I'm going to try to go through 18 years' worth of photography in 30 minutes, so we'll see if I can do it. It's going to be pretty fast, but I want to just touch on some of the themes and topics that went through the project. And I think in doing this project, I found it quite fascinating to see the stories that came out of the libraries. In a way, the thing that I did accomplish was taking a national overview of local libraries. So these libraries represent local stories. They're about local communities in the United States. My project, in a way, is really looking at the nation. It's kind of a snapshot of this country at this time through the local public library. And I think that's what makes it, to me, very relevant and very interesting. It also makes for a lot of stories. So I'm going to try to get through them quickly, and we'll only touch on a few. There are about 17,000 public libraries in the United States, and I photographed 557 of them. And there's about 100 that are in the book. So you can see there was a process of elimination, which was painful, getting to that point. Colonel Allen'sworth State Historic Park has a library, this one, that was built by a group of ex-slaves in the early 20th century. Colonel Allen'sworth was born into slavery, and years later he established a utopian colony in the San Joaquin Valley here in California, which later became Colonel Allen'sworth State Historic Park. And there's something about this picture early on when I took this. It's maybe the little sign over the door that says Tulare County Free Library, which must have meant something to ex-slaves when they were opening this library back in the early 20th century. And so I began to see this place, this subject matter of libraries had stories that I really needed to pursue. And it's one of the guiding things that told me where to go. And this particular one is where it all began. This is the Peterborough, New Hampshire Public Library. This is the first tax-supported public library in the world. And so this is, for me, when I went there, taking this picture of my wife Ellen on her blackberry outside the library, it was really like going to Mecca. It was kind of the symbol of the beginning of something that I felt was important. And my wife came from New Hampshire herself, and so we go back every summer. So this is Heartland Four Corners Vermont, a library that had the claim of being the smallest public library, and it had just closed at the time that I took this picture. But I think it represented the kind of local character of libraries. Early on, libraries weren't necessarily just about books. Here's St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and this is offered beer stop painting inside the libraries. Early on, libraries were also about other things. Why not include paintings and art? And so many of the early libraries had collections of, large collections of paintings and art, which you can see represented in this image taken early on on the project as well. Or this library, which is located right on the border between Vermont and Quebec. And you can walk into the library, it's called Derby Lyne, is the name of the library. You can walk into the library on the Vermont side, check out your books on the Canadian side. Your librarian could be bilingual, she's probably bi-national. It's an absolutely fascinating place, and kind of a quaint idea now of international cooperation. We probably wouldn't do this today. And also the Millicent Library. Mark Twain wrote an impassioned letter to the Millicent Library, which I reproduced in the book about the beauty of this library. But libraries have multiple uses. This is also in Vermont. Youth Hostel in a Vermont shop as well as a public library. And of course the absolute magnificent library, the New York Public Library, the main library in Manhattan, is one of the great libraries of the world. It's gone through a lot of changes, a lot of controversy about its renovation, but it still is represented in this image as one of the important ones. If the New York and Brooklyn and Queens library systems were all taken together, they would be the largest library system in the world. But they're actually three separate libraries. In other parts of the country, I did photograph of actually 48 states, so Evansville, Indiana has one of the most remarkable libraries I saw. There's a Victorian over-the-top, just extravagant, amazing place that is also considered the only haunted public library. So I was told that the gray lady lurked around, and I actually was in one dark corner of the library and thought I had saw her, but I wasn't sure, you know, it was hard to tell. But you can go on the, they have a live webcam that you can look at, stare at the walls if you'd like. Cincinnati, one of the great libraries. They actually have two libraries side by side. One very large new library and then this very large old library. And I, of course, chose to photograph in the old library because of the character. And these are the grand libraries. Philadelphia Free Library is another magnificent old style library that has a huge reading room. Actually, there are two rooms just like this. The Los Angeles Public Library, the main library in downtown LA, is also magnificent and has this incredible dome in front of the children's room with this amazing tile on the wall. And then a chandelier with a 48 light bulbs representing the 48 states of the United States at the time when the library was built in the 1920s. It's just an incredible place. This is another dome looking up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is the outside of the Milwaukee Public Library. It's just an absolutely stunning, grand, gorgeous old style library. So these were things that I did, I was interested, even smaller, but still very grand library of Newark, New Jersey. Another really quite important library. It's been there for a long time. It has a very interesting long history and an important library in this city as well. And a castle library. These are libraries. I mean, who would figure they would build a library like a castle? But this is in Washington, Ohio and Santa Fe, New Mexico. And it built in the Southwest style. Very beautiful interior as well. So Yazoo City, Mississippi. Interesting place. It has a long history of the South. Willie Morris, a very famous writer came from there. And there's a literary history with this. We met the local reference librarian who opened up the history of Yazoo City to us and even introduced us to the witch of Yazoo City, which that's a whole long another story which we won't go into. But the stories, the characters of the local communities came alive when I had a chance to interact with many of the librarians to hear about their past. And here's another example. This is in Winchester, Virginia. And this is a library built after the Civil War by a Confederate sympathizer. And when you go inside the library, it's filled with paintings of Confederate generals all around on the inside. It's a very odd thing. But it's odd to see that the Civil War is still alive. This, to me, was also one of the most important places that I had to go. This was Bratic, Pennsylvania. This is the first Carnegie public library ever built. Carnegie, as you may know, doubled the size of the number of public libraries in the United States when he started the large campaign to build, I believe, 2,700 libraries. And spent about 70% of his fortune to build this. The library is remarkable on the inside because it has a swimming pool. It has a basketball court. It has a track as well as it has books. And Carnegie was trying to present something to his workers. I think many people feel that it would have been nice if he had paid his workers more money when he was making his fortune, but at least he spent a lot of money after he made his fortune to produce this. This is another Carnegie library in Louisville, Kentucky. This shows at the time when Carnegie was building this, segregation was very much alive in this country. You didn't have one library, one Carnegie library built. So this was actually the first built for African-Americans in the South. Another library, Carnegie library in Los Angeles in an area now called South Central. And one of the beautiful libraries in downtown Oakland is what used to be the old main library. It's a Carnegie library which has now become the African-American museum and library. You should go inside and go up to the second floor and look at the incredible artwork. It's just an absolutely remarkable place and one of the great old libraries as well. We are also, I was interested in the new libraries, the idea of the new architecture and what could be done with that. And this is one of the great libraries, new libraries in the U.S. and the Seattle library. A remarkable place in lots of ways. One cool house designed this library and people come just to tour the library because it is such a fantastic work of art. I was given one hour before the library opened to walk through with my camera and take photos and I was escorted by one of the librarians who happened to be a friend of mine. And she said it's an amazing place to work in, but it doesn't function particularly well as a library because there are so many little nooks and crannies that it's difficult at night when they have to get everybody out of the library to do that. So it may be a great work of art. It's interesting to see the ideas of the library function and design as we look at them. On the other hand, one of my other favorite works of art libraries is the Salt Lake City library which is both a work of art and I think a very functional library from what I can see. There's an essay in the book written by a man, Chip Ward, who was one of the people responsible for making this happen, worked at the library system at the time. And he talked about the process of building this really from the ground up. They actively sought out people's responses. They really wanted to include the community and they made that happen. And it shows in the library. It's one of the great libraries in terms of how it functions. It's also one of the great views from a library on the snow-covered Wasatch Mountains in the background. They're pretty lucky to have that. Duluth, Minnesota. Looking like a space aliens have landed with this particular library. A futuristic library built in the 50s or 60s, I believe, but quite remarkable as a work of architecture. And Las Vegas, no surprise. Las Vegas has a very interesting and futuristic looking library and children's museum together here. Chicago considered one of the great library systems in the country, along with San Francisco, by the way. Chicago Public Library actually arose out of the great fire of 1871. It burned Chicago. And there was a British book drive at that time that the wealthy and literary stars and political people in England donated thousands of books to rebuild the Chicago Public Library. And that was the beginning of the rebirth of this library, which you see partly here today. A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed library over in San Rafael, if any of you have been to that one, it's really quite remarkable. Of course, this library, which had the tragedy of the 1906 earthquake that I think destroyed approximately 25% of the library's holdings and, of course, went through many changes and now is considered truly one of the great library systems in the country. And I get this from librarians that I talked to for the 18 years of doing this project throughout the country, so it must be true because they know what they're talking about. I also was drawn to the small libraries. The grand libraries were great. But in some ways, going to the small towns and seeing the small libraries, these were important, too. So this is a library built by the Priscilla embroidery club in Roscoe, South Dakota. And this is a group of civic-minded women who decided their town needed a library, so they hauled the rock and the lumber and they got their husbands to build the library, and then they staffed the library for many, many years. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The boys there, I think, were so thrilled that I showed up because there was nothing else going on and I was the most attractive thing there. And I saw this a lot. I got stared at a lot in doing this project. So I can still remember these two kids in Mendota, California, saying, what you doing, mister? And you're just kind of curious, but just kind of shocked that I was there with my big camera photographing in this very poor San Joaquin County community. One of the things that my son and I did was to spend the summers of 2011 and 2012 traveling all over the country looking at libraries. So we went to places that were perhaps the poorest communities in the country or the wealthiest or the most liberal or the most conservative. So here is Abilene, Texas, one of the most conservative places politically in the country. And I was kind of curious before we went there what would a place that's very conservative think about a public library? I think they hate government in general, so what's their library going to look like? And sure enough, their public library was loved and used as much as here in liberal San Francisco. So to me, that's kind of encouraging. It says that we have maybe something to talk about in our culture and we can agree on some things, one of which is the public library system. So this is in Midland, Texas. This is George and Laura Bush's home and their library also was quite packed and used and loved. Very interesting to see them. Chula, Mississippi, sad story. This is in Holmes County, Mississippi, which is the poorest county in the United States and has the shortest lifespan of anywhere in the United States. This library was open, but the lights were turned off and the AC was turned off because the computers were turned off because the AC had been broken. And the librarian was sitting inside covered in sweat, very patiently explaining the situation here in Chula, but the AC had been broken for a year. Key West, Florida. Round Valley, Nevada. And the bookmobiles. Of course, one of the great things we have in this country are that libraries don't just exist in buildings, but they also go out into communities. So this is driven by a man named Kevin Selders who wrote an essay for the book about his experience of driving throughout Northeastern Nevada thousands of miles every day, every week delivering books to remote and very small communities out in rural Nevada. Up in Alaska. One of the things that I also found interesting in photographing was that libraries do also include many other forms of information and art. So, and then just other libraries and the idea of art within or outside of libraries. So this is probably one of the most brilliant settings I had ever seen for a library in Springdale, Utah, just outside Zion National Park. I had to get up awfully early to take this photo, so I'm very proud of it, unusual for me. And looking at this structure in Kansas City, Missouri, a library parking garage with these books on it next to the library. And Austin, Texas, another use of art to convey something about the community. Many cases, libraries I think are popular because people identify with their communities through their libraries. Libraries are a repository of memories and in this case, the stories of the community. This was in Long Beach, California where I was actually photographing these New Deal murals that had been rescued from the old library. And of course, since I was working with a big view camera I was pretty obvious and this library has a lot, at the time had a lot of homeless people and there's one gentleman who, at one point, a homeless man looked at me and he kind of locked eyes and walked right up to me and I thought, well, this could be awkward, you know, this may not be a good thing. And he walked right up to my face and he said, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.  I didn't know what to make of it. You never know. Here are all the beauty winners of the Miss Cass Lake, Cass Lake, Minnesota. Now, Cass Lake is interesting because it's about 50% white, 50% Native American and the beauty queens represent that. You can see there's kind of a mixture of them. But again, the idea of civic memory and civic pride is tied up sometimes in the libraries and that's one thing that I found fascinating about that. Here's Carnegie's ideal. This is what he really was, I think, trying to do, his idea of the worker with a book sitting on an anvil. And I think it represents, you know, what he was striving for is to give people information and access to information inside the Detroit Public Library. I saw time and time again these magnificent libraries in places that had been devastated. And this was just part of what we found when we were in Detroit. San Antonio, Texas, Jehoely sculpture on the inside of this very vibrant, magnificent, mostly Hispanic community and a very, very beautiful library. Very extremely interesting. Another legacy of the Civil War in Lowell, Massachusetts. So this is the hometown of Jack Kerouac. He apparently, according to rumor, played hooky from school and wound up going to the stacks of the public library, this library, and that apparently did happen. And then later in his life, they found him passed out drunk in the stacks, kind of at the down end of his career. But this is a Civil War monument mural that they had and they had several of these around in different parts of the library. The John Steinbeck Library. Have you been to Salinas and been to their library? Really quite a beautiful place. They were going to close all three branches of the library. Big protest when word got out that was happening. Bill Murray, the actor, was playing golf at Pebble Beach. He caught wind of what was going on. He hit up his celebrity friends. They all chipped in some significant money to keep the library open. That story went out on the internet. It became an international kind of cause to live and all of a sudden the Salinas Library now has three libraries that function very well now with the adequate funding. Very strange but interesting. It's interesting to see a library in a national park. So this is the public library in Yosemite. Beautiful place. It happened to be that all the leaves fell off the tree just before I took this picture. So it's very nice. And this is in Death Valley National Park. This is the hottest place on earth. And I sure hope that air conditioner never breaks. But I was impressed that they had a public library in Death Valley. And then the numbers of... I can't tell you how many closed libraries I saw. And this always made me very sad. So the Abandoned Prairie Library in Amadon, North Dakota. The Abandoned Library in Sunflower, Mississippi. An Abandoned Library in Jeffrey City, Wyoming. This used to be a uranium mining town until the ore all ran out. Detroit, very sad. And we went to many of the Detroit branch libraries as well. Interesting that the struggles to keep these libraries open. This one had just been closed and later was torn down. But a very tragic thing. And also it's interesting to see the transformation of libraries. Sometimes what libraries were in the past, it changes and they become something new. They have what was, apparently, the hot nightclub of Austin, Texas called the Americana, which is now the Ralph Yarrow Borough Branch Library. And interesting to see the transformation and the change. This was in Seligman, Missouri. And it was a strip mall and a gas station. And now it's the City Hall and the Public Library in the background. Caliente, Nevada. A beautiful old, you know, Union Pacific Railway Station is now the Public Library in this tiny little desert town. Weeping Waters, Nebraska. Used to be a church. Now Public Library. That name, it's just amazing. Kansas City has a beautiful library in an old bank. And if you go downstairs, they show movies in the vault at night. And I just thought, wow, what a great adaptive reuse of the bank. Henderson, Nevada. I just outside of Las Vegas got the smart idea that they would take the books in the library to where the people are. So they build a small branch library in a shopping mall. And here's the Tuscarora, Nevada, which is a tiny little mining town in Northeastern Nevada. It comes and doubles as the, runs the post office as well as the Public Library, which is housed in the same trailer. And a community meeting, a town hall meeting in Newport, Vermont. Just again, another use, multiple use of the various libraries. And one of the things I think I also begin to realize is that it's important to see the function of libraries, how they work, not just as architecture, but also as their meaning. So this is a reading lesson. So this was taken at the Petraro Hill Branch Library back in 1994 when I first began. There's the brand new library. As I guess all 24 now branch libraries have been rebuilt in San Francisco. So we're, but this is what it looked like before. The Chicago Public Library mentioned an amazing place. This is the computer room. So it's just again, just phenomenal eye opening really for me to see this. And then finally this, getting near the end, a photograph of a library in a little town called Straford, Vermont. And there was a, Justin Morgan was a U.S. Senator who grew up in this town, very poor, his parents couldn't afford to send him to college. Years later when he became a U.S. Senator, he started the land grant system of colleges that are in every state. And really important in terms of education. So the Justin Morrill Library is very remote, kind of small, rural area. And they leave their Wi-Fi on at night. And they do that because there's no Wi-Fi reception in the little hilly Vermont valleys.  And it's one of the few places you can do that. And this is throughout the country. You see this idea that libraries are about giving free access to information. And I think Justin Morrill would be very proud of this photograph because it's really about what he was about and the idea of free, of giving access to information. It's also interesting to see the different uses of libraries. When I was in West Wendover, Nevada, right on the border with Utah, there was a library that had a sign on it outside that said there's a class inside. No admittance. So I just set my camera up outside when the class walked out. And it was all these little kids holding rifles. They were having a rifle training class.  And you can't make this stuff up. I was very happy to have this picture. I had to take the photograph. And the Berkeley Tool Library. I love this picture because these guys were so busy. They were literally running every minute that I was there. And I had to tell them to stand still for one second while I took this photograph.  It's an interesting aspect of what libraries are. It's not just about books. I love this picture also because of the racial diversity of reflecting our Bay Area population here as well. And of course, New Orleans. One sad story about the Hurricane Katrina. We were there about two years after Katrina. And they lost 50% of their books. So this was one of the images. This is what many of the libraries look like today in New Orleans.  Very heroic stuff. But keeping that information available to people. And again, very, very full crowded places. This is the last photograph I took on the 18-year project. We happened to be visiting our son who was in school in New York two weeks after Hurricane Sandy hit New York. And the Rockaway Library on the right was completely devastated. All the books were in the dumpster off to the left in the background. And this Queens Library Bookmobile was there to offer a place for people to come and recharge their cell phones to get online or just to get warm because it was really cold in November when we were there. So it says something about libraries as places of shelter. Here is the equipment that I work with. Working with a large format view camera. This required shooting 4x5 sheet film, which at night then in every hotel we stayed in, I had to change the film in the bathroom. My son Walker uploaded his images onto a site that we had. We also had a lot of information beforehand. We did a lot of research finding the addresses. My son Walker showed me how to work with Street View. So I wound up on Google being able to look at a library deciding if I wanted to photograph it, even being able to see the time of day, maybe the best time to really work with photographing it. So the technology did help. And as I said, I kept a blog, I kept a diary every day after Walker would drive during the day and I would write in the car and then at night I would upload that along with Walker's photographs and we uploaded that. And we did that day after day after day. So it was a long process. I also did a Kickstarter campaign which actually worked. And then finally the book itself came out as Lewis said in April and the book itself is now getting to be a rare book. They sold out their first batch of it. Now they're going to have to wait until July to get more of them in. So I'm shocked that anybody was buying this book and I'm always very pleased when that happens. So we have some available here today. I was very lucky to get Bill Moyers to write the introduction and patch it afterwards. And there were several other writers that were kind enough to contribute their time to publishing these essays. So it's quite an amazing affirmation of seeing how this works. I should mention that the last thing is the future. So I've just published this book but now my wife Ellen Manchester who's here and I are going to spend the next year in the city of Stockton. Stockton is the second largest city to declare bankruptcy in the United States and it's one of the least literate places in the country. And making images I hope that this will help in terms of some of the issues that Stockton faces. We'll see. It's a project that I'm both looking forward to and I know it's going to be a lot of work. So that is going to be after taking 18 years of looking at libraries throughout the United States. We're now going to focus on one library system in a poor part of California.


And if it's your first time to come across the channel please consider subscribing Consider supporting this channel BTW Don't forget hit the bell icon because it will be the one that will be updated in the uploading videos For the returning subscribers thank you so much for coming back to this channel for the new subscribers Thank you so much for coming back to this channel In today's video we are going to look at quite another interesting Medio East or Gulf Country Katawe, UAE, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. We also talked about women in today's meeting. Let us try to talk about Kuwait. It is one country that has been underestimated by most people, especially when it comes to security guards and other figures. Well, something we need to know and something that we want to talk about right today is what is a salary? How much are security guards paid in Kuwait? It was a question that was asked by one of the subscribers and I felt so concerned that we should also talk about Kuwait. We should not take it stupidly and put it inside but we should also talk about it as one of the countries in the Middle East and one of the countries in the Gulf because it also employs security guards all over the country with all nationalities. How much is a security guard paid? A security guard in Kuwait is paid ranging from 200 KT to around 570 KT. That is the highest. That is the highest amount. And what does it mean? What does it mean at that figure? It means that if someone works for 28 days is a different amount of money paid to him and if someone works 30 days is this an increase of the money paid to him but remember something that we need not to underestimate what we call experience, gender and the position at that time. Something I've seen different with these other Gulf countries which is not bearing the same in Qatar is that you look at countries like Oman, look at countries like UAE, look at countries like Kuwait they are quite very different with their levels and their salary scales. Why? When you look at UAE for a security guard you have to undergo what you call a SILA training you need to have what you call a SILA license a PCB training and you need to have that. That would be your pain if you have the license then you are able to accru to a bigger pain. When you look at Oman the normal look at experience they will also consider so much gender. Likewise the same thing in Kuwait they look at the experience and look at the gender then they will definitely also look at what you call the experience at a given level. Which is quite something very unique away from the other Gulf countries so far we've talked about so far we've discussed. But before we look at the salary of the security guard in Kuwait let us try to see because Kuwait has become a very good destination especially guards and security guards that do not make up in Dubai they normally run to Kuwait if at all someone needs to have a higher amount of money and he feels he was qualified at that time in UAE but he was absconded he mixed by a one requirement that was normally those people run to Kuwait other than Qatar there must be reasons why these people run to Kuwait other than these other Gulf countries and that's what we want to briefly look at one strong security regulations in Kuwait it will require training, it will require experience it will require agenda and it will require to present your certificates so meaning that if any country or any company require such kind of documents out of you or with you to carry them with you that means you expect what you call a higher amount of money or a higher pay at the same time still when you look at the pay in Kuwait is a little bit higher compared to other Gulf countries except when you talk about UAE I think Kuwait is the second country where asurikansu security comes then still Kuwait holds one of the most variable currency in the world that is so unique you expect that my money when I get to have the extent rate and end of it all myself will definitely have what you call value at the end of it all so it makes popular that people get to think or get run away at the same time under like they are thinking where they never have that same currency that would have value at the end of it all then still most of the times Kuwait normally gives day off and vacation there is no rotation around you are supposed to get your day off per the government and that is it and you are supposed to get your vacation so that one makes it favorable this nation spot for most of the people running from UAE or who have not got the cash to go to UAE then still something that we need to talk about is that Kuwait most of most of the people working in Kuwait are what you call expatriates so if expatriates are working there that means English is widely used as a language so if widely used as a language then that means you don't need to worry about communication because you less assured you will have a simple and a short way about to express yourself so let's go to it and see what is the salary remember when you talk about salary in Kuwait I told you we are talking about someone's gender someone's experience and someone position which are very key aspects when we are talking about salaries and remember when you definitely look at the average salary of the highest and the smallest you see that for the highest the smallest ranges from 200 kt that is the lowest at the highest ranges to 570 kt as salary in Kuwait for a typical security guard but remember that some people who are even typical around 380 kt that is if it's a security guard at that time but remember still I will send the time something that you need to know to not with Kuwait security guards is that there is a salary ring scale every number of days that work if you work for 28 days you find that some companies are paying up 135 kt that is approximately 445 usd and if you are definitely working for 30 days you are paying 150 kt which is approximately 494 usd which is quite very on time that is the average salary that is being paid in Kuwait for the security guards or for the workers security guard it will definitely include what you call housing it will include transport and it also include what you call the other benefits at hand so meaning that you are assured that you have the housing you will have the transport allowance and you have the other benefits but let us also try to see that before we definitely get to focus ourselves on the benefits and the risks let us look at the experience we look at the skills we look at the gender and also what we call the location because you may find some kind of location that have a little bit under a bigger pay compared to other location there may be reasons for that maybe the sensitivity of that location or even the hard time someone gets into that location so you find this what you call minimum consideration of the time that he has to get a little bit a bigger amount of an increment in his salary so when we look at experience itself we are going to categorize and see if someone falls between this year and this year how much does he have salary 1 if you have less than 2 years your average salary is between 240kd if you have 2 years to 5 years experience your salary is estimated at 300kd and if you have 5 to 10 years experience then your salary will be estimated at 400kd then if you have 10 to 15 years that means your salary will be estimated to 470kd and if you have that experience which is mounting to 15 to 20 years then that means you may be entitled to 510kd kwaid money at the same time if you have 20 years plus you will be entitled to 550kd those are kind of estimates we are thinking that those the average are estimates of the salary someone is entitled to get to someone who will be getting in kwaid as a security that depending on the level of the experience has discussed below what experience you have at the same time but still what we cannot we cannot forget to discuss about when we are comparing or when you are talking about salary of security cards or any other organization we also need to know to forget what we call gender because remember when we talk about gender we are looking at the female and male but remember at the same time much as we all work in the same location you may find there is one gender that has more than the other let us look at compulsion and we say that man when you look at in kwaid man gets a higher amount of money which is 80% more than women men in kwaid get 390kd that is an equivalent of $1285 in other approximate and women get around 360kd which is an equivalent of $1186 so you definitely get to see and you see that there is quite a difference between the two and one gets a little bit higher compared to another remember in today's video what we talked about the figures provided are just average numbers they are just giving you exactly the average numbers that in case it is this this is what exactly it has to be at the time but remember to some firms you may find someone is getting 360kd but he has worked for that company for like 5 years or 6 years and apart from that what kind of role does that person pay in that company and what has been achievement of that person in that office so you may find that at some situation that this person is totally addition of money will be more than what he earns so meaning that that kind of superiority or that kind of is also giving this person anapa hard to get a higher salary hope I try to share something for you for the person asking quality guide salary and that is exactly what it is thank you so much for coming back to this channel thank you so much 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Greetings friends! This is Survival Doc. Today I'm going to do a review of the solo stoves. I got the light stove which is supposed to be good for one to two people for my backpack. It only has two parts or two freely moving parts. The stove itself and the pot support. So there's not a lot to rattle around in your backpack like some stoves that I've used. And to prevent that from rattling what I do is I tuck this part in and I pack the stove like that. And then my backpack there's no noise at all. The light version weighs only nine ounces. It is four and a quarter inches wide and three and an eight I mean 3.8 inches tall when packed like this. It's made out of 304 stainless steel except for the grid which is nichrome wire. I got the larger version for my kitchen as an emergency stove. This is the campfire for the largest solo stove. Pack it weighs pack it is 6.7 inches tall and seven inches wide. Assembled it is nine and a quarter inches tall and it weighs 2.2 pounds but again I'm not concerned about the weight for this stove because this for my kitchen I'm not going to be packing it out. The way the solo stove works is it's called a gasification type stove. Air goes into the vents down here. They come up under here and burn the material you have sitting here on the grid. Alright some of the air also goes up. This is a double chamber. Some of the air goes up and comes out right here and is heated in the process of rising and then the heated oxygen comes out here and there's a second burn here. This was called a gasification stove and so you get little smoke because what it does is it burns the material twice. It burns the material in here and it also burns the gases coming up here so you get very little smoke supposedly.  The solo light is just the right size for your pots and pans that you go backpacking with. But what I really like about it is this is what I take with me when I'm backpacking my stainless steel canteen and the solo stove is one of the few stoves I've seen which fits this equipment like a glove. This is where you add your sticks as it's burning. You can also cook in this canteen of course or you can heat water in it. If it's on there perfectly even has this this little notch here where you add fuels even have this little cut out here which makes it even easier to add fuel. This is what I really like about this because this is when I'm backpacking of course my concern is weight not having to carry a lot of materials. This is the canteen I carry. It's the canteen cut and they both work perfectly on this smaller stove. My kitchen version or the campfire as they call it accommodates any size pot pretty much that you'd have in your your kitchen. I can even put my six quart pressure cooker on top of this stove. Frying pan is truly a family-size stove and what we're going to do is we're going to take these out in the field and I'm going to collect some sticks. I really like the fact that you don't have to carry fuel with you with these stoves especially like the backpacking stove. Don't have to carry fuel it'll burn sticks twigs leaves whatever you can find to burn in it. So when you're packing out with this stove only nine ounces in a small compact. For more details on these stoves and to get all of the stats all the specs you can go to the official website solostove.com solostove.com. Now the smaller version the light it retails for $100 but the official website is actually selling them for $70 and $70 is quite expensive. You can get stoves that burn with the similar process on Amazon.com for much much less but after looking at those and looking at my needs and I figured this will be stoves the stove both of these will be the stoves that will last me a lifetime. I don't mind going ahead and putting the investment in something that I'm gonna get so much use of. The camfire stove official price is $150 but they are selling them on the solo stove website for $110. You might be able to find these a little bit cheaper on Amazon.com. Here's how the website describes it. Designed with a double wall the solo stove is a natural convection inverted down gas gasifier stove. The air intake holes on the bottom of the stove channel air to the bottom of the fire while at the same time channels warm air up between the walls of the stove. This burst of preheated oxygen feeding back into the firebox through the smaller hose at the top causes a secondary combustion.  A more efficient burn also means you'll use much less wood compared to an open campfire. The solo stove doesn't just burn wood it actually cooks the smoke out of the wood and then burns the smoke not once but twice. The cooking ring is angled up it has this angled up lip also increases efficiency by allowing oxygen to flow inward towards your pot minimizing heat loss. It also acts as a windshield while still allowing oxygen to flow inward. Four big old fat burgers are going on there now. Mmm good hamburger. If you look through some of my videos you'll see that at one point in the past I did a review of the Kelly kettle. This is my Kelly kettle I have two versions of this one as well like this is the smaller one I also have the largest one. Alright the Kelly kettle I like the Kelly kettle it burns it boils water very rapidly this is double walled your water goes in here your material burns down here again it burns sticks into age you find in the field which is what I like about it. Alright it has the chimney effect or the drawl pulls air in down here which helps material burn very quickly get a hot fire. The difference is the way I understand it is whereas the solo stoves have the gasification process where they burn the smoke so you get more efficiency and you also get less smoke. The Kelly kettle does not burn the gases and as you can see there is quite a buildup even though I cleaned this with a stainless steel scrubber but you can see there is the buildup of the black soot or creosote I guess is what it is and the Kelly kettle does put out a lot of smoke so I'm hoping to get away from that I'm hoping to get a more efficient burn with the solo stove. Another disadvantage of the Kelly kettle is pretty much all it does is boil water and that's very very quick and efficient at boiling water it will boil water in no time. Alright but they do make a grid that fits on the top of here and I have one but it just doesn't get hot enough up here to do anything on that grid really. They also make a grid that you can put down here to cook things once your fire gets hot down here that doesn't really work to my satisfaction either because when you take this off to put the grid on you lose the chimney effect. So I've used this out in the field many times I backpack with it it is very efficient at boiling water so it's great when you have freeze-dried food where all you have to do is just add boiling water to your food let it sit for 10 minutes and eat it but that's pretty much all this will do in my opinion is boil water and again the disadvantage is it's a lot larger it is a lot obviously it's a lot heavier than this stove which is why I went ahead and invested in this stove right here this is so much lighter plus you can cook anything on here you can cook with the pans or anything fry fish on top of this one you're not going to fry a fish on top of the kettle and the weight this stove weighs essentially the same as just the base of this stove the whole stove weighs as much as the base and you can imagine this takes up a lot more space in your backpack it's not really a backpack and stove in my opinion now one thing I thought about is I thought about well what if you combine the two and it actually the smaller Kettle Kettle really fits well on top of the solo stove light so that's another thing I'm going to try now I don't want to backpack this thing because this thing is too heavy but at times where you're going out and you're not carrying this in your backpack carrying it in your vehicle or something I'm interested in how this will work as far as boiling water is concerned of course I could just boil water in my canteen as I showed before but I'm thinking with this and with that chimney effect combined with the solo stove and the water inside this container here I'm thinking it's going to burn very efficiently with the chimney effect in addition to this and also as I figure it's going to boil water even quicker but there's totally unnecessary that's not why I bought it I just noticed that it does fit and I'm curious to try that out now my large Kelly kettle does not fit on this stove properly so that's not something I'll be using with this though I don't have the Titan stove or the one that's in the middle here between these sizes here I'm not sure if the Titan stove would work on my large Kelly kettle or not this is survival doc reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced