Hello everybody welcome back to another AI video in this one we're in Photoshop you'll notice that I'm in the beta right now and I want to show you the new generative AI or what they're calling generative fill and even though it's in beta it is absolutely astonishing. Adobe has really up their game this uses Adobe Firefly so it uses their beta their Firefly beta and you're just going to be it's just shocking how good this is. Let me show you some examples here so the first step if you want to get going and follow along you need to have a creative cloud account and you want to go over here to your left side under your creative cloud go to beta apps install Photoshop beta again this is in the beta now the second step here is I've just got this generic image loaded up here of looks like a a boat on the sea and I want like I want a bald eagle right here right like let's just do it so here we go I'm going to go ahead and grab my lasso tool and I'm going to show you how this works so I'm going to go ahead and just draw something like this this is ugly little just this ugly little fill selection here but when you do that look at this it says generative fill I'm going to go ahead and left click on that and now I'm going to agree to it of course and now I get to describe what I want and in this case I said bald eagle oops let's see if I can spell today and then I'm just going to go ahead and click generate watch this this is bonkers I'll come back when it's done all right here we go so it generated a bald eagle out of nothing for me and not only that I can go ahead and make some changes to it so let's say I want you know this looks good but maybe I want a different flight a different direction I'm just going to click that and there's another eagle there's a good one I like this one this one looks pretty good so there we go I'm just going to give it a thumbs up why not and that's it we've gone ahead and generated and put a bald eagle into the image now that's pretty cool but it goes a little further than that let's say I want to get rid of this up here at the top I've got this little orange thing that looks a little bit like an aberration it shouldn't be there so I'm going to go ahead and grab the lasso tool again and I'm just going to lasso around it something like that and then I'm going to click on this generative fill and then I'm just going to say remove I'll come back when this is done okay so I've come back and I mean crazy it's gone like like again I'll give it another thumbs up but this is amazing this tool again it's still in the beta but what the hell right like let's see here's where it was it's gone it's like it's basically content to where fill on steroids but you can bring things into the image you can do all sorts of crazy stuff it puts on another level so if you want to take it if you want to work on it like let's say it's you know it looks good but I'm going to go command T or control T to change the size because it's a little bit too big for this shot I can go ahead and decrease the size I can do all of these things it's absolutely crazy this is generative fill that's how you install it that's how you use it it's nuts thanks for watching


Hey everybody it's Brett and it is October 23rd 2023 and we're gonna do the afternoon Monday lot walk. We didn't get it to it this morning because it was raining and kind of crappy weather and I got one of our product specialists sales consultants here. This is Jesse. How do you say your last name Jesse? How's it going everybody? I'm Jesse Selecta. Selecta? Yep. Okay so Jesse Selecta. Jesse how long you been here? A little over a year here in about three four months. Awesome. Yeah so Jesse was our all-pro last month. He sold pretty much to most vehicles and you know helped out a lot of customers and really did a great job last month and that gets them all pro. But we're gonna go through all the vehicles that came in over the weekend and some of the stuff that came in last week as well. And Jesse what's what can you say about the inventory that just kind of came in? It's awesome. I mean that's what is the biggest bonus you know about working here. It's great great customers great people and and it all helps and kind of brings everything together. Everything together obviously have an inventory we do. We got a ton of stuff in. A lot of heavy-duty trucks, dualies and diesels and you know just a lot of really you know stuff that people need. And I've been here almost 10 years over 10 years maybe 11 years anyways but we've always had really really good inventory. I think that's what sets us apart from a lot of our competitors. But we're gonna get right to it. We actually just got one just dropped off right here. So let's go check that out. This is a 2021 Ram 3500 Big Horn level 2. It's got 27,000 miles on it. 22 inch hostile wheels on it. Looks really good. Nice leveling kit on there and that's gonna be a really nice ride. Delmonico red. Yep. Jesse's favorite color. Looks really good on these ones.  What kind of car you drive? I've got a Challenger Hellcat that I drive a lot of the time and then you know four tourists I drive for work a lot but yeah I definitely love my Hellcat. Awesome. Big car guy. Yeah I've got I've got a GT 500 so we'll have to race some time. Anyways right here we've got a 2022 Ram 3500. This is a limited Longhorn. It's got 23,000 miles on it. This was a trade-in. This is a one owner trade-in. Diamond blacks the color. It's really dirty but it's in really nice condition inside and out and we're gonna get that rolling. Dooley's always take a little bit longer to get through the detail process just because we can't take them through the car wash and whatnot. And speaking of heavy-duty trucks here's a 2021 F350 XL STX. This is carbonized grey metallic. This one has 47,000 miles. We're gonna have to do tires at least in the front on this one for sure but I didn't see any dents. I didn't see any dings so it's kind of like the base level work truck but really nice condition on this one. And this one right here is a 2022 Big Horn Level 1 and it's only got 690 miles on it. Wow. I mean like where do we get some of this stuff isn't it crazy? Yeah. So anyway so that thing's pretty much perfect and we'll be getting that rolling here today as well. This is a 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 elevation crew cab. It's got the six and a half foot box and this one has 31,000 miles on it. Silver steel metallic. At least that's a GM Chevy color and like the light bar on it's pretty cool. Yeah it's it's really nicely set up. The elevation gives you the blacked-out wheels and the grill and everything. So we'll be getting that rolling today as well. I'm gonna save that truck for the end because that thing's super special. It's a good one. This is a regular cab long box that we just took in trade. It's got I think it's 98,000 miles on it to tradesmen and I think it's a diesel. So regular cab long box. That's pretty cool. This is an 18 expedition. We just got in 68,000 miles. It's a limited it's got the second row bench. Those are always nice vehicles to have and then this one just came in too. Not sure if we're gonna be keeping this one. It's got some damage. Not sure if we knew about that but the box side got a little bit of damage there. So but anyways this is a 17 and it's got I think 79,000 miles or 70,000 miles rear bumpers dented but other than that it's LTZ so it's in really loaded up and it's got a lot of nice options other than the driver's side box got a little bit of damage there but that's how they come in. They can't all be perfect. Yeah when they're used. This is a 14 GMC Acadia. This is an SLE. It's got all-wheel drive and this one has 95,000 miles on it and I kind of just drove it around a little bit yesterday to park it. No check engine lights or anything so I think this would actually be a keeper that we can retail. Nice trade-in. Always nice to get those in. This is a Grand Cherokee from a couple a couple weeks ago. That's got like 90 you know 127,000 miles. Anyways as soon as it's through the shop I'm sure it'll be sold and what else did we get in today. I think that's it for this row. I wanted to go over a couple vehicles that we got in over here. That's gone already. They go so fast like there's so many moving parts to everything that we do here. A lot of cars. Right here we've got a 2020 Ram 1500 big horn. This one came in last week. This is a level 2 so it's got the heated seats. 92,000 miles. This is a prime piece of inventory here. It seems like our seems like our half-ton rams have just been flying and it's in really nice condition too. Decent tires, interiors really clean. I think it's a one owner as well. This derango is actually through the shop we're gonna be keeping that. That's a really cool one too. Yeah I like that one a lot. It's got some really really kick-ass exhaust. Is this the Laramie Sport Icing? No. That's a big horn I think. Night edition. I think sweet. That just got through the shop. Nope. This just got through the shop. That'll be a great... I think it's 14.9 or 13.9. Yeah. Ford Escape. That was on one of the previous videos. Oh! We almost missed it. This Corvette... It stands out. How do we miss that? I don't know. 06? 06 1LZ Chevrolet or Corvette Competition Yellow. That's a really cool one. It's got 13,000 miles and it is a seven speed manual. Oh that's nice. I would imagine if this was April or March or June. This thing would be sold already. It just seems like that time of year is when people buy these things but that thing's absolutely perfect. 13,000 miles. Sure it's still gonna go fast. Yeah. That will be a very nice piece. Is this the one? Here it is. 2021 Ram 3500 Laramie Sport. This one has the Icing Heavy Duty Transmission Cummins diesel high output and really really a nice truck. And that one has 40,000 miles. I actually think it's through the shop already. They've been cranking it through. That's a Delmonico red paint color. Yep. Looks really good. This is a nice piece Jesse. We just took this one in a trade. This is a 2020 Ford Explorer. It's an XLT but it's got leather. It's got the quads. It's got some really nice tires on it. Some Michelin tires and it's a one owner. We sold it down in Beaver Dam and actually they traded it in up here. So really nice piece there. And I think that's pretty much everything that came in. There's a couple that are we're still processing in the shop but I wanted to go to this last one because I wanted to say this is for last because we don't get these in very often and when they do they're pretty much the hottest thing ever. So this is a 2012 Ram 3500. It's a Laramie Longhorn. It's a mega cab short box dual rear wheel and it's loaded. It's got nav, moon, heated cooled seats and it's got the Cummins diesel. It's in the very rare Sagebrush Pearl and this truck is just about mint. It's got very new tires on it. Probably one of the cleanest 2012s left out there. It's a one owner from Maryland and it's got 64,000 miles on it. Just a just a really nice piece. So as you can see we got a lot of heavy-duty trucks, a lot of SUVs and we are completely full which is great for Jesse. Exciting for sure. You got a couple sitting too right Jesse? You've got the... Yep I've got a few. The challenger is going in a couple days. I've got a customer picking that one up. The Black Yukon next to it. There's a Ram over here in the corner. Yeah we're doing pretty good. It's a good month so far. Good month. We got to finish strong. We got one week left but that's okay. We got Friday, Saturday, Wednesday. You know all usually pretty good days. Thursdays are usually pretty good and we got Monday next week yet too. So really excited about that and hopefully we can finish strong. I hope everybody out there is gonna finish strong too and if you need any information on these vehicles first of all they're linked in the description below and if you want to get any information on them call Jesse. His email is... It's jesse.j-e-s-s-e at summitauto.com. Yeah email Jesse on any of the vehicles that you see here. He'll get right back to you. He's one of our best. Glad to have him bored and thanks for checking out the lot walk with me today Jesse. Get a bread. Thanks for having me. Yeah we'll do it again next week and if you're not too busy hopefully you are too busy to do it and I'll just have to do it by myself. But anyways have a great day and finish strong everyone and go check us out at summitauto.com.


Hello, my name is Joe. I wanted to make a short video about the courses that I've taken with ITTT and Where I'm where I'm at where I'm from I'm from the United States U.S. citizen and Decided to go abroad and start teaching because I love working with people. I looked into the Certifications that I needed to do so and realize that ITTT could provide these to me online It was very convenient fun. I learned a ton of information on how to Just feel comfortable and more effective at being a language instructor I've completed two courses standard 120-hour TEFL course and my additional CTEYL course, which is geared toward working with younger learners both were very informative and I highly suggest To anybody that's looking to travel abroad or work closely with others to go ahead and do the same Anyway, that's my video. I hope you enjoyed it and Bye-bye for now


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You are clear for launch. And with that, shut down your visors, O2 on, and prepare for ignition to O2. You can copy that and... Hey, it's Mr. Ruchov again. So far in this unit, we've looked at the physical geography of East Asia, and we looked at some of the historical events that have shaped the region's culture. In this lesson, we're going to look at the countries today and some of the modern issues that they are facing. So let's start by looking at the population in the region. And in China, there are lots of people. At 1.4 billion, China is the most populated country in the world. That's 100 million more than India, which is number two, and over 100 million people in the United States, which is number three in the world. But unlike India and South Asia, outside of Japan, the other countries are not as populated. And while Japan does have 126 million people, it doesn't even get into the top 10 list in the world. Now, what is interesting about China is that while it has four times the population, China is still about the same size as the continental United States. This means it also has four times the population of the United States. However, each of the other countries in East Asia also have higher population densities, each country that is, except for Mongolia, who averages just five people per square mile. This makes Mongolia the least densely populated country in the world. And there are several reasons for this. First of all, being landlocked to center Asia means that Mongolia couldn't be settled by ocean travelers. And in fact, the Gobi Desert to the south further isolates it from anyone from the ocean. To the north is eastern Russia, which is sparsely populated as well. Perhaps the biggest reason is that the terrain and the climate is not good for farming. As this map shows, extremely little land is farmed in Mongolia. Now, if you don't have much food, you're not going to have very many people. But you do have lots of people in China. And one of the most controversial policies that China enacted was something called the One Child Policy. Before this policy, though, there were other policies in China that had an impact upon the population. After the Chinese nationalists were driven to Taiwan, Mao Zedong and the communists took over in China. Mao then began to transform China into a communist country and took over the country's industries. In 1958, Mao took over the farms in what was known as the Great Leap Forward, which really wasn't a great leap. Now, instead of farmers farming their own fields, the government now owned these lands and farmed them by communes. Now, communes were small societies of people who all lived together and worked together for the good of the state. Now, the government would press the leaders of these communes to increase the harvest fields and they would mandate that they use some unproven agricultural techniques. Now, unfortunately, these were horrible ideas and instead of actually increasing the amount of food raise, it actually meant that there were fewer crops. This was especially devastating as drought also slashed food production at the same time. However, many of these communes leaders would exaggerate how much food they raised in order to gain favor with the government. Now, the government in turn would take a percentage of this inflated yield to use in the cities. Now, let me give you an example of how this worked. Let's say that your commune leader tells the government that your commune of 100 people have raised 1,400 bushels of rice. The feed of 100 people for a year takes about 700 bushels of rice. So, the government would take 700, leaving 700 bushels for the people to live on. However, your commune actually didn't raise 1400 as a commune leader has actually told the government. In reality, you only raised 1,000 bushels. Now, the government still takes 700 bushels, but now your commune is only left with 300 bushels, which is half what is required for those 100 people to survive. In the end, lots of people in China did not survive the great leap forward. In fact, it is estimated in these three years, anywhere between 22 to 55 million Chinese would die of starvation. Instead of asking for the world to help, the Chinese government hid all of this from the world in order to save face or to avoid embarrassment. Fortunately, I can think of no other time in recent history in which the Chinese have had a natural disaster and have tried to hide it from the world. Oh, wait, never mind. Now, the devastating effects of the great leap forward causes many Chinese to lose faith in the government and Mao Zedong. So in 1966, Mao launches the Great Poletarian Cultural Revolution. Now, for the next 10 years in China, the government would attempt to purge the country of those who were not loyal to the communist regime. Intellectuals in the country were targeted to be imprisoned or sent off to be re-educated, and in fact, 80% of the professors at the University of Beijing were arrested during this time. The government also set out to educate everyone on what it was to be a good communist. A book of Mao Zedong's thoughts and beliefs, known as the Little Red Book, was required reading by all Chinese, and millions and millions of this book was printed and distributed across the country. Now, to assist this revolution, the government formed youth groups known as the Red Guards that go out and eliminate the four old, essentially violently destroying old traditions so Mao's communism would endure. Now, one of the teachings in Mao during the time was that the people of China was the strength of the country, therefore having more people meant more strength. However, by the 1970s, the Chinese government realized that his population was becoming a liability and is set out on its first population control program known as later, longer, and fewer. It figured that by mandating people wait later in life to marry and then to be able to lengthen the gap between each of your children, you would have a lower growth rate in the country. Now, while this did begin to lower the growth rate, in 1979 the Chinese instituted the One Child Policy and especially the urban areas Chinese families were only allowed to have one child. There were exceptions to ethnic minorities and those who lived in the rural areas, they could have up to two children. But violations of this law wouldn't find you being fined up to two years' pay. But the government also made promises that if China would slow its population, it would be able to provide better services for all of its people. After 35 years, the government finally ended the One Child Policy in 2015. China now has a two-child policy. Some estimates report that 400 million fewer people were born during this time, although many analysts disagree with this number arguing that the birth rate was actually already declining. But we know that the birth rate in fertility did dramatically drop from 2.8 in 1970 to just 1.5 in 2000. But another impact that wasn't planned was the effect it would have on the population in terms of the number of males and females. Now, it's hard to see its effect in the population pyramid. So here I have graph, the men and women on the same side, men in blue and women in pink. Here you can see there are more men and women born in each of the younger age groups. To make this clear yet, this graph shows the net difference between men and women. And while there are more older women in the older age groups, there are between 4 and 6 million more men than women in each of the younger groups. And all there are now 34 million more men than women, and this difference is mostly found between those under 30. Because of this, it is estimated that a quarter of young men today will never be able to find a woman to marry. Beyond potentially skewing the labor market to men than women, historically countries with a high gender imbalance would have higher crime rates, including rape and prostitution. And with such a low birth rate, China is becoming an older and older country. By 2029, it is estimated that China's population will begin shrinking. Now, a shrinking population is seen in many developing countries, but China isn't a developed country. Their shrinking population is artificial due to a policy, not development. Therefore, it has not created the social programs sufficiently to care for the millions and millions of future senior citizens. In other words, China isn't Japan. Japan has a fertility rate even lower than China, and with no increase in migration, each year Japan's population is shrinking by more than a quarter percent. A sizable percentage of Japan's population is already over 60 years old, yet unlike China, Japan is a fairly developed country, and not only is Japan's GDP per capita more than 2 times that of China, the HDI is also greatly higher. So, what created Japan's economic success? Well, despite its industry largely being bombed into rubble during World War II, it took several steps to be able to grow into the third largest economy in the world. First, right after the war, Japan made several political and economic reforms that made it easier to be able to do business and trade. Then, during the Korean War, it had lots of money coming in from the United States and U.N. countries as they were using Japan as a base of operations for the Korean War. With this foreign investment coming into the country, the government wisely guided the industry to produce high-quality, high-technology products that they could sell around the world. Now, another economic miracle lies across the sea of Japan in South Korea. In 1960, South Korea was really pretty much just an agricultural country with the GDP ranking between Pakistan and Colombia. But since that time, we've seen South Korea's economy grow into the 12th largest economy in the world, and like Japan, South Korea reformed its economic policies to be open to foreign trade. It also provided incentives to its companies to invest in innovation. In fact, South Korea leads the world in the amount of research and development it spends each year as a percentage of its economy. But while Japan and South Korea's economies have grown, Japan has skyrocketed in the last couple of decades. Today, while the United States still is the world's largest economy, China is the world's second largest economy, and 20% of all manufacturing in the world is found in China today. Now, China's economy has been launched due to its move towards capitalism. Ding Xiaoping would take over China in 1978, two years after Mao died. When a visit to Singapore, Ding realized that China could have the same economic success that Singapore was having, but China would have to change how it did things. China would then privatize farming, now farmers and not the state would own the farms. They also started allowing private business to be started and then established a number of special economic zones. In 1979, they established the first of these zones. These were essentially free market cities which the government reduced taxes, encouraged businesses to seek foreign investment and partnerships, and focused on export products to the world. China's economic boom has been due to these special economic zones, so incredible has their growth been that since 1990 almost 800 million people have been left out of poverty in China due to these capitalistic ideals, but is China capitalist? Sadly, no. China might best be described as a hybrid economic system that has islands of state controlled capitalism and a sea of communism. The government still has influence in the Chinese corporations in these zones with many Communist Party members on the Corporation Board of Directors. Outside of these zones, the government is still in full control of the economy. In fact, 40% of all industry in China is still state owned. Now, the government also takes steps to assist Chinese firms by devaluing the Chinese Yuan or its currency to make Chinese products artificially cheaper on foreign markets. Now, if China's government has so much power, what type of government is it? As all Communist countries have been, it is a totalitarian government. It only has one ruling party, the Communist Party, which has full control of the government. And now, in theory, there are eight other parties, but they are forbidden really to voice an opposition. In fact, several of them are really just supporting efforts to the Communist Party. Now, in 2018, the Communist Party took the step to remove term limits for its president, which essentially made Xiaoxing Ping as the president for life. And just in case the term president confuses anyone, I'll point out that pro-democracy protests were squashed in 1989. For nearly two months in that year, students held a protest occupying the historical Tiananmen Square. Now, the protests would end with 300,000 soldiers moving into Beijing and then later clearing the square of all the protesters. There were at least 10,000 protesters arrested and thousands and thousands were killed. After Tiananmen Square, any of the pro-democracy reform efforts that had been underway pretty much came to a grinding halt in 1989 as the government reassured its control over the people. Today, the nonprofit group Freedom House scores the freedom in China a miserable 10 out of 100. And political freedom is not only non-existent according to the organization, they actually gave China a negative 1 for the category. Now, while the Great Wall of China was built during the dynasties of China to be able to keep invaders like the Mongols out, the Chinese now have what many call the Great Firewall of China to keep information it doesn't want in China. Now, not only is censorship in China rampant with no independent press in China and frequently throwing foreign reporters out of the country, China now aggressively forbids over 8,000 websites and social network sites from being used and attempts to access these sites could actually result in prison sentences. Now, as we've discussed in previous lessons, in 1950, China invaded the country to Tibet and annexed it into the Chinese country. This caused many to flee such as the Dalai Lama, as well as the imprisonment and torture of thousands more who resisted Chinese rule. But Chinese aggression hasn't ended in Tibet. We see China reasserting itself in the South China Sea. As I discussed during a Southeast Asian unit, many countries claim parts of the South China Sea. However, as this map shows, China claims nearly all of the South China Sea and has even had armed conflict with countries such as Vietnam over the islands in the sea. International law allows a country to claim as its territory the seas 12 miles out from its shores as well as have exclusive economic rights out to 200 miles. This is why China's claim to the islands is so important. By claiming these islands, they can claim the seas around these islands. Now, when there isn't islands, China claims reefs and have made seven artificial islands as the satellite pictures show of the theory across reef in 2014 and 2015. But there is another reason for these artificial islands. The Chinese have installed new missile platforms on disputed islands in the South China Sea and they also appear to now be basing fighter jets there. China is arming these islands to project military force in the South China Sea. And why should we care as Americans? Because one of the missions of the United States Navy is to conduct what is called freedom of navigation operations. Since the International Court has dismissed China's extended claims of the South China Sea, the United States Navy regularly sails its ships and flies its aircraft through the areas claimed by China to exert the international community's freedom to use these waters. It's kind of like showing the bully that you're going to walk on his side of the street despite him telling you not to just to show him that you can do it. The fear is China could decide to take a swing at the United States Navy and put these two nuclear powers at war. Now speaking of potential nuclear conflict, there is North Korea. The North Korean regime is the most repressive government in the world. Its freedom house score of three makes China looks like the land of the free. But what is worrisome is not only has there never been an official end to the Korean War between South Korea and North Korea in the United States, but since 2006 they have conducted six atomic bomb tests. And if that's not enough, they have tested multiple long-distance missile tests, including this one. But it's not all bad news. Outside of China and North Korea, the four other countries all are true democracies and each enjoy a great deal of freedom. Alright, so despite the fact that we have learned we could be in a nuclear war with two East Asian countries, you should now have a better understanding of the population, government, and economies of the people of East Asia. So until next lesson, keep on learning.


Wouldn't that be funny if I ended up liking a legend's latte is better than Hyperion? She's about to discover how bad retellings are. We are, I'm doing a read-along with my patrons. How about that? June is upon us. It is actually been upon us now for a little while. I'm quite late on this TBR video. I meant to film it sooner, but May was crazy, crazy, crazy. So here we are. I have technically started one of the books that are on my to be read, but I haven't finished any of them yet. So it is still to be read, technically. Without further ado, let's chat about the books that I intend to read for the remainder of June. First up, I have The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb. This is the second book in the Tawny Man trilogy. Mara and I are continuing our realm of the Elderlings journey with this book and I'm excited for it. I heard so many people say that The Tawny Man trilogy is their favorite slash the best in the realm of the Elderlings and we had a bit of a rocky start. I did not hate fools errand by any means. It was a very good book. But it's so far probably my least favorite hob book that I've read, disappointingly, especially when this particular series within this series is so hyped. So perhaps it was a matter of expectations being too high, although I don't think that is the case because expectations were very high for a life ship and it didn't disappoint. So I'm excited to see where this goes and hopefully the things that I was not fully satisfied with in the first book will be present or those things will be different or improved or I'll finally get, hopefully, or start to get why people love this trilogy above all the others. Or perhaps this is just destined to be yet another of Lana's Bad Tanks. Add it to the list. Next up I have the book that my patrons have chosen for me to read and vlog for them and that is Hyperion by Dan Simmons. This book almost won last month and I was very disappointed and sad that it lost to legends and lattes. But it won for June. So hopefully this doesn't disappoint. Wouldn't that be funny that I ended up liking legends and lattes better than Hyperion? I've heard obviously like, maybe not obviously, but I have heard a lot about Hyperion. So I'm excited to see what I think of it. I believe from what I gather, I could be wrong, haven't read it yet. From what I gather is loosely, it's kind of like a Canterbury Tales of Syfy because I believe this is kind of more a collection of connected novellas or connected short stories that it isn't like a one novel with one narrative, more like the Canterbury Tales which are unified, but they are still separate stories. I believe that's the situation with Hyperion. And I know there's sequels to Hyperion and I don't know if they continue in that vein and are more stories. I don't know. That's really all I know is that it is widely discussed and that I think that's the structure of it and we'll see how I do with that. Next up I have a book that I did start in May, but then Alan gave me permission to defer finishing it to June. That is Daughter of Red Winter by Ed Mcdonald. Now, I don't want you to take away from my deferring it that I dislike it in any way. In fact, I was really getting into it, but deadlines were coming up for books that I did need to finish by the end of May and Alan and I plan to discuss this at the end of June anyway. So I was like, okay, okay. Then I have time to do the other things that I need to do and we can set this one aside and get to it when I have time for it. So I'm very excited to continue reading it and to chatter about it with Alan. If you don't know, the beginning of Ed Mcdonald's new series, I love Ed Mcdonald's first series, The Ravensmark Trilogy. Alan likes the first book in that trilogy. Tell him to go finish it. So far this is a pretty promising start to this series. I'm not super far into it, but what I've read of it, I am very intrigued. So looking forward to finishing this. The next book I have is a Book of the Month Club book and that is Darling Girl by Liz Mikulski. Mikulski? Mikulski? It is, if it wasn't clear from the title and the cover, then the tagline will tell you that this is a retelling of Peter Pan. I love Peter Pan. I am obsessed with Peter Pan. And I'm nine times out of 10. I am very disappointed slash angered by retellings or works inspired by Peter Pan. I feel like most of the time they missed the mark. And my good friend, Hilary, over at Bookborn also loves Peter Pan. And I don't know how much experience she has with retellings of Peter Pan because I think she only recently read Peter Pan and I was delighted that she loved it as much as I do. She's about to discover how bad retellings are. So when Book of the Month had this book up, I messaged Hilary and I was like, hey, there's this bridge I'm thinking of jumping off of. You wanna join me? And she said, yes, I will. So we both picked this book with the express understanding that neither was expected to like it. And we do plan to talk about it. We haven't talked about where, when, and how we would talk about it, but we do plan to talk about it. So I hope I'm wrong and that this is good, but I'm not expecting it. Next is my other Book of the Month Club book and that is Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. I've read one other Poirot book before, Murder on the Arch Express, and I did not like it. I like adaptations of it well enough, although I don't think it really is one of my favorites, but it's one of the most well-known. And the other most well-known Poirot is Death on the Nile. And this edition of it is gorgeous and I thought I should give Poirot another go. So here we go. I've seen nearly every adaptation there is of Death on the Nile, so I know the story. But I mean, I loved, and then there were none by Agatha Christie. That is so far my favorite Christie that I've read. I have not read that much. And I knew the story. I had seen multiple adaptations of, and then there were none before I read it. And I still found it to be really engaging, compelling, and chilling, et cetera, et cetera. So I know the story of Death on the Nile very well, like as well as you possibly can without having read it. So I'm just interested to see if this works better for me. And because I love Poirot, I love the adaptations with David Sushay. So I was really disappointed when I didn't enjoy the book, Murdoly Orange Express. So I'm hoping that it's different with Death on the Nile. Also because this edition is really, really pretty. So I would want to like this. Next up is my patron book, I guess patron book club. I've seen other people call it a patron book club when they read together, and I never have. I just call it a buddy read. So we're gonna try on Versailles' patron book club to see how that feels. My patrons and I are buddy reading, and I'm back to calling it a buddy read. I'm doing a read along with my patrons. I bought that of The Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu. So last month, we read Grace of Kings. As of the filming of this video, we have not yet had our buddy read book club chat, whatever we're calling it. We will very shortly. And in June, we are moving along to Wall of Storms. Now, two things about this book. When I received it, I was like, excuse me? What is this? This is huge. Now, I will say, I did notice after the fact, because this one looked a little bit different. I was like, why does this look different? And then I was like, the publishing imprint is different from the other ones I have. And I was like, what? So I flipped it open. And this is actually a UK hardcover, but I did get the second hand. I didn't realize the UK had hardcovers with this cover. I guess they republished it with the pastel colors. I thought that was just always the cover that they had. So it didn't occur to me that a downline dynasty book with the dark black cover design, would ever be a UK edition, but it is. So I think, because this has been my experience with other UK editions that look extremely similar to the US editions. For example, I don't think it's in frame, but I have my red rising shelf over here. And I have multiple editions of Dark Age and they look almost the same. The cover design is almost exactly the same and the color scheme is almost exactly the same. The UK editions are invariably a lot longer looking than the US editions. And I think they just either space it differently or use thicker paper or both, because it's the same book, the same length of book. And this looks considerably chunkier than the US hardcovers that I confirmed are US card covers of Grays of Kings and Veiled Throne. So I don't think this one is actually that monstrously longer than the other two. It might be, but in my experience, UK books just are thicker. Regardless, it's still, I mean, even if it is down to spacing and thicker paper, it's still really long. So I'm told this is the best of the lot, which, thank God, if it is the longest one. I did really enjoy Grays of Kings, so I am looking forward to this, even if the size of it is daunting. The last two are both rereads and they are both rereads that I am reading with beautifully bookish Bethany, because they're both part of two different readalongs we're doing in two different places. So on the podcast, chapter three podcast, we are continuing the first law readalong with The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. This will be my third time reading it. This will be about the nice first time reading it. And I believe, no pressure, Hillary, but you did agree to this. Hillary will be joining us for this episode as well as she just read The Heroes. So I'm looking forward to chatting with the ladies about The Heroes. My relationship with this book has changed over time and I'm excited to revisit it again and see what I think of it this time because this one more than all the others, I think, has shifted in my estimation the most. Anyway, I'm always looking forward to Abercrombie. It is always the highlight of my month book. And last is, again, the other readalong I'm hosting with Bethany, this is on our YouTube channels, our sort of truths readalong. And we are at The Faith of the Fallen by Terry Getkind. And this will be on my channel. Now, the first time I read these books, Faith of the Fallen was my favorite. I have since heard that this is the one where people most begin to notice political commentary from Terry Getkind. That was not on my radar when I first read it and it did not pick up on it. I wasn't looking for it. I didn't really know anything about Terry Getkind or about what people think of those books when I was reading them. I was just reading them. And this was my favorite when I read the books. So now that I know more about Terry Getkind and what people think of him and what I think of him and his political leanings, now that I'm prepped and keyed into that being a thing in it. So like I know to look for it or we'll just be more aware of it if it happens. I am afraid that I won't like it as much the second time. I'm hopeful that I will like it as much the second time because there's other things that people have said about Terry Getkind that I've now gone back to read the books and having heard that and been like, nah, I don't think so. I don't agree with you. So we'll see, we'll see. I'm generally looking forward to it because I remember it being a favorite. I think at the very least, it might diminish a little in my estimation if I do notice more things that I didn't notice the first time and I dislike them. But overall, I think the things that did work for me will still work for me. It just might be more of a mixed bag this time than it was the first time. So we'll see. Maybe it'll still be my absolute, maybe I'll love it even more, who knows? But we'll know when we finish reading it and chat about it on my channel at the end of the month, so join us. And those are all the books that I will definitely read in June. There may be some others. This is a smaller TBR you might have noticed, or relatively, I mean, some of those books are massive. But I do think I have a little more wiggle room in June because a TBR is shorter, relatively. And the Dev Be Heard trial is over, which occupied a great deal of my May. So June is free and clear and I have a number of projects that I've had in mind for some time and I just have not had time to do that. I mean specifically to put, there's other like personal things that I also, I'm looking forward to having the time to get done, but specifically for booktube. I have some things in mind, or have had in mind that I think I have time in June to get cracking on some of those.  Those are the books that I'm reading in June for sure. So let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings about those books. Whatever you want me to, I post videos on Saturdays, other random terms as well on Saturdays. So like and subscribe, join my Patreon if you feel so inclined, and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Normande Champigny of Quebec Precious Metals. How are you today? I'm very well. Thank you for having me. And of course, Normande, we've all been following Quebec Precious Metals, and you recently just made an announcement about a discovery of over two kilometers and a drilling update. We'd love to get an update from you. Thank you. So our flagship project is SACME, and we've been working in the La Pointe area over the last two years since the creation of the company. And during the winter, we tested out an extension of that La Pointe deposit. And we have gold there, a significant amount of gold that's been released in a number of holes. And recently, we have announced also that through geophysics, we can show that this keeps extending further to the southwest. So that's all very exciting to define an area that is of sufficient size to have a very significant resource identified through additional drilling. And of course, throughout the summer, you've been putting out drilling milestones. And you've had a couple of announcements this summer. So is there any additional drilling highlights that you'd like to draw the investor Intel audience's attention to? The La Pointe extension discovery, what's interesting is that we've got very significant drilling widths, 30, 40, 50, up to 80 meters with grades above one gram, close to surface. So that's very encouraging. And we have still more holes to be released because the lab is still going through the backlog after stopping drilling in March because of COVID and restarting recently. So that in itself is, again, very significant. And it keeps getting better. The more we drill, we keep finding it's getting better, wider mineralization and of a similar nature where we have found historically. We have a lot of new people looking at gold, new investors, and they don't necessarily understand what drilling highlights means, Normand. So would you mind basically dumbing that down for new investors who are interested in gold because of how gold's prices have skyrocketed in the last several months? Can you talk to them a little bit about how to look at drilling results, for instance? So drilling results, the rule of the tongue that is used in that business is if you have over 100 meters of one gram, that's very significant. But you can also have one meters of 100 grams, that's a very significant. The difference between the two is that one, the very high-grade one is likely to be mine underground because it's over an hour-wit. The other one is likely to be mine open-pit if it's shallow enough. So you have to separate the two. If you have something that's close to the product of the width versus the grade that is around 100, which we have, then you know you have something that stands out amongst other drilling results. So for investors, I would look for that 100 number. And also I would look for significant widths at grades say of 1 to 2 grams for open-pit or underground at very high grades, say 10, 20, or 30 more grams over a few meters. I was just speaking with my broker the other day. I went out on Bay Street, I had a meeting with him, of course we both had our face masks on, and he said, have you seen what's happening in the news? Gold prices just is falling. And of course I said, no, I've only been out of the office for two hours. And I looked at the price and I thought, this doesn't look like a crashing gold price. Can you tell us what the real experts are saying about what's happening with gold prices presently? Well, of course, sometimes people are predicted the gold price is going to go up. The question was when and by how much. The fundamentals are there. The gold production worldwide is declining. It's getting tougher to mine gold. Now it's getting to do it at a higher cost to the economic situation is not good right now. People are looking for gold as investment opportunity. And a jewelry demand for gold doesn't stop. In fact, in India, people have gone back to do loans in gold for small businesses. So there are also other factors, but all those factors point out to a higher price. And we're seeing that a steadily increase. Some people are saying it's going to be a lot higher. Some people are going to say, well, it has to reach a new plateau or a new level. We have all different views on it. My own view is that we're going to see a steadily increase over time of the gold price. Okay.  Can you tell us a little bit more about your trading symbol change? So QPM means Quebec Precious Metals is something we wanted to do since the creation of the company two years ago. We didn't get around to do it. We thought now is the time to do it. So we went ahead and it's a far more meaningful symbol than what we have before. And speaking of timing, what should shareholders or interested parties anticipate, say, in the next upcoming quarter from Quebec Precious Metals? Well, the precious metal company that we run has announced that we are drilling again after doing some surface work that started in June and will continue to drill until the end of the year. So you should anticipate significant new slope from those drilling results aiming at identifying this two million ounce potential that we've been talking about since the creation of the company back in 2018. We also have non-core assets, assets that came as part of the creation of the company for primary one of the company that was merged. And we should expect some revenue from that as the sales processes continue. Well, Norma, thank you so much for updating us today. It was a pleasure to speak with you. As usual, it's a real pleasure. Thank you.