the World Bank which is again the strategy of more many multinationals and since the 93 when the World Bank elaborated the so called integrated Water Resource management which is the Bible uh of the dominant countries in the world uh United Nations accepted also the bubble of the world bank and then the demart Nations and now the water policy in the world is inspired is dictated in the framework of the principles of integrated Water Resource Management and two are the principles of integrated Water Resource Management first that water is an economic good is not the common good and and submitted to the market economy World principle it's an economic group it's the first time in the history of community World community that what has been recognized mainly as an economic group and no longer as a social asset and economic this is and therefore liberalize D regulated and the second principle is that since uh delivery of water drinkable water and sanitation has cost monetary costs access to water must be paid so each citizen individual must must pay to have access to water must pay be means that uh they turn around kind of uh uh frun up uh principle that the human rights to have access to Human Rights you must pay so the economics of human rights in the 60s where that is Public Finance which cover the cost of human rights now human rights are there but the economy of Human Rights is the marketon what can you do with this and there four signs published a study in uh February this year uh where independently of this aspect economic social aspects they proved that today there are 4 billion people on the Earth who are living on severe water scarcity 4 million how could we accept this world and say that is governed by rational economic principles that inspired by good social principles that is shap by highly etical values it's impossible to say something though this were my comments on the two stes or institutions | Weave News | UC3hLwyQICQ5tCi_BVuFg0Mw | 2016-09-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,511 | 8,303 |
V7QjsOKkVqE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7QjsOKkVqE | DEF CON 19 - Panel - SCADA & PLCs in Correctional Facilities: The Nightmare Before Christmas | hi everyone thank you very much for um for coming to our presentation uh we're gonna be talking about uh some research we did with plcs and uh prisons correctional facilities and uh i'll give you an introduction of my my co-presenters sorry i hope that's not too loud um uh the objectives we're going to talk about today are we're going to analyze the scada systems and plc vulnerabilities um we're going to discuss modern prison design we have a specialist here who has designed over hundreds of prisons and correctional facilities in his career and we're going to theorize some possible attack vectors and routines of malicious code introduction uh i'm going to talk to you about ladder logic and while it's very easy to learn in a program in this it's part of the the devil and the details of why uh some of the plc's are vulnerable to some of the tax that we've created um we're also going to recommend some solutions some are technical and as with a lot with security they're also managerial this is me i do a lot of stuff actually uh right now this with this project i've been doing a lot more technical work uh but i'm an attorney as well i work in washington d.c most of the time but i'm also in portland maine i'm a part-time adjunct computer science professor at the university of southern maine and i'm so glad i have like every year a bunch of students from that university come to defcon i have a bunch of academic backgrounds i've studied in china it was interesting and did a lot of work overseas i presented other black hats defcons so you may have seen me presenting about more like freedom of speech first amendment issues but this is the other type of research that i do and uh let me turn this over and my my father john strauss introduced himself well not nothing to introduce you all can read that only point i want to make is my specialty really is uh physical security now that's what you all call me even though 99 of what i do is electronic systems and so i do the engineering or the specs and drawings of and i've done a lot of what's called just design which is mostly corrections also courthouses all right i am teague newman i'm an independent security researcher and penetration tester i'm based out of northern nevada up here and also washington dc in 2009 i competed in the net wars challenge it was part of the us cyber challenge in all the rounds that i competed in i have places in the top 10 in the nation um i also do uh training and penetration testing for core security um i've taught people all over in all different facets from you know enterprise to government as you can see i've worked places like nasa with u.s marine corps red team so i'm all over the place some of the stuff that i do on my own time is uh gpu based password auditing like somebody up here and liquid nitrogen overclocking so that's me we also have a other special member of our team uh dora the scada explorer is here in the audience uh but uh dora did not want to appear on stage uh he's an exploit rider uh he has a great backpack all kinds of tricks inside with a great exploits he's good at coding he lives in the tropical area of columbia maryland and uh dora has done a lot of great work for our group so we're very glad that dora is is here with us today in the audience all right uh one thing that we're going to describe here is we're not talking about any vendors per se um while we did do our research as you can see our plc that we we purchased on ebay and everything is up here on the table we'll have a close-ups of the picture if you can't see it it's a big room the red team always wins so what we're here to discuss is really about um we did a lot of research and some of our attack vectors and exploits were on the control computers this is not a talk about siemens per se but as as the picture suggests i mean this uh this jail facility is alcatraz it was designed to be no one could break out of prison there right well we did our research you know suggests otherwise you know this case to be true as well but uh the red team always wins so we're not here to um to discuss particular vulnerabilities because what's clear and what we're releasing in this presentation today is that with plc's it doesn't matter what vendor it is so while siemens is our research uh uh module there is up it's not just about siemens about any plc uh because we we'll discuss and we'll show you a demo of what we've done with the control computer all right so uh why present about prison vulnerabilities um one of the big things that we're talking about here is not our exploits per se we're not releasing our exploits um we've used it for a proof of demonstration to all of you about the work that we've done but it's really to kind of hit home the idea if you work in a facility in which plcs exist these are the types of things that you should know now all of us most of us in this room will know what we know what plcs are a lot of us have looked at stuxnet but if you work in a correctional facility or you work in other types of facilities that have plc's even water treatment plants those employees may not know what that is um this is part of the problem that we've seen in the correctional facilities is wardens guards or officers that work there their responsibility is actually it's pretty high some of the vulnerabilities we saw siemens or ge whatever the essence of they can't fix them what needs to be done is these people working in these facilities need to know that there are devices that can be vulnerable to attacks so the us puts a lot of money and funding into securing some of our uh you know what we call you know the us's assets of uh high secure facilities bank vaults things like that where you may see plcs but when it comes to the our country's shall we say worst liabilities in a sense uh we are encouraging some heightened security because of the discoveries that we've made so we're trying to talk to the people who do work in correctional facilities and that's why we went public with our research and we'll tell you about a little bit how we did that but a lot of law enforcement agents too we talked about who work in these prison facilities uh didn't really know much about this so we're bringing awareness to that issue uh so when we uh when we did the research because this has to do with the us correctional facilities that we were looking at we briefed some federal agencies um you you can see from the slide they're they're friends they're friendly but what's great is that when we said hey we found this vulnerability we want to talk to you about it it took about two months to really get together everyone from these agencies but when we did uh it was it was a positive experience in the sense that uh they were willing to listen and talk to us about what we did um and uh they they're allowing us to present here and that's uh that's why we're really grateful for this because it's not we didn't talk to siemens or ge because uh it's really about the correctional facilities in this presentation we're doing so uh we're glad and we are grateful to those agencies who allowed us to do this presentation all right so the story of christmas eve as you may see in in the bio or another bio the abstract of our presentation um all the doors on death row popped open a little while ago and uh i'm going to have john strauss hear my dad tell you about the story of christmas eve because he was called in to figure out why death row all the doors popped open and it's also kind of the basis of this whole entire presentation and that is that quite some time ago i designed an electronic security system that is all the electronics for a state penitentiary that included a death row it was a maximum security facility we were done it was occupied inmates were brought in thing was running everything seemed to be going fine and then christmas eve i'm at home and i get a call from the warden all the doors in death row had popped open spontaneously that concerned him now it turned out nothing really bad happened they've got everybody in but it concerned me a little bit in terms of what could have happened and uh liability and things like that so we'd immediately went out there and tried to track down what what caused it what it turned out to be was the contractor had not used the manufacturers and model numbers of the equipment the way they exactly specified they had made some substitutions now in hindsight it's in all likelihood i would have proved the substitutions but it the problem was the two components that is a plc and a relay had never been used at a correctional facility before and some kind of voltage surge occurred and there was a printed circuit board that had a a one-way diode on it as we found out and it was leaking voltage and it was leaking just enough not very much just enough to trip the relays which then open up all the doors easily fixed now go forward in time and i'm sitting there watching news about stuxnet in iran and how they attack the plc's and got the centrifuges moving fast and i had a eureka moment i said wait a minute we had that happen at a high security prison accidentally what could you do if you did something deliberately and the other thing that occurred to me was wait a minute nobody knows that plcs are used in prisons they really don't most large security systems don't use plc's uh we'll get into this again later why use plc's in prisons but if most people don't know that plcs are used in prisons then all this scada talk about skate attacks is focused on power grids and nuclear facilities and all kinds of other things but not prisons and it's a vulnerability that that if you know about it you can protect yourself because 98 99 of the solution to the problem is procedural not technical um so this research idea started a lot with looking at the stuxnet and those of us that were interested in uh following uh that the code is uh is very well designed well engineered i mean it took a lot of professionals perhaps a nation state i'm sure you've all heard those theories but i got this idea to start looking at where else plcs that are vulnerable might exist and i've got to give credit to tom parker and fx they're not a part of this research project per se but they have really fantastic analyses they've done of stuxnet i mean going through line by line with the code and then black hat abu dhabi last year we all got to sit down and really talk about some of the essence of what makes stuxnet unique and um and so after these presentations uh i came back to the us and i sat down with my my father who has a lot of design experience and then with teague who's a fantastic penetration tester and that's when we said wow uh this is a this could be interesting so uh what if someone wrote a worm or a virus that could affect correctional facilities that was our big question all right so i'm going to turn over my dad's going to do a big uh section now on the design of prisons the reason this is important if you understand the structure and why things are designed in prisons you'll understand why some of the plcs and where they're vulnerable is a problem so culinary institute of america and also work we actually had a really neat uh wave file we're going to play but apparently we can't do that right now so that has nothing to do with anything it started with stuxnet attack was uh and this is what i read not personal knowledge against step seven of the siemens software and apparently there's some microsoft patches you can do that that minimize this vulnerability but it goes back to the fact that it's all about the programmable logic controller the plc it's not just the scada systems for like power lines pipelines water systems prisons use plc's now let's go back to nomenclature just for a minute what is a prison or a penitentiary a prison or penitentiary is something that's probably run by the federal government or the state government it's confinement for a year to life i mean it's serious confinement when people talk about a jail and a lot of times they use the terms improperly a jail is usually a county city or town facility and confinement is usually less than a year the only thing about a jail that makes them a little bit interesting is some jails can be really huge as pointed out orange county jail in california has 2 500 inmates and the other thing about a jail that makes it important to look at is a jail is often used for pretrial confinement that is while you're awaiting trial you put you in jail so you could be a pickpocket you could be a terrorist you could be a serial killer so anybody could be in a jail even though the confinements are very low in the united states they're about i think exactly right now 117 federal correctional facilities 1700 prisons that is state penitentiaries 3 000 jails throughout the united states and of these correctional facilities about 160 are operated privately and most possibly all i haven't surveyed them also i can't speak definitively use plc's in their electronics that's me in jail now we're going to this because if you if you to understand what the vulnerability really is you got to understand how a prison operates or a jail at large jail operates and what the electronics are and how it works this is the contemporary design of a jail it involves a central control and then housing pods for housing controls and the whole idea is ergonomics and that is it's no longer the way hollywood portrayed large prisons where there are long cell blocks with bars in fact most new modern facilities don't even have bars they have solid doors with vision panels but these long cell blocks don't exist the idea is ergonomics is central control can see down those alleys into every housing pod the control in every housing pod ideally can see every single cell so this visual contact with everybody you're managing and that that minimizes the number of people that you need to operate the facility going back to a point i made earlier is uh i have i've heard two misconceptions one is that some people think that plc's are used in all security systems and as i said they're not most large security systems for example use some kind of operating system that's specifically written and designed for security systems the two probably most common ones people know are linnell internationals on guard or software house secure 9000 and there are a bunch of others but those are two really big ones that have a big share of the market they don't use plc's now are the similarities between what they use in the plc of course there are the only thing is their controllers or their data gathering panels whatever you want to call them are smarter more multi-functional uh multitasking much more state-of-the-art now no one's ever tested those systems so i can't really speak to it but you wouldn't put a plc now why do you use a plc in a prism the reason is it's very simple it's very basic it's easy to program and more importantly it's easy to track because nine times out of ten after you do your programming say you're doing uh two three hundred cells or five six hundred cells that could equate to twenty thirty thousand points in a system if you did conventional programming that's one heck of a lot of tracking you have to do something's not working you know this button is supposed to do this when you use ladder logic it simplifies it because when you print it out particularly on a long sheet of paper it looks like a ladder and you could follow the lines trace them with your fingers you'll go from this point down to this point down to this point and it ends up where you want to go but it's that simplicity and vulnerability that make it vulnerable i also want to make one correction is that we've been doing some news interviews and one of the news interviews seemed to imply that i said that corrections officers weren't smart or or should have known this stuff how many people here drive a car how many you know what a pcv valve is or a few do most don't just because you drive a car doesn't mean you're required to know what a positive crankcase ventilation valve is it's a very important valve particularly in older cars and that's the point is why should a corrections officer or a warden or administrator know what a what a plc is or how it's programmed their specialty their skills are to operate the facility as efficiently and probably with not enough people and not enough money and try to make it work well that's their job so i i don't mean anything i've said or whatever accounts may be in the press and i'm not criticizing the corrections industry or corrections officers this is uh the same kind of design now it doesn't look like a spoke of a wheel but it's the same concept it's ergonomics that is vision lines for control you can see in other words we our rule of thumb was when we designed was if you could directly see the door then you didn't need a video camera there or anything else you couldn't see the door you put a camera there and not only that you put a camera on both sides of the door not just one side so that you can see if somebody for example is under duress or being compelled to do something many have hundreds of cells but all but the smallest jails or prisons have some kind of central control so what does it look like starts out with the central control this is the hub of the wheel this is the brain of the entire facility and it runs everything virtually everything you know even things like showers and lights you know depending on the what state and jurisdiction you're in they have different rules but the whole purpose of the entire facility is obviously about door control to keep people in and monitor locks solenoids and motors and to monitor sensors or limit switches they also monitor many other kinds of systems like closed circuit video surveillance duress alarms that is someone's being held at knife point or shank point i guess vernacular intercoms and some facilities not all of them have some kind of perimeter and a lot of times there's a perimeter patrol that is a fence intrusion detection system concertina wire barbed wire and so forth uh those things tend to nuisance of false alarm at higher rates and they sometimes have patrol vehicles out there they have a graphic interface sometimes that graphic interface between a patrol vehicle and central control is radio frequency which you got to remember uh the big boom in prison and jail construction was about 15 20 years ago and back then nobody talked about cyber security or viruses or any of that stuff it just wasn't important back then and these facilities are still operating and they haven't changed hardly at all they all go back all these activities go back to a programmable logic controller usually it's a self-standing rack someplace in an equipment room not not in a control room in some place and there will be a big relay bank because the plc's themselves don't have the ability or the power to do things with it again it's basically a very dumb form of multiplexing basically and they control many functions now this is a very simple up five block diagram of what works antigua and tiffany will be going back to this uh shortly yeah basically you have inputs and the inputs are panel switches lock sensors door sensors you want to do know that the door is closed and you'll know that the door is locked in the early days for example when electronics were first introduced inmates found that they could put pencils in the track on a sliding door wires sliding doors preferred over swing doors the biggest reason is safety of the corrections officer swing doors often end up uh putting corrections officers in the hospital because some of these inmates have nothing to lose either that or they have no sense of consequences and they'll slam that iron door shut so sliders are preferred even though it's slightly more expensive they'll put pencils in there and sometimes they'll jam up the door right up to the point where the before the limit switch trips so you think the door is locked but it really isn't because the limit switch hasn't tripped yet there are by most accounts 40 to 50 manufacturers of plc's throughout the world these are the most common ones used in correctional facilities and of these i'd say that the top ones are alan bradley ge and square d now here are some very basic plc facts two points here in terms of protocols lawn works is real popular i don't know again this is a different industry for me also you may not be familiar with lawn works but the objective of lawn works is is primarily one thing it's to minimize by as much as 40 percent the amount of wire and conduit you use and wire conduit and correct facility could end up being tens of thousands of dollars in cost savings or much more another thing is programming language the most common programming language for plc's was then is still true today maybe after our presentation it might change is ladder logic simply because it's easy to follow easy to track easy to review it doesn't mean you couldn't use any of the other languages to to program your plc it's just simply that they don't and again back 15 20 years ago at the boom of correction facility design and construction it was the most common sense thing to do make it as simple as possible in large facilities plcs monitor thousands of points contact closures that then control hundreds of devices mostly motors and solenoids one schematic design but a better one to look at will be this one and the point i want to make here is that now you probably are not going to monitor 34 points but if you wanted to be a purist about it and know the exact status of this one door you could monitor 34 points just on this one schematic and that's another reason why the plc is ideal so easy to review and t might bring this up a little bit later but let's look note down there under the note speed control we're playing around with well if you did it maliciously what could you do well i remember a demonstration using uh pneumatic sliding doors that basically are air driven pistons and i saw that when we turned we turned off the speed control switch we could actually crack a two by four in half using the door so if you wanted to for example hurt somebody that'd be one way of doing it and then all the way out not just inside facility even the offense sally port gates ultimately are controlled back into central control now during the day for example there'll be direct control right at the sally port gate but say two o'clock in the morning again they're short staffed don't have enough people a lot of times they'll switch control back to central control and that point you would have a vulnerability going from inside a correct facility all the way out to the gate during the day you probably would not because they'll have what's called direct control and the only way central control would take it over is through an override which you would rarely do and we're going to harp on this a number of times and i'll repeat it again one more time right now because it's so important 98 99 of the solution to fix to this vulnerability is procedural not technical and in fact there's probably no technical way to giving a hundred percent fix uh for the plc vulnerability but if you air gap it make everybody follow strict procedures have no unauthorized connections you probably don't have a problem at this point i will turn it over to teague and tiffany and they're going to look at specific vulnerabilities and infection vectors when we did a evaluation of a facility it was here in the u.s and we were we were able to go in and take a look at both the internet access some of the security there and really uh talk to some of the people who worked there the guards to get an idea of how much knowledge they had about it and for information security and what they had in the facility um so one of the things that uh the vulnerabilities we found were open doors and gates um there are times when we were talking to the the officers prison guards there where there have shorter staff and in the morning hours when controls are shifted to central control because of staffing shortages there if you were a malicious attacker these are some of the things that you would you would look at and if you're inside a prison you'll be able to you know you would theoretically be able to see the movement of some of the guards so um this is something that we thought would be uh one of the vulnerabilities um as my father said cause phase locks sliders to go out of phase printing uh permitting doors from opening and closing uh this was interesting too because uh we my father's done some research and some work in uh fire uh fire protection fire evaluation and uh do you wanna mention something about the slam du slam doors the mic should be working there's one feature called that you have to specify when you request a lock manufacturer it's called a remote latch holdback they usually use the initials for that and the purpose of that is that if there's an evacuation most of these uh a lot of these doors are called slam locks as soon as you slam the door shut it's locked it stays locked the only way you can open it is with a mechanical key someone has to be there and then depending on the state some states for example won't allow any corrections offset open more than a certain number of doors because this assumption is it might be a smoke-filled corridor and you have to be able to identify the keys by feel so it's a complicated process now if you wanted to for example if you were the bloods in the crypts and you wanted to get somebody on the other side what you would do is start a mattress fire someplace which happens every year and in fact every couple years inmates are dying particularly from smoke inhalation would be to get an evacuation started and if you knew if you could suppress this the remote latch hold back in the plc software and you didn't like the guy behind you all he had to do is slam the door and that door will be locked and whoever's on the other side of the door is not going to get out emergency release of entire cell blocks or the entire facility we are going to be discussing and t is going to mention to you a cascading release where you uh if you release all of the doors at once it actually can break it can break the locks and cause pretty severe damage so we discussed i think he's going to mention a little bit more of that in his part that he's doing um and perimeter fence intrusion detection systems have high rates of false alarms so that's another vulnerability we looked at and one of the things that a lot of people have asked us about this presentation is well this is not possible because the prison system is not on the internet um you know it's it's supposed to be you know this is a high secure facility including maximum security they should be off the internet when we did some research and we actually looked at a facility it's not as the i.t and the the way that they set up the networks in some cases was an afterthought uh they they designed the prison and the security in it and then the networks and all that came in later after after it had been designed and some of the it contractors maybe didn't have backgrounds in security so what we found is that the systems are not as air gapped as you may think there's not as much network segmentation as you may think and we were able to see some some problems with that one of the problems we found is that uh the plcs and the control computers those things need some patching and updates things like that so um inside the housing control or the central control center that you remember from the picture we had up there there's an electronic um not electronic but there's like a computer room equipment room that's where a lot of the computers are and uh when tegan i did our evaluation we were able to go and take a look at this stuff and uh some of the stuff we found was surprising also if there's a commissary or sometimes some of the lower security prisons stuff like that they have like vendors fast food vendors and stuff that sell food in the facility those have a lot of internet connections to order food order supplies things like that we were able in one circumstance to trace that network back to the control room so if that is an attack vector that we looked at that you shouldn't be able to get from the commissary to the control room but we did see that that was uh in some something that we did see so uh we are dismissing the myth that the plcs are they're invulnerable because they're not connected to the internet this is another thing that we saw that um if people are in the control room just like the stuxnet attack if you have a usb drive something like that that's how you can create or the infection can take place also when we were at this facility on site we saw it uh was there doing some fixes on something um they were in the equipment room unsupervised and um maybe at this particular facility the guards knew who these guys were but uh what we found is when we followed them down in there you know it's um we didn't see anything bad going on with them but we it's a type of attack factor when we're thinking about it that's a way that you could get that in there so another thing we found is that there was an interesting story and it's in our white paper about when uh patrol vehicles when they get close to uh for instance like police stations small jails things connected to courthouses when they're bringing in inmates or people that are standing trial um if they had a video camera um the video is actually transferred like via wi-fi uh to the control computer inside of the prison and t can you mention more about that yeah so is this working all right so what occurs is uh some of these dvrs now when they get within range uh they're actually just start uploading video files to essentially the jail lan um to a storage machine on there well it's been proven at this point that the some of the dvrs in the police cars had public ip addresses and they actually have been hacked remotely compromised and they were able to upload whatever type of file they wanted instead of a video file to whatever the storage unit you know the san or nas or whatever it would be at that particular facility a number of other things were also it will be done such as watch the video live but the most interesting thing is is that the dvr in fact was on a public ip address it was compromised and they were able to upload a file to within the jail that was not a video and from a story we read that some of those some people have figured out that if they live near a jail they can pick this up um it was not an encrypted signal and the videos went up on youtube so uh that was uh unfortunate so they definitely need some guidance or assistance from the infosec community so we're here doing this part of that reason um so something we saw that was most alarming though that really got us to say we want to talk to the government soon because we'd really like some prison wardens guards and the federal bureau of prison to start training people working in these facilities why you need to not access gmail not access twitter from the control computer we did see that so we're in the control room and uh uh t goes down in the equipment room looking at the plc's things like that and and i'm up there and we're watching someone on the control computer pulling up gmail and uh that was a that's one of the concerns we found is it's uh if they knew why this is very uh risky both for their lives and those of the public at large i'm sure they wouldn't do that but um sometimes we've uh my father and i have talked to a lot of law enforcement officers you know it gets really late at night people get bored they're gonna they're gonna start checking facebook things like that um they need to know why they should not do that inside the control room particularly and uh this is uh this is why uh we're glad to be talking about this because we did see that um so you can cause widespread panic pandemonium either by locking all the cell doors down opening them up so uh the cascade program we talked about you can destroy all the locks all in one go so there are a lot of reasons why if you work in these facilities know that stuxnet is not just something in iran it's not just something that affects nuclear power plants it can affect your facilities here the prison in which you work so teagan are going to discuss some infection vectors we talked about so um i'm going to talk about from some of the infection vectors from without so we talked about the software updates uh straightforward malicious attacks from outside the facility um there have been other research that have shown that some plcs are connected to the the internet and uh it's something that if you know the model number and all that it'll make the attack vector a lot easier um malicious attacks from outside the sanitize point connections to the outside we saw that i mean we've seen connections to the commissary connections to the outside on the control period computer via checking gmail so uh there are a lot of ways that if we want to do a malicious attack we could do it so also from without clearly at this point we have seen that someone was checking their gmail from the control computer so a client-side attack factor is completely within scope at that point in time because we know that it has you know they are checking email of course from out again there is potential via these dvrs if they're uploading wirelessly from the police cars and now this would be within a jail not a prison but you also have to look well if they're uploading wirelessly there's wireless there as well now how does the network segmentation look in that situation clearly it'll probably be different everywhere but it's probably not always going to be done correctly it's just rare to see it done perfect all the time from within obviously we have the typical social engineering attack factors we've seen people technicians working alone in the equipment room who says they're really technicians right stux pretty well proved that even if stuff is air gapped it doesn't particularly matter you can still compromise it so obviously the other thing to think about as well is uh it's people say that stux was via usb drive now think about all the stuff we have now with the teensies and everything else it doesn't just have to be a usb drive it can be you know any particular hid interface so obviously there's clearly all the social engineering factors and there are a number of external vectors as well all right so we talked about we don't believe that in all facilities internet access is isolated there's some maximum security facilities we saw that the prisoners had some access to a computer that um uh they we read this in an article and the next article said well the prisoners are finding all these uh flaws in it so they're essentially uh red teaming it in a way and then the prisons fixing all the holes they found including buffer overflows that they saw the prisoners were doing so um this uh is the internet access isolated we don't know from that system but it's a type of thing that they need to be very cautious about this so what kind of badness is possible and this is where we're going to talk about i'm just going to briefly say this is how we set up our basement lab we're going to give you some pictures of that and we're going to have a demo of our plc what we're working but okay so the worst case scenario one of them is open all the doors mayhem open some of the doors uh released from prison is this unlikely but uh maybe you still have to get back past the guys with the guns so that's uh that's a little difficult as well but in the past 30 years helicopters have been used for prison escapes eight times six of which were initially successful they were picked up later for other things but uh which event is more unlikely so when we hear that oh this is really unlikely this might happen there have been some very unlikely things with helicopters but we think that because of the stuxnet and the copycats things like that it actually may become a lot more likely we can close all the doors during a fire uh let's say you don't want a witness to testify against you in trial lock all the doors and if there's a fire um everyone perishes in that side so uh prisoners are locked in lock down a housing unit so how much did this research cost us and when some people say that to do this type of plc research it's going to cost you know it's going to take a big lab and a research facility and a lot of money to do it it did not for us at all it cost twenty five hundred dollars most of those were legit licenses we made it clear that we saw the licenses elsewhere but because we're doing this well and also we wanted to get the the legit license so we could do a lot of research on it as well but uh we bought this from the vendor and the siemens model that you see here is the s7 300 the same one exploited by stuxnet it's the same one that we do see in some prisons and there are a lot of exploits that are available that we found uh exploitdatabase.com or exploitdb.com there are a lot that are free they're out there so our exploits by the way they're unique to some others that have been done out there but they're pretty simple to write i've seen some buffer overflows on a stack 30 lines of code i mean that's not difficult at all to do so we had a lot of fun doing this type of research and teague's going to now talk to you about like our basement lab what we had set up yeah so for the lab it's a computer with that plugged into it it could literally be this right here there's nothing spectacular about it all you need is a machine that will run the software and a way to connect the plc to that machine it's nothing fancy we set it up in about 10 minutes so definitely not advanced persistent threat um especially yeah so anyhow that's what the lab looks like that is the machine with the plc on the table that's it that's all that's what we use to research this and this is the programming language this is just an example of it it's as easy as if you have taken some basic computer science engineering classes really understanding just a lot logical gates for instance this is an and this is an or and what you see below is what it's going to look like in the program so you it is pretty simple to get this work if you understand these the logical diagrams there all right so for these attack vectors uh as we said we do have exploits of our own but there are publicly available exploits i mean there's a handful out there you can find them at exploit db there's some going in metasploit right now uh luigi at least like 34 exploits for scada systems in one day these are not particularly difficult to obtain all right so now we talk about our attack vector our attack vector that we're demonstrating here is actually similar to what stuxnet did um what we're doing is we are directly calling the plc's application functions so once you are on that machine that monitors controls or programs the plc's it's it's open season so basically however you get on that machine we discuss the attack vectors now you're on it what do you do migrate into the process access libraries and call the application functions so it's using the libraries how they're designed to be used that's why we're saying this is not particular to siemens yes we have that but if the software exists and it has libraries it's going to work across any vendor okay now we're going to do our demo we took demo of uh of our exploit writer so you're going to get to hear dora the scada explorer's voice hopefully the audio will work on this we've been having some trouble with audio okay before i get into the demo i kind of want to explain some things here so what we have is this this plc there's a number of lights on the bottom and a number of lights on the top and i just kind of want to make it clear what's going on you have to use your imagination because these are just lights but what occurs is when you flip a switch on the bottom a light comes up on the bottom and on the top the bottom picture it has what you would see at the monitoring computer it says all right switch is flipped so in our case it would say the status of that door is locked when you see the light occurring at the top that is what the current status of the actual door in this case would be so if the lights on up top the door is locked if the lights off up top the door is unlocked so you'll also notice in the demo there's typically the cascading release programs that we talked about that would be doors opening or closing sequentially it wouldn't be all at once the possibility was there that if everything occurred at once you could have voltage in rush and you could start frying some electronics you'll notice it's pretty easy for us to not cascade things so anyway just remember the bottom is what you would see in a monitoring area and the top is what's actually occurring on the other end with the hardware okay all right so what we see in the middle here this is our plc the switches on the bottom represent the actual lock control themselves so either a physical mechanism or the software changing the state the leds on the right side of those switches represent their state so that would be if the switch is actually physically on or off the leds you see at the top represent the actual lock state which should be like a secondary sensor that's telling you is this lock actually locked or what state it currently is in um and as you as you see switching back and forth the leds update to show that status now in the software you basically have all of the internal states again of the same things you can see the lock controls and the lock states themselves and in the software the leds are the column with the true and false is basically are the state of the switches and the lock states at the where they currently are all right so once we actually start running the uh exploit or the not exploit via interpreter script um we're going to basically migrate into the controls or the the com communications part of the software that handles communications with the uh actually if you want to look at the plc real quick it's about to trigger and there they go and as you can see in the software itself the state of the switches is still currently turned on so basically yeah showing a false information really so what we've done if you want to show them interpreter script real quick uh kind of what we've done is migrated into the communications process um sent using the siemens actual dlls sent using railgun the communications commands to send basically any of the information update the variables on the device itself and basically all we did all right so you'll notice there with this last shot of the software too that is basically what you would see in the control center you'll see that in fact all the doors are still locked and clearly on the plc they were not in fact let me embroider on that just for a second that is my original expectation was that we would somehow be able to control the plc to unlock a door turns out we were able to do much more than that we can now unlock the door but tell central control it's still locked when it really isn't yeah we are in fact uh not only are we manipulating the physical state of the door uh we are also suppressing alarms and notifications as well okay can we go back to the other screen please this is what it looks like for those of you can't see it up here that was the same one in the video so there's a close-up picture of it and uh this is uh when we toured a correctional facility we took some pictures of like the relays and plc's and some of the wires and networks there and we're showing you a few of those in here these are also by the way um our white paper is uh was published by wire but also it's on core security's uh website under one of their blogs about devcon so uh you can pull up our white paper and more information on this and see more pictures all right so uh this is the the really the summary we're going to be talking about the remediation here now um which is uh pretty clear for what we're going to do use a device for us intended purposes those of us in this room we get that all right but for those of you watching you know elsewhere online prison wardens guards this is very important for you because there's some things that can't be fixed with plcs it's up to you really to those acceptable use policies have a reason why they're there proper network segmentation restrict physical media the same stuff that would prevent stuxnet this is the stuff that we're discussing here so many modern jails and prisons were designed 10 years ago before these attacks were known so what we're suggesting is evaluate some of the designs and security that you have have take a look at the it network i mean very carefully because um if an attack did occur on a you know correctional facility it's a pretty big deal forcing and updating procedures and policies um you know and really having the guards understand why this is a big deal is the most important thing this is the biggest risk mitigating thing that you can do is educate your employees if you have plcs that run safety critical operations or correctional facilities know that these attacks can't exist one one point i'd like to make is uh you know clearly the way we're doing it you can't really patch that so the education is huge how do you you know how would you do it otherwise that's why you need to everybody always says it but you know the layered defenses you got to really have it all in place especially for things like this they can be deemed you know critical infrastructure for a particular facility where it may involve lives of people so you got to determine what's important and then implement it hard all right we also want to give a big shout out to dora the scada explorer for being awesome and for any of you out there or watching online if you think that we or dora hold the keys to the castle here we do not um these exploits are going to be public and it's nothing that uh was terribly terribly difficult to do so uh so we've gotten some interesting requests i'll tell you since some articles have been written about us and uh no we won't help you and uh you know it's the type of thing that uh that's one of the reasons that dora has been uh has been very quiet here are we gonna be taking questions in this room too oh we are okay great oh okay 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GgS1RdiN8lE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgS1RdiN8lE | How to STOP PROCRASTINATION in Business Pursuit | Entrepreneur Mindset | do you think entrepreneurs have all the money to start a business no they just have the guts to take the first step hello good morning good afternoon good evening wherever you are in this world we are here again for another coffee with C we will be talking about the topic that has been requested by our friend Oketchi here it is coffee with C thank you for the opportunity to write you could you please talk about procrastination in business pursuit the thing is there are 99 reasons that you can worry about but I want you to find that one reason why you want to do this and then start now procrastination comes when you say you want to do something but instead you come up with 99 different excuses not to and you are sabotaging yourself and you know what causes you to procrastinate it's your fear your worries and the what-ifs just start now and take that leap of faith I'm not telling you to quit your nine-to-five job and be an entrepreneur nor am I telling you to use all your savings and start a business no even if it means writing a business plan talking to people about your business idea pitching to strangers start setting up an office in the comfort of your own home so that you can start working that's what I meant by start now and take action you do not need a lot of money in bunch of connections to start a business your time your passion your knowledge and expertise are way valuable enough to get started do you think I would show up owners have all the money to start the business no they just have the guts to take the first step and the thing is once you start towards it you'll feel more accountable and you will feel obligated to keep going and let me share something with you entrepreneurs have this type of mindset yes I recognize that there are 10 problems that I can deal with right now but you know what I will focus on 1 and 2 and then when I'm done with it I will deal with the 3 to 10 and that just helps them to keep going because they do not let fear to dictate their course of action they know how to regulate worry if you start your business right now what do you have to lose aside from your very valuable time and even if you lost time you can consider that as your investment to yourself and to your business that is your sweat equity where else the best invest isn't it to yourself so your lost time you can consider that as your investment to yourself and during that process you get a much better insight then possibly during that process you will realize this is not the business that I want to pursue it's okay at least you tried then you move on to the next one until you find that passion and until you find that niche again you have nothing to lose you just have experiences to gain that you can better leverage to your future endeavor I mean imagine that time that you are spending worrying and contemplating about your worries and what-ifs when you can use that specific time to start now using that time and energy to work for you keep your requests and topics coming comment down below I create videos every week and your topic may be next until next time | Coffee With C | UCzY49iuPppHcEblNBhzI81w | 2019-05-13 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 596 | 3,109 |
4PAeWVnwa8w | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PAeWVnwa8w | IAS 23 | Borrowing Cost | Interest Capitalization | International Accounting IFRS course | hello and welcome to the session this is Professor Farhad and this session we're going to be looking at borrowing cost IAS 38 this topic is covered in international accounting course as well as the CPA exam when we talk about interest capitalisation as always I would like to remind you my viewers to connect with me on a professional level onling then please subscribe to my youtube I have over 1,400 accounting auditing and tax lectures you want to make sure you subscribe to stay up to date like my lectures share them put them in the playlist let the world know about them if you're benefiting from my lectures it means someone else might benefit as well this is my Instagram account please follow me on Instagram this is my facebook and you want to make sure you check out my website on a regular basis as I have cpa course offers so let's talk about IAS 23 or borrowing cost now what is the big idea the borrowing cost simply put if you want to translate it into the language that we are more familiar with its interest expense then what is interest expense interest expenses the cost of borrowing money so this standard tells us what do we need to do with interest expense well obviously if it's an expense we need to expense it right that's the general rule well that's the general rule of course when you borrow money and you incur interest expense you have to incur it you have to expense it however if you incur interest expense and you are constructing an asset okay what does that mean so that's first let's let's make it even simpler you have two options and by the way this is a warehouse okay just use your imagination you can buy a warehouse for $1,000,000 or you can construct it so you can buy the warehouse or you can construct the warehouse now the question becomes is this if you bought the warehouse and you pay the million dollar do you think the seller do you think the seller included the interests expense in the price do you think the seller said well I'm gonna have to recover my interest expense therefore the interest expense is included in the price and I'm gonna assume that you said yes why because the seller wants to let's assume the seller built it and sold it to you they want to recover their expenses they want to recover their cost therefore what we say is if you constructed this warehouse and if you incurred interests then you have the right to capitalize that's the keyword capitalized the expense capitalized the interest expense specifically interests you have to write to capitalize the interest expense what does that mean it means you have the right to treat those expenses as an asset as part of the warehouse and this is why we have to talk about borrowing cost okay so this is the big idea it is good because generally speaking you might say hold on what are we cost as interest don't buy expense and risk yes that's the general rule unless you are constructing an asset you are required for borrowing costs to be capitalized to the extent that error attributable to the acquisition construction or production of a qualified asset now we need to know what does it mean a qualifying asset okay because that's important what what counts as a qualifying asset we have two types of qualifying asset asset under construction for your own use so you are constructing a building like a warehouse it for your own use or you are constructing an asset with the intention of selling or leasing the asset but as constructed those all produce as a discrete project so let's think about somebody asks you to build a boat for them then you're gonna sell that boat so it's a discrete project simply put you don't capitalize interest cost that's for mass production so if you are if you are producing inventory and that inventory is part of your regular business and you're incurring interest you cannot capitalize you cannot capitalize that interest you cannot capitalize that interest okay other borrowing costs our expense and the period and what in which they are incurred so simply put if it's not a qualifying asset any other cost incurred is part of your part is an expense okay so hopefully we got a good idea so please remember producing regular then Tori is is expense is expense all right let's take a look and let's see the picture of what it looks like what does the big picture looks like okay so for example let's assume PetroChina incur borrowing costs equal to 23 million Chinese won it directly expensed twenty million twenty point eight million and capitalized the remainder what does that mean what does that mean it means from a journal entry perspective the expensed only 20 million 20.8 and they added to the asset 2.5 and this is in total their interest expense this is in total their interest expense how does IAS define borrowing cost well it defined borrowing costs more broadly than US GAAP what do what do I mean by interest well what do you mean by that it defined it more broadly for example foreign exchange gains and losses are treated as more owing cost to the extent they represent adjustment to interest costs let's assume you borrowed in one currency then you repaid the interest or the principal and another currency and as a result we had a gain or a loss on the exchange and guess what your borrowing costs might up your borrowing cost might go down that's in the u.s. you're not allowed to make any foreign exchange adjustment also when you borrow money you might take this money and invest it for example you borrow 10 million dollars for a project well you're not gonna be spending the ten million dollars immediately you're gonna put that money in the bank then spend it you know three four million at a time when you put that money in the bank it's gonna earn interest then what's gonna happen because it's gonna earn interest the interest that you earned from your investment whatever that investment in is in the bank maybe it's it's just a money market account but nevertheless its revenue you can net that interest revenue against interest expense netting is not allowed under the US so under the US if you earn any interest revenue from that money it's kept separately so those are two differences of how interest borrowing costs is defined US GAAP versus IFRS so the interest capitalisation so what do we need to know about interest capitalisation now by the way I cover this topic in depth and my intermediate accounting course and the US GAAP so if you're interested in more a detailed explanation with examples go there but I'm gonna work an example here so the amount that we capitalized is the amount of interest that we could have avoided if the expenditure has not has not been made it's the first thing we have to understand is there's something called avoidable interests the avoidable interest is the interest that we could have avoided that we did not incur okay so we have to know that so the interests that we capitalize it's that interest it's on the amount that we could have have avoided if we did not undertake this project and we'll work an example so what we do is we have to compute something called the weighted average accumulated expenditure what does it mean the way that they have rejected limit expenditure that means your interest expenditure don't start until you actually spend the money so let's assume you spend the money for the last three month of the year interest is only counted for that last three month again we're gonna work an example shortly because this will not make any sense until we work an example the appropriate interest rate so which interest rate do we use it's a weighted average rate on borrowing on the borrowing outstanding is determined very similar between IAS 23 and US GAAP which will work an exam will show you which interest rate do we use now if we board specifically for the project if specific new borrowing can be associated with a qualifying asset then the actual interest rate is used to the extent of the weighted average accumulated expenditure okay so let me give you let let's work some numbers real quick so this way it's I don't I don't go out of I don't confuse you let's assume the way that have kimly of expenditure happens to be 300,000 just don't worry about this I'm gonna show you how we compute this now let's assume we specifically borrowed for this project specifically we borrowed $100,000 for this project we borrowed $100,000 then guess what of the 300,000 $100,000 we use the interest rate that we borrowed for this project specifically whatever that interest rate is let's assume that interest rate is 8% then what were left with 200,000 the remaining balance what we use for the remaining balance is the weighted average interest rate for this we use the weighted average interest rate whatever that weighted average interest rate is we will look at an example and we'll compute that weighted average interest rate the weighted average interest rate could be 10% I don't know 6 percent it doesn't matter okay but we if we have a specific borrowing we use the specific borrowing first against the weighted average accumulated expenditure then we would use the average rate of other debt interest income earned on temporary investment is offset against interest cost again this has to do with only international standard not US GAAP obviously this is an international standard course the capitalization of borrowing costs began when the expenditure for the asset are incurred and ceases when substantially all activities necessary to prepare the asset for sale or use are completed so simply put you will start the capitalization process from the from the time the project start until dip the time the project ends now all these steps will be illustrated in the next example let's take a look at this example assume a company borrowed two hundred thousand and twelve percent from State Bank on January 1st for a specific purpose of constructing a special-purpose equipment so simply what we call this two hundred thousand or we call this specific borrowing so we borrowed this money specifically for this project construction on the equipment begins January 1st so this is when we serve the capitalization period and the following expenditures were made so we made the following expenditure January we spend thousand April we spent 150 November we spent 300,000 December we spent 100,000 you might be saying hold on I borrowed 200,000 what did this money came from well we have money from other sources okay here's the other sources of money we have other debt we have half a million dollar lock bond at a 14% rate and we have a note alone of 300,000 so we have money from other sources also we have debt so this these are called other debt this is called other debt well first we have to find out if this asset is a qualifying asset well special purpose equipment qualify because it required the period of time to get ready and it's used in the company's operation so this asset is a qualifying asset when does the capitalization period began the capitalization period begins January 1st and it's going to end December 31st when the when the project is done so we know when do we capitalize the interest and we know that the asset is a qualifying asset the next thing we're going to compute is the way that average accumulated expenditure remember week we spent $100,000 January 1st and this information is coming from here on January 1st we spent $100,000 well think about it if we used $100,000 that $100,000 would incur interest for 12 months so 12 out of 12 April 30th we spent 150,000 on the project well this money that we spent we took out of the bank and we paid it's gonna incur interest 812 of a month it's including interest all year long but for the project it's 812 of a month November 30th we spent 300,000 so this 300,000 would incur 212 of a per month interest on December 31st we spent 100,000 and it did not include any interest for the year now when we add all the soft this is called this 250,000 scold the weighted average accumulated expenditure so this is the expenditure that we could have have avoided if we did not undertake this project on average okay that we're gonna it's gonna be subject to interest and this is what I meant by this yellow highlighted number here the weighted average and expenditure so simply put in theory we could have have avoided 250,000 dollar which is weighted throughout the year if we did not undertake this project so notice 250,000 is the weighted average accumulated expenditure for this amount we borrow 200 this project we bought a two hundred thousand dollar from the bank that was for specific borrowing so this was the specific borrowing remember I talked about earlier then what's left is 50,000 so what does what how are we gonna apply the interest rate on the 50,000 we're gonna see that in a moment okay so compute the actual and avoidable interests well first you have to select the interest rate for the portion of the weighted average expenditure that's less or equal to the amount borrowed specifically to finance the project use the rate incurred on specific borrowing so this is the 200,000 okay because 250 is the total 200,000 is covered by the by the by the specific borrowing and we paid 12 percent on this project now for the amount for the portion of the weighted average accumulated expenditure that's a greater than the debt specifically incurred for the project remember the additional money is fifty thousand more than the specific borrowing that we're gonna have to compute we're gonna multiply it by the way that average interest rate so this is gonna be multiplied by the weighted average rate of other debt other that means other than the specific borrowing which we have to type of that we have a bond and we have a notes payable let's compute let's start the computation let's compute the actual interest the actual interest was specific borrowing times 12 percent half a million times fourteen percent three hundred thousand times 30 times 10 percent equal to 30 thousand so in total the actual interest that this company will have to incur is one hundred and twenty four thousand now the weighted average interest on other debt on the general debt on other that this is the other debt low slow well that's $100,000 and interests which is seventy plus thirty plus eight hundred thousand of loan so simply simply put the average interest rate on other that other than this that other than the specific borrowing is twelve point five and the average should be in between ten and 14 and it's more towards fourteen because we have more money borrowed at fourteen percent so the average interest is twelve percent now we have to compute the avoidable interest the avoidable interests which is $200,000 they avoid the voidable money is two fifty so two hundred thousand will be subject to twelve percent in $50,000 will be subject to 12.5 so the avoidable interest is thirty thousand two hundred and fifty the actual Empress the actual interest is 120 for the avoidable interest is thirty-two what do we capitalized we capitalized the lesser of these stone so we looked at the avoidable interest which was thirty thousand to fifty we have to compute this space on the weighted average accumulated expenditure then we look at the actual interest the difference is another difference the smaller is what we this lesser of these two is what we capitalized therefore when we can when we computed the actual interest here's what we did we debited interest expense 124 can we credited cash or interest payable just do this here we debited we debited interest expense for the actual interest one hundred and twenty four thousand we credited cash slash interest payable 124 now at the end of the year we find out that we have to capitalize thirty thousand to fifty then what we do is we produce interest expense by thirty thousand to fifty and we increase the equipment therefore capital we capitalized we made an adjusting entry to capitalize the amount of interest this is basically a simple example without including any foreign currency translation without including any foreign currency foreign currency gains or losses without netting because this is basically a you US GAAP example but if there's no netting no no revenue no foreign currency this is how it works let's take a look at another example on the international level on January 1st P company borrowed 30 million euros at an annual interest rate of 8% to finance the construction of a new facility in Spain the facility is expected to cost 30 million and take two years to build so the company temporarily invested the euro borrowed until cash is needed and they earned two hundred and twenty-five thousand basically interest revenue during year one the expenditure of twenty million our and third the weighted average is twelve million so they incur twenty million that they computed the weighted average accumulated expenditure which happens to be only twelve million the company made annual interest payment on the loan and would repay the loan in full December 31st year two by converting US dollar into euros okay now the US dollar the US dollar euro exchange was 1.41 on January first year one in one point four on December 31st year one so the end of the year was one point four at the beginning of the year it was one point four one okay now how are we gonna how much are we gonna capitalizing well let's start with the interest we incurred twelve million is the weighted average accumulated expenditure times eight percent that's nine hundred and sixty euros and interest now we have to pay it and you have to convert it into US dollar we're gonna convert it at Dre on December 31st year one one point four so for US dollar that's 1 million three hundred and forty four if this was a US GAAP will sui stop that's it this is our interests this is how much we're gonna capitalize but but because we have we are using the international standard okay so we have to figure out what's our interest well income earned on temporary investment is 225 euros times one point four dollars three fifteen means the interests interests net interest cost is 1 million ten twenty nine thousand because this revenue is going to offset the expense now how much are we gonna capitalize well there's an exchange rate gain because the the weighted average accumulated expenditure would have have to cost us one point four two generally first but by December 31st I was one point four they fought from the foreign currency adjustment exchange game rate we have an exchange game rate of 240,000 why because when we borrow twelve million and we wanted to convert it in US dollar it would have been one point four - now it's only one point four to zero by the end of the year therefore we have an exchange again well what does that mean the net anthros cost if you were asked it's 1 million twenty nine after deducting the exchange rate gained the total amount borrowed to be capitalized is only 789 why because 1 million 344 - the income earned - the game here we have that we have for having we happen to have again so we capitalize 789 so notice it's different than US GAAP under the US GAAP we would only capitalize 1 million three hundred and forty four thousand I hope this session help explain the borrowing cost under IAS IAS 38 38 if you have any questions any comments about this topic please email me if you happen to visit my website for additional lectures please consider donating at is 23 not 38 and that's that that was intangibles and please visit my website I always have offers on CPA program good luck and study hall | Farhat Lectures. 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Ty7pTB4kOaU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty7pTB4kOaU | [Star Trek Adventures] Nighthawk - S02E10: Freedom Calls (Part 1) | hello everyone McCall here thank you once again for joining us on the Star Trek adventures Nighthawk where we are quick announcement is our quick mentioned that last week or last episode sadly did not record so it just take her word for it that it was awesome and included a half Draven half scorpion lady witch and invisible aliens that just wrecked every project the parties stuff right up and then the party fought back yeah man the first introduction was far smoother oh well we run with it and it is now it is stardate two three ah start eight eight three two one eight point four where the USS Nighthawk and its sister ships the USS black shield and the USS naginata have all tapped into the secure communications back to the Alpha Quadrant for a meeting with director Lance Chalmers of Starfleet intelligence who has asked you all to meet in the conference room for new orders and we're doing to jump to the conference room all the senior staff have assembled as well as commander true love the USS black shield and commander suit eye of the USS naginata director Chalmers is once again in fine form who he has just rambled on about a fishing trip he has taken to denoble áfive where he's caught a fish about this big and you can trust him on this because he's the director anyways captain crews due to the commander's rules screw up our local Admiral he is kind of there breathing down my neck extremely hot and quite frankly I'm tired of it and you're needed home anyways the remember that mission you did a while back when ya blew when you stuck into those tolian bastards well they got friends too they do happy with us lost three planets half a fleet of ships two are still trying to figure out where they went it's kind of why we want you home anyways due to logistical purposes we can't get you pulled out for another week also I'm kind of dragging my heels cuz admirals ear is well [ __ ] I don't get I died and if this is the last time I can give her a middle finger I'm going to do it you are to rendezvous outside the car sir I nebula in seven days you will meet your the quantum slipstream tugs they'll be bringing you home questions yes director exactly what planets did rule is full mission briefings will take place once-over properly secure channels don't trust this long-distance stuff too many potential ears in the way he sized the brain in those think Cathy have been doing some weapons testing now to be fair they were unoccupied mining worlds anyways but they still made a point and their stead for the fleet as for the fleet of ships not entirely sure they're poking they they were poking their nose around the run the Tholian borders and mumbled something about starve yeah temporal space time subspace interference blah blah blah science babble and then they all just went away no record of them don't know where they went hopefully one day we'll find them anyways too many things going on intelligence warfare is getting weird Romulans with the Taos Romulans and their towel she are boys and girls might actually be helping us for a change it's kind of weird either way we need you home so I assume that this reassignment is for an indefinite period of time correct I'm not gonna lie I'm not gonna lie the whole SLUSA this whole area of space is tinderbox could go flame any minute it hasn't helped with the Borg being resettled in there that stupid transform hub thing what the hell was crawford thinking anyways don't care either way you've also spent only you spent about eight months out there you've only got me one or two cool things that could even help against the Borg far as I'm concerned what you're what you're doing out there can be free done with a standard star flute ah standard Starfleet Cruiser your specialized ship skills and your specialized crew could be a far better use to the federation back home at least for now so you would you really like to leave the rest of the expanse with the crew of deep space 15 at least with the foreseeable future not my first choice but Admirals ear has Admiral Riker on her side and you know how much of a Starfleet baby he is quite frankly I'm outnumbered politically and rank wise so which Admiral Riker there Riker William yes him you know the one that's actually married and has kids I lose track it wouldn't be the first time he's pulled the twin double switch on us so until the keyless D cut comes the log and takes us home what exactly is my mission with the expanse close up all operations ensure that all assets are retrieved all black sites are properly disposed of and once that's done now just meet us at the rendezvous well I'm your student directing not my first show I split I'll play this game for as long as we need to yep and on that Chalmers just disconnects questions vomits I'm a little concerned on the aspect that he said it was temporal and just disappeared grandfather paradox pretty sure he just disconnected but we'll go ahead and aside your fears anyway because stranger things have been known to happen same girl to bridge are we reading any temporal energies sir this is I have a new surname so long as I've forgotten her name operations here captain we are detecting no abnormal we are detecting no abnormal sensor readings here there you go mr. blue science man space-time is fine for the time being so were to wrap up operations and close down basically remove anything that we have in place before we meet with the tugs that seems correct commander Lieutenant van after I experienced with injure even bite - is there anything else left on that station that you feel like is worth investigating potentially the creatures and how they got there like where they came from or if they're truly from that specific area and then maybe I don't know if contact would be wise based on our experience with learn more about well I knew we were trying to send them back to director trauma worship do we have you know where they are in that transit process so GM time log here it's been about a week since your encounter with the Draven part - and the creature known as the Akashi I haven't heard of what you'd like to do with it other than keep one in your brig and keep three on the station with these slightly psychotic bioengineer people so you know I know what like - anybody was saying some of that would definitely be of interest to tremors and we could get him some more useful goodies only a couple goodies abuse that we've given him he doesn't necessarily that man doesn't appreciate any of my gifts I gotta work hard for these gifts and then he just wants to dismiss me like that so upsetting in any case I do feel like if we wanted to curry favor at the next Christmas party then we should probably do it with these individuals to the station say oh you know sooner rather than later but in any case I'm more concerned about the rest of the things that we left within the expense but I suppose at that point it's now become a property the crew of Cerberus station we have seven days so please the rest of your department heads make us make a list of things that you feel like are outstanding issues I will try to act on them accordingly commander jewel commander ty if there's anything else that the naginata or black shield which is to discuss or offload to the Nighthawk that's the time to do so commander ty stands up and does a quick half bow aye sir I Shh I shall send over our all of our information logs we have some we had some remote sensors near the now loose space we're going to recover them instead commander jewel just sort of awkwardly sits in a chair that obviously was not designed for his species kind of looks like a horn to see obese man trying to sit and sit in a theater chair he just sort of taps his clawed fingers together the black shield has been laying low ever since it was on its presence was uncovered during the remnant alliance Fiasco still we have we have been going over the data from our endeavors into that space we shall transfer them to you most appreciative I'm sure we can go ahead and send them to the by now for comparative analysis to see if there's anything else we could gleam about this before we sent home understood well to the best my ability that seems like that's all that's we need to take care of today dismissed okay master and we are going to have and in indeterminate amount of time later going to cut to the bar where the shred you are enjoying a light pint of whatever it is you drink with let's say Zubat and Cassatt all of a sudden mr. Helsing walks in and I look over at voltar kind of raised my hand and at the core of my eye I see four Shan and I walk from the door that I came in and I walk back to the other door they go got a call up on the bridge sorry later I kind of hold it Helly housing come here come dressed for a drink were commiserating over but the loss of my my favorite machine last mission I can't move the weight him at the audacity to lose it after the generous gift I gave them of my brilliance come on come on let's have a dream get it we got it we got it mourn the loss of this fabulous love dancing a single machine you know the bridge the bridge called you know I'll take a rain check but you know you know the captain gets oh yeah yeah doctor that guy huh all right yeah next time next time we'll have to catch up hey but we got your guy back that's what matters oh yeah yeah all right I can I think I hit the door heart aw crap wrong door up okay yep lieutenant Cassatt sips his juice as he looks over that was a highly irregular social encounter commander uh is everything okay I don't know that that seems Richie right that's uh that's a bit different than housings normal behavior I know but the Bizon night i always forget what species he is oh that sounds like someone's being called over the the ca1 blonde bin site you weren't been Zeit thank you the been site just inhales part the gas from its respirator you know it is extremely odd how humans behave usually being straightforward with one of their is a far better option no idea how they've managed to survive in this Federation you're telling me that I don't know how they they managed to even get out of bed and in the morning correctly with that vote there there popper antennas on top to our heads to make help them keep balance just saw just says truly they are an inferior species well I mean if you're in all the ways that mattered but at least our culture is interesting why yes please again elaborate on a but is a polka oh okay all right after this I'll take a cutie pie menu a poke machine and now our introduce you to all the interesting facets associated with it actually should make a night of it I'll invite the entire entire crew that seems most interesting Lieutenant Commander and on that note we are going to cut to the next scene does anyone have anything they wish to do at the moment I'll let somebody else chime in but I do have one thing okay I'd actually like to go to the bridge okay we will be on the bridge all right Lieutenant Commander Helsing you run straight to the bridge after your encounter and you're beaten and the captain is only a few minutes behind you howdy captain howdy howdy in any case ensign rani can you tie us in to that early warning system that we happen to leave the draven hmm yes sir I am activating all the corrective ating protocols Sigma Beta now just to be sure Oh my specific request to make sure that it can't necessarily this early warning system only works on non Federation signatures is still intact she smiles and winks yes sir they either have not detected it or don't care I'm okay with either and anything interesting going on over there Toki's just sort of stands up from its chair is it I am under this garden is under the impression that the larger garden is returning to its home hour is the Tokelau coming with you if you wish by all means I don't want to deprive the garden of its well but it is an exhibition of this ship the Nighthawk is indeed returning to the Alpha Quadrant in seven days we could use your assistance this garden is intrigued our mission our this gardens purpose is to explore these explored the newcomers into this territory you have come you have explored our territory it is fair that we explore yours then I guarantee you you'll find no greener Gardens then or beside zero and of course then the things that you probably see back in the Alpha Quadrant oh boy the I burritos in some of these stem bases to die for and if we actually get the chance maybe we could actually hit point if fall every once in a while so you can see something interesting why would I why would we wish to die to see an arboretum that's a [ __ ] oh this garden does not understand figures of speech and without that he turns around and goes back to his computering so I'd like to since I still have eyes at least a little bit on the Ovid Raven I just want to make sure that we could keep this this sensor image active and if necessary and if we leave and we're pulling everything si out of the expanse then I want to prepare to send it over to a command area over there Cerberus station to Italian if she ever needs if he ever needs additional as an assistance Rani nods silently and begins ah I shall begin lysing with the by NARS to package out the protocols for discrete transmission well that's the only thing that I wanted to get accomplished on the bridge okay one more thing I'd like to do later who have accomplished on a sickbay but I could win fair enough Hellsing you had something you wanted to do yeah and I can do it up my station here um pulling in any information that's been coming in since our last visit with avatars okay just trying to collate anything that service has had run-ins with them anything more that's going on since we were there and no anything just from general things that have gone on in local area specifically looking for things on the hidden plant hidden thing on the moon and things missing people that type thing understood so the most interesting events that had the vut arson volved was about just before Christmas time the Draven liberated several children from one of the planets that was sketch that were scheduled to be taken back to the main plant their homeworld of VAX to begin an education process this led to a bit of a tense standoff which then led to new years or that led to a Christmas dinner between this captain Crawford Adric charm all and belfie avoid runner the children were then left in the care of Starbase Cerberus who then transferred them back to the Federation of Planets for asylum go ahead um for a later search tagging those kids would it be possible but kind of follow them through the system I yep with a decent since it would be difficult to do from this remote station but once you get into the Alpha Quadrant proper should be fairly straightforward the next add the next adventure occurred about a month back when the inter species Lissa expands peace conference happened onboard the station everything was nice and peaceful and friendly until Borg drones formerly of Unimatrix zero showed up requesting defense at Asylum captain Crawford accepted this and then defended them in a standoff against the remnant Alliance and this did not bode well for neither the Kassala or the avatars the Vitara have captain Crawford then spent three or four days with the Vitara attempting to smooth diplomatic relations again but things ended coldly until Rhys up until up from that point until now the Vitara have decided not to further engage with the with Starfleet and have pulled their ambassador from these Starbase deep space 15 [Music] you think you think they'll do me for now okay so where we're going next is I was going to say could I potentially get a scene with the Sheep oh that sounds a good thing where would you like said scene to be probably the lads into the labs it goes okay data lab is here okay it's your scene you can flavor it how you'd like vid sir I was wondering exactly how I could have taken that mission better I feel like I didn't get enough samples or enough information on the the creatures well you still have the one here don't we no one said that you've done anything else to it so it is still in the brig it seems to be it seems to like or it seems to eat anything meat or insect I'll baste I don't know if it's an experience but it's like I guess just running through the the records that I have it's like what what I need to look for I think I'm missing some or I feel like I'm missing something well let's see your scans say do you have did you have scans from them yeah so you've had a week to scan the one anyways in the bridge in the brig it is a it shares a lot in common with the chameleon species here on earth but it may change a farm or what's the phrase I'm looking precise and intelligent control over its camouflage systems on top of a specific or a specific series of organs used to create and manipulate its bioelectric field allowing itself to not only become invisible to the naked eye but also to most scanners based on this information I feel like I could have at least figured out a way faster to prevent even the Draven from getting hurt to make that situation on the station not as dire I suppose as it was I feel like I could have done something more you shouldn't blame yourself what now I think that both us and Chalmers would be more interested in is the fact if we could possibly reproduce this camouflaging system like I said I think you did very well on the mission and you brought your team back which is the most important part but one of them was injured well they still come back alive but honestly from here out I think that you should just investigate with what you have and like I said you brought your team back it's what's mostly important of the whole thing it's not what you should have done or what you could have done you have to move on and I feel that you did a great job and I think as you're advancing very well as my protege and I think that you have a great career in Starfleet and you shouldn't let this weigh on you too much it's one of your very first weighty emissions and I like I said you're doing well she nods her head sheepishly like no is kind of praise thank you sir that really means like I was I was really scared wine what what I forgot who it was I got injured I was really scared once I got injured I thought it was like I had to do something it was it was a scary moment yes looking forward but I would like to see why we're wrapping things up here I would like you to try to get as much information from because we're probably going to have to drop off our prisoner at server station and also have you had a chance to take a look at the insectoid creatures I have not I will go ahead and start doing the research on them as well awesome Thank You lieutenant and good job I should also probably send a note to the Shran about leaving his mechanism onboard the state or not he can always make another one better than the last right right all right okay anybody have anything else I'm not hearing anything so we'll cut to the captain's ready room where the captain is filling out his captain is reviewing everything from all operations to make sure that there isn't anything that he has missed all of a sudden there's a chime at the door my paperwork come in Yeomans yeoman are a security clearance violation in walks commander Helsing a3 got a minute or up to maybe three you could have four five six whatever gets me away from these birds has I throw them across the desk well I don't want to add more to the already growing pile on your plate but back when we visited the Vitara planet hidden Enclave on the moon I wasn't evil I've been doing some digging through trying to collate different records and everything that I've have access to but I know there's some that I don't have access to and has anything more been done with that with like the black shield and Captain Chi and inertia there sure yeah the captain knows that know for the most part aside from scoping out military production there's the black shield and Nagas not have stayed away from the guitars whole world well now I've kept the black shelter the nagging that and a discreet distance for the moss but I haven't necessarily had them add any deeper incursions into photography since our mission why you ask and I was just hoping that one of them might have been kind of keeping an eye that there there's something going on with that planet in that culture extremely dark and I think if we especially leaving now knowing what we know it's you we could be closing the door and leaving Cerebus with no know an unknown aggressor right there coming out to get him especially after what happened at the air quotes peace conference commander are you telling me that Starfleet has reason to be concerned a bunch of about a bunch of strange transhumanist Lezyne house come on now be reasonable remember this was the leading military culture empire in this region back before the Borg were around they had you know they had that they put the mind of one of them into a mine sent to self-destruct years after the conflict and almost took the ship down I still remember forget pieces of it I know a serious about this because you don't like picking up on my way let's get to brass tacks what do you want to do about it I pitched an idea back before operational valoran because it's a forest hidden forest on the moon will foreign did you read Tolkien I find that prose annoying incredibly long-winded but I recognize his work today at least I can get I can recommend a pretty good movie series of movies that was halfway decent I know thank you I'm sure they've really been converted in various degree the estate of dopey even now is they have a death grip and all the on the intellectual property coming off of that so it's ridiculous there's a new world economy that this actually this problem would have been solved by now you'd think but back to the Vitara the couple of the ideas I pitched forward there were originally were just to keep an eye on what was going on with the ultimate goal of if me be getting those people out of there and resettling them but now that they've broken off all contact with the federation stormed out in a huff from what I've been able to gather from Cerebus that funding to any hails or anything coming in from the Federation there's and we don't even know what's going on up my cards on the table my fear is there some agency behind this reap what where they call it that the name of that a company that the region company eternity research group turn any research company it just came to me out of nowhere the they have the means to reprogram people I want to see if we can get get word back on that one guy we had on board the ship compare his brain scans now with the brain scans we had with him when it was on our ship see if anything has been changed in his programming that that one leader that I talked to on the on the exile colony he made it seem that there was reprogramming going on and why would people reprogram but to keep them loyal to something to the government to an individual to a company so they don't ask questions this is still a capitalist society they have there you know we have to leave for a four-quadrant in seven days if we hope if we go to the potato mouth right now at maximum life and launch a prologue to mission we might not necessarily be back in time or we stir up a whole other issue that sets the Federation on a two-front potential two-front war between here in the Breen well let me tell you right now command a that's fine I'm can saying why are they on a two-front war regardless of whether if the side just decided didn't want to attack us yet that then that's their business well what one things I had in my original proposal was it kind of gives us the Federation some deniability we use a cutout to hire people mercenaries that we still have some control over to kind of keep an eye on it and then on our word potentially pull them out I had actually thought that's one of the things the the black shield captain guys ship we're doing well I haven't necessarily sent them in any deep cover mission so that's a negative also if he want possible deniability this seems honestly like a job better suited for the dark royal even though that's probably more contentious they're not in that rule but I mean in terms of after you get the information that you need and if the knight heart was supposed to leave then if there was something that we needed to get taken care of that's when you hire intermediaries commander true okay when I hear anybody else to 4sp enough to do espionage for us and such a delicate capacity what if since the Federation's not allowed to have cloaking technology or develop cloaking technology I'm big on air quotes today for some reason I apologize we do have friends that do have close Klingon intelligence and Klingons are more inconspicuous click on intelligence this could be something they'd be interested in and we could get them to at least keep an eye on it with a cloak ship just sitting out there gathering the information seeing what's going on signals collection something and then we gather that information I'm sure they have cloaked satellites they could go in dump them off then we come back in and pick them up download the information repeated you would figure out what's going on there because I don't know my gut is telling me this is something big none of this matters we don't necessarily could tell them exactly what they're looking for and the longer that they're there if they don't have a suspect a give a greater chance of there to be discovered I share your concern commander if you're really that interested in going back to the planet I'll think about it and I'll come back to you but if you want me to consider it and I got a scoop up half the pads on my desk take care of some of this vector security and I grab one two three nine keep looking first like you have 10 to give me a signal when I've taken enough three looking down why why is this the only pool a bit of information on a single pad instead of one pad holding multiple oh that's not that that's me just the way I like to disseminate my information okay not a problem sir so I'll take the stack I think you're good now now that you have time for you on your calendar do you need me to I'm gone sir just because I find it amusing will cut right back to the bridge and I want to watch him go by with all the stack of pads yep Basheer you saw commander Helsing enter with zero pads and coming out with an armful of pads died by and by antenna perk up and I kind of smirk to myself without shaking you turn all the way back to the station I need to make like an agility check that it'll drop any yeah I mean that considering you have no momentum that might be fun so it's a difficulty one fitness plus Khan if you have balance or acrobatics either of those would be good focuses ups conduits or martial arts martial art yeah you're not beating the pads up you just try to carry them well there's a to momentum for you judging guys okay we so we are going to check-in with our prisoner and you lieutenant VAD it is your daily attempt to get information from the creature you wander up to the Brig and once sadly as this has become routine for you it is empty or at least it appears that way kind of try to see if I could like a different kind of scan that I guess she's probably been testing out okay any particular frequency band modulation method some sort of science babble I do have the there's the technobabble macro that you could try you don't have to use all of them in a sentence there was there came a system so did you say before that it was they were manipulating like a field of electricity around them correct okay so see if we don't have any conductors in there we're do I mean you've had a week to set up a break so yes okay so I guess see if we can track some of that electricity okay insight are no roaming control plus science please our control medicine either or xenobiology would be good cloaking technology interspecies bioelectric generation if you happen to have that it's pretty nice field okay all right that is the one it was difficulty one and you got one so it's a very small blip and it's a bit infrequent but at least it is an indication you do see something sort of pacing back and forth awfully silently in the near the rear of the chamber now if you you could just tell me which frequency or like how much are a little bit more about your suits and like I can see if we can find some more delicious foods for you not me it brings it quote-unquote D shrouds itself takes too long loping steps to bring itself up to the forcefield sort of opens its mouth and hisses at you kind of threatening it has a tiny frills at the back of its neck that sort of supply open as it does so they probably are some sort of a hereditary dead end organ that is slowly going away by your estimation the security guard ensures that the force field is once again at its maximum and but still has his phaser drawn just in case let us out let me out it is unconscionable to be held in such a location federally the barest of grubs rather be hunting on an open field or an open ship let us out little one it would be a game not the kind of game I would like to play perhaps we can set it up in here we can set up a simulation of sorts and projects a scenery for you it pauses and its tail whips around its legs sort of unconsciously wrapping itself around one of its legs loosely before going limp again you speak of holographic technology hmm yes this cell is very dry any sort of pictures would go nicely here would it help with your meals as well if we disguise I guess so to speak or do you prefer live creature life is always best me just meat is fresh blood still pumping and cringe slightly have a sound also willing to also willing to make a deal surely there must be some place that you or your captain wanted to go that is unseen we're not just predators or hunters we could be mercenaries it flicks a forked-tongue trying to catch an invisible fly that's on its face unfortunately I cannot make a decision on that but I can bring that offer to the captain's it it leaps back a pace or two yes any place is better than this cage Mercer II work is at least interesting can also eat the spray assuming that is what you like of course the Draven were quite amicable to such things before they decided to go soft we're your kind close to the Drava closed now it it shakes its head as it slings back into a corner nope how to use for one another occasionally but no it was a broken alliance thought they were far more merciless than they turned out to be but no they just became soft as soon as that someone with a bigger gun showed up so they fell out of favor with you yep trevor meet don't taste all that good anyways a couple of hits we kattiline so you prefer your meal your prey to be of a I guess a species that is chubby yes chubby okay yes the Draven are very lean creatures not much in the way of luck they have not Lux Lux that they have not bathed in luxury they have not gotten slow or fat even some fat is good but the couple that I have sampled here were quite delicious yes I will see if we can get you plumper meals and is there any particular setting you would like your can your cell to be where would you like to be located what is comfortable home planet is very dense forests nice and warm far far too cold here yes up the temperature and humidity must be warmer that's not a way for you to try to break out of this all is it if I break out you would find me you have spent the last week trying to find me you might be getting good at it now maybe it's all about survival now if I can survive being in temporary service to you bears it grins ear to ear bearing a set of shark-like teeth before climbing its mouth shut and stalking back then sitting down on a bench now you mentioned holographic technology as if it was familiar to you learn many things with the Draven yes now your cloaking mechanisms do they act in the same way or is it completely different no it is completely biological we can control our fields very precisely sharp eyes he taps the side of his head notice all details can mimic very well he let us out see how long you last not exactly the kind of game I want to play maybe next time okay maybe next time make sure we up the temperature and change the scenery for do you happen to have a name after she works fine for now so let's change the scenery for our Akashi and to something with more tropical and I need to speak set which to break it to Raisa we are post Borg that's the question and she's making a note to knock out the Akashi to potentially look into look and see if there and get some samples to see if there's anything neurological and that affects their camouflaging all right yeah if they if they won't give it willingly chloroform there's the memory erasure suona are behind the time when we teleport them probably also will need to speak with a captain about their offer to be mercenaries in case you might be interested hope was a possibility would you like to do that now or later oh sure now okay go back to the captain's off captain's ready room so captain despite the fact that Allison took a decent amount of your pads they're silly frustrating amount left once again there is a chime at your door I can do this I could do this but not today enter and walks the lieutenant lieutenant ved what can I do for you this fine day I just got back from conversing with our Akashi specimen and mmm-hmm and trying to find not necessarily a happy medium but a way to at least coerce them to find out more information on their biological quirks like their camouflage but they did bring up something interesting that they're willing to make a deal and be mercenaries I did say hey that I'll go ahead and let you know this security alarm goes off on health and deaths the captain never laughs why that's entertaining if you just needed a break if you know come in commander Brashear is just hounding you then I mean data have to come to me with if you just said you just needed a break you're free to thank that anytime you've got a cause for medical leave well I might need to see Cox for some not tranquilizers maybe I need to find a way to put this Akashi on just sleep for well that's that's a they come up with that job yourself that's a good one no sir I was actually being serious about knocking it out for a little bit okay yeah but I mean the one about him being a Maxum a yeah that's that's that's creative that was serious they did make that offer I'm not I'm not laughing anyway then give them any idea that you would say yes to it but keeping you updated on and the Coens ons of our prisoners and specimens boy man lieutenant I know you're young and eager but that's uh come on and I have a night out cause you're stupid actually yeah you want my extra dimension my extra dimensional killer friend and he's gonna go suddenly turn around and work for us hahahaha masonary oh boy ah lieutenant lieutenant thank you for bringing this to my attention you're very welcome I'll come back to finding out as much as I can about that huh wait stop I apologize if it said it a little bit more harsh than usual I just have all this paperwork and I needed a distraction which I'm sure you did until I found out that you didn't this may be a comfortable question but how how recent are yours personal memories or the personal fallout of the occupation of Bajor how old's your character I want to say she's pretty young so yeah non-existent upper 30s at least no more nut well upper 20s no more than 30 well only stories from everything that I necessarily read about this history I mean for 60 years grew some time and I I don't mean to self insert into your culture at all believe me but that if I Nissen if I needed our friend to cooperate in a non Starfleet matter I can't believe I'm actually considering this but this was a joke but this proposal started to make more and more sense if we needed our friend to cooperate I'm possibly in that starfleet manner there is no way that I can let him go without some sort of leash and the only reason why I bring up the parallels to the occupation is because I would imagine at least from the outside looking in for a comparative experience of how the Cardassians at least initially attempted to subjugate people under the rule now I'm not saying obviously that's what we're gonna do with our specific individual that's rude and careless and inhumane but at the same time considering the kind of clandestine operations and work we do even though you are a science officer I was wondering if there's any personal anecdotes you could have at least I'm being driven and the rules by fear is there anything specific that you're asking me - are you asking whether or not I would be treating this creature with mainly no lieutenant but I'd like you to consider it a possibility if such things were to come to pass but we know I have another seven days within the expanse and considering that if you're proposed if this man's proposal is serious and considering you are the person that he would spend the most amount of time with at least so far even though we will have security teams I do you think it at least would be necessary for you to at least get acquainted without to defend yourself in more manner it's not just aphasic yet if and if you want to put into greater use then maybe a little bit of comparative history isn't a bad thing I will consider your proposal captain and I suppose I guess I'll go go forward and at least with the study of the potential neurological I guess ability to camouflage it because apparently it's by biological but trying to figure out if it's since its innate but yes I will definitely consider being more forceful if it were more discretes in the force I'm not here to make you uncomfortable lieutenant nor am I here to make you do things you don't want to do but at the same time as far as I'm concerned the individual inside a brig is incredibly dangerous and if he necessarily wants to start making deals with you I think he need to just be prepared in more ways than one to possibly go out something that potentially just goes beyond self-defense yes sir I'll do my best and we'll definitely consider it excellent work on the away mission by the way thank you I was actually really worried about the performance but I'm glad it turned out well now you did fine any other I guess tips or yeah I'll trust half of what you say none of what you hear especially considering the Sandman as a chameleon yes sir dismissed all right and on that note miss van leaves the bridge or leaves the ready room onto the bridge where mr. Helsing is slightly perturbed that she is not carrying any pads I look over to the security station and kind of not over to her smile I can't give her more work if I just brought up the occupation I mean it's terrible captain I'm gonna take my job yet when the captain says I'm not here to make you do anything you don't want to do the unsaid stuff is because you're not a commander yet all right captain what is just to put the captain on the spot since it doesn't sound like there's any other little scenes people want to do the Shran anything you wish to do ah nothing at this moment okay captain what is your decision on the Matar situation oh boy before we actually do that there is one scene that I do want to run I wanna run away the shredder I'd like that to be in sickbay okay captain antha shraddh go to sick bay I think I've read that book I'm the captain of this ship in sick bay yeah lieutenant Moran has just recovered and has been discharged back to his quarters just that he'd like to suddenly be seeing chief medical officer coax dr. Cox is sitting in his office finishing up the post treatment reports as are you guys entering together yes hey fair enough he stands up well it just got a lot more I'm important in here all of a sudden sirs what can I do for you now you're always important you know in any case we need to borrow your office with you in it this time well that's a change of pace nervously laughs as where'd the Kishin come from sorry okay what can I do for you now we have a Lieutenant Commander and it captain in my office and unlike some doctors in Starfleet service I do not have a secret still to offer you anything from so it's either medicinal grade water or nothing sorry so you're still so secret that you're not even gonna tell us clever clever man he smiles one year to another that infectious Betazoid smile Oh captain I couldn't hide anything from you in any case there has been a number of things that I've been brought to my attention recently that if I decide to go ahead and execute I'm going to need some preparations done and that's why the two of you come in hope this goes better than the last time you asked me to make that well hopefully it does to at least we're not gonna put this together yeah we're not gonna add him to jerry-rig something and hoax and hope whether or not it's gonna work but in this case it's it's going to probably necessarily won't be ready at the time of mission execution but it's something that I actually like to get standing working forward to doctor based on this games that we've taken of the Mattias and the Tokelau and other similes and other similar species back in within the Alpha Quadrant how confident would you be able to if you needed to manufacture a biome neural implant that actually has the ability to send it destroy memory engrams mr. jar the doctors face gets very serious for a second before we go any further captain is this a willing will this be attached to willing participants or not of course who good for a second I thought I was going to have to bring up the whole ethics in or the Hippocratic oath and the medicinal you know do no harm that sort of stuff but I'm glad that I don't have to of course yeah that sounds like fun of course tying it into having remote controls dealing with the wireless communication that's he looks at off the Shran that's very tricky to do on a nano on a nano molecular scale well you know me I I live for the exciting challenges well in that case I'm gonna go ahead and tap on Cox's desk to bring up some of my private files the ones that I shared with commander house close to the end of our our last adventure so this is exactly what I'd like it done I'd still like a bio implant whether or not it's implanted within of the brain or someplace else on other species considering at least that I am that we have some trills or at least some half trills myself included before the ship potentially this implant could go in place of where assembly would be so they don't necessarily need to be joined but they still potentially have the benefits of at least memory engrams it wouldn't obviously be has robust has a symbionts but it would be helpful in deep cover or undercover missions or anything else at the soil and I'd like to see if we can get this done as soon as possible with adequate testing of course to make sure it's safe we've really for the expanse or we leave the expanse for the Alpha Quadrant in seven days how's thinking you have a brighter side room you've sort of just even calexis thoughts have gone sort of flat line as he just realizes the audacity of what you're asking captain you're asking me to invent an organ that can be controlled through technological means that can literally tie into a species unique neurological makeup that sort of stuff could take months on a federation lab with proper science facilities and I'm I don't know if I'm equipped I love the challenge I I don't think I can give you anything into until we can get back to some proper facilities but you're not on a regular Federation facility or Stipe you're on a Starfleet intelligence vessel so in that case I'd like to actually activate the rest of the intelligence database available pertaining to the material on the subject to both the Shran and co-op and if this assists you and speeding up your research then intelligence medical database is at your disposal ooh please now this project carries with it a level six the security class speaking it only to each other and commander Howells anger he lets up coax lets out a long slow breath I'll do what I can captain but there's a fine line between what you're asking me to do and what some of the people what some of the scientists might call genetic modification last I checked was still technically illegal but I'll put sup a hand but I'll see what I can do and leave it to the those in charge to see leave it to those in charge to determine what is and isn't illegal from said speculative engineering doctor I hope at least in this specific case that if this is a success and it wouldn't necessarily have to be used in any dire situation but if we're going where I think we may need to go pretty soon and if it's going to end the way that I think it's going to add I rather be ready the commander said you have all the necessary information not only in the stifling intelligence database but the information that scans the cheek aid from cultures such as the VAT ice you have it look to them for inspiration and work with work with like I said dr. coax to see what you guys could come up with any case if you do need a willing participant and if you yeah you've managed to have some sort of a breakthrough by all means call me down here because I'm telling you I'm willing that's it dismissed oh okay look sounds like we got some long nights ahead of us but I'm sure we fun and hey ones last time you ever heard that the captain himself scible it was going to be a willing participant in any anything experimental the last time I had a captain willingly walking to a sick bay for physical has been 10 years and counting at this point I'll take any of any excuse for the captain ferry captain to walk in as they immediately trigger the standard physical bio scanners he smiles and winks I just now I don't have to see the Shran for physical for another five months oh there you go always looking to bright side he laughs in this industry that looking on the bright side is kind of what we have to do here you there right I guess we better start looking at this yes what would you propose we call this the medulla or the up the death the medulla modulation the medulla modulator it's a cerebellum 2.0 mm this one's okay but it doesn't have that pizzazz to it uh we can come back to that you miss enough your name and that we cut the scene anybody have anything else nope okay captain your decision well I'll think sweet dad about it so that's a good enough reason for me to go explore but regardless of which I'd like to I'd like to a offload if there's any other necessary cargo to the naginata how the black shells okay does that include your prisoner now it does not the prisoner says but anything else if there's anything else that's within the cargo or something else then we'll go ahead and take care of that and they'll continue their there continue their assignments of landing things down and whatever random department heads gave me a random list of things to do or things that they'd like to do if they wanted to go meet up with the draven one more time uh well task one of the other ships to do it ahead in set course to the mitai stores vittatus miss and engage black eyelid whoever stumping please meet yourself before thumping thank you okay so the journey to avert our space would take about a day at maximum warp before reaching their borders and then from there it would take another day operating at black alert levels of stealth to get to the planet of VAX and then so from there we go to the Vaxholm world or the Vitara planet home world of VAX which is not there it is here still as militaristic as ever the USS Nighthawk enters at the extreme range of the system thankfully it doesn't seem that there's been much in the way of additional military or defensive systems put in place since last time you were here so at least that's a good thing soon have that interesting don't actually ever write up for the system that's odd I thought I'd write up now well too late now so there are several cysts are several planets in the system of VAX the capital city or the the main planet of is the third and it is a Class L the moon is named I believe it is Ilse Ilham it is Ilse half of it is yeah unlike the planet below Ilse is a Class M moon half of it is continent and the other half is ocean and you know from experience that part of that ocean is actually a cover-up because it is a covered landmass so I like to go ahead and take some discrete scans up this melon to see if there's anything that's changed okay at least in terms of like the settlers that were anything because we're able to pop through their holographic shielding disguise of before some difficulty it's just a matter now of how how silently you do this ah so this is going to be a sensors plus science orbs art can insight plus science test difficulty of three and the ship can assist with sensors plus science sensor operations security measures that sort of stuff would be good focuses obey oh this is all yours well there's two successes and an additional success so that is what you need you are your sensors cut through the sensor net as if it was a hot knife through butter having not having to worry about them changing their security measures at all has made your life a lot easier you do see or you do see a single landmass a fairly decent-sized island that is mostly it is mostly structures no trees on it at all a single power general power source and approximately 1,000 life signs I believe that this is a few more life signs then you had that that you encountered last time I believe there was only about 500 so the number has actually increased lieutenant Howard can you compare there any health signatures to what we have is a standard for the tars see if if they're malnourished anything like that yes so that could be the science officers free question if you'd like sure so their vitals so in comparison to a quote unquote standard template avatars they are either on the much older side or the much younger side very few would class would be middle-aged and those that you are able to scan are of what's the phrase lesser health less lesser quality and health let's say and and because I haven't rolled one yet we are going to roll let's see how the ship is doing under black alert which I believe is a where's the ship there's the ship so it's it's active camouflage systems would be a ctrl+ engineering task and assisted by the ship plus security tasks my station it was control and control engine security control engineering Oh engineering math security yeah hey friend you want to run this test sure oh sorry it's it am I haven't been there oh you're still working with the pink clogs it's been a day or so so I'm assuming you're at least prepared to enter this area okay okay sure I can do that what's the difficulty this is actually going to be an opposed test actually no it's not it is a difficulty of - I'll go so a momentum I understand okay in the ship was a ship is structure plus security that's where I heard the security yeah and that is three successes so one momentum from that okay okay and now I'm going to just lolling some dice on my side please pay no attention cool you are at black alert and you have made it to the far side of Ilsa ALM I should I have its name like right in front of me and I always pronounce it unless because it is ill so what GM not GM dot exe has crashed one second rebooting okay the moon of Ilsa not the moon of Ilham the moon of Ilsa you pull into a far orbit that is away from most of the ships and there's still a couple they are called the bruh javi yeah they are called the spar hem class cruisers they're the ones that are scale for so slightly scale five I have the wrong sheet pulled up not my day is GM they are scared they are scale five and AH you know on the you know the guitars build their ships tough but fragile so you could probably take one in a fight if need be hopefully it doesn't come to that what do you wish to do now well here commander yeah yeah so if there's anything particularly paranoid that you'd like to check out now's the time five days for man well he said Judaism fest since we got here mmm five days remaining hello sir signals intelligence we might be able to [Music] tap into the comlinks databases maybe even grab a brain scan of that one but ours that pretended to be a missile when he whistled they want to say if he's still available or alive or still alive if he the big thing is is to compare a new brain scan with the one that we had to see if they tweaked any coding a long way because the leader of the Enclave was convinced things that happened to his kids when they were taking and so why are people doing that well this sounds like the beginnings of a normal a mission and I don't really want to feel that caught the same way we potentially did last time so whoever you choose make sure they get cosmetic surgery of this time around since we have many ideas of what these individuals look like oh then that Hawk will continue to monetary planetary communications or will decrypt whatever we can to see if we can assist you and let's chop you it's not much to say they go to the capital city this time or at least Jackie at least closer to the outskirts and see if you could just gather cultural observational data from there so you can see where this person may or may not be we might be able to just to gather some cultural data for singles intelligence it's here without haven't even send anybody down it's a possibility and that's just totally passive if Annie too could be a little bit more aggressive with certain hacks and I think we have some computer experts what they get at that in any case though we go ahead and assign your additional team so I'll go from here I'm gonna go check in on our prisoner into the Brig Roger Anam one thing call I like to do is just kind of while we're here do scans of you know the open net ain't political chatter you know their version of talk radio Fox News CNN whatever and how they're talking about Starfleet that type thing okay uh so I will run that let's see so I will run that as a electronic warfare style which let me double check what the roles are for that meanwhile the captain wants to go and see the prisoner so what let's see what the cap yeah let's see what the captain does with the prisoner so captain you come down to the brig the first thing you notice is that these security officers are wearing the Starfleet standard tank top uniform and that the temperature is roughly 40 degrees Celsius which is I believe about a hundred and ten Fahrenheit and the humidity is about 80% are the environmental controls busted on this level sir no sir they had asked us to set the set the temperature control to so that the prisoner that the akka she would be more comfortable sir and we can change the environmental systems within the cell itself because well sir and he shrugs I was not aware that our systems were that that our that our systems were that isolated sir segregated that's the word I'm looking for sorry sir it's I'm still quite new at this particular post I was in the armory before that's understandable and it is a weird ship have you been to deck 16 yet that's I tap on the comm panel and just the environmental control never mind sir that's right in any case be on guard I'm gonna go tap the voice field to see if I can get our a keshite to awaken don't whatever game he's playing right now it was curled up in the corner it raised its head ever so slightly opens an eye recognizes the command red unfolds itself and slowly approaches you similar to how a raptor might slowly approach ape an newly dead animal captain it slithers well if we're gonna go talk to each other they so cordially I'm going to need an end Drake's our yeah well nice to meet you Drake fire I'm captain Alexis Ingram of the starship she currently on my science officer told me that you had a what was it a proposition for me I don't think that was the exact words I'm sorry I think she had the words that she used was Mercier yes surely you have business that is best not dealt with by your own hands it once again grins ear to ear displaying a row of sharp life teeth could act as she could be helpful yes now why should I negotiate somebody into my employ that attempted to kill micro not kill your crew Rick we're left quite alive more of a sampling so many different species wanted to try many of them sadly your science is far more sophisticated than anticipated I will be more amenable to any further discussions if you volunteer some additional information for right I've already volunteered such a lot of information about my species to your morsel of a science officer oh not about your species I'm sure if you're so interested in sampling the delights of the expanse that you should know something about the Mattias it Bob's its head up and down not an agreement more like it's kind of silently laughing we have we have engaged them at enhance from time to time they prove to be worthy prey but their bodies are not as edible they're disposable and treat them as such like empty calories would you know particularly where some of those empty where some of those empty calories may go if you're not currently trying to sample them is there any particular place that they'd like to congregate any specific people that they'd like to name names are we do not keep track of many names of prey only habits patterns we do know that if a if they grow tired of one of their bodies they will dispose of it melt it down reforge a new one from it and what would happen to specific prey like that have you ever had to deal with somebody that had to jump bodies afterwards it is we do not do you think of praising we are hunting an individual that is not the case it is simply the act that we enjoy makes if we can force a meal to be afraid for just a few minutes the chemicals it that the body releases our oh so sweet you know for a gluttonous extra-dimensional they know that wants to go prey on fear you're not being quite very helpful when you want me to hire you as a resume what is that you want captain man I it has been some time since I have been in this area of space and to communicate with others of my kind that might even be here would be an arduous process given and it spins around slowly in a circle with its arms outstretched my current position if you want out of here and if you want to facilitate friendly introductions then I'd like a proper exchange of services if you can't necessarily tell me anything about the vat ice potentially if you wanted to gather that information for me I'd be a little bit more I mean a boat to that but it would have to be on my terms and my terms only the one term I would ask for captain is once this is done I'd be allowed to go on my way I'm afraid I can't do that but Korea but we probably could find something to make your stay here a little bit more habitable and if you wanted to talk about leaving at that point I mean you just got here if you want it to necessarily talk about leaving we figure that out of a later date but it's definitely within both your and my best interest that you'd move along as soon as possible and that you could believe at this point in time at this point in time I don't necessarily thank you how much to purchase rather unless you will feel like sitting here at least this this way time around you get stretch your legs it elongates itself to its full height yes exercise is good slow limbs make for poor predator again if you release me somewhere I'm sure you could give a tracking device on me we'll talk about that once we get to it all I need is for you to say yes sir and we'll go from there it gets as close as possible to the force field and begins touching it and attempts to push through it with its hand just ever so slightly yes sir oh I'm gonna go look to the other security officers that is still his tank tops camp and say well I'm satisfied sarcastically I'm glad one of us is sir keep watching them we'll be in touch yes sir okay so back to the bridge mr. Helsing you are looking at communications interception which I believe is a ctrl+ engineering task and if you're only for the surface level stuff that is only going to be a difficulty of one this will be a control engineering I said I'll buy one of those Momentum's guitar okay and the ship whoever's got the ship can roll communications plus security all right okay two for you excellent you'll sell the shoot see suppose if you got a ticket ship is Khamsin security calm security that's right and that is three so you get what I said the difficulty - one - Moo - okay I've already forgotten so that's one momentum back okay so we're we're even yeah back to you so there's a surprising little amount of Starfleet related news at the moment probably because no Starfleet ships have not been seen in Vitara space for some time a lot of it is let's politely say spinning the recent word of the Borg are back at inhabiting the transwarp hub once more several pundits are talking about how Starfleet is playing nursemaid to the Borg and due to the Starfleet's advanced technology perhaps they were Borg all along and because of this em purged or impure towards Apple or the final has approved yet yet another fleet to be commissioned the shipyards have already been producing at full steam and thanks to the influx of cash from the impurity or a new set of shipyards have begun construction closer to the closer to the extreme edge of the borders of ATAR space to provide a response fleet closer to the pending threat that is Starfleet in other news various celebrities have done things that are mostly meager but worth mentioning the impure Imperator chapel has been seen with various concubines both male and female and in other news sports of Jeff Jeff ball the VAX destroyers have crushed the up-and-coming Jeff Ross spearheads oh that's interesting because reason ol is a big destroyers fan Ellis's we get information definitely definitely gonna it's already worth the trip right here I share that with the DxO and we'll let the cats know as soon as he comes up is to make another search I might even just have to by NARS do this something engineering try to see if we can find that gentleman guitars who was on our ship oh oh what see the dude that was the brain in a jar and a missile missile boy missile boy I forgotten his name offhand I think I'm oh my let's call him cracks it's a good sounds about right something along those lines it sounded like one of the rings yeah okay that will take a little bit of time sifting through data in the meantime EXO Bashir you are treated to a play-by-play of how they played Jeff ball which is a pretty violent sport apparently it involves throwing a it's similar to a soccer ball except several of us several of the points along the circumference are covered in spikes and the the objective appears to be to throw it at your opponent and the and one of the opponents has to attempt to catch it without impaling himself needless to say casualty rates are high but not to worry there are they just get a new body yep there is on-site services provided by the attorney by the Eternity Research Group now there's there's some benefit I guess okay if so I'll share the information down with the vine artists and get them started on that search for our little buddy okay now there's one thing that you should know from the signals jamming thing is that the that there is no all of this outside broadcasting is not making it inside the let's just call it the isolate of the quarantine zone they don't know about the destroyers oh then nope they don't know about Jeff the Jeff ball leagues or any of that stuff all that all that is making its way into that is on a very particular frequency and it appears to be Imperium propaganda would it serve about what does the propaganda look like you guys are nothing but worthless scum that fit to be part of this puts our society or not quite like that it is more along the lines of every guitarist has its place every Vitara can't contribute even if that contribution is just your body then it is your duty as a citizen of the Vitara same period to do what you're able to do so it was it is mine I'm on fire but Ellie go ahead it is very much a passive-aggressive middle finger to these individuals roll me an insight plus medicine test please Oh my best stats this is going to be a difficulty of one and I will use one of those learn momentum thingies okay another one of them there are momentum thingies in she said it's medicine any focuses that could apply if you have pattern analysis or signals analysis those would be good things covert ops not in this instance I'm afraid infiltrations no sorry oh and this is different difficulty one I believe there's another momentum for you there's a some yeah it just releases one I used there is a surprising amount of messages and images used that would encourage that you would see in a society that is attempting to stimulate births or yeah GM dot exe is not having is having performance issues tonight sorry is trying to encourage birthing and creation of children reproduction that's the phrase there is mentions of you know how a happy fat arse family will find its place once again in the Imperium so the reproduction propaganda is being directed towards the colony or directed directed and roll directed towards the colony there is very little lab messaging of that nature outside because if I remember right they didn't have any real the natural birth rates and everything we're under decline they were like solely on the next gen we next gen company infinity beyond eternity yeah or the buzz eternity whichever yep yep okay okay that makes sense because then they could take anybody who's born there that was suitable there takes them out and leave mom and dad behind and just keep pumping out new puppies okay just exert we have an alien version of a puppy mill exactly I didn't mean it this way at least yeah I probably did but you know it it's so fitting though yes yes it is and even just based on my limited medicine because I actually my medicines better than my engineering I know that you can totally make a copy of a clone so many times before it becomes less and less viable so they have to keep feeding the the pool so to speak and to keep real people real bodies going biologic okay Maury go into the file commander stash ran the vault speaks up from her console sir there's one of those ships has broken off its stationary position and is making its way along to our and is making its way to our position huh started thinking through um [Music] oh I'm sorry what did I say did I say kick yeah I'm sorry commander Bashir I was thinking why this would be raised to me as I was I was kind of concerned okay commander Bashir sir one of the cruisers is breaking off position and it's moving towards our location not entirely sure if it's found us sir but it is I thought you should know all right keep me updated I just did sir they'll intercept us at the present speed they'll be here in about five in ten minutes I think Helsing whatever you want we're running out of time I recommend we beat feet come back it'll a little bit later okay all right okay bo can move okay another black alert test please us control plus engineering and the ship will assist with structure plus security difficulty - okay ship was berkshires dr. securing yep momentum again on this okay I have no idea what half of these gifts are in chat for the best like being was like a missile tofu fair enough oh wow that is too momentum for you nice we're being sneaky this episode seemingly and here I was ready to blow to shooting I mean ya know okay the ships links to the outskirts of the system and I will say that you have that analysis has taken up about half a day's worth of work what do you wish to do now are we still in range where the by NARS can try to ping Crocs cracks Grix is so eventually it is there is a couple I wouldn't say that it's in the official press more like fan pages or those of military honors to graphs the man of the missile who has been promoted at least twice already that is in command of his own bra havoc class destroyer which is the scale threes oh do they have a name on that show hang on let me find that out I believe it it is called the truck hey I will put that in chat then the next one is to see if we can find where that ship is posted okay that is going to be that is going to be a difficulty of four tests because you're attempting to break into someone's computer systems that's a by NARS yeah so if someone get the by NARS please so the by NARS this is going to be a ctrl+ science or put ctrl+ engineering test well let me all I want them to do is to find out the name of the ship that he was tagged to if any of the you know Oakland publications had that information okay then I will lowered to a scale three but the information yet might not be up to date okay so difficulty three by NARS will be control science control engineering and the ship will if or if we get all the information we want right although whoever runs the bynars figure that out well but share you just went three successes already so that's a good start Oh we'll ship a ship would be computers plus science or computers plus engineering it's the same three the one let's go oh that's a complication okay so recommend we burned whatever momentum we have to get rid of a complication that would be to momentum to get rid of the complication there we can't be found not yet I am sad and I'm sad about that yeah it's gonna come back and bite us I know yeah so the track guy appears to be in a doing them patrol runs in a nearby system that would only be a half day at max warp but at max warp you don't get the fun the black alert stuff gotcha helping me captain captain here sir when you get a chance we gotta give you a damn brief and get a path forward alright then I'm coming back to the bridge aye sir and we fill them in on all this ok so into the ready room we have the captain Hellsing and just because I feel guilty that he hasn't had a heck of a lot to say commander Shran because it's his ship - dammit why am I not gonna keeping tokens around captain Bashir or commander Beshear and command Helsing and I think it's going to be a good place to take a quick break so let's be back at quarter past the hour and we will be back then you and we're back welcome back so we are going to pick up where we left off where there is a discussion in the captain's ready room between the Captain Commander Bashir and Commander Helsing over what is going to go on all sir information we gathered so far is the tars have just based on regular signals collection open source they have built a new shipyard and building a new fleet to counter the Federation's presence in the sector on top of that we had to move our position back away from where we were because of the approaching the tars craft just in case we were spotted maintain that everything appears to be we still maintain our secrecy and we were trying to track down our previous visitor cracks and apparently he's been promoted twice and he now has command of his own ship however last reports are several weeks old had him in a different different area space about a day and a half travel so I'd be another day and half out of the way there ding and a half back and we definitely would be pushing our timeline back to you get to Starfleet so trying to get to him and get a current version of his brains can probably not happen well in our intense commander it seems like we've taken care of at least the majority of things so we need take care I mean the very fact that they're building a fleet is alarming but there's nothing else that I could say that we can do right now except probably get it together a little bit more minor information about it well let's go ahead an informed Starfleet Edinburgh Station specifically that they should probably prepare to prepare their defenses do we have a timeline on when this fleet would be complete to go back in and do do a little more research than the data that we collected but it was relatively fresh your thoughts on those came this year I too wish we could do something but timing is just off I can't see how we could you know still make our rond of you gentlemen at this point I'm not necessarily concerned of making around they do in the first place I'm more concerned about well we are one starship and even if we wanted to act I don't really consider C that's as much we can do I if this fleet which obviously is a threat to Federation and all our current installations within the expanse then if we were to supposedly try to do defend against it or probably whine to sabotage at least some of their production to his load at slow them down we risk being caught and as of this moment they still have more assets than us that's a losing situation oh great you know memory serves they do this is me do you call out of character they have more overall ship side this sector then the Federation can counter with at a moment's notice oh absolutely I mean the Federation has at the moment there are six other starships operating that through the transwarp hub but they could be days if not weeks away from a proper response and the USS lunette was sadly just destroyed with all hands not more than two or three days ago so there is not much in the way of mobile presence aside from runabouts or their slip near Scout craft not to mention at the same time the Federation itself is dealing with the type on packed and everything else starting a war here isn't our wisest decision so it seems like I'm sorry go ahead another option is just putting it out on the table is hopefully what I'm gonna say it but we announce ourselves look act like we're coming in just entering the system openly announce ourselves that we're here to talk on a diplomatic level based on the try to mend fences after the failed peace talks that serves diplomatic between leaving and diplomatic its relations it seems like those there are really only two options and both of them aren't really particularly pretty because I don't like him being left alone here in the tire space considering out there building a fleet and it's at this moment that you're that Viet combadge is the captain sir I my sensors are picking up the ship over in the quarantine zone they're launching shuttles to the surface sir to the surface of the Moon I believe well view how can you get a location where did where they intend to land easy enough that's the that's the center landmass where most of the civilization is where the shuttles going they're going to the slum yeah they're going to the to the mood to the colony on the moon yes okay that's kind of what they with their mo is since they don't have transporters they would bring new tenants in by shuttle as well as foodstuffs and just drop it off for them to pick up on their own what are the number of shadows the maximum complement and what are they armed with sensor science test please miss vid this will be a difficulty of one and sensor science and I'm going to bump I'm going to spend some threat to bump the complication range up 18 to 20 is that a ship yep ship can assist with insight science for you sensor science for the ship sorry I am know so whoever's got the ship but since its sensors just sensor operation yes it does work absolutely okay that is one hmm let's see what the ship rolls I grab the ship and the ship makes it good on ya okay I will quickly message vid with what are another stupid offhand question do we fix the captain's ready rumors they're still like I think we stopped at Cerebus after that happened I was trying to order if we docked anywhere her I was actually going through my head as sandy like what porthole it'll be a little bit bigger IDM do the info there seem to be 12 shuttles the larger transport they seem to be larger transports and about 50 people per shuttle it seems like their weapon systems are pretty minimal how many shadows did you say again sorry twelve sir well over 600 colonists that they're trying to pick up I don't know if they dropped that many the colony move that least one that we were at was nor near that size because that was a sea and then our already overloaded I mean their attacks in their water supply water purification and food living the timing is strange too if we were to intercept how long can we be within transporter range no phaser range got a bad feeling transport Jefferson pipes up at this aisle sir we can be within transporter range within five minutes one if we don't care if they see us and phasers would be another 20 second or about 30 40 seconds before that send a priority message dissemination advising them what we've learned defenses in case these avatars decide to come out here early in general I want an away team on the surface and a weird way to go incognito scooping up all these colonists are these settlers we're going to see exactly where they taking them or where they keep these people at all times get cosmetic-surgery down commander housing security officers down there with you oh we went down we're in the armor of the palace guard we were attacked by the hall yeah but we didn't do cosmetic surgery no that's rude sir I didn't do cosmetic surgery the first time around and now at least since we were there we actually have scans of exactly what this others are looking like you're looking like settlers not like those guys okay hard to help me hard to hide the combat armor in the phase of threes small swell defensive wounds only commander said that this is a difficult situation but we need to see exactly where these people bring any type of up good sir apologize right now I'm focused on solving the problem at a time and right now my concern right now is the settle is the fleet can come at a later date any type of camera recording as well full census all in Benin sub this week incredibly helpful go ahead and coordinate with go ahead and coordinate with Co walks mr. casaya oh right implant is ready that would be fantastic and go I slapped Helsing on the back doesn't just sound exciting it just uh tons of danger to get the blood flowing yeah sadly and yeah you and I need to talk sometimes you get a chance oh yeah of course yeah I know how much you were devastated by the loss of machine as well okay so we can't afford the property book ah you're right it was such a significant asset that we should have logged it next time okay so if you guys are going to be wearing an embedded sensor suite that I believe isn't will basically give me extra threat points to spend that's an i I'm calling that an escalation of two so if that's okay with you guys what if we just brought a VCR camera what is this I see I mean it's a bit primitive but it's so primitive it might escape your it might escape their sensors similar to how they look similar to how slingshots fool transporters what do you just probably sketch artist okay so who is coming along on this mission obviously Helsing obviously and with Amara probably no I yeah it's hard for the cosmetic surgeries to hide the digit digit Sergei yeah the backwards bending knees and the whiskers to know that too but many of those security people as we can want to leave either yaz or Loxley on the bridge in case they have to operate the security station okay locks on bridge so well that's a choice yes is blue by default so he would be harder to hide so yeah as will probably say upon board okay yeah as a tactical that brings Loxley down good Locksley and would evade becoming I'm sorry you cut out is vague coming yes yeah okay and it sounds like the captain ought to bring a doctor along which doctor just can't want to bring good question let's still get something back you better take care of the cosmetic surgery so either deja or joy it's another blue people okay look at between the tail yeah actually what sir let's go bring deja ah deja okay with her token deja deja Williams must be the first time that she's been activated or maybe the second time okay now because you don't have the two momentum to automatically give you the advantage of the cosmetic surgery this is going to require a roll and depending on how well you do will be how well or how difficult it will be to for the average guitars to see that you're not a actual fatah so now I because you're doing this on the ship I will let you know the doctor role or so mr. coax or one of the support personnel who's doing it and they could be assisted either with the ship or one other personnel well I can coax pulled up and coax actually has cosmetic surgery as a focus well that's just handy Sean Connery has subdermal implantation cool has he been activated before I don't think so okay three successes so far which is very good and either the ship or Sean Connery or someone else if the ship wasn't it would have been through control control medicine yep let's do Sean help ride and so generally implantation did not count as a focus not for this if you are implanting you know other things but hey that doesn't matter because that's another success so that means anyone attempting to see through your cosmetics well need to beat four which is a significant number so you guys are blended as [ __ ] nice okay so we've beamed down to the slums with this group of individuals okay so the ship slides in and silently transports the away team down into a back corner and if you thought this place was crowded before holy moly it's worse now where once it might have been los angeles levels of crowdedness it is now beijing or mexico city people are scrambling to make way for the shuttles that are landing and it seems that these shuttles are discouraging about 30 people each and pick up about 20 the people who are being deposited seem to be wearing fairly clean clothes they seem to be physically physically fit and in their primes prime age whereas those who are leaving are on the younger side so teenagers or anywhere from about seven to fourteen or sixteen years of old assuming of course young Vitara age as humans typically do and because that's this is Star Trek that's probably how it is okay that's interesting can you know they're just these people are going willingly the people under the shuttle the people who are coming are off-boarding are definitely doing so willingly some of them seem kind of excited that's the weird thing but they're the ones who are leaving The Young Ones are definitely not as excited to leave and you can see some of the guitars couples crying or begging with the guards to let them have one last moment with their child I got a suspicion what's going on the ones that are boarding the planes or boarding the shuttles those could be viable candidates for the program being forcefully taken from their their family unit to go back to join the Vitara Society and the ones coming in are the ones that are not compatible I'd like to look at and make her way over to the area where we were before we met that one gentleman was kind of an elder okay forcing your way through the crowd is difficult it's there's a big press of bodies pushing against pushing against you trying to just see what's going on at the shuttle bay or the shuttle dock where and it seems that pretty much most of the town has come out to see this breaking out near the rear of the crowd everything gets much easier the slums have not improved and and if anything it's gotten the smells are more pungent at least the water system appears to still be working make sure let the trend know about that glad to get my work is that holding up for now and you make your way back into one of the rear one of the the the drag area where you had seen the elder before if the elder is still around you see no trace of him well there's definitely a few other vut ours around many of them don't appear to be in the best of medical health those that were able-bodied seem to have gone to the shuttles and those that weren't were left behind I asked one of the people that are still back there I forgot what that what the elders name was that was so long ago but my character knows I'm sure yeah your character knows which the others don't they they look it looks she looks up with sleep-deprived eyes sunken back in they're already deep eye eye sockets he passed last season I was afraid of that yes I remember if we got the names of any of the other people member a couple kids took our stuff yeah we with it I believe that imitation armor I am the transporter we left the enhancers here to know did you know oh did we know yeah who took over for said former elder there's she calls herself Cavis you can find her they point to you can find her at the tavern she's might not be drunk yet it's stay still young do you happen to us can you spare a coin so there's one thing we don't have I wish we could the old woman nods silent that's typical they usually take all the wealth they usually take the wealth of the newcomers leave them with nothing apparently it makes them integrate better in time we all become one for the great impart em all for the great guitarists Imperium she makes the motion to spit on the floor but her body is so dehydrated nothing comes out smile and thank you thank you if I do find something I'll try to make it back up here and give you give you something you take care of her take care of each other since apparently they're not anymore they never did it's all a show how so I'm s I still have a little bit of faith Romi a presence plus command please oh why hello that well if you would go yeah difficulty of that's real difficulty of one just because it's a fairly straightforward task but we'll see infiltration I'll let the infiltration work right [Music] let's use that last one right and there's two successes so that momentum comes right back good thing you roll that third dice the old woman just doesn't she barely lifts her head as she speaks forcing you to sort of come down to her level to hear it's the PM's way build patriotism in your heads and those of you who can those few of you who are genetically lucky enough to breed come on out here where apparently being able to breed it's such a sin within the Imperium that it has to be done behind closed doors it's a necessity yes but a disgusting one done only the most disgusting of resorts and just when you think that you've done your deed and get attached to your offspring well the offspring goes away but you stay because you are genetically able to breed and so you don't go away yeah maybe the next kid that happened five kids ago for me and I stopped trying after that they've taken everything they've taken my kids they've taken my body leaving nothing that is a shame but all for the glory of the Vitara um two things real quick one I have the interrogation talent so when I succeeded at a task to coerce someone to reveal information in a social conflict okay game one bonus momentum may only be spent on obtain information momentum spent so I like to do that okay yeah one more bit of information out of it sure so but isn't this you know to keep the Empire strong to fight off like this Federation now I mean surely there's a major threat that we had to prepare for Oh what it was like to be young and stupid there will always be a threat it's not the Borg it'll be this Federation the Federation it will be the Federation's pet Borg and then when it's not them it might be the Kassala or it might be those zealous pirates you know to draven well those two heard something about them on the newscast what little they let through apparently they stole children of their own not entirely sure I believe it but yeah I don't care so what do you think about this Federation I care I think that I am I don't have long to live whatever the Federation does if it liberates us cool if it exterminates us right don't care about that either we've been a society we've been stagnant for so long I thought it would change once the Borg left but no now it's just the Federation Society never changes now you you go and have fun with you know your Vitara mistress your happy couple that you've come down here with and she gestures in the back to where you and surprisingly your entire support team is females so that looks real good on you the design side so I'll make the comment oh yeah so uncomfortable so many ways well and so now that we're here we'll never return definitely not what we were told she lets out a gasp of air that sounds like a sharp laugh if only there was actually air behind it welcome to the slums kid my suggestion find a good finest yeah find a sturdy house a place that you can call your own how was the water situation passable has it gotten better over time apparently some engineers came by six months six rotations ago did something to it made it fresh again that's been fine really from the Empire rumor has it it was this Federation group but that makes no sense I don't believe it I don't know hearing is your you know what we're being told is that the Federation is terrible but they come do something like that it can't all be either lying about everything else so precisely that's why I don't believe it no way to fit her if Federation is as terrible as it would seem that it had to have been the Vitara Torsten come here for the neither to the Federation apparently now now if she gives you a shoe motion keep an open mind too old for that dearie too old for that and she pulls out a makeshift cigarette and begins poke puffing at it clearly she's done with you and will sir will start walking away ok security officers not Helsing because he's busy with other things so that would be Loxley and Lisa whoever is playing those two if you could each make me a presence plus security test difficulty of to each vid and deja if you're interested in making scans of the medicinal or the science variety now would be the time those would be insight science or insight medicine plus at a difficulty of - I'll grab Lisa would you see the rollers for these uh insight security sensors would work yes considering this atmosphere and Asia has radiology as a focus is that applicable here or not I would say it would be yes ok so let's see so Lisa doesn't get it evade gets it Dasia does Locksley your boot catches on Hey you're not paying attention your boot catches on I actually know your boot falls through one of the rotting planks that is making up the walkway causing you to let out an all-too English series of curse words then let's see when it could be translated by the universal translator see the I don't know that the universal translator never seems to translate Klingon so and Klingon is pretty much all curse words strung together in different patterns so okay so I will deal with the complication first and then I will deal with what everybody else sees I have their sheets here somewhere one of the Vitara standing guard of one of the [ __ ] of one of the ships here's Locksley's interesting curse words and takes a couple steps over pardon me ma'am may I help you up I'll take his arm and that's where did you see where did you hear words like that from the Northern Territories before we got here that would be a presence plus command please and if Lux he has bluff now would be a good time she does not have love that's one success and she is the defender which means that she wins in this can't say I've heard it an interesting Invicta v' i am glad that you are unharmed and he turns the assistance he turns his back and heads back to the shuttles okay so the covert scanning from Miss Williams Williams you get a point of momentum from that if it's not already added so you're getting a the information you're getting is pretty similar to what commander Helsing has already figured out is that the individuals who are being left here are what's the opposite of Sarah virile I believe the word is capable let's just say capable oh yeah they are both capable for childbearing and child-rearing what is also quite interesting now that you're you've had enough baseline scans of clones to realize that these are fresh cloned bodies that are coming in instead of say clone bodies that have aged two years four years whatever they are pretty fresh Fayed you are picking you pick up two of the individuals who are being herded into the last shuttle are carrying explosives sir commander help Singh sir they it sounds like they might be carrying explosives who might be carrying explosives she's like kind of her in her head and that in their direction is like that the ones being loaded on to that shelf coming coming off of a shuttle nope coming on to the shuttle boarding on to the show yes one's going on and the one's going on to the shuttle or the kids /t major yep and how far away is the shuttlecraft shuttlecraft is through a mob of people and there are it would take you several minutes to fight your way through what it means to maintain your cover and the shuttlecraft is or the Vitara transport shuttle is only about a minute or so from lifting off let it go what let it go let's fade back in and find this this leader that is now taking over we can't get to the shuttle in time there's no way if we create another disturbance here the shuttles still going to take off okay so we feed just a little bit into the alleyway mm-hmm and get to the spot where I can make a call up to the Nighthawk okay it's by this point you've figured out all their communications jamming frequencies and are able to punch through one of the shuttles or more than one of the shuttles leaving as explosives on board is there a way to neutralize the explosive with something coming out of the deflector dish that seems to be able to do amazing things like reconfigure the emergency has modak face chambers I used all five yes yes you did bonus points if we were keeping points but this is Dolf not that's the dope or Jove all know Geoff ball that was a jab home yep now I have to come up with more rules for JAF all that sounds like fun okay so captain and Commander on the bridge you've received the call from commander Helsing what do you wish to do we're gonna get to it in time and if you can stop it good and I look over to gonna buy it and say now that anybody if we run out there and do it they'll see them Federation's involving you won't lose any support we have of the people here on the ground if they see the shuttles take off and nothing goes nothing happens they'll just think something happened with the explosives which if we're lucky it will now are the kids on the shuttle they were the ones I really carrying the explosives I'm not happy about it either I'm happy but then again that I'm trying to bias the other way on this just because I have to be anyways I don't want to break the prime directive here okay captain like we did before that's not what I want you to do sir you have to reconfigure the emergency osmotic phase chambers got to get this modern a bit difficult they had your scans indicated that the explosives were of the chemical variety similar to like a two-stage chemical like benign if on their own but when combined will erupt violently okay then so is there is there any pulse that we can actually emit on any sort of wavelength that will make your life is gonna close even if it is to stem can we neutralize one of them I need someone to roll me I will science this yeah science this stuff Bashir this is going to be a difficulty of - and if you know anything if you have like chemicals or explosives or demolitions those would be good focuses ship or one other person can assist with let's do computers plus security you know biologies you know botany infectious diseases I'm afraid 11 to the third power and we have any momentum I don't think you have one I believe okay I don't mind assisting on the security friendly what would that be the control of security or inside the keratinocytes security I would think oh three successes from Bashir nice Wow okay so that is a three momentum for you guys well done so I can still science this [ __ ] up and the first time in a long time the captain and the first officer are finishing each other's sentences I'm working as a team these explosive nice never met the GM decided not to look up you know different chemicals that could explode because the GM doesn't want to be on various government watch lists anyway except the prison yeah it's very difficult to GM these games from prison to the outside world so it is a fairly common a fairly common type of explosive device or explosive chemicals one of the chemicals can be neutralized but it involves a it involves yeah it would involve destabilizing the chemical or changing it to a different isotope by basically directing a radiation pulse through the through the shuttle which can probably be done by the deflector dish or the Bussard collectors best to do it from the reflector dish and at least make it look like some sort of a Granik radiation if we do you say from the Messiah collected it might leave a possible ship signature which I do not want you have shuttlecraft it's true that close ships already here to the deflector dish okay down to deflector control they say can we get the fish Aranda modulate the deflector dish to radiate this pulse sure let's do that from here because why not Basheer and that sounds like a fish Rand thing too actually let's do that from engineering okay haven't seen engineering in a while that make sense yep so you're busy doing stuff down in engineering when the shrine when Beshear bursts in yeah what's up with me deflector control alright I just dropped my things just on the Florida let's go you don't even need to look behind you to to hear Cassatt bending down to pick up your hydrous to pick up your hydrospanner and just glare it you ever so judge with amount of judge in his eyes that only Vulcans can make yep yep put things the way I just toss and toss up there in the walk away you may as well just call him a lieutenant Roomba I mean if Roomba wants to sponsor me you know hit me up yeah okay so deflector dish realignment is going to be a because you need to do it quickly this is going to be a daring plus engineering for the Shran Bashir you can assist with daring plus science yeah and this is going to be a difficult III task alright I'll spend but the okay okay that is two from the Shran I need one from Bashir working on it and that's one from Bashir perfect exercise there you go recalibrated the defector dishes okay and now I would like to just make sure how stealthy the ship is through the rest of this so this is going to be another black alert test so ctrl+ engineering and the ship will assist with structure plus security ship does not help I'm afraid but the Shran don't need no ship because the strand did it I know this like the back of my hand I can do this any time okay so despite being a mere one to three hundred kilometers away from the spar home class cruiser that's doing the loading unloading you are like a ghost of the night beaming radiation and eerie probably causing cancer for some of these poor kids but they're not going to expose these they're not gonna blow up did you get new bodies okay so unbeknownst to all of this back on the surface I said back on the surface mister Helsing and his and his and his away team wander into a bar it is it somehow smells worse inside the bar than it does outside if you've ever seen shows like bar rescue where they show how dirty a bar can get it's worse Dasia dick miss Williams you know you don't even need to make a tricorder scan to recommend that no one drink the alcohol commander what a wonderful smell you discovered yeah food was the expand our horizons you know it's not hard to find Cavis she's the one currently propped up in a corner flanked by two other late aged guitars male who do their best impression of retired bodyguard who've let themselves go she's judging by the glass count on her table assuming no one else is drinking with her or has shared a drink she's about five deep right now so hopefully the sort to walk on walking on up to her and hopefully the bodyguards will let me get close enough to ask a question I will well you make it about 20 feet from her before the bodyguards moved to intercept well hello to you too we just need to speak with Kavis I was we don't record an acquaintance we do not yeah yeah yeah I got that and I don't recognize you so we're even but I was an acquaintance of the former leader of the section I say is grot grit grat am jor-el how about jor-el I like jor-el sounds good yep yeah you would have to call him II knew jor-el was well loved that it was I was sad to hear it was passing I just wanted to pass my condolences on the Cavis and see if there anything that we could do to help Chaves raises a I had her head shakes it slightly to clear the the blurriness from her eyes lock sighs that's okay job let him through is there a place that we can speak in a little bit more privacy she looks around for the most part everyone here is either already committed to secrets or is too drunk off their ass to actually remember what's happened it's would draw more attention if you and I were to move somewhere else than just sit here so not a problem so say your piece early okay death throes when I was wondering if you'd recognize it's the eyes no have will have to make a note of that what happened to Gerald was a just time in this place that probably got him some hoodlum got their hands on a guitarist weapon started mugging people trying to take what little bit they could he attempted to interfere got shot for his trouble and the wound infected and he died kind of sad I am deeply sorry to hear that she shrugs it happens once a year you get used to it now well we weren't able to come back before now we just wanted to see how things were Pierce that they have gotten worse that's even escalated it appears yes yes it has which means what might actually be a good thing for the Vitara you know if more and more fresh bodies are coming in able to procreate that means that they may have finally figured out how to get their new bodies to be birth of all she smirks at the term now Oh though you're here Jeb get me another drink and get one for this fine gentleman and what is your name by the way I'm called Helsing yeah okay close enough okay Helsing you get a drink too and at this point while they're doing that what are the rest of the party doing anything in particular I'll tell Drake deja to keep it on me as I I was gonna say I was probably just gonna scan the drink considering where we just came from hmm I won't even you won't you don't even need to make a tricorder roll it's no it's not a good idea no it's with your eyes you can see that there are things floating in the glass most likely there's either alive or once where recently it's I would love to partake however my middle officers tell me that it's incompatible with our physiology sit yourself then and cheap goodbye all me though pass it over to you she takes it and downs one or she downs her glass by the time it takes her to fumble around and grab ahold of yours now so as I was saying I think the best thing to move forward is a coordinated strike on the shield generators that are blocking our colony from sight if we are seen as a if the Vitara want to keep us you know tucked away hidden in such a way then I think it best that way that we expose ourselves not not that not in that way don't don't think dirtily no no I'm not that type of woman but if if we explore every thought though oh really because you're quite handsome for a fat arse thank you I'll pass that on to her or doctor you did quite a number now now when you're speaking of you know open revolution are you expecting an explosion to occur anytime now yes absolutely and she takes a look at an ancient watch or a chronometer that still somehow appears to be functioning despite the damage to it she frowns it should have gone off by now it what do you mean it won't I made sure those chemicals are mixed right well what you know if Starfleet you should know that we have other capabilities one of those happen to be science by Japanese rotting teeth damn well there goes that distraction in that distraction was to cover an attack on the shield generators it was hopefully we were going what was going to happen is caused a explosion then they'd send down a suppression craft we overwhelmed their guards take the suppression craft and then we blow up the generators yeah then they blow us up but no plans perfect I understand I believe it or not I was raised in such a situation that two ones similar to what you're experiencing here so I understand desperation well then from one desperate soul to another how I don't suppose you could give us some there cause that detonation I could she unrolls a map hastily drawn looks like on crayons and paper that might have been used for other less sanitary purposes before now we make things not explode what use are you well it makes things not explode that comes in handy sometimes but for for me to get be able to get assistance to you I have to get a little bit more information why here last time well exactly what's going on why are they now sitting people here to breed and then stealing the offspring I have an idea but where why how are they luring people from the tars to come here just to be trapped be because it tell me Starfleet you know who our imperator is correct something something the final precisely Imperator Japp alert the final as in the last of his or her line not ever having kids again we'll never pass down two generations and then but if the rest of society begins to have children begins to procreate and that becomes known then the pressure will mount for the impurity to spawn an offspring and to move the Imperium forward but with the regeneration technology why do you need to procreate the biologic way she shrugs if we don't need to at least I don't think we need to I mean it's an I don't know why the clones are I don't know why these bodies are being are capable I don't know why the capable bodies are sent out here to procreate maybe they just need new gene stock maybe they're trying out something new with their fancy labs don't know don't care so are the ones that are being sent here are they capable of the regeneration process or the gift ones that parent talking to a feel talking to a few of them they we're clones and then this clone they in their most recent download they were able to procreate I'm thirsty then she sees slams your drink down you can really taste the Flies so I look over to the rest of the crew am I missing anything yeah you're missing a drink believe me I believe me I would love to but a sudden death thing would not be useful at this time sekime thoughts no sir not that I can do no sir because the situation has just gotten more twisted from when we were here the last time before they weren't Cindy as far as we know they weren't sending people here that were able to procreate it was just the ones who weren't compatible with the regeneration process I have no idea why they're doing it this way and pure it only started happening after chapel are met with your met with your Starfleet the first time around if when when we came yes something about room something said during all those meetings must have spiked his it's there I don't even know what gender to use for it for the Emperor anymore I don't even think he or she cares something said during that time or some observation must have sparked their mania see a review of my data is in order yeah you do that Starfleet tell you watch the old episode now now are you going to blow up this holographic generator for us please I'll make it worth your while and she does a whole rent ously bad job of attempting to flirt with you well what would happen society if that they're already sending people here voluntarily they telling him that it's the 1/4 had how they get you to come here I was one of the early I was one that came along with jor-el I was just one that was not suitable for reproduction so they shipped me out here but these new ones apparently it's par they were part of a testing group they achieved some sort of new membership status or citizenry from the ERG as a prize they came out here one one fear I have is if we destroy the shield generator and it exposes it what's to stop the Empire from wiping the colony out down to the last foot ours yeah last I heard it was a crime to despite how willy-nilly we treat our bodies it's still a crime to kill a mind they won't kill us they may relocate us but wherever they relocate us would be better than this place so you basically have a license to create mayhem and destruction and kill and with no consequences well I think they could shackle us they could send us to prison there's probably a Jew gulag somewhere that's worse than this place they can't kill us or at least not publicly yeah they just can forget about so plate this whole place is in public so they can easily just come through and wipe it out yeah but people talk even down she shrugs look I have no idea why they don't think quite frankly I don't care all I know is that they haven't killed us yet so I'm going to keep pushing and pushing until they do or until they have no choice but to do so well let me take the information that we've talked about back up to my captain and we will see what we can do to help iemon up sorry he promised anything but I tried to talk to Gerald tilma would be back again sadly didn't make it back for he passed but we did come back yeah Starfleet keeps its promises at least one of them well two of them you did fix the water meanwhile the rest of you at the bar or in the tavern you're getting a few looks from the locals who aren't completely smashed out of their minds the fact that you're not drinking is starting to cause a bit of conversation amongst them some of them who are some of them who are drunk enough to be confident are attempting to offer the guitars or newbies a drink saying welcome to our hellhole you must have just come off the shuttle please have a drink it sucks but it's the best liquor you'll find now well in that case since I've been around have been in this tavern long enough I must be able to smuggle something from my pouch and just break some sort of capsule to make this slightly more palatable yeah you have a med kit so yes or no don't don't unless you have I think it's what is it not rabies the one that mosquitoes give you malaria yeah anyways yes you're able to use one of your miracle pills - it's not going to help the taste or the flies but it probably won't hurt too much if you choose to which I choose to I'll go ahead and finally decide to find take because I want to keep up appearances and I'll stealthily go ahead and do the good pass off to everybody else okay fitness medicine test please I'm not going to tell you the difficulty if you have something like strong constitution or iron stomach a message at least no complication just wrong character what were those rules yeah those would have succeeded no matter which character you had out mmm so yep Dasia you still vomit over the floor same with I think that's Loxley or is that Lisa yeah Loxley you have foxy you hold it down like a champ say with vade and who's left Lisa who's got Lisa I think that's the Shred Oh fun oh this does not work well with Lisa so deja you're you take a swig and it immediately disagrees with you and comes right back up Lisa on the other hand it comes up and blood start or you start vomiting blood as well it's whatever is in your stomach it does not like this well there's actually a medical emergency now yes yeah emergency thankfully and with that we're gonna I hope to see you again to us but I need to be getting my team back and we'll start to make our exit from the tavern and oh I guess why my friends can't quite hold their liquor but thank you very much a spot where we can emergency transport out okay if you could do me a favor and roll me a ctrl+ security please to escort port aliza out without drawing too much attention and yes infiltration will work here because it's actually exfiltration now but since it's the opposite infiltration in Reverse yeah and I'll use one of those momentum okay it's like placing ocean's 11 in reverse is the same thing as them attempting to put a vault back together these are didn't realize you're not supposed to actually swallow the toe at the bottom the bottle haha okay so that's what it was difficult difficulty to so you get one momentum and you also get a complication animal burn to momentum to gear of the complication oh okay we already let you have one with Lisa but that was the board instead of a worm at the bottle it's got one of those little con bug things that go in here here creepy not seen creeped me out as a kid and it'll be - are you make your way out and despite a couple close calls Liam you're able to exfiltrate successfully back to the ship and we are pro so and we are approaching the four hour mark and I do want to end the session at ten or before so let's I'm afraid we're going to have to probably cut out a couple of the middle scenes that I was hoping to do and cut straight to the what the hell are we going to do seen nuke it from orbit sure I mean this is GM's call but I mean this is I season finale right yeah it is if we're glad to go again next week why don't we just do split this into a to fight here and pick this up I'm cool with that it's for me I'm down okay so I was at an okay from evade alright so we're going to call it here it seems like a good enough place as any to call it we all regard to turn this into a two-parter and we're going to see what the heck happens we run the Vitara mode of VAX next week so on behalf of 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EfraZkRjx3s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfraZkRjx3s | Failure To Disrupt Book Club: September 28, 2020 | - Well, welcome everyone to the second book club meeting. I guess one unfortunate thing about having a book club with a book with an introduction is that we're always gonna be enumerated one off, so it's meeting number two to discuss chapter number one. We have two fabulous guests, who are gonna be discussing the chapter with us today. Liz Loesch from William and Mary, and then George Siemens, who's at the University of Texas, Austin, and University of Texas, Arlington and then also a university in Australia, which embarrassingly evades me at the moment, but he'll tell us in a moment. There are a whole bunch of you who are online with us now and I would be delighted if you could take a moment to introduce yourselves in the chat, if you could just hop in to all panelists and all attendees and tell us who you are, and where you're from, and what brings you to these interests and if you work in a capacity that's relevant, would be great to get to know you. I will try to keep monitoring the chat as we go along through the conversation and we'll take your questions and take your responses and take your ideas as we're going along. So thanks so much for joining us and we'll go ahead and get started. So the way as we did last week, I'm gonna ask George and Liz to introduce themselves with their Edtech story. So George, can you tell us who you are, what kinds of things you work on, what Australian University are affiliated with and then what's your sort of encounter with Edtech that is kind of most salient to you right now or got you started on this pathway, or you just wanna introduce yourself with. - Great, thanks, Justin and Liz, great to connect here again. So first of all, I'm with University of Texas Arlington, like you noted, Justin, and I co direct a center in Australia Center for Changing Complexity in Learning at the University of South Australia. My Edtech story, I guess, probably the one that really got me to where I am now at least in terms of interest was Red River College 1999 ish. And we were the first college system in Canada that went laptop, and by laptop, what that basically means is, every student had to pay on a monthly basis about $4,000 over the cost of their degree to get a laptop, because at that point you get whatever you've got for storage space and the software and everything else loaded on it, it was about a $4,000 touch. And that was distributed to the students in the term of the monthly expense. Now what was interesting was seeing how the use of this technology injected into an existing structure, the classrooms were the same, nothing changed, curriculum was the same classroom was the same but what had changed was the classrooms across the college had in our department at least had been completely redone over a summer. So the Ethernet connections, oddly enough, actually, the power to each seat, which was still is an anomaly in some universities, and watching how that impacted the learning process was amazing. So the one side of the classroom, namely, the students started doing all kinds of fascinating things, they discovered you could download videos. And at that point, the college bandwidth was five megabits for the entire college. And so the first student in at 6:30, that got a nice video to download could completely impact the entire quality of the bandwidth for the rest of the college for at least a few hours. But seeing that happen at that point, there were a lot of just ICQ, if you recall, for messaging systems, and so on, there was a lot of that going on, a lot of experimentation on the one side of the classroom. On the other side of the classroom, there wasn't and that was the teacher who instead of using a traditional overhead projector now had PowerPoints, and so on. So I found that a fascinating illustration on how technology unevenly influenced those who have access to it. Now, since then there's a range of reasons why that happened in terms of background, workload, expertise, and so on. But it was that moment understanding how the same tool in an environment produced dramatically during outcomes has still probably been the most influential thing to think about in the Edtech space. - That's great. How do people with different institutional roles, given the same technology think about it, employ it, engage with it differently? What a great question to work with for a long period of time. And Liz, can you introduce yourself as well? - Sure, so my Edtech story begins in the late 80s, early 90s when I was a freshly minted undergraduate degree person from an Ivy League institution, teaching at a Delinquency Prevention Center and running a computer lab there. And I, there was something called the public electronic network or PEN. It was a system that allowed digital deliberation for the city of Santa Monica. Howard Rheingold writes about it in a couple of his books. And I had these students who were, in, had had contact with the justice system and were in this sort of after school diversion program, doing kind of not quite informal, formal learning, not quite formal learning kind of the place in between, but they were it was also a corrective space, because it was they had to go there as part of their probation or parole. And I thought, I'm gonna put these kids on PEN. And this is gonna give them the opportunity to communicate with their elected representatives, and participate in local governance in ways that will make them feel like they're real citizens of the city rather than criminals. So I, initially, it did not seem to be working, because the students, they lost their passwords. This was when George remembers these days, right? When you had these, like really long, unwieldy usernames and passwords, that were sort of being generated by these, places that were used to mainframe computing. And so the students just didn't like it, they just felt like it was busy work. And then suddenly, one day, it seemed like, overnight, all of the students were on the computers, and they were all on PEN. And they were actually trying to convince their siblings and cousins and friends to come to the after school center. And suddenly, like, everyone was on PEN, and I was like, "This is the greatest thing, this is so exciting." There they must be like having these wonderful cerebral political discussions. And of course, they were just using PEN to talk to each other, essentially, like just sort of high tech passing notes. And at the time, I was completely crushed by this, right? Because I felt like my Techno missionary ideals were somehow being betrayed by these students. And yet later I came to understand it was a kind of politics with a small P, and that they were doing political action by connecting with each other. And that connection can be a political act. So then I've been involved in all kinds of crazy pedagogical experiments. I, one of them is the selfie course, which I just put in the chat. And the one that I was involved with for the longest time was FemTechNet, which did a distributed open collaborative course, that was a kind of response to MOOC madness. Generally, I've been in the, the skeptical camp rather than the charismatic camp to use Justin's terms. And I've written a couple of books about online learning and like Justin, I'm very interested in thinking about educational technologies broadly, and realizing how things like chairs that move are educational technologies and windows that bring in light are educational technologies, so. - Well, and these days, windows that bring in clean air, and windows that bring in the box fans that recirculate air through rooms are education technologies that are certainly in the news right now. But let's stay in the past, at least for a little while. And talk about books. How did chapter one read to you, Liz, what, like, what did you take it, assuming now that I'm the author, and I've given it away, and it's not really mine anymore, it's just words on a page, what do you read in that and how does it align or misalign with your own research from the period? And feel free to, if someone comes out of that as a summary, there may be some folks who are joining us who haven't had a chance to read the chapter yet. So you can give us a bit of an overview too. - Well, I mean, one of the things I appreciated about the chapter was the kind of the capability of it, like the fact that when you're talking about the experiments that worked, I like this sort of paradigm of tinkering, because I think I tend to be much more of a tinkerer than a Grand Wizard of transformation. And I think that often smaller incremental changes that are more participatory are more successful. I think also sometimes with educational transformation, so one thing is that sometimes you can have like a, an experiment that's wonderful for a short time but it's just not built to last. And so you bring a bunch of people together, there's kind of great good feeling online. It like doesn't, it doesn't, it isn't able to sustain itself. It's a kind of temporary autonomous zone, that, that eventually sort of disappears into the ether. I think the two observations I had, I was thinking about the part about auto graders, which seems like a relatively minor part, just the kind of what does it mean to have a learning management system automate assessment? And I've taught in different kinds of online and hybrid environments a lot. And one of the things that I think the technology allows you to do is allows you to connect with students who may be didn't get the best grades in the course but they actually because often the students who get the best grades who, when you assess them, they seem the most competent, they actually aren't necessarily the ones who learned the most. And they're not necessarily the ones for whom the course is the most meaningful. So I actually think email is a really important educational technology. And I think when it comes to assessment, I think the ways that an instructor can be touched by a student who's making connections between the course material and life, sometimes years after you've had that you've spent that pedagogical time together, I think is a piece that's really important when it comes to digital technology. And I think the other thing when you talked about the data deluge, and kind of the the ways that, there are all these analytics that instructors have access to. And I think the thing that a lot of instructors find really depressing is that, again, the students that they thought were the students who were really the top and who, when that you assess them using traditional means they assess well, but you might find out that they're actually not watching any of the content, or spending any time actually engaging with the material, because there are people who are already proficient. And I think that a lot of instructors are coming to terms with that data, and often not coming to terms with it, just being depressed about it. - Yeah, it's, yeah, a fascinating phenomenon of people who were, I mean, if you have to pay a lot of money to take a course, and you already know the material, you're unlikely to spend extra thousand dollars of your graduate school tuition fees to take something you've already done. But there's some fraction of people for whom, taking studying a course full of material that they already know, is deeply satisfying and in one way is that's like, what a neat kind of learner to discover. What an interesting person that we wouldn't have thought about and wouldn't necessarily designed for. But those learners also can loom large in powerful ways and in our assessment of practices and so forth. George, what's your reaction to Liz's framing? Or what other things did you find in or missing in the discussion of MOOCs from chapter one? - Well, I think, first of all, obviously, you've been involved in the MOOC conversation, since it made the popular jump in the US. So I think you covered how it roughly went and the for those of you that haven't had a chance to read the chapter yet, essentially Justin makes the point that learning at scale, the instructor component is an interesting dynamic of the current Edtech space and there's different opportunities that exist and then there's three distinct bets that are possible with MOOCs. One is that it's gonna transform the just higher education in general, and this is really the hipster crowd, if you will. The second was that it's going to increase access to higher education and then the third was, there's gonna provide a new foundation for research and interesting ways for us to understand what happens in the learning process and so on. And then essentially, following those three assertions that he takes us through rough overview of the global level of Edtech. So specifically talking about the role that learning management systems played early on, so your Blackboard and now Canvas and so on. And then when computer scientists discovered learning online and the things that they cared about, which is where the auto graders conversation comes in, and then eventually moving into what's now the online program manager work of organizations like 2U and others that will go in, help a university move an entire program online, take 40, 50 plus percent of the total tuition revenue and they'll have an online program. So and then from there, eventually ends up addressing the issue of dedicated 12 space regarding summit learning, and roughly the way that that didn't make an impact at the transformative scale that was initially promised. So that's just a little bit of the skeleton, I'm skipping a lot of important parts. But a couple of things just as reaction, Justin, that came out of it. One, this is a book written in the US and that does overlook a lot of the things happening in other parts of the world. I think if I was if I look at the numbers, and they're so hard to actually come by and trust, because you'll have a group that will put out, well, this is what we got, Holland IQ says, there's X number of millions of learners and MOOCs in the world. And you'll talk to say, XuetangX out of China, and they'll say we've got 180 million learners on our platform, and so on. So I think that's the one thing I would say a part of the story that is not necessarily fully fleshed out is the international component of MOOCs, which is significant. It's a US centric view of Edtech transformation, which is understandable because much of the Edtech initiatives are US based. The other aspect that I was, as I was reading through it, I was struck with MOOCs. And maybe it's because of sort of my particular background with the idea of MOOCs and the opportunity for people to connect and collaborate and learn and generate knowledge together. Less of the instructivist framework that we currently see, I still like them. I still like the fact that someone somewhere in the world, even though you do say, as a bumper sticker, MOOCs are for basically people who already have one or two degrees was, I think your your statement to summarize exactly the role that MOOCs play. I still think they have potential for people to learn, to acquire to understand things they might not have been able to access before. And I think in some ways, they're an indictment of the existing leadership of higher education. I mean, we've seen every sector of society digitize and transform at some level maybe not transform the way that Sebastian Thrun said we were going to transform, but we've seen it have an impact. So I think that was the one thing that still struck me as I was going through, did it give access the way we thought it would give access? Well, in theory, yes, but in reality, it was mainly people with degrees that took them. I'd like to see how that's changed post COVID, with a lot of universities starting to use them at the undergraduate level for sort of a textbook type resource. And the other aspect is the transition to what's now the skilling and reskilling movement. And this is one of those things that you're like, Well, on the one hand, it is there's something there, but on the other hand, how much is it generated by people who are trying to sell a solution into that space? So you create your own demand, so to speak. So I think that was another thing I was left with a little bit confused in terms of where might that go? Because in the age of hundreds of examples of failed predictions to go out and say, Hey, this is what I predict will happen next, it feels inauthentic the moment you say it, because people have been so incredibly wrong so often about the impact of digital education. - Oh, George, so there's a bunch of things Liz enjoys that you've both offered us to dig into more. Why don't we start with the international piece? If a revised version of the chapter came out with a better perspective on the sort of global impact of MOOCs, what do you think would be in there? Like what kinds of things should be considered that were missed? And George, start with you? - Okay, from my end. So first of all, that's a, it's a very, it's not even a critique of the chapter so just to be clear. - Oh, no. - It's just me saying one of the things that I was looking for is, let's say what's going on with FutureLearn. FutureLearn has a fairly different pedagogical model than what EdX and Coursera have. And you'll see it in that a lot of the people who were involved in the development of FutureLearn have a background in learning sciences, or in teaching and learning online or something. - As opposed to the computer scientists who founded Coursera, and EdX and Udacity. - Exactly, yeah, it's the equivalent of say in 1998, computer science, somebody lands on the US soil and proclaims it for mother Queen of England kind of thing. I mean, it's there, it's understood it's a domain, it's established. And that's what digital learning was pre Sebastian Thrun Norvig and eventually EdX with Anant Agarwal and others. There was a space of literature, a space of practice that goes back 30 plus years. Now, so I think that's probably the biggest thing that would including, say a FutureLearn angle is the fact that this was a group of people ignorant of a domain discovering a domain that was already established. And so when you see it from that lens, especially with a thing, company like FutureLearn, you see that you can have a different product that emphasizes different approaches to teaching and learning and that is much less instructivist. The other aspect and China because it's so difficult, like we if you follow the Edtech unicorns thing, most of these companies are a valued at a billion plus, I think was it five or six of the top 10 are out of China. We don't know how authentic that is, we know evaluation is vaporware the whole way through even until they go public, and so on so there's some issues with that. But a group like China, which when I was on a panel, just at the start of the COVID crisis with the, from, I guess, was Xuetang and a couple other universities in Beijing and Shanghai. And they were talking about how quickly they had to basically move hundreds, thousands of courses online that included over 10 million faculty University profs in China. And they did this at a scale of a few weeks. And central to this was using this approach for PD development. By this approach, I mean the scale component. I have no idea what the cultural pedagogical roots of education in China are, obviously, we know they're fairly instructivist, I'd love to know more about what they are. So I think that's one thing that including who's likely the largest MOOC provider right now in China, the XuetangX for example, would be interesting to see. - If it's not in China, it's India, - Well yeah, I don't think India has, India has a number of players in the MOOC space, or the MOOC ish space that have monetized different components but they haven't formally launched on to the instruction at a distance scale, the way that China has emulated the EdX Coursera model. - I there's, I mean, one piece to look at is this thing called Swayam, which is another sort of enormously large MOOC provider. But yeah, when you have countries with more than a billion people in them, things are different. The I only I visited China to discuss MOOCs once and definitely the vast scale, I was talking, somebody was giving a presentation on a project, which was a pilot study that they were doing of a teacher education program, and there are 300,000 people that were enrolled in the pilot study. And I was like, you got a pretty good size pilot study going there. - And then-- - Can I throw a question back to you, Justin? As the author post you talked last week, when you and Audrey and Chris met how you were basically doing your revision of the foreword and stuff as COVID was unrolling. So what if you were to look at it now, from what you've seen how MOOCs have been used, especially by American universities, this, three, four or 500% increase in registration, would you say something different about the role of MOOCS in classrooms as we've seen the adoption rate outside of what you framed in the chapter being people who already have a degree? What would you have written differently if you were to look at it now or anything? - Yeah, no, that's a great question. And I mean, certainly, there was a moment like, on March 23rd, when we were sending in, when I'm sending in the copy edits being like, is there anything I'm gonna be horribly embarrassed by? Six months from now as the world change? So there are huge new registrations in some places in Harvardx and MITx and Coursera. I think one challenge that I'm having with everything around COVID analysis is that there's not a lot of data about what's actually being done. Like the, it seems to me like the actual nature of that practice matters a lot. My intuition is that the number one category is people with additional leisure time studying stuff on their own, that the second category, and Liz is nodding, and suggests that you will let her answer this question as well, that the number two category is some kind of assignment from professors of being like, I'm still gonna teach my class, I'm gonna, I'm still gonna teach my Zoom class but here's like a supplementary resource that you could check out. The thing, which and I am fully ready to be proven wrong on this. But I feel like the thing which has not happened is, hey, these like rinky dink Zoom classes that we all are having to make up, in the midst of a pandemic, with children running on our feet are pretty bad. Why don't we just send people to Coursera, or EdX or FutureLearn to take classes that cost, 10s of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to build? And I just don't see a surge of demand for that. Even though the demand is not that high, it's even less than what I thought it would be. I thought many more people would say, "Look we know that there are challenges "for people who struggle with self directed learning "or aren't in the condition "to do good self directed learning. "But boy, we've put a lot of money and effort into these "and like, seems like now is the time to use them." And I'm really quite shocked at how little that has been, and the only answer that I can come up with, which is like, I have two data points in this. I saw heard a series of surveys from people at MIT, and one survey of a whole bunch of college students in Bangladesh, that somebody at the World Bank did. And like, half this college students, they could survey in Bangladesh wanted live synchronous instruction. And I just think about like, Bangladesh can't be one of the world's leaders in internet connectivity, there has to be device ownership, like there has to be all kinds of challenges that those students are facing, just like there are all kinds of challenges that American students and faculty face. But for all that, people still, like if they get to choose what kind of higher education they want, most of them want a human being to connect with, even if that content is not as good as what might be offered in some other circumstance. And that is kind of a seems like a fatal flaw of the whole enterprise of scaling up is that you can't scale up that sense of connection to a person that you know. I don't know, Liz, what would be your answer to George's question? - Well, I mean, I think that the interesting thing about COVID, and all the people teaching on Zoom right now. And part of this is it's, I have been observing Zoom classes and sort of looking at what my peers are doing and also looking at what people I supervise are doing with Zoom. And I think it's actually what is working is actually not going big, but going small. So for example, I was using the breakout rooms for these design challenges and students could pick a design challenge that they would go into a group of like three or four people, and they just have to talk about this challenge based on the reading that they would then have to come up with some solution for and we'd sort of vote for what the challenges would be and then students would choose the breakout room where they would be working on the challenges. So it was actually like this sense of the way that Zoom as a technology can actually create even more intimate spaces for learning and conversation that feel even more dependent on interpersonal relationships, I think is important. And I think also, because students have felt like that they've lost so much autonomy right now that just being able to choose what breakout room you go into, rather than have it randomly assigned by the software, which is what most instructors do, means a lot. - And it's autonomy with sort of social consequences. MOOCs provide all kinds of autonomy for people to be able to choose whatever discussion forum they wanna enter or what order of videos they wanna watch, but it doesn't have, but it has virtually no impact on the other people who are around you, in the way that engaging in choosing the Zoom Room will impact the way that you connect and socialize with other people around you. - I also think. Go ahead. - No, go ahead Liz. - I was gonna, I was thinking about the Rainbow Loom beginning. And all the DIY stuff that people are doing, as they're teaching themselves to make sourdough bread or all these other things. And that's really, to me the thing that I have most observed on when I'm looking at how people are responding to COVID. And I hope later on we can talk about Tik Tok and learning, because I have some thoughts. Anyway, George, take it away. - Yeah, I think one thing that's fascinated me is, MOOCs have been here now for in their current form for about eight years as prominently represented by American universities. And I don't know if I've ever seen an Edtech thing where we can spend eight years talking about what is it? We've been trying to find what our MOOCs are MOOCs this, are they that? They're not this, they're not that. I mean, it's, I find it fascinating, I mean, why we're having so much difficulty really nailing down what MOOCs are and what role they play. Part of it might have been early on, unfortunately, the Edtech hipsters came out and told us they were gonna be everything and change the world and folks like Clay Shirky, who declared that, universities have met their Napster moment and I still think there should be public shaming of people who've made these ridiculous statements and this public shaming should occur, at least until an appropriate period of penance has been achieved. But the, those kinds of statements come out and we've been so wrong so often. And then right after that happened, then, of course, there was this corrective cycle and faculty who'd been under siege with this idea of MOOCs being the be all and end all, suddenly, MOOCs sort of fizzled by their transformative capability and then it was faculty's turn to declare MOOCs dead. MOOCs who continue to get hundreds of millions of dollars annually in funding and financing and adding hundreds of millions of students annually and clearly they're not dead. Clearly they're playing a role somewhere and I'm just fascinating why it's been so difficult for us to be able to say, what are MOOCs? And what role do they play? And that gets back to a quick point, before I throw it back to you, Justin is one that I liked that you got on early in the chapter, or maybe in the previous chapter, actually, where you started to make this argument or this discussion around, why haven't we seen this change that we were promised with all things Edtech? And it's a real interesting interplay of how do systems of systems change, and you get into this, a little bit where you're like, it's not just this one component, you can't just dramatically innovate and disrupt one part, because that part is connected to every other part. So if you wanna do MOOCs, well, you got to go back and say, How are student loans funded in the US? Can you get it and because that's gonna make a massive difference, you can't innovate and disrupt, to use that word, without this other piece over here. Well, if you do that piece over there, then you also have this other part of a credential or a degree, how can you make that as a possible output? So the reason I think it's been so difficult to see the desired impact is it's an interconnected system of systems and tweaking and innovating one part of it and then blowing the hype out about it is just a recipe for failure. But anyway, just a few quick thoughts on that. - I'll give a preview, we did a great interview for our teach lab podcast that we haven't released yet with Mitchell Stevens, who's a sociologist of education at Stanford, and one of the things that he brought to my attention was that in the CARES Act, and the CARES Act in the United States was the supplemental funding that went to a bunch of different sectors after the pandemic, to municipalities and to higher education and things that actually CARES Act funding was limited in certain ways to target enrollees in four year degree programs that basically at the kind of like highest federal funding policy levels, there was a sort of guidance during the pandemic that says, like, don't change the basics of our credential awarding model, or you can't have this funding. So to some extent, there's this notion that like, oh, we, it's a pandemic, we're gonna things really differently, as long as it doesn't change in any of these, x kinds of ways that actually seem like they're pretty important. Kristen De Cerbo, says that it seems like a fairly standard example of the Gartner Hype Cycle of, the peak of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment, to the plateau of productivity, I would only observe that that, in this case, the plateau of productivity, it just seems to be quite different from what the peak of inflated expectations would be, I mean, so much of the rhetoric of early MOOCs was about how we're gonna create new kinds of access for new sorts of populations. And some providers have been really specific that like, we are here to we think the most profitable pathway forward is to partner with master's degree, partner with universities to create new master's degree programs in topics that we think are, computationable, tractable, and have a good return on investment for learners and therefore, for universities. So I don't know, I have to do a sort of study of hype cycles to see how often it is the case that things track in one place, but not another. Liz, you were involved in a bunch of efforts that were creative critiques of the MOOC movement, or at least I positioned FemTechNet, you can tell me if I'm wrong here, as intended to be a creative critique of the movement. What parts of that critique still seem salient to you? What are parts of that critique that you think really got heard and got through in higher education and the public more broadly? And then what kinds of things do you think people still need to hear? - Like George, I think that the opportunity for a distributed NEC to be activated is one of the exciting things about being able to make online pedagogical connections. So what FemTechNet was interested in the fact that there was a lot of interest in feminist theory in different online communities. And despite all of the online misogyny and all of the harassment that takes place around issues of the study of gender and sexuality online, that there was also a lot of interest. And so, a group of feminists science and technology researchers thought it would be led initially by Ann Balsamo and Alexandri Yuhas, thought that instead of having this idea of the kind of single source of knowledge broadcast the these video lessons, that we should instead model how knowledge is co constructed, and how knowledge exists in dialogue. So the idea of the initial videos would be that they would be dialogic, and that they would show two feminist scholars talking to each other and be a kind of invitation for the students to talk back and create videos themselves. And we were influenced by the thinking of Lee Star around boundary objects, right? What does it mean to treat learning materials, not necessarily as didactic instruction, but instead as opportunities for different communities to do sense making activities around them. And that we could kind of like, create these videos and other materials that people would then, be free to do they wanted with. And if they wanna teach a course about feminist science and technology studies in their local library as one woman did with a bunch of people who are just interested in feminism, you could. And we kind of tried to encourage students to sort of speak back to the group. Now, the problem is, like any kind of feminist organizing, it's there's gonna be strife particularly around issues of intersectionality and the ways that kind of white feminists can use up all the oxygen in a particular. So that there were prestigious white feminists associated with elite institutions. And then people who are more precarious in academic institutions, who might also have a more radical politics that they wanted to offer a kind of more radical education model rather. So there were constant conflicts, like any kind of feminist organizing, there's got to be a lot of effective labor around and it's also hard if you just do regular old co teaching, that's hard, I always don't understand why universities give half credit to faculty members for doing co teaching. Because I like to joke, it's like driving a car with two steering wheels, right? Co teaching is really hard, it's twice as much effort, it's not half as much effort. And so FemTechNet created some great resources and I particularly I think, the stuff created by the Center for Solutions to Online Violence that's designed to create toolkits for dealing with online harassment, I think the materials are also really useful. So there's a lot of useful stuff there but I feel like, in some ways, that was a fantastic experiment, that I'm not as actively day to day invested in it, because FemTech, that was sort of a second job for me, I was spending about 20 hours a week doing FemTechNet stuff. - And the contrast with, it, I mean, it's interesting to hear talk about here we're gonna put a conversation at the center of what we're doing and conversation, especially about these topics comes with real challenges, real challenges of managing these misunderstandings, or different perspectives, or all those kinds of things, and I think, MOOCs in some ways, even when they're on controversial topics, can relegate that to the corner by putting them into forums, which are in many ways less central to the experience than they were in FemTech. I did a series of studies, I don't know, 2014, 2015, about discussion forums and MOOCs and whether or not there were gonna be conflicts between Republicans and Democrats in courses about introduction to American government, and introduction to education policy, those kinds of things. And we devised this old research agenda, which was based on using machine learning to surveying people about their beliefs and using machine learning to detect conflict. And then where we found unproductive conflict, figuring out ways of making the dialogue more productive. Except in these courses, we could never find unproductive conflict. Like, basically people were, were like, I know you don't believe me, but like, we published a paper in 2016, right? As the nation was sort of in the midst of tearing it apart, and we said, if you like, if you wanna have a civil, I don't I can't imagine, I mean, I think it's probably still true to some extent, but in 2016 for sure, if you wanted to have a civil conversation with people who didn't believe in what you believed in, grounded in empirical facts, the forums of saving schools and Introduction to American government on Harvardx were like actually pretty good places to go to do that. But I think part of it is that they were they were sort of marginal to the of the enterprise, there was a place that they go to hang out, but not really go in. - Yeah, I mean, one of the things I was interested in in the war on learning, too, is people using the forums for purposes other than what they were intended for. So particularly people who were essentially using the forums for things like finding romantic partners, who might be interested in the topics that you were interested in - Learning English is another huge one. - Yes, learning English. - All kinds of research that we do with people telling us like, "Yeah, I'm not really that interested in accounting, "ancient Elizabeth poetry." It just, it was the course that was running, and it was in English, and I wanted to learn something from it. George, one claim that you've made that I would love to have you interrogate in light of the arguments in the book is something like, it is, I think you've claimed that it is really important for universities to be investing in MOOCs, in online learning, in some sort of future turn towards digitization. Part of the argument in the book is that some of the universities that did that really didn't get much out of it, that there are a handful of places that found themselves, if like, if you picked the right subject area, and you had the right team, and you invested enough early on, you might have come out ahead or okay, if you're Georgia Tech, putting in the first online Master's of computer science with 7000 people in it, that you're in good shape. But if you're not the first person to market or you don't get the right sort of product market fit, you get I mean, there are places like the University of Texas System, which invested a million dollars into a new center, which closed not too many years later. In your view, sort of how do you, this argument that universities need to be investing in MOOCs or things like MOOCs, even when, it's like, it seems to me that somewhat like many of those investments don't pay off and sometimes they simply end up, even when they're successful they're successful in just sort of like sustaining kind of way. - That's a very long conversation. So I'm gonna try and just sort of get to the gist of it the way that I see it. So the argument I've been making for probably 15 years, the main argument has been if you wanna understand the future of knowledge systems, you have to understand the architecture of information. And that is, how are people creating, sharing, disseminating, exchanging information? And Liz touched on this with the MOOC in the work, she was talking about where you have in a traditional course, you have a faculty member who is the brilliant expert. In a feminist MOOC, in contrast, you have multiple voices, each having some degree of awareness about the position that they occupy in the conversation, and in some cases, the limits of what they occupy in that position. So the that's possible in a digital environment and it's not necessarily possible in a regular classroom, you cannot have a classroom with 4000 people each sharing their own opinion. And there are no mechanisms to essentially take the best ideas, advance them, amplify them and prove them. And the best idea itself is a subjective statement. So if that's the core argument, that the future of universities will be those that mirror what is possible with information, not a new argument, there is a text reinventing knowledge that I've mentioned many times in the past, which makes a similar argument that says, right from the start of the Library of Alexandria, and even prior, the way that society built knowledge institutions was a byproduct of what they did with information. So for example, the development of Lyceum and the academy in ancient Greek, Greece was a byproduct of this mode of we can communicate audibly in exchange and the rise of rhetoric and those kinds of approaches. Eventually, even the development of classification systems like Dewey and others were a byproduct of the need for the growth of information, how we manage it and address it. So that's my core view. How does that impact universities? Well, we don't know what necessarily has successful impact in various education settings. It does require you experiment and you play a lot. Are MOOCs the solution? Of course not. And I said this right at the start is that MOOCs are not the trend that matter, they're a reflection of a number of factors that are at play. Clearly, the idea of learning at scale resonates with someone or else they would have just died off right up front. We would have run them and that would have been it. So there must be some degree of resonance with someone, is that resonance with the corporate providers that are trying to find a way to increase their training and development for their staff with reduced costs? Possibly, is it for people who are in different parts of the world who might not have access to a lot of the instructional opportunities that MOOCs afford? Perhaps, could be the same in parts of Canada and the US alone, where there are regions where you're outside of the main area, where you can have access to an anthropology prof and you really super duper love anthropology, such as my daughter does and she finds that you can take it on MOOCs, but she can't take it at her local university, and the list goes on. So I do think, call it something else, not MOOCs, but universities need to be playing in the spaces that allow us to do different things with information that shifts the power balance of who can say it, who can listen to it, who can influence it, who can adjust it. Now, MOOCs have been a defined entity that allows people to be able to do that in a structured way, it gives it a name, and it allows us to say, Hey, we're also doing that thing. Now, it'd be very interesting to see post COVID, might you mentioned or your instinctual assessment of how MOOCs impacted, were impacted by COVID. I think my assessment instinctually is and I've seen this unfold from University of Texas Arlington, particularly where we didn't have a well developed infrastructure for teaching online. Everything had to be built up from scratch, really down to a new department, recording studios weren't available, tool sets weren't available. Everybody settled on Teams, not because it's a fantastic tool, but because somebody came by and said, "Hey, use Microsoft Teams," and now it's our primary instructional tool. No intention, no critical thought it was all just, we got to get online, we have to do it now. I mean, I'm not blaming UTA for that, they literally had no choice but to try and move things online. So I think the focus of doing something experimental is that there's intentionality, there's a set of structured questions, you're not buying the product with the first person that knocks on your door with a viable resource will be used, you'll end up using I should say. So I still maintain yes, playing in the spaces where interesting things are done with digital information is vital for universities. Today, that place is MOOCs or maybe a few years ago, that place was MOOCs. There's a number of things emerging that it may end up being going forward. But universities absolutely should be perpetually tinkering with how it is that they do the core things that they do. They mess and I do blame University leadership here, they've massively missed out on the digital revolution that everybody saw coming for three decades. And they failed to prepare their institutions and their faculty for what it means and as a byproduct, they've had to outsource much of their core capability to external for profit providers. - And when you say, outsource their core capabilities, you particularly mean partnering with online program managers partnering with organizations that say, Hey, give us some money and we'll do your online instructional design for you. When that online instruct when any kind of instructional design really ought to be the core competency of universities that we should outsource our janitorial services and our accounting, but not how we do teaching and learning. - Well I think it's for me a big part of it is just simply intentionality. Are you in control of the very thing that you contribute most meaningfully to society? And universities are still in control, but they are less in control than they were 20 years ago, because one way to look at it is you've got this entity of higher education that plays a role in society, you have a peripheral system, which we'll call sort of the corporate system that has been for a long period of time, looking at ways that they can enter the university or the K12 sector and generate some efficiency for the system and economic value for themselves. Universities are reasonably self contained, the digitization process that universities botched, provided a massive doorway in. Initially it was just Microsoft sells you things or Canvas sells you an LMS. But and then you're kind of like well, that's okay, that's like hiring an engineer to come in and build, an architect and design to come in and build a classroom, it's the same thing. But now you have these same organizations coming in and actually doing the core thing that you're supposed to be doing. They're doing the tutoring, they're doing the grading, they're doing the recruiting, they're developing the curriculum, they're teaching the curriculum. So at the state we're going without being needlessly negative is we are creating a disaggregated system where we are disaggregating a system that is being put together and re stitched with corporate interests. And that will give us sort of a Frankensteinian model of higher education and I've whined about this for years that the people who are most and there was a period early on where a lot of sort of I'll use the word progressives but there was a lot of people who genuinely fascinated this opportunity for innovation in the education sector. Because we could do away with this idea of these traditional blocky bureaucratic universities. And I love universities, I love higher education experience, I love the hope they give to people. And yet, and even though I was arguing, you cannot do away with universities, they play a vital countering balance to the other power institutions in society. And now we're seeing that that very system is being disaggregated by individual functional pieces that are core to their long term existence and I cannot see unless there's a sustained and focused push back that in their current form they'll be sustained over the next 20 years, simply because we will have offloaded so much of the core functionality to external providers, it'll still exist as a university, but it will not have the ethos that it has today. - That's great and that sort of summarized your cases, Mike, there needs to be innovation in these core spaces, because sometimes we get pushed and forced by external forces to do that. And if we're not prepared ourselves to do it, then there are for profit entities that are waiting to sort of swoop in. So Liz, we I mean, we can't end this conversation about innovation without talking about new technologies and talking about Tik Tok. So what should we, how does thinking about learning applications of Tik Tok now, sort of, what kind of coda can we have this conversation? How does brand new form sort of sweeping the world? What is the story of MOOCs? Tell us about how we should think about the story of Tik Tok. - Well, I think one of the things that's really interesting to me about Tik Tok is the ways that people are using this huge data base of audio clips. And so there's all of this creative remix going on with the source files that people upload to Tik Tok. And so somebody uploads a rant to Tik Tok, and then you'll see 50 other people lip sync something to that rant, that will then be the sort of new spins on it. And I think the thing that's interesting to me about Tik Tok as a learning space is the element of performance. And so again, because I'm interested in questions of gender and sexuality, it's interesting to see all of this cross gender cross racial play that people are experimenting with. It's also interesting to see how the knowledge of particular so cops on Tik Tok, nurses on Tik Tok, nuns on Tik Tok-- - Firefighters. - Different, yeah. How Tik Tok is the space where one's professional identity, still can ground your ethos of performance? I mean, Joe Walker Redberg did this whole series of Snapchat research stories, I don't know if you've seen any of them, but she, she talked about Musically, which was Tik Tok before it was Tik Tok. And she tried to like do lip syncing herself and it's actually really difficult to do. Like I've I mean, making a good Tik Tok video is actually really hard. Some of these makeup tutorials are amazing in terms of, I, there's one on there that the woman who created said it took her I think four weeks to do, and I believe it because the tutorials just, I mean, the makeup is just incredible. So I think that there's there's this element of live performance that liveness, in addition to the sort of digital composition and remix that seems really important about Tik Tok as a learning space. - Well, we are gonna have more opportunities to talk about the sort of peer driven network. So when we read about chapter three, which we certainly will have Natalie Rusk and Mitch Resnick coming in but Liz and George, both of your expertise lend themselves equally well, to that chapter and we'll have some more things that are in there. I will say thank you to all the folks in the chat who are conversing and sharing back and forth, there are a whole bunch of questions that came up there that I thought, Oh, those are some pretty good answers that folks are, are sharing. We've spent a bunch of time this last couple of weeks talking about higher education. Next week, we're gonna talk about intelligent tutors and we're gonna zoom in much more on the K 12 sector and we've got Neil and Christina Heffernan who are the developers of a system called Assistments, coming in to talk with us about that period of time, certainly lots of the themes that we've been talking about here, auto graders, there was a question about that we'll spend a whole week talking about with the trap of routine assessment and some things about learning analytics, we have a chapter about the toxic power of data and experiment. But I definitely think that one piece of the end of this conversation, which captures the theme that I feel strongly about and hopefully came out through the book, is that I do feel like something that is particularly powerful about new technologies is the way that they inspire. They invite, inspire, they compel conversations about what is our pedagogy, what are we trying to do here? What is the purpose of our institutions? And I think whether that's thinking about that through the lens of where what what are the right spaces for feminist discourse and debate in the university and the public? What is the space for creative expression through Tik Tok and learning? What should we think about the sort of institutional structures of universities and how they outsource or not their pieces? I mean, I think to me, probably what has kept me interested in education technology, more so than its actual efficacy, is its ability to invite these conversations and to have, faculty, students, administrators who are pretty who can be in routines and be set in their ways, be sort of brought back by, wow, look at this new thing that all my students are doing or look at these new laptops that in 1990 are being spread out, look at this PEN discourse system that we could participate in, in the early 90s and they spark a whole new set of conversations and discussions and that theme came out really strongly in this conversation, so thank you. So Liz, and George, thanks so much for joining us and helping us think through this at for in your afternoon on a hiking trip, Liz and whatever horrific time it is for you, George, thanks so much for joining us. - And thanks so much for the book, Justin. And great to chat with you, George, I'm a fan. - And I yours. - Okay. - Thanks, Justin. - Great to see all of you who are out in the attendee world and we'll see you next week with Neil and Christina Heffernan, should be fun. Thanks, everybody. - Awesome, bye. | MIT Teaching Systems Lab | UCfzVImQvNXI3Km8Hthzc7yg | 2020-11-13 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 9,572 | 53,489 |
jvUhR_czeYA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUhR_czeYA | Chef Marcello: Business Owner, Critic of Minimum Wage and Regulations | the ingredients for a great grill snake extra virgin olive oil layer the recycling lemon juice black paper revised state like several of extra virgin olive oil now we needed to let them rest for sending it lemon juice for the lemon dressing is a black pepper enjoy photos [Music] 2 tablespoon of lemon juice picks it up nicely with 4 tbsp of explanation olive oil [Music] and exactly is that pinch of salt remove the stake in for cutting boards save all the drippings in one corner mixing with the dressing now you have a good sex resting lemon juice extra virgin olive oil increasing life is take a position in a nice place usual some houses resting keep pressing is perfect for I three or four strange 1 2 tbsp of lemon juice four or five full of extra virgin olive oil pinch of pepper in a picture are you sick of government lackeys to say you didn't build that are you tired of elitists who think you need a government permission slip for everything everything you do is an A to B conversation the government should see their way out of it create true free markets by adopting the dip got no government license the bib got no God license allows user modification of any product service or software except by government or government agents go to biscuit org that's Bravo India Papa Charlie Oscar tango dot org so just introduce yourself a little bit okay so chef chef my children up in my channels my fellows don't suffer New York and and what is what is your you know the effect that you see minimum wage on your business and how it helps out relate too much how you operate your business well minimum wage there is a really such a thing as a minimum wage because you can have ten dollar fifteen twenty dollars an hour really doesn't matter right because if a people cannot afford an apartment doesn't matter if you give them a fifteen or twenty dollars an hour so I think what they do the politician it is to working on the houses because the house is the most important thing that people should have everyone should have a house and so if the housing is responsible okay then everything else can be enforceable if the house is low as possible then really doesn't matter what minimum wage you get right but if you give a minimum wage to like a student then nobody will hire them if they cannot afford to have people working if a business doesn't make enough money to survive they will not forgive any minimum wage they will figure it out how to open a small amount of time and shorting in the stuff so really there's you gotta find some people usually it's only really doesn't matter I think what they needed to do the politician is they needed to have a line beetle from town to town from place to place a holistic place where there is a tourist you can say okay you know something let's make the minimum wage a little bit higher because it's a terrific place please like suffering there is nobody coming in you can go in and do the same thing as Nayak or let's say Lake George or let's say in your city you cannot have the same minimum wage in every places where you go but again to me a minimum wage should be as much as the it could be as long as people would come to the restaurant and pay the prices for support in the minimum wage but my politics is the house you can always take a bath you can always do a bicycle you can always eat own you can always eating a small thing right you have to leave it too much to be alive but you need us to live under a dignity of a house so the politician should not raise the minimum wages to find the places where you have a possible houses and that is the key of the old quality because if you charged with somebody $1,500 or two bedrooms you do the mathematics even a fifteen dollars an hour 40 hours maybe the spouse as the children they can also go to work but even if they work in working overtime of another 20 hours at the double right you cannot afford a 15-hour $1,500 a partially so you use under you find an approximate affordable to six seven hundred dollars then the middle where you work but raise the minimum wage and you still keep the houses of fifteen dollars i mean up $1,500 twelve hundred dollar well not suspect it because everything will reach the lean in would raise the eggs would raise the bread were raised to the solid will raise inflation me every moving right and nobody will hire anybody and so you were saying before how how in your experience the minimum wage hurts the poor and the door was closed the lower skills absolutely because the corporation I'd only want to be able to afford because they micromanaging everything they microwave thing they put to the people at 22 to a short-order cook to cook your meal you know they have a ready to go they pop in the microwave and you go into the restaurant and you go for sure what you think they gonna do look after these applebees look up to them a ground looks so good everything is Porsche control everything is made into the cook only as to tata tata one two three so the mom and pops old guy like go to me i so love me too much because i'm already arrived to the point where i am already above this but who is going to be the new generation when i open the last line what 1986 the bathroom then in have to be handicapped you need to leave it to have the fire sprinkle using it to have already a regulation regulation today who's going to be able to open up erotic you telling me and without and if you needed to hire your stuff and and the minimum wage is so high how the new guy the pool guy is able to eventually own a restaurant only the corporation exactly so that is a sign a hurdle so uuuu happen you don't help him to to the American dream I came from easily i got the American dream but who I gonna pass it through yeah they're crushing the smaller entrepreneurs and business owners and I allowed to start so exactly so you take it so half of the people want I'm not the damn of that I'm another Republican I'm not even an independent I'm what they call common sense okay common sense it's fully in has nothing to do with the beach because I think in any society basically make this release in any society who needs to have a balance a little bit from the right a little bit from the left okay do you balance it out and you meet them Lee into the center okay because the center is always the one it works because too much to the left is nothing happened too much to the right nothing happens because you have your pressure in order here you have other things in the opposite you have the same thing has to be unhappy media any businessmen any good order okay once is employed to be good to be working to be very productive but you needed to make it available you need to have the incentive of the leader to be coming in stronger and create that's all sir so how do you feel when the politician tell you how you should run your business through these laws and regulations like listen insulin if a politician didn't doesn't work the field if he is not I think they needed to go to be school for become a politician but then before they become a politician they needed to do one year over here one year over here one year over here they needed to go even to all for the portable and understand how has no business working and a big business working and they needed to have again and I repeat like they supposed to have a line veto on making a loan but they don't do it right they put all the pork right inside a low and then they have to voting for the whole thing otherwise no nothing no should be aligned these on anything you cannot make new york city new york state or equal because you are area of a New Yorker we're a strong area of New York you when it's not wrong how can you make it equal Manhattan the same as love senior exactly Oh even I would say I mean even now I could compare it to let's say suffer okay nayaka people go pyrmont tonight people go it's a more community better you know to it he suffered who else you have to bring you them to be for service for me to operating something is suffering cost me much more now some people can say well but in nyack you are so many restaurants well I understand but at the same time you use needed to have that line visa to see well I'm a tumor journal grow this year DB grow twenty percent well then if I go twenty percent right and I don't give nothing to my employees my employee would work for me very angry so this is the situation that you have to understand if I have a chef and I give him a ten dollars and I'm always busy right and I keep forgiving with ten dollar he will not work for me if a waiter will not make it the money will not work for me I've cooked the same thing so why has to be the politician telling me now if I don't make any money but everybody around me they're getting a raise but the way that doesn't get a raise the cook doesn't get erased that you asked me to give them them erase when I don't get a raise how possible luck look common sense hey so it's all has nothing to do with the politician of season that Lydia to again like when you first started the taxes that you that you had to deal with at that time as compared to now what would you say the difference is with your detractors no I mean look let me ask us like to see something let's forget about if you want a proper you're not okay let's forget about that let's just do this axis between New Jersey and we are you know that's rockland county board with new jersey right okay you know by just again though the tip waiters right 760 an hour containing two one mile away two dollars and 15 an hour how much taxes my pain compared it to my new jersey a restaurant you know labor to 13 to 750 same employee how can I compete when you do I'm a me suffer I have malwa I've rented I have a partridge I have all the neighbors are out so people should think about that right so either you go in and raised in New Jersey as well either is a completely federal what's don't do it don't touch it but what they want to do they want to grabbing the FICA they want to grab it and fax it they don't care about the sport I because they figure after the end with the millions of employee they're still grabbing the money that they needed to put in their pocket in the fence that's basically they stealing the money so they don't care about the cool guy and they make the mom-and-pop restaurant who also business we're not even not even be able to start a business i'll give you an example another example in i leave you alone if you if you work in a mom and pop record and you working you come to work a 12 o'clock and you leaving an hour away you know that i should be able to a su o'clock when i shut down you needed to get out of the restaurant you can obtain the restaurant if you follow the law so i have to send that guy out into a diner eating coffee and wait three hours over there before he can come to work if I yes they making everybody legal I should go in it so that's why I say to your corporation has to be worked different than a restaurant that has a up to let's say 25 employ between covering the whole week so if you have a franchise like five six seven eight West ones you are the room the 50 or 60 100 Roy should be one you know the the mummy progress or should be working of different way and that's basically the way you make you know a new chef for coming in and clearly wanted to open up Loretta today they are not that change no it is no chance they're killing the small businesses yeah including my bachelor model is very hard to be able to sell to like a regular chef only a corporation can run the risk when all you needed to completely knock it down and do something else so just before rap I was trying to make sure so you're from you start in 1986 and and how many restaurants you have now I have two one in New Jersey money wait a minute when you're as many buddies you know very hard to run it you know after it so many AZ yeah okay and you're trying to get out of the business man you're trying to the question of gals it's a questioner that's when you arriving to the point where you're working with very small percentage of everything I mean the reason you getting older 30 years you need a tool rebounding you needed to file how can you revamping when there is no for the last eight years there was no yeah no profits in a restaurant with me if I games generally over the growth well if I didn't under my building i will be already out a long time ago wow there's no way that was able to do about all the regulations and all this regulation increasing a food and we are eternally not much we haven't really recuperating the economy since the 2008 even if you raise right let's say you went over look at we employed another hundred thousand the economy is much better yet but the same guy that the eight years ago nine years ago was making less play seventy thousand dollars now we enter into the job with 50 and also it has eight years of credit card free two men telling himself who is in death of another 100,000 so now he makes 50,000 $20,000 lesson in days of a hundred if not gonna come to my rescue so yes is employed but a work of one money is employed if a kid comes from the college today night and you pay the college right and he would probably get out of the college and make it fifty thousand dollars right we spend 180 to go to school right he said okay now it comes to 35 / how is able to replace my customers are willing to Florida are 65 the art thing it is there hasn't been no change so a good restaurant will not be able to survive who can pursue price is only the corporation in the US and the politician makes only been to be availabe cuz the mom and pop won't be able to operate they say write the laws and regulations buttocks you see i can i can tell i know that they don't even do it in purpose they just stupid they don't think okay for them they thinking that they do else because of some people say well we didn't get a race but excuse me if i keep your race i needed to fill a race on the menu right if i think if i take the tick away and i pay sallie what kind of salary you give it to aware if it was making me say that that's it all is an hour what would I say now if I take the super way because the pc makes just two dollars an hour because he makes fifty dollars an hour in the summer overtime likes to work whatever but otherwise if you don't know i'm actually rose day by day so then you have to put him on a salary so he put a fifty dollar minimum wage okay then I game is won it all but he was making thirsty so how you know the promises if he is not broken long and let individual people make the decision or the business or let the people making the decision on whether i got on your business leave them alone certain business okay up to certain employee but needs to be left alone and when somebody wants to a vendor has to be chosen a business provision because otherwise nobody will expand it's like when people saying if you make a ten dollars more you're going for different bragging right yeah who would make twenty dollar more to go to a different bracket and then you've actually to get taxed more who would take a more responsible yet for a small amount you're discouraging you discourage your productivity so it shouldn't be what they call him stages a small small stage i give you one more example i had a cook right I wanted to come to work for me he said I cannot make no more than four hundred dollars a week what do you mean he does i have an autistic child okay I get three thousand dollars on the street to take care but I cannot make a no more than six hundred dollars away so if I make a 600 700 Allah go week I lose the 3000 swamishri is a three-hundred-dollar more 369 spots so I'm losing three thousand to get 1200 who will do that so that's explained to the situation you want to know another one okay it may give a child support right to two people to him to people and instead of asking at the end of the year of the income tax of the person they have seen the last three straight sections of a when he applied for so let's say you apply the angel eyes or you applied in mid-september what would you do in the last three weeks for you to get the child support order else insurance for your child what would you do in the last 2-3 weeks to make your payroll look what would you do you would take off we will ask somebody to I'm talking about for the people that they work in the business or whatever you know they will ask you know I want to work less hours so they make the paychecks Mona so they go into the man that they show the last three paychecks and they gave me the okay instead of looking at the whole yet yeah that's the traffic keeps enough people you telling me what the politicians or if they don't even know that you know even good intentions have the worst effect so thank you very much Thanks that's SP sonic ism talk with Chef marchello at the night seaport so hope you all have a wonderful day take care bye cell 4 11 is a free app for Android and iOS that replaces government-controlled 911 self or 11 allows you to preset a group of friends or private organizations to show up at any emergency cell 4 11 is a nightmare for the state because it proves their so-called services aren't needed cell 4 11 is have thousands of installs and of course it's covered by the bit cot no government license sell for 11 because your friends won't shoot you when you're in trouble without the government who would build the emergency services you and sell for 11 get it today and get self or 11 com that's get self or 11 com | PeacefulAnarchism | UCPmTjNmwXEWS7iBEITMgKvg | 2017-03-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,467 | 17,612 |
no_3tdmQnSU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_3tdmQnSU | 20 YEARS OF MAKING THE WORLD BETTER, ONE SPINE AT A TIME | GHANA | hey what's up everybody and welcome to another episode of the motherland experience it's your girl na here and today I have a wonderful guest in store for you I'm going to be sitting down and chatting with the award-winning chiropractor Mr Dr Brian Cox the owner of spinal Clinic Ghana limited we're going to be chatting with him about his experience to Ghana him being an entrepreneurial here and among other things as well so sit back relax and let's get to it [Music] hey guys I am sitting here with an amazing chiropractor an award-winning chiropractor I may add he has won so many different accolades but it is including um winning the best spinal Specialist Clinic in 2021 at the 10th Annual African Health CEO um and legends Awards he won that and he's won numerous different accolades as well he's been on TV so you've probably seen him a few times or two so please help me welcome Dr Brian Cox hi Dr Cox hi I heard you TV Land I'm good how are you I'm blessed how are you doing a I am wonderful thank you so much for coming on the channel well thanks for having me a it's an honor it truly truly is I've heard a lot about you oh have you I hope it's good M it is it is I promise I promise so could you please share with us where you're from I'm from Richmond Virginia I was born and raised in Richmond Virginia I went to uh James Madison University in Harrisonburg Virginia and then I got my chiropractic degree in maretta Georgia close to Atlanta oh wow okay so Southern boy I'm a s yeah borderline Southern so because Virginia is like right right below the northern region so yes I'm a southern boy a love that love that so can you tell us how long have you been in Ghana I've been in Ghana for 20 years wow guys 20 years years yes 20 years oh my God so I've seen The Good the Bad and the Ugly I'm sure you have I'm sure you have I mean 20 years is a pretty long time to live somewhere 20 years is a long time to live yeah wow so you're the expert when it comes to G am I right I I wouldn't say I'm expert but I know a little bit about Ghana yes okay I I know you know I speak small small CA c f BBB gunang kitty kitty amount of languages here in Ghana okay so you're like Linguistics kind of I don't know how to speak other languages but I know how I know enough to make my patients laugh a well that's important that's important to like you know get them like you know comfortable get them ready so that's really important so could you please share with us what started your journey here to Ghana why Ghana that's a good question I had a few places I thought of going I thought of going to Mexico I thought of Dominican Republic I thought of somewhere in the Caribbeans I thought of um um France France yes thought of somewhere in Africa um and I just wanted to I just wanted to look at other places to go to thought of somewhere in Africa uh of course I thought of going to Virginia back to back home and um and doing Chiropractic but I knew a gentleman who was in Ghana and I decided to help him build his practice here in Ghana and so that's what really brought me here um to Ghana and then I just decided to stay I was with him for about two years a year and a half and then I was going to open up my own practice here and then another chiropractor he's no no longer living now but there's another chiropractor who said he wanted to partner with me uh and I said okay let's do it one thing led to another God said you need to be on your own and 6 months later I opened up the spinal Clinic where Chiropractic is for life oh I love that final Clinic guys where Chiropractic is for life I love I love it I love it so could you please tell us like one word that defines Ghana for you Freedom oh okay Freedom yes I um you know although it was not it's not as bad it wasn't as bad in America for me as it was for a lot of people but I feel I feel like I'm free uh here in Ghana I can do what I want to do I I'm friendly with the police officers everybody's friends but you have to be careful as well right because they do have you know you have your good your bad and you're ugly everywhere you go true so you can't um you I mean you know definitely share yeah sometimes when I F let me first start off by telling you okay my experiences when I first came or before I even came to Ghana okay now before I came to Ghana I actually um I didn't know what to expect uh you know because when you think of Ghana or think of Africa yeah in the States you think of you know animals and people running around butt necked and things like that yeah so those are the things that you think about when you think of Africa as a whole yeah so for the first year before I came here the year before I came here I did not know what to expect so I did not use air conditioning for a year I did not use um a car for a year so so when I got here it was a pleasant surprise it was like in fact I recommend everybody do do that because sometimes people have false expectations because now this is the end thing to do you know to come to Ghana right it's The Fad now yeah it's the B now so people are coming here and they're thinking that it's America but it's not America you don't have all the things you have in America um you the lights may go out once in a while you know but but because I've already mentally PR prepared for the worst it became easy for me so I was able to stay in Ghana for 20 years that was the first country I ever gone to wow really so Ghana was your first Ghana was the first country I ever ever um going to wow and I was only going to be here for a year or two and then go back home and practice and I said people here have spines too so why don't I stay here wow well had other plans for you what other what other countries have you been to on the continent ah I've been to Nigeria for the first time a couple of months ago been to Togo I've been to Benin I've been to Liberia Liberia the UN flew me there uh to see the UN troops and give them adjustments and things like that okay um I've been to Kenya I've been to South Africa um the only places I think those are the only places wow well I mean you say like the only places you've been a lot of places here on the continent you really have so with Ghana what makes Ghana stand out from the other places to you well I think all of them have their own special taste they you know I believe all the people from different countries are friendly I I I don't see anything extra special about Ghana per se although I I know we probably are supposed to say that G is the most special place in the world since we're dealing with the Ghana but there are other countries throughout Africa that are beautiful as well um South Africa was more like America to me you know South Africa was more like America to me so I don't really count South Africa as Africa I think of that as I mean it may be the area that I was at I was in Durban but um South Africa is more like America to me as opposed to Africa I look at is Africa I look at Togo as Africa um one thing I did like about Togo and banine is that it was cleaner than Ghana oh really I've heard that about Togo yeah it's cleaner than Ghana and that's the one thing I don't like about a cry not not the rest ofh it's more so a c u they need to work on their sanitation it's not the best when it comes to that but as far as uh the rest of G is beautiful it is it's so Lush it makes you feel like I'm in Africa you know it's more unspoiled the air is cleaner it's just absolutely beautiful it really is but when you get to a craw it's kind of more of like a concrete you know type of structure so you really feel that you feel a difference do you feel a difference you feel the difference when you're outside of a of of of a CRA um one thing I I appreciate about Ghana as a whole is the people the people are generally nice um now you do have some people who are trying to get something from you but that's everywhere in the world I think that's everywhere in the world so you just have to wherever you go you need to be careful and be mindful that you're dealing with human beings exactly I think that sometimes as we come here we kind of let our guards down a little bit cuz we're like oh you know I'm in the motherland turn up time or we know whatever the case may be sometimes people try to take advantage of guns right sometimes people come here they thinking that oh these people they don't know what they're doing they and they tried to take advantage and GH will show you that you cannot take advantage you know because you was they'll smileing your face but inside them they may want they they're going to get you if you let them right you know like you have be very careful yeah yeah you have you're doing with human beings so anywhere you go you want to be you know Vigilant but also open yourself up to the wonderful people very exactly so can you please tell um share with us what do you feel that Ghana has to offer you that America could not offer you well that's a great question one thing I noticed here is that there's so much more opportunity because in America in America things have are have already been done right ex so here you can do things you know businesses and startup businesses that you may not have been able to do right in the states uh and and do well uh the only the unfortunate thing is that if people here don't know the business you have to kind of educate them more on the business now even though there was a chiropractic business here in Ghana um a lot of people still didn't know much about Chiropractic so in my beginning stages I was educating a lot of people about the benefits of Chiropractic and why you why you need to go to chiropractors and I used to walk around in villages and and um um markets with my spy around talk to people about the spine in fact the most I've seen in a week no in a day the most I've seen in a day is uh oh no this the most I've seen in the day is 199 wow you're kidding how can you service 199 P do you have like four arms or like eight arms like service all of them right very quick but um wow but I saw 199 but I was seeing 120 a day at one time you know I don't see that many people a day now but um you know I'm older now so I need to relax you're still young well thank you I receive it you receive it you're still young thank you very much you're still young so on the term or on the sense of your business you've been in um existence since TW um 2006 right well the spinal Clinic yes I've been in Ghana since 2003 wow so you have like a lot of history you really really do have a lot of history here so could you please like share what have been like your high points you know your highlights of being here in Ghana as well as the biggest challenge you fa the highlights of my um existence here in Ghana is getting patients better I'll be honest with you I would say that would be the the Highlight I've seen people who couldn't walk who are now walking um yeah I've seen in fact the oldest patient I've seen is 98 he's dead now he's uh he was he was 102 when he died wow but um the old the oldest person was 98 of years of age I saw him for about two or three months um he was able to walk out They Carried him in and I'll be honest with you I'll be honest with you this particular guy I was like uh and this was like in 2006 it was in 2006 I looked at the people that brought this guy in M I said y'all need to be taking him to kibu kibu is a hospital I said you don't need to be bringing this man in this office here cuz he doesn't need to die at at the spinal CL wow so he looked like he was that bad off he was that bad off oh my goodness so I looked at him I adjusted him um he got better and you know he still wasn't able to walk but over time he was able to walk then one day I didn't see him anymore okay so um he was he was a voltarian um from the vter region so then I went to a funeral a few years later a couple of years later I went to a funeral and I saw his daughter I saw his daughter and I said oh I haven't seen you in a while she said oh he's doing fine he's in the Balta region gardening gardening yes he gardening gardening guys 98 yeah well he was was close to 100 at that particular Point wow that's amazing so he was gardening and then later I found out that he you know he died you know a few years later di he Liv a full life but he lived a full life he definitely lived a full life we're promised 7 70 years so he was lived over you know 30 years over so wow that's a blessing I'm sure that was really rewarding for you to you know get especially um a man like that that really couldn't walk and now he's gardening and everything so in your opinion that's just stating like the healing power of Chiropractic you know how do you see it of course physically it benefiting but even em let me interrupt you I don't give myself the glory at all it's God and also them the power that made the body heals the body and that power is with inside each and every one of us but unfortunately a lot of us have not tapped into it because that's deep their bodies have been interfered with the vertebrae is putting pressure on the nerves that sends information to specific areas of the body and it's not functioning at it optimal level wow so what my job is is to get you to function at your optimal level and no matter if you believe in Chiropractic or don't believe in Chiropractic it works it works but at the same time I don't do the healing is God that does the healing yes he gets all the glory and he does and your body does the healing but I mean but you're the vessel you know even bringing you know um a person that one of the people bringing chiropracty to Ghana you know I think that that's incredible and I think it's am amazing and just hearing you because I've you know done some research on you I have and it was kind of you explaining it you have a passion for Chiropractic you know you you talk about how you know our Spine Works how it inter with our nerves and even our emotional state yes I think that that's really really awesome so what started your passion getting into Chiropractic you know this is a this is this is actually a funny story here okay most people wouldn't think that this is how I started in Chiropractic I played I played American football and I did go to chiropractors in the past but I didn't know much about Chiropractic I even though I went to Chiropractic he didn't really educate me on what Chiropractic was and so forth so on and I'll be honest with you that particular chiropractor wasn't necessarily the best chiropractor when it comes to adjusting me as well as um um educating me about what Chiropractic services are however I was selling a computer to someone a computer I was selling a computer to someone and uh he worked at Virginia Union University and um I saw that he was in a different fraternity I'm in the fraternity Omega Sci-Fi fraternity Incorporated and he was in the Rival fraternity which is the alpha and he was an old man he was about let's say I say old I'm getting the the age now but he's in the 60s or 70s okay um and I kind of just gave him a joke because he was in a rival fraternity so I had to joke him a little bit and then he said um you know what did you go to school for I said I went to school for kinesiology I'm Kinesiology he said Kinesiology and I said that's the study of the movements of the body right he said well have you thought about going to chiropractic school I said no I hadn't I thought about being a doctor when I was a kid but I never thought about going to chiropractic school so then I decided to do research on what Chiropractic was and I started to realize that there three types of chiropractors they're medically based chiropractors they're philosophical or principal based chiropractors and then they're mixed chiropractors okay so some people um they don't understand that they're different types of chiropractors and you want to to um uh associate yourself with the chiropractor that is best for you okay that makes sense so there's three different types of chiropractice I find myself more of a mixer and more of a principal based or philosophically based chiropractor I I don't put myself in a medical based Chiropractic and the reason why I don't do that is because first of all I don't prescribe medications I think that medication should be the last option Last Resort well surgery should be the last Resorts as you see no drugs no surgery great results see that guys I like that you like that yes no drugs no surgery great results not saying that people don't need surgery not saying that people don't need drugs because there's been times where I've had surgery there's been times where I've taken drugs but in the United States alone over 100,000 people die alone of properly prescribed medications I believe that and two .1 million people have what we call agrogenic diseases and what agrogenic diseases are are diseases CS about the medications that we're putting into our bodies so I want people to try to try natural Avenues eating healthier exercising keeping a positive mental attitude getting the proper amount of rest all those things along with the chiropractic care and making those Lifestyle Changes helps us to live a more fulfilling life a I love you saying that Dr Cox because I believe you I really do they say that you know medication it brings on just more side effects maybe you'll be fine for this but it all brings like three different more problems because it's not the authentic thing you know the most high the Lord has put everything here for us exct you know on Earth and different natural remedies and um I actually know of a person who had um coid and she took a lot of Co medication and ended fews and I that was because she was just you know her body was filled with all those toxins she didn't take the natural approach so with you saying that I think that that's awesome and I think that that's great you know you don't need medication all the time or surgeries all the time it depends on the severity most of the time yeah exactly most of the time most of the time need you know so that's I'm glad that you brought it to now I'm not telling you not to take your medication I'm just saying that most of the time you don't need to take medications you can make lifestyle changes and I guarantee you you will notice a change in the way your body feels see coming from the doc himself guys coming from the doc himself so what would you say would be any advice for people coming from the diaspora who are looking to set up a business because you have a very prominent business here you know you've won different accolades um so people who are coming here you know that maybe a little apprehensive even business wise and even personally what advice would you give our brothers and sisters coming from the West well one of the things I would recommend is um do your research don't just come like I came on a limb you know I came on a Lim um don't do what I did and just come here out of the blue um make sure you you when you come here come and visit get get an understanding of the environment that you're dealing with first um understand the people because you cannot bring American American culture here and disrespect the culture here and think that you're going to have a thriving business because they will get you you know like Nigeria Nigeria they'll tell you straightforward you know they don't like certain things and they will get you you know they'll say right this is how it is mean what they say and say what they mean so they're more like Americans they're straightforward Gans on the other hand they will smile yeah and they will get you in the long run you don't even know that you've offended them no you may have not known that you offended them but you have offended them and it might be 10 years later 10 years out of the life get you you know so you just have to be very mindful you have to be very careful about how you deal with certain type of people and not everyone is your friend you know um although most people here in Ghana are are good people but there are some out here that are not um that that aren't the best they don't have your best interest they are looking for their interest and that interest is to um maybe go to America um that interest maybe to make more money um the interest they have an interest everybody has an interest right um but and and we all can work together to get that interest so we can build together exactly but some people they want more than that they may take from you illegally you know the corruption you have to be careful about the corruption make sure you don't fall into um that corruption aspect of things because it it can come back to hunt you in the long run so I try to do everything proper exactly and above board you know because I mean the saying is God don't bless mess exactly okay so you want right so you want to do things above board and what you were saying is very true you know it's good to understand the culture the system and I think sometimes when we come here we feel like we can just hit it as people being from the diaspora but it's important to take a little while to learn you know in the things that you were saying very very valuable information now one thing I did do um I looking back at things I I did that wasn't the best is that um you know sometimes people would do things that wasn't the right thing and I would I would yell you know I would yell I would say certain things that wasn't necessarily the you know the best and looking back at it I probably could have handled it a little bit differently but because I had was so high strong and I I I wanted the best and blah blah blah blah blah I wanted to do certain things I see some people coming here and I see them doing some of the things that I may have done um some people would they may yell uh some people may not know that they're uh offending a person by saying certain things but the word May the word they use may be an offensive word like I said why are you mad mad means crazy here exactly exactly you know where mad in the states is angry angry right take it mad States is angry so why are you mad and and the person would be like I'm not mad right you know meaning I'm not crazy but I didn't know that mad meant crazy exactly no I actually I feel you I feel you so much brother I've been in a few situations myself because I think it's just where we come from where it's you know things may be misinterpreted because we're thinking okay it's the one way but actually here it's another so really kind of even adjusting to the culture it it takes an adjustment it's an adjustment period because we've been gone for so long you know and it's now you know we're coming back so we need to learn the ways of how things are done here so I really appreciate you for going over that and just sharing your experience Dr Cox I can talk listen I can talk to you for hours well I can talk I can talk for hours I can talk to you for hours it was amazing so if anybody wants to get in touch with you how could they get in touch with you well they can get in contact with me um it's called spinal Clinic limited the number is 0244 837 317 also um 02461 99503 so the name of the office is spinal Clinic you can reach me at um all my social media handles spinal Clinic Limited at Instagram at Facebook at spinal Clinic limited.com a thank you so much for sharing information it was an honor it was a pleasure it a pleasure it really was and thank you guys for tuning in and we will have all of this information in the description box for you and please do not forget to like comment subscribe and share this information with others until next time bye [Music] bye | Royal Kingdom Estate | UCryI5ZAY0ZanOAWZ5aXcBBw | 2023-10-06 | Creative Commons 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dJxLWr07xno | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxLWr07xno | The Hitmen Of Tarkov - A Documentary About Contract Killers Of EFT | warning the following video contains explicit content of them at any time um what is the extractor what happened tell us about that they've been contract killed you have been contract killed by The Contract Killers of the abstracts murder done organization because you've been hired through God's bodies Vectra sends his best regards Buddies oh while some of you may deem the clip the quintessence of core Dyson wickedness you cannot deny the fact that tarkov is one of the most cruel environments in its Universe wherever specimen does everything to survive betrayal since the very first stages of the game has always been Incorporated but the most desperate opportunist and their survival tactics to squeeze out as much loot as they possibly could the stash in their backpacks I know how it goes you guys are new to the gamer oh oh that was a dick move the implementation of voice chat has only multiplied such occurrence since backstabbers have been given a tool to communicate with hostile players in the same rate which they can use to trick those less Vigilant into establishing alliance with them just to kill them by their extraction points the door's open he's leaving he's mad mad he's so mad oh my God while team killing itself is mostly disregarded by the majority of the EFT Community many talk of streamers benefit from this feature as a means not only to entertain Their audience but also gain riches from their Loot and level up with their characters in view of these facts team killing is a natural occurrence among other phenomena like camping which is more popular and respected because it's not a deceitable and doesn't cause trusting issues but it's completely a different story and the legality of purposeful Friendly Fire brings us to an alternative playstyle derived from basic unmotivated team killing which I call contract killing contract kill yourself yeah yeah no it's construction it's because of the contract filming because I am acquired Contract Killer you understand me even though I am the Creator for this very unpopular movement and it still haven't got distraction by the community I actually hire other EFT players who in most cases decide to take up this kind of dirty business as a party job to execute hits on various Discord servers some of you might be thinking right now that it doesn't make any sense to spend robots just to get someone to TK randoms in the game who didn't do anything to me well all I can say is I am an author opinion that's turkov unlike any other game deserves a new class of Team killers and since hardly anyone does this thing I felt obliged to do something about it and consequently founded the aftrax Mata contract killing organization of tarkov to encourage potential team Killers to do the same thing and now you're about to watch a footage depicting my contractors in action executing three players on an unknown Discord server contractor number 46 who is one of my contractors wasn't completely new to this line of work because he had already commented homicides before the following hit happened [Applause] I'm better did that character shoot us in the back oh he did yeah our teammate just he killed Metro sends his best regards bro however killing three people at the same time in different places could be formidable so I hired another Hitman to assist him and his execution on Customs the following [ __ ] contains vulgar language and depicts modus operandi when average team killer the clip doesn't feature my voice over leaving the action to your interpretation he needs to open in his life in the cabin or I need to do the box and are we going for some stuff we're in costumes [Music] not yet we're gonna do your friends Mission we can jump up jump over the wall I think he was the guy that was shooting us there he's coming he's coming this year [Applause] I guess shape [Music] there is no I'm second floor I'm just going through the dorms I'm pushing Mark I don't see anything nothing my freeze open we're Free's being opened already nice we can maybe do caring [Music] just like that one I'm dead there's somebody in there he's second this is me bro you just heard me oh damn [ __ ] sorry what's his name this is foreign sorry all right did you leave the group then yeah it is [Applause] thanks my boy they don't get anything [ __ ] no we can't change name so we can't change name in here we can change no that's not right that's the one we can't kill this yeah okay dude everything yeah basically okay but it was kind of [ __ ] to get them to stay in one place all right yeah but I made up for the second though like nice easy money well that was fun wait we didn't get well I mean we're gonna get banned anyway foreign | Wektrus | UC3z-9FBJCaotUfzeQHNul5A | 2023-03-26 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 843 | 4,747 |
Ex3zxIIqMFI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3zxIIqMFI | (ep 3) This game is the Dark Souls of Co-Op [DS3 gone G R I M E Y ] | welcome back boys and girls you know what it is you don't there will be a playlist so we can get caught up this is episode three I believe and I'm still playing or talking like I have a camera which I don't Wheldon juicy juicy fruit oils okay we're going down down and a lily around there we go yeah I need to save all the health I can so I'm gonna do this [Music] oh sorry I can't be much please then dragon not there anyone oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] and I read some titles of die please don't die pickle I don't know how I'm going Okada's more of it was morning I'm [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] nice you did it we did it we did it were a he ran like little fishes and survived the day Wow okay that was a shoulder break what you gonna do what you're gonna do what you're gonna do one kind do something Oh rest in peace was that your first death seems like your first death you I'm back now I'll clean up all the trash Mama's behind you and sunny nope we got him slide down here okay here's these [ __ ] I can't tell if he's a great or not I think so [Music] that dragons in a crispum right yeah there we go okay so hopefully they're a great on to you what's there you go nice okay oh hi let me take this out and just like so we got coming upstairs no oh there is that guy over there though let's my frame rates a bit better now their framerate looks a hell of a lot better oh hi ah okay cool he's dying without he was lunging Oh oh boy oh boy I'm just gonna he would I kind of come here there we go Jesus now you see why you just firebomb them all cuz that's a little insane and there's we're going down down and overly around getting all salsa oh did I not notice these big bastards before we should try ambush butthole I'm gonna just let you take point on this I hear a big boy oh there he is hello are we rushing past him where we fight - or fighting ow ow ow that is a really weird applause what a [ __ ] disjointed hitbox oh my god let me run over here yeah it's [ __ ] right oh I could really use another action Estes that would be noise I wonder if the heavy soul arrows are more efficient for mana hon okay because that wasn't behind him okay this is where we just were cool cool cool you know one thing I really I will really praise Dark Souls for is their [ __ ] world light world design our let me heal up a little bit oh god oh god oh god not cool haha that's hilarious Oh cuz they probably died and but they didn't come back with your armor time for lever do I pull it for you I didn't pull it that wasn't me I swear it wasn't me I swear I'm guessing we're supposed to get on this yeah okay cool oh hi I got faith in you okay I'm just gonna oh is this back up to where we were yeah here's the bonfire okay can I rest here and get my [ __ ] back I guess not hi work under schools in it okay oh oh and you're being invaded um I guess I'll spend some souls right quick and then meet you back there unless you want some help with that invasion okay I've got faith in you hell yeah what's a safe twink oh you don't gotta talk about love life like that [Music] am I just gonna dump this on to his human I think so yeah we do one in Caesarea went into intelligence so I get a little more damage right yeah just a little bit I know it's defense resuit unit time okay cool thank you okay this multiplayer isn't that that bad with having you have like your own world and having to basically reset whenever you die because it does give you an opportunity to like restock and everything I probably should have cut this off before I did all this some admin stuff but I'm gonna cut off the episode for YouTube here thank you guys for watching come check me out on at twitch.tv slash the only Munro knee it's my preferred platform I feel like the video give it a like if not let me know why in the comments but you knew you boo boobs if it's your own life but yeah thanks for watching I appreciate it bye bye | TheOnlyMonroni | UCAHa9afHp-pGRx7mW7l9jUQ | 2020-03-16 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 808 | 4,094 |
QWSztHKw6-Q | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSztHKw6-Q | Eviction Interview: Olivia & Dan | True Love Or True Lies? | true love or true lies obviously we are a real couple we've been together two years we got evicted for being the perfect couple we are the perfect couple and obviously that's the airman again but I mean people obviously felt a bit intimidated Chris and John and looking back on it now we did vote for them to go out what we do think Ellen Charlie might actually be a real cool pearl jmv more like friends friends and then Jack and lube we thought were a real couple but now we've got suspicions about them after foreigners out they said they've been together for like three months and to me that's just an excuse just to say oh we don't really know about a lot about each other being in the villa definitely sure to me that me and Dan are the perfect couple I mean that's why we got voted out and to be honest I'm happy in our relationship so I've got no worries probably Chris and John yeah it's a big race and joy I mean they're a really nice couple together and Chris opened up towards a lot and I think that's a really good way to start a friendship and I think they should win I want to said Luke and Jack Bert I mean they bonus yeah they've bought it is out so that's out the window now [Music] [Applause] | MTV UK | UCuwUfM8E79h2sqp34Fut6kw | 2018-08-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 238 | 1,211 |
_etotuUcFN4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_etotuUcFN4 | Amherst Planning Board: August 27, 2019 | [Music] so welcome to the amherst planning board it's tuesday august 27th uh tonight uh tuesday usually we're on wednesdays and it's 6 p.m not the 7. uh okay so there is six of us one member missing we will start with minutes first we have three sets so we can do those we'll start with wednesday june 19th does anyone have any comments or issues or changes for those minutes i see none move we approve the minutes a second any more discussion all in favor say aye aye great okay um next set of minutes was june 26th again any comments changes suggestions move we approve the minutes can i have a second any more discussion all in favor raise your hand say aye great um yeah yes two abstentions yeah that's true so jack abstain so we have four people yesing and the third minutes july 24th any comments issues discussion with those move we approve the minutes second and um any more discussion all in favor say aye raise your hand okay great um so and maria abstained on that one i assume yes okay good so chris thank you for all those minutes thank you pam [Laughter] credit where credit is due so right now we'll do the public comment period this is for anything that's not on our agenda for for this evening and if there's anyone here who just wants to speak to something to the planning board i don't see anyone so we'll move on um the third item is public hearing site plan review and special permits we did have schedule for six o'clock main street but i hope you guys don't mind we're gonna try to squeeze in something that came to our attention uh regarding um craig's doors no problem and we have a mr gates here chris do you have anything that you want to say about this um okay so a number of years ago um craig's doors and the first baptist church came to the planning board and requested approval to use the trailer that's behind the first baptist church as a service center for homeless people homeless clients who take part in craig's doors shelter and the planning board granted that approval but they were concerned about kind of a messy condition behind the trailer and so the planning board asked that if the trailer be in place in in two or three years that the church or craig stores come back with a plan for landscaping that back area so mr gates is here with a plan for landscaping and two members of the three members of the planning board took a site visit and possibly one of them would like to explain what they saw but here's mr gates to present his plan mr gates is the green light on or yeah chris will and then just say your name and who you're representing gerald gates is my name i represent first baptist church at this point but it has to do with the concern of craig's doors also the uh there was concern from the creek's doors that they didn't want something that was solid out in back because they felt people could hide behind it and they wouldn't know they were there my concern for the church was that we had something that was solid enough uh so that it would uh kind of screen the trailer but still would have plenty of room in in between it so i put i think they have the pictures yep pam or chris could we put one of the pictures up the just the one showing the anyway trailer mr gates i'm sorry for the interruption you can continue and ignore chris bester beside you clicking away this spring i located some grasses that grow about seven feet tall and they survived right through the winter they didn't break down they were strong enough so that's what you're going to see in the picture is these grass plants put apart so that you can see in between and then in the summer you'll see some pictures of flowers on the uh university side of those so as you look you see the flowers they're they're uh same ones they use in pots and so forth and that would add the color through the summer in the wintertime we don't worry about it because the snow plows plows up piles of snow sorry i don't have the image you all have images in your pockets we did get that one sent to us in an email so the board has seen that picture so that's what we're proposing we do we also went over with the three people that came about keeping the place in order we do park uh two trailers in there one of them picks up food today it was 1700 pounds of food for tomorrow which we give out the church gives out to a food pantry to about 90 to 100 families and we also provide food during the week for the community breakfast and we also provide food to the cafe that operates in the church thank you now the other trailer is one that picks up bottles and cans from the landfill and we sort them in the back everything is undercover when we get through and those are the two trailers the other items that are there are where the water comes up from the church down into the trailer and also we have a marker for the sewage that goes out and goes back up to the church okay thank you it might be helpful to have a report about the site visit i don't know if maria or janet one of you want to um thank you the three of us sure um the three of us were there uh i think it was yesterday and um we did see the sort of hitch trailer being pulled off and it's like a 12-foot trailer that's just attached to the back of a pickup and it was pulling some recycling bins away and so that trailer and another sort of the food cart trailer you're talking about are the only two large objects behind the sort of temporary structure what we call craig stores trailer and it was much tidier than i don't remember what year it was now maybe two years ago where there were a lot of um shop tools and paint buckets and just debris in general and a lot of bags of cans sort of along the entirety of the backside and when we went it was just a stainless steel table with some tools on top that were covered by a tarp and part of a plumbing system i imagine it was like a sewage ejector and then a holding tank of some kind behind the shed and it actually looked really tidy to be honest and we saw the grasses and they were maybe six to eight feet apart from each other the flowers that mr gates mentioned were not installed yet but he provided a photo to sort of um illustrate that but um in general it was much more tidy and clean and did not look like sort of the backyard of a space anymore and um yeah i don't know if you guys have anything to add no these are photos that they're passing down uh thank you maria um at this time are there any questions from the board for mr gates so any questions great um mr gates thanks for coming i'm just a little puzzled a few months ago mr weiss came as i understood the as the chairman of the board for craig's doors you're here on behalf of the church that owns the property that permits craigslist treasurer and operations to go on and there was you know during i knew it appeared before at least i was here at a previous and i'm a little just still confused as to in what capacity and who is speaking on behalf of craig's daughters and what you know what and what authority you know what what actions being asked and by who because there's when mr weiss was here that was that was the central question and that it's not really been resolved as far at least in this moment in this in this meeting and so i'm just not clear as to you know in what in what authority who's asking for what here other than to meet a several year ago several years ago planning for condition right that's correct that was uh craig's door's use of the trailer the church rents that portion that the trailer sets on the land outside of that trailer uh is first baptist church i think at the time that i came before i was chairman of the board of uh craig's doors and i'm now off the board and so jerry weiss was answering to the original uh petition that came before the board to use the trailer as a media a center for homeless and uh i'm here representing the church and what goes on behind the trailer on the church property so he was concerned that the use of the church you granted that use but in that granting of that use there was a two or three year period that we were supposed to come back and give some sort of landscape setup the shelter when jerry weiss was here was concerned about people hiding out back which we're concerned about also so i think that what i'm presenting to you lasts through the winter as camouflage as far as the parking lot of the university and what they saw the other day we agreed to keep it looking that way and so there's really two things going on here but jerry weiss is more concerned about answering the two or three year period that that really craig's doors has that you granted so my understanding that sorry chris may i follow up my understanding then is that the church will be maintaining this covering of the grasses and the flowers yes that and and thus satisfying the condition for craig's door's use of the of that space for the planning board yeah they don't the craig stores doesn't use that space the church uses it that church only has granted them the uh property that the trailer sets on so it's really the church that is saying to you yes we will keep that at this point jack uh i would benefit uh because i didn't know this was on the agenda um chris can you provide some perspective and an intro just so i can get my head back into what we're talking about here because i'm totally confused so initially if you will recognize me initially craig's doors approached the planning board to have a feeding shelter or feeding station in the trailer behind the church at the baptist church the baptist church houses craig's doors which is a shelter for people in the winter from the 1st of november to the 1st of april but they didn't have any place to have dinner they wanted to have dinner earlier than the shelter actually opened so the trailer was set upon church property and the planning board gave permission to have that shelter there have that trailer there then craig stores decided it was easier to feed people inside the church rather than have them be fed in the trailer and so they moved the feeding operation back into the church and then they had the trailer on site and they said oh well let's use the trailer for a service center for people who are using craig's doors a place where people can come to get advice about looking for a job or looking for an apartment or whatever kind of help that they might need being a homeless people who don't really have access to a lot of services so craig source has been operating the trailer as a service center for people who use craig's doors during this process the planning board was willing to grant permission for the trailer to be there and to be used in these ways but the planning board was disappointed in the way the back of the trailer was maintained there's also an operation that mr gates is involved with which uses people who stay in the shelter as workers for the bid and they get paid for working for the bid so they do a lot of cleaning up around the downtown and some of the material that they bring from downtown they end up storing behind the trailer so there are really kind of three uses i guess back there one is craig's doors has the trailer there one is that the bid the business improvement district has um two uh small trailers that can be dragged by a car or a truck that pick up material from the downtown and three is that all three groups store materials in those sheds that are behind the trailer and a lot of that material kind of spilled out into the area behind the trailer and it became very messy there were white buckets and orange cones and all kinds of things back there so the planning board said you really have to screen it and there was a discussion about should there be a fence to screen it or should there be planting to screen it and some members of the planning board wanted one thing and some wanted another craig stores in the church were concerned that if they were too solid a screening there that people would hide there and you know there would be nefarious activities happening there so um the uh church is now coming forth with this plan to have tall grasses which will grow up to six feet tall placed about i think 10 feet apart maybe i'm not exactly sure but that seemed like about the spacing and then in front of those on the umass side they want to plant flowers in the springtime so the people who went on the site visit saw the grasses there they were actually planted in place and they were probably about four feet tall as of this point and now you're being asked to determine whether that meets the requirement for providing a landscape plan for the back of the trailer the third photo has like is that real or is that uh a design a collage proposing what it will look like in time it's a schematic yes janet um i'm confused about who applied for the special permit and whether a person representing that group is here is the because my thing says it's a special permit craig's doors filed the request for a site plan review approval and then there's no one from craig's doors here is that correct and then you're representing the church who hasn't made that application i was chairman of craig's doors at the time that that was applied for and i was the one that came before you so do we have a representative of craig's doors now or do you know concierge voice came in representing craig's doors and what they wanted to do in the trailer that was what uh so i'm just wondering who applied for the site plan for the permit i i did as chairman of the craig's doors that was what two two years ago three years ago so chris if i can just clarify so mr gates has been before us a few times and then we had asked for by march of 2019 for this to be followed up on and finished and at that time it was mr weiss who came before us and he said that we they hadn't really acted on that i don't think it was forgotten but it just hadn't been not gotten to so we said well you still need to come back so this is the plantings were made and effort has been made the place has been tidied up so i think what they're asking is do you have permission to be here tonight and speak on behalf of craig's doors and finish yes this okay so yeah i was just confused about who was representing who and when um i have just a comment two questions another question is when is the um trailer in operation um like what times of the year is it year round or is it a smaller trailer well i meant i meant the building the the portable trailer the portable building oh that's used year-round okay there has been for the last two years because they've had people in there there's a nurse that comes uh the office was moved down there uh when we asked to go from feeding to just office and a lot of the homeless meet in there to find homes and get get homes or get jobs from us uptown and that's what it's used for now the last two years it's been open all summer chris a question um so is this still a temporary use like how is this whole process is there an end time on it or okay it is quote a temporary use i think the church has plans to expand their building at some point and incorporate craig stores shelter into that building i i haven't seen those plans but i've heard mr gates talk about them and i've heard others talk about them i think it's going to take quite a while for them to raise the money to do this project and it's going to be a complicated project and so it's taking them longer than they expected it to take um and so that's that's all i can really say so this is temporary in quotes but we don't have an end end date thank you we have hired an architect the church has hired an architect and they've worked on the master plan in that master plan there is room for a shelter up to or a little larger than what we have where a year round they would right now they can't come in too early because the church is a very busy church and when they came it's the only place they could find in the in the town uh so we said yes you can come in but it's it's got to be under certain conditions but when we build a new one we'll make a place for them for year round um okay so this is all helpful and the temporary part sort of puts it more in a framework of what kind of problem we're trying to solve here i have to go uh the 17th i think it is to boston because rob morrow has to turn down the request of the church to use it for shelter because the church is not completely sprinkled so he has to turn it down then i have to go to boston and they give me a variance for a three-year period and i i think if the planning board is going to take a position it would be good to follow that three-year cycle because every three years rob has to turn it down every year for three years and then i have to go back to the state if we're not in the building mode at that time that would keep the planning board up to date with what the church is doing and what craig stores is doing i hear you in the sense of that i just with regard to the plantings is what we're really talking about today where we left it last time it was sort of like fence or plantings but the real problem was the mess and what i observed at the site visit is it was neat and tidy so um and hearing about these temporary options maybe a fence is not needed and you have the grasses planted i assume the flowers would be planted next spring is there a way chris that we can okay this and then maybe the town follows up next summer just to make sure not just the plantings but that it's still tidy and neat i can make a note to myself to do that yes any other questions from the board um okay so we would need a motion now chris to approve this level of plan approve that this plan that mr gates is presenting meets the requirement of that condition that was in the cycling review approval um i will just before we someone says repeats that i just want to ask the public here if there's any questions regarding this this issue i don't see any hands so is anyone here comfortable of course anyone else have any other questions or issues or are we ready to make a motion i moved to approve the site plan submission and um that the conditions have been met from [Music] the uh 2017 site plan review conditions i hope i said that right sounds good enough that um anyone wanted to second that i'll second that okay um is there any further discussion chris anything else we've forgotten good all right so um all in favor say aye raise your hand so unanimous thank you mr gates i hope you have a green thumb thank you for being patient okay so we'll go to the next one we're going to continue the hearing from july 24th this is spr 2020-01 and spp 2020-01 462 main street llc center east commons and we have a follow-up from our applicants their lawyer thank you chris do you have anything to add i just wanted to say something before we get started which is that miss chao was not present on july 24th but she has submitted a letter saying that she's reviewed all of the materials and watched the video of the july 24th meeting and she feels that she is eligible to vote on this project and she submitted a statement in writing thank you that's the mullen rule is that great thank you so your role thank you very much madam chair members of the board i'm tom reading an attorney with bacon wilson here in amherst here on behalf of the applicant 462 maine llc in its application as the chairwoman noted uh for a site plan review and a special permit for the property at 462 main street here in amherst uh with me this evening we've got um the manager of 462 maine the property owner property owner john robleski and then we have our architect christine royal so as a quick background we were here on the 24th we talked about what was existing on the site we talked about the site we had our engineer here we talked about the parking we talked about the traffic we talked a bit about management and then we i think the clock struck like 10 45 and i think everybody turned into a pumpkin so we are back here to hopefully talk about architecture respond to any questions that you may have as you may recall we had a what i would consider a short list of homework to provide to you cut sheets for the lighting which christine will get into photometric plan which she will get into we have provided draft copies of the commercial and residential leases they're drafts they're not finalized yet but we provided those for your records we've got a parking management plan and a complaint response plan which i believe were submitted initially but we wanted to make sure that you had those and then you know other than that i think john did a really great job baking this to a point where there was a complete submission initially and i think that's why we're here tonight at this earlier hour so with my thanks for your amenability and meeting i'll turn it over to christine to talk about the architecture no good evening everyone my name is christine royal i'm an architect working with maple street architects out of northampton we've been working on this project i'm happy to walk through the architectural design with you at this point as you can see in front of you is a rendering of the west facade of the building we've taken some steps to really address the massing and the scale of this project as it runs north to south along this site so we're working with a few different roof heights we're working with stepping the building back and forward along that sight line so that the view from main street is not overwhelming as tom reedy had mentioned in or we had gone through the other evening this is mixed use so this contains both residential one two and three bedroom units as well as a business unit the business unit and this rendering is on the right hand side on the lower on the south end on the first floor great so this is the view from main street and you can see the existing building on the left hand side and then the proposed new construction on the right hand side and the steps that we've taken to address the massing and the scale of the project so the fronts are also garrisoned there's a short over overhang on the first floor as well as a porch like overhang that's similar in language to the original building we're also working with a clapboard and shingle siding as well as the detail around the eaves and the gables to help unify the site and the language that's there on main street a little hard with a shadow of the light up there this is the site plan i think we went through the site plan pretty exhaustively in the last meeting with the civil engineer the layout of the parking the existing building all of the storm water management so you can see that we have the setbacks along the sides and the rear of the building and that existing curb cut in from main street and the new parking proposal i think maybe one thing to note on this is that there was a renegade step and light at the rear of that office space back here that has been removed we have not removed it from the engineering plans yet but assuming that hopefully we'll get approved this evening we would update those plans and submit a final set to the town showing that the step in the light were also removed so with regard to the overall height of the building you can see we're just over 37 feet to the midpoint of the average height of the roofs which is well below the 40-foot restriction on this site this is the sight lighting plan so we have three types of lights on the building or in the site one is a sight full mounted light those are called out uh they're 12 foot pole lights there's one at the north end of the parking there's one in the center meet so this is the first one at the north end there's one here in this landscaped area that divides the parking and there's another here near the entry we're also working with bollard lights so low bollard lights along the pathways that are at the edge of the parking and adjacent to the residential and business area we also have recessed canopy lights in the porch-like overhang that's along the west sides of the buildings at the entries and we've also in the site photometric plan and on this plan called out the existing lights on the existing building so these are re these are surface mounted ceiling lights on the porch of the existing building as well as some wall sconces on the exterior of the existing so this plan shows the photometric distribution of the individual lights all of these are being specified at 3 000 the kelvin the color temperature of the light which i think you're all interested in as well as no less than 70 for a color rendering index oh yes and of course they're also all dark sky compliant thank you for that reminder so this is the existing sign on the property that calls out the business use in the existing building we plan on refurbishing this keeping the existing form as it is not making it any bigger or relocating it enlisting the new potential business operations on the site as well as the name of the residential development center east commons this is a general landscaping plan that talks about the trees and the shrubbery and the plantings that we're looking at for use around the site most of it is centered along the parking and at the edges of the new construction and then lastly this is our site photometric plan we worked with a vendor to identify the lights that we would work with as well as their performance capabilities all of the zeros indicate zero foot candles which is important for no light trespass at the edge of the property line we're working with an average of one foot candle across the parking lot so with no more than a four foot candle hot spots so that we're reducing the glare and keeping the lighting fairly even although low across the site as i mentioned we're looking at 3000 for the color temperature of all of the lights the sight pole lights have both type 2 type 3 and type 4 distribution which just means the shape of the light pattern as it hits the ground the bollard lights are all type 3 which is long and rectangular as they run along the sidewalks and lastly as i had mentioned the color rendering index the minimum that we're working with is 70. the color rendering index is what allows you to tell the difference between a black shirt and a navy shirt and a green shirt in the dark sure um so so this photometric plan is what we worked with with the vendor for the lights as we've put them across there is an existing light pole at the edge of the site that light has not been incorporated into this study clearly and this is the existing curb cut onto main street so i'm happy to back it up to the rendering and answer any questions or talk about any comments that you might have any questions from the board they're all looking at the clients i have a little one either the well it could be the i don't have it the site plan that shows the lights where you're installing them and then looking at the light distribution i do notice the trash room that's sort of like the ramp that goes up to it is there going to be a wall mounted light there or anything because it it does look dark there let me work on um zooming in i have to look at the little screen sure so we have a ballard light indicated here for the pathway and there's an existing wall sconce as well as an existing surface mounted and another existing wall sconce on the building so in this area there is a decent amount of light with the addition of the bollard for access to that area and the site light is not far away just on the photometric yeah if you zoom in there i'm just concerned about where the ramp when you're actually getting into that little nook to go into the trash room and just on a follow-up we don't usually get on the inside but i sued when you go in there's automatic lights that will go on or something like that so i'm just trying to think of safety if you're bringing your trash out as far as occupancy sensors so there is a limitation when we're working with vendors for their understanding of the existing lights and what you know what light they put out which is why this says zero at that point so we do know that there are existing lights on the building that we plan on maintaining and that with the ballard light in this space that we're we should have more than enough this is one foot candle right here at the in the middle and two and a half i know it's hard to read there two and a half foot candles at the bottom line and i think that mr robleski would if it if it was any concern put an additional light there tucked away in the corner to make sure that there's not an issue yeah or replace the existing with a light that could be photometrically planned do any other board members have see a concern that i have a question about where the door to the trash room is is it just dark there no the door to the trash room is not dark let's see i think isn't it yeah see i don't think we have a sight plan that shows the door location do we have the first the trash room's that back part of the existing building right um i don't have a plan that yeah so this is this is a sidewalk going into the classroom and the bikes are at the on the side of the bike yeah letting it catch up a little bit so i think this this is the location of where the right john this is where the trash door will be it's currently on the north side but it's being relocated to to this side at the end of that a sidewalk sidewalk and if you could just pull that down a little bit yeah this this seems to be frozen it's okay we haven't talked about the wheelchair ramp that's there for access is that what that is there on the north uh the north side of the building there is no wheelchair around that's what i was wondering so what is the there was the trash room where the existing door is and then i understood that it was being moved to the east side which we can see the ramp there it's the sidewalk yes and then is there anything on the north side of the building i see some lines a bike rack um so i'm just wondering that area if we go back to the photometric it's it says it's all zeros at the door of the trash room and the bike racks so that's what i'm sort of having the concern about yep i understand your concerns uh so as i had mentioned there is an existing light here and there are others along the porch two wall sconces and a surface mounted ceiling light but the vendor is only able to model the lights in the photometric plan that they provide that is really the limitation when the board asks for a photometric plan it makes us work with a vendor who can supply the plan but then they only will show the lights that they are providing i understand that so you're saying there's an existing light on the north side there are three existing lights i just need you to assure us that those are going to be similar to what you're proposing they'll be downward facing sky compliant right that's what so even though the door will be taken out the electricity that will stay there and there'll be a light yes that goes on and off with like the other lights right okay that's what we're looking for okay thank you does anyone have any other questions about the other information they brought back to us um if we look at the list yeah i just had a question about the sign i know we got a photo in here this is showing a light that is in a bush oh yeah yeah yeah existing yeah yes so this is the planted area and there is the light here for the sun so that is the light that you're asking about yes yeah and you have some working or going to be replaced it's just we'll ultimately make sure that the lights there are functioning right now i think the photos you got were the ones that john you had sent um which just show that the the lights are in a poor state of repair and not functioning so yeah ultimately we will and we'll make sure that they're focused i mean they're going to be up lighting that's the type of sign that this is but they'll be focused on the sign so as to not just be flood lights going straight up in the air they will be focused on the sign and this would be done before the new building is opened and yeah along with all the groups janet did you have a question i have a question about the lease and um it's you there's not going to be students allowed on this property they're not going to lease the students how do you enforce that is that in the lease or where will that be yes undergrads thanks that's a policy of ours you know we have the property next door and that's really enforced through the vetting process the application process the students are not a protected class so it's not a requirement of the lease it's just you don't lease to undergraduates as a policy okay yeah we have the you know 12 units next door and we've never had undergraduates there it's kind of a mix of professionals and graduate students working couples professionals from japan so it's a good mix and that's what we intend to do here also michael to follow up on that question um i i i've been on this board for a number of years now and i have always been under the impression that it was not possible to discriminate against undergraduates in rental processes now you're saying you can do that i'd like some clarification as to why that is permissible and why it has not been permissible in other developments that have where this issue has arisen sure so i think to put a finer point on it i think the word discrimination is the one we want to stay away from and i think what mr robleski is saying he's he's not discriminating against them by not allowing them in in he is just as we've seen with other conditions of other developments um choosing marketing strategies that elicit the types of tenants that he wants and i think that buffered with the fact that students are not a protected class because i think stepping back if he went in and said i'm not going to rent any students there's probably going to be an issue with that whether it's um that he that he is discriminating and somebody wants to take a shot at saying you're discriminating you can't do that and now's the time and we're going to make an example of you or there are some other reasons why they can say yeah you're saying it's because we're students but it's really because we're fill in some other protected class so i think we want to be careful about saying discrimination on the one hand because i think you're right while they may not be a protected class you always want to be you know you don't want to discriminate but i think what mr obuski can do is gear his marketing efforts towards folks that he he wants in there and so it's it's the media through which he communicates it's the references it's it's whether he goes through the undergraduate housing or he goes through a graduate study program or um the different advertising devices so i just i think we want to be careful about it because i don't want the representation to be he's discriminating against students i think he has done a great job in his existing property and i trust will do a great job at this property to make sure that it's appropriately managed and that for him to do that he finds that uh the marketing mediums he uses is the the best to accomplish that you want a lawyer answer that's a as lawyer as i can get but so so i'm sorry i can let michael finish up it strikes me that this is um slippery um i think a fairer question to the developer is will you accept an undergraduate as a tenant as a matter of my policy to this point now uh how do you justify that marketing aside i understand that the marketing strategies uh but if if some undergraduate with the right amount of cash comes in off the street how can you say i'm sorry i can't i won't rent to you i don't know that you can i don't i don't know that we haven't had conversations about that saying turn people down if they are undergraduates um so i don't know how to answer to be honest yeah i mean if you look on some of the marketing sites you know like gamersrent.com and so forth a lot of them do say no undergraduates i think this has been through the process you know a few times and landlords are able to do that and it's you know the kind of property we want to maintain because you know i know what the undergraduate scenario could be and we wanted to we want to avoid that i mean i have a house further down main street that's always been undergraduates but we manage it the same and we never had any issues so it's you know a lot to be said i think in a way it's managed and the way it's the application process goes also i meet with the parents down there for the undergraduate and given my phone number my cell phone everything it's communication back and forth i understand the um goals of your policy and i'm in sympathy with them my question really is not so much to you as it is a general question relative to many of the other developments that we have discussed in the last three years at this board in many cases it has been said that it is impossible to eliminate undergraduates from buildings because it is they are although the word protected class may not have been used uh that has been the assumption um and i'd like to i just want to make it clear for the board and for the record that in this case we are assuming the developer has the option to exclude undergraduates so that when this issue comes up again we can tell developers that yes you have the option to exclude undergraduates if you choose to do so and that may be an issue that we need to think about as a board in the future janet so um i think that's a great question and we should figure it out partly i was just reading the amherst housing market study and they were recommending that apartments be built for non-students undergraduate students to kind of open up space for families and you know people in their 20s and so so that'd be a great legal question to answer but it also makes me look at this building somewhat differently because you're not going to always be the owner of the of the building and so i think we have to consider that in the future you know these apartments could be filled with undergraduate students or partially filled and what would the impact be on the neighborhood in a building that's maybe not so well managed i know we have the bylaw and things like that but i think we should look at it as this looks like it's going to be a really well managed situation but future owners may not adhere to that and so we should think about that impact as we discuss any other questions yes yeah also in the lease another another issue that's arising it has to do with um subletting and the potential airbnb or the short-term rental um possibilities and and then just glancing at not really studying at all the subletting provision it doesn't seem as if that's there's there's protections against that and i'm wondering if you've given that thought what your thoughts are if they're if it's consistent with being concerned about is short-term turnover and conversion of your use of these spaces for other purposes how you would protect against that well our subletting policy as it says in the lease there is you know the subletter would have to go through the same application process as the original tenant so we would go through that same process and and not until i approve that sublet are they allowed in so as far as the airbnb i've never really considered that type of thing but i understand what you're saying i don't foresee that ever happening i mean i have two daughters one of them is very interested in the real estate and they proceed staying in the family for a good long time so i guess i can't answer what's going to happen you know 20 25 years down the road but all i can say is that's our intention at this point is to manage it the same as we have next door and further down main street with the undergrads and i think if the the short-term rental the airbnb is i think it's likely deemed some sort of subletting like a quasi subletting and i think if if uh a tenant were to because airbnbs are advertised online and so if ms robleski saw that one of his units one of the units was advertised online i think the next thing is a call or a visit to the person that's there saying you know what our subletting provision is and then i think the next step is for us to have a conversation about whether airbnb makes sense at all short-term rental makes sense at all because i think part of it is if somebody's hard up against it and they're a professor and they're going to visit at some other university can and they have to pay the rent to mr robleski but they can't find somebody to take their lease what can they do and is airbnb some sort of solution and we just haven't vetted the question yet but i don't think just on its face it's something that we should immediately say no but it's something i think we have to talk about some more could that possibly be a condition of the approval i mean i'm going to have it i mean rather than get into a situation like that i would let the unit stay vacant for a period of months until the next turnover time is that something we usually do was that exactly what was the question um what what could be a condition of the approval i wasn't sure that i understood that um well it could come from the border do you want to propose what you'd be comfortable with putting on the as a condition i mean yeah i would suggest did he not put that condition on if it was up if it was up to me i'd say of course i mean leave it to see what the market dictates and if there's an issue then um i mean we can address it at that time but i think just to i think john has proved himself as a valuable property owner and property manager i think you've got i've taken a look at the list of potential conditions and you've got one in there where if john's no longer the manager the next manager has to come in at a public meeting and review and have that new management plan approved which i think if there have been issues at the property at that time there's the opportunity to address them so i would suggest we don't impose that condition okay thank you for making that clear so does the board want to propose something that's a condition are we talking about airbnb specifically i'm just thinking about the expansion of the the po the possibility of of tenants current tenants posting online whether it's couch surfing or or or worse you know you moving into the common room and then posting online the bedroom for short-term rentals that may fly under the radar of the otherwise vigilant and scrupulous mr blaspheme you know i'm not confident in the management but but i'm just i'm as these things develop and we are trying to not anticipate 30 years in advance but be a little more proactive in in thinking about develop you know changing uses to the the projects that are approved could i jump in i have i have that in my leases with my tenants that they cannot do airbnbs i just don't really want them profiting off of my that way so that could be a lease condition so are you proposing that we put a condition that they do not allow for airbnb or anything like that in their buildings my issue with it right now is is it it's not exactly spot zoning but this is an issue it is an issue that we have to look to to all of our buildings and and maybe we need to get reactive to this as holistically and come up with something on how we can apply this to to all and not just micro on one this is where i get uncomfortable but chris do you have some feelings on this well i think the state is coming up with some regulations about this and the town probably should look at this very carefully i think the intention is there to look at it there just hasn't been the time and it does seem to me to be a more global problem than just focused on this particular property so i think that you know as a town we should really look at this issue but perhaps not um make this condition for this particular property at this time i feel comfortable that he's an experienced landlord and it's pretty obvious that he wouldn't want to have airbnbs coming in and out of his building you expressed how careful you are about subletting so i assume that that would just go to a higher level also it is an important issue and it's going to keep coming up but um okay so you know chris please not please you know keep us abreast of because i know the state is katana you know they got the taxes out now they're cranking on some and it is changing all over the country my daughter is in hawaii right now and she is in the last two weeks of doing airbnbs and oh and well she's in honolulu because they won't be allowed to do airbnbs anymore so it is changing yeah yes janet um i have a question about the parking waiver and which is section 7.9 of the zoning bylaw and i just wanted to clarify that you're asking for a waiver under 7.910 which is at peak parking needs generated by on-site uses occur at different times because there's not enough parking and you're asking for a waiver and i know that at the site visit you were saying that you know this day use by your offices and you're expecting your tenants to be off and you know driving about and so you they're going to be at different times i just want to clarify that's what you're seeking that's the greatest i think what we're seeking is twofold so that's part of it is that there are complementary uses you have the office use because it's a mixed use site so you've got the office usage which occur from eight to five nine to five and then you have um the residential uses which occur at the opposite hours you know eight to eight or five to eight depending um but then also your bylaw requires that two spaces be provided for every dwelling unit what we're asking for we're saying we're not going to meet that what we're meeting is some lesser amount where we're providing the number of spaces let me get it out here so i don't misspeak so i think we've got um one space per and i think it should be in your packet one space per one and two bedroom and then two spaces for each of the three bedrooms and so we're we're looking for a waiver from strict compliance with application of two two spaces per unit michael are those restrictions uh expressed in the lease yes they they will be it will be for each so for one bedroom they will have one parking space designated to it yes and that goes to i think at the last meeting i said the property next door we have 40 bedrooms here and through the years at the park and the number of cars per bedroom ratio has gone down i just had four grad students come visit today they sign a new lease for number eight and one has a car they like the location you know the bus stop right there in front of the building here so they actually walk from 22 high street right to the front of that office that we're proposing there right to the bus stop which is right at that telephone pole in front of the building so i think location has a lot to do with it and that's what you're looking for grad students don't typically have a lot of money and sometimes don't have a car and that's what we've seen over the years even the professionals they have one car so you said you have 40 spots next door and i think at the last meeting you had said something that you had been doing some loose counts and it was more on that i think four years ago we had well years back when we first built it 20 years ago i think we had like 30 cars and there's 34 parking spaces the last four years have gone 28 27 the last two years including the upcoming year 23. wow so that also means you do have some overflow parking in that other building because it's not usually ever maxed out there are yeah there's always spaces there i mean you can drive in there most anytime and you know even on a sunday morning and see that there's probably six or eight empty spaces easily all right thank you maria um first i want to say i really appreciate the way the architecture has stepped down at the street to really keep with the scale of the houses so i just want to put that out there and um so we're talking about parking have you designated which ones are for the business versus residential i didn't quite cut it in the plan i think it came down to the when you look at the ratio by understanding the question are you asking how many spaces are required for the business oh no absolutely is that actually designated yeah so there are some compact spaces as as well as full-size spaces and are you looking to designate the spaces for the office versus residential exactly no okay and the other question is um as far as the construction staging are the is the existing building still in use during construction or so do you have a plan for like um staging and management of the yeah the current tenant there he said um he's only got two employees and we actually had one of the bigger tenants just moved out they deal with some children that have speech difficulties and some physical difficulties and found that the old building wasn't quite meeting their needs and they moved actually right to the center of town so the one tenant that's still there is the crossman properties and he's the one that's going to move into the new [Music] but he can stay there you know during that time he's familiar with the vfw and if you remember we have the permission from the vfw which is directly across the street so we don't foresee that as an issue janet so i i um i have done some bad math on your um parking thing because i thought that you were had enough spaces to account for your your residential use and so i see in the parking waiver section that if you have peak parking needs generated by on-site uses occurring at different times i was thinking oh okay so you know people are out during the day the offices i don't see anything in the bylaw that lets the board just say they wanted less they didn't think they were going to need that much and there are some conditions that we could reduce it but i don't see where that would be met by just saying we just don't think we're going to need that much and so that's sort of my where i'm hanging right now chris um we have traditionally relied on section 7.9 of the bylaw which says any section or subsection of article 7.0 parking regulations may be waived or modified by the permit granting board or special permit granting authority authorized to act under the applicable section of the bylaw for compelling reasons of safety aesthetics or site design so i think that's what they're asking for their modification under 7.90 also chris um when was that bylaw last edited or created do you know because to me it's sort of an old it's been around a long time and it's sort of like the airbnb things you know trends are changing and this is another area that we're going to have to look at to bring up to modern times it might it might be an old law but it is a law and i would just be happy if you would come up with a compelling reason of safety aesthetics or site design and so not any reason but like a compelling reason i think i mean site design is the reason when you look at how linear the site is and the number of parking spaces that can fit on the site plus when you i think one of the board members mentioned the scaling and the massing of the property when you look at the site and how it can be developed and i'll even step back further and say this was a site that was rezoned some number of years ago to allow uses specifically like this and so the only way to make a meaningful development is to design it like this and so what we've got to do is because of the linear nature of the site place the parking on each side of that drive aisle and as a result there's only a certain number of parking spaces that we can get where we end up with the 32 and i think with that um especially giving past planning board practice um mr robleski's testimony relative to the the actual number of parking spaces that are needed we think that those are both compelling reasons and i think site design and even aesthetics are what the the board should rely on well if i may speak you know to the site design if you remember you know i had met with the neighbors was here tonight and talked about designing so we could save some mature maple trees that are currently giving them some shade protection you know from the buildings there and anything that goes on there so the one island that we have um in between that the upper part right there there's like a 24 inch maple tree there and that you know gives shade to the property to the uh west then on the north end of the parking lot where i think we talked about that one 12-foot light pole is that gives the shade and so forth to the house directly to the north and that fence that's actually shown there is is installed we put that in last week so that white fence the six and a six foot high white uh vinyl fence that now comes around the corner and they like the way that looks gives them kind of a sense of a more private yard so that's you know part of the design aspect too jack you mentioned you have uh excess parking on the neighboring lot that you managed as well is there a path that would be available in terms of being able to walk if that is overflow parking is there well yeah they currently do walk they walk like see the existing sewer line there in front of that building right there they walk right down the sidewalk there and then right along where the drainage right there they go right to the bus stop they've kind of created a path there i don't provide a path there you know kind of like cows pastured again i figured there was something yeah yeah and you know but yeah i guess they can certainly park next door if i have the spaces but i don't want to say yes you can park over there it's actually worked out this past winter for big snowstorms i have my tenants from high street parking a lot that's currently on 462. you clean everything up so i see that you know happening in the future with both properties also just you know for snow management i will bring up the um how you had gone to the uh historical commission and um they deemed the i don't know shed or so they did put a 12-month delay on it but they said that the delay could be lifted sooner if you um come up with alternatives to why it's or why it's not feasible um and you know that's not our jurisdiction but i just want to say that if whatever gets changed on the plans would have to come back here of course especially regarding the parking of course and mr roblowski had been through the before the last time we were here mr robleski had been through the historical commission and they waived demolition delay because they found that the building was not significant fast forward 15 months without anything materially changing they have now found that it is significant yes it was only 15 months ago no june 12th of 19 2018 was the hearing and yeah they deemed it not significant at that point and did not put a one-year delay so now there is i had no idea all right so as long as you know that any other questions from the board okay um at this point i was going to open it up to a public comment is there anyone here who has any questions for this i i nope someone just got nope no questions okay so chris at this point i have a list of possible conditions and i don't know if you've added any more but um having not done this before do i go through each question and just solicit comments from the board if anyone has so um staff came up with um some suggested conditions for you that are based on other projects that we've done in the past i did review them with the building commissioner um and i think they're the conditions are in your packets the ones that were mailed to you and you could go through those one by one and decide whether you think those are appropriate or not another thing you could do is just kind of put this public hearing on hold and go on to the next one the tree hearing because i know there are a lot of people here and they go back to this one i think it's going to take you a while to go through the conditions exactly and then you're also going to have to go through your site plan review criteria um in 11.24 so there's kind of a lot of work that still needs to be not done on this project and you know if you think you can put this one on hold and go to the tree hearing and get through that quickly you can come back to this i'm just suggesting that as possible i agree and do i go through the conditions first or go through the um the other list which do i do first sometimes if you go through the criteria it elicits new conditions i mean you can do it either way that's all right we'll do the criteria and then we'll do conditions all right so um because we have a room full of a lot of people who i know who are waiting for the tree hearing i have to maneuver you guys around again i'm so sorry thank you for your continued patience but um so work do i have to take a make a motion to put the public hearing on hold or could you take a motion to suspend the to succeed until later this evening and come back to it later in the evening and it's okay for our architect to do a motion leave our architect can leave we don't need to i don't know if there's going to be any other questions are there any other questions for the architect i see none thank you so much yes this is not so much a question is it is a comment and i want to i want to commend the architect and the developer for creating a project which beautifully fits into the existing landscape and provides in my view all of the aesthetic issues it solves all of the aesthetic issues that infill development raises so often in this town and i think this is an excellent example of developing more housing at a scale that is appropriate to the neighborhood and i think the two principles should be commended for this thank you yes my math was wrong so the 32 spaces fits in very nicely with the exception about the use so i i don't i shouldn't do this on the fly so i don't think you have to reach the compelling reason so but i agree with the remark that this is a very attractive project i appreciate that that the packet was very well prepared thanks great great thank you we'll see you later so do someone want to make the motion move to continue to continue the hearing suspend the hearings later in the day seconds yeah okay all in favor yeah i great uh unanimous okay so let me just organize my papers for a moment yes it's this they gave them to this thing and it's a two-sider with lots of writing oh mr smith [Applause] we do have a preamble for this public hearing do you have a copy of it i have that yes thank you so much okay all right so i'm going to start the next hearing in accordance with the provisions of mgl chapter 40 5c scenic roads and chapter 87 iii shade trees this joint public hearing between the planning board and the tree warden has been duly advertised in the daily hampshire gazette and posted in town hall so scenic road tree removal for construction of a mixed-use building and site improvements in the town right of way 133-143 southeast street map 15c parcels 3 and 4. the public shade trees impacted by this project include the following sizes six 18 inch arbor vit are arborvitae on the northern property line one 42 inch catalpa tree um one 24 inch spruce one 22 inch spruce that is dead one 14 inch crab apple tree and one six inch elm or hickory and one swamp white oak to be transplanted by the town several large oaks and a red maple on the southern edge that might have impact to roots as a result of grading yes chris i have some photographs of the trees if you wanted to look at them now or we can look at them later uh can i just ask if there's any board disclosures no i see none sure these are photographs that were taken over a period of time the ones without any leaves on them for the catalpa were taken last spring and then there are some more close-up photographs that were taken recently of the um the cavity in the catalpa tree we also have some photographs of the spruce trees spruce tree and these were sent to you earlier today so i'm just going to run through them quickly and then perhaps there may be a presentation by someone in the room could you hit the expand square so they're bigger there you go that's better so this is the catalpa in front of the building that's directly behind the florence savings bank taken from different angles this is the cavity in the tree where the three main branches come together i'm sorry if i jumped ahead of mr snow he may have been the better person to give this presentation but i just wanted to show you these pictures it's good to see them because then we know we can refer back to them and it won't be the first time so these are the ones that were taken more recently this is the crotch of the tree and this is down into the crotch of the tree and you can see the tree is split splitting it's being held up by cables at this point this is one of the really beautiful big branches so i think that's the end end of the catalpa is that right no this is taken from the property line looking directly down the south down the property line and you can see one of the cables has disengaged but there are more cables holding up the branches and i think that's it for the catalpa and then we have a couple of pictures of the spruce let's see how do i get back there and this spruce is described by mr snow he'll describe it later as being a healthy mature spruce tree but he did note at one point or somebody noted that it has a split trunk so this is a close-up and this is what it looks like from a distance so i will seed my time to mr snow excuse me welcome hi um alex no tree warden the board was i believe sent the uh um memo i sent out today about the condition of the current condition of all the trees if you want to refer to that and i just want to ask how many members of the board were able to visit the tree just about everybody great you haven't been at any of the site visits okay um so the pictures are going to be very helpful if you want to go into more detail about the condition of the trees um again the blue spruce which is under up on the screen right now um no worries bruce excuse me the um does have uh it's it's one potential defect is a uh a co-dominant stem uh where the two you know um turtle buds have grown in two competing leaders that are quite long and those are historically you know the weak uh link in a in a spruce tree like this of this size and there were there was another spruce tree in front and one behind as well um sort of east and west of that tree that also have already failed so it's a very tall specimen with a lot of sail that is above the existing tree canopy around there so it tends to catch all the wind do you want individual questions on each tree or wait till the end okay thanks janet you can go tree by tree is it is it better for um the spruces to be together like is it at risk because it's exposed or is it tougher a tougher life for it so um trees generally when they're grown together like in a stand a tree a grove of trees they do protect one another and they do force the tree to grow uh sort of straight up to compete for light so reduces the likelihood of having these co-dominant stems and things like that open grown trees you know historically develop wider crowns because there's less competition for light so they tend to fill out much wider than they would in a forested situation chris i thought it might be helpful if mr snow either read or summarized his whole memo and described each tree and what's going on with it and then if you had questions i think then everybody would know they'll all be on the same page sure all right so the uh we'll start then with the catalpa the 42-inch catalpa in its current condition generally the tree itself is the the crown the leaves twigs the buds are healthy and growing they don't appear to have any major you know insect disease problems that would be detrimental to the health of the tree so the living photosynthesizing tissue of the tree is is quite healthy at this point in time it had a nice flower this spring as is evident by the abundant seed pods everywhere the main leaders of the tree all have significant decay that have open cavities so it's not like a cavity that you see a bird coming out of that's is walled off uh with a small opening these are wide openings that run you know for feet along the trunk or the leader of each leader and the decay is quite extensive in there two of the um all of the leaders of the tree have been cabled back to the center central leader of the tree it's a common practice to support the more horizontal branches two of those cables have failed already so they've installed either so long ago that the wood around it has rotted or the cable material itself has failed and they're just hanging in the tree right now not supporting anything [Music] um the main stem of the tree well back up um the uh the decay in the leaders um continue from the leader down into the branch attachment point so for each one of these leaders or branches attached to the tree the decay continues into the stem through the branch so the main trunk so the decay is continuous all the way to the ground level in the tree so it's missing a lot of its holding wood let's see the main stem again has the same irregular cavity with openings that you can literally reach down into and i did to determine how much holding wood there was left in the main stem [Music] so the each branch is sort of open to the air where it attaches to the main trunk it's it's very interesting it has a lot of characteristics a lot of character excuse me uh for an old tree say pam could we put the one of the photos up of the tree the other the or the catalba tree instead of the spruce just so people aren't or chris maybe even the one that shows this the the crotch of the leaders we refer to it as the branch attachment point the branch okay i was following the the spread yeah so right there that is where two of the main leaders come down and attach to the trunk of the tree and you can see that they're not physically attached to one another and they move almost independently of one another and the other leaders of the tree and there again i did climb up in there and i dug down with my hands to find out how far there's so much organic matter in there it's impressive and uh you know to find the sound the sound wood that is in there um and that continues up so i can literally stick my hand up into that central leader right there that goes about six or seven feet up into the main leader and so that would be the if you backed up one more photo that would be an example of the bottom side of the branch or leader and that would be the good hold that's where the holding wood is right now that's where the sound would is located in the in that particular trunk branch connection again you can see there you have long lateral branches and then more upright leaders the um leader that goes off to the left there heads directly towards the property that particular leader there will need significant pruning in order for the building to be built because it grows well over the property line onto private property so physically in order to build the building we need to remove about 20 feet of that leader right there branch um so um in discussing you know tree arborist tree uh people uh tree wardens you know we're always we're we're doing risk assessments on everything we look at and we do it all day long um so risk requires there to be something there that you you don't want to be damaged it could be a car parking lot house pick tables people walking on the street and uh you know there's a there's a normal level of risk we accept in everyday activities in in trees and everything um the uh the risk changes as you begin to add defects known defects in the trees so you have you know it could be that codominant stem i was talking about in the in the spruce it could be the cavities in the leaders it could be the cavities in the trunk you know multiple things add up to determine the likelihood of failure and once something fails what is the target currently under the current use sort of land use there the target potential is is relatively low because the property really isn't being utilized and it hasn't been um no actively you realize you know in a while i'm not quite sure how long but um so the the actual risk right now of something failing and hitting somebody or something um is relatively you know low to moderate and that risk could be mitigated by installation of new cables racing or um pruning to help reduce that risk even further of something failing it's assuming that you know we don't change the land use around the trade again this is just the assessment of current conditions can you hold your questions till later thank you um i'll answer that question at a later date don't don't let me forget um so you know obviously so if those if the land use changes there which it's intending to that formula is going to change quite a bit um in order to make the tree to mitigate that risk some of the common practices that are done is to do exclusion zones where you physically put up a barrier to stop people from going underneath the tree this is done with historic trees and significant trees all the time and you know whether it's an appropriate use for this particular situation or not i'm not you know i'm not sure the other thing you do is the bracing of using physical structures to support the weight of the branches and then cabling again and doing things like that to support the tree to keep it growing and reduce reduce the risk of failure [Music] uh so the the the spruce tree we already discussed uh the one you know risk factor in the tree is the co-dominant stem which again could could be mitigated through cabling or bracing a 14 inch multi-stem crab apple appears to be a healthy crab apple like most travels it's full of full of water sprouts and suckers and needs a lot of pruning to get it back into shape the arborvitae um you know it seems to be a typical arborvitae head that hedge that is getting mature um and uh doesn't appear to be anything necessarily wrong with it at this point in time there was there are the trees on the list that we're not requesting any kind of really don't require hearing the dead spruce tree uh that was snapped off doesn't require tree hearing it's you know just needs to be removed um there's also another clump of um vegetation to the south of the property with a dead elm tree in it i think that was referred to as a as a um hickory i think maybe that was actually a dead elementary oaks and a red maple on the southern edge okay those are the those are the trees that are outside the property line that are on the wood edge that if they depending on how much they change the grade around those trees potentially could be impacted by the construction as well i don't believe they're on town property they're on private property so the adjacent name adjacent property so um mr snow are you going to mention or talk about your recommendation options yes if you'd like me to do that now sure okay [Applause] so my recommendation option for the catalpa would be to based on knowing the type of construction that's going to take place there what it would you know involve to try to preserve it without a guarantee that actually would preserve it for a significant amount of time would be to permit removal of the tree with full replacement value my you know not preferred option probably would be to do the exclusion zone and the retaining wall and the bracing and the cabling and the pruning um to try to preserve the tree with no guarantee that we would succeed in doing that the spruce tree 24 inch spruce tree i recommend removal and replacement value base replacement value is based on 90 dollars per inch of diameter breast height so that replacement value would be twenty two hundred and sixty dollars that catalpa would be thirty seven hundred and eighty dollars um crabapple um i recommend removal with full replacement value 1260. and arborvitae again recommend removal with replacement based on um sort of in-kind replacement so we'd be getting six new bald and burlap arborvitaes that are six feet tall or the value there of those trees it's difficult to do a dbh on a fibrobite chris do you have anything to add um the only thing i have to add is that in order for the trees to be removed both the tree warden and the planting board need to make a recommendation that the trees be removed or need to agree that the trees are going to be removed if one or the other does not decide to agree with that then the trees cannot be removed but we have received so so if the planning board and the tree warden do agree that the trees can be removed we've received two letters of opposition from residents so now even though the planning board and tree warden would agree that the trees can be removed the decision would go to the town manager we we've checked this with our town council joel bard and town attorney joel bart and he has stated that the decision would go to the town manager so that would be the procedure that you and the tree warden would make your decision and then if you agree that the trees would be removed then the town manager would also need to weigh in on the decision so we go through our process and then we will take a vote am i to understand that the statement that mr snow just made and his document that we've been provided is that the so he's made his recommendation correct okay all right so that would be to remove all of the trees um i and maybe either of you can answer this so when i add it up it's seven thousand two hundred dollars which is a significant amount of money and i was wondering what happens to that money and if any of that money could be um funneled back into any of the trees that would be the replanting of trees you know there's standard trees we use i know mr snow but you know would it be possible to get a special tree or something to sort of start anew so the money this goes into the tree gift fund all this all the replacement value assessed value on trees goes into the tree planting funds so um that money specifically to purchase new trees to be planted around town and do either of you have any thought that it just goes into that catch-all or could it be applied back to where the trees were taken so the um the applicant has a planting plan already involved in that so the funds would go to not that we couldn't plant trees there but there is a planting plan um for this project to to put back into the public way when these trees are removed so the money would be used separately because the landscaping plan that will be provided by the developer he's paying for those trees correct do you impact choosing them or is that just what the developer comes up with i'm saying this because it's a public way we should make that clear that the area we're talking about is actually town land correct so the tree warden is required to approve all tree planting in the public way okay so opening it up to the board questions about the trees jack i just wonder how old the tree is and is there some history with the guard to the care of it or the ears with the cabling who did the cabling things like that um i do not know the history of the tree it does it is an old tree there's no doubt about that catalpas do grow relatively fast and they tend not to live really long lives but um they tend to be a fast growing weak wooded tree in general but obviously they do they can live for quite a long time as far as the cabling goes i'm not sure if those cables were installed by the town um i i believe the property owner may have actually paid for the installation of those trees in the past but not the cabling those trees in the past but he can clarify that at some point so this tree is like a super senior tree i guess in tree age yeah it's getting up there janet so just to clarify um all these trees you're describing are healthy and the catalpa is old and kind of full of holes but it's still blooming and so are you recommending removal because you don't think they're gonna survive the construction project or i didn't really understand like they're all healthy recommending approval like what's the next what's the missing step in that that's a very good question the so it is because the the project that has been proposed is to change the grade significantly by feet around most of these trees by several feet um and you know most trees can't tolerate the great change of even an inch of soil or two inches of soil definitely but by changing the grade of soil you suffocate the roots essentially they can't get oxygen and they they die and the tree dies shortly thereafter so yes i i do not see how if the great changes are going to happen on this project that these trees can survive any other questions jack um i was interested the if you read the risk assessment report by mccarthy and do you have an opinion uh on that i know i know you you spoke to a risk assessment in your own uh voice there but is this is that a good report do you think overall i think it is it is a good report it does point out all the you know all of the you know um obvious issues with with the trees that are in question most of them are you know normal sort of tree conditions that you know can be mitigated the catalpa is the one tree there that happens to be you know the biggest tree and also happens to have the most significant the issues with it one of the things i didn't go into that the report didn't cover was i did i did do a resistograph of the tree which is a tool that can be used to measure decay in wood and the um the tree essentially has between let's see make sure to get this right seven to a lint seven to eleven inches of holding wood so it's healthy wood that goes around the circumference of the trunk so um out of a um you know a 42-inch tree there's roughly you know six to 11 inches of sound wood there and that's not uncommon you know in old trees in this particular tree you can actually see it though because it's of the open cavities you can look down into the trunk and see the decay jack so is that more than half the diameter then of the tree that is not healthy yeah where's the cavity yes although the top is a beautiful tree now my understanding and my observation is that it's structurally unsound um and that whether that occurs tomorrow or in you know some time in the future it's hard to know but with the proposed change of use and the increase of of traffic and and increased abuse that risk in the level significantly changes is that a fair you know summary of of your assessment yes it's it's a very good summary janet would your um recommendation change or be affected by if it was a historic tree like say harriet tubman had given a speech under the tree like would that affect or have an effect on you or i mean i don't think that's true here but i'm just wondering what the factors are um yes um i mean i think i've tried to be very fair in my assessment of the risk and the in the ways that we can mitigate risk um so if it if the tree has a higher let's just say social value to it you know historic value that generally means that we're willing to spend more money on preserving it we can we can put as much money as you want into something to preserve it and keep it going but the the the ability to do that within reason is what we're trying to i'm trying to balance so on that line if you were trying to preserve it you have if we have three feet of fill coming in you have to build a retaining wall to hold back that three feet of soil and you're saying the drip line so that's like the outer edges of where the branches are which is huge and then you'd also have to put bracing under the vertical leaders and then now your retaining wall is over 30 inches high and it's in a public park so you might have to have fences so this this could run into some significant money if that was the and then a part of one of the leaders could break and then all that i mean then you just have a broken tree in the middle of a yeah correct yeah correct okay are there any other questions from oh michael from the picture we're looking at now uh the tree appears to be kind of out of balance because of the long leader which is the leader which goes into where the building is proposed to be correct constructed is that right um the photo does appear to show that but you're not if you saw a photo of it in leaf uh as it is now where it was earlier this summer it actually has a very uniform crown um well i'm not so much thinking about the crown as i am about the supporting architecture of the tree it i wonder whether it pruning eliminating that long leader and allowing the rest of the tree to exist as it is would help the life of the tree that remains or whether that would be a useless kind of operation it seems to me that the shape of the tree the shape of the tree without that leader is perfectly adequate as a tree um and i understand that the crown fills out completely but i'm wondering if that would be a way to help preserve the tree to remove it from impinging on the development and extending life is extending its life that's another great question the um so i mean old trees have a hard time balancing their their living tissue and and all their supporting you know wood and everything so it's a it's a very delicate balance in old trees um as it gets as is with some humans as we age that um you know they you actually really need all of that and so if you start reducing the crown or removing large portions of healthy leaders you're going to really disrupt the the available nutrients to keep that tree in the delicate balance that it's in right now it's right now it's it's growing it's putting on new healthy tissue and it's decaying so it's a race between the decay and the new wood as to you know who's going to win and as we all know um the decay is going to win eventually so but we don't know exactly when that's going to happen you um there's a picture showing the property line running down that west property line so thinking of what michael was saying if if that was cut there's other parts of the tree that still have to be cut on the west side because they extend over the property line yeah so the property like where you see the broken um cabling the line actually goes sort of at an angle so it's probably mid-center of the photo there and sort of heads off um to that back fence way in the back so um there's other parts up here that would have to be cut too any other questions from the board okay so at this point um could i see a show of hands of how many people here would like to speak on or have questions of the tree issue one is that it or two okay would you like to come forward and thank you and just state your name and great i'm henry lapin i'm the chair of the shade tree committee we voted in favor of preserving the trees particularly this tree because of the significance you know these are public shade trees this is a tree that's owned by the town in the public right-of-way way i appreciate what the developer is trying to do but there is a taking here so this tree may die soon but it could live quite a long time i talked to alan about this at length we don't know of course but it could live for decades you know it is healthy it's got a nice canopy so that's why we voted in favor of trying to preserve the tree and if there's anything that can be done to preserve it i think it'll be a big loss for the street and for the town to lose that tree so that's all i want to say thank you yes if you'd like to come up and just introduce yourself hi i'm charles mccarthy i wrote the free risk report for emir and i i somewhat agree with alan on on catapult to pelvic tree uh there is a defects all through the different uh leaders of the tree if you could move the mic just a little closer is the light on yes yeah is it better yes sorry about that uh so besides the main trunk having uh having a hollow trunk and uh i know allen did a resistor grab test on the trunk if you go up those large leaders they all have cavities that are pretty large defects making the tree very susceptible to failure particularly in wet snow or ice storms and as the as far as the health of the tree you want to look at it in two different ways you can have a healthy tree in that we're getting foliage and growth every year where you can have a tree that is highly susceptible to failure because of past storm damage which are basically resulting into these cavities that we have throughout the tree so we can have a tree with green leaves but a tree that is highly susceptible to failure and i think at this stage the tree is highly susceptible to failure and that's about all i have to say about it i guess do you want to speak on the spruce while you're up here uh the spruce yeah and the report i wrote about the three spruce because it's kind of interesting where you had a a dead spruce it's uh a standing butt log from a failed spruce and a stump from another spruce that had failed before and so the middle spruce that the remaining one had a a very tall tree that er that went into two leaders i want to say the leaders might have been 45 feet off the ground by memory now if you could look at the two leaders how they originated was more than likely storm damage many years ago and then we had response wood which ended up with two co-dominant stents and i think those two co-dominant stems are highly likely to fail again and so in my opinion that would be uh uh probably three could be taken down because of that but if you were going to an install support cables a support cable between the leaders between those two stems you still have the issue if the grade has changed would that affect the help of the tree and i think it would so it's uh but that one there was kind of an interesting interesting three trees to look at you had you had two failures and you had the remaining tree that's left with a uh with a leader it's acceptable to fail with two leaders that are susceptible to fail right now so i don't know if you had a question on that thank you um yes good afternoon my name is amir mikshi i'm the owner and the developer for that site 133 143 south is history you asked who maintained those cable and who took care of this tree it was me all these in years that you know i did take care of this and you can ask virtual design group my dear friend mike lew that he is here that in the very beginning that was my intention to save these trees and you know because you know i wanted to and i told him that you know they have a good nice character and like to keep it and that's why we hired charles to basically come and give us assessment and the assessment was that you know this is there's a serious issue and the and the seriousness of it is that right now it is vacant it has been vacant for three years this and nobody travel goes there but once you have people going there then you know you're talking about the risk and then what is going to happen if you know one of these branches would fail another thing is that many years ago when the in the town decided to have a village business village center in town they decided to have this east side to be developed and i promise that i will do that and uh but the thing is that no matter what kind of development we are going to have as alan rightfully said even if you would have two inch or and of the feeling there you it's gonna bond to kill these three no matter what regardless of what the project is regardless of what the development is and if you want to have a nice puzzle we look into every possibility and there is only there is one way we can you know to save the tree is that we have to put the build a wall three feet wall and once we build the three feet wall then the question is that you know if somebody is going to fall into the pet then we have to create to put the cage so we are really going to ruin the just the atmosphere what i mean it's not going to be inviting place to have a tree with the cage and then around that you know with the three feet you know if you really look it's already low you know and you know and then having three feet of uh wall and then the cage around it just you know trying to looking to it it's really not something that you know i i do admire i do my best to uh take care of the trees in fact you know i'm creating i got another consultant to create you know rain garden you know hadley as my other properties are and even in amherst right you know by the other expresses that you know mr root is you know coming up with the way to do it but it is really something that you know it has to be appealing something that would be nice and also making sure that it would be safety that the safety of the public is preserved that is basically why i ask that you know you you will allow the removal of this tree thank you so much any other um questions from the board so oh yeah michael um i'm curious um the uh chairman of the uh of the shade tree commission um suggested that the commission uh was opposed to the uh removal of these trees can you tell me whether that was a unanimous vote on the part of the commission or whether there was some just dissension among the members of the commission about this issue i don't remember exactly um i think it was a smaller group but we all agreed i think it was unanimous among the smaller group one person had to recruit themselves because they worked for berkshire design and um i think one person wasn't there so there were only four of us at that time follow-up question and was that vote on voting for saving all the trees or did you vote on the individual trees um i think we voted on saving all of them but in the thing we wrote which i don't have with me unfortunately um we were focused mostly on the catalpa tree yeah anybody else so at this point do we have to make a motion and make a decision unless anyone has any more information they need or thoughts do i hear emotion anyone want to make a motion i know it's a hard thing i'd like to ask a procedural question if we make a motion then do we discuss it we make a motion someone seconds it and then we have more discussion and then we vote on it i move that the planning board accept the recommendations of the tree warden and for the removal and the compensation for all of the trees regrettably including the catalpa and close the bubble and close the public position second okay so um are there any other questions or discussion before we vote maria did michael yeah i'm um moved by the notion that uh this tree is public property and that our appointed commission in charge of such property is in favor of retaining it and of not allowing it to be uh taken down um it's a dually a dually appointed body of the town and uh i think we need to give it weight uh on the other hand our tree warden it was also a duly elected or duly appointed member of the of the town's governing body has the opposite opinion i don't quite know how to how to come down on this i i can understand i i think i understand both points of view um and um i am i'm fairly certain that this issue is driven by the proposal to construct a property behind the land on which this tree is located if such a proposal were not uh in the offing uh there would be probably no issue um so that could that makes an even greater conflict here it seems to me that we're being asked to provide development opportunities at the expense of an environmental asset of the town and i am uncomfortable with doing that um recognizing that the area in question is earmarked by the town for development uh and also um recognizing that um well that's that's enough i think on that issue uh so i'm not i i i think i'm going to vote no on this motion because i believe we're really taking something away from the town that it it owns and it values and it could continue to value for a number of years although there's as mr snow points out there is certainly no guarantee as to its longevity but i i think it deserves a chance maria i think that's a very good point michael and and that we're also a duly appointed board to look at things from the perspective of through a planning lens and um we have to look at the context and we have to look at the bigger good and you're right this is taking but this project is also giving back something very significant we're so desperate in need of housing and diversity and densities and areas that we've earmarked as village centers and i think that the amenity of this project in this case if we look at it from the master planning perspective is something that's going to be very valuable for the town it's in a perfect location it's at a bus stop it's going to promote more walking more liveliness in other areas of town so if we take a step back and look at the weight of the two trees that are in most contention and then look at how this would impact a serious issue of that we've seen come to this board over and over and you know well of our need for housing i think that we need to weigh that in the perspective of the planning board so you're absolutely right everyone serving on boards are putting their opinions about what they're sort of focusing on and i think as planning board members we look at it in that sort of lens and so um i kind of agree and disagree so jack i just want to say that we heard from two experts and uh that that says a lot to me in terms of uh the right decision in terms of preserving the trees or not mr snow i just want to comment that on both of those um both of those comments and and i understand i mean i don't take this decision lightly in in looking at a you know significant uh public asset um it's you know it's it's uh presence in that you know on that property i mean most people have probably driven by that tree you know a thousand times and barely even noticed it um because it's so far back from the public way um but you know the minute it's gone i'm sure everyone's going to if it's gone um that people will notice that there's a void there that this something is missing um and the one the one when i make these decisions daily and that you know i'm an urban forester and i'm i'm looking at you know the long long goal and our goal is to maintain a you know a balanced tree canopy in town a healthy tree canopy in town with a diverse you know specimen and age class so it's difficult to to look at a tree that is as charismatic as this tree especially and say that you know maybe it's time for this tree to go so that we can start planting new trees uh and trees that will grow to become significant public shade trees there's a lot of room on this on this particular area to plant new trees and the best the best time to plant trees as always is you know 20 years ago you know we should you know we should have been planting trees that we can join now so we will be planting trees for the next generation to enjoy at this spot janet so i have a few points just to make one of them is that the planning board is making its decision under the scenic roads act which is um chapter 40 section 15 c and so that's our decision i'd like i'd be interested in the board talking about southeast street as a scenic road and the impacts of removing a tree of southeast street so i think that we should focus on that a bit and then mr snow is talking about public shade trees or public trees under chapter 87 and so his decision since it's been there's been a letter written the select border and the mayor will have to make the final decision but our decision is separate and there's no other entity in our town that could contradict it and so there's a case on that but i really do think we need to focus on the impacts on the scenic road southeast street which i you know i live on so i don't know if that you know helps or hurts my case but i think we should talk about that you know because it's a beautiful road it's scenic has amazing views we've protected tons of land along it it's a priority um and people enjoy it and recreate on it and i wonder what's the impact of removing these trees on that if we could talk about that and just focus on our our statute and not to say don't talk about the importance of public shade trees but we're talk we have like sort of parallel streams here so um well i'll say um i have to sadly admit i probably drove by that tree hundreds of times and i never noticed it until this project came up and i will say looking at it it has a beautiful form i mean when you get close you see it has lots of problems but just the shape of it was really something special and i wish i had noticed it long long ago but as a planning board member and looking to the future and thinking about scenic roads and where this is that's why i you know have high hope and want to do due diligence on this will be a loss but this public way it looks to be greatly improved from what it has been probably ever in its existence and you know counting you know proposed right now there's like 12 at least 12 trees proposed to be put back with sitting areas and walking multi-use paths and so i um you know if there's a loss of the trees i hope it's not the same it'll take like you allen said many years for these trees to grow and and really become special beautiful but i hope thought goes into what trees we plant back and not just go with no fence but just the regular trees that are always around town that we don't always notice um maria i'm just looking at the town map and the zoning and the the sparkle we're talking about is um vc and then to its west is all education and then to the east they're currently um colonial village village apartments so the scenic roads we've sort of given advice on have been sort of more rural in setting and more you know about stone walls and trees and those we definitely carefully preserve and and look at the concept context and um you know if someone needs a curb cut and removes one tree we do agonize over it and this is not quite that setting um southeast street is beautiful when you go further north and south but as you get closer to this intersection i'm not sure the scenic part still holds so um absolutely we we we are always you know careful about taking context into account and i think this is a case where the context is a um a commercial and more urban setting so even more so you know um thinking about scenic roads we and we have to think does that really apply in this situation um i know a lot of people think it still does and if you look as um how the zoning and how we've been talking about this area as far as village center i just wonder if that is still holding in this particular context michael one of the things that makes the very center of town right outside the doors of this building wonderful is the enormous trees that are in the common on the north end of the common um so i think it's uh not quite right to say that because the southeast street the the uh east village area that we're talking about is um developing into more commercial area that uh large-scale specimen trees are inappropriate i think they're just as appropriate there as they are in the center on the comment outside our doors jack i was just going to say that i too i don't think appreciated the tree until it was presented to us because of the development the arborvitae i think shade it from view when you're on college street but i'm encouraged by the landscape plan and the additional planting of trees where i think there'll be more connection you know with pedestrians with the trees that will be planted there than is currently appreciated uh for that stretch of property janet so see i i appreciate those views because there is a lot to be said for that new kind of plat front area um i was sort of wrestling with you know it's like these trees are have to go or if this if this project is approved because it had it you know if it could you could have designed it to save those trees and not increase the height there and stuff like that so i sort of wrestle with this that the trees will die if we approve this project because the way it's designed and it could be designed in a different way to preserve the trees like more of a co like creating a comment and things like that so i sort of you know see michael's point that we have lots of beautiful old trees on our common we have commons all over new england apparently quite a few in amherst and so you know if this project was designed in a different way it could be designed to preserve the trees and create like a place for people to sit and so i kind of i have to say i'm sort of see-sawing back and forth it seems to me a condition for the removal of the trees would be approval of a of a project that requires the increase in the grading increase and things like that not just to say yeah you can take them out and the project changes or it doesn't go through david i i excuse me i think i i feel confident saying that any vote here is a is a vote for consideration of the the proposal and the and the the vision for the property and the vision for the planet and the planning for the town no one here is anti-tree right um it it seems to me that the purpose of the scenic violence scenic road law is to if a road is designated as scenic by a town which these roads were done so sometime in the early 70s if memory serves what the law calls for is an additional level of review that's offered right here right now what we're doing and and that's what that's what we're meeting it seems to me that for the the planning board and way in balancing and weighing the various interests we have here for housing or commercial development of a village center for preserving the beauty of the landscape and the viability of its greenery and the long-term cycles of growth and decay that that in weighing that we're performing our functions and and that in my view given the you know the beauty of the tree but it's it's its state of structural of the the lack of integrity of it having you know having admired it for years but also had but being frightened of climbing on it or sticking my hand in its many gaps um that that in weighing those various interests that that it seems to me the proposal the proposed project wants to further encourage the greening of the space as it evolves into the future and so i would vote again i i would vote to support the uh be consistent with the tree wardens recommendations michael i was struck by something janet said a minute ago and it reminds me that this tree removal issue is entirely driven by the development existing behind it and if the development existing behind it were to be rethought in terms of providing a backdrop for this uh this tree uh probably there would be some reduction in the number of apartment units available but that might be a better approach from a planning point of view not just from an aesthetic point of view of the tree but from the point of view of developing a project which is both more attractive and uh equally useful to the area in question i think that's absolutely right except that we've heard from a couple tree experts that they may not be worthwhile in doing that but there are definitely projects where we have had them work and redesign around existing trees and i just think that this is not one of those cases janet i agree that the age of the tree and its condition is a factor for me just in terms of you know how long is it going to last and that looking at that tree and it is beautiful that really weighs on me about the age of the tree or just it's precarious looking condition well if anyone else have any more comments or are we um up for a motion well ready i'm sorry vote on are we ready to vote on this motion good sure that's what i'm asking if we voted to for the removal of the trees it wouldn't happen unless the project was approved right or would we would that be a condition on our motion actually we make our recommendation mr snow has made his and then it will be mr buckleman who makes the final decision okay because that that okay that i know then it would become conditional on the project being going forward that's could we make the motion with that condition i have to say just i've been sort of holding this back there's a there's a court case that says that the planning board is making a decision under the scenic roads act and then either the slack board or the mayor makes the decision under the you know public treat public shade tree act and you need approval from both you know they're not there's not one group that trumps the other and so that case was shepardized today has it's it's a superior court case so it's not like an appeals court case but it does support the language of the statutes because these they each of the statutes refer to each other and they know that they operate independently together so i don't this is like a legal question i think for you know our town attorney but i don't see i think we just make our decision and we have to approve it and then um the town manager kind of acting as because of the mayor or you know or a select board in the executive function makes a decision under the different act and so we could take that to um bard's our council but i don't i did some research on that just because i was reading a a long treatise on land you salon i think well maybe it covers this and it did have a case on point and so you know but i don't i think you know if we if the planning board approves it and then the um mr snow proves the removal then i think we're good or the town manager acts chris i think miss mcgowan is right that both the planning board and the tree warden need to approve this in order for the tree to come down but even so even if the planning board and the tree warden do agree it still needs to go to the town manager because there has been a letter to there have been two letters of opposition issued or submitted against the taking down of the tree and that relates to the statute that mr snow operates under great thank you so are we ready to take a vote okay um so uh with the motion that's on the table all that are in favor raise your hand say aye no and okay so i think we've got a 5-1 okay how about we take a um break a little brakes amorous media we still running or do you want to restart great okay great so i'm gonna restart the meeting it was good to have a little break after two and a half hours um so we're gonna juggle a few things around here because there's no way that for what we have on the agenda it will take us hours so what we're going to do is we're going to reopen um [Music] spr southeast street uh courthouse the housing reopen it we're going to close it we're going to postpone it until september 18th they've agreed that that's okay and we'll get them first off when we meet again on the 18th and then we will go back to main street and then we'll go to spring street and hopefully be done at a reasonable hour so so yes excuse me i um made a mistake you already read the preamble yeah the last time around so you don't have to read the preamble again you just have to announce that you're reopening the public hearing for uh amherst it's not reopening you're continuing the public hearing for mr mcchee's project and you're going to immediately move to continue it to september 18th because of the lack of time this evening to reasonably consider all of these projects and i need someone to make a motion to move it to the 18th of september great i moved to continue spr 201 907 and 201 904 to september 18th second okay great um all any discussion all in favor unanimous we'll see you on the 18th thank you so much good luck thanks all right so now we'll go back to main street which which pile is that can you pass that back to kristen since hers oh thanks jeff okay so chris do we need to reopen it did we oh we just didn't close just suspended until later so this is the later do so i was going to go through the criteria and i'll just generally say the section and the number and if board members speak up if you have um should i read the en i don't read this i do oh boy yeah all right so i'll read it and just keep reading them but if you see something that you want to speak about like um then just raise your hand or say um hey and then so with the conditions i'm also looking to them for agreement right is this like if you have tested and did we have any do you have any other suggested conditions besides what's on this two-sided paper okay all right so um to go through the site plan review criteria we start with 11.24 review of criteria and design guidelines under the general general zero zero is conformance with all appropriate provisions of the zoning bylaw and goals of the master plan zero one protection of town amenities and abutting properties through minimizing detrimental or offensive actions zero two protection of a budding properties from detrimental site characteristics resulting from the proposed use including but not limited to air and water pollution flood noise odor dust vibration lights or visually offensive structures or site features zero three provision of adequate recreational facilities open space and amenities moving on to 11.241 environmental 1-0 protection of unique or important natural historic or scenic features what we normally do here is if we find that one is not appropriate or not um applicable yes then you say that if if you see that one is not applicable so just wanted to remind you of that say that again if one of these um criteria is not applicable to this project you say not applicable um i'm writing down that you know so 10 was not i don't know well it says scenic it was this now you're right you're protecting the scenic house you're protecting the historic house right because it had the historic commission and i mean i know it's not a jurisdiction but i could jump in i think actually that whole part of main street is really beautiful and so i think you've done a really nice job of integrating with the structure the way you've kind of masked it and put it back it it when you drive up main street it's just filled with these beautiful old not all victorian houses but collaborate houses and it looks like it fits and so i think that is an important feature in our town it's just there's just a lot of beauty on our on our roads in our town may i say one more thing yes so um what normally happens here is you go through this list and if you think of anything you say it and then when i'm drafting the decision i fill in you know things that you've said during the public hearing that support these things that you're making these findings that you're making and then when you get the decision to read before you sign it you can tell me you know you don't agree or you agree that's the way we usually do it okay is that all right yes and some of these are in here well i can't oh i won't always remember if where these fit on you mean the conditions yeah oh so some sometimes what i do is when i'm drafting the decision i'll say as discussed and or as imposed by condition x um this condition is met you know so there's reference back and forth i just wanted to remind us all of that there's a little bit of what license that i take poetic license addressing the decision so thank you 11.2411 adequacy of proposed methods of refuge disposal one two ability of proposed sewerage disposal and water supply systems within and adjacent to the site to serve the proposed use 13. adequacy of the proposed drainage systems within and adjacent to the site to handle the increased runoff resulting from the development 14. provision of adequate landscaping including the screening of adjacent residential uses provision of street trees landscape islands in the parking lot and a landscape buffer along the street frontage when a non-residential use adjoins a residential district an uninterrupted vegetated buffer shell to the extent feasible be established and maintained between buildings associated with uses under this section and the nearest residential property boundary when natural and undisturbed vegetation already exists on-site prior to site preparation and clearance the majority of that vegetation may be retained and included as part of the buffer along with the addition of such new planting selective removals and other management of site plantings as are determined to be necessary to maintaining an effective year-round visual screen 15. adequacy of the soil erosion plan and any plan for protection of the steep slopes both during and after construction 16. protection of adjacent properties by minimizing the intrusion of air and water pollution flood noise odor dust and vibration through appropriate site and structure design and the use of appropriate design and materials for containment ventilation filtering screening sound proofing sound dampening and other similar solutions 17. protection of adjacent properties by minimizing the intrusion of lighting including parking lot and building exterior lighting through the use of cut-off luminary light shields lowered height of light poles screening and other similar solutions except for architectural and interior lit signs all exterior sight lighting shall be downcast and shall be directed or shielded to eliminate light trespassing onto any street or a budding property to eliminate direct or reflected glare perceivable to perceptible to persons on any street or a budding property and sufficient to review to reduce a viewer's ability to see all site lighting including architectural sign and parking lot lighting shall be kept extinguished outside of those business hours established under the approved site management plan except for light determined to be necessary for site security and the safety of employees and visitors 18. protection of flood hazard as stated in section three point two two considering such factors and is not applicable what it's not oh good because 18 is not you're right it's not flooded great sorry i was going into the transit just like how fast can i read um night protection of wetlands so 19 can be skipped great and historic you may use the criteria of the design review board but you did not choose to do so tonight so you can say that you're not that it's fine or that you're not that's fine okay um so 21 the development shall be reasonably consistent with respect to setbacks placement of parking landscaping and entrances and exits with surrounding buildings and development 22. building sites shall avoid to the extent feasible the impact on steep slopes floodplains scenic views grade changes and wetlands 23. if there is more than one building on the site the building shall relate harmoniously to each other in architectural style site location and building exits and entrances 24. screening shall be provided for storage units loading docks dumpsters rooftop equipment utility building and similar features traffic and parking number 30. the site shall be designed to provide for the convenience and safety of vehicular and pedestrian movement both within the site and in relation to adjoining ways and properties 31. the location and number of curb cuts shall be just minimized okay shall be such to minimize turning move move movements and hazardous exits and entrances 32 the location and design of parking spaces bicycle racks drive aisles loading areas and sidewalks shall be provided in a safe and convenient manner 33. provision for access to adjoining property shall be provided as appropriate where possible driveways located in commercial and business districts shall be located opposite each other 35 joint access driveway between adjoining properties she'll be dis encouraged we yeah not applicable uh 36 a traffic impact report shall be required unless waivered under 11 section 11.222 information required as part of this report shall be set forth in the rules and regulations of the planning board 37 when a traffic import do we still have did we um yeah they provided a traffic impact statement but it's not the same as a traffic impact report so i think you're going to waive the traffic impact report and accept the statement great all right um so now we'll go through the uh possible conditions so are we to assume that we will include it and if someone one of the members doesn't want to include it then they should speak up or if they want it wanted uh tweaked or adjusted okay and we all have found that good um and i will be watching for mr e just call out if you want to um same thing to you if you want to comment maybe just two more findings or like one is the so the waiver for the traffic impact like you mentioned the waiver for parking under 7.9 yes and then also small car parking so 7.104 um planning board may allow upon application small park small car parking spaces to be substituted for up to 50 of the standard parking spaces uh we've got 14 compact spaces proposed 14 of the 32 32 yes thank you so that's less than less than 15 right for up to 50 okay of a statement so we should we usually include that in a separate list we don't usually include that as one of the conditions yeah just as a finding prior to as i was thinking you just went through your planning board findings i was thinking of the other two findings the waiver and then this as a finding and then to the conditions i'm not trying to muddy the water findings under those that's sections of the body yes but the two waivers of the traffic and the parking yes okay yes do do we does the planning board impose as a condition i know there's two handicapped spaces could we impose that as a contin condition or is that normally done [Applause] um you approve the plan as it's presented to you and that plan would include the handicapped spaces okay so under general number one development champ shall be built substantially in accordance with the plan submitted to the planning board and approved on whenever if you approve it tonight it would be tonight's date if you yes so i have a question yes [Music] it's about the relationship between the site visit and the plans as submitted to the planning board at the site visit mr roblowski um indicated his intention that might not be exactly the right word or desire somewhere to both have solar panels and to have two at least two of the spots have electrical uh be an electrical charging station in the the parking spot is that something that is up is that considered now a part of the plan submitted to the planning board or is that a different condition that we can ask to ask to to make a part of the approval chris it's not officially part of the submission it was a discussion that you had with mr robleski so if you want it as a condition you need to state it as a condition so when we get to yeah there's some in here later no not about that but we can add it in and maybe just to put a finer point on that i think mr robust we can commit to the electric vehicle charging station i think the solar panel if you want to couch it as he will attempt to do it but i don't think he can make the representation that it will have it will happen but one charging station well it's one station so you've got that chris that would be the that's a condition condition and then it would be nice right solar thank you condition that he will attempt to install solar panels if it's appropriate or appropriate or feasible feasible yeah so number two development shall be managed substantially in accordance with the management plan submitted to the planning board and i have so much paper here did we get a management plan okay thank you i know this is an experienced landlord so um number three upon a change of ownership or if the property is no longer managed by john robleski do i say that right rableski no silently one of those easy names the new owner and or manager shall submit a new management plan to the planning board at the public meeting for its review and approval the purpose of the meeting shall be for the board to determine whether the conditions of the permit are being complied with and whether any modification to the site plan review approval or management plan is required four a signed plan shall be submitted to the planning board for its review and approval at a public meeting um question so they're improving of the light of the sign and all that does that have to come back to us so they're good to just go do that because it's existing yeah i think they're good for the main sign but if they add any other signs like if there's a sign for mr crossman's office or any other signs like that they would have to include that in a sign plan so we might want to add um that the sign plan comes back uh prior to installation of signs prior to installation yeah okay number five all exterior lighting shall be dark sky compliant exterior lighting shall be downcast shielded and shall not shine onto adjacent properties or streets i think that was good six this property shall be registered and permitted in accordance with the amherst uh residential rental property bylaw loss or suspension of a rental permit shall um constitute in a violation of this condition number seven changes to the project and or substantial changes to any of approved site plans or to the exterior of the building shall be submitted to the plan uh planning board for its review and approval prior to the work taking place the purpose of the substantia um the purpose of the submittal shall be for the planning board to approve the change and or to determine whether the changes are minimalist um or significant enough to require modification of the special permit or the site plan review approval so i lied and maybe have two things can we add that maybe field changes may be approved by the building commissioner can field changes you know can be approved construction something like that yeah so we don't have to stop construction come back before the board make the determination that's the minimus or not and then go forward so to give the building uh commissioner some discretion just because your docket is very full and then it's in his court so he makes it so that it would be the building commissioner makes a determination whether it's beyond don't you use the word insubstantial okay insubstantial substantial may be approved by the building commissioner sure is that good okay number nine landscaping shall be installed in accordance with the landscape plan and once installed shall be continually maintained all disturbed areas shall be loomed and seated unless otherwise specified ten one hard copy and one digital copy of the final revised plan shall be submitted to the planning department 11. the office space shall be available to be rented by a member of the public and shall not be used solely as the management office for the proposed mixed-use building 12. shrubs and vegetation that block the site distance on the east side of the driveway entrance shall be cleared construction number 12 prior to the issuance of any building permit a pre-construction meeting shall be scheduled with the applicant the applicant's contractor the town engineer the building commissioner the superintendent of public works planning staff and the fire chief and any other staff personnel that may have a role in the construction of the project thirteen a written construction fire management plan shall be submitted to the fire chief and the building commissioner prior to the issuance of building permit of a building permit fourteen a construction logistics plan shall be provided at the pre-construction meeting and shall cover the following items a construction timeline and expected completion dates for each phase b location of parking for contractors c location of on-site and off-site staging such as for construction vehicles including cement trucks d location of fencing around the construction site e details and locations of directional marketing and job signs related to construction f emergency contact information such as name and cell phone numbers of developer and contractor g information about construction signs including advertising signs for the contractor developer and architect h the company affiliation name address and business telephone number of the construction superintendent who shall have the overall responsibility for construction activities on the project site i proof that digsafe has been notified at least 72 hours prior to the start of any site work j any other relevant information that they may request 15. the construction logistics plan shall be subject to the following conditions a construction activity shall occur only between 7 a.m and 7 p.m monday to saturday sorry yeah could i just have and and sundays if allowed by the police chief is that all right chris is that allowed i think we have to go through it is allowed if it's allowed by the police chief that you have done that in the past but you need to make the choice whether you want to do that this time why just when you get into interior work it's it's all interior and there's no you know noise outside so you know electrical plumbing that type of thing construction timeline i mean i don't know when exactly this will start but i can tell you from a couple of projects that are ongoing right now there's never enough time so i think to give john the flexibility of being able to construct on sundays and if it becomes an issue then i i know that you know rob and chief livingstone will step in and say you can't do it anymore if they're getting complaints i think that um i would like to limit that to interior construction then because i think it'd be super annoying to have people drilling and doing all that thing on a sunday especially because you're at 10 a.m yeah that's fine okay that's fine you got that chris okay great um b parking for contractors shall be restricted to the project site and then so the vfw right unless maybe unless written consent is provided to the planning department unless written consent of an adjacent landowner is provided to the planning department is that good chris yep which we've already done with the vfw right yeah see there shall be no parking or idling of construction trucks and equipment in any public right-of-way d any blasting or hammering of rock and material will be to be noticed to town officials and abutters 24 hours in advance and completed between 9 am and 3 pm 16 as part of the building permit application the applicant shall provide the building commissioner the name address and business phone number of the project manager and on-site supervisor who shall be responsible for all activities on the project site 17. there shall be no exterior construction activity including fueling of vehicles on the project site before 7 am or after 7 pm monday through saturday there shall be no construction on the project site of the following legal holidays new year's day memorial day july 4th labor day thanksgiving and christmas the applicant agrees that the hours of operation shall be enforceable by the amherst police department or and or inspection services that's good 18 the project site shall be fenced during construction 19. appropriate measures shall be take place to control dust dirt debris and construction materials on site water for the dust control shall be uh trucked in from off-site if necessary yeah i get that 20. if necessary add that if necessary um if not i wasn't sure this was a condition that we used on beacon but beacon was going to have its own well and so it might have been part of that whole thing so um i guess normally you do truck water in yeah yeah you hire a water truck so do you want to let this stand as it as it is i just thought with an existing building if there's water already provided and he has it there and he can hose down to keep the dust down then i we don't have to bring in one of those big trucks it's just but if not a big deal if it's part of it um if the water's shut off for the whole property for some reason and he has to truck it in and i think you've got it both ways i mean the intent here is to obviously keep the dust down so that it's not bothering any of the neighbors right i think you can use the water on site it's not saying you can't right as long as you're right but but if you don't have water on site then you have to show right because it [Music] they understand where they're going to get water i don't see why we have to tell them to get a truck and there's actually contract like they just come with the water truck and this is what they yeah yeah i think it's just standard business perfect um 20 prior to and during construction physical barriers shall be installed to provide tree protection along the limit of the clearing line erosion controls and tree protection measures shall be continuously maintained throughout the course of the construction 21. all catch basins shall be protected from soil and debris contamination during construction and shall be cleaned at the end of construction 22 no stumps demolition material or construction debris shall be buried or disposed of at the project site 23. the town engineer and the building commissioner shall inspect the construction of the entry driveway and all on-site paved areas for conformance to town standards 24. the applicant shall provide as-built plans that show the building locations grades access ways parking areas sidewalks and walkways curbing storm water management facilities lighting and utilities to the building commissioner town engineer and to be placed with the with the site plan review decision in the planning department 25 the final certificate of occupancy shall not be issued until a atop the final top coat of paving for all driveways and access areas walkways and berms has been completed b landscaping is shown on the plan of record has been installed and c as built plans have been submitted to the building commissioner and the town engineer by all design professionals for the site and the building construction and have been approved by the building commissioner and town engineer is there anything we forgot does anyone have any questions so wait where did we ask the electric charging station did we have that [Music] would be in the general section and it would say that the site shall have two one electrical vehicle charging stations with two connection points and there was another one about and the developers shall attempt to install solar panels if feasible more insubstantial field changes can be approved by the building commissioner and then interior construction may be allowed on sunday if allowed by the police chief and the 15b 15 the parking for contractors shall be restricted to the project site unless written consent is provided to the planning department the additional conditions uh are we ready to make a motion on this so i think it's a multi-layered motion number one you have to close the public hearing number two you have to approve the project with the conditions and waivers as listed number the site plan review approval number three you have to approve the special permit to expunge all previous special permits we haven't really talked a lot about that but if you want to talk about it now would be a good time so right i think it would be under 10.33 the building commissioner's position is that because there's an existing special permit associated with this site and it harkens back to a time when the uses on this site were allowed by special permit pre-zone change however even though post zone change they're allowed by site plan review which is the process we've just gone through the building commissioner's position is that we still have to extinguish the existing special permit and so i think what we have to do to do that is modify the special permit to extinguish the existing special permit somewhat circular but that's where we end up so i would suggest instead of going through all 10.38 you probably want to do 10.33 which is the modification piece and it's provided that the action is consistent with the purposes and intent of this bylaw and a public hearing has been held so you've had the public hearing and we would suggest that it is in concert with the purpose and intent of the bylaws specifically because the bylaw has changed to now allow it not by special permit but by sight plane review and you are in fact allowing it by site plan review i want to take two votes one on the site plain review and one on the special one should we do the special permit second or first that's just the getting rid of it right probably christine i think you raised the issue about if are there any things in the special permits that we might want to add to the site the site plan review permit is it do you have any more thoughts on that i think that would take a lot of research because i haven't read all of those special permits and the building commissioner is comfortable with expunging them i read them just because i can't stop reading paper but it um they were mostly about like allowing a hair salon and or a beauty esthetician and you know keeping them as professional offices i think that was it i think that was because this used to be in the rg zoning district so that was a residential zoning district and they wanted to have uses on the site that were very restricted and now it's in the bn which includes a lot of different uses that are allowed in business neighborhood and they're all listed in the use table so i don't think that we need to get into that so why don't we do a motion to to is it dissolve or remove the special permits extinguish thank you that's the word extinguish the move we extinguish the existing special permit someone second any discussion on this none okay all in favor say and it's unanimous no we only just did that now i'm going to do that but i was going to ask one more time is there any public comment to this we're good no problem okay so um then we can close the public hearing but that can get tagged on to the next motion right okay so david if you want to do your thing again move to close the hearing to approve the conditions as discussed the findings and the waivers um presented to the board and close the public hearing okay good you did that first and then yeah if i enter approve this i plan review and approve this i put it yes [Laughter] and that too and that too and i hear a second any further discussion okay all in favor say i uh and that is unanimous thank you so much really thank you thank you for being so flexible great job i know everything like it was yours thank you for waiting [Music] yeah i know just just raise hands all right i'll do that i just always think i can't i can't see i can only hear but yeah you're right yeah that is a lingerie okay so if i can find my agenda so miss mcgowan was asking about her status in this since she wasn't here when this case was first heard she is now a member of the planning board so she may approve uh submittals related to conditions as part of the planning board ms mcgowan was asking a question about that um so we're gonna move uh down the agenda to uh section 7 old business spr 2018-16 and spp 2018-04 archipelago investments lcc 26 spring street welcome thank you if you could both introduce yourselves kyle wilson from archipelago dave williams archipelago um so i'm reading what we have here chris do you want to um give a summary of uh their return so the reason that mr wilson and mr williams are returning is that they are eager to get a building permit from the building commissioner and the three conditions that they need to satisfy from the site plan review that they need to satisfy prior to getting their building permit are these three so they needed to submit detailed plans and information about site improvements it turns out they did show you the detailed plans and site improvements at the august 1st meeting of last year of 2018 and i believe that miss field sadler has provided you with copies of those plans um it just turned out that you never actually received copies of the plans mr williams brought them to the meeting but we never actually received hard copies and we didn't receive electronic copies either but now we have received them and so um i think it would be good if you went through the plan with mr wilson and he described what all the materials were and then the condition number 12 was for a complete lighting plan a photometric plan and details and i understand that mr wilson has a plan with him i hope he does and condition number 14 was to show the new location of the street light that is to be relocated and i understand from talking to mr wilson that he's not proposing to relocate the street light he is just proposing to remove it because he feels that the lighting from the building will be adequate to lighten areas so perhaps he can explain exactly what materials he has here thank you chris um so you have some conditions to talk about yes thank you and chris i plug in right here for the um flash drive right into this pull this one out the town of emerson and you all have hard copies of the the plans from 2018. yep uh 7 30 18. okay and i have a hard copy and i'll bring it up on the screen we have existing conditions uh proposed site plan and the grading details [Applause] let me try to figure out how to get this uh you might need a little tech help on how to get into the flash drive on this oh gosh i saw pictures [Music] yeah from the other people right it dropped out um here we go good job [Music] techy of the day but [Music] go over here to the white there we go that's it there it is okay success thank you so um i'll pull up the plans that were submitted these are the plans that the hard copy that you have that were submitted last year and the hard copy that i just gave you are is right here and so when we met last year one of the questions was public improvements in the street and whether we were going to have street trees out front or whether we were going to have parking out front and what we were planning to do with the power lines that were there so we have spent the last six months working with eversource and have come to an agreement that they are going to bury the power lines along spring street which has moved more quickly than we had imagined which is very positive in doing so then as you'll see here these the little islands that that are remnants from the project that the town and amherst college started about 10 years ago will go away and these polls uh across the front will be dropped sure and and just restart that sentence the fact that relating to the project that was started 10 years ago and what's going to go away those bump outs oh and i have another image that may help so um oh yeah that's good can you zoom in yeah well let me see what i can do here go with me please okay direct yeah um so there are uh three poles adjacent to the site that will come down and there's a fourth adjacent to grace church that's right here that will come down these three polls a b and c uh are in the street as you can see here and i'll zoom in so before the crash of 08 town and amherst college worked to regrade all of spring street and improve the sidewalk and the intent was to bury all of the utilities so the town put all of the conduit underground there are boxes which you can see here for power cable and telephone that were installed and once the crash hit and the lord jeff project was put on hold those plans were kind of stopped as they as they were at the time and the polls were left and a somewhat of an accommodation was made to keep them out into the street and so when we began the project the intent was to try to use the new development to be a catalyst to help finish that project and that's what we've been able to do so as that relates to what we're talking about today is one of the items that you know this uh condition three was related to that previous conversation about parking or street trees out front are we going to have spaces are we going to have drop off and a lot of that was obviously dependent upon whether or not there were going to be poles in that street or not because those obviously guide the parking layout which is inherently inefficient because the parking was not laid out or the polls were not laid out on 20-foot increments so what we're showing here is is is the is to satisfy three and a portion of um uh 12 and 14. so for condition three what we've shown is um on the top is of this page which i'll go to now so excuse me it might be helpful for miss mcgowan if mr wilson were to kind of give a summary of the whole project because she's coming in not knowing anything about the project at all and i think your page two of six which is the second page of your little group of plans here shows the plan as a whole so maybe if mr wilson started there and described sure this building then he could put the materials in context so this is page two that you're referencing yeah so uh this is the new development uh this we have there is 10 feet of grade change so the northwest corner of the site is 10 feet higher than the southeast corner of the site so the building has done the intent the design of the building is to accommodate that and try to make a exterior space on the southwest corner that is commercial and in the southeast corner is the lobby entrance to the building so there are actually three different slab heights for the building there's the lobby there's the commercial space and then there's which includes some of the back house trash electrical fire and then there is the residential floor so those all step up to try to accommodate this grade that that varies over 10 feet across the site so we have units on the ground floor residential units on the ground floor and then three floors of residential units above so it is a four-story building that sits on this site to the south west is a ramp an accessible ramp that brings folks up to entrance to the commercial it also services the side of the building since there is no back this is the side so this is trash and electrical as i mentioned a lot of the connections and that is approximately three feet higher than the lobby which is here there are also steps a more direct route to another entrance to the commercial space and uh the lobby is directly at the grade of the sidewalk so the when the project to regrade spring street was completed the street sidewalk was pitched it was dropped it was lowered it was kept high up here for grace church there's a handicap access ramp that needed to be preserved but and it drops down and right here is if i go back to this is almost exactly where the existing dry vial to the parking lot is so all of those curb cuts uh the two the two cuts this one this one insurance and the two curb cuts are almost exactly where the proposed drop off area and lowered curb will be for access to the building so uh as you'll see here uh that has not changed since last year we've been able to refine it with um all the work that we've done in the intervening time and been able to provide all of the all of the pitches all of the spot grades all the exact dimensions for the improvements related to that handicap drop-off so as you'll see here at this this side of the site is at 290.9 at this point and down here it is at 288.88 so um the all of the material is uh well let me stick with the the grades first so this is matching the existing sidewalk obviously and as that continues there is a pedestrian ramp which will be more gracious than the one that's currently there a bit longer and have a 5.2 percent slope and then it's roughly flat here there's a bit of a pitch and within the two percent max cross grade that is allowed per ada and aab and then there's a pedestrian ramp that ramps back up which is about the same size as the existing and connects back up to the sidewalk which continues to match existing grade here so uh we will be uh keeping with all town of amherst um standards for the sidewalk as you'll see here that sidewalk is the has the paper uh on this side has the you know the cross uh pattern in the concrete and the the brick colored papers on on on the other side as well so we'll be matching that this shows the the spot grades for the stairs and this shows the spot grade and the ramping for the ramp up to the commercial space the ramp here is gracious enough where there is no railing there is one railing that is here as required by code adjacent to the stairs and this is the entrance to the lobby what you'll see i think it's probably more clear on the lower portion so i'll scroll down this this drawing is keyed so it calls out each of the materials it calls out where they are this is and it also calls out for condition 14 the existing light pole which is shown here which will be removed that light pole is currently right here and provides some lighting to this the uh the parking area as it currently stands uh the um the parking layout as such we have uh with the this will come out with the removal of the power lines this will come out with the removal of the power lines and then the ability to re-stripe is there so the standard 20-foot parking spaces we'll be able to keep this one we'll be able to add one here i'm sorry and then we'll be able to keep these make them a bit tighter and then there's an opportunity based on [Music] how the town decides to strike the rest of this to potentially keep those existing spaces or maybe pick one up if with the removal of this pole there's some additional length for an additional parking space um this is per the approved plan so we have uh the granite curbing that is uh shown in front of grace church here which is which was installed as part of the regrading of spring street when they drop dropped it as well as well as the stairs that were installed in front of the jones property and the stairs that were installed here at grace church so um we will be that that granite is going to be the same granite that we're using uh for the um the number 12 which is the monolithic stone wall and uh the same type of granite that's used for the cladding uh the stone cladding on the face of this wall and the face of the building which was shown in the approved rendering so none of that has changed we have [Music] granite paving as well that will occupy everything on the property north of the sidewalk that is shown on this plan here so that also has not changed again this is really a clarification and a bit more detail with the more information we have on what the front of the the building as it addresses the sidewalk will look like um uh if there are any questions on this i could go into i could answer those before i got into the lighting plan yes what is the depth of the landscape because it's a little different on the zoomed out plant than from the zoomed in plan the depth of what this yeah it looks like it aligns with the stair like it's the full depth of the stair and the the site plan but then here it shows it's a little narrower yes so that was a result of a code requirement to allow for [Music] access and turn around in this location so that line had to be reduced to meet building code um the landscape plan it didn't impact the landscape sufficiently we had shown um a service berry in that paver so in that area so it's the it's the same landscape plane just a slightly reduced section there go ahead can you uh retrace for my memory sake the handicapped access route from the curb to the apartment building sure the apartments so uh this is that grade this lobby is a lobby that directly accesses the elevator in the building those steps just go uh to the up to the commercial space so this is the entrance the granite the granite paving confused me yep sorry and the center staircase only requires one railing uh the center staircase is is a second means of access to that commercial space could be satisfied completely with this ramp okay so that's why you have because of the size of the commercial and this is also the egress path for uh the building so that second stair that egress is the upper floors of the residential comes out and drops to the street here that's the one okay well i'm very glad that the bump outs are being removed and the street lights so is there any other replacement light uh i'll show you the exterior lighting um so we go from one street light to lighting that that highlights the egress and then lighting around the perimeter okay and this lobby will be this lobby is a part of our egress path in the building as any multi-family building will have and so that building has a certain foot candle that needs to be maintained 24 7 in in that space so that in the event of an emergency egress from this stair or eager from the elevator is lit chris i just have a question about the grading i noticed that one of the ramps leading down to the drop-off area is um 5.2 so how how is that going to be allowed without a handrail it's part of the sidewalk but it's probably something that's created new right 5.2 percent is allowed in in in sidewalks that's a lot yeah i believe the threshold is eight percent do you just have a picture of the project cause i'm looking at these lines but what does this look like in um i don't these were in a picture pictorial way yeah i don't know if i put these on the flash drive hold on one second chris might have it oh and this is actually this is helpful this is a picture of the granite that was installed when the town redid the sidewalk and dropped it so that this granite and this stair to grace church were required because the sidewalk was previously up about this height and so we're going to take that same materiality into the into the site work for the building it's a salt and pepper granite that's used for all the curbing all around town where does that curbing go does the town take it back or no that all stays that's that's on grace church property oh it is that is but it doesn't run all the way nope it stops right there and so then there's the stair and then there's the that is here you can't quite see it there yeah so this is this had this had to stay high because this was when they dropped the sidewalk this is the handicap access into grace and so this pitch is down down down and then it's flat for a portion then it pitches down again and when it pitches down again is where you have that granite wall again that you walk by things all the time and you don't you don't notice um so did you see uh to your question those are the renderings that um on the project is the sidewalk just all concrete nope it has the it has the uh brick paver on either side of it and then it has the cross uh patterning in the middle chris isn't that going to be changed please yeah so it's being changed in other parts of town yeah here um mr wilson and mr williams are replacing a piece just a piece of sidewalk in front of their property and all the sidewalk to the west of it and all the sidewalk to the east of it is already this cross-hatched pattern with the brick edge so they really need to keep in your conformance with that elsewhere in town we are changing the pattern it just doesn't have long good longevity but if it's to i didn't realize it was to the east too okay and i've seen most of the failing when it's perpendicular the path of travel and this is parallel so fingers crossed yeah any other questions um so for the lighting plan we have cut sheets uh here's the exterior lighting and then i'll pull up the cut sheets as well there's there are four different exterior fixtures e1 which is a down light in the canopies which i'll show you in a quick minute here e2 which is a down light in the walls exterior walls e3 which is another down light that is in one of the monolithic walls right when you come up to the commercial and e4 which is uh only in the very back of the building on the north side so the lighting plan here shows those fixtures so you have e1 only here in the canopy above the entry here in the canopy above the commercial entrance and here in the canopy above the other commercial entrance so that is this fixture that will be installed in the canopy it's flush mounted down with led uh e2 is around the perimeter so this this wall is a is a sight wall that is uh the grade is higher on this side than it is this side to make all the egress work so that's all stayed the same this e2 fixture is mounted in the wall and provides a low but required foot candle for egress light around that perimeter all facing onto the site and that is the e2 fixture here excuse me yes at what height on the wall uh well the it's a good question the wall changes because it's it's managing the grade as this pitch is down and this is the highest part of the site and that is i believe it is 24 inches above grade trying to keep that as as uniform as we can without pitching so it's quite well it's really to to light the path for egress um e3 is uh just here and here so these two walls again as per the approved plans are a large monolithic granite wall that will resemble the wall that the town installed along grace and that fixture is also down lit a little bit different because it's more of a ribbon and so you can see it here that ribbon projects underneath benches uh that are installed along this wall and this wall again um in keeping with the the approved plans excuse me again i apologize can you also show the e2 fixture sure so you can see the face of this is flush with the wall and then this is recessed into the wall and then it's a very simple black that is tapered back to allow that light to shine down onto the onto the walkway and is the e3 fixture also the e3 fixture is surface mounted but it's an eighth of an inch thick it's a it's a ribbon a led ribbon that gets mounted underneath a bench and it lights the on the underside of the bench and that's the ballast everyone's holding their questions until they finish the lighting just so yeah thanks and then e4 is just back here there's one surface mounted light that will be on the exterior wall of the building let me scroll up here there's one e4 that's here and that e4 fixture is this which is down light downward against the back of the building and picked so that it matches the cladding at that part of the building and then as part of this plan we put together two photometric plans so this plan highlights each of those fixtures let me see how to get over here and then this is we've done two photometric plans because this uh we've done one that shows how the the foot candles for the egress and that is reflected in the requirements for the code which is very small but the code requirements that we have for site egress and the lobby entry are satisfied by effectively the lighting around this this site wall and then in meeting with the planning staff asked to take it to zero to go beyond that to show how the foot candles are impacted beyond that so beyond where the egress is shown and at the patios and at that space out in front of the commercial area so you can see in this plan there is no light impact anywhere here except around this periphery uh the entry to the building and it goes to zero in short order right along the property line so there's it's a it's a very low light impact approach to providing what's required for egress around the exterior of the site anyone have any questions chris i wonder if mr wilson would send me those plans via electronic uh means yes i did yeah could you zoom in on the front entrance that's yeah in this point eight grade right i just wanted to see what the numbers were we it's hard to see there'll be less than the street light and where is the street light the street light would have been here which is gone no other street lights so basically the sidewalks are dark uh no there's a street light here that one stays there's a street light yeah we're not doing anything we're only there's street lights on adjacent properties we're just the one that landed in the middle of this property when that those street lights were part of the decision there weren't any on the poles uh no bump outs no okay that's part of what they did do is these street lights were a part of this improvement this one was placed in the middle of property there was one place in the right-of-way and then one placed uh here um on the jones property that's what threw me off because they put one on the property so okay hmm can you go back to the light just um curiosity what are the kelvins for like are you going for a white uh it's a good question we keep this the specification calls for 3000 uh or lower so a warm light very warm way okay great we try to shoot for 2700 in the building exterior is about 3 000. great makes me happy any questions chris do you have any questions or are we forgetting anything we're going on four hours here so we're slowing down it looks to me like they've met the condition number three and number 12. yeah and number 14 sort of goes away because they're not relocating the light yep so condition three is you think matt that was the detail plans and okay so we have to vote to approve this is it an addition or just that they've met the conditions right number three and number 12. okay so did anyone catch that is anyone brain still functioning at this point where they can articulate a motion that says that this has met the conditions that were previously laid out on their permits yes have all the other conditions been met we still have to go to town council in our conditions it was called uh uh it was a select board but we still have to go to town council and we still have similar to the last the last group we still have to meet with rob and chief livingstone and chief nelson to finalize some plans that are separate than plans that need to come back before the planning board so this is but so all conditions are met for planning board all conditions relative to the planning board conditions all commissions are met relative to getting a building permit so i'm not sure if they have to come back to you later on i didn't read the conditions um with that in mind but these are the conditions they had to meet in order to get their building from okay so we need a motion that says that they have met the conditions laid out for them to obtain their building permit i think it would be direct quest three and refer to numerations 3 12 and 14 that they've met three conditions three 12 and 14. yes that would be good that way we don't get credit for meeting one we haven't met yet if you want to it's on the agenda here if you want to look to approve the project presented by archipelago investments that conditions 3 12 and 14 have been submitted and approved the submittals have been submitted and we're gonna and we're gonna improve it any discussion okay all in favor raise your hands and that's and okay no zero and abstain so it's five no did you you all said yes right yeah yeah so it's five yes zero no and one abstain i'm like now i'm seeing i'm like i thought i saw all the hands go up all right thank you thank you and thank you for your patience it was a long night thank you we got to skip the first two hours do it unfortunately we're getting used to it too okay so granite samples do i want to see what samples they have granted samples in the back are you interested well i tempting but no we can go see it next to grace church yeah yeah save granite thank you thank you um so if we back up to item six um there's no zba report so we can skip all that and uh we have a signing of decision that can we just sort of do that then i can sign it after we need either greg to come back or perry yeah but the rest of you can sign it and miss mcgowan won't sign it yeah so here here they come so you'll just pass yep yep and i can do that i can sign the minutes like after we close the meeting right like meaning to keep it rolling um so can we postpone item new business item b uh downtown planning do you want to talk about downtown planning right now for five minutes is that okay with everyone five minutes we'll start the clock max five minutes um uh for for chris to talk to tell us about it for five minutes or i could i could talk about what chris told me um that there's money for um sort of restarting the downtown conversation so i was hoping to um let's schedule a date and do that um and there's money for like a facilitator and then the other thing i was hoping is to sort of get a document that incorporated what people said the last two meetings i thought there was a lot of good information that came out of that i went to with the second session where they had the breakout groups i think with your husband was in my breakout group and there were a lot of really interesting ideas about things when people wanted to see downtown there was there were no names attached to anything but there were like the groups had a lot of like fun and interesting ideas of what things they'd like to see downtown so i think people if they could see the results of what they've said like you know that they were heard or there's a record of that that would kind of help us jump start and get people to re-engage because i know people care about a lot so that's that's my minute and a half i think so um normally we do incorporate or you all the planning department does and then puts it somewhere up on the website that never happened for that i think last forum happened for the first one but it didn't happen for the second one so we have to go back and sort of reconstruct it for the second so you'll pull that together and put them back up all right and then janet you were saying you want to schedule a meeting [Music] there's probably time in october because i think already that sounds good 18th of september is getting kind of full yeah right good yay um good and then so item uh section nine form a are there any um anrs i hate to tell you there are oh god how many three i think there are three and oh in the blue folder oh this is right here so if you pass me back yeah let me just pull out the shiny things sorry this is all i pulled them out already so i'm going to come down and show them to you um or maybe i'll just pass them along you want to start well some of them you sign and then i can so the first one i'm going to pass you is um property that is owned by michael kittridge's family and it has a very odd configuration currently they divided it into one two three four five six seven lots three of which are flag lots which are really not very developable because the back part of them is in wetland and so the realtor who's representing the family is suggesting that they redo the lot lines to create i think three lots one of the lots has been sold off so when i come by and show you the big plan i'll show you which one has been sold off and then what you're doing here is declaring that this is not a subdivision a and r stands for approval not required so subdivision of approval is not required for this because there's no roadway being created there's no subdivision being created it's merely um redoing lots on front redoing lot lines for frontage lots [Applause] that would be nice to know i think this is leverage road uh yeah as opposed to east liver yep lebron jack actually i'll take them back because i haven't signed them i'm just stacking my junk up but but you and janet sign these no that's me don't worry about it well that one's the dog part but i had yeah i saw you walking two dogs so they've taken these um [Music] and then there's this one and then there's this one so what they're doing is they're combining this in this to make one they're combining these two uh access strips and creating and this and creating a lot that goes back like that and then they are um creating this line right no this and this are being combined so the building circles show where the buildings are going to go one house here one house here and one house here and there's already so nothing on this one and this one already is no i mean i'm sorry that goes that's part of this to the back well this slot is like all of this now it's not going to be a flag light anymore it's going to be a frontage light so this line is going away this line is going away so this lot here one two three so they're only going to have four two right and four yeah because isn't that in the back this railroad but there's power lines back there well that actually makes more sense what they're doing because in the back is just power lines and railroads no i wouldn't want to see anybody built there you're doing as authorizing your students assignments [Music] yes sorry the anr gets weird i know yes sorry they're like the back of chris they're like what's going on thank you for you thank you except you know two of them are for greg but they will i promise as long as these two haven't come up with too much work for us okay this is property on east lever road where um there are very strange shapes to these lots um i'm going to pass around the plan that shows the existing shapes and then i will describe the proposed shape and the proposed shape is meant to include a well so there's a well between these two properties the person who has the house wants the well on his property obviously so he can control it and then the other guy can dig his own well if he needs to sound well okay yes quite well so that we were just over here with kittredge and come down and state street is here that is a house it's just a house and then these are existing houses of my house i don't want to actually say who lives there but i know there so so they're splitting this off what they're doing is they're changing this slot line so that they can grab this well um they they do have legal lots they've got their building circles they've got appropriate frontage they've got appropriate lot size but they're very strangely shaped and this one is all the way down to here so are these buildings there they're these are there yes there's two houses in a barn is that and i'm looking up yes okay and so they're taking the well and then there's no house on this lot not yet okay and they squeezed out that frontage by dragging the pine out okay okay wow don't miss them wow i know and the next one's even crazier last one we haven't heard back from the town engineer we always send these in our plans to the town engineer in case he has any questions or suggestions and for this one it's market hill road and um as i said we haven't heard back from him but i'll show you where it is located let's see maybe miss field sadler can tell me what's going on here this shows the the location of the lot and it's probably the location of the lot before it is subdivided i haven't looked at the the proposal so i'm going to send this down the line [Music] excellent so this is a strange configuration as well there's a kennel here on this property i think this property was proposed to be developed last year and you never actually went through so there's a kennel here they want to subdivide that they're not not so divided they want to divide this lot off the bank for some reason doesn't want this slot to include this and i can't remember why so this is labeled not a separate building line this piece here wow and then this is being reserved are they going to tear down that they're just cutting out just with a little they're cutting this piece off right yeah yeah like just that piece that has this leg like this this is this is not a flag no it's not it doesn't have enough frontage it's only a 20 feet of front engine there's no so why are they keeping it separate and not attaching it to this what's who's the next one over is that owned or is it that's private house chris just a side question do our butters told when this is happening no really it's a quirk of massachusetts land use law that allows this to happen it doesn't really happen in other states that kennel is a is a commercial facility isn't it i mean i think it's been closed it's been closed for six or eight years yeah right but it's it was wasn't it i brought my sister-in-law's dog there like four years five years ago yeah okay so um the question here is once we hear back from the town engineer will you authorize miss greymon to come in and sign this link what is this what is a town engineer deciding he looks at the plan and makes sure that it complies with all kinds of regulations and if he knows that one of those sites needs an easement over the other one like one of those frontage lots he made a point of pointing out to us one of them needs an easement over the other one aft when the lot is sold they're jointly held right now um and when they're jointly held they don't have to have easements but once one one is sold if there's a driveway that passes over one lot to the next slot then one of them has to have music what's the disadvantage of just waiting until the next meeting just to this one that would be great except that we only have 21 days in which to act on these plans so um this really puts pressure on us and we're not meeting again until the 2012 until the 18th he probably looks at it a lot for a septic and he looks at everything right yes and that was my only thought with this being such a small site but if it's got the building stuck on i i don't know because that's septic that they're on tell the commissioner about that and he said he thought they could fit a well in accepting okay i mean they can build they can build them smaller the building commissioner did look at this okay this way yeah way down this is oh this is leads into high elevation yeah they might have space for it but then they oh yeah yeah this is way up the hill but they would have to put a new one in and the new ones are good okay okay yeah okay all right these are yeah um well what i think chris is still torturing us a little bit sorry yep we're getting close um so are there any upcoming zba applications just say zero [Music] is which the six actually exceeds the maximum number [Music] aspen heights is going when is that coming back [Music] however that day has not been determined yet and on thursday september 26th to the care of tom really they're may i just say something which is that just for janet's benefit one of the reasons that we tell you about these zba applications is if you hear one of them hear about one of them and you want to have a presentation we can invite the applicant to come in and give you a presentation and you may want a presentation about the solar on the old or new landfill that might be one that's big enough for you to want to see um it's possible that you'd want to see the tip up one as well the two family house non-owned or occupied on north whitney street that's going to have some sight issues related to it and what is aspen heights coming back for yeah aspen heights has already been approved it's shrunk from four stories to two stories it's only 88 units with 11 affordable units um and i think this is just to prove similar to the way kyle and dave came to you tonight to show that they had met um condition requirements they're just asking for approval that's what they're coming back for so on the duplex is it owned by by the owner they trying to convert it to a non-owner or did someone buy it it's owned by a developer and someone who owns property in town who rents it currently and he's adding a um a new dwelling i mean he's got a four a four bedroom uh single family and he's adding uh he wants to add another four bedroom single family so it's kind of a big project and it's going to have a fairly big effect on the neighborhood so if you wanted to see that um you could invite them to come in on the 18. right now our coping is low so we're like no not more but no i think we would we would want to see that and the solar farm been um submitted yet right so we don't have a date yet but it's out there but you'd like to see it okay upcoming s-p-p-s-p-r-s-u-b i can't think of any oh yeah yeah okay so um at that point i think we should just have a motion to end or a report of chair there is no zero and report of staff do you have anything thank you for your tolerance for continuing christopher we're all here together um so adjournment motion move to adjourn yeah check in all in favor yes done you wow 4 hours and 15 minutes thank you amorous media you | Amherst Media | UCECEesweX78OaddZ1V3yaTA | 2019-08-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 33,269 | 172,926 |
AQHpFAVL8Bg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHpFAVL8Bg | Waiting for shadow the wild cat with Nancy Today | no tabby Tabby is already [Music] eaten he don't come up here when I'm here before I don't know if this is from the same lit Shadow kitty kitty Shadow don't take it away I mean Tabby I know Tabby you think I love you but I also love Tabby don't leave him alone that's a good kitty a good kitty they eat my vegetables I don't have to buy them expensive of cat food I can just feed them leftover soup he's so small compared to this one are they the same litter maybe but their heads are very different sizes but the two that Daniel Tamed he caught and brought inside I think they're much smaller than this maybe he's just the rent of the litter there was another one I had found it had been run over few months ago good morning guys you are hi hey I'm making a live video okay just because you know I don't want him to come out and announce something we don't want on the television hey kitty kitty kitty calling the other cat he seems to cry under the porch but my hearing is William gets up and races for the phone and I don't even know it's ringing hi Shadow so the Shadow and spot and Tom they are pretty tame I mean sort of you're still very skiddish with us but much closer Shadow gitty gitty gitty kitty kitty kitty I put another bowl over there on the other side so that he could go and eat without these cats in the way I don't think he's over there yet but he's got his eye on something what are you looking at Tabby did Shadow come over there we in the process of doing leaves out there collecting them from elsewhere and bringing them here for the gardens gety kitty kitty kitty kitty okay Shadow's gone you can come back now hi sus yes Capri aren't they beautiful it's really fun to do this I needed a pro project and so trying to tame these cats has become a little project for me it's it gives back right I hear commotion in there now why did the light turn on kitty kitty oh there he is kitty kitty kitty kitty what his coat is not very shiny oh spot oh spot you leave him alone there was another cat here no spot spot kitty kitty don't do that just leave him alone hey spot Kitty kitty kitty kitty tappy [Music] for come on Shadow kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty Yep they're pharaoh yeah they've been eating our compost all summer which is probably why they look so healthy cuz we've been eating meat since about July or June kitty kitty kitty k Kitt Kitty took his bones you know it wasn't very nice of [Music] you it's okay kitty hey there so there's these there was another one this size yes the other day I call him saddle cuz he has spots all the way way across it's a it's a tabby saddle no I have not been making any baskets I need to go down and harvest my Willow and finish this one and I need to weave this the walls of that shelter to get these leav Lees on the beds and then put a newer on them I spend too much time playing Minecraft instead of doing other things that's what I do when I sit now I finished weaving my blanket I haven't set up the loom yet I should do that you know now that was all for the other one that's for shadow kitties e there Shadow I mean [Music] chabby so I have this other bowl of food for shadow kitty kitties I'm going to stand up now hey shadowy kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty here shadow kitty kitty oh you're Tabby hi Tabby in spot where is Shadow is he further back under there kitty meow meow hey Shadow he spot kitty kitty hey [Music] tappy kitty kitty | Nancy Today | UCni20e9MpvpcSVLeShVmK0Q | 2023-10-20 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 681 | 3,425 |
ePtbfQtk9-M | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePtbfQtk9-M | West Africa | Wikipedia audio article | West Africa also called Western Africa in the west of Africa is the westernmost region of Africa West Africa has been defined as including 17 countries Benin Burkina Faso the island nation of Cape Verde Gambia Ghana Guinea guinea-bissau Ivory Coast Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria the islands of st. Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Senegal Sierra Leone and Togo the population of West Africa is estimated at about 362 million people as of 2016 topic list of countries topic topic genetic background topic studies of human mitochondrial DNA suggest that all humans share common ancestors from Africa originated in the southwestern regions near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola at the approximate coordinates 12.5 degrees east 17.5 degrees south with a divergence in the migration path around 37 point five degrees east twenty two point five degrees north near the red sea a particular haplogroup of DNA haplogroup l2 evolved between eighty seven thousand and one hundred seven thousand years ago or approximately ninety thousand ybp it's age and widespread distribution and diversity across the continent makes its exact origin point within africa difficult to trace with any confidence however an origin for several l2 groups in West or Central Africa seems likely with the highest diversity in West Africa most of its subclades are largely confined to west and western central Africa because of the large numbers of West Africans enslaved in the Atlantic slave trade most african-americans are likely to have mixed ancestry from different regions of western Africa topic history topic the history of West Africa can be divided into five major periods first its prehistory in which the first human settlers arrived developed agriculture and made contact with peoples to the north the second the Iron Age empires that consolidated both intra Africa and extra Africa trade and developed centralized States third major polities flourished which would undergo an extensive history of contact with non-africans fourth the colonial period in which Great Britain and France controlled nearly the entire region and fifth the post-independence era in which the current nations were formed topic prehistory topic early human settlers from northern Holocene societies arrived in West Africa around 12,000 BC at go borrow the kiffy and who were hunters of tall stature lived during the green Sahara between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago the tener Ian who are a more lightly built people that hunted fished and herded cattle lived during the latter part of the green Sahara approximately 7,000 to 4,500 years ago sedentary farming began in or around the 5th millennium BC as well as the domestication of cattle by 1500 BC ironworking technology allowed an expansion of agricultural productivity and the first city-states later formed northern tribes developed walled settlements and non walled settlements that numbered at 400 in the forest region Iron Age cultures began to flourish and an inter region trade began to appear the desert if ocation of the Sahara in the climatic change of the coast caused trade with upper Mediterranean peoples to be seen the domestication of the camel allowed the development of a trans-saharan trade with cultures across the Sahara including Carthage and the Berbers major exports included gold cotton cloth metal ornaments iron and leather goods which were then exchanged for salt horses textiles and other such materials local leather cloth and gold also contributed to the abundance of prosperity for many of the following empires topic empires topic the development of the region's economy allowed more centralized states and civilizations to form beginning with dart ticket that began in 1600 BC followed by genady jeno beginning in 300 BC this was then succeeded by the Ghana Empire that first flourished between the 9th and 12th centuries which later gave way to the Mali Empire in current day Mauritania there exist archaeological sites in the towns of tich itand wada that were initially constructed around 2000 BC and were found to have originated from the Sonique II branch of the mande peoples who according to their tradition originated from Aswan Egypt also based on the archaeology of city of Kumbi Sala in modern-day Mauritania the Mali Empire came to dominate much of the region until its defeat by almoravid invaders in 1050 - three great kingdoms were identified in Balad al sudan by the 9th century they included ghana Gao and Khanum the soso Empire sought to fill the void but was defeated see 1240 by the Mandinka forces of Sundiata Keita founder of the new Mali Empire the Mali Empire continued to flourish for several centuries most particularly under Sunday on his grandnephew musa i before a succession of weak rulers led to its collapse under massey Tuareg and sangha invaders in the 15th century the Songhai would form a new dominant state based on GAO in the songhai empire under the leadership of Sonny Ali and Askia Mohammed meanwhile south of the Sudan strong city-states arose in Igboland such as the 10th century kingdom of NRI which helped birth the arts and customs of the Igbo people vano in the 12th century which eventually culminated in the formation the all-powerful akan Empire of a Chandi while IFE rose to prominence around the 14th century further east IO arose as the dominant Yoruba state and the aro Confederacy as a dominant Igbo state in modern-day Nigeria the kingdom of NRI was a West African medieval state in the present-day southeastern Nigeria and a subgroup of the Igbo people the kingdom of NRI was unusual in the history of world government in that its leader exercised no military power over his subjects the kingdom existed as a sphere of religious and political influence over a third of it Boland and was administered by a priest king called as an ease and RI the ease NRI managed trade and diplomacy on behalf of the NRI people and possessed divine authority in religious matters the oil Empire was a Yoruba Empire of what is today Western and northcentral nigeria established in the fifteenth century the oil Empire grew to become one of the largest West African states it rose through the outstanding organizational skills of the Yoruba wealth gained from trade and it's powerful cavalry the oil Empire was the most politically important state in the region from the mid 17th to the late 18th century holding sway not only over most of the other kingdoms in Yorubaland but also over nearby african states notably the fond kingdom of Dahomey in the modern Republic of Benin to the west the Benin Empire was a pre colonial empire located in what is now southern Nigeria its capital was Edo now known as Benin City Edo it should not be confused with the modern-day country called Benin formerly called Dahomey the Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in the coastal hinterland of West Africa dating perhaps to the 11th century CE II the Benin Empire was governed by a sovereign Emperor with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and a powerful council rich in resources wealth ancient science and technology with cities described as beautiful and large as Harlem Alford dapper a Dutch writer describing Benin in his book description of Africa 1668 it's craft was the most adored and treasured bronze casting in the history of Africa it was annexed by the British Empire in 1897 during the invasion and scramble of Africa topic slavery in European contact topic Portuguese traders began establishing settlements along the coast in 1445 followed by the French British Spanish Danish and Dutch the African slave trade began not long after which over the following centuries would debilitate the region's economy in population the slave trade also encouraged the formation of states such as the Asante Empire Bambara Empire in Dahomey whose economic activities include but not limited to exchanging slaves for European firearms topic colonialism topic in the early 19th century a series of Fulani reformist jihad swept across western Africa the most notable include osmond ANFO dia s Fulani empire which replaced the houses city-states Saku Amadou s Massena empire which defeated the Bambara and LH adj umar tall's to color empire which briefly conquered much of modern day Mali however the French and British continued to advance in the Scramble for Africa subjugating Kingdom after Kingdom with the fall of samory Torres new founded with Sulu Empire in 1898 and the Ashanti Queen yaa a Santa WA in 1902 most West African military resistance to colonial rule resulted in failure leaving however an effect on the development of the state's part of the West African regions underwent an increase in the numeracy level throughout the 19th century the reason for such a growth was predetermined by a number of factors namely the peanut production and trade which was boosted by the demand of the colonial states importantly the rise of the numeracy was higher in the regions which were less hierarchical and had less dependent from the slavery trade eg sign and Salim whereas areas with the opposite trends Illustrated opposite tendencies eg central and northern Senegal those patterns were further even more stimulated with the French colonial campaign Britain controlled the Gambia Sierra Leone Ghana and Nigeria throughout the colonial era while France unified Senegal Guinea Mali Burkina Faso Benin Ivory Coast and Niger into French West Africa Portugal founded the colony of Guinea Bissau while Germany claimed toggling but was forced to divide it between France and Britain following first world war due to the Treaty of Versailles only Liberia retained its independence at the price of major territorial concessions topic post-colonial eras topic following World War two nationalist movement arose across West Africa in 1957 ganda under Kwame Nkrumah became the first sub-saharan colony to achieve its independence followed the next year by France s colonies Guinea in 1958 under the leadership of President Ahmed se coutore by 1974 West Africa s nations were entirely autonomous since independence many West African nations have been submerged under political instability with notable civil wars in Nigeria Sierra Leone Liberia and Ivory Coast and a succession of military coos in Ghana and Burkina Faso since the end of colonialism the region has been the stage for some brutal conflicts including Nigerian civil war first Liberian civil war second Liberian Civil War Guinea Bissau civil war Ivorian civil war Sierra Leone rebel war topic states topic the Economic Community of West African states established in May 1975 has defined the region of West Africa since 1999 as including the following 15 states geopolitically the United Nations definition of western Africa includes the preceding States with the addition of Mauritania which withdrew from ECOWAS in 1999 comprising an area of approximately 6 point 1 million square km the UN region also includes the island of st. Helena a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean topic area topic in the United Nations scheme of African regions the region includes 17 states and the island of st. Helena an overseas territory Mali Burkina Faso Senegal and Niger are mostly in the Sahel a transition zone between the Sahara Desert and the Sudan II and Savannah Benin Cote d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea guinea-bissau Liberia Sierra Leone Togo and Nigeria compose Guinea the traditional name for the area near the Gulf of Guinea cape verde as an island country in the Atlantic Ocean Mauritania lies in the Maghreb the northwestern region of Africa that has historically been inhabited by both traditionally West African groups such as the Fulani Sonique II and Wolof along with Arab Berber mcgrevey people due to its increasingly close ties to the Arab world in its 1999 withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African states ECOWAS in modern times it is often considered especially in Africa as now part of Western North Africa pick cities topic major cities in West Africa include Abidjan Ivory Coast Accra Ghana Bamako Mali Banjul the Gambia Conakry Guinea Tania Benina Dakar Senegal Freetown Sierra Leone Lagos Nigeria LeMay Togo Wagga dugu Burkina Faso topic geography and climate topic West Africa broadly defined to include the western portion of the Maghreb Western Sahara Morocco Algeria and Tunisia occupies an area in excess of 6 million 140,000 square kilometers or approximately one-fifth of Africa the vast majority of this land is Plains lying less than 300 meters above sea level though isolated high points exist in numerous states along the southern shore of West Africa the northern section of West Africa narrowly defined to exclude the Western Maghreb is composed of semi-arid terrain known as Sahel a transitional zone between the Sahara and the savannas of the western Sudan forests form a belt between the savannas and the southern coast ranging from 160 kilometers to 240 kilometers in width the Northwest African region of Mauritania periodically suffers countrywide plagues of locusts which consume water salt and crops on which the human population relies topic background topic West Africa is west of an imagined north-south axis line close to ten degrees east longitude the Atlantic Ocean forms the Western as well as the southern borders of the West African region the northern border as the Sahara Desert with the rani shannu been generally considered the northernmost part of the region the eastern border is less precise with some placing it at the Bannu trough and others on a line running from Mount Cameroon to Lake Chad colonial boundaries are reflected in the modern boundaries between contemporary West African states cutting across ethnic and cultural lines often dividing single ethnic groups between two or more states in contrast to most of central southern and southeast African West Africa is not populated by been two speaking peoples topic transport topic topic rail transport topic a trans ECOWAS project established in 2007 plans to upgrade railways in this zone one of the goals of the Economic Community of West African states ECOWAS is the development of an integrated railroad network aims include the extension of Railways in member countries the interconnection of previously isolated railways and the standardization of gauge brakes couplings and other parameters the first line would connect the cities and ports of Lagos Catania low May and Accra and would allow the largest container ships to focus on a smaller number of large ports while efficiently serving a larger hinterland this line connects three feet six in 1060 seven millimeters gauge in 1,000 millimeters three feet three and three eighths in meter gauge systems which would require four rail dual gauge which can also provide standard gauge topic road transport topic the trans West African coastal highway as a transnational highway project to link 12 West African coastal states from Mauritania in the northwest of the region to Nigeria in the east with feeder roads already existing to to landlocked countries Mali and Burkina Faso the eastern end of the highway terminates at Lagos Nigeria Economic Community of West African states ECOWAS consider its western end to be Nowak shot Mauritania or to be Dakar Senegal giving rise to these alternative names for the road nuoc shot Lagos highway Lagos new auction highway dakar lagos highway lagos dakar highway trans african highway 7 in the trans african highway network topic air transport topic the Capitals airports include Cajun Airport co o international Cotonou Benin Waga dubu Airport Oh you a Waga dugu burkina faso amilcar cabral International Airport CID praia cape verde Banjul International Airport bjl International Banjul Gambia Kotoka International Airport ACC Accra Ghana Conakry International Airport CKY Conakry Guinea Osvaldo Vieira International Airport Oh xB Bissau Guinea Bissau port buit Airport abj Abidjan Ivory Coast Roberts International Airport ROM Monrovia Liberia Bamako say no International Airport bko Bamako Mali d or e Himani International Airport NIM Miam a Niger Murtala Mohammed International Airport Los Lagos Nigeria st. Helena Airport Jamestown st. Helena Blaise Diane International Airport DSS Dakar Senegal lungi International Airport fna Freetown Sierra Leone low made to coin Airport lfw low may tow goof the 16 the most important hub an entry point to West Africa as Kotoka International Airport and Murtala Muhammed International Airport offering many international connections topic culture topic despite the wide variety of cultures in West Africa from Nigeria through to Senegal there are general similarities in dress cuisine music and culture that are not shared extensively with groups outside the geographic region this long history of cultural exchange predates the colonization era of the region and can be approximately placed at the time of the ganda empire proper Wagga du Empire Mali Empire or perhaps before these empires topic traditional architecture topic the main traditional styles of building in conjunction with modern styles are the distinct Sedano Sahelian style in inland areas and the coastal forest styles more reminiscent of other sub-saharan areas they differ greatly in construction due to the demands made by the variety of climates in the area from tropical humid forests to arid grasslands in desert despite the architectural differences buildings perform similar functions including the compound structure central to West African family life or strict distinction between the private and public worlds needed to maintain taboos or social etiquette topic clothing topic in contrast to other parts of the continent south of the Sahara Desert the concepts of hemming and embroidering clothing have been traditionally common to West Africa for centuries demonstrated by the production of various breeches shirts tunics and jackets as a result the peoples of the region's diverse nations wear a wide variety of clothing with underlying similarities typical pieces of West African formal attire include the need to ankle-length flowing booby rope dashiki and Senegalese caftan also known as a bada and Bob Riga which has its origins in the clothing of nobility of various West African empires in the 12th century traditional half sleeved hip long woven smocks or tunics known as fugu in Guernsey Riga and Hausa worn over a pair of baggy trousers is another popular garment in the coastal regions stretching from southern ivory coast to Benin a huge rectangular cloth is wrapped under one arm draped over a shoulder and held in one of the wearer s hands coincidentally reminiscent of Romans tokens the best known of these toga like garments as the Kente made by the akan people of Ghana and Ivory Coast who wear them as a gesture of national pride topic cuisine topic scores of foreign visitors to West African nations eg traders historians immigrants colonists missionaries have benefited from its citizens generosity and even left with a piece of its cultural heritage via its foods West African cuisines have had a significant influence on those of Western civilization for centuries several dishes of West African origin are currently enjoyed in the Caribbean eg the West Indies in Haiti Australia the USA particularly Louisiana Virginia North and South Carolina Italy and other countries although some of these recipes have been altered to suit the sensibilities of their adopters they retain a distinct West African essence West Africans cuisines include fish especially among the coastal areas meat vegetables and fruits most of which are grown by the nations local farmers in spite of the obvious differences among the various local cuisines in this multinational region the foods display more similarities than differences the small difference may be in the ingredients used most foods are cooked via boiling or frying commonly featured starchy vegetables include yams plantains cassava and sweet potatoes rice is also a staple food as as the sir people's sorghum couscous called sharra in sir particularly in Senegal and The Gambia jollof rice originally from the kingdom of Jolla now part of modern-day Senegal but having spread to the Wallace of Gambia is also enjoyed in many Western nations as well MAF a proper Thai digna or damata from Mali via the Bambara and Mandinka a peanut butter stew served with rice acara fried bean balls seasoned with spices served with sauce and bread from Nigeria as a favorite breakfast for Gambians and Senegalese as well as a favorite side snack or side dish in Brazil in the Caribbean just as it is in West Africa it is said that its exact origin maybe from Yorubaland in Nigeria fufu from the TWI language a dough served with a spicy stew or sauce for example okra stew etc from Ghana has enjoyed throughout the region and beyond even in Central Africa with their own versions of it dishes such as taga Agha Hara etc are popular among the Tuareg people pick recreation and sports topic the boardgame owari is quite popular in many parts of southern Africa the word owari originates from the akan people of Ghana however virtually all African peoples have a version of this board game the major multi-sport event of West Africa is the ECOWAS games which commenced at the 2012 ECOWAS Games football is also a pastime enjoyed by many either spectating or playing the major national teams of West Africa the Ghana national football team the Ivory Coast national football team and the Nigerian national football team regularly win the Africa Cup of Nations major football teams of West Africa are a Sunday Kotoko SC and across of oak SC of the Ghana Premier League and Yamba international of the Nigerian Premier League and asic mimosas of the League One Ivory Coast the football governing body of West Africa as the West African Football Union wafu and the major tournament as the West African club championship and wafu Nations Cup along with the annual individual award of West African Footballer of the year topic music topic in bollocks highlife Fuji and Afrobeat are all modern musical genres which listeners enjoy in this region old traditional folk music is also well preserved in this region some of these are religious in nature such as the tusu tradition used in sura religion topic griot and praise singing topic two important related traditions that musically make West African musical attitudes unique are the griot tradition and the praise singing tradition in many cases these two genres are highly similar the difference being whether the traditions are considered the property of hereditary castes griot or two talented individuals among a ruler subjects pray singing in both cases the minstrel tradition and specialisation in certain string and percussion instruments as observed traditionally musical and oral history is conveyed over generations by griots are typical of West African culture in Monday wolof sang hae more and to some extent though not Universal fula areas in the Far West a hereditary caste occupying the fringes of society the griots were charged with memorizing the histories of local rulers and personages and the cast was further broken down into music playing griots similar to bards and non music playing griots like praise singers the griot s main profession was musical acquisition and prowess and patrons were the sole means of financial support modern griots enjoy higher status in the patronage of rich individuals in places such as Mali Senegal Mauritania and Guinea and to some extent make up the vast majority of musicians in these countries examples of modern popular griot artists include salif keita you suin dour Mamadou job at a Rokia trial ray and too many job at a in other areas of West Africa primarily among the Hausa Massey da gamba and Yoruba in the area encompassing Burkina Faso northern Ghana Nigeria and Niger the traditional profession of non-hereditary praise singers minstrels bards and poets play a vital role in extending the public show of power lineage and prestige of traditional rulers through their exclusive patronage like the griot tradition praise singers are charged with knowing the details of specific historic events and royal lineages but more importantly need to be capable of poetic improvisation and creativity with knowledge of traditional songs directed towards showing a patrones financial and political or religious power competition between praise singing ensembles and artistes are high and artists responsible for any extraordinarily skilled prose musical compositions and panegyric songs are lavishly rewarded with money clothing provisions and other luxuries by patrons who are usually politicians rulers Islamic clerics and merchants these successful praise singers rise to national stardom examples include Mammon Shah de Sully concho fatty Niger Sidhu bori and Dan Mariah in the case of Niger numerous praise songs are composed and shown on television in praise of local rulers Islamic clerics and politicians topic film industry topic Nollywood of nigeria is the main film industry of West Africa the Nigerian cinema industry is the second largest film industry in terms of number of annual film productions ahead of the American film industry in Hollywood Senegal and Ghana also have long traditions of producing films the latest man sembène the senegalese film director producer and writer as from the region as is the Ghanaian surely Frimpong Manta topic religion topic topic Islam topic Islam is the predominant religion of the West African interior and the far west coast of the continent 70% of West Africans and was introduced to the region by traders in the ninth century Islam is the religion of the region's biggest ethnic groups by population Islamic rules on livelihood values dress and practices had a profound effect on the populations and cultures in their predominant areas so much so that the concept of tribalism is less observed by Islamized groups like the mande Wolof causa fula and songhai than they are by non Islamized groups ethnic intermarriage and shared cultural icons are established through a superseded commonality of belief or community known as umma traditional Muslim areas include Senegal Gambia Mali Mauritania Guinea Niger the upper coast and inland two-thirds of Sierra Leone and inland Liberia the western northern and far eastern regions of Burkina Faso in the northern halves of the coastal nations of Nigeria Benin Togo Ghana and Ivory Coast topic African traditional topic traditional African religions noting the many different belief systems are the oldest belief systems among the populations of this region and include akan religion Yoruba religion Odin Ani and Serer religion they are spiritual but also linked to the historical and cultural heritage of the people although traditional beliefs vary from one place to the next there are more similarities than differences topic Christianity topic Christianity a relative newcomer introduced from the late 19th to mid to late 20th centuries is associated with the British and French colonization eras when missionaries from European countries brought the religion to the region as Western Christianity it includes predominantly Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism it has become the predominant religion in the central and southern part of Nigeria and the coastal regions stretching from southern Ghana to coastal parts of Sierra Leone like Islam elements of traditional African religion are mixed with Christianity topic demographics and languages topic West Africans primarily speak Niger Congo languages belonging mostly though not exclusively to its non been two branches though some nilo-saharan and afro-asiatic speaking groups are also found in West Africa the niger congo speaking Yoruba Igbo Fulani icon and Wolof ethnic groups are the largest and most influential in the central Sahara Mandinka or mande groups are most significant Chaddock speaking groups including the Hausa are found in more northerly parts of the region nearest to the Sahara and nilo-saharan communities such as the sungai kandorians Armagh are found in the eastern parts of West Africa bordering Central Africa the population of West Africa is estimated at 362 million people as of 2016 in Mali Niger and Burkina Faso the nomadic Tuareg speak the Tuareg language a berber language colonial languages also play a pivotal cultural and political role being adopted as the official languages of most countries in the region as well as lingua franca in communication between the regions various ethnic groups for historical reasons Western European languages such as French English and Portuguese predominate in southern and coastal sub regions whilst Arabic spreads inland northwards topic economic and regional organizations topic the Economic Community of West African states ECOWAS founded by the 1975 Treaty of Lagos is an organization of West African states which aims to promote the region's economy the West African monetary union or Yui MOA from its name in French Union economy cat monitor West African is limited to the ate mostly francophone countries that employ the CFA franc as their common currency the libtech O'Gorman thority of Mali Niger and Burkina Faso seeks to jointly develop the contiguous areas of the three countries topic women's peace movement topic since the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 in 2000 women have been engaged in rebuilding war-torn Africa starting with the women of Liberia mass action for peace and women in peace building network WIP and et the peace movement has grown to include women across West Africa established on May 8 2006 women peace and security network Africa WIPs en Africa is a women focused women led pan-african nongovernmental organization based in Ghana the organization has a presence in Ghana Nigeria Ivory Coast Liberia and Sierra Leone regional leaders of nonviolent resistance include Lima jibawi Comfort Freeman and I aversion detour a pray the devil back to hell as a documentary film about the origin of this peace movement the film has been used as an advocacy tool in post-conflict zones like Sudan and Zimbabwe mobilizing African women to petition for peace and security topic gallery topic topic cityscapes of largest cities topic topic capital cities of West Africa topic see also topic a Jame Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa Manila's a form of archaic money unique to West Africa in Co script NS a BT script an indigenously developed West African writing system by syllabary West African cratan Western Sahara topic references topic topic further reading topic a Qian Paul a manual Kwaku themes in West Africa's history 2006 Collins Robert Oh African history Western African history 1990 Davidson basil a history of West Africa 1000 to 1800 1978 numerous editions Edgerton Robert B the fall of the Asante Empire the hundred year war for Africa's Gold Coast 2002 Festus Jacob at all Edie s history of West Africa vol 1 1989 ham Anthony West Africa 2009 Hopkins Antony Gerald an economic history of West Africa 2014 came loose man Omar beyond Timbuktu an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa 2016 Mendonsa Eugene L West Africa an introduction to its history 2002 pick external links topic West Africa by region and country African Studies at Columbia University Lewis Tov calm newest off a West African online newspaper in French laksa dental and online West African newspaper in French West Africa review an e-journal on West Africa research and scholarship in English the voyage of the Cyril Amer to the Canary Islands Cape Verde Senegal and Gambia as the first published writing about western Africa dating from 1695 in English one | wikipedia tts | UCV5cie6grszX4UTDJzpFOyA | 2018-11-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,170 | 31,812 |
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oKJsgmU_b4s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKJsgmU_b4s | 2020 Jeep Gladiator - CarTech Infotainment How To | this is a 2020 Jeep gladiator Rubicon 4x4 [Music] we'd like to thank our friends at Apple auto in beautiful Shakopee Minnesota where they sell Jeep Chrysler Dodge and Ram vehicles for lowness is beautiful Jeep gladiator today [Music] hey folks I'm Rob and I'm Nathan and we are do guys at RI and today Nathan tell the folks what we're taking a look at oh we're here today with a 2020 Jeep gladiator Rubicon 4x4 yes sir Reba say before we get started if you like to keep up to date with all the new cars trucks SUVs and you like to know about all the cool technology and you're like cool collector cars stories take a moment to hit that subscribe button down below and ring that bell notification at the top so you never miss a video that's right so what do you say Nathan oh boy yeah let's go alright alright so this is the little detailed video on the how the drivers information system works and and what they're always buttons do and then we'll do the infotainment stream so basically the way with Jeep ads that you know this is your digital display right in here for drivers information it is really nice it's really crystal clear yeah basically you're gonna use your up and down arrows to select the different menu items so for instance if I start by going down one here I have speedometer it says press ok for kilometres so I press ok which is right here and it goes to kilometers per hour miles brown okay so I hit the another down arrow again here I have tire pressure now you'll notice on the screen that I have two arrows and some green dots and I'm gonna go back and click into it again so you see those right here that means I have more screens left to right this is my vehicle info screen so I'm gonna go to the right and I've got enjoy coolant temperature I've got transmission temperature oil temperature and then oil pressure oil life battery voltage hey now I'm gonna go down again and here's my off-road stuff and I've got two screens here I've got the drivetrain and then I've got this really cool a like a what do you call that Robin in claman oh uh yeah inclu meter whatever I can't think of the word but basically it's your pitch and roll we'll just use jeeps word that way there you go so there's your pitch and there's your row I mean I just I necessarily need hey and then we got your number four is your adaptive cruise control and that's either on or off and and there isn't a way to control it from the left so you go over to the right and this is your adaptive cruise control button here and I'll get to that in a minute but if they turn that on then it's on yeah going back over here I'm gonna go to the right or I'm gonna sorry I'm gonna go down again so now I'm on stream number five and I do have a couple things this is a fuel economy and if I go to the left I get an average fuel economy and okay so this is this is current tells me that range my range is 160 miles current I'm getting zero average I'm getting sixteen and then here it just gives you your average then as you drive it gives you and you know that goes back and forth and tell you what your miles per gallon is all right let's go down again trip info I've got two things to pay and of course and trip beep okay so if I go down to the next one I get the start stop now that has to do with your auto start/stop and there really isn't any button over here that you can use so if you go down underneath your physical climate control buttons you have the auto start/stop button here and if you click it it'll say it stopped start is off if you click it again it'll say it's ready okay so going the screen eight here is where all of your audio stuff is so anything that you have on will show up here you do have some controls in the back of the steering wheel so you got like basically you got a volume up volume down there's a middle button it's right behind here then that does your sources over here if I go up oops let's get out of bluetooth how about that there we go so this one changes this that the up and down here are a seat button for your audio so would be similar if you're on Bluetooth would be like a you know skip to the next song or go back the middle button does your presets that you have okay so let's go to screen the next one screen nine okay this is where if your vehicle gives you any messages newer vehicles are getting really good at notifying you like you need service on something and that's where these show up okay and then we go ten we can press ok to enter screen setup this is where you can customize it so let's say I want to go and I want to do the let's see upper left which is good it's highlighted in orange so if I click here I can see I want outside temperature there so now I've got outside temperature all right I could also have time I could have range to empty average economy current economy trip eight this is trippy distance what time I got up in the morning I don't know what else it has my gosh alright and then you can just press ok setting safe then I can go to the upper right and I can again it'll be the same options hey but I can click here and change all those customize the hell I want alright and then if I go to current gear I can turn current gear off or on Hey and I can go to odometer and I can go show her height so if I say this I wanna hide it did you see it just disappear right down here it says 16 miles if I say hide it disappears Thanks so let's let's just leave it on show and if I go down to favorite menus okay then I can these are the ones I can get to quickly all right and then I'll go back let's see go back one and it's basically a left to escape then to go back to step a left arrow and then up here that's it I've been through them off if I do the upper center that I can have audio show up their main timaya title speedometer nun or compass I mean so it's just it's really customized is so neat the way I'm just gonna leave it as outside temperature okay and that's the end of the screens and the beautiful thing about it is that Jeep has given you basically five buttons that do everything and it's a simple up/down as your different menu items left right is accessing things within the menus and then okay to select anything oh yeah over here you got your phone on phone off you got voice command over here you do have your cruise control this is normal cruise control on offset plus or minus resume cancel then if you want to adapt if it's here then if you want to set your increase your gap it's here if you want to decrease your gap it's here all right that being said let's move over to the infotainment center okay so on the infotainment screen here this is an 8.4 inch screen it's really really nice I love the way Jeep I set this out so it's just very customizable for instance so you can take and just you know click on like say an icon let's say projection manager and then drag it just like your smartphone over the top of an app and it replaces it on the bottom so there are constantly six apps down here and then you can just drag and drop whichever ones are most important to you so they're easy to get to I love that hey up here of course you have your temperature display okay which I like tells you what temperature is outside the time of course and then your audio and then you have different kinds at so you got the trout serious travel link which is incredible it comes with part of the subscription but you know the weather map and you've got sports you've got just a serious set some traffic just so many things that if you get this new and you get the subscription with it try it out because I think you're really gonna love it all right get a Wi-Fi hotspot here both see let's go Oh off-road pages here I'm taking a minute maybe last but never stop ah okay so here you go off-road pages so sway bar connected tells you the front axle unlocked rear axle unlocked your steering angle your transfer case what geared say you know what range it's in you can go to accessory gauges so now you're seeing a whole bunch of your necessary gauges right up on the screen when you're off-roading you can go to pitch and roll and then in go to the trail cam which is the camera that's in the front and in case it gets dirty why you just hit the clean camera button and it squirts water on it mm-hmm I like how the fact that the the swivel lines here are are like Jeep tracks I love that and then up here of course you've got your rear you can switch the rear camera you can focus in on the hitch area if you want or you got the front cam I just love that and then you can X out and you're right back to this screen yeah so while you're on the off-road mode you have just ever really easy access to that trail cam which i think is nice and okay so let's get out of here you do have a vehicle user guide your audio settings again notifications are things that the vehicle is trying to tell you like you know time to change your oil alright you do have you can look at the backup camera here and you've got some extra guidelines here if we zoom in ok those all disappear be kinda nice with those would stay there as you zoomed in you know it's thank you for backing up to your trailer but but they don't appear to all right and then of course you have your forward-facing camera and then we've already looked at that so you just navigation okay this does come equipped that's part of your voice activate voice command system here okay so the one thing that Jeep has done is they haven't put a physical HOME key anywhere what you do is just press the apps button and this always stays on your screen doesn't matter how you customize it and they're your back hey so just so many ways to have fun with this you do have touch controls on your screen for your climate if you want and again this is where your sync button is located so if you want to sync both sides you do have to go into the infotainment screen and I wish they had a physical button somewhere here to do that with I really like having a physical one but it is right there in case you need it over here you've got some more controls for you heated seats your heated steering wheel your passenger heated seat backup camera you know they just give you a bunch of nice settings right here along with your mirror dimmer okay and let's go back here so we hit apps again and then let's see we'll go just to settings for a minute okay so up here you know you this is where you can change things like the language that the units are using voice clock camera that kind of stuff so if you need to change something let's take a look at slurry switches for a minute here is where you can actually kind of make some settings for your your for auxilary switches that you have so power source or the emission or battery recalled last state and a type where that's latching or momentary now that's the first time I've seen Azaria switches put in and then this many options given to them and I think that's really nice things people set that up really well then there's for auxilary each one is the same but just Wow driver safety and assistance so here you got your rear park sense volume when things are you know you're backing up you got your blind spot alert you got your Hill Start Assist Hayato emergency braking here you know we want warning and active brake warning only or off so these are where you can set that this thing has got quite a few safety features on it mirrors and wipers do you want to headlights with the wipers so again anything you kind of like okay I want to change this setting that's gonna be under settings hey coming down a little bit you got physical controls for the audio system with power on/off volume and then you do have a tuning button you can see up here that the radios changing stations and then you have a browser enter button climate control system here you've got basically your drivers temperature defroster 'z passenger temperature and then your modes and then your AC or recirculation and then of course auto and then fan speed right here is rotary moving over here you have a heated three wheel and then you have three stage heated seats for both driver and passenger in the front and then of course you have a mute button to mute audio your auto start/stop aren't off your traction control on or off hazards parking sensors off select a speed switch when you're off-road you need to keep the vehicle lock at a certain speed and then you can shut your whole screen off in case it's too bright right down here you have to your power windows okay this is expressed down in the front so if you press they'll go let them go they'll go down but going up you have to hold so this is driver and passenger in the front this is a passenger left passenger right passenger in the back this is your window lockout button so it's a physical sort of a rotary knob you'd have a 12-volt outlet here you do have your media sources here with two USB is a USB seen a regular USB and then you have an auxilary 3.5 millimeter jack this is where your four auxilary buttons are that we talked about earlier in the infotainment screen you have the Opera you can activate down here your disc you can disconnect or reconnect your sway bar from here and then here you got your lovely front and rear locking differentials if you push up and rear locking if you go down of course you have to be in for low I believe for high or low I think for high at least for the front and rear alright you do have the manual switcher there and then of course your gear lever here which works like any other gear lever I do love the fact that they put the Jeep right on the shifter alright I hope you've enjoyed this little video on all the buttons and stuff inside the Jeep gladiator Rubicon because it's really awesome alright thanks you | Two Guys and a Ride | UCOv1hbnEZ4z-325HdFjXHzQ | 2019-11-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse 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KX_f_tJfavs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_f_tJfavs | Satanic Triangle near Little Switzerland with Dead Bodies of Tortured Children Sacrificed in Castles | now here it is it's raining like hell this is the the mother of darkness castle I can't get any further it's very dangerous here you see the trip wires here we have got trip wire well my lens is like convincing wait a minute it's okay and the the house it belongs to the to the family of Solvay there's the the Viking connection because the Vikings you know they were at the at the Pharaoh's to call them the how Naboo or the sea peoples how noble which is a Scandinavian word hound it's I haven't it's a harbor Abu it means to live like naval neighbor and solve a he's a he's making pharmaceuticals no like prozac see what I'm getting it right why you need children you know for the experiments as well I hope nobody is sneaking up to me yeah so this is why they snatched the children you know this was built by the brother of the Belgium King a couple of hundred years back I'm really sorry but I don't feel like getting any further you know there were only take my camera away and the footage now I've been walking for the whole day you know I'm very tired there it is this is where of course we're dutiful he brought the children and this guy Solvay in the middle of the first world war that was in 1917 he here comes the Swiss connection again he he build a hut it's called the Solway hut that's Sol ee-vie a why the sole very Hut and guess what in the middle of the first world war in 1917 when the Belgium people were though the Belgian people they were suffering I just went to that village they're hot signal whether the Germans they shot hundreds and twenty villages in the First World War around the same time and this guy he has so much power in the middle of the war by his dad now but his ancestors you know to whom it belongs here now yeah and he built the soul they ha future that means the soul they hide out why because Switzerland is the hideout for the Templars and these guys are all freemasons they come from the tempest and the height of this thing the soul very Hut is four thousand and three metres exactly four plus three make seven you know why four thousand and three meters it's quite high it's the highest Hut the high is like a hideout in Switzerland the huts you know like if you have problems in the snow wall snowboarding avalanche or whatever and I told you my Statue of Liberty film in France where the the number four it stands for the for the square and with a square is ninety degree so you can make wait a minute absolute watch if it's not condensed it's unbelievable I'm having the worst weather you can imagine look this is the audience the Battle of the Bulge yeah yeah I mean I'm all wet look at my shoes there I've got my jacket over me you know here and nobody's sneaking up to me because it's got this thing here that was another building as well so I only do it in English and so for stands for the square the square is 90 degrees so with 90 degrees that's why it's called the square you can make a square which is the base of a pyramid with the compass which is 60 degrees you can make a side of a pyramid which stands for the number three there are three corners on it or three sides a square has four sides or four corners so all together it makes seven the number three and four it stands for the square and compass that's why he built the huts at four thousand and three metres only well the three only 4,000 described a lot and this is what these blokes do they're all pharaohs this is the king there is a security on the other side I walked through the forest for about 6 or 7 hours I took the wrong way I couldn't find it you see it's hard to find so it's a good thing I came in the winter there's no leaves like in the summer I wouldn't even have found it and I would have would I would have tripped here over these over this thing here yeah and what there were some more things I wanted to tell you so yeah he's making Prozac you know it's quite easy for all these medicals you know to find a soldier a prisoner or you know [Music] somebody from a mental hospital you know to do the experiments on to use your new medicals there after the rats and the monkeys and so but it's very hard to find children say so they had these guys and the odd it's called a satanic triangle this one here just on the other side of the border it's not very far there is the other the other bloke for me a Hebrew also children to a castle you know it's the aristocracy they've always been doing this and they come from Pharaoh and they've always been doing this you know and on the other side is the boo-yan Castle I'm gonna show that all to you which is it's satanic triangle God for the boo Yong in thousand 95 there was he led the first Crusades you know probably find some tempest crosses and all that and just next to it there's Little Switzerland uh-huh in Luxembourg La Petite Swiss as Switzerland as always all over it no money is there everything is that they built our Hut said it's the refuge love effusion as the guy in the where the in the Templars commandery in Strasbourg as you told me it's Switzerland all over there at the base 1 million Swiss Americans in the US they control the entire US yeah so I have to look at my yeah so I'm sorry I really don't feel like getting any closer yeah you know it's really dangerous where is it yeah but my my lenses what are they short for children nobody hear them cry here it's what you told the Broughton and do - they're gonna leave him out his wives already leather leather outs it's it's incredible it's incredible they let her out and she a woman you know a child has more confidence like in a woman so she attracted the children and she's out you know I already told you we we belong to them we are their property that's why you have a passport with your personal slave number on it and if the other night in their shining uniforms you know if they knock on your window in your car and there's our papers please it's a slave control they want to see your slave number they can take away that our children if they want they just snatch them and then leave the do - they leave him out of prison and his wife you know we are slaves we are slaves they can do with us whatever they want but they hide it because we don't accept it we're all beating peoples the Germanic peoples the Celt peoples all of them all of us of course the American Indians all of us that's the bother of darkness castle so who is the mother of darkness it's Isis of course very difficult to film for me it's raining so there's what it is evil pure evil I can feel it i yeah I think there was the Sun your glyph somewhere but I don't see it now there is Sun your glyph veronik symbols our masters they've always been rolling a hey there's the evil castle and there's a sort of a monastry no as you can see no I think it's that yeah oh I can't see it I need a camera you know what to look through it should be there the sort of a causal or chapel for the satanic messes this is weird man looks like a door for some armored vehicle it's really heavy very heavy thick glass nose like straight disguise I'm at the wrong side of the fence that castle is there never mind there's the chapel or whatever this place is so eerie really dodgy they do bad things and there's the possum the mother of Darkness causal well let's get a bit mirror that's it okay I'm inside this is the best shot I can get this you know all right there's some you ever glitch oh there they are well mark I'll see I'll probably see them later on me yeah it's dangerous this is a map of Belgium Luxemburg and northern France so here's a place called Little Switzerland La Petite Swiss Switzerland is always in it right next to it is the satanic triangle where children disappear and they get tortured smaller so it's bas Val where Funi ray where the if the last castle is here somewhere boo Yong got what the Booya is here and Muno that'sa little village next to it is the castle of duty and there's the river which is called la producer Paul the serpent and it belongs to solve a so where is all connected to Switzerland and there was another affair with pedophilia in Romania in 2015 one of the workers of solve a so Switzerland has got his fingers all over just as always so this is the satanic triangle boom the Council of the of the mother of Darkness here Muno and here boss of all the other castle where children disappear in all this it's a satanic triangle they call it in and next to the Little Switzerland yeah so again this is a satanic triangle boom you know and boss of all three castles where children disappear children from all over Europe who disappear they end up here but Little Switzerland next to it I see the Templars cross so this is the castle of Wooyoung it's a good for the boo Yong and so this is the other part of the Satanic triangle with the the dutroux castle where they killed all the children related to the pharmaceutical industry you can see it now ten plus crosses here more Templars crosses here oh this is two Swiss cross a Swiss a and this guy is so related you know the the other guy from the other castle so related to to Switzerland this guy from the pharmaceutical industry the the chemical industry solve it so this is the castle of it's quite impressive so here this is where the crusade started in thousand ninety five it started here in buyo and the south of Belgium is a nice River and it ended in Switzerland in 1291 the end of the Crusades so that's all about the crew site so here you can see this guy here this is good for the muyul this is where we got the word boo Yong probably from you know this nice soup like make soup of the enemy they are masters they still are our masters the imagine in the Middle Ages here you know the Masters on the hill see it's raining it's raining it's very hard filming so I'm standing here under the pyramid roof almost I'm completely wet my socks my underwear my t-shirt my dust bag a little bit wet I've got to plastics over it it's been raining for days for a nice medieval sensations Pharaoh me all wet and they sitting dry there in our drinking that's AI with the that's why the one so sweats alone they rule the world nice River it's all forests around it again you see it's all forests all over the Taurus house I did some information so the church in boo young where the castle is is full of full of Templars crosses so I've already seen this in the South of France no it's a little ghetto blaster Templars ghetto blaster seen here some more Templar stuff well they're the ones who rule over the Vatican with their Swiss Guard hey Templar boys well this symbol here means it meant in the Middle Ages you're welcome in our castle let's go by even the poets here it says it's a poet and his name is Laura that means the king even the poets they are from the of course they are no aristocracy so that's the castle there's a nice river there I was back in someone has a dip in the pool if the Lord will allow me and tagging all hexagonal that nice table I slept in the forest wish I could have slept here actually well go and count the the lines here it's probably thirty night so there is the bloke never near a look oh you know it's all forests around this beautiful coat of arms of the the town probably there is mr. goat wha what means cold reptilians hey I spoke French and German like a real Swiss II hit started and ended up in Switzerland of course you spoke German as well anyway goat for God feet it's a Germanic name oh it looks Hey look friendlier from the other side actually looks a bit like me Ferro me and still wet I got the real Templar stuff it's interesting well it says he on the side it says in Old French Jew Levu if God once probably Satan himself bunch of killers rapists child molesters satanic the entrance of the entrance of Pharaoh to bet there's a truck I'm not gonna you cutting in any way no it's always the same there he is again cannon here's some more Casas aren't going here sit on this the the triangle here sit on boo-yan and that the other look at it here a lion and the checkerboard symbol and it's red and white of the United Kingdom affair of what's my film like the White House and the red house right [Music] I'm eight you will welcome to ah that's why there was the dagger because you're welcome but if you don't behave you'll end up here only we the Pharaohs the Lord's we don't behave and you'll just bring us the women and we rate them oh yeah and the children too of course who torture them bring them into the castle [Music] amazing thousands years old probably one of the first castles but there were no castles before this one roughly the year thousand down of cancer so it's all import of Pharaoh now look it looks like the friends meet over here French the underground this is more like overground hood but we're gonna stop me here so in thousand forty the lady of bullion was born here she was the daughter of coach file with the Witham with a beard you had a beard and I need to go in this I'll read that later very impressive French my throat I don't have French meets or ticket anymore [Music] or was the guard the order of the guard here's the castle from the other side it has a river on both sides so it's going it's taking a u-turn here around the castle that's taking a u-turn it goes on the other side very strategic you always got water pharaohs there's a black and white checkerboard thing you know the circle they got this funny thing it's got the 11 sticks believe me or you can count the one two three four seven eight nine 10 11 you can count from here it's 11 in the middle is the ring you know like the basic approaches and you see there's a gap here where it could fit in exactly two are the sticks to make it 13 so that means their total control is not has not been perfected yet the new worlds order the system is there but it's not being perfected yet because there's still two sticks left a place for two sticks that wasn't me showing you where they're a little bit rainy guys ever look at the castle from the other side you know children here they are getting used to Knights being shot at you know like later on like the police they do what what they want you know to show them the Knights are the good ones right you get used to them what kitties it gets stuck in the brain you know the whole chivalry of romantics hey I know people are 70 or 62 still believe it you know I'm collecting like things but they're bastards they were biases they still are / so the the castle of us Alisa mayor WA it's just 15 kilometers from here you know it's all connected it's another cars well it's still the king and that's where they rapes and the children - satanic stuff with it because Egypt was all of our black magic anyway you know as it says in the Bible and our mayor what so the other castle are in the demotic language it was raining so it was so hard to film you know ah it was it means a big or pregnant mare mare mare who it means the pyramid and wha it means the king so it means the kings of the big pyramid the mother of darkness casts on this one is quite dark - you know it's all related there's only 15 klicks away and me another pyramid on the car with three four Isis Horus and Seth or is this the little one eyes set the big one it's all over and the two sticks missing you know it also represents like 2 means 2 to 12 we are where we're deed you know we are we're finished it's it's 2 to 12 it needs two more and then they got their thing all set and all Egypt here with their slaves we're lost so here it is the soul very hard and it's not a Swiss it is actually Belgium and it's exactly at four thousand three metres because I this square it's for the number four and three years and with a compass you can make the side of a pyramid which stands for the number three a triangle you know with three corners in it and the the square you can make the base of a pyramid that's all that's the yeah the square which stands for the number four I always already showed that in my film on the Statue of Liberty and this is why the number seven and the G is the seventh letter between the square and compass and this Belgian guy the Solvay is the name he built his Hut in the middle of the war when they when his people you know that were executed not really by the Germans by the aristocracy so here it says in Vika pedia you can find yourself the whole thing you know it's exactly at four thousand three metres which is the highest huts in the world the most dangerous so this guy to whom the cut that do to castle belongs to you know this is very important for them so this is how his pharaonic Freemason pals they all know yes he's very important you see and this guy is fabricating prozac Solvay and so on I'm sorry I'm sitting in that library I can't I can't really film it the way I want yeah I still don't have nobody is you know I don't have a place yeah sleeping here on the ridge and the Ardennes as you can see you know it's all mountains around all forests everywhere oh no all around here I think the river is going all around here it's cotton assume what where they shot Oh William always and actually I should have walked a little bit further there was a nice flat part there on the ridge you know I should have walked a little bit further there's some nice Terranea pretty flat on parts of it just didn't see it completely different see with all the leaves no no very different party different trees baby now these are pine trees here and these are the other ones that's why only here only on this party although otherwise it's all around it's pine trees yeah the leaf trees in that's why different energy well but never mind no was there the castle of so to Satan's castle himself in destroy in a satanic trying over here they did it with hundreds of children over hundreds of years you know this is how they get the demons and Satan to work for them so they can conquer the human race and the world has already did and win all the wars for them so there it is this is next to Sydal so this is the other part of the satanic triangle here the Council of so two like Satan subtle so to and the aristocracy it was built by a freemason called the Josh Coronel and a farmer just told me very interesting that the the people who are living who bought it though they're not it's empty now there's nobody in here the first day they were here the the whole story you know because of a black girl and African go living in France she she escaped and the first day in their castle here the new owners they had all the cops crawling over it so of course I mean who wants to live in a place where little where small children have been tortured and murdered you don't want to live in there especially not with your family and you know so and the name of this guy was for near a which comes from Forney one why is the king like Leroy means Lu ha the king the name and from here it means to to deliver to yeah that delivers children so for me what it means somebody who delivers things for the King so apparently there is well let's have a look I'm not gonna walk well apparently there's nobody any anyone why infiltrate from the side now through a forest here so at least I can have my shots before I get caught path going to the castle as you can see there it's going there I'm not gonna walk I'll walk here because I can lie down my stomach if a car passes and have a far better chance I'm getting nearer so there it is the car sign there's a car so I'm gonna stay here for the moment I do a quick turn afterwards and see if there's any signs that's a sunnier glyph you see Freemason they belong to a freemason I have no doubt this guy was a freemason you know who bought it and the who killed all the kiddies a freemason of course how can you buy a castle from a freemason if you're not one of them here too there's a sudden you're a glyph here there this watch my film the Pharaohs show it's the same as on an American airplane you know the star in the middle a satanic star freemason they're all freemasons he was not alone so the new law they just got out new Pharaoh law that anybody can have sex with a 13 year old in France it's just a couple of weeks old which is come lately in favor of these guys here here and of the Muslims of course because if you end the Americans because if you're circumcised see my film on the circumcision on my channel do ray or chat see for us you know if it robs in your pants and you're sexually much easier aroused now since the Americans they're all been circumcised in the sixties in the 80s it became very strange they're not like the Europeans anymore these are fair running laws you know to make stupid citizens you know only think about sex and have nothing in their brains because it's suckster energy outs you know it's an at an early age when the brain has not been developed yet see mice film and you know nowadays we can read how in eleven year old breaks another one you know we never had this before it's because of the Moslems it's because of the circumcision which is not Islamic because you don't mutilate God's creation it's satanic you hear me satanic it is so you know if you are profiler you know you calculate things you know by chance so this castle was built by a freemason called George Colonel okay already at forty percent that the the pedophile the satanic I in so to Satan this is not by chance this name I another ten percent for that it was a and they did here the satanic stuff with children another thirty percent he was protected by the law so you get to 95 percent that the the serial killer for linear hair it was a freemason I'm at 95 percent do you hear me this is why they descended the the age of you know having sex with a child at 13 in France this is not the people's law this is the law of the pharaonic aristocracy and the Freemason puppets here so here you know and another another thing you know the the new owners if you know they said they were in here one day and then that the police crawling over them and all that you know and then to say they didn't know you know that's for the profile a chance calculation that means there's another 20% of formue you know he was a freemason so he's 100 percent freemason a freemason buys at the freemason and yourself at the freemason especially castles like this know they have to it has to stay in their hands Pharaoh Pharaohs nobility me and we have to protect our children so I'm gonna take a long long way up here never take the direct direct route it's going to rain again and to see if there's any obelisks because of course there's the copper they'll probably have a special room in there as well a hidden room the police probably never found it Castle is down there going up here they've gone in frustration from the other side because I don't want to see the guides with the Hammers again you know I don't want to be seen this time and you know I can't get in anyway I've got 40 times zoom on it in a war and this is a war against the real enemy which is the enemy within you don't go to the target directly in a war if you're in the army you go around and you look at it first from all sides and that's all I want to do anyway it's a path made by the animals so this is the north of France here they are dance so you see like this you see a lot more then if I would - then and get you know like arrested or stopped to court yeah you see there's water behind it for Isis so there must be an obelisk I'm very positive so fair on ik Freemasonry the dungeon sunnier glish and the other one is full of it statue of isis probably all over this Farah these people are dangerous they call the police behind them you know so the other side is very wet you see the water I'm gonna stay up hill going down there all around so they can't see me the nature our European nature is protecting us it's protecting me again in the middle of nowhere it's all forest behind in them who wants to build a damn castle in the middle of nowhere they do triangle of the Freemasons here well I'll tell you know if you stay here in your tents you know and do i leop a lying up position you'll see it's Saturday today if I put my tent I'd see the Freemasons come here in the middle of the of the night you know in the evening they still do that parties here it still goes on and even ever doesn't they got their spirits now they've got their souls well it goes on and tell you so the thing you know it is it has now been sacrificed or you know it's it's the house belongs to Satan now with it with the the sacrifices so they don't have to kill any more children it's done the souls are there the dead children so they go on now they say are we are some noise you know so anybody wants to come with me just contact me on my email and we'll see what we can do most of these this thing here so I'm going to get some water here it's nice fresh water coming out of the mountains it would be coming from the castle I wouldn't drink it maybe so I'm not going to drink this water here it's stagnating take some fresh water I'm empty yeah no freak oh it's not the deserts is okay oh there was no other way really though you know as a chris to cross the dip here and it's a great you know go through it take off my shoes and make my heavy backpack which is on the other side already still and so Ferro me two of them so go back and get my get the rest of it Oh better put my cam inside oh you want to do this thing no it's not like now walk through the walk inside get caught up loaded you know and wait for the comments you know you must like it take your time take the long way this is the long way but it's short and I can film a lot more things here as my fate please [ __ ] made it get my backpack for the rest of the gear oh my shirt I need my shows it's bloody cold light-fingered I'm not Pharaoh they will be freezing I what you say about it oh yeah well now I'm okay I'm fine - wait what do I do next I took off my t-shirt and I'm gonna dry my fate you know have it it's more important just a little bit gets a little bit wet in the wolves you know I'm walking around so it'll dry up the feet because now they're cold you know I'll do it that's a light so anyway I put my two hands feet and I'll put my doesn't get really likes very much put these on Merrill really nice stuff fantastic wait what does it say again Merrill fantastic stuff good soul they hold we walk in the whole winter on it they're the Emma the M sign in there I don't know where it's from really nice you know you put them on and forget them you know that's what I put them on I took could take them off and forget them no worries on the other side I can't get any nearer because it's all March as hell I just broke almost broke my neck see all these branches here you know that audience it's all over so you know these guys they really organized their coup you know they had the Europeans and the peoples fight each other all the men are dead they're all homos now get married and adopted child to guys it's a misery and they falters you know from the inside out like a virus they are very intelligence the Pharaohs and they're doing their magic here black magic with our children they're their sacrifices and all that and these castles in the middle of nowhere they're all marshes around it as really I've got really a hard time to get everywhere here so this is the enemy within and they still do it it's Eastern it's the East and weekend 2018 they're gonna do something tonight I feel it they're gonna do something tonight yeah and they don't have maybe their kills for more children but I don't think this day you have to do it because it's always it's already been [Music] it's already a sacrifice to Satan here the demons I hear everything they don't yeah it's all their demons these these Pharaohs they're Devils all right how come there's still people in it anyway the horrible things have been doing here how come you can't go in here walk around you know people who want to know what's going on how come they're still hiding here how come yeah there are no real men anymore after all these wars they only think about driving a big car and you know go to the disco and have a bigger car than yours and I've got a nice uniform or whatever that are no more real man they won we're done Samira cliff yoga - chalets on yoga did another one I don't know what does so I came in through that so the poor is that trying to go out here this whole marshes but but there must be an over let's get somewhere those of the water where there's I don't want to I don't want to hang around here too long I see a statue alright good there's a statue of a bird back that is and something looked like a salty as next to any console there is a tennis court for the aristocracy I like that you know and they still use is of course they do it's not abandoned see the water in between the tennis chords and the castle they're reptilians need water Hey what did they do with the children here and this has been going on for hundreds of years I know they've done hundreds of children here many and it goes on there are not animal they're not human it's seething with evil yeah one believeth the castle is there that's to cross the river back I pass it because it's all wet here and the other side too I don't want to have wet feed dog I I go I have to go go walk the whole way to the road over there about naked feet so here's the entrance of the Satan's castle and it says here says ohnkoji it means it's all trapped imagine it's still going on why should it be otherwise stripped it's going on bolt liars red and whites you know it's the United Kingdom of Pharaoh where you want it goes on trapped both kill our children they they rape him they I stop it and men are so stupid I can't get anyone to come with me you know you can get 22 ideas running after a soccer ball that's what they can do and my car is the biggest bigger than yours and nobody comes here you know to defend our children that's humanity | Giureh - G.I.U.R.E.H. | UCpdw_mI5bA-7X6eNNvMsTkg | 2018-04-19 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,930 | 29,996 |
1Ugqsi6_9B8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ugqsi6_9B8 | Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1 | François Pierre Guillaume Guizot | 7/9 | section 25 of volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org volume one of a popular history of france from the earliest crimes by francois griezo translated by robert black chapter thirteen feudal friends and huckabee part two from the end of the ninth to the end of the 10th century two families were in french history the representatives and instruments of the two systems thus confronted and conflicting at that epoch the imperial which was falling and the feudal which was rising after the death of charlemagne his descendants to the number of ten from louis the debonair to louis the sluggard strove abstinently but in vain to maintain the unity of the empire and the unity of the central power in four generations on the other hand the descendants of robert the strong climbed to the head of feudal france the former though german in race were imbued with the maxims the traditions and the pretensions of that roman world which had been for a while resuscitated by their glorious ancestor and they claimed it as their heritage the latter preserved at their settlement upon gallow roman territory germanic sentiments manners and instincts and were occupied only with the idea of getting more and more settled and greater and greater in the new society which was little by little being formed upon the soil won by the barbarians their forefathers louis the ultramarine and lother were not we may suppose less personally brave than robert the strong and his son judes but when the northmen put the frankish dominions in peril it was not to the descendants of charlemagne not to the emperor charle the fat but to the local and feudal chieftain to uday's count of paris that the population turned for salvation and udes it was who saved them in this painful parturation of french monarchy one fact deserves to be remarked and that is the lasting respect attached in the minds of the people to the name and the reminiscences of the carolingian rule notwithstanding its decay it was not alone the luster of that name and of the memory of charlemagne which inspired and prolonged this respect a certain instinctive feeling about the worth of hereditary monarchy as an element of stability and order already existed amongst the populations and glimpses thereof were visible amongst the rivals of the royal family in the hour of its dissolution it had been consecrated by religion the title of anointed of the most high was united in its case to that of lawful heir why did hugh the great duke of france in spite of favorable opportunities and very palpable temptations abstained perseveringly from taking the crown and leave it tottering upon the heads of louis the ultramarine and lother why did his son hugh cape himself wait for his election as king until louis the sluggard was dead and the kerlovinjian line had only a collateral and discredited representative in these hesitations and lingerings of the great feudal chieftains there is a forecast of the authority already vested in the principle of hereditary monarchy at the very moment when it was about to be violated and of the great part which would be played by that principle in the history of france at last the day of decision arrived for hugh capey there is nothing to show that he had conspired to hasten it but he had foreseen the probability of it and if he had done nothing to pave the way for it he had held himself so far as he was concerned in readiness for it during a trip which he made to rome in 981 he had entered into kindly personal relations with the emperor otto the second king of germany the most important of france's neighbors and the most disposed to meddle in her affairs in france hugh cape had formed a close friendship with aldebaran archbishop of rem the most notable and most able of the french prelates the events showed the value of such a friend on the 21st of may 987 king louis v died without issue and after his up-squeeze the grandes of the kingdom met together at senlis we will here borrow the text of a contemporary witness riker the only one of the chroniclers of that age who deserves the name of historian whether for the authenticity of his testimony or the extent and clearness of his narrative the bishop he says took his place together with the duke in the midst of the assembly and said to them i come and sit down amongst you to treat of the affairs of the state far from me be any design of saying anything but what has for aim the advantage of the common wheel as i do not see here all the princes whose wisdom and energy might be useful in the government of the kingdom it seems to me that the choice of a king shall be put off for some time in order that at a period fixed upon all may be able to meet in assembly and that every opinion having been discussed and set forth in the face of day may thus produce its full effect may it please you then all of ye who are here assemble to deliberate to bind yourselves in conjunction with me by oath to this illustrious duke and to promise between his hands not to engage yourselves in any way in the election of a head and not to do anything to this end until we be reassembled here to deliberate upon that choice this opinion was well received and approved of by all oath was taken between the hands of the duke and the time was fixed at which the meeting should assemble again before the day fixed for reassembling the last of the descendants of charlemagne charles duke of lower lorraine brother of the late king lothar and paternal uncle of the late king louis went to rem in quest of the archbishop and thus spake to him about his rights to the throne all the world knoweth venerable father that by hereditary right i ought to succeed my brother and my nephew i am wanting not that should be required before all from those who ought to reign to wit birth and courage to dare wherefore am i thrust out from the territory which all the world knows to have been possessed by my ancestors to whom could i better address myself than to you when all the supports of my race have disappeared to whom bereft as i am of honorable protection should i have recourse but to you by whom if not by you should i be restored to the honors of my fathers please god things turn out favorably for me and for my fortunes rejected what can become of me save to be exhibited as a spectacle to all who look on me suffer yourself to be moved by some feeling of humanity be compassionate towards a man who has been tried by so many reverses such language was more calculated to inspire contempt than compassion the metropolitan firm in his resolution gave for answer these few words thou hast ever been associated with the perjured the sacrilegious and the wicked of every sort and now thou art still unwilling to separate from them how canst thou in company with such men and by means of such men seek to attain the sovereign power and when charles replied that he must not abandon his friends but rather gain over others the bishop said to himself now that he possesses no position of dignity he hath allied himself with the wicked whose companionship he will not in any way give up what misfortune it would be for the good if he were elected to the throne to charles however he made answer that he would do not without the consent of the princes and so left him at the time fixed probably the 29th or 30th of june 987 the grandes of frankish gaul who had bound themselves by oath reassembled at senlis hugh cape was present with his brother henry of burgundy and his brother-in-law richard the fearless duke of normandy the majority of the direct vassals of the crown were also there fulcrus nara the black count of anjou udays count of blois shart and tour blue char count of valt me and kobe gattier count of vaccine and hugh count of maine few counts came from beyond the luar and some of the lords in the north amongst others aren't off the second count of flanders and the lords of vermont were likewise missing when those present were in regular assembly archbishop adel haran with the ascent of do cue thus spake unto them louis of blessed memory having been taken from us without leaving issue it hath become necessary to engage seriously in seeking who may take his place upon the throne to the end that the common will remain not in peril neglected and without a head that is why on the last occasion we deemed it useful to put off this matter in order that each of ye might come hither and submit to the assembly the opinion with which god should have inspired him and that from all those sentiments might be drawn what is the general will here be we assembled let us then be guided by our wisdom and our good faith to act in such sort that hatred stifle not reason and affection distort not truth we be not ignorant that charles hath his partisans who maintain that he ought to come to the throne transmitted to him by his relatives but if we examine this question the throne is not acquired by hereditary right and we be bound to place at the head of the kingdom none but him who hath not only the distinction of corporeal nobility but hath honor to recommend him and magnanimi to rest upon we read in the annals that to emperors of illustrious race whom their own latches caused to fall from power succeeded others at one time similar at another different but what dignity could we confer on charles who hath not honor for his guide who is enfeebled by lethargy and who finally hath lost head so far that he hath no shame in serving a foreign king and in misuniting himself to a woman taken from the rank of the knights his vassals how could the pusant duke brook that a woman issuing from a family of his vassals should become queen and have dominion over him how could he walk behind her whose equals and even superiors bend the knee before him and place their hands beneath his feet examine carefully into the matter and consider that charles hath been rejected more through his own fault than that of others decide ye rather for the good than the ill of the common wheel if ye wish it make charles sovereign if ye hold to its prosperity crown hugh the illustrious duke let attachment to charles seduce nobody and let hatred towards the duke distract nobody from the common interest give us then for our head the duke who has deeds nobility and troops to recommend him the duke in whom you will find a defender not only of the common wheel but also of your private interests thanks to his benevolence you will have in him a father who has had recourse to him and hath not found protection who that hath been torn from the care of home hath not been restored thereto by him this opinion having been proclaimed and well received duke hugh was unanimously raised to the throne crowned on the 1st of july by the metropolitan and the other bishops and recognized as king by the gauls the britons the normans the aquatanians the goths the spaniards and the gascons surrounded by the grandes of the kingdom he passed decrees and promulgated laws according to royal custom regulating successfully in disposing of all matters that he might deserve so much good fortune and under the inspiration of so many prosperous circumstances he gave himself up to deep piety wishing to have a certainty of leaving after his death and heir to the throne he conferred with his grandes and after holding counsel with him he first sent a deputation to the metropolitan of rim who was then at orleon and subsequently went himself to see him touching the association of his son robert with himself upon the throne the archbishop having told him that two kings could not be regularly created in one in the same year he immediately showed a letter sent by burrell duke of inner spain proving that the duke requested help against the barbarians the metropolitan seeing advantage was likely to result ultimately yielded to the king's reasons and when the grandes were assembled at the festival of our lord's nativity to celebrate the coronation hugh assumed the purple and he crowned solemnly in the basilica of saint croix his son robert amidst the acclamations of the french thus was found at the dynasty of the capetians under the double influence of german manners and feudal connections amongst the ancient germans royal airship was generally confined to one in the same family but election was often joined with airship and had more than once thrust the ladder aside hugh capey was head of the family which was the most illustrious in his time and closest to the throne on which the personal merits of counts udays and robert had already twice seated it he was also one of the greatest chieftains of feudal society duke of the country which was already called france and count of paris of that city which clovis after his victories had chosen as the center of his dominions in view of the roman rather than germanic pretensions of the kerala vengean heirs and of their admitted decay the rise of hucupay was the natural consequence of the principal feats as well as of the manners of the period and the crowning manifestation of the new social conditions in france that is feudalism accordingly the event reached completion and confirmation without any great obstacle the carlo vinjian charle of lorraine vainly attempted to assert his rights but after some gleams of success he died in 992 and his descendants fell if not into obscurity at least into political insignificance in vain again did certain feudal lords especially in southern france refused for some time their adhesion to hugh cape one of them adelbert count of paragord has remained almost famous for having made to hugh cape's question who made the count the proud answer who made the king the pride however of count adelbert had more bark than bite hugh possessed intelligence and patient moderation which when a position is once acquired is the best pledge of continuance several facts indicate that he did not underestimate the worth and range of his title of king at the same time that by getting his son robert crowned with him he secured for his line the next succession he also performed several acts which went beyond the limits of his feudal domains and proclaimed to all the kingdom the presence of the king but those acts were temperate and wise and they paved the way for the future without anticipating it hugh cape confined himself carefully to the sphere of his recognized rights as well as of his effective strength and his government remained faithful to the character of the revolution which had raised him to the throne at the same time that it gave warning of the future progress of royalty independently of and over the head of feudalism when he died on the 24th of october 996 the crown which he hesitated they say to wear on his own head passed without obstacle to his son robert and the course which was to be followed for eight centuries under the government of his descendants by civilization in france began to develop itself it has already been pointed out in the case of adelberon archbishop of rem what part was taken by the clergy in this second change of dynasty but the part played by it was so important and novel that we must make a somewhat more detailed acquaintance with the real character of it and the principal actor in it when in 751 pep in the short became king in the place of the last merovingian it was as we have seen pope zachary who decided that it was better to give the title of king to him who really exercised the sovereign power then to him who bore only its name three years later in 754 it was pope stephen ii who came over to france to anoint king pepin and 46 years afterward in 800 it was pope leo iii who proclaimed charlemagne emperor of the west from the papacy then on the assession of the carlovinians came the principal decision and steps the reciprocal services rendered one to the other by the two powers and still more perhaps the similarity of their maxims as to the unity of the empire established between the papacy and the carlovyngian's strong ties of gratitude and policy and accordingly when the carlo vinjian dynasty was in danger the court of rome was grieved and troubled it was hard for her to see the fall of a dynasty for which she had done so much and which had done so much for her far then from aiding the accession of the new dynasty she showed herself favorable to the old and tried to save it without herself becoming too deeply compromised such was from 985 to 996 the attitude of pope john xvi at the crisis which placed hugh capey upon the throne in spite of this policy on the part of the papacy the french church took the initiative in the event and supported the new king the archbishop of rem affirmed the right of the people to accomplish a change of dynasty and anointed hugh capey and his son robert the accession of the capetians was a work independent of all foreign influence and strictly national in church as well as state the authority of adelberon was of great weight in the matter as archbishop he was full of zeal and at the same time of wisdom in ecclesiastical administration engaging in politics he showed boldness in attempting a great change in the state and ability in carrying it out without precipitation as well as without hesitation he had for his secretary and teacher a simple priest of avern who exercised over this enterprise and influence more continuous and still more effectual than that of his archbishop gerber born at arulak and brought up in the monastery of saint gero had when he was summoned to the directorate of the school at rems already made a trip to spain visited rome and won the esteem of pope john xiii and of the emperor otto ii and had thus a close view of the great personages and great questions ecclesiastical and secular of his time on his establishment at rem he pursued a double course with a double end he was fond of study science and the investigation of truth but he also had a taste for the spear of politics and of the world he excelled in the art of instructing but also in the art of pleasing and the address of the courtier was in him united with the learning of the doctor his was a mind lofty broad searching prolific open to conviction and yet inclined to give way either from calculation or attraction to contrary ideas but certain to recur under favorable circumstances to its original purpose there was in him almost as much changeableness as zeal for the cause he embraced he espoused and energetically supported the elevation of a new dynasty and the independence of the roman church he was very active in the cause of huckabee but he was more than once on the point of going over to king lothar or to the pretender charles of lorraine he was in his time even more resolutely than bruce in the 17th century the defender and practicer of what have been called the liberties of the gallican church and in 992 he became on this ground archbishop of rem but after having been interdicted in 995 by pope john xvi from the exercise of this episcopal functions in france he obtained in 998 from pope gregory v the archbishopric of ravenna in italy and the favor of otto iii was not unconnected in 999 with his elevation to the holy see which he occupied for four years with the title of sylvester ii whilst putting in practice but with moderation and dignity maxim's very different from those which he had supported 15 years before as a french bishop he became at this later period of his life so much more estranged from france in that he was embroiled with hugh cape's son and successor king robert whose quantum preceptor he had been and of whose marriage with queen bertha widow of uday's count of boys he had honestly disapproved in 995 just when he had been interdicted by pope john xvi from his functions as archbishop of rem gerber wrote to the abbot and brethren of the monastery of saint jerome where he'd been brought up and now farewell to your holy community farewell to those whom i knew in old times or who were connected with me by blood if there still survive any whose names if not their features have remained upon my memory not that i have forgotten them through pride but i am broken down and if it must be said changed by the ferocity of barbarians what i learned in my boyhood i forgot in my youth what i desired in my youth i despised in my old age such are the fruits thou hast borne for me o pleasure such other joys afforded by the honors of the world believe my experience of it the higher the great are outwardly raised by glory the more cruel is their inward anguish length of life brings in the soul of the ambitious days of hearty and deception but it does not discourage them from their course of ambition gerber was amongst the ambitious at the same time one of the most exalted in point of intellect and one of the most persistent as well as restless in attachment to the affairs of the world end of chapter 13. section 26 of volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times by francois guizeau translated by robert black chapter 14 the competitions to the time of the crusades part 1. from 996 to 1108 the first three successors of hugh capey his son robert his grandson henry the first and his great-grandson philip the first sat upon the throne of france and during this long space of 112 years the kingdom of france had not soothed to say any history parcelled out by virtue of the feudal system between a multitude of princes independent isolated and scarcely sovereigns in their own dominions keeping up anything like frequent intercourse only with their neighbors and loosely united by certain rules or customs of vassalage to him amongst them who bore the title of king the france of the 11th century existed in little more than name normandy brittany burgundy aquitaine puerto anjou flanders and nivernays were the real states and peoples each with its own distinct life in history one single event the crusade united towards the end of the century those scattered sovereigns and peoples in one common idea and one combined action up to that point then let us conform to the real state of the case and faithfully trace out the features of the epoch without attempting to introduce a connection and a combination which did not exist and let us pass briefly in review of the isolated events and personages which are still worthy of remembrance and which have remained historic without having belonged exactly to a national history amongst events of this kind one the conquest of england in 1066 by william the bastard duke of normandy was so striking and exercised so much influence over the destinies of france that in the incoherent and disconnected picture of this 11th century particular attention must first be drawn to the consequences as regarded france of that great norman enterprise after the sagacious hugh cape the first three captions robert henry the first and philip the first were very mediocre individuals in character as well as intellect and their personal insignificance was one of the causes that produced the emptiness of french history under their sway robert lacked neither physical advantages nor moral virtues he had a lofty figure says his biographer hell god archbishop of bursts hair smooth and well arranged a modest eye a pleasant and gentle mouth a tolerably furnished beard and high shoulders he was versed in all the sciences philosopher enough and an excellent musician and so devoted to sacred literature that he never passed today without reading the psalter and praying to the most high god together with saint david he composed several hymns which were adopted by the church and during a pilgrimage he made to rome he deposited upon the altar of saint peter his own latin poem set to music he often went to the church of sandini clad in his royal robes and with his crown on his head and there he conducted the singing at matins mass and vespers chanting with the monks and himself calling upon them to sing when he sat in the consistory he voluntarily styled himself the bishop's client two centuries later saint louis proved that the virtues of the saint are not incompatible with the qualities of the king but the former cannot form a substitute for the latter and the qualities of the king were to seek in robert he was neither warrior nor politician there is no sign that he ever gathered about him to discuss affairs of state the laic barons together with the bishops and when he interfered in the wars of the great feudal lords notably in burgundy and flanders it was with but little energy and two but little purpose he was hardly more potent in his family than in his kingdom it has already been mentioned that in spite of his preceptor gerbert's advice he had espoused bertha widow of euday's count of bloy and he loved her dearly but the marriage was assailed by the church on the ground of kinship robert offered resistance but afterwards gave way before the excommunication pronounced by pope gregory v and then espoused constance daughter of william chelfer count of toulouse and forthwith says the chronicler raul gleber were seen pouring into france and burgundy because of this queen the most vain and most frivolous of all men coming from aquitaine and avern there were outlandish and outrageous equally in their manners in their dress in their arms and the appointments of their horses their hair came only halfway down their head they shaved their beards like actors they wore boots and shoes that were not decent and lastly neither fidelity nor security was to be looked for in any of their ties alack that nation of franks which was want to be the most virtuous and even the people of burgundy too were eager to follow these criminal examples and before long they reflected only too faithfully the depravity and infinity of their models the evil amounted to something greater than a disturbance of court fashions robert had by constant's three sons hugh henry and robert first the eldest and afterwards his two brothers maddened by the bad character and tyrannical exactions of their mother left the palace and with due to drugs and burgundy abandoning themselves in the royal domains and the neighborhood to all kinds of depredations and excesses reconciliation was not without great difficulty affected and indeed peace was never really restored in the royal family peace was everywhere the wish and study of king robert but he succeeded better in maintaining it with his neighbors than with his children in 1006 he was on the point of having a quarrel with henry ii emperor of germany who was more active and enterprising but fortunately not less pious than himself the two sovereigns resolved to have an interview at the muse the boundary of their dominions the question amongst their respective followings was which of the two should cross the river to seek audience on the other bank that is in the others dominions this would be a humiliation it was said the two learned princes remembered this saying of ecclesiasticus the greater thou art the humbler be thou in all things the emperor therefore rose up early in the morning and crossed with some of his people into the french king's territory they embraced with cordiality the bishops as was proper celebrated the sacrament of the mass and they afterwards sat down to dinner when the meal was over king robert offered henry immense presence of gold and silver and precious stones and a hundred horses richly comparisoned each carrying a curas and a helmet and he added that all the emperor did not accept of these gifts would be so much deducted from their friendship henry seeing the generosity of his friend took of the whole only a book containing the holy gospel set with gold and precious stones and a golden amulet wherein was a tooth of saint vincent priest and martyr the empress likewise accepted only two golden cups next day king robert crossed with his bishops into the territories of the emperor who received him magnificently and after dinner offered him a hundred pounds of pure gold the king and his turn accepted only two golden cups and after having ratified their pact of friendship they returned each to his own dominions let us add to this summary of robert's reign some facts which are characteristic of the epoch in ad1000 in consequence of the sense attached to certain words in the sacred books many christians expected the end of the world the time of expectation was full of anxieties plagues famines and diverse accidents which then took place in diverse quarters were an additional aggravation the churches were crowded penances offerings absolutions all the forms of invocation and repentance multiplied rapidly a multitude of souls in submission or terror prepared to appear before their judge and after what catastrophes in the midst of what gloom are of what light these were fearful questions of which men's imaginations were exhausted in forestalling the solution when the last day of the tenth and the first of the eleventh centuries were passed it was like a general regeneration it might have been said that time was beginning over again and the work was commenced of rendering the christian world worthy of the future especially in italy and gaul says the chronicler raul gleber men took in hand the reconstruction of the basilicas although the greater part had no need thereof christian people seemed to buy one with another which should erect the most beautiful it was as if the world shaking itself together and casting off its old garments would have decked itself with the white robes of christ christian art in its earliest form of the gothic style dates from this epoch the power and riches of the christian church in its different institutions received at this crisis of the human imagination a fresh impulse other facts some lamentable and some salutary began about this epic to assume in french history a place which was destined before long to become an important one piles of were set up first at orlion and then at toulouse for the punishment of heretics the heretics of the day were manichaeans king robert and queen constance sanctioned by their presence this return to human sacrifices offered to god as a penalty inflicted on mental offenders against his word at the same time a double portion of ire blazed forth against the jews what have we to do it was said with going abroad to make war on muslims have we not in the very midst of us the greatest enemies of jesus christ amongst christians acts of oppression and violence on the part of the great against the small became so excessive and so frequent that they excited in country parts particularly in normandy insurrections which the insurgents tried to organize into permanent resistance in several counties of normandy says william of gymniae all the peasants meeting and conventicals resolved to live according to their own wills and their own laws not only in the heart of the forest but also on the borders of the rivers and without care for any established rights to accomplish this design these mobs of madmen elected each two deputies who were to form at the central point an assembly charged with the execution of their decrees so soon as the duke richard ii was informed thereof he sent a large body of armed men to suppress this audacity in the country parts and to disperse this rustic assembly in execution of his orders the deputies of the peasantry and many other rebels were forthwith arrested their feet and hands were cut off and they were sent home thus mutilated to deter their fellows from such enterprises and to render them more prudent for fear of worse after this experience the peasants gave up their meetings and returned to their plows this is a literal translation of the monkish chronicler who was far from favorable to the insurgent peasants and was more for applauding the suppression than justifying the insurrection the suppression though undoubtedly effectual for the moment and in the particular spots it reached produced no general or lasting effect about a century after the cold recital of william germain a poet chronicler robert weiss and his romance of rue a history and verse of rallo and the first dukes of normandy related the same facts with far more sympathetic feeling and poetical coloring the lords do us not but ill he makes the norman peasants say with them we have nor gain nor profit from our labors every day is for us a day of suffering toil and weariness every day we have our cattle taken from us for road work and forced service we have plants and grievances old and new exactions please and processes without end money please market please road please forest please meal please blackmail please watch and ward please there are so many provosts bailiffs and sergeants that we have not one hour's peace day by day they ruin us down seize our movables and drive us from our lands there is no security for us against the lords and no pact is binding with them why suffer all this evil to be done to us and not get out of our plight are we not men even as they are have we not the same stature the same limbs the same strength for suffering all we need is courage let us then bind ourselves together by an oath let us swear to support one another and if they will make war on us have we not for one night thirty or forty young peasants nimble and ready to fight with club with bore spear with arrow with axe and even with stones if they have not weapons let us learn to resist the nights and we shall be free to cut down trees to hunt and fish after our fashion and we shall work our will in flood and field and wood here we have no longer the short account and severe estimate of an indifferent spectator it is the cry of popular rage and vengeance reproduced by the lively imagination of an angered poet undoubtedly the norman peasants of the 12th century did not speak of their miseries with such descriptive ability and philosophical feeling as were lent to them by robert ways they did not meditate the democratic revolution of which he attributes to them the idea and almost the plan but the deeds of violence and oppression against which they rose were very real and they exerted themselves to escape by reciprocal violence from intolerable suffering then state those alternations of demagogic revolt and tyrannical suppression which have so often ensangement the land and put in peril the very foundations of social order insurrections became of so atrocious a kind that the atrocious chastisements with which they were visited seemed equally natural and necessary it needed long ages a repetition of civil wars and terrible political shocks to put an end to this brutal chaos which gave birth to so many evils and reciprocal crimes and to bring about amongst the different classes of the french population equitable and truly human relations so quick spreading and contagious is evil amongst men and so difficult to extirpate in the name of justice and truth however even in the midst of this cruel egotism and this gross unreason of the 10th and 11th centuries the necessity from a moral and social point of view of struggling against such disgusting irregularities made itself felt found zealous advocates from this epic are to be dated the first efforts to establish in different parts of france what was called god's peace god's truce the words were well chosen for prohibiting at the same time oppression and revolt for it needed nothing less than law and the voice of god to put some restraint upon the barbarous manners and passions of men great or small lord or peasant it is the peculiar and glorious characteristic of christianity to have so well understood the primitive and permanent evil in human nature that it fought against all the great iniquities of mankind and exposed them in principle even when in point of general practice it neither hoped nor attempted to sweep them away bishops priests and monks were in their personal lives and in the councils of the church the first propagators of god's peace or truce and in more than one locality they induced the lake lords to follow their lead in 1164 hew the second count of road days in concert with his brother hugh bishop of rodays and the notables of the district established the peace in the diocese of rhodes and this it is said the learned benedictines of the 18th century in the art of verifying dates which gave rise to the toll of commune pakes or pesade which is still collected in rugru king robert always showed himself favorable to this specific work and he is the first among the five kings of france in other respects very different himself saint louis louis xii henry iv and louis xvi who were particularly distinguished for sympathetic kindness and anxiety for the popular welfare robert had a kindly feeling for the weak and poor not only did he protect them on occasion against the powerful but he took pains to conceal their defaults and in his church and at his table he suffered himself to be robbed without complaint that he might not have to denounce and punish the robbers wherefore at his death says his biographer hell god there were great mourning and intolerable grief a countless number of widows and orphans sorrowed for the many benefits received from him they did beat their breasts and went to and from his tomb crying whilst robert was king and ordered all we lived in peace we had not to fear may the soul of that pious father that father of the senate that father of all good be blessed and saved may it mount up and dwell forever with jesus christ the king of kings though not so pious nor so good as robert his son henry the first and his grandson philip the first were neither more energetic nor more glorious kings during their long reigns the former from 1031 to 1060 and the latter from 1060 to 1108 no important and well prosecuted design distinguished their government their public life was passed at one time in petty warfare without decisive results against such and such vassals at another in acts of capricious intervention in the corals of their vassals amongst themselves their home life was neither less irregular nor conducted with more wisdom and regard for the public interest king robert had not succeeded in keeping his first wife bertha of burgundy and his second constance of aquitaine with her imperious malevolent avaricious meddlesome disposition reduced him to so abject the state that he never gave a gratuity to any of his servants without saying take care that constance know not of it after robert's death constance having become regent for her eldest son henry the first forthwith conspired to dethrone him and to put in his place her second son robert who was her favorite henry on being delivered by his mother's death from her tyranny and intrigues was thrice married but his first two marriages with two german princesses one the daughter of the emperor conrad the salak the other of the emperor henry iii were so far from happy that in 1051 he sent into russia to kiev in search of his third wife anne the daughter of tsar yaroslav the halt she was a modest creature who lived quietly up to the death of her husband in 1060 and two years afterward in the reign of her son philip the first rather than return to her own country married raul count of aloys who put a way to marry her his second wife hockney called eleanor the divorce was opposed at rome before pope alexander iii to whom the archbishop of rim wrote upon the subject our kingdom is the scene of great troubles the queen mother has espoused count raul which has mightily displeased the king as for the lady whom raoul has put away we have recognized the justice of the complaints she has preferred before you and the falsity of the pretext on which he put her away the pope ordered the count to take back his wife raul would not obey and was excommunicated but he made light of it and the princess anne of russia actually reconciled apparently to philip the first lived tranquilly in france where in 1075 shortly after the death of her second husband count raul her signature was still attached to a charter side by side with that of the king her son the marriages of philip the first brought even more trouble and scandal than those of his father and grandfather at 19 years of age in 1072 he had espoused bertha daughter of florent the first count of holland and in 1078 he had by her the son who was destined to succeed him with the title of louis the fat but 20 years later 1092 philip took a dislike to his wife put her away and banished her to montreal sumer on the ground of prohibited consequinity he had conceived there is no knowing when a violent passion for a woman celebrated for her beauty bertrad the fourth wife for three years past of phuket the brawler count of anjou philip having thus packed off bertha sent out for tour where bertrad happened to be with her husband there in the church of saint john during the benediction of the baptismal fonts they entered into mutual engagements philip went away again and a few days afterwards bertrad was carried off by some people he had left in the neighborhood of tour and joined him at orleans nearly all the bishops of france and amongst others the most learned and respected of them eve bishop of shard refused their benediction to this shocking marriage and the king had great difficulty in finding a priest to render him that service then commenced between philip and the heads of the catholic church popes and bishops a struggle which with negotiation upon negotiation and excommunication upon excommunication lasted 12 years without the kings being able to get his marriage canonically recognized and though he promised to send away bertrad he was not content with merely keeping her with him but he openly jeered at excommunication and interdicts it was the custom says william of malmsbury at the places where the king sojourned for divine service to be stopped and as soon as he was moving away all the bells began to peel and then philip would cry as he laughed like one beside himself dust hear my love how they are ringing us out at last in 1104 the bishop of shard himself wearied by the persistency of the king and by sight of the trouble in which the prolongation of the interdict was plunging the kingdom wrote to the pope pascal ii i do not presume to offer you advice i only desire to warn you that it were well to show for a while some condescension towards the weaknesses of the man so far his consideration for his salvation may permit and to rescue the country from the critical state to which it is reduced by the excommunication of this prince the pope consequently sent instructions to the bishops of the realm and they at the king's summons met at paris on the 1st of december 1104 one of them lambert bishop of eris wrote to the pope we sent as a deputation to the king the bishops of john of orlan and gallon of paris charged to demand of him whether he would conform to the clauses and conditions set forth in your letters and whether he were determined to give up the unlawful intercourse which had made him guilty before god the king having answered without being disconcerted that he was ready to make atonement to god and the holy roman church was introduced to the assembly he came barefooted in a posture of devotion and humility confessing his sin and promising to purge him of this excommunication by expiatory deeds and thus by your authority he earned absolution then laying his hands on the book of the holy gospels he took an oath in the following terms to renounce his guilty and unlawful marriage herekin thou lambert bishop of aris who are here in place of the apostolic pontiff and let the archbishops and bishops hear present hearken unto me i philip king of the french do promise not to go back to my sin and to break off wholly with the criminal intercourse i have heretofore kept up with bertrad i do promise that henceforth i will have with her no intercourse or companionship save in the presence of persons beyond suspicion i will observe faithfully and without turning aside these promises in the sense set forth in the letters of the pope and as you understand so help me god and by these holy gospels bertrad at the moment of her release from excommunication took in person the same oath on the holy gospels according to the statement of the learned benedictines who studiously examined into this incident it is doubtful whether philip the first broke off all intercourse with bertrad two years after his absolution on the 10th of october 1106 he arrived at anjir on a wednesday says a contemporary chronicler accompanied by the queen named bertrad and was there received by count folks and all the anjevines cleric and leak with great honors the day after his arrival on thursday the monks of saint nicholas introduced by the queen presented themselves before the queen and humbly prayed him in concert with the queen to countenance for the salvation of his soul and of the queen and his relatives and friends all acquisitions made by them in his dominions or that they might hereafter make by gift or purchase and to be pleased to place his seal on their titles to the property and the king granted their request end of chapter 14 part one section 27 of volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times by francois rizzo translated by robert black chapter 14 the competitions to the time of the crusades part 2. the most complete amongst the chroniclers of the time orderik vitale says touching this marriage at angears of bertrad's two husbands this clever woman had by her skillful management so perfectly reconciled these two rivals that she made them a splendid feast got them both to sit at the same table had their beds prepared the ensuing night in the same chamber and ministered to them according to their pleasure the most judicious of the historians and statesmen of the 12th century the abbey sugar that faithful minister of louis the fat who cannot be suspected of favoring bertrad expresses himself about her in these terms this sprightly and rarely accomplished woman well versed in the art familiar to her sex of holding captive the husbands they have outraged had acquired such an empire over her first husband the count of anjou in spite of the affront she had put upon him by deserting him that he treated her with homage as his sovereign often sat upon a stool at her feet and obeyed her wishes by a sort of enchantment these details are textually given as the best representation of the place occupied in the history of that time by the morals and private life of the kings it would not be right however to draw there from conclusions as to the abasement of capitian royalty in the 11th century with too great severity there are irregularities and scandals which the great qualities and the personal glory of princes may cause to be not only excused but even forgotten though certainly the three capetians who immediately succeeded the founder of the dynasty offered their people no such compensation but it must not be supposed that they had fallen into the plight of the sluggard merovingians or the last carl of indians wandering almost without a refuge a profound change had come over society and royalty in france in spite of their political mediocrity and their indolent licentiousness robert henry the first and philip the first were not in the 11th century insignificant personages without authority or practical influence whom their contemporaries could leave out of the account they were great lords proprietors of vast domains wherein they exercised over the population and almost absolute power they had it is true about them rivals large proprietors and almost absolute sovereigns like themselves sometimes stronger even materially than themselves and more energetic or more intellectually able whose superiors however they remained on two grounds as suzerains and as kings their court was always the most honored and their alliance very much sought after they occupied the first rank in feudal society and a rank unique in the body politic such as it was slowly becoming in the midst of reminiscences and traditions of the jewish monarchy of barbaric kingship and of the roman empire for a while resuscitated by charlemagne french kingship in the 11th century was soul power invested with a triple character germanic roman and religious its possessors were at the same time the chieftains of the conquerors of the soil the successors of the roman emperors and of charlemagne and the lait delegates and representatives of the god of the christians whatever were their weaknesses and their personal shortcomings they were not the mere tutularies of a power and decay and the kingly post was strong and full of blossoms as events were not slow to demonstrate and as with the kingship so with the community of france in the 11th century in spite of its dislocation into petty incoherent and turbulent associations it was by no means in decay irregularities of ambition hatreds and quarrels amongst neighbors and relatives outrages on the part of princes and peoples were incessantly renewed but energy of character activity of mind indomitable will and zeal for the liberty of the individual were not wanting and they exhibited themselves passionately and at any risk at one time by brutal and cynical outbursts which were followed occasionally by ferment repentance and expiation add another by acts of courageous wisdom and disinterested piety at the commencement of the 11th century william iii count of portier and duke of aquitaine was one of the most honored and most potent princes of his time all the sovereigns of europe sent embassies to him as their peer he every year made by way of devotion a trip to rome and was received there with the same honors as the emperor he was fond of literature and gave up to reading the early hours of the night and scholars called him another messiness unaffected by these worldly successes he intermingled with so much toil and so many miscalculations he refused the crown of italy when it was offered to him at the death of the emperor henry ii and he finished like charles v some centuries later by going and seeking in a monastery isolation from the world and repose but in the same domains and at the end of the same century his grandson william vii was the most vagabondish dissolute and violent of princes and his morals were so scandalous that the bishop of portier after having warned him to no purpose considered himself forced to excommunicate him the duke suddenly burst into the church made his way through the congregation sword in hand and seized the prelate by the hair saying thou shalt give me absolution or die the bishop demanded a moment for reflection profited by it to pronounce the form of excommunication and forthwith bowing his head before the duke said and now strike i love thee not well enough to send thee to paradise answered the duke and he confined himself to depriving him of his sea for fury the duke of aquitaine sometimes substituted insolent mockery another bishop of angulam who was quite bald likewise exhorted him to mend his ways i will mend quote the duke when thou shalt come back thy hair to thy paint another great lord of the same century folk the black count of anjou at the close of an able and glorious lifetime had resigned to his son jeffrey martel the administration of his count ship the son as haughty and harsh towards his father as towards his subjects took up arms against him and bad him lay aside the outward signs which he still maintained of power the old man in his wrath recovered the vigor and ability of his youth and strove so energetically and successfully against his son that he reduced him to such subjugation as to make him do several miles crawling on the ground says the chronicle with a saddle on his back and to come and prostrate himself at his feet when folk had his son thus humbled before him he spurned him with his foot repeating over and over again nothing but thou art beaten thou art beaten i beaten said joffrey but by thee only because thou art my father to any other i am invincible the anger of the old man vanished at once he now thought only how he might console his son for the affront put upon him and he gave him back his power exhorting him only to conduct himself with more moderation and gentleness towards his subjects all was inconsistency and contrast with these robust rough hasty souls they cared little for belying themselves when they had satisfied the passion of the moment the relations existing between the two great powers of the period the laic lords and the monks were not less bitter or less unstable than amongst the lakes themselves and when artifice as often happened was employed it was by no means to the exclusion of violence about the middle of the 12th century the abbey of tornas in burgundy had at luhan's a little port where it collected salt tax whereof it every year distributed the receipts to the poor during the first week in lent gerrard count of macon established a light toll a little distance off the monks of tornas complained but he took no notice a long while afterwards he came to tornas with a splendid following and entered the church of saint philibert he had stopped all alone before the altar to say his prayers when a monk cross in hand issued suddenly from behind the altar and placing himself before the count how hast thou the audacity he said to enter my monastery in mine house thou that dost not hesitate to rob me of my dues and taking gerard by the hair he threw him on the ground and belabored him heavily the count stupefied and contrite acknowledged his injustice took off the toll that he had wrongfully put on and not content with this reparation sent to the church of tornis a rich carpet of golden and silk and tissue in the middle of the 11th century adamur ii by count of limoge had in his city a coral of quite a different sort with the monks of the abbey of saint marshall the abbey had fallen into great looseness of discipline and morals and the vi count had at heart its reformation to this end he entered into concert at a distance with hugh abbott of clooney at that time the most celebrated and the most respected of the monasteries the abbott of saint marshall died adamar sent for some monks from clooney to come to limoge lodged them secretly near his palace repaired to the abbey of saint marshall after having had the chapter convoked and called upon the monks to proceed at once to the election of a new abbot a lively discussion upon this point arose between the vi count and the monks we are not ignorant said one of them to him that you have sent for brethren from clooney in order to drive us out and put them in our places but you will not succeed the vi count was furious seized by the sleeve the monk who was invading and dragged him by force out of the monastery his fellows were frightened and took to flight and adamar immediately had the monks from clooney sent for and put them in possession of the abbey it was a ruffianly proceeding but the reform was popular in the mos and was affected these trifling matters are faithful samples of the dominant and fundamental characteristic of french society during the 10th 11th and 12th centuries the true epic of the middle ages it was chaos and fermentation within the chaos the slow and rough but powerful and productive fermentation of unruly life in ideas events and persons there was a blending of the strongest contrasts manners were rude and even savage yet souls were filled with lofty and tender aspirations the authority of religious creeds at one time was on the point of extinction yet at another shown forth gloriously in opposition to the arrogance and brutality of mundane passions ignorance was profound and yet here and there in the very heart of the mental darkness gleamed bright centers of movement and intellectual labor it was the period when abellard anticipating freedom of thought and of instruction drew together upon mount st genevieve thousands of hearers anxious to follow him in the study of the great problems of nature and of the destiny of men and the world and far away from this throng in the solitude of the abbey of be saint anselm was offering to his monks a christian and philosophical demonstration of the existence of god faith seeking understanding fetus quorums intellectual as he himself used to say it was the period too when distressed at the licentiousness which was spreading throughout the church as well as lay society two illustrious monks saint bernard and saint norbert not only went preaching everywhere reformation of morals but labored at and succeeded in establishing for monastic life a system of strict discipline and severe austerity lastly it was the period when in the lake world was created and developed the most splendid fact of the middle ages knighthood that noble soaring of imaginations and souls towards the ideal of christian virtue and soldierly honor it is impossible to trace in detail the origin and history of that grand fact which was so prominent in the days to which it belonged and which is so prominent still in the memories of men but a clear notion ought to be obtained of its moral character and its practical worth to this end a few pages shall be borrowed from guizo's history of the civilization in france let us first look on the admission of a knight such as took place in the 12th century we will afterwards see what rules of conduct were imposed on him not only according to the oaths which he had to take on becoming a knight but according to the idea formed of knighthood by the poets of the day those interpreters not only of actual life but of men's sentiments also we shall then understand without difficulty what influence must have been exercised in the souls and lives of men by such sentiments and such rules however great may have been the discrepancy between the nightly ideal and the general actions and passions of contemporaries the young man the esquire who aspired to the title of night was first stripped of his clothes and placed in a bath which was symbolical of purification on leaving the bath he was clothed in a white tunic which was symbolical of purity and a red robe which was symbolical of the blood he was bound to shed in the service of the faith and a black sagum or close fitting coat which was symbolical of the death which awaited him as well as all men thus purified and clothed the candidate observed for 4 and 20 hours a strict fast when evening came he entered church and there passed the night in prayer sometimes alone sometimes with a priest and sponsors who prayed with him next day his first act was confession after confession the priest gave him the communion after the communion he attended a mass of the holy spirit and generally a sermon touching on the duties of knights and of the new life he was about to enter on the sermon over the candidate advanced to the altar with the night sword hanging from his neck this the priest took off blessed and replaced upon his neck the candidate then went and knelt before the lord who was to arm him night to what purpose the lord asked him do you desire to enter the order if to be rich to take your ease and to be held in honor without doing honor to knighthood you are unworthy of it and would be to the order of knighthood you received what the seminal clerk is to the prelacy on the young man's reply promising to acquit himself well of the duties of night the lord granted his request then drew near knights and sometimes ladies to re-clothe the candidate in all his new array and they put on him the spurs the haberk or coat of mail the curus the armlets and gauntlets and the sword he was what was then called a dubbed that is adopted according to dukanje the lord rose up went to him and gave him the accolade or accolade three blows with the flat of the sword on the shoulder or nape of the neck and sometimes a slap with the palm of the hand on the cheek saying in the name of god saint michael and saint george i make thee night and he sometimes added be valiant bold and loyal the young man having been thus armed tonight had his helmet brought to him a horse was let up for him he leaped on its back generally without the help of the stirrups and cara called about brandishing his lance and making his short flash finally he went out of church and caracalled about in the open at the foot of the castle in the presence of the people eager to have their share in the spectacle such was what may be called the outward and material part in the admission of knights it shows a persistent anxiety to associate religion with all the phases of so personal and affair the sacraments the most august feature of christianity are mixed up with it and many of the ceremonies are as far as possible assimilated to the administration of the sacraments let us continue our examination let us penetrate to the very heart of knighthood its moral character its ideas the sentiments which it was the object to impress upon the knight here again the influence of religion will be quite evident the knight had to swear to 26 articles these articles however did not make one single formula drawn up at one in the same time and altogether they are a collection of oaths required of knights at different epics and in more or less complete fashion from the 11th to the 14th century the candidate swore one to fear reverence and serve god religiously to fight for the faith with all their might and to die a thousand deaths rather than ever renounce christianity two to serve their sovereign prince faithfully and to fight for him and fatherland right valiantly three to uphold the rights of the weaker such as widows orphans and damsels and fair quarrel exposing themselves on that account according as need might be provided it were not against their own honor or against their king or lawful prince four that they would not injure anyone maliciously or take what was another's but would rather do battle with those who did so five that greed pay gain or profit should never constrain them to do any deed but only glory and virtue six that they would fight for the good and advantage of the common wheel seven that they would be bound by and obey the orders of their generals and captains who had a right to command them eight that they would guard the honor rank and order of their comrades and that they would neither buy arrogance nor by force commit any trespass against any one of them nine that they would never fight in companies against one and that they would eschew all tricks and artifices ten that they would wear but one sword unless they had to fight against two or more eleven that in turn or other sport of contest they would never use the point of their swords twelve that being taken prisoner in attorney they would be bound on their faith in honor to perform in every point the conditions of capture besides being bound to give up to the victors their arms and horses if it seemed good to take them and being disabled from fighting in more or elsewhere without their leave 13 that they would keep faith invaluably with all the world and especially with their comrades upholding their honor and advantage wholly in their absence 14. that they would love and honor one another and ate and sucker one another whenever occasion offered 15. that having made vow or promise to go on any quest or novel adventure they would never put off their arms save for the night's rest sixteen that in pursuit of their quest or adventure they would not shun bad and perilous passes nor turn aside from the straight road for fear of encountering powerful knights or monsters or wild beasts or other hindrance such as the body and courage of a single man might tackle 17 that they would never take wage or pay from any foreign prince 18. that in command of troops of men at arms they would live in the utmost possible order in discipline and especially in their own country where they would never suffer any harm or violence to be done 19 that if they were bound to escort dame or damsel they would serve her protect her and save her from all danger and insult or die in the attempt 20 that they would never offer violence to dame or damsel though they had won her by deeds of arms against her will and consent 21 that being challenged to equal combat they would not refuse without wound sickness or other reasonable hindrance 22 that having undertaken to carry out any enterprise they would devote to it night and day unless they were called away for the service of their king and country 23 that if they made a vow to acquire any honor they would not draw back without having attained either it or its equivalent 24 that they would be faithful keepers of their word and pledged faith and that having become prisoners in fair warfare they would pay to the uttermost the promised ransom or return to prison at the day and hour agreed upon on pain of being proclaimed infamous and perjured 25 that on returning to the court of their sovereign they would render a true account of their adventures even though they had sometimes been worsted to the king and the registrar of the order on pain of being deprived of the order of knighthood and 26 that above all things they would be faithful courteous and humble and would never be wanting to their word for any harm or loss that might accrue to them it is needless to point out that in this series of oaths these obligations imposed upon the knights there is a moral development very superior to that of the laii society of the period moral notions so lofty so delicate so scrupulous and so humane emanated clearly from the christian clergy only the clergy thought thus about the duties and the relation of mankind and their influence was employed in directing towards the accomplishment of such duties towards the integrity of such relations the idea and customs engendered by knighthood it had not been instituted with sopius and deepa design for the protection of the weak the maintenance of justice and the reformation of morals it had been at its origin and in its earliest features a natural consequence of feudal relations and war-like life a confirmation of the bonds established and the sentiments aroused between different masters in the same country and comrades with the same destinies the clergy promptly saw what might be deduced from such a fact and they made of it a means of establishing more peacefulness in society and in the conduct of individuals a more rigid morality this was the general work they pursued and if it were convenient to study the matter more closely we might see in the canons of councils from the 11th to the 14th centuries the church exerting herself to develop more and more in this order of knighthood this institution of an essentially warlike origin the moral and civilizing character of which a glimpse has just been caught in the documents of knighthood itself in proportion as knighthood appeared more and more in this simultaneously warlike religious and moral character it more and more gained power over the imagination of men and just as it had become closely interwoven with their creeds it soon became the ideal of their thoughts the source of their noblest pleasures poetry like religion took hold of it from the 11th century onwards knighthood its ceremonies its duties and its adventures where the mind from which the poets drew in order to charm the people in order to satisfy and excite at the same time that yearning of the soul that need of events more varied and more captivating and of emotions more exalted and more purer than real life could furnish in the springtime of communities poetry is not merely a pleasure and a pastime for a nation it is a source of progress it elevates and develops the moral nature of men at the same time that it amuses them and stirs them deeply we have just seen what oaths were taken by the knights and administered by the priests and now here is an ancient ballad by eustech deschamps a poet of the 14th century for in which it will be seen that poets impressed upon knights the same duties and the same virtues and that the influence of poetry had the same aim as that of religion 1. amend your lives ye who would feign the order of the knights obtain devoutly watch devoutly pray from pride and sin oh turn away shun all that space the church defend be the widows and the orphans friend be good and leel take not by might be bold and guard the people's right this is the rule for the gallant knight 2. be make of heart work day by day tread ever tread the nightly way make lawful war long travelled air tourney and joust for lady fair to everlasting honor cling that none the barbs of blame may fling be never slack in work or fight be ever leased in self's own sight this is the rule for the gallant knight three love the liege lord with might and mane his rights above all else maintain be open-handed just and true the paths of upright men pursue no deaf heir to their precepts turn the prowess of the valiant learn that ye may do things great and bright as did great alexander height this is the rule for the gallant knight a great deal has been said to the effect that all this is sheer poetry a beautiful chimera without any resemblance to reality indeed it has just been remarked here that the three centuries under consideration the middle ages were in point of fact one of the most brutal most roughingly epics in history one of those wherein we encounter most crimes and violence wherein the public peace was most incessantly troubled and wherein the greatest licentiousness in morals prevailed nevertheless it cannot be denied that side by side with these gross and barbarous morals this social disorder there existed nightly morality and nightly poetry we have moral records confronting roughingly deeds and the contrast is shocking but real it is exactly this contrast which makes the great and fundamental characteristic of the middle ages let us turn our eyes towards other communities towards the earliest stages for instance of greek society towards that heroic age of which homer's poems are the faithful reflection there is nothing there like the contrast by which we are struck in the middle ages we do not see that at the period and amongst the people of the homeric poems there was a broad in the air or had penetrated into the imaginations of men any idea more lofty or more pure than their everyday actions the heroes of homer seem to have no misgiving about their brutishness their ferocity their greed their egotism there is nothing in their souls superior to the deeds of their lives in the france of the middle ages on the contrary though practically crimes and disorders moral and social evils abound yet men have in their souls and their imaginations loftier and pure instincts and desires their notions of virtue and their ideas of justice are very superior to the practice pursued around them and amongst themselves a certain moral ideal hovers above this low and tumultuous community and attracts the notice and obtains the regard of men in whose life it is but very faintly reflected the christian religion undoubtedly is if not the only at any rate the principal cause of this great fact for its particular characteristic is to arouse amongst men a lofty moral ambition by keeping constantly before their eyes a type infinitely beyond the reach of human nature and yet profoundly sympathetic with it to christianity it was that the middle ages owed knighthood that institution which in the midst of anarchy and barbarism gave a poetical and moral beauty to the period it was feudal knighthood in christianity together which produced the two great and glorious events of those times the norman conquest of england and the crusades end of chapter 14. section 28 of volume 1 of a popular history of france from the earliest times this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org volume one of the popular history of france from the earliest times by francois rizzo translated by robert black chapter 15 conquest of england by the normans part 1. at the beginning of the 11th century robert called the magnificent the fifth in secession from the great chieftain rallo who had established the northmen in france was duke of normandy to have the nickname he earned by his nobleness and liberality some chronicles have added another and call him robert the devil by reason of his reckless and violent deeds of audacity whether in private life or in war-like expeditions hence a lively controversy amongst the learned upon the question of deciding to which robert to apply the latter epithet some persist in assigning it to the duke of normandy others seek for some other robert upon whom to hoist it however that may be in 1034 or 1035 after having led a fair life enough from the political point of view but one full of turbulence and moral irregularity duke robert resolved to undertake barefooted and staff in hand a pilgrimage to jerusalem to expiate his sins if god would deign to consent thereto the norman prelats and barons having been summoned around him conjured him to renounce his plan for to what troubles and perils would not his dominions be exposed without lord or assured successor by my faith said robert i will not leave ye lordless i have a young bastard who will grow please god and of whose good qualities i have great hope take him i pray you for lord that he was not born in wedlock matters little to you he will be nonetheless able in battle or at court or in the palace or to render you justice i make him my heir and i hold him seized from this present of the whole duchy of normandy and they who were present assented but not without objection and disquietude there was certainly ample reason for objection and disquietude not only was it a child of eight years of age to whom duke robert at setting out on his pious pilgrimage was leaving normandy but this child had been pronounced bastard by the duke his father at the moment of taking him for his heir nine or ten years before at filets his favorite residence robert had met according to some at a people's stance according to others on the banks of a stream where she was washing linen with her companions a young girl named harlett or harleev daughter of a tanner in the town where they show to this day it is said the window from which the duke saw her for the first time she pleased his fancy and was not more straight-laced than the duke was scrupulous and fulbert the tanner kept but little watch over his daughter robert gave the son born to him in 1027 the name of his glorious ancestor william longsword the son and successor of rallo the child was reared according to some in his father's palace right honorably as if he had been born in wedlock but according to others in the house of his grandfather the tanner and one of the neighboring burgesses as he saw passing one of the principal norman lords william de melmez surnamed the fierce talbots stopped him ironically saying come in my lord and admire your suzerain's son the origin of young william was in every mouth and gave occasion for familiar illusions more often insulting than flattering the epithet bastard was so to speak incorporated with his name and we cannot be astonished that it lived in history for in the height of his power he sometimes accepted it proudly calling himself in several of his charters william the bastard guillemest nottles us he showed himself to be nonetheless acceptable on this point when in 1048 during the siege of alcinon the domain of the lord de melmez the inhabitants hung from their walls hides all raw and covered with dirt which they shook when they caught sight of william with cries of plenty of work for the tanner by the glory of god cried william they shall pay me dear for this insolent bravery after an assault several of the besieged were taken prisoners he had their eyes pulled out and their feet and hands cut off and shot from his siege machines these mutilated members over the walls of the city notwithstanding his recklessness and is being engrossed in his pilgrimage duke robert had taken some care for the situation in which he was leaving his son and some measures to lessen its perils he had appointed regent of normandy during williams minority his cousin alain v duke of brittany whose sagacity and friendship he had proved and he had confided the personal guardianship of the child not to his mother harlett who was left very much out in the cold but to one of his most trusty officers gilbert crespon count of bryon and the strong castle of rodrigue the first foundation of which dated back it was said to queen fredegaon was assigned for the usual residence of the young duke lastly to confirm with brilliancy his son's right as his successor to the duchy of normandy and to assure him a powerful ally robert took him himself to the court of his suzerain angry the first king of france who recognized the title of william the bastard and allowed him to take the oath of allegiance and homage having thus prepared as best he could for his son's future robert set out on his pilgrimage he visited rome and constantinople everywhere displaying his magnificence together with his humility he fell ill from sheer fatigue whilst crossing asia minor and was obliged to be carried in a litter by four negroes go and tell them at home said he to a norman pilgrim he met returning from the holy land that you saw me being carried to paradise by four devils on arriving at jerusalem where he was received with great attention by the muslim and emir in command there he discharged himself of his pious vow and took the road back to europe but he was poisoned by whom or for what motive is not clearly known at nicaea in bithya where he was buried in the basilica of saint mary an honor says the chronicle which had never been accorded to anybody from 1025 to 1042 during williams minority normandy was a prey to the robber-like ambition the local quarrels and the turbulent and brutal passions of a host of petty castle holders nearly always at war either amongst themselves or with the young chieftain whose power they did not fear and whose rights they disputed in vain did duke alain of brittany in his capacity as regent appointed by duke robert attempt to re-establish order and just when he seemed on the road to success he was poisoned by those who could not succeed in beating him henri the first king of france being ill-disposed at his bottom towards his norman neighbors and their young duke for all that he had acknowledged him profited by this anarchy to filth from him certain portions of territory attacks without warning fearful murders implacable vengeance and sanguinary disturbances in the towns were evils which became common and spread the clergy strove with courageous perseverance against the vices and crimes of the period the bishops convoked councils in their diocese the laic lords and even the people were summoned to them the peace of god was proclaimed and the priests having in their hands lighted tapers turned them towards the ground and extinguished them whilst the populace repeated in chorus so may god extinguish the joys of those who refuse to observe peace and justice the majority however of the norman lords refused to enter into the engagement in default of peace it was necessary to be content with the truths of god it commenced on wednesday evening at sunset and concluded on monday at sunrise during the four days and five nights comprised in this interval all aggression was forbidden no slaying wounding pillaging or burning could take place but from sunrise on monday to sunset on wednesday for three days and two nights any violence became allowable any crime might recommence meanwhile william was growing up and the omens that had been drawn from his early youth raised the popular hopes it was reported that at his very birth when the midwife had put him unswaddled in a little heap of straw he had wriggled about and drawn together the straw with his hands in so much that the midwife said by my faith this child began with full young to take and heap up i know not what he will do when he has grown at a little later period when a burgess of filets drew the attention of the lord william de belez to the gay and sturdy lad as he played amongst his mates the fierce vassal muttered between his teeth a cursed be thou of god for i be certain that by thee mine honors will be lowered the child on becoming man was handsomer and handsomer and so lively and spirited that it seemed to all a marvel amongst his mates command became soon a habit with him he made them form a line of battle he gave them the word of command and he constituted himself their judge in all corals at a still later period having often heard talk of revolts excited against him and of disorders which troubled the country he was moved in consequence to fits a violent irritation which however he learned instinctively to hide and in his child's heart says the chronicle he had welling up all the vigor of a man to teach the normans to forbear from all acts of irregularity at 15 years of age in 1042 he demanded to be armed tonight and to fulfill all forms necessary for having the right to serve and command in all ranks these forms were in normandy by a relic it is said of the danish and pagan customs more connected with war and less with religion than elsewhere the young candidates were not bound to confess to spend a vigil in the church and to receive from the priest's hands the sword he had consecrated on the altar it was even the custom to say that he whose sword had been girded upon him by a long robed cleric was no true night but a sit without spirit the day on which william for the first time donned his armor was for his servants and all the spectators a gala day he was so tall so manly in face and so proud of baring that it was a sight both pleasant and terrible to see him guiding his horse's career flashing with his sword gleaming with his shield and threatening with his cask and javelins his first act of government was a rigorous decree against such as should be guilty of murder arson and pillage but he at the same time granted an amnesty for past revolts on condition of fealty and obedience for the future for the establishment however of a young and disputed authority there is need of something more than brilliant ceremonies and words partly miniatury and partly coaxing william had to show what he was made of a conspiracy was formed against him in the heart of his feudal court and almost of his family he had given kindly welcome to his cousin gee of burgundy and had even bestowed on him as a thief the count ships of vernon and bryon in 1044 the young duke was at bologna when suddenly at midnight one of his trustees servants goulet his fool such as the great lords of the time kept knocked at the door of his chamber crying open open my lord duke fly fly or you are lost they are armed they are getting ready to terry's death william did not hesitate he got up ran to the stables saddled his horse with his own hands started off followed a road called to this day the duke's way and reached filets as a place of safety there news came to him that the conspiracy was taking the form of insurrection and that the rebels were seizing his domains williams showed no more hesitation at filets than at bologna he started off at once repaired to poisy where angry the first king of france was then residing and claimed his vassal the help of his suzerain against traitors henri who himself was brave was touched by this bold confidence and promised his young vassal effectual support william returned to normandy summoned his legions and took to the field promptly king ahri joined him at argents with a body of three thousand minute arms and a battle took place on the 10th of august 10 47 at valdez doom three leagues from ken it was very hotly contested king henry unhorsed by lance thrust ran a risk of his life but he remounted and valiantly returned to the melee william dashed in whenever the fight was the thickest showing himself everywhere as able in command as ready to expose himself a norman lord raul de tesson held aloof with a troop of 140 knights who is he that bids yonder motionless ask the french king of the young duke it is the banner of raul de teson answered william i want not that he hath ought against me but though he had no personal grievance raul de tesson had joined the insurgents and sworn that he would be the first to strike the duke in the conflict thinking better of it and perceiving william from afar he pricked towards him and taking off his glove struck him gently on the shoulder saying i swore to strike you and so i am quit but fear nothing more from me thanks raul said william be well disposed i pray you raul waited until the two armies were at grips and when he saw which way victory was inclined he hastened to contribute there too it was decisive and william the bastard returned to valdez doom really duke of normandy he made vigorous but not cruel use of his victory he demolished his enemies strong castles magazines as they were for pillaged no less than bulwarks of feudal independence but there is nothing to show that he indulged in violence towards persons he was even generous to the chief concoctor of the plot gee of burgundy he took from him the count ships of vernon and brion but permitted him still to live at his court a place which the burgundian found himself two ilities to remain in so he returned to burgundy to conspire against his own eldest brother william was stern without hatred and merciful without kindliness only thinking which of the two might promote or his success gentleness or severity there soon came an opportunity for him to return to the king of france the kindness he had received jeffrey martel duke of being ambitious and turbulent beyond the measure of his power got embroiled with the king his suzera and war broke out between them the duke of normandy went to the aid of king henry and made his success certain which cost the duke the fierce hostility of the court of azu and a four years war with that inconvenient neighbor a war full of dangerous incidents wherein william enhanced his character already great for personal valor in an ambush god laid for him by jeffrey martell he lost some of his best nights whereas he was so roth says chronicle that he galloped down with such force upon jeffrey and struck him in such wise with his sword that he dented his helm cut through his hood lopped off his ear and with the same blow felled him to the earth but the count was lifted up and remounted and so fled away william made rapid advances both as prince and as man without being austere in his private life he was regular in his habits and patronized order and respectability in his household as well as in his dominions he resolved to marry to his own honor and to the promotion of his greatness baldwin the debonair count of flanders one of the most powerful lords of the day had a daughter matilda beautiful well-informed firm in the faith a model of virtue and modesty william asked her hand in marriage matilda refused saying i would rather be a veiled nun than given in marriage to a bastard hurt as he was william did not give up he was even more persevering than susceptible but he knew that he must get still greater and make an impression upon a young girl's imagination by the splendor of his fame and power some years later being firmly established in normandy dreaded by all his neighbors and already showing some foreshadowings of his design upon england he renewed his matrimonial quest in flanders but after so strange of fashion that in spite of contemporary testimony several of the modern historians in their zeal even at so distant a period for observance of the proprieties reject as fabulous the story which is here related on the authority of the most detailed account amongst all the chronicles which contain it a little after that duke william had heard how the damsel had made answer he took of his folk and went privately to lille where the duke of flanders and his wife and his daughter then were he entered into the hall and passing on as if to do some business went into the countess's chamber and there found the damsel daughter of count baldwin he took her by the tresses dragged her around the chamber trampled her underfoot and did beat her soundly then he strode forth from the chamber left upon his horse which was being held for him before the hall struck in his spurs and went his way at this deed was count baldwin much enraged and when matters had thus remained a while duke williams sent once more to count baldwin to parley again of the marriage the count sounded his daughter on the subject and she answered that it pleased her well so the nuptials took place with very great joy and after the aforesaid matters count baldwin laughing with all asked his daughter wherefore she had so lightly accepted the marriage she had a four times so cruelly refused and she answered that she did not then know the duke so well as she did now four should she if he had not great heart and high and prize he had not been so bold as to dare come and beat me in my father's chamber amongst the historians who treat this story as romantic and untruth-like fable some believe themselves to have discovered in diverse documents of the 11th and 12th centuries circumstances almost equally singular as regards the cause of the obstacles met with at first by duke william in his pretensions to the hand of princess matilda and as regards the motive for the first refusal on the part of matilda herself according to some the flemish princess had conceived a strong passion for a noble saxon british mew who had been sent by king edward the confessor to the court of flanders and who was remarkable for his beauty she wished to marry him but the handsome saxon was not willing and matilda at first gave way to violent grief on that account and afterwards when she became queen of england to vindictive hatred the weight of which she made him feel severely other writers go still farther and say that before being sought in marriage by william matilda had not fallen in love with handsome saxon but had actually married a flemish burgess named gerbaud patron of the church of saint derton at saint omer and that she had by him two and perhaps three children traces of whom recur it is said under the reign of william king of england there is no occasion to enter upon the learned controversies of which these different allegations have been the cause it is sufficient to say that they have led to nothing but obscurity contradiction and doubt and that there is more moral varisimilitude in the account just given especially in matilda's first prejudice against marriage with a bastard and in her conversation with her father count baldwin when she had changed her opinion upon the subject independently of the testimony of several chroniclers french and english this tradition is mentioned with all the simplicity of belief in one of the principal flemish chronicles and as to the ruffian league gallantry employed by william to win his bride there is nothing in it very singular considering the habits of the time and we meet with more than one example of adventures if not exactly similar at any rate very analogous however that may be this marriage brought william an unexpected opportunity of entering into personal relations with one of the most distinguished men of his age and a man destined to become one of his own most intimate advisors in 1019 at the council of ram pope leo ix on political grounds rather than because of a prohibited decree of relationship had opposed the marriage of the duke of normandy with the daughter of the duke of flanders and had pronounced his veto upon it william took no heed and in 1052 or 1053 his marriage was celebrated at rome with great pomp but this ecclesiastical veto waited upon his mind and he sought some means of getting it taken off a learned italian lon frank a juris console of some fame already whilst traveling in france and repairing from a branches to raw was stopped near bryon by briggins who having plundered him left him with his eyes bandaged in a forest his cries attracted the attention of passersby who took him to a neighboring monastery but lately founded by a pious norman knight retired from the world lon frank was received in it became a monk of it was elected its prior attracted to it by his learned teachings a host of pupils and one therein his own great renown while slaying the foundation for that of the abbey of be which was destined to be carried still higher by one of his disciples saint anselm was eloquent great in dialectics of a sprightly wit and lively in repartee relying upon the pope's decision he spoke ill of william's marriage with matilda william was informed of this and in a fit of despotic anger ordered lon frank to be driven from the monastery and banished from normandy and even it is said the dependency which he inhabited as a prior of the abbey to be burned the order was executed and lon frank set out mounted on a sorry little horse given him no doubt by the abbey by what chance is not known but probably on a hunting party his favorite diversion william with his retinue happened to cross the road which lon frank was slowly pursuing my lord said the monk addressing him i am obeying your orders i am going away but my horse is a sorry beast if you will give me a better one i will go faster william halted entered into conversation with lon frank let him stay and send him back with a present to his abbey a little while afterwards lon frank was at rome and defended before pope victor ii william's marriage with matilda he was successful and the pope took off the veto on the sole condition that the couple in sign of penitence should each found a religious house matilda accordingly founded at cain for women the abbey of the holy trinity and william for men that of saint stephen lon frank was the first abbot of the latter and when william became king of england lon frank was made archbishop of canterbury and primate of the church of england as well as privy councillor of his king william excelled in the art so essential to government of promptly recognizing the worth of men and of appropriating their influence to himself whilst exerting his own over them about the same time he gave his co-temporaries princes and peoples new proofs of his ability and power henry the first king of france growing more and more disquieted at and jealous of the duke of normandy's ascendancy secretly excited against him opposition and even revolt in his dominions these dealings led to open war between the suzura and the vassal and the war concluded with two battles won by william one at mortimer near new chateau in bray the other at veraville near troy after which said william himself king henry never passed a night tranquilly in my ground in 1059 peace was concluded between the two princes omri the first died almost immediately afterwards and on the 25th of august 1060 his son philippe the first succeeded him under the regency of baldwin count of flanders father of the duchess matilda duke william was present in state at the coronation of the new king of france lent him effectual assistance against the revolts which took place in gascony re-entered normandy for the purpose of holding at cain in 1061 the estates of his duchy and at that time published the famous decree observed long after him under the name of the law of curfew which ordered that every evening the bells should be rung in all parishes to warn everyone to prayer and house closing and no more running about the streets the passion for orderliness in his dominions did not cool his ardor for conquest in 1063 after the death of his young neighbor herbert ii count of maine william took possession of his beautiful township not without some opposition on the part of the inhabitants nor without suspicion of having poisoned his rival walter count of vaccine it is said that after this conquest william meditated that of brittany but there is every indication that he had formed a far faster design and that the day of its execution was approaching end of chapter 15 part 1. | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2019-12-16 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 17,448 | 97,199 |
lWCMhpGuyrU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCMhpGuyrU | [SUB ENG/中文] Infinite Scrolling Background | Unity Tutorial | hey everyone welcome back to herbster games in today's video I will show you how to create an infinite Loop background in unity before we dive into the tutorial make sure to smash that like button share this tutorial and hit subscribe for more awesome tutorial videos now let's begin in our example I have downloaded a free Parallax background from the unity asset store to use as the background which I have the link for in the video description you can use which chever background you can find that is repeatable from itself I am downloading the PNG files into my editor right here create a new scene just for this demonstration first create an empty game object and add the Sprite renderer under rendering onto it drag one of the backgrounds into the Sprite parameter currently the background appears excessively large and magnified resulting in a lack of clarity putting the scale of the object for X and Y as 0.25 would make it nicer looking so let's do that at times you would adjust the Sprites pixels per unit instead of the scaling on the object to make it bigger or smaller create another game object drag the background game object into the new object and copy the background game object into two more inside try changing the y axis of the objects and make it so the game objects are stacked on top of each other on the scene without any space in between between next on the outer layer game object add a script called background open it up create a float variable for the maximum y value a float variable for the speed of the scrolling effect and a float variable for the current y position we do not need the start method here so we can get rid of it in the update method have the current position y add the speed and change the game object's position by using the current position y as the Y value once current current position y exceeds Max y then reset the game object position back to zero and set the current position y back to zero as well adjusted the vertical position of the backgrounds to 10.24 and 10.24 which corresponds to the current scale of 0.25 for this background image run the program now and we can see the background looping itself doesn't it look fantastic if you found this video helpful and want more tutorial videos like this don't forget to like comment and subscribe to our channel for more Unity tutorials let me know if there is any topic you would like me to cover and I will try to incorporate that into our tutorial videos thanks for watching and happy coding | Herbster Games | UC4dKZJ1rHTxRog9BYogL-Nw | 2024-02-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 460 | 2,504 |
Y-s61A2XJhU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-s61A2XJhU | Pandji Pragiwaksono Explains Indonesian History to Americans | [Music] indonesia's very young country we're only 70 77 did you get years independence from independence yeah from who from from the netherlands from the netherlands oh okay we was our independence day is august 17th 1945. wow okay right after world war ii very young actually it was because so this is pretty messed up so it was the netherlands right they invade um indonesia and then world war ii happened japan comes to indonesia they were like smacking the netherlands up like [ __ ] out of here yeah and then [ __ ] the american drop the nuclear bomb on japan on japan and then for humboldt yeah for a weird moment there was nobody running governing indonesia wow yeah and indonesia was like free now yeah and then they made the declaration of independence no because it's also kind of because japan would have taken over yeah it sounded like yeah it's kind of [ __ ] though because the dutch at least they said the dutch at one point was running it kind of [ __ ] that japan came in was like the indonesian people were there like yeah we're not here for you the dutch we're here for you this is indonesia yeah they're chilling we're here for you and then once they push them out at the same time they push them out they like their home base got killed they're like what the [ __ ] we doing here and indonesia was just left with an empty land and was like guys exactly yeah you want to try government it's at the end of that one episode of rick and morty when he leaves and they're like i'm gonna give you food yeah cause i was like that but you know you know what's what's weird was uh it was exactly like that right so so the japanese government was like they were like in panic or whatever status they were in because uh the homeland was bombed by the u.s and then indonesia declared our independence and then the dutch went back like oh no no no no you're not declaring independence we're coming back for you guys and so the dutch went back and so we we had it had had a war with the netherlands government for until and that's when panzer hussain stepped up so my country what kind of a war yeah what kind of military does netherlands have like was it it's indonesian's hat we we stole every indonesian fight with stolen guns yeah that they stole from the netherlands yeah japanese we never won the war we never you're more queens than you realize you just stopped fighting you're just like yeah at one point it was i think it was the international world was looking at indonesia and then the american government uh stepped in and you know how the american government likes to you know yeah they come in with a guy and he's like do you guys like oil and that is this is so this is such a great broken down version yes yeah it is it actually is true i know it's yeah but we're gonna bring in these rigs right and they're going to pump the living [ __ ] out of your land it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna improve the job search but kevin what about the people that live near the pumps it's gonna displace them it's gonna displace though you know this is very very interesting what you just said was exactly what happened no we know we're makers yeah yeah a lot of indonesians don't know this they don't know this it was it was washed away the actual history was washed away in and out baby yeah yeah yeah no there was a uh mitt romney he was running for president what year was it like multiple times seven yeah yeah he was in a presidential debate and then he was like uh he was asked what would you do with some country i don't remember what it was and then he said oh we'll do them like we did indonesia and everybody in indonesia was like what the [ __ ] did he just said nobody in indonesia knows what you were saying because it was washed away by the by the president that was that the u.s helped elect panji would you say it was obama whitewashed [Laughter] [Music] you | Doped up Comedy | UCgB3eDs7mjvp5wNXAlKCH1w | 2022-07-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 736 | 3,953 |
R8SYKk6hnpk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8SYKk6hnpk | Turning Into BOZO!: Road to High Maintenance #makeup #clown | stay tuned to find out how you can win a mystery box curated by your girl hello everyone my name is Sandra and thank you so much for tuning in all right y'all my ice cream Beauty back is here well she's actually been here for a couple of days I just haven't gotten around to filming her but we're going to go ahead and get into her today I am super excited you know ice cream Beauty always comes through I think maybe there have been a few bad items but the bag itself was always getting a good overall rating I didn't even realize this had a little Rippy tab was this there the whole time I have no idea but I just discovered this so I'm be looking to see if this is on all of them we're going to go ahead and get into it the first item that I'm pulling out is by Mirabella Mirabella and this is the pro sculpt clear brow gel this is what it looks like I'm going to be honest I don't use brow gels okay it's it's not my steo I I'm not I'm just not that girl I am going to open this just to look at the packaging but then I'm going to put it right back in here and we're going to put this in one of the future giveaways ooh the packaging is absolutely beautiful this is nice I think that that is so pretty very sleek and it just says Pro sculpt brow gel like I said because I'm putting it in the giveaway I'm not going to like expose the bristles and all that I'm just not going to do that that'd be gross but yeah very cute nice little brow gel that hopefully one of y'all will enjoy the next item that I'm pulling out is the Kiss by munella okay so we had a little little takeover this is a lipstick and it is in Sugar and Spice ooh very pretty this is what the packaging is looking like very cute ooh okay this is bougie I am absolutely in love look at that that is absolutely Stu and then you can't really see it but it has Mirabella engraved in like the gold band bro that is so freaking cute isn't that stunning this is probably one of my favorite lipstick containers that I've gotten that is absolutely beautiful this is looking a little bit more for like winter fall so I don't know why they would include a color this dark when it's basically spring that is absolutely pretty wouldn't need a lip line at all look at that absolutely gorgeous it went on super smooth and it's just it's just stunning I don't know what else to say it's just really stunning but this probably won't be my go-to girl until fall and winter and last but certainly not least let's get into the palette now the palette is super freaking cute get into it look at that iridescent and then I think it's so cute that it's like a cassette tape very adorable and it's called give me more by Trend Beauty yeah this packaging is everything this compared to the packaging that was on the lady bugalo where it looked like it was just printed out from someone's computer very Stark difference I'm surprised that they didn't put this one in the box and then put the other one in the bag like it would have made more sense that the more expensive box came with a higher quality palette but that's just me this is what she looks like this is the color story absolutely beautiful this is giving spring I think that the lip color should have been something more vibrant something brighter to kind of complement the palette cuz right now the looks that I would come up with for this palette really won't go with a lip unless I was on this side like I did a look with just this that's the only way I can make like like a ey shadow look that would look good with that lip color I'm thinking today we're not going to play with her cuz I I think it would just be just jointed and the last video I did I did a purple look anyway so I really don't want to do purple so so we're going to play with this eyeshadow palette unfortunately that's the only thing we're going to play with today I might have some other new products that I want to try I'll let y'all know let's go ahead and get into this try on oh wait I didn't do the prices sorry I was getting ahead of myself what are you serious you're going to flip out when you see the price on this and it's just it's not going to make logical sense when you think of the price of the other palette which was much smaller than this and then kind of cheaply made this trend Beauty give me more palette is $112 I think the other one was like $32 or $42 the like lady bugalow one I'm sorry I would be more likely to pay $32 well depending on how the Shadows form perform I don't know why I said form depending on how the Shadows perform um yeah I would much much more like I would put are words I would be much more likely to pay $32 for this one as opposed to the lady bugal one I hate to I hate to be that girl and be mean but it's the truth I I got to keep it a buck with y'all the next item which is the Mirabella Beauty sealed with a kiss lipstick and this is going to be $22 I would pay $22 for this look at how bougie this is and honestly I want to see if they have more colors cuz this is really pretty I would love to have like just the full collection of lippies with this beautiful bullet like that is so pretty to me and finally the Mirabella Beauty Pro sculpt clear brow gel is going to be $18 all right y'all we're going to go ahead and do some swatches and then we're going to get into the Tryon I like I completely skipped over a bunch of stuff and was like put the makeup on I'm not going to Swatch the entire thing cuz that's a lot like that's what 3 six 12 18 18 Shadows that's a lot I'm not doing all 18 I'm going to choose a few that I'm excited about and then we're going to get into the try on so I will be right back these are the swatches they're absolutely stunning that pressed glitter is mermaid on steroids right like that is absolutely beautiful like look at that shift the mattes were okay a little bit patchy but not super super hell is superer not super bad so they're definitely workable this darker shade is so gorgeous I'm just so trash at doing like darker eye colors that I'm probably not going to touch that one until I you know do some research and learn how to actually ey Shadow they can charge way more than $12 for this palette I'm going to go ahead and put some things on my face and then I'm going to come back with some products for us to try to celebrate reaching 5,000 subscribers I'm hosting a special giveaway exclusively for the faay fill out the entry form located in the description below and leave a comments on any of my videos between now and April 4th for your chance to win a mystery box curated by your girl two winners will be chosen at random remember only one submission per subscriber now back to the video and I'm back okay I already did my foundation and you know concealer and all that stuff and obviously the blush your girl loves to be borderline jigsaw now I'm actually going to go into another new product not from my ice cream Beauty bag this one is actually going to be from my latest mystery bag from Ipsy and this is the danessa myrix wet do bomm or do wet balm and this is just like a balmy highlighter and I'm just going to try it over this blush and see see what's happen happening this is what she looks like that is so satisfying so let me just see ooh see what that does I mean I see it oh no that looks jacked up let me see if I can kind of diffuse that a little bit I might have messed up putting it on my nose hopefully the powder kind of diffuses that a little bit but on the cheeks it looks really pretty I like her I just need to learn how to use her better on the nose is hell no on the cheeks ooh we love her on the cheeks but you see how it like turned all this red so it looks like I got like a cold like a real cold definitely add a nice illumination I wonder how it's going to stand up once I put the powder on like y'all know when you put powder over you know cream products they just don't pop as much as you would like them to so we'll see how it kind of holds up and go from there hopefully the powder can fix this and I'm back all right y'all I went ahead and put some bronzer on did my eyebrows and I concealed my eyelid because we're going to be working with lighter colors and I really really want them to show up first and formost I need to clean my brush yeah that's the first thing I need to do is clean my brush I'm thinking I'm going to go with this color right here cuz it's a little bit more neutral I'm just going to kind of brush that over like this it's going on really nicely all right now that our transition shade is down we're actually going to try to do something fun since there's so many beautiful like rainbow pastel kind of colors I kind of want to do like an ombre effect yeah that's what I want to do I want to do like an ombre effect all right using my little itty bitty brush I'm actually going to go in with this orange shade right here I'm going to just kind of lay that on the inside right here wait let me bring y'all in a little closer I'm like over here leaning forward I'm just going to put that right on the inside all right so far so good definitely got to clean off my brush next I am going to go into this yellow shade right here now these colors probably would pop even better if I used like a white base but I don't have that okay I don't have a white base that I can kind of put over my eyelid so we're just going to have to work with what we working with you know it might not be as vibrant but hopefully it'll still be nice and Hy next I'm going to go into this green shade right here and just lay that next to the yellow this might look like clown makeup no we're not going for clown going for High Fashion now we're going to go into a blue now because the greens are a little bit darker I'm going to opt for this blue right here here instead of like the more pastely kind of Blues oh that blue is pigmented I don't think that's lining up exactly so this might look a little little clownish it's already looking very clownish right now this wouldn't be a palette error this would be a Sandra error I'm going to dip into I'm going to dip into this green first and then I'm going to dip into this one to kind of deepen it up I guess we're we're going for Bozo today the the green is kind of taking over the blue like you can't even really see it which is wild I'm going to try to reintroduce that blue now you can't see the other green I think I've kind of given up on it I think this is just going to be like a weird a weird look I don't know I don't know what I'm doing I guess next I'm I'm going to just go into this Deeper Shade right here it is a little patchy but not too bad 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 this looks crazy I don't know what I was thinking I'm going to try to like blend this outward I think this orange and yellow would have looked so pretty by itself you know what I mean I think this look is cooked okay this look is cooked it's not going to look good with the Lippy that I chose this is a bust I guess we're just going to do shower makeup okay the makeup you do when you about to go in the shower so I'm actually going to try to make this even more fun and put this blue underneath right here ooh I don't know why I said ooh looks terrible since this is already a train wreck we're going to go ahead and put this pink in our inner corner I just realized this entire look is matte there's not a shimmer in sight now we look like a tropical bird I'm going to go ahead and finish the rest of my makeup and we'll come back and look at the devastation the train wreck we'll see what it looks like once the wreckage has finally come to a stop and I'm back I tried to salvage the look as much as I could I'm probably just look like a whole clown right now the final thing that I'm actually going to try out is something I got from Teemu if you hear that noise that's baby girl she playing you know she got a little little learning box thing she's playing with it so that's the little background noise you might be hearing this is the Mia show shiny neon [Music] lipstick anyways this is the Mia wait where's the logo the Mia show and it's just like a cute little lipstick look at that isn't that gorgeous absolutely stunning and I don't think it actually goes down like a funny color well we'll we'll see uh hopefully it brings this look together I don't know the look is kind of disjointed and crazy and all over the place and I probably look like a clown but you know it's all in good fun definitely doesn't go with the look but I don't think the look goes with the look definitely look like a clown I tried my best y'all I wanted to play with the colors and do like some pops and you know what I mean like have fun with it I was trying to have fun and just you know play around with the colors but it just turned into a murky green patchy mess I'm going to have to play around with this palette again and give it another try okay cuz I I think this was a fail you know not everything can be perfect and just beautiful all the time sometimes you got to You Know Jack yourself up to learn how to do things better that was everything in my I was going to say mystery Ipsy again I need to stop filming those videos they're literally like taking over my whole life that was everything in my ice cream Beauty bag I don't know I need to try the lipstick maybe the lipstick will make me feel better about this bag I definitely want to play around with these shimmers at some point I'm going to put that in my Redemption pile we're going to give her another try and see if I can make a more wearable look something that I'll be like ooh stunt on the gam with that being said if you like this content you already know what to do like share comment and definitely subscribe so 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4TXnhiQYscM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXnhiQYscM | Woman in the Nineteenth Century | Margaret Fuller | Literary Collections, Social Science | 4/6 | section 13 of woman in the 19th century 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 elizabeth klett bruce pirie delmar h dolby r woman in the 19th century and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of women by Margaret Fuller section 13 AG Lauren and Lauri a drive through the country near Boston AG neuron and Laurie are two of the pleasantest men I know Laurie combines with the external advantages of a beautiful person and easy address all the charm which quick perceptions and intelligent sympathy give to the intercourse of daily life he has an extensive though not a deep knowledge of men and books his naturally fine taste has been more refined by observation both at home and abroad then as usual in this busy country and though not himself a thinker he follows with care and delight the flights of a rapid and inventive mind he is one of those rare persons who without being servile or vacillating present on no side any barrier to the free action of another mind yes he is really an agreeable companion I do not remember ever to have been wearied or chilled in his company a glare on is a person of far greater depth and force than his friend and cousin but by no means as agreeable his mind is ardent and powerful rather than brilliant and ready neither does he with ease adapt himself to the course of another but when he is once kindled the blaze of light casts every object on which it falls into a bold relief and gives every scene a luster unknown before he is not perhaps strict the original in his thoughts but the severe truth of his character and the searching force of his attention give the charm of originality to what he says accordingly another cannot by repetition do it justice I have never any doubt when I write down or tell what Laurie says but a glare on must write for himself yet I almost always take notes of what has passed for the amusement of a distant friend who is learning amidst the Western prairies patience and an appreciation of the poor benefits of our imperfectly civilized state and those I took this day seemed not unworthy of a more general circulation the sparkle of talk the free breeze that swelled its current are always fled when he write it down but there is a gentle flow and truth to the moment rarely attained in more elaborate compositions my two friends called to ask if I would drive with them into the country and I gladly consented it was a beautiful afternoon of the last week in May nature seemed most desirous to make up for the time she had lost in an uncommon lee cold and wet spring the leaves were bursting from their sheaths with such rapidity that the trees seemed actually to greet to you as you passed along the vessel choirs of snowdrops and violets were chanting they're gentle hopes from every bank the orchards were white with blossoms and the birds singing in almost tumultuous glee we drove for some time in silence perhaps fearful to disturb the universal song by less melodious accents when AG LaRonde said how entirely are we new born today how are all the past cold skies and hostile breezes vanished before their single breath of sweetness how consoling is the truth thus indicated it is indeed the dearest fact of our consciousness that in every moment of joy pain is annihilated there is no past and the future is only the sunlight streaming into the far Valley yet it was the night that taught us to prize the day even so and are you no object to none of the dark masters nor I because I am sure that whatever is is good and to find out the why is all our employment here but one feel so at home in such a day as this as this indeed I never heard so many birds now saw so many flowers do you not like these yellow flowers they gleam upon the fields as if to express the bridal kiss of the Sun he seems most happy if not most wealthy when first he is wed to the earth i believe i have some such feeling about these golden flowers when i did not know what was the asphodel so celebrated by the poet's i thought it was a golden flower yet this yellow is so ridiculed as vulgar it is because our vulgar luxury depreciates objects not fitted to adorn our dwellings these yellow flowers will not bear being taken out of their places and brought home to the center table but when enameling the ground the cowslip the king cup nay the marigold and dandelion even our resplendent ly beautiful they are the poor man's gold see that dark and pointed house with its lilac shrubbery as it stands undivided from the road to which the green bank slopes down from the door is not the effect of that enamel of gold dandelions beautiful it seems as if a stream of peace had flowed from the doorstep down to the very dust in waves of light to greet the passerby that is indeed a quiet house it looks as if somebody's grandfather lives there still it is most refreshing to see the dark boards amid those houses of staring white streams that in the extreme heat of summer aching eyes don't teach the people better we are still in fact uncivilized for all our knowledge of what is done in foreign parts cannot make us otherwise civilization must be homogeneous must be a natural growth this glistening white paint was long preferred because the most expensive justice in the West I understand they paint houses red to make them resemble the hideous red brick and the eye the spoiled my excitement the firs red or white to the stone color the Browns which would harmonize with other hues I should think the I could never be spoiled so far as to like these white palings these bars of glare amid the foliage are unbearable what color should they be an invisible green as in all civilized parts of the globe then your eye would rest on the shrubbery undisturbed your vaunted Italy has its palaces of white stucco and buildings of brick high but the stucco is by the atmosphere soon mellowed into cream color the brick into rich brown I have heard a connoisseur admire our own red brick in the afternoon Sun above all other colors there are some who delight too much in the stimulus of color to be judges of harmony of coloring it is often with the Italians no color is too keen for the eye of the Neapolitan he thinks with little riding hood there is no color like red I have seen one of the most beautiful new palaces paved with tiles of a brilliant red but this too is barbarism you are pleased to call it so because you make the English your arbiters and point of taste but I do not think they on your own principle are our proper models with their ever weeping skies and seven piled velvet of Verger they are no rule for us whose eyes are accustomed to the keen blue and brilliant clouds of our own realm and who see the earth wholly green scarce two months in the year no white is more glistening than our January snows no house here hurts my eye more than the fields of white weed will a fortnight hence true refinement of taste would bid the eye seek repose the more but even admitting what you say there is no harmony the architecture is borrowed from England why not the rest my friend surely these Piazza's and pipestem pillars are all American but the cottage to which they belong is English the inhabitants suffocating in small rooms and beneath sloping roofs because the house is too low to admit any circulation of air are in need we must admit of the Piazza for elsewhere they must suffer all the torments of Monsieur shall bear in his first experience of the oven but I do not assail the piazzas at any rate they are most desirable in these hot summers of ours were they but in proportion with the house and their pillars with one another but I do object to houses which are desirable neither as summer nor winter residences here the shingle palaces celebrated by Irving's wit were far more appropriate for they at least gave free course to the winds of heaven when the thermometer stood at 95 degrees in the shade pity that American wit nipped in the bud those early attempts at an American architecture here in the East last the cases become hopeless but in the West the log cabin still promises a proper basis you laugh at me but so it is I am not so silly as to insist upon American architecture American art in the 4th of July style merely for the gratification of national vanity but a building to be beautiful should harmonize exactly with the uses to which it is to be put and be an index to the climate and habits of the people there is no objection to borrowing good thoughts from other nations if we adopt to the new style because we find it will serve our convenience and not merely because it looks pretty outside with you as well as in manners and literature there is to ready access to the old spark and though I said it in jest my hope is in truth the log cabin this de settler will enlarge as his riches and family increase he will beautify as his character refines and as his eye becomes accustomed to observe objects around him for their loveliness as well as for their utility he will borrow from nature the forms and colouring most in harmony with the scene in which his dwelling is placed might growth here be but slow enough might not agree deenis for gain and show cheap man of all the real advantages of their experience here a carriage past who is that beautiful lady to whom you bowed at this distance and with the freshness which the open air gives to her complexion she certainly does look so and one so still five years ago when I knew her abroad it is mrs. V I remember with what interest you mentioned her in your letters and you promised to tell me her true story I was much interested then both in her and her story but last winter when I met her at the South is she an altered seemed so much less attractive than before but the bright colors of the picture are well nigh effaced the pleasure of telling the story will revive them again let us fasten our horses and go into this little wood there is a seat near the lake which is pretty enough to tell a story upon all the idols they were told in caves or beside a trickling fountain that was in the last century we will innovate let us begin that American originality we were talking about and make the bank of a lake answer our purpose we dismounted accordingly but on reaching the spot a glare on at first insisted on lying in the grass and gazing up at the clouds in a most unseen like fashion and it was some time before we could get the promised story at last I first saw mrs. V at the Opera in Vienna abroad I scarcely cared for anything in comparison with music in many respects the old world disappointed my hopes Society was in essentials no better nor worse than at home and I too easily saw through the varnish of conventional refinement Lions of sea near was scarcely more interesting than tamer cattle and much more annoying in their Gamble's and caprices parks and ornamental grounds pleased me less than their native forests and wide rolling rivers of my own lad but in the arts and most of all in music I found all my wishes more than realized I found the soul of man authoring itself with the swiftness the freedom and the beauty for which I had always pined Eisley conceived how foreigners once equated with this diverse language past their lives without a wish for pleasure or employment beyond hearing the great works of the Masters it seemed to me that here was wealth to feed the thoughts for ages this lady fixed my attention by the rapturous devotion with which she listened I saw that she too had here found her proper home every shade of thought and feeling expressed and the music was murdered in her beautiful countenance her rapture of attention during some passages was enough of itself to make you hold your breath and a sudden stroke of genius with her face into a very heaven with its lightning it seemed to me that in her I should find one who would truly sympathize with me one who looked on the art and not as a connoisseur but as a motor a I took the speediest opportunity of being introduced to her at her own house by a common friend but what a difference at home I scarcely knew her still she was beautiful but the sweetness the elevated expression which the satisfaction of an hour had given her were entirely fled her I was Restless her cheek pale and thin her whole expression perturbed and sorrowful every gesture spoke the sickliness of a spirit long and outcast from its natural home bereft of happiness and hopeless of good I perceived at first sight of her everyday face that it was not unknown to me three or four years earlier staying in the country house of one of her friends I had seen her picture the house was very dull as dull as Placid content with the mere material enjoyments of life and an inner gentle of nature could make its inhabitants they were people to be loved but loved without a thought their wings had never grown now their eyes coveted a wider prospect and could be seen from the parent nest the friendly visitant could not discompose them by a remark indicating any expansion of mind or life much as I enjoyed the beauty of the country around when out in the free air my hours within the house would have been dull enough but for the contemplation of this picture well the round of commonplace songs was going on in the wisp players were at their work I used to sit and wonder how this being so sovereign him the fire of her nature so proud in her untamed loveliness could ever have come their blood her eye from the canvas even seemed to annihilate all things low or little and able to command all creation in search of the object of its desires she had not found it though I felt this one seeing her now she the queenly woman the boy decía of forlorn hope as she seemed born to be the only woman whose face in my eye had ever given promise of a predicate II of nature sufficient for the entertainment of a poet's soul was I saw it at a glance a captive in her life and a beggar in her affections a dangerous object to the travelers I'm he thinks not to mine the picture had been so but seeing her now I felt that the glorious promise of her youthful prime had failed she had missed her course and the beauty whose charm to the imagination had been that it seemed invincible was now subdued and mixed with earth I can never comprehend the cruelty and your way of viewing human beings a glare on to air to suffer is there lot all who have feeling and energy of character must share it and I could not ensure a woman who at six-and-twenty born no truth of the past such women and such men are the Companions of everyday life but the angels of our thoughts are those molds of pure beauty which must break with a fall the common air must not touch them for they make their own atmosphere I admit that such or not for the tenderness of daily life their influence must be high distant star like to be pure such was this woman to me before I knew her one who splendid beauty drew on my thoughts to their future home in knowing her I lost the happiness I had enjoyed in knowing what she should have been at first disappointment was severe but I have learnt to pardon her as others who get mutilated or worn in life and show the Royal impress only in their virgin courage what this subject would detain me too long let me rather tell you of mrs. B's sad history a friend of mine has said that beautiful persons seem rarely born to their proper family but a midst person so rough and uncongenial at their presence commands like that of a reproving angel or pains like that of some poor Prince changed at nurse and bound for life to the Society of churls so it was Lily her father was sordid her mother weak persons of great wealth and greater selfishness she was the youngest by many years and left alone in her father's house notwithstanding the warrant of intelligent sympathy while she was growing up and the want of all intelligent culture she was not an unhappy child the unbounded and foolish indulgence with which she was treated did not have an obviously bad effect upon her then it did not make her selfish a sensual or vain her character was too powerful to dwell upon such boons as those nearest her could bestow she negligently received them all as her due it was later that the pernicious ketchup the absence of all discipline showed themselves but in early years she was happy in her lavish feelings and in beautiful nature on which you could pour them and in her own pursuits music was her passion in it she found food and an answer to feelings destined to become so fatal to her peace but which then glowed so sweetly in her youthful form as to enchant the most ordinary observer when she was not more than 15 and expanding like a flower in each sunny day it was her misfortune that her first husband saw and loved her Emily though pleased by his handsome person and gay manners never bestowed a serious thoughts on him if she had it would have been the first ever disengaged from her life of pleasurable sensation but when he did plead his cause with all the ardour of youth and the flourishes which have been of usage set apart for such occasions she listened with delight for all this talk of boundless love undying faith etc seemed her native tongue it was like the most glowing sunset sky it swelled upon the air like music I was the only way she ever wished to be addressed and she now saw plainly while all talk of everyday people had fallen unheeded on her ear she could have listened all day Mar 29 really heard he pressed his suit more seriously and talked of marriage she drew Bacchus punished Mary yet impossible she had never thought of it and as she thought now of marriages such as she had seen them there was nothing in marriage to attract but L was not so easily repelled he made her every promise of pleasure emmm as would to a child he would take her away to journey through seems more beautiful than she had ever dreamed of he would take her to a city where in the fairest home she should hear the finest music and he himself in every scene would be her devoted slave to happy for every new pleasure he received one of those smiles which had become his life he saw her yielding and hastened to secure her father was delighted as father's or strangely want to be that he was likely to be deprived his child his pet his pride the mother was threefold delighted that she would have a daughter married so young at least three years younger than any of her older sisters were married both lent their influence and Emily accustomed to rely on them against all peril and annoyance till she scarcely knew there was pain or evil in the world gave her consent as she would have given it to a pleasure party for a day or a week the marriage was hurried on L intent on gaining his object as made of strong will and no sentiment or want to be the parents thinking of the a claw of the match Emily was amused by the preparations for the festivity and full of excitement about the new chapter which was to be opened in her life yet so little idea had she of the true business of life and the importance of its ties that perhaps there was no figure in the future that occupied her less than that of her bridegroom a handsome man with a sweet voice her captain her adora she neither thought nor saw further lulled by the pictures of bliss and adventure which were floating before her fancy the more enchanting because so vague it was at this time that the picture that so charmed me was taken the excavated Rose had not yet opened its leaves so as to show its hard but it's fragrance and blushful pride were there in perfection poor Emily she had the promise to journeys the splendid home amid the former her mind opened by new scenes already learned that something she seemed to possess was wanting in the two constant companion of her days in the splendid home she received not only musicians but other visitants who taught her strange things for little months after leaving home her parents were astonished to receive a letter in which she told them they had parted with her too soon that she was not happy with mr. L as he had promised she should be and that she wished to have her marriage broken she urged her father to make haste about it as she had particular reasons for impatience you may easily conceive of the astonishment of the good folks at home the mother wonder didn't cried her father immediately ordered his horses and went to her he was received with a rapturous delight and almost at the first moment thankful his speedy compliance with her request but when she found that he had opposed her desire of having her marriage broken and when she urged him with vehemence and those marks of caressing parma she had been used to find all-powerful and he told her at last it could not be done she gave way to a paroxysm of passion she declared that she could not and would not live with mr. arrow that so soon as she saw anything of the world she saw many men that she infinitely preferred to him and that since her father and mother instead of guarding her so mere a child as she was so entirely inexperienced against a hasty choice had persuaded and urged her to it it was their duty to break the match when they found it did not make her happy my child you are entirely unreasonable it is not a time to be patient and I was too yielding before I am NOT seventeen is the happiness of my whole life to be sacrificed Emily you terrify me do you love anybody else not yet but I am sure shall find someone to love now I know what it is I have seen already many who might prefer to mr. L is he not kind to you kind yes but he is perfectly uninteresting I hate to be with him I do not wish his kindness nor to remain in his house in vain her father argued she insisted that she could never be happy if she was that it was impossible the law could be so cruel as to bind her to a bow she had taken when so mere a child and that she would go home with her father now and they would see what could be done she added that she had already told her husband her resolution and how did he bear it he was very angry but it is better for him to be angry once than unhappy always as I should certainly make him did I remain here after long and fruitless attempts to reason her into a different state of mind the father went in search of the husband he found him irritated and mortified he loved his wife in his way for her personal beauty he was very proud of her he was piqued to the last degree by her frankness he could not but acknowledge the truth of what she said that she had been persuaded into the match when what a child for she seemed very infant now in willfulness and ignorance of the world but I believe neither he nor her father had one compunctious misgiving as to their having profaned the holiness of marriage by such a union their minds had never been open to the true meaning of life and though they thought themselves so much wiser they were in truth much less so than the poor passionate Emily for her heart at least spoke clearly if her mind lay in darkness they could do nothing with her and her father was at length compelled to take her home hoping that her mother might be able to induce her to see things in a different light but father mother uncle's brothers all reasoned with her in vain totally unused to disappointment she could not for a long time believe that she was forever bound by a bond that sat on easily on her untamed spirit when at last convinced of the truth her despair was terrible am i his his forever must I never then love never marry one whom I could really love mother it is too cruel I cannot will not believe it you always wished me to belong to him you do not now wish to aid me or you are afraid oh you would not be so could you but know what I feel at last convinced she then declared that if she could not be legally separated from L but must consent to bear his name and never give herself another she would at least live with him no more she would not again leave her father's house here she was deaf to all argument and only force could have driven her away her indifference to L had become hatred in the course of these thoughts and conversations she regarded herself as his victim and him as her betrayer since she said he was old enough to know the importance of the step to which he led her her mind naturally noble though now in this wild state refused to admit his love as an excuse had he loved me she said he would have wished to teach me to love him before securing me as his property he is as selfish as he is Darland uninteresting no I will drag on my miserable years here alone but I will not pretend to love him nor gratify him by the sight of his slave a year and more passed and found the unhappy Emilie inflexible a husband at last sought employment abroad to hide his mortification after his departure Emilie relaxed once from the severe coldness she had shown since a return home she had passed her time there with her music in reading poetry and solitary walks but as the person who had been however unintentionally the means of making her so miserable was further removed from her she showed willingness to mingle again with the family and see one or two young friends one of these almería affected what all the armament of braying and threatening friends had been unable to do she devoted herself to Emily she shared her employments and her walks she sympathized with waller feelings even the morbid ones which she saw to be sincerity tenderness and delicacy gone astray perverted and soured by the foolish indulgence of her education and the severity of her destiny made known suddenly to a mind quite unprepared at last having won the confidence and esteem of Emily by the wise and gentle cheek her justice and clearer perceptions gave to all extravagance now Maria ventured on representing to Emily her conduct as the world saw it to this she found her quite insensible what is the world to me she said I am forbidden to seek there all it can offer a value to woman sympathy and a home it is full of beauty still said almería looking out into the golden and perfumed glories of a June day not to the prisoner and the slave said Emily all are such whom God hath not made free and almería gently ventured to explain the hopes of largest band which enable the soul that can soar upon their wings to disregard limitations of seventy years Emily listened with profound attention the words were familiar to her but the tone was not it was that which rises from the depths of a purified spirit purified by pain softened into peace have you made any use of these thoughts in your life almería the lovely preacher hesitated not to reveal a tale before unknown except to her own heart of woe renunciation and repeated blows from a hostile fate Emily heard it in silence but she understood the great illusions of youth vanished she did not suffer alone her lot was not peculiar another perhaps many were forbidden the Bliss of sympathy and a congenial environment and what had almería done revenged herself tormented all around her clung with wild passion to a selfish result door she had made the best of a wreck of life and deserved a blessing on a new voyage she had sought consolation in disinterested tenderness for her fellow sufferers and she deserved to cease to suffer the lesson was taken home and gradually leavened the whole being of this spoiled but naturally noble child a few weeks afterwards she asked her father when mr. L was expected to return in about three months he replied much surprised I should like to have you write to him for me what now what sir de T said the father who long mortified and harassed had ceased to be a fond father to his once adored Emily say that my views are unchanged as to his soliciting a marriage with me when too childish to know my own mind on that or any other subject but I have now seen enough of the world to know that he meant no ill if no good and was no more heedless in this great matter than many others are he is not born to know what one constituted like me must feel in a home where I found no rest for my heart I have now read seen and thought what has made me a woman I can be what you call reasonable there not perhaps in your way I see that my misfortune is irreparable I heed not the world's opinion and word for myself rather remain here and keep up no semblance of a connection which my matured mind disclaims but that scandalizes you and my mother and makes your house a scene of pain and mortification in your old age I know you too did not neglect the charge of me in your own eyes I owe you gratitude for your affectionate intentions at least l2 is as miserable as mortification can make one like him write and ask him if he wishes my presence in his house on my own terms he must not expect from me the affection or marks of affection of a wife I should never have been his wife had I waited till I understood life or myself but I will be his attentive and friendly companion the mistress of his house if he pleases to the world it will seem enough he will be more comfortable there and what he wished to be was in a great measure to show me to the world I saw that as soon as we were in it I could not give him happiness if I would for we have not a thought nor employment in common but if we can agree on the way we may live together without anyone being very miserable except myself and I have made up my mind the astonishment of the father may be conceived and his cattles ills also to cut the story short it was settled in Emily's way for she was one of the Sultana kind dread and dangerous l hardly wished her to love him now all for he hath hated her for all she had done yet he was glad to have her back that she had judged for the sake of appearances always smoothed over by a plausible story people indeed knew the truth as to the fair ones outrageous conduct perfectly but mr. L was rich his wife beautiful and gave good parties so society as such bowed and smiled while individuals scandalized the pair they had been living on this footing for several years when I saw Emily at the Opera she was a much altered being debarred of happiness in her affections she had turned for solace to the intellectual life and her naturally powerful and brilliant mind had matured into a splendor which had never been dreamed out by those who had seen her amid the freaks and daydreams of her early youth yet as I said before she was not captivating to me as her picture had been she was in a different way it's beautiful in feature and coloring as in her springtime her beauty all molded and mellowed by feeling was far more eloquent but it had none of the Virgin magnificence the untouched tropical luxuriance which had fired my fancy the fourth position in which she lived had shaded her expression with a painful restlessness and her I proclaimed that the conflicts of her mind had strengthened had deepened but had not yet hollowed her character she was however interesting deeply so one of those rare beings who fill your eye and every mood her passion for music and the great excellence she had attained as a performer drew us together I was her daily visitor body of my admiration ever softened into tenderness it was the tenderness of pity for her unsatisfied heart and cold false life but there was one who saw with very different eyes v had been intimate with Emily sometime before my arrival and every day saw him more deeply enameled and prey where was the husband all this time L had sought consolation in ambition he was a man of much practical dexterity but of little gaunt and less heart he had at first been jealous of Emily for his honors sake not for any reality for she treated him with great attention as to the comforts of daily life but otherwise with polite steady coldness finding that she received the court which many were disposed to pay her with grace and affability but at heart with Imperial indifference he ceased to disturb himself for as she rightly thought he was incapable of understanding her a Coquette he could have interpreted but a romantic character like hers borne for a grand passion or no love at all he could not nor did he see that v was likely to be more to her than any of her admirers I am afraid I should have shamed his obtuseness he has nothing to recommend him that I know of except his beauty and that is the beauty of a petty Metra effeminate without character and very unlikely I should judge to attract such a woman as you give me the idea of but have you never heard tales of youthful minstrels and pages being preferred by princesses in the land of chivalry two stalwart knights who were riding all over the land doing their devoir morris scars and spar nation and why one want of the woman's heart is to admire and be protected but another is to be understood in all her delicate feelings and have an object who shall know how to receive all the marks of her inventive and bounteous affection v is such a one a being of infinite grace and tenderness and an equal capacity for prising the same in another the feminine say you lovely rather and lovable he was not indeed made to grow old but I never saw a fairer springtime than Shawn in his eye when life and thought and love opened on him all together he was to Emily like the soft breathing of a flute in some solitary Valley indeed the delicacy of his nature made a solitude around him in the world so delicate was he and Emily for a long time so unconscious that nobody except myself divined how strong was the attraction which as it drew them nearer together invested both with a lustre and a sweetness which charmed all around them but I see the salm is declining and wants me to cut short a tale which would keep us here till dawn if I were to detail it as I should like to do in my own memories the progress of this affair interested me deeply for like all persons whose perceptions are more lively than their hopes I delight to live from day to day in the more ardent experiments of others I looked on with curiosity with sympathy with fear how could it end what would become of them unhappy lovers one to know only other too delicate ever to find happiness in a non-sanctioned to tie I had however no right to interfere and did not even buy a look until one evening when the occasion was forced upon me there was a summer fete given a tales I had mingled for a while with the guests and the brilliant apartments but the heat oppressed the conversation failed to interest an open window tempted me to the garden whose flowers and tufted lawns lay bare in moonlight I went out alone but the music of a superb and followed my steps and gave impulse to my thoughts a dreaming state pensive though not absolutely sorrowful came upon me one of those gentle moods when thoughts flow through the mind amber clear and soft noiseless because unimpeded I sat down in an arbor to enjoy it and probably stayed much longer than I could have imagined for when I reinterred the large saloon it was deserted the lights however were not extinguished and hearing voices in the inner room I supposed some guests still remained and as I had not spoken with Emily that evening I ventured in to bid her goodnight I started repentant on finding her alone with V and in a situation that announced their feelings to be no longer concealed from each other she leaning back on the sofa was weeping bitterly while V seated at her feet holding her hands within his own was pouring forth his passionate words with the fervency which prevented him from receiving my entrance but Emily perceived me at once and starting up motioned to me not to go as I had intended I obeyed and sat down no pause ensued awkward for me and for V who sat with his eyes cast down and blushing like a young girl detected in a burst of feeling long kept secret Emily sat buried in thought the tears yet undried upon her cheeks she was pale but nobly beautiful as I had never yet seen her after a few moments I broke the silence and and attempted to tell her why I had returned so late she interrupted me no matter a glare on how it happened whatever the chance it promises to give both V and myself what we greatly need a calm friend and advisor you are the only person among these crowds of men whom I could salt for I have read friendship in your eye and I know you have truth and honor he thinks of you as I do and he too is or should be glad to have some counselor beside his own wishes vie did not raise his eyes neither did he contradict her after a moment he said I believe our Quran to be as free from prejudice as any man and most true and honorable yet who can judge in this matter but ourselves no one shall judge said Emily but I want counsel God helped me I feel there is a right and wrong but how can my mind which has never been trained to discern between them be confident of its power at this important moment Hagler on what remains to me of happiness if anything do remain perhaps the hope of heaven if indeed there be a heaven he's at stake father and brother have failed their trust I have no friend able to understand why is enough to counsel me the only one whose words ever came true to my thoughts and of whom you have often reminded me is distant will you this hour take her place to the best of my ability I replied without hesitation struck by the dignity of her manner you know she said all my past history I'll do so here though they do not talk loudly of it you and all others have probably blamed me you know not you cannot guess the anguish the struggles of my childish mind when it first opens to the meaning of those words love marriage life when I was bound to mr. Al by a vow which from my heedless lips was mockery of all thought all holiness I had never known a duty I had never felt the pressure of a Thai life had been so far a sweet voluptuous dream and I thought of this seemingly so kind and amiable person as anew and devoted minister into me of its pleasures but I was scarcely in his power when I awoke I perceived the unfitness of the Thai its closeness revolted me I had no timidity I had always been accustomed to indulge my feelings and I displayed them now l irritated averted his mastery this drove me wild I soon hated him and despised to his insensibility to wall which I thought most beautiful from all his faults and the imperfection of our relation grew up in my mind the knowledge of what the true might be to me it is astonishing how the thought grew upon me day by day I had not been married more than three months before I knew what it would be to love and I longed to be free to do so I had never known what it was to be resisted and the thought never came to me that I could now and for all my life be bound by so early a mistake I thought only of expressing my resolve to be free Hara was repulsed how disappointed you know or could divine if you did not know for all but me have been trained to bear the burden from their youth up and accustomed to have the individual will fettered for the advantage of society for the same reason you cannot guess the silent fury that filled my mind when I at last found that I had struggled in vain and that I must remain in the bondage that I had ignorant ly put on my affections were totally alienated from my family for I felt they had known what I had not and neither put me on my guard nor warned me against precipitation whose consequences must be fatal I saw indeed that they did not look on life as I did and could be content without being happy but this observation was far from making me love them more I felt alone bitterly contemptuously alone I hated men who had made the laws that bound me I did not believe in God for why had he permitted the dart to enter so unprepared abreast I determined never to submit though I disdained to struggle since struggle was in vain impassive lonely wretchedness I would pass my days I would not feign what I did not feel nor take the hand which had poisoned for me the cup of life before I had sipped the first drops a friend the only one I have ever known taught me other thoughts she taught me that others perhaps all others were victims as much as myself she taught me that if all the rapt submitted to be drowned the world would be a desert she taught me to pay the others even those I myself was painting for she showed me that they had sinned in ignorance and that I had no right to make them suffer so long as I myself did merely because they were the authors of my suffering she showed me by her own pure example what were duty and benevolence and employment to the soul even when baffled and sickened in its dearest wishes that example was not wholly lost i freed my parents at least from their pain and without falsehood became less cruel and more calm yet the kindness the calmness have never gone deep I've been forced to live out of myself and life busy or idle is still most bitter to the homeless heart I cannot be like almería I am more ardent and a glare on you see now I might be happy she looked toward Vee I followed her eye and was well nigh melted tool by the beauty of his gaze the question in my mind is she resumed have I not a right to fly to leave this vacant life and a tie which but for worldly circumstances presses as heavily on Ellis of myself I shall mortify him but that is a trifle compared with actual misery I shall grieve my parents but were they truly such would they not grieve still more that I must reject the life of mutual love I have already sacrificed enough shall I sacrifice the happiness of one I could really bless for those who do not know one native heartbeat of my life vie kissed her hand oh and yet said she sighing it does not always look so we must in that case leave the world it will not tolerate us can I make Vee happy in solitude and what would I'll marry I think often it seems that she would feel that now I do love and could make a green spot in the desert of life over which she mourned she would rejoice to have me do so then again something whispers she might have objections to make and I wish how I longed to know them for I feel that this is the great crisis of my life and that if I do not act wisely now the I've thought and felt it will be unpardonable in my first error I was ignorant what I wished but now I know and ought not to be weak or deluded I said have you no religious scruples do you never think of your vow is sacred never she replied with flashing eyes shall the woman be bound by the folly of the child no I've never once considered myself as Elle's wife if I have lived in his house it was to make the best of what was left as I'll marry advised but what I feel he knows perfectly I had never deceived him but oh I hazard all all and should I be again ignorant again deceived vhere poured forth all what can be imagined I rose Emily this case seems to me so extraordinary that I must have time to think you shall hear from me I shall certainly give you my best advice and I trust you will not over value it I am sure she said it will be of use to me and will enable me to decide what I shall do V now go away with a glare on it is too late for you to stay here I do not know if I have made obvious in this account what struck me most in the interview a certain savage force in the character of this beautiful woman quite independent of the reasoning power I saw that as she could give no account of the past except that she saw it was fit and so it was not so she must be dealt with now by a strong installment made by another from his own point of view which she would accept or not as suited her there are some characters which like plants stretch upwards to the light they accept what nourishes they reject what injures them they die of wounded blossom if fortunate but never learned to analyze all this or find its reasons but if they tell their story it is in Emily's way it was so I found it so I talked with V and found him as I expected not the peer of her he loved except in law his passion was at its height better acquainted with the world than Emily not because he had seen it more but because he had the elements of the citizen in him he had been at first equally emboldened and surprised by the ease with which he won her to listen to his suit but he was soon still more surprised to find that she would only listen she had no regard for her position in society as a married woman none for her bow she frankly confessed her love so far as it went but doubted as to whether it was her whole love and doubted still more her right to leave Elle since she had returned to him and could not break the bond so entirely as to give them firm foothold in the world I may make you unhappy she said and then be unhappy myself these laws this society are so strange I can make nothing of them in music I am at home why is not all life music we instantly know when we are going wrong there convinced me it is for the best and I will go with you at once but now it seems wrong unwise scarcely better than to stay as we are we must go secretly must live obscurely in a corner that I cannot bear all is wrong yet why am I not at liberty to declare unblushing lee to all men that I will leave the man whom I do not love and go with him I do love that is the only way that would suit me I cannot see clearly to take any other course I found v had no scruples of conscience any more than herself he was wholly absorbed in his passion and his only wish was to persuade her to elope that a divorce might follow and she be all his own I took my part I wrote next day to Emily I told her that my view must differ from hers in this that I had from early impressions of feeling of the sanctity of the marriage vow it was not to me a measure intended merely to ensure the happiness of two individuals but a solemn obligation which whether it led to happiness or not was a means of bringing home to the MA the great idea of duty the understanding of which and not happiness seemed to be the end of life life looked not clear to me otherwise I entreated her to separate herself from V for a year before doing anything decisive she could then look at the subject from other points of view and see the bearing on mankind as well as on herself alone if she still found that happiness and V were chief objects she might be more sure of herself after such a trial I was careful not to add one word of persuasion or exhortation except that I recommended her to the enlightening load of the father of our spirits with or without persuasion your advice had small chance I fear of being followed yu'er next day V departed Emily with a calm brow and earnest eyes devoted herself to thought and such reading as I suggested and the result I grieve not to be able to point my tail with the expected moral though perhaps the true day no ma may lead to one as valuable l died within the year and she married V and the result is for the present utter disappointment in him she was infinitely blessed for a time in his devotion but presently her strong nature found him too much hers and too little his own he satisfied her as little as L had done though all was lovely and dear she saw with keen anguish although this time without bitterness that we are never wise enough to be sure any measure will fulfil our expectations but I know not how it is Emily does not yet command the changes of destiny which she feels so keenly and faces so boldly born to be happy only in the clear light of religious thought she still seeks happiness elsewhere she is now a mother and all other thoughts are merged in that but she will not long be permitted to abide there one more pang and I look to see her find her central point from which all the past she has taken lead she loves truth so ardently though as yet only in detail that she will yet know truth as a whole she will see that she does not live for Emily or for V or for her child but as one link in a divine purpose a large nature must at last serve knowingly I cannot understand you AG Lauren I do not guess the scope of your story nor sympathise with your feeling about this lady she is a strange and I think very unattractive person I think her beauty must have fascinated you her character seems very inconsistent because I have drawn from life but surely there should be a harmony somewhere could we what get the right point of view and where is that he pointed to the Sun just sinking behind the Pine Grove we mounted and rode home without a word more but I do not understand dog Lauren yet nor what he expects from this Emily yet her character though almost featureless at first gains distinctness as I think of it more perhaps in this life I shall find its key end of section 13 section 14 of woman in the 19th century 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 elizabeth klett woman in the 19th century and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of women by Margaret Fuller section fourteen the wrongs of American women the duty of American women the same day brought us a copy of mr. Burdette's little book in which the sufferings and difficulties that beset the large class of women who must earn their subsistence in a city like New York are delineated with so much simplicity feeling and exact adherence to the facts and a printed circular containing proposals for immediate practical adoption of the plan were fully described in a book published some weeks since under the title the duty of American women to their country which was ascribed alternately to mrs. Stowe and miss Katherine Beecher the two matters seemed linked to one another by natural parity full acquaintance with the wrong must call forth all manner of inventions for its redress the circular in showing the vast want that already exists of good means for instructing the children of this nation especially in the West states also the belief that among women as being less immersed in other cares and toils from the preparation it gives for their task as mothers and from the necessity in which a great proportion stand of earning a subsistence somehow at least during the years which precede marriage if they do marry must the number of teachers wanted be found which is estimated already at 60,000 we cordially sympathize with these views much has been written about women's keeping within her sphere which is defined as the domestic sphere as a little girl she is to learn the lighter family duties while she acquires that limited acquaintance with the realm of literature and science that will enable her to superintend the instruction of children in their earliest years it is not generally proposed that she should be sufficiently did and developed to understand the pursuits or aims of her future husband she's not to be a helpmeet to him in the way of companionship and counsel except in the care of his house and children her youth is to be passed partly in learning to keep house and the use of the needle partly in the social circle where her manners may be formed ornamental accomplishments perfected and displayed and the husband found who shall give her the domestic sphere for which she is exclusively to be prepared were the destiny of woman thus exactly marked out did she invariably retain the shelter of a parents or a Guardians roof till she married did marriage give her a shore home and protect her were she never liable to remain a widow or if so sure of finding immediate protection from a brother or new husband so that she might never be forced to stand alone one moment and were her mind given for this world only with no faculties capable of eternal growth and infinite improvement we would still demand for her a wider and more generous culture than is proposed by those who so anxiously define her sphere we would demand it that she might not ignorant Lee or frivolously thwart the designs of her husband that she might be the respected friend of her sons not less than of her daughters that she might give more refinement elevation and attraction to the society which is needed to give the characters of men polish and plasticity no less so than to save them from vicious and sensual habits but the most fastidious critic on the departure of woman from her sphere can scarcely fail to see at present that a vast proportion of the sacks if not the better half do not cannot have this domestic sphere thousands and scores of thousands in this country no less than in Europe are obliged to maintain themselves alone for greater numbers divided with their husbands the care of earning a support for the family in England now the progress of society has reached so admirable a pitch that the position of the sexes is frequently reversed and the husband is obliged to stay at home and mind the house and barons while the wife goes forth to the employment she alone can secure we readily admit that the picture of this is most painful that nature made an entire the opposite distribution of functions between the sexes we believe the natural order to be the best and that if it could be followed in an enlightened spirit it would bring to woman all she wants no less for her immortal than her mortal destiny we are not surprised that men who do not look deeply and carefully at causes and tendencies should be led by discussed at the hardened hackneyed characters which the present state of things too often produces in women to such conclusions as they are we know more than they delight in the picture of the poor woman digging in the mines and her husband's clothes we know more than they delight to hear their voices shrilly raised in the marketplace whether of apples or of celebrity but we see that at present they must do as they do for bread hundreds and thousands must step out of that hallowed domestic sphere with no choice but to work or steal or belong to men not as wives but as the wretched slaves of sensuality and this transitions state with all its revolting features indicates we do believe an approach of a nobler era than the world has yet known we trust that by the stress and emergencies of the present and coming time the minds of women will be formed two more reflection and higher purposes than heretofore their latent powers developed their characters strengthened and eventually beautified and harmonized should the state of society then be such that each may remain as nature seems to have intended woman the tutelary genius of home while man manages the outdoor business of life both may be done with a wisdom a mutual understanding and respect unknown at present men will be no less gainers by this than women finding in pure and more religious marriages the joys of friendship and love combined in their mothers and daughters better instruction sweeter and nobler companionship and in society at large an excitement to their finer powers and feelings unknown at present except in the region of the Fine Arts blessed be the generous the wise who seek to forward hopes like these instead of struggling against the Fiat of Providence and the March of fate to bind down rushing life to the standard the past such efforts are vain but those who make them are unhappy and unwise it is not however two such that we address ourselves but to those who seek to make the best of things as they are while they also strive to make them better such persons will have seen enough of the state of things in London Paris New York and manufacturing regions everywhere to feel that there is an imperative necessity for opening more avenues of employment to women and fitting them better to enter them rather than keeping them back women have invaded many of the trades and some of the professions sewing to the present killing extent they cannot long bare factories seem likely to afford them permanent employment in the culture of fruit flowers and vegetables even in the sale of them we rejoiced to see them engaged in domestic service they will be aided but can never be supplanted by machinery as much room as there is here for woman's mind and woman's labour will always be felled a few have usurped the martial province but these must always be few the nature of woman is opposed to war it is natural enough to see female positions and we believe that the lace cap and work bag are as much at home here as the wig and gold-headed cane in the priesthood they have from all time shared more or less in many eras more than at the present we believe that there has been no female lawyer and probably will be none the pen many of the fine arts they have made their own and in the more refined countries of the world as writers musicians painters actors women occupy as advantageous ground as men writing and music may be esteemed professions for them more than any other but there are two others where the demand must invariably be immense and for which they are naturally better fitted than men for which we should like to see them better prepared and better rewarded than they are these are the professions of nurse to the sick and of the teacher the first of these professions we have warmly desired to see dignified it is a noble one now most unjustly regarded in the light of menial service it is one which no menial no servile nature can fitly occupy we are rejoiced when an intelligent lady of Massachusetts made the refined heroine of a little romance select this calling this lady mrs. George Lee has looked on society with unusual largeness of spirit and healthiness of temper she is well acquainted with the world of conventions but sees beneath it the world of nature she is a generous writer and unpretending as the generous are wont to be we do not recall the name of the tale but the circumstance above-mentioned marks it's temper we hope to see the time when the refined and cultivated will choose this profession and learn it not only through experience and under the direction of the doctor but by acquainting themselves with the laws of matter and of mind so that all they do shall be intelligently done and afford them the means of developing intelligence as well as the nobler tenderer feelings of humanity for even this last part of the benefits they cannot receive if their work be done in a selfish or mercenary spirit the other profession is that of teacher for which women are peculiarly adapted by their nature superiority in tact quickness of sympathy gentleness patience and a clear and animated manner in narration or description to form a good teacher should be added to this sincere modesty combined with firmness liberal views with a power and will to liberalize them still further a good method and habits of exact and thorough investigation in the two last requisites women are generally deficient but there are now many shining examples to prove that if they are a methodical and superficial as teachers it is because it is the custom so to teach them and that when aware of these faults they can and will correct them the profession is of itself an excellent one for the improvement of the teacher during that interim between youth and maturity when the mind needs testing tempering and to review and rearrange the knowledge it has acquired the natural method of doing this for oneself is to attempt teaching others those years also are the best of the practical teacher the teacher should be near the pupil both in years and feelings no Oracle but the eldest brother or sister of the pupil more experience into the lecture and director of studies but injure the powers ask too familiar teaching these are just the years of leisure in the lives even of those women who are to enter the domestic sphere and this calling most of all compatible with a constant progress as to qualifications for that viewing the matter thus it may well be seen that we should hail with joy the assurance that sixty thousand female teachers are wanted and more likely to be and that a plan is projected which looks wise liberal and generous to afford the means to those whose hearts answer to this high calling of obeying their dictates the plan is to have Cincinnati as a central point where teachers shall be for a short time received examined and prepared for their duties by mutual agreement and cooperation of the various EPS funds are to be raised and teachers provided according to the wants and tendencies of the various locations now destitute what is to be done for them centrally is for suitable persons to examine into the various kinds of fitness communicate some general views whose value has been tested and counsel adapted to the difficulties and advantages of their new positions the Central Committee are to have the charge of raising funds and finding teachers and places where teachers are wanted the passage of thoughts teachers and funds will be from east to west the course of sunlight upon this earth the plan is offered as the most extensive and pliant means of doing a good and preventing ale to this nation by means of a national education whose Normal School shall have an invariable object in the search after truth and the diffusion of the means of knowledge while its form shall be plastic according to the wants of the time this Normal School promises to have good effects for it proposes worthy aims through simple means and the motive for its formation and support seems to be disinterested philanthropy it promises to eschew the bitter spirit of sectarianism and proselytism else we for one party could have nothing to do with it men no doubt have oftentimes been kept from absolute famine by the wheat with which such tears are mingled but we believe the time has come when a pure and more generous food is to be offered to the people at large we believe the aim of education to be to rouse the mind to action show it the means of discipline and information then leave it free with God conscience and the love of truth for its Guardians and teachers woe be to those who sacrifice these aims of universal and eternal value to the propagation of a set of opinions we can accept such doctrine as it is offered by Reverend Calvin east oh one of the committee in the following passage in judicious practice I am persuaded there will seldom be any great difficulty especially if there be excited in the community anything like a wholehearted and enlightened sincerity in the cause of public instruction it is all right for people to suit their own tastes and convictions and respect to set and by fair means and at proper times to teach their children and those under their influence to prefer the denominations which they prefer but further than this no one has any right to go it is all wrong to hazard the well-being of the soul to jeopardize great public interests for the sake of advancing the interests of a sect people must learn to practice some self-denial on Christian principles in respect to their denominational prejudices as well as in respect to other things before pure religion can ever gain a complete victory over every form of human selfishness the persons who propose themselves to the examination and instruction of the teachers at Cincinnati till the plan shall be sufficiently underway to provide regularly for the office our mrs. Stowe and miss Katherine Beecher ladies well-known to fame as possessing unusual qualifications for the task as to finding abundance of teachers who that reads this little book of mr. Burdette's or the account of the compensation of female labor in New York and the hopeless comfortless useless pernicious lives of those who have even the advantage of getting work must lead with the sufferings and almost inevitable degradation to which those who cannot are exposed but must long to snatch such as are capable of this better profession and among the multitude there must be many who are or could be made so from their present toils and make them free and the means of freedom and growth in others too many books on such subjects among others to woman in the 19th century the objection has been made that they exhibit ills with specifying any practical means for their remedy the writer of the last-named essay does indeed think that it contains one great rule which if laid to heart would prove a practical remedy for many ills and of such daily and hourly efficacy in the conduct of life that any extensive observance of it for a single year would perceptibly raise the tone of thought feeling and conduct throughout the civilized world but those who ask not only such a principle but an external method for immediate use we say that here is one proposed which looks noble and promising the proposers offer themselves to the work with heart and hand with time and purse go ye and do likewise end of section 14 section 15 of women in nineteenth-century 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 April Gonzales for me the 19th century and concha papers relating to spare condition and shooter's of women they Margaret Fuller section 15 George Sam Banaras no George Sand a thought to have found tried experiment a warranted I did not value between so much sure not pride enough for me only now when I'm sure of myself can I pour out my soul defeat of another now those shorts oldest King Lear prodigality in on which cannot forbear dismally babyhood I love abandon only were nature's a capable of extreme reverse i knowbut een wouldn't in nothing when I read her Burke I knew she could not us live hello within lay said Coeur de la la which I read first I said a knowledge of the passion the social institutions with a celestial Shore who rose above them our love Helene who could hairs they roll the tree invoices they keeper I fix in a star's habitable zone Genoa all and then choose I even referred her but I was not sure that I could have resisted they called her now could have left a spreading gone to God and it's a more ambitious age haiku not have refused you philosopher but I have much to say fastness and I thought I heard the last chains of purified life Gretchen in the golden cloud is raised above the past illusions birth a true demon a bear the wise man has stumbled into the pit of error for searching for truth still in andrean jock I traced the same high morality of one of her tried the liberty of circumstance only to learn to appreciate a Liberty of law to know that lies in to defer freedom and though the sophistry of passion in this books disgusted me flowers have purists who seem too eager upon a dark and dirty ground I saw she had cast aside a slower for past life undergone an egg system beneath the Sun of a new ideal but her in the letters doom Voyager what do I see an unfortunate railing her loneliness railing her mistakes writing for money she has genius and a man the aggressor for mine but not a manly heart will never be a being to combine a man's mind that a woman's heart and who yet finds like to reach to be over never when I read Leon Leon E is that counter Gerald's daughter's life with her mother past interesting and learning to be look at renter s iveco in front impossible it reminded me of and her mother with a heroine she would be for son she has two same fella softness to Juliet in a sportive naive at the makeshift bad and kitten I known to joopa flee oniy if I were a man and the sure wife as many do Mel as an ornament a silken toy I would take as in as any I know her fantastic in passion and mutable nature word yield an exhaustible amusement she is capable of demos romantic actions wildest Falcon full of cheers as a true Burroughs yet she is not in her elements of romance like a deeper alert acceptable nature my cold and reasoning for the who warned love lying perhaps never to be unfolded beneath that sheets of pride in reserve would make a far better heroine and then mother differ for insurer than her mother buddy impose a single strong character gave them even at this distance a tie and there is a light but perceptible tails of iron into water George Sanders appoints me as almost all beings true specialist since I have been brought close to a person but the latest June Voyager her remarks on love attest seem really shallow al amor de genere feminine yourself ruling us facie she with a frail woman mourning over her lot any peculiar eighteen and destiny seems accidental she is false to DeSantis out to earn her breath for soos yet his child without a deeply smoldering fires it burns not vehement but intense like jean-jacques and of section fifteen recording by April Gonzales and Kavita Philippines section sixteen of woman in the nineteenth century 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 elizabeth klett woman in the 19th century and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of women by Margaret Fuller section 16 from a notice of George saundh it is probably known to a great proportion of readers that this writer is a woman who writes under the name and frequently assumes the dress and manners of a man it is also known that she has not only broken the marriage bond and since that formed other connections independent of the civil and ecclesiastical sanction but that she first rose and to notice through works which systematically assailed the present institution of marriage and the social bonds which are connected with it no facts are more adapted to startle every feeling of our community but since the works of saundh are read here not withstanding and cannot fail to be so while they exert so important and influence abroad it would be well that they should be read intelligently as to the circumstances of their birth and their tendency George saundh we esteemed to be a person of strong passions but of original nobleness and a love of right sufficient to guide them all to the service of worthy aims but she fell upon evil times she was given in marriage according to the fashion of the old regime she was taken from a convent where she had heard a great deal about the law of God and the example of Jesus into a society where no vice was proscribed if it would only wear the cloak of hypocrisy she found herself impatient of deception and loudly appealed to by passion she yielded but she could not do so as others did sinning against what she owned to be the rule of right and the will of heaven she protested she examined she hacked into the roots of things and the bold sound of her axe called around her every foe that finds a home amid the growths of civilization still she persisted if it be real thought she it cannot be destroyed as to what is false the sooner it goes the better and I for one would rather perish by its fall than wither in its shade Schiller puts into the mouth of Mary Stewart these words as her only plea the world knows the worst of me and I may boast that though I have erred I am better than my reputation Saund may say the same all is open noble the free descriptions the sophistry of passion are at least redeemed by a desire for truth as strong as ever beat in any heart to the week or unthinking the reading of such books may not be desirable for only those who take exercise as men can digest strong meat but to anyone able to understand the position and circumstances we believe this reading cannot fail of bringing good impulses valuable suggestions and it is quite free from that subtle miasma which taints so large a portion of French literature not less since the Revolution than before this we say to the foreign reader to her own country so as a boon precious and prized both as a warning and a leader for which none there can be ungrateful she is dared to probe it's festering wounds and if they be not past all surgery she is one who most of any helps towards a cure would indeed the surgeon had come with quite clean hands a woman of Psalms genius as free as bold and pure from even the suspicion of error might have filled an apostolic station among her people with what force had come her cry if it be false give it up but if it be true keep to it one or the other but we have read all we wished to say upon this subject lately utter just from the quarter we could wish it is such a woman so unblemished and character so high in aim so pure in soul that should address this other as noble in nature but clouded by error and struggling with circumstances it is such women that will do others such justice they are not afraid to look for virtue and reply to aspiration among those who have not dwelt in decencies forever it is a source of pride and happiness to read this address from the heart of Elizabeth Barrett toujours saundh a desire they'll large-brained woman and large hearted man self called George saundh whose soul amid the lions of thy tumultuous senses moans defiance and answers roar for roar as spirits can I would some wild miraculous Thunder ran above the applauding circus in appliance of thy no nobler nature's strength and science drawing to pinions white as wings of Swan from the strong shoulders to amaze the place with holier light that thou to woman's claim and man's might join beside the angels grace of a pure genius sanctified from blame till child and maiden pressed to thine embrace to kiss upon thy lips a stainless Fame to the same a recognition true genius but true woman dust deny thy woman's nature with manly scorn and break away the gods and armlets worn by weaker woman in captivity Ave nun aisle that revolted cry is sobbed in by a woman's voice forlorn by woman's hair my sister all unshorn floats back to shovelled strength in agony disproving thy man's name and while before the world thou burnished in a poet fire we see thy woman heart beat evermore through the large flame beats pure heart and higher till God unsexy on one spirit Shore to which alone unsexy pearly aspire this last sonnet seems to have been written after seeing the picture of Saund which represents her in a man's dress but with long loose hair and an eye whose mournful fire is impressive even in the caricatures for some years Saund has quitted her post of assailant she has seen that it is better to seek some form of life worthy to supersede the old then rudely to destroy it heedless of the future her force is bending towards philanthropic measures she does not appear to possess much of the constructive faculty and though her writings command to greats pecuniary compensation and have a wide sway it is rather for their tendency than for their thought she has reached no commanding point of view from which she may give orders to the advanced Corps she is still at work with others in the breach though she works with more force than almost any in power indeed Saund bears the palm above all other french novelists she is vigorous and concepcion often great in the apprehension and the contrast of characters she knows passion as has been hinted at a white heat when all the lower particles are remoted by its power her descriptive talent is very great and her poetic feeling exquisite she wants but little of being a poet but that little is indispensable yet she keeps his always hovering on the borders of enchanted fields she has to a signal degree that power of exact transcript from her own mind in which almost all writers fail there is no veil no half plastic integument and the thought we vibrate perfectly with it this is her chief charm and next to it is one in which we know no French writer that resembles her except Rousseau though he indeed is vastly her superior in it that of concentrated glow her nature glows beneath the words like fire beneath ashes deep deep her best works are unequal in many parts written hastily or carelessly or with flagging spirits they all promise far more than they can perform the work is not done masterly she has not reached that point where a writer sits at the helm of his own genius sometimes she plies the or sometimes she drifts but what greatness she has is genuine there is no tinsel of any kind no drapery carefully adjusted no chosen gesture about her may heaven lead her at last to the full possession of her best self in harmony with the higher laws of life we are not acquainted with all her works but among those we know mention la Ruche mopar Andre Jacques Lissette Coeur de la leer and laymen ramos east as representing her higher inspirations her sincerity and expression and her dramatic powers they are full of faults still they show her scope and aim with some fairness which such of her readers as chance first on such a per book says Leona Leonie may fail to find or even such as Simon and spirit in' though into the perfect web of these are woven threads of pure gold such is the first impression made by the girl Fiamma so noble as she appears before us with the words Eleanor II such the thought in spyridon of making the apparition the reward of virtue the work she is now publishing Consuelo with its sequel Baroness to rudl shot exhibits her genius poised on a firmer pedestal breathing a serene or air still it is faulty in conduct and shows some obliquity of vision she has not reached the interpreters house yet but when she does she will have clues to guide many a pilgrim whom one less tried less tempted than herself could not help on the way end of section 16 section 17 of woman in the 19th century 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 elizabeth klett woman in the 19th century and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of women by Margaret Fuller section 17 from a criticism on Consuelo the work itself cannot fail of innumerable readers and a great influence for it counts many of the most significant pulse beats of the tune apart from its range of character and fine descriptions it records some of the mystical apparitions and attempts to solve some of the problems of the time how to combine the benefits of the religious life with those of the artists life in an existence more simple more full more human and short than either of the two hitherto known by these names has been this problem is but poorly solved in the Countess of ruder shot the sequel to Consuelo it is true as the English reviewer says that George saundh is a far better poet than philosopher and that the chief youth she can be in these matters is by her great range of observation and fine intuitions to help to develop the thoughts of the time a little way further but the sincerity the reality of all he can obtain from this writer will be highly valued by the earnest man in one respect the book is entirely successful in showing how inward purity and honor may preserve a woman from bewilderment and danger and secure her a genuine independence whoever aims at this is still considered by unthinking or prejudiced minds as wishing to despoil the female character of its natural and peculiar loveliness it is supposed that delicacy must imply weakness and that only in Amazon can stand upright and have sufficient command of her faculties to confront the shock of adversity or resist the allure ments of tenderness miss Bremer Duma and the northern novelist Andersen make women who have a tendency to the intellectual life of an artist fail and suffer the penalties of arrogant presumption in the very first steps of a career to which an inward vocation called them in preference to the usual home duties yes nothing is more obvious than that the circumstances of the time do more and more frequently call women to such lives and that if guardianship is absolutely necessary to women many must perish for want of it there is then reason to hope that God may be sufficient Guardian to those who dare rely on him and if the heroines of the novelists we have named ended as they did it was for the want of the purity of ambition and simplicity of character which do not permit such as Consuelo to be either unseated and depraved or unresisting victims and breaking reeds if left alone in the storm and crowd of life too many women this picture will prove a true Consuelo consolation and we think even very prejudiced men will not read it without being charmed with the expansion sweetness and genuine force of a female character such as they have not met but must when painted recognize as possible has maybe led to review their opinions and perhaps to elevate and enlarge their hopes as to women's sphere and womans mission if such insist on what they have heard of the private life of this writer and refused to believe that any good thing can come out of Nazareth we reply that we do not know the true facts as to the history of George Saund there has been no memoir or notice of her published on which anyone can rely and we have seen too much of life to accept the monsters of gossip in reference to anyone but we know through her works that whatever the stains on her life and reputation may have been there is in her a soul so capable of goodness and honor as to depict them most successfully in her ideal forms it is her works and not her private life that we are considering of her works we have a means of judging of herself not but among those who have passed unblameable nosov purpose and feeling a sincere religious hope to be compared with the spirit that breathes through the pages of Consuelo the experiences of the artists life the grand and penetrating remarks upon music make the book a precious acquisition to all whose hearts are fashioned to understand such things we suppose that we receive here not only the mind of the writer but of list with whom she is publicly corresponded in the letter Adan Voyager none could more avail us for in him also as a spark of the divine fire as Beethoven said of Schubert we may thus consider that what we have in this book is the benefit of the most electric nature the finest sensibility and the boldest spirit of Investigation combined expressing themselves in a little world of beautiful or picturesque forms although there are grave problems discussed and sad and searching experiences described in this work yet it's spirit is in the main hopeful serene almost glad it is the spirit inspired from a near acquaintance with the higher life of art seeing there something really achieved and completed corresponding with the souls desires faith is enlivened as to the eventual fulfillment of those desires and reveal a certainty that the existence which looks at present so marred and so fragmentary shall yet end in harmony the shuttle is at work and the threads are gradually added that shall bring out the pattern and prove that what seems at present confusion is really the way and means to order and beauty end of section 17 section 18 of woman in the 19th century 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 elizabeth klett woman in the 19th century and kindred papers relating to the sphere condition and duties of women by Margaret Fuller section 18 jenny lind the consuelo of george Saund jenny lind the prima donna of stockholm is among the most dignified of those geniuses who have been invited to welcome the Queen to Germany her name has been unknown among us as she is still young and has not wandered much from the scene of her first triumph but many may have seen last winter in the foreign papers an account of her entrance into Stockholm after an absence of some length the people received her with loud cries of homage took the horses from her carriage and drew her home a tribute of respect often paid to conquerors and statesmen but seldom or as far as we know never to the priesthood of the muses who have conferred the higher benefit of raising refining and exhilarating the popular mind an accomplished Swede now in this country communicated to a friend particulars of Jenny Linds career which suggested the thought that she might have given the hint for the principle figure in Sam's late famous novel Consuelo this work is at present in process of translation in the Harbinger a periodical published at Brook Farm Massachusetts but as this translation has proceeded but a little way and the book in its native tongue is not generally though it has been extensively circulated here we will give a slight sketch of its plan it has been a work of deepest interest to those who have looked upon Saund for some years back has one of the best exponents of the difficulties the errors the aspirations the weaknesses and the regenerative powers of the present epoch the struggle in her mind and the experiments of her life have been laid bare to the eyes of her fellow creatures with fearless openness fearless not shameless let no man confound the bold unreserve of saundh with that of those who have lost the feeling of beauty and the love of good with a bleeding heart and bewildered feet she sought the truth and if she lost the way returned as soon as convinced she had done so but she would never hide the fact that she had lost it what God knows I dare a vow to man seems to be her motto it is impossible not to see in her not only the distress and doubts of the intellect but the temptations of a sensual nature but we see to the courage of a hero and a deep capacity for religion this mixed nature to fits her peculiarly to speak to men so diseased as men are at present they feel she knows their ailment and if she finds a cure it will really be by a specific remedy an upward tendency and growing light are observable in all her works for several years past till now in the present she has expressed such conclusions as 40 years of the most varied experience have brought to one who had shrunk from no kind of discipline yet still cried to God amid it all one who whatever you may say against her you must feel has never accepted a word for a thing or warned one moment the veil of hypocrisy and this person one of the most powerful nature as to both passion and action and of an ardent glowing genius these conclusions are sadly incomplete there is an amazing alloy in the last product of her crucible but there is also so much of pure gold that the book is truly a cordial as its name of Consuelo consolation promises the young Consuelo lives as child the life of a beggar her youth is passed in the lowest circumstances of the streets of Venice she brings the more pertinacious fire of Spanish blood to be fostered by the cheerful airs of Italy a vague sense of the benefits to be derived from such mingling of various influences in the formation of a character is to be discerned in several works of art now when men are really wishing to become citizens of the world though old habits still interfere on every side with so noble a development nothing can be more charming than the first volume which describes the young girl amid the common life of Venice it is sunny open and romantic as the place the beauty of her voice when a little singing girl in the streets arrested the attention of a really great and severe master porpora who educated her to music in this she finds the vent and the echo for her higher self her affections are fixed on a young companion and unworthy object but she does not know him to be so she judges from her own candid soul that all must be good and derives from the tie for a while the fostering influences which love alone has for genius clear perception follows quickly upon her first triumphs in art they have given her a rival and a mean rival in her betrothed whose talent though great is of an inferior greige to hers who is vain every way impure her master port fora tries to avail himself of this disappointment to convince her that the artist ought to devote himself to art alone that private ties must interfere with his perfection and his glory but the nature of Consuelo revolts against this doctrine as it would against the seclusion of a convent she feels that genius requires manifold experience for its development and that the mind concentrated on a single object is likely to pay by a loss of vital energy for the economy of thoughts and time driven by these circumstances into Germany she is brought into contact with the old noblesse a very different but far less charming atmosphere than that of the gondoliers of Venice but here too the strong simple character of our Consuelo is unconstrained if not at home and when her heart swells and needs expansion she can sing here the counter rudl Stott Albert loves Consuelo which seems in the conduct of the relation a type of a religious democracy in love with the spirit of art we do not mean that any such cold abstraction is consciously intended but all that is said means this it shadows forth one of the greatest desires which convulse our age a noble meaning is couched in the history of Albert and though the writer breaks down under such great attempts and the religion and philosophy of the book are clumsily embodied and compared with its policy and rhetoric yet great and still growing thoughts are expressed with sufficient force to make the book a companion of rare value to one in the same phase of mind Albert is the aristocratic Democrat such as Alfieri was one who in his keen perception of beauty shares the good of that culture which ages have bestowed on the more fortunate classes but in his large heart loves and longs for the good of all men as if he had himself suffered in the lowest pits of human misery he is all this and more in his transmigration real or fancied of soul through many forms of heroic effort and bloody error in his incompetency to act at the present time his need of long silences of the company of the Dead and of fools and eventually of a separation from all habitual ties is expressed a great idea which is still only in the throes of birth yet the nature of whose life we begin to prognosticate with some clearness consuelo's escape from the castle and even from Albert her admiration of him and her incapacity to love him till her own character be more advanced are told with great naturalness her travels with yosef Hyden are again as charmingly told as the Venetian life here the author speaks from her habitual existence and far more masterly than of those deep places of thought where she is less at home she has lived much discerned much felt great need of great thoughts but has not been able to think a great way for herself she fearlessly accompanies the spirit of the age but she never surpasses it that is the office of the great thinker at Vienna Consuelo is brought fully into connection with the great world as an artist she finds that its realities so far from being less are even more harsh and sordid for the artist than for any other and that with avarice Envy and falsehood she must prepare for the fearful combat which awaits noble souls in any kind of arena but the pain of disgust when they cannot raise themselves to patience with the almost equal pain when they can of pity for those who know not what they do Albert is on the verge of the grave and Consuelo who not being able to feel for him sufficient love to find in it compensation for the loss of that artist life to which she feels nature had destined her had hitherto resisted the entreaties of his aged father and the pleadings of her own reverential and tender sympathy with the wants of his soul becomes his wife just before he dies the sequel therefore of this history is given under the title of Countess of Rudolf dot Consuelo is still on the stage she is at the Prussian Court the well-known features of this society as given in the memoirs of the time are put together with much Grace and wet the sketch of Frederick is excellent the rest of the book is devoted to expression of the author's ideas on the subject of reform and especially of Association as a means thereto as her thoughts are yet in a very crude State the execution of this part is equally bungling and clumsy worse she falsifies the characters of both Consuelo and Albert who was revived again by subterfuge of Trance and stains her best arrangements by the mixture of falsehood and intrigue yet she proceeds towards if she walks not by the light of a great idea and sincere democracy Universal religion scatter from afar many seeds upon the page for a future time the book should be and will be universally read those especially who have witnessed all Saund doubts and sorrows on the subject of marriage will rejoice in the clearer purer ray which dawns upon her now the most natural and deep part of the book though not her main object is what relates to the struggle between the claims of art and life as to whether it be better for the world and oneself to develop a perfection a talent which heavens seemed to have assigned as a special gift and vocation or sacrifice it whenever the character seems to require this for its general development the character of Consuelo is throughout the first part strong delicate simple bold and pure the fare lines of this picture are a good deal broken in the second part but we must remain true to the impression originally made upon us by this charming and Noble creation of the soul of saundh it is in reference to our consul whele that a correspondent writes as to Jenny Lind and we are rejoiced to find that so many hints were or might have been furnished for the picture from real life if Jenny Lind did not suggest it yet she must also be in her own sphere ah Consuelo Jenny Lind must have been born about 1822 or 1828 when a young child she was observed playing about and singing in the streets of Stockholm by mr. Berg master of singing for the Royal Opera pleased and astonished at the purity and suavity of her voice he inquired instantly for her family and found her father a poor innkeeper willing and glad to give up his daughter to the care on the promise to protect her and give her an excellent musical education he was always very careful of her never permitting her to sing except in his presence and never letting her appear on the stage unless as a mute figure in some ballet such as for instance Cupid and the graces till she was 16 when she had once executed her part in their free shoots to the full satisfaction and surprise of the public of Stockholm from that time she gradually became the favorite of everyone without beauty she seems from her innocent and gracious manners beautiful on the stage and charming in society she is one of the few actresses whom no evil tongue can ever injure and she is respected and welcomed in any and all societies the circumstances that reminded me of Consuelo were these that she was a poor child taken up by this singing master and educated thoroughly and severely by him that she loved his son who was a good-for-nothing fellow like Anza Leto and at last discarded him that she refused the son of an English Earl and when he fell sick his father condescended to entreat for him just as the count of Rudolph's taught did for his son that though plain and low in stature when singing her best parts she appears view and awakens enthusiastic admiration that she is rigidly corrupt in her demeanor towards her numerous admirers having even returned a present sent her by the Crown Prince Oscar in a manner that she deemed equivocal this last circumstance being noised abroad the next time she appeared on the stage she was greeted with more enthusiastic plaudits than ever and thicker showers of flowers fell upon her from the hands of her true friends the public she was more fortunate than Consuelo in not being compelled to sing to a public of Prussian corporals indeed the picture of Frederick's opera audience with the pit full of his tall grenadiers 'he's with their wives on their shoulders never daring to applaud except when he gave the order as if by tap of drum opposed to the tender and expensive nature of the artist is one of the best tragic comedies extant in Russia to all as military as soon as a new musician arrives he is invested with a rank in the army even in the church Nicholas has lately done the same it seemed as if he could not believe a man to be alive except in the army could not believe the human heart could beat except by beat of drum but we believe in Russia there is at least a mask of gaiety thrown over the chilling truth the great Frederic wished no disguise everywhere he was chief corporal and trampled with his everlasting boots the fair flowers of Posey into the dust the North has been generous to us of late she has sent us all bull she is about to send Frederica Bremer may she add jenny lind end of section 18 | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2018-05-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 18,100 | 96,879 |
7t8uCRTV5Pg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t8uCRTV5Pg | Why the world needs another mobile platform, MeeGo? | yeah my name is min Junction mo cute product manager at nokia we have a R&D center here in Brisbane United my planes and that's where sorry could crate that presented and cute mobility api's I developed and as part of a Mego project i'm here to present the value of me go and history of it and what it means for the developers so first Oh before I start there's a very exciting announcement at the end of my presentation so please stay with me to the last slide so about me go Mego is a truly open linux platform for the next generation of computing devices so this amigo is formed by intel and nokia intel had a platform called moblin for a few years and nokia had my ammo and that mako is a combination of those two platform to become a truly open innovative linux platform even though it is affirmed by to these commercial companies it is hosted by linux foundation so that it can be a vendor-neutral and me go is targeting various device categories including handhelds in vehicle infotainment devices netbook and televisions me go when it from the architectural point of view me go has two parts legal core is a common to all devices like types so when we say me go course tag it's common to all these handheld devices in vehicle information entertainment devices and televisions and on top of me go core there is a reference user experience layer which to show how the GUI can be innovating on top of this millipore step so there are three reference user interfaces stacked at the moment available for download so this is a little bit of history of me go as I said it was announced by Nokia and Intel at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February so it's about one year old project and in April at Geneva Alliance and BMW Group adopted me go so Geneva is nonprofit organization formed to create a linux based platform for automotive industry and then in may 2010 me go 1 dot 0 was released with netbook ux [Music] image Mego has these six months release cadence so it has to religious per year so in the first half it releases around April and May and in the second half it releases around actober so in October 2010 there was me go one that one released with it provided a handset each handset and I VI and that book ux in November there was a Mego conference in dublin at that conference AMD joined the Alliance which shows how the industry is forming around this me go foundation and very soon in the first half of 2011 we amigo will release one that too with very much new features including cute quick it will have the latest cute virgin and latest mobility so it will be full of new features a little bit about governance and licensing policy so me go as an open source project it's led by a technical steering group so technical steering group is formed with members from Nokia and an Intel but it does not limit it it is not limited to those parties and this technical steering group is responsible for making big decisions on the project level and their meeting is quite open the meeting is held on IRC channel and the meeting notes are all in the archive so you can always go and have a look what they're discussing and below that there's a working group to steer day-to-day operations on each device category so for example this network working group and deciding the feature sets and operational decisions so the government's model is based on meritocracy and the best practice on this open-source community and by that I mean them the party with the more contribution in terms of features and in terms of code the move the more you contribute the more you have the ability to steer this direction of this project and also miko encourages community contributions in line with the best practices of open-source development model by that it means we want legal wants to stay very close to the upstream projects the best practice for the upstream project is keeping all the patches in the upstream so so it's easier for the me go when we distribute the new release it's easier to upgrade to the new version and the users of the meego can take a benefit of all the advanced innovative features without applying patches and amigo khomeini adopt a copy light right license to make it open so legal Corps has a lot of software modules which provides these copyleft license and I the UX layers adopt PSD style so that device makers they can protect their own add-ons if they wish so this is like architecture diagram if you go to me go calm you can see three kinds of architectural diagrams so this is a layer view there's also domain view and API view so in this light view you can see all the layers that consists of this me go step it doesn't appear here but at the bottom we have a linux kernel of course and jealousy or d-bus very core OS modules as i said we try to stay very close to the upstream projects though so for example linux kernel in migo 10 it was using linux 2.6 point 33 one that one was released with 2.6 point 35 and upcoming what that too will have more advanced version of Linux kernel and then hardware that patient is responsible for making sure that the distance you to lysing all the hardware accelerated media codecs or encoding and decoding and so on and on top of that core OS is consists of a lot of software components so for example security security framework data management framework package management location which is a big part graphics and multimedia pin Communications and cute is part of my cocoa or a stack [Applause] and on top of that issue there is something called me go AP is me go api is AP is our set of AP is that Mego is making sure guarantees that the compatibility between devices so even though there are a lot of stacks on the core OS only selected ap is will be advertised as me go AP is and you'll be encouraged to use me go api's if you wish to keep your application compatible across me go devices so at the moment in one that one meet cute cute mobility and opengl where part of me go api's and on top of big o AP is the nowadays a user experience layer so these vertical stacks to to give give GUI different GUI user experience look and feel for this targeted targeted category here are a few upstream projects there are more but here are the most prominent ones on the stack so gstreamer pulseaudio of phono calm and con men lucy and cute so cute is also upstream project for me go so we encourage all the patches to come to us as a merge request and we we we provide a latest cute person to the next vigo releases so here you can see a lot of a lot of components are maintained by Intel some components are maintained by Nokia it's a very big collaborative operation and software stack these days are not really complete without the tools for the developers so let's see what tools we provide as an open source project all the requirements requirements are managed in an open manner so we use featured Zilla to list all the new features coming and all the discounts discussions are happening there scheduling and so on and release management is maintained in on the wiki so each there's a weekly release such release cycle so on if you go to meet wicked me go com you can see what kind of images are available on a given week source control is using get sold amigo amigo projects not upstream projects are hosted in this Couture es mio Catorce calm and there's a build system called OBS opensuse build service is to give the community to build the application on legal environment and sdk amigo sdk is based on cute creator which comes with cute cute Creek designer will be there in the one that we go 1 dot too so it gives you just easier way to develop the Negro applications and also bugs should be tracked so it's a box Allah in terms of the tool a feature dilla and bugzilla they are they the same tool it's boxed omegle.com but we use the same tool for all these activities and for the quality this is a tool called open test service OTS so it's basically a tool that you can give it a image and it'll display tribute that image to a working machine and it'll connect to an actual hardware and run the test cases on on behalf of you so all these tools are based on open source projects and it's open for the developers you can you can help and be part of me go projects at any level so let's have a look at the amigo ecosystem so overall me go project is responsible for the left side of the diagram so there's a me go component project here plus a lot of upstream projects become this me go home software stack which includes build environment me go pour and this reference eu-us layer and then the chipset vendors or the integrators will take this stack and add their own modules it could be a new codex it could be some closed source code and then they can create this operating system and dispute distribute on various devices okay let's have a look at how this you know me go helps the actual device creation case so amino is a uk-based set-top box manufacturer they presented their case at me go conference at November in November last year so me amino took me go one that one and build new setup box much faster than and they expected and their success or was because of benefits of pooling of distribution traditionally the embedded linux distribution has a lot of difficulties in during the development is cross compilation or the lack of tools so they really like the full linux distribution which came with a lot of tools and they could easily use the desktop project so it's a very good success case so the mega project tools and the ecosystem is all working together and what's the value for you give as a developer so me go gives you a truly open platform you can contribute at any level and is by adopting cute which is a cross-platform toolkit once you invest your time and effort on me go you can use the same knowledge to target symbian very easy which increases your business opportunity and with the tools and such as the SDK you can show it in the development time and you want to reuse your application across many different platforms so me go and promise you with this compliance program so by using this API is under the compliance program your application is guaranteed to run other devices and all well it's backed up by Nokia and Intel we're putting a lot of you know money and effort into this project so we we try to keep the good quality at all times and you can take advantage of that so there are many ways to join me go and contribute so go to meebo.com to find out about me go and go to wikis to to look at the release cycle how the releases are made what's the current status if you're interested in the quality you can go to QA dash reports let me go calm and of course there are mailing list and IRC channels thank you any questions [Applause] button and I speak components compliance I not that I wear off but I can find out so the amino a TV that's out and Intel they're targeting a lot of devices you know utilizing at home and new chipset and at nokia all i can say is we have planned to ship me go devices in the future by comparison so [Laughter] huh [Applause] oh yeah we have many programs that's why we have gem here from from Nokia gem is a development relations manager so maybe I can help you here thank you for the question so I'll just have at three sentences yes if you contact me I can just provide any developer with devices that working with us and so just before lunch let me introduce myself my role and also today's competition so my role is nokia developer relations manager and it's a recently created to support you guys a in business world and be in nokia world and to appreciate this right now i'm with the team we're talking with businesses brands and content owners in australia and new zealand and also to create a vibrant ecosystem for you guys this year we're going to have code camps free trainings business updates for you and competitions and today's competition is we're just seeking an original idea and app idea and the winner is going to have a 900 plus once the application is in the store we're going to support the application with a ten-thousand-dollar media support marketing support and other than that I don't want to keep you too long just please enjoy your lunch and to enter the competition you can either grab one of these and fill it in or just simply email the same email addresses here as well the you can answer it I think it closed on the photo februari so you can just think about the idea and just get back to us and if you want to just learn more and discuss how we can you know work together and create more applications and the better environment Australian user I'll be in the lunches please see me and grabbed a cart and we'll be great to discuss further thank you [Music] [Applause] | Linux.conf.au 2011 -- Brisbane, Australia | UCczp0gFSTFnXQv29Mg1cJqw | 2014-11-23 | Creative 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M535EbK82zo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M535EbK82zo | Panel 3: Practicing Restorative Principles | Judge Barry Stuart (ret.) | [Music] it's amazing that I think that everybody likes what I'm going to talk about today is about five years ago I was 10 years ago I started looking all the communities that initiated community based restorative justice approaches the United States and that I needed been a part of her friends might have been apart in all the places other than that was going and so we're going to figure with you in ten minutes or less and things just some of the key markers of what made some of those communities sustain and some of those communities to fall by the way it's like I could speak and it's for many of you in this room it's being for hours about that but these are the lessons we have to learn because you all are pioneers this is a brand new that you know where we represent just hundreds of years old hundreds of years old and I got an answer for you but the 90% just give 90% of the funding to the communities built after the problem very serious thing because funding is one of the key things and I have to take responsibility when we started in the eighties of saying to the communities that I work with decision about money this isn't about a new way to get money this is about a new way you to stand up and do what you need to do as citizens of your country I was wrong because if you're going to take another difficult work the reference system has taken over from you you need to be funded you need to have people just like this to judge and I have that prepare me to go into the battle in the courtroom every single day you need to have funding that will look after you and keep you doing this work so you don't burn out because the biggest problem that these new initiatives face is burning out so what I'm thinking Nova Scotia for blazing this new trail a new trio which I'm hoping will show us how in communities we can take the conflicts the resolutions and even the crimes is opportunities to build new connections as opportunities to build our communities as opportunities to turn lies to build relationships and make difference I also want to thank mr. Trump I want to thank mr. Trump for reminding us in Canada what happens when we don't get up every day and do the work of citizenship because if we need a glaring example if we don't work in our communities and don't engage our communities it's American thing so here are some elections that I have learned from these communities that have succeeded those about first of all you have to start good with you can't get to a good place and starting in a bad way and so that requires those communities have succeeded to go slow to go a long way it can't jump in and change the system that's been around for 200 years you have to be very careful about how you do that very careful about how you build the relationships that's going to take you a long way and once you start I think there are five things that have to change fundamentally from the adversarial system you know I often say that my experience is when the justice system takes communion issues into the justice system to take in a community system into the values of the justice system and don't think that we don't represent values the criminal justice system had fundamentally different values than community processes so I look at those communities that are really taking the justice system into their community and that we need to play by their values by their rules that's a fundamental thing that seems to mark someone's successes from some of the very the the part that is in the first part of that is to start with identifying personal care the most hopeful thing that I have found in doing this work all over the world now is it no matter where you've been whether it's the shanty towns in South Africa or the war room in downtown Toronto or down an American cities within corporations I do little exercise that tries to bring though what people's shared values over there are all putting well the same personally we want to respect others we want to connect to others we want to love and want to forgive they want to be compassionate you want to share those are our personal values do we carry them into the workplace we carry them into our community no because in their families and in our schools and in our workplace we've learned the skills of adversarial approach so once we share our values that do that work before we get over delete work it really begins to wake us up to the fact that my god we don't want to shoot so the first thing is learning now and learning what our share but the second thing is we need a self-designed you can't take what works an overall the downtown Winnipeg and you can't take with work you have to build processes that encourage us encourage us to act on our values do you think the court will doesn't block forgiveness compassion empathy no those are not the values you think that's in her apartment no what are we doing we're deciding processes we're dealing with the major problems we have excited the processes that don't reflect our original values so it's reading second thing for success is if we design process and really encourage us to act in our back the third thing that's really important for change it's the skill base we have personally worked really well here buying a second-hand car consumption use argue it doesn't work is building connections and new relationships we have to learn new skills the skill act would use in their courtroom is not the skill under they use in a circle counselor needs building the fourth thing is whether or not we creates space for building collaborative partnerships for sharing power for sharing responsibility so those communities that really did that and welcome in everybody that were inclusive and respectful of every person's voice of every person's kept they were sustainable the fifth thing is to figure out the funding problem that's a really important thing I don't have time today but I just came back Roka in Boston work I went down there 18 years ago to teach them circles by the way that's one of the most successful initiative because they certainly both with certainty understood above white slope before they did one single circle on a crime she said her first going to train people in our community circle but we're going to shift the culture of how we do with these problems before we're going to get out there doing it and secondly really important we want to do circles inside our institutions we want to decide we're going to hire but our priority been made based on sir we can't simply say the circles are just for conflict circles are away and which we're going to live in this institution you can't write here community initiatives on Robert rules of water and expect a Babel sustainment so [Music] renew renew renew renew you constantly have to renew the energy in the process cause they have to renew the relationship because they have to be trained there are many initiatives that basically we're doing extremely well success after success after success and so they kept looking forward in new cases a folks the people you're gonna deal with come a lifetime of difficulty they're not gonna there's no matching experience that you're going to give them that something's going to change their life if you don't look behind you and deal with the follow-up so why I attended one of the communities that looked at only focuses on spouses well it's all he did for doing that for 15 after they've been in place tonight we trained in that community who doesn't know any thoughts about those we and looked at what they were doing I had looked at what they were doing the first case they did five or six years later I went back to see how they were doing the same man in their first circle was in that circle six of seven years later he wasn't gonna change overnight he wanted to change overnight but we don't we don't do that in the criminal justice system right next next you have another docket next next there can be no mess next you really need to stay with the people you change they have to feel for the first time the de sóller story to somebody that they're going to be stuck with it's not a new probation officer a loop defense counsel a new new parole officer it has to be you need to stay connected you have to do the follow-up work you can't just kiss him on the forehead and said this is great go ahead and do what you're going to do so and the other thing I want to say is ceremonies of celebration have some fun share food qualen done which is one of the first nations that work straight to the middle of whiteboards they used to have celebration dinners every month they celebrate Joel who had not been on the street for a month who had not had a drink for a month you know they celebrate Emily who went home over they knew when those kids came along was gonna be no adulterer and she was there they celebrated people who did many little things this is not your story justice should never be about super volunteers we're gonna do big things it needs to be about a whole bunch of people doing little bit that's what it's about I think we are wrapping up I think we are I mean I don't remember these judges and I was one of those weeks out and remember chief just giving a talk like this ever getting ever now there are lots of Chief judges I think across this country they're starting to talk so I'm hoping all the people keep over life you know every what we do you know I hope you will make relationships that painting [Applause] you | Schulich Law | UCfCwwWmb3DEMDDfMvraJNzg | 2016-12-09 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,764 | 9,495 |
5xuTU_LZDMg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xuTU_LZDMg | Huge Formula Vee Crash in South Africa | the timing monetary boy just turned the wick up slightly there to pull about another point two out on the Hills OH change up for the lead by somebody oh massive moment in the third floor huge moment Ninja Turtles Richmond on the inside of leonson and Lindell Jensen clipped the back end it was yucco street so it's going to give them opportunity there of course to get the cars back onto the grid and then all the answers that the car that is always a good thing to see and the first man I think to get to him would probably have been yako shrix having realized that was a massive tag between the two of them Johnson they're in the black suit with the black helmet and the white helmet is Yucca shrix in the sort of blue and white suit but Deadpool Securities and uh silver legs Volkswagen formula V definitely where's for where that is always good to see the driver out of the car helmets off and chatting to Donovan and Hanley our medical team here at SWAT cups | Brian Styczynski | UCwvMuxqIfXGiyTWyRJ5kjgw | 2023-04-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 185 | 963 |
z_Icngflmwc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Icngflmwc | PHL 1100 Fall 2017 Welcome | hello welcome to introduction to philosophy my name is grant Yocum I'm going to be your instructor and the purpose of this video is to discuss the course syllabus which was posted to Moodle so basically I'm going to take you through what it means to be doing this course what's expected to you the assignments the discussion forums the course policies some notes about assessment and academic integrity and sort of a very quick overview of what we'll be studying this semester so this is your first video lecture I've emailed this to you but it's also posted to Moodle going forward you will be logging into Moodle I will be posting things to Moodle and it's going to be your responsibility to stay up to date and make sure that you know what's going on with the course I've laid out the syllabus hopefully on a very intuitive there a clear kind of way it is five pages long the first has a lot of boilerplate about the course but will discuss lists the texts and course description and the great brick would have behind me in Long Beach got work here this Hackett page discusses policies and evaluation which carries over unto the third page list third page bliss instructional technology used in the course everything is removal so if you log onto Moodle you should be able to click your way through absolutely everything in the course and I've listed all of the important dates on page three as well page four if you're gonna print anything from this fella beside with print page 4 inches keep a copy or rate by your desk I'm going to be doing the same here just so that you know this is the tentative schedule I call it a tentative schedule because things happen the University IT technology might go down that life happens and the father of twin girls who are two and a half years old one of whom has very frequent sort of medical needs so frequently puts me in a different city and away from my desk I will do absolutely everything in our power to mitigate that and thanks to portable technology generally able to stay rate on top of everything of course but if we wind up in the case where we've got emergency hurt surgery or something along those lines I think he'll understand if this schedule has to be adjusted but nonetheless this is the plan I think there's plenty of time to engage everything in the course as part of this plan so hopefully if we'll lay everything rate out for you including Thanksgiving recess everybody bread grab your two can here scarf I love the term recess for it go out into the playground anyhow is we've got week twelve of the course off and so alternates are listed there including your assignment deadlines including when I'm going to post your assignments to Moodle so you will have a chance to - to - to engage with those I give you lots of time with these assignments but they are involved now the final page of the syllabus that we'll go over is the grading scheme which you should take a close look at because it's different from what you're used to my percentage point to letter grade conversion is to you unique for me it's just what I grew up with is largely its arbitrary kind of thing and a is still in hey if he is still as B as he is billa C then to demonstrate that in addition to my percentage point letter grade conversion I list the official from the Oakland University office of the registrar letter grade - GPA conversion chart and all the office of the registrar ever sees for me is the GPA so if you get it hey like let's say a straight a on the high range of the 8 so let's say you get a 90 or 91 on the course that's going to be a three point nine nine let's say you get a 78 in the course that's a b-plus and a b-plus is still a three point five that's everything that's a trick that's ever alright so your letter grade is your grade and I supply this just so you don't freak out when I give you a numerical grade and nonetheless right so I suppose we'll start off with a couple of things about me I will DHD in philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities which I've sort of recently completed less than a year ago I've been teaching it at Auckland University before this is closing off my 13th year I started in 12th year 13th year long time anyway I started it in January 2005 teaching for Auckland University which seems like a long long time ago mostly what I teach is introductory courses sometimes they give me an upper level course as well but nonetheless I am in the trenches doing the introductory courses which frankly I love introductory courses are later in an interesting kind of way allows me to do something dynamic and hopefully interesting to you with them so I also hold a master's in philosophy also from Brock University from a long long long long long time ago I graduated in 2003 and my undergraduate degrees I have two of them one in English and the other one in his inaugural philosophy so I've got lots and lots of training in fact I've been teaching support since the mid-90s so it's not like I just fell off the turnip truck the other thing to know about me is I'm actually sitting in Canada right now I'm going to read I live in Windsor and I have been commuting internationally to do this job like I say for a long time now which has worked out in a lot of ways and has been stressful in a lot of other ways you're an online class so the trouble with commuting is not going to be a problem that affects you as is part of the reason why I like teaching an all-in-one class I get to be very reliable with regard to an online class whereas every now and again now on my commutes the department of homeland security like a word with me and how long that takes is anybody's guess so I build things into my day to make that very very very manageable give myself lots of time to get to class what happened now I am here to help you so if you run into problems if you don't understand something that's going on with the course if you're confused or if you just need a pep talk please contact me my email is probably going to be the the way that most of you contact me so I fully acknowledge that and at this point email address on the course syllabus on page one and hand right here and if you're looking for me I have a faculty page through the Department of webs the philosophes website as well so if you need to contact me there are plenty of ways to contact me but the best way to get advice about the course is let's face it it's better if we meet in person so I have an office on campus that's a shared office few other people it is in MSC 642 it's sort of of the towering at the end of the hallway we've got a window so that's nice but nonetheless it is back in there so you can find me there Thursdays from 4:30 to 5:30 and by appointment if you need to meet with me I will come in and we will meet if it's absolutely a manageable with childcare or snow or something long ago lines I'm more than happy to have escaped eating with you as well I've just recently rented an office here in Windsor for the purpose of doing resources what we're doing here you can probably hear there's a bit of an echo I'm just in the process of moving in you can see I don't even really painted yet I've got everything prepped so but yeah that's kind of window so that's something anyway so like I said I'd be happy to escape meet with you if if a face-to-face is necessary otherwise email I try to stay on top of my emails and the operative word is fry I'm teaching force action system as true so that makes me very busy then three of those sessions are online so that makes be electronically very busy let's go right off the bat I'm going to warn you that I do fall behind it's going to be a lot of grading and a lot of electronic communications that eats up quite a lot of time so anyhow but nonetheless I will get back to you if you have course difficulties or anything along those lines but always please feel free my office hours are drop in the office hours come seem usually I'm just studying around bored and getting my own work done so onto the course of course description says that it is a study of the main types and problems of Western philosophy the readings are chosen to illustrate the development of Western thought from the ancient Greeks to the present offered every semester satisfies the university general education requirements in the Western civilization knowledge exploration area you see the reason I'm reading through the course description and this boilerplate is because this is the box that this course needs to fit in it if I am designing a course these are the things that the course needs to do otherwise I'm fairly free in terms of course design so we will be starting at the start point of Western philosophy and in fact this week I'll be posting a brief video it's sort of discussing pre-socratic philosophy and pre-socratic philosophy is exactly what it sounds like and philosophy before Socrates now the the historical record is sort of spotty no for that period of time so what we have is fragments and we think we know generalize positions but nonetheless I think we have enough to build sort of a context in which we can find the character Socrates in the early dialogues of Plato that were reading which are the apology the credit alright so you will find us a character by the name of Socrates in the apology giving himself a trial defense and in the Crego giving an argument with regard to Dewey's and justice with regard to good democracy I don't give away too much it's like giving a game of Thrones spoilers or something along those lines but nonetheless and that is what we will be discussing right off the bat so we will start as this suggests from the ancient Greeks and we are going all the way up to as present as present can be not as present as present can be we will be going to about 1889 with name of Frederick nature which is sort of funny in terms of philosophies for a reason given the whole span of the history of Western philosophy so we will be covering spot-checking more like about two and a half millennia of the history of Western philosophy so that's what we will and I will be supplementing with more recent material much of its coming from my own research as well so you know that's a set of check that's that's item one in the box the course is supposed to fit into there are also generative learning outcomes of course objectives and basically and we have to learn about Western civilization and these are all Western theorists and that I have chosen which is kind of a bummer because I have a little bit on the train side in Eastern philosophy as well Buddhism Taoism a little bit of Hindu philosophy this comes from my master's degree at Rock University so you know it's interesting you may see me bringing in interesting parallels between Western and Eastern thought which through Athens where Socrates Plato Aristotle were arguing support cities so of course they will be creating with Persia and what we sort of loosely define as the East as well so of course the ideas sort of I'm sure this is the best metaphor to cross-contaminate one another it's I mean no philosophy grows in a vacuum the context in which people are making arguments matters and so current arguments in the history of Western philosophy might - might involve you know propaganda surveillance culture the Occupy movement lateral forms of Association in terms of activism digital forms of democratic participation and the fears of justice that go along with them etc etc contemporary ethics for example is engaging with problems these guys never had to deal with any of these guys never had to deal with to clone or not to claw all right should we edit genetically our children before they come about right and popular culture fill up follows philosophy as well if you've seen the movie Gattaca or some of the other kind of tech movies that are that are they they raise these kinds of concerns as well Elon Musk is completely freaking out of AI know the number of philosophers that are working in artificial intelligence it's because really it turns out that what a brain does or what human cognition does might find something analogous and in this new form of artificial intelligence or is artificial intelligence I think that's that's completely distinct is it a distinct form of intelligence that's somehow alien to our form of intelligence and then what do we do Elon Musk I was just reading an article he's predicting World War three problem by Pais kind of thing which sounds very terminator but nonetheless so any good this is this is the kind of the conversation that we're going to have all semester and what what what do these new developments mean for our theories of justice what means to be human being what it means to be free etcetera etcetera etcetera we're taking a historical approach to see how these ideas have evolved in the West and so that's that's what we are doing now towards the bottom of these learning outcomes what we'll find is that there are a few technical skills that we have to and the more I teach this course the more I I wind up presenting it as a technician would right so I'll just read them all to introduce students to the important historical text and philosophy that is to know the important philosophical ideas of European and American culture to students taxes tax students that was your brief introduction will expand upon that as the semester goes on to show students how philosophical theories have developed over time I've just laid that it would kind of and we're taking in this Oracle approach and these theories are developing over time each and every one of these theorists are in dialogue with one another so that that will be in prison and so hopefully we will have some interesting thoughts and dredge out some interesting connections between these theorists on these topics to develop students faculty in using logic or reasoning more broadly to analyze and evaluate philosophical arguments and so basically we're going to be reasoning and arguing and using logic to engage with these arguments birds so we're going to be taking a critical brothers at the same time as being generous enough to these arguments to see how they hang together by an internal sort of structure right and evaluate critically of course that structure and then finally and this is largely these last two though using logic analyzing evaluate also or convincing them the final one to develop students facility and clear presentation presentation of arguments in writing are the main things that I evaluate so my job is to introduce you to the texts to choose texts that show you how and these ideas have developed over time and in conversation with one another but nonetheless what I ask of you is your ability to use logic or reasoning to evaluate these arguments and how you're able to clearly present accounts or critiques of these ideas in red and so that's what we're going in this course and so one why should you care about this why is it a big deal to be able to use reasoning to evaluate arguments and to be able to clearly present theoretical ideas or arguments and write well come on think about it and they look at the culture that we live in and for the most part we're typing at one another were arguing virtually with one another and the President of the United States tweets all right and these tweets happening but it's so it's important that we are able to clearly assess that and communicate in this written form now more than any other time bizarrely our age is one where more people in the world real numbers and in terms of percentages and populations are literate all right this is how we communicate with one another this is also how we store for posterity all of our knowledge of our culture and in addition to the practice of being in a culture and so it's important this is the medium of our age and so for it seems like I'm bragging of these dusty philosophers for you but nonetheless and the skills that we are learning by cutting our teeth on these philosophers and learning how to communicate argumentatively theoretically in a clear kind of way these are survival skills these are survival skills and to a certain extent is and I've got a sociologist from by the name of Paul that's birthday's coming down I don't remember that anyhow Paul introduces theorizing to his dirt students in a way that I can hold all pirate it's ok if out of the footnote is coming from Paul you know so much of what we learn at the university is is a set of technical skills procedures that sort of thing how to follow the procedures how to do X using method why kind of thing right but eventually eventually in your life you are going to hit a point where the systems that you are applying break down or don't work or find a case that doesn't fit within that system and a lot of that day you're going to have to theorize now this course is going to give you a basis in terms of the bare bone structure of how to do precisely that so on that day when all of the systems break down and you're going to have to independently use your theoretical abstract understanding of the world to encounter a situation and in to rise to the challenge of that situation it's best to have some background in hell that again survival and these are important skills and not to sell it too much I guess now I'm the jerk that has you buy like a whole bunch of books there are a whole bunch of books for this course but try to make them as cheap as possible but nonetheless this is your big ugly pile of books right here and I gotta say theories of both professors wearing big at these books for free so don't give an order and what they cost kind of thing I'm trying to watch my language I've got two year old kids right but no this this is all coming out of my pocket as well and now we're gonna start with Plato's v dialogues there are a number of copies of that have these dialogues and I think there's one the trial and death of Socrates there there are that has four dialogues but it's got four that you know are important here I think they drop them you know but it doesn't matter we're not doing the knee you nail on your wife we're reading two of these dialogues and like I say you should be able to find use copies of this online dirt dirt cheap and I think if I go to even books a b e b oo KS calm and everything i think they're under $1 shipping us what gets you right but if you're ordering a lot half the time they wind up giving you free shipping all right so this can be dirt cheap but nonetheless live dialogues for reading two of them I'm trying to keep your reading down in manageable chunks weekly because philosophers like to read a little bit really well rather than a whole lot and so unlike an English course we're reading reading reading reading reading can barely keep up with the reading and this I prefer is to sit down and concentrate on a text and only reading two dialogues for the first two weeks of class and after that we move on to Plato's Phaedrus right this is an interesting dialogue and how long is it it's under a hundred pages but we're just going to the top of page 49 we're actually sort of misappropriating as dialog there a number of parts to it and so basically what we're concentrating on our three speeches one by an orator by the name of Lysias one by the character Socrates who's basically a hand puppet for Plato at this point this is business what happens and these early early early dialogues are thought to be just reportage of Socrates position because Socrates himself never wrote anything down when we turn to the fever is what we get is Plato using the character Socrates's a literary device to make his arguments all right so there are three speeches in here one publicity is and two by the character Socrates relate plato's position and this guy buck if you ever heard of platonic love I heard you and Joe and Susie dating no that's just platonic oh that's too bad well this dialogue is about platonic love and it's not generally what we mean by photonic love we're gonna see what Plato that my platonic love and it's actually a fairly interesting robust kind of position there are other ways to get at the same sort of theories to sort of meet one another and interact I had other books that I could use but we'd have to read under ten pages of the Republic by Plato in order to achieve the same thing that we can do in 49 pages of the petrous so that's why I chose this book and again the these books are packet translations which are excellent translations that have gone off there their copyright so they're able to be published really really cheap so this book is dirty find a copy buy a copy and I picked these books specifically partially so that when I throw out a page number you know what the heck I'm talking about also partially because these are some of the cheapest good ones that are out there and so try and get these books and then we move on to Aristotle Norman as it's actually pronounced arista tase and the neck in attics you'll see it's a much thicker book but we are going three books one two and three of the neck mechanics which is a grand total of I think 32 pages and book three of the Nativity and ethics but we are just going through both three section one so it's two books plus one section so what we are reading of this big honking book is there ten books to the neck McKenna ethics we're just reading to in a bit so it's like that much reading now this is one of my favorite all-around books in the history of Western philosophy as the title suggests its ethics and it's a fickle theory but at the same time this can be considered to be maybe the first self health book that was ever written and so it because it aims at the gold or end that we all a game at naturally happiness how do we make ourselves happy first what we mean by happiness and secondly how do we attain it Aristotle's position holds that the reason why we do everything else that we do whether it's choose a job choose a partner choose a garment choose an office choose a car choose something off a menu for dinner choose to have kids or not the reason we prefer coke to Pepsi or Pepsi - coke or do the do instead is because we want to be happy that's the reason we do everything else that we do that we never do for the sake of anything else why do we want to be happy the question doesn't even really make sense desert the witch if we have if we attain this end their goal it would be so complete and self-sufficient that we could want nothing else well the interesting thing about how Aristotle use of this argument is that basically if we want to be happy the best strategy for that is to be good and decent people and we'll take a much closer look at that that argument and how it hangs together I mean there's I'm sure some of you just rolled your eyes and but it actually hangs together in a fairly strong way you're allowed to be critical of all these ideas to that's something that by the way that's half the course write those three books and what I want to say is that you don't try to give me what I want two things about that one it's not the point and that what I want from you is that you engage theoretically with these ideas understand what the heck is going on in these texts and are able to critically assess these positions at one what I want is not you're giving me what you think I want what I want is to you to engage in an earnest thoughtful way with this material and to argue your conscience that's that's what I want really and secondly if I do this great you'll never forget it figure out what my position is because again it's not the point so any no so that's half the course those are your first three textbooks how the course is laid out is we'll study two books right Socrates Plato then we'll have a test then we'll move on the Aristotle and then a guy by the name of Thomas Hobbes wrote a big long can tell them this is going to be the most reading for the course I'm having you related chapters six to nineteen of Hobbes Leviathan and there's just no good way around that all right but you know given what I could have asked you to read it's kind of that much of a book all right but in 250 22-250 but given what I couldn't does Dewey in terms of the book yes that's not a whole heck of a lot there's a fairly basic argument that I want you to interact with an understand who hops Leviathan this is the world's first really modern political theorist kind of then who is trying to almost apply a natural scientific understanding to human interaction and human political arrangement so it's actually a fascinating argument the it's a fascinating argument that anything like me is going to annoy you right and he'll chase against it you'll want to be critical of it I will I will point out a couple of ways that modern fears have been critical of this argument as well couple ways that I've been critical of this argument as well but nonetheless it's it's a really interesting and important argument in terms of political theory relies on the idea of the social contract it relies on a theory of human nature that has no optimism in it whatsoever though is not pessimistic somehow either right he he thinks human beings are rather simple creatures and but left to our own devices we would be at each other's throats so given that given the fact that we have no capacity for self-rule that would need to be ruled by some sort of structure of laws and some sort of political apparatus brought about by a scope of contract and this is how to build the most stable society and the kind of society that will actually lead to most of us getting some of what we want as often as possible and so that's his argument this book was an interesting one and basically what you're getting here is not a translation absolutely everything else in the course is a translation this book was written in what was considered to be the vulgar English at a time when as a matter of our for both the church and the state academic discourse meant to be written in laughs why because all the people sanctioned authorized and framed by the state and the church would be able to engage in these theoretical debates and discussions if that was the case is a matter of clean knowledge well I've said okay that's stupid that's not the audience I want to reach I get a write in English okay so this is Old English you will notice some odd Spelling's in here sound it out once you get used to it it's not so bad and I remember the first time I started with this text and I found it very rewarding and very interesting yet at the same time I'm basically a little bit difficult link most things in life is Aristotle or point out it all depends on practice habituating yourself to a new set of behaviors so if Hawks wrote this in English which got even really locked but water with the powers that be so we had to run to Excel right and the book was committed to the flames but the argument in the book actually contradicted precisely what the common people of his age were attempting to enact and which was a limit the powers of the government over the individual established what John Stuart Mill later would call Liberty and some sort of line in the sand beyond which the power of the state has no power for the individual these are political liberties it's just what they are that's what they were trying they were trying to establish a constitutional monarchy and this argument is basically a plain language written in English argument to the common people why the common people were wrong so the common people didn't like this at all so it was committed to the flames they plan to plague that swept through in England that on this book and on top of that there was a fire that's but through London and they blamed this book it was just it's unsavory character but a few survived so we've got a copy at top so that's our briefs enduring and modern philosophy you see what's happened here is if a long sojourn ancient ancient ancient philosophy this is Athens 2,500 years ago then we jump to the 17th century and it's long history of Western philosophy only do so much then we hop into the 19th century with the last two figures this is probably the most expensive book that I have you buy I've been using it for a long time there are two two - what do you call them if they're not dialogues their pamphlets I guess and sort of thing two arguments that I want you to engage from here with from this this book one is called the concept of anxiety and the other one is sickness unto death that sounds very exciting isn't it but these are supposed to be dialogues for uplifting and awakening kind of thing written by a guy by the name of swear I'm here to go all right actually his name is spelt and it pronounced more like Shia but we don't do that it's character and as far as I'm concerned in fact these these these these arguments are written by students right the concept defense of a Virgil is off the physicists sorry I'm bad at pronouncing but nonetheless this is supposed to be the Walkman kind of this thing you see what character does every time he wants to take up a perspectives from which to argue he creates a whole persona right well if I were the type of person this I will argue with this plan that so he creates a pseudonym who actually and they're all edited by smart cute where there are a couple that are actually authored by him know which are high religious kind of arguments but all right for the most part they're written by by by by by by pseudonyms this guy is the great granddaddy of existentialism this is where the existential movement starts arguably and he was a Danish philosopher who was very concerned with a trend that we get started with people like Hobbes a big hurt and moving through the Enlightenment with modernist kind of period you see what the modern is like to do is build systems systems for this systems for that systems of ethics systems of politics right that sort of thing there were great systematize errs but the funny thing is is that when he noticed when you build a system what happens to the existing real individual in a context I mean you're many of you are first-year students at University and you're welcome welcome to beer credit system and you have numbers and you're constantly learning turns for a machine it's expensive you pay tuition there are all sorts of rules that you've gotta learn all sorts of electronic portals to manage or paperwork to be filled out and that sort of thing geez universities have requisition stamps or rather requisition forms for stables the odd thing about those requisition forms for stables is that they must be stapled together to be properly submitted so if you don't have any stables you can you see what I'm saying right is that these systems are built in place with put in place with the idea of efficiency and somewhere in that process the existing individual gets lost character was very concerned about that especially with a very systematized official Christian religion in his state at the time is he officially one character was reading this where jerk or was reading this the official state religion was Christianity so by default absolutely every member of society was a card-carrying Christian what did they do they single-file him to church they stood at the right moments they sat at the right moments they kneeled at the right moments they compared it back all of the right statements they knew the words to the songs and then they went about their days when you systematize something along those lines it's something especially along those lines something that requires belief and passionate faith something gets lost so effectively what character was doing well two things he was sort of the great granddaddy of modern psychology as you can I these two dialogues are about anxiety and despair and almost nothing had been written about either never despair at the time of cure it was ridiculous so these are psychological investigations about the problems that carrieth uh especially in our age his age but even more he would say in our age are going to be the problems of the age he was also writing in reaction to this over bureaucratization and this over systemization of human life where we are all thought to be cogs in a giant wheel and he's writing from the perspective of the existing individual so this is the first foray into what we will call existentialism which is a term that all impact as we go on and he was a religious existentialist who was very worried about the religion in his day but thought he could reinvigorate it by discussing these psychological and existential sort of issues with regard to being a Christian what does it really mean to believe the sorts of things that you claim to believe how many tonight appear loves with you met people who claim to believe things and act contradictory to those things so there's something spiritual that means to in and you don't need to be I'm not going to be passing a Bible is here or anything along those lines you don't need to be it turned off by the term spirit we we mean it the way we mean something like schools beer or this spirit of public engagement Ness right and we're getting into the spirit of the conversation other than the spirit of a party right there's something dispositional that happens there right and so character engages in precisely that and then finally the last text for the course is this is what I'm looking at the back of this and brand-spanking-new it's 14 bucks all right I have gold copy here so your copy won't have the same coat actually if you up real close your copy will likely just have that guy's face rather than the big sort of cloudy whatever kind of the mountain scene mad but nonetheless this is this is an old newbie copy because what it will copy Utley literally falling apart this has got over the name of Frederick Nietzsche and we are reading the extremely cherry dialogue a dialogue book I had written very very late in his career called Twilight of the aisles or have one philosophizes with a hammer kind of thing this is another one of the proto existentialists at work here and so you see what I'm doing caring or religious existentialists Nietzsche if you know know anything about Nietzsche you should know this he is famous for the claim god is dead wasn't his claim that was actually a guy named Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel but nonetheless he was it was attributed to him effectively he's concerned about something structurally similar to what character was concerned about we no longer have the courage of our convictions toilet of the IELTS the eyelids our beliefs and dogmas of our age that we keep parroting and keep sort of enacting yet we don't have any sort of conviction or faith in now unlike Kierkegaard who thought that these beliefs and systems of belief could be accidentally written reinvigorated Nietzsche thought a lot of these systems were up to the core so what we're going to get as a critique of these idols or beliefs or dogmas and in a rather systematic one at that and he's going to be very critical of Christian morality he's going to be very critical of Socrates who will make quite a lot of fun of he's going to be very critical of Plato and another philosopher by the name of Kant good and he's going to present sort of a quizzical kind of position and I've got to say Nietzsche is the first philosopher that ever made me well reading and laugh-out-loud which is important now why did I have you buy six bloody books when you could have just gone and bought full one big clunk and philosophers way textbook with bullet points and answer keys and like little oh by the way these sections and stuff like that well I do this for a few reasons one if you want to learn about playdough I tend to think that you should read play and not who is this even John shape right and his discussion of the playdough you've already had my discussion of flavor right but nonetheless at least if were having a discussion about Plato we can go back to the primary text and say didn't Plato really argue that what you think he meant by that maybe return we're going to be developing a facility for critique and evaluation that yet also for interpretation so good I don't want to interpret an interpretation of an interpretation of material why don't why don't we go see what Plato Aristotle Socrates character Nietzsche Hobbes and the sake of this and have a conversation about that secondly these are really expensive they're really expensive for you you see what this is it's an examination comedy I get them for free they want me to order these kinds of books and this has an edition this is the third edition I think they're on like the sixth edition now so that you know if we've got the third edition it's no good the chapters are different the sections are front page numbers don't fix it change the interpretation that sort of thing so you have to buy the brand bloody new one right I these books don't change what character said is just what character says but Plato argues just what Plato argued it's there in black and white and sort of thing we can have a conversation about that you get to buy used copies rather than the seventh edition of these editions of creates two and this edition is vastly superior to previous editions because spelling and grammar corrected three places plus we move the chapters around for your page numbers don't work right so I I tend to like doing it this way and I think if you compare price-wise of what I've asked you to do even though it's a lot of books as much cheaper plus you can start building a fairly decent library and at the end of the day if you're into that if not it's all the books back so that my students in the future get used copies of them either way it's cool so those are our books so like I say Socrates Plato test Aristotle hogs test Kierkegaard and Nietzsche then the course is over that's what we are doing the great break down is three tests for 30 percent each for a total time now that means your tests are actually a huge weight right so the first test that's 30 percent of your final read it's typically going to be six questions worth five points each I typically give you a longer leg review with these tests 140 tonight I think section test one will be posted to Moodle October 4 and then it's going to be due you walked overnight so I give you a good 5 days with this material so you know what that means you've got your books you've got the videos that I post for you you've got your notes that you take when you watch the videos that I've posted for you you've got increasingly discussion forums which was non-going conversation about the material with your fellow students are innocent and if you're really stuck you've got me all right you can contact me over this all right so and if you've got five days it's Wednesday October 4th I have office hours on Thursday give the questions a look if you want to talk about them I've got office hours that day come talk to me so that's how things are going to be laid out for this course you're going to be submitting single files for this task to Moodle and tile around with the idea of this vision statement that Act that sort of thing then you'll have to click ok - and make sure your submission is finalized to Moodle their tutorials on Moodle for this and if you get into trouble I think e-learning and instructional support can help you with all of this so otherwise each of the theorists that we'll be discussing will be accompanied by a discussion forum a topic that I'll type out for you a topic that I'll introduce to you with a great video but why I think it's an interesting topic for discussion like you know it was you know some critical or theoretical point it raised by by Socrates in the apology or something along those lines but why voting is not sufficient to maintain justice in the context of democracy according to Socrates all introduced it you'll have an ongoing conversation about it these forums are 10% of your grade soon that against your create a full letter and if then I've seen people slotted to get A's and the course get beads in the course because it just didn't bother warmth you know I've seen people wind up with C's rather than B's I've seen people fail rather than pass the course because it didn't do these forms the forms are great for a couple of reasons one it's rough work space and where you can pretty much cut your teeth at play language interpreting and dialoguing with one another of this material and so it's practice for your tests - you know you're engaging with the same material before the test that you're going to be tested on later you'll see frequently I bring in themes from the forum discussion into the test and so to a certain extent you'll have 70% of one of the questions to the questions likely already sort of answered so that'll leave forms no big deal you can before especially since you've got practice having done three the forms do not end with my topic question the forms are great places if you're just stuck on your reading is trying to figure out what the heck these guys are talking but you can see this very loner this comes from these guys trying to say that's where it comes in from all right it's I'm not I'm not choosing these theories these texts these arguments because they're museum choosing them because they should challenge you know because I think you can do it I think and the idea is that you're competitive you should increase as a result of taking this course right to these forums three-hour great places to work out the nuances of these theories along with your fellow classmates and so if you're stuck if then the forms are a great place to say I I really don't understand what Aristotle's are doing and book two section 4 and can somebody help me interpret this passage quote the passage I think it might be this but any help would be much appreciated or something along those lines that's a great way finally your points for asking questions I guess you know the test came up end up the answers but on the forums you can doesn't ask a question and you get points for it that's completely valid forms I don't care if you start a new topic or respond to somebody else's topic and you know have to do both you can do either/or alright but I track both you get points for both that sort of thing so yeah that's the idea so those those that's where babies come from in the course right three tests in the 30% each it's six questions at 5% kind of thing these are substantial questions too I technically asked you to explain an idea and make a distinction or something along those lines and so the questions will be questions that you'll have to think carefully apart break down into their hearts and make sure that your answer answering completely kind of that the sentences paragraphs that sort of thing you're never back on the first page where it said you have to learn how to write well in order for that to occur I've gotta have you right now it's got to read what you broke and I've got to make sure it's clear and I've got a coach you a little bit with regard to your ability to write that has correct ideas so is that that that is just what I'm supposed to do like it's my dog or head so I have no choices it's belongs to course has to identity that's the tests and then the forums is like practice times for that and they have here with the forms is that your post should be substantially or post should be timely or your post should be frequent all right so posts like I agree this is stood that with no additional qualification I when I'm reading through this and I'm looking for you know science that you've read the material on our track to understand interior the signs that you are listening to arguments and thinking through them as you're responding to and so these are the sorts of things that I'm looking for the forums the interesting thing with the forums I leave them open all semester they closed December 13th at 11:55 yeah that's five minutes to midnight the forum so like next week when Socrates goes up it's gonna stay open all that time good so conceivably you could do the forms later in the semester that's a section of your grade I like you to have control over great up until the end all right but I noticed if everybody is December 12th and 13th doing all of the forms I'll be reflected in their grade because really the spirit of the thing there's that word again and it is that this is supposed to be one raw long-running conversation amongst yourselves about the material I posed very infrequently other good ways to interact with these forms include examples that illustrate right you'll see and mean I explained things using comes with and Curious George these days I've got kids it's just what's odd okay hate you know it doesn't have to be highfalutin the kind of examples I'm not asking you to engage with off on parrot theater in order the t's know that he is or anything along those lines bizarrely Bugs Bunny is then interesting philosophers Elmer hate in his own right and or can be if you're Rita would the from a certain angle right so they don't use examples from your life that's something your little brother or sister was saying the other day something that happened at work so these are good ways to engage minimally you should post once for each of these these forums and a quick note about minimums that if I'm saying minimally I'm telling you how you gonna see - and do more if you want more okay don't just do the minimum so that's forms if you have any questions let me know that I have a discussion or a warm content policy as well the idea is keep it topic we'll keep it classy alright questions about the course question conversations over weekend it Pleasant priests niceties that sort of thing should this is an academic resource secondly given that it's an academic resource it's essentially public to the course and the code of conduct kicks in right so I will accept no and tolerate no defamatory derogatory ad hominem sort of a tax write on this this is for right posts of that nature will be removed and sanctions will be applied in severe cases of Mego Dean of Students office and so that is keep it on topic and the Socrates forum is for discussion of Socrates for example and keep it classy remember that you're having an argument about ideas not an argument with the person all right so attacks against people are completely unacceptable all right so Danny that's that's the forms classy topical okay and the tests all right I've already gone over much of what's going on the tests like I say sentences and paragraphs point form responses are useless because I have to interpret a point for response and the ideas that you're supposed to be communicating clearly and effectively about ideas that and we're ordnance and so if I have to interpret in an extreme kind of way know what you're saying I have to do too much two point four in order to make it mean something believe me I've got my own point form notes that I have to interpret too much or to write sentences paragraphs all right and generally I say a minimum of one paragraph and then I define what a paragraph is and the idea is if you want more than a c- do more it's probably two paragraphs of response I ask you to do two things in these questions paragraph one first thing you're doing paragraph two second thing you're doing right that sort of thing these will be substantial you're gonna be reading a lot you're going to have to it plan your time accordingly so with regard to these tests the ideas give yourself lots of time to engage with one and the people that wind up in trouble are the people that have an hour before it's due and type off you know three sentences per response and that's just not going to be enough I can't see nobody succeeding over that so those are the section tests all right so that's what great you want okay one of the policies almost almost I've got a big policy on plagiarism here I'm going to say words on each and every one of the assignment videos about plagiarism but nonetheless plagiarism a plagiarizing the work work of others is when you use somebody else's work or any is without giving that person crap you know I've seen books taken out of lockers for this I've seen Dean's fired over this right we like to go haha copper plated arising isn't that silly a slap on the wrist move on repair now it's theft what it is is theft and it's theft one its it's illegal because there's intellectual property law that governs and in this particular topic Plus on top of that it circumvents the evaluation sort of structure for this course my job is to see what she wonders hand of this material if what I get is not your words your ideas your work I can't grade what you've given me I can't there's just nothing to grade and because you haven't shown me what you know you you've grabbed something off the internet or of somebody's dissertation or something along those lines it slapped it on a page and handed it in as though it's your own so for this reason my contract stipulates that I am an adequate judge of your understanding of this material but contractually I'm not allowed to determine authorship you know my contract says I have to take the plagiarized material and frankly I I can tell the difference between plagiarized material and not plagiarized material it's you know I've got a wacky success for this although it's like I'm a bit spider net being being being or as you'll see Socrates did it Socratic day-long chirping in my ear and it stands out like a sore thumb yeah you want to think it's being clubbed but that's not clutter yeah so what I have to do is take that material and turn it into the Dean of Students office and then their experts come through and determine whether or not it's a case of plagiarism and if it's determined that it's a case plagiarism severe sanctions up to include an including suspension from the University will kick it at the school are possible all right so now I've got a zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism your work should be your own work my contract says I just have to take your stuff and passed on to the people who determine this but I get to make course policy and this is to help you with cause benefit analysis if it's determined that it's a case of plagiarism that's it for the course that's it you fail you just failed the course that's disturb before the Dean of Students office in the academic review board it gets dirty and and is they have a whole litany of possibilities that they can and so the idea is finger by finger wag don't do it you see what's just happened here is you I don't know you at all right he's not done and the fact that I've had problems with plagiarism in the past has put me in a position where I need to accuse you even though you haven't done anything I'm sure you're all nice people this is all moot if I don't have a case of plagiarism this doesn't apply to you please make this not apply to here it is what I'd say each and every one of the policies that are on in the policies section on page 2 of your syllabus are there because I've had problems in the past and so if these don't apply to you then they don't apply to you but it's best to have a policy and just so it's up front and you know not to do it or what will happen if you do do it repeating what a philosopher called teleological or and oriented weathers you do this the same it's that so that's the first one and by the way if you're freaked out about what plagiarism is and how to avoid it what's required for you of you well first off the big quotation from there there's a footnote and I got that just from this do man book right you can go read it there the second footnote that's there if you're unsure how to properly save your work or what's required from you with regard to this important academic integrity issue please avail yourself to the sacred program through the academic writing center now and I've given you a link since your online students that should be easy peasy for you this is an online sort of tutorial about how to properly cite your work and have they avoid plagiarism I've done it and I've done it right I've gone through a lot of offense and it was pretty good I just recently published a dissertation with close to 900 footnotes that's the thing about you know it's I I have them buy books for the course Oakland University who's got a big honkin library academics use books all the time I haven't moved in yet so I don't have it looks here I usually show people my bookshelves and these are all this is all there for you to use you just have to jump up and down way through your arms around and say hi I'm using this and just be alone together that's the idea so that's plagiarism missed assignment policy I'll do this plain language you've got the policy right there I'm the first to understand that life happens life happens I've got twin girls and a mother of some health issues I'm an international commuter things happen and your lives are complicated you probably mostly most work and Oakland's a commuter campus we're depending on information technology and that sort of thing I get life habits sometimes the systems we depend on don't work and I'm more than happy to work with you but I have to have a policy about this otherwise people take advantage in the unfortunate event that you miss an assignment dude in due date they do this serious illness or death in the family or God is or something along those lines I had a cat pass away and I took a week off school times these things these things have and I get it and you have to notify me right extensions or lane assignment submissions this is a conversation that we've got enough you have to notify me preferably before the due date we'll work something out and or within 12 hours of the due date or deadline otherwise I can't offer an extension the reason that that is there is frequently I would have people start a course in the fall you know beginning of October's your first assignment you know beginning of December I get an email from the student oh by the way I haven't written the first test yet what can I do that but you cannot okay it's the thing right because I asked to have an assessment key and everybody else in the class has had their feedback all right and it's a horrible way to go through the course because this material builds upon itself and you need the feedback that's that's why you haven't just got if the course is expensive the books are comparatively cheap and you just want to read the books go to buy the books and you're taking the course because you also want the instruction and the university credit but please if if life happens you'll find the very accommodate I get it I get it and but you just have to work with me if you want me to work with you okay all right the Senate submission it's your responsibility to make sure I get it right and there are a couple of things that tend to break down you're new to Moodle that sort of thing you want to make sure that it maybe maybe you don't know how to use Moodle and you don't know how to submit an assignment there right it's on you to make sure I get your assignment screen mode and it's just it you know I once I have it I've got responsibilities your responsibility is to get it to me all right if you're worried about Moodle if you're worried that little is buggy there's my email address email me a copy of your assignment that way you're sure I've got second way things break down and make sure I've got the final complete and correct document your English homework will not be an acceptable submission for your first test or any of your tests right so frequently it's it so it's bill 101 or Phil 1100 now I guess do test one kind of thing I open it up and it's an analysis Focker all right well I'm interested in that yeah it's an interesting read to die like Faulkner kind of thing just it doesn't it doesn't address the questions I asked about Socrates and Plato so it's your responsibility to make sure I get the right file and then I get at the file all right that's that's just what has to and that's why you shouldn't be doing this at the last minute I give you a lot of time make use of that time and so that's the idea right and if something happens let me know I will sort it out so assignments email a couple of things about email sometimes my wife emails me from the next room and I don't get it for four hours it's not like a text I don't get it immediately and oh by the way no I'm not giving in my phone you cannot tax pay but nonetheless email it's not an instant form of communication sometimes it just gets lost in the clouds for a period of time that finding comes out right the best way if you want immediate response is to come see me at my office hours because a good typist might type a hundred words that I'm talking at about 240 words per minute and so that that that is the the best way right I'll do my best to answer in a timely but one three online courses plus an on-campus course high volume of electronic communication so I I do fall behind from time to time right secondly sometimes I have ten or fifteen emails that are all the same question in those cases I go into Moodle and I email everyone that's what I do when everybody gets a response to that question because if I've got ten of those questions there are probably 40 people with the same question and that's closing on a third of my students right so everybody gets a response to that question if you don't need it he'll eat the email if you do need it oh that was handy thank you for answering that question and off you go the point is I'm not ignoring you what I'm just trying to do is be efficient yeah so that's that's the thing one last thing about email Oakland University likes to own things right so you'll find I'm emailing you from a know you either eat email address Oakland University wants all official course correspondents to go through their email server right so at Oakland PD you is what I am supposed to be replying to technically if email from me calm or hot male or female or something one of those saying let's believe use pop man I've got a yahoo address anyhow if I get an email from an auto you email address pertaining to the course technically I'm not even supposed to reply to it's a funny thing about like character points a in existing with within systems they they don't seem to care about the individual they care about supporting the system and how well the system functions right so anyhow welcome to the system give that over you email address up and running and use it for course correspondence over on that subject I I'm going to have all of these forums and as hit up so that any time is gonna be posed to the forum you get an email about that post the forum I get them all - and that's how I read them all so I've read every last one of the forum posts though I post very infrequently myself and it's your it's your roughs workspace so anyone that's email and you're likely to get a high volume of emails with regard to this course as well I've already said the discussion forum content policy keep it classy keep it topical that's the idea there and then finally extra credit no yeah there will be no extra credit in this class and try to lay things out so that you've got a lot of control over your grades right up until the end great up and for the last minute of this class and it's 10% and 30% that's 40% of your grade that you will have control of rate up until December 13th at 11:55 p.m. on the course ends I'm more than happy to help you through this course but there is simply not time in a semester for for extra credit assignments and if I say yes to you I have to say yes to my what do I have 1520 students because I'm over enrolled I have to look at 120 of these extra credit assignments and I don't have time there's not time a semester I'm going to be struggling to keep up with the work as it is and so go in knowing that there is no extra credit and for this course there's credit for this course and if you work with me I'll work with you but no additional assignments no resubmissions of assignments no etc etc because there's not time and I can't just physically don't have enough time yeah so that's the course that the your due dates your first due date is October 9th banana new second due date for the test - is November sex plenty the third due date final due date is December 13th by 11:55 p.m. I try to give you the whole day there that's within the exam period I'll try to give you good feedback I take a lot right when I look over these assignments especially for the first one so you'll know how to improve the next time I try to be therapeutic with that if I'm typing a lot that doesn't be not angry okay it means I'm trying to help you and the discussion forums you will see those popping up next week and this week we will see in the tentative schedule that's September 6th through the 9th you'll have the syllabus which is now the overview which I'm giving you and the general historical introduction to philosophy which will lead another video shot in my living room which is green yeah anyhow that'll go over the pre-socratic philosophers would give you more of a general introduction to philosophy for some reason I made this video very long but nonetheless that's what we are talking about next week starting September 10th through 23rd the the book that we're reading is plays five dialogues the sections titled apology in the crate oh you'll have my Socrates video a video from rick roderick interesting guy they're old but they're they're really interesting I tend to think and one other philosophy a guide to happiness Socrates on self confidence which is this funny little british philosopher by the name of the land of atomic unto these things for the BBC the it's there there's a metaphor he uses in there that i like and want and to get introduction to socrates even though he's funny and so the note also about the videos for this course these videos are required content for in it they're like coming to lecture and this is what we'd be doing an elector all the first day minute so if we met once a week that sort of thing you'd beginning of halfway earlier right now there's going to be a short video as well so that's the work so if you have any questions do send me an email and have good days one for your GP thank you | grantyocom | UCz9rUQg_VWiKQTEx6y-CQgg | 2017-09-05 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 11,749 | 62,603 |
jkF3TfQfBwE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF3TfQfBwE | What Do You Don't Know About Alexander Hamilton | foreign was not born in the United States he was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1755 or 1757 the exact date is unknown Hamilton was orphaned at a young age and was forced to work as a clerk in a local Trading Company to support himself Hamilton was a key figure in the American Revolution and served as an aide to General George Washington during the war Hamilton was a prolific writer and wrote many of the essays that comprise the Federalist Papers which argued in favor of the U.S Constitution Hamilton was a proponent of a strong federal government and was instrumental in establishing the United States Treasury Hamilton was involved in a scandal when he had an affair with Maria Reynolds the wife of a prominent New York City businessman the Scandal nearly ruined his political career Hamilton was killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 The Duel was the result of a long-standing feud between the two men Hamilton was one of the founders of the New York manumission society which was dedicated to the abolition of slavery in the United States Hamilton was a vocal opponent of slavery and believed that it was morally wrong however he did own slaves himself at various points in his life Hamilton's face appears on the U.S dollar 10 bill which was first issued in 1929. | CelebsThings | UCuEDMNAs_89HeO8iYFKcjkw | 2023-03-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 233 | 1,301 |
9WxHcqbil9U | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WxHcqbil9U | All NEW Weapons Pack a Punched ~ Rampage Shotgun & Switchblade X9 SMG | hey guys it is to Pro or Adam and today I'll be going over the two new weapons added to zombies today of course these weapons were added in at the beginning of the current operation and those weapons are the rampage fully auto shotgun and the Switchblade SMG soul I can everybody get where I go over new weapons I'll be talking about the non PAP version any PAP version and then I'll tell you guys what I think of that gun and if it's worth using so we're gonna go ahead and start things off with the Switchblade SMG and one quick thing since I don't have these guns unlocked I cannot view with any of the attachments in zombies so I'm assuming they all have kind of these standard attachments like extended mags and fast mags things like that so for the Switchblade SMG I actually got this gun on my first hit from the box and I had it in these earlier rounds and the Switchblade for an SMG in the earlier rounds it's a pretty decent weapon honestly a lot of the guns here in po4 zombies non paps aren't anything crazy the Switchblade is kind of like a normal SMG the clip is a little bit short especially since this thing shoots so quickly so extended mags so he's lucky must have for this gun and again pretty much all guns and zombies but for the non PAP version I think these switchblade is kind of like a normal SMG it doesn't really stand out compared to the other ones when you pack a punch this thing it's actually surprisingly good I really wasn't expecting it too much from this gun just in general going into this update I was expecting the rampage to be the more dominant of the guns and he's witchblade just like Zeo mp40 from the previous weapons updates it actually really surprised me the switch point is actually a really good SMG it's one of the better smg's in the game there's a great job with this weapon the clip goes 240 and one thing worth mentioning here is I am using a bandolier so I don't know how much ammo you gets without bandolier so probably just use bland a leader all the time because it gives you more ammo which is always nice but these switch lady it kills zombies really quickly it is very effective against gladiators or heavy zombies and absolutely melted the blight father which was really surprising so the Switchblade of taga punched I don't know if I can say it's the best SMG in the game there aren't a ton of really good SMGs when I look at the SMGs D mx9 is pretty good the Spitfire is is decent the mp40 is good and the Switchblade is definitely up there as one of the better SMGs again rocky extended mags and more attachments will definitely make this thing a lot better the last gun I'll be going over is the rampage a shock and ice is pretty much the spas-12 from bo1 and the rampage is a fully automatic shock and I think they'll only fully auto shotgun here in BO for zombies I don't know if the sg-12 is fully auto Tiger Fox I'm not sure anyways the rampage non path owls walking this thing on a round twenty and it wasn't great at all but then again a lot of guns are pretty bad on around twenty nan paths here in BO for now one thing I did notice though is the ammo count was insultingly low on this thing I had bandolier on and I think I had 90 shots in reserve and eight shots in a clip so the ammo for the non PAP version is absolutely horrible for a fully auto shotgun extended mags is an absolute must on this thing when I packed the rampage I was just as surprised as I was when I packed the Switchblade but not necessarily in a good way I was really expecting this gun to be the better of the two new weapons and the rampage is you know it's okay it's definitely not a bad gun but it's not as good as I was hoping it would be so the first thing once again is the ammo for a fully auto truck and pocket punch the ammo is way too low I bandolier on and I think I had like 220 to 10 shots and reserve which is not enough you burn through that so quickly damage wise again it's not bad it's actually pretty decent but to me it doesn't really stand out that much compared to the sg-12 or the MOG when you're killing normal zombies if you're getting headshots this thing will absolutely melt the zombies body shots not so much against the gladiators it reminds me of time of the sg-12 I think it's e 12 still might be a little bit more efficient and it gets a blight father nothing all that crazy so the new shock and the rampage is an okay shot coming for looking for a shotgun that is better than the other two or stands out more than those two this is definitely not that gun so are these two new weapons I'd have to say that the Switchblade is the better of the two weapons the rampage again is not a bad gun it's just not really that much better than the other shotguns in this scheme already as for the switchblade it actually kind of stands out in the SMD category and it's actually a pretty fun and unique gun to use but you guys know the comments below which gun do you think it's better one more the thing a lot of mention and this has nothing to do with the new weapons this is one thing I wanted to kind of add in here for those of you that might have not noticed since the new updates all of these signature weapons now give 25% more XP per kill so if you have any of those weapons make sure to go in and select the mark 2 version of that gun and then you'll get that XP bonus which immediately nice for ranking up fast especially during double xp weekend besides that guys the video drop a life subscribe for a ton of VO for zombies content and I'll see you guys in the next one peace out | ToProForuGames - Atom | UCJZ21Jur6TtE0XSFOvCx9hg | 2019-02-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,094 | 5,562 |
-2SqqGG2EIY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SqqGG2EIY | National Reconciliation Week CBF acknowledgement of country | hello my name is Ian Han I'm the president of the community broadcasting foundation but most importantly I'm the already automatic and I happen to be living in Melbourne in the shared country of the wyvern we run tree and the burner on people I'm also a stolen child this week is national reconciliation week and an important day this week is sorry day it's an important week an important day for all of us to share who we are what we're about and how we can make a greater future together in national reconciliation week the community broadcasting foundation acknowledges the lands that we live and work on and pay our respects to elder's past present and emerging I mean Stannis Street CBF CEO and I live and work on the land of the wrongful people of the Kulin nation hi I'm Georgie and I live and work on Josh our own country I'm Dean and I live and work on boon wurrung and were under a country I'm Liz and I work on our andriy country hi I'm sue and I live on Tangerang country hi I'm Philippa and I live and work on one dream country the CBF is proud to support our First Nations broadcasters and stations who tell the stories of Australia in language and on country we're in this together I'm Tracy and I live and work on one room and were laundry country the community broadcasting foundation is an important partner in national reconciliation week to tell the stories to provide the discussions and keep bring people together about how we take a straightforward | Community Broadcasting Foundation | UCllRHnKkNniwa6hSWr3uHlQ | 2020-05-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 271 | 1,471 |
XHxnZ1bOm0c | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHxnZ1bOm0c | Archipelago Sea | Wikipedia audio article | the archipelago see finish Tsar is to marry Swedish scar guards Haven is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Allen within finished territorial waters by some definitions it contains the largest archipelago island group in the world by the number of islands although many of the islands are very small and tightly clustered the larger islands are inhabited and connected by ferries and bridges the åland islands including the largest islands of the region form an autonomous region within Finland the rest of the islands are part of the region of Southwest Finland varsa de soie me the archipelago sea is a significant tourist destination topic geography and geology topic the archipelago sea covers a roughly triangular area with the cities of Marie ham 60 degrees 5 minutes 52 seconds north 19 degrees 56 minutes 23 seconds east you see Cal punky 60 degrees 48 minutes four seconds north 21 degrees 24 minutes 50 seconds East and Hank out 59 degrees 50 minutes 0 seconds north 22 degrees 58 minutes 15 seconds east at the corners the archipelago can be divided into inner and outer archipelagos with the outer archipelago consisting mainly of smaller uninhabited islands the total surface area is 8300 square kilometers 3205 square miles of which 2,000 square kilometres 772 square miles is land the archipelago has a very large number of islands the exact number depends on the definition of the term Island as the size of the patches of dry land in the area varies from small rocks peeking out of the water to large islands with several villages or even small towns the number of the larger islands of over one square kilometer within the archipelago sea in provinces of åland Isles in southwest Finland is 257 whilst the number of smaller Isles of over zero point five hectares as about 17,000 700 if the number of smallest uninhabitable rocks and scary's is accounted 50,000 is probably a good estimate in comparison the number of islands in Canadian Arctic Archipelago as 36,000 563 Indonesia has 17,500 eight islands according to the Indonesian naval hydro oceanographic office the Philippines have 7,107 islands the islands began emerging from the sea shortly after the last ice age due to the post-glacial rebound the process is still going on with new scary's and islands being slowly created and old ones enlarged or merged the current rate of rebound is between 4 and 10 millimetres a year because the islands are made of mainly granted and nice - very hard types of rock erosion is significantly slower than rebound however due to its southern location the effect of post-glacial rebound is smaller for example than in Kivar can finish meringue cuckoo further north the sea area is shallow with a mean depth of 23 meters most of the channels are not navigable for large ships there are three crater-like formations in the archipelago one of them lump arne and alan is a genuine impact crater 60 degrees 8 minutes 22 seconds north 20 degrees 7 minutes 37 seconds east that two other formations are intrusions the more prominent of these is the AVA intrusion in the municipality of Brando which is easily notable in satellite photos and high-resolution maps 60 degrees 28 minutes 19 seconds north 21 degrees one minute zero seconds east the other similar formation is in fianc ker between the main islands of houts Kerr and iniya 60 degrees 18 minutes 25 seconds north 21 degrees 22 minutes 18 seconds east topic administration topic the islands are divided between the region of Southwest Finland and the autonomous region of åland the border between the regions runs roughly along skiff at Kitty and Finnish a relatively open sea area together with the islands near the coast of Sweden the area forms a euro region the main ports in the area are Turkey on the continent and Murray ham on the åland Islands the åland region is autonomous and demilitarized it has its own regional Parliament and has Swedish as its sole official language the regional parliament has power over wide-ranging matters including health services education environment and postal services monetary and foreign policy are handled by the Parliament of Finland the president of Finland has in theory right to veto the laws passed by the åland regional Parliament the eastern part of the archipelago is defended by the archipelago sea naval command which has its main base in Turku the defence is based largely on naval mines and coastal artillery both are effective in the archipelago where the dense clusters of islands severely limit the manoeuvrability of invading vessels the autonomous region of åland is demilitarized the Finnish Defence Forces are not allowed to enter the area in peacetime in times of war the FDF has the duty of defending the åland islands due to international treaties starting from the Allan crisis which resulted in Finland securing possession of the islands while becoming obliged to protect the islands neutrality and its residents are exempt from military service although they can volunteer to serve in the army topic municipalities topic the archipelago is divided into 30 municipalities grouped in the autonomous region of åland and in the historical provinces of VAR Sanae Swami and Osama the municipalities in Allen tend to be quite small with the municipality of sadhana having only approximately 100 residents Island municipalities in varsity swami coastal municipalities in varsity swami which also includes some islands island municipalities in alland coastal municipalities in ossama which also includes some islands Hanko raised berths archipelago continues further to the east in osama but hanko is traditionally seen as a dividing point between the archipelago sea and the Gulf of Finland topic demographics topic the number of permanent residents on the islands is roughly 60,000 with 27,000 of them living in Allen also outside Allen most of the area has been more or less monolingual II Swedish speaking now officially bilingual with a Swedish speaking majority the northern part of the area is monolingual II finished speaking throughout its history the population of the archipelago C has varied significantly the population increased until the first half of the sixteenth century after that the population went into decline as the carrying capacity of the environment was reached in wars and pestilence took their toll on the people in the nineteenth century the population increased sharply as new more efficient fishing methods were introduced in the 20th century the population went into decline again especially on smaller islands due to rapid urbanization many smaller islands became completely uninhabited during the recent decades increasing number of summer residences in the archipelago have revitalized some areas many fins have summer residences on the islands in the area known for its natural beauty due to this the population of many islands can double or more during the summer although having a summer cottage in the archipelago is more common among the Swedish speaking the Swedish speaking are a small minority on the mainland and so most summer residents are finished speaking in contrast to the permanent residents called Tyrande the official summer residence of the president of Finland is on the island of Ljubljana in nan Tolly an anomalous feature in the demographics in the archipelago as the number of twins the tendency for non identical twin births as partly hereditary and the necessary genes are prevalent in the archipelago in the 18th and 19th centuries the proportion of twin births was greater than anywhere in Europe and enormous ly higher than in continental Finland the reason for this was fishing fish as an excellent source of protein and unsaturated fat it was also available even when crops failed hence having twins maximizes lifetime reproductive success topic economy and communications topic the islands generally enjoy a high standard of living comparable to that of continental Finland fishing and fish processing our major industries the archipelago is well known for its Baltic herring and rainbow trout products agriculture is limited by the small size and rocky nature of the islands however the climate is more favorable than in continental Finland and some islands particularly rye medela are famous in the nearby continental areas for producing the first new potatoes of the summer the significance of tourism to the economy of the islands is constantly increasing the islands are linked by bridges and ferries and in case of åland a small airport the ferries are divided into two categories Road ferries lands VAG's fargy are simply fara in Swedish law or law sea and finish are free of charge and operate mostly on short routes between adjacent large islands they are wrapped like in construction and usually operated by the Road administration the small ones are cable ferries cable Foggia and Swedish lossy and finish bigger ones do not use cables and are called Lauda and finish the other fairies for Bendel's affair Deegan Swedish nasal is in Finnish are more ship-like in construction are operated by the Maritime Administration and may charge a small fee they operate on longer routes covering several smaller or more distant islands there are also large commercially operated cruise ferries connecting the Finnish cities of Turku and Helsinki to alland and Sweden during cold winters official ice roads are established between some islands it is also common to drive on ice two islands lacking official ice roads this greatly eases transportation as it makes it possible to simply drive a car or even a heavy van if ice is very thick from the continent to the islands on the other hand during spring and autumn there is a period of thaw men for in Swedish Keller eco and Finnish when the ice is too thin even for walking but too thick for boating this can leave some islands lacking a pier for large ships isolated for days or weeks access is only by hydro copter hovercraft or helicopter many important shipping lanes cross the archipelago sea navigation has made hazard by the labyrinth an archipelago varying depth and numerous carries for this reason the islands are dotted with lighthouses of varying sizes and navigational marks maritime pilot services are maintained by the state topic Archipelago ring-road topic the most inhabited islands in the eastern archipelago in southwest Finland are connected by the archipelago Ring Road there are approximately 160 to 190 kilometers 99 to 118 miles of public roads and 30 to 50 kilometres 19 to 30 1 miles of waterways along the Ring Road the city of Turku is usually considered the starting point of the road the route goes through following municipalities villages islands and island groups there is also a shorter version of the route the so called small ring road which utilizes a ferry connection between rye Medela part of nan Tolley and nagu skipping numbers 4 to 11 in the list above the length of the small ring road is approximately 125 kilometers the ring road is usually traveled by car or by bicycle most of the ferries along the road are free but ferries between house Kerr and ennio charge a small fee it is possible to cover the Ring Road in one day by car but usually travelers spend at least one night along the way approximately 20,000 tourists traveled the ring road every year the main tourist season is from June to August the principal tourist attraction a scenery in nature along the way but significant sites also include the Luo hasari Manor and several medieval churches topic culture topic the culture of the archipelago resembles that of the Swedish speaking coastal areas of Finland many features of typically Finnish culture such as the popularity of sauna have become ingrained in the culture of the islands there are however several subtle differences maples are an essential part of the Midsummer Festival in the archipelago but not in continental Finland on the other hand the continental Finnish midsummer tradition of lighting bonfires has been introduced to the archipelago relatively recently based on the languages spoken the archipelago can be divided into three parts the åland archipelago in the West has almost completely Swedish speaking the Abal and archipelago in the south is mostly Swedish speaking and the northern archipelago is finished speaking because Christianity spread to the islands before the mainland the churches on the major islands tend to be relatively old dating from the 13th 14th and 15th centuries with the oldest ones in alland more than 80 percent of finns are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and this proportion is even higher in the archipelago as the area doesn't have an Orthodox or Catholic parish the culinary culture of the archipelago resembles continental Finnish cuisine naturally there is a greater emphasis on fish particularly Baltic herring salmon and rainbow trout the island are also famous for traditional dark bread distinguished by the use of buttermilk syrup and malt among the ingredients the main dish of the Christmas dinner is usually a northern pike in contrast to the ham which is eaten in mainland Finland every Christmas the fishermen of korppoo deliver a pike for the president's table topic nature and conservation topic the islands provide a unique and diverse environment for wildlife the bigger islands resemble the coastal regions of continental Finland whereas scary's have a radically different environment smaller islands are devoid of trees but still Harbor a rich plant life the environment is sunny has a relatively long growing season and is fertilized by guano on the other hand nearly constant wind and thin or non-existent soil limit plant growth the very low salinity of the Baltic Sea makes splashes of seawater more benign for plant life while most of the islands are rocky some are actually extensions of the SAP a selca ridge system and thus composed of terminal moraine such islands include Oro and germ o the flora and fauna in these islands is more diverse than in the rocky neighbours the conditions can vary radically even within one small island due to the features of the rock on which the islands are based there may be small patches of freshwater bogs ponds of freshwater ponds of brackish water bushes Meadows barren rocks when beaten shores and sheltered coves on an island only a few tens of meters in diameter many plants have altered phenotypes due to the environment for example junipers on small islands grow only to a height less than 0.5 meters 1.6 feet but can cover several square meters in contrast to the terrestrial and coastal ecosystems of the islands the sea itself has a relatively low biodiversity the reason for this is the brackish nature of the water the salinity is only 0.6% in the archipelago the salinity has also varied greatly during the past making it difficult for species to adapt however the great number of individuals indicates a favorable environment typical fish species are the Baltic herring pike whitefish perch and flounder the area is home to many species which are not found elsewhere in Finland harbour porpoise is one example of such species it is the only cetacean which is regularly cited in the northern part of the Baltic Sea the current population in the entire Baltic is estimated at 600 individuals down from estimated ten to twenty thousand a century ago another example is white-tailed Eagle which has a significant breeding population in the archipelago see rare or endangered bird and mammal species found in the archipelago also include Caspian tern greater Scop gracile and ring seal the islands are a haven for seabirds the species include mute swan black Guillemette great crested grebe and numerous species of seagulls recently great cormorants have spread to the archipelago and their numbers are increasing this not necessarily viewed as a good thing by nature lovers since great cormorants live in dense colonies which will eventually poison surrounding plant life by their excrement the greatest threat to the environment as eutrophication caused mainly by agriculture and fish farms this is a particular threat to the Baltic Sea since it is very shallow and thus has much less potential to dilute effluent from human activities eutrophication has been partly brought under control in Finland but the effects are masked by the general decline in the condition of the Baltic Sea many areas of the archipelago are protected from human activity by their sheer inaccessibility the southern part of the archipelago sea belonged to the cooperation area of the archipelago national park and there are many small nature conservation areas where landing is prohibited in spring and summer topic history topic topic prehistory topic the islands began rising from the water 10,000 years ago at that stage the Danish Straits were closed and the current Baltic Sea was the freshwater lake Angeles the water around the islands turned from fresh to brackish around seven thousand six hundred years ago as the saline water from the North Sea penetrated further to the baltic from the recently opened straits the oldest archeological finds in drags fared date back to CA 4000 BC and represent the Pitt comb where culture during that period the outer archipelago was formed by the highest points of the main islands of house gari korppoo and Nova due to post-glacial rebound the entire archipelago has risen approximately 25 meters 82 feet since enlarging existing islands and creating many more topic Swedish rule topic during the 12th and 13th centuries Sweden established its control of the archipelago sea at the same time Christianity started to spread to Finland starting from the archipelago in the adjacent coastal area the islands occupy a strategic position guarding the approaches to Stockholm Turku and the entire Gulf of Bothnia therefore they were fortified by the Swedish Empire during the Middle Ages a royal postal route used to go via the northern islands in the 16th and 17th century in 1808 the war of Finland broke out between Sweden and Russia in April Russian troops occupied the archipelago including Allan soon after the local residents enraged by the confiscation of ships rebelled aided by troops from Sweden the archipelago was cleared from Russian troops in May the Swedish troops then used the islands as a staging area for the recapture of continental Finland the archipelago remained in Swedish control until the end of the war but in the subsequent Treaty of Fredrick sham in 1809 Sweden was forced to cede the area along with rest of Finland the archipelago sea became part of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire topic Grand Duchy of Finland topic during the Crimean War an anglo-french force act and destroyed the Bombers in castle in the Allen Convention of 1856 the Allen side of the archipelago was demilitarized the Russians moved troops back into the area in 1916 and for the next five years there was either Russian or Finnish military presence in Allen topic independent Finland topic Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917 shortly after the Swedish speaking inhabitants of the åland islands in the western part of the archipelago appealed to Sweden to annex the islands the request received mixed support in Sweden but led to the Allan crisis the League of Nations was called in to resolve the situation and in 1921 the League granted the sovereignty of the entire archipelago to Finland despite the objections of the majority of a lenders however alland was given a wide autonomy and its demilitarized status was reaffirmed in 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the Winter War at the end of the war in 1940 Finland was forced to rent Hanko at the eastern extreme of the archipelago sea to Soviet Union as a military base in 1941 the continuation war broke out Finland sent troops to Allen to guard against a possible Soviet invasion which didn't materialize the Finnish army also laid siege on Hanko which was evacuated by the Soviet Union later that year Finnish troops remained in alland until the end of the war in 1944 in 1995 Finland became a member of the European Union the referendum on the membership was held separately in Allen leading to the possibility of different outcomes a rejection of the EU membership by the Islanders would have created a situation similar to that of Greenland which is an autonomous region of Denmark but is not part of the EU however the membership was accepted in both referendums topic image gallery topic topic see also topic geography of Finland topic references topic topic external links topic Archipelago trail travel guide from wikivoyage southwestern archipelago national park Turku archipelago steamship s su quebec 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J8MW5b530no | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8MW5b530no | These are the Hallmarks of a TRUE FRIEND!- Jordan Peterson with Theo Von #shorts | a friend is someone this is one of the hallmarks of a friend here's two hallmarks a friend is someone you can tell bad news to and they won't tell you why you're an idiot and they won't interfere with your suffering they'll just listen and maybe they'll suffer along with you okay so you can tell bad news to them and they won't tell you some worst thing that happened to them they'll listen they'll suffer along with you but a friend is also someone you can tell good news to and the friend will say wow in this veil of tears something good happened to you great man i'm wonderful it's rare it's unlikely good for you i hope ten more things like that happen and they're not envious and they're not jealous and they're not one up on you and if you're trying to get your life together it's actually if you're trying to get your life together and your friends get in the way that's actually real useful for you because you've now identified who your friends aren't | Profound Thoughts | UCv4VbLvMlon2u2HcZyr5Bng | 2022-03-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 182 | 962 |
ayZLN8_rCWo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayZLN8_rCWo | Brutal Business Revenge Stories | Nuclear Revenge | Business Revenge #7 | lots of innocent people ended up out of work simply because the store decided to frick over one honest guy if you like true revenge stories you found the best place for your vengeful needs in this episode we'll dip our fingers in petroleum to fuel our need for vengeance and as usual it'll be finger licking good company forces honest employee to quit and blackmail him but they forgot that he knows everything about their illegal activities so when the corrupt company lit the lighter he managed to pour gas on it followed by a story about an employee who's critical to the lab activities but still gets underpaid unfortunately for them the undervalued employee had 99 problems but taking his expertise elsewhere wasn't one of them last story in which ungrateful employers belittle and humiliate a hard-working bricklayer and other construction workers in reality he's so talented he would thrive working for himself but would he be sure to sneak into the like buttons office and fill its cabinet up with ping pong balls naturally viewer discretion is advised these revenge acts might be disturbing to snowflakes in all honesty this account is a throwaway on one hand given the time that's passed since this particular revenge happened i could probably get away with it but on the other hand there's a chance that this could come back to bite me it's not that i did anything illegal but many may argue it was morally wrong at the time and i probably could have handled the situation a whole hell of a lot better so on to the story at one point in my life i found myself bored i needed spending cash but at the same time like any typical college student i needed a job that would work around my class hours enter c corp c corp was a locally owned chain of gas stations in the southeastern part of georgia and parts of florida i forget the total number of stations but it was under 50 if that matters i applied and was given a simple clerking position where i would work weekends and two nights a week for a total of about 32 hours a week on average sometimes more sometimes less i worked there for about a year when i was offered a position to help reopen a store that was renovated after a fire with a promotion to assistant manager my hours were going to obviously change but by the same token i gained better pay and a new day shift which would help things out to be quite honest i even debated taking some time off from school to concentrate on the job as it was entirely possible i would be promoted to manager of my own store before long there were veiled hints and suggestions of the very thing happening in a few months as it were i never got that far but i'm getting ahead of myself here it didn't take long for me to start noticing some issues with the store and the company as a whole issues which i did my level best to correct we were nearing hunting season turkey and then deer and in an effort to cater to this the store started getting in several pallets of ammunition so now we had to figure out how to display the various types of shotgun shells and rifle bullets while also doing our level best to ensure things didn't get in the way it was around this time that i found myself speaking with the store manager having been called on the carpet as the saying goes for refusing to sell ammunition to a customer i explained to the manager that i had attempted to check id on the customer who refused to give it so i told the manager that i knew full well this was illegal as id was required by state law and furthermore you had to be 18 to buy them that started me on the path that would lead to my termination a few weeks later i started noticing company memos popping up in the office all that dealt with company practices regarding ammunition one even went so far as to say that it was a terminal offense to refuse a sale of shotgun shells to a customer regardless of age that one actually vanished a few days after it went up with me suspecting someone in the legal department realized the trouble they could get into with it however the flow of ammo didn't stop a week before my termination things got worse the state in question has the lottery of which the lion's shares scratch off tickets you know the type pay a buck scratch off and hope you win something now the lottery states on the back of every single ticket that the retailer who sold it must pay up to 599 dollars in winnings anything above that has to be claimed at the central lottery office in the state's capital retailers are warned that should they refuse to pay this there are instructions on how to do this with a money order then they can be fined by the lottery commission or worse imagine my surprise then when i'm written up for following a lottery commission policy and paying out on a three hundred dollar win for a customer i was told point blank that company policy was not to pay out anything more than one hundred dollars regardless of what the lottery commission said the final straw before my eventual termination though honestly i quit they still listed me as terminated came when training another cashier the very next day the count came up short by exactly 100 i refused to sign the write-up which meant the company would have to investigate it or so i thought same day the district manager called the store and made some veiled threats about calling the police over this and left me with a note that if the count comes up 100 over today he won't say anything oh hell no he didn't i waited till the manager returned from her meeting dropped all my keys on the counter and told her directly i'm done i walked out and didn't really look back i was pissed pissed at the treatment i'd been given over my time working there pissed at being called a thief pissed at what i knew the company was doing to my little community and pissed that as far as i could tell they get away with it that's when i hatched a plan of revenge first and foremost i needed to talk with a friend one of my college buddies also worked for the county sheriff office so i applied him over with some good barbecue and a few beers and then asked him hypothetically speaking what would happen to a company if it was found they were doing something illegal like oh selling ammunition when they shouldn't be or something like that he knew i'd recently left secor and the circumstances of why i left so it didn't take long for him to ask just what was going on so i spilled the beans even including the reported theft i had been accused of he was on the edge of his seat even going so far as to note that the district manager's actions itself was illegal and told me to come meet with my friend's boss the next day to give a statement so i did just that i laid out everything told about the memo about not refusing sales against state law and then gave detailed information about the dms call the incident itself and other things i had witnessed regarding illegal practices by the company though not mentioned here it took the better part of four hours to get everything told and typed out by the way the detective acted i got the impression i had either given him one hell of a caseload or broken some case right open however i wasn't really done yet i had one more call to make that one would prove pretty simple and short and involve me calling the lottery commission and telling them about the company's policy which went against the lottery agreement i was assured they'd look into things and that my information would be kept secret i just had to sit back and wait the fallout two or three weeks later our local paper ran a story on the front page talking about a multiple department sting that happened in our area the sting was investigating illegal sales of weapons alcohol and ammunition to miners in that raid c-corp had been hit hard with several of their stores being shut and several managers and district managers being arrested on various charges tied to this illegal activity the company itself was facing severe fines from the state in the seven figure range and it was being called into question whether or not they had the proper licenses to sell ammunition and firearms in the first place the only mention about what the dm had said to me came in the form of one of the investigating officers noting that the company had resorted to blackmail in an attempt to silence anyone who dared question the company policies or practices the stores did remain open but you could tell that the managers were seriously nervous about what the future held sales of ammunition and guns stopped completely and overnight though about a week after the raid by the police lottery tickets of all kinds simply vanished from the stores big signs out front simply read we do not sell lotto the validation machines were gone the scratch-off ticket areas lay empty lottery was not in the building i can only guess what happened in that case but i wouldn't be surprised if the lottery commission sent people in with winning tickets only to have those people turned away the fact that they lost their lottery sales would point to it being a serious issue at the very least better the lottery commission decided to distance themselves from the company which was already under federal investigation yes the ammunition and guns thing went federal ultimately the company was a shell of its former self about half the gas stations ended up closing due to no longer being profitable and what stations didn't close were just shells of their former selves the company eventually declared bankruptcy after a final scandal brought them another round of state and federal fines in that case they were busted for price gouging after raising the gas price per gallon to about six dollars a gallon in cities where they had no other competition this happening just prior to appending tropical storm fast forward to today it's been close to 15 years since this all went down c corp doesn't exist any longer after declaring bankruptcy most of the stores were sold off to a competitor who ended up closing all but five or six of the stores due to redundancies a whole host of honestly innocent people ended up out of work simply because the store decided to [ __ ] over one guy who wanted to do the right thing by the law and state policies several of the corporate staff were given two and three-year suspended sentences while others ended up paying personal fines on top of what the company was facing the company has become something of a warning to others about what not to do when an employee voice is a concern and above and beyond that why it's a good idea to follow the letter of the law exactly as it's written regardless of if it hinders your bottom line or not i sometimes think back on the whole affair and wonder just what they hope to achieve with that blackmail attempt some part of me thinks that the dm honestly thought it was the best option and may have even been trying to help out an employee he liked that was something that always bugs me looking back every interaction i had with the guy was a good one right up to him grooming me to be another store manager so maybe he was trying to protect me then again he could have just been the [ __ ] i assumed and that was him showing his true colors i guess we'll never know he moved out of the area a few years later and i sure as hell wasn't about to talk to him again not after everything that had happened so years ago i was working for a laboratory that did a lot of testing for the military it was a terrible job for a number of reasons despite having enormous responsibility they never gave me credit for anything in meetings with the department head dh they frequently blame me for problems that they had caused but i had solved and they could not they also hired consultants to come in and tell me i was wrong only to have the consultant say i was right and the consultants would get paid one quarter of my yearly salary for one day's worth of work i only stayed as long as i did because it was my first real job and i honestly didn't know better by their own standards i was severely underpaid hr agreed they claimed there was nothing that could be done meanwhile other people were given off schedule raises well i wasn't the only one that was underpaid there were a number of others as well but none of them were critical to the operation of the laboratory this part was most important you have to understand that in practicing my job you really need to know what you're doing specifically eventually the dh went to the director with a list of all the underpaid people i found out that my name was on the top of the list as the most underpaid person not surprising using this list the dh got permission from the director for one-time raises an announcement was made well guess who didn't get a raise this despite the fact that i had made massive improvements in some of their processes that easily saved the millions per year and their budget was just over 10 million dollars i was livid i had enough and decided to leave they hired two people to replace me at more than double my salary one of them had just graduated two weeks before from what i understand they had a lot of difficulties with keeping up the workload and the demanding tasks of the job that would have been enough for most people and maybe even for me for most of my life to just leave and let it be but leaving like this wasn't enough for me back then i wanted revenge for what they had done to me so i arranged a meeting with one of the project managers pm from the department of the military that we had done our tests for i casually mentioned to him that i had left my old job he was shocked remember how i said they never gave me credit for anything well the military pms considered me an invaluable expert and could not understand why the lab had driven me away they immediately pulled several million dollars worth of work from the lab and gave it to the competition several labs were involved because they had no confidence that the lab could provide the do the work anymore when i ran into one of the lab managers the only half decent guy there i casually mentioned my meeting with the pm and i could tell he figured out how the military knew i had left it took them years to recover and honestly i don't know if they ever really did last time i checked their web page it hadn't been updated in at least 12 years i would have been happy with a 20 000 raise ecstatic even but they weren't willing to spend 20 000 and lost 2 million dollars to start and more in the long run i started my own business and now make at least five times what i would if i had stayed there until now and more than ten times what i was making when i left i am a teacher and when i was younger i would take summer jobs to supplement my income one summer i worked for a bricklayer named jerry and heard an amazing story i worked for jerry in the mid-90s so the story either happened in the early 90s or in the 80s the setting for the story was a community of small rural towns which had only one brick contractor jerry began his career as a bricklayer working for this contractor a real jerk jerk and jerk son adult working the business with his father would harass belittle and humiliate all their employees on a regular basis no work was ever good enough and employees were told they weren't worth what they were paid not only did jerk mistreat his employees but he was equally rude to other subcontractors and to the general contractors who hired him since he was the only bricklayer in the community there was nothing anyone could do about it needless to say the turnover rate for the brick business was very high the only person that stuck with jerk and company was jerry jerry told me that his father had instilled a self-confidence in him that jerry could do anything he set his mind to do and that he should not evaluate himself according to what others said but rather by the facts although jerry was belittled by jerk and son as were all other employees jerry was becoming a very good bricklayer jerry knew he was good jerk knew jerry was good but jerk didn't know that jerry knew he was good you're still with me not only was jerry a good bricklayer he was very respectful to the boss who disrespected him jerk thought that jerry was a naive pushover who was buying his head games that would prove to be a huge mistake on his part one day jerry was doing an exceptionally good job of laying brick not only was his craftsmanship amazing he was laying brick at a high rate of speed so that he was making his boss lots of money of course jerk and son were belittling his work as though he was doing the very opposite this scenario was being observed by the general contractor of the project after work that day the general contractor asked jerry to stay behind so he could talk to him as did every other construction worker in the community the general contractor hated working with jerk general contractor told jerry that he had heard jerk and son belittling him and told him that he disagreed with everything jerk was saying he asked jerry if he had ever considered going into business for himself jerry said that he would like to do that someday general contractor then said that he would loan jerry the money to buy a mixer the most expensive piece of equipment needed to start a brick business if jerry would indeed start said business the only hitch was that jerry would need to pay for the mixer whenever he could and that he would subcontract under general contractor jerry agreed to those terms and prepared to begin his new venture jerry respectfully told jerk and son his plans and gave his notice the two mocked yuri ruthlessly and left him to scorn jerk told jerry you'll be back in two months begging to return to your job you'll never make it as a subcontractor two months later rather than collapsing as jerk predicted jerry was still in business and going strong one year later jerry's business was booming and a drunk jerk showed up at jerry's house and begged him to come back to work with jerk and son jerry you're the best employee i ever had jerry replied why didn't you ever tell me that when i was working for you jerk couldn't answer the question and jerry obviously didn't accept the offer for employment two years after beginning his entrepreneurial adventure jerry heard the jerk and son went out of business jerry said that he never intended to harm jerk and son when he accepted general contractor's offer he said that looking back on things he realized that he had become jerk's greatest nightmare i can't say that general contractor intended no harm i thought the most amazing thing about the story was how jerry maintained his self-esteem in spite of all the ridicule i also gained a respect for jerry's father who instilled an unshakable self-confidence in jerry i contacted jerry today after 20 years to let him know how highly i thought of him he reminded me that his father was wheelchair-bound and accomplished so much in spite of his handicap it was his father's overcoming huge obstacles that made jerk's words seem to be such a minor obstacle to overcome thank you for enjoying this episode which was made with artificial love subscribe to receive future episodes and tickle the like button for good karma do you have any experiences surrounding this topic share yours below i'll join the conversation and i'll be seeing you in the next one | Royal AI | UC39oSa8I6V9Fz7XVfgqRPvg | 2021-10-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,608 | 19,482 |
CWolTSqG1gE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWolTSqG1gE | Baby game | fish into the fish into the bucket [Music] drag pink clothes into the washing machine keep going [Music] keep it up [Music] drag red clothes into the washing machine keep going [Music] that's it [Music] drag black clothes into the washing machine [Music] keep going [Music] keep up the great work [Music] drag brown clothes into the washing machine great job ready that's it [Music] drag gray clothes into the washing machine wrong [Music] great job that's it you're doing a great job [Music] drag white clothes into the washing machine yay great job [Music] drag cyan clothes into the washing machine great job [Music] drag blue clothes into the washing machine ready keep it up [Music] drag yellow clothes into the washing machine yay [Music] great job [Music] you did it [Music] drag orange clothes into the washing machine keep it up yay done [Music] drag purple clothes into the washing machine | GameLove | UCie8svpwnbAwTyxQdU4n6PQ | 2022-09-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 153 | 899 |
JfkZhIhDY0E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfkZhIhDY0E | How to Transport Household Hazardous Waste to the City of Elk Grove's Special Waste Collection Cente | thermometers you once used to measure someone's temperature batteries from your ipod and video games old paints you didn't use up pesticides or herbicides you don't need anymore jammed aerosol cans that will not spray but are full all these types of waste items need to be disposed of as household hazardous waste household hazardous waste should never be thrown in curbside trash carts washed down the drain or poured on the ground the city of elk grove has constructed a special waste collection center for the proper disposal of your household hazardous waste what are household hazard displays in california leftover household products that contain corrosive toxic ignitable or reactive ingredients are called household hazardous waste and these items are the products you handle every day yard and garden products ant spray insecticides moth repellents chemical fertilizers pool and hobby products like adhesives and glues furniture strippers paint thinner turpentine many cleaners and common products to use in your home like oven cleaners wood and metal cleaners bleach base cleaners spot removers things in your garage such as automotive products car waxes gasoline transmission fluids or paint products even waste you commonly handle like used batteries fluorescent lights and bulbs mercury devices and electronic devices are banned from disposal in the trash all of these wastes need to be transported by you to the special waste collection center and here are the guidelines for transporting them it's important that you safely package and transport them materials must be packaged in sturdy non-leaking containers make sure products are properly sealed in their original containers if a product does not have its original label only label the item if you are sure of its contents do not mix products leaking containers that are small should be individually placed in ziploc bags and larger products should be placed in separate covered non-leaking containers for transport five gallon plastic buckets are available at most hardware stores and make for good transporting containers containers can be placed into boxes lined with plastic bags in the trunk of your vehicle place materials upright in your vehicle and brace them so they will not slide or tip over transport the materials in your vehicle's trunk or trunk bed away from the driver and passengers state laws limit the transportation of household hazardous waste to no more than 125 pounds of solid material or 15 gallons of liquid material per visit bring no more than 10 fluorescent bulbs per visit all medical sharps such as needles or syringes must be packaged in approved red medical containers pour all your old drugs into a ziploc bag removing all identification and transport only the bag of pills non-friable asbestos must be double bagged in six millimeter plastic bags and sealed with duct tape labeled as best as containing material dropping off your household hazardous waste is a simple process when you pull into the special waste collection center an attendant will greet you and ask what you're dropping off an attendant will verify your residence by asking to see a valid photo id such as a driver's license at the time of waste delivery if your driver's license doesn't have your current address bring in a copy of a utility bill with your correct address printed on it after showing proof of residency an attendant will ask you to sign a form then the materials can be removed from your vehicle the special waste collection center has a reused room that has products available that are new or can still be used residents must limit themselves to 10 items and only one visit per month small businesses from elk grove may generate small amounts of hazardous waste the special waste collection center is an affordable and safe way to properly dispose of typical business waste and they can schedule an appointment to deliver their waste material on wednesdays small businesses should call 916-627-3232 for questions or to make an appointment all residents of elk grove and currently residents of the city of sacramento galt rancho cordova and sacramento county can drop off waste and generally pay no additional fees when arriving at the facility the special waste collection center will be open to the public sunday through wednesday except state holidays to reach the facility from highway 99 exit off grant line and then turn right onto survey road then turn onto disposal lane and follow the signs for more information call 916-627-3232 this film was created for the city of elk grove's integrated waste department by the full experience film academy this program is offered to students in grades three through six at forex range elementary school under the direction of instructor jim bentley you can see more of these 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cITuO_SqOqY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITuO_SqOqY | Oak Street Bootmakers Brogue Cap Toe Trench Boot | In Natural Chromexcel And Leather Sole | g'day guys how you going welcome to bootlossofi and if you're new here my name is tech i come to you from wajit country in perth western australia and i recognize the traditional owners of this land and the elders and leaders past and present today i'm reviewing the oak street boot makers trench boot this version has a brogue cap toe in horween's natural chrome xl and on a leather outsole [Music] this is oak street boot makers trench boot their trench boot falls into their everyday boots category of boots and apart from special editions they make several styles between cap toes and plane toes and different types of uppers and outsoles this particular version is a brogue cap toe on the leather outsole i'll talk about the leather outsoles in a minute this is a brogue cap toe in the sense that there are brogue perforations cut into the edge of the cap toe the name of the boot itself the trench boot should give you a clue about the style of course it's a service boot so caught because it follows uh the type of boots used that were issued to service men and presumably women during the first and second world wars and as it's a trench boot i guess it harkens more to the trenches of the first world war the style is usually based on a six inch tall boot with derby or derby style open lacing quarters sewn on the outside sometimes a cap toe like this one sometimes a plain toe built on a block heel so that soldiers didn't catch the heels on rough ground and generally built using a welted construction but more of that later some service boots will have a bulbous toe box i remember my own service boots from national service having a very bulbous and thick toe cap but the more modern versions that have been the trend since the mid-2010s are generally designed on a more sleek last that flattens out that toe box while elk street boot makers make their trench boot using different leathers this one is from horween leather company based in chicago and this is called the natural chrome xl oak street boot makers is also based in chicago oak street boot makers was founded by the owner george vlagos in 2009. george is the son of a master cobbler and he grew up watching and i think helping his father in his business so he learned the skills and art of shoemaking from his youth as he was helping his father repair various shoes he noticed that modern american shoe brands were lacking in real quality and so he decided to open up oak street boot makers george has been quoted as saying that he is proud that he is preserving the heritage of fine american shoe making through thoughtfully designed and well-crafted footwear oak street boot makers is named after a short street in downtown chicago that seems to be known for a high concentration of luxury brand stores oak street boot makers don't only make different designs of boots they also make loafers and boat shoes and they're all designed to be re-craftable and last a lifetime as a sidebar i have to remark on this time in the mid mid 2010s where coincidentally or otherwise a number of entrepreneurial people either working in or interested in shoe making came to the same conclusion about the apparently sad state of american shoe brands think of connor wilson and nolan walsh who started thursday boot company in 2014. andrew sivisco who founded parker's brand in 2018 white gilmore and josh lang from grant stone in 2016. think of mark barbera who started mark albert boots in 2016 and vince romero who founded truman boots in 2014. i guess you could say that as early as 2009 oak street boot makers was uh one of the first who saw the need and the trending desire for good quality heritage style boots supporting american industry i think you can also say that this catalyst of new young boot making companies mostly selling direct to consumer on websites lit a match under the giant industries and more conservatively established companies like red wing to up their heritage boot game to meet the trend in their popularity indeed the small agile new companies have been able to weather the storm that was is the pandemic and seem to have grown in popularity supply chains aside while the older established and maybe less agile and slower moving companies who produced heritage lines and got away with maybe less focus and quality have suffered so talking about focus and quality let's jump straight in and see how these trench boots are constructed as usual i'll start from the bottom and i'll go up these boots are built on a leather outsole leather outsole seem to be quite controversial although i can't say i know why in my social media feeds there are a lot of conversations about how they are slippery and that they don't last as long as rubber outsoles there are equally as adamant opinions about how they breathe better how much more comfortable and flexible they are and how they will mold to the shape of your feet well all of that is true i think how you view leather outsoles is dependent on your past experience and how you wear your boots they are more slippery and they are more comfortable at the same time they do wear out faster than some rubber outsoles and they do flex better than rubber outsoles at the same time it's which side you draw on for what you need from your boots i wouldn't go logging in leather soap boots i would wear them to the office and if you're aware of what's on your feet on beer spilled slippery web pub floors i wouldn't wear them gardening but i would wear them in a clean factory or workshop i wouldn't wear them on a hike in the bush but i would wear them to take the dog for a walk in this case these are butyl leather soles like everything else there are different things you can do to leather souls you can leave them untreated which i think grandstone does on their souls or you can infuse them with oil which is meant to make them more water resistant and flexible or in this case you can infuse them with a butyl and oil compound now generally untreated leather soles are probably less water resistant especially once they're scratched and more slippery but contrarily less slippery when they are scratched butyl is a synthetic rubber formed from a chemical called isobutylene and small amounts of another chemical called isopropyne it's introduced to the leather in resin form with a small amount of oil the leather is immersed in an oily solution of butyl and it absorbs the compound because it's oily and it hardens in a rubbery fashion you can't successfully glue a toppy rubber layer on it i mean you can but i'm told it will eventually separate what you end up with in this beautiful leather is a grippier leather surface even after wear and it's been scratched up if i drag my hand across the sole i feel it waxy and sticky in these trench boots the leather outsole is attached to the uppers using the goodyear welted method of construction if you've been following my channel you know i've explained goodyear welter construction before but for those new to the channel i'll go through it briefly a welt is a narrow strip of leather up to two mils thick that encircles the edge of the boot in this case it goes all the way around the boot so it's a 360 degree welt some boots only have the well go around the front of the boot about three quarters or a 270 degree welt the inside edge of the welt is good your stitch to the turned in inside edge of the uppers goodyear stitching is a particular stitch by a goodyear stitching machine which sews the uppers to the inside of the welt the outside edge of the welt is then stitched to the mid and outsoles in boots where it goes all the way through you'll be able to see the stitch on top of the welt as well as underneath on the outsole as the two parts of the boot the uppers and the soles are not stitched through at the same time the welt forms a moisture barrier between the outside and the inside so more water resistant than if the boot was stitched all the way through the uppers and the sole construction together and as you can remove the outside stitching you can also more easily remove the worn outsole and replace it with a new outsole and just restitch it on without doing any damage to the leather of the uppers the heel on this boot is a fully stacked leather heel solid it's a block heel with a thick rubber top lift the top lift obviously helps with wearing down too quickly as well as with shock absorption but it is a solid piece of rubber and combined with a solid leather heel stack the boots make the most satisfactorily loud clunk fat clunk sound as you walk along a hard surface moving inside the boot and upwards apparently there is a leather midsole when the outsole is rubber day night but in this case i can't see a midsole i think the outsole which from what i can see is about five to six mils thick does for both mid and outsoles however inside the cavity formed by the two or three mil thick welt around the edge is filled by a cork layer with a fiberglass shank embedded in the gap between the heel and the ball of the foot a shank used to gives the boot rigidity and provides arch support and the fiberglass shank is airport friendly as well as suppose it is tougher steel without rusting or flaking above that is a vegetan leather insole and on top of that is a leather footbed when i got these boots i was confused as to whether it was a removable footbed the one in the right boot got scrunched up just under my arch on the first day of wear i had to remove it and then glue it down to avoid it continually shifting under my foot so i thought to do the same in my left boot but i found the footbed there stuck on with what i think is a small dab of glue that i was able to peel off and then re-glue it in myself a little more firmly staying inside the boot the external heel counter is veg tanned leather and covered by a two-piece backstay a strip up the shaft and a heel cup covering the heel counter these are double stitched the toe box is lightly structured with a leather stiffener that's covered by what i think is not a true toe cap what i mean by that is instead of a piece of leather on top of the vamp leather it's actually a toe cap sewn uh to a cut-off vamp the toe box has these bro perforations and is sewn onto the vamp with a two plus uh one triple stitch pattern i have seen reviews where they say the stitching is not straight but what the hell who measures a stitching with a minute ruler it's straight enough for me with no mis-stitching that overlaps the leather joints the lacing method is an open derby lacing system the quarters are outside sewn on with a triple stitch with open lacing flaps and eight brass eyelets no speed hooks the eyelets are not backed with washers they just star pressed pressing the back of the leather i usually find myself lacing up only to the seventh eyelet uh if i lace to the top eighth eyelet my ankles feel strangulated the laces that come with the boots are i think got it good goods rawhide laces and they are long oh boy are they long it's not my favorite method but when i tie these i wrap around the shaft of the boot the boot is lined in the toe box and the vap the lining which is leather comes along the sides of the boot almost up as far as the heel cup the shaft is unlined as is the tongue the tongue is ungussited but whether because it's pretty thick at about two mils or because of the stitching i don't get any tongue slip during wear the edges of the facings and the top of the collar are unfinished raw leather edges they are reinforced with another piece of chrome excel on the inside okay now we're up here let's talk about the leather this is horween's undyed natural chrome excel horween is a nearly 120 year old family-owned tannery in chicago and one of its most famous leathers is chromexcel chromexcel is a combination tanned top grain leather that starts with chrome tanning and then followed by a vegetable tanning process and then followed by hot stuffing the leather with a blend of oils and waxes while it's steamed the whole process takes about a month and produces a soft hardy waxy and self-curing pull-up leather what that means is that the leather is soft enough to be comfortable yet stiff enough to be hardy due to the heavily infused oils and waxes they move around in the leather and so they have that pull-up effect when you push against it this makes them naturally more water-resistant and all the oils and waxes make them self-polishing giving them a polished look without needing any real polish unless you seriously gouge the leather most scuffs and marks can be polished out with your fingers moving the oils around or at worst with a little conditioner and a brush this natural chrome cell comes out of the box a warm light honey color but like the skin that it is it will actually tan with sunlight and with wear it will darken considerably like this that is some patina capability there my pair is just over six months old worn regularly but not frequently and they've already deepened into a more mid-brown honey color i already mentioned a puzzling issue with a leather footbed and qc wise there were some loose threads at the end of stitch lines but i'm okay with both issues despite the price it's still a mid-priced boot and i don't necessarily think that some loose stitching or a missing blob of glue is a huge qc issue if these were six hundred dollar aldens or rm williams's or eight hundred dollar vybergs then i would complain all in all the boots are finished very finely for what they are essentially not a dress boot an interesting tit bit is where the trench boots are made most of oak street boot makers footwear is made in chicago but i'm sure i read somewhere i can't find it again but i'm sure i read somewhere that the trench boot is made in upstate new york in fact in the same factory where parkhurst and wolverine make their boots if so there are interesting differences between the finish on these boots and on parker's boots bearing in mind that parkhurst are providing more of a rugged vibe they're not finished as finely as these are qc wise though i have to mention the quality of the chrome excel or maybe it's a skill in the clicking that's the process of choosing the right parts of the hide to cut or click when you're cutting the parts that make up the boot if chrome excel has a fault it's embodied in the phrase chrome excel lottery people say that you can be unlucky and pick up a boot where the chromic cell has loose grain that's where the grain or the hair side of the leather starts to flex away and delaminate from the looser fibers of the flesh side when that happens you see some almost loose skin or flabby skin especially if it's from the belly part of the hide just think of man boobs versus six pack it's the skill of the clicker who chooses which part of the hide is chosen for which parts of the boot and often when they do see loose grain that part is chosen for say the shaft where any loose grain is hidden by your trousers in this case the chromic cell is perfect there is no loose grain whatsoever not even in the hidden places like the shaft or the tongue through whatever method maybe in the clicking process where maybe they actually don't use any loose grained parts of the hide or whether george simply walks over to horween in the same city and chooses hides specifically these boots have zero defect in the leather in fact despite six months of regular um but i hasten to add an interest of full disclosure not frequent wear maybe a week a month um in six months of regular wear the creasing or lack of creasing on these boots especially on the vamp is amazing in fact it deserves a close-up as you can see the creases are very fine lines phil callus from ashland leather on his youtube channel calls this a sugary break i guess because the creases are so fine and crystalline apart from some natural rolls and these fine crystalline creases there are no deep creases after six months of wear if you think it looks like i haven't worn them much take a look at the soles which shows the way i have put into them regular but not frequent over six months or so now which takes us to leather care looking after chrome excel is pretty simple if you're new to quality boots after moving from pretty standard finished footwear where the leather has been corrected or sanded and often a coat of heavy wax or other product is applied to the top and it's highly polished as a surface you may be horrified to learn that your nice smooth leather on your new boots will scuff and take up color differences and even textural differences it's what we celebrate as patina anyway chrome excel may look like your nice waxy polished dress shoes but take them for a walk and come home to a heart attack because you will bring home some scratches and scuffs it will scuff comparatively easily but it will also self-repair by just the heat of your fingers rubbing the surface to redistribute the oils and waxes inside the leather at worst you can just apply some conditioner and again with the heat of your hands or with a good horse hair brush you can rub away those marks if you follow my channel you know my go-to conditioner particularly for smooth leather is venetian shoe cream and also note that horween itself uses liters of the stuff when they finish chrome excel i've also recently been trying big four primarily because it said not to darken leather i find big four to produce a slightly more matte effect with venetian shoe cream having more wax in its composition i think either would be fine apply them after a wipe down with a damp cloth and letting it dry and then a good brush with a horsehair brush the key is never apply product to a dirty or dusty leather you'd lightly sticky paste the dirt granules into the leather eventually making them scratch and crack and weaken the leather fibers so clean brush then apply either venetian shoe cream or big four allow to dry to a haze and then brush them again with a clean horsehair brush i would not apply polish but that's me these boots are casual and they are meant to look all servicey so i'm not looking for a high shine on mine i have links to where to buy all these products in the description below just open up the description box and then scroll down as for how often i conditioned them i've only done just done these um just recently before this video after six months where i think if i'd worn them frequently like every day almost i might have conditioned them two or three months ago the indicator is how dry the leather feels with chrome excel it takes a lot to dry them out let's quickly turn to how you wear these boots and what to wear them with these are casual service boots yes you can and i do wear service boots with smart and even business casual clothes if they're dark and shiny enough i even wear them with suits so sue me i'm a rebel however these boots due to the natural chrome xl leather and how they will patina i think i'd avoid wearing them to any formal or very dressy situations while they might be alright in this condition once they darken in an uneven patina like in the photo i showed earlier i don't think you can get away with wearing them to the church or a wedding in any case though they'd be great with any casual gear other than once they patina deeply business casual so obviously good with denim of any description although because they are currently a light brown i favor light or mid wash they go well with kakichinos and brown earth colored pants and jeans the leather and look would be great paired with a rugged casual look and now let's look at sizing and fit my true size as measured objectively by a granite device not by any subjective reference to sneaker size is a u.s eight and a half in average d width most american boot makers will suggest their boots run large and recommend sizing a half size down from true indeed in red wings in ellen edmonds aldens thursdays grandstone parkers truman i wear an 8d however oak street boot makers recommended that i ordered true to size so i ordered an eight and a half d honestly ordering boots online from a company you've never tried before is a stressful business especially if you don't live in the u.s and the time and cost to deliver and then return them is substantial anyway full of trepidation i tried them on when they arrived and true to size was definitely the way to go i find the fit in these to be good on all fronts including the instep volume this is on what they call the elston last the last or the mold the boot is shaped around is snug at the heel a little loose at the waist but that's okay uh roomy at the ball of the feet hence avoiding any squeeziness and roomy at the toes with this round toe shape which i like some people call this a duckbill toe box and you can see why but i repeat i like it i don't think arch support is fantastic it's okay but it's not fantastic but the overall feel of the leather and cork underfoot is quite comfortable there was no braking required they fitted well with no pinching and they were comfortable out of the box these were the boots i pull out if i know i'm going to be standing around a lot all day or if i want something comfortable on my feet to lounge about in without being conscious that i have stiff boots on my feet finally let's take a look at price and value i've said before and i'll say it again price and value are related but not the same think of a gucci handbag pricey but do they reflect that price in real value in this case i bought these boots last november 2021 during black friday sales for us 307 dollars depending on options the trench boots sell on the website in the mid 400s i think from about 442 to 468 us dollars that's the price but what about the value well i think they're undoubtedly finely made they use really good materials that the chrome excel that from what i can see is carefully selected uh and it's thick the construction is all veg tan leather soles and heel stacks and the butyl outsole is a cut above standard leather soles even the guarded goods laces are special the elston glass is very comfortable and perhaps you want to trade some price for immediate comfort and as for customer service part of my thinking for value how's this when i first got these i oiled the rather thick and stiff laces and then i cut them down after two ways i realized that made a mistake in that they were now too short and too oily so i bit the bullet and i ordered a replacement pair of laces from oak street when i got them i actually received two pairs and a note from haley that said wouldn't want him to get lonely in a long voyage so we sent two how good is that and when i thanked them on instagram they said that it wasn't any particular sales training that's the way haley is well if they imbue their workers with that level of interpreting their business vision and that level of independent initiative to satisfy the customer with excellent customer service then to me that adds value to their brand and therefore their product no ridiculous reliance on a trendy logo like a gucci handbag but real brand value through demonstration however i need to also look at what they compete with as a styler boot they're not far off parkhurst's allen or richmond boots and also not that different from grantstone diesel boots i don't think it's fair to compare them with thursday captains because the captains are clearly an entry-level price and quality boot good for the price but not in the same category the parkhurst and grantstone boots sell for the mid 300s so there's a hundred dollar difference much as i like the brand value-wise and their finish i ask if they're worth a whole hundred dollars more in value and i can't categorically say yes i'm very happy i bought mine on sale for just over three hundred dollars i would probably unflinchingly buy them for dollars maybe even 400 but the mid 400s might be a bit too much in my evaluation of value so there you have it my review of these oak street boot makers brogue cap toe trench boots on a leather sole and in horween's natural chrome excel i hope you enjoyed this review if you did i hope that you click on the like button to help me reach more viewers and keep the youtube algorithm happy i'll also be bringing you loads more boot reviews and unboxings and maybe more brand and style reviews so if you don't want to miss them click on the subscribe below and youtube will remind you when i update something until then guys take care and i'll see you soon [Music] | Bootlosophy | UCvOnZ-BY0_XeMORFvScpSNQ | 2022-07-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,597 | 24,560 |
FLU9jz1I33E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLU9jz1I33E | PULL BACK! 💛This Is Exactly What I Learned To Do Now!! | I've I've always wondered how to deal with that I mean I want to listen to what they are saying but um they are not understanding what I'm they're not trying to listen to what I'm saying so what would you do in that situation can you answer that very briefly okay there's a line in the New Testament that's relevant to that do not cast Pearls Before Swine and what that means is that if people are not listening to you stop talking to them and that's really that is the best piece of advice that I can give you and what happens is that if you stop talking to people who aren't listening to you and start watching them instead they will tell you what they're up to but so if you have things to say say them but you find people that will listen talk to them the ones who aren't listening pull back because you're you're devaluing what you have to say by offering it to an audience that does nothing but reject it and that's a good guideline to life in general so pull back | Kendemic | UCmAun554BV4xShRWAvJwnOQ | 2023-03-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 190 | 970 |
4Y7OPwZcQgM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y7OPwZcQgM | The Power Behind the Nation (1940) | ours is a powerful nation founded on faith and equality men and women came here fleeing the oppression and poverty of the old world seeking freedom looking for a better chance in life in the new through the years the urge for independence personal and political grew into the American spirit a living force that is the foundation of our power today and urge toward wider horizons that is still pushing on bigger of mind and body we owe to inheritance from the pioneers who carved the beginnings of our nation out of the wilderness with back-breaking toil clearing farm draining swamps building their home mill and tower with Bible acts and plow braving hardship and death they settled the Great Central Valley and generation by generation pushed on across the trackless Prairie over the grasslands to the mountain through the passes to the promised land following the star of freedom they opened the way for the millions who poured in after them to settle the West link the oceans with road and finally rail in a swift Iron Horse [Applause] [Music] and so was built for us a mighty nation mightiest in the world a productive power unequaled anywhere else built up by free Americans for free American today New Yorker and California Midwest farmer Rancher of the great far west Yankee fisherman southern tobacco growers craftsmen and laborer industrial workers artists men and women in all walks of life we are shareholders in the greatest Enterprise on earth the United States of America unlimited hours tractor of our people young in heart dependent in thought and nature skilled of hands inventive industrious and creating all these go into the shaping of an American out of this great melting pot of races and people the highest class of skilled craftsmen has been developed by American Labor and Industry American Enterprise has harnessed fire and water win son and soil in produce an abundance of everything giant turbine generators motors turn the wheels of production throughout the land factory seized with steam flair with flames belch smoke can fuel roar and strain night and day to produce more and more of the vital materials and the commodities of this industrial age from the earliest dawn of civilization commerce and trade have determined a nations standard of living production and distribution are the backbone of commerce providing the jobs and goods and services for the nation in mass production this nation has no equal the automotive industry the assembly line turning out so many things so fast from interchangeable parts [Music] so vast and varied is our power to produce to me every material need of man we can glimpse only a few of the highlights of the complex picture of our industry trace here the more colorful strands that make up the endless pattern of American production and distribution the fabric of our power and plenty we have a wealth of natural resources nature's gifts to this fortunate land out of mines 70,000 of them comes cold essential for an industrial nation the source of so much of our power and strength we mined more cold using more labor-saving devices like this coal cutter than any other people this black treasure from the earth is blasted crush transported to supply power to transform raw materials into thousands of things of beauty and everyday use coal feeds the fires of Industry forging the riches of the nation with an inconceivable volume of searing heat to make steel most useful of metals molten steel pouring from boiling cauldron an inferno of white flame black smoke and few rising from stack in chimney that spells production mounting high and higher raising our standard of living as it mounts produce plenty and we shall have men never has man had the power to produce for his needs as we have that power today pits and quarries and oil fields is scourge of multitude of substance fuel copper granite [Music] building stone high-grade iron ore we have dug deeply from the earth to replenish the nation and a world in need as here in the largest open pit mine in the world tremendous masses of crude materials have been mastered making glass melting aluminium purifying heating molten copper cast roll drawn spun from thin wire to burnished cable not only in the treasure below the earth are we fortunate but reaching to the sky in soaring perpendiculars is another rich gift of nature our magnificent forests [Music] to enrich and beautify our land we must plant another tree for everyone we cut [Music] giant redwood sections on the way to the mill pine cut with precision converted into lumber by ingenious power driven machine [Music] lumber or American home countless uses for Pope wood millions of tons a year to be processed into the paper we use so lavishly by still other intricate machinery paper is invested with color and English the press of Free Press a powerful protection to a democracy is the right to information as guaranteed to us by the Constitution our press augmented by radio communicates truth knowledge and understanding to our people and to all the peoples of the world the ever-expanding scope of the motion picture that breaks through the barriers of language and Nationality to entertain to speak in the universal tongue of music and to educate a powerful medium for the diffusion of knowledge and goodwill among men and Nations to help build a peaceful world now let's take a look at our peaceful fields of fertile earth and living green lucky man the farmer grows his own groceries shares nature's bounty and Beauty rests in the shade of his own California vine or georgia peach tree by means of tractor and harvester and combine by improved machinery and tools and equipment our farm production is prodigious grain from the Middle West cotton from the South every section of the country has its special product from the Northeast rich maple sugar from the Northwest fine wool for your winter coat from the southwest hides leather for your shoes and meat and food a powerful piece in a hungry world abundant production being further increased by improved methods of soil conservation by the magic of water here a giant man-made canal detours billions of gallons to acres that never bloom before transforms them into wide expanse of rich green fields to yield a bountiful harvest a tremendous stream of food from every part of the land rolls to market on the wheels of a transportation system unequaled anywhere in the world a salute to American Enterprise engineering skill capital and labor that has built up and constantly improves our vast network of Railways highways with their fleets of trucks our system of waterways shipping canals for inland transportation breathtaking bridges and for air transport the plane an American invention that has shrunk time and distance brought continents within a night's journey of each other conquest of the air we are only beginning to comprehend its power we have put rivers to work harness the floods which I get exams of concrete and steel to make power electric power white coal ore industry River current transformed into electric current carried from power house over the miles to your house to the houses of industry electricity powers this modern robot which shapes a formless mass into delicate glass tumblers with fantastic ease and without the touch of human hand performs an unbelievably intricate task with rhythm and precision turns out the finished article by the thousand colors dyes plastics synthetics magic in the industrial arts Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of us in this age of invention and Applied Science yes since Benjamin Franklin first discovered electricity we have come a long way in mastering and directing this wizard force to make power and light but nations do not live by their material power alone our basic principles of government by the people with liberty and law our free institutions faith in God and man there is a real power behind the nation whether this American Way of life this last best hope of Earth shall endure is up to us farmer and mechanic teacher doctor businessman and banker what are we doing to strengthen our great heritage today the peace of the world depends on the stability of the United States the nation's strength depends upon the wisdom the work and the thrift of the people our security is the nation's security that is why our treasury urges us to save purity and regularly in United States savings bonds the safest investment on earth our shares in the future strength and prosperity of America the land we own [Music] [Applause] [Music] | Dаvіd Вrоmаgе | UCUqSz8Wd9Uhwh1N1T8UUiZg | 2019-04-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,467 | 8,573 |
B81YSTqzZ-k | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81YSTqzZ-k | Apathy in Psychosis - Day 28 of 100 Symptoms | this is Ned Ned nerve the schizophrenic day 28 of 100 symptoms apathy when you don't care when you can't be moved to care when you don't care to be moved it might happen to many teenagers and young adults on a multi daily basis but it also happens to people who have encounters with mental illness and psychosis apathy makes up one of the disconnects involved in schizophrenia usually acute psychosis is so excitable and frantic and motivation and willpower are typically so driven the individual is in a rush and cares a lot about their delusions and preoccupations at this point they are probably far from apathy however insert two-and-a-half to 18 months and grams upon grams of pharmaceutical drug partly purposefully designed or refined for his overall sedating qualities I was sure apathetic I went from feeling like I was really on the verge of saving the world to not giving much of a poop about anything anymore I went from afraid of corrupting my mind by watching TV at all to doing nothing but stare at the screen with a glaze in my eyes watching reruns mostly of a few shows for hours each day in the long run I can agree this post psychotic low was to be preferred to the outcome I had without medication but it was hard you know to be so sedated and drained and separated from my manic and sensory highs I did feel like nothing mattered I grew in apathy it is a kind of side symptom of the whole situation where primary effects of psychosis and medication effects kind of level a person it's a big reason people quit their medications because they want to feel something more variable and bright instead of static and dim I have found some balance and would recommend patients taking medication to stick with it be stable as possible then talk with a trusting doctor about lowering dose to feel more awake and alive however I do think that simply time and processing of the mental illness will reduce the APPA thee it isn't just a medication side-effect it's a whole complex side symptom as I said thanks for watching thanks for caring ask any questions in the comments below please subscribe and share thanks this is Ben Ned Ned NURBS a schizophrenic with day 28 of 100 symptoms bye | nednednerB the Schizophrenic | UCxip72iGwT_y_j9u_PvZTiA | 2019-04-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 398 | 2,197 |
okEai6Lq7O4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okEai6Lq7O4 | WB Games Boston | Wikipedia audio article | WB games Boston former liter binding turbine Entertainment Software second-nature and originally cyberspace Inc is an American computer game developer that develops 3d massively multiplayer online role-playing games MMORPGs turbine was founded by Johnny Montserrat Jeremy Gaffney kevin Langevin and Timothy Miller as cyberspace Inc changing their company name in 1995 to turbine Inc in April 2007 turbine released their most recent MMORPG the Lord of the Rings Online turbine was a privately held company backed by Highland Capital Partners Polaris Venture Partners and other private investors since 1998 on April 20th 2010 the company was acquired by Warner Brothers topic history turbine was founded in April 1994 by Johnny Montserrat and fellow students at Brown University as a project with the goal to create the world's largest game Montserrat was hit by a car in 1994 which resulted in a payout he used to fund the company in 1995 the company was based in his mother's house with 12 staff members they found an office in Providence Rhode Island but later moved to Westwood Massachusetts to better take advantage of the software engineers coming out of Boston's colleges as CEO Montserrat used free food and office pranks to keep staff motivated the company was originally called cyberspace because that seemed cool its name was later changed to second nature but since that was taken turbine was chosen Asheron's Call was the company's first game it was notable for being the second 3 d MMORPG following the launch of EverQuest its most notable feature designed by Montserrat was a loyalty system giving new and experienced players incentives to work together the oath was the first monster developed for Asheron's Call designed by Joe Angel after Asheron's Call the company went on to make a sequel Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings which came out in 2002 just after the first Asheron's Call expansion however after only one expansion Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings shut down in 2005 the following year mine brought out Dungeons & Dragons online storm reach early reception was positive but the game was criticized for poor solo play one year after that in 2007 turbine released the Lord of the Rings Online Shadows of Angmar which got positive reviews and was seen as a needed boost for the company in 2009 Dungeons & Dragons online was suffering a low player base in an attempt to save the game turbine replaced the traditional monthly subscription model with a free one and changed the name from storm reach to ever an unlimited many other games in the MMORPG genre have since followed this shift to a free-to-play f2p model the game was later renamed simply to Dungeons & Dragons online in 2010 turbine also moved the Lord of the Rings Online which was then on its second expansion to a free-to-play model in the same year turbine was purchased by Warner Brothers in 2012 turbine announced that they would bring back Asheron's Call to fallen kings in 2015 it was announced that development of Infinite Crisis would end immediately and that the game will be closed on August 14th the company was hit with layoffs for three years consecutively starting from 2014 while turbines focus was shifted to develop free-to-play mobile games by Warner Brothers in 2016 the servers for both the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons online would be maintained and supported turbines current projects include two mobile titles batman arkham underworld and game of thrones conquest on december 19 2016 it was announced that turbine would no longer be involved with the development of the Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons & Dragons online instead a spinoff studio under the name of standing stone games was formed to take over further development of the game with game staff moving from turbine to the new studio as part of this transition daybreak game company would become the new publisher taking over from Warner Brothers interactive entertainment it was announced not long after that though the Asheron's Call IP would remain with turbine Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2 sahlan Kings would both close on January 31st 2017 in November 2018 its parent company changed the name of the studio to WB James Boston equals equals games developed | wikipedia tts | UClqS6IYGeofUnMEBJmSzf2g | 2018-12-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 714 | 4,272 |
5E15O5UY9K4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E15O5UY9K4 | Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk | Harry Brittain | Modern (19th C) | 1/3 | chapter zero of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Britain chapter zero preface in one of the early issues of hoods annual the great humorist said in his introduction it would be very desirable if one could serve a preface as ulses treated polyphemus and knock its eye out in my own case the personal pronoun must of necessity run through the whole work although in writing it I frequently wish this could be dispensed with very probably as a result of the publication of this guide a good many of the public will be induced to visit the broads and rivers in the coming summer to any such who really come to Norfolk I wish in this most prominent page to say that all the broads are not free and that although a quiet row is not as a rule objected to fishing is strictly prohibited on private Waters piscators need not think however that they had better be on the right side and keep away alog together as nowhere in England can better free fishing be found and as a matter of fact the law of trespass need not be infringed to secure fine catchers I am ious that there may be many deficiencies in my book and although I have endeavored to give information on every point I may have left out some details which should have received attention if such there be I wish to say it will afford me very great pleasure to answer any letters on the subject from Bona fiday intending tourists merely hinting that such inquire iies must be of as general a character as possible most likely in the future I may have something more to say on our East anglian Lakeland and I should be glad to receive any information on the subject in all its various bearings Harry Brittain norid May 1887 end of chapter zero chapter one of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Brittain this LibriVox recording is in the public domain introductory perhaps the best place to get an idea of The Magnificent Heritage of waters of which we Norfolk men are so proud to boast is from Goldston pierhead a stranger to the district who takes his stand at the point I have indicated will be struck by the enormous volume of water the E brings down and which there Weds itself to the ocean enormous indeed is the only word which adequately describes the torrent of the rivers which thus find Outlet to the sea I shall have something to say very shortly but it will probably be hardly credited that the United drainage of no less an area than 1,400 square miles is represented by the year as it empties at Yarmouth the rivers are navigable for about 200 mil of their courses and are supplemented at various points by large freshwater lakes locally known as broads which are computed to cover 5,000 Acres frequent notices in all the leading daily and weekly papers and magazines have helped to make these Waters very popular of late years and the broads and rivers of norol and suffk are now firmly established as a holiday Resort several Guides of which only one can really claim to be authoritative have also materially uced to popularize The District in the present work I intend giving an account of a trip I took in My Yacht the Buttercup last season accompanied by a friend who is quite as enthusiastic on Norfolk yachting as I am I have thought it better to give all the information I can in the narrative itself as to cut the subject up and tabulate the Very ious details would constitute a task as distasteful as I anticipate my own plan will be otherwise the streams of norol and suffk which flow into the sea at Yarmouth are seven in number three of these the year wavy and bu may be considered main rivers and I will endeavor to give a rough idea of their relative positions in the order order named which the general chart accompanying this book will help to make understood the air to which all the others are tributary Rises at shipdomestic supplemented by a tiny stream coming from Loden called the Chet from reedom the year takes a sudden turn and for the rest of its course to Yarmouth runs to the Northeast the river that now claims our attention is the wavy which rising in Lam Fen becomes a navigable stream at bungi and joins the main river at bur Flats its navigable course is 48 Mi last but certainly not least either in size or interest on our list is The Bu which Springs into existence at Briston and hilston this river is navigable for craft a very light draft from buckton downwards its course is generally southeasterly till its Waters become mingled in the air at the extreme east of of braid and water at Yarmouth this stream with its two tributaries The Ant and th drains what may be called the broad District proper as by far the greater number of these Lakes are reached by means of the rivers mentioned having thus roughly disposed of the water courses I will endeavor to show how the broads are distributed although finally receiving all their Waters the year can only claim two surlingham and Rockland the loathing land District also has two Alton and fritton the North River section is as I have already said very much the most extensive connected directly with this stream is a line of broads stretching from South Walsham to roxom a distance of 10 miles the ant drains a beautiful lake called Barton and a very much smaller one named after the village of stalam from which it is separated by a dyke the TH or 100 stream receives the Waters of hickling horsey m h sounds summon wac Etc last for our consideration is the philby Ormsby and rsby section which finds Outlet to The Bu below AAL Bridge through a channel called the Muk Fleet having gained a little idea of some of the waterways of norol and suffk and made up his mind to spend his holiday thereon the reader will probably inquire where he is to go for a ship in which to make the journeys Alton norid Yarmouth and roxom are the chief leting centers and a yacht to accommodate three or four with all a necessary culinary utensils plate table linen Etc may be hired for 5 guine or £55 Shillings a week which I should add includes the man's wages and use of dingi if a large party is being made up of say 10 or a dozen the norol quy is the most suitable craft afloat these barges are as comfortable as a T's houseboat with the great added advantage of affording extreme facility for getting from place to place the charm which female Society adds to everything can also by their means be enjoyed as in all the wores separate apartments are devoted to ladies use in the main cabins I had almost written State cabins so nicely are some furnished and decorated I know of one which is actually paneled in Oak a piano is generally to be found and on the inevitable wet day a capital stove provides the good companionable friend which a float as well as a Shore is so much appreciated by Comfort loving Englishmen [Music] of course as a yacht owner I very much prefer the fun of sailing a cutter to a warry although even in the latter I have enjoyed great excitement sometimes but on one point I am bound to admit our larger Rivals beat us this consists in their ability to explore the most remote parts of the district in my own craft I can go almost everywhere but must confess myself outdone in this particular by many a wary of three or four times the buttercups tonnage the way in which the number of we Yachts has multiplied within the last three seasons is excellent proof of their popularity and a description of the best if not the largest specimen of these floating hotels may be deemed of Interest the craft I refer to is called the Zoey and is 40 tons burden unlike most of the pleasure waries she is not used for trading purposes during the winter months indeed all her o fittings are permanent fixtures six or eight persons would find ample accommodation but for a lengthen Cruise a party of six would be recommended this is however purely a matter of taste as the following details of her interior Arrangements will show the lady's cabin is fitted with two brass bedsteads with wire spring mattresses and is furnished with a wash hand stand water laid on writing desk plenty of drawers Etc should more than two ladies be in the party there are additional mattresses to accommodate the same number which fix on the cabin floor the lavatory on board is complete with every modern yacht Appliance so that the sanitary arrangements are perfect in the main hatchway a bath is fitted when required this is supplied with water from tanks on board and through a tap fixed for the purpose all waste runs into the village the main cabin is 15 ft long by 11 wide and has 6 ft Headroom in this apartment particularly luxury is combined with comfort and in fact it may more properly be called The Saloon the men's quarters and cooking Galley are at the stern the stove I should say is easily capable of cooking for 12 and are entirely separate from the rest of the vessel although communication is rendered Easy by Aid of electric Bells I have recently had the pleasure of inspecting this beautiful craft and her owner took particular pains to explain the various points to all of these I fear I may not have done justice but it will be gathered from what I have written that a trip on the Norfolk Waters in such a craft is a 10 Ed with no loss of any of the Comforts of life end of chapter 1 chapter 2 of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Brittain this LibriVox recording is in the public domain norch to LOF there's no mistake about it I am counting on my holiday this year this was the remark addressed to the skipper of the yacht Buttercup at the end of a long controversy as to vling the Yacht for certainly the 20th Time by Jack why one of the best hearted fellows in the world of course an individual of such a character deserves a very special introduction although truth to tell he should by this time be tolerably well known to the British public as he has nearly always been one of the crew in the Skippers published trips I hope therefore my readers will dispense with the usual formalities and as we are about to rough it together for 15 days make themselves as much at home on board the yacht as Jack himself the commissariat department was complete the day before starting with the exception of a supply of fresh meat etc etc which was of course prepared at home and not sent down till the last minute and as we intended to make the most of our time we elected to sleep on board the same night so as to make everything snug and be ready for action the first thing next morning I think I was the first to wake and as on glancing at my watch I found it was 6:00 I called John who was out of his birth and into the river in a little less than no time unfortunately I had a nasty headache and did not feel well enough to follow his example never mind said Jack as he rubbed himself down you'll soon forget all about it when we get underway I expressed the hope that I might and then set to work to get the breakfast things on the table whilst our man George busied himself fored in making coffee and boiling eggs a minute or two later as I stood watching George down the four Peak Jack called where's the mustard right hand uper Locker as you go into the cabin I answered and had forgotten both query and reply when presently a violent interjection from my Chum induced me to walk after and see what was the matter on looking into the cabin I couldn't help roaring with laughter at the sight which met my eyes poor Johnny in opening a tin of the beem mentioned condiment had made a nice muddle of it and his white flannel unmentionables were nearly covered with the yellow powder whilst the floor was almost as bad the mop speedily cleared up the latter but the former were faded to retain a variagated appearance for days much to the disgust of their wearer during our first breakfast we discussed the day's program and announced to George our determination to sail to LOF that day if possible very sorry sir can't be done with this wind was the rather discouraging retort we Shan lose anything by having a good try anyway I said and in any case I intend to be underway by eight sharp always supposing Brady turns up in time suggested John Brady be it known is the name by which one of the fixed crew of the Buttercup is called and who had been invited to spend the day with us it had been arranged that he should join the boat at 7:30 precisely and much to our surprise before the sound of the church clock chiming the half hour had died away Brady was hailing us from the opposite side of the river honorable commendations were liberally bestowed on him for his unusual punctuality our friend bowed his acknowledgements and then disappeared inside to discuss the ham and eggs waiting his attention whilst he is busy in the cabin and George making ready for a start I will endeavor to tell our exact whereabouts reference to the map will show about a mile and a half from Norwich and near Thorp St Andrew two water courses separated by an island along which the railway runs the one to the south at the extreme east of which the Buttercup was lying is artificial and was constructed by the railway company in order to keep the navigation open and unobstructed visitors who elect to St from whitling Ham should not omit to have a look around the capital of East Anglia the city of gardens it does not come within my Province to write any sort of guide to norid so I must content myself with naming just a few of the Lions the chief of these are the cathedral and the castle but St Andrew's Hall said to be the finest Gothic Hall in the Kingdom and St Peter's Church which has recently been restored should certainly be seen of course there are a number of minor attractions but as most tourists to this part of the country come for the rivers and not the towns I do not think it would be advisable to enlarge further on my native City there is one suggestion I would make however and as this will bring me back to my favorite element I don't think I shall be voted out of order which is that if a day or even half a day can be spared it should be spent on what is locally called The Back River the river is so named in consequence of being behind or above the new Mills at norid Beyond which it is not navigable boats can be hired for the purpose in h and I am quite confident in saying the trip will be thoroughly enjoyed the scenery is of a very Charming character and one stretch called Weston's reach is simply lovely for nearly its whole length it is covered by the branches of trees and in the height of the summer is not surpassed by any similar spot in this land of rivers I had near nearly forgotten to add that Monday or Saturday should not be selected for this excursion as on both days the followers of St Crispen in a limited sense only that of calling of whom there are thousands in the city especially affect the stream and exhibitions of rowdism are not infrequent to return to my crew and the Buttercup as the Clock Struck 8 we were fairly underway and congratulated ourselves on making a clean start so punctually in the whitling ham reach we were becalmed for a short time under the Lee of the hills but once clear of these we bowled along splendidly passing Downstream and on the left a picturesque Cottage called The Monkey House where a fery formerly existed stood will attract notice a little further down is posit Grove a rare place for picnics and much appreciated by the norvic enan is sure to engage attention just below Bramton famous for its CAG which the British Association journeyed to see in 1868 we overtook and pass a warry whose single occupant barely returned our morning salutation as we gradually Drew away his want of Civility was commented on as being contrary to what one usually receives from his class when our lead had increased to quite half a mile we could see something had happened as the warry was quite stationary presently someone laughingly said I'm BL if the old hunks isn't on the mud and it serves him right for being so grumpy yes said George and so are we and it serves us right for laughing at others misfortunes sure enough we were on the putty and only after a good deal of work with the Norfolk yachtsman's friend the Quant did we succeed in clearing ourselves a little further down stream surlingham Ferry a favorite boating and Fishing Station was duly noted from this point the year fishery may be set to commence and Frederick Chapman of the fery house where comfortable quarters will be found will do anything in his power to oblige strangers just below the ferry johon was taken with a fishing Mania and vowed he would catch a a pike for dinner so he dived into the cabin for Rod and line and presently started spinning unfortunately for his resolution the fish were not on the feed and at last a sadder and colder man he packed up in disgust passing brundle the winter home of the Buttercup we gave m flowers men a salute which of course they returned we hoped to have been able to stop here but came to the conclusion it would not be wise to do so I must not however omit to say that good headquarters will be found at the year hotel and a large supply of capital new boats of a little less clumsy type than usual Rundle railway station directly adjoins mess's flowers estate and is also the stopping place for CM Hall a famous fishing hostel about 3/4 of a mile down the river I don't doubt a great many who follow in our footsteps I am afraid this sounds a little bit Irish but let it pass will wonder how it is we did not stop at any of the Riverside ends instead of pushing on in such a tremendous hurry for LOF the fact is is we knew every inch of the river and the two broads which as I said in my first chapter the year drains I should have called attention to the entrances to surlingham of which there are two one above the other below brundle but on the opposite side of the river leaving cuom Hall behind one fairly enters on the marsh district and for the of the way Downstream the landscape is of a less varied character instead of pleasantly wooded slopes and Groves nothing but a wide expanse of waving Reed and grass meets the eye on either Bank of the nail stately River it would be going beyond the scope of this work to speculate what this District was like a thousand years ago when the hills far away on either side probably kept in bounds the ancient estery gnus but I have often pictured to myself what a magnificent site the view from the Uplands must have been as we neared Buckingham Ferry it became a question whether we should stop for luncheon or have it on the way but as we were bent on saving every minute we could we adopted the latter plan buckenham is the railway station for the ferry and the house will be found very Central for the piscator as Rockland broad where free fishing will be found is only about a mile or a mile and a half Upstream very nearly 3 Mi below buckenham langle Dyke branches from the river if the visitor happens to be of an archaeological Turn of Mind he will do well to stop the yacht and take a row up this dke as within a few minutes walk of its end the ruins of Langley Abbey will be found permission to inspect these ruins will be granted on application at The Farmhouse near and I venture to predict that anyone who takes the trouble to do this will be amply repaid as we passed Cantley Redhouse within about a stone throw of the Railway we noticed a number of fishing parties but in answer to our inquiries were told the fish were not biting although it is considered a good spot in kentley reach an annual regata of the norol and suffk yach Club is held and its great width is sure to attract notice no finer reach for racing can be found in all Norfolk and as we tack through it the Buttercup passed three Wares the men on board which took it as a good joke and one asked if we would give him a toe about 3 mil Downstream hardly cross at the mouth of the river Chad marking the termination of the Norwich jurisdiction is a very prominent Landmark connected with Hardley cross a curious Proclamation ating certainly as far back as Queen Elizabeth's time and probably of even an earlier day still is read once a year to the corporation of noridge who by the annual repetition of this form may have preserved to themselves rights which if it were possible the town of Yarmouth would long ago have probably infringed as the relative jurisdictions of the Two Towns here meet the story of the struggle for Supremacy on the river is a long one and perhaps it is not well to rake up such very old grievances but traces of the feud exist to this day as the reports of the port and Haven commission meetings will amply testify those were the fondness for all charters and the memories of a long forgotten past they Preserve may like to have the words of the Proclamation which run as follows oay oay oay if there be any manner of person that will absum hery imp plead or present any action suit plaint or plea for any offense trespass or misdemeanor done or committed upon the Queen's Majesty's River of won let him repair unto the right worshipful Mr Mayor and the worshipful Sheriff of the city of norid for the redress thereof and he shall be heard God Save the Queen the two words absum and pery will probably call for comment fromologist and I regret I cannot throw any light on their meaning some years ago and during one of the annual surveys of the river a gentleman present asked the town Clark what he would do if anyone appeared before the mayor and requested permission to absum or pery tell him to do it was the reply and it was certainly the quickest way out of the difficulty although history does not record if further inquiry were made from the cross downwards there is nothing calling for comment till reedom Ferry the last of the faeries on this river is passed as we neared reedom swing Railway Bridge we were disgusted to see the red flag up this meant stopping till a train had passed and quite 20 minutes were lost by this delay getting underway again we soon made the cut this is an artificial Channel connecting the air with the wavy and later on I shall have something to say of how and why it was constructed it is about 2 and 1/2 miles long and is crossed at its eastern End by a lift bridge which the keepers are always dilit in opening the present instance was no exception to the rule and although we tried the expedient of shelting in chorus when about a quarter of a mile away our vocal exertions proved unavailing I don't think I am exaggerating when I say we were within a dozen lengths before a sole appeared and the sides of the bridge were much nearer to my sails than I liked when we pass through this is the only place on the rivers where any to all has to be paid excepting the locks and this is collected in a very curious way what is called the nose bag is held out at the end of a long pole and one of the yacht's crew has to stand ready to drop the Shilling as the yacht passes you didn't say you put 18 p in did you called one of the porters as we sailed away and I scarcely need say he was right in his assumption a few hundred yards from the bridge we entered on the river waveny and were pleased to find Herring Fleet swingbridge open it is a curious fact that the huge structures of the Herring Fleet type are worked with much greater Solarity than the comparatively tiny bridge at Hadis go although in both cases Railway men are employed after passing summer Laton we began to see evidences of yachting which as we neared Alon Dyke became more and more frequent when we reached ton broad it was quite Lively with Yachts of all tonnage we ran straight across and made for the lock and As We Lay to several yachting friends strolled down to the boat and inquired how far we had come the passage was voted a good one and my determination to pass through was received with surprise how far do you intend going asked one the captain of the fastest open boat in these parts just into the Basin so as to be ready for a long day in the open tomorrow was the reply meanwhile the Buttercup had been floated into the lock and as there there happened to be very little difference in the levels we were soon again under canvas we were now on salt water and Lake loathing looked really fine as we scampered over its far-reaching surface towards its eastern end lowest off dinner Harbor commences and the shipping stretches in a continuous line to the town itself as we pass between the long stretch of vessel we found much to interest and attract a warry lying alongside a big ship invited comparison on the Inland Rivers it would have seemed a veritable Goliath but here surrounded by seagoing Craft its proportions appeared Lily pusin a week or so before a large steam Collier called the arasmus Wilson had been run into and sunk or flow stof but after clearing the coals out she was floated and brought into Harbor the enormous hole in her side had been patched up and as the Buttercup sailed by we had ample opportunity of seeing the extent of the Mischief fortunately the bridge connecting North and South lowestoft was open just in time for us and at exactly half P four we were clear of the peers and fairly out at Sea taking into consideration that we had had contrary winds a good part of the way I must confess I was pleased with the boat's performance and did not forget to mention the contrary predictions of the morning before we start tomorrow we must make a little alteration in the trim of the yacht said George as the bell sprits showed signs of Dipping although not enough to cause any inconvenience when just below pakefield we went about and made for lower stoft Harbor again as we wished to have everything snug in good time shooting between the peers we lowered our msaw and ran under the jib alone into the inner Basin which is during the season entire ly devoted to Yachts we had nearly reached this when John in endeavoring to give the dingi alonger line and so prevent her bumping against the stern of the yacht was severely cut in the hand a heavy swell just at the wrong moment lifted the boat jamming his hand between it and the yacht's taffrail and an awful gash was the result honestly speaking I think Jack was more upset at being disabled just as his Services would have been so much in requisition than at the personal inconvenience and pain he suffered although this must have been very great the Basin was so full of Yachts of all tonnage that we had a little difficulty in finding a place but at last managed to squeeze in between a five and a 15 more in here is rather a more difficult process than the simple expedient of sticking two Rond hooks into the banks as we do on the rivers two lines and they must be of good length are taken from the Bell to dolphins on either side and for the stern the Great Eastern Railway company provide an enormous haa stretching the whole length of the harbor to which in a a similar way lines are attached from the boat all this is much easier said than done but the result is to make the Yachts all but immovable and so prevent the possibility of their chafing one against another whilst we were preparing dinner George made the discovery that we were without fresh water so he rode to the recently erected yacht Clubhouse and presently returned with an ample supply for 2 days although we rather chafed at the delay this occasioned we fully appreciated the excellent cup of tea which rewarded our patience the harbor that night presented a wonderful appearance as each wave broke against the massive peers a shower of phosphorescent spray illumined its crest and the glittering particles of pale blue light seem to dance attendance in the Wake this phenomenon is not by any means an unusual one but I have never seen a more brilliant exhibition of its Fair like effects as we rode across to the landing steps we feathered our ORS and a translucent stream of light completely encircled the little craft as she shot through the the water concerning lowest off pier Clement Scott in one of his Charming poppy land papers says it is not one of those meaningless lengthy Jetties that jut out into the sea and so seriously disfigure the prospect not a stretch of boards and piles with a beginning a middle and an ending that can be indefinitely prolonged but a pier that encloses a basin a pier at whose side Yachts lie a tanker and from whose steps gayy colored young ladies start to row or sail all who know the splendid structure successive Enterprises have given the town and which in the hands of the Railway company has been so largely developed will agree that a more delightful prominade could hardly be desired after strolling up and down its entire length several times we accompanied Brady to the station to see him off and then returned to the yacht our friend in Wishing us goodbye had predicted all sorts of consequences if we slept on board all I can say is we were fast asleep very shortly after the lights were extinguished and I can only just remember receiving a negative reply to my question is your hand any worse John when all became a blank end of chapter 2 chapter three of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Britain this LibriVox recording is in the public domain digression and otherwise don't forget George he must know the entrance to South wal Harbor thoroughly an affirmative wave of the hand and a shout of all right was the only reply my last reminder received as the Jolly became lost in the Maze of yachts and we turned down the pier with our bathing impedimenta slung cross our shoulders this ambiguous dialogue requires explanation and as we walk towards pakefield to the bathing place I may as well say we propose sailing to southwold and as George did not know the coast so far we decided on engaging a man who would be able to Pilot us whilst on the whole we thoroughly enjoyed our bath I must confess confess the shingle bruised I don't think it actually cut our feet terribly and as we stroll back to the yacht we made up our minds not to repeat the dose next morning good morning sir hope you enjoyed your constitutional were The Words which greeted our return and the speaker whom George introduced as the man took the painter and made fast the dingy as we stepped on board well do you know the way into southw yes sir but I Shan risk taking you to my certain knowledge three fishing BS have been shut up there for the last fortnite this was rather a poser as we very much reckoned on a long day outside and I had made up my mind to look in at the little sea port as one item in the days program beg pardon you'd better leave the dingy behind and take my boat as well as me suggested our new found friend I'll do the lot for a pound he added confidentially telling as this bait was evidently intended to be I didn't quite fall in with the idea although it was further supplemented by well though roughly drawn pictures of the ease with which we should be able to land in the larger craft it comes to this if we can't go ashore in our own Jolly we'll stay on the yacht and I should like to start directly so the question of terms minus the boat was settled to the satisfaction of both parties and by 9:00 we were underway with two Reef down in the sales William stone or Billy hard name as the latest addition to the buttercups crew factiously called himself proved quite an original he had known lowed all his life and his opinion of the Town somewhat resembled Peg's idea of Yarmouth and if he didn't exactly say it was upon the whole the finest place in the universe his description of the queen of Eastern watering places was very highly painted although we had reduced our sail area by nearly half we found we had quite enough canvas as there was rather a heavy seon I should have said that before starting we shifted several hundred we of ballast to the stern sheets of the yacht and the alter ation entirely stopped the tendency she had shown the day before to dip as we passed by South wal we found it utterly impossible to get in as the sea was breaking clean across the bar just inside the harbor we could see the mass of the three imprison fishing boats Stone had spoken of before we started and he didn't forget to draw our attention to this confirmation of his statement 5 miles below South wal the lofty Tower of a ruin Church stands out very prominently on the coastline these ruins which are all that remain of All Saints Church are amongst the surviving evidences of the greatness of dunnage anciently the capital of East Anglia and we determined on making a closer inspection the yacht was shot into the wind and Beyond slightly drifting with the tide became stationary so Jack and I embarked in the little dingi and made for the shore Landing was not by any means so difficult and dangerous a proceeding as Billy hardn name had predicted and we were scarcely splashed when after hauling the boat Out Of Reach of the breakers we started along the path which leads up the steep sides of the lofty Cliff when we reached the summit we turned to look at the Buttercup which appeared very small as she stood away from Land presently George who was standing on the stern sheets of the yacht became very excited and pointed to the beach at our feet looking down we saw but here my PA of description fall short and I confess myself at a loss to put into words the sight which met our eyes readers of ancient mythology may possibly remember the two or were there three damsels of the island of Capra in the Mediterranean whose wonderful powers of vocalization was so entrancing that any who sailed by became overcome by ecstasy and died well the three dunnage Sirens who were disporting in Soul Bay were not quite so fascinating and we did not gently expire in the Orthodox way to slow music but all the same we were temporarily allured by the Enchantment of the view to which mayhap distance lend to help helping hand tearing ourselves with difficulty from the sight of so much loveliness we turn to the more somber relics of a bygone day as I have said before the church which crowns the brow of the cliff is or rather was dedicated to All Saints the square Tower is in a very fair state of preservation but of the Nave of the church nothing remains but the bare walls we were much surprised to see the comparatively recent dates on some of the Tombstones indicating that the churchard had been used as a place of internment for many years subsequent to the ultimate disuse of the Sacred edifice towards the end of the 50s of the last century according to Lewis's topographical dictionary of England dunnage anciently contained more than 50 religious foundations including churches chapels priories and hospitals but successive encroachments of the ocean have reduced the former seat of a bishop SE to a village of 250 inhabitants within a 100 yards or so of the edge of the cliff a wall in closes a large field and in the center of this carefully guarded by an iron palisading there are some small portions of a ruin of course we scaled the wall in order to have a closer look and on the western side of the enclosure we found a Gateway evidently of monastic origin looking onto a road this is all very nice said John but if we don't soon make a start we shallan reach lower stoft by Nightfall regaining The Cliffs we took a last look and then commenced The Descent to the beach where with the help of one of the lifeboatman we made a clean start in the dingi as for a considerable portion of the way back we should have to contend with a headwind we decided it would be best not to run any further south so we commenced the return trip at once of southwall we again left the Yacht for a small Inland Excursion after strolling about the town for half an hour or so it suddenly occurred to me we ought to see the river inquiries of a woman we met elicited the astounding assertion we ain't got no River here after that that I vote we make tracks for the Buttercup said John independent of having only a short time before past the channel which finds access to the sea between walberswick pronounced waler wig and South Wald I was previously under the impression it was the mouth of the river BL and I have since confirmed this wondering what in the world the native could have meant by her profession of ignorance we hastened down to the beach the old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth was never better instanced than in our embarkation in the dingy at least half a dozen South wans rushed to lend a hand and no amount of rebuffs would induce them to desist when we were quite ready to make a start part the foremost of these gave the dingi a push just at the wrong moment and a wave almost swamped us John and I being drenched nearly to our wastes the Victoria steamer which runs on certain days from LOF was lying about a quarter of a mile from Shore and just a breast of this we came up with LT 497 the Weatherly capabilities of the Buttercup compared with the smack were very quickly demonstrated as we drew away from her on every tag so much so in fact that we soon forgot the circumstance many who read The Narrative of our trip will probably ask what dunnage and southw have to do with the broads and rivers of norol and suffk and suggests that I have taken a wide departure from the subject indicated by my title so far as dunnage is concerned I admit this is correct but for the information of explorers of the waterways in the sister counties I ought to say that about 2 and 1 half miles as the crow flies north of southw there is a large pool of about 70 acres in extent called Eastern water and in connection with this a smaller lake named Cove hiive broad about a mile and a quarter from the last named another Lake designated benacre broad will be found which abounds in freshwater fish and covers over 50 acres all these waters are very near the beach and supposing the tourist has Saed so far as in the yacht an Excursion could be made in the dingi which if a light one might be easily carried over the intervening Sands and launched again I wish however to add that I am not in a position to say these broads are public but I do not suppose for a moment the riparian owners one of whom is an enthusiastic yachtsman would have object to anyone taking a quiet row on them I hope sometime in the coming summer to run down in the Buttercup and just for the novelty of the thing explore these outlying items from the General District unfortunately we could not spare time on the present occasion besides which the sea was a great deal too rough for it to be safe to make the attempt but on Stone's advice I climbed about halfway up the Mast where I had a capital view of the first named Lake whether it was caused by the yacht pitching I don't know but somehow my foot caught in one of the hoops and when I wished to descend I could not extricate it seeing the difficulty George came to my assistance and managed to free me although it was at the cost of an awful pinch whilst Maize was waiting to give me a leg down his cap went overboard and not withstanding that we offered to buy him a new one when we got into lower stoft he insisted on going about for it the chase was neither a very long nor Stern one but we lost quite 20 minutes by this delay and when we recovered the vagrant headgear it was so saturated and beaten about as to be almost past recognition we had now a strong tide running with us but this meeting the wind a very heavy sea resulted when off Covey Ness we caught the full force of this and for a time I must confess I felt a little bit nervous as I had never been out in the Buttercup with anything like such a sea running this soon wore off as I found to my great Delight that my little boat took it beautifully riding over the waves as light as a cork sometimes we were in a complete trough and it seemed almost impossible for the yacht to clear herself but in every case she Rose Superior I to the contending elements shaking herself free almost like a thing of Life Shan we swing into the harbor by Jo very sorry to disappoint you said Stone as we went on to the port Tac I'm afraid we shall lose a lot of wind under lowest off Ness smiling incredulously Jack eased off the jip sheet as the water came rushing along the plank ways and I shared with him in expressing our belief that it must be impossible those who live longest will see most sententiously retorted the old salt and to pay us for having Dar to descent from his opinion henceforward he only dained to reply in monosyllabic grunts passing Kingland the weather showed no signs of a baiting and just to worry stone we commenced talking at him and presently one of us asked where the Cal would come in you'll see you'll see said he of the hard name and to our very great surprise when we beat past pakefield the sea was not nearly so rough even then we could scarcely have believed the entrance to Loft would be so utterly becalmed As It ultimately proved to be as we drew nearer and nearer on every tack to the peers it became evident it would be a close thing between the Buttercup and a scotch fishing boat that was approaching from the north as to which should enter first to our great disgust when we were within 50 yards of the harbor the scotch boat got out some enormous sweeps and thus propelled easily got the start of us this move on their part was fraught with a greater loss of time to us than on first examination of the relative positions of The Craft would have appeared possible it happened in this way we were on the starboard tack but had we kept on our course to which we had the right we should should as it proved simply have run into the fishing boat amid ships and have done her a great deal more damage than she could possibly have done us we ought perhaps to have remembered the adage which declares that business should have precedence of pleasure but it was not in the best mood that we at last gave way strange to say when for the second time we made for the the harbor nearly every breath of wind seemed to have fallen away and the strong eptide then running out almost held us stationary at last we drew slowly in and by 6:00 had made all square and snug for the night since we had turned out in the morning one of our Nextdoor neighbors the Dorothy of the royal harage Yacht Club had left and her place was occupied by the fire brand one of the beautiful new Schooner Bell Cutters of the norfol and suff Yacht Club perhaps I am a little bit keen on scona bells as my own yacht is so built but I do think the form which her famous namesake introduced is infinitely prettier than the ordinary cutter stem during dinner our sailing Mar Master of the day gradually threw aside the perhaps natural eye he had shown at our stupid banter probably the fact that his prediction had been so literally fulfilled helped the thoring process but I am inclined to believe not withstanding his assertions to the contrary that some very heavy looking storm clouds had more to do with the sudden calm than the Ness in the evening we went for another walk around the interesting town and on returning to the pier found a capital band playing the stand on which the musicians were performing faces the yting harbor and as there was a great crowd in its immediate vicinity we returned to the Buttercup where we could hear beautifully the better to enjoy the pleasure of listening to the Lively strains I brought on Deck a patent folding chair which belongs to the boat and which enables one to sit at any angle arranging this so low as to be more like a hammock than anything else I lay at my ease perfectly content with my surroundings gradually the music became less and less distinct and I was very nearly Dreamland when John who had been reading a book in the cabin roused Me by calling now then Skipper don't you think you'd better come inside and start on your notebook but I bothered the notes and didn't take his excellent advice until the band ceased playing at 9:00 at the moment of writing this I have before me the rough Diary of our crws and the second day's entries are so indistinct that I must have been very nearly asleep before I finished as a specimen of what it is like I give the last four lines dinner over stroll on peer then round town and afterwards peer again band playing back to yacht where we could hear lovely music so entrancing John soon became sleepy turned in at 10 end of chapter 3 chapter 4 of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Brittain this LibriVox recording is in the public domain lowestoft to Beck when George put his head into the cabin next morning and called us it was later than it should have been and he excused himself by saying it didn't matter as we shouldn't be able to move this sounded badly so we hurried on our things and went on Deck to judge for ourselves there was no mistake about it it did look like a dirty day and the the wind whistled through the rigging with an ominous moan forboding Gusty weather although we had the previous day decided not to bathe again on the beach we made up our minds to chance it but were more severely punished than on our first attempt while sitting at breakfast we heard a sort of cough evidently intended to attract attention so I went outside and there holding on to the stern of the yacht was the courteous Harbor Master who had come to tell us that all Yachts must be clear Away by the 28th instant I suppose that most of my readers are aware that lowestoft Harbor and the cutting through to Lake loathing are quite artificial perhaps however a sketch of the history of the movement which ends in the now prosperous Town becoming a port may be deemed interesting I have elsewhere promis to enter more thoroughly into this question and at some future time I intend to redeem The Pledge for the present I doubt the material I have been enabled to collect is only a drop in the ocean compared with the largess of the subject but as Rome was not built in a day I do not despair of the ultimate realization of my more ambitious project I ought to say in starting that to the mercenary Spirit of Yarmouth in the early part of this Century the very existence of LOF as a port can be traced it came about in this way all Goods consigned by ship to Norwich Merchants were discharged into Wares and thus conveyed up the river to the city the bother this plan entailed leaving out of the question the largely increased expense of Transit brought about an agitation which culminated in Alderman crisp Brown submitting to the corporation on the 3rd of May 1814 a plan for making norid J Port by way of Yarmouth four years later the engineers report was published but without detailing any particulars I will say the town of Yarmouth simply declined to allow the proposed cut on the south side of Braden through which it was intended vessel should be conveyed to be made nothing daunted by opposition to scheme number one the promoters had a second report prepared by their engineer William Cubit which appeared in July 1820 on page three of that report the following passage occurs the most eligible line appears to be in going from norch to leave the year at reedom and by a new cut or Canal of communication of about 2 miles and a half long to join the river waveny a little above St Olive's Bridge proceeding along the waveny to Alton Dyke and through that into Lake loathing from which a cut of less than 500 yards would be in deep water of the sea if I add to this that at the spot where mutford Bridge divided alt and Broad from Lake loathing it was proposed to construct a lock so that the salt water could never extend beyond the causeway at mutford the whole scheme is roughly laid out following the publication of the plan for constructing the New Haven as it was called at the time a PRX discussion in the public press and by the issue of pamphlets broadcast commenced read now some of the latter seem ridiculous and in particular I have been much amused by the way in which the warning voice was only issued to call for a reply by The Voice of Truth and vice versa the bill passed both houses of Parliament and received the Royal Ascent on May the 28th 1827 although the year before it had been lost by a major aity of five those engaged in the prosecution of the measure must have had a merry time of it as it seems that something like £25,000 was expended Yarmouth paid for its whistle to the tune of £8,000 the navigation was opened on the 10th of August 1831 but 11 years later the original Proprietors were glad to sell their Venture AT a very heavy sacrifice to a new company who in turn disposed of it to S Pito in 1844 I have now in my possession a document containing a complete list of the second company of Proprietors and to which is attached all their autographs excepting three the old paper is to me very interesting as showing the end of the second act in the history of LOF as a 19th century Port after all LOF gained a great deal more than norid by the measure perhaps the old city is too far in land although I must confess I can never quite understand why with the undoubted advantage of being situated on a navig River of the dimensions of the wiom more use is not made of the water as a means of communication I am afraid I shall be thought to have forgotten all about the Buttercup during this somewhat lengthy digression so with apologies to John I will return to my narrative by starting now you'll do the trick said one of the men on board and a joining yacht look the flag is now coming down so we cast off our Moorings and tacked into the outer harbor and then ran up the river like opening to The Bridge the keepers was such an awful time opening it that we decided we must go about just at the last moment however one of the men yelled come on we yachting men in Norfolk get somewhat used to close shaves with Bridges but in my experience I have never cut it so fine as on that morning at lower stoft our position was rendered more Awkward by a tug coming up just behind with a large vessel in toe but all's well that ends well we sailed on to within 100 yards of Colton kville Railway Bridge which crosses the lake within a short distance of Alton and then lowered our msaw the rest of the way we sailed with jib alone but on arriving at the Lock we were delayed by a most idiotic Worman as a general rule these men are uncommonly handy about their craft but this must have been one of the exceptions which go to prove it there was a boy on board who was the coolest young Rascal I ever saw and the way in which he mouthed and swore at his mate was something remarkable eventually to save time we entered the log behind the warry and were treated to a further exhibition from the Junior on board once clear of our disagreeable neighbors we lost no time in a again hoisting Sail and whilst they were thinking about a start we were half across the broad I think it would be very unfair of me not to say something of the attractions of Alton before leaving our hurried run across both in going and coming might otherwise be taken as indicating that the place has no particular claim on one's attention the fact is it is the most popular of all the broads and at all times during the season is made gay with the Yachts of various tonnage that dot its surface in addition to its advantages as a yachting station in being so near Railway sea and River there are few better fishing grounds as is amply proved by the Grand collection of stuffed specimens in the Museum of the warry hotel which overlooks the broad this Inn is the best in the place although Anglers will find good accommodation at the Commodore Alton has not only the advantage of being within a few minutes rway ride of Loft but is also only a 16 minutes Journey from St olives where omnibuses by Arrangement take visitors to fritton Lake we enjoyed our run over the broad to the full and half wished we had a longer time to stay but we intended to save the tide up to beckles on reaching the end of the Dyke we found a worry hard and fast on the mud so we ran the Buttercup up nearly alongside and asked if we could be of any assistance thank you kindly we should be glad of the dingy was the respon response it seemed that they had in coming round the very sharp Bend from River to Dyke omitted to ease off the sheet until too late and had run ashore with terrific force that we should have a tough job to move her was soon proved as the five of us standing with our shoulders under the bows did not appear to stir her an inch as this plan f fa we took a heavy anchor belonging to the warry to the opposite side of the Dyke to this was attached a thick cable coming from their windless and after nearly burying the anchor we gave the signal for them to go ahead the line gradually tightened and at last became so taught that blondon would have walked across it easily presently the anchor moved m d and although both John and I stood on it it was gradually pulled through the yielding soil it traveled in this way several yards leaving a Furrow about 3 in wide by nine deep finding it was no use continuing the attempts without further Aid we sheltered for them to stop our next expedient consisted in forcing a very thick mop stick through the Ring of the anchor on resuming operations this snapped in halves directly The Strain was applied and as several wores were roaring down on us we gave up all efforts to heave her off by means of the windless I must confess to a feeling of surprise that none of the passing wores stopped to help their fellows in Misfortune but although six came by whilst we were on board not one so much as offered to lend a helping hand we were now in the position of not knowing what to do next and we stood looking at the wary men in the most helpless way they poor fellows were the pictures of misery and Beyond a faintly expressed hope that they might be able to get their craft off on the top of the tide appeared to have given up up all immediate idea of doing so it will be hardly necessary for me to say that from the moment it was high tide at the spot where we were then lying the water would commence to EB and if we waited so long we should haveit against us the whole way to our intended destination to do the weyman credit I ought to say that they first suggested we must not delay much longer and whilst Thanking us in the most effusive way for the services we had endeavored to render they simply insisted on our making a start why should you lose your tide for us asked one but somehow we hardly like to leave them in their trouble and it was very reluctantly that we at last got underway again before doing this we offered the men a glass of beer and I scarcely need say they accepted it the Waterman who would say no to such an invite is a rarity very seldom met with the toast they proposed was almost amusing it ran something like this we don't know your names gentlemen but here's to the Buttercup forever just ahead of us as we we left the Dyke was a large sea yacht of about 25 tons and although at first we thought we should pass her she managed to keep the lead one of the most striking objects on the wavy is the very peculiar Church steeple of bur St Peter it is more like a series of very high steps than anything else I know of and the edifice itself is worthy of visit on a former occasion the Rector had invited us to inspect the old pile which I remember was then beautifully decorated with flowers so we did not stay to look over it again shall we give old Bob a call said John as we passed through old B swing Railway Bridge which fortunately was open Bob I should say was a colleague of ours whose home at Old be Hall overlooks the bridge and who was taking his holiday at the same time stupid as it may seem we shouted at the top of our voices but of course received no reply and indeed our friend has since informed me that at the time we were passing he was quite 3 miles away without any incident demanding ing attention we reached beckles and mored in a dyke running at right angles with the bridge soon after two Yachts came into the same cutting one stopping above the other below the Buttercup when we had tied up George started on an expedition in search of vegetables but to our great surprise returned almost immediately we were about asking what this meant when the intended question was rendered unnecessary by an old man with a cart coming round the corner and making straight for the boat shouting the while from sheer force of habit I suppose some of the most unintelligible cry the old costaa pulled up alongside upon the selection offered we made rather a liberal onslaught so much so in fact that the well in which the various Edibles were stowed temporarily look something like a small green grosser shop our purchases complete Jack and I went for a look around the town which is remarkably clean and wellb built beckles is a town unusually favored as its Lucky residents are never troubled by that bane of existence the local rate collector the expenses attending the lighting cleaning Etc of the bur being defrayed by the rents acre from certain Town lands so that persons of a limited income would find this a most desirable place to live in the church dedicated to St Michael is a very fine Gothic structure the tower which r R es to a height of 95 ft and then stops short in an evidently unfinished state stands at some little distance from the southeast angle of the chancel seen from the river which runs far away down in the valley beneath the church presents a really imposing appearance and is calculated to impress the most indifferent Observer after indulging in the luxury of a clean shave a process which was very conducive to my comfort we made for the yacht where at 6:00 to the minute as we had arranged dinner was on the table the evening which followed was spent in a very quiet Manner and the town was declared to be an awfully dull place by Gaslight end of chapter 4 chapter five of notes on the broads and rivers of norol and suffk by Harry Britain this LibriVox recording is in the public domain beckles to St olives never once in the yachting season of 86 had we awakened to a Lovelier day than on the morning following our arrival at beckles turning over in my birth at about halfast 6 I pulled back one of the cabin blinds and a stream of sunlight poured in its powerful influence soon dispelled any inclination I might have had for another nap so calling George we dressed and went on deck on one of the adjoining Yachts the men were busy scrubbing their decks this example was soon followed by George in fact we all three went to work and a fine appetizer the exercise proved reving in the feeling of perfect contentment which acknowledge that his craft is in perfect order throughout always affords a practical yachtsman we lounged about till nearly 11: when at last we got underway the wind was blowing very hard and we found quite enough to do although we had taken one Reef down in the sails unfortunately the wind was in the wrong quarter for us so we had a very long spell of tacking within a mile of beckles sa's Grove slopes down to the Riverside and although I have never landed I should say The View from the top of the hills must be a very pretty one seen from the river I always think this spot resembles posit Grove which it will be remembered we passed on our first morning although of course the latter is much more extensive what in the world was that pitch and about in the peak asked George when after turning through a Long Reach we were running free I'll see volunteered John but instead of walking forward and lifting the hatch he dived inside the cabin and lay along the seats with his head into the four peak of course he could scarcely see but presently thinking he had discovered the particular item of the Buttercup stores which had been making the noise he put his arm through the hatch wre way to reach it unluckily for Jack at the same moment we caught a puff and the boat kened so much that he shot off the seat under the cabin table with cushions and everything on top of him I scarcely need say George and I were simply convulsed at Poor Jack's Endeavors to free himself it may seem to have been rather hard on my friend but mischief has a proverbial effect on one's risible faculties and after all Jack didn't mind reaching the spot where we left the warry on the mud the day before we found she had disappeared but a large angular cutting into the Rond bore evidence of the distance she must have been embedded looking down Alton Dyke we could see the Trixie one of the nor Flyers making in the same direction as ourselves and after about a quarter of an hour she came up with and passed us in the summerlon bridge reach we had not only a head wind to contend with but the full force of a strong flood tide tack after tack we made without appearing to gain Headway and sometimes we even lost ground At Last by very smart handling of the boat we drew to the bridge and just at the right moment one of the keepers threw us a line with this help we managed to accomplish our object and as the river takes a turn a little Beyond where the railway crosses our difficulties were over sailing till we came to the junction of the cut we continued our course down the river to St Olive's Bridge a handsome structure of the suspension type leaving our man to lower the Mast and prepare dinner we started walking to friton Lake which lies about a mile and a half from the river I advise any who may come to the broad District to allow one day for the exploration of fritton and its vicinity to start with with the walk lies through a very pretty country and if the tourist takes the turn to the left just on the Riverside of St oliv's Railway crossing a minute's walk will bring him to the ruins of Herring Fleet prior at the farm near excellent milk cream Etc can be obtained and permission to inspect the ruins will also be readily granted the prior had a triple dedication first to St Olive and then to the Virgin Mary and St Edmund but the remains are now very small about a century ago the old boundary walls were used in repairing a road but those who are fond of relics of a bygone day will find enough to furnish hours of speculative thought we did did not on this occasion stay for the prary but pushed on for the lake we were caught halfway in a shower of rain and sheltered ourselves under a fence this did not form a very complete cover and it looked very much as though we were in for a wetting when fortunately the rain ceased continuing our walk we passed Britain Church which is nicely situated ated the tower is a round one and the fabric is thatched but with the growth of trees in the background it makes a picture of a pretty Country Church fritt and old Hall is the station where boats are let for fishing Etc and one cannot help wondering how it is such a fine old house has been degraded to its present condition I understood some some alterations were intended to be made and have endeavored to learn particulars but to no purpose not being in a position to say positively whether the reported improvements will really be carried out I am bound to speak of the place as I found it and my advice to any proposing to stay here will be summed up in the one word don't of the lake itself I would say that to gild refined gold to paint the Lily is not a more unnecessary process than any attempt to describe its varying Beauties in my enthusiasm for the broads I was told five or six years ago I should soon Tire of their attractions but it hasn't happened yet I sometimes find a difficulty in straining myself in the use of descriptive language all I can say of fritton is that every one of the adjectives in my vocabulary would not overpaint it after selecting our boat we were about starting when suddenly Jack exclaimed I'm blessed if John SE isn't in the boat making this way on nearer approach this was verified and in another half minute a mutual friend of ours who had it seemed been fishing all day landed expressions of surprise at our chance meeting having been exchanged we made inquiries as to the catch and presently a very fair number of roach and bream were shot onto the grass some of the specimens were of respectable dimensions and all looked really beautiful in their absolute freshness as they lay on the green sword unfortunately our friend was in a hurry to catch the next train and all our endeavors to persuade him to stay and spend the evening with us were of no avail promising to return to the Buttercup if he missed the train and wishing us goodbye he made off in a great hurry wicked as it may seem we both hoped he might not succeed in his object and as we left the shore we expressed our feelings in Words which it would not have been well for our departing colleague to hear rowing across the lake which I may say is 3 Mi long we made for one of the decoy pipes duck decoying is still carried on at five different points in Norfolk but the frit and decoys of which there are two sets are by far the most important the process is of course familiar to most of my readers but to make my sketch complete I ought perhaps to give a short description of the way in which wild fowl are enticed into these ingenious traps what is technically called the pipe is really a curving ditch covered in by netting stretched across an archway of Hoops these hoops which at the mouth of the Dyke are about 10 ft High gradually diminish in size until they become so low that one cannot sit upright in a boat at the extreme end a purse net is fixed and The Unlucky duck that once gets so far has very very little chance of beating a retreat on one side of this Avenue of netting a series of Reed fences is so arranged that the man engaged in decoying cannot be seen from the outside although he has the advantage of an unobstructed view up the pipe by means of small peep holes in the first and second screens he can also see the unsuspecting wild fowl in the lake Beyond who are possibly fraternizing with trained members of their kind the latter act as their betrayers by alluring them to the mouth of the Fatal trap we will suppose the decoy man has discovered a sufficient number of ducks to make it worth his while to attempt to entrap them the first step in the process consists in sending round the front screen a dog which is trained to return immediately to its Master by way of the dog jump the effect of the repetition of this simple expedient round two or three screens in succession is to arouse the Curiosity of the Ducks which scramble forward in order to get a nearer view of the strange animal when by this means the keeper thinks they are high enough up he shows himself and the a frighten Birds Rush forward into the purse net perhaps all this sounds very simple but greater art than appears on First Sight is necessary to make a successful koi man Mr southwall says with decoys the art of fouling reach the Acme of perfection for although all methods of wild fowling depend in a more or less degree for their success upon the skill and Ingenuity of the Fowler added to a thorough knowledge of the hauns and habits of the Quarry still if numbers be taken as the standard of success all the earlier modes of taking foul are as far inferior to the decoy as the crossbow to the fouling piece of today I must confess I have very little respect for the whole business and although an exact knowledge of the habits of wildfowl may be absolutely essential to make a successful decoy man I cannot think the process is sportsmanlike I may add however that Mr southwall endorses the opinion of Lok and I advise anyone who may care to pursue the subject to get the forer of norfol where at page 134 and again in the appendix a quantity of information on this subject will be found the particular pipe which Jack and I inspected is beautifully situated and its whole appearance is calculated to easily deceive the wild foul when we landed after a most enjoyable trip the old man who took charge of the boat was interviewed in an article which had appeared a few months before in the English Illustrated magazine a lengthy description of the gentle old boatkeeper had appeared we asked him if he knew he had been written about in a London periodical and with a look of real pleasure he answered in the affirmative they say you have lived here for more than half a century is this the case yes sir 55 year and more they say too you are not tired of your beautiful Lake oh no oh no would you really if you had your life to live over again still stay here I couldn't leave it if I tried and he glanced across the broad with a look of infinite pride in his gentle eyes our chat over we wished him goodbye and wandered through the woods which run quite down to the water's edge presently we came to a spot which seemed very familiar and I remembered it was the subject of a large photo of fris in my album at home we had not walked far when we saw a notice nailed to a tree which ran as follows all persons that picnic in this wood are requested to go to the house and pay tant each before partaking of their meal or they will be requested to leave the grounds by order it seemed a strange way to make the charge we thought but in investors to the extent named certainly get value for their money as a Lovelier place for open air parties could not be found on returning to the boat we learned that no visitor had called so there was no doubt our friend had caught his train after all as we were so near Yarmouth which is our man's home he asked permission to run over for the night this was of course granted and after seeing him depart we strolled toward Hadis near the swingbridge a number of navies were congregated and one was making himself heard in a very forceable manner I don't know if anyone had attempted the process but he was wanting to see the man who could stand him on his head he repeated this invitation several times times in a semi drunken brawl but no one accepted certain it is that I for one should not have liked to attempt to reverse his natural position as he stood quite 6 feet two or three and was very strongly built near St oliv's bridge on the Herring Fleet side stands a quaint looking old Inn named the bell and visitors to Lake would do well to make a note of the fact as nothing stronger than soda water or lemonade can be obtained at the old Hall although externally it looks like one of the old-fashioned sort of country ins the inside does not quite sustain the impression a visit to this Antiquated house which I must confess was disappointing terminated on day's program and we returned to our home on the water feeling rather sold as Johnny very sagely remarked afterwards when he was enjoying his last pipe it is never wise to judge by outside appearances end of chapter 5 | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2017-04-19 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 13,439 | 71,155 |
36S3VO54B-E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36S3VO54B-E | July 25, 2022 School District of Holmen Board of Education Meeting | moved second all right Chris has moved and Barbed his second seconded to approve the agenda as published any discussion hearing none all those in favor of the motion to approve the agenda as published please signify by saying aye aye those opposed signify by saying nay a motion to approve the published agenda has passed and do we have any public participants tonight okay no one has registered as a public participant for this evening's meeting moving on to District administrators report Dr Mueller yeah I have two items tonight the first one is I'm very excited to report that we have a great partnership between the village of Homan the town of Holland the La Crosse County and the school district where there will be a roundabout going in out at our intersection of McEwen Briggs here I know this has been talked about and we've been listening to our community members and our students for many many years at least since I've arrived here I've been hearing about the traffic congestions out here at the inner section so we're very excited that all these municipalities have come together along with the school district to make this become a reality so the timeline for this is right now they're in the development of Designing the what that will look like in that intersection with all parties involved it will be designed right now and expected to be final analyzed in January of 2023 and then this next summer should start to go into place so just wanted to give that update today and then the other announcement I have as you see we don't have a full board sitting up here yet we have a vacancy right now and applications we're accepting those through August 2nd so if you're interested in being a part of the board please apply so thank you all right moving on to recognition and thank you Dr Mueller will introduce building principles or the representatives to honor the 2021-2022 friends of Education yeah so very excited this is one of our most favorite nights of the Year here each year we ask each school to nominate someone who made a positive contribution to the education of the students in the school district to Holmen yet it is not an employee of the district the criteria for this includes time commitment assistance within the school out of school activities advancement of educational programs for students really this person has had a very great impact on many lives so I'm very excited tonight to have each of our building administrators come forth and introduce their friend of education and we're going to start this evening with Mr second and he will introduce who that is and after he's done he'll ask those I'm here representing the individuals to come forth and we'll get a picture together and so forth so extra second good evening everyone tonight we honor our friends of Education from Roman District so I'd like to congratulate each of our honorees for the great work and your friendship that you've provided in each of our buildings and areas to our student staff and the greater human Home and Community tonight I would like to possibly honor and recognize our HHS friend of Education Dr Jeff Steffen Katie Jeff's wife and several friends have joined us this evening and many more family and friends are watching virtually I would also like to acknowledge Steve eggerich for supporting me and in writing much of what I'm going to share tonight so thank you Steve Dr Stephan served as a professor in exercise and sports science at the University of Wisconsin lacrosse he serves as director of the UWL adventure program and the physical education graduate program from 1995 to 2015. Jeff Katie and their family lived in Holmen and their three children Tristan Peter and Paul all attended School in the school district of Pullman from the time that the stefans moved to Holmen Jeff was always working closely with their physical education department district-wide and students Jeff volunteered countless hours assisting our District's physical education teachers with curriculum writing implementation and assessment he provided numerous workshops and staff development opportunities for our physical education teachers he organized and led team building activities for our athletic teams he created a teacher Exchange program in which UWL graduate students and school district of home and edu physical education teachers would co-serve each other he co-wrote a future fisherman Foundation physical education grant in which the district was awarded five thousand dollars to implement fishing into the curriculum in 2006. he was an integral part of the Carol M white physical education Federal grant focusing on adventure education and outdoor door Pursuits he served as holmen's Pap Grand evaluator for two years and Jeff has mentored several of our teachers during their graduate coursework at least seven of our current K-12 physical education teachers received their master's degree in Jeff's program just influence and guidance is one of the main reasons for the successful Adventure in Outdoor Pursuits programs in our district he was instrumental in developing the curriculum for a K-12 adventure program most notably assisting the development of our training manual for rock climbing and our policies and procedures manual for the challenge course he assisted in the planning and leading leading of countless Outdoor Pursuits including canoeing hiking snowshoeing ice fishing winter camping and shelter building yes for those of you who don't know that's caving rock climbing biking and geocaching after a retired he continued to volunteer in our district on a regular basis specifically with our Outdoor Pursuits field trips on behalf of Holmen High School our District's physical education teachers and generations of lives impacted it is a privilege to share this recognition and honor of Dr Jeff Steffen with Katie Steffen and the Stefan family we are humbled by his model of servant leadership and we were grateful to call him a friend of Education [Applause] yeah yeah and we also have something for also our our board [Applause] all right thank you for that amazing start Mr Sackett okay next we have Mr Vogler for Homan Middle School good evening thank you everyone for being here once again I would also like to thank all of our friends of education for being here this is a great night to see all the community involvement that we have here in the community and the support for our schools tonight I'm here to recognize Barb Anderson on behalf of the Holman Middle School as our friend of Education as president of the Holman area Historical Society Barb was a driving force behind publishing our eighth grade students narratives related to their experiences during the 2020 school year in a book living history Holmen eighth grade students respond to 2020. helping to publish a book of student Works would have been more than a huge feat and unbelievable opportunity especially when working with 8th grade students but Barb did not stop there she helped organize virtual meetings with other members of the Holmen area Historical Society to help students learn more about how to write these events from their perspective but also about how significant events in the past have impacted the speakers working with our students she organized the book delivery to HMS for students to receive their published Works along with delivering snacks for them to enjoy during this time she helped organize a family and Community night at the Holman Area Community Center for our students to read their final narratives to families and to the public finally Barb helped organize the distribution this distribution of these books to be placed in the Holmen Public Library the Holman Middle School library and other other locations available to the public we would like to thank Barb for going above and beyond to provide this amazing opportunity and experience for our eighth grade students at Holmen middle school thank you very much Barb [Applause] Ara [Applause] come on up Barb ARA there we go all right thank you great thank you so much all right next up we have Miss Favre for Evergreen Elementary School thank you for the opportunity to honor and recognize somebody that is a friend of education at Evergreen however I must start by saying I liked it much better when we held a microphone and they had to stand by us so people weren't staring at me but they were staring at our friends during this little Spiel so tonight I am here to recognize Tricia Johnson who is in the back with her son Knox and daughter Abby Trisha has been the um the board president for our PTO for the last five years and been a part of our PTO since Abby started in kindergarten and she will now be going into fifth grade Trisha has been instrumental in raising funds for Evergreen we have been proud for as long as I've been there and years prior to that to say that we don't have we don't have any fees we haven't had any fees because our PTO covers things like Student Assignment no books and field trip costs and expenses and they've always been very focused on giving back to our school community and so Trisha is somebody that is integral and continuing to make that happen this past year specifically she helped to lead the charge in raising over 75 000 toward new playground equipment which was no small task Trisha also spends time volunteering in our schools she's even coordinated her parents coming in one year to show original artifacts to students first hand so as you can see Tricia not only spends hours of time outside of school but also comes to school volunteers through Junior Achievement and it's just a positive person who always has a smile on her face and no matter how crazy busy she is possibly packing one house getting ready to move to another in between sports she's here tonight just to smile along with us and accept this recognition so please join me in giving Trisha a big thank you in a round of applause [Applause] come on up in your family members can come on up too you got to come up and celebrate thank you carefully yeah we forget [Applause] next I'm gonna I am going to be representing for Prairie View this night and Dana Johnston is our friend of education for Prairie View and she wasn't able to be here with us tonight so I would just like to honor her and share a little bit about her so Dana Johnston has been a devoted friend of education at Prairie View during the 21-22 school year as our grade level was planning out for our Wind Block we discovered we needed more adult assistance we reached out to our parents in a handful responded Dana was one of the individuals who volunteered to assist with win what that means is what I need so helping students with what they need she volunteered twice a week in facilitated learning in several different capacities she assisted with math and comprehensive comprehension strategies throughout the year and filled in for small group enrichment activities when impressed us the most about Dana was her reason for volunteering during that her son Nolan was not in her group however she was more than happy to help out with anybody and everybody that even when it didn't include because she knows that having additional Helping Hands benefits all students more adult assistance means students who struggle and students who are Advanced and students in need of a little extra bump all benefited so all our students had the opportunity to have their needs met because of her assistance in addition to volunteering in the classroom Dana is always volunteering to send in Project supplies and any items that our classrooms need when Dana comes into school she always enters Prairie View with a smile and is respectful to our office staff our second grade team is grateful for Dana Johnson's time and generosity she is very deserving and we thank her for everything self thank you to Dana foreign next up we have uh Miss Morgan for Sand Lake all right I just want to start off by thanking everybody um for coming tonight this is one of my favorite nights just seeing um people recognize for the good things they're doing for our school district I have to keep this short that was the only way that I was going to get Deb Sinclair here tonight is if I keep it short so Deb Sinclair is seeing like threatened of education for a number of reasons it was actually a unanimous decision this year from our staff she shows up every day at Sand Lake if we need a sub in the classroom with kids as we know that was a shortage this year and sometimes we'd call her 10 minutes before the school's date start start would start and she would still show up also any down time she had during the day she would be going from teacher to teacher asking to cut out things laminate tutor students work on the side if it was during her prep she'd even take things home at night and cut them out in her free time she truly is a dedicated person to the school district of Holmen and one of a kind so Deb Sinclair thank you for being sand Lake's friend of Education thank you [Applause] thank you [Applause] hey next up we have Miss striegel representing Viking Elementary foreign good evening everyone and first I'd like to say congratulations to all our friends of Education it truly is an honor learning about all your help and support in our schools our friend of Education this year is Jenny Kier Jenny and her husband Adam have three children McKenna Rex and Taggart who are in grades seven six and two they have all either gone or going currently attending Viking and Jenny has been volunteering at Viking practically all of those years she has been an active member of our PTO helping out with our family fun nights Young author nights concert receptions our script card sales and most recently our Bingo books and bytes in a ju in addition in addition Jenny has volunteered her time in our classrooms reading with students or helping them with their letters or numbers she has helped in our PE Department many times throughout the years with activities such as Outdoor Pursuits units field days and fun runs she's happy to assist students with anything from putting on skis or snowshoes even getting out there and snowshoeing handing out ribbons or lending a hand with anything needed she is quick to volunteer and is willing to help in whatever capacity we need her for these reasons Jenny is our Jenny cures our Vikings friend of Education [Applause] foreign [Applause] last but not least we have home and public preschool and Amy gosh is going to share our friend of Education thanks Amy for being here all right um the 4K program would like to recognize Krista Mitchell as the home and public preschools 2021 2022 a friend of Education Krista's son Ethan attended 4K this past school year Krista went above and beyond what was expected of a parent for the entire school year here are some ways she contributed to and enriched her son's classroom and our program in October when we were learning about spiders Krista created a sensory experience that included corn and spider rings and even completed it with a water spout this gave us a great opportunity to connect our learning to a nursery rhyme build vocabulary and practice rhyming most importantly the students had hours of fun cooperating and playing in the sensory table in December Krista volunteered to help students create and decorate gingerbread houses out of milk cartons before coming in for this activity she picked up a supply of milk cartons from school she glued and spray painted them in order to have a paint that would adhere to the carton and once they were dry she provided stickers to the students that so that they could decorate their gingerbread house they were so excited to bring them home and we're sure many of them will be kept as a holiday decoration for years to come in February Krista donated a pin the 100 game for the 100th day of school celebration she even sent along 100 pennies in a little bag for the student that got the closest you should have seen in the Winner's eyes light up when she was told that she won 100 pennies she seemed to feel like she had just won the lottery at the end of the school year Krista was generous in donating items for our ABC end of the year countdown she donated packets of seeds to this for students to plant during one of our game day Fridays in the month of May the students were so excited to share that their flowers were beginning to grow before the end of the school year for her son Ethan's birthday Krista sent a snack to school along with paper plates and napkins to match our theme as she did every time it was Ethan's turn to bring snack all the plates and napkins matched the theme that we were learning about and when Krista discovered that Ethan shared his birthday with another friend in the class she made sure to have both of their names added to the birthday cake throughout the year Krista showed that she was always thinking about 4K by sending in craft items construction vehicles to add to the block Center scrubs that could be used for the students in dramatic play and little notepads to take home during the read Across America week we are so thankful to have had Krista as a parent partner during the 2021-2022 school year whenever she volunteered she always had a big smile and the students really enjoyed being around her Krista thank you for your commitment to making learning fun exciting and Hands-On for the Little Learners in 4k foreign I think she might not be here this evening so well I can take care of it we can take care of it so all right do you want a picture of all of them if all of the friend of educations could come up for a picture together if you are okay with that and then um and we will give you one more round of applause so thank you [Applause] thank you I don't know either Travis is supposed to tell me okay I'll transition over to my spot over here it went in blue and then you know thank you oh I thought you wanted me too all right thank you foreign we'll be moving on to reports and discussion Dr Mueller will now lead the presentation of the district facility Improvement in operational referendum planning recommendation yeah thank you it's nice to be over here giving you a report this evening um with me here I have Julie Holman which we all know is our Executive Director of Finance and operations and also Kevin Hickman who works has been working with us from Nexus Solutions through this whole process over many many months okay just as a review here um in our timeline we've been at this for quite a while in that and it just shows you it's been actually you know coming upon over almost a year here and we're at the time here in July of 2022 so at our last board meeting you were presented with the results from a Rob from school perception shared the results from our community survey and that and just an initial type of recommendation was given to the board and with that I'm here tonight we are still in July of 2022. I am going to give more detail to what that would all be considered as and looking for consensus from the board to move forward to start drafting proposed referendum questions for a referendum that would occur in November so people might be asking why now well we from our comprehensive assessment and long-term facility planning process and through when we've brought our run and underfunded needs list to the district multiple times along with input from our Administration staff and Community now is the time we see our buildings they're aging and they're not getting any newer over time and we definitely have some things that need attention we've spent a lot of time and I'd like to thank our our staff our buildings and grounds our finance committee they've spent a lot of time prioritizing our needs we started out with a long long list and then also our community Through the survey really helped us figure out what are the community's priorities what are our priorities within the district also we'll show you here again the timing and the finances the time is right now within the school district to Holmen and the recommendations you see align with our district dashboard and what we focus on which is student learning and our staff in our customer our community health and safety and then lastly like I had mentioned already the recommendation we're bringing forth does align with all the work that has come forward from all the many stakeholder groups so this should start to look familiar this was in our survey this has been brought to you before as a board basically overall what this is showing is um you know no matter which option we were to go with one two or three we are still below our mill rate from 2021. so you could see in 2021 our mill rate was 9.77 no matter what option we would go with we would still be below that and you can also see the sense back in 2013-14 we have been declining with our tax mill rate over the years and this is just a review of what was shared in the survey about how much it would cost per the projected annual tax increase would be per every hundred thousand a property value one thing that we did learn from the survey and I think I'll be talking about it further is option one was very popular with saying okay fifteen dollars per 100 000 for the year you know being able to work with that and make the improvements seem very favorable in option two was somewhat favorable in option three was you know as we got to more the higher dollar amount it wasn't as favorable which what we would expect especially with everything else going on in the economy right now so just as a review from the last board meeting a majority of all the respondents supported the operational referendum as described and I'll talk more about that as we go on a majority of all the respondents support the district pursuing a capital referendum to Support Facility needs of the options they most preferred the option one which was in the range of around 73.1 million and they also expressed High satisfaction with the district with several scores above the medium which those are all important details as we make as you as a board make decisions here going forward so bringing you back to the last board meeting on July 11th the recommendation was drafting that recurring operational referendum question of 650 annually towards for the purpose of Building Maintenance and Technology and that was supported as we mentioned by the solid majority of survey respondents and additionally we talked about coming up with um improvements between the option one and option two range in determining what those were so this evening I am going to show you the details of what we was determined so I'm going to start with Evergreen so it was very apparent deferred maintenance is a top priority with our aging buildings So within Evergreen what we would focus on and what was prioritized was the high priority finishes casework Cubbies um American Disability acts the Ada compliances and door updates also we have aging kitchen equipment that would need replacement you'll see within all of our elementaries as we talk inclusive playgrounds and safety surfaces to improve our safety and allow an area for all students to play roof replacements building envelope and window repairs LED lighting and electrical outlet upgrades the LED lighting helps definitely in the long term with our Energy Efficiency in our bills so savings there electrical infrastructure improvements we have a 1978 elevator that needs repairs and updates exhaust fan replacement water heater conversion to Natural Gas create efficiencies HVAC retro commissioning and then the other part so that's a long list of the main deferred maintenance that would be taken care of but then we to be able to have a more efficient effective Kitchen in receiving addition of 1730 square feet would occur at Evergreen and I'll show you a picture of that and the other part that we have heard from a lot of our community members and especially those that parents that attend Evergreen is to really take a look at the parking lot expansion and traffic flow especially for safety safety issues and then what would happen is there would be Remodeling and renovation throughout the building especially within those areas of that deferred maintenance to improve our student learning spaces for to know the specifics of that we would involve our staff members and they would work with us on what that design would look like so that we could ensure that the learning spaces really were conducive to their instruction so with that here is a sky view of Evergreen um this is actually the front door here I don't know if you can see my little movement area so here's the parking traffic flow area that we would have to work with to redevelop something that was more providing a a safe pathway and here you could see where that little kitchen expansion Edition would occur in in the back here and then really the building would get the updates that I had shared so that would be Evergreen is there any questions on Evergreen at this point or I'll just okay so you'll see a lot of the same types of things here this is Viking Elementary was another one that had high priority finishes casework Cubbies 88 door updates also kitchen equipment Replacements a lot of that needs to be updated and the playgrounds and safety surfaces Roofing and door repairs LED lighting electrical here you'll see fire alarm system replacement they have an older system that would need that electrical infrastructure improvements they have a 1972 elevator that would need repairs and updates exhaust fan HVAC improvements which we are looking at doing those through District funding in that to help offset some of the expense for the referendum and then also some retro commissioning and then also looking at their traffic flow especially in the 4K area and then Remodeling and renovation would occur throughout the building where the Deferred maintenance was occurring so with that so really what these Evergreen and Viking it's really um fixing the Deferred maintenance and while we're doing that kind of giving a refresh and a fresh new look and improving the instructional area for our our teaching staff and here you can see you know maintenance and remodel throughout the whole building and then just really looking at Park parking and traffic flow and we do have land on the back side that we can look at to to improve traffic flow and so forth so be developing what that would look like and then the middle school this is one of our larger projects it you'll see here also high priority finishes casework lockers also on on the list there kitchen equipment site signage we would need some Ada updates as they're doing deferred maintenance repairs I'm building envelope and door repairs LED lighting electrical electrical infrastructure here we need a whole fire alarm and Fire Protection upgrades um this is the building that actually houses um our hub for all of our technology in the district an emergency generator Edition is a dire necessity so we would be able to add that so that way when we would have an outage we went to go we'd have good backup Heating and control system conversions air handling unit ventilation upgrades exhaust fans water piping HVAC retro commissioning now this is the part that is reconstruction of the original 1955 Wing so that was the old Viking Elementary that's about 37 000 square feet and I'll show you a picture of where that would be and then Remodeling and renovation throughout the building so when you look here at the middle school um here this is the main street here in front of the building and so off to the the side of the building closest over to I guess you could say over by Subway or towards the BGC area um there is this section in the back of the building is the first part of the building because as you know this building has had many additions to it so a big part of this would be to basically take that down and reconstruct that um and so it'd be new and fresh but then also as we're doing the Deferred maintenance throughout the building which we would also then be doing extensive Remodeling and renovation to really improve the flow throughout the building because we also a lot a lot of times here it's like a maze when you go into that middle school so that way you would what we were talking about is you walk in and the entry and then you could actually tell where you're going and see where to go instead of trying having to follow the signs but a lot of that in the design staff would be a part of that to make sure it's conducive to the needs of the students and then the last part of The Proposal here is to ensure that we have consistent um and offer the same opportunities across all of our elementary schools we would also um have the inclusive playground and safety surfaces and here's just an example of what a safety surface looks like so that all students could then access the playgrounds and be together out there and then the stem lab what this is it just shows you an area where students really get to explore so kind of talking about converting our so-called computer labs into more of a up-to-date um area where stem which is science technology learning could happen in in that environment which would be something that we would look at to have consistent across all elementary schools so is there any questions thus far on any of the projects buildings otherwise we can finish up our presentation and then you can ask questions at the end but I just wanted to see um I'm sure I have one question okay um I guess first of all thank you for sending the comments to the board from the survey that was really appreciative um I really saw I guess two main things themes stand out from that survey and one was to just really focus on safety and learning and the other one um was there was a fair amount of comments regarding the middle school so um I guess based on those comments could you explain a little bit more on why we are not looking at building a new middle school and why we are choosing to renovate the current Middle School yeah no definitely that is definitely a great question because I know that's out there um I know there's a sign out by Prairie View that says future Middle School well that sign was there when I arrived in 2015 um it's been there a long time that came from planning from years ago the district was having increased enrollment and that was they secured land for as the enrollment kept increasing it was to build a second Middle School when it would be needed well what we found happen is the enrollment basically became more steady in that and there wasn't the need for a second Middle School also out on that land if we were to build a middle school because some people might say well why wouldn't you build a new Middle School out there and then do something with the current Middle School the size of the land out there it would have to be multiple stories and we wouldn't be able to have the facilities on site we would still have to use the facilities at the current middle school or at the high school which would be difficult because the high school uses their facilities with high school students pretty consistently so there would be some challenges and also if we were to build a middle school at that other site back in the time when we talked about it there would have probably had to have been some great configurations if we were to grow to that size but what we're finding is our projections are not showing the need for that at this point in time um another part is at our current location knowing that we can re-build part of that building that is that desperately needs that but then also the renovation that can occur we can produce um for half the price um what needs to be done a new Middle School is around what was shared and that's yeah into thank you in today's dollars a new Middle School to essentially replicate the square footage you've got there would be roughly 76 million in that uh could go higher depending on any additional land acquisition or infrastructure costs associated with it so as Chris said it's about double what uh the current proposed investment would be at your middle school and and with all the renovations taking place and and Viking and Evergreen and the middle school what is the expected longevity of these Renovations how long before we're going to have to do something again yeah so I saw with the middle school you know 25 to 30 years um at the earliest is what I was you know told I'll let the experts eat more yeah it's always hard to Crystal Ball that right because there's going to be a different board likely different administrators by that point with potentially different needs but uh in theory yes 25 to 30 years is is minimum what we'd look to in terms of the extent and quality of the remodeling that would take place there in the reconfiguration of of existing space uh I would expect it would go beyond that but 25 to 30 years would be a good Target any questions from other board members all right we'll move on then are we okay to move on Okay so um just kind of finishing up the presentation here I wanted um Kevin to share a little bit about what's going on in our economy which many of you are aware of absolutely um so it's an interesting time as you know if you if you do any grocery shopping or pump any gas but when it comes to Construction in a typical year we look at about five to seven percent uh inflation that we factor into our budgets in the amount of inflation we've been factoring up to this point into budgets has has pretty much held true what we're finding though in the last four to six weeks on the left side there you can see three of three of our bids all different Scopes but essentially the same result playground a greenhouse and then a school project with significant remodels and additions similar to Holmen they all came in um over budget and and obviously that's never a goal um but as Chris said things are going on in the world right now so how do we how do we look at how we're going to react to that if you look at Statewide it's a challenge for many school projects right now not to pick on anybody in particular but Nina high school it's been in the uh in the media lately they're already going to referendum they're now in bidding and they're about 14 million dollars over budget Madison Metro School District same point in their process about 28 million over budget and state of Wisconsin at the higher education levels increasing budgets on three of their University projects by over 20 percent um and and that just they just announced that within the last few weeks our essential paper record or however you want to say it the engineer News Record though in in our industry right now they're estimating 13 annual inflation growth for construction this year and I think the hope would be um it's important to point out that uh your project should you go to referendum November most of them won't be bidding at the earliest until about a year from now so our hope would be inflation moderates by that point but we still think you ought to within your current budgets address that risk which is what the district has done so thank you Kevin and with that I'm that leads into our next slide sides so what you saw tonight was pretty was option one that was part of that Community survey that got much support we'll be able to support some of those option two items as we move forward with District budget and working through some of our funding and so on that we have talked about but with inflation and with getting everything within that option one the total district-wide project came in when we did the numbers at 76 million little over 76 million with our Project funding we can put 1.3 million towards that it would bring down a referendum amount projected to be around 74 and a half million so that would put us not too far over the the supported 73.1 million um but yet we would still be able to accomplish quite a bit with um a whole Middle School renovation in deferred maintenance and Viking and two of our elementories that are need which were the top priority items through the whole comprehensive facility study and still um start to look at and addressing some of those within option two and we just we over time I think time will tell as to how much more we can do as a district um on those other other parts of the survey that we heard people were interested in us addressing and also as you see there it would be approximately I mean we're just projecting right now if we went to referendum for the capital referendum of 74 and a half it's approximately it's projected at 18 per 100 000 in the house value or a dollar fifty per month um that's not finalized but projected so what we're looking for tonight is just um consensus consensus from the board if we could move forward with kind of drafting to resolution referendum questions one would be um in preparing it for an operational referendum for the amount not to exceed 650 000 annually which that would then provide ongoing for Building Maintenance and Technology because once we redo and build these beautiful facilities we want to keep them in that shape and then the second is the capital referendum to um what in what I presented this evening in the details for the the Viking Evergreen Middle School and then the smaller projects at Sand Lake and Prairie View um so our next step is you know depending if if you say tonight and agree that it's okay to move forward with this we would work with Nexus um continue that PMA and our legal counsel to prepare those draft resolution questions um and then we would give you a draft before the board meeting in August to take a look at and assuming there was no changes we would bring them um to the meeting for hopefully your approval or August 22nd and the deadline for approving those is August 30th to ensure that you could go to a referendum if you so choose for November 8th do you have anything to add the only thing I was going to add is the um through some conversations today we found out that bonds are sold in 5 000 increments which I forgot and so the question number two would probably be not to exceed 74 million 750 or 74 million 745 so that might look slightly different when you see the questions presented just so that we can meet the the bond sale increments required so any other comments or questions from the board I have I would uh as is my nature I challenge the numbers a little the referendum came up and you the number one got the most support each person on a survey that at least get one vote one vote okay then uh and then the number one got the most support my challenge is that if i i would support the number two choice and the reason being is uh if let's say number one the one number one choice has say 1500 supporting that and number two has a thousand number three has a thousand number two or number three is if the vote comes up number two or three is going to certainly move down to two if they improve three they're going to approve two right so that would make us that would make it overwhelming uh majority for number two people aren't gonna I don't think people are gonna move up which means if the number one people there'll be a few people in number one that supported number one that will move up and support number two because they're probably on the fence but that makes it tough to get to number three because both groups would have to move up but I don't see any reason why we couldn't support number two if you can bind the people that supported those two questions the numbers those two questions it's twice probably twice as large as the number that's supported number one because they weren't it wasn't like 60 or 70 percent difference in the numbers it was like six or seven percent I remember right so I'm assuming that number three voters for another three uh option would move down to number two and then some of the number ones would move number two because they're on the fence so I think that we could support number two on if you get number two passed um as easily as we could number one so I think we should maybe consider that and push it on a little farther uh there's a little more explanation to the people out there we could convince some of the ones to move over and certainly like I said before certainly I think the threes have moved on to two um I was glad to see the The Continuous maintenance 650 000 it makes sense um and if we go up to number two we're still not reverting back to the higher Mill rage we had five or six or seven years ago we're still below that twelve dollar the magic 12 mark that I uh Drew in the sand a long time ago keep it below twelve dollars we still wouldn't be back up to that ref that that number uh if you pass number two so my support would be number two for those reasons I think the meat I think the math is misleading when you say that option number one had the most support and that's not true I think what is true is that number two and number three three coming down would have the most support that's that's my uh position thank you Gary and just as a refresher the option to had adding kitchen equipment at Prairie View um updating interior finishes um at Prairie View in Sand Lake in the high school such as floors lighting and improving HVAC efficiencies I'm addressing remaining ADA compliance um at Sand Lake in Ariza High School not renovated in 2018 that would mean that construction would occur for that compliance to happen so and then repairing replacing the high school roof sections in the old so there was in the past High School referendum there was an old the older section of the high school was not part of that referendum we renovated updated and did the addition on the other part of the building so that is deferred maintenance that was on there so those were the items and then here Kevin I'll let you I think it's a good point to make Gary it's good I think it's a good question to ask I'll just remind everybody um although Rob from school perceptions gave the presentation last time of a few things that he pointed out so you guys can consider that as you're as you're discussing um if you remember in the survey there they essentially asked would you support option one option two option three or would you support essentially any of the options right and what Rob told us last time although he didn't exactly present it this way I think it came up in Q a was you could essentially look at adding two numbers together the first number being the the group that would support any of the options the second number being the group that would support either option one option two or option three and Gary's certainly right if if you're gonna support option three generally you would support option two or support option one generally it doesn't go in the reverse though so option one um there will be a some percentage of that I can't tell you the number but some percentage of that that will wouldn't support option two and essentially see what Rob I I believe he answered last time was and this is why the board I think directed The District come back with the recommendation in range was you certainly have a great deal of support greater the majority support at Option One when you add those numbers together at option two you're getting a little closer to what he would consider being a situation where you may have at or slightly below majority support certainly a lot of districts look at that and say they can with good communication in the community demonstrate the need and go ahead and get that support but generally I just would advise it again look at the data and and one thing I think Rob pointed out to you last time was certainly people pay attention to the scope Within These individual options there's no question but if you gave them one thing they certainly pay attention to it's going to be that overall tax impact in other words how does it affect my pocketbook if I'm a taxpayer so in that case I'll just jump back for you and Julie's probably got similar numbers it was one of the slides we showed tonight but option one again at 73.1 million was about a 15 annual tax increase option two was about a 35 annual tax increase um so about a a 20 Delta in between those two um what Rob would tell you because I've asked him this question is uh he can't say that's going to make or break things one way or the other yeah he can't give you that based on the data uh but he certainly would tell you that risk goes up for every million dollars in addition you you choose to invest and ask for the taxpayers to support so there's some things to keep in mind there uh may or may not help clarify anything for you but those are just some things to remember about what Rob said I would argue that twenty dollars uh for what we're going to get for that money is is minimal and I'd also argue that if we had put up two choices and split the three the three choices into two and divided number two in half number one and number two I would contend that there'd be a major majority for number one so I don't know why we wouldn't consider adding some or adding the number two to the one I still I think that we should push the envelope a little bit and get more of what we need is all I'm saying okay thank you Gary I think I would really appreciate everybody would consider that thanks okay comments or or how do you feel about option one versus option two to recall through in the presentation last meeting then when we looked at the non-parent group which I believe was like 75 of the folks voting that it it became more apparent why we were choosing option one over option two when we looked at that group alone so I'm I'm in favor of moving forward with option one and and not taking that risk um so it's what about a about a 10 increase 73 million to 82 million not enlarged so the numbers on the screen Gary don't include the additional inflationary percentage that has been added as well and so if you're looking at option two we have to add more for inflation contingency as well yeah the percentage would be the same speed you'd add the same inflation numbers and number one so the percentage increase numbers would be the same yeah so when I go to the recommendation that we're bringing forward to the board tonight this includes um when we brought forward the options in the survey we were we weren't taking into consideration that inflationary peace the additional expense for inflation so um we really are hoping to make sure that we can get the middle school and Evergreen and Viking projects uh taken care of we feel that's a very high priority and needed for our students and staff and for our community right now and felt with the inflation and not knowing the uncertainty of that that maybe not take as much risk it would be safer to go with this option in this amount um it doesn't mean that down the road that we couldn't take care of some of those other items because I see what you're saying you know roughs are important we need to make sure we take care of those roofs because we don't want to have leaks and so on but you know so that's that's the tough part is where do you draw like where do you feel most comfortable to hope you know to bring success success for the students um that they have the facilities they need to learn in so when the increase in the inflation numbers talk about that that increase it would only be about five dollars a year on the on the year end on the year-end tax bill if people have five dollars a year six dollars a year I don't think that's substantial so I guess as a board I just need to know what direction you would like us to go what I am hearing is it sounds like you definitely want us to draft some resolution questions I think it is is would you like us to move forward with what we brought this evening or um or would you want us to add any additional items to that I guess is just the questions we would have so that we know what to bring back um moving forward so if we could get that direction from you this evening that would be wonderful so personally I'm comfortable with what you've brought forward I appreciate the additional information and and I would I mean my my opinion would be to go with this option one okay Christian berb I appreciate the work that was done because I know two weeks ago when it was mentioned that it was going to be somewhere between I think that this um and 74 is closer to option one and I'm most concerned about that 22 percent of our um voting members that don't have children family in the district saying they wouldn't support anything I think if this is laid out I think we have a better chance of bringing them on board your agreement Chris yes all right so does the board do we have consensus as a board for for moving forward with drafting questions and moving forward the resolution is this all right thank you for all your input I appreciate it and we will then bring that back on August 8th so thank you thank you Julie all right next up I invite director of nutrition services Mike Gasper to present the 2022 2023 School Meal prices this item will appear on tonight's consent agenda good evening um I wish I had the same news I had last year when I came forward and was able to tell everybody we were going to have free meals for everybody unfortunately at the end of June Congress passed the kids fed act which essentially extended all the waivers that were in place that allowed us to perhaps not follow the meal pattern when we couldn't find a product things of that nature but they did not approve funding for free meals for everyone so we do have to go back to a paid structure um one of the things that happened last year we served over a hundred thousand more lunches than we did the year before and our total meal served was over 200 000 between breakfast and our uh parochial schools and different things that we do um so we we did financially quite well um so one of the things we'd like to propose this year normally our free and reduced kids are reduced kids excuse me have to pay 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch we would like to propose that we use some of our fund balance approximately sixteen thousand five hundred dollars and not charge those students for those meals we think that will be a real Lifeline to those families that are struggling to make ends meet last time we actually raised prices was the 2017-2018 school year however we're expecting well over 15 percent inflation in food costs in fact we're seeing some of that now I was telling Julie earlier today that we got our first email today with a whole bunch of products that are being discontinued that we were counting on so it's going to be another wild ride as far as as procurement goes in general what we would like to do basically though is try and keep our lunch prices breakfast and lunch prices at a good value and raise them as minimally as possible what we're proposing for breakfast is two dollars across the board K-12 um two thousand fifty cents for adults and then for lunch K5 three dollars and K-12 three and a quarter and adult meals would be four and a quarter I can tell you that compared to neighboring districts about our size we're still the lowest as far as what we would be charging for those Meals one District's as high as 485 for adult meals and 345 for lunch so you can see that we're still quite a bit lower than most of these districts so that's our proposal we hope that that can be included in the consent agenda tonight so we can get this information out to our public so they know what um they'll be paying females any questions very good thank you Executive Director of Finance and operations Julie Holman will present the 2324 budget development calendar which will appear on the August 8th consent agenda so this is just an annual event that we do at the board meeting to share the process of budget development with the board and the community it does look a little different this year it's usually multiple pages and I put it more into a flow chart for a single page snapshot of the process so you just start in the top right corner which is actually started today the audit field work so the Auditors will be in the office all week upstairs and then um this this is like the end of last year's fiscal year and then we move into planning for not the current but next budget cycle beginning July 1 of 2023. so this just includes all kind of the major steps not the detail behind each event but gives you an idea of what happens when most things do come to the board other things are just occurring with our reporting to the Department of Public Instruction other things like monitoring what the legislative legislative session is is happening what's happening in Madison we monitor that as soon as they get started up until when they are done with their session so we often report on education bills and other things that are being discussed and what that might mean for our budget and Holmen and it just goes through the process so again this is actually for the 2324 budget process development and then each one of those includes the person or Department responsible for that activity so any questions all right thank you thank you all right next up executive director of student services Jill Mason will now present several 66 or 301 agreements all of which will appear on the August 8th consent agenda good evening everyone um I think I'm just gonna open the issue paper for you I have so many of them in here I can't find the issue paper there we go this is for one of them um we contract we don't contract we have a physical therapist that we hire we contract with Onalaska they pay for a day and we have her the individual four days a week and so we do this under a 66 or 301 agreement with Onalaska um so that we can have a full-time employee and then share those costs with Onalaska so each year we come to the board with the same agreement this year we're able to continue that agreement where we again have her four days and Onalaska has her one day so things haven't changed for that agreement so that's what this one is for thank you and nope Stacy do you remember what number that is it should be all the way towards top it's only 9.4 and that 9.4 in a letter I think it's the one you got yeah it's that group you were just by this one maybe huh look at it there's so many 66003 oh um one agreements so we use these agreements for our three transition programs for project live project bridge and project search we have districts such as g-e-t lacrosse Independence and melrose-minduro this year Contracting with us for our transition services for students and so what we do is we do an agreement with the district and then we estimate out the costs we do that based on the current open enrollment costs for students who are in regular education we don't need to make money on these situations but we really want to make sure it's accessible for all students to access if we do have situations where students might need a one-on-one EA or some other services we do then work with the school district to add those costs into these agreements so far we're able to support all of our students so some of our students will be going to project search some will be going to project live and some will be going to bridge any questions about those thank you okay moving on to the consent agenda items for the consent agenda the board has been furnished with background materials and each item and as discussed it at a previous meeting these will be acted upon with one vote without discussion if a board member wants to discuss any item it'll be pulled out of the consent agenda and will be voted on separately I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as provided so moved Chris do we have a second right motioned by Chris seconded by Bridget is there any discussion hearing none all those in favor of approving the consent agenda please signify by saying aye aye so suppose signify by saying they motion passes all right moving on to the board debrief first I will call upon board members and ask you to present any comments or committee reports you have uh then this evening we're going to start with Ellen uh first I I don't know first I'd just like to thank uh the friends of Education um it's always heartwarming to hear about Community involvement in our schools because it helps the students feel valued and also have just helps the teachers and the administration all that but I also think it helps the community because it makes you feel attached to schools it doesn't make it feel like oh what what are they teaching kids at school nowadays I don't know what's going on and so it's always just good for parents and members of the community to know what's going on in the schools and to help out with that um also I just like to acknowledge that a lot of our sports teams like uh the home and dance team and the Holmen football team have begun training for the upcoming season so hopefully they'll be able to bring a lot of Pride to the school district besides that nothing else okay Gary you're next I'd like to thank all the friends of Education too they're very special people and and they put forth a lot of effort and August 18th we have a first football game we never had ours until I think like first week in September so that's the out against chip will fall here at home so that'll be nice of course we have volleyball starting girls golf uh the band uh uh the dance teams there's all kinds of basketball camps going on and basking football camps going on so like I say every year be careful out there driving it's going to be chaos for a while so watch out for a little bit especially the new kids I have a couple granddaughters going to be freshmen this year so we're gonna have to watch out for those guys but yeah it's going to be a busy busy year I think it's going to be really enjoyable got a got a great bunch of kids in it get really good bunch of coaches I think it's gonna be fun to watch that's all we have okay moving down to Chris uh no just uh the friends of Education Nate's always one of my favorite nights of the school district calendar so um just thank you to all those folks I recognize tonight and that's very much appreciated okay Bridget I I would also agree it was wonderful to acknowledge all those friends of education and just to know that there's is like amazing individuals in this community um I did want to say I think I recently looked at open positions on our district website and I think there's like around 21 open positions related to co-curricular um activities for our students and so anyone watching tonight I just really implore you to consider applying for those positions because I think those activities are so incredibly important for our students so um that's all I have okay Barb I would also just like to thank all of our friends of Education I appreciate um the involvement I appreciate their dedication to our schools and having them in there so that they can be an active part in our children's education okay thank you um so I'd like to ask the board to begin thinking about what committee you would like to be on starting this next school year we have four committees we have billions and grounds Finance personnel and governance and the student achievement and learning committee so descriptions about all these committees are on the district website if you want to learn more about them and I'm expecting Stacy at some point we'll be sending an email out to board members asking what their where their interest lies we'll go from there so and the Committees usually start up in either September or October time frame um also the board's going to be having a board workshop on August 15th the primary agenda item for that night is going to be discussing our dashboard and sharing our goals another item we'll be discussing a bit of a more formal process for board committee report oats what we do here at the meeting and how we might want to go about doing that so if there's any other agenda items that anybody's interested in having at that Workshop you know please send me an email or or call or get a hold of me somehow and let me know and I'll get it on the agenda and lastly I also want to say congratulations to all the friends at education um in my personal opinion I think having the community involved in our publication in our public education is how it should be and um I just just thank you for going above and beyond in everything that you do and have done in the last year so all right so upcoming meeting schedule on August 8th at 5 30 PM we will be conducting candidate interviews and that'll be followed by the board meeting at seven o'clock again on the 15th of your board workshop on the 22nd will be the next board meeting and then on the 23rd will be the back to school kickoff all board members are invited to our annual kickoff for the school year if you're more than welcome to come so it's a fun event yes it's at eight eight in the morning 8 A.M actually seven o'clock for breakfast so okay come join August 23rd it's a Tuesday is there any other business that needs to come before the board at this time if not I would entertain a motion to adjourn this meeting so I moved second a second thank you all right Chris has moved and Bridget seconded to adjourn the meeting at 8 17 P.M motion carried is there any discussion hearing none all those in favor please indicate by saying aye those opposed signify by saying they | School District of Holmen | UC3n3Ameh5TZFER3SOpPGPqA | 2022-07-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 11,318 | 61,743 |
FZldYM3toRU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZldYM3toRU | Dopamine detoxing | I think the key is to uh to leverage dopamine reward prediction error in the best way it's the surprise that you know if you take kids you're driving home from school and suddenly you pull into the ice cream shop they're going to be so ecstatic but if you tell them you're going to go to the ice cream shop and it's closed huge drop below Baseline does that mean if you tell them that you're going to the ice cream shop and it's open that's less than not telling them you're going to the ice cream shop and it's surprised correct it's it's they literally tear out into Maxim surprises the maximum dopamine release then successful completion of the missions as it were is the next and then unsuccessful is there not an argument to be made that you would be able to drag out the amount of time that dopamine is released for because of the anticipation yeah so well and people do this in relationship quite a lot right anticipation is the kind of ultimate fuel of the courting dance right I mean this is also but one has to be very careful because whether or not it's from the male side of the female side or whatever variation they're of there's uh you only get so many reward prediction errors before people start to predict or associate low dopamine with somebody or some experience in other words if you you know I'll use an example uh not for my own life but if you say you know we're going to Costa Rica on vacation and then you say listen I I have to work they might understand but that's a letdown it's a dopamine reward prediction error in the direction of lower dopamine they might recover from it they might not but most people recover from it if you do that two or three times what ends up happening you can model this beautifully and they've seen this experimentally in animals and humans then you say okay we're really going to Costa Rica this time and you think well the surprise is going to be that you actually go the amount of dopamine that's released for positive for successful completion of the initial goal is far lower than it ever would have been so you can only Cry Wolf yeah I suppose that's not the right way to put it you can only um create positive anticipation so many times and then create a letdown before completion that the pro delivery of the promise has very little impact and so you have to be very careful with one's words better to say nothing than to let somebody down uh for sure in the context of human relationship and you know this plays out in some um less perhaps uh amusing ways where you know you look at people who are successful in life and you always hear success build success and it's absolutely true like when students come to my lab and they do a PhD thesis it's very important for me to get them onto a research track quickly that they're going to experience some success because if they spend four years and then it fails that's devastating and then they have to start over again same thing with kids I mean getting some success early on even if it's low bar success really does build up one's positive anticipation uh an ability to perform well in the future because dopamine gives energy remembers the precursor to Adrenaline and the sense that the world is predictable now this can go a wrong way too and I see this a lot with the idea that everyone gets a blue ribbon this is terrible too because if everyone is rewarded every child is rewarded regardless of how well they performed if they're all rewarded to the same level you actually flatten the dopamine curve and so in that sense yes everyone might feel you know celebrated but you actually are lowering motivation for the given activity uh this has a whole landscape of research in back of it relate to Intrinsic versus extrinsic reward the strongest motivation is always going to be intrinsic motivation if you reward kids or adults for something too many times even if they like that activity the the propensity to do that activity will be reduced but if you reward without effort or without success that is devastating for a nervous system in fact I've gone on record and I'll say it again and again and again which is that dopamine that arrives without prior effort destroys people this is this is drugs this is uh you know this is things like cocaine and amphetamine it's high levels of dopamine with no effort okay they had to buy it they had to find it they did whatever it but that's no there's no physical effort or mental effort involved in getting the dopamine Peak this is why hard work followed by reward great working hard on a relationship and then it gets better there's a breakthrough whatever it is that is powerfully positive dopamine that just arrives because you say oh you're here so you get reward terrible and this is why rewarding every little positive thing that a child does with you know their favorite thing eventually diminishes the value of that thing and diminishes their ability to get motivated on their own so very very powerful system one has to be very very careful how one leverages | Elude Stalwart | UCEGh5C_W46qoKocQfZC_MQQ | 2022-07-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 928 | 5,035 |
UxEJfH_N8Io | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxEJfH_N8Io | IMP S1 EP1 - Frogs Of War | [Music] try havoc and let's slip the frogs of War Havoc [Music] I think it's supposed to be Dogs of War are you sure yep well it was either that or goldfish again well that gasping and flapping about this what you really should have released them into water it didn't say anything about that in the instructions but what do you expect your frogs to do apart from sitting on their lily pads the insects of this world have had it too easy for too long actually that one's quite big my Uber frog my giant amphibian of Doom my slimy sidekick in the service of even makes a frog vomit | THE REAL ORANGEGOODMAN (ON A LONG HIATUS) | UCZNom9GgrTS9rmUI2D-6JJQ | 2023-01-01 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 112 | 579 |
5cg1k02L8Zg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cg1k02L8Zg | Learning Made Easy With CrewAI (EASY & Beginner Friendly) | when it comes to learning something new I think one of the most frustrating things is not even knowing where to start sure you can look things up online but at the end of the day it's kind of hard to find Reliable resourceful information when everybody's just pitching you their course or their ebook or whatever and now that we have tools like Chad GPT it can be even more frustrating especially if you don't necessarily even know where to start right cuz again how can you ask a thing about something that you're still trying to figure out so that's definitely a frustrating place to be starting at zero it doesn't matter if you're learning about stocks or about how to open a food truck or maybe you just want to know about the history of the Roman Empire so that's what we're going to talk about today about a cre project that can help you learn things even when you know nothing about it as you can see the one that's just running in the background all I said was how to open a food truck in San Antonio cuz you know food trucks are pretty competitive in San Antonio and what we went ahead and did is it gave us an analysis through multiple agents of what the main points would be in order to figure this out we have Market anal is menu development operation plan and again this might seem like a very short response but in the context of starting from a place of not knowing anything about a certain topic and going through an analysis that gives you a detailed outline on what the next tips would be that can be very valuable especially if you're just starting your journey on learning any topic so real quick let's go over how this creai project works so this is made up of 48 has your analyzer so basically when you run this program it's going to ask you what you want to learn about you can give it a long response or a short response but the role of the analyzer is just to figure out what it is that you're talking about from this point it's going to pass your response to the subject matter exp so once the analyzer figures out that you want to know about the history of the Roman Empire it's going to look for a subject matter expert in this case it's going to ask a Roman history subject matter expert but the five most important main points you should know regarding the topic that you're asking about from here on out the subject matter expert is then going to pass it to an ebook writer who is then going to write out some thorough essays regarding the topics that you want to know after this it's going to pass it on to a notion editor and the role of this editor is going to be to pass on the information and format it in a way that you can store it in your notion account now if you've never used notion before I highly recommend it going give you this very nice interface to store your files this isn't a promo this isn't I don't get any money for this but I barely started using notion about a year ago and let me tell you like it just makes it that much easier to store information that I want to read later and take notes for myself here is one of the samples of what I was working on I was asking you about the r now I'm going to attach the code that you need in order to run this program if you've been following the tutorials and you were able to set up your CI project from scratch even if you had no coding experience even if you didn't even have a code edor even if you've never installed any of these tools on your computer before we took you from zero all the way to being able to run these cre projects I'm going to give you the code that you need in order to run this specific kind of project where I said it's a subject matter expert giving you like I said it's a group of Agents basically trying to figure out what it is that you need in order to start learning about the thing that you're curious about so here we're going to run it one more time right so now let's run our program now it's running it simply asks you enter a field of study you're curious about now this is a very broad statement you can really ask it anything you want simar like you could in chat gbt but now you have the benefit of it's going to go through multiple agents in order to analyze the response it's going to give you so let's ask you the question that I know we all have how do we keep up with AI in the age of AI when everything is moving so fast and when maybe we don't necessarily have enough time to start learning how to code so I as how do I keep up with AI in the age of AI where everything is changing so fast and I don't have programming experience so this is where the interactions with multiple agents start happening we see here where the analyzer starts trying to figure out what's the main what's the main academic discipline or interest that this is related to here we have where passes that on order to figure that out so in this case it decid that the academic discipline was cognitive science so here it gave us the five topics that I identify would be most related with AI within cognitive science here we have cognitive modeling how humans and machines process information and decisions to solve problems neural networks this related to how artificial intelligence mimics the human brain natural language processing so it's just Rel to how AI is used to generate human language and we have a few more here so we have this communication with the other agent where it asked to provide more in-depth insight and key points in the topics that were mentioned above and this response it didn't really provide any very long essays or wrong or long descriptions but I think it might be because I'm using GPT 3.5 rather than GPT 4 just for the sake of this video I didn't want to use 4 cuz it does take a little bit longer and here we have the part where here we have the part where everything starts getting formatted for notion and here we have our final output and again we were able to also output this into txt so from here you can simply take your txt file we're going to copy this and we're going to paste it to our notion document and here you have your mini ebook on artificial intelligence and Robotics and remember the main question was what areas of AI would you focus on if you want to try to keep up with the most relevant information now at a point in time when you feel like maybe you don't want to start programming at the end of the day AI is meant to mimic human cognitive abilities so it makes sense that you'd be able to focus on these topics now imagine how long it would have taken you to figure this out if you had gone back to school started a degree taken a few classes taken a few courses online to realize that maybe the things you were learning at that point in time may not have been as relevant or as important as these concept and again I'm going to put the code for this project on a file and then put the link on the description but I want to know what projects will you create what are the problems that you would like to solve what are the things that you want to acquire knowledge in using crew aai remember at the end of the day AI is just a tool it still up to you to acquire the knowledge to acquire the skills and be patient and consistent in that manner it's not just about social media marketing it's not just about stock market analysis with cre AI you can really excel in any area of your life that you're passionate about let me know what you will use it for in the comments thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one | Hector Pineda | UCh3Mhoe-pBQkG5YZxD6_14A | 2024-04-05 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,461 | 7,515 |
S658yE3AdDo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S658yE3AdDo | English for Presentations - Presentations Matter | okay we're going to look at today the summary of what we're going to look at in this presentation okay so first of all we're going to look at some barriers to giving a successful presentation um we'll be looking at some language for preparing to give effective presentations summarizing the content of a PR presentation uh we'll also look at some factors which will contribute to making a presentation more focused from the audience's Viewpoint and we'll examine some language to talk about presentations okay so first of all what is a presentation okay um there are two definitions of a presentation um but first can you write in the Box what what is a presentation for you what what do you do in a presentation you can just write that in um the question box okay M okay so um I see here uh speaking in front of a group of an audience about a specific subject right that's good okay that's coming from um uh rabab right okay anything else okay okay let's look at the definition of what is a presentation okay the first definition is that it's a talk giving information about something for example the speaker gave an interesting presentation on Urban transport okay so this is a talk and the second definition is an occasion when prizes qualifications are formally given to those who have won or achieve them okay so the presentation of prizes and certificates will take place in the main hall okay so those are the two um definitions of a presentation so where do people give presentations can you write that down in the question box where do people where can people give a presentation okay robot is answered in workshops in a job place right and Anastasia uh at a school or at work right okay that's good you can give a presentation at work at University in a conference Hall okay and uh did any of you uh ever give a presentation so if you have given a presentation what was the subject of your last presentation you can just write that in the Box what was the subject of your last presentation if you if you gave one okay so George wrote entrepreneurship and margerie wrote in the human resource budget okay and I also see Anna wrote Anastasia in the lecture right okay so I see that many of you have given presentation so that's very good um and you already have an idea so we'll move on now to let's look at reasons for holding presentations okay now if you look at this picture you're going to listen to a you're going to watch a video and you're going to try to answer these questions who is the presenter why is the presentation being held what exactly is he going to talk about and what conclusions does he draw from the presentation okay um so I'm going to try to um I can't do it okay we'll see if it's possible uh to put it in the chat box so let me just check one minute okay Anon just sorry Anon are you there yes okay let's see if it goes into the chat box okay if you look into your chat box you should see a YouTube video okay and if you click that link you should be able to watch the video okay so you'll see that in the chat box you'll watch the video and try to get these answers okay so if you watch the video with a short video um does anybody know who the presenter is who is the presenter does every anybody know right okay Marg answered Dilbert okay so if anybody doesn't know Dilbert is um a cartoon character who is a businessman who portrays a businessman who frequently makes business mistakes or errors at work okay so if you looked at the presentation uh was it clear why is the presentation being held or what is it going to talk about um did you find any information from this presentation was it a good presentation in your opinion right okay robob answered now yes right that's correct so it was not a good presentation okay um if was uh right George also um it was not clear why the presentation was being held or what he's going to talk about okay and of course we also couldn't draw any conclusions okay so it's important um to have the reason for the presentation and there are some reasons people go to presentations okay to get information uh so look at some of the these reasons and tell me what is the best reason why people go to a presentation a to get information to go on a journey to be entertained because they were told to for free lunch okay right that's very good Rob also made a point that the that Dilbert's presentation and no information so that's a really good point Marie right to get information people uh go to a presentation to get information okay and that is something that you have to think about when creating uh your presentations okay okay next we're going to look at the audience the audience is very important and it's important to know who your audience is so um in your last presentation think about your last presentation and what's the biggest audience you have had can just write that down okay Anastasia said 15 people mhm and Rob up students okay mhm 18 yes so that's quite a a big number okay so there when you give a presentation there are some important factors to consider um about your audience okay and we're going to take a look at them now so first of all the audience may be listening to you in their second third or fourth language okay so that could pose a problem okay they may be hungry or tired because they have traveled a Long Way to the presentation so they may feel jet lagged they may be a bit tired to to listen another important factor is that um it's important to know who your audience is because there may be some people who are of higher status or more important position in the company okay so you want to know who the audiences and there also may be some people in the room who are experts on what you are presenting okay um the mood in the room could be positive or negative and finally it's important to remember memory and attention Okay so the way that you structure the presentation to take these factors into account okay you should always think about your audience okay so let's look here at a graph and this is a graph of remembering information okay so information rapidly decays over time so if you go to a presentation and you remember six pieces of ideas the number will Decay over time so that's something that you need to remember because you do not want to overload the people you want to try to minimize the information and choose the good points to keep the audience um interested and to attract their memory and attention okay also also if you take a look at this graph you can see that the people will usually remember more at the beginning and at the end of a presentation so this is why you need a very strong beginning uh and you need an ending with a summary which reviews the points of the presentation and this can help the memory okay so this is coming from cognitive psychology about memory and intention okay okay so let's look at some tips okay about um giving a good presentation okay uh can you just write in the in the the Box uh any tips that you know of for a good presentation since you have done presentations there any tips that you can think of offand some advice or tips for giving a presentation okay hello Olga I see all this okay right just in general some tips right okay to summarize to use humor right that's good Anastasia okay rub up tell a joke very good yes right if you tell a joke it can break the ice okay and you know make the people feel comfortable okay so that's that's some those are some good points okay let's look at some other things um it's important as I said before toout the beginning a middle and an end okay uh also to decide on the level of formality so you want to know if it's going to be a decide if it's a formal or an informal presentation okay um introduce yourself tell some information about yourself um and then you want to tell the story so start with some basic information okay um tell the audience the destination why they're there and take them through the steps okay so it's like a story uh at the end review your conclusions okay you want to make sure that the audience takes away the necessary message and give a summary and conclusion um at the end okay finally at the very end of course you can take questions from the floor okay so these are some tips or advice for giving a presentation as well as what you said telling a joke is a good idea also and also uh summarizing okay this is the presentation Journey okay so here we have some points okay decide what you want to say to your audience okay make sure you choose and prepare the equipment to make sure your presentation is interesting find out exactly who you're talking to practice your presentation and be sure that the presentation is well structured check the room you are going to talk in okay all right you're going to listen now to a presentation okay um and while you listen you're going to match these ideas to the sections of the presentation okay so when I finished um doing the presentation I'm going to ask you to match these ideas with the certain sections okay um and also try to just listen to what is the presentation about okay all right welcome giving a presentation can be a nerve-wracking experience for many of us no matter how small or large the audience today we'll look at some things you can do to prepare yourself to give an effective presentation one which will keep attention focused and make sure that you get your content across and remembered first of all it's important to know your audience how many people are going to be there where are they from are they external to your company or colleagues what information and feelings do they want to lead with how much do they already know secondly the venue is important to make sure you visited prior to your presentation date ask yourself where will they sit where will I stand what do they already know how will I organize the space where will I place any equipment I'm using make sure your objectives are clear in your mind this will help you prepare effective interesting and informative material don't forget you want your audience to remember something informative and interesting this will also help you to design a well organized presentation and a well-organized presentation is easier to understand your audience will want to leave Having learned something useful and new next make sure the presentation has a beginning a middle and an end number or bullet point separate points as this will allow the audience to follow what you are sing saying a well organized presentation is much easier to understand however remember that you shouldn't read these points to your audience you should speak to your audience not the board there are many kinds of audio visual aids you can use from the Whiteboard or flip chart to Microsoft's latest PowerPoint package or other software whatever you choose to use make sure it's suits your audience's needs and be sure that the material is interesting finally have some notes of your most important points perhaps on cards if this helps and once again remember to speak to your audience it's a good idea to practice your PR presentation out loud so you can check your timing maybe in front of someone you know ask the colleague to give you feedback and don't be afraid to ask for advice okay so this was a presentation um if you look if you can write in the um in the answer what was this presentation about right okay margerie wrote about effective presentation yes and robob tips to make a good presentation right okay Anastasia okay right so that is correct yes this was about um what you have to consider there's are good points this uh this presentation was about how to give it an effective presentation right and we're going to try to look now at the presentation and we're going to match the sections with the different um phrases so let's take a look here at the presentation okay here it is and I'll go back to the slide before so remember I just want to let you know that all of the vocabulary and U the answers to the questions are going to be sent to you in a PDF file in a few days okay so you will receive the vocabulary as well as the answers to the questions okay so if we look at the first expression it says it's in important to know your audience okay so which um which one of these would uh would would match with that section right Anastasia okay see right um find out exactly who you're talking to okay okay the next um expression in red is secondly the venue is important to the venue okay oh sorry okay just a minute okay sorry yes I see it's n okay sorry an i your name was H cut off from the list okay um okay right okay okay secondly the venue is important too right okay so which of these phrases would that go with okay the word is the venue okay Anna wrote uh and wrote um f check the room you're going to talk in right so venue is always the the location or the place okay um the next one is make certain your objectives are clear in your mind okay right okay so an wrote and um okay so Rob about Ro e um these for the presentation is well structured okay okay well the objectives could be um make make certain your objectives are clear it could be a right decide what you want to say to your audience that's your objectives right but of course also e your presentation should be well structured okay all right but probably yes decide what you want to say that's the aims or goal the objectives okay um the next one is a well organized presentation is easier to understand right okay right e make sure that the presentation is well structured okay well structured or well organized okay um there are many kinds of uh audio visual aid you can use right okay make sure you choose and prepare the equipment okay and be sure the material is interesting right okay B could be make sure you're check the room the equipment and make your presentation interesting right it can also be e it's well structured and finally ask a colleague to give you feedback okay ask your colleague to give you feedback um okay we see Anna a MC okay feedback um feedback well also so see oh okay find out exactly who you're talking to Okay feedback is um comments or ideas or opinions how you do your presentation so it it could also you know really it could be D practice your presentation okay if you practice your presentation in front of a friend or a colleague uh then you can get some feedback comments about how it is okay okay so um all of these will be coming to you on the PDF file okay so you'll have those to check and you you will also see the presentation okay all right so this is a very well structured and organized presentation and there was some language that we used but first let's review the presentation Journey okay first plan ahead structure your presentation okay it's important to have a structure to it okay next understand and connect with your audience okay use visual aids to underline your message okay you can use PowerPoint whiteboard or any other type of visual aids use effective presentation techniques project a positive attitude and then anticipate likely questions okay so it's always good idea to um have some answers ready for some likely questions that might come up at the end of the presentation okay okay so we have some language that we use in presentations and I'm going to related to presentations I'm going to dictate I'm going to say these words twice uh just try to remember these words okay so listen carefully and then try to remember them um I'm going to ask you to write them in the box um in a few minutes okay so just listen carefully audience audience audio visual AG audio visual age be informative be informative structure structure venue objectives objectives well organized well organized feedback feedback body language body language and sign posting sign posting Okay so can you write now um any words that you can remember can you write them down in the box right okay Mark wrote audience be informative right Rob objectives okay menu structure venue okay good and you've got many of them audience a v be informative well organized objectives right feedback okay and Body Language right so okay that's very good okay all of these words that you wrote down all of these are important um in relation to a presentation okay so let's go through them here so we have audience Okay so it's very important to know your audience okay um it's important to know who the audience will be if it will be a formal or informal presentation if the audience will be um experts in the field um and what kind of people they will be okay Audi visual aids as I said before is also very important this can enhance your presentation um so you can use PowerPoint whiteboard or other types of visual aids okay of course it's important to be informative presentation should contain information okay and have a structure to it venue venue is the location or the place okay and that's important to always check and to check that the equipment is working properly okay the objectives which is also the aim of the presentation okay this is something to consider when you are creating the present ation and that it is well organized okay feedback is very important okay feedback is the comments or the opinions of the people who have listened to the presentation okay so you can get feedback uh after you do a presentation from the audience and you can also practice your presentation before and get some feedback from a colleague or from a friend after they have listened to it it this can help you to improve future presentations okay and then finally um body language is important okay body language is the eye contact and the uh hand gestures that you use okay and of course yes we have sign posting does anybody know what sign posting means um this is an important part of a presentation so could you write any sign posting anybody know the meaning okay Mar WR now how about anybody else okay drawings okay well drawings um and is H probably drawings would be more with related to the audio visual age okay you could put in a drawing sign posting is actually um is an effective method uh a very effective method or technique to help the reader follow what you are saying it's like guides it's like a guideline um and it's language for example first first of all uh to begin with okay that's how you begin a presentation or second next and at the end we use to summarize in conclusion okay all right I'll just write some of them down if I can do it here okay I'll put them in the chat box okay so we use this um language first of all first next then finally to connect the sentences and to help the listener uh follow what we are saying okay it's like a guide okay and that's sign posting so that's also very important um when giving a presentation okay okay right an structuring AIDS yes okay okay so let's review um a presentation how the struct the journey it starts with the opening remarks and the introduction okay then would be the content which is the material you are presenting the summary you always want to summarize and review your points have a conclusion at the end okay often we can say in conclusion or to conclude and the closing remarks where we thank the audience for attending and finally we take questions from the floor okay okay so if you look at the words try to remember the words on the list okay we're going to try to put them in some sentences is in the next slide okay so I'll just read them again audience audiovisual AIDS the informative structure venue objectives well organized feedback body language and sign posting okay okay so what what word if you can try to remember um could go into to this sentence secondly the is important to okay audio visual age structure and a ro structure right okay yes the sign posting body language okay let's you all have given a good answers everybody's chosen a different uh different word so as you can see all of these things are important yes the body language the the venue the structure um everything the audio visual aids okay um but also the venue yes the venue is important the location okay um make sure you're are clear in your mind okay before giving a presentation you should make sure this is clear in your mind your ideas objectives right Anna okay right ideas and objectives another word for objective is your uh aim okay or your goal what you would like the people or the audience to go away with okay uh um blank presentation is much easier to understand okay so can you remember a word a well structure right a well structured presentation is much easier to understand okay we can use well structured or well organized there are many kinds of uh that you can use so in a presentation you can use many kinds of to enhance it to make it more interesting right yes rabab uh audio visual aids old also wrote that yes this is very good to enhance the presentation and to keep the audience's attention Okay you may find that you have some um types of listeners who need to see visuals okay if they just listen they they may get tired or you know even fall asleep so by having some uh visuals it can enhance it and keep everybody interested okay uh it's important to know your good right yes audience yes it's always important to know your audience and uh who the people are that you're going to present to okay um ask a colleague to give you so maybe before you give a presentation to the audience you might ask the colleague to give you right Anna feedback yes to give feedback back and that way you can improve uh the next time when you do a presentation feedback is very useful okay and finally be sure that the material is okay you want to make sure that the material that you're using in the presentation is um okay I'll go right well organized yes that's important and informative right okay also you want to make sure the material is formative giving information so if you can remember in the beginning of our webinar um the most important reason to give a presentation is to give information okay so you want to make sure the material is informative okay so that's very good okay so you'll get all of these answers on a PDF uh file in a few days okay now I'm going to read to you the beginning of a presentation okay because in our next webinar uh we're going to continue talking about the beginning the middle and the end of presentations okay so just listen here is the beginning of a presentation and we will look at this um further in the next webinar okay so good morning everyone nice to see so many of you here today I hope you're all comfortable and can hear me okay the subject of this presentation is the marketing plan for the next 3 years basically there are three main points I want to cover today if you look at the first slide you can see them listed here first I'm going to talk about the new product range aimed at the Asian market secondly I'll talk about each of the products and our ideas for taking them to Market finally I'd like to talk briefly about our competition okay so let's get started as I said the first point is our product range okay so this is the beginning of a presentation um if we look at this let's just uh examine it a little bit um what is the Audi visual aid that they they use in this beginning part okay right okay right that's good they use the the slide is the audio visual aid yes that's that's audio visual the slide right and they also use sign posting right um and can you just can you just write down any any sign posting language that you've seen yes right Anna wrote first secondly and finally right okay yes Marg WR finally right that's good okay so you can see in this beginning part that they use um some sign posting to connect and to connect the sentences together as well as audio visual okay and this is the beginning of a presentation okay there was also the uh objective which they clearly stated by saying the subject okay okay so next time we will have a look at how to structure presentations okay in our next webinar we're going to continue and we're going to uh continue with this idea of how to uh produce the beginning the middle and the end of a presentation okay okay so are there any questions okay if there are any questions you can write them um in the in the box if there's any questions okay right not for now right okay okay so Rob up wrote a question how to manage how to manage the time right yes well that's also a very good point that you brought up okay it's very important to manage the time um with the presentation so one way could be to practice the presentation before giving it okay and that way uh by practicing it in front of um a colleague or from a friend you can see um how to do the presentation and how much time you need for each part okay that's probably the best way um and then of course while you're giving the presentation it's important to uh be aware of the time okay so if you start out to quickly maybe then at you might have to slow down okay you always need to be aware of the time okay and that's a very important Point okay uh any other questions oh okay Robo is it okay to see to to see your watch okay is it okay to look at your watch okay well probably um if you're going to look at your watchs uh it could be okay but you don't want the audience to to notice that so maybe you can have a watch or you know look at it sometimes but without your audience seeing it you know just to be cautious of the time okay so it's always important to make sure that you're not going um too long or that it's going too quickly okay so that could be a good point you can have your watch on but you don't want to keep looking at it okay uh so that the audience sees that right okay any other questions uh about um preparing the presentation or starting up a presentation now okay well you may think of some other questions um you will receive 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UVGWOYlzuhw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVGWOYlzuhw | Flat Earth Clues Interview 199 Beyond Reality Radio with Patricia Steere & Mark Sargent ✅ | I meet was Lisa V again write down the phone number we will take your calls later in the show at eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine tonight we've got a program that we've anticipated for quite some time we're gonna be talking about Flat Earth theory but more specifically we're going to be talking with two of the people who have kind of led the movement if you will mark Sargent and Patricia steer they're also the subjects of a documentary that's on Netflix called behind the curve market Patricia welcome to beyond reality radio it's a pleasure to have you on with us hey hey thanks thanks for coming on we've done really looking forward to I don't yeah I've got to just kind of clear this up just because I think you've both been on the program before and I think the last time you were we actually had a fill-in host Bruce Murchison was doing the show for Jason and I we missed it which was disappointing to us but it just the timing worked out that way right is that what happened yeah yeah but that's what happened it was about four months ago well happy to have you here and we're actually happy to be here with you this time about that so what this is kind of a short segment here but I want to get both of your answers to this question how did this whole notion of a flat earth kind of first appear on your radar to make it something that you're interested in pursuing mark you go first okay uh I got into it in the summer of 2014 I was looking at a whole bunch of different conspiracies and got really bored with them I mean I literally was conspiracy bored and everybody knows about Flat Earth everybody hates it doesn't matter what you believe in Flat Earth is not a fun topic and I thought okay I'll just take a look at it I should be able to destroy it over a weekend and that was the worst thing ever nine nine months later at the beginning of 2015 I just decided okay I can't prove the globe and a court of law anymore so I will create a series of videos called Flat Earth Clues put them out on the internet and four years later here we are conferences and celebrities and a documentary in a book and radio shows and it just never ends Patricia so in your whole just putting these videos out there and getting the public thoughts and perceptions yeah yeah yeah I thought that somebody could just shoot it down I said look I I consider myself a clever problem solver but I had to be wrong about this there's no way flat earth could be real in any capacity and but the internet hive mind is very very intelligent so it's like okay tell me you know I put my phone number and my email address my real name and you know broke all the internet rules basically and said okay come at me and I thought some academic would have shot me down in the first 30 days and it turned out to be the opposite Patricia how did you start how did this attract your attention well I was looking at lots of interesting truth topics on YouTube and I wound up looking at a couple of a couple of videos that were debunking the moon landing one of them astronauts gone wild and another funny thing happened on the way to the moon both videos can be found on YouTube there by a guy named bart sibrel one thing led to another suggested video marks Flat Earth Clues and that was March of 2015 watch some of those and then did some other research watched other videos even debunking videos and then several months later I I just had to do something to get involved in this because I realized that the earth is not a globe and I want to jump in and try to help wake people up so I started my own YouTube channel called Flat Earth and other help potatoes and like Mark said conferences meetups and then the documentary on Netflix and and more amazing things yet to come well you say conferences and meetups and this is a community of people that seems to be growing and growing quickly oh yeah oh yes very committed people people with different views about how the whole Flat Earth works how it all looks on a map how a model might work but we all have one thing in common that we all believe that we don't live on a ball spinning in in the blackness of space in the past and this was something that really we didn't hear much of you might catch a little bit here and there you know going back five six seven years ago but you never really heard much about it but I'll be honest lately over the last year - oh about probably two or three years it seems to be popping up all over yeah yes and there's nothing in it for us meaning we're not making money we're not being paid some people sell t-shirts and coffee mugs and stuff like that or they might monetize something on their small youtube channel the the impetus for all of us involved in this is we have found something that we believe to be vitally important for the world to know but that we've all been lied to on a massive level that's why we do this we do this not as a job we do it as a passion how much this is about this particular theory which I know is obviously what we're talking about and what is important versus how much of it is just about demonstrating that we're not always and in many cases not being told the truth about some of these things that we talk about I think that goes hand in hand which every of course the the Flat Earth theory is is the key to most of us we I mean ask anybody we we absolutely do believe in it but when you get into Flat Earth all of a sudden it opens up everything else meaning Flat Earth is kind of the umbrella and every other conspiracy or potential lie or everything that's been told to us over the years has to be revisited so and we you know everyone knows you know there's a ton of conspiracies out there but once you get into this it's the open Oulton open-minded experience to where you all the sudden is like home man I have to look at everything again I mean I was opening reopening dusty conspiracies that I hadn't looked at in years so yeah it's both but it's it's an interesting journey we have about a minute here before we have to jump to our break and in that time I want you both to give out your social media websites YouTube channel whatever it is that you want people to know about because we're going to continue to reference reference those throughout the course of the conversation sir Patricia Flat Earth and other hot potatoes that's my YouTube channel once again it's Flat Earth and other hot potatoes I have a Facebook group a very small one by that very same name so that's where you'll find me doing a pretty regular videos and I have been since 2015 my channel is called mark Sargent it's just my name and they are ksar GE and t the video series is called flat earth clues and of course both of us are in the documentary which is out on everything called behind the curve and we actually were telling a lot of people that to tune into that and check that out and we get a lot of questions about that show when we come back let alone just we really want to get into the basis of how the earth is flat and and how you actually look into your scientific testings and so forth but you listen to Jason and JAV beyond reality rated we're gonna take a quick break a lot more to come back after this [Applause] about a documentary that is unethical behind the curve now market Patricia I'm not sure if I I don't know do we call you leaders of this movement how about ambassadors how about that yeah you know in Flat Earth all of the people who are involved with exploring truth we prefer to think of it as a leaderless movement but we do have ambassadors who sort of take frontrunner roles and they do it on their own no one's voted in but everyone leaves themselves yeah and and it's content driven meaning if you have a channel and your channel resonates with people and you get them a lot more subscribers you get invited to things and you do conferences you do speaking engagements and you just move your way up the ladder no one's left out up to the individual yeah mark mark when you when you started your you said you were kind of looking at various conspiracy theories and the platter idea you know came into your view and then you created some videos expecting them to be challenged they weren't necessarily had you went was there anybody else doing that kind of work at the time or were you pioneering this there were a couple guys that were doing that's funny you'd mention that there's a couple guys from Europe and a guy from Thailand and another one here in the States a Canadian as a matter of fact who was just visiting the states and but they were the stuff they were making were kind of if you if you treat it like a university there they were introducing like 200 level and 300 level books it was pretty advanced stuff and the stuff that I came out with literally was 101 flat earth 101 which is flatters Clues and it was all no math in it and so when I got into it it helped because then they could people could jump from my stuff backwards to their stuff and then everything moved forward so it ended up being symbiotic in a way it was gonna cool so you kind of brought in Flat Earth for dummies I did I'm that's that's about as good way if Flat Earth is a University I am the freshman recruiter no no question so let's talk about this this documentary for a minute first of all when when was it made III know it's from what I can tell it was recently put up on Netflix and Jason and I both watched it recently you when was made and how were you approached to be part of it sure sure sure it was shot initially we I was approached in April of 2017 by a film team out of Los Angeles called Delta V and you know they were trying to come up with a human interest piece and they thought it'd be a cool topic and we shot most of 2017 all the way from we really started kicking in in May and then grabbed other people and get them involved and then the big climax was down in North Carolina at the at the conference in November of 2017 then they edited for a couple months it started hitting the film festivals in April of last year Patricia and I got involved with the with some of the film festival stuff we went to the premiere up in Toronto it did 22 film festivals in seven countries and then was released in November on iTunes and Amazon and YouTube and then finally just a few weeks ago that's when Netflix picked it up and again I completely underestimated their market share because that's when everything just exploded and now I bike have a hard time even looking at my schedule it's that cluttered did you have any kind of creative control on this or were you just purely the subjects of what the camera were pointing at no creative control whatsoever they shot so much that was left on the cutting room floor that could make a couple different movies actually so yeah we didn't really know what had in mind although they told us it would be an unbiased look at Flat Earth in the community and so we said sure we'd love to participate it turned out to be more of an opinion piece driven by the three small dealt of the team members Daniel Clark and Carolyn Clark and Nick and ER they had a an opinion that they didn't really share with us from the start that Flat Earth was you know bad or wrong and they ended up editing things to get that point across anybody who watches it even if they think Flat Earth is bad and wrong they can see that parts where they made it evident that it was an opinion piece not a documentary within neutral with a neutral stance but with all of that in there a we didn't know there would be experts in there and astronaut astrophysicist that wasn't told to us either so it was all just us being ourselves doing our daily Flat Earth stuff that's how it got in this film I watched initially and I told JV had to check it out and know that's the one thing that we have talked about whether we agree with you or we don't agree with you fine but you know you can tell that there there's definitely a biasness than the way they cut and edited the show and from doing television for the last 13 years 14 years of my life I can see that so it kind of they kind of put this spin on it where no matter how they they tried to come off they still sort of put a spin on it to make it seem as if people involved in this are kind of quirky the the quirky lonely we're looking for a purpose in life we'd be lost without the community we'd hold on to flat earth with our bleeding fingertips even when it's found not to be true yeah we know how they portrayed us that they're untrue there was a the reason behind that and they let it slip in the itunes director's commentary which is you can only hear on itunes was that it really changed for them and i was surprised they actually they actually admitted it which was when we got to the conference and that twelve year old kid walked up to the microphone and was asking me questions on stage that's when they thought okay we've got it we've got to make a stand here but they at like had a responsibility to the children and it's not the first time I've heard this I heard this from National Geographic and and other news agencies which was well it's all fun and games until kids are involved and I'm going well we're not recruiting kids you know Flat Earth doesn't care about race or gender or religious preference and we certainly don't care about age and we're not like a cigarette company would Joe the camel trying to recruit kids but that's why that's why they tweaked it they it's like okay up until the IO and Patricia may disagree with me I firmly believe they were going to try to make this thing as neutral as possible and then it's like because none of them nobody in the production of this film was a flat earther and they were very very clear about that even now you know they'd absorb nothing through osmosis anyway sorry I ramble it's okay I got the sense and Jason kind of pointed out and you you confirmed it that you know they were trying to portray a certain type of character would believe in the Flat Earth theory but I also I enjoyed the way they made it real and they demonstrated how much passion both you Mark and Patricia have plus other people in this community have for again finding the truth whether it whether regardless how this shakes out if we ultimately get an answer right on but the truth to be the most important thing here yeah yeah absolutely the the the truth community means so much to me and there's something I'm fond of saying because people say oh you're doing it for the money it's like oh come on nobody goes in to flatter to make money which is I I don't want to be famous I want to be right and I don't care you know the what's the old saying let the truth come and then though the heavens fall something to that effect which is I mean I know the truth is going to be painful in fact National Geographic you know they were asking questions I'd never even heard before which was you know what happens when flatter if it gets out of control you know what happens to to medicine what happens to technology what happens to civilization as we know it and I said look there's gonna be some growing pains you know the truth is always does that which is why sorry not to quote somebody real quick Franklin Delano Roosevelt our old president when he said only tell the public as much truth as they can handle and I I disagree I think in this case I think the public can handle quite a bit more truth Patricia we say but with that if tomorrow they came out and said the earth was flat yeah you you truly think that the public the world in general could could handle that without I mean of course I might there was that buddy thought the world was flat and then they said it was round and that's for everybody for a hell of a curve well yeah but it was easier back 500 years ago because you only had newspapers and most the population couldn't even read and write nowadays I think because you know you were talking about a high-speed Internet and social media and 6 billion smartphones you could get everybody on the same page literally it would break the internet more than Kim Kardashian's backside I'll tell ya it would I mean there's there's the potential for a lot of chaos no question but at this point and I'm not being callous when I say this what do we got to lose I mean we've already messed up a lot of stuff on in this world so what do you got to lose by telling people at this point and I honestly think that they you because we've gotten help from Google and YouTube they have not stopped us in any way shape or form they have only recently said they're thinking about slowing us down I you know I'm a YouTube creator as well and I get those video updates I don't know creator champion oh the update yes explain their policies and they talk about different things for creators and one that just came through very very recently specifically said and I took offense to this because we talked about platters and other topics that have similar controversy on this program they said that you know certain topics will now be I'm trying to remember regular irregular relegated to a lower standing in search one of those things they specifically said was controversial topics like Flat Earth theory yeah globe within the last couple weeks yeah you know when when Google made an announcement Rhys I mean heck we were in we were in front of the one I think it was a Senate subcommittee last year where Google was they were trying to address some of the what they called fake news problem and of all the topics they brought up they brought up Flat Earth and when the the story you're mentioning just came out a few weeks ago where they said okay they made a press announcement we've said we are going to not recommend as much on the right-hand searchbar three topics such as and they the three topics were snake oil which was interesting you know like metaphorical snake oil 9/11 and Flat Earth and it was like wow there was no truth to Flat Earth why would they be mentioning it it's just that little crazy kooky conspiracy people hat wearers no one believes that we've got pictures of Earth from space NASA provides them you know you've got to think about why is it mentioned why did why did President Obama during his presidency mention Flat Earth twice in speeches for no apparent reason Flat Earth is is something that's being hidden but also weirdly being allowed out in public consciousness so maybe it's not that it's gonna be on the internet tomorrow and everyone will go nuts maybe somehow there are a few people out there who are allowing it to escape little by little drip fed into the public consciousness the whole basis of YouTube was designed for people to create content of their thoughts and in their belief systems in and so forth did for to a content just to get it out there and share with people so now he's sort of trying to cut the legs off of those those people is just ridiculous yeah I mean the name YouTube is you having the chance to be on the tube and if they're making that not possible anymore it needs to be a name change maybe to only certain people tube we jump the break here I wanted to ask you Patricia you expressed your feelings about the documentary and I think we that there was a bias associated with the with it from the filmmakers themselves however do you think it has helped the cause well it's made a lot of people just from my own personal experience subscribe to my channel out of the blue ever since it came out on Netflix and are these people only subscribing to hate watch Flat Earth or hate watch me maybe some but not all of them I think it's sparked interest and so therefore the filmmakers maybe they're planned well their number one plan was to have a successful film and make money let's face it but their other plan to kind of you know put a damper on Flat Earth is backfiring because look we're talking to you about it people are talking about Flat Earth more than ever before because the documentary is out even if it showed us with quote-unquote failed experiments which we'll get to later everything's not as it was presented but yeah it's created a new wave of interest in Flat Earth so it's continuing to grow it's certainly not slowed down at all all right our guest Patricia steer and mark Sargent and we're talking about the Flat Earth theory you listen to Jason jvb on orality radio we'll be back after this [Music] phone number for the next hour if you want to call and join our discussion is eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine we're talking with mark Sargent and Patricia steer about the documentary behind the curve also their involvement in the Flat Earth movement and I want it this is a short segment so I want to ask about how you well actually more specifically why is this such a passionate topic not for just the people who are in your camp who are trying to present a case that the earth is flat but for the other side as well and I'm not even talking about you know the people who have something at stake I'm just talking about people in general this can people get very emotional about this discussion yeah people get angry super angry and news they can they can start screaming at you even if you mentioned that the earth might not be a globe or that NASA potentially people way high up in NASA could be lying it could literally start a fistfight yeah it's it is the most polarizing thing I've ever seen and I don't care what you're talking about whether the you know gay rights or black rights for women's rights or abortion no stem cell or veganism veganism I mean flat earth is and the reason is is because it's the only conspiracy you can't walk away from meaning and I've had callers that it'll come after me you know that famous one from a couple years ago or he says how dare you young men how dare you tell me the world isn't what I think it is because every other conspiracy you know you can you don't want to look at 9/11 or Pearl Harbor JFK or take your pick you don't have to you know there there are secrets that can be hidden in the desert but you tell somebody that the life they've been living hasn't exactly been authentic that there's something something wrong all of a sudden it it's almost like telling somebody that they're adopted you know like a 30 year old telling the thirty year old that they're adopted and all of a sudden you know that's like their denial they'll get angry and then all of us all of a sudden it's like wait a minute wait a minute what is he talking about and they like flashback to their childhood and it freaks them out because the glow like neo in the matrix there you go let me on the matrix yeah it's super super polar isn't go ahead I think beyond that it's more that if if tomorrow I found out that the earth is truly flat it would change so it would change everything throughout my life I'm glad you said that you know a lot of people say when you tell them about this well yeah you know it's interesting and all but how does it affect me I still have to go to work tomorrow but you actually can see how it would affect you that's cool it would open up endless other doors about well okay so if we are in some sort of a dome type structure like some some say well then there has to be something that has created all this point huge point which wasn't really addressed much in the documentary although I think all of us did talk about it but that kind of got left on the cutting-room floor I came from a world my father used to always tell me you know you could be a speck of dust under the nail of a giant for all you know but because I have no idea what your universe is really is or what it consists of or what it's made up of or what's bigger than it and what it's inside and the list just goes on and on right so you can just pull that but and we've got a ton more of stuff that we're gonna be getting into yeah we made the mistake of opening up a can of worms here when we have 30 seconds to talk about on the other side of the break and we will take your phone calls too at eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine all right our guest our Patricia steer and mark Sargent we are talking the Flat Earth theory so make sure you tune in check it out and give us a call you listen to Jason JV beyond reality radio we'll be back after this there's a East many you're stuck somewhere in between welcome to beyond reality radio with me Jason Hawes and he always awesome JV Johnson there are certain topics that elicit a very very emotional response that we feature in this program clowns just a fear anybody paint a smile on their face they have issues a lot of people and one of the one of the topics that does that is why there's earth theory and tonight's guests mark Sargent and Patricia spear no no strangers to that emotional response we will be taking your phone calls to join this discussion at eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine mark and Patricia have been involved in this discussion for quite some time and we've talked about that emotional response that they get and I you know one of the things that I think I know the answer to mark and Patricia but I'm gonna ask the question anyway let's say that we did wake up tomorrow and we had irrefutable proof that the earth was flat as opposed to what we've been taught all our lives yeah I'm still gonna look up and I'm still gonna see what I considered me the sky I'm still gonna look down and I'm gonna see what I consider to be the ground gravity still could pull me in the same direction what does it change okay so I'll do it rapid fire which is three main things would happen one would be academic the second would be economic the third would be religious let's do the easiest one first academic astronomy and astrophysics labs in every university would close and they would close indefinitely until they could figure out what to do the remaining physical sciences geology hydrology archeology biology take your pick those would have to be literally rebuilt from the ground up because the ground has now changed economically potentially you would have to shut down world markets for several months just to figure out what happens when the dust settles I mean if Donald Trump got pneumonia tomorrow the market would be affected and that just one guy but the biggest would be what you mentioned earlier which is if this place is built if it is a building then it was created by something or someone and you're asking the the five religious houses of this world the big ones Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Islam and Christianity you're all of a sudden giving all these groups leverage against science who has built this massive foundation over the last five centuries between those three things that's one of the shortest x-men rxf sorry x-files smoking man meetings ever which is OK what's the worst that could happen and then all of a sudden they just rattle off that stuff it's like yeah we got to keep this thing a secret for as long as possible until we can figure out how to disseminate it to the population that's what they're worried about men and power do not take chances if they can help it they always head you there bets so there you go oh yeah I'm sure a huge factor would be the money yes how long did they lied to us where's all that money gone that we supposedly have been spending on on all these these things going out yeah so there's all these other factors that come into play and yeah well like I said earlier all of a sudden if we're in a dome well then there's something that has created that dome yeah so now now we feel like all of a sudden were we're ants in one of those little at-home things that people buy you get at their home and we're being watched so it opens up these endless questions right here are we being watched are we being protected and if so either way by what or whom whose God or creator is it you know that that list goes on and on but in the end after all is said and done and the smoke clears all the drama that'll occur perhaps things could become better here where we live we instead of shooting money up into the sky that goes nowhere and does nothing when it comes to space programs all over the world we could use that money for you know the huge homeless population for education for real science here on earth for better health maybe less when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry more with natural cures we could see whether or not across the plain there are quote-unquote aliens not coming from Mars or Jupiter but coming from further than we're able to see now on this plane that we live on we've got so many questions but I want to take a couple listen Paul's here so we don't have to make people wait too long this is Michele in California hi Michele welcome to the program thank you something he said let's say we wake up tomorrow with proof which is being censored heavily by all these CIA controlled programs being exposed heavily so and what difference would it make I mean it makes all the difference in the world it like you said it leads to a creator and it also leaves the question well why don't all my hair and so I think it makes a big difference so we do have we now have crews that are showing we've been lied to on a massive scale well I think even beyond the CIA I mean CIA you configure the United States would be manipulated or however but now you're you're talking about multiple countries and multiple people in high positions that are staying with visit with this cover-up so it really makes you wonder I just I don't know how many people out there could keep quiet if if they actually if they knew this well support penalisation I mean it it's on a need-to-know basis I mean you can cover it up very easy the telemetry data can be hidden you know it's only the higher-ups will know about it and they can they can easily lie about it that's a good point thank you for making it Michelle I want to ask mark and Patricia kind of a take on what you just said Michelle um you had four hundred thousand people from what I understand working on the moon landings and we'll get to that in a second but four hundred thousand people couldn't keep their mouths shut so were those people thinking they were assuming that the if we follow this thought process moon landings were not real yeah were those four hundred thousand people thinking they were doing what they were doing because I can't imagine you keep all those people oh they were all honest workers doing the right thing going to their jobs proud that they were putting building pieces that would go on something that would be on the moon yeah all of those people were great people who knew people who knew people whose uncles cousins brother built something that went on a space shuttle or went on the Apollo mission those people were wonderful people just doing their job and there's only a small amount of people that actually knew the truth and that's pretty easy on a closed soundstage to have just the astronauts and a director and somebody doing the filming and then somebody to put the images together so that it looked like it was what was we were presented with so maybe like ten people maybe maybe I mean I mean you know not very many wouldn't let's say you wouldn't be need many it let me use the Capricorn one movie reference which was really the only guys that knew were the high brass and the telemetry guys the guys that were controlling the data and which is why by the way you had to erase accidentally every tape from the Apollo programs you know all the telemetry data has been wiped out you know loss Bert you know apparently taped over years ago and they say well exactly whenever there really was it was never tree data anyway sorry let's go ahead alright let's let's take another call here this is Kurt also in California Kurt welcome to the program thank you so much I had a you were explorers by nature I think this topic should actually favor everybody regardless what side they're on to you know find the answers themselves go out and explore it we're explorers let's do it yeah speaking of which mark and Patricia regarding experiments you brought it up and I hope to not in the show about future experiments that a flat earth plans on exploring that is an excellent point Kurt and that's one thing that we preach on this program if we preach anything is that it's always good to have an open mind and don't go into a conversation with a you know predisposed position because you know you don't learn things that way well exactly I mean whether I believe our core Patricia or not I respect their beliefs and and their their thoughts on this and you always want to be able to hear that so and we will get into discussing these the experiments as well as we move through our discussion right now we need to take a break and when we come back why don't we do that mark and Patricia why don't we address some of the things that were in the documentary related to the experiments that were conducted you said not everything was shown and everything things were kind of presented in a way that may that may have been deceiving so let's talk about that on the other side of the break all right our guests are Patricia steer and Mark Sargent and we're talking about the Flat Earth theory you listen to Jason jvb on rally to radio we'll be back after this welcome back to be on reality radio the phone number is eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine if you want to join our discussion we are talking with Mark Sargeant and Patricia steer about Flat Earth theory before we get to the question that we posed prior to the break I do want to take another listener call guys this is Mike Mike is calling from Kansas hi Mike welcome to beyond reality radio hi how're you guys doing this even great the show new to the show I got blue to Sega shipped a couple weeks ago and was flipping through the down I found this show and we kind of got into it I really really dig this yes but you guys are presenting on the radio my question is I want to go to this with an open mind that was your documentary yet what gave you guys the first idea the earth was flat as opposed to what we've all been taught and in schools and listen earlier about experiments I wanted to give you guys why watch The Fairly it's one side of documentary where they make you guys look fairly bad I guess what I've heard what made you guys first go on the thinkin it was platinum how did you guys do to prove your theory and I'll listen on the radio for answer they give your time guys okay um for me it was I first got into it because I watched a video by a German guy who was kind of speculating he was talking about flight routes in the southern hemisphere and they didn't make sense to him at all and he was saying that the connections are all over the place and there's almost no nonstop flights and the only way they made sense is if the world looked like the UN flag and he was showing some diagrams like oh that's that's that's pretty cool and then as far as experiments not for me it was mostly just connecting the dots which was I looked at it from the 50,000 foot view which was okay if I was going to build the world you know because I dealt with a lot of video game simulations and I mean I played games for living I was in the tech world for a long time but if I had to build the world what exactly would I do and then let's say the powers-that-be didn't figure it out until about 1960 what would they do to potentially keep it keep it on the on the down-low and everything that they did was flawless in that regards everything that the government did was was flawless in every design aspect that I looked in this world was genius so for me it wasn't about experiments it was connecting the dots Patricia well for me just looking at the moon landing was my first clue and then I said earlier mark Sargent Flat Earth Clues help me fill in the blanks but yeah looking at the impossibility of the entire NASA space program in the moon landings with the technology that we had way back then and how we've not been back and there's no rational explanation for that and how they cannot even to today construct a craft that could go to the moon they say they've lost quote lost the technology and lost the telemetry data to do so we all know technology doesn't go backwards by now we should have those flying cars that we heard about when we were children that we might have when we were adults by now we should have the moon colonized I mean 50 years ago till now and nothing's happened you know to me that's just a big red flag and then as I did research more and more red flags unfurled in your cell phone it's kind of scary we don't have time to address these other questions before our next break so we'll hold them to the other side but I do want to go back to the documentary for a minute was there more information that was presented and filmed and offered to the filmmakers that they intentionally ignored yes I mean good a middle science yeah yeah just about every aspect of the nuts and bolts of Flat Earth was removed you gotta remember that they shot for seven months in locations all over the United States and they had to whittle it down to 99 minutes so they edited it out oh just about every monologue I ever did everything that that Bob did for example of the experiments when he was talking about the gyroscope and that was being a Bob went into great detail it's like okay what's moving you know is the sky moving or the ground moving or in Jared's experiment everything around the experiment that he did I mean get him over they only showed six or seven minutes of jaren's experiment and didn't talk about any of the problems he was having until the credits started rolling I was stunned that they even left that in so McGuirk uestion know why like like but when they why did they end the movie the way they did while they were trying to take a cheap shot at flat earth if Jaron would have failed horribly then why is his channel still up why you know why didn't anybody replicate what Jaron did on the debunkers side anyway sorry what good no I can totally understand especially all the stuff being left out for the fact you know even when we were doing the show Ghost Hunters I mean we'd be on a case for three weeks and you'd have we've before camera guys lit alone our cameras and everything else and by the time you're done you're taking all that footage hundreds and hundreds of hours of footage and you're whittling it down to 46 minutes or 42 minutes because a commercial and so there's a ton of things that get that gets left out and on your show I'm very very sure that they most likely left out of oh yeah if they wanted if you had found a ghost let's say but if somebody putting it together wanted to show you didn't they just leave that part out where you found the host and the film becomes completely different and like the people under underestimate the power of editing that little cheap shot that the director took at me when the green button shot which was and he just found ran into that bond accident which was he lingered on the green button after we left and it's like oh all I have to do is pull out mark hitting the green button in the beginning and voila mark misses the green button meaning he missed the obvious which means the globe is obvious mark misses the globe and it's like what break here if the higher-ups I'll say of NASA and other organizations like that are trying to keep this a secret why on earth would they have tried gone up into space to begin with it seems like they just would have avoided that altogether don't answer it because you have to go to break a wall that rested on the other side you listen to Jason Davey beyond reality radio we'll be back after this you know it's a good night when you've got a couple pages of questions and notes and you haven't had a chance you can ask any of those questions because the conversation itself is just taking on its own life yeah I know I'm looking at him like I'm not even gonna get a chance to get yeah the Senate is yeah that's where we are tonight with our guests mark Sargent and Patricia steer we're talking about flat earth and if you would like to join the discussion the telephone numbers eight four four six eight seven seven six six nine mark Patricia before the last two breaks I've posed questions we have added haven't had time to answer either of them so let's start with the one I posed just before this particular break if there was something to hide and people in the upper echelon of NASA or the federal government or wherever they are knew there was something to hide why send a rocket should have ship up into space anyway okay so and and let me rephrase that which is why would you have to fake the space program and that is because if you don't sooner or later the private corporations are getting get involved mean meaning that you have to militarize space it was something that bothered me for a long time which is why would you fake the Apollo program why I never came up with a good enough reason for that years ago which was okay fine wave the flag rah-rah go USA were the greatest I get that it's a good answer but it's not a great answer when you get into Flat Earth it kind of answers itself which is okay you don't want to fake the space but the the moon land and you have to because if you don't eventually remember because NASA is just a compilation of different corporations like General Dynamics or Boeing or McDonnell Douglas or Lockheed Martin and those corporations make the parts for NASA well those that those the heavy hitters they could actually do their own space programs eventually you do not want them teaming up with other corporations I don't know like people that want advertise like like a car company or frito-lay or a coca-cola or something like that militarizing space and keeping it under government control is the easiest way to do it you go there you fly multiple missions or faked multiple missions really quickly even though they make no sense I only want to get into Van Allen radiation radiation belts and then in 1972 you just pull the plug and say welp there's nothing to see here ratings are down we're never going back good night everybody and that's it you should keep a lost interest we were telling people lost interest and so yeah faking faking space was that was a good move on their part which is the outer edge in the upper edge so the outer edge you make the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and seal off the outer edge and the same year you announced the Van Allen radiation belts and then eventually and NASA was formed in 1958 which you militarized space so it's it's a it's a slick little way of controlling all the exits how's that and you get the thing that they needed to get a full picture of Earth from space although it was completely fake they needed that very first picture to show people look here's where you live this blue spinning ball yeah and that case closed yeah and one question that pic that Patricia has mentioned he was not even taken until 1972 during the last Apollo mission yeah wouldn't it be the first picture you'd ever take if you got on the moon you were the first man on the moon wouldn't you take your hustle bad camera and train it on home and take a picture of the beautiful blue marble in the blackness of space but they waited until anyway sorry go ahead no it's okay I was going to say that one of the one of the things that's often pointed to when we have folks on the show that are talking about the moon landings themselves and that they were a hope is this is the photography question there's a lot of questions about that photography let's go to the other point cuz we're gonna find ourselves out of time really quickly okay there were experiments done that were either partially shown or not shown at all in the documentary behind the curve tell us what was left out that we should have seen that may have changed maybe the tone of the of the how about just about every experiment that we performed in 2017 for one that the documentary team was fully aware of and fully briefed everything from long distance photography and that is by the way the most obvious out of all of them which is we had people running to the beaches just about everywhere that there was a body of water taking long distance and by that I mean if the curvature of the earth is what mainstream says which is 8 inches per mile per mile or HS per mile squared then eventually something off in the distance is going to be on the other side of the curve it's going to be behind the curve and they show none of that they didn't show they didn't even talk about the the massive laser experiment we did over in Hungary at Lake Balaton with at 40 kilometers with a military-grade laser that we shot with Guinness Book of World Records standing right there next to us and qualified the whole thing they talked about you know nothing involving sorry I get I get passionate about that they didn't even show something as simple as when a ship supposedly disappears over the horizon improving the curve of the earth how we can use the P 900 or now the new P 1000 camera to bring that ship right back in to show that it didn't go over the curve and we keep doing that as the ship goes out further and further until our eyes fail us or the camera can't go any further they didn't show that either I'm a big boat guy and I'm out with the kids all the time and when I see boats off in the distance but after a period of time I'll see less and less of that boat and it'll disappear on the right but now oh yeah yeah yeah I mean get a member of that camera next time you're out with the kids get a really good camera like the P 900 or the p1000 and zoom in on that ship that went over Earth's curve the boats didn't you'll see it again yeah the boats not gone affected 10 years ago you you absolutely would have had me with that so I guess boats are gone they're over the horizon but not anymore with HD cameras with optical or digital zoom you can crank these boats right back into frame in fact we've gone so far as to say there's objects we can see so many miles away that the only limit to the distance you can see is the thickness of the atmosphere itself because remember we're just kind of breathing in a thin version of water and that gets thicker and thicker over time the longest is I put a challenge out to science I said look show me a lighthouse show me a boat show me a land mass at like 150 miles or less that we can't see because at 150 miles you should never ever be able to see it and we can see it in all like conditions all weather conditions and amazing distances and when you get up now we're using infrared oh yeah it's a brand new aspect that wasn't around in 2017 that was utilized for flat earth to be able to see even more clearly much further than the measurement of eight inches per mile square that NASA and science gives us for this rotund ball we supposedly live on we've we've really since during 2017 when the documentary was filmed and post we've done countless experiments using multitudes of methods and many of those Daniel Clark and the people involved in behind the curve knew about and dismissed because it didn't fit the narrative they wanted to tell listener call here this is Kosho in texas hi Eco show welcome to the program thank you actually I had a question you guys kind of touched on it about the documentary and Bob know Dells measurement no he addressed he had 15 degrees per hour he'd found on a ring laser gyroscope and so I know this is kind of big news in the EFI world right now and so I'm curious to see from both mark and Patricia if they you know believe Bob that he did they did see this 15 degrees per hour on the ring laser gyroscope and if so you know what would they attribute it to if not the earth spin I'll just say this really quickly and let mark take over not the earth spinning but the sky above us moving just imagine a still earth and what's really moving when you look up is the sky moving but that's it in a nutshell I really couldn't probably elaborate that much more I mean everyone's seen the time lapses of everything at night and that is and which was what all cultures have saw you know witnessed for thousands of years up until about 500 years ago where they saw this guy moving so the question is why did it change it's because science got involved and they changed the rules and and they just told us no it's not the sky moving like you can clearly see it's you that's me even though they had no way to look at the earth in that manner they had no way of up I mean they talk for five hundred years they said oh yeah it's a globe it's a globe its globe it's even though the highest you could ever go was a balloon for the longest time we didn't even have aircraft until 100 years ago anyway go ahead okay because the sky is moving yeah that's notational yeah is the gyro picking up the ground or is it picking up the sky mainstream science will say it's the ground we're saying it's picking up the sky thank you for the call coach oh we appreciate that we we only have a few minutes left I do want to ask you about your conference because I know it's a couple years yeah yeah we did the first conference was in 2017 in Raleigh and then we had one in Canada and one in Denver in 2018 oh I'm sorry one in London in the UK and this year we've got like eight Calgary yeah it all over the place in Dallas yeah yeah Trisha and I are heading heading down to the New Zealand conference here in about a month hit one of those at one of these on one point these conferences first of all how many people you get at any of them in particular and then you know what's what's the tone is is it a debate or is it is it an educational experience what's the yet what's the effort there it's it's kind of both its I wouldn't say much a debate first of all hundreds of people definitely depending where you are in two hundred to like 600 I know that this year around it's going to be perhaps maybe more depending on the location of rice but it's it's really kind of a giant party because for a lot of these people unless they're going to the regional meetups it's the first time for them to be around others that aren't giving them any grief you know friends and family coworkers so the energy is just it just becomes cyclical because people are just just kidding I mean like in Raleigh nobody slept for like four days everyone was just you couldn't even get him out of the lobby into the into the presenters area because they were just so excited there will be debates at some of these and there also will be street activism at some of these events as well and you know then of course there's going to be different workshops at some of them so aside from just different people in the flat earth such as mark myself and others getting up and speaking at a podium and showing slides there will be many different facets I don't want to simplify this but does much of this argument come down to a creator I mean people think so some people don't I think we have we have some atheists and flattered and then we have some true believers in Flat Earth at least I at least half of the community I can't speak for other countries but at least half of the community in the United States are strong Christians and the religious side of Flat Earth yes in fact I won't say his name but I from from a strong Christian advocate he said I've never seen anything bring people back into spirituality like Flat Earth and he goes I've been doing this my whole life so when you go to a conference or a meet-up it is not a revival at all in there's people of all sorts of all sorts of everything yeah there so it's there maybe is at one time a Christian speaker on stage and then in another room there's a speaker who's talking about something completely different but there are a lot of people that know chapter and verse I will say that and I've learned more about chapter and verse in the last four years and I have probably and every year before then I would think the earth was found to be flat then the atheist I mean it would open up all these new doors for the atheist because they would have to be some say especially if we're in a dome right they would have to be sort of a greater that's you're right that's it at the very least there's some sort of greater power but again one man's advanced civilization is another man's a deity so kind of split inherent right exact I mean if there was if there's no Big Bang which is what flat earth and this whole thing was created then something made us each person will determine that on their own at this point many times about if first off I mean if aliens were to visit tomorrow everybody gets this impression that aliens are gonna come down they're gonna be somewhere in between the height of 4 feet or 6 feet and God only I mean an alien could show up and your plan is it could be the size of a speck of dust it could be the size of you know jeez it could be hundreds of hundreds of feet tall you never know I mean they're coming from a different place and and different different all around so the fact of the matter is if there was if we were this little if we're a flat earth and we're covered in a dome very possibly there could be this massive thing that yeah that would be trying just like us as when we get those little ant houses in our house yeah I mean potentially worse air to them and it's yeah it's very very possible I'd like to think that there are older versions of our civilizations still remnants of previous civilizations still lying around and yeah at the very least whoever built this place that you know did did God build it or did God subcontract out the work not sure all right well we have run out of time here if we have enough time for you both to give websites YouTube channels face whatever you want to do for people who are more interested in following your work Patricia my channel is Flat Earth and other hot potatoes on YouTube Flat Earth and other hot potatoes and I have a small Facebook community page by that very same name and it just go for me and just go into Google or YouTube and type in Flat Earth Clues you will find everything you need to know all my contact information including my phone number my address and everything is in the description box of every single video that I make Patricia and mark we gotta definitely have you back on because two hours was not enough time not nearly enough well thank you thank you for having us we appreciate it we'll talk e against okay all right let's let's take a break come 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4Hv5M5BLNqM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hv5M5BLNqM | 5 Cold Cases and their Unsolved Mysteries| 2023 Documentary | in this video we will tell you what happened to Alice Gross Alice Gross was born on Valentine's Day February 14th 2000 in London she grew up in a full loving family she also had an older sister from an early age the girl showed an affinity for creativity she loved to draw and play the piano on violin later Alice began to write her own gorgeous songs and performed them to her own music in addition the girl was fond of Caleb's design and at age 11 even made herself a dress which she planned to wear at a school graduation when the girl was 13 years old doctors died almost her with anorexia and depression despite all of this Alice continued to pursue creativity and every chance of achieving tremendous success in the future on August 28th 2014 Alice told her mother that she was going on an outing she had school vacations and pl plenty of free time so the girl looked to walk along a small water canal and river near her home the family lived in a suburb of London called hanwell and her usual Roots was 4.5 kilometers the girl went out at about 300 p.m. promising her parents she would return around 6:00 p.m. she later texted her father she would be home soon but Alice did not return at the appointed time and when it was already 700 p.m. on the clock her parents began to worry they tried calling her but her phone was off the fact that Alice suffered anxia and depression only added to her anxiety her parents feared something might have happened to her because of her physical condition she was constantly weak and could faint her parents called some of her friends in the hope that Alice might be with them but no one had seen the girl that day and her mother and father decided to call the police they immediately began a search and the first thing they did was to investigate them rude Alice usually took her relatives and Friends of the family also joined the search alas they could not find any trace of the girl but detectives were able to find several witnesses thanks to their testimony about the places where Alice had passed the police were able to determine her route more accurately which in turn allowed them to narrow the search area and select several street cameras that could have captured her after examining the footage detectives did locate Alice almost immediately mediately after leaving the house she was caught on the first camera heading along the Grand Union Canal a short time later she was spotted in the Brian Ford area which was further down the canal the last time the camera captured her was on her way back near her home the girl was walking near the Trappers way Bridge the police also reported the missing teenager to the media and they broke the news about the case all over London and the first hours after her disappearance thanks to that the detectives received several calls from Witnesses who had seen Alice unfortunately none of this brought the police any closer to finding the girl based on camera footage and witness accounts she disappeared on her way home having traveled most of her usual route but what happened to her remained a mystery 3 days went by as police continued to examined camera footage in nearby neighborhoods and surveyed local parks and other secluded areas at the same time Patrol officers went door Todo to home along Alice's route and asked questions of local residents on September 1st the girl's relatives recorded a video message begging her to return home they also asked anyone who had any information about her whereabouts to contact them police at the time investigators were considering several theories the first and most troubling was the kidnapping version despite the fact that most of Alice's route was along city streets there were many remote and hidden areas where the girl might have been attacked in addition the London Police often encountered situations where people kidnapped right in the center let alone in the suburbs the second was a theory about running away from home Alice's parents feared that depression might have driven her to such a decision they also didn't rule out the possibility that the girl might have taken her own life because of her Illness but to the police this version seemed unlikely at 14 Alice was unlikely to be able to run away and hide especially without help and if she had taken her own life she would very likely have been found by now the case attracted more and more public attention every day and on September 3rd it was handed over to a special unit of Scotland Yard although they usually only worked on homicides the detectives rated the chance of getting the girl home is high Scotland Yard organized a large scale search which was immediately joined by hundreds of volunteers after seeing the heartbreaking appeal of her her parents and sister in the news concerned londoners ConEd the area from early morning until late at night and the next day detectives announced the discovery of the first tangible clue they managed to find Alice's backpack which contained her shoes worn that day it was relatively close to her home this find allowed the police to narrow their search focusing on a small area near the canal investigators realized it was unlikely the girl had taken off her shoes herself thrown them in with her backpack and fled she did not have a change of shoes with her so the situation became more and more complicated Scotland Yard decided to release all available surveillance footage of Alice the backpack with the shoes indicated that the girl might be in serious danger the main version was still an abduction but the investigators did not completely rule out the possibility that the girl might have committed suicide for that reason they try to use all available resources to locate her the publication of the record ings might draw more attention among the public and someone might remember seeing Alice that day along with that several hundred more people from various agencies were involved in the search and there were already 600 people working on the case the investigation was thus the largest since 2005 in terms of the number of police officers involved some of them were directly surveying the area While others were examining footage from hundreds of cameras that could have captured Alice Scotland yard also heard the 20,000 reward for any information that could help find the girl although police were unable to locate her phone they asked the cell phone company for details of its less known location it turned out that Alice had sent a message to her father from practically the same place where they would later find her backpack everything indicated that the investigators needed to focus on that particular location the decision was made to conduct a thorough inspection of an area of several Square kilm every meter of land and water was examined manually police teams literally probed the river and Canal bottoms for any evidence 2 days after the discovery of the backpack it became known that the police arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of Alice's murder the next day they arrested another man but refused to comment on the situation until all the details were clarified however soon both suspects were released and Scotland Yard stated that they were unable to establish the involvement of these two people in Alice's disappearance more than a week passed and during all that time there was no progress in the case it was only on September 16th that the police made another statement they said they were looking for a 41-year-old man named Arna sains in connection with Alice's disappearance he moved to England from lvia 7 years ago he lived in the area and worked as a construction worker Scotland Yard became interested in him for two reasons that at first glance seemed unrelated first Arn's coworker reported him to the police about his disappearances earliest September 3rd the man did not show up for work did not answer his phone and was not at home it seemed as if he had simply vanished second detectives found that s's route from home to work was roughly the same route that the girl had taken the day she disappeared all of this was not yet enough to draw any conclusions about man's involvement in a girls disappearance but detectives soon discovered something really disturbing in one of the camera recordings a sorrow middle-aged man riding his bicycle across the bridge where Alice had passed just a few minutes before this man turned out to be Salin a short time later he came to the next camera and heard that the teches noticed a very strange Moment The Journey between these cameras should have taken only a few minutes and it took the man on the bicycle practically a whole hour to ride down the this road a reasonable question arose what was he doing all that time on such a short stretch the police investigated the area and concluded that he could not have taken the longer root to the next cell because there simply was none even more disturbing was the fact that all this was taking place in the very area where Alice's path was allegedly cut short the cops also concluded that the man's clothes were wet when he pulled onto the road continuing to study the cameras detectives noticed soons on his bicycle returning to the same location 2 hours later after riding back out 50 minutes later in doing so he was not caught on the camera located on the bridge this indicated that the man had spent all that time inside a small blind spot besides he was already wearing different clothes about an hour later he was caught on a camera at a local store buying beer the next morning the situation repeated itself zkin returned to the same spot between the cameras at about 7:00 and also Al returned there again in the evening all this was enough to get a search warrant for his house it turned out that the man was living there with his girl friend and their two daughters together his roommate also had no idea where Salin had gone when she learned that he was suspected of killing the girl she stated that Ernest could never do something like that she described him as a caring and loving father along with this Scotland Yard examined the man's biography and discovered a truly creepy moment it turned out that the sa cop had a rich criminal past in 1998 being in laia he killed his wife and called blood and calculatedly having dug a grave for her in the woods for which he got only 7 years in prison after serving his sentence he moved to England in the local law enforcement agencies did not even know about his criminal record in his home country police officers searched zin's home and found a recently excavated plot of land on his property they they did not disclose whether they found an Evidence there but a significant find awaited them in the basement of their house a broken back panel from a wide iPhone 4S was found there Alice had the exact same phone after examining the contents of his computer the police also discovered that the man had searched the incident for information about Alice gross's disappearance a few days after the incident on the basis of all this Ernest soins was put on The Wanted list Scotland Yard feared that the might have fled back to lvia or another European country so they searched all over the EU but law enforcement authorities were unable to find a single trace of the suspect meanwhile a month had passed since Alice's disappearance and on September 30th police issued a depressing statement a human body was found in a river near the Gill's disappearance at the time the identity was not yet known but police shared one Eerie fact someone had gone to Great Lengths to arrange for the body to remain underwater and not resurface only the next day law enforcement authorities confirmed that the deceased was Alice Gross though number one doubted it anymore the scene was in the exact spot where she had disappeared the cause of death was asphixiation it turned out that Alice's buddy had been wrapped in construction bags and tied to a large tree stump in addition the perpetrator made a whole structure out of a bicycle wheel and Bricks which also prevented the body from surfacing she also had no clothes on except for one sock detectives pay the visit to the setup where sockin worked and discovered that the same bags used to hide Alice's body were the same ones used at his construction site after the discovery of the body please continue to search for soins working closely within interpol on local European intelligence agencies but they were still unable to find any trace of him this went on until October 4th when investigators made an expected Discovery they discovered the man's suspended body in a park just 1 km from where Alice was murdered 2 Days Later experts confirmed that the deceased was Ernest soins number one expected such a turn of events the main version of Scotland Yard was The Escape of the suspect to Europe well in fact it turned out that all this time he was under their noses medical experts concluded that the man had committed suicide on the day of his disappearance September 3rd and that he could not be found for a month nothing surprising here however soin had chosen a very remote and hard to reach location where he was extremely difficult to spot with Zen's DNA in hand investigators had even more evidence near where Alice's body was found please found a cigarette but which was sent to a lab experts extracted DNA from the filter which matched the zalon sample in addition the lab said that it was highly likely that the perpetrators D D was found on the victim's body they could not assert this with 100% certainty due to how long the body had been underwater his DNA was also found on the girl's backpack and shoes by that time police had discovered another gruesome fact it turned out that 2 years after moving to England sains had molested a 14-year-old girl just a kilometer away from where Alice's body was found the man attempted some indecent act but the victim survived and the man was arrested this is where the fun part Begins the girl did not press formal charges and the perpetrator was simply released it is not entirely clear how this could have happened but the fact remains an adult man molested A girl fell into the hands of the police and escaped punishment moreover information about this case surfaced after the perpetrator's body was found in the park despite all this the police continued to investigate and it took them some time to put to together a picture of what had happened according to their version on an unfortunate day August 28th soins riding his bicycle along the same route where Alice was walking having noticed her in a secluded area hidden from prying eyes he attacked her in ordered to commit depraved acts how events unfolded next we shall never know but the outcome was tragic so K killed Alice and then hit her body in several approaches constantly returning to the place we will all also never know why he decided to take his own life after what he had done whether this can be called a manifestation of conscience is very debatable Alice's parents who survived such a terrible tragedy were outraged by the government's actions they were perplexed how the British authorities allowed a convicted murderer to enter the country and stay here to live they had spent years fighting for the government to increase its control over migrants and keep criminals out unfortunately to this day they have been been unable to make any serious changes a month after the discovery of zulan's body another interesting event occurred the medical examiner in charge of the investigation left a folder of case documents on the train the 30 pages contained important information about the murder including medical information and undisclosed detail the public the media and Alice's parents harshly criticized the police but there was nothing they could do about it however number one tried to judge the deceased perpetrator anyway the investigators said that if he were alive they would have had enough evidence to bring the case to court but there was no guarantee of a conviction the problem was that all the evidence against Salin was circumstantial and he had a small chance of getting away with it instead a hearing was held in court in which the jury admitted an already obvious fact Alice had been murdered her death was not an accident the procedure was formal and played no role Alice's funeral was held on October 23rd thousands of people came out to the memorial that day and at the end of the ceremony a beautiful song that the girl rolled and sank herself was shown on the big screen next we will tell you the story of Molly Tibbits and what her disappearance led to Molly Tibbits was born on May 8th 1988 in San Francisco California when she was in second grade her parents divorced and Molly moved to Iowa with her mother and two brothers or father however continued to maintain a close relationship with his children After High School she enrolled Iowa State University as a Psychology major in her spare time she worked at a day camp at the Regional Medical Center she had an active lifestyle played Sports and had many friends she spent the summer of 2018 in a tiny town called Brooklyn which is also in Iowa it is barely over 3 km in size and only has 1,400 people living there it would seem that in such a quiet place where everyone knows each other nothing terrible could happen on July 18th 2018 Molly was going for a run she was living in Brooklyn with her boyfriend Bolton Jack at his brother's house on the evening of that day she was in the house alone her boyfriend was away at work in another town 210 km from Brooklyn Molly sent him a picture on Snapchat and went out for a run at about 7 11:30 p.m. the next day Molly was supposed to go to work but she never showed up this seriously Disturbed her family and boyfriend they all knew that the girl was extremely responsible and never missed work without warning in addition she did not respond to calls and messages as a result the parents decided to contact the police who began a search for Molly from the early days the case began to attract increased attention Across America as for the residents of Brooklyn for them the dis disappearance of a young girl was a rail shark nothing like this had ever happened in this Tiny Town before people had never locked their doors and were sure of their own safety Molly's father Rob tibits came to Brooklyn from San Francisco and took an active Pardon The Surge he handed out flyers with her photographs questioned people and tried in every way to help the investigation parents did not give up hope until the very last moment that their daughter would be found alive and un home armed three agencies got involved in the search for the girl the Iowa division of criminal investigations the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the pohi County Police Department together they worked more than 2,000 leads and interviewed about 500 people the search for Molly was scattered throughout Brooklyn's neighborhoods at one point law enforcement received a report that Molly had been spotted at her truck stop in Carney Missouri 380 mi from Brooklyn please police check this information and could find no confirmation the police says is proper in such cases check the theory that her boyfriend was involved statistically most crimes of this nature are committed by relatives or loved ones but not this time boyfriend's Alibi was Ironclad he really was in another city and physically couldn't have been in Brooklyn that night time passed and the search for Molly yielded no results the criminal investigations division announced the cash reward for any leading to the gills return alive and unharmed the amount grew steadily and eventually reached $366,000 this was very substantial money even by us standards and for the state of Iowa the reward was a record at one point police said they were narrowing the search for Molly to a few locations around Brooklyn her boyfriend's house several local farms a gas station a truck stop and a car wash or none of it helped locate mold the police received hundreds of leads Each of which led to a dead end there was one episode however that struck me as odd the owner of one of the pig farms where the police concentrated their search was extremely reluctant to contact law enforcement he denied any involvement in Molly's disappearance but refused to take a polygraph examination Alis made him an excellent candidate for the role of suspect but there was no evidence against him this meant that the police could neither interrogate the man or search his Farm property as a result the investigation was again at a standstill the police tried to find some connection between the farm and Molly's disappearance but they were unsuccessful at least at the time that all changed on the August 20th 1st a few days earlier a law enforcement source told reporters that the police had found a body of a young white woman of course everyone immediately assumed it was Molly and they were right on August 21st first the police issued an official statement Molly tibet's body was found in paasha County Where Brooklyn was located the parents identified their daughter investigators immediately noticed she was missing two items she always took with her a smartphone and a fitness bracelet soon the medical examiner made an official conclusion the girl was attacked by several blows with a sharp object this further shocked the residents of Brooklyn they all knew each other and could not even think that there was a violent criminal among them the newspapers also broke the story making the whole of America talk about it solution to this gruesome crime was not long incoming almost immediately after the discovery of the body police arrested 24-year-old Christy Rivera an illegal migrant from Mexico who had come to the United States illegally 7 years before the incident all the time he had worked on various Farms hiding under the name John but police came came to the Riviera after reviewing camera footage near the root Mall usually ran in the footage they spotted a Chevy Malibu car driving back and forth on the road with no apparent purpose it's possible say with certainty how the police got the confession according to the official version Riviera immediately confessed to what he had done as soon as they came in with questions according to his story he was driving by the road along which Molly was running he took a fancy to the girl and drove by herself several more times apparently it was these movements that the police noticed on the surveillance cameras at one point he stopped the car got out and ran alongside Molly at the same time he began harassing her verbally trying to gain the girl's affection Molly did not like it and throw and to call the police when the girl reached for her phone Riviera attacked her he then dumped her body in a corn field and fled already under arrest Riviera suddenly changed the strategy and claimed that he remembered nothing of that night it is possible that his lawyer persuaded him to withdraw his confession the charges against Riviera were filed on August 22nd at the trial which began on September 19th he pleaded not guilty the trial dragged on for 3 years largely thanks to the lawyers Riviera's relatives hired two lawyers who tried all their might to get an acqu or the minimum possible punishment the whole of America watched a trial the thing is this crime was committed during Donald Trump's presidential term as many of you know Trump has advocated stricter immigration laws and it was Mexico that he focused on the most the Trump Administration used the crime that Riviera committed to its Advantage though sad fate of Molly Tibbits was cited as an example of why Trump's reforms are necessary for America the girl's father spoke out strongly against his door to being used in political disputes but number one listens to her father one girl's story resounded across the country in the context of the immigration loss after all it is difficult not to agree that illegal migrants are a danger when literally under the nose appears just such a case the speed of the criminal trial was also affected by the pandemic and it wasn't until May 17th 2021 that the main part of the hearing began Riviera continued to insist on his innocence but he didn't stand a chance on May 28th the court handed down its verdict guilty of first-degree murder Riviera received a maximum sentence for the state of Iowa life in prison without parole he will now spend many years in prison at the expense of American taxpayers politics aside Molly tippet story once again shows us a sad truth danger can await anyone when they are not expecting it and none of us are immune number three this incredible story which began in 1977 shocked the world with his day new month 34 years later a young mother took her six-month-old baby and went to a store near her home she never returned home and the police could find no trace of her it took several decades for everyone to learn the truth and to see that such Twisted plots do not only happen in the movies this story began in the sunny American state of Hawaii in early 1977 a young couple 26-year-old Mark Barnes and 31-year-old Charlotte Mori Ari had a son named marks it seemed that a happy and carefree future awaited the family among palm trees sunshine and boundless ocean Mark worked as a veterinarian and Charlotte was an artist the couple wasn't married which didn't stop them from loving their child and giving him the best of everything before meeting Mark Charlotte had been married and had a daughter who stayed to lived with her father in New Mexico after the divorce her mother kept in contact with her and tried to visit her whenever h possible fast forward to June 21st 1977 on that day Mark had been working on the property since early in the morning and the man was planting Charlotte's favorite flowers around it the girl told him she wanted to walk to the store so as not to distract mark from his work she decided to take her son with her put him in the stroller and left a few hours passed Mark was so worked up that he didn't immediately realize Charlotte should have been back by now since the store was only a few blocks away after waiting a few more hours he decided to walk to that store in hopes of meeting Charlotte on the way as he stepped away from the house he saw his son's empty stroller standing near the but stop neither the child nor Charlotte was anywhere to be found it would seem that he should have gone to the police immediately after that but Mark didn't as he explained later Charlotte could sometimes go somewhere for a few days unannounced and then returned home the man decided that this time time would be no exception it sounds strange enough that if Charlotte had gone out alone Mark's logic could still be understood but she had taken her six-month-old baby with her abandoned the stroller in the middle of the street and seemed to have vanished two days passed but Charlotte never showed up then Mark decided to call the police and they advised him to wait a few more days what if the girl in the baby still returned home so he did and 2 days later he called the police again this time he was asked for a description of Charlotte and the child and then they promised to start a search but after that call number one contacted Mark in the fate of his girlfriend and Son remained a mystery 3 weeks passed Mark decided to go to the police station to see how the search was going and hear the strangeness continued there he was told that no calls had been received from him the police allegedly couldn't find any evidence that Mark over the phone had told them about the missing girl and child of course no case was open and number one was looking for the missing all this time list well on this point in more detail Mark assured everyone that he had called the police twice the police said that every call was registered and that there had simply been no calls it is unclear which of them is right but both scenarios are plausible if the police really did refuse to start looking for the six Monon old they could have been in serious trouble missing small children obliged the police to search immediately even if only a few hours have passed since The Disappearance so in this case the police May well have covered up the fact they did not search for the infant the father's Behavior also seemed strange why he wait several days before calling the police and were there any such calls even if he did call why did he wait three more weeks after those calls and only then decide to go to the station after all in all that time he had even called there to find out anything about them progress of the investigation in this conversation with the detectives Mark reported that Charlotte might have some kind of mental health problem in the ' 70s Psychiatry was still gaining ground so no treatment had been given to the girl neither She nor Mark even went to the hospital even though they were very serious reasons to do so according to Mark Charlotte walked around the house for the first few weeks after giving birth with only a blindfold on and couldn't properly explain why given that there couldn't possibly be a logical explanation here Mark was worried beyond belief and was already thinking about seeing doctors but then Charlotte removed the blindfold and began to behave completely normally the man decided to forget the story and not to pay any attention to it that Charlotte's disappearance could be related to mental problems was indirectly suggested by another fact Mark said that her daughter who was 8 years old at the time was going to fly to Hawaii in June to visit her her mother Charlotte was looking forward to that meeting but at the last minute the girl's father canceled all plans in Charlotte that they will not come this summer this very much upset the girl and mental disorders can be provoked by strong negative emotions that Charlotte experienced even in the quietest stages of a live person does not show any signs of unstable psyche but all these theories did not bring the police any closer to finding the girl and her son they opened a case posted Flyers all over the place and couldn't find a single clue Mark later recounted that for a year and a half after Charlotte and his son disappeared he became obsessed with searching for them he drove all over the island hoping to find them alive and unharmed but it never happened 2 years after they went missing he moved to California nor did the police have much hoping the case given the complete lack of evidence number one believe that a girl and child could be found compounding the situation was the fact that crucial time for the had been lost in the first few days 24 years had passed Market started a new family and he had two daughters he had long ago stopped believing that he would one day see Charlotte and Marx alive but in 2001 the case took a new turn Charlotte's daughter from her first marriage Jennifer flew to Hawaii and went to the police station she convinced them to reopen the case of her mother disappearance the detectives agreed but and Mark's information into the missing persons database and created a computer portrait of markx growing up based on his childhood photo the first thing the detectives decided to do was to interrogate mark because his behavior in the early stages of the investigation seemed strange to them there was no mention in the old documents that the man had called the police station by phone 2 days after the girl and child disappeared it said he' not come to the police station until 3 weeks later this led Detective to believe that Mark may have been involved in their disappearance even though 24 years had passed since then the police tried to find any Witnesses Hill lived near Mark and Charlotte's home of course most of the residents had already changed but the detectives were lucky enough to find one senior citizen who had lived their back then he remembered Mark and Charlotte and told the detectives an interesting fact according to the pensioner the couple often quarreled and he heard them shouting the detectives then decided that the case was getting close to a solution and Mark was indeed guilty he was called in for questioning and told about the witness who had heard is regular arguments with Charlotte Mark did not deny that there had indeed been verbal altercations between them he also asked to see a married couple who would never fight detectives tried with all their might to prove his guilt and offered Mark to voluntarily undergo an interrogation with a polygraph the results were ambiguous the Specialists who read the testimony could not give a clear answer whether the man was guilty or not a POS graph is inherently an overrated instrument it is not physically capable of showing whether a suspect is lying or not doesn't affector can affect its results can be mistaken for the truth in vice versa if an innocent person is very nervous during an interrogation or withholds completely different information that is relevant to the questions the polygraph can make him out to be a liar in Mark's case the polygraph was of no use there but the detectives decided to go at it from a different angle they obtained a warrant to examine the house where Charlotte and Mark lived in 1977 what interested them the most was the Terrace built shortly after the girl and child went missing they speculated that Charlotte might not have gone anywhere that day but might have been hurt by her husband in another quarrel and ended up in the ground under the Terrace it is not clear how the police imagined the events of that day and how an infant fits into to the story but they had no other versions forensic dug through the backyard and examined the Terrace but they were unable to find any trace of anyone's remains there it is not known if they compensated the new owners of the house for the two days of digging in the backyard the detectives admitted they had nothing else to work with and set the case aside again as the last resort they took DNA samples from Jennifer and Mark hoping it would someday help the case went into a long drawer again for a full 10 years but after the time came the finale to this whole Tangled story Steve Carter 35 of Philadelphia had wondered about his past from an early age he grew up in an orphanage and at the age of four he was installed by a wealthy Neil Jersey couple the US Army Officer and his wife loved the baby and cared for him as their own Steve also loved his foster parents but he always wondered how he ended up in the orphanage in 201 11 he stumbled upon an internet article that told the Amazing Story of Caroline White who had been kidnapped from the hospital when she was just 19 days old decades later Caroline was browsing missing children's websites found her childhood photo there and realized with horror that it was her current parents who kidnapped her from the hospital Steve Carter was inspired by the story and began researching the same sites he entered his birth information on his certificate was immediately speechless the first result showed an adult photo of him taken by artists based on a baby picture resemblance was so strong that Carter could not even move in shock he realized he was the same Max Barnes who had gone missing in Hawaii with his birth mother after recovering from his shock Steve made the decision to take a DNA test taking the opportunity through a missing child search service their database contained DNA samples of Mark and Jennifer taken by the police 10 years earlier after 8 months of waiting the test showed an exact match Steve Carter turned out to be Mark Barnes police instantly reopened the investigation the missing infant found himself 34 years later but the circumstances of his disappearance were still a mystery but not for long his birth certificate helped solve the mystery first the certificate was not issued until a year after the birth of the child second his name was tinan Amaya and his mother's name was Janaya that's what helped the police to connect the two key strands because that name had already appeared in the reports not long after Charlotte and the child disappeared the police received a strange call a woman reported that a girl with an infant baby had knocked on the door in her house and asked for milk to feed her the police arrived on the believing that the girl was in an inadequate State she was taken to a Psychiatric clinic for evaluation and the infant was handed over the guardianship authorities this girl was Charlotte after a few days in the hospital she secretly escaped and was never seen again and the child remained in the care of the state because he did not even have a birth certificate and it was impossible to identify his relatives when the truth came out everyone had a legitimate question why the police did not compare The Disappearance of the girl and the baby to another situation especially when the infant was left in the care of the state couldn't they have realized that they had the very same child in front of them now 34 years later it's hard to answer that question perhaps the police simply didn't know about The Disappearance because the two cases handled by two different precincts Steve who by then was working in a prestigious job and had a family of his own decided to make contact with his half-sister and biological father they were shocked when the man revealed his own disappearance number one believed anymore that the infant might still be alive although we don't know what happened to Charlotte the ending of the story can definitely be considered happy sat statistics tell us that the chances of finding missing children after so many years are zero but the case of Marx Barnes was one of the rare exceptions he grew up in a wonderful family received a good upbringing and became a successful man most likely Charlotte was indeed suffering from serious mental disorder she knocked on the door of a stranger asking for milk to feed her son perhaps the call to the police saved infant's life who knows how Charlotte's mental state would have changed in the future it is still unknown what happened to her and it is unlikely that the mystery will ever be solved considering that she never tried to contact her husband or find her son the woman could have died time after escaping from the Asylum perhaps timely Medical Care could have changed the girl's condition for the better and this whole story would have never happened number four in a small town a 13-year-old girl disappeared and her disappearance was not noticed until 24 hours later this case could not be solved for more than 10 years and only in the summer of 2021 it came to its conclusion in this video we will tell you what happened to Haley Dawn this story took place in the American town of Colorado City Texas this place is a typical lowrise America with an area of 14 Square kilm only 4,000 people lived in the town on Christmas Day 2010 the town had an New Year's atmosphere residents decorated their homes participated in festive events and had fun 13-year-old Haley Don was no exception for Christmas she was given a new iPad which she was very happy about Haley lived with her mom Billy and her boyfriend Shawn and older brother dated her mother divorced her own father named Clint when the girl was 10 years old but they never stopped communicating in fact her father lived literally across the street from Haley's house so they saw each other almost every day the girl was very close to her father and tried as often as possible to spend time with him family and friends described the girl as cheerful funny and energetic she was a member of her school's cheerleading team participated in athletics and played the saxophone Haley was also on three sports teams on December 26th the girl spent most of Christmas at her father's house unwrapping presents afterwards she came home played video games and went AB bed the next day her stepfather and mother went to work as usual Billy left her cell phone at home so the children could contact her before she left she peaked into her daughter's bedroom while she was still asleep Shawn was working in another town which was about a half hour drive away according to him he had an argument with his boss that day which resulted him being fired in leaving work just 10 minutes after he arrived he then drove to his mother's house spent some time there and returned to Colorado City about 3:00 p.m. in the evening Shawn went to pick up Billy from work when they arrived home Billy noticed that her daughter wasn't home Shawn told her that the girl had gone into his room that afternoon and told him she was going to her father's house after that she planned to go to a friend's house and spend the night Haley often stayed overnight at her friends houses so her mother took this information calmly small towns like this often have the illusion of safety so parents are less worried that something might happen to their child the next day December 28th Haley never came home Billy decided to call the parents of a friend at whose house her daughter was supposed to spend the night to her mother's surprise they weren't even aware that Haley had planned to spend the night at their house she hadn't shown up it was further revealed that the girl hadn't even stopped by her father's house then bill Billy got worried and decided to ask her neighbors if they had seen her daughter she went door Todo and number one had seen the girl that day around 2:00 p.m. Billy went to the police but they decided to take easiest route the police main theory was that she had run away from home which initially hurt them investigation a voluntary Escape is not investigated on the same level as a missing minor they searched Billy and Clint's homes and brought search dogs to the scene the next day the they picked up Haley's trail from the house to a local Motel it was very strange none of the motel employees had seen this girl she wasn't on any security cameras and a full search of the building yielded no results trained dogs pointed to a motel but the girl apparently never showed up there as news of Haley's disappearance spread through the city dozens of concerned people joined the search some looked around the area others printed and handed out flyers and here we come to to another strange moment Clint the girl's own father practically never left the street he looked in every corner looked in every possible nook and cranny even looked in dumpsters according to him he just couldn't sit at home and wait meanwhile Billy and Shawn were not so enthusiastic the mother handed out flyers but refused to go around the neighborhood looking for her daughter she explained that searching gave her the impression that they were already looking for her body and that there was no chance of finding the girl alive as for Shawn he took absolutely no part but that's not the strangest thing either on December 31st for days after the girl went missing Billy and Shawn through a New Year's Eve party they had friends over listening to music drinking and partying such behavior on the part of a mother whose daughter had disappeared Without a Trace seems simply absurd on January 3rd a week after Haley's disappearance the police finally officially declared her missing this meant that more serious agencies such as the FBI and the Texas Rangers could become involved and so it happened representatives of these agencies arrived in Colorado City and began there investigation volunteers continued to the area and more than a 100 Billboards were posted throughout Texas and Beyond about the missing girl detectives completely ruled out the possibility of an escape for one thing they could find no reason why Haley would choose to take such a step the day before her disappearance she had been in a fine mood and for the rest of the time the girl showed no signs that might indicate a tendency to run away secondly absolutely all her belongings were left in the room if the girl had decided to run away she must have taken something with her the detectives quickly realized that they should take a closer look at Billy and Shawn their passive attitude toward the girl's search and the New Year's Eve party made one seriously wonder if they cared about Haley detectives discovered that on December 27th the same day Haley allegedly spent the night at a friend's house Shawn and Billy had withdrawn $140 from their bank cards they admitted that the money was used to purchase illegal substances which the couple had taken that evening taking advantage of the absence of their children from home on January 6th it was reported that police had questioned Billy and Shawn using a holograph the results were very interesting Billy failed on two attempts during the first interrogation she was under the influence of substances and the second result showed her lying Shawn also failed two interrogations and from the third he simply walked away before he even finished answering the questions and after that Billy suspected that Shawn might be involved in her daughters disappearance and demanded that he move out of her home on January 12th police officially announced that Shawn was being treated as a suspect several facts helped them come to this conclusion first it became known that the couple's relationship had been strained at times during some of their arguments Shawn had threatened Billy and her daughter with violence secondly among his belongings were found many sheets on which was printed information about serial killers it later turned out that he and Billy had taken an interest in similar topics together next the police examined the geolocation data from Sean's phone and found that his account of the day Haley disappeared did not match reality he did arrive at work where he stayed for 10 minutes except that afterwards Shawn didn't go to his mother's house as he had said before but headed back to Colorado City to Billy's house it wasn't until some time later that he drove to his mother's house here is worth bearing in mind that the police tracked the phone so vassel Towers which have a range of several miles so detectives could only roughly estimate where Sha might have been on top of that it turned out that he wasn't fired he left on his own initiative the man arrived at work told his bosses he was leaving and headed back to Colorado city after interviewing Haley's friends and other acquaintances detectives found even creepier details the girl repeatedly spoke of being afraid of Shawn Haley admitted to her best friend that she preferred to spend time outside or at France houses because she didn't feel safe around Shawn she once told her grandmother that she often saw Sean standing in front of her bedroom door in the middle of the night each time she was afraid he would come into the room soon the police became aware of a conversation with Haley's Uncle discussing the girl's disappearance her uncle said roughly the following I can't believe anyone would hurt a child Sean's response was extremely strange he said it's like killing a deer with all this information in hand the detectives concluded that Haley had not lived in the most prosperous family her mother and stepfather often drank and used illegal substances and through parties Shaun's Behavior seemed highly suspicious but there was no direct evidence against him eventually the police contacted child welfare who made the decision to remove Haley older brother on February 24th police searched the house in which Shawn lived with Billy as well as his mother's house a huge Discovery awaited them they found more than 100,000 obscene images of miners on a removable drive and hard drive the police also seized his laptop but apparently didn't have time to examine it contents Sean's father came to the station and demanded his son's equipment back it is not known for what reason but the police did but that is not the most interesting part Shawn received no punishment for so much illegal material on his computer on March 17 police officers went to Billy's house to ask Sean some questions a woman opened the door and said he wasn't home but the officer showed her a pre-arranged warrant and entered the premises finding Sean hiding there for concealing a suspect Billy received 90 days in jail and a year of Corrections time she was sent to a correctional facility in Travis County upon her release she stayed in the area with Shawn in 2012 however the couple finally broke up Billy began to seriously think that Shawn might be involved in her daughter ERS disappearance since then the case had effectively stalled the police had no new evidence volunteers could find no trace of the girl this continued until March 16th 2013 when a hiker discovered human remains near Lake J B Thomas in scary county at experts conducted the necessary tests and determined that the remains belong to Haley done her body was about 20 M from her home police have not disclosed the cause of death but but sources say it could be blunt force trauma after the discovery of the body the investigation boiled over again authorities offered a $115,000 reward for any information leading to the capture of the culprit their eyes turned back to Shawn but nothing had changed since the girl disappeared the police simply didn't have direct evidence against him but they had circumstantial evidence the girl's body had been found only a few miles from Shawn's mother's house that matched the geolocation data on his phone because they are determined by the towers given such a short distance Shawn could very well have left the body in said area and number one would have known about it moreover he grew up in the area and could easily orientate where it was best to hide the body but the investigators could not find any other Clues and the case was frozen again for many years despite this the girl's family had to wait for years to bury her remains memorial service was held in January 20th 17 in 2018 Haley's father Clint said he believed Shawn and Billy were guilty in his version his mother either helped cover up the truth or was directly involved in the murder in the same year he began giving numerous interviews and tried to actively publicize the case the man said that in the early years of the investigation he tried not to pester the police with constant questions but his patience had run out the detectives did little to investigate and His Last Hope was to spread the word widely in an effort to bring the perpetrators to Justice and it did pay off in 2019 an unknown person wrote to Clint and told him that in 2011 he had found several items that might have belonged to Haley at the time this person was in high school and hadn't heard about the missing girl so it didn't even occur to him to report his fine to the police true information about the items has not yet been disclosed the police have not disclosed what the items are Clint only mentioned that they were found in an area that had been repeatedly combed by volunteers and police sometime later new information emerged private investigator Eric Amore who was handling the Haley case and kept in touch with Clint presented some very creepy information related to Shawn in October 20th 19 she began receiving messages from various women in Texas they all said they were being harassed on online in an aggressive manner by a man registered under the name Casey Not only was he harassing them with lewd messages but he was also sending them explicit photos and videos of himself given that Shawn had the same middle name Erica asked the women to send her photos and videos of the man sending the girls her theory was confirmed it really was Shawn she persuaded one woman to go to the police station and file a report on Shawn but they refused to press charges and even accused the woman of falsifying the facts Erica's plan was simple she was convinced that Shawn was involved in Haley's death given that the police couldn't arrest him for it the story of stalking women on the internet could have put a potentially dangerous criminal behind bars at least for a while but that plan didn't work the case went quiet again until something really unexpected happened in May 20th 21 Erica and Clint were invited to the district attorney's office for an urgent talk there they receiv received the long awaited announcement hagley's killer would be arrested in June of course this information was not disclosed after the meeting it was kept secret until June 14th 2021 when after 10 years of waiting the arrest finally happened police took Shawn into custody and charged him with the murder of Haley he is currently in bail awaiting trial on $20 million bail but police are still not disclosing what new evidence allowed them to make this arrest apparently this information is being being kept secret until the trial all we know now is that shortly before the arrest the police received permission to take a DNA sample from Shawn there may be some connection here to Haley's belongings which were found back in 2011 upon learning of her ex-boyfriend's arrest Billy made a very strange statement she said she wasn't the least bit surprised that Shawn was involved in the murder ant added that she wanted to believe in his innocence until the last minute she also thanked God that the man would now be punished for what he had done which Billy herself had actively obstructed during the early investigation defending Sean a date for the trial is to be announced in the near future at this point it's hard to say whether a conviction will be obtained it will depends solely on the significance of the evidence that police are now withholding in any case Sean spent more than 10 years at large even though everything pointed to his involvement in the murder Haley's complaints to friends and relatives forbidden materials with children and constant lies during interrogations the man looked suspicious on all sides as for Billy she initially showed no desire to get Justice for her daughter Clint unlike her put forth his best efforts and got his way Eric Amore in one interview hinted that the case would not have been solved without his active participation she didn't give any details but here again we can remember the story of Haley's found objects the person who discovered them only found out about the whole story thanks to Clint's social media posts more details of this case and most importantly a court decision are sure to come our way in the near future right now all indications are that Shawn could really get a conviction and in Texas that would mean only one thing a guaranteed death penalty for what he did to the child too bet there's no way this is going to help Haley Dunn live a long and happy life number five a 16-year-old old girl who lived in the same house as her parents and younger sisters had gone to sleep in her room and in the morning she was found dead the police immediately realized they were dealing with the murder but none of her relatives heard anything that night it took 31 years to finally solve the case but number one was prepared for this turn of events Fon Cox was born March 24th 1973 in Kansas City Missouri her parents soon had two more daughters the family lived in in a small two-story house located in a rough residential neighborhood from an early age she helped her parents take care of the younger children went to church regularly and enjoyed swimming when she turned 16 Fawn got a part-time job at a local amusement park her family lived quite poor and the girls sought to earn at least some money in her spare time from school she spent most of the summer vacations of 1989 at work mostly the girls stood behind the cash right register and sold tickets to amusement rides on Wednesday July 26th she finished her shift at about 10: p.m. her mother and younger sister picked her up in the car as it would have taken along time to get from the park to her home on public transportation almost immediately after returning home Fawn went to bed since she had to go to work again the next morning the girl slept on the second floor she had her own room her sisters usually slept in the Next Room but that night she was alone on the floor her sister Amber who was only a year younger was babysitting for a familiar family that night the other sister Felicia decided to sleep on the first floor because it was much cooler there it was a very hot night and the only air conditioner working was downstairs and there parents also slept on the first floor the next morning at about 9:00 the whole family woke up to the sound of the alarm clock in fawn's room but the girl wouldn't turn it off for some reason reason then her younger sister and mother went up to her room were a horrible sight awaited them Fawn lay on the bed with no sign of Life her neck visibly bruised the girl also had no pulse and her parents immediately called an ambulance but they were no longer able to help her it was apparent that Fawn had passed away hours before after examining her body medical experts determined this triangulation was the cause of death and the girl had also been abused from the First hours the police realized they had a very difficult investigation ahead of them despite the fact that Fawn was killed right in her room in a small house with very poor soundproofing her parents and sister heard absolutely nothing however there was an explanation the air conditioner on the first floor was old and very loud blocking out any other noise in the house the only strange thing that night was noticed by fawn's Sister their poodle was behaving anxiously L and barking but they did not pay much attention to it this Behavior was attributed to the fact that the dog was pregnant after examining the scene the police made several important discoveries their theory was that the attacker or group had entered the house through a second story window overlooking the backyard there was an old trailer park near the house that could easily be used to climb up to the canopy of the out building which was almost level with the window the window itself had been left open because there was no air conditioning on the second floor and one had to fight the heat somehow in fawn's room the experts found the first important Clues a few short hairs small blood stains and traces of semen on the sheet from her bed all of this was sent to the lab for analysis in addition several items were missing from the house including radios a Nintendo game console and a stereo recorder the several other items were found on the ground in front of the house it looked as if the burler had thrown them out the window to take them with him but left them there for some reason detectives also found that various items had been removed from a closet in it a joining room on the second floor they believe the perpetrator was hiding in that closet while waiting for everyone in the house to go to sleep normally fawn's sister slept in that room but not that night for this reason number one noticed the items on display the police discovered another strange clue an old Army cap was found in fonts room all her relatives said they had never seen the girl wearing it so detectives assumed the killer might have forgotten the cap at the scene despite the impressive array of evidence police were unable to quickly identify the suspects the problem is that in 1989 DNA forensics was rather underdeveloped and there were no common genetic data bases at that time detective Benjamin Caldwell who handled the case put forward the main version enough what happened in his opinion there could have been several asants and they must have known the house well not only did they know how to get to the second floor through the backyard in total darkness but they must also have known the layout of the rooms the next step for the police was to look for Witnesses they interviewed neighbors friends and relatives of Fawn but all were inconclusive the detectives had one weighty problem before them the neighborhood in which the house was located was very poor and criminal various criminal gangs separated there and their participants were quite difficult to bring to Justice a month after fawn's murder the case finally got off the ground the police had a witness who pointed them to three suspects this witness knew a number of important details that the police never divulge so his story was taken seriously the suspects were three teenagers one of whom was in the same class as vau they were arrested and questioned but the boys denied any involvement and the murder during a search of one of their homes police found items stolen from the victim's room this was enough to charge all three of them with murder but even here the detectives were disappointed first the witness suddenly recanted and stopped cooperating with the police second DNA analysis of blood hair and seen found at the crime scene did not show an unambiguous match with the suspect samples in those years experts could not yet establish an exact match of the samples and all their test showed questionable results in other words the analysis could not confirm either a full match or a guaranteed mismatch despite this the police were able to obtain useful information from one of the detainees during one of the interrogations he confessed that he had indeed broken into FS house that night in the company of other boys and stolen some things he painted how he made his way to the second floor through the canopy of the canopy and even revealed unknown details according to him when he threw a tape recorder out the window its handle fell off the boy hit it under a nearby Bush and the police did find the item in that very spot except that the young man quickly retracted his statement and no longer cooperated with the investigation which would have prevented his confession from being used in court because of this the police had to let them men go and the investigation was at a stand still again most likely the wi wies were simply intimidated but without their testimony in court the case had almost no chance all we know is that one of them spent 8 months in jail for stealing items from fonts house the case has since gone into a long drawer the police didn't reopen the investigation until the early 2000s and the first thing they did was upload DNA samples from the crime scene to the codus database it had been created several years before and contained DNA samples from people tried for serious crimes unfortunately no matches were found for the Fawn killer the emergence of this database was the result of major scientific advances in the study of DNA it also allowed police to recollect DNA samples from the three original suspects and conduct more advanced tests this time experts unequivocally determined that the hair seen and blood did not belong to any of them this was rather odd given the fact that the suspects were found in possession of f wants belongings detectives speculated that the three guys had indeed robbed her house at night but was another man with them he was the one who had abused and killed the girl all of this raised even more questions could it be that four criminals entered the house unnoticed killed Fawn and just asked unnotice left the scene of the crime the police still had no answer to this question since then the case has once again stalled with each passing year the Fawn family believed less and less that the murder would ever be solved they continued to believe that those three suspects had been in their house at night and could point to the killer but would never do so the only thing that could help them learn the truth was a DNA sample stored in the Police lab in 2018 something interesting happened Amber fawn's younger sister revealed some disturbing details about the crime she put her thoughts and facts unknown to the police on a popular American forum for unsolved crimes over the 20 years of its existence The Forum had gained a very reliable reputation and as participants have helped the police solve several high-profile cases Amber has been verified and confirmed that she really is who she says she is so her post is worthy of attention she herself worked as a nanny from Monday to Friday and was only at home during the day on weekends the girl slept in the Very Room on the second floor through which the burglers had snuck in accordingly the criminals would have been immediately spotted in addition they would have watched the house and waited until fawn's mother an her younger sister went to pick up the girl from work despite all this Amber's story didn't bring the case any closer to solving it but it was already 2018 and the science of DNA research had come a long way dozens if not hundreds of long-forgotten cases were being solved thanks to nil analysis tools fawn's relatives saw it all resented why the police were in no hurry to reopen the murder investigation they kept talking to detectives about the case and each time they got the same answer extended DNA testing requires money and the police have dozens of cases for that reason the relatives were left to wait for their turn and funding to come in but they decided to take the initiative and launched a fundraiser in 2019 the family wanted to cover the full cost of the DNA samples and also offered a$ 10,000 dollar reward board for any information that would lead to the perpetrator's capture due to the extensive media coverage of the case and numerous interviews given by the family many people who cared respond to request for help the family quickly collected the necessary amount of money but even here they were disappointed the police department refused to initiate this investigation at the expense of the relatives of the victim the lead detective explained that there was bound to be a big problem in such a situation if the relatives of one victim could pay for such tests and expedite the results then hundreds of other families who have been searching for years for the murder of their loved ones should have the same right but it is simply impossible to implement such a thing in practice since only a few Laboratories in the world conduct Innovative DNA test and with such a simultaneous influx of those wishing to do so their resources are simply not enough the leading company in this field is parabon nanolab which we have already repeatedly mentioned in the other reels they have made tremendous progress in the study of DNA from finding a persons relatives from the smallest genetic samples to creating an approximate portrait of them owner of the DNA it was this lab that was to take over the study of the samples left in font bedroom the night she was murdered the girls relatives believed that the police were in no hurry to pursue their case 4 another reason they were a poor family from a bad neighborhood and murder was not a priority for investigators there in an interview sister Fawn said that if it had been a murder of a family of rich or high ranking people all the necessary investigations would have been done instantly Unfortunately they never managed to expedite the process and it wasn't until late 20 20 that the long awaited breakthrough happened but the family wasn't ready for that kind of Truth with funding from the FBI the police did send samples from V's room to a lab there they began a detailed examination of the DN and a search for possible relative of its possessors it was the semon sample found at the murder scene that they mostly worked within November 20th 20 they are finally able to find the person to whom that DNA belonged it turned out to be fawn's cousin Donald's Cox of course such news shocked the whole family at the time of fawn's death Donald was 21 years old and number one had even considered his possible involvement that said Donald was a pretty Troubled Man and was constantly behind bars he was tried for misdemeanors such as theft and possession of illegal substances unfortunately in those years they did not yet take a DNA sample from such criminals otherwise this case would have been solved much earlier Donald died of an overdose in 2006 but the police investigated his death because certain circumstances seemed suspicious to them it was because of that investig instigation that a sample of his DNA was preserved but it was not entered into the FBI database because the man in that case was a victim not a perpetrator once the experts informed the police of their Discovery they matched the Sam Seaman found at the murder scene and got a 100% match despite the gravity of this discovery the relatives have received an answer to a question that has plagued them for 31 years but there remained one very important point in the whole story a great deal of evidence indicated that the three original suspects had also been in the fun house that night it was now becoming clear how the perpetrators knew the house and the families routines so precisely Donald was a frequent visitor and knew all these nuances however the police closed the case and no new charges were filed against the three men sister Fawn said she saw no point in trying to get a confession out of them even though the men had been present in the house at night they may not have even witnessed the murder itself Donald may well have stayed in the house alone and only then attacked Fawn Felicia added that the three suspects had already paid for their act throughout this time while the case remained unsolved the entire neighborhood was 100% certain of their guilt because of this they were treated very negatively with all the consequences that would follow according to Sister Fawn their lives were effectively ruined in addition after the case was closed it turned out that the police had originally learned about the suspects from the family of one of them relatives noticed a Nintendo set box among his belongings and remembered that this was the one that had been stolen from Fan's house it was on the news and everyone in the neighborhood already knew the details in any case it is simply impossible to prove their guilt and the relatives of the victim finally know the name of the killer he lived for 17 years without any punishment for what he had done and all that time as if nothing had happened communicated with his family but eventually his addiction to Illegal substances drove him to his grave and he was no longer a threat to anyone share your opinion on this story in the 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14HMvu84eXE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HMvu84eXE | I play REALISTIC Minecraft with RAY TRACING.. it’s crazy | [Music] they said looks like you got too many ties and I'm like nah I don't got enough looks like I'm all tied up if you laughed at that like the video if you didn't you're normal looks like I'm all out of tie okay I'm done today I'm bring you guys video it's very special to me because I've always wanted to know how to do it never figure it out until today and it took me all day I want to know what it feels like to have Minecraft look like real life I've installed Optifine in a bunch of high quality shaders along with a very very detailed texture pack I've gone through quite a bit of them there's gets to a point where minecraft just pretty much won't run if you have textures that are too detailed so these textures are going to be a thousand by 1000 pixels and normal minecraft I'm pretty sure is sixteen by sixteen so if that gives you a little bit of a detail personally I've never done anything like this I'm excited let's jump in uh I don't know in the world sure I'm gonna go with the world I did with Alexa oh my god this looks amazing hold on a second I'm turning on my cheat codes just so I can change my game mode to creative because I want to look at all the blocks and all this crazy shading I've only seen musical videos about high-powered minecraft textures on like this this is actually playing it which is so much better in every way oh my God look at that dirt I can see a bunch of microorganisms it's so detailed all right I want to set the time tonight so we can get a real taste of that torch lighting maybe go time set tonight what's with the sky don't ignore the sky everybody I don't know what's going on with that this whoo that's just so nice what is this decorative block oh we got one of the items the flowers Oh God I'm looking for glowstone I want to see how cool it looks oh I don't know if I like that or what that's gross a little bit it looks really good though with the shapes you can't deny that look at this this is amazing that's crazy dude look at it I can't even see a pixel if I tried all right maybe I maybe I can see a little bit but still this is insane if you guys are wondering no my computer isn't doing very well running this as you can see up top I have max 17 frames but somehow I'm at 20 frames I don't I don't know how that thing works let's just say I'm at 20 frames so I hope the video comes out looking pretty good I think it looks fine I did a few test recordings dude bro I can see okay they didn't they didn't try on the torch obviously look at that the door looks like my front door coincidentally it's very weird just a little bit different color crafting bench Allah I got to see the top of this craft adventure ooh ooh get out of the way blocks Oh fireworks I don't think they're gonna look any different but we can try nope it just actually just disappeared why is it disappearing they're just new chests look different cobblestone let's check it out actually looks really nice the furnace looks like cobblestone actually pull it that's nuts dude this this looks crazy you know we should look up look up sand so we can see all those micro grains Mike texture grains look at that it's like I'm at the beach I don't believe I have mobs retexture I wish I did because they'd be hilarious but unfortunately not look at Steve my god Steve you look beautiful guy I've never seen a better-looking Steve in my life I wonder if Armour looks different in this pack I'm curious to find out ooh it doesn't look like it's much different no it is not dang at the Armour they excluded the armor it's ok you can only go so far now what really does the heavy lifting here is the shaders I'll show you what it this looks like with normal minecraft textures so as you can see the shadows they still look really good this is default minecraft so like you can you can tell like the lighting is very bright and harsh compared to normal minecraft real good it's some good stuff regardless honestly any day of the week I'd rather have the more detailed minecraft it looks so good I just wish it wouldn't run at 20 frames mind you I've allocated 40 gigs of RAM to Minecraft and minecraft just doesn't want to use it so I don't know where the problem lies there piggy Oh hyper-realistic pig I really want to find a hyper-realistic mob pack that'd be hilarious if you guys like to see that let me know down in the comments also I was thinking of doing a VR video where I have super realistic minecraft textures and shaders while in VR let me know what you guys think about that down in the comments something we haven't looked at yet is the water and it's probably one of my favorite parts about these shader packs look at this this looks amazing this right here looks better than my real life in every way no I don't need glasses shut up I'm not blurry I just think the underwater they just nailed it how'd they do it I don't know it looks great don't change anything about it okay that food it's like a whole new world crazy alright I want to get into looking at some metal blocks maybe some brick what the heck does lapis lazuli look like lapis eye looks cool I like that [Music] brain boys I just downloaded this minecraft world called all the blocks on one screen and that's basically what it is it's just like a texture pack reviewer and I would love to see all the reflective textures metals everything all the blocks here they are and it's also nighttime times that day why is it so dark this is very sunny maybe it's maybe it's not clear out maybe that's it oh yeah that was it okay we have these beautiful flowers here wow dude these are just taken straight from photos I believe this is crazy well they didn't want to change the brewing station it still looks good in the lighting alright show me the good stuff bookshelves it's literal books was that Larsson good the lava is unchanged at the water water looking flames the cactus is lifelike in many ways they didn't do the TT come on now where's the diamonds oh look at that I just diamond block that looks wonderful it's still beautiful I'm going to build a diamond sculpture it's me couldn't you tell what that sterday got now their act looks pretty cool I like all the blocks all the bark this is like from the real trees themselves it looks better than Unreal Engine and it's Minecraft how is my computer not exploding what is this this is gold I can't even tell what that it'll seek gold block of gold oh it is Bamm Bamm Bamm Bamm what what is this oh I know that is that's the that's the reeds of course I do really like this texture pack but I don't know if I can play Minecraft with it on dude it's just like it takes a lot I'm not gonna be winning much bed wars or anything any combat with 20 frames a second it's just not gonna work out but dang is it look good redstone even looks good the chests they could have done better on I mean come on look at that that looks awful that looks absolutely terrible dreadful and and they're also clipping you see the textures in obsidian goodbye goodbye all these blocks yes I downloaded this world just to completely ruin it I have a challenge for Microsoft they bought minecraft for a billion kajillion dollars why don't you and some of your own money into making the game run at 60fps with any texture you want I know you don't want to do it Microsoft you don't I know but it could be beneficial and then I would be able to play minecraft like this all the time without fear of going over to chunks of render distance because right now that's all I can sit on basically all right I'm outtie until my demands are met Microsoft I'm never coming back to Minecraft why can you even do this a mic ok to the lava we go it looks so good I want these shaders in Minecraft for real oh god oh it didn't really do much birds for everyone Oh sandstone oh look at that oh my god that looks crazy I love that it looks really nice I don't know where the light is coming from from down here but look at that it just got brighter why is it getting brighter I'm so confused that's so cool look at that Oh Oh God brighter - that's cool I need my craft come on you can do this for real everyday I believe in you alright that just about wraps up the video thank you guys so much for watching this took me a really long time to do so I'd really appreciate it if you hit the like button and the subscribe button and I promise I will get back to you guys with a octa fine super cool right tracing ultra-realistic VR video I appreciate you all so much I'll see you in the next one peace | Bandi | UC6DXR_JYNOC-znjhRVr_3kA | 2019-08-05 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,671 | 8,520 |
Hsv-JWJMsKY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsv-JWJMsKY | Kenneth Copeland, Tony Palmer, Pope Francis - Analyzed (Part 1) | thank you I said thank you lord come out I said give the Lord a praise now I knew this along but and I heard I heard it from the Lord but then I also know it now because of what I know you're gonna talk about tonight for a love I said you're gonna talk about tonight for a long time now you got ears to hear say it my ears are blessed now you know what we need to look at that don't don't sit down yeah just get your Bible say it my ears are bad my eyes are black shake hands of two or three people say your eyes and ears are glad we're blast we're bad | Vigilate et Orate | UCgF0bXjNhbVi5bgOZRqM16g | 2014-02-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 121 | 552 |
eFA5PeF1Ggo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFA5PeF1Ggo | ArcoLinux : 449 BYOI ArcoLinuxB i3 | welcome to this video about how to build your own eye so while I'm making all these videos I'm also completing our website and you see when you reload the page what happened what changed we have now three elements moving here we have Erica Linux which is our big ISO when we started with actually the merger remember arch merged the merger of three desktops on the one I saw but we're going far beyond that we have now our clinics D which is the minimal one so it's getting into eternal ending in a terminal and then you install box exception and so on this is a video about Pat Linux be it starts with the scripts and it ends with an I so that's something different it's explained here in the vision and it strides in this infographic that I try to make it's shows you that we start here with a script and then we end up with a arch linux be awesome no except cbsb X monads plasma whatever decibel visit it can be put on an ISO you burn it on a USB and you have your system that's the idea if all of this is too difficult and we're going to make a three now if all of this is too difficult remember there is also the source for community conditions it means that we try the scripts out and when the ISO is built well we put it just on line here so we can get a taste for from well well while downloading this and installing this you get a taste and if you say ok this is something for me you can build it yourself and maybe maybe decide to change also the packages so it all boils down to what do you want to have on the ISO and do you want to have OpenOffice or do you want to have steam and so on you can add applications to or delete applications from packs both burn it you have any ISO and then you install it right what's the procedure always the same kids clone a specific github you can take a look I had to get up here and you'll see that we have now for desktops and we'll make more desktops because we have more possibilities already available we just need time that's it so we are going to go to our desktop desktop is fine it's clean opened Romilly here ctrl shift V get clone me everything from there that's it then I open this here installation scripts and right mouse click open terminal here we entered 30 we say what our password is deleting the Builder filler if the build folder quo everyone exists yes one did exist I've created xfce open box and now I'm creating a three so yes it takes some time so I put it in a hope that it takes some time I have to wait for it so it's going to the motion to the phases and basically have to say yes yes and again yes or else everything stops so now now you can walk away these things will be installed and the end result is an ISO where is this ISO going to pop-up we have now on your system our clinics be built so in here he is working very hard to make your ISO and we'll show you later where it's going to be let's wait for this to finish right our collegues bi3 has been created let's have a look it's an out here is the Argan XP version and what I'll do is I'll copy/paste to My Documents otherwise when we build something again it's over written so now it's saved in our documents in here you'll get an article on XP folder and is the version of oh six oh two so this is the one you need to test out in VirtualBox you like the settings you mean I mean by that the settings in packages though both then you can burn it on USB and put it on your machine so basically this is the end of the tutorial have fun with Atlantic's | Erik Dubois | UCJdmdUp5BrsWsYVQUylCMLg | 2018-06-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 704 | 3,489 |
YtGEiYcvIIA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGEiYcvIIA | Ya Don't Know Until Ya Dan-O: Tuna Steak | do you know how to make the best ahi tuna well I just did it and it goes exactly like this let me show you how to do it let's turn this sit out for a little bit get to room temperature I got some extra virgin olive oil now you grab the Danos crunchy that's the black top I promise you there's nothing like it I'm gonna do the same to the other side all right so the black stone has been preheating for about 10 minutes extra virgin olive oil grab the steak and put it right in there this is super thick so I give it about 90 seconds new oil new Hot Spot when we flip it all right so it's been about three minutes total now we're going to take this inside we're going to put it straight in the fridge for about an hour slice it nice and thin give it a dip in the peanut sauce first dip it in the soy just like that hope you all enjoyed the video leave a comment hit that like button and we'll see you next time keep sprinkling | Dan-O’s Seasoning | UCyP9TINtZzvTJfN69GskqLQ | 2023-06-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 193 | 925 |
1sdrXibbEUc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sdrXibbEUc | ALA President-Elect Maureen Sullivan | first we want to ask you about uh your goals you know you have a little time to think about it you will'll be taking over for 2012 correct and we want to know what your focus will be during your presidential year there are several things that I want to focus on and I'll so I'll address that first and then I'll tell you what my overall goal is certainly I'm interested in really starting a leadership development Initiative for the association and the way I want to do that is to First understand all of what ala is doing the different units particularly the divisions and bringing all that information together because that will tell us the kind of foundation that we have then I also want to look at what other associations like ala have done and I mean particularly not for-profit associations to see where there might be some models some ideas there and then I'd like to bring together a group of individuals who would contribute their best thinking to what is it that could be an effective ala wide initiative I'm also interested in continuing to support all of the good work that's been done in the advocacy area and I'm especially interested in looking at ways that we can collaborate across the association to deal with what I see to be serious threats particularly to school libraries but also to public area public libraries in different parts of the country and I would like to position ala to be the association that really makes the case for the value of libraries of all types across the country and my overall goal is to make sure that at the end of my three years that we have really achieved a time in this country where people understand the value and contribution of libraries I'm also interested in supporting a look at where we're contributing in internationally and identifying areas where we can strengthen the current relationships that we have but also where ala can partner more across the globe around the globe I should say and we can look at how we can contribute to and benefit from library development internationally big agenda big agenda now when you talk about leadership is this piggybacking on the emerging leaders is is that the kind of thing that you're talking about when you say leadership throughout my career and I started doing the kind of leadership development work that I've been doing um and I probably started that safe to say in the mid 1980s in a serious way so I began doing leadership development in the field before there were programs such as we have today we have a number of them in state associations as well as within ala emerging leaders would be one piece of it and I've been very proud to be one of the co-chairs of that Initiative for lesle berer and I've watched almost 500 people come through that program and a number of them move very quickly to contributing in the association so that would be one piece of it but I also think we would benefit from having a program that would really prepare people at different points in their career for the kind of leadership work that they might need to do at that stage so both the early and emerging but also the more experienced let's talk about buer turnout I think I've asked every president that question um for the last several years it's still extremely low what is it that you think we can do to increase interest in in voting for the leadership of the leag association I think it's a question and this may sound you know out of bounds but I think it's a question we might start to put to the membership and discover what some of the barriers might be I can tell you in my experience I had several people come to me and apologize for not being able to vote because they hadn't realized that if they didn't renew their dues at a certain point they were going to be blocked from being able to vote I believe there's even data now that shows that some people log on and start the process and they don't finish it so they end up not being able to vote and maybe one of those situations that we really can't change it it may be that what we're going to have to do is just settle for the f that you know we do everything to promote the voting messages go out San and I sent messages to people I had one person right back to me and say you've lost my vote and I followed up and I asked why and he said well because the message that you sent to me was like spam uh so I I I I think we'd really have to do some deeper inquiry to understand what is keeping people from voting well that brings me to the point of something that's been discussed uh during annual conference and that's the future perfect report and the recommendations which brought a lot of people from Council who have never spoken before up um and and I'm sure the discussion will continue into your presidency about this report um do you think that the their recommendations from this group of Fairly young Librarians is the real future for Al I know from my work with emerging leaders and from my work with others who are fairly new to the profession that there is a very serious interest in changing some of this Association to make it easier for people to be involved and to contribute and to as the emerging leaders group this past Friday said really reduce the bureaucracy that we find ourselves in there also are not just new or younger members who are interested in change some of the more seasoned people are interested in change because there's an increasing interest in having us reduce the focus on the um the committee structure and really moving more to places where they can do meaningful work around the hot button issues and really move that work forward and we're doing some of that I just came from the executive board where the checklist that had been developed by the committee in and advocacy was reviewed and that was done on a very fast track but it required real commitment and a lot of time and effort on the part of the people involved I think the future perfect task force report and I think it was brilliant that they chose that name yes I think it lays a really strong foundation for some serious rethinking but for me sitting in on the presentation yesterday it wasn't only the content of that report that gave me hope for the future of this Association it was the way Council addressed that report it was a very balanced conversation and people who spoke to it who identified issues did so in a very constructive way so it's that report it's the council effect iess report it's the work that's been underway to look in a very hard way about the whole way that we handle finances and it's the work of the young Librarians task force I think it was actually called the Young Librarians working group all of these are formal pieces that are coming together that I think are going to help us address a number of the concerns and issues that the whole membership has and I think you're right because I have seen in the past where reports such as this who would create great controversy they would the people presenting would be attacked and they would never come back that's right but and the the conversation this time was the tone was totally different so I I believe that you're correct in that in the work I do as a consultant one of the terms I sometimes use is organizational maturity and I think that's what I'm seeing in this organization there are so many more people now who are very serious about having an effective Association and thinking very carefully about how they can manage themselves to contribute to effective organization now you addressed some of this advocacy diversity equal access privatization these are continuing things that we're hearing throughout the association on every level uh what will your presidency bring in those areas and you did address some of this earlier I think what I will bring to this is a deep interest in having an inclusive approach to this I there's so many talented people in this Association who are already contributing I want to bring even more individuals into this I believe that diversity is one of our core values but it's more an aspirational value so I want to continue on the work that will be done in Molly Raphael's presidency to not only achieve greater diversity but I like the use of the term inclusion or inclusivity as well as diversity I personally want to see us start to look for different language beyond the use of the term advocacy and and what I have found most effective is to talk in terms of what it is that libraries and the people who work in libraries do to make a difference in their communities I bringing those two together I want us to look across the different types of libraries and see that we're partnering that school librarians public Librarians and academic Librarians and others in this Association are partnering to look at how it is that we can have engagement in our community with the stakeholders as well as the people whom we're serving to ensure that what I believe to be the library's role that is it is the central place where we are supporting democracy and Democratic Values I think that is it's really important work for us to do cutting across the different types of libraries my whole career has been focused on education and learning and while my work has been devoted to doing that within the profession I'm always conscious that I'm working with people who are fostering education and lifelong learning for the people of this country and the people of this country are becoming increasingly diverse and it's presenting challenges to us but I also think it's creating opportunities again for us to demonstrate the value and the role and the contribution of libraries and the people who work in libraries any final word for members or those who may be potential members watching uh uh this video two other things has occurred to me as I was responding to your questions and I think I stressed the first one in the campaign I really believe deep in my heart ala is the profession that is best positioned to deal with the issues and to prepare those of us in the profession to deal with the issues on the local level and I believe the Ala strategic plan is an excellent framework for us to do the work that we need to do and if we view that strategic plan as a framework for not just positioning ala as an association but for guiding Us in how we're going to Foster more Community engagement and really become understood as a vital force within our communities as well as in this country I think that's certainly work I want to lead and I'm optimistic that we'll be able to make good progress in the next 3 years well thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you and good luck on all of the good things that you planed than you [Music] oh | American Library Association | UCPYD2rmKEiWxJ6DaKAtZn-w | 2011-09-13 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | 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ICY3axl3r2E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICY3axl3r2E | AdvGIS | GIS Workflow Tutorial | Part 5 | hello and welcome to an episode of advanced gis in this video we're going to be taking a look at gis workflows and how to use python programming and model builder to create reproducible workflows in arcgis pro once we've created these steps and these layers now it's all about determining where the outlet is located i created a new text file which you can do simply by coming in here and clicking right clicking new text document my text file i titled outlet underscore geo.txt i gave it three header columns id latitude longitude or l-a-t-l-o-n for short my first row in my table i'm giving id1 my latitude is 38.3326 and my longitude is negative 122.3107 these are in geographic coordinate systems saved as a text file and now i want to add this to my map simply come back over to catalog and i find my outlet geotxt under map i can click add data x y point data input table is simply my outlet geo.txt file i find in my project folder and i click ok the output feature class is given a name here i'd rather this just be called outlet underscore geo x is the longitude y is the latitude so longitude is east and west latitude is north and south z field there is none and do we want gcswg s 1984 no i would rather this be the napa dem geo which is gcs north american 1927 conveniently grabbed from the raster data set we projected at the beginning and i'll click run and change the symbology of my point to make it easier to see i now have an outlet defined for my watershed i want to figure out what watershed is associated with this outlet the next step in watershed delineation is called finding the poor point in order to find the poor point i want my input outlet to be in the same coordinate system as my raster data sets and presently it's not i want to project my point to the utm coordinate system that matches my rest of my raster data sets so i'm going to define an output shape file for storing my file i'm going to call it outlet utm dot shape my output file is located in my project folder called outlet utm.shape right now my coordinate reference system is gcs north america in 1927. i want to create the utm version of this so i'm going to create a new or overwrite this existing with arc pi spatial reference and this time i want nad 1927 utm zone 10 n let's see if it finds it it does let's look at its name nad 1927 utm zone 10n i'm going to save this as my sr object so that i can now project my shapefile vector projection in arc pi is in project management tool we see that the only option is the outlet geo i'm going to select that and now i can select where the output data set will be located in my out file the output coordinate system is defined by my sr and all other options are optional [Music] okay we now see that outlet utm has been added to our map if i uncheck it we see that it is in the exact same location as my previous point we did not change where it's located spatially we only changed its coordinate reference system | Tyler W. Davis | UCLDrq2_zivRevuxRCiD4PQQ | 2021-08-10 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 576 | 2,961 |
c-_z6YnParo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-_z6YnParo | Lunch and Learn Series: Public Librarianship MLIS Pathway Q and A with Advisors | Welcome to our public librarianship q a with advisors today's Workshop is part of our pathway series introducing the different mlis career pathways where you'll get an Insight perspective from instructors who have worked in specific fields today we'll be talking about skill sets that prepare students for work in public libraries let's get started with the agenda today's agenda consists of an overview of the public librarianship pathway which courses students can consider how students use the skill set and then we'll meet faculty with expertise in this area who have made themselves available to answer your questions what is public librarian well public librarian roads are diverse and can include a rainbow of rules such as circulation services reader's advisor children's storyteller a specialist lab maker space there are many Rainbow here's a list of core Theory and knowledge that students pursuing the pathway would benefit from in building a career in this area such as ability to understand analyze and solve problems strong Public Service orientation a people person ability to learn quickly adapt to new situations and thrive in a fast-paced environment foundational recommended courses such as info 275 Library services for racially and ethic ethnically sorry diverse communities and info 286 and a personal communication skills for librarians are a couple of courses there are more foundational courses along with seminar topics listed on the website which is highlighted internships are not required but it is a great way to gain professional experience now I'll turn it over to Sheila thanks Taryn so why public librarianship according to our exit surveys of recently graduated students the public librarianship pathway within the mlis is the most popular career pathway followed by high school students and about 43 percent of our graduating students do work in public libraries so it's great that Taryn highlighted info 275 and info 286 from the pathway list of recommended electives because diversity and communication skills were found to be among the most commonly listed skills in demand for this pathway among 400 job announcements which were recently analyzed in the 2022 mlis skills at work report published by our school in the jobs report you will also see that the jobs were analyzed both by job function and by Library type so using this tool it's a great idea to map the skills listed for your own targeted positions to the electives offered here at ischool and keeping an eye on the trends in public librarianship by attending workshops like this going to conferences and taking part in the student groups and professional activities provided by ischool now you could keep a running list in your ischool Student Success planner of trends that you've observed from the Lis literature conferences social media platforms professional organizations that you're part of classes internships and volunteering that you've done now here were a few top trends that were highlighted in a quick literature search that I conducted so keep your running list of Trends in mind when mapping out your electives so that you're in step with current job trends foreign other great resources that the ischool has to offer include the career environments pages with curated information for job Seekers specific to public librarianship now our community profile series and our alumni career spotlights and Linkedin are all great ways that you can search for fantastic new contents contacts to reach out to to do informational interviewing in this area and we talked about this strategy in our previous lunch and learn workshops but even early in your program you can create job alerts on sites such as indeed or other job search aggregators with keywords so that you can keep one eye on the types of positions and public librarianship settings that are available in your area here's an example from the California library association's job site and you can also regularly try our sjsu handshake database which you all have access to through your one.sjsu accounts all the job announcements that come into High School are directed over to sjsu handshake this database is available to all high school students and alumni you have access to this for job searching so you should make available this service there are also other recommended job sites in our Career Development resource on the ischool website read those sample job descriptions to keep track of the knowledge skills and abilities listed in your targeted position types finally don't forget to tap into all the great career supports that I school has put into place for mlis students now a good way to organize your efforts is to make use of the career planning checklist which is located inside your Student Success planner and I just have a few of these ideas highlighted on the slide for you now you have the opportunity to hear some great tips and recommendations from experts in this pathway ischools public librarianship pathway advisors they are here and they will first introduce themselves and let you know a little bit about their background in this pathway the skills and topics that they feel are timely as well as a little bit about the courses they teach from the pathway and then we will move to open up to the panel for Q a with all of the panelists so right now we're going to start off with Professor Ruth Barefoot and go for it you should be ready with your camera your mic is working all good I'll turn it over to Ruth well hello everyone I have been teaching since 2014 and have seen such a diverse set of students and that is very heartening for the public library sector because the communities are getting more and more Dynamic more and more um demanding uh we have to do so much more with our dollars and in some cases we have no dollars to solve problems so we have to be very very creative and in my two courses that I teach I am really pounding away at that that you have to be a real thinker when you leave my course and when you leave this this um this school you want to be not just a problem solver but also a Visionary a sage especially in these times where you see such amazing um issues that often a public library is is really in a position to impact and if if there's one thing that I have seen Librarians that are hired uh new Librarians existing Librarians they are in positions to be real leaders in the community so I pack my courses with a lot of pieces that I feel are very important um but leading change is one of the biggies uh I remember Linda Maine talking to me about uh change management uh back in 2013 and even earlier and I thought oh that sounds very interesting and would you teach it she she had asked and we started out as a three um three credit course and we turned it into a one credit because there's just so much really to have some of the change chops that you want you want it integrated into everything else you're doing um so you have to be real Fearless in your service Development A lot of times you're you're developing a brand new service a brand new program or program set a series and you're launching it and it can be very outdated and nothing flat because the community is uh is moving so fast uh so you really have to you you have to kind of go with the flow you want to be a flexible person in public libraries you want to be um someone that is already always scanning scanning the environment and and actually having fun doing it because the community also is watching and evaluating And when they see fun they're more likely to jump on board as well um also in my courses I'm really focused on not just Rural and middle middle sized Library Librarians and Library management but also the large systems and so anything from soup to my nuts I really want to have something scalable so that you understand um that you can scale something really small organized say a pilot and then share um with your your neighbors um let's say in a county or in a state so you can or or you know nationally or sometimes it's internationally so it's really kind of cool so I just wanted to say a little bit of about that um uh just you know there's there's all sorts of stuff I'm really looking forward to your to the Q a at the end and hopefully button down a lot of a lot of your questions that way thank you thank you so much Dr Bernier you're next well thank you Sheila and Taryn both were a very efficient uh good introduction to the work that we represent in public libraries I want to shout out to a current student of mine Jax I see him in the participant at Tandia um list so shout out to Jax um my background includes 14 years of direct Public Library service I started out in a very large system as a adult literacy program coordinator where I would move all around town setting up adult literacy programs um I quickly became a trainer so that I was helping volunteers learn what they needed to do in order to be effective tutors I interviewed and set up pairs of students and tutors so that adults who somehow got to be adults without learning to read were able to to do that and that was very wonderful work but it also got me an opportunity to see the entirety of this the library system I set up uh programs all over town and so I got to meet Brad Branch staff became familiar with facilities it was a really good experience and I did that for four years for at the beginning of my live worship career then I moved into young adult work which really impacted me for the rest of my entire career actually I was uh observing how the city was responding to or not responding to the issues of young people in the aftermath of the right what became known as the Rodney King rebellion in the early 1990s in Los Angeles and I was not happy with the way even the library was responded so it gave me a great deal of enthusiasm and energy to bring some change to that system and I wound up actually um before too long uh setting up designing designing the entire service plan and the space plan for what became the very first a purpose-built space for young people or teenagers in the LA Central Public Library known as teenscape and that has had a very long and deep influence on libraries all over the country as a consequence of that so that all came as one stream and then I moved up to the Oakland area and I was recruited to start a Young Adult Services Department for the Oakland Public Library where I hired trained supervised managed and budgeted for a staff of seven professionals and a couple of paraprofessionals and we started the Young Adult Services Department at the Oakland Public Library they didn't have one before so I've had an opportunity to be Innovative in a lot of different ways across my Public Library career and I have a lot of things to share as you begin to think about that one thing I did want to put a pin in before we move on to Dr Stevens I want to be very clear about differentiating the difference As you move out out into the job market between the Civil Service examination and the job interview and maybe we can talk more about that in Q a so that's it for me for right now and I also look forward to the Q a and Dr Stevens oh thank you thank you and Dr padir I I did not know that you did similar things to what I did in my Public Library career with training and I actually did some moving around in the system to Branch to Branch meeting with staff and helping them learn things and my focus was on the internet that was very interesting thank you for that uh I am thrilled to be here I've uh and I I too appreciated uh the um the introduction and Professor barefoot's words uh so cool I wouldn't say just a couple things about info 200 I'll say a little bit more about the hyperlink library and then I'll just do a quick advice type thing uh probably the folks joining us today have taken info 200 are in it right now or will be taking it it is a core class so uh everybody will have the same material resources Etc if you are interested in public libraries one of the things you can do in information communities is choose a information Community to study that may be mostly or always or probably served by public libraries and that might be any number of uh uh information communities I want to talk a bit more about the hyperlink library that is a class I have taught here since I started um in 2011 it it had a different name and I think it was participatory service and something back then and then we changed it to really what it should have been called was the hyperlinked library and I like to say that it is a uh thank you Sky uh I'd like to say that the hyperlink library is a class in humanism uh masquerading as a technology class uh I get you all in and then we start talking about how we help each other and how we help people be uh the best they can possibly be um one of the things we do is we explore uh probably very simple similar to Professor Barefoot all like a lot of the stuff going on currently in public libraries and I will say we probably are a little bit Public Library heavy in the hyperlink library but we have many opportunity communities for you to like find your way through the material and one of the things we do is Choose Your Own Adventure type things uh for example uh there's a week where you could focus on the hyperlinked public library or the hyperlinked academic library or any number of environments museums galleries that type of thing as well as issues um I'd like to emphasize uh service and meeting the needs of people and understanding people and bringing them together Etc the other way that uh students can customize the class is by using various Technologies and I want to point this out because I think this is an important thing for you all to be able to do is and it you don't have to understand every single technology out there but you should be able to look at one and say oh yeah I did this in the hyperlink Library so I can learn how this works and do this as well so for example I have had students who have for their class blogging have done podcasts instead of writing text or video blogging or video or vlogging yeah vlogging I believe it is so they're they're numerous ways to have um that experience with technology as well as sort of looking at all of the uh the various modules we look at things like the power of stories what's happening in learning space in public libraries and other topics like that very quickly uh because I'm anxious to get to the Q a as well uh some uh off the cuff advice in no particular order as part of your coursework if you are focusing on public libraries I would suggest looking at classes that are devoted to the user experience taking a little bit of tech classes but also taking those classes that uh give you people skills for sure for sure take classes that teach you the ins and outs of Designing learning programming for uh people because that's what we're doing a lot there's a a module in the hyperlink Library called the libraries classroom I really think learning is one of the things we do take any and every chance you get to be creative to make something with a technological tool or whatever to express yourself because every time that we use those creative skills we have that I think kind of pushes us forward into being more uh creative look for opportunities in your coursework to understand the people you want to serve and that goes back to information communities and that is all the folks and look for the folks that are underserved or not served at all in the public library setting uh look for ways to learn about networking and I think this is a nice opportunity as well as conferences and all the other things uh that happened especially around the things that our school does as well as what it takes to create Community Partnerships and finally the last thing I wrote down here in my notes was any and all and I guess this is a repeat any and all creative Pursuits I think is is very important uh because then you can talk about that in job interviews so thank you and I think that's all I have to say thank you that was wonderful thank you all three panelists and now we get the exciting part of getting into your questions for our advisors so I think it would be great if people would pop their questions into the Q a instead of having them be both in the chat and the Q a so let's go ahead and access the Q a at the bottom of your control panel for this window and when you enter your question it would be great if you can identify which panelists you'd like to ask the question or if you'd like to hear from all the panelists and their perspectives so go ahead folks don't be shy well we're waiting for our first typed in question let me go back to the item that I was Raising earlier because that's really about getting getting a job and the difference between a civil service examination and a job interview I remember in my own experience I did not know the difference I was prepared for a job interview to show my initiative my creativity my enthusiasm blah blah blah and I I didn't fail the civil service exam but I didn't do very well on it because that's not what I was supposed to be preparing for and because it's a civil service examination process it's a very legal process in which no candidate can get any other information that not every that not every candidate gets and so the amount of information that you can gain is very limited and so it's a very important distinction to know the difference between a civil service exam which is an attempt to get you to demonstrate that you understand or understand the value of policy that you understand the notion of chain of command of the importance of communicating up in the chain of command and down in the chain of command that you understand that you're working with then an organization and if you bring creativity and initiative and all those things that you are excited about doing at the beginning to a civil service exam you will do like me not very well in your silver civil service exam so I I want to urge you to be thinking about that um and there isn't very much information that you can even get before during or after your civil service exam because again every piece of that information has to be available to every candidate or it cannot be available to any it has to be exactly exactly fair and the same across the board so just be aware of those two differences after you pass a civil service exam we rank somehow typically and then you'll become available and then invited depending upon how high up you score for a particular job interviews at particular sites with particular supervisors and that's where you want to be creative and so taking initiative and that's where you want to demonstrate all of your portfolio evidence if it to the degree that it's pertinent but bringing your portfolio into civil service exam will not help you very much it will in job interviews which comes second that was my point thank you and I see we have a question from sky sky asked this could be for all the panelists for someone like me who has not held a position in the library yet do you have any advice for what types of jobs I should look for if I am not having any success at the libraries near me I have customer service experience so would working at the bookstore for example be helpful or are there any online jobs that might help translate to public librarianships someday so let's start with a Ruth do you have any advice for this situation what a great question hit the ground running work with the public as much as possible from any um aspect it something that helps you in an interview talk to how you connected how you were available um how you provided an open um conversation uh with individuals that you were there to to teach to solve to serve in whatever aspect it was um I have a lot of people that are coming through that have been in um either you know in in clothing industry kind of jobs um food service jobs uh prison libraries um just you can't believe how diverse some of these individuals um are gaining experience and that will help articulate how they come across in an interview um to me I and I've hired score over a hundred Librarians I looked for people that can connect I have um I like people that are generous in spirit that are compassionate in spirit but not somebody that is going to be you know you're going to walk all over them they have to have an eye to the goal um so you have to really understand what kind of tool belt you're using whatever um organization you're working for and the partners that you're in collaboration with and so to have kind of an understanding of what kind of tools you can you can leverage I hope that that helps you um so be open any other panelists want to chime in or add to the discussion on this question Dr Stevens yeah hi that was so yes that that answer was that was perfect and I I would just say about the bookstore thing uh that that could work I I actually after my undergrad I worked in a music and video store which opened the door for me to work in the audio visual department at the public library in South Bend Indiana um I was very lucky I was in the movies I was into music and the clothing store that that fits as well so if you can find a service oriented position or service oriented volunteer type thing where you are working with the public and I guess I'm repeating a bit of what Professor Barefoot said that is experience that I think you can help translate into getting in the door at a library you know Professor Stevens said this um there's really a lot to be said about how we structure our courses and how we want you to demonstrate to practice to become much more um resilient in um group projects a lot I have had my share of students saying what in the world I hate group projects I've had such bad luck I don't want to do this can I get out of actually no because it's so core to my course I want you to find out how you compromise how you understand how to work with in partnership with um other individuals so in this kind of just I just had to say that about group projects I would add something neither Professor stevens or Barefoot mentioned oh yeah you've got great book experience because the books don't count it doesn't matter that much it's service that counts it's not it's not the videos or the music or the books or what it's not the content that's on the shelves it's the degree of service that you're able to provide um I I would also endorse the idea of trying to find ways to make small group work thrive and there's one other idea I had oh yeah uh consider a field experience a volunteer experience or internship in a in a public library your work in the private sector will be helpful and useful to you but Librarians are going to want to see um commonly some exposure to libraries itself and it could just be very light but you want to get some perhaps and look for some field experience to get fantastic okay the next question goes to Dr Stevens the student has struggled with the core information systems class I think that's 202 because I don't consider myself a tech whiz I think taking another class tech class like the one you teach is important for me to take if I took your class what are some suggestions for taking it and not being anxious about the class okay that's a really good question uh wow and let me let me I'm going to backtrack one second and say the example I use the music and video store there aren't music and video stores anymore really so yeah and if you find a bookstore that's great they aren't that many so um Stephen this is a good question and it's totally cool if you are not 100 comfortable with technology that's one of the things this program offers you a chance to do is to do some things with tech to make some things to understand some things to understand how we might manage technology in public library settings so if you took for example the hyperlink Library one of the things I always say is you can't break anything you can't break the WordPress blog that you will be using you can't like mess up whatever because there's usually a way to like if you're recording something to redo it or whatever and it is perfectly okay to say I've never done this before I'm going to try recording a podcast let's see what it's like because you will learn from that and even if you have the whatever you make a mistake you are still learning so I would venture to say that the courses that dabble in Tech in our program will get you that hands-on experience as well as a lot of chance to to uh like understand how things work and to maybe make some mistakes and but still do well because that should be part of it and really that's what we want I hope that Public Library managers and admin folks are encouraging people to to come in and yes if somebody makes a mistake it's not the end of the world I hope that's helpful very encouraging fantastic okay I see there was another comment in the chat it looks like Dr Bernier has addressed it but um there may be other contributions from other panelists so that the question is wondering if this advice regarding gainful employment also applies to someone who's been out of the workforce for a period of time for example raising children Etc so Dr Bernier has um provided a reply but I'm wondering if either of the other panelists wanted to chime in or add anything else onto that one of the other if no one will I'll just say one of the things that I suggest that students do at the beginning of their career is take almost any professional appointment treat it as a one or a two-year internship a well-paid rather well-paid internship and then figure out what the next step would be rather than waiting for that perfect job to come along that may take a lot longer to come along um get that get that good year or two in as soon as you can almost no matter where you can and then figure out what the next step is I wonder if others might uh want to opine about that strategy I think that's an interesting strategy and probably very well worth considering for many personality types so you have to figure out what kind of person you are but you have to understand too that the market thinks differently than it did say 30 40 years ago and where your parents maybe have moved through that same that market so their advice might be a little skewed so be careful about um picking up a job that you think you're going to be there for the next 30 Years uh because things are moving so fast and your skill level is going to be just exploding um when you hit the ground running you will have so much more immediate um applicable training that can be immediately used in the in the marketplace so whoever is going to get you there they'd be wise to plug you in not just on one project but on several different teams and projects so just enjoy those and remember that those teams you have you're building a network so hold on to those networks as you even move from one system to another thank you and also folks take advantage of those ischool opportunities for service and leadership as well we have a lot of great opportunities with student research journal with our student organizations with grants for Conference travel opportunities to participate in the poster sessions virtually or in person so those are things you can leverage as well the next question is from Audrey I was an elementary teacher for eight years I'm considering becoming a youth services librarian in a public library but I'm worried that the work life balance will be that similar of a public school teacher could any of the panelists speak on the work-life balance within public librarianship who wants to go first Dr Stevens okay I just I was just a guest on a podcast talking about um burnout in the field and we we just we talked about work-life balance because I was very guilty of living and breathing libraries for many many years um maybe from the mid 2000s until mid fiends I guess uh that it it was exhausting so what I would say is and I know how demanding uh teaching can be but I'm into that Public Library job and I think use services would be wonderful it would be offer many creative Outlets Etc but you draw the line when you get there that your weekend if you are not working is yours and you are uh done at five or whatever and you know that is your recharging time and what I would say and what I have tried to say to the folks running the shows running the libraries is we need to recharge and we need to be away from our work because that helps us come back to it and do it even better so uh and one of the things and you can uh once you get to the interview stage I think that'd be a really interesting question to life to ask is what is the work-life balance uh or or questions related to that um I've had a job description I post job descriptions in the hyperlink Library class and there was one that uh one job description where it was a line like um any like anything goes or whatever you can or any anything to get the job done and I had three or four students this semester like narrow down on that like weight does that mean that I'm like I'm gonna live and breathe this job and I said uh no I hope not I think what they're saying is when you are there when you are on the clock or whatever you want to call it you are 100 in for serving the young people for doing what the you know what you're called upon uh but then when you're home that's I think that should be your time I do it now too at seven o'clock Eastern time I'm usually away from the computer and it has been very very useful sorry that was kind of a roundabout answer sorry about that perfect answer oh thank you I'm not so sure that uh faculty are the really good people to ask about the course famously really bad at it but I think Michael's uh introduction of this magical mystical thing called the job description is really important the degree to which you are called upon to do those things are documented you are reviewed on a semi and then sometimes annual basis for the degree to which you are meeting those things that are documented if if you're being called upon things are changing very fast that should be reflected in a revised job description so that you do have professional command over your time to the maximum degree possible um that's something that that should differentiate a professional position from a paraprofessional role or a clerical role um and so guarding your time both yes on the job and off the job is something that you should be entitled to assert as a professional and don't do what we don't do what we do yeah yeah too that when I've been across the interview table um that I ask what inspires you and often I you know because that's when they talk about what's in their heart and you know what what makes them shine and Sparkle and oftentimes you hear about you know I love to do this in my free time I've done this and I my goal is to do and see this XYZ you know that's when you can talk about extracurricular and in doing that on the other side you're also coaching your soon-to-be employers that you have work-life life balance you you do these things and you want these things and there is a mesh um you know you you might show that you're sophisticated enough to to demonstrate that in a in an answer absolutely clear as mud um no it's good right all good questions great questions and great participation also I'll just say that doing those internships would give you a great inside look at what the culture is like um in the public library where you're thinking about potentially working and if you can't get into that one get into a neighbor because neighbors talk to each other foreign there are no open questions do any of the panelists have any other topics that they like to talk about that may have been sparked by some of the conversation that we've had so far I have one anybody else want to go first Ruth I saw your head Bobby you wanna you know I I was just going to talk about Equity I've been teaching Equity um for the last six plus years and man is it more valuable than ever the content is so it's so important and I can't stress that enough that people are really they have their eyes open and they're they're dialed in to the community's conversations on that right I just want to explain the portfolio and how it relates um the the core competencies that we're asking you to mount demonstration of evidence for it doesn't come from uh Heaven it comes from our systematic annual review of what employers are asking in their job calls so we are constantly putting a meter and measuring what they're asking for and then looking back into our curriculum to see where it would be best placed in which class and so forth so that you every class you take lists the number of specifies the number of core competencies and which ones that a particular course will offer you so that by the time you're done you have evidence for all of them and I think that's an important thing to to realize when you're going through um that these are not age-old Dusty competencies these are the ones that are relevant most relevant to today's employers and that should be some of some uh some uh Solace for you thank you okay I see we have another question what are some good resources for building up a library professional style resume and how can we best use the portfolio as a supplement Dr Bernier is somewhat answering this now but would be more helpful so if you folks don't know we have a career consultant named Kim Doherty and we have a career advisor liaison from the sjsu career center Carrie McKnight who will review your resumes and cover letters but we also within our Career Development section of our website have specific content about resumes and cover letters so hopefully folks are making use of those curated resources and then I'll turn it over to any of the advisors who would like to address this oh go ahead Steve Michael oh no I was reading the question again oh well please go ahead yeah what I wanted to say is I found it very valuable uh to encourage my employee employees um through my different jobs that I've had to get a coach that is that is dialed in to the library or the library system and that coach can kind of you know meet with them once a week once a month whatever works for you and talk about your aspirations talk about your learning talk about your goals um and get that feedback get that live coach hip to hip kind of conversation going they will be your best you know Advocate when you're starting to look for a job and they also have probably a fairly good Network that can help you uh you know leverage yourself out into the out into the hiring community and if you I I know of some people that have more than one coach too so whatever works for you like like say with Michael you know a tech you know if you're looking for a tech job but there's nothing open yet look for another coach that is you know developing employees in other areas so kind of play them off each other and diversify do any of the advisors want to speak about mentoring in their careers and who who helped you level up or get yourself to the next level how did that work for you I had a mentor in my Public Library career that she she was incred she was my supervisor in the reference Department and this this is something maybe file this away for when you are a supervisor um she would every once in a while and it would be me or somebody else say well let's go two doors down and have a cup of coffee or tea and talk and that would be kind of a way we got out of the like the every you know the library and we talked about like she said well I've been thinking about what you might want to do next and I'm thinking we might want to start this and this and it was just very very useful um yeah so you can benefit from having a mentor and the people that you become a mentor for can uh they will benefit as well I I do have a response to that but sky has asked a very important question that I want to get to as well and I don't want to talk the whole time but I do want to say that I do Advocate that students consider building what I refer to as a personal board of directors uh they that wherein they reach out to people across their life some professional perhaps a religious Faith leader uh someone in the family who's who's who they respect someone who cares about you someone who cares about hearing your development someone and your board doesn't meet officially but you reach out to everyone on the board three or four or five people once or twice a year here's what I've been doing here's what's challenging uh do you have any ideas about this would you take a look at my cover letter so a personal board of directors is something that you assemble consciously not just I just happen to meet this person and I like them and so I talk to them something that you do consciously but to talk to uh Skies uh she keeps asking the sky keeps asking these great questions um in terms of evaluating library programs and services in the in the public library do you know of any new ways that public libraries evaluate their services and programs should we be focusing on hearing feedback directly from patrons and they have the word I'm sure everybody will agree hell yes um you have to be evaluating your services the the tradition of public libraries is how many people came and nobody complained at how many programs I gave but that's not evaluation we offer info 285 which is at least in the youth services pathway that's the one I teach it's of course designed to examine a service and program evaluation so you go Way Beyond just how many people came nobody complained at how many programs I gave but the same issue is true across Library the library field I complain all the time about academic Librarians who visit classes give tutorials and then walk out of the room not knowing if anybody learned a damn thing so evaluation is very important there are techniques that you can study and learn I teach a class focused on there but there are others um it's the term we're using now is outcomes which has it has to do with what users found valuable not what we found valuable that what we found convenient to claim or count but what users are are experiencing how they found it valuable that's that's my Sermon on the Mount for that absolutely all right I was just about to put the link for the info 285 topics in our chat so let me grab that um it's an overview of the different um topics within info 285 one of them is survey research evaluating programs and services is another let me put that in multitasking here um okay so yeah there's another comment from Skye now if you folks didn't squeeze in enough of course topics know that when you're graduated from the program you will be able to take classes here through ischool open classes this is an opportunity for you to continue your professional development the classes are available on a space available basis but you're still able to take those Hot Topics by by doing that coming back and taking classes one at a time alrighty so I'm not seeing any open yes please it's being aware of the background of your faculty that you choose in the courses that you take some of us are full-time faculty members and our scholars in our field and the work that we do is based on evidence that's peer reviewed by peers and gone through rigorous examinations others of us are part-time faculty members who serve in practitioner roles as Library directors or heads of departments that are important that have a great deal of current awareness experience both offer important insights and perspectives but as a someone who's choosing courses you should be at least aware of which you are choosing so you can Mo you can take the most benefit from the option that you're choosing um and so uh I just I just sort of always want to talk about that because it is is an important distinction both of these profiles offer tremendous value to you but you should be aware of which it is thank you okay I also have included a link to the yalsas mentoring program so check with your local library associations that you're joining to see if they have any mentorship component as well for those who are interested I'm not seeing any further open questions so we'll give it another minute or so do any of the panelists have concluding remarks about this topic public librarianship librarianship pathway nobody's talked about the pandemic and the coming away from pandemic or hopefully moving away from pandemic I was going to mention that and back to the work-life balance question I have some hopes that coming out the other side of what we have been through that people will understand that they do need to do the self-care balance thing and we should all be open to that including the folks that run libraries and maybe there is some work that can be done at home where there is uh other ways that we can take care of each other I was really impressed with the public libraries that offered um mental health programming not for the public they might have done that too but for staff deep in the pandemic when people were were home or isolated staff members were home um and isolated I hope those things carry forward that we we just seek to understand each other more that's great anyone else well our time together is coming to a close I'm not seeing any final questions I just want to thank uh my teammate Taryn and our three fantastic panelists today for sharing some of their lunch hour with us it's been phenomenal to hear from your experiences your suggestions and your encouragement uh this recording will be located 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gbqqahujMI4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbqqahujMI4 | Faith sets until the end, Audrey Mack and Daniel Amstutz | listen to what the unjust judge is saying lest she wears me by her continual coming i will give it to her and when people hear continual coming they think back and forth pleading begging asking again and again for the same thing but when you study that what it actually means is the compound word which means to come to be set until the end and so what jesus was teaching and then on verse 8 he says when the son of man comes back on the earth will he find that kind of faith what kind of faith a faith that believes that beset until the end and when you are willing to believe and to be set until the end like a bulldog you know it's like a i call it a bulldog faith you grab a hold of the promise and you don't let it go until the end then the devil says lest she she won't quit anyway i might as well give it to her you know and that's what i was kind of adding to what pastor greg was saying he said if the devil knows that you are willing to stand until the end he's just going to let go yeah one of my daughter's new expressions is when the enemy is attacking she just says move along devil move along you know carly's taught on this this morning it's like when we draw near to god that's when we are able to resist the devil right and when we resist him he flees so that's powerful amen he knows when we know when we know that we know | Living a Christ-like life | UCObA-wTSB33LeA-5UnHzL7A | 2022-01-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 277 | 1,341 |
Mc66jgw7ik0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc66jgw7ik0 | Indra | Wikipedia audio article | Indre sanskrit indra also known as Devendra is a vedic deity in hinduism a guardian deity in buddhism and the king of the highest heaven called saw dharma Kalpa in Jainism his mythologies and powers are similar to other indo-european deities such as Zeus Jupiter Perrin Thor and Odin Woden in the Vedas Indra as the king of svarga heaven and the Devas he is the god of the heavens lightning thunder storms rains and river flows Indra is the most referred to deity in the Rig Veda he is celebrated for his powers and the one who kills the great symbolic evil the level and type of Asura named Rita who obstructs human prosperity and happiness Indra destroys Vritra and his deceiving forces and thereby brings rains and the sunshine is the friend of mankind his importance diminishes in the post Vedic Indian literature where he is depicted as a powerful hero but one who is getting in trouble with his drunken hedonistic and adulterous ways and the God who disturbs Hindu monks as they meditate because he fears self-realized human beings may become more powerful than he indra rules over the much sought Devas realm of rebirth within the samsara doctrine of Buddhist traditions however like the Hindu texts Indra also as a subject of ridicule and reduced to a figurehead status in Buddhist texts shown as a god that suffers rebirth and redeath in the Jainism traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism Indra as the king of gods and a part of Jain rebirth cosmology he is also the god who appears with his wife Indrani to celebrate the auspicious moments in the life of a Jain Tirthankara and iconography that suggests the king and queen of gods ever entually marking the spiritual journey of Aegina indras iconography shows him wielding a lightning Thunderbolt known as Vajra riding on a white elephant known as airavata in Buddhist iconography the elephant sometimes features three heads while Jaina icons sometimes show the elephant with five heads sometimes a single elephant is shown with for symbolic tusks indras heavenly home is under near Mount Meru also called Sumeria topic Entomology and nomenclature the etymological roots of Indra are unclear and it has been a contested topic among scholars since the 19th century one with many proposals the significant proposals have been routine you or raindrop based on the Vedic mythology that he conquered rain and brought it down to earth routined or equipped with great power this was proposed by vopo diva route idh or kindle and I know or strong route in DES or igniter for his ability to bring light and power indriya that ignites the vital forces of life prana this is based on shadow pathi brahmana root item draw or its seeing which is a reference to the one who first perceived the self-sufficient metaphysical Brahman this is based on a DeRay upon Ishod roots in ancient indo-european indo-aryan deities for example States John Kohler Rousseau as a reflex of proto-indo-european asterisk - and our Greek an ER sab I Nero a vest in na are Umbreon eros old Irish dirt ascetic Mart and others which all refer to most manly or hero colonial era scholarship proposed that Indra shares etymological roots with Zend Andhra derived from old high german entra or jed rule of old Slavonic but max muller critiqued these proposals is untenable later scholarship has linked Vedic Indra to the European nine are the great one Abaza ubi can Inara of hittite mythology colosso suggests a Pontic origin and that both the phonology and the context of Indra in Indian religions is best explained from indo-aryan roots in a Circassian etymology ie asterisk INRA he is known in Burmese as pronounced a de m entire accent their phra n in cámaras pronounced preah entra in Malaya's in dara in Javanese as Bottari Indra in Kannada as Indra Indra in Telugu as Indra do Indra do or Indra in Malayalam as Indra indra n-- in tamil as intern in theorem chinese as de Tian decision and in Japanese as de TNT Shackleton Indra has many epithets in the Indian religions notably chakra chakra powerful one version for Shan mighty Virtua Bertrand Slayer of Virtua mega vahana Magatha Honda he whose vehicle is cloud dev Raja Dev Raja king of deities Devendra Devendra the Lord of deities Surendra Surendra chief of deities Swarga potti Swarga potti the Lord of Heaven vajrapani vajrapani he who has Thunderbolt Vajra in his hand and Basava Basava Lord of Ossus topic origins indras of ancient but unclear origin aspects of Indra as a deity are cognate to other indo-european gods they are either Thunder gods such as Thor Perrin and Zeus who share parts of his heroic mythology's act as king of gods and all are linked to rain and thunder the similarities between Indra of Hindu mythology's and of Thor of Nordic and Germanic mythology czar significant states Max Muller both Indra and Thor are storm gods with powers over lightning and thunder both carry hammer or equivalent for both the weapon returns to their hand after they hurl it both are associated with Bulls in the earliest layer of respective texts both used Thunder as a battle cry both are heroic leaders both protectors of mankind both are described with legends about milking the cloud cows both are benevolent Giants gods of strength of life of marriage and the healing gods both are worshipped in respective texts on mountains and in forests michael janda suggests that indra has origins in the indo-european asterisk trig wheeler Mo's or rather asterisk trig t wheeler Mo's Smasher of the enclosure of retro Bala and DIY East Machias impeller of streams the liberated rivers corresponding to Vedic ap a.m. Asia's agitator of the waters brave and heroic Inara or in Rana which sounds like Indra is mentioned among the gods of the Mitanni a hurry and speaking people of hittite region indra as a deity had a presence in northeastern Asia Minor as evidenced by the inscriptions on the bogus koi clay tablets dated to about 1400 BCE this tablet mentions a treaty but its significance as in four names it includes ever entually as me at rock you rue w na in Dhara in Masai te ax these are respectively Mitra varuna indra and 'no satya aspen of the vedic pantheon as revered deities and these are also found in a vest in pantheon but with indra and nee on hate you as demons this at least suggests that indra and his fellow deities were in vogue in South Asia and Asia Minor by about mid 2nd millennium BCE Indra is praised as the highest God in 250 hymns of the Rig Veda a Hindu scripture dated to have been composed sometime between 1700 and 1100 BCE he has Co praised as the supreme in another 50 hymns thus making him one of the most celebrated Vedic deities he has also mentioned in ancient indo-iranian literature but with a major inconsistency when contrasted with the Vedas in the Vedic literature Indra as a heroic God in the Avesta an ancient pre-islamic Iranian texts such as vidi 10.9 DK 9.3 in GBD twenty-seven point six to thirty four point two seven indra or accurately andhra is a gigantic demon who opposes truth in the vedic texts indra kills the archenemy and demon Vritra who threatens mankind in the Avesta n-- texts rita has not found indra is called Villar Trahan literally slayer of reach a demon in the vedas which corresponds to vera tranya of the Zoroastrian non Bharath rania according to david anthony the old Indic religion probably emerged among indo-european immigrants in the contact zone between the zeref shan river present-day uzbekistan and present-day Iran it was a syncretic mixture of old Central Asian and new indo-european elements which borrowed distinctive religious beliefs and practices from the bacterial margiana culture at least 383 non-indo-european words were found in this culture including the god indra and the ritual drink soma according to Anthony many of the qualities of indo-iranian god of might victory very thrifty were transferred to the god indra who became the central deity of the developing old Indic culture indra was the subject of 250 hymns a quarter of the Rig Veda he was associated more than any other deity with soma a stimulant drug perhaps derived from ephedra probably borrowed from the BMAC religion his rise to prominence was a peculiar trait of the old Indic speakers topic hinduism Indre was a prominent deity in the Vedic era of Hinduism topic Vedic texts over a quarter of the 1208 hems of the Rigveda mention Indra making him the most referred to deity than any other these hymns present a complex picture of Indra but some aspects of Indra are oft repeated of these the most common theme is where he is the God with Thunderbolt kills the evil serpent Vritra that held back rains and thus released rains and Lantern rivers for example the rig Vedic hymn 1.32 dedicated to Indra reads the hymns of Rig Veda declare him to be the king that moves and moves not the friend of mankind who holds the different tribes on earth together in one interpretation by Oldenburg the hymns are referring to the snaking thunderstorm clouds that gather with bellowing winds retry Indra is then seen as the storm god who intervenes in these clouds with his Thunderbolts which then released the rains nourishing the parched land crops and thus humanity in another interpretation by Hillebrand Indra as a symbolic Sun God Surya and Vritra as a symbolic winter giant historic many cycles of ice age cold in the earliest not the later hymns of Rig Veda the Vritra is an ice demon of colder Central Asia and northern latitudes who holds back the water Indra is the one who releases the water from the winter demon an idea that later metamorphosed into his role as storm God according to Griswold this is not a completely convincing interpretation because Indra is simultaneously a lightning God arraigned god and a river helping God in the Vedas further the Vritra demon that Indra slew is best understood as any obstruction whether it be clouds that refused to release rain or mountains or snow that hold back the water even though Indra is declared as the king of gods in some verses there is no consistent subordination of other gods to Indra in Vedic thought all gods and goddesses are equivalent and aspects of the same eternal abstract Brahman none consistently superior none consistently inferior all gods obey Indra but all gods also obey Varuna Vishnu Rudra and others when the situation arises further Indra also accepts and follows the instructions of Saboteur solar deity Indra like all vedic deities is a part of hena theistic theology of ancient india indra is not a visible object of nature in the vedic texts or is he a personification of any object but that agent which causes the lightning the rains and the rivers to flow his myths and adventures in the Vedic literature are numerous ranging from harnessing the rains cutting through mountains to help rivers flow helping land becoming fertile unleashing son by defeating the clouds warming the land by overcoming the winter forces winning the light and dawn for mankind putting milk in the cows rejuvenating the a mobile into something mobile and prosperous and in general he is depicted as removing any and all sorts of obstacles to human progress the Vedic prayers to Indra States Jan ganda generally ask produce success of this right throw down those who hate the materialized Brahman Indra is often presented as the twin brother of Agni fire another major vedic deity yet ki is also presented to be the same states max muller has in rig vedic hymn to point 1.3 which states thou agni art indra a bull among all beings thou art the wide-ruling vishnu worthy of adoration thou art the brahman he is also part of one of many Vedic Trinity's as Agni Indra and Surya representing the Creator maintainer destroyer aspects of existence in Hindu thought topic Upanishads the ancient Adria upanishadic Waits Indra along with other deities with Atman soul itself in the Vedanta spirit of internalization of rituals and gods it begins with its cosmological theory inverse 1.1.1 by stating that in the beginning Atman verily one only was here no other blinking thing whatever he bethought himself let me now create world's this soul which the text refers to as Brahman as well then proceeds to create the worlds and beings in those worlds where in all vedic gods and goddesses such as sun god moon god Omni and other divinities become active cooperative organs of the body the Atman thereafter creates food and thus emerges a sustainable non-sentient universe according to the you pani shot the eternal Atman then enters each living being making the universe full of sentient beings but these living beings fail to perceive their Atman the first one to see the Atman as Brahman asserts the Upanishad said itemid are sure or I have seen it quote dot others then called this first seer as item draw or its seeing which over time came to be cryptically known as Indra because claims a daraya Upanishad everyone including the gods like short nicknames the passing mention of Indra in this Upanishad states a London yellow is a symbolic folk etymology the section 3.9 of the Bree Hodge ironic Upanishad connects Indra to Thunder thunderbolt and release of waters in Section five point one of the aviato pani shot Indra is praised as he who has embodies the qualities of all gods topic post Vedic texts in post Vedic texts Indra is depicted as an intoxicated hedonistic God his importance declines and he evolves into a minor deity in comparison to others in the Hindu pantheon such as Shiva Vishnu or Devi in Hindu texts indra is sometimes known as an aspect avatar of Shiva he is depicted as the father of Ali in the Ramayana and Arjuna in the Mahabharata he becomes a source of nuisance rains in the Puranas out of anger and with an intent to hurt mankind but Krishna as an avatar of Vishnu comes to the rescue by lifting Mount Govardhana on his fingertip and letting mankind shelter under the mountain until Indra exhausts his anger and relents also according to mahabharata indra disguised himself as a Brahmin approached karna and asked for his kavacha enkindle as a charity although being aware of his true identity karna peeled off his kuvakin candle and fulfilled the wish of Indra pleased by this act indra gifted karna a dart called Vasavi Shakthi topic Sangam literature 300 BCE to 300 AD you Sangam literature of the Tamil language contains more stories about Indra by various authors in Silla Pathak harem Indra is described as male even khuda' man 'van malai van Kooten mana van literally meaning Indra with the pearl garland and white umbrella the Sangam literature also describes Indira vision festival for Indra the festival for want of rain celebrated for one full month starting from the full moon in autre later named sitter I and completed on the full moon in pre ozzie by kasi which coincides with buddha purnima it is described in the epics allopathy carmen detail topic relations with other gods in the Hindu religion he is married to sha Chi also known as Indrani or Pula Maha Indra and sha Chi have two sons Chitra Gupta and jayanta and two daughters Chandi and devasena goddess Chandi is the spouse of Shukra while goddess devasena marries the war god Kartikeya topic mythology in the brahma vihara piranha indra defeats virtua and releases the waters indra asks Vishwakarma to build him a palace but ultimately decides to leave his life of luxury to become a hermit and seek wisdom horrified indras wife shot she asks the priest to Bri his potty to change her husband's mind he teaches indra to see the virtues of both the spiritual life in the worldly life thus at the end of the story indra learns how to pursue wisdom while still fulfilling his kingly duties topic iconography in Rigveda indras described as strong-willed armed with a thunderbolt riding a chariot may the strong heaven make thee the strong wax stronger strong for thou art borne by thy too strong Bey horses so fair of cheek with mighty chariot mighty uphold us strong willed thunder armed in battle indras weapon which he used to kill evil Vritra is the Vajra or Thunderbolt other alternate iconographic symbolism for him includes a bow sometimes as a colorful rainbow a sword a net a noose a hook or a conch the Thunderbolt of Indra is called Bhadra in the post Vedic period he rides a large port tusked white elephant called airavata in sculpture and relief artworks in temples he typically sits on an elephant or as near one when he is shown to have two he holds the Vajra and a bow in the shadow pathi brahmana and in shaktism traditions indra is stated to be same as goddess show dashi Tripura Sundari and her iconography is described similar to those of Indra the rainbow is called indras bow sanskrit androgynous androgynous topic Buddhism the Buddhist cosmology places Indra above mount Sumeru in TRAI stream sha heaven he resides and rules over one of the six realms of rebirth the Devas realm of samsara that is widely sought in the Buddhist tradition rebirth in the realm of Indra is a consequence of very good karma Pali comma and accumulated merit during a human life in Buddhism Indra is commonly called by his other name Sakura or Sokka ruler of the TRAI strums to heaven Sakura is sometimes referred to as de venom Indra or Lord of the Devas Buddhist texts also refer to Indra by numerous names and epithets as is the case with Hindu and Jain texts for example as vogue OSHA's Buddha carita in different sections refers to Indra with terms such as the thousand died poram Dhara lekker Shaba Mahendra Murat VAT Val Abid and ma Gavitt elsewhere he is known as divergent literally the king of gods these names reflect a large overlap between Hinduism and Buddhism and the adoption of many Vedic terminology and concepts into Buddhist thought even the term sacra which means mighty appears in the Vedic texts such as in him 5.34 of the Rig Veda the by Meryn casket made of gold inset with garnet dated to be around 60 C II but some proposals dating it to the 1st century BCE is among the earliest archaeological evidences available that established the importance of Indra in Buddhist mythology the artwork shows the Buddha flanked by gods Brahma and Indra in China Korea and Japan he is known by the characters D XI T and Chinese she tieguanyin pinyin XI D who onion Korean just soaked Cheon or who onion 1 in Japanese Thai shack root n congee decedent in Japan Indra always appears opposite Brahma fan T and Japanese Banton in Buddhist art Brahma and Indra are revered together as protectors of the historical Buddha Chinese she JA kanji she Jah also known as Shakyamuni and are frequently shown giving the infant Buddha his first bath although Indra is often depicted like a bodhisattva in the far east typically in tang dynasty costume his iconography also includes a martial aspect wielding a thunder volt from atop his elephant mount in the wine school of Buddhism and elsewhere the image of indras net as a metaphor for the emptiness of all things in Bali the legend of turtle temple origin is related to indra the sacred spring was created by the indra whose soldiers were poisoned at one time by may Adenauer indra pierced the earth to create a fountain of immortality to revive them in japan indra as one of the twelve Devas as Guardian deities who are found in or around Buddhist temples Junie 10 sheared him in Japan Indra has been called - aku 10 he joins these other eleven Devas of Buddhism found in Japan and other parts of Southeast Asia Indra takaku 10 agni Codd 10 yama e and m8n near d reset su 10 Vayu food 10 Hashanah Hashanah 10 kubera taman 10 Varuna sway 10 brahma bond 10 privy chi 10 surya knit 10 chandra ghat 10 the ceremonial name of bangkok claims that the city was given by indra and built by fishermen topic Jainism Indra and Jain mythology always serves that tier thank our teachers Indra most commonly appears in stories related to tear thanked Aras in which Indra himself manages and celebrates the five auspicious events in that tirthankaras life such as Chavan colonic Jan McHale Yannick diksha call Yannick Cavalli jnana Col Yannick and moksha call Yannick there are 64 indras in Jaina literature each ruling over different heavenly realms where heavenly souls who have not yet gained kaivalya moksha are reborn according to Jainism among these many Endres the ruler of the first Kalpa heaven as the indra who is known as saw dharma in digambara and sacra in svet in bharat tradition he is most preferred discussed and often depicted in Jaina caves and marble temples often with his wife Indrani they greet the devotee as he or she walks in flanked the entrance to an idol of jina Conqueror and lead the gods as they are shown celebrating the five auspicious moments in a Gina's life including his birth these interrelated stories are enacted by laypeople in Jainism tradition during special pooja worship or festive remembrances wrath greater than Lisa Oh in 2012 carving devotion in the Jain caves at ellora Brill academic PP 29 to 33 ISBN 900 for 206 to 9 9 in South Indian digambara Jaina community Indra is also the title of hereditary priests who preside over jain temple functions topic see also equals equals nodes | wikipedia tts | UCmp1SkLvf1pYMPK7PE2mYXA | 2018-12-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,708 | 21,175 |
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lyJfxpaYxRw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJfxpaYxRw | Terrorism and Crypto: Evidence from Ex-CIA Analyst | hi everyone my name is giovanni and today we are going to take a deep dive into the darkest corners of the blockchain as with all innovative technologies cryptocurrencies have the potential to change the world for the better but at the same time they can be used to facilitate criminal enterprises such as money laundering schemes drug trafficking and even terrorism terrorist groups have been interested in crypto because it enables almost instant transfers of money across borders without the oversight of a central authority since terrorists are locked out of the traditional financial system they have been testing bitcoin as an alternative way to fund their activities but how successful were these attempts are cryptocurrencies really a sustainable source of funding for terrorists and what can the crypto industry and law enforcement agencies do about it let's have a look at some concrete scenarios one of the earliest documented case dates back to 2016 when a pro-islamic state organization called ibn tayimiya media center started asking for donations in bitcoin on social media the goal of the fundraising campaign was to raise two thousand five hundred dollars for each of their fighters unfortunately for the terrorists they made a big mistake contrary to what they might have thought bitcoin is not fully anonymous every transaction leaves a trace on the blockchain and by publishing their bitcoin address on social media the terrorists made it easy for investigators to trace funds moving in and out from that address which is probably why within two years the fundraising campaign reportedly collected only 2 500 in total as pointed out by iran a u.s think tank focused on national security there are three aspects to take into account when talking about terrorism financing receipt management and spending so far crypto gives a real advantage only for the first terrorists can receive an unlimited amount of money from everywhere in the world by accepting bitcoin however once they've received their bitcoin they are likely to have a hard time managing and spending those funds anonymously i mean you can't exactly buy a missile with bitcoin yet so in order to purchase weapons and other equipment terrorists need to cash out this means they need to rely on some sort of centralized infrastructures such as a cryptocurrency exchange many of which scrutinize their users and can shut down suspicious accounts but how exactly is it possible to track terrorism-related funds on the blockchain to answer this question we reached out to izik levy ceo at widestream an israel-based intelligence company specialized in extracting information from the blockchain traffic it's sick earlier this year you trade some bitcoin donations to isis which were likely used to fund a terror attack in sri lanka how did you manage to find out about these funds what were the techniques you used so isis is raising funds on the blockchain for more than two years and we can estimate that they are raised more than hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin also because the bitcoin price went up in this time uh isis basically released a website for fundraising calling their supporters to donate the organization with bitcoins based on this website it is actively operating on the tor network but on also on the regular web infrastructure we managed to find several donations from different timestamps from the last one year and after tracing those donations we can manage to find the main wallet of isis where they group their transaction and the interesting thing was that we saw that some of the movement some of the funds didn't move for a while for several months and only day before the attack in sri lanka the money was cashed out from those addresses the money was grouped to a bigger transaction and the money went out from the wall survivors again we don't know if it's directly related to the attacks but it's very interesting to see that isis money moved on the blockchain a certain amount of money day before those attacks okay and uh once you have tracked terrorist funding on the blockchain what's next step how do you stop it once we find such an interesting intelligence stuff that maybe can be tied together for terrorist activity in the real life we are sharing this information with the government and we also sharing the wallet numbers and the wallet addresses with some third-party companies that we find that they're that the terrorist is probably working through their services we want to share this information in real time as fast as we can with these companies in order to stop these attacks sometimes those companies don't aware of the activity of their users which is pretty complicated to understand in real time even for us as a blockchain intelligence company is a big effort to understand these activities in real time but once we find that terrorist activities that we've tied to specific wallets we are sharing with it with the authorities and also with the third party companies that we think that can help to stop this type of activity okay that makes sense now can you give us an esteem of how much of the illicit movements on the bitcoin blockchain is related to terrorist groups so the numbers are pretty small if we take all the bitcoin ecosystem and you're trying to measure the illegal activity on the blockchain which is about two or three percent from the overall blockchain traffic and if you take the specifically tarot financing inside this illegal activity i believe that it's a much it's a very very low percentage so it's clear that cash is still king when it comes to illegal activities according to the european police office the use of cash is the main reason triggering suspicious transaction reports within the european union's financial system accounting for more than 30 of the total as shown in report by chain analysis illicit transactions comprised less than one percent of bitcoin activity in 2018 down from seven percent in 2012. still terrorists appear to have learned from the previous mistakes and are getting increasingly sophisticated in their approach to crypto malhama tactical one of the many jihadi groups fighting in the syrian civil war was also asking for bitcoin donations on twitter this time though they did not publish their crypto address instead donors were asked to send a direct message to the group in order to get more information on how to donate even more sophisticated is the approach used by the al hassan brigades the armed wing of hamas a few months ago the organization set up a web page for donations which generates automatic bitcoin addresses the addresses change every time the page is refreshed which makes it very challenging to track the funds later on it turned out that the same address generator software used by al qasam was also being used by the islamic state apparently after losing its territories in syria as well as most of its assets isis is now testing new fundraising methods also let's not forget that cryptocurrencies are evolving beyond bitcoin privacy coins such as monero zcash or dash enable higher degrees of anonymity than bitcoin does most of these cryptocurrencies haven't reached enough adoption or usability to meet the terrorist needs but the situation might change in the future according to a report by rand should a widely adopted cryptocurrency emerge that has improved security and anonymity features and is not subjected to street regulation it could become a very dangerous tool in terrorists hands to know more about how the relationship between crypto and terrorism might evolve in the future we reached out to yaya fanuzi a former cia analyst now focusing on cryptocurrency and national security issues yaya what is lacking in crypto for it to become a sustainable source of funding for terrorism and will terrorists be able to use it more effectively as the technology evolves so for terrorists to adapt fully to use this technology they only can do it in a way where there's no trace to identity and those ways are smaller right to use dna anonymization coins to use you know privacy coins more to use maybe decentralized exchanges but those technologies have not really scaled even within the crypto ecosystem so that's i think always going to be very limited if crypto scales if cryptocurrencies scale for people to use them often for daily purchases for you know without having to even necessarily cash out into fiat currency if that scales it's only logical that terrorists and other you know bad guys are going to use it are going to be using it so it's it's it's uh there should be a corresponding relationship between how widely adopted crypto is and unfortunately how much uh terrorists are going to use it or try to use it uh as well as far as we know the amount of bitcoin raised by terrorist groups are quite small almost irrelevant why should we be concerned then you know it depends on what a group is looking for um if a group is trying to uh you know do an attack or or has a cell you know a cell that's going to do an operation that sort of thing uh you know doesn't cost a lot of money and that's where the big concern is that some of these groups may be uh even moving thousands of dollars here and there uh it doesn't it doesn't cost much to do to do a tax nowadays the key concern with terrorist groups and crypto is again not just how much they're raising now or how much they've raised but it is their level of adaptation so what should the regulators and cryptocurrency companies do to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of this technology so what regulators have to do in pretty much all countries they have to make sure that the cryptocurrency exchange environment makes it very difficult for terrorist groups and other illicit actors to purchase cryptocurrencies to sell and trade cryptocurrencies cryptocurrency exchanges many of them are new or young in this in in business they have to be made to follow those rules the rules for how they onboard their customers verifying identity a transaction monitoring transaction limits all the different things that money service businesses need to do so that has to be standardized across the board but but collectively law enforcement regulators and the industry have to sort of tighten up they have to make sure that they are following uh and implementing the global standards for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing at the moment there is not much reason for worrying cryptocurrencies are far from being a prominent source of funding for terrorists mainly because of their traceability and low adoption rate still blockchain technology is evolving and terrorists are learning fast which means regulators and companies shouldn't ignore this potential threat so what do you think guys what can be done to keep the bad 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The King on his Way to be Crowned | section 13 of the maker of rainbows 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 lynn thompson the maker of rainbows by richard lugar en section 13 the King on his way to be crowned in a green outlying corner of the kingdom of Bohemia one summer afternoon the Grand Duke Stanislaus was busy in his garden swarming a hive of bees he was a tall middle-aged man of a scholarly almost priest-like type a gentleman a recluse living only in his books and his garden and much loved by the country folk for the simple kindness of his heart he had the most winning of smiles and a playful wisdom radiated from his wise rather weary eyes no man had ever heard him utter a harsh word and indeed like past so tranquil e in that green corner of Bohemia that even less peaceful nature's found it hard to be angry there was so little to be angry about therefore it was all the stranger to see the good Duke suddenly lose his temper this summer afternoon preposterous he exclaimed was there ever anything quite so preposterous to think of interrupting me at such a moment with such news he spoke from inside a veil of gauze twisted about his head after the manner of beekeepers and was indeed just at that moment engaged in a delicate operation transferring a new swarm to another hive the necessity of keeping his mind on his tasks somewhat restored his calm give the messenger refreshment he said and send for father Scholastica's father Scholastica's was the priest of the village and the Dukes very dear friend the reason for this explosion was the news brought by Swift dis Korea that Jukes Stanislaus his brother was dead and that he himself was us become king of bohemia by the time father Scholastica's arrived the bees were housed in their new home and the Duke was seated in his library among the books that he loved no less than his bees with various important looking parchment spread out before him dispatches of state brought to him by the career which he had been scanning with great impatience I warn you my friend he said looking up as a good father entered that you will find me in a very bad temper Ferdinand is dead can you imagine anything more unreasonable of him he was always the most inconsiderate of mortals and now without the least warning he shuffles his responsibilities upon my shoulders the priest knew his friend in the way of his thought and he could not help smiling at his quaint petulance which means that you are king of bohemia sire said he with a half whimsical reverence where on earth he was wondering was there another man who would be so put out at being made a king exactly answered the Duke do you wonder that I am out of temper you must give me your advice there must be some way out of it what what am I to do I am afraid there is nothing for you to do but rain Your Majesty answered the priest I agree with you that it is a great hardship do you really understand how greater hardship it is retorted the King to his friend will you share it with me share it with you ask the priest yes as it appears the time is consent to be head of the world temporal will you consent to be the head of the world spiritual in short were you consent to be Archbishop of Bohemia leave the little church at I love and the kind simple hearts in my care given into my keeping by the goodness of God as the priests to be the spiritual Shepherd asked the King not without irony of the sad flocks of souls wander without pastor the strange streets of Los cities the King paused and added with his sad understand smile and to sit on a goal thrown in a great Cathedral filled with incense and colored windows and the priest smiled back for the king and the priests were old friends and understood and loved each other at that moment there came a sound of trumpets through the quiet bowels and the priest rising and looking through the window saw a procession of gilded carriages from the first of which stepped out a dignified man with white hair and many years and robed in purple and erm in its your prime minister and your court answered the priest to the mute question of the king and again they smiled together but the smile on the face of the king was weary beyond all human words because of all the perils that beset a man the one peril he had feared was the peril of being made a king of all the sorrows that sorrow of all the foolishness that foolishness for vanity had long since passed away from his heart and the bees and the blossoms of his garden seemed just as worthy of his care is that swarming hive of ambitious man wasps and earwigs over which he was thus summoned by sound of trumpet that happy summer afternoon to be king think of being the king of so Fowler Kingdom when while might be the king of a garden but in spite of his reluctance the good Duke at length mitted the truth urged upon him by the good priest that there are sacred duties inherited by those born in high places and to noble destinies from which there is no honorable escape and on the priests agreeing to be the Archbishop of Bohemia he resigned himself to being its King thereupon he received all the various dignitaries and functionaries that could so little helps understood his heart having any interval recovered his lost temper with all the graciousness for which he was famous and appointed a day as far off as possible when he would set out with all his train for his coronation in the capital a journey of many leagues however when the day came and in fact at the very moment of the starting out of the long and glittering quartet all the guilty carriages were suddenly brought to a halt by news coming to the Duke of the sickness and imminent death of a much-loved dependent of his an old Shepherd with whom is a boy he was want to wander the hills and listened eagerly to the law of times and seasons of rising and setting stars and of the ways of the winds which are hidden in the hearts of tanned and withered old men who have spent their lives out of doors under sun and rain but to the great impatience of the court ladies and the great be rigged and powdered gentlemen the old Shepherd lived on for several days during which time the Duke was constantly at his side at last however the old shepherd went to his rest and the procession which he humble soul would not have believed that he could have delayed started on its magnificent way again with flutter a pennant him feather and song of trumpet and ladies laughter but it had travelled only a few leagues when it was a game brought to a standstill by the Duke who was thus progressing to his coronation catching sight from his carriage window as it fitted pass of an extremely lovely and uncommon butterfly the Duke had or his day's been a passionate entomologist and this particular butterfly was the one that so far he had been unable to add to his collection therefore he commanded the trumpets to call a halt and had his butterfly net brought to him and he and several of his gentlemen went in pursuit of the fitted painted thing and not that day nor the next was it captured in the Royal net not in fact till a whole week had gone by and meanwhile the carriages stood idly in the stables and the postilions kicked their heels and the great ladies and gentlemen fumed that they're enforced exile amid country ways and country freshness pi need to be back once more in that artificial world where alone they could breathe to think of a man chasing a butterfly with the king's crown awaiting him and even perhaps a kingdom at stake said many a tongue for rumors came on the wind that a half-brother of the dead King was meditating usurper of the throne and was already gathering a large following about him urgent dispatches were said to have come from the imperial city begging that His Majesty for the good of his loyal subjects continued his journey with all possible expedition his kingdom was at stake the good Duke smiled on the messenger and said yes but look at my butterfly and no one but his friend the priests of course has understood murmurs began to arise indeed among the courtiers and hints of plots even as the Duke pursued his leisurely journey turning aside for each way would fancy one day it will be a turtle crossing the road with her little ones which would bring to a respectful halt all those beautiful gold coaches and Cara calling horses tenderly with the good Duke step from his carriage and watch her with his gentle smile not that list without sly laughter in his heart and in understanding glance from the priest that so humble and helpless a creature should for once have it in its power the stir delays so much worldly pompom vanity on another occasion when they had journeyed for a whole day without such fanciful interruptions and the courtiers began to think that they would reach the Imperial City at last the Duke decided to turn aside several long leaks out of their course to visit the grave of a great poet whose songs were one of the chief glories of his land I may have no other opportunity to do him honor said the Duke and when his advisers ventured to protest and even to murmur urging the increasing jeopardy of his crown he gently admonished them poets are greater than kings he said and what is my poor crown compared to that crown of laurel which he wears forever among the Immortals there was no one found to agree with this except the good priest and one other a poor poet who had somehow been included in the train but whom few regarded the priest kept his thoughts to himself but the poet created some amusement by openly agreeing with the Duke but of course the Royal will had to be accepted with such grace as the court could find to hide their discontented and even in the case of some that disaffected hearts for some of them at this new whimsy of the Jukes secretly sent messengers to the would-be usurper promising their allegiance and support so at length after a day's journey the peaceful valley was reached where the poet lay at rest among the simple peasants whom he had loved kindly folk who still carried his songs in their hearts and sang them at evening to their babies and sweethearts and each day brought flowers to his green bird haunted grave when the Duke came and bowed his head in that quiet place carrying in his hand a wreath of Laurel his heart was much moved by their simple flowers lying there fresh and glittering as with new shed tears and as he reverent he knelt and placed the wreath upon the sleeping mound he said aloud in the humility of his great heart what is such an offering as mine compared with ease and the picture came to him of the peaceful valley he had left behind and of the simple folk he loved who were his friends and more and more his heart miss them and less unless it rejoiced at the journey still before him and still more foolish seemed his crown so with a great sigh he rose from the poet's grave and gave word for the carriages once more to move along the leaping lanes and to the great satisfaction of the courtiers the droop delayed them no more for his heart grew heavier within him and he SAT with his head on his breast speaking little even to his dear friend the priest who rode with him and scarcely looking out of the windows of his carriage for any one of the way at length the broad walls and towers of the city came in sight a city set in a fair land of meadow and stream the Morning Sun shone bright over it and the priest looking up perceived how it glittered upon a great building of many white towers whose guilt pinnacles gleamed like so many crowns of gold look your majesty he said with a sad attempt takeya t yonder is your palace and as the good priest looked his face was all sorrow and the tears overflowed his as he thought of the simple Souls once in his keeping in his parish far away but presently the King looking again toward the palace described a flag floating from one of the towers covered with heraldic devices as he looked it seemed that 10 years of weariness fell from his face and a great joy returned look he said almost in a whisper to the priests those are not my arms the priest looked and then looked again into the droop sighs and 10 years of weariness fell from his face also and a great joy returned thank God we are saved the Duke and the priest exclaimed together and fell laughing upon each other's shoulders for the arms floating from the tower of the palace with the arms of the usurper and the King that cared not to be a king had lost his kingdom and while they were still rejoicing together they came the sound of many Horsemen from the direction of the city a cavalcade of many glitter and Spears the Duke halted his train to await their coming and when they had arrived where the Duke was a herald in cloth of gold broke from their ranks and read aloud from a great parchment many sounding words the meaning of which was that the good Duke stanislas had been deposed from his kingdom and that the higher mighty Prince the usurper reigned in his stead when the herald had concluded the droops voice was heard in reply it is well it is very well he said gather yonder white flower and take it back to your master and say that it is a white flower of peace betwixt him and me and astonishment fell on all and no one of course except the priest understood all thought that the good Duke had lost his wits which indeed had been a growing belief of his courtiers for some time but the herald gathered the white flower and carried it back to the city with sound of many trumpets need one say that the usurper least of all understood with the herald went all the gilded coaches and the fine ladies and gentlemen complaining sadly that they had had such a long and tedious journey to no purpose and hastening with all speed to take their allegiance to the new king the Jew own people alone remained with him and when all the rest had gone the Juke gave orders for the horses heads to be turned homeward to the green valley in which he alone care to be a king back to the bees and the books and the kind country hearts quite the Duke to his friend back to the little church among the quiet trees added the priests who had cared as little for an archbishop smiter at the juke for a kingly crown since then the Duke has been left to hide his bees in peace and it may be added that he has never been known to lose his temper again end of section 13 | freeaudiobooks84 | UC_L6DzOjRCJcE_oSXikbcxA | 2013-12-09 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,724 | 14,479 |
AeyeHLjvdR4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeyeHLjvdR4 | OTR - Gunsmoke - Western/Drama - Gentleman's Disagreement - Episode 14 | [Music] around dark city and the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the u.s marshall and the smell of gun smoke [Music] gunsmoke starring william conrad the story of the violence that moved west with young america the story of a man who moved with it matt dillon united states marshall [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] what's the matter good morning ms wells good morning chester mal i've got to talk to you sure uh chester uh you folks will have to excuse me i can't be puttering around the office all day i'll be in the back if you want me yeah matt he's here in dodge city i just saw him he came in on the morning train you mean that beauty yes it's been four years man had begun to hope he'd forget hope he wouldn't find us from what you've told me but he doesn't sound like a man who ever forgets he's come here looking for bert to kill him he swore he would matt what are we going to do i don't know what's bert think about it he doesn't know yet he's busy at the blacksmith shop matt you've got to help us you're the only real friend we have out here it might make it easier if i weren't genie [Music] i'm supposed to maintain law and order and uh just my job doesn't leave much leeway to mix in on personal corals there's no coral it's just that ed beaudry's a hot-tempered fool brood never did anything to him he married you didn't he a woman has a right to change her mind matt maybe boudry doesn't think so matt you you promised me once in louisville yeah yeah i know all right genie go on home and don't say anything to bird i'll talk to beaudry thank you i'll never forget it i goodbye man chester yes sir i'll be right there mr dylan did ms wells leave yeah fine couple of welses did you know them before they came out west not bert i as well i guess we better drop over the texas trail chester there's a fellow in town planning to do some killing [Music] mad been a long time hello tester miss kitty come sit down matt tell me about things i can't right now kitty we're looking for a fellow thought he might have come in here sooner or later they all do stranger matt uh yeah he came in on the morning train his name's ed baudry oh him there to bar matt third from the end next to tulsa jim nixon he's buying irish whiskey for everybody thank you kiddie come on chester yeah sir watch yourself max yeah sure kitty i'll see you later all right bartender set up another round of jameson's for the house your name beaudry oh that's right mister matt dillon i'm a us marshal here i'd like to talk to you fine go ahead and talk uh tulsa i suppose you'll move on down the bar for a couple of minutes huh oh well no idea marshall this man's a friend of mine you're not very particular about your friends now go on tulsa drift mr beaudry you uh you came here to kill bert wells didn't you did i well here's some advice don't do it take the next train and get out of town is that official just watch the charge marshall none yet murder if you go through it not the way i understand it murders one thing calling the man in a fair fight that's another thing beaudry i'm the law here in dodge and i don't see it as a fair fight burt's a blacksmith and he's not used to hang on a gun you are that's so i'm told who told you marshall i don't know anybody here wait a minute dylan yeah i heard jeannie mention you you knew up back in louisville before she ran off we'll leave her out of this footage so that's it this isn't official you're just doing a personal favor for an old friend probably a very close friend genie always did have a week i warned you once all right hold it now get up podrick that was a mistake dylan now i'll have to kill you too i'm not a blacksmith baldrick i'll look you up just soon as i finished with bert if you kill bert you won't have to look me up [Music] bird a bird huh oh man i didn't see you come here uh i wanted to talk to you bird about what matt ed beaudries and tom boudry well it was bound to happen sometime has he been bothering genie no she just happened to see him get off the train this morning she came and told me she shouldn't have done it matt it's not your problem maybe it is bert and the law and dodge and the law doesn't like the idea of personal grudges ended up when they kill him what are you able to do yeah prevent it if i can well i wish you luck you haven't worn that gun for two years vert when i start now i've got no choice matt you know that you mean you got no chance if you let bodre call a showdown he'll kill you baby look bird why don't you take to the prairie hole up for a week or so while i figure some way of running boudry out of town huh would you do it matt hide out and let somebody else do your fighting for you would i do is decide the point genie there's a law against killing it's man's job to enforce it if you went away there wouldn't be any fight wouldn't be much honor either genie man can't run and still call himself a man he can run from a mad dog and that's what ed beaudry is he never had any claim on me it appears he thought he did matt you know where boudry stand i talked to him in the texas trail he probably took one of the rooms upstairs like to walk over there with me well if that's the way you want it no bet you i'll get my hat be right with you man you've got to stop it yeah how i don't know but there must be something you can do yeah there is boy it's shaping up i can probably arrest the survivor [Music] there's still time to turn back bert afraid not matt i should have had it out with boudry back to kentucky five years ago genie wanted to run away and avoid trouble and she was so beautiful it was hard to argue with her yeah i know be hard on her if anything happened to you life's always hard on a woman i guess worse out here on the prairie [Applause] look out for a mat in case i well i mean i finished this dylan huh oh what is it chester bode we left the saloon a little while ago went over the liver stable higher horse huh i think he's riding out to your place mr wells he's been doing a lot of talking genie will be there alone matt i better get back home don't be necessary here comes beaudry now i won't draw unless he does my head's up chester yeah oh boy oh just riding out to call on you well i decided you'd had plenty of time to look me up no reason to beaudry most men had figured they had reason somebody been in a local saloon telling their wife's history all right hold it don't draw bert chester cover boudry just keep your hands still mr boudry go fast with that gun dylan fast enough to make a good body god too bad you can't ride her 24 hours a day i told you what to expect if you keep pushing this thing mr buttery now use some sense and get out of town while you're still alive i've been in lots of towns dylan i left him all alive wells i've been planning to kill you for five years plans don't always work out listen will you got till sundown after that i'm going to shoot you on site all right mr beaudry if you finish speaking your piece move along why surely mr dillon see you later well still a couple hours before sundown i think i'd like to spend them with jeannie i'll see you matt yeah sure goodbye bert [Applause] i declare i i just can't see any way of stopping it mr dylan i can't either i'd sure hate to be in bert wells issues i'd hate worse to be in beaudries he'll never submit to arrest chester i'm gonna have to kill him [Music] um [Music] why don't you relax matt you're nervous as a cat and i'll stay nervous get in till i find out what's happened to those two audrey slipped out the back way just at dusk piano players saw him yeah a bert pulled the same trick i had a couple of boys watching the blacksmith shop but he managed to give them a slip there's nothing you can do now man another killing and you in the middle again why matt why do you do it a job kitty somebody's got to do it but why are you there are other things in life that you look around for well maybe i will someday will you look my way matt well matt i i brought my kid more prepared ah we're the victims no victims yet doc you're jumping the gun well i understand it's gonna be a real showdown the boys at the bar are offering two to one on beaudry that's about the odds i figure if the shooting really starts oh it'll follow that oh and there's not a thing in the world can stop it chester what are you doing in here i told you to watch that street yes sir i know you do fights as likely to start out there as anyplace else no sir mr dillon i guess there's not gonna be any fight what they just found beaudry lying in the alley down the block somebody sneaked up behind him with a hammer he sure did [Music] we'll return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment but first what is the connection between the statue in the square and a pair of thugs who are definitely not on the square with the law tonight on gangbusters hear the complete details of this exciting case taken from actual police files remember it's gangbusters later tonight and most of these same cbs radio stations don't miss it now the second act of gun smoke [Music] [Applause] [Music] no light showing around the house mr dylan no not a shop either he might have skipped out what about his wife though i don't know chester i can't figure any of this it's not like bert to pull a sneaking trick like that hold it don't move he's there by the tree chester the answer bird who is it who's that matt chester's with me you better put away the gun all right matt i thought it was somebody else who bert you know who beaudry of course i guess i better take your gun official matt official well i got no call of the law here thank you now why did you do it what do you mean if it had been a gun fight the law couldn't have touched you the circumstances are all in your favor but this way they'll call it murder and they'll be right because that's what it was man what are you talking about no use you left the hammer lying right beside his body it's got your sharp brand carved in the handle whose body you talking about you mean baudry yeah sure beaudry match you're making a mistake i went looking for boulder yes but i didn't find him then i come back here i was afraid to leave genie there in the house alone i didn't do it match or wrong it's not up to me bert it's a court's job all i can do is take in the evidence is too strong and i got no choice no choice i didn't have a choice either we must have had a choice somewhere back down the line when where was it we could have stopped and turned back i'm a marshal not a philosopher now let's go what about jeannie i gotta tell her chester will take care of it be better if you do it matt you're a friend that'd make it easy i'd rather not if you don't mind now come on let's go [Music] all right bert step inside four years we've been friends matt i never thought it would come to this neither did i you said you didn't find any money on him it could have been robbery i made to look like robert but either way there's nothing i can do now you better step inside i love i'll bring you some blankets and tobacco if you want anything else let me know wish i knew how gina was taking it she'll be all right she's a fine girl matt matt look out for will you bird a man's job is one thing friendships another this prairie country is rough and tough and wild at the best and without the law nobody could survive in it that means putting friendship aside sometimes but a man still doesn't forget yeah i'll look out for her thanks man i'll see you later there you get your prisoner tucked in safely mat what about boudry he's dead absolutely dead like they never saw anybody in the debtor blacksmith hammer makes a mighty fine weapon yeah at least for sneaking up behind i can't figure bert doing that's not like him sometimes a man changes under pressure duck yeah i can't figure it either what would you say his chances are bad straws all point one way hmm maybe somebody's been messing with the straw stack oh that's a good question man well the court alaska if he ever gets there what do you mean i just come from texas trail a while ago and some of the boys are kind of riled up they're talking real loose the law against talking now that they aim to leave at a talking mat they figure the evidence is a little on the weak side a court might turn bert loose so they're saying it's up to them yeah they're just mad cause they've lost their source of free drink well maybe so but you better keep your eyes open yeah i know that pack doc they hunt in the dark and pull down stragglers and mostly they just talk so don't worry bert's in jail and that's where he's gonna stay [Applause] [Music] matt matt are you here yeah i'm here wait a minute i'll light the lamp what were you doing sitting here in the dark yeah just thinking wondering you shouldn't have come here genie matt i want to see bert no visitors after dark it's a jail rule rules don't have to be enforced mind though bert's a prisoner same as any other prisoner he's charged with murder he didn't do it matt it's not for me to say but you know he didn't you know bert you know he wouldn't do a thing like that sneak up behind a man's back in the dumpster not the court genie i know and they'll believe he did it yeah the night trains coming in i hope it's not bringing in trouble the morning train did matt i want to see bert i told you the chick why you little fool give me the gun i warn you matt stapleton give me the gun no matt so help me out i said hand it over you know i wouldn't now what did you hope to gain i don't know maybe i don't know none of this is his fault something's got to be done man you've got yeah what is it chester i i just come from the texas trail i think there's gonna be some trouble trouble the bunch that hangs out around there are doing a lot of drinking and talking up the idea coming over here to the jail oh no well maybe we ought to go over there and do some talking ourselves jenny i think the best thing for you to do is to go back home and stay there till morning now don't worry about this nothing's gonna happen but man you can't handle that crowd alone i've been handling things alone for a long time all right chester [Music] yeah he struck up an acquaintance with votery when he first got off the train i guess he figures he's an old partner by now well come on yes [Music] later kitty i got some business with the boys at the bar that's what i mean tell us the gym been buying them drinks for the last two hours they're in a real nasty mood show so be careful matt that's all just be careful kitty i'm the carefulest man you know here in sure supposedly but what kind of a law is it that lets a man sneak up behind somebody in the dark and murder them in cold blood i don't know telsa i suppose you tell me dylan now don't let me interrupt you you were doing fine well this is quite an audience you got all the panhandlers bums and butterflies and dodge it's quite a collection well calling names won't change the facts dylan what facts their friend yours bert wells had sneaking cardly murderers for the court to decide tulsa the court they'll turn them loose they work hand in glove with you dylan we're not going to stand for that's right all right shut up we want that so you're not going to stand for it or just what are you planning to do you'll find out in due time dylan boy tend to set them up again all around now you've turned into quite a free spender tulsa i never knew you to ah double eagle gold piece you mind if i take a look at it it's good don't worry about that yeah i'm sure it is where'd you get it that's my business dylan so you're the one who killed baudry that's a lie i thought robin was just a cover-up but it wasn't there aren't many double eagles around dodge baudry had a lot of them now you why would you get a pocket full of gold pieces tulsa wells killed boudry their blacksmith hammer was lying right beside him yes where you left what does she mean told that jim came into my husband's shop late this afternoon his horse had thrown a shoe he had plenty of chance to steal that hammer she's lying where did you get the gold well i i wanted i want it in the poker game last week when or when the trail heard would tulsa you're under arrest for murder oh no you'll never take me all right doc you better get up on inquest compounded matcher you never give me any chance to practice on live people yeah you wouldn't know what to do with them doc well i do get fewer complaints this way [Applause] man mad does this mean that bird's freak you shouldn't have come here genie yeah he's free chester will go with you over to the jail and let him out thank you matt thank you for everything you told me one time in louisville that louisville that was a long time ago and a long way off so uh goodbye genie goodbye man [Applause] what's it all about matt what's anything all about kidding professor what do you say well let's have a little tune huh i sure think mr dylan would like to hear oh uh how about that one of foster's a genie genie with a light brown hair you bad [Music] i met her in louisville one summer saw her quite a lot for a couple of months and then i drifted out west a man misses out on things by drifting i told her then if she ever needed help to to call on me well she called and you helped her yeah i guess uh anyway matt yeah [Music] when are you going to help yourself [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] gunsmoke under the direction of norman macdonald stars william conrad as matt dillon us marshall tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by les crutchfield with music composed and conducted by rex corey featured in our cast were tom tully lynn allen larry dubkin georgia ellis and barney phillips parley bears chester and howard mcnair is doc join us again next week as matt dillon us marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in gun smoke [Music] [Applause] what are the tunes most people like best for the answer to that question listen to robert q lewis's wax works later tonight over most of these same cbs radio stations stay tuned now for broadway is my beat which follows immediately over most of these same radio stations roy rowan speaking on a sunday afternoon the music's delightful on the cbs radio network [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you | USA - OTR - Golden Age | UCAXeS5GtLhCeDNLLstyShnA | 2021-08-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 3,663 | 18,436 |
VP57iS91SMQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP57iS91SMQ | FragranceNet Haul!|Real Or Fake?😳|Discounted,Authentic ,Affordable Fragrances | [Music] hi everyone and welcome back to top note by a on this channel i review fragrances i also share tips and tricks to buy in me or most fragrances at an affordable price also i will throw in once in a while beauty and fashion stuff on this channel but i don't want to talk too much for my new subscribers i want to say thank you for joining the top note family and to my old subscribers i love you thank you for the support always if you're finding this channel for the first time and you like what you see please go ahead and subscribe also to my new and old subscribers don't forget to like comment and subscribe and also engage with me in the comment section tell me what other stuff you guys would like to see on this channel let's not talk too much today i have a haul for you guys and this haul is from fragrance.net so this is one of the place that places one of the places that i buy fragrances from that i'm able to afford it this fragrance um fragrance um it's not the fragrance company how would i say this um website fragrance buying website gives me 37 of most of the time they do have 25 of i never buy any fragrance when it's 25 percent off over there i try to do 30 35 all day 37 off whenever they having that coupon or they having that sale going on that's when i buy fragrances from fragrance.net one thing i will tell you is that they do sell authentic real deal fragrances at fragrance.net um i'm a risk taker when it comes to buying my fragrances and i have tested them with so many different fragrances and for me and my experience they've never sold me any fragrance that is not the authentic or real deal fragrance also i'm able to return any fragrance if there is a problem with it i'm able to return it to them and they do take it right away and also if i need a refund for anything they refund me if i need an exchange they exchange it so fragrance.net is one of the places that i do buy fragrances from that i'm able to get it at a discount that being said let's talk about this whole i think i got nine fragrances from fragrance.net the first one that i will share with you guys is by jojo amani and this is si fiori i had this fragrance has been discontinued and so i think because i've heard so many great things about this fragrance i went ahead when i saw it on fragrance.net and i bought it i was able to get the 50ml bottle for i'm not sure but i think i got it for 37 i'm not sure i'm not sure the price but i know for a fact that i got it for 37 off and for what this fragrance is and how people rave about especially people that i watch on youtube rave about this fragrance i think it's okay for me to pay what i paid for to get this fragrance so let me tell you some of the notes of this fragrance why i was interested to buy this from fragrance.net this fragrance is vanilla it's fruity and citrusy it's powdery and it also has rose to name some of the few are quotes that were listed on pragmatica it opens up with black currant and green mandarin the middle has neroli rose petuli and oak marks the base has vanilla and white marks this fragrance is very beautiful and i have tried this fragrance twice already and i'm going to use the fragrance paper because i've tried this on my skin already so i know but it's very fruity like the um the main accords have listed it it's fruity is citrusy and is slightly powdery and slightly woody it's a very beautiful fragrance and i see why people talk about it so this is amanisi fury and i love the color the bottle it's well done for me well blended um fragrance i don't know i don't know if i will do an in-depth review but if you guys are interested let me know in the comment section and i can tell you the longevity the siaz everything about this but so far this is good good it's a good buy the next fragrance that i want to share with you guys is by tiziana terenzi and this fragrance goes by the name of vile or veil not veil it's vibe and when i read this notes i when i read the notes about this fragrance i'm like okay this is something that i will really enjoy all these fragrance i've never tried it these are blind buys and for me i tend not to go to the store a lot and i do a lot of online shopping so most fragrances are blind buys once in a while if i make i made it to sephora or macy's or you know those counters like nemo markers i will smell the fragrance if i come home and it's something that i like then i'll still go ahead and buy it online so i read up a lot of notes and i read reviews on fragrantica i tend not to let it actually sway me from buying a fragrance sometimes people will say awful things about fragrances but when you buy it you see that you like it so but i use it as a guide to see if i will be interested in a fragrance so let's talk about this diziana terenzi fragrance on fragrantica it's listed as having main accords of being tropical foodie green sweet vanilla floral powdery fresh and fresh spicy and woody this fragrance has it opens up with green leaves mango passion fruit red currant the middle has helotrope it has um hyacinth it also has yilangi length jasmine and rose to name a few of the middle and then the base has papaya it has vanilla it has princess tree it has amber and allspice and also marks this is spring in a bottle this fragrance is actually spring in a bottle it's very very nice well done it doesn't to me it doesn't have that strong woody woody tiziana terenzi dna it's just so sweet and floral and fresh i just love this fragrance and once again i got this from fragrance.net the next fragrance that i got from fragrance.net in this haul is from lancome and this is the la nuit tresor and the the fragrance flanker it's max diamond this fragrance i got it because there is a girl here on youtube that i watch i think her name is rudolph something and i can leave it right here for you guys um she talked about this fragrance and i'm like okay from the way she described this fragrance i want to try it because i've always wanted to try the lancome la lane tresor line i've never been able to get one that when i read the notes i will actually it feels like i will actually like it but when she reviewed this and read the notes i'm not cooking this is something that i think i will enjoy and it's like marks and max and max and max and max overlood so this fragrance opens up with white marks it has raspberry and violet leaf the middle has another white marks it has um the max rose friggier and jasmine the base of this fragrance also has another white marks it has vanilla sweet almond no sorry it just has almonds it has amber sandalwood and patchouli and if once again if you watch this channel for a while you guys know my love for anything woody sandalwood patchouli and this is well done it's max overload i think it will also be very appropriate for springtime it's very ozonic it's aquatic too so for me it's light it's not heavy it's light musky floral fragrance and i think it will be very appropriate for spring and summer so once again this is la nuit tresor max diamond i move on the next fragrance that i will share with you guys is by now cisco rodriguez and this is narcisso rodriguez for her this fragrance and his fleur fleur mass so literally translating to floral marks if i'm not mistaken this fragrance when i read the note about this fragrance and i've always wanted to try once again i've always wanted to try this fragrance but when i read the notes because i've been watching reviews about this but when i read the notes from fragrantica i'm like okay let me see what is what this fragrance is about and once again i love patchouli and i love amber so i'm like okay i'll try it this fragrance has main are caught listed as rose floral musky fresh powdery soft spicy and patchouli it opens up with pink pepper and the middle has rose marks and peony the base has truly violet and amber so for me i think the violet makes it that gives it that powdery um note and it's masky because it has marks in the middle and the patchouli it's not dirty patchouli the patchouli it's not like overpowering the patchouli i think it's there to push up everything and gives it body so this fragrance is not light and it's not heavy it's just in the middle i feel like it's more the name says it is um for hair so it's more feminine but then again and i forgot to say this wear what you want to wear when you want to wear and how you want to wear it that's my motto here you know my husband i believe can pull this fragrance off easily and nobody will know that is something for her the next fragrance that i want to share with you guys in this haul is from bond number nine and this is madison avenue madison avenue is fruity it's sweet it's rose it's floral it's patchouli citrusy and amber this fragrance base has patchouli praline and unboxing the middle has roast jasmine and magnolia and it does open up with apple blackberries and bergamot when i say this fragrance it's feminine it's feminine floral sweet fragrance it's it's so appropriate for all weather spring summer for winter you can pull it off it's just the most elegant sweet smelling it's like female ethereal in a bottle that's just to my nose that's what i feel whenever i smell this and whenever i wear this fragrance which i've wore it twice so if you guys are interested in an in-depth review leave me a comment in the comment section and i'll be glad to review this beautiful fragrance with you guys even though my fragrance tastes tend to lean unisex by leaning more masculine i love this fragrance it's like female feminine femininity in a bottle for me it's just so elegant and ethereal and just soft and i just i don't know i just love this fragrance it's so beautiful and i got the 50 ml bottle and if i haven't said anything i think all the fragrances that i got uh would perform with the exception of the tasiana torenzi which is a straight they perform so yeah and i got this in 50 mls because the four bond number nines that i have comes in 50 ml so i want to keep the same look and and and vibe to my fragrance my bond collection so that's why i got this um 50 ml bottle they also had a 100ml bottle over there but i chose to get the 50ml it's so beautiful and i can't wait to do an in-depth review for you guys if you guys are interested in it i move on the next fragrance that i want to share with you guys is from zerjoff and it's from the akasa marathi line and this is called dharma bianca so i got this once again this haul is from fragrance.net and i got this because when i read the accords i'm like okay this is something that i would like this will be appropriate for spring summer and so that is the reason why i got this bottle and this is a 100 ml and it's also woody perform this fragrance bottle is just elegant it's very very beautiful i do have the lira and so i can't wait to you know put them side by side this fragrance has maina cots listed as powdery vanilla citrus floral violet musky woody iris fresh and white floral it opens up with and lime the meadow has italian iris violet and egyptian jasmine lilac and lily of the valley and the base has vanilla malt and bread white marks sandalwood and cedar when i tell you this fragrance is slightly not slightly a citrusy is vanillic is slightly powdery to my nose i just it's just so spring and summer for me so i will be doing another in-depth review for this particular fragrance and tell you guys the where the longevity how it performs for you guys but i feel like this is very appropriate for spring and summer but then again let me see this if you didn't hear me the first time wear what you want to wear when you want to wear and how you want to wear it i move on i have three fragrances left to share with you guys and they are from the same fragrance house and this fragrance house is new to me it's from the house it's from the fragrance house called le artisan perfumer hope i pronounce it right this fragrance house was launched in the 70s if my research is right and i found out about this fragrance from from abbey with live here on youtube and she has banner banana and that's what i wanted but it wasn't available on fragrant free grantica it wasn't available on fragrance.net so i decided okay let me try some of these ones that are available and i read notes and i'm like okay these notes tends will tend to suit me so let me try them this one i got because i wasn't sure of the note so i got the 50 ml they added to a 100 ml this one is called batu batu cada batucara i pronounce it right buttockada this fragrance is sweet a citrus it's marine it's aromatic it's green it's salty it's fresh spicy white floral coconut and yellow floral it opens up with lime mint and sugar cane the middle has tiara flower and egg length yielding the base has salt water salt coconut it's listed as being a floral fruity fragrance and on frantica when i read about this some people say that it smells like fish pond but that's not the smell i'm getting i am getting the sea water like if you have been to the beach um and you take the sea water and you smell it i get that slightly in here but it doesn't smell fishy and i like it and it is floral and fruity and salty if if you can picture that and i get this from this fragrance once again if you guys want me to do an in-depth review of the house of la letizon perfumer leave me a comment in the comment section and i will be glad to do that the next one that i want to share with you guys from the house of la artisan perfumer is called bukolex de provence bucolics de provence hope i got it right and this fragrance is iris lavender leather powdery violet earthy aromatic animalic fresh and spicy and smoky it has iris lavender and leather and these are the notes that i found on free grantica this fragrance when i tell you is this it stays a last it's very beautiful i don't get the animalic note that is listed um on fragrantico but i do get the aromatic and earthiness of this fragrance and the iris which gives it the powdery note that i'm getting and it's listed on frequent ticker it's very beautiful i'm so glad i actually got there and got a meal so i wouldn't regret it it's beautiful i love it and once again if you guys want an in-depth review leave me a comment in the comment section and i will do an in-depth review of the house of lay artisan perfume or the three that i have i will do an in-depth review for you guys moving on last but definitely not the least from le artisan perfumer it's called owl wood and i got this because i love fragrances with wood and wood and patchouli and you know so when i read the main accords and the top notes and middle and base i'm like okay this would be a perfect fit for me and my husband this fragrance it's warm it's sweet it's spicy it's musky it's woody and animalic whereby and whether i don't get the animalic note let me spray it so and i have used this so i'm not gonna put it on my skin it opens up with caraway and dates and dry fruits it has cardamom and pink pepper it also has orange blossom the middle has agarwood it has leather and incense saffron rose iris and neroli the base of this has sevita which is an animal and it has man it has sandalwood it has patchouli it has max it has tonka bean virginia cedar and vanilla for me when i put this on my skin it's not as woody as i wanted it to be it's so beautiful it's a beautiful fragrance but it's not woody wooded the way i want and patchouli i just want my food to like and my patchouli to be like and it didn't give me that but it's still a beautiful fragrance incense-y it's fresh and yeah it's woody but it's not the woody the way i wanted woody and is not giving me that woody woody feel that i like but it's still a very beautiful fragrance well this is my haul from fragrance.net if you have watched this so far please do not 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9W48IbTTzks | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W48IbTTzks | City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting October 24, 2023 | for e good afternoon I'd like to ask The Interpreter currently on the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish Channel by clicking on the interpretation I icon in the zoom toolbar it looks like a globe once you join the Spanish Channel we recommend you shut off the main audio so you only hear the Spanish translation Pablo will you please restate this in Spanish 23 Santa Rosa city council meeting it is now 1:32 and we will be starting our meeting seeing a quorum Madam city clerk may you please take the role thank you council member step here council member Rogers council member o kpy here council member Fleming council member Alvarez pres vice mayor McDonald mayor Rogers presid let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of vice mayor McDonald council member Fleming and council member Rogers thank you we will now proceed to item two which is our announcement of Clos session uh we have three items 2.1 2.2 and 2.3 2.1 is our conference with labor negotiators 2.2 is our conference with legal counsel for existing litigation and 2.3 is conference with legal councel also for existing litigation Madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment on these items we are now taking public comment on item two if you're in the chamber and would like to make a comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period as you approach the podium please provide your name for public record if you choose to do so please go ahead hello my name is Dwayne dwid I'm from Rosland I wanted to speak with you on item 2.1 and 2.3 I'll mention 2.3 first this is a very important thing to have occur to get this atg grade crossing finally we've been waiting for many many years and it really is a situation that'll help you on your sustainability goals getting people to use less car traffic right now because the distance is so long to go around to get to the other side because of the way this is blocked off people don't walk or ride their bikes they drive and this can change if you'll get the at grade crossing put in on Jennings Avenue as soon as possible please then the other matter about dealing with labor essentially in this city the strongest groups are the police Department Union and the fire department Union it's never really brought up much but they hold the strength and as you do your deliberations with them I would ask you to keep in mind the people at the bottom of the paygrades in the other Departments of the city the people that take care of our Parks the people that are out there on a daily basis making sure that the roads are working okay sometimes this is called pot whole politics but this is what we really need to get taken care of around here we got plenty of management people some people actually believe that we are a bloated bureaucracy here with a very high and top level management people where we really need to have more at the bottom people out there working to do those things that are quality of life for us taxpayers so please keep that in mind and help those folks get raises and make the rest of these folks stay right where they're at they're doing real fine right now thank you for your time and we'll see you later today thank you mayor I see no additional people approaching the podium for public comment on close session items with no additional uh public comment we will now recess into close session thank you e council member Rogers thank you all right and welcome back everyone to our October 24th Santa Rosa city council meeting it is now 403 and we will begin our meeting seeing a quorum Madam city clerk can you please call the role thank you council member sta here council member Rogers here council member oy here council member Fleming council member Alvarez vice mayor McDonald mayor Rogers present let the record show all council members are present with the exception of vice mayor McDonald council member alvare and council member Fleming thank you we have no study sessions today so we're going to go to item five report on a Clos session Madam City attorney good afternoon good afternoon a Clos session was had on the three items on the agenda and no reportable action was taken thank you um Madam City Clerk can you please facilitate public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item five if you were in the chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor I'm seeing no one approach the podium for public comment on item five thank you moving on to item six which is our our Proclamation for the afternoon and it will be read by council member Alvarez thank you Madame mayor Proclamation from the city of Santa Rosa whereas on November 2nd 2009 the United States Congress passed house resolution 780 officially recognizing October as Filipino American History Month and whereas the celebration of Filipino American History Month in October commemorates the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental United States which occurred on October 18th 1587 when ronus IND came ashore from Spanish gallon and landed at what is Now Moto Bay California and whereas Filipino immigrants significantly contributed to the history and building of Santa Rosa California and the United States most notably as laborers recruited to support the agricultural industry as medical professionals to deliver healthc care as servicemen and service women to enlist in the armed services and as Pioneers who settled in the United States to build community communities and whereas the city's Origins involveed the contributions of Filipino laborers who made up the majority of the workforce of then flourishing seed hop and apple Agri businesses in the early 20th century and whereas Filipino Americans have made the city of Santa Rosa their place to live work and play continuing to present day and into the future present day and into the future greatly contributing to the local and broader culture and economy which enriches the landscape and the country and whereas efforts must continue to promote the study of Filipino American history and culture because the roles of Filipino Americans and other people of color have been overlooked in the writing teaching and learning of the United States history and whereas Sandos is home to an active chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society who seek to promote understanding education Enlightenment and appreciation of Filipino American history in the C County now therefore be it resolved that our mayor Natalie Rogers on behalf of the entire city council does hereby Proclaim October 2023 as Filipino American history month thank [Applause] you thank you council member Alvarez I would like to thank the repres or to invite the representative that is here to accept this proclamation to the podium to say a few words if you would like and after Madame city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you thank you thank you can you hear me okay my name is Janette angland and with me are members of the Filipino American National Historical Society of Sona County um a 100 years ago our ancestors Mo our fathers or our grandfathers came here um at the quest of the United States to do the farming as you mentioned in the resolution and uh those that were here in somoma County we are their descendants and there's generations of us that have remained in this area worked gone to school labored and like me have now retired um from um employment here in Santa Rosa and we're grateful that you acknowledge us see us work with us play with us um we just you know form Partnerships and we think history of all of us is important and we want to um thank you for the inclusion thank you we are now taking public comment on item 6.1 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor MC no one approach the podium for public comment on item 6.1 thank you I would like to invite you down to take a picture with the council it would be our pleasure thank you very much for e we will now continue to item seven staff briefings Madame city manager thank you Madame mayor good evening members of council item 7.1 is update on Russian River water for and Potter Valley Project we can't hear you is it on it it's on okay try this again good afternoon mayor Rogers members of council my name is Jennifer Burke and I'm the director of the water department and I'm here to give you an update on the work that we've been doing uh with Sonoma water and a number of other entities related to the Russian River water forum and the Potter Valley Project as you may recall we've been in front of you a couple of times before uh the Potter Valley Project is a hydroelectric p hydroelectric power project that has been in place for over a 100 years and in essence uh by creating electricity it diverts water from the Eel River into the Russian River water shed it actually diverts water into the headwaters of the East Fork of the Russian River why is this important I think you all know that uh we purchase approximately 95% of our water supply from Sonoma water and they get their water from the Russian River without this diversion from the Eel River uh based on modeling by Sonoma water in 8 out of 10 years there is not enough water to meet all of the demands of the upper Russian River Watershed that would be the portion above the Confluence of dry creek with the Russian River and in two of those eight years Lake mesino predicted to go dry so we we have been following this process and P gen's decision not to relicense the project for a number of years as I mentioned we've been in front of council before and we received direction from you all regarding how we should participate and communicate our interests in this project as part of the Russian River Forum so we're using this policy direction that we received to you uh as part of the participation in the Russian River Forum uh supporting the continued flow of water from the project into the Russian so that we can maintain water supply reliability of the Russian River and also support the significant Investments that we have made to protect the fisheries and restore the Russian River we are also uh supporting the establishment of a regional entity to acquire elements of the project that we are receptive to funding as long as it's proportional to the benefit received uh they want to we want to make sure any decisions are consistent with our agreement for water supply and we want to continue to have uh the ability to provide input so in relation to this work and in relation to PG deciding not to relicense the project Sonoma water did receive uh a grant from the state of Califor California to look at three different things one is to look at the facility itself and try to get an assessment of the condition of the Potter Valley Project the second is to look at Water Supply reliability specifically in the Potter Valley area and then the third was for a Russian River water forum and that's going to be the focus today so the water Forum has been formed and the Focus was to try and explore a solution that would continue the diversion of the water recognizing that the project was going to go through a licens surrender and decommissioning as part of the water Forum a very diverse group of technical staff has been formed we're called the Planning Group and it's representatives from all the folks listed on the PowerPoint uh in front of you for the city of Santa Rosa I am representing uh as the technical staff on the Planning Group at one point there was a thought to have a Leadership Council and we have selected our water advisory committee chair and vice chair and our chair is currently council member uh Mike Healey from pedala and our vice chair is our very own mayor Natalie Rogers um at this time it's sounds like the Leadership Council may not form after all uh but we are continuing to follow that process and if it does we'll definitely update the council so the Planning Group has met five times um the initial couple of meetings were really talking about how uh we would work together recognizing that this group was really about sharing information and providing feedback uh that it wasn't a decision-making body and then we talked about the schedule that P Genie had put forward for the decommissioning we started to talk more about water rights and um uh all of the water use efficiency activities that we are doing in the Russian River Watershed um and then in August uh before that meeting we found out that there was a proposal which I'll talk about in just a second that was provided to pg& and so we started focusing on that proposal and then our fifth meeting was continuing to talk about that proposal and how we would uh provide input and also we received some presentations from representatives of Lake County regarding their concerns about the removal of Scott Dam and uh the loss of Lake Pillsbury so in relation to the license surrender and decommissioning PG had put forth a schedule and we anticipate that we will see a very highlevel concept draft plan of their surrender application and decommissioning plan in mid next month uh we are also expecting to see a final in May of next year uh final draft that will be put out for review and then the actual final final application is due uh to FK the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in January of 2025 pg& had said that they were proposing to remove all facilities and end all operations including the diversions to the Russian River unless they received a complete and credible proposal by uh July of 2023 and so as I mentioned uh prior to our fourth meeting we found out that there was a proposal submitted this proposal is called the new eel Russian facility it was uh submitted to P gen on July 31st with a slight update in August and the project proponents include mesino County Inland Water and Power Commission Round Valley Indian tribes and somoma water that proposal was uh put forward and requests that P gen include in their final license surrender application uh basically that they will accept this proposal and work with this new entity and they had requested that this new entity have uh the ability the legal ability to operate and to develop the financial capacity to own construct and operate the facility the goal is to have that by the end of this year that they have a design for the continued diversion that fully implements the coal equal goals related to fish migration as well as well as water supply that there's an agreement on a purchase and sale agreement for the project facilities uh the intent is to come to a uh term sheet in November by November of 2024 and that in particular they need to have support from the various resource agencies including the Fisheries resource agencies representatives from government and non-governmental entities in both the Russian and eel river basins I am happy to let the council know that somoma water was informed and I want to read this um to make sure I'm stating it correctly but they did get correspondence from pg& and that it said pg& has made a non-binding Acceptance in concept of the Sonoma County Water Agency mesino County Inland water Empower commission and Round Valley Indian tribes proposal and agrees to include it in our November 15th 2023 initial draft surrender application and decommissioning plan so it does sound like that is going to um move forward again it's a it's a non-binding commitment but that was a good news that that was shared with Sonoma water so as this moves forward um the proponents are continuing to work on a jpa sorry a joint Powers uh Authority uh to form a regional entity uh that entity will then be able to negotiate with PG on a potential settlement agreement uh they are figuring out all of the legal authorities and capacity that they will have to operate this system uh that will also be the entity that will be negotiating on a purchase and sale agreement and eventually if not that agreement uh that entity some form of that entity in the future will uh own and operate that diversion facility um there are in The Proposal that was put forward a number of various facilities and apperances of the current project that the regional entity has said they would like to acquire and then there's a list of um various uh facilities and apperances where they need more information to determine if that needs to be re acquired by the regional entity um and then they uh Sonoma water is also uh particularly they have a specific Grant to develop 30% design plans that would allow for the continued diversion of the water from the yeld of the Russian and so they're looking at two options um both of which uh don't Envision anything to do with Scot Stam but would have portions of cap horm Dam uh to continue that diversion and and that design is being worked at with a very technically uh sophisticated group not only of somoma water staff but Fisheries resource agencies and Fisheries interests so next steps we are anticipating that there will be an interim Regional entity formed by the end of the year um we will keep the council appr prized as that goes forward I'm anticipating based on latest information that we may know something by December uh early December perhaps and then once formed that will be the entity that will work on terms for a and sale agreement it's going to be incredibly important to understand what the costs are going to be and how that's going to impact um our water rates going forward so we want to ensure that we're continuing to be at the table to understand that and bring that information back to you uh we're also going to have to really understand what the constraints are going to be to the water rights there's significant number of water right holders along the Russian River in addition to somoma water and so how that is going to be impacted and how the water supply is going to be available to all as I mentioned somoma water is in the process of finalizing uh some 30% design options for the two different uh potential uh diversion facilities that they're looking at uh they're hoping to have that completed by May of next year once completed they're anticipating or hoping I guess that they're going to get a bu a grant from the Bureau of recreation and then they would choose one design to move forward to uh next steps and then we are going to continue to meet as a Planning Group and uh really what the ask is of by the project proponents is that we are shared uh information on what's being proposed and providing feedback on concerns or what we think is is good uh positive things to move forward with the understanding at the end of the day it's going to be the proponents that are making the decision and we're just there as sort of a in informative body and with that I wanted to let you know that all this information is available not only on the Russian riverwater forum.org website and it has all the meeting minutes and information about past meetings but if you specifically want to look at the detailed proposal from the proponents that is also available on somoma water.org Regional partnership and with that I'm happy to answer any questions you might have thank you for that presentation and looking at Council to see if there are any questions seeing none Madam city clerk can you please with oh council member stat not a question just a comment this this project this project is just starting to hit the public Consciousness but it's going to be one of the highest profile projects over the next couple of years and it's incredibly complicated uh so thanks to you director Burke and to our mayor for being involved uh this is going to be fascinating to watch it play out over the next couple of years well since you made that comment I will say thank you director BKE but also thank your fabulous team you guys work very well together and you do a very good job so thank all of you and with that Madam city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 7.1 if you'd like to make a comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period And as you approach the podium please provide your name for public record if you choose to do so please go ahead hello can you hear me yes please go ahead sorry usually there's a little ligh or something here um my name is Thomas Ells I'm a civil environmental engineer I've been advocating for this that there had to be a takeover from PG if they didn't want to keep it that that water was extremely important for years and years IAL talk with Grant and uh very important I'm so glad to hear that they have made a proposal and uh there's a obvious there's going to be a lot more to come I really think that it should it's very important for for Potter Valley it's it's very important for for Lake Menino it's incredibly important for for Sonoma County and Sonoma water and Santa Rosa water so I'm just so glad to hear and and there will be there should be more advanced considerations than than what has been presented and I hope that will happen thank you mayor MC no one else approach the podiums and chamber for public comment thank you um we will move on to item eight city manager and city attorney's report Madam city manager thank you so this week uh the city of Santa Rosa in partnership with County Library will be hosting two Community meetings for the Hearn Community Hub um the virtual meeting will be held Wednesday at 5:30 and there will be an in-person meeting held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday did I say that right let me back up a virtual meeting will be held Wednesday at 5:30 and an in-person meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. it will be held at the Rosland Elementary School uh Spanish and interpretation will be available and also there is an online survey that can be completed and it is open until October the 29th so for project details please go to srcity.org SL Hearn Community Hub next Recreation and Parks is seeking Community input for options regarding tennis and pickle ball um we are working on our Court improvements at howth and Galvin Community parks there is also a survey you can fill out that is at srcity.org SLP Parks projects that survey is open until November the 9th thank you and it does not appear that uh Madam City attorney has a report so Madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item 8 City manager's report if you have a public comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor I'm see no one approach the podiums in chamber thank you item nine statements of exension by council members seeing none we will continue to item 10 which is Mayor and council members reports and while I'm getting a line line up for that I would like to say I see some youth in the audience and so thank you and welcome thank you for being here today all right looking at my council members for council member Rogers thank you mayor just a quick report out we had our second meeting of the enhanced infrastructure Finance District uh financing plan uh we elected council member Fleming as the chair of that entity the vice chair is board member Hugh fetell we have one more board member yet to be set it looks like probably hopefully uh this entity will have an opportunity to take some action on that in November that'll be the final member Direction was given to uh staff to begin preparing uh the ifp that'll go over the criteria for projects that would qualify for financing with the enhanced infrastructure Finance District within that District as well as starting to put together a project list for us to review of what that might look like and finally uh make a recommendation to both the city council and the Board of Supervisors on what allocation of local property tax within the district should go back to projects within the district what the return to source is going to look like and what that would look like in terms of bonding against it over the next 30 40 years so look for more information on that but we anticipate having that I think I Believe by the end of the year thank you council member stat thank you mayor a few items on October 11th uh I'd like to thank Well we'd like to thank the 150 or so people including students who came up for the town hall meeting at Spring Lake Middle School um two of the items on the agenda were were school safety um and trans safety with particular reference to getting to school safely um and then as well the the southeast Greenway it was a great discussion thanks to those of you who came out on October 12th the Santa Rosa plane groundwater sustainability agency met uh we discussed again the $15 million in grant money that's come in not only to the Santa Rosa PL GSA but also to somoma Valley and Petaluma gsas um that's going to allow us to push or to to do some significant work on Shoring up our our groundwater and making sure that it is um it's a available for years to come we also discussed um some voluntary well the voluntary well monitoring project that's be that's going to begin next year um as well as some projects that Soma water is doing around Aqua for storage and recovery at two of their well stations um there's kind of a water theme on the agenda tonight and so it's it's appropriate the groundwater is here um and rest assured that somoma county is is is being pretty Innovative in the way that it's dealing with its with its water supply supplies including groundwater on October 18th uh the city manager and I and the C Santa Rosa Metro chamber were at the uh the opening of the Total Line uh business that's that's now in place on San Rosa Avenue it's a great new it's a great new business that's in the community and we were glad to be there to celebrate on October 19th um in fact as the city manager mentioned or implied there was a another large meeting dealing with the galin park and Howard Park um Renovations specifically around pickle ball and tennis and thanks to all those folks who who came out as well as for their um thanks also for their for their good behavior around the the pickle ball tennis issues that are among the most contentious in our community uh it was it it was a good discussion and then finally uh on October 21st uh I want to thank the the city's wreck and parks department as well as the public works department um they held another iteration of Santa Rosa clean and so there was a great group of volunteers all along Bennett Valley Road um doing litter litter Cleanup in particular uh and at the same time Bennett Val Valley Vision was over on Summerfield and you and bethards doing cleanup over there so if you're if you're in that area you're going to see that the streets and medians look look a lot better than they did a week ago and then in November we're we're heading out to Seb Sebastapol Avenue so thanks to thanks to all the volunteers and thanks to the city staff who make these programs possible thank you councilman bro kpy thank you very much um just a real quick report out uh on o uh on October 17th um I was was able to attend with a few of my colleagues um the Santa Rosa boards and commission and commissions lunch in so I just real briefly wanted to say even though we said it there say it here publicly thank you to all the volunteers that volunteer for our various boards and commissions um and help our uh our staff and uh us on the days here and council do our jobs uh it's greatly appreciated the time and and energy you take to do that um this morning we had a uh a fairly robust public safety subcommittee meeting um we had a lot to get done um the first thing was a report by the office of independent review um and there are recommendations for the San Rosa Police Department what San Rosa Police Department is doing to adopt those I'm happy to say that um both our independent police auditor and our Police Department were in lock step in terms of what to do and what to um how uh some of the concerns should be addressed um we also had a measure o/h or o spelled oh update um and that is just an update on the uh the new measure H that was voted on last year and passed and how that funding will be going forward uh for both police fire and the violence prevention partnership um as well as a safer Grant review um for those unaware our fire department was awarded a safer Grant which I don't recall exactly what safer stands for but essentially we're going to be able to um provide uh increased Staffing in new apparatus to patrol the streets um literally for the fire department uh and what are called Squad Vehicles which are a little smaller sort of uh pickup with construction box on the back that also have a pump and can fight fires as well as um give um paramedic Aid on a much quicker uh easier to access um or harder access areas and then we reviewed our vegetation management plan um pretty in depth uh and so that should be coming back to full Council I believe in January and uh I look forward to that um our next meeting is January 23rd and we'll be continuing some uh conversations including um the long-term planning and funding for uh the F prevention partnership as well as the change over with the ambulance contract and what that means to our city as well as um the gain crimes unit update uh hopefully by then it'll be fully instituted um and uh um we'll be able to have an update with with some some good data um we uh the safer Grant also sorry also uh applies to Staffing for a more adequate fire response um there's a few things in there that we needed to do so uh that's it for me thank you uh seeing no additional council member reports I will provide my report um on well also want to thank everyone for coming out to the town hall it was great for those of you that could make it and we will have additional Town Halls throughout the city so I hope that you can join one of them um on um October 12th I attended the mayor and council members Association of Sonoma County and uh many of the Cities decided that we were going to band together in uh stomp out hate that we're going to let people know this is not something that we are going to tolerate within our cities and we are going to do so together uh especially in light of what has been happening um with the city council and Board of Supervisors uh meetings so this is us saying that we're going to band together and it will not be tolerated in the county of Sonoma um on the 13th I was able to attend the Santa Rosa fire uh Foundation event and that was a very cool event and it is uh to uh get extra funding or not extra funding for service dogs that will work with our fire department um so I do not have the gist of it all but it sounds like a very important um and needed project and uh one of the council members made a joke and said well can we get one cuz we definitely do need a a service dog up here too um it can I think it uh it detects increased cortisone levels um and so that was very special and it takes a really long time to train them so we'll be very happy when um our service dog comes to srfd and then um on the 19th we had a fall economic perspective um event that I was able to attend at SSU along with other uh colleagues on also on the 19th the long-term Financial policy and audit subcommittee meeting take a breath because that was a long title um review the general fund uh for fiscal year in 2022 2023 um and it was reported that we're looking at a $6.6 million surplus so um that was on the 19th on the 20th I was able to attend a career day at Rosland cleic prep um that was very exciting because I love interacting with our youth and um just getting their perspective of what the actual local government they think the local government does and then what we actually do and to know that we do have some future Mayors in Santa Rosa already and they're already looking out to become mayor so I I I love that um I would like to thank Michael Birch for serving on the design review board but unfortunately Michael is unable to continue to serve um so moving forward I will have a vacant position on the design review board and I am looking to fill that so if if you are interested please let me know and um also again up until the event I will be announcing that uh 2023 Veterans Day food drive operation in hunger and Veterans continue to serve the community um will be going on on November 4th from 11: to 2: uh here at City Hall in our parking lot so it is a food drive uh a bunch of organizations are getting together and we would like to stomp Out Hunger so um and then also on the 11th at 10:30 there will be a flag raising um at the Santa Rosa city hall flag poll so um those of you that can come out to support our our veterans and thank them for the service that they provided for our our country that would be great and without anything further Madam city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item 10 please make your way to the podium if you'd like to provide comment you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period on the west lectern please go ahead my name is Eric Frasier I'm a resident of Santa Rosa I did want to make just a couple comments uh of course we appreciate all the interaction with the community uh it's absolutely fantastic and of course having Youth in the audience today always a highlight a couple things uh that that I flag for for your attention council member Chris Rogers talked about the tax District formation and for people that aren't aware that's where they have an opportunity to take projected tax revenue and pre-end it wash it through Bankers so that you have to pay interest on that future tax revenue with the idea then if you don't understand where that spending's going goes into the pockets of cronies and and others that benefit from it so I wanted to make that point because that's happening right now in front of your face and it's something that may mean that you have to pay out for 30 or 40 years we look at things like the Palm Drive Hospital District as examples for these type of Special Districts uh council member okpy mentioned police oversight and of course we've been looking for that oversight to extend the code enforcement and I don't have to tell you about the chaos that's happening in that department with Code Enforcement Officers being arrested on felonies of when they're working shaking down residents for real estate for money for power and greed that's what's happening there and it demands third party oversight I'm sorry I wasn't able to make that meeting but we certainly will keep on top of that and then finally um mayor Natalie Rogers mentioned about hate well that's all very nice but the things that I study show that the Prejudice and the hate and the um the poison comes from within so you can say oh yeah I'm going to Stamp Out hate I'm going to be against hate and so on and so forth but I really ask you if you're sincere about that are you sincere about Justice are you sincere about truth are you sincere about the things that create a culture of hate and working against those because quite often your actions don't really show that and so I am a little curious about how that pans out but thank you very much for the opportunity to address you today thank you mayor I see no additional public comments in the room thank you you moving on to item 11 approval of the minutes we have one set of minutes October 10th 2023 Council are there any corrections to the minutes seeing none Madame city clerk can you please facilitate public comment on item 11.1 we are now taking public comment on 11.1 if you'd like to make a comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period I'm seen no one approach the podium mayor all right well we will adopt the minutes as presented moving on to our consent um items Madam city clerk can you please read the consent items certainly mayor item 12.1 resolution public records act management solution agreement Amendment with next request item 12.2 resolution approval and issuance of purchase order for the purchase of four ham asphalt rollers utilizing the pricing from sourcewell Cooperative agreement number 06122 DWI AI with Nixon eliy equipment company of Tracy California item 12.3 resolution bid award blanket purchase order for purchase and delivery of gasoline and renewable dies to various City locations with Ramos Oil Company Incorporated in item 12.4 resolution Amendment to the to homeless Outreach Services team Grant agreement with Catholic Charities of the dicese of Santa Rosa for expanded Outreach Services in downtown Santa Rosa thank you bringing it back to council are there any questions seeing none Madam city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 12 the consent calendar if you'd like to make a comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period on the western Le turn please go ahead uh thank you looking to get this projector working please great thank you very much and little Focus I suppose this sorry about that oh there go thank you very much so um I am speaking on the consent calendar uh recently I was recognized as a Authority on public records requests uh through the Press Democrat how his name that's me right there oops Eric Frasier versus the city of Santa Rosa it says of course that's all sort of hype in journalism but um I was recognized as somebody who uses the kn request system quite a bit that's item number 121 on the agenda and this is how the public can get access to public documents and the next request platform then has those responsive documents so that people can access them when they're looking to collaborate information it's you know a 21st century tool for good governance and so I did have some writing that I sent to the city council on this I don't know if they read it but I did did want to touch on a couple of the high points here so we do have some problems that we see in the use of the uh next uh request platform uh for instance the contract mentions that records might be removed in the future I think that would be important to know because the records are used by attorneys and researchers and what have you number two MSG files that are posted to next request don't convert they're not legible uh number three and four is the press able to skirt around the the public records requests and are their requests not posted that would seem sort of bizarre number problems 5 six and seven continuing on about the Press Democrat we see a pattern that develops where the Press Democrat has access to information but then they choose not to act on it are they actually paid to catch and kill information for the city or for their clients if so that's outrageous problem nine uh suggests that when people are researching and they find problems with spending in the city with information that's given to people to make decisions who do they turn to when you uncover corruption and fraud who do you turn to you may avert your eyes now but the responsibility the primary responsibility of our elected officials is oversight who's doing that and that leads to number 10 both City staff and people that use the platform need more training cab our commune Advisory Board and our community engagement office or whatever you call them have been promising training videos information for decades it doesn't materialize are you trying to make it hard for people to use these platforms and exercise their rights to information thank you thank you mayor I see no additional public comments in the room thank you uh council member key can you please make a motion yes I'll move uh the approval of items 12.1 through 12.4 in way of any reading of the text second we have a motion made by council member oy and a second by council member Rogers Madam city clerk may you please call the vote thank you council member stap I council member Rogers I council member oy I council member Alvarez I mayor Rogers I let the record show the consent calendar passes with five affirmative votes and vice mayor McDonald and council member Fleming absent thank you we have about 9 minutes before we can go to um our public comment on non-agenda matters so we will be taking a 9 minute break but in that break I would would like to invite the youth down to take a picture with the council um because I'm so excited that you guys are here so if you guys want to come on down that would be great for e for e for e for e for e for e for all right bringing it back seeing a Corum Madam city clerk may you please call the RO thank you council member step here council member Rogers here council member oy here council member Alvarez present mayor Rogers present let the record show all council members are present with the exception of vice mayor McDonald council member Fleming and council member Fleming thank you thank you moving on to item 13 are public comment on non-agenda items Madame city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on non-agenda matters this is the time when any person may address the Council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period uh the person at the Eastern lect please go ahead okay I was going to defer to but I'll go ahead we're going to start on the Eastern lecturn yes good evening my name is Michelle Escobar McGary I'm a resident of Santa Rosa and I'm here to uh represent a junior of r rosand University Prep her name is jelle and she wrote a letter or a little something for you all and she states I support controlling and restricting Vapes high school students have very easy access to these products there should be no more um there should be more care put into this issue I have friends who have become addicted to these products and struggle to stop using them I also frequently smell these products in the bathroom at school the city should promote Community wellness and that's why our town should be flavored tobacc free and again that's from toell at Rosland University Prep that's all thank you thank you please go ahead from the west lecturn and can I use this interesting oh yes thank you very much hi I'm Pam Granger I'm the chair of tobacco free Sonoma County Community Coalition last time I saw you all we were doing goal setting and I'm so excited that U impact Sonoma the C's tobacco prevention program team have been working with City staff on developing some materials for you consider I believe it's on November 14th on a study session now what I have um um highlighted here are some of the reasons um to that go along with why this is so important that you look at uh regulating um tobacco retail retailers with a tobacco retail ordinance um one might be this one and that's after the state uh voters uh nearly 2third passed a tobacco a flavored tobacco ban what did the tobacco industry come out with well the lower box is regular Cool cigarettes flavored cigarettes the upper box is the non-menthol ones they look kind of alike and that's how the industry has tried to get around the will of the people so we've got ways of in the ordinance that you will consider um covering that so that they uh can't sneak through another issue we're all concerned about everybody's mental Health but uh particularly since Co um we've been concerned about young people's mental health and so here's a whole study done on what they call colliding crisises young mental health and nicotine use and so a lot of kids think that they're going to get some rest and relaxation by using nicotine and it causes other problems and then the Press Democrat just last Friday had this uh whole article on what happens to Vapes if you weren't concerned about your kids which I know you are you perhaps are concerned about the environment and unfortunately cigarette butts are still the number one discarded item in litter in the world however on their heels now we've got electronic smoking devices and so they add two the nicotine that's residual they add plastic and they add lithium batteries so there's lots of reasons why we're concerned about um updating things but I'm so excited to report to you that just this afternoon the uh Board of Supervisors passed on first read their updated tobacco retail license ordinance that's why it's so important because we're about equity and parity and this is creating new social norms so we've got a chance here in Santa Rosa to be considering a policy that would um protect people and and maintain the Integrity of those communities who've already already passed protective policies so we're looking for forward to working with Santa Rosa and and adding you to part of the team thank you so very much thank you we'll go to the east Lector good afternoon can you hear me uh my name is Nicole race r o s a CI I'm a parent um at our Santa Rosa city schools my husband is a teacher at Montgomery High School I work in public education in somoma county and I'm here today to talk to you about campus safety I know that that's an issue for the school board and we are attending the Schoolboard meetings and talking there and I do appreciate um the participation and collaboration I do believe you're bringing to that issue thank you for hold holding the town hall last week a week before we'd like to to continue to do that so it gives us a platform for our voice so we have an opportunity to speak about this important issue um if and when the school board does agree to open this issue the issue of having SRO back on some of our high school campuses the next issue will be the budget AR aspect the fiscal component and so I'm here today to plead with you to stay a partner in this with the school board and with the police department and to continue um moving this forward with us I think it's a it's a whole Community issue and we need all the help we can get thank you for your your um time and participation thank you the next speaker from the West Podium please yes thank you I'd like to use the overhead please thank you very much um yes this is Eric Frasier again and I'm a resident of the city of Santa Rosa and apparently a very provocative figure um and uh continuing to respond to the yellow journalism that the Press Democrat put out on public records requests and public involvement there was an inside I think I showed you before that Eric Frasier versus the city of Santa Rosa and I wanted to clear up a couple things one of the entries said that on one day I sent 48 Seer PR request about neighborhood notification indeed that's true you see I have a network of about 900 people that rely on information that then get it from next request and the city uh did refuse to post the information on each property file when it came to who was being contacted for neighborhood notifications and so that's the reason why and there's approximately uh 200 200 50 properties that have this mandatory neighborhood notification so 48 it sounds like I have another 200 pasas to file and so if the just of this article was how expensive pasas are to process then truly you guys can do a better job of doing things efficiently when it comes to treating your citizens now the yellow press or I'm sorry the Press Democrat has been so excited to try to create me as some some sort of polarizing figure as somebody Who's acting on personal Vendetta and so on and so forth well dog on it I think they may have found it because as they were jamming as the city was jamming almost 2800 unretrievable messages into a public records request so that the city can come back and say look at this guy he's got all this I was Burying my dog my dog became suddenly before Christmas we don't know why the the hospital wanted to euthanize him the day after Christmas our our dear Bellow just a couple weeks ago I learned that a neighbor a crazy neighbor who I reported to Victoria Fleming who's been the subject of many police reports told me she poisoned our dog I can only imagine she was jined up by the lies and the half truths that come from the city council when it comes to how people run their businesses or what they do so I guess it's a little personal I mean he's gone now he was a great dog he had qualities that you guys wouldn't even know about he wouldn't smile at me and stabed me in the back he loved people he was a great addition to this community he would have been 10 on Halloween so I guess if there's some sort of Personal Agenda that I need to have for my advocacy and to hold you fools accountable thank you next speaker at the Eastern Podium hello hi my name is Melissa Stewart I'm too short for Podium I am with safe campus Alliance and I am here today to address the immediate danger because of lack of Staffing on the Montgomery High School campus we have spoken to teachers and staff and students and have more concerns with campus and have more concern concerns with campus supervision teachers are at the end of their rope students do not feel safe we cannot attract people for these positions um of Campus supervision when we're offering them minimum wage this is now Beyond a school issue this is a safety issue that affects our whole Community I am making a plea to the council please do what you can to intervene please see what available resources can be immediately implemented at our Montgomery High School we already have put pressure on the board but it seems to fall on deaf ears we desperately need campus supervision the Santa Rosa Police Department are available to put an SRO on a temporary basis at our school to offer Aid that is needed immediately we need to support our teachers and staff we need to listen to our students we need real supervision now and we need it before someone else gets hurt thank you thank you the next speaker at the West Lecter uh can I use the overhead please certainly so uh this is a view of Las North Las Vegas at North Lamb Boulevard and what this shows is a reversing diamond design for an over Crossing it's an undercrossing but it's a great separation calr is planning this is in valo calr is planning a similar design for this intersection because it's so impacted at Six Flags this is Hearn Avenue and there's a lot of room for that so I have provided you with some written information Hearn Avenues over Crossing design comes from km Blackman days' city manager these were not the brightest days in our history providing infrastructure to A diversity of Santa Rosen annexations were not accomplished voting districts were not established which left rosand and Andy Lopez uh to the vagaries of the sheriff's department which uh the 10th anniversary was just on Sunday of Andy Lopez's shooting um if they had been in the city they wouldn't have had the sheriff responding so those anex were important that that uh discrimination was important that happened from Ken Blackman and that continues with this design to improve only this uh crossing here which comes over here to Santa Rosa Avenue I have uh here an outline of the exact property lines and so on so this would be the where the citation Society was and uh here's the uh so this is north right here here and 101 right here Hearn Avenue coming in and continuing across and this is uh Corby Avenue here and the so so this is all the rideway right here this is all rideway that I've outlined and within that out within that outline I've sketched uh this something is not really you can't really see this very well apparently maybe I could I'm not sure if this will Zoom okay this Zoom so these are striping plans for a Crossing that would be a reverse diing you can see this reversing here and here and what happens is it allows free flow so this would be a Northbound lanes and these would be coming north and turning East and West these are free flow Lanes here again this is going west and south free flow Lanes free flow Lanes all these movements are free flowing Lanes so there's only this intersection these two intersections where it's reversing here it's exactly what's in uh North Las Vegas you can do this I say at the bottom here you can do this uh you can have environmental exemptions you don't have to go through an extended process every one of these points is a a valued environmental benefit thank thank you next speaker from the Eastern lectern hello can you hear me yeah my name's uh Brent Stewart um I just wanted to kind of show further support for the safe campus Alliance I think it's extremely important that the city council does whatever was in it within its power to pressure the school board which I know has the decision ultimately on sros or on campus or not but I know you guys are kind of if they were to say yes budget falls on you and I just wanted to point out you probably have this information 1100 calls last year the the police are on campus SRO or not 1,00 calls I don't know how many school D there are take out summer holidays weekend maybe 200 so roughly between five and six times a day every day police are showing up at our schools um that's and that's in a reactionary measure for who knows what happened or who knows what was called in and I just think it's extremely important to have uh officer Presence at our schools especially Montgomery High School where my son is is where I mostly feel strongly about it um and we'll be here at every school board and we'll be at every city council meeting and hope to have your support thank you thank you next speaker please please go ahead hello my name is Dwayne DD I'm from Rosland I wanted to come tonight to thank you for the fact that you folks are helping to sponsor the annual Veterans Day event on Saturday November the 11th here at Santa Rosa city hall out at those flag poles this will be the 27th year that this event been going on in Santa Rosa many years here at this campus and we really want to thank the mayor and uh all of you council members for essentially finally embracing the fact that veterans are an important part of our community these young people here probably don't realize the Veterans Day came about because on the 11th Hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the first world war ended after millions of people died in Europe and the United States went there and Americans perished there and ever since then Americans have been involved in military actions all over the world right now this is happening again and it's something that having the city council Embrace this now and especially having the mayor come in speaking is really so good so thank you so much for this we invite all you folks to come out here on it's a Saturday too it's not a school day Saturday the 11th of November at 10:30 in the morning we're going to be out here because we raised the flag right at 11 in honor of those veterans I'd also like to give a thanks to city parks maintenance staff because they've been helping us on our efforts over in rosand where we're trying to get a veterans Trail along Rosland Creek we've been working on that for oh 24 25 years I guess the main thing on it is your Park staff are the ones that help us most they're the ones that come out occasionally and help to clean up this area that we and the community Steward we call it Rosland neighborwood I don't know if you ever heard of a neighborwood but it's where you save some nature where you live over at Montgomery High School they got the creek right there where hoen avenue runs through so that's how it works you save some nature so that the kids 100 years from now will be able to enjoy that bit of nature so I'm hoping that you folks will remember that on Earth Day the mayor and Eddie Alvarez came out to Rosland neighborhood and they helped us out there they were there two hours helping to clean up and make it happen and it was so great it showed true community and everybody really loved it and so although you might just see me here and think rosin's down here to bother you again there's a lot of folks that really embrace the fact that the mayor and Eddie Alvarez are reaching out to us thank you from the Western lecturn please go ahead there is a a toggle to lower the podium so you your math is at the microphone on the right hand side you can drop the podium down a little bit there's a little button can I get one of my acms to assist there we go thank you um I just uh came here to say that um I'm very glad that I'm able to attend this meeting and that for someone who's pretty young to be in middle school and be able to go to a city council meeting and be able to you know share my opinion though not many might hear and I'm glad that some do and I don't really have that much to say but um I have a lot of faith in the city council and uh I'm glad that people are able to show their opinions on um the Cs or and be able to make other high schools and middle schools and just the community in general a better place and I have high faith and praise to the people who work in the center of the government thank you mayam see no one else approach the podiums for public comment thank you uh due to it being 524 we are going to skip over item 14 which is our report item uh for this evening and we will have our public hearing which is 15.1 so Madam city manager thank you mayor item 15.1 is a public hearing introducing an ordinance amending Santa Rosa city code chapter 14 -21 Water waste regulations and if the team could introduce themselves for the record please I'm Deb Lane I'm a sustainability representative with Santa Rosa water and I'm joined with by Claire nordley water use efficiency supervisor we're here to present proposed revisions to the city's Water waste regulations so the city has a duty to prevent waste and the unreasonable use of water to that end the Water waste regulations were originally adopted in 1999 and were last revised in 2007 to include recycled water things have changed in the past 16 years since that last revision and we feel that there's a need to modernize the regulations you'll find the revisions that we're proposing in the redline copy of the re regulations that were included in your agenda package I wanted to give a little bit of background on our automatic metering infrastructure or Ami system and the connection to Water waste a few years ago the city embarked on the Ami project it was completed in 2021 100% of our water meters are on the system prior to the installation of Ami staff and our water customers only had access to monthly water use data so we now have hourly use data and our customers can access this usage data through our water uh smart customer portal this has given our customers the ability to see how and when they're using water and have more control on how much water they're using it's really a customer Centric program it's been very well received by many of our constituents and it's increased our ability to help our customers save water and lower their water bills you can see this graph on the lower right there are thresholds that are set on the system that measure the gallons of hour and the hours of duration when those thresholds are exceeded the system sends an alert this is can be irregular continuous use and it is often because of leaks and Water waste is occurring so after the system sends those alerts staff follow up with the customer customers thank us all the time for this early Leak Detection that our am Ami systems now providing so why Revis the Water waste regulations well Ami increased our ability to identify the continuous use which is often leaks and our current water waste regulations are missing not only the acknowledgement of continuous use but exceptions for enforcement based on adverse impacts on health Health sanitation and safety an option to enforce commercial industrial institutional we refer to that as CII accounts with uh without disconnection and missing a defined appeals process so CII is often not feasible these are essential services that need to continue operation are schools police stations fire stations grocery stores also shut off would disrupt disrupt the local economic activities so we need a mechanism to motivate CII customers to resolve their water waste so this is an overview of the proposed revisions and I'll go into detail detail on each one this is a result of reviewing other cities regulations like Petaluma and a year-long process that we engaged in and discussion with the city attorney's office so the proposed revisions will be applicable to all customer classes single family residents multif family residents and CII we have redefined Water waste added an escalating penalty clarified the authority to disconnect added a process for requesting exception and a process for appeal this is the current definition of Water waste it is a portable or recycled water use in outdoor areas resulting in runoff or breaks or leaks in the portable or recycled water delivery system it's very basic it doesn't address equipment malfunction that can cause water waste especially in the CII sector and it doesn't put a Time reference requiring the customer to find and fix their leak this is the pro proposed definition part A is the same portable or recyc water use in outdoor areas resulting in runoff or Part B The Escape of water through breakes or leaks or due to an equipment malfunction within a customer's Plumbing or private distribution system for any substantial period of time within which such break leak or equipment malfunction should have been discovered and corrected so we've added that equipment malfunction and the time reference that's requiring the customer to find and fix the problem and this is applicable to any Santa Rosa Water customer this is the current water waste process that we follow and for all customers and plan to continue to do so once staff identifies irregular use we make multiple attempts to reach the on-site decision maker this is typically easier for single family residents but with CI billing contacts they're often not the on-site facility managers so we work to track down the correct uh contact for the facility maintenance commercial bills often go out of state and uh we go to great Great Lengths to find the right people and most customers respond once we find the right people we offer uh a free water smart checkup we provide ongoing technical analysis and support and um but when the customers being non-responsive we still continue to try and make phone calls send emails series of warning letters door tags before we ever disconnect water surface um this process can take up to 11 weeks so customers do have ample time to find and fix their leak um we don't disconnect a customer who's actively trying to find and fix the leak all they need to do is call us to stop the enforcement process I wanted to give an example of a single family resident's U Water waste situation so staff detect continuous use we notify the customer by phone letter email door tags set up an appointment if the customer would like that perform the free on-site checkup this is one of the customer service tools that we offer while we're on site we help identify the source of leaks it's often toilets or in the irrigation system maybe in the main line we recommend next steps whether they're going to hire a professional or a do-it-yourself we send a follow-up report and then we monitor the site for decreased use the customer provides updates and we continue to follow up until the leak's been fixed 98.5% of the time the customer is proactive and the can continuous use is resolved so what happens if the customer wants to fix the leak but doesn't have the funding we offer them several assist assistance mechanisms we I mentioned the water smart checkup where we're um giving them free devices and offering our technical assistance we encourage the um sign up of the water smart customer portal early leak detection is the cheapest way to fix a leak they um they get worse as time goes by and get more expensive we have our um H2O help to others program which offers financial assistance to qualifying residential customers on a portion of their monthly water and sewer service charges and uh we have a leak adjustment policy that the customer can apply for a leak adjustment credit on their water bill once the leak has been repaired um there is also the lih WAP uh uh low-income housing household water assistance program offers a one-time payment to qualifying low-income households to help pay current and past to water or sewer bills and households that qualify can reduce their water or sewer charges by up to $15,000 we are and continue to explore grant funding opportunities for customer leak detection and repair so in the rare cases where the customer is non-responsive here's what we would do this is a discretionary tool that we propose to have available in situations where disconnection of water service could have an adverse impact on health and safety or hardship on the customer or the public so after we've made our many attempted uh efforts to reach the customer if they're still unresponsive a first violation written warning would be sent out the customers in violation of the Water waste regulations has one week to respond or the next step would be a $100 fine um if we hear from them in that period the enforcement process would stop this letter of warning must be signed by the director of Santa Roser water or the director's design and the customer can apply for an exemption we feel this is going to be a rare situation I'll say a little bit more about that so if staff receive no response in a week after sending the official warning letter the formal notice of violation process begins so the second notice of violation letter would be sent out the customer has 72 hours to respond or a $100 fine will be imposed again if the customer responds the fine is stayed if we don't hear back in 72 hours that $100 fine is imposed and a third notice of violation letter sent out another 72 hours to respond or a $200 fine will be imposed if we hear from them then we will stay the fine and then we if we don't that $200 fine is imposed the fourth notice of violation letter is sent out they have 72 hours to respond or a $500 fine will be imposed uh the fine continues every 72 hours as long as we don't hear from the customer these notices of violation will be signed by the director of Santa Rosa water or the director's design and the customer has a right to appeal the final decision I want to emphasize this is a last resort for customers who aren't working with us and all the customer will need to do is contact staff to to stop the fine process no matter where they are in the process Water waste administrative findes are common these are different cities and districts that we researched and you can see that our proposed fine structure is within the industry standard and the violation enforcement is rare 95 98.5% of single family residents custom customers don't get to the enforcement process at all so we anticipate a low need to implement the fine process we get about 500 reports in single family residents of Water waste a year that has resulted in approximately eight shut offs which is 1.5% of the cases if we extrapolate that data to our CII sector we get about 40 reports of Water waste a year and so that would be fewer than one customer per year so this is the current definition of the authority to disconnect and the the director of utilities May issue a written warning to anyone who violates the provisions of this chapter if a customer does not correct the violation within 15 days of notification or such other time as specified by the director the city May disconnect portable or recycled Water Service this is the proposed revision it adds the admin administrative fines under Section A as I've already described and under Section B it clarifies the authority to disconnect Water Service as outlined in city code chapter 14-04 portable water and recycled Water Service this is a new section we are proposing to add because disconnection or an administrative fine could have an inverse adverse impact on health and safety or hardship on the customer or the public so we there is no current exception process in the uh regulations this acts as a check and balance to enforcement the customer may customer may request an exception to a water waste regulation violation in advance of receiving the notice of violation so they have that onee period to do so the director of water or director's design May Grant the exception if necessary to avoid adverse impact on health sanitation or safety of the public or applicant and or to avoid undue hardship for the applicant or the public and this decision may be appealed in writing to the Board of Public Utilities here is an exception example this is um an old school facility one large meter many buildings connected to to the one meter old aging infrastructure they don't have isolation valves they can't isolate portions of the mainline they can't cut in new isolation valves customer has found and fixed leaks progress is being made they continue to work with us but and we keep working with them but they haven't been able to isolate some of the remaining continuous use so we wouldn't pursue Progressive enforcement but we would continue to communicate and support the customer this is an actual uh break that I worked with a customer on at a school that is about 4T below that playground so there is no current appeals process in the regulations and so the um the proposed appeal would be any customer may appeal the final decision of Santa Rosa water staff regarding violations to the director of Santa Rosa water or the final decision to the director of Santa Rosa water to the Board of Public Utilities and the customer must submit written notice of appeal and again this acts as a check and balance to enforcement should we receive your approval today next steps would be on November 14th Council would conduct the second reading of the regulations and on December 14th would be the proposed effective date 30 days post second reading so it is recommended by Santa Rosa water that the board of and the Board of Public Utilities that the council introduced an ordinance amending Santa Rosa city code chapter 14-21 Water waste regulations to include administrative fines provide an exception and an appeals process and make other clarifying changes and with that I'll be happy to take any questions thank you for that presentation looking at Council to see if there are any questions on the presentation seeing none we will now open the public hearing o oh questions I have to do it again no just making sure we're ready to go all right Madam city clerk uh we are now taking public comments on item 15.1 if you'd like to make a comment on this item please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that timer um please state your name for public record if you choose to do so and go ahead yes uh yes Thomas Hells again uh uh civil and environmental engineer and uh my comment before about Scott Dam and Van Arsdale and so on is really about uh water and protection prevention of running out of water there very little uh that is as as important as protecting against Water waste um the city provides water to the apartments that are down uh along Santa Rose Avenue that are in the county during the construction of those there's an estimate of how much the water is going to cost and then that's included in the budgets for the people when they have affordable housing uh people are on a fixed income and and it says how much they're going to pay after they uh begin use there's uh increased usage so so that increases and and they essentially don't have individual meters they have only one meter and so um it's all divided up so if you have a three-bedroom unit uh they get the same rate or kind of a I don't know how they adjust it but some kind of adjusted rate uh compared to somebody that's got a one-bedroom unit that they don't have a family they don't take showers all the time they don't do the same thing it's entirely different amount of usages and yet their bills so there's a difference the the overall apartment gets a higher usage because people move in and there's also adjustments to the bill so there's several adjustments to the bill that it's ex a lot more for people to they can't afford it so all of those they cannot appeal to this and have the lowincome um access to this because it's in the county County so I would ask you to take a look at that those particular situations where all these new apartments are down there and uh I don't know how many of them are in the county but I know that many of them are in the county I know specifically of people who are in the county know somebody that had a leak was inside of the wall of the the this new fairly new apartment uh was leaking they called it took almost a week for them to come for the for the apartment to respond and come and fix a league uh that was inside the wall and they say oh it's all fixed uh so you know um it's not the the customer's fault uh all the time um but there's nothing that's more important and I would like i' finish up with saying it's time that commercial uses be completely uh isolated and recycle their own water they don't need to go through the system they contaminate the water use a lot of water uh that water is um treated to a high degree they they they can deal with their own water they have the systems they have the processes they don't need to be contributing and when it dilutes the when it dilutes what thank you for your comment mayor I see no one else approaching the podiums for public comment thank you we will now close the public hearing uh bringing it back to council I definitely would like to thank your team I firsthand dealt with your team uh when we had a water leak and I received the phone call although it was in our complex and someone was out there in a timely manner to really help us because it was like five neighbors like all searching for this this leak so um thank you very much council member Rogers thank you mayor I also just wanted to say thank you every time I can I sing the Praises of the department you all do such great work and you highlighted my favorite tool which was the hour by hour uh water track I really do use it I really do use it to annoy my wife all the time uh and I think especially when we talking about potential enforcement or uh asking the community to conserve all of the tools that we can give them to allow them to do so I think is really important and I've uh talked with other council members around the state who don't have a tool like that and they've all gone back to their jurisdictions and started pestering their city manager for something similar so I just want to say thank you council member sta can you make your comment and then give us a motion absolutely you um I just want to thank you as well um as mayor Rogers mentioned um I too have had the pleasure I guess of of working with your office when I first had an irrigation break that started in the middle of the night and also a water main break that created a little pond in our front yard um and your your team was great to work with um so than thank you for thank you for what you're doing uh and then with respect to the motion it would be my my pleasure to introduce um this ordinance uh amending chapter 14-21 of the ca city of the Cent a city code Water waste regulations to include administrative fines and clarify enforcement and appeals process and wait for the reading of the text second all right we have a motion made by council member stop in a second by council member oy Madam city clerk may you please call the vote council member step hi council member Rogers hi council member oy hi council member Alvarez hi mayor Rogers I let the record show this introduction of the ordinance passes with five affirmative votes thank you we will now move to item 14.1 Madam city manager item 14.1 is a report item water supply alternative plan I guess we will let Colin present he's a short timer here for [Laughter] us thank you very much for the introduction uh good evening and oh pardon me very much uh thank you uh good evening mayor Rogers members of the council very happy to be here today to present to you the water supply Alternatives plan you probably recall that last month you were able to take a look at the results of our feasibility study that analyzed 18 different water supply options so this plan then Builds on that and looks at how could we move forward in an Adaptive smart way to help increase the resiliency and the reliability of our water supply so again uh the Water Supply Alternatives plan purpose is to enhance our existing Water Resources by increasing our capacity to produce water ourselves and the approach was to analyze a wide range of water supply options and look at what was the best fit for us and how we could reasonably and as cost effectively as possible increase our water supplies out to 2045 there were five key considerations that we started with with this project how much new water supply would be optimal I think you'll recall that during average water supply years and even below average we have more than enough water supply for today and for the 2050 buildout projected in our general plan so under most circumstances we have lots of water we're in good shape our community is very water conserving but if we have severe droughts or if we had a catastrophic event we'd want to be able to provide water ourselves so we also asked ourselves which Supply options should we study and how should we study them how should we mix the most feasible options together for a plan and what would be the best path forward knowing technology will change funding sources will change regulations will change so these are the key considerations that we started with and these helped guide us through this process over the last 14 months and you probably remember we talked about all of the public engagement that we had during this proc process that was really Central so again I want to thank all of the folks who participated they helped us set our objectives they helped us look at that study and decide whether it made sense whether or not we needed to change some assumptions how we could sharpen our pencil and do a better job and then that helped us also develop a plan to move forward so I'll give you an overview of the plan we do have an acknowledgements page the executive summary six chapters s and some appendices so I'll talk very briefly about each in the acknowledgements we thank the water team our external stakeholder Group which is represented on the right side of that slide those organizations dedicated staff time and Leadership to attend meetings and do a lot of homework in between meetings to help us out and then our community at large I also wanted to take a moment to thank our Board of Public Utilities their leadership their guidance their Insight was tremendously valuable for this process and they helped shape a really important aspect of looking at this project and how we approached it and the end product so I wanted to thank them as well so the chapter one has some background information lays out the purpose and talks about how the plan is organized again we are highly reliant on one water supply Sonoma water and in most years that's sufficient but again again were concerned about climate change drought occurrence and potential catastrophic events chapter two talks about the approach that we took the extensive stakeholder in input and engagement how we set the goal and set volumetric measures and then the study methodology so very briefly again the stakeholder engagement involved a lot of meetings with water staff stakeholder group our community and our Board of Public Utilities in addition we did presentations at Community meetings and at General plan open houses to help the community learn more the goal was set with tremendous input from probably about 70 individuals um and the goal was to diversify and increase our own supplies so that we reduce our dependence on somoma water and there are three volumetric targets the first is that we be able to mitigate droughts by providing 30% of our own water supply to meet the demands of our community to mitigate natural disasters and catastrophic events it would be tremendously helpful if during a short period of time we could produce enough water to provide about half of the normal indoor water use for our residents plus water for our businesses emergency response our hospitals and Etc and then to mitigate Peak demand in the summer our water use goes up considerably of our beautiful trees and shrubs and Landscaping so we want to make sure to keep those healthy and so if we can reduce how much we need to take from somoma water that leaves water in Lake Sonoma for other folks in our community so it helps the regional resilience improve as well the way we conducted the analysis included pre-screening water supply options and noticing if they were already underway were there any repetitious or duplicative efforts or were they absolutely impossible and then to remove those screen the next set looking at cost and scalability how much water could be produced under different circumstances and then do a feasibility analysis of those that Pro to be the most and best fitting for Santa Rosa I won't read through all of these but there were 18 options that were considered in six different buckets if you will groundwater purified recycled water that's taking our current recycled water that would be putting it through advanced treatment so it meets all of the state and federal drinking water standards we looked at non-potable recycled water expansion of our Urban system for landscaping we considered desalination surface water storm water capture and use and of course our water efficiency programs under the pre-screening process five items fell out because three of them the the ones that start with the word Regional here on the left side are projects that are either underway or going to be underway in some way throughout our region and Santa Rosa is at the table and participating in those already or will be participating as they move forward the middle two that mentioned Lake raline we looked at Lake raline it simply wasn't capable of providing the kind of storage we would need to make it a useful item for this effort in the screening process we then eliminated six more options primarily due to cost permitting concerns environmental concerns they just were not going to be feasible for us to move forward the seven options that did go forward for a deeper more detailed analysis we're increasing the number of Wells we have converting existing emergency Wells to production adding Wells that could be used for storing water as well as for extracting water Aqua for storage and Recovery Wells looking at direct portable reuse in a satellite uh location meaning within the city's boundary not at the lagona treatment plant looking at potentially having a regional portable reuse facility at the Laguna treatment plant looking at storm water storage in our aquafer to help recharge the Basin as we remove water for uh from groundwater Wells and then of course our efficiency programs this table has a lot of information and a lot of numbers but what I mainly wanted to point out is that our constituents all of our stakeholders helped us to identify the Criterion by which we would use to assess which were the most feasible which were the most appropriate which were the best fit for us and so the first two cost Effectiveness and scalability were by far the most important to our community and to our stakeholders so their scores get a multiplier of five the next set I believe of it might be three or four get a multiplier of three and then the last few get a multiplier of one so that's why you can see the unweighted scores in some cases are very close to each other but the weighted scores end up diverging that's because of what was most important to our constituents to our stakeholders our community and to the water team as well as our Board of Public Utilities so that's why you see that difference in scores but you can see that all of these ranked fairly close to each others so we had a wide range of options that we could look at chapter 5 talks about the portfolios the ways we could mix those seven options the chapter explains what they are how they could be mixed why we would consider portfolios looks at the cost and the yield performance of different portfolios and then proposes implementation timelines and I just want to mention that none of this is in stone of course because the whole point to this plan is that it's adaptive so if we want to go One Direction direction there's a path forward if we need to change gears we've got other paths forward that we can look back to so in the portfolios you can see there are four portfolios across the top with the seven water supply options on the left so we looked at what might be most economical what might be quickest what might be the way to get the most amount of water and what might be the most adaptive and as you can see portfolio 4 allows a way to consider each of the options including desell ation you may recall from the study session desalination was too expensive and had too many risks associated with failed ability to get permitting in other agencies and therefore didn't move forward as one of our seven options however our Board of Public Utilities asked really intelligent questions and asked us to do a deeper dive so there is an appendix included in the plan that talks a lot more in depth about desalination and the plan looks at how we might at Key moments in time in the future key decision points reconsider whether it is time again to look at desalination so desalination didn't move forward in a formal way but it is included in the plan and it is something that we can reconsider at key uh decision points chapter 6 talks about next steps again the plan is not in stone it isn't a way to go from A to B to C but rather move in the direction of a if that makes the most sense switch to B if that makes the most sense move over to C if that makes the most sense so the next steps are more General there were some shared next steps we want to identify funding sources we want to look at the water efficiency programs moving forward those will make sense no matter what Avenue we move forward with this begin to do some studies and some squa uh documentation so for example we're looking at doing an environmental impact report for a groundwater program because we have a groundwater sustainability agency and a groundwater sustainability plan and and because our county has a new groundwater ordinance around permitting we want to make sure that we're meeting all of the requirements for groundwater moving forward because groundwater is included in all of the portfolios so that could be a next step as well look at sighting studies for new wells focused on Aqua for storage and Recovery first but also at extraction only if that makes sense and then we want to continue to track changes in regulations and funding in uh opportunities regionally there may be new Partnerships that develop or other projects that move forward that we want to participate in and then initiate planning studies for other options Beyond groundwater at the right time under the right circumstances as we move forward and again reconsider desalination at the key decision points throughout this process with plenty of appendices again I'll just mention that appendix I is that memorandum on desalination Supply options uh we presented this to our Board of Public Utilities last month they were really appre or earlier this month they were very appreciative of the fact that we had done a deep dive and explained in very plain terms why desalination is particularly challenging uh so if you have questions from constituents about desalination that memorandum may be helpful in terms of really helping in plain language in a few pages explain why desalination doesn't appear to be a good fit for Santa Rosa at this time so with all that I would like to recommend uh or read the recommendation it is recommended by Santa Rose of water and the Board of Public Utilities that the city council by motion accept the water supply Alternatives plan and with that I'm happy to take any questions that you might have in addition I just want to mention that our Woodard and current team our Consulting team are uh online and ready to address any questions that I might not be able to so if you have questions that I can't address we can bring them up as well and I also just wanted to thank them uh they were a terrific team they did outstanding work and again I'm happy to take your questions thank you for for that presentation and I will be looking to council for questions um and seeing none I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your service to our city from my understanding it will be your last time presenting in front of council um as our senior Water Resources planner and soon you will be retired um after serving us for 25 years so thank you very much for your service to our community and in the water department thank you Colin did you bring the Rocks I did not bring my polished rocks it's my new old man hobby all right we will now take public comment on this item Madam City Clerk thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 14.1 please make your way to the podium if you'd like to make a comment you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Please provide your name for public record and go ahead um Thomas L's a civil environmental engineer and I just wanted to say I I thought that was a very U uh capable uh presentation and a thorough investigation I think uh you had a lot of options you explored a lot of options uh obviously groundwater uh oh um congratulations uh on a career uh well played um uh the groundwater obviously is is really important and um uh and and there is a brand new uh um studies their their experiments and so on that use solar directly uh solar modules that directly desalinate it's in experimentation something down the road it has a lot of potential it's not there yet uh definitely couldn't be part of this plan but but in the future possibly uh because you have solar and you would get the desalinization so it's a complicated thing in in in the works where a lot of new technologies are coming but groundwater is the most the greatest potential obviously so just thank you for your service mayor I'm seeing no one else approach the podiums and chamber thank you looking to council council member sta just a quick note to say that to say that I got great feedback from the community stakeholders including some who went into it being openly skeptical so thanks for the thanks for the process that you ran um and then on a more personal note um I'm glad I got a chance to see you work so you're you're a delight to watch at the public meetings thank you thank you for what you've done for the city we'll miss you I see uh heads nodding an agreement with council member steps comment and seeing no additional comments from Council council member stop can you please make a motion I move that the council accept the let's see hold on get my my bearings back here um I move that the council accept the water supply Alternatives plan and wait for the readings of the txt second we have a motion made by council member sta seconded by council member Rogers Madame city clerk may you please call the vote thank you council member step hi council member Rogers hi council member oy hi council member Alvarez hi mayor Rogers hi let the record show that passes with five affirmative votes and mayor or vice mayor McDonald and council member Fleming absent thank you item six and thank you very much for that presentation item 16 will be our written Communications Madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment thank you we are now taking public comment on item 16.1 if you'd like to provide a comment please make your way to the podium you will have 3 minutes and countdown timer will alert at the end of that period mayor I'm see no one approaching the podium for public comment on 16.1 thank you item 17 public comment on non-agenda matters Madame city clerk may you please facilitate public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comment on item 17 non-agenda matters this is a time where you can provide public comment on non-agenda matters that were not spoken on item 13 non-agenda matters mayor MC no one approach the podium on non-agenda matters under item 17 sorry and seeing no additional items on our agenda I would like to take the opportunity to adjourn this meeting um by thanking senior Water Resource planner Colin close for his 25 years of service so the meeting is adjourned thank you | City of Santa Rosa, California | UChF7Zl4VNfZFm-IUdtX6B_A | 2023-10-24 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 17,294 | 94,168 |
1akTBDlhmgo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1akTBDlhmgo | How digital makes you an idiot#2 (디지털은 어떻게 당신을 바보로 만드는가 2편) | [Music] how many contacts do you memorize I used to know my pattern girlfriend and close friends contact when I was young before smartphone came up but now I memorize nothing that's because I don't have to do as although my contact is saved at mobile operating system and I can access it anytime meanwhile when we drive we might get lost away without navigation even if we are familiar with the road in my case I always use Google map no matter where I go I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't remember detailed information and all sorts memorization to digital technology we no longer use our brain to remember detail as it's easy to get in the digital world however scientist ones over use of digital technology could hamper to balance the development of our brain they claim although utilizing brain is kind of training to improve a brain capacity we might underdeveloped brain too convenient digital technology the term digital dementia means heavy reliance on digital technology cause issues in human memory and cognitive skills the problem of digital dementia is digital technology doesn't increase our brain to store information and therefore our short term memory and the ability to concentrate touch deteriorated if we overuse digital technology scientist one habit is to use underutilized the right side of a brain which subtracts attention and memory spent in negative way notably children are especially vulnerable to digital dementia and they are in danger of losing cognitive skills due to intensive use of digital technology besides the famous author in class car also mentioned the development of digital technology seriously affected human brain negatively he claims human brain might regress as the brain gets used to digital environment and people lose ability for concentration and contemplation our brain is changing to demand the constant stimulation or shop form of information in the digital world which is not good for our memory capacity Pisan bound who is a famous computer scientist towards human is getting robotised during humanity amid a increase installation to exist as a human being he claims we need to reject also seeing intellectual thinking to computer the history repeats itself ever since Gutenberg developed printing press the knowledge is spread to meso people people were able to train their brain by reading a book thinking and debate however modern people got used to observing exciting but shallow information in the digital world and our brain remains underutilized contemplation and deep thinking remains difficult for most all people in need information overall the digital world is the Rivoli T where people get lost their memory to prevent visitor dementia experts advise us to consciously stay away from digital doing physical exercise and have actual conversation with a friend in person in addition limit digital exposure and reading a real book are also effective way to avoid the disease dementia I think for those who have kids should be aware of this as kids are easy to get addicted to overuse of digital technology | The 21st century salon | UCogSaXkbOySSqvgfPZPfzbQ | 2018-01-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 509 | 3,077 |
gq7U_9htqcY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7U_9htqcY | Young pharaoh is King Joffrey! | king or move or remove yourself from my presence remove yourself from thine presence or i held the king or remove yourself from thine presence i am the king i will punish you any man who must say i am the king is no true madam is that simple that simple i wake up every day and think i'm a holy spirit a king a god a divine entity i'm a man and i have needs sometimes that took out of your way to endanger yourself becoming one of the most boring conversations i've ever had she married a traitor and known degenerate like renee baratheon for a reason he married melanie baratheon because she was told to that's what intelligent women do what they're told come over here ready to lay down lay your ass down or don't come over here i'm not negating with you it's not up for debate not up for discussion not going back and forth with you if that's a problem get the from over here if you a strong independent woman good good good let's see how far you go on your own feet into maybe i'll pay you a visit tonight after my uncle passes out [Music] how'd you like that you wouldn't that's all right samarin and saborus will hold you down thing going on and they got this feminist thing going on so i'm just letting you know if you're a female come over here ready to lay down lay your ass down or don't come over here i'm not negating with you it's not up for debate not up for discussion not going back and forth with you if that's a problem get the strong independent woman good good good let's see how far you go on your own feed me command him to send rob stark's head i'm going to serve it to sunset my wedding feast you're great feed me wine or get the god of here period period i'm a king i'm not no [ __ ] if you still have any affection in your heart for me please he has to confess and say that i'm the king oh there'll be no mercy for him watch your mouth don't come for the throne don't come for the throne watch your mouth we did it fair and square lady sansa is your aunt by marriage the joke joffrey did not mean it yes i did she is no longer yours to torment everyone is mine to torment tell me which do you favor your fingers or your tongue your grace fingers or your tongue if you got to keep one which would it be every man needs hands your grace good tongue it is progress please i was i'm done for the day [ __ ] ah every time i use it it'll be like cutting off ned stark's head all over again we did it fair square you're not gonna trick me out on my spot you're gonna trick me on my position but just know if i wanted to i'll beat your [ __ ] ass i'll beat your ass if you was on the street i'll beat your ass we was in a prison cell i beat your ass my mother wishes me to let loretta join the night's watch stripped of all titles and powers she would serve the realm in permanent exile and my lady sansa has begged mercy for her father but they have the soft hearts of women so long as i am your king treason shall never go unpunished sir ilyn bring me his head see what happens to traitors need to get on here and be trying to start a beef and troll huh hey y'all [ __ ] want to get on here and troll [ __ ] i'm not one of y'all [ __ ] fats he promised to be merciful i was i gave him a clean death look at him please let me go home i won't do any treason i swear mother says i'm still to marry you so you'll stay here and obey you that's true i'm most likely i'm probably smarter than you every [ __ ] you know so you're not gonna come over here and tell me what to do you're not gonna boss me you're not i'm telling you what to do i'm guiding you and if that's not something that you can psychologically ponder or handle or you feel like i'm not whatever then don't come over here if if we take my life and my being as a man and compare it and compare that character to your character as a woman i'm gonna always be the better character nine times out of ten i don't care what the average woman is building look at him well how long do i have to look as long as it pleases me do you want to see the rest if it please your grace that's your scepter there i'll tell you what i'm gonna give you a present after i raise my armies and kill your traitor brother i'm going to give you his head as well don't worry about one good wait a minute i just want you [ __ ] ass [ __ ] to run your mouth when your mouth [ __ ] at what what you [ __ ] what you said what what you said is your aunt by marriage a joke joffrey did not mean it isn't it she is no longer yours to torment everyone is mine to torment now's the water i have biochemical needs i'm a god i'm a reincarnated angel huh i'm a holy spirit that is what i see myself as i'm not a colonized black man [Music] bring me my goblet now kneel before your king i said neil it's proud of me so all y'all [ __ ] doing is this all y'all [ __ ] doing there's no bad ones i don't [ __ ] with nobody i don't [ __ ] with nobody [ __ ] everybody in the world [ __ ] everybody in the world y'all fear oh [ __ ] everybody in the world that's how you really you gotta need somebody [ __ ] everybody in the world i don't need nobody i don't need nobody i don't need nobody is y'all crazy i hear y'all [ __ ] running your mouth do y'all [ __ ] know where i came from we'll have to send your brother a message some other way man leave your face i like her pretty i said you will bring her to his chambers when you're finished and show him what you've done well the same thing will happen to you never get to try again the fall breaks them [Music] you ain't just gonna be able to just in a minute you're not gonna don't even touch me if you're not worthy if you're not worthy don't even touch me i'm not a weak ass bum ass silly minded [ __ ] at one of these hbcus that's learning bush and thinking i'm not one i'm not none of these [ __ ] i just need my respect get the [ __ ] out of here i'm not no threat i'ma just spike your broad [ __ ] that's it you're gonna be at home trying to and i'm gonna be at home stroking that thing yes that's why you afraid say that you don't want samantha to come to my house why because you know you're gonna be at home falling in love with samantha trying to marry samantha i'm gonna be at home piping samantha and then telling her to get the [ __ ] out my business a lot of traitors hold their heads oh you fly the dirty food you caught in stock me we've had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings but i don't know if we've ever been cursed with the vicious idiot you can't i can i am they attacked me they threw a cowboy at you so you decide to kill do y'all [ __ ] know look literally you're weak y'all [ __ ] is weak i don't understand why y'all keep doing your week you don't really want no smoke you gonna tell you're gonna tell you're gonna tell [ __ ] i'm grown and i got kids in response aaron my lady is overdressed i'm burdened huh if you want rob stark to hear us we're going to have to speak 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1QUfJJGeJL8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QUfJJGeJL8 | NYS Senator Brad Hoylman speaks with EANY's Peter Iwanowicz | senator it's great to be with you you're such an environmental champion you've been so strong throughout your tenure as a state senator and working on environmental protection so on this 50th anniversary of Earth Day when the world ends and facing a pandemic from the coronavirus it's great to be with you to talk with you today but I'm really just sort of curious if you want to just share with you you know your history involvement in Earth Day and what Earth Day means to you both you know as a as an elected official but alkyl equally important as a as a as a person and as a dad thank you Peter thanks for having me and thanks for all the amazing work that EA does in Albany the gold standard for so many environmental groups sorry I really appreciate what you've done in this last session and sessions to come in particular you know for me Earth Day means that the best of the best of activism because 50 years ago you know there wasn't really the concept that you could change government's approach toward the environment until people organized and were inspired by people like Rachel Carson and other great thinkers and took to the halls of Congress and state legislatures like New York and advocated for change to protect our environment and for me as a state legislator that is one of my foremost responsibilities which is to make this planet a better place for my children and future generations of New Yorkers and that sums up for me and I think for many my colleagues what Earth Day is about the noble promise of bettering our environment but the awesome responsibility to do so here in New York and in the Statehouse of Albany yeah thanks thanks for sharing that with me and thanks for your kind words about the organization so just a quick follow-up then so as we're looking at this Earth Day and future Earth days what do you think of sort of like the key things that New York and New Yorkers should be doing to ensure that you know I think in this moment of time the nation really needs us to be that true environmental leader and it's going to need us even more going forward so what are the sort of the key things that New York and individuals in New York should be doing to advance environmental protection that so that that state can be the true environmental leader that the nation needs of it right now I think you see in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic one of the principles at play that was part of the climate leadership and community protection act that really transcending a climate bill that was passed last year with EA's leadership and that is the impact on low-income and minority communities covin 19 is ravaging the now just like climate change has ravaged them for the last 100 plus years so we need to reorient our focus and continue to assist low-income communities to have the ability to head off climate change just just as we're trying to do in the nascent stages of protecting them against Kovach 19 these kinds of communities are often the victims of chronic air pollution which research has shown that is linked to worse Kovan 19 health outcomes and so I'm really proud that we passed the CLC PA with those New Yorkers in mind I'm proud that we have you know fully implemented the diesel emissions reduction Act and have taken other steps to to clean our air we have to continue to incentive renewable energy improve air and water quality and invest in these communities those that have been most victimized by pollution and are vulnerable to climate change | Clean and Healthy | UCFOnNFUg5KiBWDzzWBnZAnQ | 2020-04-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 640 | 3,508 |
CJHO_k89nEg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHO_k89nEg | Upgrading from Standard to super deluxe edition Edition Fortnite Save The World | hey what's up guys and welcome back to my youtube channel it's me titli else in today's video we're gonna be watching or we're gonna be upgrading actually I'm sorry I said that wrong we're gonna be upgrading from standard addition to standard to like as you guys can see right here we're gonna be upgrading from standard to super deluxe upgrade and like we're gonna be upgrading to that and this these are their wards we're gonna be getting and right now I am gonna go ahead and purchase this by the time I am gonna purchase this right now right now I'm gonna purchase it and for some safety purposes I'm gonna be hiding some of my info here guys mmm-hmm so yeah this is loading up right now and we're gonna get right into it ooh okay loading your order I'm gonna be sure shut up right now we're gonna go to credit card and I'm gonna fill out my credit card information we're gonna be right back and there we go guys we just placed an order it says thank you and email has been sent to you for your thing for your thing and I don't know what just happened and we're just gonna click on select game boy didn't see what happens I'm gonna Reese we rejoin save the world hopefully it might have updated it or I'll be pissed off look we don't tell anyone else about this but since you got in on the ground floor of this whole saving the world thing we got you a little something special check it out okay okay hi I'm weird lawmaking here look don't tell anyone else about this but since you got in on the ground floor of this whole saving the world thing we got you a little something special check it out okay egg look how many times is he gonna say that dude how old lady tires whoa founders chat unlock unlock saunders chat channel row what is that RDX people bonuses peter party members when you have a boost active okay collect additional rewards is daily okay legendary control stash llama bro these banner icons man look at these dude I got the epic employee wait let's go red who's down to that see that guys is just amazing me I love getting these things and let's see what we got okay okay we got some rewards under his daily reward art Maurice thanks here's a schematic that we got not really not important but stealth and then we're gonna go to resources we got legendary troll stache llama tokens ooh which is cool and after that we have some more stuff right here hmm and then you go to command heroes manage okay these are the halo as you get booked no point not getting that waste okay and then this is a mythic hero ID this bottom defenders I got two epic employee defenders boys but not gonna be using them it trees in jail what leg it reaches my brother's name haha but anyways and then I'm gonna go to my item shop we're gonna open some of these llamas in here and see okay I've got name just change to an epic what the heck okay so loot how many okay we're gonna open these entry tools - llama thing we're gonna claim it we're gonna open it we're gonna see what's in it boys okay okay and legendary that's cold man my Luck's getting amazing dude you did this gave us pay to win guys you get to legendary I got let you do a survivor okay lead survivor you got a pressure cutter which is lit okay Luther Lama oh I can get more okay I'm gonna get all four of them so stop respect think these are all gonna be legendary yeah I think is there these are the these are the favored legendary lamas let's see what else we get boys okay oh we got the cooper elegant sight which is not really good for save-the-world use this but the sound is really cool still gonna keep it on my schematics not gonna add it to a collection rope or recycle it or anything like that yeah okay we got another legendary survivor we swing or scrum what would you do guys I would swing who wouldn't swing let's see what else we get okay all these epic or a rare survivors not working for me man come on stop giving me do it it's giving me melee weapons give me guns okay we got 500 okay four so we can buy okay we got a ceiling zapper we got legendary survivor we got 500 snowflake tickets you got a legendary husk husk so forceful slugger we got a legendary clacks I'm legendary lead survivor legendary wall want you dude I needed this I was gonna get it from collection book I had a bad thing accident do you recycle they or just get something wrong with it cuz I'm like a little bit doodoo but anyways yeah okay silver I'm gonna put it in there open it let's see what we get from this legendary okay okay it's not bad so far guys it's been pretty good okay we got two defenders we got okay oh we got a maverick and trick and master Sarah I'm not gonna be using those because it's gonna be they're not using it anyways oh we got 2000 which means we can over some looter llamas bro let's go man okay I'm gonna open these carefully and show you guys what we get okay so I got that and oh my god I got the Cooper dragon rocket launcher I wanted that but we didn't have time for it oh I mean the things for you or it wasn't here I don't know what the heck I'm saying don't even listen to me I mean you do listen to me cuz I was talking to you guys anyways tank penny we let's go guys some good rewards man I'm so hyped up for this thing this is insanely good man just look at these dude like seriously okay okay legendary legendary copper man copper dragon sword copper dragon spear sword obviously sword is faster and better it's epic so anyways not usable and okay let's see the next one beautiful - legendary with it oh no it's just like opens I hope I get something legendary man I did you get a legendary skin though okay legendary oh wow okay copper dragons for you or copper dragons my god damn this is insane dude - what do we get what do we get what do we get what do we get what do we get what do we get I can't speak in the lungs I'm gonna go for the shotgun guys copper dragons my schematic shotgun let's go I wanted that it's pretty good and that is see the see okay okay we got bass Kyle so we don't need but still yeah we got the legendary copper dragons might we got these bugs some good stuff here man some good stuff okay we got 300 winter Loma we don't need that items do we have any gold brah I want the Wukong since I don't have a mythic surviving soldier I'm gonna buy a MOOC on I wanted to buy it at least but I used my gold buying isn't it Wow okay schematics let's see these schematics baby let's go man I wanted to get the Dragons might one of my friends I in the wallet you're obviously pretty important and yeah guys let's see what else what else what else what else oh this is all you get pretty cool these are pretty decent not bad like you know and then you go to schematics I get I was just there I do do guys right there then you go to command survivors survivors so these are the legendary survivors we got we got three legendary lead survivors bruh this is the same and then we go like this like this and a half one thousand two robber XP which is pretty cool we go to heroes we go to defenders there carry you guys I'm pretty cool dude I don't have a legendary defenders but anyways a rifle okay it reached and rifle anyways we don't need those because I'm gonna be using legendaries and I don't even have a single one guys I don't please don't say anything please come on okay so we got these base Kyle we got enforcer grizzly rate control esashi and Sarah and these things are just mind-blowing and then let's see let's see let's see that's all we got guys you know if I want to upgrade to limited upgrading that these are were things that I'm gonna get and it's gonna be for 29 bucks in order if I want to get it and I don't name from I'm gonna get gold for these I'm gonna buy all of these don't worry guys I'm the king of gold I can't get gold easy it's easy for me partic speed buff bonus XP two members when you have a boost active that's let ya it's basically eight guys thank you guys so much for watching once again I appreciate you guys taking your time coming here I don't have access to Twin Peaks but anyways thank you so much the support lately has been amazing you guys are awesome I appreciate you guys always being here and that's literally all I want to say you guys are amazing and you always make my day I appreciate that thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed it make sure you leave a like subscribe to the channel and if you want to obviously it's your personal choice I'm not gonna push you guys to do that but once again thank you so much for watching you guys are the best I appreciate you guys and have an amazing rest of your night or day and bye | Said Elyas | UC1KynL-mDe9qambXMyzCCBg | 2019-02-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,704 | 8,599 |
BRPtGoF72o8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRPtGoF72o8 | Chris Foster, TC Energy | AWS Summit Digital 2020 | from the cube studios in Palo Alto in Boston connecting with thought leaders all around the world this is a cube conversation hello everyone welcome back to the cubes coverage of 80s summit online a virtual conference this is the virtual cube doing the remote interviews from our studio in Palo Alto I'm John 4 host of the cube we're here with our quarantine crew we're getting all the interviews out there and also covering all the greatest in the cloud we're in the cloud we're in the coverage our got a great guest here practitioner who's really riding the innovation wave at the same time taking advantage of the scale of AWS and putting into practice Chris foster who's the CIO of TC Energy Chris thanks for spending the time to come on the Q appreciate it now pleasure John thanks for the opportunity so you got a great innovation story that's something that we've been reporting a lot on is how companies can really reinvent reset reinvent grow and put things in place from a DevOps cloud scale perspective you're doing it within the energy area take a minute to first explain what TC energy is and your role yeah for sure John you know TC energy you know we're one of the biggest energy companies in North America so the fastest way to explain it you know we like to think we provide the energy that you know in a enables and powers people's lives and about one in four of every molecules it gets delivered in North America that's us and my role there I'm very fortunate I lead the EIS team I have done since January first of 2019 and our ews journey started a little bit before that I've had the pleasure of sort of jumping on the the exciting part of it I like to think where we've got a lot of that enabled and we're moving to a lot of the innovation phases of of that implementation well I love the innovation story we love talking about how the new reality that's upon us certainly were in this kovat crisis where people are actually seeing the impact of scale problems you have a job where your product really cannot have disruption right at the same time there's a large scale to it and so as you guys think about what's going on on the pressure you're under at the same time you can't just cut projects you can't just cut costs for cutting costs sake they're actually really needs to be an investment or doubling down in this case take us through that that process because if you're on them the the cloud native wave and the AWS wave you are on you've been rolling out thinking about DevOps you ever thinking about agility but now as these new pressures emerge and even more new realities certainly not a new normal I hate the term but you know some people are using it it's a new reality and that is the right projects need to be funded because of the consequences of not having everything in place this is where cloud shines and this is where innovation and good management kind of comes into play can you share your perspective on that yeah I'd be happy to Jon you know safety is our number one concern always has been always will be and so you know we we look at everything we do from that lens of doing things safely and and reliability as well of course it's not just the safety in the way people would you know think about every day it's also the reliability of that energy people rely on every day and that has to be almost in our in our thoughts and then everything that we do so I mean as an example I would say you know some of the you know around the periphery of what we did with our AWS implementation we also took a a hard look at our network implementations and how things were working in the background how we were connected up and that's one of the reasons that when we transitioned you know literally we went from a hey we should start thinking about working from home sort of on a Wednesday Thursday and by Monday the entire company was working from home right and that was the story for a lot of folks I think and it was seamless you know we were not just able to you know obviously that the primary focus was safety reliability and of course you know that was what preoccupied people in the early days we went even beyond that I would say very quickly we were actually talking to people about you know is projects that didn't reach the criticality of safety and reliability but was still important and we were telling our stakeholders the delivery dates haven't changed I mean we were working in the office on Friday we're working at home on Monday no big deal talk about the agility piece of that because I think that puts an exclamation point around what agility is supposed to be an unforeseen situation you implement your business as usual in kind of a weird way it's not usual but cloud allows you to put the speed and scale and reliability together what was the partnership with a do how did that change things or help things can you just unpack that a little bit yeah John I the way I explained it to my business partners that work within TC Energy is look it used to take us you know several weeks to get you any kind of compute capacity so when we start talking about innovation and trying new things it the the entry cost was high just in terms of time and in terms of money right like you'd have to give us a pile of cash let us go away design servers you know get all the right equipment bracket and everything else and that's a huge impediment to trying new things and being truly agile what AWS has really given us yes we're out of the business of looking after our own servers and so I'm able to move my people to what I would say is more valuable work for the company that really focuses on the outcomes but what's also very cool for our business partners is I can say them luck if you want more compute power than you've ever had before this afternoon you know give me give me an hour and we'll have it for you and the great part too is if on Monday you change your mind and you decide that that idea you had wasn't so great after all and oops that's fine I'll just turn it off for you right and there's no big deal whereas in the old days you phoned me on Monday and said it was a bad idea and say well that's great but I already bought the server and you you're living with it for five years that's a great example you know I've seen both pieces of the puzzle here one side the waterfall provision there's a lot of risk involved and many levels the president scale or fit if it fails you got the costs and then the agility side you got those examples that you just pointed out but kind of asks you as a manager you know some enterprises that are going into this area get stressed out and things seem to be last minute how do you manage that when does it tip over to be part of the culture where it's like don't worry about it it's gonna work because when new things have a full of process process is great you know don't break anything this wait last minute so experimentation as you pointed out is the key to innovation getting things out there but managing it is a hard part what's your experience and what's your best practice yeah I think if I understand your question rightly join me a lot of this goes to me towards culture and you know we you can be I think coming from a place where perhaps your your vote your view of risk needs to change to get you into this new space so obviously like I said at the outset you know safety and reliability is number one we never do anything that would compromise any of those things the reality and is if I look at it is that you know 80 90 percent of what I do doesn't have those types of implications associated with it and so it becomes you know a different conversation about about risk and saying what's the worst thing that could happen and you know you know if that's not going to to impact any you know safety and reliability then let's take a look at it and so I think the other thing that people are frightened of when it comes to implementing a change like this is obviously the impact on people right and I take that part of it very seriously to what I've been really pleased by in our journey is that we've managed to bring people along and give them new skill sets and we're continuing to do that we actually introduced what I call next e or the team sorry they came up with us not me but it's called next EC University and it's this fabulous you know ability for people start signing on and getting new skill sets you know retraining themselves and so we're starting to try and give people that sense of what's in it for them because that's the human element right and so for people that loved servers you know I you know it was a big change to say I'm not gonna get to touch it anymore I'm not gonna get to rack that server that's what I'm good at no but you're still gonna get to do these other skills right yeah and that's a great point first of all if you love servers you love compute so when you see the compute in action you know they got to get excited about that and I think that's one of the things I think having that on-demand compute almost like a dials or dialing it up and you guys are probably familiar with that and your business is having that on hand but the team piece I want to get back to that cuz I think that's a thing you mentioned earlier you can team can be deployed in new new things you have a next TC which is more of a learning aspirational ladder or kind of way to make people feel good about themselves by getting new skills and reapplying it so nice flywheel for the people side of the business you know people process technology as they say but talk about the impact of the teams working with AWS and cloud in general what are some of those things they're working on how do you shift how do you flex that what's some of the commentary around team the work that they do and value yeah it's a great question John and it's one I like to talk about because what we've been able to do is to draw much more of a clear line for our people between you know what they do and how it impacts the business and I like to talk to people about the fact that we're blurring the lines now between iOS and the business I think like it's never been truly done before right you know I love to tell a story about one of my earlier in career folks who was presenting to a very senior group a senior group of VP's one of whom came to me at the end of the meeting and said you know which which one of our business units is that young man from and I said he's a nice guy no no he said the guy that was talking that line pack and all those other things and I said no he's a nice guy right and he was in disbelief and that's what I would tell you is the biggest impact the team's is it's blurring that line now where they're getting much more engaged on the business side but also the eye you know the business folks are getting much more in you know engaged on the is side so this is kind of meshing now that you know is people have always striven for and always said you know be a partner don't be an order-taker in my mind a lot of this makes that possible because you're getting out of those technical conversations you're having you're connecting much more with the with the outcomes that you can produce for the business most of the action - with this do you get there near the business they can see it they can feel the victories and also participate in that upside and also taste some of the learnings - I mean a lot of steep learning curves that go on through through the experimentation and you mentioned this is this is the fun part but also it could be rewarding if you look at it that way so how do you guys deal with the failures and learnings and you know like to talk about failure but in the sense if we couldn't try happens you've got to have that mindset of a growth mindset where you're like okay we're to fail we're not gonna take it personal as all you learn from it how do you handle that yeah it's it's a great question John you mentioned you're sort of sick of the words new normal and I'm I get a little tired of the sort of the fail fast for similar reasons really to me it it's it's not fail first as much as felt small and fail quick well fail fast yeah but it's it's making sure you fail on the small things so we have had failures what I say to my business partners is look in the past I would have failed after nine months and a couple million dollars of your money and probably more importantly you've lost nine months of getting to that solution now I'm gonna aim to fail in six weeks or less and we're gonna very quickly weed out ideas what I try and get them very excited about is you know stop worrying about where an idea is a good idea or a bad idea and spending months of analysis and time trying to figure it out let's do things and you'll find it's cheaper to do some of these ideas figure out quickly gonna cost way too much money so we had one that was targeting some improvements in our field experience and we underestimated the complexity of the systems it was going to tie back into and all the legacy stuff that was in there it wasn't a green field nice clean thing to do and we did we found out after a couple months this isn't gonna work right well better after two months than two years and several million dollars and that's how we kind of position it internally you know you had the whole fail-fast thing you know you got me going on that there's a couple of terms I always first of all I talk a lot of jargon so it's always kind of me to call the the pot black but fail fast no one wants to fail right so this whole glamorization of failure any entrepreneur and a leader no one revels in failure I mean failure is avoided no one loved to say no fails but it's more engineering it's more getting the iteration that's that's that's the real issue here it's not so much Hey look at me I fail you know that's got to be put to the side but what you're getting at is really engineering or architecting really working a problem and you need to make those iterations which is essentially failure but this whole idea of failing is just that data link get me going it was true that example they gave you we've actually just launched a very successful pilot from the learnings of that so-called failure yeah not really I was just fell into another entrepreneur and I'm like you know when you're in the business and you're ahead of the curve the whole world realizes up all the pandemic these are some things there are some companies that have those deep learnings and they have an advantage because those endeavors give them that that courage to try something but when it's now something obvious to do those learnings are an advantage not a disadvantage so to your point that's awesome stuff talk about the machine learning side of it I'd love to get your take on are you tapping into some of the Amazon machine learning how see the compute stuff I can see that being killer you guys what about some of the higher-level services that come out of having some of these new things available like sage maker there's a machine learning tons of stuff coming out of the woodwork if you will from an Amazon standpoint how are you looking at that yeah there's some fabulous tools in there that we're definitely you know we're fairly early in the in the journey I would say but we're already starting to see some great opportunities some great possibilities so you know for example as people probably realize we're quite rightly heavily regulated and we you know quite correctly have to produce a lot of information to our regulators to establish that we're doing all of the right things you know sometimes when you've grown by acquiring different companies you know putting your hands on the right information at the right time can be challenging and so we're using things like machine learning to help us find documentation quicker and faster to make sure that we can pull out you know certificates or regulation you know testing results things like that much faster than we could in the past right so that's one use that we already see for that that has the potential to you know speed up our interactions with regulators help us you know refocus some costs internally on you know safety initiatives and that type of thing so that's one example we're also using machine learning to tell us more about how you can you know continue to operate the pipe you know more safe you know always more safely more reliably all the time and you know the I truly believe you know all all roads lead back to the data and how you get out that data right and so machine learning as most people in this audience will understand is is really another way of getting that data to tell you everything that's hidden within it yeah once you get your team set up with the mindset the culture having that compute working on new things you take advantage of machine learning then you got things like Kendra which just announced hi general availability these become abstractions as services so I that kind of leads me kind of my final question for you is we're living at a time where post pandemic is going to be exposed that there's a lot of gaps well are people gonna realize that you know the the tide has pulled out you can see all the rocks that are exposed opportunities out there and there's also challenges so we expecting a lot of projects going to be cut may be personnel as but there's gonna be a lot of projects being funded so the fun versus cutting is gonna be I think it's gonna all level out but as people get back in and want to go to the cloud how should they be thinking about this how should they be coming into the market because at your level the CXO levels is more visibility than ever on resetting reinventing and growing right getting back on track or doubling down on a win so what's your advice to people out there the practitioners of Co Amazon summit and other folks that are really need to take the step into the cloud native scale world what's your advice well yeah it's definitely a challenging world done for a lot of people and we're not immune to that you know we are seeing in my local community for sure lots of lots of people pulling back on projects and and expenditures right now my advice to to any other folks out there is when I talk to my business partners I try and talk them about funding outcomes and not funding projects right and so you know rather than when you my biggest concern whenever we talk about budgets everyone has to go through budget conversations I don't care what industry you're in or what your position is I want to make sure that when we decide where we set the budget if we're going to set it here do we know what's above the line and below the line in business terms right so it's very easy to cut technology and not really see a business impact and so what I like to talk about with our business partners internally is to talk about everything in terms of the outcomes you're trying to fund right and so if for me it's a enhancement in field productivity you know reducing the windshield time of our people in the field because that's a primary safety issue that's the outcome I'm going for and I'll be projects behind it and that that's the biggest advice I can give people when it's now you know there's so much scrutiny on you know is that a dollar that's worth spending if you talk about technology in most you know boardrooms or leadership tables around North America you're gonna lose people very first you've got to focus it back to what the business is trying to do with it and create teams that can really zero in together you know blur the lines like I said previously between iOS and the business people where everyone's got the outcome that's pasted up on the wall that's what we're gonna deliver we're gonna you know come to a conclusion quickly on whether we can do it yeah it's not a shiny new toy it's how the engine of innovation hits the business subject that's great stuff final final question what are you excited about these days obviously we're in a tough time there are new realities we're gonna come out of this it's gonna be a hybrid world in this virtual interactions we're having the cube virtual Amazon summit virtual life is in now part of everyone it's an immersion you got the edge of the network explode and you got all of it you know I mean it's chaotic but if you squint through that there's opportunities start up a big business what are you excited about I agree with you John I think you have to be glass half-full and I don't mean to be just a sort of overly optimistic but I think you have to look at this as an opportunity for a bit of a rebirth and a shift right and you know I don't want to downplay the fact that change is hard for people I don't downplay the fact that people are going through some very tough things right now so you know not not trying to put sort of but too much of a sweetener on things but I think if you're looking for a positive angle you look at the rebirth and the opportunities that will come out of that right I think there's incredible you know technology opportunities coming out of it I talk to my people all the time about focus and what you can control and what you can control this thing relevant right we know we're entering a digital world we know that things are gonna look differently when we come back we may not know what they are yet but companies are going to continue to need great technology you know our partnership with AWS has given us access to great technology you know focus on that because it's what you can control and I think you know you'll see that some opportunities will come out of this we probably didn't expect yeah and also this it's an inflection point as well 2008 when we had the financial crisis there there were clear companies over on the up trajectory and stayed up here I think we're gonna see something similar so I think there's gonna be a right side of history coming out of this and it's gonna be one of those things where you can tell by who's growing and who's for the trajectories of their business outcomes what's right a lot of that yeah I would agree a lot of there's there's always someone that's that you you don't realize till later was was quietly making making hay right while all this was happening and I'd encourage people to think about that yeah you don't want to be that company as the expression goes Chris right thank you so much for taking the time to share your insights on the cube virtual as part of our EDS summit coverage this the cube virtual thanks for coming I appreciate it pleasure thanks Melanie I'm John for hear and the Palo Alto Studios covered eight sumit online virtual is the cubed virtual doing our part here with our quarantine crew getting all the data sharing that with you I'm John Fourier 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dl5F39Jxdjw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5F39Jxdjw | More Melanin Mondays: Cheryl | hello there welcome back to more melanin Mondays my name is Melody and I'm the family coordinator and part of the curriculum team here at seesaw today we are going to hear from a seesaw employee who is a native to Hawaii her name is Cheryl and we're going to listen as she tells us about the wonderful things she does here at seesaw aloha kako hi everyone I'm Cheryl an experienced designer on the curriculum team here at seesaw I love designing seesaw lessons to empower all students to see themselves and what they're learning for example I recently co-wrote a book for the summer learning collection about Queen liliuokalani's Legacy to show how you can be creative through song dance and lay making she was the last queen of Hawaii I also strive to make sure Educators and parents are equipped with the necessary instructional resources to help underrepresented youth populations build computer science and 21st century digital skills I employ human-centered design practices to make sure all learning experiences are Equitable and engaging wow Cheryl students and families are going to benefit from the design work you do here at seesaw seesaw is definitely more amazing because of you thank you for watching we'll see you next time | Seesaw | UCYUfnb7MIsGald-Xtig9Umw | 2023-01-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 211 | 1,237 |
dvPk1e-sUF0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPk1e-sUF0 | ST Demand Against Very Fabric of Manipur, Says Meghen | salaams you are watching news click since 1964 the United National Liberation Front has maintained an active Insurgency in India's Northeast with the stated aim of creating a sovereign socialist Manipur at the peak of the Insurgency the Manipur People's Army the unlf's armed Wing had as many as 2000 armed and trained militants based in camps in and around the Indo Myanmar border as far as the union of India is concerned the outfit along with other valley-based Insurgent groups such as the pla remain banned the day after manipur's current chief minister and biren Singh feigned resignation in a series of events that political analysts have summarized as pure political theater news click had the opportunity to sit down in imphal with former chairman of the unlf r.k Megan or sanayaima as he's popularly known Megan is a well-respected figure in the Maite Community which is the dominant group in the state he spoke to us on a range of issues from the idea of the methane demand for scheduled tribe status to the failures of the right-wing government in power in both the state and the center this is part of news click's coverage of the conflict in Manipur from the ground where we were since the 7th of June Islam's the day after what we are being told was the playing out of well-scripted political theater in the manipuri capital in Fall we have the opportunity to sit down with me again the former chairman of the unlf social activist now and a prominent figure in methi society we'll be talking about the Genesis of the current conflict of course and also what he thinks is the political responsibility of the present establishment in sort of in in the start of this conflict as well as what role the government of Environ Singh and government of India need to play in a political solution in what he believes is the idea of an integrated and an inclusive Manipur in that sense uh so thank you for talking to news click uh let's begin with the St demand which uh at least from one side is being viewed as the starting point right the reason for uh all those tens of thousands of people to have gathered in the peace ground at surajanpur on the 3rd of May in in that solidarity reality organized by the atsum uh yourself as someone who has been a militant politically has had a strong stance on on all issues concerning Manipur as well as broader political issues and economic issues uh what do you how do you view the St demand from uh the mathe side well uh before I give my answer to your question I must tell you that mateys being in about being settling about just about six seven percent of the land area Niner nine percent but actually the space limit is is about not in five percent uh the mighties at one time they were the major community in the valley and the whole of Manipur now it is it has weakened that is one point and the constriction of the species in the small Valley is a another Factor that some affectionate is thought that becoming a civil tribe in the Constitutional tribe list is a solution but I must say that the Grievances of the mighties being a very small space constricted and finding it difficult to sustain life in the valley it's very genuine because of brothers and they said who tried list they have enjoyed the status of civil Drive the quarter system and all so the youngest interest of the metis they feel that they are being left out so it is basically a middle class perspective that is must be in the federal drivers of the Indian constitution but from my perspective I will say their grievances are very genuine absolutely so there must be a constitutional solution to take advances of mighties but in my perception in my conception civil tribe to be enlisted in the Civil Strife is not the solution because it is about my days inclusive meetings becoming exclusive but it is have all along been inclusive because they are the people community who took them maximum responsibility in building from the land called Manipur interesting multi-ethnic you know Mosaic about 35 ethnic groups coexisting and consolidating it into a sort of State structure right it's not a joke no very small so the mateys cannot afford to be exclusive so narrow divided so the real solution lies that might is should remain inclusive to talk to other communities and find a common solution that all of the communities can coexist interdependently and this and I I think there's no room for such a solution in the present in the Constitution need to be amended so that it can resolve the meaningful situation I mean the government there's a thing in terms of you know you stressing yourself according to your body to feed your body not to slice of the body to feed the cell isn't it this is the situation you know so the a sectional people demanding Mighty people demanding to be doing this Civil Right list it is you know irritated at a tribal Community particularly the cookies they they felt that the mateys are you know uh and Crossing upon their space travels so they use this demand for sale to you know emotionally trust the younger cookies that is one thing yeah so as I said once again I must I want to repeat that inclusiveness is actually the nature of my days so that all of the communities all the communities can coexist peacefully enter it manually and either whenever that's it since this situation developed well the first one week I was observing the situation and after that on this when stories and news are for the human tragedy coming out from Moria turbo and other places then I started working around places meeting the victims of the violence and seeing the condition in the relief camps and interacting with the victims themselves also touching stories got to know and then I began to think about the whole thing why this is happening which should not have happened at all the first place the root causes of the conflict rather the violence from the cookie side I must tell you that [Music] almost all the cookie leaders organizations in the suspension of operations they are known to be and we had quite good realists yes before when I was chairman of the United so I was you used to be based in the same region and interact quite frequently very much and we had some political understanding also yeah but then I couldn't make out why this is happening because in the history of Manipur cookies arm cookies are taking the medicines in such a scale and has not happened before is Unthinkable so the big question is why this time first as you may be aware the migration of cookies from the Myanmar side into Manipur began in the middle of 18th century say about 17 40 41. then some sort of systematic import of cookie cookies into Manipur began in began during the British period so that's a cookies they are I mean for helping the British administrations is their testing is sort of Force but those cookies those generation of cookies do it and they're different in their Outlook and their contacts and their relationship with my taste and we also have accepted them as natives of Manipur but the problem began when in the late 90s in the wake of the Naga cookie you know conflicts migration of Burmese cookies into Manipur began and last numbers illegal migration I mean as you know there is an international border and anybody Crossing on Irish Harold border must do so with you know necessary travel documents but in this body area there is no such thing and the cookies on the maneuver side cookies in groups I mean and those in the chin Hills of the world that side I mean their kids and Kane often that is very right but even even if so even if they are killing Keen there is an extension board recognize International boundary Lane so once thank you one crosses the border to the other side he's a foreigner there isn't it but this aspect of the Border management was never done in long years and it is accumulation of that negligence or rather or whether it is deliberate or not that is another question but not doing so not mending the water as it should have been done it has contributed to the present conflict because the cookies they claim they are also indigenous people of Manipur so by claiming so their ethnic identity they now try to you know Express that ethnic identity into territory identity the problem begins there exclusive ethnic identity trying to assert any specific territory area and if that ever happens to overlap with other ethnic ethnicities the conflict is there sure now the middays and others strongly react to that is are the indigenous people of Manipur so this is actually the but so since you know as per I suppose if we go by uh the government of India or there are then many uh sort of ethnicities tribes that are considered to be um of Manipur and living in Manipur and have rights that are determined by the Constitution uh so maybe we can start off or proceed by first trying to understand what is uh in that sense your idea of Manipur and how do you look at it who are the people uh like is is it an inclusive idea or or is it a land that belongs to certain people how does that fit in uh with you well my idea of Manipur is uh Manipur is a land offer those people who have settled here for a long long time whether you call them original settlers or indigenous or whatever but but we have also accepted the earlier cookies as natives of panipur and this Manipur is not based on any religious identity all the ethnic groups should coexist and the court develop that is Manipur and all must respect one another's distinctive identity at the same time they must also promote a larger Collective identity so that they can create a new culture of coexistence that's my idea inclusive very much but then when others say for example cookie say cookie for cookies that is very exclusive and that exclusive ideology or political ideology comes into conflict with implicitous but even so we have always tried to coexist with all the communities ethnic communities in Manipur because why when might is though being in the very small this thing maybe about six percent or seven percent of the total land area of Manipur they are the people who took the most you know this thing share of responsibility in creating the land called Manipur [Music] you may say external Vision like the Myanmar The Bomb is did and the second second half of I mean the second decade of 18th and 19th centuries that is how the land Manipur began to be Consolidated and developed but then it is while taking care of themselves as a people they cannot afford to be exclusive because they are the one who must sacrifice the most so that the idea of Manipur does not break up so when we say uh the Integrity of Manipur that entails the special responsibility of tomatoes and if them it is failed to take this responsibility then the idea manipul disintegrates that is my concern my life so not just a territorial Concept in that sense but but but in you know in all aspects whether social aspects and even spiritual aspects so uh the beginning at least from a Mainland perspective there was a sense that or from the coverage at least that this is a conflict between a group that is a a dominant group in terms of size and B also belonging to uh the same political force that runs the central government and essentially a Hindu group right because those are the terms in which I suppose these conflicts are commonly understood in an Indian context and a group of tribals who are a minority and belong to the Christian faith predominantly is that a framework that applies in it to this and if so now it doesn't apply because you know Almighty the mighty people of course originally they have their own philosophy of life rather some people like to call it religion but to me it's not just a religion it's a philosophy of Life called tsunami but in this thing early 18th century then this Priestess from West Bengal came and the King after expanding the daily trip on April three days Beyond this Indian River [Music] and in the notes up to receive up to six or Assam and in West Sanford or foreign so even when he embraced Hinduism he he was a mighty like that today also so many uh this thing maybe not just tsunami Hindus are there among them it is and now even Christians are there yeah so so the militaries cannot be identified on religious religious lines religion is actually uh individuals right of choice freedom of faith and belief and that no one can say no so the idea of Manipur or particular Humanities cannot be based on religious and religion trait that is one so in this conflict also who are fighting against the cookies [Music] they are Christians they are Hindus they are synonyms but there may be some effort some quarters may want to identify it as Hindu Mata is fighting against her Christian cookies that was the story I mean the other side of the story being spread around the United media yeah but not so but not so so has it been politically created this this narrative and if so to what end what what is the sort of purpose of creating this divide in uh in in a region which is also in its own way for hundreds of years has had its own Dynamics and its own sort of both differences and commonalities like you were mentioning yeah well your question brings out one thing uh as I said yeah the cookies have never attacked the meditates because the older cookies they are the cookies who even protected Mayday case in terms of extended threats and the Burmese cookies for migrate into magical recently in recent history they do not know Manipur they do not have any love for Manipur and they particularly they don't have any feeling of coexistence with tomatoes and other at groups this is one thing and but they have become arrogant and they have developed a political ideology of creating a cookie land which is I mean not at all acceptable as you know the history of Manipur does not allow it to think on their mind so I mean the idea of having a cookie land separate from Manipur it is a challenge to the very idea of universe don't accept it wholesale the big question is why the cookies have decided to attack Tomatoes This Time some cookies one feels that there are certain forces once this conflict yeah so that they can take advantage of it sure so the question points to the government of India all along the state government as well and also in this case there are two sides of the same time very much I mean all along you have seen a dividend rule from the British time being continuation and today also so uh one feels that that divide and Rule will now becoming Divine and destroy [Music] so many armed cookies [Music] and the number of uh this thing cookie arm groups in the suspension of operations there are not so many in terms of arms and Men there are not so many so the authorities have claimed that all their best thing as those cookies and the suspension operations they have been released it and the arms have been collected and deposited that's okay but others aren't cookies through roaming around freely why why this is one question so these points to the common common people's notion that the government just helping the cookies they have a rather to all the cookies that this is the right time to take Medics because from all aspects the mighties are in a very very weak position for example under you may say the insurance arm groups and now at the lowest level of their this thing strains and the Mages as a community is a people they're very fragmented fractured fractured everyone has their own yeah yes all right right and another single voice is there so I think the cookie Minds would not have analyzed such things a deeper analysis has gone into uh you know creating this situation so the government are now are openly purchasing data some rifles is helping to cookies with ammunition with other logistics and even in the film fighting field yesterday some major use diet from Ocean rifles bullets so but some levels cannot do this on their own except without any specific orders or instruction from the Arabs but but why how is it in the interests of India to to have this conflict so like you so yourself are pointing out a group such as you and left which which were the chairman of are now at their lowest ebb I think the idea of free market economics has taken hold the people like we were seeing three months ago the people have different aspirations now those kind of movements that are fought by militants with radical ideology don't seem to be kind of finding so much space to be voiced and and then suddenly this happened how is this in the interest of let's say even if we consider forget about the wider sort of interests of India as as a union but but just in terms of a government looking at a general election coming up into 2024 how why would it be in anyone's interest to see this as the time to to have this you are very right but then you say there are other factors you know a developing situation I'm in my observation the talks between the government India and the innocent I am you know has been dragging for 25-26 years I had no controls inside a bogged down on two points flag and Constitution maybe they are trying to find a way out to compromise but even so ah the developments within Australia nagaland State the Indian PCS and politic groups they have decided to bring about a solution within the jurisdiction of the nagaland state and they have said Manipur are not indigenous people of the Netherlands has so there this has created a Schism in another movement also now then they will take they will definitely look to tomatoes suddenly and this is what is developing now after the cookie attack on my taste so we we were in uh yesterday and and we were meeting with some of the current leadership of these organizations that are heading the current movement and they say firstly the demand for separate Administration is an old one and secondly that this was not an attack engineered by the cookies they are too small and too weak to ever think of being in a position to attack to my these and that in fact it is a pogrom sort of genocide process of ethnic cleansing what would be your response to that well you see just the chronology of the events on May 3 they organize a rally solidarity rally on the very day the Vice President of India was coming to Manipur why the coincidence normally when vvip like the vice president travels to finished it no says public hearings are not allowed and I mean as for security reasons for that day I don't know how it happened rally was permitted give permission I began around 11 30 I think about 12 and ended up about 3 30 and then the violence began in surah-sanpur straight to Mori by about four o'clock 4 30 and then of course people particularly with a young armed cookies came down about 10 15 000 of them looted all the shops along the road and then burned them down burn down houses of about two Villages maybe about 400 it All Began that way in fact the major is backwards I know yes that was the beginning organized I take on the matis by armed Rockies I'm not blaming the entire cookies just on cookies with an agenda and the attack actually was not from Project only in Maori only from the north side also a village called Eco was completely wiped out in Psychology District so the mateys reacted in a very spontaneous and localized accents where cookies settlements were there and info of course local mate is attacked some cookie houses along the Airport Road nearby the airport so about three four days it was just as spontaneous reaction of localized reactions there was no ethnic cleansing at all but many houses you have seen yes did you see any Community House no standing no you won't see all bulldozed levels and out of 14 15 000 million which is in Surah sample only about 9 000 have encountered and those laborers workers in the road construction inside areas they have not been traced so far and Murray almost 95 percent of Mayday houses buildings and business establishments have been raised to the ground so it is actually the they say program and ethnic cleansing and whatnot in the document called in the inevitable split this is actually the opposite story that happened it is they who started it's decreasing into a sample Mori Almighty reacted and one thing when meters react and if someone to choose mate is to be the enemy I tell you my days is the worst enemy really but it takes time for the major to become an enemy it matters are not easily provoked so so anyway I think at this point uh both sides have sort of also highly developed narratives on this front and and there is no meeting ground on on who started it so I guess moving forward from there to where we are now do you see it as a stalemate at present what do you see as the possibilities for a political solution and also in that what role do you see chief minister birin Singh haven't played because we've also as observers as neutrals as also journalists I have seen that some of the rhetoric over the past couple of years you know like you make the distinction between let's say old cookie and those who you say are now illegal migrants coming in those distinctions have or you say you don't blame all of the cookie people only the armed groups for the violence or the conflict having started those distinctions haven't often been made in in public speeches in the news in interviews in conversations with the general public by the chief minister and and so the idea that essentially all cookies are Narco terrorists and illegal immigrants and foreigners and have no space from a minority perspective I'm sure that's also a frightening uh situation to fill in and of course label those labels are they are hurtful very much yes your rights in that sense actually a responsible person like the chief minister I mean I should not make any comments that may hurt the sentiment of a particular community you know you need to be very clear about the idea of Manipur when you don't have a Clear Vision on the idea of Manipur you make irresponsible remarks and that's where when it is politicalized it has very dangerous consequences uh whatever he does is interpreted on adding lines and my deity Minister that happened of course say for example about eviction offer and courses in reserve foreign it was used as a Sentimental tool to favor for emotional sentiments among the young cookies because and crosses in the hill areas Reserve forest and protective forests most of them are cookies necessarily their heart and it is used as a political you know existing elements to Insight the young cookies that's right so so in that sense is this what what we are all at this point because the entire population of Manipur is now involved in this conflict whether they like it or not is this a culmination of this process of sort of right-wing politics playing out in well anyway that's it because I'll tell you all along the inherent weakness of the Indian political system multi-party political system and particularly when a right-winger political party comes with a power that's really you know they want to create divisions the society on you know religious lives and these lies that was happening here that's happening so I mean the Christians feel that they have been persecuted that was I mean they have a sense of insecurity and animal is it money in Manipur in a situation like in manipul we can afford to you know that such divisions in society we need Unity we need cohesiveness of course we respect one another's distinctive cultural identities and of all that that should be the strength of manipul instead of building that Unity if you try to disintegrate on narrow sectarian lines it breaks up and it creates confusion and that confusion violence setups testing the whole story so since you have such a deep understanding of both the strengths of both sides from from let's say what may be what we can call a military or an armed perspective also going back to the previous question are we at his stalemate and and how do you see the way forward well then human we need a peaceful environment we need to think about our future about our young generations for their future so we need this thing essential approach from the government India number one and the state government number two from the cookies said also they need to understand the objective reality and there was the older cookies they must tell their kids that and those who have migrated illegally they must be convinced they must go back to Myanmar and the government there should ensure that those who have entered money for illegally [Music] whether they are given a uh this thing uh work permit or something something that they are recognizable foreigners they do they should look into this aspect so first essentially a process of recognition has to happen yes acceptance has to happen that if that happens of course many people have died many have suffered only because of parties in politics ultimately it is the common people who suffers of course yes and we've seen it on the ground and the poorest of the common people that suffer the most right right so what the meditates would do is it is also look back step back one step and look around see things and try to think about uh you know uh some sort of as we have done before reach out to those common people I as the we've heard often also the story of the big brother and the little and the younger brother right so from that perspective uh but one thing the government just would show that the arm cookies particularly on those not just the shoe but arm cookies [Music] hmm and of course in the valley you have seen thousands thousands of volunteers they are not trained there's our emotion they just got all got all of guns weapons from somewhere somewhere and go to the front fight there and sacrifice there that is the kind of you know the feeling and sentiments among the meetings young people and if it is not uh given a right direction well we will have more chaotic situations coming yeah absolutely one should not try to you know uh facing the Troubled Waters and it will ultimately affect India's Unity also absolutely in that sense the the frustrations and and and and also fears of the common people have been weaponized in this case and that's what led has led to this uh unfortunate uh as it is there doesn't seem to be any short-term sort of solution to this do you see I mean this as a conflict that will in some way maybe at a lower intensity sort of uh play out for many years because we saw for example when the Naga cookie conflict it took 10 years to kind of come to some level of common uh trust Mutual trust and understanding uh is this also something and that will take Manipur in that sense back to a phase of another 10 years of of conflict which let's say a younger generation has not actually witnessed before well foreign frankly if all the measures that need to be taken are taken off at the period of you know coming to normalcy maybe so maybe shortened but sporadic incidents will continue to happen because I have seen that Sony Hearts have been broken Coming to Terms within reality and those young young people uh coming from for example now in the relief games in a state of you know prevents they don't want anything except events so controlling them are counseling them will take time and so far I don't see any action being taken in this direction I have interacted with a number of them and I think it's and exactly exactly I was just going to say I think I think that sense is is there on both sides that there needs to be some idea of Justice before a wider sense of Peace uh is brought about I mean there must be a third investigation who initiated or created or instigated this violence has to be brought out so it would I suppose be interesting to see uh what is judged as a as an impartial party and and that that brings us back to the government of India I guess as as the biggest of the Big Brothers in the in the room to play that role uh thank you very much sir for taking so much time to speak to news click and for speaking to us so frankly and and and giving us your assessment of things uh from I think uh fairly overall uh well-rounded perspective it's been a pleasure thank you thank you | NewsClickin | UCOF1iS7lmNRSWVqL8N3L6kQ | 2023-07-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,190 | 28,274 |
ql4_iJ5uAnc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql4_iJ5uAnc | General Practice Nursing | What Does a GP Nurse DO? | hi everyone so I've got my t-shirt on which can only mean one thing I'm here to talk to you all about general practice nursing now today in particular I'm here to tell you about the actual role of the general practice nurse and actually how amazing they are and how much they do because there's a little bit of a myth going around that a general practice nursing is somewhere to retire to and it's somewhere seen as a more relaxed and be skilled place so I'm here to completely erase that myth and go through the roles of the general practice nurse and how amazing they are so firstly I just want to point out that every practice is different and every nurse will work in a completely different way and one practice area that you might go to might be completely different run to another practice area so just bear in mind that all of these roles and responsibilities are not limited to some do more some do less some do different things some do it in various ways so it just depends on what practice you're at and what the nurses responsibilities are there but I'm just going to talk about my experience working alongside my mentor who is a general practice nurse and all of the amazing things that she did so the role of the general practice nurse includes and not limited to ECGs hypertension clinics diabetic clinics asthma clinics baby immunizations travel vaccines sexual health and family planning cervical cytology new patient health checks and registration a general practice nurse may also assist with minor surgery alongside the doctor so that could be toenail removals steroid injections into the joints could be mole removal Zwarte removals so many things but again that depends on what area you go to and if minor surgery is held at that particular surgery you'll be given out flu vaccine ins and encouraging patients to take those every winter you might be doing blood testing and results leg ulcers and wound management you'll also be doing full screening or falls prevention with patients you'll be communicating with a variety of different patients with mental health needs learning disabilities you'll be with children adults elderly from pregnancy all the way to end-of-life patients you are going to see a whole variety of patients and it's about managing those patients individually and you're looking at a patient truly holistically so you're going to be looking into their social the mental health their physical their emotional the religion everything that you can think of gets completely thrown in a general practice it's just amazing you might also be calling patients doing telephone consultations those just the list is just never-ending in general practice so for anyone that thinks that general practice is dull and boring please think again because it's a whole new world out there it's amazing and general practice nurses have these special set of skills that they use in that area and it's just amazing it's fantastic to see and they're just little superheroes of the world also out in general practice you're going to be working alongside 101 different people you're gonna have consultants you're gonna have doctors you're gonna have surgeons that you Larry is with you're gonna have hospitals you're gonna have paramedics you're gonna have your fill of botanists your pharmacists you've got your reception team also the mental health team social services social workers safeguarding teams you're gonna have so many people that you lies with it's just amazing to even think about and my personal love of general practice nursing is the fact that no two days are ever the same one day you'll be dealing with such-and-such a patient the next day will be completely different you'll be have a completely different set of patients completely different things to do so one day you might be dealing with a lot of wounds a lot of leg ulcers the next day you could be dealing with asthmatic patients teaching them how to do a peak flow how to use their inhalers properly there's a lot a lot a lot of health promotion and general practice and health prevention and that's my main main love about general practice nursing and that's what was drawn me into it because I would rather be that person that health promotes and does the health prevention to prevent that admission to hospital that's what I really really love most about general practice and I love that you're seeing the patient in a truly holistic way and even though you've only got 15 minutes sometimes 10 minutes with a patient you feel like you can have that proper real one-to-one session with that patient and that's just the best thing about general practice nurse and I love having that time even though it's limited you feel like you've got a lot more time to spend on that patient in such a holistic amazing way and lastly just a little reminder no matter what area of Nursing you are you could be child mental health adult you could be newly qualified please please please if you don't take anything away from this vlog remember that you can apply to be a general practice nurse it doesn't matter what field in Nursing you're in it doesn't matter if you're just newly qualified you can apply to be a general practice today because there's a reason why general practice nurses out there are all retiring right now because they've lived a long healthy happy career within general practice and they've been there for years and they love it and there's got to be a reason to it because it's an amazing career path so please look into it have a look at the details like I've said and see if this is the career for you and let me know in the comments below if any of those roles or responsibilities have actually shocked you or if you realize how much general practice nurses do if you're already working in general practice let me know what your area does if I've missed anything out please let me know put it in the comments so everybody can see that's it from me thank you again for watching and I see you all next time [Music] | Claire Carmichael | UC8vM2z5XxQ_MuncGD5tPCjQ | 2018-12-05 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,063 | 6,022 |
O9AWYq52Jeo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9AWYq52Jeo | Virgin Atlantic and the unspillable bar | thank you so there's no one around I'm on the Virgin flight from Boston to London and I just worked out why first class is so cool when you walk on this airplane go right or left and if you go left there's a perfect curve and watch this and you cannot spill a drink I don't know this is like the little bar area you get on like a boss flight the first time in my life so I'm living the dream right um put your advice up here you drink please oh yeah I think very much fun there you go put something into it so you can see it so they are your lovely drink guess what is where the bar is guess what happens when it's a bit of turbulence or someone drunk me pushes it off look Roselle I'm terrible sorry oh they have some water oh I'm terribly sorry sir you're not tall can I help you yes why not this is why this is the perfect glass the perfect curve this is gonna go hardly wrong off we go bye bye oh I'm worried about this who's that not out so rich branching thank you very much | Mark Littlewood | UCbzqlmC_BigdaBU4ySos7SQ | 2015-01-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 204 | 980 |
M_o0TfRni68 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_o0TfRni68 | Fab Fit Fun - Spring Unboxing 2018 | hello my name is Amy Acker and welcome to my channel so today I am doing the spring 2018 unboxing from fabfitfun and I did purchase a few little add-ons too so we're gonna see what kind of felt that fun bits are has been sent and what kind of fun did we get so we are gonna jump right into this so let's get in your subscription box you get a newsletter and so your newsletter gives you some articles that also tells you about your products etc so in this month's box we have a total value of three hundred forty seven dollars or on the high side 350 499 so about $350 worth of products so I'm going to try to open this little bad boy up so I can give you prices of everything that's in the box as I pull it out and then I ended up buying like three more items that added additional $45.00 to my box price and I've used one of the three items and absolutely love it so it was very thrilled with what I had added on so first piece I'm gonna pull out is the Rachel pally reversible clutch and so you can also pick what you want there was three different fabric choices so I picked the orange one because I thought that was really pretty and then you can reverse it and get a nice mustard yellow with just hints of the fabric around it so I do like the clutch and how it goes and it just makes it really nice so I appreciate that one it's fun for spring and again I think I mentioned it it's $60 so the reversible piece gives you basically two clutches in one and it gives you a nice little clutch storage bag so I thought that was pretty cool also then they give you a nice little coupon in here so you can get $50 off if you want to use hellofresh one of my friends orders from hellofresh and swears by it so i'm gonna get a kick out of using them we have an eye mask from Free People it is a leather starry-eyed travel mask and I liked again how it has a nice little plastic piece that goes around it so it doesn't get ruined as you travel really nice and soft it leather on the outside it has a cute little design but can you hear it it's got like gel on the inside this fabric is absolutely soft and this will change as far as what size you need so I do like the fact that you can change the size depending on what you need now I do travel and so having that on a plane as I'm trying to sleep is great because I typically try to sleep on the plane I might not really like talking I either read a book or I sleep I know I'm exciting on a plane but this is also says with love from Texas this is my new home state for the last year so go go Lone Star State okay next I see me read a lot being cover ties but I've never used it so this one is a skin perfecting lotion it's a hydrator so very excited about the fact of being able to try this this normally retails for $40 so again thrilled to be able to test this if any of you guys have used Mira and what is your thoughts on it if you can put your comments below I'm kind of curious because again I always see advertising for it but I've never tried it so we'd love to hear what your thoughts we have a body butter and I believe this is course of course you know me with pronouncing things so this is a guava body butter it flops away the winter worn skin enriches with shea butter and quince extract to soften moisturize and rejuvenate the skin while sunflower almond and avocado oils work to nourish and improve your skin's elasticity whoo this one is $24 it says slather right on after showering so you can lock in moisture let's smell this oh that smells amazing okay that one's gonna be used tonight when I get off out of the shower so that has kind of almost a coconut smell to it it smells very beachy and with the warmer weather coming up I think that's gonna be great also this is 93.9% natural again excellent hair this when I saw it I was like okay what is this I'm not sure about this but this is a physique 57 massage roller this retails for $20 and so I got it out I'm like oh Lord lord have mercy so it does make it easy if you don't have anyone home to help you undo your tight muscles and in your back these two bits here make it easy to grab a hold and massage your back who needs someone else when you can do it yourself right so you can use it on your thighs your lower back and oh my god does that feel amazing so while I was like what am I gonna do with that once I tried it holy crap so this might actually even go to my office because sometimes after a stressful day I am tight up in my neck and back and so this thing actually feels really darn good where has this been all my life so this is why I do like the fact that fun box because they do have multiple items that you know I wouldn't buy myself but it gives me the opportunity to try them and I'm in love what can I say or lust that's probably the better word so anyways really really in doing that got from Maya Brenner this is a cute little bracelet and it says the word love on it it's very dainty and just super fun and super cute so I really did think that was adorable that is gonna be just a great gift I mean it's just too stinkin cute okay then we have the ish lip statement palette this retails for $42 a moment so this palette is called I'm smokin hot so let's see how smoking hot it is and hot it is look at those colors so we have a lot of peaches pinks and reds this screams the spring it reminds me of puppies and just some of the bright colors that you see in the gardening piece or if you go to a place that absolutely is gorgeously landscaped I always think of the Biltmore Estate these colors are totally remind me of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville so this is stunning so that is the smokin hot palette as you saw it did have a mirror I keep the mirror off-camera for you but it is in a really nice sleek case that has some good protective it's not it's not a cardboard god I can't speak but and it did have a nice little lip brush I never remember I have lip brushes but when I can never find one so the fact that there's a lip brush in there just tickles me okay then we have and I'm excited about this product and I don't see it maybe I've got to flip it over I did we have basically the Dove exfoliating body polish so very very thrilled about that to be able to exfoliate in the shower you're gonna scoop a generous amount of body polish on your hand spread all over the body in a circular motion and rinse this I'm really light def products I like their soaps I love their deodorants their body sprays they just have a nice fresh clean scent and they're just great products so this one I'm kind of super pumped about also trying because I didn't even know they had this out so that's gonna be fun we have the derma select cosmetic because musicals oh goodness because I can't say that word either holy crap so this is a this is a concealing Ridge filler I do get ridges in my nails I've been painting my nails recently but it's been with the gel colors so that's they last forever but one of the things that I hate about my nails is that I do have ridges and so this is supposed to be to fill those ridges in your nails it's DP DBP for formal formaldehyde and tooling free I should have had more coffee this morning I can't read anything maybe I just need to get my old lady glasses on how about that that this retails for $18 now they didn't have a price on this so can't tell you how much but if it's a sample size so I'm assuming that's why there is not a then we have from Anderson Lilly it's a sunset collection candle in Manhattan Beach bridge only or super bloom and so the one that I had purchased is Manhattan Beach and it just smells absolutely clean and fresh again something that is gonna be fantastic for spring just that clean fresh smell smell almost like you've hung your your Linens outside and there's a lot of just it smells clean I don't I don't know how to explain it any other way but it smells amazingly clean and I do love this copper candle holder just something different and my husband's gonna love it because he loves burning candles in fact every time he goes to see his dad and stepmom hello Craig hello Cindy she buys a ton of candles and lights up the house with candles because that's Rob's favorite thing so you know what can I say the last piece in this is these earrings I believe it's Attica daydreamer tassel earrings these retail for $58 and they're made in Los Angeles California so just some nice little tassel earrings there and it says you can pair these earrings with a t-shirt and washed out jeans I was actually thinking a nice little black dress so great great then I purchased three additional items I mentioned $45 I did want to purchase and try the crown makeup brush cleaner I've tried some other ones I usually go back to it cosmetics because it cosmetics makeup cleaner brush you clean your brushes and your brushes are nice I've used some others where I've cleaned and it seems like the brush is ruined because it almost still has a soapy type on it you can't just spray it and do a circular motion on a paper towel or towel and it be clean it leaves like a residue so I did want to see how the crown makeup brush cleaner works and who knows there might be a video also decided to try the pixi by petra endless silky i pencil so i did want to try one of these so i went ahead and ordered it it is waterproof it gives concentrated color of a liquid liner and silk easy apply gel pencil it's supposed to stay looking flawless all day long since I haven't tried one of these I wanted to go ahead and do that also I'm always looking for those perfect liners technically Marc Jacobs might have the best ones as of right now but they also have a hefty okay then I always get interested in masks or anything that hydrates the skin and makes the skin feel amazing and so I have the wish nourishing do mask so I went ahead and put this on as soon as I got it out of the box and it felt amazing it almost felt more like a lotion and less like a mask but I went ahead I could just feel it hydrating and it just felt amazing on my skin so I just left it on for a long period of time it boosts skin's moisture with hail pachu butter mango butter and it does have a clay extract it reduces appearance of fine lines with rosehip fruit extract citrus fruit extract and safflower oil it reduces appearance of inflammation with lotus flower extract mimosa flower extract and green tea leaf extracts so you're supposed to apply a quarter-sized amount on the skin leave and relax rinse with warm water it's parafin sulfate can't pronounce that one free it's free of all kinds of lovely stuff it is made in the US and so it is also leaping bunny certified but I really like this I love how soft and amazing it made my skin feel so this is a new fun one that I am really enjoying I think I got through that whole box plus my three editions and I hope you enjoyed seeing this spring fat fit fun box I think it would is a fabulous box I love that they send me things that maybe I normally wouldn't purchase it gives me the opportunity to try things and fall in love with new things that I normally wouldn't have purchased for myself I kept sometimes get in a rut where I just like the same stuff and money is sometimes hard to come by so when you work hard for it is sometimes hard to go and purchase something different because it is you know money is hard to earn and so this is why I like the subscription boxes because you can try things a very cut-rate price and get outside of your comfort zone and really have the opportunity to try new things so that's why I love all the different subscriptions I'm a part of because again I can get products at a very lower lower price and I get to try new things so that's why I love my subscriptions and fabfitfun is one that I absolutely love so anyways if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed please consider subscribing or refer me to a friend and that's always you have a choice so make it a great one until next time | Aamyie Ecker | UC0q6tqaeq3bCx75QvD4Xyvg | 2018-03-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,392 | 11,991 |
o5x4OkYKemc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5x4OkYKemc | Abraham Hicks Listening to your Cells and Your Body | thank you um I'm really interested in learning more about how to have the most exhilarating experience in athletics and in my body in terms of relating to my cells I heard you say something really exciting recently I am really excited you were saying that most human beings respond to how their bodies feel and that we have so much more capacity to tell our bodies talk to our cells connect and let them know how we want them to feel and I really am interested in like a higher deeper more exhilarating co-creation with the cells the consciousness of the cells in my body well we think that's a really good idea and we know that you will like it as you accomplish it consciously and deliberately but there's something a little bit backwards in the way you presented the question to us and so we want to straighten that around and then off we'll go and that is because well you're talking about talking to yourselves we just want you to understand that if you can think not about instructing your cells but about taking instruction from them in other words it's not so much about what you're telling them is about what they're telling you because they are consciousness who is in direct conversation with your source energy and it is to the degree that you are worrying about things and blocking that communication that makes you then not understand so the more you are reaching for thoughts that feel good and the more that you are finding thoughts that feel good the more rampages of appreciation and lists of positive aspects the more that that is just a natural easy natural way for you to feel as you begin each day then the less you will be blocking the communication between your cells and their source now we don't want to separate you from your cells and we certainly don't want to separate you from your source but we do want to tell the story in this way your source has direct conversation and communication with your cells and if you aren't in the way it will go really really well but your so your cells are giving you communication all the time in forms of as in forms of craving but most jimin's are not allowing their cells to let them know what they need because you stupid cell there's far too many carbs in that thing that you are making me crave then in I what I want and so I'm going to override your request and not give you what you're asking for because I have some I'm responding to something outside of me rather than something inside of me so your understanding clearly your cells know what to do they are brilliant genius your body is a veritable chemical factory it is in concert with itself think about the forming of the body do you realize that not that long ago you were just like a little smear on a petri dish and out of that little smear here you are don't you find that amazing that each part of the little smear knew what it was supposed to do in order to turn out the way you are don't you find that just amazing that's intelligence and consciousness that's going on between source and cells that you don't need to get actively involved in but you do want to trust the knowledge of these cells these intelligence cells and trust the knowledge of a source within you and then you do your work your work your work what is your work all day long which is to get feeling as good as you can about anything that you can feel good about and then follow the impulses that come and it is our promise to you that you'll be on a path of good feeling energizing good feeding good fuelling beingness and in athletics in sports I really we're surprised that any of you we're interrupting you but we just want to stick this in what's President if you can find anything to eat because you've read something about everything that makes it inappropriate for you to eat and so you do the majority of your eating in turmoil so you say all right cells see if you can get anything good out of this cuz I've got I've got you as blocked off as I possibly can because I'm on a path of deprivation this morning so in that moment when you're when you're eating and obviously in between the cells are working all the time but even before that even before the impulse to eat comes if you can have prepared your grid if you can in other words do do that work and then and then and then follow the impulse yes okay got it um when I want to go then when the grid fish yes and then when the grid feels in with an impulse uh-huh and the impulse feels good as it comes and as you follow through with it that's your evidence I prepared the grid I prepared my culture my atmosphere my climate I did the work I did the only work that mattered I've been doing it for a while so it's easy and now the impulses are flowing to me and the recognition that you will have as your cells participate in jubilation with you that will translate in the form of clarity in the form of vitality in the form of energy in the form of physical well-being in the form of sleeping well in the in other words oh there will be so much evidence of the alignment that you've found but you have to be willing to find the alignment it's like a hundred thousand dollars in debt a hundred thousand dollars in the black is what you're looking for probably not going to happen today just like you'd like it to but you can feel well-being you can feel ease and so that's what you're shooting for with with with anything you're looking for the feeling of ease first trusting that the impulse will come that will continue to bring you the evidence that you're looking for that is more striking evidence that then others can see and hear and smell and taste in touch awesome you answered everything I had on that and you just tipped on the other that I was curious about this idea of reality and vibrational reality versus what versus the reality that we interpret with our five senses I'm really interested in I'm clear that I have my own internal dialogue that's going on in my head my own personal reality and I know everyone has that by the time I have become a vibrational match to something that's in my in my vortex so much so that others can see it is it that I have now become a vibrational match for the vehm that also sees it yes in part but but but this is the most important thing long before you became that which others could see you had that vibration going on and them seeing it just means it was going on long enough that you got enough momentum going that it became obvious to everyone in other words that's that births that we were talking about earlier and we know sometimes these conversations are not very satisfying to you because you say well rah rah rah vibrational reality I want the money in my bank where I can spend it I want I want the experiences and we say it has to be enough for you for a while you if you are looking for the evidence of your account your vibrational accomplishment in the form of emotion and finding it and you are willing to continue to be pleased with the emotional evidence for a while the rest of the evidence in every manner that you're speaking of will come to you but if you if you get to that place where you say the emotional evidence is not enough I it's not enough for me to just feel optimistic or happy about this or trusting I can no longer hold myself there then we say you the momentum will slip away from you you see it is a progressive thing so it's really worth hanging in there and feeling good for no logical reason until the reason shows up that really is what we're talking about yeah math someone pushing last last question I had an experience a few months ago that was really it felt very profound to me and I enjoyed it and I'm just curious if you have any insight on it it didn't feel like a dream that you have at night when you sleep it felt like an alternate consciousness where I was aware of basically kind of like a different version of myself and a different version of my mom in what I was interpreting in my perception of it as kind of an almost like an alternate physical reality are there such things yes but this is the way we would describe it in your deliberate working to find alignment with who you are and finding it much of the time you are coming to resonate in this more steady recognition of this non-physical perspective so you are beginning in many ways to see your world through the eyes of source when you find yourself saying something that is way better than you've ever said it before your your that's one of those resonant moments when you are you are an extension of that source energy and so some people want to call those out-of-body experiences we want to call it seeing the world through the eyes of source it's and it does feel like a different vantage point because it's not a vantage point that people often experience Esther often describes it to others when she's driving often it doesn't feel to her as if her wheels are on the road there's a sort of ethereal quality to her moment in time where she's perceiving things she's aware of what's happening in traffic even before anyone signalling she sort of knows what that one's gonna do she sort of finds her place in her driving pods she sort of knows where she wants to be it's like it's like she's allowing the non-physical aspect of her to view her world and the thing that the reason that we'd love so much giving this picture to you and affirming back to you the experience that you had is because this is the way you all have intended to live in your physical bodies you intended to find vibrational about all day so far here today alignment with this broader part of yourself so that the total you is present in the moment so that the fullness of you if we love you so much but you have such a screwy perspective of how the source fits in with that which you are you've separated yourself from source made source smarter and wiser when source is flowing to you and through you unconditionally unconditional love unconditional knowing unconditional good driving conditional knowing where the radar is unconditional unconditional appreciation unconditional clarity unconditional unconditional things are always working out for you unconditional unconditional unconditional and as you find reason to believe that and know that a little piece here in a little piece here and practice and practice and practice and practice it you're gonna have far more moments like that where you can feel the whole of who you are present in this moment which is what each and every one of you meant for each and every moment now what have you said I'll go forth I know you're available bad I'll pinch myself off from you and then you can measure me against all the others who pinched themselves off I'll dig really deep holes and I'll crawl in and then when I crawl out other humans will clap and we say you came to feel good and - and to feel good in this moment and in this moment and in this moment but you got to practice that first thing in the morning for a little while to get the hang of it and clearly you have been doing that something more that's it thank you so much [Applause] you [Applause] | Rebecca Atlantis & Meditation Moods | UC9Iq8W9Z6i-J_2IHVXs7_4Q | 2020-04-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,098 | 11,130 |
3xpCPRTz1xk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xpCPRTz1xk | Doja addresses the absurd claims that she's a satanist | Satanism thing is like I'm sorry when the [ __ ] did I say that I was a Satan when did I ever say any or even go marching outside outside the church talking about no when the [ __ ] did I say that anyway it's just it's really it's really tacky and annoying and [ __ ] discredits a lot of the hard work that I put in it discredits a lot of the hard work that a lot of people have put in and uh I know from inside what I've seen is a lot of hardworking artists who are inspired and are are doing the [ __ ] work that they need to do to create these beautiful atmospheres it's not real you see a [ __ ] CGI dragon fly by a screen it's not a real dragon | Khalid | UChgXvYN2imPZnGwVbRrLzNQ | 2023-12-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 133 | 699 |
2t8axTZGSrM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t8axTZGSrM | YOUTH TAKEOVER - The Hazard Of The Heart | foreign [Music] so one thing they did at Camp was every time the speaker would come up they'd have a walk-up song and I gotta say I like it look good times good times so before you listen to me I would like for you to be able to hear from three of our students I'm going to have them come up at this time then they come in [Applause] um share with you their personal testimonies of what God did in their lives again thank you all so much for everything that you did all the support that you gave us to even make this possible so um first of all we have our friend Isaac von Stein we call him at youth group vanilla Ike because we have two different Isaacs so he's vanilla Ike Isaac Waldman is country Ike so there's there's the two Ike's uh Isaac what'd God do in your heart this week yeah so um this past year you know I was at a new school and I was really trying to impress everybody at my school and you know not not be like an outcast you know so I started to fall farther from God every every week almost and um and I leaned more on the things of the world you know one day though the pastor at Woodlands uh was saying that you can't love the things of this world and God at the same time and that really stuck with me because throughout the summer I started to realize that like the way I was living wasn't right and wasn't pleasing to God so through porch talks with my counselor we talked a bit about living a life for God and not the world and how to turn tear down a life that wasn't pleasing to God so I've just been working on not caring what anyone thinks and doing what God wants me to do because in the end like it doesn't really matter when you get to heaven what your high school friends thought about you so if you just you gotta live for God and something uh something that Isaac mentioned and that something a lot of the kids talked about were these porch talks something really cool about the camp is that every night after Chapel they would have a space where they they actually had rocking chairs and the whole point of the rocking chairs outside their cabin was they could they could sit down with their counselor and just talk about how God worked in their heart and worked in their life and it was inspirational in so many of these kids so love that about the camp next we have Mr Andrew Morgan AKA little Roundy and uh he's aerodynamically shaved so he's ready for track season and we're looking forward to what he has to share with you guys this morning all right so I want to speak on Woodlands itself well first I want to thank everyone that uh supported us to go because uh last year I went to camp but didn't take everything seriously I was just there to be there and this year when I went I knew how to take everything serious and actually listen to what they had to say and there is a thing that we do like after free time it's called troubleshooters and they basically talk on one topic specifically and I went to a couple different ones that I knew would impact my life and they impact my life more than the actual message because I learned based off a topic and one like thing that's like more than one point and I stuck with um my counselor and we had Port ideas on the porch every single night for like 30 30 minutes to an hour every night talking about the troubleshooters to get a better understanding of how he went through what I'm going through because all the counselors that there are young adults that are in college and they've all went through the same things that us uh teenagers are going through so it impacts my life a lot more and I can speak on probably everybody here that went to Woodlands that it impacts everybody's life that went and um there's more to um there's more to the camp than actual um just playing around that there's there's certain points in the camp that you actually have to focus and not mess around in thing and I struggle with actually focusing on what's Happening instead of like messing around with people beside me so I just want to finish with like Woodlands changes people's lives and has changed my life more this year than ever so I just want to thank everybody here that gave me the chance to go thank you and we're saving the most vertically challenged one for last this is Elijah he uh is the second year going and uh he had quite an experience let me let him tell you about it all right um like you said it was my second year coming to Woodlands and last year it was such a great experience I really loved it and after the experience last year it was this great spiritual high or like this rush to just do everything for God do it his way do it how he wants me to and it kind of died out after a little while the rush died and then I stopped wanting to go after God and was like well it'll be next year and next year came around and this year it was it was a big wake-up call to stop waiting on wake-up calls it was just a great experience and it was something that I needed to learn to not only chase God and that God doesn't exist at only Camp God is always there and you can always grow your relationship with him and I just need to keep finding joy in the in the simple things in life in the daily life and to always grow with God and not wait for some big camp or something where it's not my regular life I can always grow with God and that I'm able to see him and every day thank you guys all right fellas thank you so much so like I said once again thank you so much for all the support whether it was financial prayer uh words of encouragement you guys were fantastic and this would not have been possible if not for all of you so thank you so much hopefully you enjoyed your coffee and donut I don't know if you got out there or not yes good Baptist amen so today um what I want to talk to you guys about um so every time I get up here I like to give you a vocabulary word that is used in modern day youth culture and I have finally decided on what to call it I'm going to call it PJ's Pastor James not pajamas or peanut butter and jelly props to both love them okay but PJ's cringe word of the day okay that's the word I'm going to tell you because it makes all of these guys cringe but all of you dads giggle with Glee because you are going to use this and wear it out it's going to be so good okay I've even included it in your notes today so PJ's cringe word of the day is the word Riz Riz okay so how many of you just just be honest you're in church okay how many of you have never heard this word in your life okay I'm okay a lot how many would say I know what you're talking about okay and then how many of you didn't raise your hand you refused to participate okay all right so the word Riz let me use it in a sentence okay as a good English teacher would right so there might be a young man and usually it's it's a young man pursuing a lady and he might say something like this yo I got that a risk game bruh right or yeah right or or maybe you might say hey bruh your wrist game is an L you got an L RIS game or you might say something like hey check this out yo I'm gonna go rizz up that female right over there right so using it like that what is it okay what is Riz it is short for charisma it's short for Charisma okay Riz and what it means is it's your ability as uh as a young man to attract a young lady and it's it's like your attractiveness without even really trying so Riz and when it comes to Riz it's all about our hearts and today what I want to talk about in the title of the message is the hazard of the heart every message at camp the speaker addressed a lie from culture and today I want to do a message based on one that he preached and the the life from culture we're going to look at today is this idea of Follow Your Heart follow your heart we find it all over culture from Disney to Justin Bieber that's your favorite artist right Elena Justin Bieber anyway we find it all over the place follow your heart follow your feelings let your heart be your guide but that is a Lie the truth from God this morning that we're going to tackle is don't follow your heart follow God's word follow God's word why is that why is that well it's because of Jeremiah 17 9. Jeremiah 17 9 we're actually going to be somewhere else this morning but we'll start here it's on our screen the human heart is the most deceitful of all things and it's desperately wicked who really knows how bad it is our hearts cannot be trusted the speaker talked about this that are that our hearts our feelings they're real you can't deny that they're real but they're not reliable they're a gauge they can tell us what's going on but they're not a guide they're a compass but they're not a map they're not something that we should rely upon and so our main point this morning and really my only point is this since our hearts are deceptive and will lead us to Ultimate Destruction we must pursue God's word to fulfill God's Destiny for our lives let me say that one more time our proposition my main point truly my only point this morning is this since our hearts are deceptive and will lead us to Ultimate Destruction we must pursue God's word to fulfill God's destiny for our lives let's pray father God thank you so much for this opportunity to share your word with your people and father I want to pray that they would be your words not mine Holy Spirit do what only you can do which is to take these words and use them to change Hearts this morning for your glory and not mine and we'll thank you for what you'll do we pray these things in the powerful name of Christ Our coming King all of NorthRidge Church said amen So today we're going to be in second Timothy chapter three if you all would cue the page turning apps on your phones okay second Timothy chapter three and we're going to be looking at verses one through five and then we're going to be looking at verses 12 to 17. so second Timothy this morning Genesis Exodus skip a few second Timothy here right there okay in the first part of this passage I want to address the danger of the last days the danger of the last days let's look at our passage second Timothy 3 it says you should know this Timothy that in the last days there will be very difficult times so let's talk about the idea of last days what are we talking about whenever we see last days what we're talking about is the time after the Ascension of Christ to heaven and until the return of Christ from heaven so in essence you and I right now in the church we are in the church age we are in the last days why does we call them the last days because any day could be the day when Christ comes again certainly is it is our great hope in the Christian faith that Christ is coming but what Paul says and in second Timothy I don't know if you realize this this is the last book that Paul wrote and Paul at this point was on death row he knew that he would be very soon before he would be beheaded for his faith so think of this as if if you knew that very soon you would die and you had to write a letter to your son you had to write a letter to your daughter these are like the most important things that you can say right before you know that you're going to meet God and leave this world this is what he's saying Timothy NorthRidge Church in the last days there will be very difficult times the word difficult here it's translated also as dangerous or perilous and the danger here the idea of this word is that it is something that saps your strengths something that saps your strength think of this as a rip current something that you and I are familiar with here in Florida something very deceptive and that's why it's so dangerous because unless you know what you're looking for you can very easily be swept out from Shore be scared to death start fighting start struggling against the current except your strengths and you drown and you and I we are in the midst of a dangerous rip current our culture is constantly trying to pull us out away from our shore away from Christ and you and I are swimming against the current so that is why these last days they're so dangerous they're so perilous that is why we Face certain Hazard that you and I need to be aware of this morning so it says in the last days there will be very difficult times and that last that next word super important okay it says four people will love only themselves that word for really important what this is doing is connecting the two verses a professor of mine once said this whenever you see it therefore you need to find out what the therefore is there for okay so what's the point of this word this word is telling us what is the danger what is the danger what is indicated by the danger of the last days what's the danger people the danger is people what kind of people let's read on people will love only themselves in their money sound familiar they will be boastful and proud scoffing at God disobedient to their parents and ungrateful they will consider nothing sacred they will be unloving and unforgiving they will slander others and have no self-control they will be cruel and hate what is good they will betray their friends be Reckless be puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God and here's the the dangerous part verse 5 they will act religious they will be in our churches they will act religious but they will reject the power they're offered the power but they reject the power that can make them Godly and Paul says Timothy my son in the faith as I'm getting ready to leave this world stay away from people like that so what's the danger the danger is the people but in particular people that follow their heart rather than the word of God we see in Galatians chapter 5 Paul writes to the church at galatia and in Galatians chapter 5 he says when you follow the desires of your sinful nature in other words when you follow your heart when you follow your fleshly desires maybe your Bible says the flesh when we're talking about the flesh we're talking about that sin nature that's natural to every one of us we didn't have to train our children how to throw a temper tantrum right he didn't say okay Johnny this is temper tantrum 101 now this is what to do and I tell you to do something no you don't have to do that why because it's ingrained within us it's part of our DNA after Adam sinned he passed that on to every one of us so Paul says when you follow the desires of your sinful nature in other words when you follow your heart the results are very clear sexual immorality impurity lustful pleasures idolatry sorcery hostility okay maybe so far you're looking at this list and like okay I'm good like I don't I don't I don't have to worry about I don't have a Harry Potter hat casting sorcery but let's look at the next few quarreling jealousy outbursts of anger selfish ambition anybody ever have their own agenda in mind dissension division Envy drunkenness wild parties and other sins like these let me tell you again as I have before did anyone living that sort of Life anyone dominated by these things will not inherit the Kingdom of God and so we see that this lifestyle when we follow our hearts it leads to Ultimate Destruction continuing on in verse number 12. let's look at verse number 12. of second Timothy 3. he says yes and everyone who wants to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution so we should expect that if we're going to live for Christ there's going to be trouble there's going to be hardship ahead and this is the scary part this is the part as I was studying that stopped me in my tracks it says but evil people and imposters will flourish and then he says they will deceive others and here's the scariest part they will themselves be deceived so in other words imposters those that have the appearance of religion but yet don't actually have a walk with the Lord or are denying their walk with the Lord they're going to look like everyone else they're going to look like an average Church person but the truth is they themselves are deceived and so the danger folks the danger of the last days in your notes the danger of the last days is the people of the last days in particular people who follow their hearts rather than God's word and we're not talking about people that are outside of the church we're talking about you and I that are here today right now that can easily get swept into this current and not even realize it because we ourselves are deceived an imposter what can it look like it can look like a person that's never trusted Christ but it can also look like a person that has that hope but they're not doing anything with it because they're following their own ambition they're following their own agenda they care more about being right getting their way than being unified as a church body they are imposters and so my question today to consider are you and I imposters without even realizing it are you and I imposters without even realizing it if an imposter can deceive themselves how would we even know how can you know because your heart is deceitful your heart it's wicked so you can't use that to tell if you're on the right track or not so how can we know the answer is the power of God's word our next point the power of God's word that's why it's so critical that the word of God be a part of our daily walk let's look at verse 14. that first word super important okay this word is the complete contrast we're going in One Direction and we stop we put on the brakes and we completely reverse where we're going so you're caught up in this current of those that follow their evil desires and then stop but you Timothy you remain faithful to the things you've been taught you know they're true you know you can trust who taught you verse 15 what have you been taught you've been taught the holy scriptures from childhood and they give you the wisdom to receive the Salvation that comes by trusting Christ what is this word verse 16. all scripture the idea here is every single word all scripture is given by inspiration it's inspired by God the exact word here is a word called theophonistas It's a combination word it's a combo word it means god breathed every word from God is breathed out by him and when we look at other passages Romans 1 16 and 17 what do we find out about the words that God breathes out Romans 1 16 says I'm not ashamed of this good news this word this word of God about Christ why it's the power of God at work God's word is power it saves everyone who believes to the Jew first and also to the Gentile verse 17. this Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight this is accomplished from start to finish by faith as the scriptures say it is through faith that a righteous person has life so we see that God's word is power the Bible that you and I have it's powerful but also we know that we have not only the power of God's word but the power of a relationship with the Living Word John 1. in John 1 says this in the beginning the word capital W Jesus Christ already existed the word was with God the Word was God he existed in the beginning with God God created everything through him and nothing was created except through him skip down to verse number 12. but all who believed him and accepted him he gave the right or the power to become children of God they are reborn not with a physical birth resulting from Human passion or plan but the birth that comes from God verse 14. so the word became human and made his home among us he was full of unfailing love and faithfulness and we've seen his glory the glory of the father's one and only son so the word of God it's powerful our relationship is powerful how can you and I know that we're not being Swept Away by the power of our culture by the word and by relationship with Christ so let's go back to Second Timothy 3 16. it says all scripture is given by God every word the power that created the universe that spoke the world into existence is the same power available to you and I today and it's useful it's advantageous to teach us what's true to make us realize what's wrong in our lives to make us realize when we're being Swept Away by Culture by those that follow their hearts rather than the word it corrects Us in other words it takes something that's been bent and reshapes it straightens it back again it corrects us when we're wrong and teaches us it takes us to school the literal word here is child rearing or School rearing the idea of training in morals and values so it takes us to school it schools us to do what is right and then the final verse here God uses it uses what uses the word the word is God's tool not only that it is the only door through which we can enter he uses it to do what to prepare and equip his people to do every good work he uses it to prepare us in other words the only way that you and I are going to be equipped and prepared is through the word by implication if we're not in it we're not prepared if day after day you find yourself getting up in the morning and neglecting God's word guess what you're not prepared for the day in fact you're being swept out in a rip current of culture and it'll only be a matter of time before you drown before there is ruin because God's word is not preparing you and equipping you for your destiny what is your destiny uh Ephesians 2 8-9 Ephesians 2 8-9 God saved you by his grace when you believed you can't take credit it's a gift from God salvation is not a reward for good things we've done so none of us can boast about it in verse 10. it says this for we are God's Masterpiece he created us the new in Christ why again so important words are so important so what's the point why are we saved so that we can go to heaven no no so that we can go to church no what is our destiny so we can do the good things sound familiar second Timothy 3 17 the good works good things so that we can do every good work that's our destiny and so this morning if you're not in the word if you're not pursuing relationship with Christ you will miss God's Destiny for your life which is to make an impact right here right now on the world around you so as we wrap up three things this morning three things in application number one number one examine your heart with the word daily starting today don't wait don't say I'll start when it you know tomorrow will be a good day to start that bible plan no today right now in fact scroll through your version get it planned right now right now daily get in the word and something really cool that the speaker said is that you know when we look at our heart we look at our feelings always compare it with the word we can trust that we can't trust our feelings we can't trust our hearts they're real but they're not reliable examine your heart today number two number two there's no substitute for daily devotions no substitute Church attendance cannot replace the word folks Church attendance cannot replace the word life group attendance it's good not going to replace it okay there's no substitute for daily devotions Church attendance cannot replace the word and number three this is this is my heart this is to me as much as it is to anybody in this room remember this pursuit of the word is not pursuit of knowledge we're not pursuing knowledge okay what are we pursuing the pursuit of the word is pursuit of relationship with the Living Word Jesus Christ we're pursuing relationship it's so easy for you and I to check a box and think that we're good but to check a box is to continue down that rip current and completely Miss and be torn away from the shore to be torn away from Christ I leave you this morning with second Timothy 3. 12 to 17 as we close yes and everyone who wants to live a Godly life in Jesus Christ will suffer persecution but evil people and imposters will flourish they will deceive others and will themselves be deceived but you NorthRidge Church you must remain faithful to the things you've been taught you know they're true for you know you can trust those who taught you you have been taught the holy scriptures from childhood and they've given you the wisdom to receive the Salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what's true to make us realize what's wrong it corrects us when we're wrong and teaches us to do what's right God uses it to prepare and equip NorthRidge Church to do every good work let's pray father God thank you so much for the day thank you for each of these people that are here today my brothers and sisters are dear guests that have joined us father I want to pray today that you would do what only you can which is to use your word to change your hearts that father we might not be the same walking out as we are right now father help us to make decisions during this time of invitation if we have not already that will impact your kingdom eternally help us to not be satisfied with where we are but Spirit show us where we need to go and we'll thank you for what you'll do pray these things in Christ's magnificent name all of NorthRidge Church said amen this time we'll have our invitation what is that it's a time of reflection it's a time to reflect some people like to stay at their seats and simply reflect on what it is that God has shown them others like to come up front and have people pray with them others like to come up front and have people talk to them uh whatever your need is we call this an altar why is that an altar it's just like the Old Testament where it is that they came to meet with God they came to lay down their gift at the altar they came down to lay their sin at the altar whatever your need is today I encourage you to respond as it is that we sing [Music] | NRHCTV | UC2ilxtkhHUU-BscupAzF5GQ | 2023-09-13 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,002 | 25,735 |
cvhW7beoq_0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvhW7beoq_0 | Save Money on School Lunches | all right here's today's money saving tip it is almost the start of the school year which is insane but it also means one of the most frustrating processes you can deal with and that is packing school lunches here are some tips to save money as well as save the quality of your food and most importantly make your kid feel like they have a good lunch first use the right tools try not to use brown paper bags and try not to use Ziploc bags instead try a reusable insulated lunch bag as well as freezer packs and reusable containers made of one of three materials usually silicone plastic or glass it's going to keep the lunch better longer next buy in bulk we've talked about this before in here but once a kid likes something they like something for usually about a week or two take advantage of that is it easier to buy the pre-packaged single servings of things yes but easier doesn't always translate to cheaper probably better off buying the bulk versions and then portioning it out yourself you'll save money and reduce overall waste one thing I'm always surprised that a lot of parents don't take advantage of and that is using leftovers from dinner the night before for lunch for kids we do it all the time as grown-ups for our jobs and if you worry that your kid might not want dinner and lunch to be the same one way to help is to get your kids actually involved in the packing sometimes that means actually having them choose the food but other times that means hey can you grab the containers can you grab the fork can you grab the napkins and finally this might seem a little weird but start small in terms of proportion especially if you have little kids they tend to get pretty overwhelmed by lots of things in their food giving them smaller sizes actually shows increased adoption rates of eating those Foods in other words if there's less on their plate they'll actually eat more and especially if you have kids that are starting school for the first time nutrition can be one of the most important things for kids to have a good day | America Saves Money | UCjfLLPGc10yLIRUbhOZLm1A | 2023-08-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 381 | 2,050 |
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bDWmxzoC5N8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWmxzoC5N8 | ICSD 2022 Plenary 6 | Translational Knowledge to Shape Sustainable Urban Futures | welcome to the sixth plenary of the 2022 International Conference on sustainable development our topic is translational knowledge to shape sustainable Urban Futures it's my great pleasure to turn us over to our moderator Dr era maravi director of the Indian Institute for human settlements aramar the floor is yours thank you Lauren so uh it's a real pleasure to join you wherever you are in the world I know some people are up very late at the moment like many of us New York and others are just starting their day so we're going to be running this webinar on translational knowledge to shape sustainable Urban Futures I have with me a spectacular panel of colleagues who've been working on this theme for many years but very closely over the last five we have Professor Michael Keith from the University of Oxford in the UK Professor Sue Parnell from the University of Bristol and also the University of Cape Town in South Africa Professor panganzo from Peking University in China who's also the chief editor of you know a key Urban journal in this called cities and Professor Juan Carlos Duque from effort University in Colombia now all of us have been working together with a very large team over the last five years as part of the peak Urban program that basically brings together work in five different countries four different continents and is sort of embedded in uh in work in let's say in four cities in Beijing in Bangalore and Cape Town um and uh in Medellin in in Colombia and we've been trying to understand how sustainable Urban Futures would play themselves out this is of course in the context of the sustainable development goals particularly sdg-11 which focuses on sustainable cities and uh communities and the reason that I think this is important is you know about five years ago a number of us including Sue and myself actually put together a massive open online course which looked at sustainable cities and communities and tried to introduce um the you know them and the ideas to the world it was pretty much shot in every continent including uh in in in many of the countries we're talking about just now and it's done pretty well at the moment uh it's on the sdg academy work website uh they're over I would say maybe 40 45 000 people who registered with the score on this course and it gives you a good understanding of the basics of um of you know of sustainable cities and the key elements in the debates that took place uh while the sdgs were being framed and subsequently from that at the current point of time we're almost at the halfway mark between 2015 and 2030 and there are a whole range of new challenges that are uh kind of emerging and this move will try and address them based on empirical Knowledge from some of the sort of leading universities in the world who work on these questions and have worked together with a whole range of researchers practitioners to try and understand what's happening we'll be considering sort of three themes at the moment um to look at three challenges and opportunities the first is the core challenge of generating this translation research that brings together research from multiple disciplines on a whole range of new cutting-edge themes and linking that with what we call new Urban Sciences which is in a sense the foundational knowledges that will allow us to try and interrogate and address uh you know the wicked problems of dealing with sustainable cities both now and in the future the second question of course is the core challenge of addressing the global Urban agenda which is the sdgs and a whole range of things that are tied to that including the Paris climate agreement Sendai and the new Urban agenda which kind of underpins that process to link you know the global Urban agenda and the opportunity of international collaborations uh which are which are actually localized which are actually grounded in National and City contexts so basically connecting local processes uh and local initiatives with Global Science and Global institutions and the third one is a question of how one connects practices on the ground and you know there's a whole range of practices that are there in each of the countries we're talking about tremendous uh interesting new challenges and sort of Innovations having played themselves out China of course is the most dramatic we've seen I would say the largest urbanization in history happening over the last 30 odd years in China so how does one take the practices from that contrast that with the history of let's say urbanization and urban processes in the Americas and in Europe which happened a little bit earlier and of course the hyper urbanization that we've seen in Latin America over the last few decades so how does one link that with uh with using research and bring that together with practice to shape Urban Futures so that's the broad context we'll try and use these sort of three things three themes of translational research the connections of the the global Urban agenda Global Science and institutions and practice and shaping up and futures um together now the important thing that's emerged over the last five years is the question of international cooperation in trying to make this possible in fact I would say it's it's much more than International cooperation this is a process that has enabled us to bring together uh you know a whole range of researchers some people have been working in the space for decades uh plus a whole range of younger people uh postdocal uh Scholars people who are actually doing their doctors and master students to enable them to work across these geographies and address a range of you know core questions which underpin the connection between new Urban science sustainability science and of course emerging questions like uh like like like climate change so um to kick things off in some senses you know I'd like to sort of request Michael to sort of dive in and give us some sense of how the peak program uh has kind of underpinned the knowledges that have helped us create the mooc and how the process of building the mooc has enabled a very wide engagement uh with with research questions and application across the world so uh over to you Michael thanks Aaron thanks to all the the colleagues and our hosts today for for this launch the the launch of the the shaping Urban Futures uh course the the mooc which is on Coursera now that we're launching today as Arrow says is the product of an extraordinary collaboration between colleagues who are here many colleagues who aren't here and I guess what we all shared through throughout this whole process was a disposition if you like a way a way of thinking about the challenges of the future and particularly the challenges for future cities precisely because this the scale of change and the pace of change creates certain kind of Dynamics about the way we think about cities we know that cities are uh not just systems but they're systems of systems that their sites in which different systems interface Transport Systems Health Systems economic systems ecological systems and we know that thereby uh they're unstable in some ways so some of the paradoxes of the way we think about Urban Futures are on the one hand as I'll say in just a second we know an awful lot more and more about the very short term it is possible to use new ways of gathering data new ways of analyzing data it's an enormous amount about the short-term future but as the pace of change accelerates sometimes it means that it sometimes is simultaneously the case so we know less and less about what happens over the longer the longer term it's also the case that we're very committed as you can see from the people in front of you in the mooc itself and in the work we did on on the peak Urban program to try and both recognize the historical legacies that confront every city the geographical specificities of every city but at the same time try and build a form of inquiry that actually tries to have some fundamental ways of translating Research into practice the title of this session is is translational research what we mean by that is how we think about how research can move from the Ivory Tower into practice but also from the field into the Ivory Tower with talking about relations between people who are finding Solutions on the ground and academics as much as a direction of travel that just goes the other way so the way in which our program was designed was both to combine a sense of the ways in which news new forms of methodologies new ways of thinking about the cities what we're calling the new Urban Sciences lend us a sense of prediction the P of an acronym the peak but at the same time precisely because it is changing so fast they are always particularly at the interface between different systems the sites of newness coming into the world a sense of emergence which is where the E comes from and at the same time we also acknowledge that cities are not straightforwardly um Technical Systems or social systems their socio-technical systems part of the disruptions of cities are driven by technological change and the way those changes are adopted and how we make sense of these changes actually Demands a parity of esteem between different kinds of analytical lenses different academic disciplines how one brings together engineers and Architects and demographers and and Health Specialists means that we need to think about how the different forms of valuation the values at the heart of different ways of seeing the city create trade-offs between different ways of thinking about the city so with the way we talk about this is that we suggest that alongside a sense of trying to understand how the City Works the analytical questions of how the City Works we need to think simultaneously about the normative questions the way in which we want the city to appear in the future to think about in whose image the city will be made so there's normative questions and those analytical questions also set up a further dimension for us that informs the mooc that we need to also think about the operational space at which we operate the fact that at times this is at the scale of the community right the way down at the low scale working with people co-producing ways of short shorter term or longer term solutions to problems other times it's at the scale of the city or maybe the city region but it may also be at the level of the nation-state and clearly part of what we're interested in is thinking about how we build from these building blocks a global Urban agenda that isn't about imposing upon cities across the world a single way of thinking it is using what we call this Urban disposition to think about an approach to Urban Futures a way of thinking about Urban Futures that recognizes that China is very different from Europe that's very different from India that's very different from the experiences of LA Latin America well North America for that point and it's that it's that disposition that kind of lends I think our mooc a particular value precisely because we read across different sites not to synthesize them or to compare them but to try and learn from those differences and that diversity and so hopefully that gives you a sense of how I think our our collaboration has fed into this over the last few years and I mean one way that it's been done uh Michael is actually in the structure of the course where you start with how to know the city and then of course ask the question of what it is to know and know that's worth knowing in the city and then of course how cities are changing because it's tremendous disruption of both social Technical Systems and social ecological systems and finally asking the really big question which I think is critical not only for cities now but over the rest of the century and that is Kansas City's transform themselves and can they help sort of transform uh the future in in some senses in a very concrete way so uh just to come come to you here like I said uh you know China has gone through the largest sort of urbanization in all of history it's transformed it's itself it's transformed it's Urban landscape in some senses so we'd really like to hear from you why China is important uh how urbanization in China is different and how the new Urban sciences that are emerging in China have a lot to give to the world and what we can learn from that and you know how your own research and practices uh sort of connect with these with these questions so all yours okay thanks sex summer so uh yeah everybody knows actually it's a China analysis become the one of large is the city where the uh you know so Urban cities uh Urban residents living so actually in the past 20 years each year on average so it looks like it's 10 million people is moved from rural to the cities so and I still remember that you know now I talked with my researchers from uh from a European that he talked he told me if you want to you know see if you want to observe organization or organization precise leveling and this one uh biggest China could be a good case of course there are the cases because in a very short period there's a large the big huge changes uh this changes you know it's quite a lot of different aspects that people move from rare to cities but uh you know on the internal situation is that many of my family still have land in rural areas the equipment there so you will see and uh some researchers call that half organization or something organization because you see young people leave the city the parents still you know rare so that's there's been lots of challenges for example Aging in rural areas because of older people they're living in the Drury air and also for the young for cities the cities become very young and cities grow very fast and also the young people they adapt to new technologies very very fast UEC and cities the people use that mobile phone and a lot of new technical communication based everywhere so that's also brand new challenges to Travel Planners so how we can make this young people or young generation Urban citizens be happy or be familiar with Lisa new situations so University is for overseas maybe maybe quality in China we do need a cooperate with our International partners because each you know for overseas I think about important research direction or one is how we can achieve some general rules of urban groups so we need to find some general rules or general laws for urban growth so you know that probably uh European uh European particularly UK cities already in a very high level of urban decisions or very high a mutual State I call it a mutual statement of urbanization the people become stable and so howdy can manage their people in in a stage of Rapid organization so we need to learn all that and also how we can find some general groups of people movement from rural to the cities and we need a contender knowledge of all that such that means we need to know maybe you know not all the decisions there's things happening in China we also need to know that things happening in other countries that's that's the views that we need to work together and also I understand that they're very very fast and very good organizations in India too and also in Africa and also other you know countries different countries so I think this is a very good chance to mix these Urban songs Urban this Urban sense you know into the into this disciplinary research areas come to come to including antenna on the developing countries as well so according to my experiences you know for example when I do research at picking University I cooperated with some colleagues from a Cambridge University and also Oxford University because Magic City has made many focus on the transportation or transport modeling or forecast since so I cooperate with them to study some cases in Beijing or in China and other cities and then we you know share some comments and share some ideas how we can do that I think it's really a very it's a Time or there will be needed to incorporate to do this you know particularly for for for for for some green for some cities to grow very fast and in China cities because many researchers now have never seen such big challenges or big rapid change you know past it two or three decades when you know different Knowledge from different contexts so we can mix it and learn it and re-transfer to local some guidelines or local policy recommendations to get local governors so I think that's very important to to to cooperate with our International Partners particularly in these new areas of urban science you know as we know the urban science actually is quite a new the topic and because this you know starts with some from from Scholars from a UK or us some big names there make a pick or just like that macrobate so and actually that newer massage event depends on some new technicals or big data or some things so I think we need a cool cooperate together with different visitors to to to to to it is to observe or to study the local cases and then make the local cases you know to an international to Italian International stories we can find some general public general rules so let's uh yeah that's I think for me and I would say yeah that's uh that's a very high nationality for international cooperation in this new Urban census particularly for China researchers they are they are Keen to corruption with outside outside overseas researchers to to to see how to explain and to to find how China's cities why China Seas growth just like this so and also I think you know we will be a corporate not only with this with other countries developed countries also we need culture is the India or Africa developing countries so we can know each other we can learn it from each other yeah that's for me armor thank you uh I think you know you're absolutely right speak has given us the opportunity not only to see what's happening in Beijing from your eyes but also sort of comparatively in in many ways because what you were saying is absolutely correct what you know this wave that we've seen happening in China from the let's say early 1990s to now is starting to move through South Asia and then in fact when it comes to Africa it's going to become a tsunami over the next 20 or 30 years because the African urbanization is completely unprecedented from such a small base you know China and and South Asia or have had historically strong Urban cultures but for Africa to go from you know 20 or 50 million people about a century ago in cities to a billion is going to be a remarkable change not only technical but cultural um Etc and you know so you've seen this from a ringside view as we try to construct this sort of global Urban agenda uh in in in some ways uh so I mean it would be very interesting to sort of reflect on how one connects the experience in Africa and of course many of the new agendas that are sort of coming together not only the new Urban agenda but questions of biodiversity which are coming up very critically as we have to provide food and you know um water and other services uh the the the big big challenges we've seen in Durban sort of come to mind just about a month month old but also questions of climate change these are emerging challenges uh which we've sort of not conceived of in the past and whether it's fun cities in China all the kind of challenges that you've had to deal with uh sort of responding to apartheid uh in in in in Africa where transportation in a sense is the core element of trying to sort of to to balance out the spatial divide so um you know it'll be wonderful to hear from you on how this connection between the local to the global and back like pangjong was saying and the attempt to create new knowledges you know science is one element of it but there are other knowledge is that that have been being created as we speak in the humanities in the social sciences how you see that actually playing itself out thanks Sarah and I think one of the things which is really nice nice to engage in the mooc as people register for it and begin to take up and work their way through it is you get a lot of different voices from people grounded in different cities on exactly this question that Michael was trying to talk about of how do we take a slightly different disposition on the urban one which recognizes that things are complex happening fast happening in different ways in different places but are happening across a range of Social and Technical and political changes that are Transforming Our World um so you know clearly the scale of urbanization in India or China is very evident at the moment and one sees that but if you're sitting in a city when a rural area of Africa and in your lifetime things are changing you need to understand that and if you are trying to be involved in managing that process then you need to be thinking about it and even if you're living in Latin America and you've been in a context where they've been studies for some time but you are faced with actually engaging those changes and engaging the realities of new Urban spaces you need to find ways to think about to approach to understand to implement uh which are commensurate with the problems the problems are big um and that's a fantastic and exciting field to be in um and I think what has been refreshing about the peak program and I hope you will find refreshing in the mooc is that there's a dialogue between places um about what that means and sometimes when you see not the same problem somewhere else um although that is also reassuring because you can look and compare notes on on how you you can come about it but when you're able to sit back and say how can we approach this collectively that is refreshing that is emboldening that is what is really helpful and so what I think the trans the urban disposition that Michael spoke about that is complex understands complex to recognizes the imperative for new knowledge assumes that that is an interdisciplinary kind of knowledge but also one that where the parts of knowledge which sit in different disciplines and professions and residents and States can be brought together in other words it's not something which is so intractable we can't bring it together that is helped by what we call this translational mode where we start off from the assumption that we want to solve problems so if you're the kind of person who wants to understand the problem wants to help design a problem and probably wants to be involved in implementing it we think that this methodology if you like of being having a translational approach to knowledge is helpful and we think a disposition which Embraces the components which are spelled out through p-e-a-k the peak disposition which the mooc goes into detail on is really helpful and our that I think is particularly reassuring when you're sitting on the African continent uh where you are not you're aware that there is even more to come than what you are already engaging I think if you're sitting in China and India you're in the middle of it if you're sitting in Latin America or Europe you probably are trying to address Nuance amend some of what wasn't done very well but if you're in the African continent you really can begin to think that perhaps you can do things differently from the first and just very briefly if if I if I've got time to talk about why I think that is helpful to think about that globally not just locally I think when we come together and say does it matter how colleagues in Africa do urbanization we know that it does okay it matters not just for them but it matters for everybody because the way Chinese cities are built the way Indian cities are built the way Latin American cities are built the way European cities and American cities were built has put us in the position that we are in so what happens in Africa matters it matters for climate change it matters biodiversity it matters for global economic development and financial flows so there's a local component to thinking translate in a translational kind of way but there is also a global component and I think that's the context where things like the sustainable development goals are helpful because they help to set out a normative position and so increasingly what you've seen are two things one the scientific Community beginning to talk about a global Urban science okay help to long not exclusively a big data approach there's room for anthropologists there too but at the same time the The Wider intellectual community and I hope that there are some people who do the mooc who are in practice who are beginning to say we have to think about the values that we want in cities personally I think it's helpful to say what does this mean in Africa because that's a good litmus test but why don't you listen to the cases in the mooc and see whether you can make it apply in Indonesia wherever it is that you're sitting um I think that's helpful and that's what we mean by global Urban agenda thanks also I mean just picking up on that uh you know uh I think that you know at least my own experiences you you know we go to China and you go to a city like Xi'an and you see the history of urbanization sort of emerging before you 2500 years and you know the translation of that in the current context and then you come to a you know a dramatic pop-up kind of City uh in like you know Shenzhen and how it's actually just completely transformed or even Shanghai for that matter uh you know how how uh pudong is kind of just dramatically exploded over the last 20 or 30 years so I think there are lots of things uh that we we need to build on and learn from uh in terms of the Chinese experience both the challenges uh but also the ways of dealing with things so let me give you I mean from my point of view my own lived experience two examples one is the the building out of High-Speed Rail uh you know high speed raid was something that was thought to be things that would work only and Rich uh and very well-endowed countries fine but the way China has kind of uh invested and connecting up now pretty much always larger Urban centers with High-Speed Rail puts it in a unique position to deal with the challenges of climate change uh for the 21st century because not only people movement but also the movement of goods and Logistics becomes much more efficient and effective uh and I guess the questions that emerge are you know for for for parts of South Asia or for Africa are these the kind of things that we should be looking forward to um you know can can continually afford this at what stage of development and urbanization does one pick that up or more recently the massive and this has happened I think you know literally over the period of covet the massive uh transition in in uh vehicle ownership in China towards electrification so you know one scene it's starting with electric buses but now if you look at the car fleets Etc there's a big shift that's taking place apart from your Metro System so even in the transpiration domain uh which is really critical for urban functioning Etc uh they are in very very interest experiences of making choices and I know from colleagues in China a great debate that sort of opened up for the last 20 years of whether you should invest in infrastructure or you should sort of also invest in people um and you know social protection and all the social safety nets and in a sense China made a choice uh of investing very strongly on infrastructure whether that works for for China itself uh what are the sort of underlying challenges and what are the elements of this that we can draw upon as we go to sort of other geographies so you know some Reflections on that might be quite interesting and then maybe one you had call us we can pick up later on what we can learn from Latin American cities I mean so first uh panjang just some Reflections on that to connect in with what what Sue was saying about lessons we can learn from across the world from China okay sex sex summer I also Sanctus so actually yeah what what you just thought is a big there's lots of big Talent uh changes happiness and also these changes you know it's look like it's easy they won't you know turn around and they just just go forward and it changes have become very deep deep in a social Society of China for example the high speed actually a high-speed Railway system totally change that this too large area of country you know it's this you know the people the young people are they could easily find a job and it's a job market become larger and larger and also you know I did the research and three years ago and I also agree with the presentation you know Universal Manchester and I so under my my research main conclude result you know the larger City benefit more from the high-speed uh infrastructures and small cities at this stage because when this has been really was rebuilt you found small cities we lost their labors and also some Financial sources or other social security units moving through the big cities the biggest cities become larger and larger and return the Richer so that's a big challenge actually and you know there's ever since it's just like one call had two sides High speech is a good sin and make people you know to move from here to there is easily and you can uh you can you know have a breakfast and this is this this city and then you can have that you know a lot thinner you know another city in here her breakfast in Beijing from Beijing to see a Euro they take if you take a normal Trend but 24 27 hours but now it's just six or four hours five and a half hours that's me okay morning I just have breakfast here nine times there unless it's it's good to you know make the differences between the differences in culture and consumption you know consumption uh since between two seeds become smaller but also this bring big challenges to hear because many many you know new uh many skilled workers they move to begin because building the salary begins is high well you know I just live in the Xi'an under the infant turbo in Beijing so you will find you will see the CM you lost some talented workers so that's also you know challenges and opportunities they both could exist for these new techniques another big challenges since I want to share with you is that the shame transport you just mentioned that and we share basket share car share exercise now it's a shame economic become very common very common in China cities you know use your mobile phone not not just normal taxes he just you know some process you work in the daytime and after the after five six o'clock the event programs you just drive the car and park on the rules they are reaching for the order from the internet so the people just easily this share costs the share best customer service so this is become a new trend since so but also this brings a big challenge to government to manage that because for sharing car you'll be you know everywhere they need they needed you know management and also there's some some social you know risk if you take some Shanika you know that it's a strange people you know so you drive that car you pick up new from some place to other places so as I think this also the opportunity and challenges and also I would buy the certain things I want to see the big big active challenges it's new technicals change our culture of society this is could be a very long term and it's because you know in a mooc and I I agree lecture about that transfer modeling but actually is for future child behavior you will see that behavior they totally change the young people they are used to still at home they order everything from online they just clink when cook my Coca-Cola clink run you know button my bottle of coffee a cup of coffee because this is much easier China do you know why because our liver is cheap there's a lot of lots of you know Logistics people they travel actually at another motor car is easy to send everything so this is actually uh this is a low cost love about Deathstroke that means okay our transport cost is low and the people are easily can't because they can't afford online shops in this area and so that's that's a quarter change and a lot of young people the middle people they just they they like to order order some food from our like others from online and even that's the you know the young the old generation and you know for the elderly people they started to do eyelash auction they start learning that so that's the big market so ever since it's uh this is a very it's a it's a long-term change the people of the the ther nor used to online commuting but how about face to face and you in Via you know we are the human beings we need to talk Feast we need to see each other and so that's very important this long-term challenges actually and also uh for for our researchers it's quite hard to see this behavioral change to modernize that you know how much is more than that it's new change so yeah that's my last responses to armors that that's very good very great comments on that sex.com Hammer no no thanks so much so one I think I think some of the most interesting lessons that many of us learned in this whole sort of you know Journey for the last five years is actually coming and seeing uh how you have managed in Colombia and particularly in Marine fine medine has become sort of world famous for a whole range of creative things that have happened there but I think the I mean when we look talking about emergence uh if you've only focused on the experience of of European or North American cities which tend to converge to particular stable patterns of development as benjong was saying you don't really actually capture the challenges that you've dealt with very successfully in in in in in in Marine for example the extreme violence basically the city uh working very very far from equilibrium uh you know on all its count in terms of informality in terms of you know conflict Etc and yet in spite of that um your colleagues and yourselves you know running a remarkable educational institution there uh making the connection between what is happening on the ground and the research that you haven't bring that back into and being able to transform the city and sort of bringing it back to a very different pathway from what it was on so I think that's a that's a very inspiring story because many of our cities May well go the median way or the way of Rio or you know or Sao Paulo Etc large deeply divided uh highly unequal in some senses but experiencing all the forces we just uh talked about you know technology at one end uh you know rapid expansion at the other end serious resource challenges so I think for us at least for me personally uh that learning was was was was very very important almost as important as actually seeing Cuba and the fact that a very different form of organization is possible uh you know if the boundary conditions change so I think it'll be fantastic if you can give us you know insights of how you people have actually manage this process and how one can sort of shape Urban Futures by linking research and practice uh from the work of Rise uh from the work that we've seen done remarkably in in Colombia thank you Amara and thank you for for the invitation uh yeah like um everybody here in the audience know has written about informality inequality lack of accessibility and if I say those those words people from India may be thinking of a specific situation people from Medellin if I talk about information that they have an idea about what informalities in the gene um so we agree that they are Global challenges but once you take the global Challenge and locate The Challenge in a city that challenge interact with the specificity like the DNA of the city and takes on interesting nuances that preclude the the use of a standardized solution yeah uh and and this is why it's very important to to to have like the experience of citizens that in America combined with the cities the experience with cities in in India in China um because for example as you said like imagine we have done a very interesting uh Innovations for example the cable car okay the cable car worked very well in Medellin and a huge impact but it doesn't means that we can take exactly the same model and put it in Peru or or in in India is you you have to to to deal with the specificity of the city to make that solution work in other places and the same happens uh the other way around for example accessibility like designing bypass okay there are many models to to um mathematic models very fancy models to to to draw bypass but when you try to run those models in Medellin you realize that they don't work as well as they work in Europe because Medellin has a specific uh characteristics that that make difficult for those models to work as they were designed in in other places um so um when you have researchers like in Peak project processes from around the world sharing those experience sharing holders Global challenge um behave in different places it help us as a community and I hope it's gonna help the the students in in the in the mooc to get a better understanding of those global challenges yeah that that's the the an important goal there um so the the students will be able to identify that accessibility challenge challenges in India are way different from those in in Medellin or that informal settlements are very different in in in in different cities and even within the city informal settlements are are very different so that help us to get a better understanding of uh of those challenges I'm more important to produce even better theory that if you have a better understanding of the problem you you you as a community can provide can make a better Urban Theory and also like if we if you do that with the participation of people from from the global Soul um you you can like overcome the situation of the you know of the global North producing a orventory no we are contributing to that uh so uh so if I were to pick up that point uh John Carlos you know the thing is a lot of practitioners across the world you know both in the global South and the north would you know would would sort of make the the claim that you don't really need Urban Theory fine the practice is good enough and we can bring High-Speed Rail or you know we can set up a new system for social protection or we can do housing Etc without the practice and uh you know without the theory but I think what we're learning and I think this is something that we've really been able to do collectively and co-create through the peak program and many other kind of initiatives is the fact that theory is very important for two or three things you cannot scale without actually having good theory and you know scaling is multi-dimensional so you have to examine how the theory breaks down in particular context like function was saying they're great advantages of a particular Innovation but it also also has its downsides uh similarly when you're looking at a different social culture context how do you take something which is in a different cultural context and then apply it whether it's you know physical techno technical system like a cable car or you know a program like you know Brazil had to try and decrease inequality which you find in in most cities across across the world so the theory is very critical but I think we're building Theory a little bit differently from what it would be done like in the 20th century where you know you build it as sociologists or translation planners or economists or anthropologists Etc the city forces you to bring all of these ideas together fine and in that sense it's it's sort of hybridized uh this kind of these kind of processes so um in in the work that you've done which uh you know we've seen very effectively applied in in Marine you're taking you know Advanced uh models you're using remote sensing which is now available across the world using Advanced mathematical techniques but also applying it to questions of social conflict and access right that's that's a new kind of theory I mean neither Transportation planners nor uh modelers um no anthropologists you know typically build this kind of theory so any Reflections on how this actually works in practice what your experience is like and how we try to bring this um these ways of knowing and doing into this mooc yeah thanks for for the question yeah it's true like you you take the the the the the local uh experience build the theory but the other challenges try to take that theory to the ground and that brings you uh like a lot of new challenges that that uh many times you you don't expect you know um let me give you an example that is in fact in the mooc 12 years ago we developed this very fancy model econometric model for for the utility company in Colombia called EPM so we we built this model to predict uh water consumption in the metropolitan area Medellin beautiful model uh and but the model used very fancy specific data so uh EPN the company was so happy using the model but when they tried to use the model in other places it was impossible because they don't have that quality of data in other places okay um so you have a really nice Theory you have a nice paper with the model but when you want to use it in other place it doesn't work because you don't have the data and this is something that we learned during the peak Pro the big project and we try to to to present those those challenges in the mooc is that uh we like if you want and and we do that in life like in in in big we we develop a new model a new model that doesn't require this type of data we explore new forms of data satellite images for example and we don't use econometric model we use machine learning and then we end building a completely new model to predict Urban growth to predict water consumption that doesn't require the type of data VPN was using during those 12 years um the result was that EPN both that new model and is using that in urawa I don't know you know you you know where urawa is it's a very deprived region in Colombia uh of course they don't have the data they don't have the technology but now EPN is is now can use our model there no [Music] um the second example is like how hot like you you are prepared you are well prepared with your theory with your models and then the pandemic come and the governor's office call you and and ask you to develop their life you have 36 hours to tell me whether I have to lock down all the municipalities in antiocha or not necessarily all of them and if if I don't have to close all of them which one should I close and which ones should I say leap open uh you have 36 36 hours to answer that question so those challenges require a perfect balance between the the the robust and and the regularity of the methodology but also you have to balance with time with the scarcity of data you know and the mooc is plenty of those examples in which the world the the world is not perfect you have to balance those those situations and came out with good solutions for real practical problems no so we ain't answering that question in 36 hours um uh and we we were able to help the governor's office to to deal at least a little bit with the pandemic but as a conclusion you need to develop a a whole new set of skills to be able to take the theory into into the ground and make the difference and try to contribute to to improve quality of life of population within the city you see I I remember I think well what uh what what Juan Carlos describes which is what you're you're hinting at is that there's a there's a part of what we're calling the the disposition of pick up and actually it implies a different sort of relationship between theory and practice I mean I think corbusier flew over Rio de Janeiro and planned chandigar one became the other by mistake and the corbusier said you you you fly you see you know and you decide right and um that's that's the problematic relationship between theory and practice whereas in a sense what we're talking about in invoking a notion of translational uh research translational work is thinking about colleagues who I think all share a sense of embeddedness in in context so the operational space at which they're working involves much more of a dialogue back and forth uh the about the relationship between theory and practice which is why the mooc is called working across there in practice not from Theory to practice or from practice to Theory but a much more interactive relationship between the two I think you know that's absolutely true uh in the sense that you know this is what we're trying to do to to be able to enable that cycling of of of of knowledges and this is what we try to do at IHS for many years in fact the reason that we got into moocs was to be able to take this experience and reach out hopefully to hundreds of thousands of people who are actually experiencing this as researchers as Educators and as practitioners but don't really have the opportunity because of the context that they're in but this gives us a wonderful landscape right across the world where you know we're not hiding from difficult questions these are wicked problems and they're sort of contextual hyper local solutions that are there but there's also theory that sort of underpins it so I guess as we're about to close the question that I have which might be a little naughty question is this is probably the second move that the University of Oxford is actually put together so for an institution that sits you know on the top of the the totem pole so to speak um you know how has it been for you uh now as an anthropologist find reflecting on the process that said what did we learn from the process of bringing together these contexts across the world and and trying to make them accessible to um to younger and older people and what are your kind of expectations from that as we about to close I I think more than anything I would say it is the importance of the importance of trust and Trust relations and only through trust relations can we generate these forms of knowledge precisely because we know uh the challenges are enormous the the importance of addressing those challenges therefore becomes commensurably significant and this the solution to those challenges is not going to be fine found through any one location that geographically and can only be generated through much more complex geometries of place and space and linking between the Endeavors of people across the planet I think to address problems that are locally that can only be globally sold through those sorts of collaboration that land locally sensitively thanks uh Michael so with that I mean for those of you who found this interesting the massive open online course and the underlying materials that support this and support the implementation of these sort of complex questions that sustainable development tries to address uh are available now and they're openly available across the world and we hope you can join us uh and engage with researchers and practices from four continents and we really thank uh the icsd for the opportunity to bring this all together uh and you know try and engage with the question of how do we actually create these new knowledges and how do we enable education for sustainable development to become real grounded and focused on impact so thank you so much very many thanks | SDSN | UC6Bwtrg9IpDnypQ7t_jjAYQ | 2022-09-20 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 8,742 | 47,625 |
cLiQKgg1h1Y | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiQKgg1h1Y | Skyrim Series, Episode 164: MORE BLACK BOOKS OF MORA | [Music] hello the kids in his ass grey cat hello the kids at his ass break hat the one and only company in another episode of Skyrim right we left off we were being attacked by a dragon after clearing all of the Dragon stones for fun Dragon stones just dumb whatever stones I don't remember what they were described island remembers all maker shaman and skull that's about all I remember about the stones anyhoo we gotta deal with this guy now which dragon Rand would be useful so just a regular dragon smaller just five seconds ago and there we go that worked is he going to steal going to steal this one again is he going to steal it again this one goes to me this time nice yay so he steals every other one of your bragging souls which is annoying to say the least but and you probably never will again just remember that it's me what was that draining sword that I not raining warhammer ancient legend rockin yeah don't say well I mean been like that for ages at this point we're already late not sure why we decided to take such an extended short time ah you didn't decide that that's the thing it's a long way back to wind held from here you don't say I'm wait a minute you guys were staff from the runner from it's really dead guys our staff from the runner on the Raven Rock docs aren't you fine yeah don't have to uh you don't have to say a damn thing all I need to know is how to [ __ ] start able to carry all of this and I have a feeling I'm not gonna go to a pupper uh I don't want to make you go back home I want to carry all this stuff with me but um I am going to be stuck doing this for a while and I don't want to subject anyone to that and to be fair the again with the [ __ ] box around me really still that's [ __ ] stupid but yeah um braven rocks pretty far away so wait I'm stupid I'm stupid I'm stupider than stupid you don't understand how stupid I am keep forgetting about our back which allows me to do this we fast travel without having to get rid of the [ __ ] I'm carrying just half the reason why I wanted our vac in the first [ __ ] place all right there we go drink my coffee and we're good dual wielding potentially doubles melee damage output but prevents any kind of blocking well that makes sense I mean you should be able to block a little bit just not easily because that little scissor maneuver you see in the movies that's stupid that's stupid extremely [ __ ] stupid because now you've eliminated all ability to it counter-attack and for what anyway that's me ranting raving about usual [ __ ] that I usually rant and rave about and off the horse we go uh guys have to sound like that every time you love our Mallory's the name even sell stuff do you like a look yeah there we go uh looking at what they possibly have and it's nothing really Oh sell you the that big old Warhammer the great sword regular sword sell that too um [ __ ] getting enough out of you uh I'll get some ebony it's sure why not [ __ ] like three should be fine sell the ebony dagger dagger dagger not even like I said danger which is what that spells dang ER oh god I'm [ __ ] losing it apparently I'm coming down with a cold because I just blew my nose before this recording and it's still making it hard to talk ah god damn i want to keep these these are do not need to keep that it can sell so that and i'll sell this there we go and this i keep until I can get home home ah as it all its got into warning yeah and then there's a little bit more stuff fix it up for armor that I need to get from the the tomb there it's on the last bit of a yeah the Barrow here which I have not heard from them in a while yet so it might be a little bit before I get more info uh we have to talk to nella for two different things i guess i don't know i have two different things i need to talk to him about but ok miss second here I'm gonna fix something on my recording yep squeaky chair I know [Music] there we go I forgot to set the episode number I do that so that way I can keep track of it in my head while I'm editing it huh there you go hopper it's sticky still with me after all this time I love it the best already see yuppies coming with me awesome awesome man those textures are gonna look good in the special edition I keep talking about the spatula dish because I'm so happy about it it looks and feels so good float upwards there we go not decide for the pupper in mind I'm sure uh no oh geez Nell off I need to talk to you about multiple things none I have the scene but right now i'm hungry no I'm not seen Verona I have the ash that well done here are some septums for your trouble thank you if you come back at a day or two I should have the spell worked out you can buy it from television awesome all right uh I have that scene Veronica I'll find her tell her I want Apple cabbage stew with some kaneis routine Wow hey I'm not your servant obviously not or you would have a cup of tea in your hands I suppose you want to be asked nicely very well yeah nicely would be nice please o hero of Skyrim please find Verona I shall be ever so grateful well I mean that's an improvement for sure I hear you know where to find a black books you refer to the terms of esoteric knowledge that old hermaeus mora has scattered throughout the world yeah I guess somehow connected to your search for Mira yeah I found a black book I need to find more weight uh I've dealt with hermaeus mora before I've read the Oghma Infinium have you the actual arkema Infinium that's it I've searched for it myself for many years without success hmm well then you should know better than anyone that hermaeus mora is not to be trifled with dare but he is subtler than most of the other daedric princes as you would expect of the prince of knowledge and faith yeah you seem to have escaped the fate of many who find themselves and snared forever by the law of his secrets Oh perhaps not well I mean I'm still here I'm not ash and I'm not in a hentai movie I was resisting making that joke but I eventually had to come out that is possibly the worst phrasing to use for that uh I found a black book I need to find more wait up we have to confirm that they have something to do with romance more hmm I thought it was obvious cydia hermaeus mora has always tried to seduce mortals into his service with the law of the pigeon dollars well the black books actually came from no one really knows some appear to have been written far in the past others might be from the future who apparently time is more malleable if you're the Daedric Prince our fate and destiny that makes sense I need to find more found one yes and you read it too didn't you they'll try to deny it you've got the look I can see it now that is where the first knowledge it's still knowledge and therefore useful yeah usually turns out to be the most to use my experience Oh righty then I guess that makes sense I have to know what mirek if I have to know what mirek knows if I want to stop him now that is a dangerous path indeed oh yes Maura gives nothing away for free but you may typically lakme rack of course to power Mount dragon ball it could be very interested can we not please digging up where I can find another black book oh yes they're not hard to locate once you know how to look for I have one here that I've been using to locate more mm-hmm you have one yes I haven't been idle while this fascinating madness and golfed soul time well I would figure out my book isn't what you're looking for I'm quite sure it is unconnected with this me Rach but I do know where to find a black book that can help you do you so why won't the book you have helped me oh it is clearly not associated with the same power that has overtaken the island I think you're lying I'm not talking about hermaeus mora these black books are all years of course okay know what you're looking for is a specific book presumably because Mirax power derives from it hmm so you know where to find this one the one connected with mirek yes I do I haven't been able to get it but maybe together we can unlock the secrets the dwemer left behind ok now we're dealing with the Dwemer what do they have to do with this forbidden knowledge was somewhat of a specialty of the dwarves and I guess yeah if they would just leave it alone well Lord Kanaloa but this book and took it to stun it I found their reading room in the ruins of necrotic the book is there but it's sealed in a protective case which I wasn't able to open huh but perhaps the two of us together will be able to get what I mean to get that then follow me uh oh you mean we have to go to the Dwemer ruin together ah ok well up gonna do a thing here first gimme a second get that done oh I forgot to tell the other [ __ ] I had god damn it well at least it doesn't you know completely weighing me down that would be annoying and apparently he just went down so I need to start following him I guess that's kind of what i have to do good hey up maybe maybe we'll find out after i'm done with this [ __ ] with your master ok Anton ago oh there's the pumper I knew he wasn't gonna float up there we go onward we go to whatever the [ __ ] we're going next huh alrighty hey popper let's go all right you lead the way my love cuz I sure as [ __ ] have no idea where we're going wink wink nudge nudge actually real quick I should probably do something oh jeez I'm still over burned really oh the dragon bones and the scales that's right I remember now ah [ __ ] all right well nothing to do about it now it's not right now is there a way to make him hold back a little bit let me get there that'd be nice [Music] up I thought it was but that was one of those lurkers that are coming up I was like oh [ __ ] I was freaking out for about five seconds oh oh come on and his path is a little meandering I think this is one of those weird little goofy bugs of the original pathing system alrighty huh this is going to take a little bit stones already dealt with so this is fun what the hell are you doing [Music] the hell are you doing it's clearly over there what in the [ __ ] shesh pupper shesh we're fine we're good alright now he's going in the right direction that's good at least I assume he's going in the right direction following all these markers anyway which is probably ones he put up himself or pada servants put up probably more the latter than the former what that okay I thought there was an enemy popping up on an hour by how to know where I mean somewhere it's right behind me like they usually do all right grab my sword yep just on the off-chance things go south which they typically we run certainly knew how to build for the ages these towers have outlasted their creators behind any I'm sure uh should probably recharge this I keep forgetting I need to do that uh not black soul gem itself but the black star that I can use and there the book is housed inside that dome is it to unlock the door for us let's get on with it already well then here we are the child lock the book we're after is right inside that dude fair enough uh shall we get on with it oh so I have to give him a prompt to continue on good that means i can go back and sell the [ __ ] that i need to give it oh boy well yeah uh that's that's the image that comes up with Apocrypha really ah as creepy it has so many fake eyes and [ __ ] crab people plus a good crab people crab people crab people I'm an idiot [Laughter] ok onward we go to deal with the [ __ ] that I forgot to deal with the first time which would not be the first time nor will it be the last update but yeah so what can I get you oh [ __ ] I'm a little too early in the morning into you oh wait for time and gonna disappear and there he goes and then they're gonna reappear in about three seconds there we go you got a good thing going here now that yet reopen the mines wasn't planning on it believe me and there he is once again hey buddy if you're looking to buy then I'm looking to sell per usual let's go for yourself oh not definitely going to see in a second uh put good ones do you have I'll take that for damn sure and I might as well take that too uh what do you have that I could you um could use a couple more of those definitely more of these and I wish you had more common soul gems that were empty I need more of those ah think i'm good i think i'm good at this point just need to sell you ah don't remember having that on my person huh ignite and fries are not actually as good as their cut out to be so I'm just gonna sell this there we go let's bucket it's worthless to me so that's so that's all that sell these this one this one geez I have a lot of East you have to him okay uh ring of deft hands major magica minor restoration renewal stamina regenerates a beat Ethan to have in the back pocket think this personally I think that'd be nice to have in the back pocket a ring a sure grip already half that I'll keep that weight no do I already have that enchanted I don't know i'll have to double check all right um scrolls up that you're not gonna have enough to give me enough gold for that so i'll take one of these and i'll sell you that there we go and yeah that's about it it's about as much as i can get out of you alright cool beans if you need any supplies of course and i'm pretty sure i could sell you the dragon I don't who's dead if you've given us something to build on here absolutely take a look i think i can sell you the dragon scales and bones you definitely have enough to take it there we go cuz I don't need almost all the ones I have what do you have that I can buy off of you um you don't have bleeding heart not bleeding heart bleeding crown [ __ ] i was reading breyer heart and that's what my brain [ __ ] up on I'll take that [ __ ] [ __ ] it at this point take that too and I think you can sell you the other scale at this point I can't there we go awesome remember I plenty of potions and ingredients if you're ever in the market well do but uh as it stands for right now I'm pretty much as good as it's going to get I should probably head back to now off I'm going to try and deal with my soul gem situation before that because I'm pretty sure that's going to be a pain in the ass holy [ __ ] you went all the way over here what what why you overheat it off I guess he's following me um ok that's new I didn't know that was gonna happen I'm gonna deal with my soul gem it issue now but I should end the episode here for right now because this will take forever and I'll be back at the Dwarven ruin in the next episode anyway thank y'all so much for watching click the subscribe button if you like these videos and you want to see more on flick the like button if you liked this particular video sharing comments who could bring more people into this community we can talk about the games playing together and I will see you all in the next episode this amend the one the only 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nTo23j33A_E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTo23j33A_E | Committee for Justice Meeting Thursday 6 February 2020 | by phones on silent and away from the microphones would be appreciated there are all evidence sessions that will hear today members we will have recorded by consort that your content will do that for each oral evidence session okay apologies from Patsy mcglone okay membership intent then the draft minutes of the meeting that was held on the 30th of January their members are content with their accuracy then I will say ma'am according one matter arising just to demand the department favorite and confirming the anticipated timings from domestic abuse bill certify officials at the meeting on the third January and offering a briefing session the draft bill committee thought that that would be helpful and that was before obviously the committee said that we would write to the department expressing our concern about the length of time that it would take to bring the domestic abuse legislation to the committee and I know the minister is hoping to meet with myself and Linda on Monday so if members are content I will along with Linda Orly briefed the concerns to the minister about the time freedom that the department are proposing and then we'll bring that back to the committee next Thursday and to provide an update and then we'll take it from there okay head in for Dan is an overview briefing on the courts and tribunals service and the officials want to come and forward in the table Peter lani the chief executive of the courts and tribunals services pages 14 16 of your meeting pack and also ages 3 to 25 come off your table pack members are givers no no we touched on some courts issues with the statutory rules on Tuesday Peter was able to focus through that so Peter and let you introduce your team mercy of repetition but these are all very welcome and at the when you finished introducing your team if you want to give a brief overview and then we'll move to questions absolutely Thank You chair grid for the opportunity to come to the committee today to brief you on the work of the courts and tribunals service I'm joined by three senior colleagues I've got a lien topping who's the head of court operations Gillian McLaren who's the head of tribunals and Enforcement Division I'm Sharon Hetherington who's head of modernization and making my opening remarks today I want to provide some background briefing about the service before saying a little bit about our priorities challenges and opportunities as the committee will know the courts and tribunals service is an agency of the DOJ comprising around 700 staff working at 19 venues across Northern Ireland 90% of our staff work in front plain posts administering around a hundred thousand kisses puranam across all our business areas we have a forecast annual expenditure of around 79 million pounds with four million of capital and through the court funds office we manage over 300 million of pounds which is held in court on behalf of some of the most vulnerable members of our society we support 15 tribunals of various sizes and we provide administer support for the parole commissioners on the planning and water Appeals Commission we're also responsible for the enforcement of judgments office which is a central facility for creditors seeking to enforce civil judgments in Northern Ireland our business plants outside our strategic objectives and undeliverable whether through administering our retain business or through the implementation of our modernization program our priority is to deliver high quality services that meet the needs of our customers turning briefly to the challenges that we face budget uncertainty remains a concern over the last few years the DOJ has faced some very difficult and challenging times and respect to funding and lake other parts of the DOJ the courts and tribunals service has faced significant austerity cuts since 2010 we've seen a reduction of nine point seven million and our funding allocation while at the same time we've had to deliver a further and point five million of savings to meet inflationary and other in your pressures this year we received a flat cash supplement from the department which was a welcome I'd come given the magnitude of internal pressures and we received additional in year funding for specific new functions or pressures including legacy and quests the substance misuse court or modernization program and changes to pension contributions after many years of austerity we continued to face financial challenges while we anticipate being able to live within this year's budget we will work closely with the Department to set a budget for next year on future years in order to facilitate a more strategic approach to planning it is important that we move away from the one-year budget cycle to a multi-year approach which will encourage a longer-term view to be taken maintaining our court estate is also challenging there is a need for capital investment not least in the northwest where Dairy court houses more than 200 years old recent failures of the heating and electrical installations in the Royal Courts of Justice will also require considerable investment to address and emphasizes the need to look strategically at high and where we invest our in our future estate the courts in tribunal service has delivered a significant amount of change in recent years and they I'd like to highlight briefly a number of reforms or new business areas which we've implemented or are currently taking forward speeding up justice is one of the biggest challenges facing the justice system and as a priority for the department the speed that cases progress matters to victims witnesses and parties generally and we are committed to supporting this work through the introduction of chaos progression officers to support the effective management of cases in the 'quran court and by supporting the implementation of committal reform we've supported a pilot to identify and tackle causes of delay and care proceedings in the Family Court and we're working with the judiciary to pilot the use of civil hearing centres to better manage civil business in the county court as part of the DJ's problem-solving justice portfolio we worked with probation and other partners to establish a substance misuse court in Belfast in April 20th team the aim of the pilot was to specifically target individuals whose offending behavior is driven by drug and/or alcohol misuse and to provide them with support to tackle the root causes of their offending behavior acceptance on to the pilot program was by way of clinical assessment predicated on a guilty plea at the outset it was open to fifty clients and round for fifteen months the initial evaluation has find a significant improvement in abstinence as well as a reduction in reoffending and the likelihood to reaffirmed the evaluation also made a number of recommendations to improve the model and these have been incorporated into a second fears of the pilot which started in july 2019 in february 2019 the DOJ announced an initiative to speed up legacy inquest arrangements and to deal with the outstanding cases the initiative supported a significant expansion of capacity to clear outstanding legacy and quests and allowed for the implementation of reform proposals developed by the Lord Chief Justice the courts in tribunal service has established a legacy and grassed unit to support the delivery of the LC J's plan the unit has a complement of 32 legal administrative an investigative staff in order to facilitate the preparation and hearing of legacy inquest we will make facilities available for the digital sharing and presentation of evidence as well as other investigative software there are currently 44 outstanding inquest relating to 71 deaths which have not yet been commenced and which will be listed for hearing during a period of five years from April 2020 there are currently seven inquest out hearing including those relating to the events at Bally Murphy in 1971 the listing of inquest is a judicial matter found on the 20th of November 2019 the presiding Carter mrs. Justice Kagan announced details of ten inquest to be heard in year one she confirmed that the remaining panning and quest would be subject to active judicial case management with the first refused to be held in April 2020 and she stated that she hopes to be in a position at that point to consider a provisional year to inquest listings the new fan collection and forcement service came into operation on the 1st of June 2018 following the commencement of the relevant provisions in the Justice Act the new arrangements provide for a broader range of additional collection methods including deduction from benefits and attachment of earnings and bank account orders where payment cannot be secured kisses are progressed to referral hearing where the court can consider options such as supervised activity orders bank account orders vehicle seizure or ultimately committal the aims of the new service are to increase the number of financial penalties paid prior to default to reduce the number of feign warrants being issued to the police and to reduce the number of defendants being committed to prison for non-payment while all these iums have been met we believe that there is scope to further improve the effectiveness of the new arrangements and we're working with the judiciary Department for Communities and Revenue & Customs to deliver these the historical institutional abuse Act 2019 received Royal Assent on the 5th of November the Act provides the legal framework for publish 'men of a redress board to receive and previous applications for compensation from those who experienced abuse and residential institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1995 the executive office retains policy responsibilities in this area and it is statutorily responsible for funding the administration costs and Awards of compensation but the courts and tribunal service is working to establish the redress board mr. justice Colton was appointed as president-elect on the 15th of November and the interim secretary was appointed shortly thereafter the setting up of the ridge a sport involves a number of strands including finance staffing accommodation IT recruitment training of panel members and the agreement of rules and procedures David Stirling announced on the 17th of December that the board will open to receive online applications from the 27th of March and it's anticipated that panels will be available to sit from the end of April with the first approved payments to follow thereafter to finish I'd like to briefly mention our modernization programme which provides a framework to deliver change projects intended to modernize courts and Tribunal services at a strategic level the work is overseen by a group comprising the Justice Minister the Lord Chief Justice and the permanent secretary the overarching objectives of the modernisation portfolio are to redesign and optimize service delivery models and processes to provide more effective services to improve access to justice through the further adoption of digital and other only in service delivery channels to deliver a reconfigured and modernized physical court and tribunal estate to support new ways of working to achieve a sustainable financial operating environment and to support staff and court users to work in a changing environment our future court and tribunal services will be built around modern tech knowledge a streamline processes and buildings which are fit for purpose we want a justice system that is much more proportionate to see if citizens time it's efficient and seeks to reduce the impact on their lives the justice system needs to fully embrace technology facilities to initiate and manage certain types of proceedings online should be available for all types of business document and case management systems should replace paper failing and improve efficiency throughout the system we will also seek to build on existing practices which are a legal representatives parties and witnesses to participate in hearings by telephone and videoconference we will engage extensively with stakeholders to agree the vision and priorities for the modernization program and for the selection of individual projects which will be evidence-based with a focus on outcomes and benefits for service users we have begun a number of proprietary work streams including a refresh of our courtroom technology solution across the estate condition surveys for all our property assets and a review of all our IT systems we're also developing a number of proof of concepts to allow us to test new functionality in controlled areas before deploying them more freely in other business areas these include a fully digital end and solution for non-contentious probit business and a digital evidence sharing and presentation for legacy inquests we will also develop a new remove evidence facility for vulnerable witnesses adjacent to ligand side courts to replicate an important facility which today it has only been available at the NSPCC premises and Bishop Street and airy it's difficult in a short space of time chair to fully articulate the breadth of work being taken forward by the courts in tribunal service however I hope that this very high-level overview has been helpful and we're happy to take questions yes Thank You Pierre so command you for that just a couple of questions and then bring in and and that the the estate strategies to you at the end of March that that's to provide the evidence base for change as there any indication as to want by way of the number of facets that the court service has where were the travel of direction is new at this stage I think we are gathering the evidence to understand the the condition of our various buildings and to understand how we will invest in them going forward and the estate strategy that will be published in March will be a high-level principles document which will saturd the level of standard and facilities of accommodation that we want to provide at each of our venues it won't be a future configuration I think once once we have consulted and agreed on the standard of accommodation facilities that we want to provide we will then look to try and map business flows and the the travel that customers will have onto that to work out the optimum configuration but I do see that as a longer-term piece of work because we're mindful as well but currently access to justice is characterized by physically attending court and I think that a lot of the stuff that we're doing around trying to modernize their services and put them online and have greater use of remove evidence facilities may help to mitigate the impact that I am more consolidated albeit better equipped cordis yet and will offer and I certainly could give you plenty evidence as to violets Bernie - brand new courthouse just definitely one eye on that future in terms of the digitization work not modernization and that's good any conversations taking place or by televising court proceedings or elements of court proceedings even judgements from the Court of Appeal for example I'm not aware that that has been discussed recently I'm aware for the recent developments and in England on wheels I mean that would be a policy matter between the department and the Chief Justice's office but I don't believe that there's been any discussions around that certainly in the recent years if the policy was to do it from the core service point of view would be confident and that could be implemented in terms of fit again for structure that would be needed I I think it again it would require investment and a different type of technology we we have done something similar for a couple of high-profile criminal cases were we broadcast the proceedings to another building where witnesses and family members were just because of the capacity and so should broadcasting can be done and but broadcasting for media purposes again would just need to be we need to work through the structure a lot and I have you found the the IT improvements in terms of actually improving the overall delivery of the service and at the minute they were working on the the Refresh of courtroom technology and the main benefit of that for us is that we have experienced a number of occasions were perhaps evidence from a Volvo witness is brought in on a DVD or on another device and then whenever they seek to use it it's incompatible with the system or the the audio isn't particularly clear and I think that has resulted in cases perhaps unnecessarily being adjourned and the the new solution that we're putting in place will be much more flexible and when combined with the in court Wi-Fi solution it is what's called technology agnostic which means that if the prosecution or the defense come in with any device using any type of software they will be able to log securely on to the courtroom audio-visual equipment and there will be no issue about compatibility so from that point of view we expect to see significant improvements in reliability and however one of the other things that we want to do as I said in the opening was to look at creating a new remote witness suite just beside like inside courts to do the same as we have in the NSPCC offices and dari that was one of the recommendations the qiam from lordosis Gillan's review of sexual offences i'm Quinta trampers thought for this year that will be built into our accommodation in court service headquarters ok covered the income issue and the financing of the organization on Tuesday in terms of the the phase and the moving to food cost recovery so I don't ante to go over that ground with you so Linda just I don't we have sort of one quick question just in relation to the here chain er the redress will be fine on that terms of on have you got assurances in relation to because that will be a concern with uptick within departments where one department is promised from another department that there will be finance : the theme for one reason or another is not for us : so just wanna sort of gauge what kind of guarantees cuz obviously this is something the tio has to deliver on at something that I certainly want to say delivered and I'm related to say that it's moved on so quickly and the justice Sakshi have moved so quickly in terms of putting somebody in place and I'm trying to get everything in relation to the the funding the the Judi on the executive office to provide the funding to provide grants to the nominator Department has contained in the legislation so it's probably as secure as it can be new the the day-to-day operation of the the redress board will the the transport itself under the legislation as a body corporate yes but on a day to day basis the the the management of that will be done by courts and tribunal service just because of our familiarity of working with those kinds of structures and the interim secretary was previously the head of tribunals and Enforcement Division and I asked him to move across to lead on establishing that their address board I'm certainly the staff that have been deployed to D at a lot of them internally from from courts and tribunal service and we're waiting for the remaining posts to be filled externally and so sooner we will be leading on it on a day to day business yes and again invoice that back to you the redress port is going to be based in headline building and the panels will do their work in headline building it's anticipated at this stage that the assessment of compensation applications will be done on the papers although there's provision on the legislation for an oral hearing in exceptional circumstances if that is appropriate and we believe that we can accommodate three panels setting simultaneously and headline building so how does that's the approach that we're taking from you expecting budget or is this part of the play with regards to well I I expect that the money to come from the executive office and I think there are there's a conversation for the executive office to have with with finance and Treasury about where that funding ultimately comes from but from our point of view we will invoice regularly the executive office for costs and lately you pay the staff we bill at mibella back to the executive office and we will put a range from someplace to ensure that both the the invoicing and the forecasting is is done regularly so that there can't be any end of year surprises just so you know information I have a question and two example this question time on this issue just for your honor sure can I just ask then a bit decorous did and I was worried there every just before you do Linda wonder do we follow up on the SAA now come back desert it was just in relation to the staff on issue there obviously you you hear the staff on teal so what about the back fill in because obviously if you've taken staff from somewhere else and pop them into those possessions that there has to be back further is that it's a bold statement as long as tea or care for the staff that you've moved what is I mean with the staff that we've put into place so far was really just so that we could hit the ground rolling in terms of preparation but we we do have a number of schemes rolling to to fill the post substantively and anybody who has moved sideways from court some tribunal service to their address board we will be we will have or will be taking steps to make sure those posts or sorry just the process is gonna be reviewed who does not review is that to yours is that tea you are the sponsor for the redress board and so we would expect them to take that forward but we would obviously be in putting them up yeah thank you for completeness anyone else on eh-eh-eh and they just fight Phillippi Peter can I just just inquire but you're definitely on track to have the online applications by the 27th of March which is important for many people and that yeah you will be on on schedule to start sitting at the end of April and yes I believe we will be where we're putting every effort into it and we've been working very closely with the ad providers Doudna to make sure that the online application is is available on the tab the deal that's required we've also been working with the victims groups and with the the interim advocate on the ship of things like the application form both the paper version and and whenever we have a working model of the online application we share that with them as well but but yes I I would be confident that we will we will achieve that yet for going live in one way or another we will make sure that we are able to get applications and on the did the deer that we have been committed to and you know the the Chief Justice has identified obviously Mr Justice coldness the president and county court judges have been identified to staff the panels the Department Health has also identified the other members from the panel's so so again we would expect that once the applications start to come in there is a process to go through to serve them on the institutions and to get the institutions response on them and then once that has been done they will move forward to to determination so the panel's the panels will be available to do that and they're forged I asked Peter and through the Chur if there is a delay in that in applications or sitting for the first time can we ensure that we were made aware of that would be that delay yes thank your presentation what type of person looking for in relation to qualification experience and competencies for the redress forward no the for the panel members the panels are chaired by a judge and then the other members have experience around things like emotional trauma and other health healthcare affricates so that's why the department health of taking the lead on appointing those members knew that the judge will be the legal member of the panel and they will be supported by lawyers and but that's just in terms of managing the claims and providing professional recommendations around it there's three per panel and there's the judge on to other members per panel and we hope to be sitting with with two to three panels from from underneath stage it is yes it's similar to to the tile structure okay thank you Paul thank you yes thank you just last Lance Minister we had ready sell off this clear so I've been to see if in rescue today so on that Peter can I ask then about any conversations you have had with a new minister around the estate if there's any angling there at this present time about trying to say that new I haven't had any discussions with the new minister around the quarters did I'm not aware yet of her views on that and there is a meeting of the strategic oversight grip for the modernization program next week next for next Friday and I would expect to be speaking to her before that all right all right all aspects of the modernization programs she has well there is a spot now Sigma I'm not sure well about have you met this bad yes yes have you had a conversation with the spa about the East End no I've had a very high-level conversation with the spa debate the modernization program but not the estate okay because I for what it's worth can I just say having been over this place for the last three years I've conducted all my own opinion or pins yes the two areas my area the court is the best this it's schoolroom three is as much like its last room as the other one is a boardroom that could be very intimidating but downstairs you are in a reception area and there's no privacy whatsoever but in courtroom three in bar Mina you have all the privacy you want small rooms from either side so I'm a great fan all the Tribunal's being held in couple of questions here I'm just on the substance miss you a lot and certainly welcomed this but I notice if petabyte budgetary pressures how much was budgeted the pilot and how much budget do you require for funding to continue into phase 2 for the remainder of this year some first pilot was a 12-month device around 4:15 it was five hundred thousand wonderful essence starring Peter mentioned that we did learn lessons I don't know colleagues from probation board were coming after me I'm here much better I knew much more about that side of it however one of me in lassen Sartre was it needed we need it longer at the intervention of somebody he has a mixture of mental health and substance misuse matters and problems in two months month program fifty again fifty people at 750,000 pines for the it ten months obviously with everything this is a pilot so we've been imagine that those course if and when we get to the point movie rolling right further obviously in the problem is a schedule there in terms of individuals but if you look at that someone is a societal benefits in terms of health communities and just not as well and these are adults that you were dealing with or is there any underwritten okay on the mental health courts and they mentioned over scope and exercise to be complete and with a potential date of September next year hi March again for that pilot it hasn't been caused disease yet we are working with it will be much more because it is mental health and that was another lesson learnt from the substance misuse court that there were people who maybe had an underlying mental health problem before the substance Misha's it'll be much more technical intervention there so we're working with colleagues and health as part of the scoping exercise without will help determine the cost of that okay thank you and finally just with regards to their paints service I don't agree with McCauley I don't think court should be the prayer premises for benefit of AIDS and mandatory reconsideration issues there but in terms of the executive agreement a a program of tribunal reform and I'm just wondering it says the transfer to DOJ didn't happen but am i maybe I'm misreading this that the pay's are happening and in courts with food court service the the statutory transfer of responsibility for the appeal service as didn't Trump doesn't have them that still sits fifty se but we administered I honor an administrative agreement which we have done for for several years now I think the intention would be that the statute transfer should be taken forward and that's that's really that's that's possession more than our day-to-day issue okay and finally just in terms of their paid service pain statistics used to be issued publicly and breakdowns on whether or not a person was represented whether it was through the ribbing represented by private constituency officer advice sector so on and also success rates they haven't been published in a number of years and I've been informed that this is to do with resource issues with that would I be right in saying that or is there any intention to start issuing news again I don't know actually I I think I'll need to come back John that I wasn't aware of that publication or whether it's actually ours or DFCS but actually to DFC as far as I'm aware about on some occasions that do come to the opinion service for some of those statistics okay but I don't we come back to my next era thanks for your presentation Peter just on the issue of the substance misuse courts yeah imagine the valuation as that evaluation completed yet yes there was an initial value evaluation done at the end of the year and applause our first fears I think we will want to continue to monitor that the cohort going forward so we can get Richard our own reoffending rates cannot be shared with the committee the initial evaluation yes okay thank you you mentioned kids progression officers and no we we have had the the rule before but there was there were certain questions about the the effectiveness of it in its original form what we've done as part of the the new work on speeding up justice is we've revisited the rule and we've talked with partners in PPS and police about how we can make it more effective and we have a pilot we are now using that facility in in three Crown Court venues and again subject to that being successfully evaluated we would see that ruling a total other areas it is part of the speeding up of justice they should have yeah yeah and who today Lee is was officers they they have their counterparts in PPS are officers in the court service have their counterparts in PPS and also then with the the PS and I just the the investigating officer and the rule would be to review the cases that are coming forward to make sure that actions that were previously identified have been completed contact reps on the defense side yes yes M word it is I mean I think we we know that without the Kia's progression officer rule we knew that there can be a tendency for kisses to come back riding for a further case management hearing will need to discover that the certain tasks that were were directed haven't been completed so freegan if we can deal without all in the margins it means that the time and the courtroom is more meaningful and used more productively they have target dates or key performance indicators to work to you in relation to thank you sir Lord Chief Justice issued a new practice correction or affirmation of the previous practice direction that has set deadlines for all parties within it and that was one of the things that might have been messing Peter we mentioned in 2010 with a similar rule as well as the fact that it wasn't replicated across all the organizations that was kind one of the things that was really messing there a strong traditional need and Navajos that issued in November sooth out a steroid everybody's rule and key response times and one of the other factors that I'm Peter was talking about we mentioned that delay legally it and queries run illegally it would be another aspect that has come out of this new pilot kiss progression officer is able to address more directly with legal aid services in advance of again the hearing maybe but it is early it is early and it's still in the learning and we're gonna divide yet knowing again and apparently at the end of this financial year I would have found beta bail no not in relation to probation officers deal yeah I had a meeting with DOJ sponsored by Jake's is participating up justice but a meeting with the departmental net band of last week they're very keen subject to the valuation interim evaluation would lead us to me to rule like extension said an observation how often our court case is adjourned because of the belt forum on the Albert oz with them compared to the natural process of [Music] says precision I don't know that we have figures around that I think anecdotally I would get word back if a kiss has been disrupted as a result of either incompatibility or equipment failure and it's not it's not particularly common of all not individual kiyose it is very impactful I mean if you have vulnerable witnesses coming it is something to be avoided at all cost we do have a crown court evidence protocol which was drafted years ago which which provides for pre pre hearing testing and the idea is that the parties will come along and test all the functionality beforehand check that they the evidence plays and that's not always done but I think the new the new technology solution will will avoid the need for that thanks Peter sometimes I get confused by the different departments so I don't know if this is right for you or not legal aid question well responsibility for legal aid would be with with Debra brown and Steven Martin sorry for fur policy for it and the administration of assets with the Legal Services Agency so our our rule in relation to legally it is just the only the only bit of legally or it's it's but then the court service would be the judges granting in criminal cases okay so okay so let me let me exploit that then about if that's the case because the Northern Allen Legal Services Commission legal bill has been qualified for the year 1819 again hasn't it and part of that qualification of that bill is the fact is that and there's a number of reasons why it was qualified but one of those were was fraud yes and one of the recommendations I believe is that the tasking master for legal aid for the high court should not be a High Court judge but somebody else a civil servant possibly do are we looking into that are we looking into changing that I I don't I don't know I'm afraid I can't I'm ok well assign it good-ass in the questions coming up shortly okay okay members I'm Peter on the team can I just very much for coming to come today I've no doubt they will follow up in more detail yeah they some specific aspects okay at the court service but as an overviews okay members and the next item is then the overview briefing reducing the family come up pages 15 to 20 if you're meeting pack and then pages 27 to 31 papers [Music] [Applause] um who's director of reducing offending directors meeting let me introduce the rescue team just in case maybe you are the overall boss of this Directorate Rani are you well I'm the director I'm the director of reducing offending but reducing offending is quite much more than just your director my Directorate and that's why today I brought with me colleagues from terror first of all I'm grateful for the opportunity to come and brief the committee today on the work that we're taking forward across the department and its agencies and an effort to reduce reoffending I'm going today by Paul Doran who's the director of rehabilitation in the Prison Service by Declan McGowan who C chief executive of these justice agency by dr. Gerald Eno her is the acting director of rehabilitation and the Probation Service some members of the committee will be familiar with the important work undertaken by the previous justice committee and bringing forward their report entitled justice in the 21st century innovative approaches for the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland one of the important principles that committee said it was to encourage the department to build on the strong foundations which had been led for collaboration between those working in the various aspects of the criminal justice system and to continue to provide opportunities for innovative thinking on creative approaches to the many challenges we face and justice today joined by my colleagues from across the justice family I want to briefly set out how were attempting to build on the committee's vision for a criminal justice system that works in partnership to challenge individuals to address their offending behavior and support them to live lives free of further offending each of the organizations represented here today will over the coming weeks have the opportunity to brief you on their specific work but today our focus is on how we're working together to tackle the issue of reoffending arrium for the department or agencies our NDP bees and other partners particularly those in the voluntary and community sector is to align activities support rehabilitation improve outcomes for offenders and ultimately Aldus here for northern ireland through a long-term reduction and offending behaviour evidence shows that it's only by working with those who offend that we can make community safer and reduce future harm to victims however the criminal justice system on its own as the committee acknowledged in this report cannot provide the knowledge expertise or access to the services needed to truly reduce reoffending there are a range of socioeconomic factors which have been shown to have an impact and reoffending including poverty and social deprivation mental health issues substance misuse homelessness and a lack of educational attainment and employment opportunities to give some context of today's prison population one-third of mental health issues prior to entering custody twenty one percent were homeless or living in a hostel two thirds believe drug or alcohol contributed to their offending and fifty five percent of the wind company has a history of self-harm these factors contribute towards the reasons why people become involved in crime in the first place and they are often exacerbated through contact with the criminal justice system leading to a cycle of offending which causes significant harm to victims and communities addressing reoffending not only means tackling these issues but also creating positive connections back in the support of families and communities so that they become enablers of change within the broad category of people who have offended there are particular groups we have additional needs and so require further support and specific areas in order to address their offending behaviour one such example is children whose offend and is often a manifestation of underlying issues such as problems within the family home disengagement from the education system poverty and social explosion likewise women who offend often face similar challenges such as a history of suffering from domestic and sexual violence and so a gender specific approach to reoffending is needed to support them I want to be clear today both in taking this approach requires major and sustained effort from across a partnership of government departments statutory agencies the private sector the voluntary and community sector and wider society and that this is not a soft option addressing the underlying causes of offending often involves opening up aspects of the past that are deeply uncomfortable and painful as well as giving people skills and ability to behave differently no I and into the future we also need to be realistic not every offender will desist immediately as a result of this approach but the agencies represented here today believe strongly that we need to go beyond punishment for the crime committed to tackle what cost our offending in the first place for every person who acts to turn their life around there's multiple benefits both in terms of the useful contribution that person can make to society going forward and in reducing the risk of creating further victims of crime in order to reduce reoffending the department as inte agencies have applied the core principle saturd and the strategic framework for reducing offending undertaking aboard the findings and recommendations contained in the committee's report our approach has been based on adopting a welfare based rather than a punitive approach to children engaged in offending behavior working together with the Department of Health is justice agency is developing a joint multi-purpose current justice compass to provide a short-term safe space at one end of the spectrum through to longer-term high intensity therapeutic support for children with serious AG's relating to mental health substance misuse and change head trauma he's just this agency is also developing a new model of practice based on the changer that saw their child first offender second approach including a focus on adverse childhood experiences trauma-informed practice and signs of safety problem-solving approaches probation are playing a key role in the development and delivery of problem-solving approach as a means of dealing more effectively with the root causes of offending behavior in a range of areas including both domestic abuse and substance misuse and an enhanced combination order for teams to divert offenders from short-term custodial sentences by offering the judiciary a community order with a more intense package of rehabilitation reparation restorative practice and assistance probation are also undertaking early scoping work around the development of a mental health court as you've heard already today probation are also engaged in the development and the delivery of innovative approaches including social enterprises aimed at improving the resettlement and rehabilitation I come for people who have offended this includes resettlement mentoring schemes and restorative practice interventions and partnership with a community and voluntary sector the department and its agencies are also working to reduce reoffending in a partnership the reducing reoffending partnership aimed at managing offenders who are at a high risk of offending and reoffending and who were causing significant levels of harm within their community restorative justice reducing offending directorate is leading on efforts to extend restorative principles to the adult justice system through the delivery of an adult restorative justice strategy in addition we are also working to develop a center of excellence for a store to practice addressing the complexities of accommodation needs of offenders having a safe place delivers one of the most important factors contributing towards someone moving away from offending behavior working together with the Department of Communities and the housing executive we are working to prove the support offered to offenders on the return to the community in addition we have undertaken scoping work in advance of developing strategy and accommodation improving access to and opportunities for education and employment increasing access to the readiness for employment amongst dual for your fans and ensuring that they are able to apply for jobs once they leave the justice system which that much more likely that they will have the needed stability in their lives through a fair referee and further offending we're working with the Department of Communities education and economy to address economic activity amongst those in the justice system improving health provision and criminal justice system a high a significant sorry a significant number of offenders have underlying health needs the Department of Health and justice are working to improve how they comes for people in the criminal justice system in particular collaborating with social care professionals to improve services for people in the prison service delivering a renewed person-centered approach to supporting people at risk of suicide and or self-harm the committee in its 2016 report recognized the increasing importance across government and society that providing early intervention and support to individuals families and communities and intervening early before problems become entrenched in the most effective route to positive outcomes in adult life we are currently working across the justice system to deliver a coherent approach to early intervention with the e/m of creating a long-term whole systems approach and collaboration with wider government departments criminal justice agencies in the voluntary and community sector and finally the focus of the Prison Service and its 2020 program is a maturing rehabilitation and is at the core of all the doors so that it may effectively contribute to reducing reoffending in order to achieve this a program to continue the journey of constant improvement within prisons has been developed in collaboration with our justice partners in terms of reducing reoffending this is included amongst other matters the recent development of a strengthening family relations strategy the reintegration of probation staff within the prisoner development units and the current development of a new justice white gender inform strategy to support and challenge women including girls in contact with the justice system the department has also been engaged in work led by the shift guarding board for Northern Ireland to develop yes aware and trauma-informed systems in conjunction with colleagues across education so to health and the community and volunteer sector with injustice we are working proactively to create the best environment the mitigate the retraumatization of individuals the common contact with our system mr. chairman in conclusion I hopeless said so it the comprehensive range of issues at the department and if the agencies are undertaking naturally be happy to take questions from you and to provide any clarification may be reformed okay thank you your honor given that overview and in terms of the commitment from beyond the Department of Justice getting those other whether it's in health or employment how are you getting the link linkages with those departments so that whenever you're you're trying to have that approach that actually there's a requirement for them to engage cuz often the end of the department having to deal with it and others don't come to the table may be in a way that the she'd what's been the experience of trying to get that cross departmental approach to this work well well can I say first of all I think we are getting across departmental approach we have put structures in place and each of the areas that I've outlined for you and if you take for example homelessness or some of the other health issues we now have structures in place that bring our colleagues in to work alongside us and in a committee form up I suppose I'm we are seeing you know collaboration and we're getting the support I think at this point that we require but there's still much more to be done hey leads on that then so whenever take health for example I know within the prisons for as an example whenever there's no need and need identified and someone says right this is what is required whether it's physical resource or a financial resource and these are the programs who is the ultimate decision-maker that then triggers the other departments providing that support well we know how when players say a strategy group which I joined lis chair was a deputy secretary from from the Department of Health and that brings together a range of organizations and that work has been were seen in the absence of the assembly by the two permanent secretaries so it's through that mechanism that we can we can make things happen and we can encourage the development of initiatives and programs in terms of the staff and because obviously it's not without its challenges whenever you're engaging in this work and what kind of support is provided then to ensure that the staff and all of these different organizations have the kind of resilience that they need you're dealing with difficult cases it can be emotionally psychologically physically demanding as well so what's the support that's put in place for the staff that's engaged in this work well I mean the different organizations can can answer for themselves but I would say chair that we take the well-being of our staff extremely seriously and we are working for example in the Prison Service at different levels in the organization to perform provide the support that staff need from from governor's through the organization and where our specific needs staff have access to counseling opportunities for example that can give them additional support should they should they require them I don't know anybody comment but yes so within probation and we use external support services through consular services but also what's really important for our staff within probation as to who will help them well being we have strategies around improve and that and ensuring that staff operate and deliver safe and effective practice and I suppose the important thing around that is and is the supervision of staff to ensure that staff are being appropriately supervised and managed and that are not working outside of another area of expertise is cetera so there's there's a big investment from probation in terms of the well-being of our staff just as wrong as mentioned and then the Prison Service and one of the four pillars of our prisons 2020 document is our people we recognize that without people they can't do anything and a very innovative prisons way our project has been commenced on very prisons 2020 which has been well-received by stuff it remains a challenge and I think another issue is chair that them we're aware and I'm learning more of the impact of adverse childhood experiences on people who come into our care and I know a number of the parties including your room enough have taken an interest in this but equally not in plays to our staff so our challenge I think is that builds resilience in our staff so as well as training people to become aware of our starett experiences Vols have been exploring ways to develop resilience with an stuff and again sure you justice agency first foremost our staff on the frontline or either social work or youth work a tree and so they've gone through extensive training we overlay that with the training program that's quite extensive for our staff and to make sure if the staff well-being we provide a whale being strategy there for the staff to to make sure that their well-being is as it should be and in all of the work to try and reduce offending is there a baseline figure that you were able to measure this against so that you know progress is being made well the the Northern Ireland statistics agency produces a report each year on reoffending and on the figure for 2016-17 for the overall reoffending rate with pretty 18 percent so you know that that's the figure the word that we're currently looking up and we've been measuring this from our own 2015-16 no we're not at this stage seeing a significant difference in the rate but you know it will take time for a lot of the work that we're doing to bed in and start to have an effect but but 18 percent is he is he as the overall overall rate okay thank you London supposed to be far you're not gonna see a difference in the statistics until it's more than a payment that's actually ruled out to that to everybody and everybody is entitled to the services and benefits of it just a couple of week where Stern's I neck everything I heard and what you say it right it would it would be the kind of stuff that I'd want to hear but I'm a wee bit concerned about well first of all are you getting finances in the support to actually be able to deliver on on all of those things and secondly are there some in this particularly first was the Prison Service are there some that are not yet not same service in terms of that you know that they're looking after them it's about reeducate and it's about ensuring whenever they come out that they don't really I'm gonna want to talk about someone probably speak them specifically be a true house because I've had some issues rate and praying you to the committee so a lot of this is new to me and but I've been contacted already and I'm not by families actually by leaking representatives who were not happy with what they were saying in there I've had some concerns so I mean obviously part of our work here and the work that's coming on to the executive is you know tackling the paramilitarism and we're not gonna date without me as we did with every single aspect on and and our prisoners are part of that and we need to look at are we actually equipped in them that whenever they are released that they are able to say but there are opportunities out there for them that there's a different a different life that that is open to them I'll ask that Chancellor was first to have one or two other small and I can deal with the recession I I would say that yes we are addressing those issues if you look at our prisons 2020 document you will see reference under the separate or the services pillar to separation and we are very committed to enhancing the provision that is in place both in the loyalists and in the distant Republican units within Bush Andrew Heights we are currently implementing a report that was completed for us last year under the Fresh Start agreement in relation to education and training for separated prisoners so we're working with the Belfast Metropolitan College to enhance the provision for both the Loyalists under under this and Republicans there and that's been going on since September of last year with some success I would argue we have also put in place a very robust proof in terms of purposeful activity well we've been bringing the GAA the eye-fi our sorry ifn and the prisoner arts foundation who are working in news units as well so there is a very full curriculum that's now that's now in place and I think that has progressed well over the past number of months and I'll speak more about this next week when I'm here to talk about prisons but but that that's certainly an answer to your question and I think yes we are then just well we have received we received the funding required to deliver the pilot projects that were referring to in relation to problem solving justice we haven't got about Department hasn't got its object for next year yet so we're it's not clear we are committed to continuing with those pilots but it's not yet clear what funding will be available to further expand or not until we until we get our budget but certainly to this point we've been getting the funding that we require further for the pilots you said that all work within your department or either youth service or social worker change this is a schandle that we had worked on and previously we're working together in a number of issues and I have raised with them that those who are working with young people many of them don't have used service channel and they're social workers and social workers with the best one in the world if they don't have used to explain and many of them are coma native University and they're social workers for whatever they go into so whether it's worth working with their older paper whether it's working with people with mental disabilities whatever it is that they don't have that special Australian working with youth and I think you need it because if you don't have that kind of training working with young people it becomes very challenging because you're not actually able to communicate with them and aware that they're that they understand that they appreciate so as are there any plans to I mean Youth Services would think I'd sure be prepared to work with you in relation to the simulation to join some training of Social Work staff I mean I've worked with young people who are in care and some of them said that a better relationship with the police officers who were packing them up then the social worker she worked in the care homes and obviously a lot of these young people come into contact with your shares at some stage unfortunately that's what the statistics tell us and I think that comes back to the fact that they don't have used service treatment and they don't understand the issues that these young people have to reassure you and as I said we made a decision as an organisation that only any member of staff who came in directly into contact with children would be a social worker or youth work tree and there's a blend of thought and certainly what we continually do as well as refresh and update the training and work with with the experts including youth services across the board and and we actually bring in experts from across the water at all and other places to come in and tell us what's best practice out there ronnie mentioned in his opening remarks about the model of practice and that's developing a model of practice that's fit to the 21st century and and it's a model of practice that will underpin the repurpose and work that the Ronnie also mentioned in his opening remarks and that's to make it fit for purpose going forward so that our staff interfacing with young people have the right skills and and the approach to work with with the children with the vulnerable needs that they have and you've heard for instance ESA's and and trauma-informed practice scientist safety all of that is gathered up and is part of the model of practice so to reassure you our staff are very well trained and we'll continue to try and to make sure that they they've got the skill set for going forward and higher than you do I suppose not just an president but open worryingly high statistics of prisoners are former prisoners who have recently been released from prison taking their own legs what sort of works been done around that well since 2015 there have been 22 deaths in custody nine of which we believe have been as a result of natural causes so that leaves us 13 self-inflicted deaths we've been doing a lot of work in the Prison Service along with our colleagues in the southeastern trust to implement the toward zero suicide program but also we've put in place a very robust we call it evil ition program that's supporting people at risk and we're seeing very significant reductions in the levels of self-harm in terms of the prisoner population as a result of the work that we're doing but you know every death in prison and every post custody death is one too many on the post custody side I've been in discussions with the prisoner Ombudsman who investigates a post custody death up to 14 days after the individual leaves prison and we've been working with our colleagues and probation and the court service who were here earlier on a range of others to try and put in place mechanisms that will support and ensure people are supported when they when they leave when they leave custody but there is an issue sometimes when people leave the custody of the Prison Service where we have been working with probation and others to tackle that their drug addiction addiction issues where people leave prison and sometimes they think they can still having not taken drugs for a period of time can still take the quantities of drugs that they were taking before the command and we do we do find that an increasing issue in relation to post custody deaths but we are working as I say with probation with the health service with the court service to try and identify and to support those we're at risk as they leave the prison system just to follow up on that with Romney it is a serious issue here in Northern Ireland with the highest rate of self-harm and suicides in the UK and as ronnie says there's you know significant causes of that and you know we see people who have self harmed and committed suicide as a result of constellation of factors but serious drug related issues are very much high on that agenda in 2018 2019 we had 34 service users who died while some supervision 14 of them were suspected drug overdose so and I mean without getting into the debate debate serious drug misuse in Northern Ireland you know we know what the problems are we know that there's a serious rise and the types of the opioids that people are using the heroin crack cocaine and that's where we need to actually tackle the problem but you know as Ronnie says our interface and our links with health and other agencies the volunteering community sector when they're coming out of prison is absolutely critical and fundamental in terms of getting these people services and quickly well it's not any strategic approach being taken by all the agencies that need to be involved in fact yes there is abundance of drugs on our street yes the chief medical officer chairs the new strategic direction for drugs and alcohol in Northern Ireland and it's just the new strategy has just been a productive consultation launched and and that includes all of the the government departments all the agencies and volunteering community sectors so that is everybody around the table and the other arm of that is the research which is really important so there's a research arm with that in order to be able to collect the types of data that we know around the particular types of drugs and you know the incidence of suicide and self-harm so there is a very high-level strategic group that are working Palfrey instant you Jack and I just say except the last three years I would like to thank the people here this committee today for the interaction that I've had previous chair informed and of always been amused of before my visits I think I want with you one time chair to present maybe I'm always amused at the work you do there's absolutely better but it's hard graft it's non glorious low-level hard patient graft and you guys won't get on page four success story absolutely not look at the front page when something usually through no fault of your own and not regard there are weaknesses of course but the work he's doing a daily basis I think it's a music us where stuff comes in all seriousness I was always unrest in the problem solving courts justice peace has not matured over the last three years well geraldine and take that but but before i do i mean thank you for your comments about the work that he chipped the organization's day i mean i I would want to echo words of tribute to our staff because I think whether it's prisons probation or use justice agents sake people are doing amazing things and making a real difference in the lives of people who are placed in our care and that's what we're here to do and I think it's important that we continue to develop that the last twenty minutes that answer your question I promise all adjustable yes thank you and so in response to that it is embedding itself it is still early days there's no tight and we know that an order to tackle offending a medida reoffending but ultimately to drive down the numbers of victims we must take that other approach to that is about getting upstream and targeting those very root cause as Paul's talked about the trauma that people experience people that have to enter the justice system do experience significant levels of disturbance mental health problems we have a very high prevalence of drugs and alcohol and the justice system and that is why we must target those areas so the problem-solving justice initiatives and are going well and the Eco the enhanced combination order which the committee may be more familiar with is a initiative which is an alternative to short prison sentence of less than 12 months we have had 501 people through that since the introduction offered which is really positive we have had very positive evaluations over the last three years since its inception and in terms of we cannot comment obviously on the reconviction rates because it's early days but what we are saying is the very positive outcomes beyond justice so for example people are not going to prison for less than 12 months they're remaining in the community we see the benefits of that such as they're able stay in their homes their families their jobs perhaps and and three are working with health and the voluntary community sector software we're seeing very positive lifestyle it comes that sometimes we don't always report on you know such as to say the restoration of families and people that perhaps haven't had contact families seeing their children again seeing children can into a learning environment school in that sense of mindset and so there's very positive things for coming out of that one of the nuggets if I may say around the enhanced combination order is that everybody that is sentenced in house combination order and must go through a psychological evaluation so they get a mental health assessment and the reason for that is exactly what I've just mentioned to many people high prevalence of those co-occurring disorders within justice that we see so the mental health assessment at the outset will determine what their levels of needs are and risks are in terms of that intervention to drive that dying 60th percent of the people on eCos and have a mental health problem and that's that's high that's that's very high but again it's not and you know it's it's common to what we know about the mental health prevalence here in Northern Ireland but at least we know that and we're dealing with it so that's a very positive development and the committee may know that that is currently ruled out in three Quartzsite areas in Northern Ireland the other problem-solving justice initiative is the domestic violence interventions and along with our partners across justice and health and what we have targeted are those people that have not come into the justice system so people that we know that what we refer to them as the own adjudicated people and that we know they have a propensity to commit a act of domestic abuse against their partner we see the children that are living in these environments in order to drive down that chance generational cycle of domestic abuse it's by targeting them early so the committee may be aware that we delivered a pilot in the Western trust to man who were identified by social services as having that propensity to act in a violent manner in domestic situation and that was a huge success and we really write three more pilot three more programs in that area seventy-two percent have completed successfully so in other words people haven't come into the justice system so that we are targeting them early and as a result of that successful pilot we know are delivering and really night.the on adjudicate a domestic abuse program right across all the trust areas in northern area so it it is seen as getting an early early intervention in this absolute true form and effective in terms of looking at those wider outcomes right health education and justice etc and the substance misuse court we've heard about it is an certainly a very alternative approach but one that we know from the evidence that works it is effective in terms of keeping people out of the justice system targeting and tackling their their drug misuse and their health problems as well we see a high rate of mental health problems within the the substance misuse court as well we're into our second cohort and the about early findings from that evaluation we don't occator that people are not committing further crimes they're not taking the high levels of drugs that they were and they're getting treatment understand and treatment and so there are early findings which are very positive and it is true to investing than that early early intervention so that we don't see people coming in and paddling through the justice system time again and it's it's it's it's working can I ask about program for government it strikes me that justice is the one sector that could benefit from a truly well budgeted wrong program for government which is a cons beast chair touch to operate the collaboration from all across departmental bodies how well is that really working and how much do you need and it comes be as two programmable well I think we absolutely need a new comp based program for government as I said at the at the beginning we can't do this injustice on her own and I think it has been a struggle in the early days to get people to realize that and accept that but I do believe we have made significant progress across government in terms of bringing people together to work with us in terms of what we're trying to do I mean the the the project that that that I I'm co-sponsoring with my colleague from the Department of Health that has responsibility for around the repurposing of wetlands I think is a really good example of what we're doing and I mentioned not briefly as an example Declan it absolutely is Ronnie I mean at the heart of that initiative is to say that what we want to do across government is help vulnerable children and improve their life opportunities which which speaks to program for government target 12 item 12 and and and that's what we're trying to achieve when we started on our program our sales within the department and specifically this justice perspective we knew the changes that need to be made to our custodial environment which is Woodlands JSC but I was taken by her quickly health came to the table with us and education to say heartily solution eyes this hard we work together moving forward and that has given rise to this initiative that's called the repurposing program and what that is essentially is the Department of Health and the Department of Justice have a program team jointly funded together we sit Institute and work to develop a new Dongbei circuit and develop the services that we have for our vulnerable children to see how we can improve upon that and improve on their life chances it's targeted to happen by 2022 and the first stage of that is to bring forward design proposals over the first 12 to 18 months they've already done that we've signed them off with our most recent program board which Ronnie sank the chairs alongside the chief well for the chief social worker sorry in health and I'm quite taken at the table is the Department of Education the Department for economy Department for Communities all come to table all bringing ideas and helping us develop the solutions so that to me is collaborative work another's best and certainly I think going forward it augurs well for where we want to get to were vulnerable children are you getting the right people what's the right we absolutely are and it's it's chaired at Ronnies level and the representation of the table or senior senior civil servants around the table and we also have alongside a stakeholder reference group which we've established which is to all of the key banking community sector groups and its senior representation from that and then alongside that we have the Children's Commissioner who is there to mark our homework so to speak at key staging points to make sure that everything's on schedule and I'm quite taken by are all of these people have come to the table and continue to do so to help us shape up and I think it's quite impressive that even in the first 12 months we've got two design proposals working through all those stakeholders you know questions you need a given approach looking through the Justice areas of the authors missed the points or of course support the PSNI increasing officers to seven and a half legacy is an issue technical mantras more on these claim but there doesn't seem to be and I think specifically targeting elapsed you're correct in saying that there's nothing in the document in relation to us yes I mean I suppose we were we would have welcomed commitment but I don't think that should take away from the work that we're currently doing across across government I mean we've tried today to give you a flavor of what we're doing I mean I'm not here to say this is easy it is challenging when you're when you're bringing different government departments in the voluntary community sector together even the agencies within the justice family it's challenging because we all have our different priorities and our different key areas but but it is it is working is the message that I would that I want to bring to you so whether or not there's a reference in the document we are taking the previous committees report seriously and we're trying to drive that forward in a collaborative way and we're beginning I think to see very positive outcomes from up you know the repurposing of woodlands in a relatively short space of time I think would be a very visible manifestation of God just following on the North Jane representative just on the wetlands the juvenile justice and repurposing which sounds a bit term and we would see that building in that facility is relatively new but time marches on I supposed will there be a need to reinvest there on that site or is it early days the building has been in existence for about 13 years the plan is which is still relatively new and the the plan is is a repurposed not just off the bricks and mortar that are going in the Bangor area which is not just Woodlands but also liquid which is the secure care facility nearby well it's actually the services that are provided right across the region and so the whole idea is that what we're going to do is look at how we can start blending together services that currently exist and and repurpose them better so that we can get the bet the best result for our vulnerable children the ambition the hope right at the repurposing program is that it would be as close to cost futile as possible in so far we already put a large mind both our sales and health and others into these facilities and into the services across the region so the idea is to make better use of that money and to target better Geraldine's talked about early intervention we're going to put more money towards early intervention streams out in the community and then on the side we already have I believe first-class provision on health education etc within woodlands that will be the the service that will be used to roll out for more the children coming onto that site so we will make use of that deck wood itself has education health as well so it's almost looking at with without getting into the continent economics of it economies of scale by way of those services and redistribute that money back at where it's needed right on the ground so it might need a small injection but the hope is to be as cost neutral as possible the average daily population it is it's it's a 48 bed facility and back five years ago and the obvious city population was around twenty seven and we felt and certainly I felt as they kind officer that some of the children there didn't have to be there and could be better dealt with in the community with the services of there from my staff and others and so the hope and the the e/m was to try and target early intervention programs towards vulnerable children first and foremost to stop them coming into justice system if we could and then if they did however for entrenched hakeem to try and have it as a last resort that they come to Wooden's so yes we've had a 50% fall in the average daily population and and therefore you could even look at it from an economic perspective and say now they're getting all their beds in a 48 bed facility it doesn't look viable if not perspective but the staff and the services are there the children are quite vulnerable and complex and need a lot of help from our staff so we continue to to go right the model that exists with one eye in the next couple of years to repurpose in it and making better use of those resources but it has been a success story insofar as it's the early intervention and particularly the stats will show that we've had a 54% fall in the number of children coming to the formal justice system that means the population it will follow will fall as we get to orleans on his runny nose as well that has have been this kiss for my bank as well we've had to grind about a 60% fall of children young people moving from woodlands to to hide banks so that's all because of the early intervention work that we're trying to do okay service for your neighbor that's right yeah but yet you have people look at it across various age there are no straight area teams strategically located across from our yeah what we have is we have the custodial Directorate which is headed up by Brannon groom and that is the building that you see woodlands down in dynamic anger and then my direct review services miryo he she would oversee officers out in the community across Northern Ireland and we have in the rhine nine office they're spread across the region to provide services in each of the facility and the potential uses for it the only interested I think it's a very positive facility I don't have responsibility that would sit on there Anthony Harbinson in this year for Communities Directorate yeah but it's certainly a very good facility and I would encourage you know expose and and youth groups and others to go and visit that I think that can only be positive because there they will get you know a very good insight into the work of the court service and the work of the Prison Service and the police and and other sort think I'd be very supportive of it but I have no direct involvement with it okay sorry it was just a quick question and little something else so if there's somebody else want some yeah Mitchell okay thank you and I just have to I'm going solo so in terms of restorative justice just note they're up like the adult restorative justice strategy and the center of excellence would you have any further update oh yeah Boulder become not yes address the center of restorative excellence first of all members will know whether that was recommendation a name from the restorative human type in par militarism blue not it's a two-part recommendation so it brings in the executive office as well as the Department of Justice and that's being a bit of a challenge to us and that's why I knew the permanent secretary a couple of weeks ago said that he welcome know the restoration of the assembly and having a minister and please wherever despite the absence of an executive we continued on I mean had a multi news and secret working on and on the recommendation a nine and they I think we've asked previously that he was so in addition to a number of directorates in the Department of Justice we have the PSNI we had the Department for Communities the hires an executive department education department of health and then we had the two community-based restorative justice organizations northern armed alternatives to the community restored it just as Ireland and they were unanimous and we also work closely with victim support they were unanimous that a senator restorative actions should have victims and front-and-center it should be victim centric and to achieve that Robin have a virtual center of a steward of actions they wanted and bricks and mortar by building so we weren't sure if we could take this forward in the absence of an executive armor and as I think the Furman secretary said to the committee when he was here we were just in the process of getting legal advice on that so we certainly welcome that the committee can give us a bit of direction on this she's with the minister and I think it's a really good opportunity I have seen personally the benefits that restorative justice can bring and with a very much a victim center to it and on the the idea of a restorative excellence center would focus on issues such as training and developing capacity practice standards and monitoring building on the overall monitoring work that a german sauces inspection northern arm have done on various restorative justice organizations not folds nicely into the restorative justice strategy and again in the absence of an executive we consulted internally with government departments or particularly with victim support northern ireland and we you know you have a draft strategy which we're just about to launch when the minister gives us the approval to do so and picking up on the plate Jacqueline we had a great success I believe it's a success also in the reduction the number of young people in the justice system particularly in woodlands and people like the Lord Chief Justice come on justice inspection Northern Ireland indeed the executive show you the comparison program I've recommended the development of a novel justice strategy not again as escape emphasizing keepin victims front and center to this it could also incorporate some of their recommendations for instance in the Gillen report which is published last year as well can they just thought in terms of the strategy we the fall said we do have that draft strategy ready it will shortly go to the Minister for her consideration and we will obviously in the fullness of time it coming to the committee with that as well say that finally just in terms of offenders and improving access to opportunities you know sort of post custody and we're transitioning idea of custodial care and I know dear Santa but there's a good working relationship with other departments and Department communities but one of the that is coming up in the advice sector at the moment is up like the five-week wait on universal credit and that applications for that is happening after they're leaving custodial care so they're still it's another five weeks on top of everything else I'm just wondering if there's any measures in place or could be left out to maybe start that process earlier once say somebody is got a suitable accommodation and address and that kind of thing we're dealing with a lot of people coming in who don't have IDs they don't have anything you've been moved to write different parts of the country and will be able to access any form of benefit or money which makes things a little bit more difficult in an already difficult situation Paul just yeah I think a fair question and a fair summary of the current position and in the spread of the program for government we've been working very closely with the Department for Communities and we know you have work coaches coming into each of the three prisons they're starting work with people in custody 16 weeks prior to release to ensure that when people do come out they do and get the advice that they find in employment which we would strongly advocate what if they were going back into the benefit systems that their benefits would be in place we've also been working with the electoral office to ensure that people even cost that they have a form of AD that they can use risking and be helpful for opening bank accounts and so on but everything that the Prison Service does night is about rehabilitation and I have seen a massive change in the attitude of staff from you know security we don't have the same challenges so we know the focus is on rehabilitation so that when people leave cost they don't really ask when the work should pay dividends thank you and just in terms of the start if justice piece that you talked about I'm not opposed to about them and I think we start if justice does work I think it's actually a tendon I should ever know would love to see it being rolled out further I know that and judge minor talked about you know making it statutory in terms of the much I think would be a positive thing that those groups and organizations wouldn't be having to reapply for font and all the time and one of the things that we did reuse from this is a previous night on the placement board was concerns during the fact that still needs to be community layer needs to be the organizations that are there it needs to be community off because that's why it's worked that's where it has worked so well is because it is the community working with the community that are most impacted so I think that that's one thing that needs to be ensured I agree with the victim sounder but again that's why it's worth it is the community the victims are within that community the perpetrators very often and see him community so I think it's important that you know when suspect M Sanford in his community led all of those who started projects I believe for that reason I'm and I've another quick just thing on their domestic violence stuff I think one of the problems and I don't know how we address it and he's made up some suggestions and that's really what I'm asking for is that people don't say even with all the work that's happening around domestic violence within this committee and and all of the different agencies PA everybody is doing a lot of work in relation to mr. Bansal relays the issue that it is but I think that there is not a recognition right there in the waiter community that it's a community problem not a family problem I seen this one of us want to advance some and young people about what what are the biggest issues in terms of placing within their communities I mean rooms full of women many of whom might be the victims of domestic violence don't even there talk to him so is there a way that is by the things that we could be dream as a committee that the minister could be doing that the statutory organisations and body should be doing to ensure that the community relays all of the issues that you've raised here today about the impact the knock-on effect and homes were domestic violence helps then for the children come one involved and obviously the parent is already involved early if they're doing that but the children then you know common to the attention of of the judiciary or justice system we Minister has it as one of our top priorities I not have a opportunity to have a discussion with her about that but but certainly will be but I mean Geraldine might want to comment in terms of that community aspect thank you for that and you're absolutely right and it is so it remains under reported them and I think what needs to happen is there is a wide range of strategies out there in terms of you know the voluntary community sectors women's AIDS health justice everybody is involved education but actually you know it is raising awareness from a very young age as well and in skills and I think going back to mr. Frese question about the early impact in the interval and and hideouts and vanity and you know this we see so many children who are witnessing and living in homes where there is domestic abuse and they are issue that areas around sometimes the community norms and that sometimes it is normalized and people still have a fear about reporting domestic abuse as well and it's so that the communities are so aware and to be able to see the early warning signs and that children are educated as well because what we know is that we see so many children that live in homes where there is domestic abuse and we then see that intergenerational cycle of domestic abuse we see a significant increase in terms of chai arrant and child to grandparent domestic abuse so there's an awful lot that is being done but there's more that needs to be done with that very early stage within education as well and as you say educating communities do you had to get themselves don't look just something I picked up on and you said I mean the enhanced combination orders there's a bit of a fact on at night I am a fan of these all I've seen as I'm absolutely with us but you said with no stats from reoffending well we've lots of statistics but in terms of the actual reconviction rates there's a time like a lot for that to be reported however the statistics that we know are that there's 500 people that have come three orders there's 20% people a decrease in custodial sentences of 12 months or less and from the evaluations there's 85 percent of people all nickels that are reporting enhanced relationships and and positive family dynamics and people that are getting employment people that are linked in to health there's sixty eight percent people that are presented with mental health and drug-related problems we have lots of statistics but the reoffending bigger is that there's a time lag in terms of the the overarching reconviction rates that come with the interstate and I suppose that's not I mean it's only part that's really the hardest decision of everything else that you just mentioned but it still an important point absolutely an Infernus that is the measure that we will obviously be looking at but I think what we can't you know we can't just put that aside and unweight for the statistics to come right because what we're saying is huge amounts of other items that are really positive that span across and touch other government departments and agencies which are fantastic in terms of you know reducing the number of people reoffending and all of these very positive things like you know and keeping families together giving people employment linking them into health services keeping them into treatment so all of those statistics are there but it's the the reconviction figure that will not get to Lily understate but the what we are doing at the moment is ensuring that we are keeping the appropriate data because the data is so important from each of the agencies that there are the touch points to make that overarching it come and to be able to realize that overarching outcome is multiple across all of the areas of people's lives that are in the justice system because our perception by the members of the public who you just see he somebody who's on a nico and then you know it's over any Erie fans again he goes through the social system again that he briefed it and it's not concerned I guess that's why I'm asking is that how we do we have that says it but but I fully appreciate what you're saying so I'm in fairness you're absolutely right because that will come in later stage but it's been able to ensure that people understand all those very positive outcomes up make that bigger picture yeah and secondly one can I ask you and I mean it's only a view on this but we've just finished the sentencing review and and you know what they're looking at the sentence in review is his punishment protection of the public deterrents rehabilitation and reparations and for the public either the deterrence piece is really important to them and especially for Rhymes they're likes a vehicle crime for example you know they see people doing that is is that is that going to have an effect on on on how you do business if at the end of this sentence in review you know there's a there's a mass off taken saying stronger send stiffer sentence let's focus more on deterrence let's move away a bit from from from the rehabilitation I don't saying I want that I'm just saying that you know there's people feeding into this have you got a view on that at all well well I would certainly hope that people and looking at this would look at the rehabilitative work that's being done by the agency here today and by others and would see the benefit of that I deliberately said in my opening comments but rehabilitation is not a soft option and it's not a soft option when you see it when you see it in practice at the end of the day we as organizations are started very obliged to take the people who come our way so the Prison Service can't turn anyone away so irrespective of the number of people who come through our gates I'm clear that our responsibility is to work with those people to challenge them and support them to change and to do everything we can when they leave our custody to put them out better individuals and they take them in and that's the same for you justice and that's exactly the same for the Probation Service as well and that's why I think it's important collectively that we're working together so that you know the early intervention pace that Declan talked about is in place and we're seeing the impact of that at woodlands that we in the Prison Service have the programs and support mechanisms in place through your learning and skills through all of the work that we're doing around equipping people for employment and the probation then when those people are in even your hair are ready to pick those individuals up and the others that they have responsibility for who don't come into custody and to work with them so I would hope all of those things would be taken in their current in a sentencing review and I would argue that rehabilitation is an extremely important factor we've talked about reoffending rates our job is to drive the reoffending rates 9:30 the work we do to ensure that there are fewer victims created a narcissist yeah that's for me a good good response in you right absolutely thank you Joe okay okay briefly and say why I'm just conscious of the time yep so members are leaving isn't they shape when someone goes missing first thing that we can't happen is written support to the place and the place ain't a panting up with growing problem which they find hard to dress do you feel that there's some need for some other agency to get involved to help support decreasing an ongoing problem I think there are many demands placed on placings and operational policing I think certainly where people are going missing I think the police need the support of everyone and particularly the community I think in trying to dress up but I don't think there's a one size fits all or or a one answer to say it should be this organization or that organization I mean obviously if the person happened to be someone that had left the prison system we would have we would have been interested providing any information we can again if it was someone in relation to probation or any justice they would they would as well but I don't think there's any one organization but I accept it's it's a big challenge with please I don't know if they're supporting communities director have been themselves the police might want to pierce a name I'm gonna tell you about the multi-agency support helps it's really addressed the issue of missing persons as well as other issues because the police have finished that six out of ten calls that they sparked a big crane matters so this is the multi agency support pops up in an attempt to try and deal with them societal issues well in crane okay something I work on thank you okay folks connect thank you very much again is 22 to 34 and this session I knew will land itself just a very direct questions and answers it's financial related appreciate my previous session is rolled around its nature book and I just know that some members have indicated to me that they're against the clock and so I'm keen to try and transact all in the business but I'm in the hands of the committee and its members Deborah can they welcome you to they say and Louise Deborah hand over to you at this stage okay thank you very much for the opportunity to come alone and safranin and I'm Debra brine and the director of justice delivery and with me this afternoon and I have Lisa rocks who is the department's finance director and Louise Blair who is the head of financial planning so this afternoon is an opportunity for us to give you an introduction and to the department's finances hi the budget is allocated and the types of issues that were currently facing and we thought it was useful at this stage to give you that high-level overview but of course we will come back to the committee to provide further briefing as we work through the 2021 budget process of course we very much value and the committee's input to this and we will engage with you throughout that process and take your views on board so in terms of the approach today you've got a slide pack which we would like to talk our way through and hopefully you all have that and but before we do that there's just a couple of other points that I would just like to highlight at this speech on the current budget the ANU year budget just to give the committee reassurance that at this stage of the year and we are on target to remain within our budget and do not receive any issues between this and the end of the financial year looking ahead into 2021 we do face a number of pressures and we continue to input into the writer budget process and to seek patience funding to make sure that we are able to deliver on the program for government the new decade a new approach commitments and mantilla train services now we understand that the Finance Minister has breached the Finance Committee and committed to make a statement to the assembly setting out the 2021 budget around about the 9th or 10th of March bilaterals are currently being set up between the finance minister and ministers in each of the departments and it will be for the executive as a whole to consider the budget pressures and the issues are sad-eyed in new decade new approach in the context of whatever funding is available but of course until that budget is set it's very difficult for us to articulate at the impact on particular areas of absorbing any pressure that we might find but we will continue to engage with the Committee on this throughout the process so perhaps if we turn attention them to the actual slide pack itself so on the second slide we have white lines here a colorful organization chart and so this is the overview of the department so I shall be aware the department has four core agencies sorry four core directorates and of course you just had a briefing M from one of the areas and you've had previous briefings from other of the directors other thing to highlight here is the range of agencies that we have and the non-departmental public bodies so the pink boxes are the five executive agencies and we are the department with the largest number of the agencies five of to love nine across the whole of the n ICS and the green boxes are our eight non-departmental public bodies and of course there they have a quite a large share of our budget and the largest of that would be the PSNI turning now to the third slide this gives you a very high level view on high budget is actually allocated you'll see as I say a vast majority about budget sits with our non-departmental public bodies seventy two percent about seven hundred and forty seven million points and within that of course is the PSNI which 68 percent of that that would be seven hundred million the negative agencies they account for then the 23% as about 240 million and within that you've got presence use justice agency legal services under court service and yeah I'm the yeah court service so this slide then highlights that only a small part of the department's budget 5% is allocated to the core Department on smaller bodies such as compensation services though over the course of the year we will engage with the committee around the monitoring and process normally there are three monitoring processes each year and those are the times which we will come back to the committee to engage with you on those particular proposals but of course we are happy to come back to the committee or any specific issues that they want to discuss and as I said earlier we will of course be coming back okay and am on the 20 21 M budget deny I'm going to pass across to Lisa who will take you through the remainder of our turning is broken time so we have a departmental expenditure limit which you'll sometimes hear us refer to as Dale that's broken down into resource dale on capital tale on the resource side that's further split into non ring-fence resource Dale's and ring-fenced resource dale non ring-fence resource dale is for things like staff costs on normal running costs or you'll sometimes hear referred to as cash and we have a budget there of one thousand and seventy seven million pounds are just over a billion point there's also then ring-fenced resource dale sometimes referred to as non-cash and this is a technical type of budget which is used for things like depreciation as the title suggests it's ring-fenced and therefore can't be spent on other areas so for example a regular ongoing conflict staff costs and the budget there is 84 million points and then finally there's the capital Dell budget and this is the budget that we use for investment and things like IT buildings on vehicles on our budget there is 76 million points for 1920 turning the into slide 6 slide SEC sightlines the key features of this year's non ring-fenced race or sale budget so the key features have left were that the department received eleven point three million pounds towards 2019-20 pressures no cuts were applied and the additional funding was used to minimize the frontline impact of spending areas absorbing their pressures it also provided sufficient funding to allow the department to take forward legacy and quest proposals in line with the Lord Chief Justice's plow in addition the department received 32 million points towards employer pension contribution pressures this was a pressure faced across the public sector following pension or evaluation in addition the Pierce and I received 30 1.1 million pounds of fresh start security funding this is in line with the Fresh Start agreement which set out 160 million pounds across five years each year the PS and I will switch elements of this between resource dale on capital dale but it's initially drawn donors resource finally the department received ten point seven million pounds for EU exit costs of which the lion's share went to the PS and i he received nine point eight million pounds which they used to recruit an additional three hundred police officers the balance of which was used across the core and agencies for preparation it's also fair to say the department also had access to further fresh funding first of all for tackling paramilitarism where the department has drawn down 7.5 million points this year and also shared futures funding where eight hundred and seventy thousand pounds has been drawn down turning them to slide 7 this slide shows how the departmental budget has allocated as Deborah has highlighted the department has arranged at agencies the non-departmental bodies so the budget is split across quite a range of areas with the lion's share being with the PSNI who you'll see there received 703 million points worth of funding in terms of other key elements and significant chairs the budget set with the Prison Service Legal Services Agency and the court service and the court Department and it's worth saying there includes compensation services which used to be an agency of the 55 million points includes 19 million pounds in relation to compensation services and also just to note that the courts and forensic budgets are shown net so when the committee will receive figures in terms of budgets and percentages for example forensic science has a gross band of 10 million pounds although you'll say it's just 500,000 on the chart and also that torts would receive about 30 million pounds of income so would have gross span of about 70 million sterling the under slide 8 and this is just a couple very brief statistics I am showing the 60th percent of our budget sits with the PSNI and coincident late 60th percent of our total budget is spent on staff costs who were very much people and in terms of costs so in terms of removing all the capital on slide 9 key features over 1920 capital budget we received 76 million pounds worth of funding which included funding for the PSNI for EU exit and funding was there an allocated across prisons police and courts and prisons Manly for the new accommodation block atma Calvary and also for energy supply another estates and for police that included vehicles and I T M turning them to hi our capital is Alec unit on sniped and you'll see that in slight an army and capital spenders would be police presence and courts as they make up most of the justices states other areas receive capital each year based on the prioritization of the beds so for example you'll say the probation board received some additional money this year I'm not related as to some estate refurbishment so that's an overview in terms of the 1920 budget but looking ahead the under 2021 as Deborah says will come back to the committee to talk further about 2021 as the process develops but we thought it'd be useful to give the committee a flavour of the issues facing the department looking ahead to 2021 you will have seen that the department faces 56 million pounds worth of financial pressures from the first year brief and slate 11 gives a breakdown of what that relates to as I said previously given a significant amount of the budget is based on staff costs 16 million pounds worth of the total 56 million fine pressure relates to pay the other significant element of the pressures relates to PS and I operational pressures these include things like estate maintenance injury and Judy NIT and then the remaining other category is spread across 14 different areas so it covers quite a range of things and fifty five point seven million pounds worth of pressures is 5% of our departmental budget so to absorb that level of pressures would have a significant impact and that's what we're feeding into the budget process in terms of capital Dale we submitted to the Department of Finance a range of detailed bids across all areas it's very much a zero based approach each year but again the most significant element so that would be the prisoner State Police estate on courts transformation and we're currently in the process of Refik refreshing those beds and welcome back to the community and turning them to slide 12 it's important to say that in addition to the fifty six million pounds worth of known pressures there's a range of potential significant high cost pressures I say potential as there's much uncertainty in terms of what could crystallize and where and at what amount and if they were depressed lace at significant levels it's fair to say they would have to be centrally funded because they'll be too significant for the department to absorb it's very difficult to put numbers against them as say because either they're subject to legal proceedings or they're just very much at the stage very uncertain but we will keep these under review and we'll update the committee as and when we have further information but just a run-through very quickly and the first issue is in relation to holiday pay which the committee may be aware which is following the bear Scotland's legal piece where there was a ruling we're regular overtime created additional holiday pay entitlements there'll be implications across the board but most notably for pass and I hear appealing the judgement there's potentially significant pressures on au exit again given the uncertainties around EU exit this is subject to review and we're continuing to refine that but again the most significant impact will be on policing then in terms of legacy and there are a couple of elements to this there are the legacy inquest which were taken forward in 1920 but as we refresh the course each year then we will go back to the Department of Finance sinking further funding and also then the potential litigation in the absence of a mechanism to deal with the past and there's work ongoing within the department to scope those costs but again that's very difficult to quantify in terms of compensation services there are a couple of elements to this the potential revision of the statutory discount rate and also the CMS aldrin and then finally in terms of legal aid this doesn't relate to the previous historic issues on legal aid this is a very specific issue in relation to high-value multi defendant cases and finally then turning to the commitments in the new decade new approach document and dislikes that so furious new approach which relate to justice and many cases are very difficult to cost because they're very much of an early stage but again if I were to run down quickly the Justice areas their documents outside a commitment to increase the number of police officers to 7,500 the Chief Constable has said this will cost 40 million pounds per annum when it's fully implemented in terms of legacy the document that legislation will be in place within 100 days to implement the Stormont house agreement to deal with legacy issues stronger ties agreement said 150 million pounds worth of funding we've consistently said that that is not enough and it would cost significantly more but the final cost will be very much dependent on what the legislation looks like in terms of tackling paramilitarism the Fresh Start agreement said I'd funding until the end of 2021 a new Jeffie a new approach reaffirms our commitment in terms of the quantum that was a cross-departmental program for which there was 10 million points per annum historically in terms of the next four items on the slide these are very much at the early stages and officials are working through the detail we don't anticipate significant costs in 2021 however potentially there could be significant costs in later years and we keep the committee updated as work progresses and finally in terms of transformation and it overlaps with some of the areas of above in terms of things like policing not reform but there will also be the areas such as the prison estate and port modernization so that was just a very quick overview in terms of departmental finances and we're happy to take any questions ok thank you and I know the work around the cost things the finance minister had asked for that as part of his discussions with Treasury in terms of what was contained in the the new decade new approach so I appreciate some of that you're saying is at an early stage however is there a specific time frame in which that has to be provided facilitated Finance Minister's discussions with Treasury there's still a lot of uncertainty around it and we've provided what we have in terms of the things like the 40 million per annum on the police officers but because of a lot of it is a work in progress and there are other elements which also overlap with for example our capital beds for 2021 like the prison estate so very much we fed in what we do know but again as highlighted just the areas that we don't under those are just areas under development in terms of the opening possession for the current financial year throughout the course of that year and ordered in the last monitoring round I think it was approximately three million pounds was handed back what was that the the total finger throughout the year or at the various monitoring range was their money handed back and that was really the only money handed back during the year we actually had bid for in September monetary bid for some pressures and legally out of 2.8 million which we received however then during obviously the last few months of the year things had moved on and we were able to identify easements and reduce requirements so there was a the richest requirement primarily for compensation services in terms of the easement at the end of the year and and was there any reallocations then within the department the year yes there were and we met internal pressures for example in terms of PSNI for injury and Gitty they were allocated additional four million during the year from within other basins being recycled various other smaller ones that's probably the largest what about the PSNI is opening possession do they hound any money back throughout the course of the year or seek additional funding throughout the year well maybe if I just took a quick run through that the PSNI budget so they started off with seven hundred and three million and during the year they were allocated it is still funding and we allocated I'd fit the pension funding that we received her in the year so the PSNI got an additional 30 million for that then and they also got the tackling paramilitarism program money they got an additional five million there was in year on top of the opening allocation for brexit they got an additional three million as I said they had the four million for injury and judez they got two million to take forward the legacy end quests and so there was a overall they they had an increase of about 42 million the largest of that the largest part of that being in relation to the pension funding okay okay thank you Linda just in relation to the hitch a obviously and all that is dependent on the legislation but I had raised this with carried out so in terms of what are there any ideas of what kind of what kind of course make the involved in it or you know what kind of money that finance minister needs to be ready for it in relation to either here Ju um I mean obviously one part of its money but the other part of it is the cleaning up of people and and all of that and the team that's gonna take to do that so is that part of the problem right not no one what what the costs are gonna be involved and how many people are gonna be employed into it and all of that what are the issues was been able to suppose cause that this was Anthony and access to justice colleagues would be more able to answer the question I suppose it's back to you until we know the period covered in the legislation and what what would be a better place it's almost impossible to cost big thank you I'm gonna ask this one again I already asked somebody else it was the wrong person but the northern I own the Legal Services Commission had their accounts qualified and part about qualification is because of fraud and there's other reasons but because of fraud and and some of that might even be in within the system itself I mean what are we doing to rectify this okay so the reason for the qualification is because we are unable to ask them it in any sort of way the level of fraud and error within the accounts so at the moment what we're doing is we are working with some specialists and drawing up from expertise and DFC who have gone through this process before and there are through three areas of error that you can find so there can be official error that's basically whatever it happens within the organization itself and there's applicant error and there is the fresh layer that could happen as well so we're working our way through this so there's testing of kisses to find out if there are any levels of error if there are and things that we don't know then you can end up with what's called a deigned error so um so you're looking for more informations than we have to look back into the records and see if we can prove that the payment was legitimate there was no overpayment or under payment etc so we're currently working our way through that process I'm working with the order office so that's why they're kind of circle a fight because we're unable to get an estimate of fraud in there and one of the recommendations was that the the taxing agent for the the high courts shouldn't be a High Court judge and and therefore should be a civil servants up being looked at or was it not being looked at knowing a man he likes the certificates for the legal aid I'm not too sure about that I mean the whole issue fight that the taxing master is quite a complex area and any changes which would need some primary legislation and we are looking at some cases that maybe wouldn't need to go to the taxing master and we're looking at criminal appeals to the court of appeal and standardizing and some of standard and 2min types of family law so there are some areas that we're looking at but I can get you some more detail it was a fantastic SAR you talking about family civil cases and legal aid in regards in regards to that okay thank you second one is you to dyn's 7.5 million for tackling paramilitarism this year what does that I don't what was the boss of budget for this year was it's a 10 or 15 min and this year I suppose there's been on average it was expected to be about 10 million per year and I ever at the start of the program there was obviously it took a while for things to ramp up so I think overall I'm not sure if thinks that figure we can come back to you because it's a cross-departmental doesn't actually sit within the Department of Justice I know absolutely and I'm terrified I mean are we using what we were entitled use and you're absolutely right no remember when it started because we didn't use it and we we had to go through a fight to get it all carried on to the following year you know because it was a year on your budget so it'd be really useful to find out if if we are using what we're entitled to be using we're certainly using what we have drawn down on what we have bed for we're using but as Louise says we don't manage the overall program weight so but but what what use need we're getting is no absolutely I suppose as far as I knew to the end of this the 2019-20 financial year the tucker carlson program has allocated like 31 million so there's a bite yet team million or so 18 19 million that they would need for next year it's a while ago but some others weren't here for some time so what does he the total legal was definitely the last year 2018 2019 this year 88 million before we did some of our reform legally a bill was sitting at about a hundred and five million yeah 2014 yeah 2015 one hundred and six point four million yes so you go in the right direction but um prior to that the year before that was one hundred and five point six million that's report I'd appreciate it as somewhat David there were a number of recommendations I'm gonna show you familiar with it and one of the things that they talked about was the use of expert witnesses and the need for reform and not there's no set fee structure for this work fees payable on to the generous or they have not been revised since 1992 of a number limit 120 pounds and our agency must pay any amount claimed up to the limit that we've examined a number of legal aid kit case fell and find a different experts charge different rates for rigging and reporting on for example the same medical records what has been done to address one of the recommendations of report I have to admit I have not brought with me I do have where we are in each of those recommendations but I didn't bring them with me but I'm more than happy to come back to you on that particular issue right similar is the internal controls in relation to prevention and detection of fraud I'm sure you're familiar that it's said here in the report German that where there are flaws and an organization kind of fraud strategy is as expected I talked about internal controls and he did say have been relatively weak and detecting fraud the primary controller means the vigilance of staff to process claims identifying anything suspicious plus a small amount of simple based attacks which are largely undocumented which I find rather alarming it also talks about reliance upon the quality of the agency's case management system and finally it talks about one percent sample check was being carried out one percent maybe but to all payments in 2013 the agency determined that this testing should safe it has not proven to be effective despite this it was continued to perform these checks so there are number of major issues there and non-compliance is it so can you give us an assurance that there's been significant progress yeah there's been there's a lot of progress going on the fraud in there as I say I'm learning the lessons from our colleagues and DFC are working alongside us which is around those issues that you're saying about compliance the testing and the checking and then following up on them so I can give you some us as I said I'll come back with you with more detail on each of those recommendations are you aware of her as always it would take a significant culture change where they to address these issues are you aware of that within oh yes I mean the legalese they brought in the legal aid management system it was brought in and in July of this year yeah the IT system so that is huge part of our transformation program and legal services agency we have also some restructuring around the staff entire things are being done and so again that is to helping to change the culture and to change the behaviors around some of those issues and improve some of the checking I'm not sure we use the word mandatory but it would be encouraged anyone who's working in that field will have had the training members and just to clarify then Minister plans to make a statement thank their 10th March what I'm assuming is before Treasury's budget or whether I'm sorry that's right and so I take it that's a two stages you know because if there's any on a consequential of left Northern Ireland he will have been reduced budget stand within a matter of weeks may well have significant changes to be made to it as a your understanding yeah that's our understanding and of course you know we outlined the monitoring round so the next point at which we would have that money allocated is possibly the June monitoring room but we'll wait and see what the process is around us and hi if we do get additional money I will have the ability to spend that and the absent having gone through the June monitoring right are you expecting one year budget or two years I would imagine this is probably along year budget but I am your gasket is not the new decade new approach talks about the multi-year pfj you lying to a budget figured a mountain time in ways with the lead under that you would expect perhaps a one-year budget followed by linearity assuming that's Westminster layered they would need to be allocating okay okay great thank you very much thank you okay members have seven is statuary instrument events that is for noting and pages 36 to 68 this was the department advised of a uk-wide statutory instrument which is the carriage of goods and use of transportable pressure equipment regulations 2020 and that's being made Westminster and it's being made and the exercise of the powers that are conferred through section yet of the European Union and withdrawal act 20 obtain and address as a failure of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the UK European Union the northern and Health and Safety Executive this responsibility for the carriage of dangerous goods legislations including exclusives exclusives which are a class 1 Dangerous Goods the responsibility of the department justice officials have been working closely with the Department of Transport to ensure that necessary EU exit amendments can be made to the carriage of exclusive regulations northern route in 2010 the Northern Ireland regulations mirror the Great Britain regulations and the amendments are technical in nature they don't represent a change in policy or place an additional burden on industry but rather ensure a continuation of the regulate regulatory framework after X a day and in the absence of the executive the drafting of the statutory instrument the Department of Transport proposed including amendments to the relevant Northern Ireland legislation within the statutory instrument that's being taken through Westminster the Minister of Justice agreed that the amendments can be by a uk-wide statutory instrument which was then laid in Parliament on the 4th of February this year it's not subject therefore daily assembly proceedings it's there for me to ask members to note the statutory instrument of the carriage of dangerous goons abusive transportable pressure equipment demanded a man with a UX of regulations 2020 unless for their information or clarification is required allows members to do it right em yet the examiner statutory rules published her first report of the 2019-20 session on the 3rd of February the report covers 35 negative resolution statutory rules that were considered by this committee its meetings of the 23rd 20th and 30th of January and one statutory rule that subject to draft affirmative procedure that has not been considered yet by the committee as the department tends to bring forward a replacement statutory rule the examiner has no issues to raise and respect of the technical elements of 31 of the 35 negative rooms committee considered and agreed that we had no objection to subject to the examiner's report members of content will note that the examiner of statutory rules has no issue to raise with the technical elements of each of these statutory rows noted and the examiner has drawn attention to four of the negative resolution stunt rules that were laid by the department and that they breached the 21-day reel and in each case the department's expressed regret said I'd the back Ryan knew the reasons from the breach in correspondence with examiner who has indicated contentment with a explanation for the breaches that were provided so again I'm just asking members to note that the examiner is content with the explanation from the department regarding the breach of the 21-day rule and has no other issues to raise with the technical elements of each of these rows unless members wish there is any for matters further then we will note it also to note the intention of the department to bring forward a redrafted star true subject draft affirmative procedure to bring the witness charter into operation which is to replace the draft statutory balloon that was laid on the 9th of January and the examiner has also provided a summary of the Department of Justice submission in relation to the making of statutory rules in the absence of ministers and asks members to note the position unless there is having more information required good food forward work program he's just 150 to 155 it was a great meeting on the 30th January and the briefing on the LCM the the letters data sent motion for the criminal finances Act 2017 will now be an oral evidence session with the dead for this to be confirmed by the department again just to remind members that the chief constables attending the meeting next thursday to ID lang PS in a budget position and key policing priorities and challenges and if members can provide any areas that they would wish to flag up an advance of that meeting by cluesive played tomorrow to the committee staff that would be appreciated so far we're looking at the radar Center and relaunch of child protection disclosure schemes or some of the issues that members have brought to Christine's attention so any more issues people don't need to you can bounce it on the Chief Constable about the time us I'm sure it'll be capable of handling it but justice is the management of these situations basically - is it an order they are chief constable the givers not did on particular investigations that are gonna I have no particular issue if anyone asked for the questions around the entire Freeman obviously he'll be he will guide us athirst particular sensitive things that he can't go into you but I don't handle pet instructions I ask them for an update and the investigation and the macklemore and hypernatremia okay so tomorrow those who play a third seller issues that members want areas and just let let the team know and what can give their the Chief Constable heads up on on those issues but again members are at liberty to ask whatever they wish next week I'm pretty relaxed about that he made in baby birthing and correspondence then there's three items of Correspondence and members of content will action the items of Correspondence are set out in the cover sheet agreed and a couple of items on under Chairman's business have got an invite just to attainder there's an officer association meeting to discuss some prison issue so I intend to take off that invitation and cultural request from the children Law Center for an introductory meeting which again and I intend to to take up and also there's a request from the chair Jeff executor for the probation board at for a meeting any other business and our next meeting is today week to come on Samri this is the northern island assembly committee | Northern Ireland Assembly | UCS9L9LsgGfUkXLVv2uIatzg | 2020-02-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 22,660 | 128,265 |
Dlmx79a1U70 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlmx79a1U70 | How To Jailbreak IOS 10.2(March 2017) Working!!!! | what's up guys technician packages no video today we will learn how to Jailbreak iOS 10.2 let's get started [Music] first of all open the link given in the description down below in the Safari Browser now scrolling down the web page you will find a blue box now just click on the blue box a dialog box will appear hit install now after hitting install just jump back to the home screen and wait for an application to installed you will see a application name yahoo one or two installed on your device now as you can see the application is installed on my device opening the application it will say untrusted enterprise available just click cancel and go back to settings opening settings under general scroll down to device management now select the device management option and under it click the weld key building option after it click trust a small box trust again now go back to the home screen and try to open the application again after opening the application you will see a plain white screen just hit go after it Ingo you might notice some random reboots in your device but that's completely normal it happens sometimes after your device is booted up again you will see a cydia app installed in your device just open the cydia app and click on update essentials and your work is done after hitting upgrade essentials click and film after clicking confirm black screen will appear showing numerous informations about what's happening let it happen it also shows some errors that's completely normal now just keep your device aside and let the process continue do not try to force restart or turn off your device it may permanently damage your device now during this time it may also show some field errors but that's completely better process let it happen now going to home screen open cydia today I is opening successfully that means you have jailbroken your device now hit the like button down below and share it with your friends if it was for you and hit that subscribe button down below for more such updates so that's a guy's disrespect nice signing off peace | Technist | UCc21d-NnnDw1YLfllWSqdDg | 2017-03-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 370 | 2,074 |
EnQPYxSNI2E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQPYxSNI2E | GK Class-VII, Chapter-6 to 9 | hello dear students this is our second class of general knowledge today we will start with chapter 6 that is topics around all of us are afraid of something or other some are afraid of darkness some of hype and many other things the fear of something is called phobia and in this chapter we will learn what the fear of some particular thing is called let's start with phobia a phobia is a type of anxiety disorder defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation aerophobia fear of life the fear of climb is called aerophobia this is an interesting one fear of marriage fear of marriage is called chemothopia fear of cats here of cats is called allurophobia next we have bibliophobia i think many students suffer from this fear this is the fear of force bibliophobia next henetophobia the fear of death fear of blood is called hemophobia next we have this is i think their fear of plants fear of plants is called victor fotenophobia next year fear of heights fear of heights is called acrophobia claustrophobia you must have heard this word earlier as well it is the fear of closed spaces claustrophobia this is the last one fear of dirt and jump the fear of dirt and jump is called mysophobia next we have fields of science these are there are many skills in science and the study of some particular fields of science have some specific names to start with we have acoustics caustics is the study of sound next we have this one arachnology this is the study of spiders yes this you must be knowing the study of celestial bodies is called astronomy bibliology it is the study of books biology you all of you are learning biology biology is just study of life botany this also all of you are learning botany is the study of plants entomology entomology is the study of insects ethnology study of culture is called ethnology the study of origin of words the words that we speak the study of origin of words is called ethymology study of arts trust is called geology yes this is heliology the study of sun hematology study of blood is called methodology meteorology study of weather is known as meteorological new neurologist study of numbers numerology is the study of numbers the study of points is called numismatics psychology you must have heard this word the study of mind study of mind is called psychology next sociology it has the word society has come from here only sociology is the study of society and at the end we have biology zoology is the study of animals okay now let's come to chapter number eight it is about famous indian scientists very many scientists are famous and now we will learn about some famous indian scientists okay you must have heard about this man he is dr apj he was a great scientist he played an important role in cochrane 2 nuclear tests during 1998 later he came to be known as the missile man all of us know that he is known as the missile man of india next we have purana he was the first to demonstrate the role of dna which later saved the way for better research in gene therapy he was awarded the nobel prize for medicine in 1968 yes he is an important personality vikram sarabhai he is called the father of india's space program who initiated space research he played an important role in the stepping up of one of the world's largest government space agencies that is isro all of us know about israel right so he helped in the setting up of israel next we have subramanyam chandrasekhar he believed in fearing the study of astronomy with physics he discovered chandrasekhar limit which proved the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star he won the nobel prize in physics in 1983 he is a nobel prize winner next we have comey jay baba known as the father of the india nuclear research program he played an important role in the quantum theory he was honored with the padma bhushan in 1958 for his invaluable contribution to science yes he was awarded with padma bhushan and he is the last one he was known for his discovery raman effect which proved that life can travel through a transparent medium he received the nobel prize in physics in 1913 yes he also won nobel prize and that is in 1930 yes this is an interesting chapter the unique universe around us in which year they did the spirit and opportunity rovers land on mars it was in year 2004 students i have made it in the form of a quest and the answers are underlined please see that the answer is underlying b part is the answer and it is underlined i'll repeat the question in which year did the spirit and opportunity rovers land on mars the answer is 2004 next which of the following is the ninth brightest star in the sky it is red super giant third one which of the following is the closest galaxy to the earth the closest galaxy to the earth is canis major dwarf galaxy which of the following is the largest object in the asteroid bed it is serious yes this is grapple constellation constellation is a cluster of stars which are forming the shape so this is platform constellation and this is crab nebula okay thank you so much have a nice day all of you i hope this video will prove useful for all of you have a good day | Little Flowers Group Of Schools, Delhi | UCzv_MMVvl1c2hwXfYiHojFQ | 2020-09-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 953 | 5,156 |
PQAD9V3jtiE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAD9V3jtiE | Olando Speed World Tandems all the door dives - Wheel and pedal cam - | right [Applause] keep going I love this s14 what's up everybody and welcome back to the channel I'm here for rabbit and we are here on a set of course as you can see Fernan 820 in front of me in 1892 we're in some DC GP cars and osw doing some tandem practice we had some randoms hopping into had a little fun Vernon and I were grabbing doors doing back and forth lead and chase having a good old time in these DC GP cars definitely be getting more comfortable in the chase even with a bum finger and you'll see that in the video with all of our chase runs back and forth some three weights and um's and a few car changes but hope you guys enjoy these clips I'm gonna leave you guys to the recording of Fernan and I if you guys don't know who Fernan in he's a big torture player if he's been in my live streams you guys know who he is if you guys play tour drift so as always follow me on Instagram and Twitter I'm gonna leave you guys with tandem clips let's get some doors ready three two one my BYU Oh super high on the wall came off a little bit early but we're gonna make it having Gil right in that crease watch that those are some pretty good runs huh I mean you could smoke your tires like that if you want it's cool are you ready oh geez I do an tires I believe I realize my phone was ringing I'm like what is that noise that I hear my phone in my background are you good I'm gonna get some new gas and some tires yeah I have a button on my steering wheel that's just jump to pits yeah yeah I can just hit a button and it returns the pits for me all right ready yeah Oh I see you can see I love this it's oh geez I love this eight-six it's so much fun all right well apparently this guy wants to give you a follow so we're gonna try a three-way let's do it always on your door though oh he just parked it in the pits it looks like why do you go into pit so soon baby maybe it's changing gearing or something alright I'll follow him [Applause] he got a jump on me he's really why but he's good hey least he can hold the least he can hold a line on the track though all right ready see if I can not hit the wall all right there we go that's better come on hey I'm good is that why you surged into me oh oh ow I just died Oh little booty bump on the wall yeah it's a decent run I love osw I've drifted osw in real life when I lived in Florida I've been on osw so Oh keep it keep it keep it I guess other right there's three way he's right on my door all three wait we all just kept going mm-hmm that was pretty good I like that that was sweet little booty bumps there you get though keep going just keep going go back to the line oh I lost now now we good oh I've washed up just loop back around to the start line - I was just full throttle like feathering the gas keeping my angle oh man this dude I don't know who this savage guy is but he's he's throwing down some lines now damn Vernon yeah he's throwing some solid lines yeah he is I'm watching fright behind you guys a little bit back but I see it keep going don't stop always behind you haha he's throwing some solid lines hey I'll take a lead all right ready all my wall Oh a little bit too greasy I got a little bit too greedy on the last part of the wall right here I kind of got a little bit of damage from that wall so let me uh about back dude that was us like probably the highest wall ride I've done for the longest period of time so far that was on the wall [Music] but oh my godness I was too much luck what oh thank you good I'm doing this with a hurt finger by the way are you my bed I guess even I bump the wall - hi I think I got the gearing right now all right Oh on your door boy it's keep going I love this s14 ha I'm searching with that goal of the green mm I see it alright I'll see if I can do that to you how about a little door love ah yeah I was so good my front wheel hit your door a little bit too much [Music] | EvlRabbit | UChbxcLcv7SsGYNrlvl1FL3w | 2019-12-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 826 | 3,898 |
LLXPRR74iFk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXPRR74iFk | New World: AMAZING GOLD COIN FARM - How To Get Gold Coins EASY Guide - FAST Gold Coin Guide #4 | so people do need to realize when it comes to guys like these certain things in certain servers sell more than others some things are less and well some things are just more some things are just atrociously over the top what people are asking for so firstly if i were you head to your local trading post and search for items i'm covering when the guys to come to see if it's truly worth your time now these guys ain't just fruit and veg there for other resources too so don't worry if you're thinking that you're doomed here with the veg on your server just selling for peanuts because i will bring you many many other farms also so one of these will truly make you a profit now for me everfall is by far the busiest outpost when it comes to trading probably because it's basically center of the map so head to your busiest outpost and check the prices there now like i said there are those certain items that will make you a decent profit some take much much longer to farm and craft though like star male ingots or alkaline gear or they could require you to be a certain level in something now most of my guys are going to avoid all of that how's it going guys my name is dpj and if you enjoyed the video leave a like really helps out and if you like what you want to see more be sure to subscribe so today people we are farming herbs now i know it seems a little silly but actual fact herbs can turn over great great profit and this is because herbs are actually pretty rare items and are needed in many many recipes out there also the fact certain herbs are exclusive to certain areas and because the ones we want don't drop every single time from herbs they do fetch a lot of money because like i said the rich folks out there can't be bothered to farm them so the herbs we are farming today are peppercorn oregano and paprika now one of the areas and in my opinion the best areas to farm these is monarchs bluff but before we head into this guys like i said check your trading outposts and see if they're worth your time even farming if they don't sell for a decent profit i'd ignore them so on screen now you can see where i'm on the map this spot right here is full of herbs so head here and farm away guys don't forget use those boosters if you have them which help you out while harvesting that's harvesting lock on your gear your armor a lock on your sickle or any form of cooked corn now when it comes to selling the items you have gathered from these guides what i will say is obviously you want to undercut people by as minimal as possible but you also want to check recent buy orders what they've recently sold for if you're sold for way less than what people are asking for i'd probably go halfway in between because you gotta remember items don't always sell for the price people are actually asking for they clearly sell for what people have brought them for already now there can be a situation where you'll see some of these items may have actually not sold yet but people do have them up for sale that's where i normally undercut them by a couple of quid maybe and if you notice they fly out like that then you know the range 2004 in the future that's the way i work it anyway it's the way i've been selling tons of things since moving server because my first server was kind of dead but now i've gone to a pretty populated server i have no problem whatsoever selling the items i'm showcasing to you guys within these guides but yes i hope this helps you out guys i hope you earn some gold doing this and i hope to see you on the next video do you | DPJ | UCqheS9rd4_nojHk3H-FR2XQ | 2021-11-13 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 696 | 3,568 |
pnhww9H_Xis | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnhww9H_Xis | How to connect the Redragon Draconic keyboard to the bluetooth. Bluetooth not working/ connecting. | hello guys today i'm gonna show you how to connect the red dragon draconic keyboard to your pc via bluetooth so what you have to do is to go to your bluetooth on your pc add bluetooth or other device bluetooth and when it's searching for a device it won't find one unless you press on the keyboard on the draconic keyboard the fn2 button and ask at the same time for 3 seconds your keyboard will blink for once and now you can have it now what you have to know is that on your keyboard you have to be on the one switch not off both is for wire mode and one is for bluetooth mode now if you want to connect your keyboard on the on another pc you have to switch on another bluetooth on your on your keyboard for example i'm going to switch to bluetooth 2 and i'm going to try to connect it on the same pc but you will probably connect it on the on another device so again i i'm trying to connect to the bluetooth and it won't appear here unless i press the offensive button and ask at the same time for three seconds and now it's it's here | Sebeand | UCiXVbXN2LuLEsgguLdcu4DQ | 2021-06-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 210 | 1,037 |
HT1hpBXn658 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT1hpBXn658 | Unboxing/Review Razer Huntsman Elite! Best Gaming Keyboard! | what's going on today youtube thank you so much for stopping in we're gonna get right into the video but be sure to smash the subscribe button tap that bell notification punch the like button and let's get going let's talk about the razer huntsman elite gaming keyboard [Music] i've used the razer black widow elite keyboard it's slightly different than the huntsman elite first off the huntsman has better leds but it also drops the pass-through usb and microphone slash headphone jack on the left upper side of the keyboard that's gone but the lighting is better in the huntsman elite but there's something else that's even incredibly better about the huntsman elite over the black widow elite that most people don't realize and that's the optical mechanical switches versus the mechanical switches found in the razer black widow elite the difference is one is a complete mechanical switch and the other is optical with a laser meaning that the optical laser switches that are in the huntsman elite have a 0d bounce delay meaning you click it there's no bounce inside whatsoever not that the black widow elite had that because of the stabilizer bar and the way they were made very high quality but they're a lot more accurate in the huntsman elite with the black widow elite you have three switches you have the green tactile and clicky which are 50 g's of actuation downforce then you have the orange razor switches which are the tactile and silent then you have the razer yellow switches which are linear and silent those are your options for the black widow elite and moving over to the huntsmanly you have the purple razer optical clicky switches which have 1.6 millimeters of actuation distance which is 30 percent less than the average mechanical keyboard the other option for the huntsman elite is the red optical linear switch which only has one millimeter of actuation distance 16.7 percent less than any other tactical linear switch out there and they're even lighter at 40 g's of actuation distance very good keys both of them i've tried i prefer the clicky purple switches on a typical keyboard you'll press the button will have a little bit of a bounce inside or internally and then the signal is sent you won't really notice the difference unless you're typing it's hard to explain so i'm going to show you guys in the screen when you press the keys on the huntsman elite you're really essentially stopping the connection of a laser across one of the buttons that you're pressing and it's instant as soon as you press it it blocks the laser as soon as you let off it unblocks the laser there is zero debounce delay there whatsoever the actuation method on most mechanical keyboards is metal point contact versus the huntsman elite being light actuation like i said guys light actuation versus metal point contact light actuation is a lot more accurate faster and smoother with zero issues most mechanical keyboards have an actuation distance of between 2 and 2.2 millimeters some a little more than that most mechanical keyboards are between 2 millimeter and 2.2 millimeters actuation distance although some of the cheaper ones are even more than that it's crazy but the huntsman elite is 1.5 millimeters most mechanical keyboards across them the huntsman elite is crossed them with stabilizer bars and we're going to touch base more on that as well because of the new stem shaped keys and stabilizer bar end to end it does not matter where you press the key it's going to be the same actuation force and distance no matter where you press it it also has unrivaled durability 100 million keystrokes first is your typical 50 million of another mechanical keyboard the black widow elite had 80 million keystrokes this is a huge step up it's a hundred million keystrokes now we've already talked about this the metal stabilizer bar flanks both sides of the switches and because it's optical it has fewer internal moving parts which means there's less things to worry about which means it's going to last longer which is why it has a hundred million actuation warranty okay so right here is some information from razer the information manual as well as instructions warranty stuff like that and the thank you letter from the ceo for buying the product a little bit better packaging than the black widow elite just the way it's set up is a little bit better this is the cable for the keyboard right at the back we're going to pull this out here is the keyboard we flip it over the wrist pad or the pad to rest your arms on is right here on the bottom this keyboard does feel a little bit different than the black widow elites the keys are a little different not only that it does feel a little bit less bulky on the sides just a little bit it's a little bit more trim around the edges and it also doesn't feel as heavy wrist support here a little bit different than the black widow it feels a little heavier and it's a different shape too to be honest this is a much better connection than the black widow elite for sure if you guys are wondering what these connections are here there is an led light around this as well this wrist pad definitely not the same as the black widow elite there's better wrist support for sure on the huntsman the black little elite was probably i would say about an inch more narrow it wasn't the same size at all in fact the way it hooked was kind of just magnetic it would just sit at an angle here but it was definitely a little bit shorter i do feel that the wrist pad itself the leather was softer on the black widow elite uh and i also feel like that there was more padding kind of stuck out above the base a little bit better but overall this connects to the keyboard a lot better and there's more room and the buttons are a little bit softer like the buttons feel more responsive [Music] the led ring around the wrist support is so much better than the plain one on the black widow elite it's just so much better look at that looks incredibly good well i hope you guys enjoyed this video on the razer huntsman elite it is a really good keyboard i've been using it for the last couple of hours and i can tell you guys without a doubt there's less finger and wrist fatigue then versus the black widow elite because there's less pressure required to actuate each key and it has less actuation distance so it's just a little bit easier to use which requires less strength than your fingers and that may not seem like a lot when you're only typing for five ten maybe even fifteen or twenty minutes but when you're gaming and pressing keys for eight to ten hours during a live stream or you're just gaming all day by the end of the day it definitely takes its toll on you by using the black widow elite which is an all mechanical clicky keyboard versus this optical mechanical keyboard which like i said is less actuation distance and less force required to actuate each key so like i said after the course of a several hour day multiple days in a row less fatigue on the fingers and wrist and overall in your hand in general great keyboard both of them are great the huntsman elite is just a little bit better in my opinion i've used them both and it really comes down to what you want do you need pass-through usb and a headset or headphone connector then you're going to need the razer blackwidow elite you don't really need those features and you're looking for an overall better keyboard and the features that suit you more are leds and of course a wrist support that's more comfortable and has really great leds around it then go for the huntsman elite but it really comes down to like i said headphone and usb extension versus led and wrist support thank you so much guys for stopping and be sure to subscribe tap the bell punch the like button comment below what do you guys think of these videos thank you so much for watching take care of yourselves out there in these strange times guys be safe and i'll see all of 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2hvwT5MEyeQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvwT5MEyeQ | Obstacles Are Opportunities | a long time ago there was a wise and wealthy king and he took a massive boulder and put it in one of the streets to get to one of the main squares of his city and then he went and hid in the bushes to see if anybody would actually move the boulder and many people came through some of the king's wisest and wealthiest merchants came through but nobody did anything to try to move the boulder some people cursed the king for leaving that there and not actually moving the boulder but nobody did anything to move it until one peasant came through with his arms full of vegetables and realized that this was one of the main streets that people used and that he needed to try to do something to try to move the boulder out of the way so he placed all of his vegetables on the ground and started to try to push the boulder and the boulder didn't move at first but after a lot of hard work it started to move a little bit and then it started to gain momentum and he was able to move it out of the way and when he went back to go collect his vegetables he realized that under the boulder the entire time was a leather purse and when he opened the leather purse inside of it it was full of gold coins and with those gold coins was a little note from the king that said whoever moved that boulder would be able to keep this gold see the king was wise he realized that with every obstacle that's in your way there's actually an opportunity for you to improve your situation it's like thomas edison says most people miss opportunity because it's dressed up in overalls and looks like hard work so next time you have an obstacle or you have something that looks like a barrier that's in your way realize that you can actually use that obstacle as a way to improve and allow yourself to get better [Music] you | The Mindset Mentor Podcast | UCHl3aFKS0bY0d8JwqNysaeA | 2019-11-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 351 | 1,796 |
Gckcx4_f0L0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gckcx4_f0L0 | FUFU AND OGBONO SOUP AND ASSORTED MEAT |SPEED EATING BIG BITE CHALLENGE DAD VS DAUGHTER SHOCKING WIN | booth.com hey guys today I have Stephanie the best as usual period back again adding to this challenge we're going to do the big bites challenge DOTA versus that guys go to video is going to win it's been a long time since me and Dad did the challenge anyway guys as you can see we have the most delicious favor with opponency with good sweets and cookies basically open and safe with the Sausage Meats so guys don't forget to like share subscribe also don't forget to follow Instagram video Queen salinity Facebook the queen somebody take some pizza Queen City and also on Instagram stephanie.com and let's get started let's pray there you go thank you for a wonderful blessings day and a wonderful name we thank you for your blessings your glory your power in your life is an emotion amen thank you Lord for forgive us since o God I'll clean us along with your righteousness Lord glorify on the O Lord and those that is worship us alone let the same very serious upon them in the name of Jesus in Jesus amen Jesus amen guys I don't know why I'm nervous it's been a really long time but I never it's okay that's not what you do with that voice so basically I'm there for the food for yourself no the challenge is like made by challenge so the person that wins is the person that takes the biggest Vibes so guys comment below who's taking the biggest Parts actually it's not everyone's okay just like that yes yes you like to win it of course I'm sure guys and guess who I'm talking from okay yeah so guys but this is the background to check when it's taking the biggest fights and yeah hey guys it's me Vanessa [Music] when you said oh you can take small bites and still lose it's not really about that because you can like you can take tiny by and still go fast yeah yeah okay we're gonna start in three two one go [Music] because I decided to me guys it's been a long time seriously I don't think it'll be sick [Music] she's struggling actually I know okay okay Stephanie's taking big bite you know look I Gotta Lose go by that that was leaving her faster and Stephanie was saying it's not Stephanie mistake let's see [Music] um [Music] you help Stephanie out guys okay thank you guys [Music] no way no I'm not sure how I'm struggling I need to stop talking I need okay what you should do these small bites no I said the biggest one that's Stephanie that's definitely small no motion [Music] hmm if I would say I would have won promising it's easy it is [Music] thank you he's actually gonna win me who's actually gonna win anytime is the way me that's what I'm leaving that is what about that um yeah after the game this is very competitive like always arguing thank you for real you know you're gonna actually [Music] sucked on me I got all the hard ones to be honest fish no fish is hard this brains no it's actually the same way [Music] come on one one more one more stepping in that oh Stephanie gee no that is juicy laughs [Music] oh this is Minnie [Music] so he actually took the biggest fight [Music] um is fine we're gonna give it no more and Curry suit to make it bigger I'm sorry no guys guys after three months it's not easy at all we're gonna leave this to the audience who do you guys think actually won and who actually took the biggest bite Stephanie or dad because I think you decided with the winner please what was the point of this actually yeah for the audience to actually George I believe the point of doing this is for the audience to judge so guys actually please comment down below okay because we actually want to know can we like say why I think I wrote this challenge yeah yeah so guys so every Saturday putting new people out there definitely that join halfway with this video and skip the introduction in this video my name is Stephanie and in today's video we did the big boy Challenge and I think I'm doing on this channel is because I took the biggest bites and when I say I tell you the basic spice I almost like couldn't swallow it that's why I drank so much water and the second reason is that I wasn't the one that took normal size of Fufu and curry soup to make it bigger and also add more meat but that are like fish sauce I don't really want fish but you have like facial like curling a garlic is soft it's not like Shaggy okay what's up anyway I think I'm doing that full stop thank you for the introduction I don't think I know I'm the winner you know I don't think I know you know yeah okay guys actually thank you for watching and you know I'm the kind of man who really do this challenge no I actually beat bites everything I was taking was be the fish but by Stephanie she would take she'll be streaming and secondly add the little one a little a little bit of meat in the summer so she's eating meat yeah that's more difficult no I don't know adding more okay actually yeah you know you think that that's all you took normal sizes I saw you currently stupid and Leo mean to make it big okay what do I do the big bad is it only the uh the Fufu or no choose one items the audience can judge you see okay see that guys so means to make it bigger so when you make a decision just remember that listen to me the food in the blitz said bit bite of food have counted yeah the soup and everything so like okay I have to take big the biggest soup the meat everything okay but what's the difference of me taking one meal my mouth and also like yeah because you have a flu shot first one upstairs secondly I'm mixing no no no no you want to fish right first secondly you don't you just put the meat and try to swallow the water and you could you could be I'm competitive no no that was give me what's doing okay guys you you put what in your mouth then you take this wrong one so guys I'm sorry a good judge and a good lawyer and a good advocate okay anyway guys in my presence okay because you do this against you you just you just said only one against me you can't even defend yourself I defend myself one yeah you you you don't it's not true you you put you put some with your man I think on that beat the third one you will stop taking the big uh for food you take the smaller for food like I caught you three times so why why are you why are you I'm so scared I'm gonna win this challenge so what guys I beg you please comment on one channel because I actually really want to know the one is trying because I know it's me that thing is is that we just need a fantasy from you please guys and like yourself and subscribe you see when someone or somebody is guilty of what or she worship or he does though it started it's not Peggy I don't begging thank you you see thank you I beg you are you are you guys no that you have to you have to read the other six okay guys guys that's the reason why you need to comment that video one because me and that we're going to argue I'm just trying to to 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LKVetGu7sr8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKVetGu7sr8 | (Rebroadcast) The Power in Speech Part 4 | [Music] thank you [Music] thank you well this is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it listen I greet you tonight in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who always causes us to Triumph in every situation God bless you God keep you is our prayer listen we're on live tonight I'm Pastor Daryl Foster you are viewing the Hope Connection by way of irise church it is always our privilege to come before you to bring you to uncompromised word of God so that you can grow as the scripture says grow thereby yes indeed and so tonight will be no different our aim our focus is to come to share God's word with you tonight grab your Bibles listen let's sit down let's intensely study the word of God we find found out on Sunday's lesson man that we have to we have to have an intensified effort and so tonight is one of those was intensified as efforts listen your body's tired you've been working all day but uh you're gonna take the time tonight to turn aside from television turn aside from this and that and focus on the word of God most people view lives and they just click on and click off they really don't give attention uh to what's being said they don't get the full context the full story of what God is trying to say and that's what I want you to do tonight to listen intensely so that you can get the full scope of what the spirit of God has placed on my heart uh so you can be blessed and go thereby listen don't forget to share this is important that we share the good news of Jesus Christ with others doesn't take much just to click in your feed and find individuals there share the lesson of Hope with them tonight and it's it's up to them to receive it but at least you share it it's always just like the gospel on a regular basis we run into people all the time time that need the good news of Jesus Christ and many times they reject it but that's fine but at least I did my part uh to share it with them so we want you to share tonight so that you can hear uh what God has to say and your life will increase and be to bet be the better listen I have important news for our members and partners right at the close of service so don't go away uh right as we uh complete the lesson tonight have some information that we'll have on this for this coming Sunday for our helps Ministry workers as well as information for our Resurrection Sunday that is up and coming I want you to be a part I want you to come and join us on that Sunday because we're going to focus now on Kingdom uh yeah this this uh this kingdom of God uh Resurrection uh yeah rest Resurrection uh uh resurrecting people in their states no matter what state you're in God wants to resurrect you from that so that you can go to the next level amen doesn't mean that you're not saved it doesn't mean that that you are not uh in uh in right relationship with God it just means that my life should be in a position to be resurrected at every point every turning uh point of my life so that I can go to the next level amen amen and I'm looking forward to that Sunday as we share together uh helping those come into a saving knowledge of Christ as well as those uh coming into taking their spiritual walk to the next level amen I'm going to pray we're going to get right into the lesson tonight and again don't forget to share even through the course of the lesson why don't you put your likes and your comments in there so that others can see that the word of God is also being a blessing uh in your life and they may even be enriched by it you know that's why uh one of the reasons that we come together as the scripture says failing not to assemble ourselves together because we're coming together uh as the scripture says iron sharpened iron we feed off of one another it's like a house filled with coals in the barbecue pit uh there may be some that are not lit yet but the ones who are already lit my God they like those and then they Kindle an awesome heat uh so that it may prepare and cook your meat but we believe it's like unto the same thing in the kingdom of God and we want you to be a part of that that kindling of that fire so that we can so God can do his perfect work uh in the house amen amen all right so let's pray we'll dive right into the lesson grab your Bibles let's study father in the name of Jesus we thank you we praise you for another opportunity to share in your word to share uh to your principles and your point uh to your people tonight I thank you Father they have ears to hear they have have hearts to receive from you thank you God that you give me Clarity uh those things that I've studied I prepared bring those things back to my remembrance that I may share them uh so that your people can be the better and can be blessed as a result of it we give you thanks God we give you praise we give you glory for it in the name of Jesus there's nothing that the enemy can do to steal or pluck out the word from the lives of God's people tonight because it's been sown in good ground therefore it shall produce fruit in the name of Jesus amen amen so now uh turn with me in your bibles if you will two of Romans Romans chapter four Romans chapter 4 and we'll get right into uh the information for tonight won't be before you long I always laugh at myself because I say it every week but somehow we always go a little bit longer than anticipated but I want to at least give you complete the points that we started on our last time together so that uh you can get the scope of this matter of faith in the life of Abraham amen and it's going to mean something significant to us to our faith walk so that we can be increased we want to take the word off the page and apply it to our lives what would what what's God trying to tell us through these uh spiritual stories that we see in the word of God amen amen so let's look there in verse 17 and 18. we've been talking about the power of uh Power in speech the power that's in our speech once we really get a glimpse and understand the power of this in our speech we'll begin to watch what we say how we say it the times that we say what we say because we understand how important our speech is watch this it says as it is written I've made thee a father of many nations before him whom believed even God he quickened the Dead and he called it those things that be not as though they were who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was already spoken so this was spoken of him that uh so shall thy seed be it was spoken of Abraham already previous before this even came on the scene it was already spoken of him that uh his seed would be great and be Mighty in the earth so we said that our objective for these uh these course of lesson this is actually lesson number four was to deal with the importance of trusting relying and depending on God as the source and the sustainer of my life uh confirming uh it through his speech confirming it through his speech uh uh which is in accordance with what I believe uh on a consistent basis so we off that we made this statement I will only speak what I believe I receive through his word because God will only manifest what he confirms in and through his word he will only manifest make alive bring on the scene that which he had that which he has already confirmed through his word his word confirms that's what he's going to manifest that's what's going to come to life not you crying not you making up your own way of doing and going but it's going to be off the basis of what God has structured and stated in and through his word so we said that Abram developed a dependency on God uh as his sources and sustainer that is why uh uh he was able to believe against hope yet he obtained the promise we also talked about how God quickened it the dead or how he this word Quicken has to do with he made alive uh he was able to make alive through his speech his speech was so powerful so Dynamic that when he called it it came alive and uh this was awesome because this is how he was able to bring Abrams and Sarah's body to life yeah the bodies the Bible says that their bodies were now dead he's trying to get them now to increase their faith so that they can produce this child as God has promised them and he does it through making them alive bringing their bodies to life and as a result of it they conceived what God promised them in and through his word so he demonstrates this resurrection of Christ by calling those things that be not as though they were that's how he demonstrates it by his speech he demonstrates it by declaring it uh he demonstrates it by speaking the uncompromised word of God so we said uh to speak is a universal term given to mankind to communicate but to make alive is spiritual speech or spiritual forces of power to create spiritual forces of power that creates that's why Proverbs 18 21 says that death and life is in the power of my tongue my tongue is so powerful one script and I think it's the the uh either the Amplified version of a living trans the uh a message translation says my my words are like the uh a pencil of a ready writer they're ready to write to this to to describe out that which God had said so the believer has an advantage over the world over those who don't have a relationship because their words are Supernatural that's what makes it different the world can speak they can change situations in their lives but they can't make it alive because they don't have the power of God to do so they have the natural principle but they don't have have the power of God that's why a lot of the world experiences some of the blessings of God some of the things that God has made available to mankind because they're operating in the principle that God established that God set and that's why we're teaching because we've got to get the believer to understand the world don't even have a covenant relationship with God but they're experiencing the blessings of God because they're operating in the principle of God and you have not only the principle but you have the power to go behind it amen amen so let's look at this as we talked about this on our previous time together the establish of establishment of Faith speech uh in the life of Abram the establishment of Faith speech in the life of Abram so according to Romans 4 verse 17 through 22 we won't read all of that but for your own personal study I I think it would definitely be a good idea so you can get a good understanding and when you read read slow you may even read a little bit and stop and go do some research on it so you can get the context uh by which what God is stating uh throughout these verses as he was talking to Abram and that's what we're going to try to express to you today so we said that there are five essential characteristics of Faith five essential characteristics of Faith or the faith of Abram according to what God had took him through so that we can gain access to this type of Faith this this the the the Dynamics of this Faith uh that Abraham used to obtain the promise that God made available to him so number one Faith must have a valid content Faith must have a valid content I tried to break that word content down a little make sure you've got got a clear understanding that word content we're talking about subject matter that Faith must have a valid content or a valid subject matter the content of his faith was the revelation of God that God wanted to give him the content or the content by which God meant was that Abram had to get a revelation get a revelation and we read to you uh in all of that getting we ought to get an understanding and that word understanding there is talking about getting a revelation because it's not enough just to read the word of God no we've got to get a revelation of God's word because it's only through the the Revelation that I get that I can obtain what God has promised us me in and through his word so Paul actually quotes Genesis 17 and verse number 5. he says neither shall uh uh um uh he says neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram but thy name now shall be called Abraham so he establishes this Revelation in the life of Abram by changing his name therefore Abram got the Revelation see he got the understanding uh of the revelation of the understanding of what God was trying to do through changing his speech through changing his speech so he's declaring now no longer say Abram I want you to say I want you to have others to also say of you not only will you say it but they'll be saying it so when you tell them now who you are it gives you another Revelation about who you are it changes your perspective about who you are see so when we take this off the page to put it in our own life we have to we have to get the content a valid content we need revelation of what God's trying to do in and through our lives it's no longer man it's like where's time out for just for for just quoting anything no let's be poignant about this thing let's make it a fact so that we can get the Revelation that God because God changed this man's uh thought process by changing by changing his name and that's what we got to do some of us need to change our name and it may not be changing your physical name it may just be changing what you've been saying about yourself changing the way the way you've been thinking of yourself changing uh changing the way others have been thinking about you you ain't no longer you you are no longer bro man you are whatever your name is uh the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus I am now to God's man I am now right now today even though it may not appear you may have just got saved yesterday and that is great but now it's time to change your identity hallelujah hallelujah watch this now so Abram let's go to our second point because we dealt with that one uh a little bit intensely on last week so we're going to change the content we must have a valid content number two we must have a valid point we must have a valid point the point of Abraham's Faith was to know God was The Giver of this Revelation got to know God is God is the one who's given me this Revelation it didn't come extractly from uh from the universe Hallelujah yeah folks just talking about yeah the universe told me that and no no no no no God told you that this ain't no abstractly just from no you know God is the one he's The Giver of Life he's the one that wants you to have a revelation have a valid point about who he is to know him as your source and your sustainer he's the one that keeps us Keeps Us solidly rooted a Genesis 17 part B verse number 5 says there for a father of many nations I have made thee he says I made you already done it I may pass this I've already done it I've got to get you to catch up with with what I've made you a father many nations I've already made you so I've got to catch up with who God says I am I've got to wrap my mind around the very point the very essence of who I am not off the base says of what I feel because most people talk to themselves based on what they feel and not based on what God has said if God said you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus that's what you ought to be saying so you got to change your speech about who you are if God says you're blessed going out you're blessed coming in Everything You Touch Is blessed I don't care how broke you are blessed is what I'm gonna speak of myself so I'm looking for God to do things in my life as a blessed man Hallelujah yeah not as a broke man but as a blessed man why because he says I'm blessed with all spiritual blessings in Heavenly places he says that he gonna call those things that be not he's gonna make alive some things that are now dead in my life in my situation so I'm Gonna Change get a revelation and change what I've been saying about myself Hallelujah so number one I have a valid content number two I have a valid point a valid point yeah of the of the of The Giver of this Revelation the contents of having a revelation of who he is now I've got to have a valid point and the point is the uh the understanding of the uh of the of the The Giver of the Revelation which is God so now I have to surround myself oh Hallelujah I've got to surround myself with God and his word see if if I want to see the the point of the matter is now for you to build this relationship with God so that you can be so that you can settle in your heart that he is the Revelation Giver and now I surround myself with him with his word with building a relationship building an intense relationship with him so I can settle in my heart once and for all yeah here's my point once and for all I'm gonna settle in my heart that this is my God yeah yeah yeah he's my God I know I share him with you but listen he's my God and I'm going to a subtle and stabilize myself in his Revelation amen number three Faith must have a valid uh oh watch this probability Faith must have a valid probability probability is my ability to Hope even in difficulties watch this now probability is my ability to Hope even in difficulties probability not probably like Pro probably it might happen or not or it may not no no no I'm convinced that is going to happen because God sees me through every difficulty in my life now watch this this hope is established in God and there is no element watch this now there is no element of uncertainty yeah yeah the must have a valid probability this probability is the ability to Hope even in difficulties therefore this hope is my is established in God and there is no element of uncertainty there is no probability of uncertainty coming in my God's ability to see me through Hallelujah yeah yeah I I'm certain I'm certain why because I have context I have a revelation I know who the giver of the Revelation is so now the probability is my hope is established in those other two facts that what that there's no um there's no element of uncertainty I'm not gonna let anything come in to destroy the Revelation from the Revelation Giver I'm not gonna let anything listen to me saying to God I'm not going to allow anything to enter in to destroy the Revelation that I received from the Revelation Giver and I'm going to develop a hope that's established in God you give me it's established in God and there is no element of uncertainty it's certain I'm certain it's going to come to pass I'm dogmatic about it I talk about it I live it I walk and I whatever I do it surrounds with the fact of what God said I have a revelation what he said it shall come to pass no element come on right in the comment section there is no element of uncertainty there's no element I will not allow anything to to bring me to a place of uncertainty even when I don't know how I'm going to come out of a situation I'm certain that God said it I'm certain that it's going to come to pass so I Hold Steady I grabbed the Rings and I Hold Steady why it's Rocky in this thing I don't see how I'm gonna get out but God promised me so there's no element of uncertainty I'm convinced I've got to have a confidence confidences in Christ Jesus our lord so number one once again there is uh a valid content get a revelation number two there is a valid point the point is that I understand that I get a revelation that God is a uh he's the Revelation Giver number three I have a valid uh a valid probability the probability is my ability to Hope even in difficult times and this hope is established in God and in his word and I there's no element of uncertainty that I allow to enter into my heart watch this uh Romans Chapter 4 Verse 18 says who against hope oh Jesus believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations he says there who against hope against hope he believed in hope that he might become the father that sounds like a certainty to me I'm not wavering I'm not doubting God promised it I believe against the hopeful hopeless situations I believe against the Hopeless situation that there is hope see against hope he believes in hope he in in the midst of a hopeless situation I bring hope hopeless I bring hope to the to the table in the midst of hopelessness I bring hope so you got to come to the dog fight with your dog yeah you gotta come to the battle ready to fight why because I'm coming with my hope the arm is all against me they're more than them that there are are of me but I have my hope that God's gonna see me through so the confidence that I have in him is what brings me to the place of Victory because against hope I believe hope Jesus is my deliverer all right number four now is a valid purpose number four is a valid purpose I must have a valid uh a valid purpose in God the purpose of Abram's Faith was that he might become the father of many nations but he had to realize the promise given to him in the abrahamic Covenant see that was a promise that God promised them he become the father of many nations but he had to realize it he had to get this Revelation uh of the of the abrahamic Covenant that was given to him all right so Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 through 3 says this now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy Kindred and from thy father's house into a land that I will show thee and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and I will make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curseth thee in all of these shall all families of the earth be blessed so God created purpose on the inside of him see by him giving him this see oh where God gave Abram his speech and his speech changed Abram's speech did you hear that God gave Abram his speech see that's his God's word now becomes his speech to you so what are you going to do with his speech are you just going to look at it and read it and then throw it to the side are you going to look at it read it and allow it to be embedded in your heart and then you begin to take it as not only his speech it now becomes my speech and I begin to Clare his speech out of my lips he gives him his speech so that he can change Abram's speech and when Abraham gets a revelation of his speech he understands that I can only change my environment only change my situation as I change my speech I've gotta got I got I have to stop saying what I feel and start saying what God said I've got to change my speech gotta change my speech my speech my speech my words are killing me listen to what I'm saying sayings your words are killing you they are taking you out of the game because you are speaking things that are bringing death and not bringing life God brings no death with his speech all of his speech brings life to your life Hallelujah yeah I set before you I sat right before you right there before you is life and death I set before you blessings and purses then he gives you the way of escape and he says now I want you to do is change your speech you begin to Speak Life Hallelujah you begin to speak life so number four I must have a valid purpose and then number five I must have a valid principle how often have we heard that our lives ought to be principle driven that we ought to have principle and purpose in life so the principle have a valid principle the principle of Abram's Faith was acclimated in the way he lived oh Jesus did you catch that listen listen listen listen listen the principle to Abram's faith it was acclimated it was sanctioned it was produced based on how he lived then he continued to live the way he lived prior to getting the revelation or did he change the way he lived because now he has the revelation glory be to God listen are you changing the way you live on the basis of the new revelation you have or are you putting the new revelation to the side and continuing to live the way you've always lived and let me tell you that's the average believer they're still living the same way knowing the new revelation but never adapting the new revelation to their life and lifestyle and now they change the way they live I guarantee you Abraham's life changed baby everything he was doing changed the way I can imagine Sarah tripping like man what is wrong with you you didn't do that before you wasn't talking like that before his servants had to adapt to the way they cared for him the way they the the way they followed him the way they helped him the way they served him why because he changed the way he was thinking and the way he was speaking he would know he was no longer speaking Doom and Gloom and and then I'm not gonna make it and oh my God I want a child my wife in his crime because she can't have a baby and it wasn't until he he he got the thing settled in his heart he tried to make something happen by Sleeping with the handmaid God said it is not what I told you to do your child I Will Bless Ishmael as your child coming from Hagar but that's not my perfect will for your life and how many things have we created outside of the will of God yeah how many situations how many ish meals do we have to go through before we realize that's not the will of God and that's not what God said he did not sanction that for your life and he's still waiting on you to catch up with the Revelation beginning to walk in the Revelation begin to live out the Revelation for your life so he can produce the Isaac that you supposed to have in your life and it wasn't until he's he got that thing right and he says no longer no longer will I seek outside I'm not going to seek outside to get the Revelation that God brought for me see and we're still sinking on the outside of what God Said still in heaven have not have not uh wrapped our mind around what God promised us through his word and it wasn't until he got a revelation and began to walk in that Revelation and begin to have a principle to live by it that it became a part of its everyday being it became a part of the fiber of his doing on his consistent basis and that's what you have to do you have to be willing that this thing is so real to you you talk it you speak it you live it you walk it you talking to folks about stuff that they can't even stand because yeah because they don't even believe it and they tired of you talking about it but you talking about it because you're convincing yourself that this is the way of the Lord and I'm gonna talk it out I'm gonna walk it out I'm gonna live it out so don't come in my company if you don't want to hear nothing about God it's how I live it's the way I covered my life hallelujah hallelujah so we got to have a valid principle and this principle is the principle of faith that he's that he acclimated his life to the way he lived he brought that thing home this is how I now live the Bible says he staggered not this is how he looked I wasn't even I'm not even going to stagger at the promise when you think about staggering to stagger is is like a person who's drunk they're filled with the wine and the wine is altering the way their ability to walk straight listen to me now the wine is altering their ability to talk straight the wine is altering them to be to be able to walk the straight line when they get stopped by a cop but his speech is all slurred why because they can't focus properly because the wine is interfering with what should have been a natural Act Hallelujah now watch The Parallel man see God's got to get you convinced he's got to get you so saturated with his word that it Alters your speech hmm he staggered not at the promise through unbelief in other words he was not he was no longer intoxicated with unbelief he became intoxicated with belief to the degree that it changed his speech it changed the way he walked it changed the way he talked it changed the very essence of his being when he went in to sleep with his wife Sarah Soraya man boom Sparks went off I could only imagine what that moment was like for the both of them that their bodies now came alive they remembered what it was like when they was in their 20s 30s and 40s because the excitement of the Intercourse being infused with the power of God caused their bodies to come alive and when their bodies came alive Hallelujah execution could take place so you've got to become intoxicated intoxicated with the word to where it changes you it's the way now that you live out your daily life in Christ why because I'm executed with God hallelujah how much time I got all right watch this watch this we're going to get out of here and I may just say this for you for next week so just because you cannot oh yeah yeah yeah I gotta at least wet your appetite with this just because you cannot see the word does not make it unreal see just because you cannot see it most people get caught up because they they're trying to see it and they've not gotten the Revelation see in the process of you seeing it that means you got to go back to the drawing board of saturation because if I'm not seeing it yet don't try to move to the next step no let's go back to Saturday I've got to continue to saturate myself to the with the word until I can see it until it becomes alive to me because just because I cannot see it right now does not make it unreal it's still real but the devil tries to make you think it's not real because right now you're you have not gotten your Believers up to to believe for it so don't don't stop it's real but you got to go back saturation getting myself so inclined with the word I've got to find other scriptures gotta gotta find what who who else God brought through yeah who who else can I find in the word that their backs was up against the wall I look at Daniel and the Lion's Den and the man's Faith was incredible that he walked in the line then with the confidence that my God is going to see me through and he winds up using a lion as the pillar to go to sleep it's because God shut the lion's mouth do you hear what I'm saying thanks to God so I go back I go back to the word of God to get this word so I can be saturated gotta get myself saturated in the word so belief can takes place take place now I'm ready to move to the next point I can see it now you know so I can see clearly now the rain is falling or gone or something yeah I can see clearly now [Music] um I'm gonna pick that up on next week there in Hebrews uh Hebrews chapter 11. we're gonna we're gonna break that thing down how because until I can see it it cannot be alive in my heart until I can see it so once I see it now I can run with it yeah when I can see it now I can get it cause it to produce in my life but I can see it now it becomes a revelation to me when I can see it now it becomes truth without error to me when I can see it nobody can talk me out of it I don't care how of a good story you have you cannot talk me out that Jesus is Alive you cannot talk me out that Jesus is coming back even if I leave this earth beforehand he's still coming back that's what he's saying hallelujah hallelujah you got to get a revelation you've got to see this thing through Abram was able to see it God had to keep walking with him and work I don't think it's going to be an overnight Central situation it was an overnight for Abram 20 some years he's believing for this child it took a while to get God to get for God to convince him that his way was the best way his way was the way of life his way that was going to bring the promise to pass in his life watch this oh Jesus the promise of Abram having a child was not about Abram's child it was about what God wanted to do in the Earth through his child and see God wants to do some things in your life that's not about you but he needs you as a agent in the Earth so that you can carry out what he wants to do in and through somebody else see most people are selfish with their faith that's why they try to only believe for junk when God didn't create faith for you to get stuff he created faith for you to get your life together and so that he can use your life as a vessel in the earth Realm he don't need you to get Faith to get no car he don't need your faith to get no that ain't faith he says all these things I will add but what he's looking for is for you to use your faith get your life together get your all that foolishness and filthiness in your life I've got to get that mess rooted up so you can believe me unconditionally so that you can walk with your life circumspectly and then now others will see the goodness of Christ in you and what the Bible says and they want to serve your heavenly father when God produced this child through Abram and Sarah now God tells him to go and sacrifice the child the very thing he's been believing for and because Abram was willing to follow through because he believed God has promised to God for all these other things brought him to the point of faith that I'm willing to now lay his lay him on the altar my faith is so in in tune with God if he said he's going to provide a ram in the bush doggone it is going to be a ram in that bush he was willing to go through with the act and as a result of him going through with the standing in faith the scripture says now God has a right to bring his son says it wasn't about him just having a child no it was about producing Jesus to come into the Earth and he wants to use your life for the same thing produce the power of God through your life so that you can make impact in the life of somebody or somebody's dying and falling by the wayside and you running around playing Church you run around trying to get a car you run no no no no no no no no no baby this is about bringing our lives in concert with his life so that he can produce through our life the life of somebody that's dying and hurting and need Jesus we're gonna pick this up on our next time together glory be to God and we're going to start talking about what we see because if you can't see this thing it's difficult for you to walk in it and the devil tries to keep your mind and spiritual eyes blinded from the truth so you won't produce what God said for you to produce but let me tell you you are right now not tomorrow right now you are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ Our Lord you're going to make it because God's on your side listen I have some information I want to share with you right before we leave don't forget to share this video tonight oh my God that was incredible information I know it blessed me and it encourages me to continue to forge ahead and accomplish all that God has designated for me to accomplish all right uh yes so first of all uh for our Resurrection Sunday we are developing t-shirts uh you know always make the statement right at the end of the broadcast uh we all rise We rise because Jesus has risen and that's been one of our Hallmark slogans and I believe it still stands so true today that we can only rise in life and go to the next plateau and and and develop all that we need to why because Jesus is because the life of Jesus and Jesus has risen and so on this coming Sunday at the uh we're going to have also a ministries of helps meeting I want you to be there so you can be a part of the meeting and we'll be taking your T-shirt sizes so that we can get a t-shirt for you uh for Resurrection Sunday we'll all be uniform uh with our t-shirts on and all that kind of thing it's going to be a grand day and so but I'm most importantly if you're not able to get a t-shirt I want you to be at church Sunday and be a part of the Excellence team reading the ministry of helps meetings so that we can come together uh grab some pertinent information I'll be sewing some things relative to the vision where we're going and how we're going to get there but your help is needed to help us get there we're working this as a team and this is not a one-man show this is all of us coming together so that we can accomplish what God has said in the motion for us so those two elements t-shirts as well as this something coming Sunday for the Excellence the ministry of helps meeting I want you there so that you can connect with your team members um I'm not certain but we may even have a time of breakout I don't think it may be may not be needed but at the same token we'll be talking more about that in detail as we get closer to Sunday but I know importantly I need you there Sunday so that we can all come together uh and share in this area of Excellence area of our ministries of help so we can bring bring another level of Excellence to our team members also a time of fasting we have 20 days of prayer uh and fasting leading up to a resurrection leading up to our Resurrection Sunday and that will start on March the 20th fifth I believe yes yeah 20 days backing up all the way uh all the way to the eighth I think it's the 25th that we'll be starting that uh leading up to uh Resurrection Sunday and there will be a time of fasting and prayer uh as we are believing God so intensely uh for Harvest of souls uh spirit of God spoke to me uh and told me that he wanted to be a time of a 20-day fasting in prayer so that we can believe God for Kingdom resuscitation listen Kingdom resuscitation he says there are two groups of people that need to be resuscitated one is those who are in spiritual death in other words they've not received Jesus as their savior so they needed they need to be spiritually resuscitated so they can now come alive to God and so we'll be focusing on that in our times of prayer now we won't have a time of prayer at the church other than when we pray on Sundays we'll be praying for the Harvest and that sort of thing but this will be individually as we do our morning prayer evening prayer or whenever God brings it to your Consciousness to begin to pray for the spiritual resuscitation the other group is the spiritual unconsciousness that a lot of people are born again but they're unconscious they they've basically fallen asleep the heart is still beating their lives but they've fallen asleep in Christ and God wants to resuscitate he wants to bring alive uh that that that individual who's just kind of coasting through life and not using their life for the benefit of uh of of helping themselves so that they can help somebody else so we'll be praying for those two two groups of individuals and we're believing God for that Sunday that we'll have that type of ministry go forth so that others can come to know Christ and get out of that unconsciousness and come alive to be ready to do the work of the Lord because that's what it's all about man this is you know we we have these broadcasts and we have our Sunday services and we go through praise and worshiping but at the end of the day it's about somebody giving their life to Christ we're doing this because we're looking to help people uh in their walk with God either those who are born again more intensify their relationship with Christ of those who don't know Christ to come into a saving knowledge of him so we'll be talking about that more in the days to come but more importantly I want to see you Sunday let's come together uh uh so that we can unify ourselves and believe God for all that he has called us to do you know we're going through some growing pains right now with our new sound system and all that sort of thing but God's going going to see us through and but I need your help I need your prayers I need your financial support so that we can continue to uh to do what God has called us to do amen amen God bless you listen God keep you as I pray thank you so very much for all of your support listen we would not have not been able to get to where we are today without your support and I want to let you know how much my wife and I appreciate you uh for all that you have done uh to get us to where we are let's just continue to move and Forge ahead I believe there is a horrors of people uh that need the ministry touch uh that this ministry provides a lot of Ministries out there and God has called Ministries to do their thing and uh and I don't knock any of them I just have to do what God called me to do and uh and I believe that as a result of what he's called me me to do their people that need Christ in in in one or two of these areas and it's my assignment uh to teach and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in that fashion so thank you so much continue to be attentive in service continue to support financially so that we can continue to move ahead we're still believing God for our building uh we're in a building but we're believing God for our permanent location and I know he has the perfect location for us but we're going to stand in faith until it comes I just told the other guy the building we were in on cutting us I will not continue to support you in this fashion and you will not do what you said you were going to do and so we want to be people of integrity and follow uh in the fashion that he has called us to listen God bless you God keep you as our prayer we will see you on this coming Sunday morning 9 A.M 25 23 5-0 cutting FM 1960 uh FM West 23 5-0 FM 1960 West in uh reception hall number two amen amen well God bless you God keep you as our prayer remember that we always rise because Jesus has risen [Music] thank you | I Rise 2 Hope | UCzv1NhMu44YWbVRF-2vCV-Q | 2023-03-24 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 8,198 | 41,184 |
_6FapSt8fKk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FapSt8fKk | The Corporate Leaders Groups' net zero conversations | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | [Music] so cornelia why why is your organization pursuing a net zero goal what are the benefits and why is this important to you yeah thanks for watching for having me here and giving the opportunity to share what ccep is up and i mean coca-cola has a long heritage and zero ambition isn't simply the response to science or to consumer pressure it's about changing the business for the future and the well-being of the planet and we know that the world is at a critical point at the moment and we as ccep also needs to play our part to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees in line clearly with the paris um climate change agreement to protect the planet and the next generation for the future and when you look where we have coming from it's not something new it's just something we we want to work further on in the last decade we already achieved 13.5 reduction in our climate emissions and when you look forward to the next decade we are planning to reduce again 30 percent so becoming net zero in 2040 is really something which is just natural to go on in the future to really meet net zero by 2040 and we need to get faster also with offsetting with the emissions we can't reduce anymore clearly there needs to be this kind of offsetting opportunity so that we then as ccep can become negative [Music] you already gave some great examples but what positive action is your company taking already that is driving the change needed to make net zero a reality yeah so when you look we we look into the full value chain and we take full responsibility for all of our emissions whether it's scope 1 scope 2 or also in the scope 3 emissions and we normally look into kind of pillars so we look into the packaging where we really can reduce emission coming from the packaging and this is investing in refillables or in distance technology as well as in the circularity of all of our packaging and of course looking in the kind of packaging we offer to the consumers then there's this big ingredient part where we also need to work with our suppliers in reducing their emissions um so that the ingredients also will be reduced from a carbon viewpoint and then it's the big point about manufacturing where we want to become also at the manufacturing side climate mutual and this year we could achieve in two of our manufacturing sites one in spain um and the one in sweden also a climate neutral so we have two sites climate neutral and of course this is something going on for the future so that next year the next manufacturing sites will come and then we have this big logistic piece where we look into alternative technologies or alternative fuels moving from the truck to the train right where we have green electricity also looking in kind of different fuels where we can reduce the emission to support the logistics reduction [Music] so cornelia what do you see is the most significant hurdle when it comes to companies achieving net zero how have you been able to overcome this yeah so speaking from a ccp viewpoint it really has been imported to impact sustainability in the heart of our business but it's not a separate business strategy or separate from our long-range client business strategy but it is something really from the top level so the elt to the shop floor that all of our decisions are taking sustainability and here carbon reduction into account we have achieved that we have a sustainability committee from a broad level and we could agree that our executive leaders in their long-term incentives have have a climate goal so their reduction or their business decision in the reduction will be reflected in their incentives and then looking looking um into the business of course you need to then roll this down in the long range plan and then in the annual business plan and once you have achieved this it just becomes action but that was for me the significant hurdle that you clearly embed this next to your financial business plan next to your branding plan your marketing plan and this is something which works together [Music] what do you know now that you wish you'd known before before you started strategizing and planning for zero future yeah i think um it's once a really integrated sustainability in the business plans and the long range plans you will see that it's moving faster you need really and this is what i what i wanted to have known before this embedding piece and the commitment from the top to the middle and the shop floor leadership team is the key piece you need to do and you need to have so that the plan you have and theory on paper really come into life and then you can see this in the reduction so having a clear and complete picture throughout the business who's accountable for what and who can make what kind of decision based on the the data and their area of peers of influence is helping a lot with speeding up your [Music] plans great and i think you've given us some really important learnings from the past uh just then are there any other key learnings that you would want to give to a company who's starting on this journey so having achieving climate reduction or even net zero you can't do a loan you really need to reach out to your suppliers to your customers to your consumers to everybody to other industry to work together to learn from each other you need to be very transparent to yourself and to your top leaders on the kind of where the emissions coming from so you can tackle the the ones who matters the most and start with them and then uh share or like celebrate your success and make with a success story not only for you but for your suppliers as well and for your customers and then you can achieve so this if you're just starting build up transparency build up trust and and embed it in your business line and have a commitment from all of our of your leaders [Music] how how are you engaging with your supply chain and cross sector more broadly to drive net zero transition across the economy yeah so we really are focusing in our entire supply chains really working with scope 1 scope 2 and scope 3 emission and really with all of our suppliers and when you look where our ambitions coming from 90 percent are coming from our suppliers those scopes rear missions and we are engaging and working closely to them to a that they commit as well like we do to a science-based goal and once you have this they have reduction plan as well then we engage with them to move to green electricity or green gas if possible for green energy because we can see this is the biggest level for your manufacturing climate so once you move your electricity green you have achieved a big step and then the third is that we want them to share their carbon footprint with us so that we can reduce ours and we can help and also share the knowledge and the the project within our supplier group and really working together as a team and sharing everything [Music] so cornelia what what is the most important outcome you're hoping for from cop26 clearly it's both commitment from a government as well as um companies like ours we really want to engage that everybody understands the importance of taking action now and having bold commitment to achieve the goals in the future because there's not that much time left to achieve the 1.5 degree and sustainability is really something where we also need to have the right educational programs right right when you look how companies or how leaders are educated we are very well educated in financial accounting or different kind of accounting what is missing is the carbon accounting piece so really what i was what we want to have or what i'm looking for is kind of getting the right educational programs for the communities for the students and as well as for executive leaders that they understand what makes the impact we also would love to have transparent rules for the reporting and the accounting because when everybody has the same rule in what is in and what is out of school and and the transparency to share the emissions in the in the similar way you can compare and you can learn and you can accelerate faster [Music] you | Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership | UC28GDTBSM0QeOh7zRuSukwA | 2021-11-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,495 | 8,191 |
6RY4GaCdi-0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RY4GaCdi-0 | Elite Chest Runs VS Expeditions! STILL DO ELITE CHEST RUNS!? New World Expertise & New World Gold! | hey everyone it's graphic back with another video and today we're going to be comparing what Elite chest runs look like versus Expeditions when it comes to good loot expertise bumps gold what do you need to be doing and I've actually had this specific video made because I've had a lot of comments recently on my channel talking about Elite chess runs and if we're still running them why would they ever want to come back to this game so you can see here with the first comment actually from Sammy he said Elite chest rotations are still a thing I guess I'll be looking for another game to play I said why would they ever take Elite chest runs out of the game there are plenty of other options for people who don't want to participate in them and I haven't done an elite chest run besides Brimstone in a few months and that's because they made Brimstone so special with scarabs being a possible drop and with a lot of different glyphs as well being possible drops and the enemies around these areas having good best and Slot gear drops as well so if we take a look at the next comment he responded with people don't do it because it's the only option people do it when it's the most efficient to see you doing it after all the changes in the game makes me think it's still very much a thing you need to do if you want to be competitive I said I would argue that running regular Genesis on repeat is probably faster so this is just one example of something that is probably better than those Elite chest runs and I wanted to kind of test it myself today as I want people to realize that there are many options to getting better loot better gear and much higher expertise bumps so when it comes to expertise when it comes to loot when it comes to gear which is the best obviously we're going to start off by saying M10 gold runs are the best if you look at this graph here people are running M10 Gold World Records in under nine minutes with garden of Genesis you see 12 minutes 37 seconds with Dynasty Shipyard and then 13 minutes Lazarus instrumentality these are M10 gold runs that's going to get you 6 000 umbral shards it's going to get you tons of great in slot or best in slot gear when it comes to you know mine on pickups it's also going to get you some bind on equips that can be sold for quite a bit of money so obviously the best and best and best is going to be the M10 Gold World Record run paces of a 10-minute you know Genesis runs that's kind of obvious so I want to get that out of the way but when it comes to regular players that are maybe at like 5 20 550 gear scores still trying to get their expertise bumps or people that have just came back to the game fresh level 60s what is best Elite chest runs or Genesis in my opinion here is kind of whatever you want to do I know that's kind of a cliche thing to say but realistically if you've done chest runs you know you can get bumps fairly easily there there's also decent drops from some of the mobs out there in murt guard and some of those basic zones but when it comes to Elite chest runs typically I would stay doing Elite chest runs in Brimstone you're gonna have the golden scarabs as a potential drop you're gonna have a lot of different you know if we look at some of these bosses which we made a video about the other day a lot of best in slot gear can be dropped from some of these bosses that you're doing Elite chest runs by and then also remember that you can also get these glyphs and glyphs are selling for a lot of money right now depending on what glyph you get whether it's a night glyph Shadow glyph uh strength glyph which I believe is what you get here in heliopolis where we're at right now farming so there's a lot of money to be made in Brimstone Elite chest runs but when it comes to Merc guard and you know Shattered Mountain in general I typically don't want to go up there and do those Elite chest runs anymore I'm kind of past that stage and I want to say you know if you are a new Fresh level 60 I've actually tested it many many times and I've gotten word from many others as well doing a regular Genesis run weekly like doing them non-stop I'm saying is better than chest runs but if you want to do chest runs it's still perfectly viable to run up there do those chest runs Farm weapon XP and then remember with these chest runs in mercguard you're going to be able to basically AFK run in a big Zerg watch Netflix do whatever you want to do chat with friends and kind of ignore the game and loot stuff and still get those expertise bumps still get the good good gear and I think that's something that people need to take in consideration because with Genesis you're going to have that kind of high priority of you know you have to be there you have to be active playing when there's only five of you in a dungeon if you're not playing very accurately or very well definitely your lower gear score refresh level 60 good luck I mean it's going to be a rough run so that's something that we have taken into consideration I feel like or you know AGS is taking into consideration is the better routes are going to take more concentration but the less you know less High I guess gear gold and expertise bump route is going to give you uh you know a chance to kind of AFK through it so with Elite chest runs running 30 strong you don't have to do much effort but you are not going to get as much when it comes to expertise bumps gold XP and all that kind of stuff but when it comes to Genesis it's going to be much higher kind of concentration but you're going to get higher you know loot better gear more gold and probably as well like I said you're going to get more expertise bumps so it's that same thing that happens in pretty much any game you play there's always going to be a best there's always going to be a little little bit less of a best but it's going to be you know less concentration I think that's something that isn't is kind of in every MMO if I'm if I'm not wrong there so let me know you know I've played RuneScape of course I've played some of these other old MMOs and that's exactly the same route they take is you know the the better stuff's going to take some effort the worst stuff you know level wise or XP wise or gear wise or gold wise is going to take less effort but it's still valuable and I think that's something to note here so if you see people running Elite chest runs it's not a necessarily bad thing to do but it's personally to me I would continue to run Brimstone Sands Elite chest runs and dungeons Genesis dungeons Lazarus dungeons on regular keep going and grinding that gear score grinding that expertise and I think you know this comment just made me think about this and I wanted to make sure my thought process was kind of the same as all of you and based on the comment section after one hour of screenshotting it looked like you guys kind of agreed with my thoughts on the elite chess runs uh really kind of compared to Expedition so if you guys have any questions comments let me know down in the comment section below if you haven't already make sure to like the video subscribe to the channel and turn notifications on we do stream on Twitch as well twitch.tv iographic eye if you have any questions if you're a new player maybe a fresh level 60 looking for expertise bumps or anything I will try to help you out I think these like I said Brimstone Sands the elite chest runs if you're going to do them this is the place to be so focus on getting that main story to a place where you can come up here start getting a chance at better gear better Loot and there's a ton of named item drops from Elite chest runs in Brimstone compared to Shattered Mountain and it's just crazy to me that you are going to see people complaining about those Elite chest runs while there's other tons of others actually viable options so definitely take advantage of all the different options in New World find out which one best suits you and when you're gonna do specific ones like sometimes I'll do Elite chest runs when Expeditions are obviously the better option or sometimes I'll do Expeditions when obviously Elite chest run and brimstone might be the better option I've skipped an elite chest run in Brimstone since the launch already that's not a great thing for me as I love to do Elite chest runs and get those you know huge gear score bumps when it comes to the great sword I finally got it to 600 of course but you know it's just some of these things we just need to take into consideration in that things that take lower concentration are going to get you less when things take higher concentration they're typically going to get you more and that's that's the greatest way to really make an MMO in my opinion so I just wanted to shout this out today let me know like I said in the comments what your guys's thoughts on this I know I'm kind of just rambling at this point but it was just one of those things where I had to make it a video on this very very quickly and I actually tested out like I said Genesis in the past and I've asked a lot of people about it Genesis is going to get you those expertise months very very quickly and if you're doing a world record run you got to remember people are doing these in eight minutes on M10 gold so if you're doing a regular run you should be able to pump these out in 20 minutes get these bumps very very quickly and it's going to be a better way than the boring you know Elite chest run following the Zerg if that's boring to you so just remember there's other options in the game like always thanks again for tuning in and if you are interested in more videos make sure like I said previously to like the video subscribe to the channel and turn notifications on I'll see you guys all in the next one | Graphic | UCWpkHN69ffqkagZ14YCaWRA | 2022-11-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,901 | 9,791 |
VeYmMIjxuuc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYmMIjxuuc | Let's Play Manhunt 2: Bonus #1 | hey guys i'm nick meister and welcome back to let's play manhunt 2. actually uh this is a kind of a bonus video i uh i told you guys earlier i was messing around with the uh the uh the modifications i found on the internet so i'm gonna show them off a little more the new gun executions the the the different uh different executions all available thanks to the beta modification i found so let's go to red light first skip all this stuff here and hopefully okay mr commando you see another way into this place all right so uh let me look at the controls here now the guy did put in uh interactive executions but i just want to watch the executions themselves i don't really feel like uh i don't really feel like doing the whole control thing right now so i'm just going to turn it off anyway as you can see there's a gun here there wasn't a gun here the first time was there no no guns at all on the stage but the guns been put in now what you might notice is that uh i can't aim the gun the gun has no bullets in it that's because it's being treated as a melee weapon and that allows us to do not one execution with a gun but two executions with a gun and we can watch the executions happen those executions watch out for those security lights danny any quick movement snaps shut the [ __ ] up leo thanks peanuts not a damn thing and this guy is going to talk to himself i'm going to creep up on them oh watch the kid i've had 20 years and two tours of duty to get tough all right anyway it's really hard to sneak up on the homeless people so say something so uh here's the first six you've seen there's nothing special about it um so let's look at the level two because level two is really something else i'm not sure if it's a new one that the guys over at project manhunt i think did it or if it's just it's the one that was taken out of the beta version i'm not sure it's pretty fun to watch though there we go come on [ __ ] that's it stay nice and still oh there's a lot more scum to kill danny come on oh my god and this happens too you lost buddy oh [ __ ] we'll show you the way home all right i don't really want directions from that guy and he's still standing there it's spraying blood you better run um and stay out junkie maggot yeah that's not nice so let's watch that again boom and we give him a kick and he's down so uh yeah spicing things up a little bit it really is uh there we go really is brutal because you know with a gun what else can you do except your tires can cut a hole in the wire with the gun execution danny or leo just uh watches them watches them beg for the life before he ends it so there's that i'm gonna run back to the other gun because there was another gun there hold on a second and here we got the big ass revolver now the big ass revolver has two executions of its own and we're gonna test them out on the other two red kings let's get through here there we go pick up a bag too there we go and run over here so let's uh let's get these guys over here yeah i can smell your juice from here some are poking their nose around here looks like we got some action going we don't want to use the uh the manhole execution as much fun as it is ow there we go i think my favorite part of that execution is when he just shakes the blood off of his uh teach you to mess with the red king i mean he just shakes the blood off of his gun oh [ __ ] heads up psycho coming your way all right um real cute and level one of course she just walks up and shoots him get down there there we go that's really uh it's really it i think but there is one other thing um like i said before some of the executions are longer you know i guess just to save space or maybe because they thought the executions were too long and drawn out they cut out some bits so i want to show off the level three uh plastic bag execution level three before didn't really seem to make any sense i kind of wondered how you could kill a guy just by tripping him well that's because they cut out the end there we go get this guy's assassin badge right now he's earned it i'm officially an assassin i guess so uh yeah you know before let's see if we can crack this guy's head there we go before um danny would just trip the guy and then that would be the end of the execution and i was like huh how can you possibly kill a guy like that well that's because they took out the end not really sure why get out of here [ __ ] bomb all right let's uh let's watch another execution let's watch the uh the full night stick execution because they cut out the end of the night execute the i'm sorry the night stick execution as well kill one guy here and he didn't hear a thing apparently oh man okay now let's sneak up on this guy and uh there we go oh [ __ ] up okay stop turning around oh damn it that's not the one i want to do yeah well just me and this guy let's try that again okay don't turn around don't turn around don't turn around don't turn oh damn come on stop turning around okay here we go there now you see normally he would have stopped but in the beta version he just keeps going until he smashes the guy's head so that's another thing what he turned huh huh i guess uh i guess you can't crack a guy's head open manually you must do with the execution so uh yeah that's it i don't like this danny i smell project it's a setup yeah yeah danny i mean leo whatever your name is um come on you [ __ ] come on come on there we go i'm nick meister and this is let's play manhunt 2. this is a bonus video and i'll see you for the next level which is called assassination pretty sexy title see you later | nickmeistersa | UCRzit_851pd95WEEmZOjDvA | 2013-03-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,143 | 5,672 |
BtKcPXKXcbI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtKcPXKXcbI | Enrique Gabriel Legaspi | Create and Curate: Mindful Learning for the 21st Century | you are the sweetest sweetest girl running around i know that you're down you make me feel like i've been i've been all around i just wanna make you mine i just wanna make you mine say it again say it again i know that we can be more than friends i start my story because that's a song that a student wrote and sometimes i have to be the voice for my students even if it means to sing learning with legaspi that's how my students know me as legaspi hello legaspi i've um dropped the mister and to learn with legaspi requires me to tell my story and to let them know i did grow up singing i did grow up skateboarding this is my attitude and the reason why i wanted them to know my story because i felt in the 21st century they needed to be aware and confident and know that their mindfulness can get them to advance i wanted to unwrap those gifts and so the challenge was language they didn't know how to code switch go from academic language to the basketball language to the rap language or whatever language was necessary for the circumstance or condition or event or scenario they couldn't turn it off turn it on they didn't know when it was appropriate when to use it so that was a challenge for me and i thought music and then i thought access this is something that i always felt because kids would come to me mister do can i come to your classroom and use this mister do you have this do you have that music to give that access i also thought to myself that students are bored teaching for nine years i was trying to synthesize what is this what's going on you know i'm doing everything i can i'm staying up late but i'm producing the same results what's going on so i had to figure out a better way to engage my audience so then i had to share my story and my story is of song and of music i grew up with people like will i am who knew that he would be who he is today he is somebody who taught me to discover your passion and once you discover your love do it it's hard to find a job you love it's easier to take what you love and make it your job in order for you to do what you love you're going to have to take risks and i thought music again what a great way for my students to take risks for them to perform to creatively express themselves in so many ways so i have this workflow to create this mindfulness my students were constantly creating they're going to math they're coming to me in history i teach us history and student body government which allows me to explore leadership and a lot of service projects but they didn't have a finish line they couldn't get to the part where i wanted them to get to share and that's how i started i shared my talent with you and a lot of my students were very hesitant reluctant to share what they've created and the piece they were missing was a curation never if they go back and get in the driver's seat and say this is my best work or let me take this and remix it or you know what i wrote that on paper now let me make it a video let me make it into a song let me collaborate with somebody using facetime and see what they think and give me feedback on my creation i'm in constant creation i tell my students all the time i get tired of creating not only that i had a workflow in my mind when i started teaching it was discover define design develop and deliver like a five ds i called it but that was still too much i needed three steps and for me it was create and you're gonna create content my kids at school were creating content already after school there'd be a fight pull out the camera film it hauling back fights we got up to holland back fights 15. and so i had to say to my staff and to the people who are questioning the students content we have to change what they're doing we have to get them to think about curation selecting organizing choosing you know before you post pause think about it is that how you want people to see you because i know you did that this morning when you put on those blue socks now design the power tools which tools are the best that's up to you to find we're all in different circumstances we all have different things to cook with i'm a teacher and i've been very fortunate in the last two years that i've started to use twitter youtube google google docs dropbox tablet learning so that i can get a first-hand experience of what tool will be the best because that same tool that works for this class is not the same tool that i may use next year so after you create the content they have to design and develop and decide what is that best work what is that going to be that project that tells my story is it going to be a video and a powerpoint or these days a keynote now my students they love the ipad when i first brought it to the classroom it was like whoa reminded me of that old maxed out commercial where the guy turns on the the the radio and his he gets blown back and at first i was happy that they were excited about it and then i took a step back and i said wow you see this as a luxury this is a power tool what are you going to do with it because if it's a luxury they're going to play angry birds they're going to honeymoon with it but if now they see it as a learning device they now own their learning it's the editor who learns that's what's wrong with schools teachers are in the driver's seat they're curating they're sharing they're creating they're curating they're sharing and the kid is just bored because they're like i want to drive hold on because you know i'm a nerd i want to tell you everything i want to explain everything and then by the time it's your turn bell rings start again tomorrow the last piece of this workflow is to share it so after you've decided what is your best work i'm going to share it and i started with podcasts in 2006. somebody showed me automatic and i was like wow you can put on itunes i can get a global audience i can see the stats of who's listening to me that's good information i want to learn about so i started becoming more vested in my share and then it just overlapped to curate the content the the the creating the sharing all became one to tell my story so like a dj and that's my metaphor i just started djing in 2008 had some students come to me hey miss you need to buy a dj set all right let's do it so we buy the dj set and uh i started to make connections and i saw that the students were selecting songs for certain events and so it did introduce this idea of curating choosing organizing what's going to make the people move what are you going to play when the mayor comes out and gives a speech and then sometimes you do have to listen and turn off the beats to go acapella like i opened up and just sing from the heart so share broadcast it somehow podcast it the new term my favorite tweet and then plus one plus it google plus so many ways to share this critical thinking this curation this creation of content for our students to become more mindful in the 21st century to be mindful is to know what's going on now so design with a purpose i want my students to advance in order for me to be the best teacher because i can't stand and do nothing i do need to stay three or more steps ahead but definitely i need to stick to the script and not just go everywhere just because somebody says this is a good program if i believe music is what works for me and my students i'm going to stick to that and i like the word learning over education to learn is action i want my students to have critical minds and i do want to get ready for my prezi which will kind of bring everything together i'm a teacher i like to review so this is the review of what i've posted on my chalkboard here of that workflow of create curate and my favorite share so if we can cue up the prezi that would be excellent my story i'm a skateboarder a nerd a poet and my story starts with this students were sharing their talents singing showing me what they're doing they're creating constantly in other classes with me other friends you know i told you the example the content of the fights i had to change that how to give them access to not only just college but whatever they wanted to find and explore i saw sal khan using the wacom tablet i said i want to bring that i've always been non-traditional always always getting into trouble thinking of new ways to learn and fight crime though because i want to engage students so that they can find their greater purpose and innovate this is how i keep it simple i dream big every day and i'm glad to be here at the big ideas fest so i can have other big ideas be absorbed this is what i run check this out academic artist project youtube it i got some good content again discover and define create find what is going to get you excited use videos use art and that's why i'm the academic artist project to me that is how i engage kids second step curate choose organize this is the school i teach at holland back junior high school is going to be 100 years old coming up we also have this global vision i started doing podcasting in 2006 as i mentioned today i'm doing youtube videos and creating playlists djing is what helped me practice this art of curating so that i can become a better curator this past summer i became a youtube star teacher so that i continue to become the best at my craft and so that i can be the voice of a teacher because definitely i agree the voice of the teacher needs to get louder too many people are speaking on my behalf so i appreciate you listening to me students are looking for answers all day they're curious they have great questions that i could never think of they are tomorrow's leaders as i mentioned you must pause and post get our students to think about social media differently come up with a checklist for them so that they're not just posting anything maybe it's in this tweet you must have 140 characters and everything must be spelled correctly and i would also say get students to solve and collaborate collaboration is key and it is going to be tough and my favorite is this mindfulness that we need to create for the students madpat is an app that i think you can do some great things with you can record sight words and get students to manipulate and get more involved with their own creations on the ipad i believe it's the infinite tool you can do endless things with it there i am you'll see a lot of my branding with this so that our students can show the world what their gifts are and so my story ends here thank you you | bigideasfest | UCIe57CgjgmXMymhhSf3x1GQ | 2012-01-26 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,061 | 10,497 |
VLFjhliBqnA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLFjhliBqnA | Remembering Repentance | I want you to turn in your Bibles please to the book of Acts chapter 17 Acts chapter 17 acts 17 and let's read verses 29 30 and 31 Acts 29 are through the acts 17 verses 29 30 and 31 Paul says for as much then as we are the offspring of God we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone graven by art or man's device and the times of this ignorance God winked at by the way the word wink as a other definition not just a you know good job but it means but it is also one of its also other definitions means that God ignored it he let it pass for the time that's what it means in this usage but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he had given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead the main text today is going to be the second part of verse 30 all men are commanded everywhere to repent it's said to be a command of God and it's said to apply to all men and all women as well then in the next verse he tells us why the command is given verse 31 because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained that man of course being Jesus Christ whereof he had given assurance unto all men in that he had raised him Christ from the dead the way that you know Jesus Christ is worthy to judge you and to judge the universe one day is by the fact that he didn't stay dead he came back to life again that's what makes him different than every other being in the universe and the day is appointed we don't know the divine calendar of heaven just as the Bible says though that is appointed unto men wants to die Hebrews 9:27 you have an appointment with judgment whether you're an unsaved man you're going to be judged for not having received Jesus Christ or you're a saved man or woman you're going to be judged at the judgment seat for what you've done for Jesus Christ but you have an appointment to be judged we don't know the exact day and time we don't know exactly the precise moment but it's fixed and God's going to judge the world so he sends out a proclamation and he commands all men everywhere to repent and if you don't want to be brought to judgment then what you ought to do is you need to get right with God now you ought to repent of your sin turn from your sin recognize the guilt of your sin admit it to God and confess it to God don't try to hide it and say well I'm not nearly as bad as some people and I'm not that bad I haven't done that much admit your guilt and turn to God and get it fixed that's what you ought to do and if you're a Christian you need to turn to God and get it fixed quit doing it it's a great thing to get rid of the judgment you know it's a great thing to get past it there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus Romans 8 verse 1 let me ask you are you in Jesus Christ are you in Jesus Christ I got into Jesus Christ November 5th 1967 when I was 6 years old and you know where it happened there right about there right in front of this podium that's where it happened it's been a great blessing to stand at the same place just a few inches couple feet away from the place where I received Christ as my savior and I got into Jesus Christ the sins I committed whatever sins I've committed as a Christian the sins that have been put under the blood of Jesus where those things are gone they won't be mentioned again they won't be held up to accuse me of something and held against me the Bible says he that's God have made him Christ to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2nd Corinthians 5:21 let me ask you are you in Jesus Christ Christ took the judgment of God in your place for your sake and the punishment for your sins has already been measured out so I've been meted out in the person and on the body and the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ as your substitute long before you ever committed those sins even long enough ago before any of us were born Jesus Christ died for your sake and died for my sake and the glory and the honor that Jesus Christ alone is worthy of and should and should receive is now imparted to you by the new birth what a wonderful transaction tis done the great transactions done and the Lord's and he is mine happy day happy day when Jesus washed my sins away Romans 8:39 says neither height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord are you in Jesus Christ Ephesians 2:6 tells us that God had raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus if you're in Jesus Christ you are seated in heavenly places with God enjoying the Trinity and enjoying a company of angels right now I can't fully explain it but it's nevertheless the Word of God and if you are in Jesus Christ then you know the love of God for you not in Jesus Christ you don't yet know the true love of God but you say well you might ask well how do I get into Jesus Christ that's a very simple question to answer the Lord Jesus said 14 verse 20 at that day you shall know that I am in my father and ye and me and I in you the way you get into Jesus Christ is by asking Jesus Christ to come live in you it's a very great trance transaction that can take place very simple matters simple proposition but part of the transaction is the idea of my sermon today and I call this remembering repentance remembering repentance I realize it's not a flashy title and you'll be able to tell when it's posted on YouTube next week sometime how many people really take repentance seriously if I was going to ask whether the disciples ever had flatulence or gas and we put that on the tile there'd be millions of people clicking that on people more interest rating than the nonsense ridiculous stuff then they are in something they need to hear from the Bible it's unfortunate but that's sort of the mentality of half the people who get all their information from the internet anyway there's another half that enjoys our Minister I got a call just earlier this morning asking if we could refer someone to two or three Bible believing churches in Illinois and one in Hawaii but she said I see your website's been having some trouble so I was able to give her a phone number of the bookstore in Pensacola I said call down there and they'll let you know where some pbi graduates are and where they're preaching they might there might be someone in the area you need to find a Bible believing Church at and she was very grateful she wanted to tell us how much blessing she gets from our internet ministry so there are some people who've we've been able to bless and thank the Lord for them and people whose questions we've been able to answer along the way and I said well we're trying we're trying we're chipping away little by little but our text today says that God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent Ezekiel 33 verse 11 declares as I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turned from his way and live Isaiah 55 verse 7 says let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts and then a return unto the Lord and He will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon when Isaiah says let him return unto the Lord that that suggests the person knew the Lord once before he's been out there fooling around with sin messing around with sin doing those things satisfying his flesh things that feel good things that he enjoys doing and wants to maintain his good reputation in the eyes of others God says you need to turn back to God that goes that's not just that wasn't just good advice for a Jew in the Old Testament who is rejecting the law that sound advice for a Christian today if you're living a life of sin living for your flesh I know a couple of things about you number one you're not reading your Bible you haven't read your Bible in a while those things are contrary to each other the Word of God is contrary to the will of the flesh the desires of the flesh as we see the gospel first being preached in the New Testament we find John the Baptist the forerunner of the Lord Jesus Christ out there in the wilderness of Judea and he preached a very simple message repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand the Messiah is just about to show up you've got to make yourselves right prepare your hearts and minds and be ready to receive him when he does show up he kept preaching it until the Lord Jesus showed up and his sermon changed from repent to behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world John 1:29 and then the Lord Jesus at the beginning of his ministry began preaching repent from the kingdom of heaven is at hand Matthew 4 verse 17 and the Lord Jesus sent out his twelve apostles to preach for him and they went out preaching that men should repent mark mark 6 verse 19 get back to my text here on the day of Pentecost the Apostle Peter took up this same wilderness crime in Acts chapter 2 verse 36 verse yea 36 therefore that all the house of Israel and surely they God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ and in verse 37 now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said unto the unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles men and brethren what shall we do they weren't asking what must I do to be saved like the Philippian jailer wouldn't chapter 16 but they were asking if what you say is true in light of the fact that we just murdered our Messiah now what should we do what should we do now and Peter said to them verse 38 repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost now in our text we find Paul in the city of Athens Greece raising the same wilderness cry that God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent really there is no such thing as someone who makes it to heaven without repentance without repenting without turning from their sin and making things right with God man must decide to turn from his sin and turn to the will of God and that's how a Christian maintains fellowship with God to turn from your sin and turn back to the will of God now your name may already be in the Lamb's Book of Life and you can say I know if I died tonight I wake up in heaven are you living like someone who ought to live how someone should live who's on their way to heaven he trying to get away with sin hoping nobody notices everybody still thinks I'm spiritual everybody thinks I'm a good Christian when down inside your is rotting his hell later in Acts chapter 20 verse 28 Paul declared that he was sent out by God testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ the command or the commandment to repent didn't end with John the Baptist preaching is just as alive and just as valid and just as important now as it was any time Paul commended the church in Festus naica for their a show of repentance which he heard from the church of macedonia quote for they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you and how he turned to God from idols to serve the Living God first Thessalonians 1:9 repentance is turning away from sin and turning yourself toward the will of God the desires of God it's still necessary in the life of a Christian in fact you can't be a consistent Christian living for the Lord Jesus Christ if you're not repenting once in a while every day you wake up you've got a new challenge to face you can't enjoy yesterday's forgiveness today today you're gonna have to get new forgiveness you're gonna have to go back to God once again you get on your face and your hands and knees and talk to God and say God I've been rotten please forgive me I'm sorry for my sin get your nose back in the Bible start reading let God speak to you let's consider what repentance is not that's the point of this sermon today what is repentance not first of all repentance is not simply fear fear to be afraid is not to repent maybe I was very illiquid I could paint a great picture of the terror and the horror and the fiery judgment that's gonna attend everybody who wakes up in hell without Jesus Christ and you scared to death scared out of your mind you could be scared but that's not repentance from your sin that's not repentance at all what if I brought a loaded revolver here to church one day and I pointed it somebody here and I said listen you've never made a move every time we have an altar call you don't even get out of your seat don't budge I want you to repent you might be motivated right then and there to repent right once I put the gun away or once they hauled me off and took me to jail you wouldn't be repenting anymore you'd become completely leave your mind so fear is not the same as repenting they say there are no atheists in foxholes that's an old expression some guys got the bullets and the mortar flying around him and he's afraid of getting shot or dying on the battlefield suddenly turns to God in desperation he's not interested in repenting of his sandiest wants to come out alive he's once I survive and wake up tomorrow morning and you know in one piece that's not repentance fear is not repentance it seemed like the king of Egypt was going to turn to God once he saw the plagues falling on them but once Moses prayed to God the plagues were lifted he went back to his old ways and back to his old ways he was afraid but fear is not repenting we read about that in Exodus chapter 9 verse 27 through about verse 35 there so repentance is not simply fear secondly and we say this repentance is not feelings having some emotional feeling some people think repentance always requires some some emotional response to God a lot of crying maybe a lot of weeping to show your contrition to show your sadness for how things turned out what you've done you might think that there are a lot of men in prison who are sorry for their sins and they're sorry for what got them there they're sorry for what they did in their life that led them to be behind bars well they may be sad they may be sorry but they're sorry they got caught they're sorry because they got a long sentence or they're sorry that somebody else didn't get caught who was just as guilty as they were no studies now have shown that the one demographic in the United States that has the highest self-esteem levels are prison inmates it really does check that out so feeling bad and having bad feelings doesn't necessarily mean you've repented or turned from your sin the recidivism rate that is the rate of people who get out of prison and then end up breaking logging back thrown back into prison is so high in this country it proves out my point they weren't sorry about it at all they feel bad they feel bad because they got caught proverbs 23 I'm not gonna have you jump all over all these verses day but proverbs chapter 23 verses 29 through 35 a guy might be sorry because of the accident he caused under the influence he may be sorry for his drunkenness is drinking but the end of that section proverbs 23 verse I think 35 says I'll seek it yet again he doesn't learn from his lesson I graduated from high school with a guy nice guy at the time I thought but he thought he could go through life as a casual drinker and he was in charge of everything he and his girlfriend or fiance they went off to some party and they done too much drinking and on the way back home he ends up hitting a car that was parked on the side of a freeway and kills his own girlfriend in the front seat he had no criminal history up to that point he never had any problem with the law prior to that point and because of all of these things his involvement in you know school clubs his involvement in other activities it was reduced to a very serious misdemeanor he wasn't charged with manslaughter didn't go to prison for it do you think the guy learned his lesson no he's a drinker still he's still the drinker some people don't learn there let some people are hard-headed some people are hard-hearted right but there are other people who are hard-headed you can't speak and he says to them you can't teach them anything can't tell them anything they know best they feel bad but feelings are not repentance thirdly let me say this repentance is not simply doing penance this is a mistake a lot of people make and it's a base on Roman Catholic mythology like all of the Catholicism is it's based on mythology but many people who call themselves believers and some of some kind they've gotten the idea that to repent means to give up something they have to deny themselves they have to give up something that they enjoy something that gives them joy and pleasure just to prove to God that they're serious with him yeah so anytime a preacher brings up the subject of repentance like I'm trying to do today their eyes glass over and they get this look on their face they're bored they don't want to hear about it because they don't want because they've been conditioned to think that repenting means I have to give up something that's not even repentance but they've been conditioned to think that and so you bring up the word repentance and they're not interested in hearing it they're not interested in hearing listening to you the rest of the sermon because they don't want to give it up they don't want to give their sin they don't want to give up whatever it is that's giving them so much joy and fun and at the moment but the concept of a future their future is just misery and boredom and tediousness and unhappiness because I don't want to have to give up anything the truth is when you bring up the subject of repenting of the sin they get upset and they really are impatient because they enjoy their sin and they know the Bible says Hebrews 11:25 reveals that sin is pleasurable for a season they know that much how many of you remember that that commercial was it for root beer or something like that they talk about all these sweep two pleasures of that your you know was it cheesecake or the cherry pie or something like that if desserts didn't taste so good you wouldn't want them right if desserts tasted bad then you wouldn't want them and I guess they were trying to promote root beer aww rubra diet root beer we're really promoting diet root beer saying it tastes just as good as real root beer so you don't have to give up all the pleasures of the tasting a pretty lame way to sell root beer I'll do I have to say that but there was a commercial like that and if sin was awful if sin was terrible nobody would be engaging in but sin is pleasurable the Bible says for a season and so the idea of having to give up something to show my right standing with God it it bores people they don't want to consider that possibility and yet to be truthful that's not even repentance just giving something up repentance is not praying more praying more let's just pray more and that will show that we've repented to God it's an essential part of having fellowship with the Lord God it's an essential part of enjoying fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ to speak to them in prayer and to know that his ear is ever open to the prayers of the righteous you can talk to him at any time day or night and by his word he'll speak to you and sometimes by a prompting or some intuition some instinct of the Holy Spirit he speaks to you but don't depend on that go to the Bible depend on the Bible more than you depend on anything else but if you if you think that praying more is the same thing as repentance you need to be educated if you're still trying to get away with sin you're wasting your time God's not listening to you anyway if I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me psalm 66:18 but your iniquities have separated between you and God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear Isaiah 59 verse 2 God's God God hears everything but he's not obligated to respond as long as you're trying to get away with sin on one hand and make everybody think you're a moral upright standing individual or a good Christian on the other hand you can't live like that repentance is not just praying more you're spinning your wheels you're wasting your time wasting God's time going through the motions of Prayer if you're still hanging on to sin that you don't want to give up you don't want to quit point number five repentance is not just a resolution it's not simply adopting a new code of ethics or conduct and behavior I'm gonna try harder next time deal Mooney said if there's a little rowboat out in the lake and got three holes in a new patch up to the boats still going to sink Adam was kicked out at the Garden of Eden for once in you know that do you think you're better than that oh how much sin have you committed have you committed more than one sin you have more than one sin on your record that hasn't been confessed and hasn't been given over to God you haven't sought forgiveness for then you're far worse condition than Adam not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost titus 3:5 it's the work of the Holy Spirit that saves you not by any good works on your part and then Paul says I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not i but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Galatians 2:20 I can't depend on my own strength my own ability to please God or live for God or satisfy the the desires of God would be a good testimony be a good soul winner to be diligent in my Bible I have to ask God to give me the strength and the energy and the insight and the wisdom to do all of those things and so do you to repent is to turn from your sin and turn back to the Word of God and the will of God it's a turning from one to the other and it requires a definite understanding of your own in your own heart in your own mind of how holy the Lord God of the Bible is and how unholy you are by contrast do you understand how absolutely flawless and impeccable the Lord Jesus is there's no wickedness with him there's no uncleanness with him there's no stain of defilement with him there's no impurity with him how are you ever going to measure up to a being like that you can't but you can come back into alignment with his desires through repentance turning from your sin say God remember that guy went to the Lord Jesus and said lord I believe help thou mine unbelief you might not you might not even recall everything you're guilty of so you you might have to make one of those blanket prayers lay everything Lord revealed to me something I've done that I'm that I've forgotten about I'm not mindful of but I need your the power of your shed blood to cleanse me from it and make me pure once again cleanse me once again give me a new start psalm eight verse four David asked what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him alongside the Lord Jesus Christ you and I are nothing can you see by your sin you and I have offended the very nature of the Lord God of the Bible to repent isn't just to change your mind about how you've been living but to repent is to turn and head in the right direction once again repentance isn't making a u-turn isn't just making it's turning away from what you're doing and going back in the opposite direction it's not making you turn and changing your mind and going back again I guess so what I meant to say repentance is going back in the opposite direction away as far away as you can get from sin from the influence of sin the people that caused you to stumble and bring about sin every opportunity to sin every temptation to sin the man who merely asked God to come into my life and change me that man hasn't repented you hear that that lame substitute for the gospel and for the planet the prayer of salvation all the time with these TV preachers internet preachers come into my life you know what Satan is in everybody's life to some measure in some measure so you got to be careful some of my tasks preacher are you trying to manipulate us hoping that we'll we'll get out of our seat at the end of this sermon not exactly but I do think today we'll have an altar call let's bring this to a conclusion about what repentance is what repentance is not | REAL Bible Believers | UCPCDmYOJJ08h-pG8J2iMDjA | 2019-07-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,794 | 24,665 |
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