d say those two meetings and 2017 you know and um one final meeting that i have to tell you about which was massive i had been telling the chief inspector over all the police and oh my yeah a man who got to know pretty well and i had a meeting with him in september 2018 and i went to the meeting he wasn't aware that i had the apology this time but i'd been keeping him in the picture what was happening regarding um everything that was going on and i went down to him at a two-hour meeting with him my friend was with me and i led the whole thing down and took it from start to finish and i says my good man we have the final piece of the jig saw here the day and you have a job to do and i threw down the apology in front of him and he said to me um this is terribly serious these people need to remove them or place of work well i says you have the authority to do it it needs to be done he says i will see that there's something done this is we have to go through the criminal the criminal he felt it was criminal what had went on and i feel it was criminal too um he says we have to go through the criminal investigation unit and enter him but i had that meeting with him in 2018 and i never heard a word from him after that not one word i went to the ombudsman and they came back with nothing to investigate and are you pursuing that in the north like is it important you want your record expunged cleared up there too i mean or could you not say or does any part of you say you know what i've been at this now since effectively 2010 2011 well man i'm gonna let it slide like what motivates you to keep at it what motivates me to keep at this Greg is these people are still in a place of work it's for other people not to be not this not to happen to somebody else something has to be done within the system to stop this happening northern Ireland again you know that and this is years on down the line i even tried this summer to meet with the court children's officer with all this stuff and make her aware of proceedings that concluded in southern Ireland last December in the high court but she wasn't prepared to meet with me so it's a clear cover up totally in northern Ireland by the PSN what is the root cause of this is any part of this or was any part of this about concerns for children's welfare or at some point did you run run people up the wrong way no and then you were gonna do you get where i'm coming from i went into every meeting gracious i i never raised my voice but i'm trying to what was the motivation to do you get where i'm coming from i think it's not the child welfare that it must be you or something what was i'll tell you what i think happened i think there was a light hold at the very beginning and social workers didn't act those five social workers didn't act on the benefit of the children and instead of dealing with a problem that was very early the whole thing got a snowball effect and and and it was a snowball they couldn't handle at the end and i i kept hanging in there and there's a snowball they couldn't handle at the end you know um you know so that's where we're at today all right well let us under the court last week um you know i've told us you know there's a couple of these things that i've must hear in there i know there's things flashing in my head there's so much i know but i think to be honest with you what you have told us is is is uh it's shocking it can't happen again but unfortunately it is happening uh and i hope and you in you speaking out with the backing that you have that that but i think we can't expect change from say for instance what's happening in northern island unless it's recognized there was a problem you see you can't move forward and sort of make sure this doesn't happen to other people until they say right you know we completely got this wrong and what we did was wrong well greg this is this is an opportunity now for our minister here and their public of ireland to approach northern ireland and get this opened up and get this addressed and get it sorted out and i would hope that they would be able to come forward and apologize in the north as well this is happening in the south because it's clear to see as social worker he admitted to me as the tuzzle representative who carried out the the um investigation into the case said i sat in a meeting with the CEO um off um tuzzle and he admitted to myself and a member from now my friend that this was clearly come from northern ireland they orchestrated this this was a witch hunt and i have to compliment them all i gotta give them 10 out of 10 they give it a damn good try well they nearly destroyed you yeah only for your own resilience and the people around you and uh deputies interference they may have succeeded they may they probably would okay you know i just want to finish be saying yes well i know i'm probably on here far longer and i should be well it's wednesday now not many jokes it's important william go and finish up with what you want to say um you know people would come and say to me how did you do that or how did you get through that yeah and what i would say to people is that um i read sam 51 every morning i'm a son of myself and my son is before me greg i'm not a perfect person i'm not a perfect parent and i want to say to forgive all these people who have done what they've done to me family if they were here now i would say to them i forgive you and the only reason i got through this was um there's two verses that stand out for me so much as my mom used to always say this to me i can do all three gives me strength and no weapon farmed against me shall prosper and the only reason that i'm here today is because of my belief full belief in the lord jesus christ or i would not be here today and i would never have got this far pierce helped me i had close friends around me but that's the reason i'm sitting here today to tell this story and i would pray that something could be done that this would not happen to another family that's what i would ask jesus near my pray on that note listen thank you for all your time this morning i appreciate it's a very difficult story to have to relive because it in time lining it and picking up particular meetings and instances you happen to go through that again in that emotion that you felt on those days um but i think as you say it's important and we need to change the system that you know it needs to be held to account um but william for now listen thanks so much thank you great for having me and best wishes to you and all of your family thank you chanel flower bomb long con georgio mani paco robin where else but at mickey's chemist lettery kenny this christmas sponsors of today's nine till noon show send christmas smiles from alcorn's festive flower selection lovingly remember those we miss with the tribute from our christmas selection all our orders are handmade in store so please order early wishing you your best christmas from all at 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moment great to have you with us paul i might start with you if that's okay because uh you know work is continuing in terms of you know analysis investigation research into um what is causing thousands of homes across donnelly gall in the country uh to fall to bits effectively and we're learning all the time and there's been quite a significant breakthrough uh hasn't there been in terms of understanding defective concrete and and the extent to which it damages the property both above and below ground i suppose you could say yeah that's right i mean i mean you're well well aware that we were commissioned by geological survey of ireland they run a large research project a half a million euro research project that was funded by the department of housing local heritage and local government heritage uh so this is a fact of the government funded research and we were commissioned to look at defective concrete block homes in donnelly gall and we've looked at the outer leaf inner leaf rising blocks and also for the first time the foundation concrete destroyer foundation which hasn't been looked at before and we have found direct evidence that the primary mechanism of failure is a process known as internal sulphate attack which is caused by piratite it's happening on the inner walls outer walls rising blocks and there's also the beginning phase of that with sulfur being released in the strip foundation so that's the first time we now know that basically all concrete units in the house are at risk of failure and failing quite badly particularly in the other leaf so just in relation to that it won't happen will it at the same pace necessarily as the outer leaf and then the inner leaf but it would seemingly then make no sense to rebuild a house on top of these foundations because over time and that's yet to be determined they are likely to fail yeah well it's clear that the problem is sulfur that's being released with piratite which turns into sulfuric acid and starts chemical reactions in the concrete and then the foundations that we've looked at on this research project we have found clear evidence that piratite is at the early stage of oxidizing which is releasing the sulfur and once you've got the sulfur released into the cement and the concrete then you've got the potential there for internal sulfur attack to progress it'll it's going to progress at a slower rate for different reasons and I have to leave it 11-25 so I'm going to pass on the andres and andres can take you across on the technical leaf yes but there are different conditions that will dictate whether it happens at a faster or slower rate and I know you have another appointment and this is completely our fault paul and we will return to it but so is you have time I'll say goodbye to you now and I know andres is I think he's got the qualifications to carry this forward hasn't he'll be all right okay listen paul professor paul donlock thank you very much indeed I appreciate it so andres what does this mean then in terms of the the current scheme and its current workings we can't have sort of the scheme and the science and then this science sort of running side by side and not intertwining can we it would make no sense of course the results of the research they have to directly fall into the decision-making and you know right now we know that the the rising wall and the foundations are affected as well and if you have this internal sulfur attack you have different phases you have a first phase that is linked to the formation of ettringite that causes expansion and the second phase linked to the formation of tomaside that causes strand loss now if you look at the different components of a home the outer leaf strongest affected is at the beginning of this strand loss phase of the three affected houses that we have now looked in and the rising wall is in full swing it's expanding and we are at the very early stage in the foundation this causes well has different implications now imagine you have a your home is standing on the rising wall that let's say expands one percent if your rising wall is two meters high this will uplift your entire home for two centimeters and this of course it's in homogenous and it will cause cracking so this is terrible so i mean what does this i'm sorry to ask the basic question because an awful lot of people listening to us particularly those affected by it will really the science is important but we'll want to know what it means for their homes and really for the scheme so you know the scheme there are buildings still working through there's options you know different options outer leaf inner leaf demolition there's still no decision seemingly on on on the foundation so some people might go well i don't want to progress if i'm going to end up having to toss this house again in ten or fifteen years so i know it's the government's job to sort of work with the science that you're providing but what do you think this means to the current scheme and how we're resolving the problem of defective concretes conclusions is clear everything has to be removed uh outer in inner leaf clearly the rising wall and then i mean it's a question what is a home built for is it a one generation home or should it be a family home for for uh more generations if you look at a longer time scale then it's clear the foundation has to be replaced because these homes that we have studied are 20 years old and yes we have the start of internal sulfate attack and we will have expansion at one point and uh if you think okay your home is for 20 25 years then you're okay but if you think in longer time scales i would clearly recommend the foundations to be replaced is this with all the science that has been done is this very specific to a specific area where quarrying takes place and the quarry in practices or are you finding out anything that expands your concern beyond where it seems the majority of this concrete came from well it is the source of the aggregate is clear where it is and all the concrete that was produced with this type of aggregate has the potential to be to be deteriorating cracking and so on of course we know of other quarries that contain iron sulfates as well for example we know the myocases with the fromboidal pyrite that is a problem as well but the pyrite here in the oracle that's all coming from the same rock formations all right i mean this is incredibly valuable information not just for us here in dunagore but this is this is this uh work that you've been doing has national ram sorry global ramifications if you know what i mean i know it's going to be unveiled in quebec but you know this is really important information i think for every country going forward i think so and it clearly shows that the standard for aggregates the european standard the clear specifies the upper limit of solver present in your aggregates if you have pyrite that is more or less correct because the homes that we have investigated now the the the solver continent is far above this limit value and if there would have been any action to make markets or regions in in ireland at the point or from the point where this stand was published 202 then the entire disaster would have been preventable all right it is fascinating stuff i'd love to return to this with you and the professor when when it's just been one of those days here um uh andreas but thank you so much for your time it's great to have access to someone who's uh leading this research because it's so critical thank you so much have a lovely day that's uh andreas leman there who is a group lead uh with the concrete technology we heard to from professor paul donlop school of geography and environmental science ulster university it is the nine till noon show coming up very shortly we are go i've just a note in here from councillor frank webberty we are the first to expose the foundations by testing them and we are the first have petrol lab do the 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you so much for joining us as well uh john joe and and what we're engaged in here is actually really incredibly simple is that we have a thing in this country that wreaks death and devastation on individuals and families and to a great extent it is completely avoidable now i mean not not completely but this is in our gift not to ruin this period or make it a nightmare for families going forward as it ends up being an anniversary or whatever and and sheamus mcgonagall inspector sheamus mcgonagall that's what this is all about isn't it you're trying to urge people to do all the right things and best limit the chances of of losing their lives or having life changing injuries on our road correct greg um as i've said here before we don't really have road traffic accidents under we've road traffic collisions and as you rightly point out these collisions are avoidable in the vast majority of cases and again we speak of these lifesavers um um oh fancies um drugs and drink driving speeding not wearing your seat belts and using mobile phones or other um devices when you're actually driving if people adhere to the rules these collisions would not take place these these people that are deceased on the road you see the figures increased again nationally this this year these people would be here for christmas this year rather than deceased and the baying speed limits that are below the 100 kilometers um you know the 60s the 50s the 30s i know we say and we say in the past that these aren't targets you know what i mean uh these are the upper limits uh but the difference in the outcomes of a collision dependent on speed there's some interesting information here i don't know if you want to go through it if you want me to read it uh shameless but you know the speed is a huge factor in the outcomes of these collisions i think greg it's all about an appropriate speed we have speed limits but they're the maximum safe speed you can drive it in perfect conditions but often because of weather or other um variables um the actual we might be say 50 on the sign but driving a 50 kilometers an hour in a particular um set of circumstances is completely and wholly in appropriate so it's all about driving at an appropriate speed for for the circumstances at any given time and as you correctly point out i'm sure john joe from the ambulance service is all too aware of it um the faster you're driving and the more likelihood is there'll be serious or fatal consequences if you if you collide with another vehicle or pedestrian yeah because we all have to share share the road so this data really applies uh to to pedestrians involved in in collisions and it really is quite shocking the difference potential outcomes at 60 kilometers per hour versus 30 john joe yeah greg it's huge the consequences that that speed um and as she must says drink and drugs affect uh road users and affect the consequences of accidents and i suppose christmas is such a special time really um and then every time of the year is it's a devastation to have uh the word come to some people's door of a fatality in a road traffic accident everyone's worse night but at christmas i suppose it really hones in on it we like to think on it um your heads like an egg and the yolk is your brain and you see how fragile that is there's not really much difference between that and your head and creating head injuries even at very low speeds um like if you take it now for the likes of christmas and presents and e scooters um quad bikes all that that goes with it um and it's so simple to come off them have a serious head injury um and be left devastated with devastation consequences through a whole family and it's not always speed either it's how you fall yeah very simply for like we've even seen consequences of people slipping and falling in ice and having devastating injuries but as you said at the very start there is um simple things that we can do to try and avoid this even and i've noticed it myself over the last number of weeks people walking on roads without hyvers jackets um it's it's lethal to be honest um and and them small things all the small things really make a huge difference uh we break it down at christmas i suppose christmas is the perfect time because it's everything it's a risk manager's worst nightmare because there's everything going on there but we break it down into the young and then the older groups and for the young it's um the likes of the christmas present myself and seamus was high tailed to uh meeting with um for santa and his elf and safety committee a couple of weeks ago um and he they have promised that if the likes of the scooters and that are delivered on christmas morning that there will be helmets and all that delivered with it and we know look it's not cool to be wearing the helmet and the hyvers and the knee pads and all that there but it's things that got them to us lives and also to seamus um you know you know some people will will take risks all the time but i think particularly at christmas or festive periods or a bank holiday that there's a decision that's made a split decision it's like right is there not a taxi i'm going to walk home in my dark clothes um i can't get a lift home but there's a car there with five people sure i'll hop on their laps in the back or you know what i mean sometimes these awful scenarios come from that split second decision that we make how do we and often maybe can be under the influence okay or any of us here you know um so it's trying to get people not to make that decision that that leads to a chain of events i think there's an onus on us all and i say us all you know um to make that sensible decision not to give in at the last minute and of course all our inhibitions are reduced slightly with me val colombord again which the vast majority was all do especially so over the christmas period but it's incumbent on us all to make this sensible responsible decision and don't take that chance because you're not just taking a chance with your own well being you're taking a chance with it for other road users and other citizens your other friends and families and people around you so you just stop and think before you make that foolish decision stop and think and don't do it do you think we as parents or whomever is a parent uh need to sort of say as the and this is not just about young people but focus on them for a moment you know you're i don't know 16 i don't judge 16 to 28 euros maybe they don't have a car or whatever it might be to say to them by the way i don't care if it's three or four or five o'clock in the morning if you're stuck call me that that's such an important yeah anyone wants to get that cold don't they rather than i know with the car coming off you know i speak to my daughter i say do not get into the car but somebody's intoxicator you believe it may have been drinking earlier now in the evening yeah you know is that you have to stop and think it's no point saying asher i'm not driving myself i'll take a chance i'm stuck for a lift whatever there is no reason to get into the car but somebody's intoxicated and yes absolutely as a parent and come again upon us all as parents they tell our children yes we'll go and collect you if we have to no matter what yeah we'll get you home one way or another may affect our own socializing at home even though it is but if that is the case you have to be aware i know at times there are an awful lot of taxis out there but there can be a shortage of taxis so we have to leave ourselves as parents to be in a position that could collect our youngsters if necessary and bring them home safely yeah and um john joe often we talk about and it came some of this we say this over and over again but you know what i don't apologize for it we'll keep doing it until we we you know you know get to the post because we don't know who we get through we do get through to people right so hopefully we're making a difference but obviously it's fatalities which is the figure that's often talked about it doesn't talk to the serious injury the life-changing injury the court cases the everything else that can flow on from that you see that the majority of course you respond to aren't probably fatal but you would see some awful situations where you know that person is going to have to live with the injuries sustained for the rest of their lives potentially and that's what we need to focus on as well i think those individuals and agreg like we hear the fatalities and the radios and the statistics in relation to fatalities but for every one of them fatalities there could be at least two or three serious road traffic accidents with patients left with head injuries or disabilities um in relation to that um after the accident me and seamus just talked about this before we come in here um and and that's a bigger number and it goes on scene somewhat um and just adding to seamus's point earlier in relation to the piece of um ringing home and that there pre-plan and really takes the spur of the moment decisions out of it and nearly takes that so even if it is a little bit awkward i know some of it going christmas nights out but have it pre-planned your route home and somebody's going to pick you up or something like that there but yeah indeed there the devastation that can be left behind by um where there's not a fatality is and and that goes on for people the rest of people's lives living with disabilities and that there and it's it leaves serious consequences behind it drinking drugs um i i think i mean particularly drugs but certainly drink that we have to understand how it affects us you can't really drink and drive at all anymore you know people will remember the old don't slip into fifth and that stuff bottom line is is you don't want any drink on you at all if you are driving and and people will be tempted to drive the next day and there are check points out there you know there's a lot of conversations been had about them in the past but you just have to stumble across the one and that's that but that's getting called it's not about getting called really is such it should be about am i fit to drive should i be driving and and i think there's not a lot of understanding out there about how drugs work on the system um and how long they stay in the system shameless well i don't want to get into the minute of the drug driving but but there there has been an increase in people in software drug driving in daytime hours you know that's that's very very obvious over the last few years um so even whether it's apart from drugs even drink can stay in your system for a considerable amount of time and i'm well aware of cases where people who have been drinking the night before and there's no interaction with drugs other than alcohol ended up being over the limit the next morning so it's again just appealing to people to think about it don't take it for granted you're going to be sober and fit to drive in the morning time factor that into your planning as well for the night before and road conditions are our responsibility as well too uh i mean obviously we can talk about surface water and potholes and what have you but that being said we know the roads for the most part and it kind of is our responsibility to make sure that we're drove driving at an appropriate speed no one wants an anti-state so it is our it's our call it goes back to appropriate speed at all times now the it's such a such an important issue that people think other speed limits a hundred kilometers an hour 80 kilometers an hour whatever but especially this time here it's never mind the weather even when it's dark we should be driving so when it's dark and that's done in daylight you know roads are affected by by water and by ice this time here we just have to take cognizance at all times so i mean the message is kind of clear if you're a pedestrian don't walk on the road in dark clothes on the wrong side of the road you know have a light have high viz on don't get into a car drunk or on drugs or with someone drunk or on drugs don't get into a car that you suspect someone driving has drink or drugs on them don't overload vehicles they're not built to carry multiples of people it's it's just to reset ourselves to think about the common sense of john joe yeah like we've been at many accidents throughout the years me self and she was both and i would say what you've talked about there there wasn't one accident that some element of that um them instances come into it unfortunately and probably ended up them being the root cause of a fatality or a serious um injury at them accidents so yeah that's the main really the main message in all of this and we i know we're like a broken record repeating it but but it is what's happening out there so that's why hence why we were gonna talk about a road safety uh thing i can't remember exactly what it was but we didn't want to talk about it when had been a serious collision because it would be insensitive to the families and it got to the point where we had to defer it three or four times because things you know serious instances were happening um but anyway we did discuss it it's very important to note 172 people have lost their lives so far this year which doesn't actually talk to the absolute devastation far beyond that shameless um in terms of fatalities and roads and donnie gall in particular this year and sadly we've had nine people have lost their lives in donnie gall this year now so often i've been here and throwing out statistics on fatalities and serious injuries and whatever but if it may take a moment just to remember each of those people who lost their lives this year in donnie gall that's eileen kennedy rebecca brown connor mcginley david mclaughlin mary burland ronan milson arnold white alana harkin and thomas gulliver now god be good to all those people they all lost their lives on the roads and donnie gall this year nine families who will be devastated this christmas and it happens this christmas and every christmas beforehand and i don't want to tie in directly anything to do with the message we're given here today but again these people the names are all in the public domain and it's only right today that we should remember them and i think name them again we don't want any more fatalities and roads we don't want any more serious injuries on the road and again it goes back to the message that i keep rewriting do not be taking drunk drink and drugs and getting into your car and driving slow down to an appropriate speed wear your seatbelt and don't be using any devices which will distract you when driving i'm going to leave it at that actually because it's such a powerful point we'll leave it there um inspectors shameless men are shameless we're going to go ahead of the roads policing unit in donnie gall thank you john joe mcgowan chief ambulance officer with the hsc 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To the hardwood we go girls who's Bemidji hosting Pequot Lakes and the Jack started fast Mackenzie Nicholson twinkles the twine from downtown 9 0 run out of the gates. The Patriots though needed some momentum Carly Scott coast to coast. The easy lane cuts it into the deficit than later. This time Olivia Lane just powers her way to the paint for two more. That'll cut it to seven. But Bemidji had an answer all night. Lindsay Hildenbrand from the corner for three. I don't push the lead of double digits. Jacks hold on to win in the second half. 51 48 the final score. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


There's some pretty big names on the free agent market, so let's take a look at the top five, starting with Craig Kimbrel. Kimbrel is easily one of the best closers in baseball since Mariano Rivera. The right-hander has made the All-Star team every summer, but one since being a full-time big-league starting in 2011. Similar to the current Yankees relief pitchers, the 30-year-old has a high strikeout rate, which is actually the highest of relievers over the last three years, and ranks third among them with an average fastball touching 98 miles per hour. Kimbrel's career numbers are extremely impressive. He's 31 and 19 over the course of his career with 333 saves and a 1.91 ERA while striking out and astonishing 868 batters and just over 532 innings pitched out of the bullpen. The next big name on the free agent market is left-hander Dallas Keichel. While Yankees fans may remember him most for pitching in the 2015 wild card game for the Astros and winning the Si Young that year, the soon-to-be 31-year-old is one of the best and most reliable starting pitchers available. While he doesn't strike out a lot of batters in Yankees stadium isn't exactly pitcher-friendly, the former 20-game winner has one of the highest groundball rates in baseball, so he could very well be a good fit in the Bronx. He's also only one of 13 pitchers to reach 200 innings pitched this past year, and so is Patrick Corbin, who's been on the Yankees radar for quite some time. The 29-year-old left-hander absolutely dominated last year, posting a 3.15 ERA with very impressive strikeout and walk per 9 innings ratios and 33 starts. Corbin made the All-Star team for the first time since 2013, which was the year right before missing an entire season due to Tommy John surgery. And if being a young and dominant lefty isn't appealing enough for a Yankees fan, he's a New York native so pitching for his childhood team could make this potential deal even sweeter. Now, this is where the price tag really starts to go up, and we're going to take a look at Manny Machado, who's definitely in for a pretty big pay-dead. The 25-year-old is reportedly in the mix for a long-term deal in the $300 million range. He's a career 282 hitter and is practically a lock for at least 30 doubles, 30 home runs, and 90 RBI a year. The four-time All-Star is valuable in the field as well. He's a winner of two gold gloves and can play either third base or shortstop, which is his original position and one that he's been vocal about returning to. The Yankees have shown interest in Machado over the last year, and he could be a good fit in pinstripes, much like Alex Rodriguez, who's Machado's idol growing up. And of course, the most sought-out free agent on the market right now is Bryce Harper. Similar to Machado, Harper will likely ink a deal worth at least $300 million. Not all too far off from the speculated $400 million contract that was once mentioned by reporters. The 26-year-old is arguably the face of baseball and has been under the spotlight since being labeled a prodigy as a 16-year-old. In seven big league seasons, the former number one overall MLB draft pick is a six-time All-Star and racked up Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the process. His name has been linked to the Yankees, and it's no secret he's fond of them. He's been vocal about the Yankees being his favorite team growing up, and his uniform number pays tribute to Mickey Mannell. There you have it, the top five MLB free agents on the market right now. Which of these guys would you love to see in pinstripes? Let us know in the comments below.


Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform areas as diverse and critical as education, health care, finance, mobility, and energy. Over the next three days, our objective is to connect AI innovators with public and private sector decision makers so that they can take promising strategy forward. We should be aware of the fact that AI technologies currently used in business and other applications could be extremely helpful in efforts to alleviate poverty, protect the environment, or improve education, if they were slightly reimagined and refashioned to a new purpose. In other words, AI solutions to urgent challenges in society may be hidden in plain sight right now. The SDGs address many of the same global challenges that XPRIZ competitions have worked on solving over the past several years, with many of these solutions taking advantage of AI. Our goal is to accelerate adoption globally for AI technologies and to spark creativity and innovation in human AI collaboration. We are super excited to see how these solutions benefit the majority of the population. Like many powerful technologies, AI offers us a choice, and the real question is, are we good, or is the technology good? At the moment, and I think with conferences like this, we are seeing a real awakening of the AI field to this question, to the challenge of using AI for something other than just making money. And I'm very, very optimistic that once it's awakened and realized the social responsibility that we have, our research community is going to step up. And remember, you're going to socialize this through Professor Penrose. We have to move on. Our next speaker is Andy Chen. He's a renowned... Oh my God! Well, my God, I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here. As much credit you've had, mine have really... The reason why I'm doing this is because I think now, at the time, when we can engage young people, as the gentleman just asked the question, well, how do we engage people, what do we do with them? Now, there's times coming in many forms. There's system failures. Now, the thing is intelligence, and these are words that I wouldn't like to define any of them. This represents, you know, our million-year-old investment to prevent hand this case of structure protected across the country's address about the challenges that threaten to the economy. I think tomorrow discussing, or at least one of the main tracks in this policy that we're going to be addressing. I had several meetings today. To be asked to run this important track and trust in AI, this is our team. That has AI and data science deep within the core capacity of the metric, but also... Yeah, and there was a champion. The chief of the United Nations nutrition section, Grona Loni, was phenomenally supportive. She was able to improve the device, which means that we can involve our mind rather than educate on the work. This is what we're referring to in the global delivery of the metric. Will we be crucial to implementing such applications? Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, I would like to thank ITU for including the World Health Organization in this very, very important event. The only way to avoid professor's history vision every possible scenario, I'm against it. Zoom policies in a more sort of way, because they will be exposed to risk. I don't think we can debate all they're not. And now it's avoiding this contact, because this can be a potentially unfaith object for the robot. In fact, right now we have been developing on Sophia as a standardized product. She has over 18 sisters. They're also good. Tell me, do you have a soap?


Most of the blogs out there that I've seen, basically some dude going to the post office and filming it in a kind of cool way, made me think, well fuck, our lives are really interesting, you guys should know about it. Alright, one of my favourite games in Hungary is dealing with the Postal Service, which is stuck somewhere between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Communist regime, so let's go and see if we can get my parcel. Sasha Day Games sending me a key from Canada to a safe that we share in Prague. That's all I can say about that. I went to the one at the Basilica, they told me that it was at Baroshter. Basilica said go to Baroshter, Baroshter says go to Bojci Zalinski. It's like a missing child, more minutes that doesn't work, the less likely you're going to find a child alive. Women live very busy lives, just like we do, and it's really important to understand what's a woman's mindset when she's getting approached. She's probably a little bit intimidated maybe, or overwhelmed, or uncertain, so it's pretty key to help her feel as comfortable as possible in that process as well. And that's why being able to create comfortable feelings through the text, or fun feelings through the text, or maybe a little bit challenging, but still in a safe way, that can be a really good way to start to look at this idea of texting and connecting. I think that's a really powerful mindset. The way that you just framed that, which is basically like the idea that you're not her enemy, you're not trying to beat her in the game, you're not trying to win a battle. Something you guys are doing together, it's a shared experience that you guys are enjoying, and you just expressed it so beautifully when you said trying to help her to relax into the experience.  And I said, why would they send me here if it was there? I don't know. Welcome to Eastern Europe, the price of living in the third world. I want to know how to approach on public transport. I would say the main thing that you have to think about is how are you making the other person feel in the enclosed space and in relation to the fact that there's an audience. Making it very low key for you and the girl so that you don't attract too much attention.  I just made it like a little shared moment just between me and her. So I waved her low, she waved back, and then as soon as I saw that positive feedback from her, I went and sat next to her. So it's like, I'm putting out the invitation, do you want to communicate with me? And by her waving back, she's saying, maybe, and then I'm coming and sitting next to her. And I didn't say, hey, what's up, I'm Liam, yo, and make a really loud scene. I kept it very quiet, and I didn't look at her very much. I kept facing forward because if I was just a stare at her the whole time, it would create a lot of pressure, and she would feel already even more nervous. Instead, I just kept it relaxed. I spoke slowly, introduced myself, and then you saw, I kissed her on the hand, and she didn't pull away from that. So I'm like, okay, she's okay with that. Then I kissed her on both cheeks, and I'm like, she didn't pull away from that. She's okay with that. And then I went to, I went, and now here, I went to kiss her on the lips, and she said, no, I pulled away, and then I pulled back. So, I mean, that's me trying to kiss someone I just met on the train after one minute. But I didn't run up to her and just go straight to that. At each moment, I'm testing to see how receptive she is to me getting physical. So the hand kiss, the cheeks, and then the lips. All right, we missed our stop. Yeah, we're supposed to be gonna get off at Kennedy instead. We're gonna have a purge cash. No, no, no. Oh, damn, never. All right. I like your style. You look good. Thank you very much. What's your name? I like the pain, too. You like the pain? Yes, in the gym. So the good pain. Vibrant? Vibrant. Vibrant, okay. Very good work, Bella. Thank you. In a situation like that, it's really easy to get nervous and to want to talk the whole time. Feel in the silence. Get rid of the awkwardness by speaking really fast. And that's my natural instinct is to talk like that. So I have to consciously breathe and meditate, come back to my center, and purposely leave those pauses. And there we have it. Funny old game of Hungarian postal service. It works. Everything's flexible, but it works. How come Hungarian train stations are so windy? The most common question that men ask me is actually not specifically about dating and seduction. It goes something along the lines of this. James, how is it that you are able to stay so calm, relaxed, and centered, even under high-pressurized social situations? Now, I guess a lot of men presume that that's just my nature. I'm just a chilled out, relaxed, Aussie-surfed kind of dude. The reality being that I grew up being somebody that was highly stressed, angry, and cynical. And I went through a long process of self-discovery to be able to bring myself to the calm, centered position that I am in today. How did I do that? In one word, it's through meditation. I went on a long journey, both internal and real, around the world seeking out masters from ashrams in India, Shaolin Temple in China, and seeking out a whole bunch of different modern and traditional teachers of awareness, mindfulness, and very specific and powerful meditation techniques. For the last eight years, I've been coaching men live in my programs around the world in these techniques because it's my opinion that if you want to get good with women socially and improve your confidence, then it's vital that you look inwards, not just projecting out into the world. I take guys through heavy and deep inner transformation during my live programs where I teach them these techniques that I've distilled from all these masters around the world. Unfortunately, I'm only able to teach around 50 to 80 guys live per year and so many men from around the world constantly contact me asking, okay, what's the best meditation technique? I know that it's something that is gonna be useful for me, but I don't wanna have to go and travel to the ends of the earth to find the right techniques. I don't wanna get conned by charlatans and I don't wanna necessarily have to sit in a meditation retreat center for days on end to try and figure out what works for me. 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Well this edition of the Music Zone we welcome in our purveyor of feel-good, positive rock and roll, he's open shows for Tom Petty, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan. He's also Pacific Recording Artist and my dear friend, please welcome Vermont's own Chad Hollister. Thank you, Pitts. Thank you. Thank you. What an intro. I'm blushing. I'm smiling. All by now that people are smiling, you know, the scrunched up eyes, you know. Yeah. Thanks for having me, man. Great to be here. I'm glad you can make it in. In the Music Zone. The Music Zone here from Orca Media in Montpelier, I'm so psyched that this is happening. Yes. So tell me, I know everyone's out of work because of COVID, et cetera. What are you working on right now? Well, my beautiful wife, Katie O'Rourke, whom you know well, and I just did a rock and paint, which is Katie guiding you through a painting and myself playing music kind of in between and so on in our lovely marital banter, which is, I will say, more positive than most. We don't give each other a hard time or extremely in love, really, kind of like you and Amy. And so that went really well. That was this past Saturday, and we'll be doing one a month of those, and we're going to do one that will be, of course, Katie O'Rourke, a St. Patty's Day influenced painting. I might learn a couple of Irishy tunes on top of my songs, but that'll be St. Patty's Day weekend there, and so that's exciting. And then I've really been focusing in this time learning how to get my music to TV and film and sync. So I'm taking a course. I'm going back to school and learning from a gentleman out of Los Angeles, and it's incredibly eye-opening. You and I were talking at length before the show, and there's so much to it, and as much learning what not to do as what to do in the biz. So it's exciting, exciting. So my hopes in this next year is to really get some of my music placed into TV, film, and sync, and possibly some ads, but just a long endeavor that takes, I think that's one of the things I've learned most of all is it doesn't happen right away. Like most things. Well, and it's about so much of what you're so wonderful at, hence this show, I'm very excited for you by the way, and proud of you. But it's all based on relationships, like life in general. And so that if you develop a relationship with one of these music supervisors and they know that they can trust you, then they'll come back to you again. So it's good. So that sounds like almost like a whole different side career or a whole different chapter of your career. It is, it is. I mean, I'm definitely, I'm never going to stop playing, but this, because I have not been able to play live and I miss, I really, really miss seeing people's faces and just watching their energy. You can only get so much energy pulled off of Facebook Live or off of Zoom. The Zoom's cool because you can see people's faces. And I really enjoy that, but I really miss the people. But when that comes back, that'll be beautiful. But in the interim, I'm hoping that this will just help with income and just also notoriety. More people, of course, getting it into TV and film would broaden my audience too. So yeah. All right. Good. So tell me, how does one go about the process of opening a concert for Bob Dylan? How does that happen? Well, it was amazing. I mean, those shows, the Petty and the Dylan and Paul Simon were all down in West Palm Beach, Florida. And we had garnered a fan at the Coral Sky Amphitheater. She ran the amphitheater. And so I happened to call her on a good day. Her name was Laura. And she was a big fan of the band. And she said, I have some shows that I'd love for you to open. And I was like, well, what do you have? And she said, well, I've got Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and my jaw dropped. And then she said, and then I have Santana. And then she said, and I have Tom Petty. And I was like, ah. And she said, and I said, do I have to pick one? She said, no, you can pick two. Oh my god. And so, you know, I love Carlos. But you know, for me, the Dylan and Paul Simon, it was like ridiculous. And of course, the Petty is almost even more ridiculous. I'd say the Petty would be my pinnacle pedestal. So you know, that was really incredible. And the Dylan and Simon was a solo when it was actually a stage outside of the theater. The SFX Levi's Concert Series is what it was. And so I did that one solo. And then the Petty one, I hired a good friend of mine from Florida called Big Sky. They're no longer playing together, but they're still good friends of mine. Amazing band out of Gainesville, Florida that we met on tour. So they backed me up and played all my tunes.  They took off. But yeah, so it's really just luck. And again, relationships, we will notice a common theme. I can guarantee in your wonderful show and our conversations of just developing relationships. It's great to hear your sponsors. I mean, I'm a fan. I just, at my house today, I just said, oh, Katie, good, you've got more tincture from Aramed. So we're real. Relationships and timing is the key. So we're going to hop over to the Magic Music Studio. Tell us about the song we're going to hear. Well, you know it. And you, I think, performed with us during that show when I debuted at the Barry Alper House. And years ago, my wife, Katie, she was then my girlfriend was working in Killington. And she said, I showed up one night with flowers. And she said, what are these? And I said, well, in my eloquent days of a long ago, I said, I don't know. And she said, well, they're flowers for no reason. And so it took me 20 years to write this song. And this is Flowers for No Reason for my wife, Katie O'Rourke. All right, Chad Hollister on the Music Zone with Pitz Quattrone. Flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. So every day I gave her flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away. Every day when I wake, heart's about to break. That fiery blue-eyed ginger is lying right next to me. She gave us two kids and this life. I never dreamt it'd be so right. Here we are still laughing and crying. And all the beauty of what's become. See, flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. Oh, every day. Flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away, miles away. She's weeding out in the garden. I'm mowing this here lawn. Ryan Bow, they're catching toads in our so-called pond. See, we're all growing, not really knowing. As it curves, we seem to turn down these dirt roads towards the sun. Flowers for no reason. Don't matter the season, because her smile, it really is. Oh, every day. She gave her flowers for no reason. The feeling is so, so pleasing. I can feel that ache in my heart from miles away, miles away, miles away, miles away. That was Chad Hollister. Flowers for no reason right here on the Music Zone with Pitz Quattrone. And so Chad, tell us, I saw some things online last summer. No gigs, obviously, but you got a little bit creative. And we're doing some gigs out on your back deck with a cookout. And tell us about that. Yeah, so just with the whole pandemic, Primo and I, for those of you who don't know, Jeff Perremsky is our lead guitar player and one of my best friends in the world. And his nickname is Primo. And he and I, there was just no, we were on tour in Colorado when the pandemic hit in March, right about now, a couple of weeks from now. And so we canceled the tour, came home a week and a half early, and he was at home. I was at home, everybody was quarantining. And so we did that. And I did a lot of Facebook Live stuff. And then once the weather became warm, we were, I think, the backyard or the gathering capacity at that point was 50. So we just started a backyard concert series. And we would have at most 40 people. It was a whole thing. Katie, they would come to our yard, come to our house, and a boatie would bike them in. And then Katie would park them. We could put about 10 to 12 cars in our area here. And then we could put about 10 more at our neighbor's house, Martin and Lacey. That's still our shared driveway. So we would put them in their driveway. They would park on their lawn. It was amazing. And so it just created this thing. It was $20 a ticket. And people would bring their own drink. We rented a porta potty, basically, for the whole summer. Cool. Pretty much. It's incredible. Great deals. It's hard, again, for porta potty rentals, by the way. There it is. So we then just kept doing them. We did, I think, about seven or eight. The final one numbers were real light, so I just did it solo. But Primo and I had a blast just getting to play together safely. And so the backyard concert series was a hit. We're definitely going to do it again this summer. And didn't do any crazy reaching out. They filled up pretty quickly with our friends and family. Because we also wanted to know who was coming and know how that they had been being safe, which is a big issue right now of still not getting too complacent. Like, listen, we're going to be fine. Hey, there's chances that you don't have it, and I don't have it, so we can unmask. But it's not smart. So that was a real great happening. And so another creative thing you did, I think it was a couple of years ago, and maybe folks don't know about this. But you did a round the country RV tour with your family for six, eight months? Six months. Yeah, Katie O'Rourke is my wife, a local artist. And she has a studio in town. She's been doing incredibly through these times, which is we're really thankful for. And she and our daughter Riley, who at the time was, let's see, 13, and Bodie was 11. And we bought an RV and we hit the road for six months. We started beeline it right after Spruce Peak, the show there, which was on Feb Something. Or no, that was back when it was in January. Sorry, so yeah, January, it was like January 18th. So on the next day, we RVed Albany and then beelined it down to Florida. And then came, spent a good, probably a good month in Florida, because the fan base there is really big. So what were you doing? You were making stops along the way. What was happening in each place? It was a great question. So we would do, I would do gigs, kind of backyard vibe gigs, house concerts, basically. Sometimes in backyard, sometimes in people's homes. Of course, it was before the pandemic, so we could do whatever we wanted. And then I would also do songwriting workshops in schools. So I did from a Catholic school in Sarasota to a grade school in Santa Fe, New Mexico to Steamboat Springs songwriting workshops. So it varied. But I basically would go in and encourage the youth anywhere from third grade up through high school, encourage them to write songs. And we would create a song on the spot. All right. Within, sometimes we just had a day, a few hours. Sometimes we would have multiple days. But that was really one of the big focuses was to go into schools and do those workshops to help, of course, to help pay for the tour. But just for the experience of doing that, one of my local heroes, John Gale Moore, has been doing it here for years. And I've done it a little bit with my good friend Chris Gruen. And we used to write the songs for the plays at Doty Memorial where our kids used to go. So it was a wonderful way to kind of tie it all together. Katie would do a little bit of her art in different cities as well and get people painting. But it was crafty and a great way to get into the communities that we were visiting. Instead of, we would usually stay with friends in friends' driveways. Because we used the motor home as home. It was our home. So we would really, even if they offered their home up to us, we had a little dog named Butch. Are you sure you want Butch staying with you? Yes, exactly. And so we stayed in the motor home. And it was an amazing six months. The kids, despite them saying, ah, whining about it once in a while, they still bring up stories from it all the time. They'll remember that forever. It was incredible. So cool. I strongly encourage it if you're ever able or thinking about it. So many people say, I just wish I could or something. And just do it. We planned for a while. And we saved up for a while. And we had our good friend, Blue Fox, who was in our house, taking care of it. And so yeah. Excellent. Yep. Another creative way of getting the music out there. It is. It is. Hit the road. So we're going to jump back over to the music studio for song number two. What can you tell us about that one? It was written many, many years ago. I put it on an album actually called Long Haired Boy, which I still get grief about. And the title track was World Tree. And World Tree came from Mickey Hart's book that I strongly encourage everybody to get that loves music and loves rhythm. And it's called Drumming at the Edge of Magic. And it talks about the World Tree, which is basically signifies the other world. So in talking to you about this, and it's so funny that that is the song that's in the key of E, because it speaks so much like pits. You live and breathe through a World Tree almost every day and teach that to people. So this is pits as World Tree. And so it has grown. I was just telling you how it has grown into the band. Chris Peterman wrote the horn parts. But now it's become kind of a band staple and a band favorite and a crowd favorite. So this song, featuring the man, the myth, the legend, Pitzquatrone on didgeridoo, is World Tree. All right, here is Chad Hollister on the music zone with Pitzquatrone, World Tree. I would love you all just to just join in with me. My shamanic is your name. To the world tree. I need a few things to get my way to the World Tree. And I was hoping and I was hoping you might help me. Eat out some sweet vibes, shallow. Lots of positive energy. Look at the air bubble, air bubble. Scare bubble, air bubble. We's going to be on our way, yeah. We're going to be on our way. And to the world, to the World Tree. All just to, just to join in with him. Well, my shamanic journey to the world, to the World Tree. This music has got to take me to the other worlds. Yeah, be a cheetah, or it might be a lion. Wow, might even be a little squirrel. Yeah, got to get away, escape this day. I'm going to leave my own funky groove. Yeah, we's going to be on our way. That's right. We're going to be on our way to the world, to the world. To the World Tree. One mile to the World Tree. Yeah, body, body, body, body, body. My shamanic, our shamanic journey to the world. Let's go, boy. A dog, dog, a dog, sausage, dog. A dog, dog, sausage, dog. A little, a little, little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little. A little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little. OK, welcome back to the studio here. Music zone with Pitt's Quattrone. And so, Chad, I just want to basically say, ask you briefly with a little bit of time that we have. What's next? Are you writing some new songs? What's happening? I am, and I, you know, the honest answer is I'm not sure in that with the focusing to TV and film, I will be crafting these songs kind of with that in mind, but also as an artist. So there might be some TV film versions and then my own versions. And I'm not sure if I'm going to release them as singles or as a record. I've never released an EP before, which is just basically a shorter version of the record. But there will be new music. I'm focusing also on my YouTube channel, which is just chat holister. You can please head on and subscribe. I'm doing the songs and as well as the stories behind the songs, which is kind of cool. And so just more music to come and and please be ready for when live music happens again, because we're going to come out in force. Yeah, it's going to it's going to explode. Yeah, we are all ready to present. And folks are so chomping at the bit. Yes, sir, to come out and see experience live music once again. So true. So it's it's going to happen soon and hopefully sooner than than later. Yes. Yes. So folks want to get in touch with you. Where do they need to go? The best spot is through my website, which is Chad music dot com. All right. Chad music dot com for my own Chad Hollister here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone, thanking our sponsors. Once again, Aromed Essentials specializing in CBD tinctures and pain, reducing topicals, essential oils and diffusers, glassworks for smoking and a new organic Vermont grown hemp buds bar. Check them out. Aromed Essentials, eight State Street downtown Montpelier online at AromedEssentials.com and by phone<PHONE_NUMBER>. And remember to mention to Lauren and her staff, as well as our friends at Snapdragon Flower Farm in Danville that you heard about them right here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone. That's about all the time we have today, friends. I'll be back next time with some more music right here on the music zone with pits, Quattrone.


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Hi, I'm Heather Staines, the Director of Partnerships for Hypothesis. Today I want to recreate for you a flash presentation that I gave in London in December at the STM Innovations meeting. I hope you'll find it useful. The research life cycle as we know it today, well, it's pretty broken. There's a lot of proprietary tools, things are siloed, researchers have to enter the same information over and over again, often cutting and pasting. It's a mess.  What if I told you about a tool that you could use throughout the entirety of the research life cycle that you'd have access to all the detailed notes you've ever made on the web, private public and in groups, and that you could use it to filter, search and explore in the creation, submission, revision, collaboration process, and you could even use it for deep linking. Welcome to open standards-based annotation. You can create a free account at our website today. Publishers and platform hosts can embed the free version of hypothesis to give their users a great annotation experience. And if you want something a little bit more customized, we can work with you to create a branded, moderated annotation layer. Here's a shot of my hypothesis profile page. I have access here to every article I've ever annotated. I can get back to them. I can see what I've written. I can click on my tags. I can filter and explore. I don't have to worry about ever losing access to my articles again. If I remove my name, I have access to the public annotation stream. Everything that's been annotated publicly anywhere around the world. I can explore annotations made by others. I can take a look at the articles that they're looking at. All of this is included in the CrossRep event data and indexed by Google. In February 2017, the W3C approved annotation as a web standard. This means in future versions of browsers, you'll be able to select your annotation client in the same way that you tell your browser now what your preferred search engine is. It'll be just that easy. We recently passed 2.3 million annotations and we're going strong. We cost 1 million in February 2017, 2 million in October 2017. We even had a couple of 10,000 annotation days. We're looking forward to our 3 millionth annotation happening sometime in early 2018. I want to talk about annotation and how it can be used throughout the entire research lifecycle with particular attention to preprints because I don't have a slide on that. We'll be providing annotation capabilities for both BioArchive and for the new AGU eSource preprint server. Annotation and pre-review is a frequently requested use case. Here's an example of how eDrunalPress has integrated hypothesis and is available to any of the publishers who are using their platform. We're in touch with other art manuscript submission systems today to include hypothesis in other aspects of peer review. Close publication discussion is another frequent use case. We're working with publishers to create a brand and moderated annotation layer visible by default on their content. So users no longer need to upload a PDF to another site in order to collaborate on top of it. Publishers can have multiple layers of annotation on their content. They can decide who gets to see annotations and who gets to create them. You might have one layer, for example, for general discussion that anyone can join and maybe some limited layers, maybe one limited just to authors annotating on their own work, maybe one for exposing peer review summaries. The dashboards across these different layers can be as broad or as narrow as you like. You could have one per book, one per journal title. You could gather together a selection of journals in a similar subject area or have it go across the entirety of your domain. It's a great way for readers to explore. Authors can use hypothesis to connect their research to supplemental materials and updates even if the material is located on many places across the web. They can use hypothesis to correspond with readers or with reviewers. You can also use hypothesis for the automated annotation of entities. 125 journals in neuroscience use research resource IDs for reproducibility. You can have material from an external database pop up along the side of your content in the form of an annotation card. Experts can also use hypothesis to connect resources across the web. For example, for fact-checking purposes. You can link readers to a piece of content in a citation or in an annotation card and take them exactly to the piece of content that you're referring to. Hypothesis is also being used all around the world in the classroom. We have an integration with the Canvas LMS and other learning management systems coming soon. It's great for collaboration and close reading assignments for students. Professors are very excited about it. Hypothesis is a nonprofit and we think this is critical for the future annotation ecosystem. We can maintain an independent voice. We're not beholden to shareholders but to our publisher partners and we cannot be acquired by your competition. We will stay independent. I want to end today by telling you that it's not just about annotation. It's about the technology behind it. We think of the web in terms of page-level URLs, page-level addresses. It's what we've had. Today, with the hypothesis technology, we can have more. We can create a unique persistent web address for a sentence, for a paragraph, for a cell in a CSV file, for a word. For linked data, this is going to be absolutely essential. And the greatest thing is you don't have to re-tag or enrich your content in any way. It will just work. Thank you very much for listening. Don't hesitate to contact me if you've got any questions about hypothesis. And more importantly, please visit our website to sign up for your free account today. Thank you so much.


Every year, 1st August is observed as World Lung Cancer Day. On this day, we need to remind ourselves of the cream fact that lung cancer is the biggest killer among all the cancers in the body. Every year, the mortality worldwide due to lung cancer is about 18 lakhs, which accounts for about 20% of all mortalities because of cancer. The most common cause of lung cancer is smoking and this smoking can be active smoking as well as passive smoking.  There are other causes of lung cancer like pollution, exposure to asbestos and the exposure to radiation.


There is a beautiful incident that occurred around Ashtavakra. When Janakumaharaja, the emperor became enlightened, a rare thing, an emperor becoming enlightened. It's not only a rare thing, it is a fantastic thing because an enlightened ruler means many things to the people. That is no better blessing. So when it happened, Ashtavakra, his guru, as gurus are known to be always difficult, when you just think you found your way, they tell you that's not it. When Janaka thought he's enlightened and this is it, Ashtavakra said that's not it, you have to go back and rule the kingdom because you may not want it, that's not the point. The point is people deserve an enlightened king. So Janaka, whenever he found time, he made his trips to Ashtavakra's hermitage, little deep into the jungle. So Janaka making regular trips to the hermitage. Obviously, because gurus are lonely people, you know. Because where to find the enlightened company? Very difficult. So obviously both of them enjoying a certain rapport, both of them enjoying each of this company, all the other disciples saw this, that Ashtavakra, the great being, has a… seems to have a certain weakness for the emperor. Whenever he comes, they are chatting away, laughing together, this, this, this. These people who have left everything or they think they have left everything and come and they are here as sannyasis, not paying enough attention to them.   Ashtavakra is conscious of it. He let it build up because every build-up is a possibility. Something should build up. Then only you can do something if nothing builds up. That means there are dead people around. Not live people. If live people are there, something must build up. Joy must build up, love must build up, ecstasy must build up. Or at least resentment or hatred or jealousy, something must build up. Something is building up means we can do something with them. Nothing. What to do with them? So he let it build up and then this incident occurred. Janaka also came and he was sitting in the satsang at the back. And as the Ashtavakra was speaking something, suddenly a soldier burst into the satsang. And without even looking at the guru, he ran to the emperor with a loud voice. He said, the palace is on fire. You need to come right now. Janaka said, get out of here.   Ashtavakra continued with whatever had to happen. So Janaka just sat there, palace burning. Nobody's concerned here. There of course they're screaming, but here nobody's concerned. Then this continued, it's a lap of the master event, three days, you know. Till you feel your legs have had enough, it continues.  The moment this boy said this, many of them got up and ran to save the clothing. What is their clothing?  They ran to save those clothes and then they chased away the monkeys and recovered whatever they could and they came back. So Ashtavakra continued and then he said, he was an emperor, his palace full of wealth and people, not only physical wealth, there are people, there are lives. People odour to him, palace is burning, but he's concerned about breaking the rhythm of the satsang.  No, but we have only two, one we're wearing, one is there. The monkeys take it away, what do we do? So we are in a more needy situation than the emperor, maybe emperor can build another palace, but we, well, you could learn something from Adam. There are lots of Adam's underwear in the trees. So Ashtavakra said, the question is not about what you possess, it's about how you possess. Even if you have a kingdom in your hands, you can hold it in a certain way. Kingdom is not necessarily outside in terms of wealth and people and money, for most people their kingdom is their own body and their mind. How you hold it, if you hold it one way, it will make you bleed with pain. If you hold it another way, you will be spot on with life because it doesn't take effort to be life.  Yes, sir, you are. Just see the rock which is standing next to you, how simple and easy it is. Yes or no? If you were not life, how simple and easy it is. This is why people want to drown themselves in alcohol and drug and excessive food and something else and something else or the toilet cleaning. Because in some way you have discovered not being life is so simple and easy. If you're not very alive, it's so simple and easy. Yes, it's somewhere like a rock. But when the moment of death comes, you know you are life, pretending to be something else, otherwise you couldn't die. That will become a point of inflection.  It's just that without my help it'll happen, I'm confident about that.   You can't go about like this rock, you can't go about like a mechanical creature who can walk and talk and do everything that you can do but cannot be alive. That's an important thing. Is it an important thing? No, no, no. If I can do what somebody can do, that's all that matters. It doesn't matter whether they're alive or not, isn't it? If I can do things as good as somebody else, if I can be as successful as somebody else, if I can possess what somebody else has or nobody else has, that's good enough. For most human beings that's good enough. So in many ways, unconsciously they have understood the solution for life is not to be life, that that's not a solution, that's a deception because no matter what you do, even if you die, that proves you're life.  So you cannot escape this. Neither with tricks of life nor with death, you cannot escape this. So is it a trap? It is not a trap, it is a tremendous possibility.  If there was no aspiration, it wouldn't stand up as a tree. There is… that which is not life is aspiring to become life. Otherwise nothing would happen in the universe.    This is not a teaching, this is not a scripture, this is not somebody's ideology, this is the way life is always… this aspiration is there. The only way you can quieten it is by pretending to be not life or by getting enlightened. Both these things will do the same, same result but worlds apart.


channel for physics. Please subscribe my channel. Hello and welcome back to another episode of physics partner. Today we are going to discuss a newly injected topic in IGCSE physics curriculum for both the code 0625 and 0972 physics and the topic is addition and subtraction of vectors by graphical method. Before understand the addition of vectors we need to recall the concept of both physical quantities. There are two types of measurable physical quantities, scalar quantities and vector quantities. A scalar quantity is a type of a quantity that has just magnitude and no direction. Therefore it is simply a number accompanied by an identical unit. For example length, mass, speed, electrical current etc. There are scalar quantities and they have no direction. A scalar quantity has no specific direction of application. Its value will be precisely the same in every direction. What about the vector quantity? A vector quantity has magnitude with the unit in a particular direction. So specifying the direction of action and its value or magnitude is obligatory while defining or stating a vector quantity. In a vector quantity magnitude represents the size of the quantity you can see here on the screen which is also its value. While direction describes the side let's say west, east, north, south etc. Any change in the vector quantity reflects either magnitude shifts change in direction or change in both of them. Some examples of vector quantities are forces, acceleration, weight, shearing stress, velocity, electrical field intensity, centrifugal force etc. The addition of vector is not as straightforward as addition of scalars. In scalars you just add simply the magnitude of two physical units which are same in nature but in vector condition vector have both magnitude and direction and one cannot simply add two vectors to obtain their sum. To better understand this let's consider an example. An example of a car which is traveling 10 miles north and 10 miles south. Here the total distance travel is 20 miles. If you carefully look the displacement is zero because the car is came back on the same position where it started. So the distance travel is 20 miles whereas the displacement is zero. The north and south displacement are each vector quantities and the opposite directions cause the individual displacements to cancel each other out. In this video let us explore ways to carry out the addition of vectors. So let's see how we can add vectors with each other by graphical method. This method is also called head and tail rule or it's also called a triangle addition method. Okay let's say this vector is vector A. The magnitude of the vector is the length of this vector. If this vector is representing force let's say one centimeter is one Newton. So this is now nine Newton force and now I am adding one more. Let's make it a perpendicular to it. You can see in one hand you can just join the tail and then you can add one more vector which is called resultant vector. The resultant vector will be initiated from tail to tail and head to head. So this will be considered as your resultant vector. If we add two scalar quantities like let's say 9 kilogram and 4 kilogram it will be 13 kilogram. So I am going to add one resultant vector which is my purple one you can see on the screen and you can see it's from tail to tail and head to head I can make and this resultant vector magnitude is 9.9. In scalar quantities 9 plus 4 is 13 but in vector quantities 9 plus 4 is not 13 this is because of the change of direction. Let's try one more. This time I am going to take three vectors. So let me take one is blue one here I am going to make it and another vector which is green one. Let me make it little different types of and I place it here and the third vector is a red one. Let me take into another direction let's say it's here. How can we make a resultant vector? So simply we can produce one tail from the tail and head from the head and join them and it becomes my resultant vector like this. So right now my resultant vector is magnitude is 7.1 and its angle is 81.9 from the initial one. So in vector quantities you notice that angle is also very important along with magnitude. Okay let's quickly review on subtraction of vectors. Remember the subtraction of vectors is same as addition of vectors. The only difference is the flip of the direction the reverse the direction. For example you can see here two vectors A and B B is perpendicular to A when you try to subtract B from A you need to flip the B with the reverse direction. So it becomes A minus B that's all otherwise is same as the addition of vectors. I hope you enjoyed the video. I hope the video is useful for you. Thank you very much and take care of yourselves. See you in the next video. Goodbye.