Okay, so could you please give us your full name? Janice, Martha, and Zink. And your age, please. I'm 51 years old. And where were you born? I was born in Ottawa, but I spent most of my life in the military. Okay, in Dartmouth? In Dartmouth, yes. A little bit in Greenwood as well. My dad was in the military, so we moved around a lot. Okay, yeah, I was just going to ask what did your parents do? My dad was in the military in the Air Force, and my mother was a teacher. Okay.  You know, in addition to the things that I think most kids like, you know, we're playing with our friends and things like that, I did some sports and as well. I liked a lot of crafts and things like that, little more creative activities. And that school, any standout subjects? I definitely was much stronger in math than I was in the arts and the languages. And I think that's why I kind of probably gravitated towards science. I really liked chemistry because I liked the way that in chemistry, you know, just the formation of new compounds and things like that. But math was always something that came fairly simply to me. I found it was easy and it was one of those things I could do with my homework in front of the TV easily. So, yeah, those were the subjects I kind of preferred. And moving forward, like in high school, did you have any idea already what you wanted to do? I think in high school, I knew I was going to go into the sciences. And going into eventually being in metallurgy was kind of one of those haphazard kind of roots that I got there. It was really, I didn't start off in metallurgy. I started off, I started off in geochemistry and then made the choice to separate that degree into two, one in geology and then one in chemistry. So, and I actually, I never ended up in metallurgy until I started working at CAM Math. And that was just really by coincidence, too, that I ended up working here initially because I had done some work with the Geological Survey of Canada. And then I got a job here. It's in hydrometallurgy. And after a short period of time, my employer asked me to return to school to do my graduate work in hydrometallurgy, which was a tremendous opportunity, which really took me down that path to where I am today. And this was CAM Math, your employer? Yeah, I've been with CAM Math my whole 26 years and feel, I think because of the early beginnings, with that investment in me, I feel very much loyal to the organization. And the organization has given me many, many, many opportunities and I've been able to do many diverse activities. Where did you go to school? So I did my undergraduate degrees, chemistry and geology, the two degrees at Carleton University here in Ottawa. And I did my masters in metallurgical engineering at McGill. So did you come straight from Nova Scotia to come to school here? In growing up in Nova Scotia, then we were transferred back to Ottawa. So I came back to Ottawa. And then my parents went back to Nova Scotia and I ended up staying. And so you had quickly mentioned that you started working with CAM. What would you consider to be officially your first job in your career? I would say that was my first career job. I had student work experience jobs, that was my first real job, which I started here in December 1989. And I remember it really well, because it was just a few days before the master had a co-college technique, which is a coincidence in the fact that I was a female entering into this kind of male-dominant environment. And then the following year, I was in McGill to do my engineering degree in Montreal. So when I look back on it, I had lots of memories from that experience, because those two things that happened, the starting up and then having that happen to those females that were a co-college technique and then the following year being at McGill in engineering. Must have already been in the back of it. Yeah, it was kind of a poignant moment. So when I started, I actually started as a technician. You know, it was kind of one of those, we were in the recession. I took, and I had the opportunity to get a government job and that, I took that opportunity. And again, I didn't, I felt that they, I had ample opportunities when I was here to be able to stretch myself to do different things. And that allowed me to, I think, ultimately get the graduate education. So again, I can't, I can't met in natural horse accounts, but very, very good to me throughout my career.  I often like to ask women and men, and obviously there are more men in the natural resource industry, but if you could comment on that, maybe when you started, how absent or present were women and has that changed? And also how have you felt and been treated being a woman in the natural resource industry? So when I started, there were very few women here. Even the government setting. I mean, I can imagine even worse working on site, but here there were very few women working in science and technology. I can not, there were only a couple. And so at the time it was a bit intimidating and I did have my own experiences with respect to how I had to kind of establish how I need to be treated in the workplace. I had an experience of sexual harassment. There was always the joking around, and I was completely fine with that. I grew up with two brothers and that was not a big deal to me at all. But I found when I looked back on it, and actually there was a kind of like an aha moment that went off of me, that in the beginning that it was me that was putting up barriers to myself because I was a woman. It was not men. It was just me thinking, the men were thinking something of me. So as soon as I kind of realized that it was my own limitation, and I kind of stripped that from my thinking and never had an issue again. And I've never had an issue with men or being a woman in a fairly male dominant environment. I've always felt that that was respected equally. And I've always felt that I had a voice around the table and I never felt that I was limited in any capacity. And that goes with whether I'm here or working in the association, volunteer responsibilities, or on site. I certainly had some unique experiences, I think because I'm a woman, but nothing that I've ever looked back and thought, well that's going to hold me back. It has some funny strange things happen because yes, I was probably the only woman in a situation, but not to the point where there's been limitation. And I've fully felt support from my male colleagues and peers here, and externally. And since you started, have you seen more women join this workforce? Yeah, there's certainly more women. Interestingly, last week I was at the Canadian Mineral Processors Conference that we organized. So we were kind of curious about how many women were there. We worked it out, including our students. They're 10%. So 10% of the delegates were women, which is still not very good, because I think in engineering in general it's probably more like 20, 25, 30. So while I think yes, we're making advances, particularly in engineering, in the education part of it. Some reason women aren't necessarily entering into the workplace or staying in the industry. And there are many reasons for that. So yes, I've seen some improvement. And we may never get, we're never going to get to an equal. And I don't think that we should expect to, because certain professions are more interesting to women than other professions. And I think we shouldn't just force fit something, just because a population is 50-50, that we have to have 50-50 everywhere. So what we do need to, I think have women need mentors, female mentors to show them that yes, it's okay, or we need to change some policies to make it a little easier for them at some point. And then easier, just more accommodating to certain, to the female situations. But some improvement definitely, but we still could improve a bit more. We'll get more into your full career in a moment. But this is always a question that people find difficult to answer, which is have you ever worked in a dysfunctional job or project? Is there something you remember that stands out as being dysfunctional? Well, I think there's, I think there's always a level of dysfunction in almost every project. So what I would say one project was extremely dysfunctional compared to another, probably not, but there are certainly elements where I see dysfunction originating. A lot of times I think it's, is lack of teamwork. It's a bit sometimes with a little bit of a competition or an ownership. So there's lack of collaboration. Sometimes it's lack of organization too, but generally it's kind of having that common, when a common vision is lacking and buy in to that common vision, that's where I think the dysfunction originates. So I can see that in some projects that I've worked on where that's, that message in that vision is not as clear and so there's a bit of dysfunction because people are kind of not working in different paths or kind of working at odds with each other. So I wouldn't say any particular project, but I think in elements of all of my projects. Yeah. Which often happen with teamwork. Exactly. Yeah. Understandably. You had mentioned women needed mentors. Would you say you have a mentor or a few mentors, women or men? Yeah, definitely I think I've had mentors. I've never had a formal mentor, mentorship program or anything like that, but I looked to certain, there are certain individuals that, that I try to look to them for guidance or kind of almost modeling their behavior in certain regards. One of them recently passed away in 2014 and he was, he was the man that hired me which was Ray McDonald. He worked here and he was also highly involved with the preliminary processes. But what he taught me was, he taught me really the value of volunteering, which I've done throughout my career which has really made my career very rewarding and it's enriched my career immensely, not only through my networks that I've formed but you know I've expanded my skill sets. He's also taught me ways in which I could handle different situations that I thought, I look so impossible but he was able to handle things with grace and so I learned from him that way. Then there's others that are still around like Peter Kondos for example from Barrick. I worked with him when he worked here in the early early days and he kind of, he taught me about being, about being persistent but being strategic about thinking things through but at the same time going for things. So there were some things I learned from him that I still hold today and there are certainly others. You always try to look and try to pull the best from people through all the people that you work with whether it's directly or indirectly, you try to see what are some aspects about their behavior, where they conduct themselves and how they manage things that oh I could adopt for myself. So I think you can find a mentor or almost everybody whether they're older than you, younger than you, at your level or below you or above you and it doesn't really matter. I think everybody has something that they can share and it's something that you can pull from somebody else away in which you can improve yourself. Yeah, everybody should try to learn, right? Exactly, yeah. Continuously. You mentioned volunteering. What kind of volunteering do you do? Well, in a professional setting I've been highly involved with as I mentioned, and that is something that I started back. I got first involved probably in 1993 in a small role, but I also now have been highly involved with them for probably the last decade or more. So that has spun off into my involvement with CIM, sitting on Council and XCOM, but also that probably partially got me involved with, for a while and then a few years ago I was asked to rejuvenate, restart the environment society of CIM. Because the society was essentially kind of dead. So it was one of those, again, through that network I was asked to do that. We restarted it, re-branded it to the environment and social responsibility society. It's very strong right now. One of those societies is continuing to grow in terms of membership. So all of those things in terms of professional, my professional setting, there's probably a few others for sure that they're connected but you know, it helps so much in terms of your network, but your skill set it's like training and so it's been tremendously rewarding for me. That's my day-to-day work. It also adds, brings a lot of value to my day-to-day work because of all the connections that I have with the different people and certainly wouldn't probably be having this interview without those, that volunteerism and that connection with those people who have worked with throughout my career because of those roles that I served in.  You worked for the large part of your, I guess the first half of your career as senior environmental scientist, is that correct? So yes, when I first started I said before I went to grad school I actually started for my time as a technician and from there then after I came back from my education I became a scientist and I made the switch. At that time the environment was very much on the forefront. That was the priority. So even though I had just finished researching hydrometallurgy I made the switch from hydrometallurgy application to environmental challenges for the mining industry. So from there I did a lot of work in terms of mailing water aspects, water treatment, metal removal and also the residue management something that nobody really had looked at before. So what was the residue or the sludge that was coming from water treatment? What were they doing with it? How stable was it? How much is they producing of it? Are there concerns? Nobody had really looked at it before so I went off into that area and did a lot of work in that field for many, many, many years probably maybe a decade or so. Then after that it was when I kind of took a little bit of a high age so much but I went to our sister sector in energy. I spent a short period of time there just managing energy-related R&D with respect to buildings and communities. It was a different type of certainly job altogether because it was more of a coordination role and less of a delivery doing role. So I liked very much the energy almost the underdog nature of minerals and metals and I was asked to return from that assignment to manage a group at that time was called the Mindwist Management Group and so from there I started managing when the competition became I guess manager group in 2001. In that group then I was still able to do some research and do some of my water related work, water treatment and water management but also oversaw the work with respect to tailings reclamation and all of that was under my portfolio projects and then around 2010 or so there was this restructuring here and they combined the processing group which was quite small at the time with the Mindwist Management Group so the processing people joined me and so I had all the process the gold, the basement, all the mineral processing, all of that stuff as well as the Mindwist Management. So that went on for a few years then just after that we started with the green mining initiative and the green mining initiative was it's still, it's something we're focused on it's now been rebranded to the green mining innovation research and the green mining innovation so and then more recently of course from there I've gone over to focus almost exclusively under processing so we've just kind of restructured again and we have a whole new processing division it's growing in size we're trying to rebuild back that capacity and then we have this new funding that came in for rarest and chromite R&D so that's kind of in a very small nutshell kind of a transition through the years of that So you've always, you seem to have always been involved in the more environmental aspect of metallurgy, of mining? Yeah I think because of my hydromethac background and there's always generally been more environmental or trying to be looking at the greener side of things whether it be energy reduction and comminution which is a focus right now or it be on green processing for sure there's always been that kind of slide Are there any I guess are there any concrete examples you could mention about you had worked most in processing things like that on how from back when you started to today how things have drastically changed perhaps for the better Sure, there's been many, I mean the biggest change of course is environmentally I mean back when I started they were just coming into looking at really some of the environmental impacts particularly dealing with things like mine waste tailings, acidic drainage and we really progressed quite far in terms of you know managing those we haven't solved the issue around acidic drainage but we can manage it very effectively there's just a greater awareness in terms of making sure that we we're not impacting the environment water treatment you know now instead of just looking at the number the concentration end of pipe it's more about cumulative effects what's that number that metal concentration really doing in the environment it's not just okay that looks low enough it's like no is it really impacting the ecosystem so and then taking that information and feeding it back and making changes to regulation there's been far greater awareness and willingness not even just awareness it's not no longer is it something that's prescriptive it's now when you see the mining companies they want to go further they want to be cleaner and greener and they do not want to have any impact not that they wanted to in the past but before it was maybe seen as costly now it's they see it as directly related to their performance and there's been many studies have shown that the greater environmental performance links very closely with economic performance so there's a huge that's a huge change and I think we see that through processing through all of the different aspects of the mining cycle energy is huge people recognize yes energy is very costly but they also see they recognize in terms of emissions whether they be particulate or greenhouse gas reduction in energy reduction in fossil fuels reduction in diesel better ways to manage waste we're getting down the road where we start to see waste it's not just waste it can be a resource we're not quite there yet in my opinion but there's a there's a bit more of a thought process there is some you know some people are looking into and trying but we're not quite there we're not it's still a bit of a disconnected the components of the the mining process through processing and the environment are still disconnected they're not we're not looking at integration they're not looking at a systems approach it's coming people are talking about it innovation there's a need for greater innovation no doubt again people are talking things are moving but because of the nature of the business particularly now commodity prices so low the cyclic nature of the industry it's challenging so we gotta find ways to adjust it but clearly there's been improvements and I would say the biggest of which has been on environment environmental side of things do you think the general public are critical enough to not critical enough of the mining and the industry regarding the environmental aspects of it I would say the public is too critical or misinformed or not maybe not misinformed but just not well informed the industry does not do itself service they do not share their success stories if you look at the way that minerals and metals are used in your everyday life it's an actual relative footprint of mining relative to other industries it's pretty small compare that to agriculture it's very tiny and the industry has made great strides to try to minimize their footprint of course there's still room for improvement but those stories don't get out it's partly because there's again a disconnect between the minerals and metal products that we use everyday we all use many of them versus the mines that are out in rural communities that people in metropolitan areas do not see so now I've had people say to me we still have mining in Canada yes in fact it's a major industry for Canada but it's one of these things where the industry itself is a bit modest and they focus on getting their business done they're they could be telling a better story so I don't think I think we only hear the bad news stories of course generally in the news the bad news stories are always the things that people will be drawn to whether they're environmental disasters or it's murder on the street or something it's the one that will get to the very top of the news I think that the industry has done a lot it can continue to do more but it can also show some of the great things it's doing and some of the advances it's making and some of the improvements it's made it's contribution to the economy as well as to everyday life do you think it perhaps has a hard time because what it usually entails is very esoteric it's very complex material they're dealing with I think it's partly that it's it's you know I think it starts back at the very beginning with even just in elementary schools where that message is not getting out and you need to have that kind of discussion with educators to let them know the value so that they can communicate to the younger generation CIM is doing great things with their M4S program as PDAC to reach out but to tell that story because a lot of times you just can't just put it in a media article while mining is great that's not I don't think the way it's going to work it's got to be people understanding the value of the industry trying to understand what it would be like to go a day without using a minimal amount of product there's so many different materials exactly just try to go without your smartphone it's good luck and that's just one so that's one of the things that I do here it's another opportunity that I have at NRCAN is being able to during National Science and Technology Week or National Mining Week to bring students in host open houses or go to schools to be able to tell them about mining and its contribution to their lives but also get them to understand a bit about what goes on throughout the mining life cycle and that's just it's that communication but I think too because of the industry is it's really a boat delivery and it's delivery in the bottom line there's not a lot of room for extras so they don't have necessarily funding I don't think to be able to do big marketing strategies and maybe too they don't feel that I don't know I can't talk really on behalf of the industry on why but I just think the industry could have better some better news stories and it's done a lot to improve the way that they operate and as I said their contribution versus their impact is not as necessarily always communicated properly so you're you are still director of the green mining initiative which is the green mining initiative green mining innovation processing could you elaborate a little bit on that what your role and the role of the so I'll talk about the green mining the green mining initiative started in 2009 and it was really meant to kind of address issues around environmental performance but at the same time look at it as an opportunity to enhance competitiveness because not only were we looking at technologies that would be greener I think on many times a greener technology can also be one that's more cost effective you just have to look as I said the example earlier about energy you reduce energy consumption you reduce cost you reduce region consumption you reduce cost so things like that and trying to look at ways in which we could improve the environmental performance but it also provide more financial return and economic return for the industry so we started we started out in 2009 with that and we didn't there were a number of different pieces of work that started not only the research but also you know of course the stakeholder engagement and these things like that since then we've now at CAMMET put all of the work that we do here under green mining innovation so all of our mining before we had our conventional mining so it's our mining processing and environmental management falls under that so everything that we do here moves forward with that common objective of reducing environmental impact and improving economic performance and that's how the technology that we develop I need to pivot in line with that the same time we're very closely with our stakeholders through different advisory committees and also with the provinces and territories to ensure that the technologies that are developed kind of are deployable and implemented and and at the same time last year I had the privilege of being the a distinguished lecturer under the CAMM and I spoke on green mining like green mining whether oxymoron or opportunity and that was a great opportunity to go and speak to different CIM branches to talk about green mining and to really show the benefits of it and how even just little tweaking here and there can turn the process from one that's more to make a process greener and that you know the whole just messaging because in particularly in these economic times I think it's important that an initiative one that's green be seen also as one that can be also financially advantageous and not just one that's okay it's an environmental but it's going to be it's going to cost me I'm trying to see it show that kind of that dual fold benefit that for an industry that look there's a different way of doing things so let's know so moving forward with that we've also under that is now this new program for rare earth and chromite where we're trying to again apply green mining approaches to extraction and processing of rare earth and chromite so so with the rare earth the rare earth as I mentioned earlier extremely complex mineralogically and the processing metallurgies is probably doubly complex it's it's a very challenging puzzle each deposit is different than the next we don't have the same type of deposits as in China so our processing methods have to be different our environmental standards are far higher so we have to come up with new ways of doing the processing we have to not we can't be using the same reagents since we can't use the same processes we have to look at the radioactivity that's associated many many things that have to be done in order to develop our Canadian deposits here so it's a very challenging program and chromite similarly is an opportunity for us to develop a whole new industry that we've never seen in Canada and also a whole new region in the country where mining could take place with very high class world class resources such as chromite and they also have nickel as well so and you had said the country does have the potential to become the largest rare for rare well we have more deposits than anywhere else we also have the most in terms of the projects that are developing we have the most advantage projects we just don't have any connection so of course anytime in Canada the challenge it always is we have climate, our climate is a challenge costs of doing costs of mining in Canada is a challenge if you try to compete with other jurisdictions whether it be because of labor again energy costs for you know heat heating infrastructure is another challenge too and we're looking at developing these resources in areas where there is no infrastructure so there are challenges so even though we have extremely high high grade resources we have the right critical metals critical rare it's not necessarily going to be that easy plus again we have to look at developing the technology to be able to exploit them chromite is slightly more straightforward rare is not so it's certainly not a cakewalk that's why there is a great opportunity for Canada with its very rich metallurgical expertise to come together to try to address this issue and also to be able to secure that supply for Canada and other allied nations for very much strategic reasons or strategic applications as well as commercial and consumer applications if I'm not mistaken rare is rare is becoming more and more important and prominent in today's society could you tell us a few of the uses sure, well most people recognize that a lot of their lovely colors that come off their smartphones their blackberries and iPhones are a result of rare is so you don't get those vibrant colors from others metals often using rare is and that's one of the kind of more general consumer products so a lot of the electronics use the bears but more strategically and the production of magnets and those go into many applications such as looking at you know clean tech things like wind turbines hybrid vehicles we I think there's 20 kilos rare is in a promise and so it's a lot really when you look at the small quantities of rare is there's also medical applications and defense applications a lot of the missiles they require rare is again for very specific applications now other jurisdictions other countries who don't have the resources that we have do not have the raw resources are looking for substitutions because you know manufacturers just can't keep going on without saying there's no supply I don't have confirmed sustainable supply so yes other just jurisdictions are looking at different options they're looking at substitutions or recycling recycling is very very challenging post-consumer waste recycling of rare is because we just not there the the consumer products are designed in a way that makes recycling easy essentially so recycling something or other countries are looking at but it's not necessarily going to be something that's going to solve that that shortage in Canada we have the resources we've had some identify over 200 deposits and we have a number of advanced projects that we hope to see in each production in the next number of years like I said there's challenges with that and is there a projection of in years of when this could come to fruition and really be Canada could be a major producer well like each company has their own date for production you know a few years ago people were saying 2016 well we're 2016 doesn't happen yet 2020 is what I'm hearing now I think some of the country companies are getting close they're getting closer there's still a long way to go before you actually get a mine open so getting the process through getting all the different stages of the piloting done to go to the full scale it's a long way off but 2020 might be doable might be doable there are also other options to be able to look at rarers that may not necessarily use you know looking at constructing a mine we're looking at secondary sources of rarers so there are a number of places where rarers occur whether they be in certain types of mineways or agricultural byproducts the fertilizer industry byproducts we're looking for sources of them so that we don't have to necessarily go through extracting them from the ground then go into a full mining process so those are options too so again a lot of times it comes down to the processing and how we're going to get through there it was a very interesting very exciting file and very much enjoyed it I agree the next question is kind of a mouthful but it's a question we like to ask everybody we interview and it's really in your opinion kind of question so in your opinion are there any events people, inventions contributions, disasters anything really that pops into your head that must be mentioned when discussing the history of the natural resources in Canada and there's no wrong answer no, yeah it depends on how far back we go unfortunately what I think about is all the the negatives I think about the... I mean a negative could amount to positive changes I mean I think about things like a number of the tailings fields tailings accidents certainly those those may not be you know then up to the big change in terms of the discovery of the Ring of Fire but that could be another Sudbury what else in terms of technologies Canada has many contributions in terms of technologies I wouldn't say there's necessarily one more significance the other some of the the deeper mining that's taking place now some of the mines that even in the north I think now that we're seeing going in alternative energy applications at Ragland that's another good example I don't know I probably couldn't say people certainly there's a number of people who've made a huge contribution so yeah it's very good I should have researched that one just to add, yeah like I said it's a mouthful I'll just finish with two questions one is what are you proudest of in life and we can go more specifically what are you proudest of professionally professionally what am I proudest of that's probably another tough question for people I think a lot of us are very modest so it's difficult to say I think proudest my role in volunteering I think has been I'm proud of that I'm proud of being able to make a contribution that way scientifically I'm proud of the fact that I consider myself a pioneer in the whole sledge management area before that I don't think that that happened yeah those would be a couple of things personally if you go personally I often divide the question in half I ask in life and then I ask professionally those are good and one of my favorite ones last question is if you were talking to someone much younger like a student for example we had mentioned students and kids what would be your biggest piece of advice for most important life lesson you can give them in the future their careers well I would say I would tell them to try a career in the mining industry because it is it's a community of people that really care that it's a strong community it's a supportive community I would also tell them that they should need to put themselves out there get involved that's one of the things that my master's supervisor professor George Demopoulos told me when I graduated he he gave me this little book that I always remember being an engineer and this book like I still have it but it made a kind of a profound impact on me I don't know what else I just remember the one message was get involved find things to get involved I think that is a very good message that you know like you can sit back and wait for opportunities to come your way or you can look at everything as may not be the perfect fit for you but you're always going to learn from some experience so put yourself out there and get involved and it will lead to other opportunities and again and I think networking and community and I love this industry I just find that the people that I work with here as well as my network are an amazing group of people that personally and professionally and it's also typically Canadian I think it's kind of an underdog industry I like to root for the underdog and I think that there's a lot as we talked earlier there's a lot of value here and there's been a lot of contributions and we need to champion that and spread that message so I would encourage the certainly the younger demographic to get involved in this industry and there's something for everyone here whether you like to work in the cold north you like to work in the mill you like to work outside you like to work with paper you like to do finances there's something for everyone here and again the group of people that work in this industry are exceptional group of people very supportive of each other so it's welcoming it's kind of a place where you can feel that you feel home like you feel part of something and there's no end of things you can try and get involved with and that's very enriching challenges that's a rewarding part of your career is when you get to take on challenges thank you is there anything else you'd like to add? no I don't think so well thank you very much you're welcome finish right by two


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In today's episode, I'll explain why and help break down the steps that you can take to use story structure to craft a cleaner and more focused first draft. If you would like to read along as you listen in, make sure to head on over to well-sturried.com-pancer, a Panzer's Guide to Story Structure. If you consider yourself a Panzer, you likely don't spend much or any time pre-writing your stories prior to drafting. Instead, you write by the seat of your pants, using your first draft to explore and develop your story. But just because you don't find pre-writing helpful to your writing process doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of the power of story structure. Many Panzers mistakenly conflate story structure with the process of outlining or believe the misconception that utilizing structure results in unoriginal stories. In truth, all structure does is map the common beats, that is, turning points that give story shape and a sense of pacing. As a tool, structure is incredibly flexible. It's a skeleton that you get to decide how to dress. As a Panzer, considering structure can help you explore your story with clarity and direction, ultimately leading you to complete a cleaner and faster first draft. But to achieve this end, you must first understand how story structure operates. Understanding the basics of story structure. At the heart of every story is an arc, a sequence of events that builds in conflict and tension until it reaches a climactic moment and then resolves. This principle is the foundation of story structure, and it's one you likely internalized at a young age. What you might not have internalized in your youth is the difference between plot and character-driven arcs. In plot-driven arcs, the protagonist has a distinct story goal. For example, defeat the Dark Lord, win the competition, solve the murder. That places them in direct conflict with an antagonist or antagonistic force. Thus, plot-driven arcs hinge on external conflict. Rather than having a clearly defined story goal, protagonists in character-driven arcs find themselves in conflict with an inner demon. Be it a fear, flaw, or false belief, or in some cases, the temptation to stray from their values, character-driven arcs revolve around the protagonist's struggle with their internal antagonist. Most novel-length stories contain more than one arc. The arcs that don't take center stage are called subplots, and they exist to deepen the conflict at the heart of the story. To craft a strong first draft, define your core story arc as quickly as possible. Doing so will then allow you to explore additional structural elements that will ultimately guide you in crafting a powerful and well-paced story. What elements should you define next? If you've determined that you're crafting a plot-driven story, then you'll first need to define your protagonist's goal. Ask yourself what your character wants to achieve and how they plan to achieve it. Then ask the same questions of your antagonist. How will their goal or their plan to achieve it bring them in direct conflict with the protagonist? In asking these questions, you'll begin to develop scene ideas for your story, lending you a sense of clarity and direction as you write. But if you want readers to care about the conflict you're creating, you must also define what drives both of your primary characters to action. What led your protagonist and antagonist to adopt their goals? Developing believable motivations for your characters helps readers empathize with and invest in their journeys. If you've determined that you're crafting a character-driven story, then first consider your character's core fear, flaw, or false belief, or the temptation they'll struggle to resist. This element will serve as the crux of your arc's internal conflict. Next, explore the difference between what your character wants and what they need. In other words, what do they believe will bring them happiness or satisfaction? Or what unhappy fate do they believe they deserve? In a character-driven story, this desire or false belief stands in direct opposition to what your character actually needs to find their happy ending. For example, your character might believe that they're unworthy of love and therefore want to be left alone to seek what peace they can find. However, what your character truly needs to find peace is to accept the love that others show them. Alternatively, your character's greed might lead them to believe that wealth and fame will make them happy, only to learn the hard way that true happiness can only come from seeking contentment and cultivating rich relationships. To help bring your protagonist's internal conflict to life, consider developing an antagonist who, wittingly or unwittingly, praise upon your character's inner turmoil. Giving your antagonist an arc of their own can help you further craft a fully realized and well-developed story. For more on character goals, motivations, internal and external conflicts, and more, make sure to check out the links I've included in today's episode transcript at well-storied.com-pancer, defining key story structure beats. After exploring and defining these earlier elements of plot and character-driven story structure, you should have a much stronger sense of direction in your drafting process. But by taking your story structure knowledge one step further, cultivating a solid understanding of common story beats and sequences, you can work with additional clarity to draft a well-paced and plotted story. Let's take a look at these final structural elements together. Opening Chapters Hook The purpose of this opening story beat is to snag reader's attention and encourage them to invest in your story. Most hooks introduce readers to the story's protagonist, their everyday world, and the reason that they're in some way dissatisfied with that world. Insighting Incident This beat showcases the event that sets your story in motion, something in your protagonist's world changes, presenting them with an opportunity to overcome their dissatisfaction or introducing new conflict into their life. Note, sometimes a story's inciting incident also serves as its hook. First plot point This beat represents the point of no return in which your protagonist chooses or is forced to engage with the conflict at the heart of their story. In essence, it's at this moment that your protagonist's journey truly begins. Middle Chapters Reactive Steps When your protagonist first sets out on their journey, they will take tentative steps forward. Plagued by inner demons or a lack of knowledge or skill, they'll struggle to take effective action as the story's central conflict kicks into high gear. Midpoint Roughly halfway through your story, the protagonist will experience a revelatory instance of conflict. If your story is plot driven, the protagonist will come to understand the depth of the antagonist's power and or the dangers they face should they fail to achieve their goal. In a character driven story, the protagonist is forced to confront the reality of their false belief. Active Steps After the events of the midpoint, the protagonist no longer takes tentative action. Instead, they go on the offensive, taking an active role in combating the antagonist, striving to attain their goal more effectively, and or confronting their inner demons. Though they'll still struggle, these scenes see the protagonist gain a sense of confidence in themselves and their chosen path. Closing Chapters The Dark Knight of the Soul Unfortunately, the protagonist's new found confidence will come crumbling down when confronted with their breaking point. An event that leads your character to believe that all hope is lost. The Climactic Sequence Fortunately, most stories' protagonists rise from the ashes of the Dark Knight. With renewed confidence or hope, they take action to resolve the story's central conflict. In plot driven stories, the protagonist often overcomes the villain and or achieves their goal at this moment. In character driven stories, they finally confront their core fear, flaw, or false belief, and choose to reject it once and for all. Resolution With the climactic sequence complete, the protagonist addresses any remaining threads of conflict or tension and establishes their new reality. In some plot driven stories, the protagonist won't achieve their goal until this time. In character driven stories, the protagonist embraces their new truth and makes amends for the harm they've caused as a result of their inner conflict. Use these story beats and sequences as guideposts in your journey to a complete draft. Bearing them in mind as you write can help cut through the overwhelm of determining what to write next at any given moment. No more chasing threads of story ideas into dead ends. Structure holds the power to transform your understanding of story and how to write it for the better. So tell me, Panzer, how will you incorporate story structure into your writing process today? Thank you for listening to today's episode of the podcast writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode and to give the podcast a quick rating and review. Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers and lets me know that you're enjoying what I'm creating. You can also give me a shout out directly on twitter at christen underscore keeper. For additional guidance as you work to craft sensational novels and build your best writing life, be sure to head on over to www.well-storied.com where I share blog posts, workbooks, e-courses, and other helpful resources for writers. Again, that's www.well-storied.com. Thank you again for tuning in to today's episode my friend. Until next time, happy writing!


My name is Martin Zizzi. We are teams Canada from Mountain View, California. Imagine a world in which, instead of going to the doctor, you can send your ECG trace or you can send some form of your vital sign just to see if you have to go to an hospital. Imagine a world in which your insurance company needs to reimburse you for some medication but you need to at least go once a week or once a month to see a medical professional. Imagine if you could do that from the comfort of your home because you can record yourself. So it really changed the economy and the way we move about and around healthcare. Whatever this mobile revolution will bring about, we will never replace doctors. They just will act and work with the technology in a different way. The company in Canada was built or founded at the same time the tricorder expires was announced. For me it's quite exciting because I think we reach a level where the technology is there to make it. Scannadoo is a consumer oriented company. What's unique about us is that we cram all sensing device in a single small bug size device. By having data fusion you can reach pretty high accuracy level which is needed. The technology Scannadoo helps building will make us the last generation to know so little about our health. If only one person in the next 12 month or 15 month get a warning sign, go see a doctor because your heart has a huge problem and that the person avoid heart attack or sudden death. Then all of this will have been worth and then really start to enable new concept of preventive medicine. Checking your health as frequently as you check your email will become routine and in the end it's about responsibility.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. It is Thursday noon folks, Ted Rawson here in our Think Tech studio is overlooking downtown Honolulu. Of course we just moved the studio to Kapa'a, I think this is the particular time for the show, where the drone leads. One of our favorite shows here on Think Tech, and we normally have someone on, we talk about heavy political, heavy technical, heavy operational subjects related to drones and such. We have drones here on the table. Last week we had a drone that spanned the entire table, and in fact we needed a new table because the drones are getting bigger than the table is. Anyway, today we have one of the more enjoyable aspects of our conversation, and that's how we interview a man on the street here in Hawaii about drones, and what popular perceptions exist, what direction Hawaii is going, all of these sorts of things. So today's man on the street we selected randomly. Is none other than your name, sir? Fidel. Is that your first name? No, Jay. Jay's your first name? Fidel was the guy in Cuba. Right, right, you still, he's not here anymore, right? No, he's gone. Okay, so you are Fidel Jay or Jay Fidel? Jay Fidel, that's the one. Jay Fidel, is your like a middle-initial or like extra something? I'm the man on the street. You're the man on the street, so Jay, man on the street, Fidel. Yeah. Welcome aboard, sir. Thanks for coming on the show today. Thank you very much. You're Rawson, wasn't it? That would be, I'm not sure, I can check. Something about food, about dog food or something like that. I have a driver's license that probably has it on, and if I was younger I'd remember it, but at this point in time I'd just read something and then go with that. In fact, if the rules on the show, no monologues, okay, state your name and your organization, your association, and such, and if you run out of things to say, you can just turn to the teleprompter and there's something on there you can probably say. Okay, so think tech away streams live on the internet from 11 o'clock to 5 o'clock, that would be an example of that. Okay, you want something? I do, yeah. Okay, we're in our thanks for think tank program. Oh, let's talk about the thanks for think tank. Maybe you've probably got some mail about that. I probably did, right? Have you responded? It's very important that you do that. Okay. We have to stay alive. We need the funding. Right. Our business model is the generosity of our hosts, our guests, our underwriters and our directors, and to some extent the public. So the idea is that you as a host would go to the website, you'd make a website, you'd talk to your friends, family, colleagues, and you'd try to get them to make contributions to think tank so we can keep on going to pay our operational expenses. And thanks for think tank. Sort of sounds like a Thanksgiving theme that people could take, right? It's true. It's the month of November. Think tank, right? We hope to raise $40,000. We've raised almost four so far, and we need your help, Ted. Are you helping, Ted? I absolutely help. People will absolutely help. But we'll take our man on the streets advice here and generate now. By having you say, I am the generator website, you must be thinking I'm like 16 or younger or something like that. But we have people who will help you do that. People my age don't do websites. And they will help you write letters to your friends and family and colleagues. And you're the key. You're the key to our survival. Okay. I will respond to your suggestive pressure. And we'll go forward here. I'll find somebody under 16. My wife acted pretty good at this stuff, so I'll ask her. No, it's easy to do it. Yeah. Margie, you got the whole new job, right? Okay. So the whole issue is here. Think Tank. Think Tech is a Think Tank. Thank you. Think Tech brings a lot of value to the people. I know it brings value in this particular subject. We popularize information about drones. And you're here for that reason. But I think I once again will say we'll absolutely take it on the role to generate oxygen and revenue and funds that keep the place going. Yeah. We've got to pay the expenses. Otherwise, there's no platform for anybody. And you know, and here's what I can do. I can volunteer to cut my salary 50%. Would that help? Yeah. And I could get a raise by 10,000 times. I'd still make about the same. The same as you're making now. Okay. You're right. Okay. So we'll keep pushing ahead to get support and keep popularizing the concept of Think Tech away and the particular expostulation of information about drones that we do here on a weekly basis. Very important. Okay. And keeping people current. Okay. Keeping them current. Now, speaking of currency and keeping people current, you have a piece of paper here with nothing written on it. Nothing. Okay. Your script. You're not going to follow a script. No. I'm doing mental today. Mental stuff. Actually, not good at following scripts, as I recall from past programs, right? So the script wouldn't do any good anyway. Moving right along. The subject. Drones are going to be taking on a really interesting twist here. Probably more than a twist in the next week or two. You know, we had a conversation with Alan Oshima yesterday. You know who that is? I know who very much. He's the CEO of Hawaiian Electric. Yep. And he was talking about drones. I thought of you. I always think of you when somebody talks about drones. He was talking about how they have an increased number. And in fact, the utility industry around the country has an increased number of them. Why? Because they can observe the power lines. They can observe, you know, failings in the power lines. Whether the power line fails or, you know, is involved in bad weather or whatever. Is this part of a man on the street interview? Yeah. True. And so I was really impressed that, you know, that's part of their new technology initiative to have drones. Utility companies need drones too. And if you think about it, you know, anybody in business would have a need for a drone. So my question to you, and you can segue to what you want to talk about. Oh, okay. My question to you, Ted, why don't we have drones everywhere? What's holding us back? Well, it's a very interesting question. Certainly, there's policy, procedure, and doctrine. That's always a factor that people are worried about. It sounds like bureaucracy to me. Erocracy is a factor in there as well. But Hawaii Electric Company, Illinois Shima and Company, and Joanne Wilkinson, who actually started the program within HECO about two or three years ago, really saw the value and took the risk, but they did everything right. HECO really stood this program up right. They started with the survey department within the company and went from there into the trouble department and expanded out, showed value, and showed that it can be properly maintained and controlled, and the risk can be managed. And that's what HECO did. And it's now, I think, on its own, and it's finding a way forward within the larger organization. But again, it was not done by just barging in. It was done by extreme care and making sure that every T was crossed and every I dotted in terms of procedures and having protective equipment on and respecting the rights of people in terms of not being inspected for. Is this your answer to my question? It was a very long answer, wasn't it? No, I like it. I like the answer. I think what you're alluding to is that not everybody can do that. I think that an organization that may not have the structural behavior that HECO has, or a large infrastructure, may not be able to follow those stipulations and guidelines and such, and would have run into some problems here and there. Small companies, however, like wedding photography and things like this, real estate photography, there's a lot of that going on. We've had Mike Mike. That's right, Mike. Yeah, I had drone service on the show many times. Yeah, many times. Mike Elliott and his partner on Lineye, George Birdie, we will take the obligation to get some B-roll for you. That would be good. And in fact, if maybe one thing we could do here is suggest a mission or a particular event that ThinkTec is on and go back to the show. I think that's a good question. Mike Elliott and his partner on Lineye, George Birdie, we will take the obligation to run and go partner up with that and get the actual live data from it. Yeah, we have several things going on. Not for the next couple of days. Just so everybody knows, the president's coming to town so there's a temporary flight restriction, nothing flies on a flight. We have expectations from him, too. And they are what? Oh, there's not enough time here today. Sorry. Well, what I was getting at to get back to the script on the telepond right there. Feel free. The Department of Transportation is following suit behind a presidential announcement of last week and there will be pilot programs competed and someone's going to win the competition for putting systems like this in operation on a daily basis near airports in a city near U. We certainly hope that one of those cities near U is a city on the one case for testing and Honolulu in the case for operations. So we're going to kind of beginning to gather the troops about with ideas and capabilities that can support a Hawaii response to this solicitation. So is this a competition of some? Well, we don't know because tomorrow we'll hear from the Department of Transportation what they have in their mind and to show how fast this is moving from the Department of Transportation FAA just announced this morning just an hour or two ago that they're going to have this big webinar three times tomorrow and Monday to provide information. So they're moving as fast as from Washington. So Washington's actually moving fast and there's something behind this we don't quite understand at this point in time but we're going to need congressional delegation support and understanding because nothing happens without a good strong connection there. We may need connection with a few other states. We have this Pan-Pacific Commander Systems Test Range notion as you know. And that may be an authorization and an authority so to speak that's useful to us. We'll find that out. A lot to be discovered in the next couple of days. We'll have a guest on next week David Place, we'll be telling us about what he's come up with on where this is all going. We have a lot of NASA investment research the last five years in a program called UTM Unmanned Traffic Management which contributes to this. Our job, your job too as the man on the street is going to be to collect all these threads, pull them together into vectors and summarize all those into a compelling proposal that cannot be turned down. Well the guy who was going to show up today is going to be rather hear the webinar first. You should have him back to report on the webinar. He's coming on next Thursday. He can record it too. We do that a lot. These programs take on a life of their own afterwards on YouTube. Maybe bring it back for the show and we can hear a small part of it anyway to see what the essence is. My big question to you about this and you must know some part of the answer already is what happens if you win? What happens if they select you and bestow you? What are they bestowing on you? It looks like they'll be bestowing for the first time ever in this domain of FAA solicitations as funding to cover a project. Federal government money? That would be what I would call it. Is this a research project? Again we'll know tomorrow after we hear more. You're making me more curious every minute. Every day we're getting more curious and getting more information. We'll really nail this thing good and hard next Thursday on this show but we'll hear the first dribs of information about tomorrow.  So some kind of a staged evolution of... So make me the FAA. Make you the FAA? So we're having a webinar or we're otherwise in touch and I say to you Ted there's a lot of states want this there's a lot of organizations around the country want this and they're capable and they have lots of engineers and experience and drones for that matter. They have capital, they've developed it and all why should I come to Hawaii? What is it about Hawaii that makes it interesting for me in the FAA? I think there's a really good answer to that Mr. FAA. And that is that Hawaii has a very complex airspace environment. We've got the very low level traffic which is unmanned air systems. We've got the helicopter traffic with tours which is above that. We've got the VFR traffic above that and we've got the airlines and we've got the military. We've got this bunch of pancakes of air usage here. Plus we've got a fairly strenuous wind and turbulence environment especially corner wind is one thing trade wind is the other there's a lot of ground drafts on the leeward side Good for testing. Good for testing the drones. Perfect for that. And we have rainstorm, bands of rain that periodically come through. So if you can solve the problem in Hawaii and make it work in Hawaii you can probably make it work anywhere. Wouldn't you be concerned there's a lot of aircraft up there anyway? If I'm in Arizona in the desert there's not much competing aircraft here but guess what we have? We have a certified UAS test range area and the same situation you described in Arizona applies online. There isn't much traffic. So we can test these things and test them to exhaust technically in that environment and then where there's no competing traffic and bring them over here to Oahu and examine them in the presence of real traffic. What a great combination. The other thing they require and this is the same thing with Amazon and a few years ago with Google they wanted to come to Hawaii and they wanted Amazon they want to bestow some kind of Amazon fulfillment center in the case of Google they wanted to make us a Google special place they're going to give us broadband and wireless and all that. We didn't succeed on Google I doubt we're going to succeed on Amazon but you know the question is will. It's will of the existing industry of guys like you your friends the industry as it exists do we have what it takes do we have the you know the fights do we have the vitality to do it and in asking that question we go back say two years you and I spoke about this we were designated I guess by the FAA as part of a special deal with Alaska some kind of special region to test on drones what have we done have we met their expectations are we a leader because of that what have we done to fill that space so to speak and does that show that we have necessary vitality to meet the expectations of the FAA for this program now are you running for office just observing on the street for a guy as an office street man on the street interview that was a serious challenge and a question let's pick up the answer to that after I have a chance to think about it during our break this is Think Tech Hawaii raising public awareness guys don't forget to check me out right here at the Prince of Investing I'm your host Prince Dykes each and every Tuesdays at 11am Hawaii time I'm gonna be right here stop by here from some of the best investment minds across the globe and real estate, finances, stocks, hedge funds managers all that great stuff thank you welcome back to the second half of our show where the drone leads folks Ted Rawlsson here hosting our show from the downtown Honolulu Studios of Think Tech and as you heard from our men on the street randomly chosen randomly chosen we have a campaign going on to generate the revenue income anyway you want to do it don't forget thanks for Think Tech Ted here is going to be talking to you and trying to get you to make a contribution to Think Tech so we can keep going it's very important that we raise some money okay got that I got that and I even volunteered I gotta do it now it's November we're well into November already today's November 2nd already we're well into November for a man on the street you come with some really sharp knives I know what day of the week it is Ted I'm really something man it was an experience practice education contemplation and thinking you've been thinking during our one minute break about the question I put to you before right and I'm not going to stress our audience with a two minute no it's you I want to stress not the audience but the question that our man on the street interviewee selected was twofold actually in fact it might have been a leading question it might not be visible in court but it had to do with what has Hawaii done with the designation of an unmanned test range and what makes Hawaii unique and if Hawaii won this thing we're going to do about it really well that's a good follow-up question that was where you started I'll ask you that question I just sent your questions in reverse and just struck them that way because each year I wanted to handle I can think while I'm answering the first one about how am I answering the second one now I know you're a secret okay I just read the teleprompter that's how my secret is so anyway what has Hawaii done that's a most interesting question just the setting stage here it didn't contribute any money or Congress didn't put any money on it it was simply a designation Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, now Mississippi and Kansas were bundled together and became the logical grouping well as you know the Pacific Ocean used to lapse at the shores of the Midwest back in the Pleistocene era so those are really Pacific states if you go back in your geography far enough this is going to be on the final exam yes it will be anyway we are the extreme climate states we have nasty weather in the wintertime we have nasty weather all day long we have saltwater intrusion we have all kinds of things that electronics and mechanical systems just fail under when we expose them to our environment so that's what the role at Hawaii and the other states have and for that designation we have a lot of latitude in terms of operation beyond the limits of the FAA today to expose systems to these kind of limits so we've had probably a dozen inquiries from companies who want to come out here and test in fact some of them aren't interested in having their names known because that can be considered preparatory information but our environment is useful for what we call function and reliability testing that means you just do lots of cycles and try to basically beat them up find the failure points if you find the failure points here you may Arizona a lot better than it would if we didn't find it who's doing it? the university has arrangements with certain areas including our own property where that can be done and we've got again several companies that are asking for that capability second thing that's opened up is what's called the beyond line of sight operations beyond line of sight means right now you can't fly these things right now as far as you can see them but by careful development of the software design in the flight management system and ground surveys and ADSB and other sensor systems it is possible to show that you can be safe beyond line of sight and that's a very interesting area to the FAA so technology take us there now can you in fact do that certainly you can, the question can you do it at an economic scale that is going to be useful to the, well the economic scale at a legal level you have to of course you have to meet the requirements what kind of a man on the street are you anyway you're asking all these legal questions you do a lot of walking well they must make you think a lot when you do them walking because the questions are hard to answer so anyway that's what Hawaii is on Hawaii has actually used that authorization to open discussion and dialogue with companies including one just this week and that's also given us an authority however to work beyond just business and work with our own important agencies, fire department, police department the Pacific command Coast Guard and such so we've actually done a lot of Who's we? We, the University of Hawaii Applied Research Lab I'm the director of One of them, we have Josh Levy who was on the show last week who is our coordinator we've got Joshua Bagdadi who is our recently hired what we call Spectrum Guy and we have Noah Hefner also fairly recently hired who is our big data and analyst so what's emerging here I don't know if you said it in so many words is that you have been a leader in this, I mean part of it actually has been your show here in Think Tech but you have been a leader of it and you're a magnet for other people and now you're at the Applied Research Center at the University in Manoa this makes the University a magnet and I think when you say we, you're saying the University and he's saying that I'm saying that there's a lot of people out there in organizations that do not have drones do not have expertise in drones who are going to be calling on you because you're going to be the coordinator, the expert and the leader in this area so gee whiz this is all a phenomenon that's happening right here in our doorstep and it happened, a lot of it happened right here they can call on the University Applied Research Lab for guidance for programs, for partnerships for work with the students, work with the companies work with the Department of Defense and agencies whatever it may be we'll be glad to use our program charge them, do you charge them we can't charge them but we can generate programs together and put our students on these programs and go do development work that also leads, the kids find a place where they might work when they're done with school the kids and you wage so actually how do I get into your program, I want to do this I mean I'll be a student what do I study and who do I write to how much time do I have to put in I'll give you my car, you can get a hold of me and we can bring you in and train you and we can show you how to operate these things show you how to design software the other thing you can do is contribute to our fundraising campaign here at Think Tech we got to make sure we continue to think about that we probably also want you to be a contributor financially to our overall success yeah that includes you by the way right alrighty, and I think this brings us pretty much to the end of our the end of our man on the screen we didn't even get to by answering the question the way I answered I avoided having to answer your other question which was the question you started with have you forgotten a question or have you already prosecuted no no that must have been important to you otherwise you wouldn't have asked it and that was what's Hawaii going to do if Hawaii actually wins this thing let's talk about that next time on this same show after the FAA webinar tomorrow I'm so excited about that you'll have to tell us about it I'll send you the link and you can join in we'll all be waiting, we'll all be participating we want to know everything we all do, okay thanks for coming on the show today don't forget to contribute to our campaign the same to you sir okay, very good we'll see you all next week folks thanks for thinking


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the question which says that show that a64b5-2 and c7-2 are the vertices of an isosceles triangle also find the length of the median through a. Now before starting the solution of this question we should know our result and that is if the coordinates of the point a are given by x1, y1 and the coordinates of the point v are given by x2, y2 then by distance formula av is equal to x2 whole square plus y1 minus y2 whole square. Now this result will work out as a key idea for solving out this question and now we will start with the solution. Now given a triangle abc in which the coordinates of a point b minus 2 and the coordinates of c are 7 minus 2 proof that this triangle is an isosceles triangle. Now for this we will find the length of all the sides by using the distance formula that is this formula which is given in the key idea and if the length of any two sides will be equal then the triangle is isosceles. Now let us take the coordinates of a as x1, y1 the coordinates of b as x2, y2 and the coordinates of c as x3, y3. Now by distance formula this ab is equal to square root of 2 whole square plus y1 minus y2 whole square. Now putting the values of x1, y1 and x2, y2 here this implies ab is equal to square root of 5 whole square plus this of minus 2 which is equal to square root of which is further equal to square root of 1 plus 36 which is equal to root 37. Therefore the length of the side ab is equal to root 37 units. The length of the side bc will be equal to square root of x3 whole square plus y2 minus y3 whole square. Now putting the values of x2, y2 and x3, y3 here this implies bc is equal to square root of minus 7 whole square minus of minus 2 whole square equal to square root of minus 2 whole square plus 0 whole square which is equal to root 4 which is further equal to 2. Therefore the length of the side bc is equal to 2 units. Now again by distance formula will be equal to square root of whole square plus y1 minus y3 whole square. Now putting the values of x1, y1 and x3, y3 here this will be equal to square root of x minus 7 whole square plus 4 minus of minus 2 whole square which is equal to square root of minus 1 square plus 6 which is further equal to square root of 1 plus 36 which is equal to root 37. Therefore ac is equal to root 37 units also root 37 units equal to ac is equal to root 37 units. This implies triangle a, b, c is an i and 2 sides of the triangle. The length of median through a numbered ad side bc at the point that d is the midpoint. Now the coordinate point formula plus x3 by 2 by 2 plus y3 by 2 as d is the midpoint of b. So this will be equal to putting the values of x2 by 2 and x3 by 3 here this will be 5 plus 7 by 2 and minus 2 minus 2 by 2 12 by 2 and minus 4 by 2 which is further equal to 6 and minus 2 of d. So the coordinates of d are 6 minus 2 and let us take it as x4 by distance formula this ad which is the length of the median is equal to square root of x4 whole square minus y4 whole square which is equal to square root of which is equal to square root of 0 square which is equal to root 36 which is equal to 6. Therefore the median ad is equal to 6 units. Now the given question and that is all for this session hope you all have enjoyed this session.


I want to do that. That's what I want to do. I want to teach economics, and I want to do it, as well as that guy does it. My name is Emily Chambley Wright. I am a proud alumna of George Mason University and the Mercatus Center. I am also a board member of the Mercatus Center, and I am currently the president and CEO of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. My journey began as someone who wanted to do something practical that would complement her somewhat impractical desire to work in the arts. I was a student of dance, and so it looked like the arts was going to be my career path. And I also knew, though, that I needed to be realistic, that working at the top tier as a performer was just not in the cards for me. I knew that, but I knew I wanted to be in the business, so I was thinking the practical thing to connect the two would be to get a business degree, because that would allow me to have a career in business administration in the arts, for example, or in arts administration. And so along the path of getting my business degree, I had to take an econ course, and this was at George Mason University. I was terrified at taking that course, and I studied really hard, and it turns out that I had an affinity for it, and I really loved it, and I really wanted to do more of it, and as soon as I asked when my next econ class was, they said, no, you're done, now it's all finance and accounting from here on out. And I thought, what a shame, I want to do more econ, so I took that as a sign that maybe I needed to change majors. So I shifted my major to economics as an undergraduate student, and pretty soon I met Don LaVoy, who was a professor within the center that would become the Mercatus Center. Don's courses were transformational for me. Really early on in my work with Don, he would turn to his students, and he would ask the question, you know, how is it that a civilization that produced some of the greatest philosophy, the greatest music, the greatest works of art of all time, how is it that that society systematically murdered six million of its own people? That question stopped me in my tracks, and then he asked me the question, and what is it about the economic policies that that regime pursued that is part of the answer to that question? And he said that it was our duty as students of economics to understand the connection between the economic policies that are pursued within a regime and these kinds of systemic outcomes, atrocities like the world had never seen before. And from there I was hooked. The hairs on the back of my arm still stand up when I think about that moment. And that evening I went home and I kept thinking about it. What was it that I was going to do with this, this profound experience of learning economics in this way from this particular professor? And the answer just came back like a thunderbolt, which was, I want to do that. That's what I want to do. I want to teach economics, and I want to do it as well as that guy does it. And so, Mercatus right from the beginning was part of forming me as a scholar and set me on my career path as an academic. And that eventually turned into academic leadership as a dean and provost of a small liberal arts college. But it then also brought me full circle back to George Mason, where I'm now the president of the Institute for Human Studies.


evil tool, why are governments against psychedelic drugs in general. I did a little video on this, I might have done a little write-up, but to put it simply centralized power is against psychedelics is because it gives people a higher perspective. It gives people a higher perspective. When you get a higher perspective, all of a sudden you see all the games play and how everything's connected. So psychedelic entheogens in general, one of the main things they teach you is that everything's connected. We're all connected. There's no such thing individually called politics or economics or education or food. It's all connected. There isn't just me or just you or just white, black, red, brown, yellow. There isn't just animals and humans. It's not just about kitty cats or doggos. It's everything.


I love that Yanis was feisty and I've never seen him kind of turn up like that. I've never seen any negative, you know, kind of right media towards him. But yeah, this this is super lame from Montrez hero. I get it. This is his role. This is why he's brought here. He's the tough guy of the team. But like every team does that every team pre post. They share the locker room, the training room. If I wanted to go to the cold tub in Atlanta when I'm playing them, they let you go. It's kind of a mutual understanding. Guys have been doing it for years. Guys shoot to me. This is this is super whack and petty by Harold. The guy he's trying to work on his game. He had a bad game. There's another end of the court. I don't know if the hoop was up or not. But this this has been happening for years. Guys always do this pre and post game. But some arenas, there's a practice facility connected to it. So, you know, the home team can go there and give the guys the main court. Just honestly, I think it's hilarious. I think it's funny, but it's super unprofessional from Harold. And I think I think it's uncalled for.


Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoke Way, I'm Jessica. In today's video is an unboxing of the Land of Storybooks box. The Land of Storybooks is inspiring family connection through the magic of stories. Turn family read a lot of time into a discovery of wonder, truth, goodness, and beauty. Each box has a rich, beautiful novel, two arts and crafts with supplies, and a colorful adventure guide filled with recipes, a service project idea, book discussion questions, picture book recommendations, and more. And you also receive a special sealed letter to your children from the Storybook friends, Sam and Lucy each month, as well as a free bonus digital download. So let's go ahead and open November's box. Here is that special sealed letter from Sam and Lucy. And it is on a very nice paper and printed beautifully. And it looks like this month's book is Farmer Boy. So here are two Farmer Boy stickers that your kids will get. And then the Farmer Boy book, which this one is in color. We have the other color edition, so I'm excited that this one is the color edition as well. And then here is that adventure guide. So within this adventure guide, at the very beginning, you have your notes to parents, here is your bookmark that you can cut out to use while you're reading the book. And cultivate wonder by creating together. So those two activities or crafts that you have the supplies and can create are handmade soy candles and horse ornaments. And then here's another parent tip. You can go on a scavenger hunt through the chapters of the book right here. Cultivating truth by discussing together. So these are all different discussion questions and discussions that you can have with your child while you're reading through the novel. Cultivate goodness by feasting together. So here is your recipe, which is Mother Wilder's Donuts this month. And to cultivate beauty, you can serve together. So it has an idea for volunteering at your local animal shelter or local farm to cultivate that beauty by serving together.  And then there's additional picture book suggestions if you would like to read more. And then these are the craft kits. So you can see this would be your horse ornament. It comes with two nice wooden ornaments, some twine, two paint brushes and two paint palettes. So everything you need for that craft is in this one bag. So you would just be able to pull it out and do that craft. And then here is everything you need for those soy candles. You have four tins, four wicks, four clothespins and all of the soy candle melt pieces there.  And you guys know I love when they make it easy for you.