It is Sunday, December something, 43rd. Wait, I have a phone, my husband's phone, let's see. Ha, yeah, December 23rd, 1117 AM, see it says right there. We are headed back to the Sacramento, we're headed to the Sacramento airport and headed back home from a holiday visit with the family here in California. And it's been an interesting visit. I enjoyed parts of it. But, and I got to shop at Daiso while I was here, which we don't have nearby where we're living in Oregon.  It'll be nice to get home and unpack and relax. And yeah, it'll be good. I think there's a crap ton of mail waiting for us at home though too. So we have to deal with all that because I think Christmas presents we're continuing to come in. So yeah, anyway, it'll all be good. All right, that's it for now, I'll be back. Hey everybody, we are back in Oregon. We got back yesterday afternoon and as you can see, we are puppy sitting. We are getting ready to go out and run a few errands, it is Christmas Eve and there are a few stores open and we actually need groceries. Otherwise Bob and I are gonna be eating who knows what out of the freezer tomorrow for Christmas dinner. So we're gonna go out and go get some groceries and we'll have to create her while we're gone. Anyway, we're gonna go take care of that and a few other things while stores are still open. We hope you all have a great Christmas Eve and that you're enjoying yourself with family and friends. And yeah, we're gonna just have a quiet night at home and we're looking forward to that. Anyway, we'll be back. Hey everybody, so Bob and I are headed to services for Christmas Eve. Go to church. Go into church. So fun fact, I was raised Roman Catholic and Bob was raised Lutheran. And I don't think either one of us are what we would either consider practicing Christians of much of any kind. Not that we don't believe we're not church goers. We're not average church goers. We're really not, because we're lazy in part I think. But anyway, there's something about the tradition of a service and church hymns that for us is just as part of tradition and I love a church hymn. Fun fact, in the art room, it'll be October or June and I'm listening to church hymns sometimes Christmas ones, right? Right, yeah. Anyway, we're celebrating Christmas our way. We hope you're celebrating your fall holidays or winter holidays, whatever they are, your way. Have a merry one, whatever it is, whether it's Christmas or something else. Maybe it's Happy Hanukkah. Shelly, if you're watching Happy Hanukkah. We miss celebrating Hanukkah with you this year, by the way. Anyway, so we wish you and yours a very merry one and we're gonna go and do our due diligence at church and we will see you all later. Hey guys, it is Christmas day, merry Christmas. We're having a quiet Christmas at home, just the two of us, well, and Lily. And you know, it's kinda nice. It's already after lunch, well after lunch. 1.56 p.m. or so the computer says. We open gifts and had breakfast and yeah, I've been playing upstairs in the art room with some old shrink plastic that I had in my stash of stuff that I found when I was unpacking. I'm gonna show you what I did, cause we've got some successes and maybe some successes and some failures. I just thought I would use the stuff up and play and so well, you know, hang on, I'll show you what happened. Okay, so this is the first batch and I have an HP inkjet printer. So I forgot, I don't know why. I forgot or I didn't realize how much the ink would run even after shrinking the plastic and when you try to put a top coat on it. Now I do think some of it was the top coat that I try to use because these are really cloudy. Like you can really tell this one never got really clear. Some of them, can you see that cracked? This was diamond glaze actually. So I don't know if my diamond glaze was old or I don't know, but these all ran, a few of them cracked. Some of them have that. So I don't know. Anyway, these are failures. I may take, you know, one or two of these and send them to each of the design team with a little note saying, here's some shrink art failures of mine and you know, maybe you can do, maybe let's see what you can do with them. I don't know, but they're kind of, I don't know. So these are all failures. So then I had a couple more sheets. So I did some more shrinking and this one, I didn't do anything too. I just tried a different top coat. This was Deco Arts clear pouring top coat. It still ran. And then I thought, okay, I really need something to, it probably has a lot of water in it, which didn't help, but I thought I really need something to seal the ink in before I put a top coat on. That would probably be handy. So then I have a little jar I've had for a long time of Judy Kins micro glaze, Rangers blaze, it looks like the same pot. And I don't remember the name of the product is, it's Judy Kins micro glaze in a different pot. That's all it is. Anyway, I've had this for a long time. It's great stuff. It's like a waxy substance that seals ink in. So I put some of that on all of the rest of these. And then on this one, I used more of the, did I use? I don't think I did actually.  Then the pouring medium was just kind of thin. So I used Deco Arts triple thick. It seems to be working. I don't see any ink running. I am getting sort of that kind of finish, like matted finish. Probably it's cause of the layer of wax underneath. So we're gonna let them dry. I'm probably gonna give them a second coat as long as no ink runs, but it doesn't look like any of the ink ran. I plan on turning these into some pins for my art bag. So I don't know, and I may share some with friends, but yeah, it's interesting. So if you have some of the kind of shrink plastic you can run through your inkjet printer. Remember like, okay, so on this one is the same as this one. So what I also learned from doing this first one was I forgot to lighten the image by about 50% or more. So I did, because when you shrink it down, it's gonna darken it. So I lightened it up a lot. And then when I shrink it, it came out like this, which is much better. So I would say on your artwork, don't forget to lighten it before you print it and print them to be two thirds bigger than you want the finished piece to be, approximately. Clear coat it with something that's gonna seal the ink in, whether you have the micro glaze or you have some kind of a spray, and then you can put some sort of clear finish on top, whether you use resin or you use that go where it's triple thick. I do love this stuff, by the way. This one's like half empty, I have to order another one. And yeah, then just let them dry. You can put pin backs on the back, you can glue them to your journal pages or your journal covers or make charms out of them. That squeak was Lily, she's outside the door, like grandma, why do you have the doors closed? Anyway, that's it for today. I hope you've all had a merry Christmas and that you're all ready for the new year and yeah, I'll be back. Hey everybody, it's Wednesday morning, December 26th. I got no clue what time it is, honestly. It's after 10, I think. And I only know it's December 26th because yesterday was Christmas, let's be real. Anyway, sweet Lily is in her crate and we are gonna head out. We have to pick up some things from the lawyer. We need to run a couple of errands. Husband needs new jeans because he's flashing his junk to the whole neighborhood. Yeah, same thing. So we'll be back. So we'll be back. It's by the way raining outside, but you know, it's the Pacific Northwest, so what do you expect? Anyway, we'll be back. Only 364 more days till Christmas. God, don't go there. Start preparing. Only what, 115 more days of rain? Yeah, something like that. And snow, something like that. Anyway, we'll be back. Hey everybody, it is Thursday afternoon, 3.13 p.m. I only know that because the clock, the stove clock is over there. And it's December 27th, I think. It's been a crazy morning filled with working out project product, packaging issues with the new rubber stamp line and running errands, doing paperwork. We had new blinds installed on the French doors. So I will no longer be blinded by the sun every single afternoon. Yay. And we just went out and got back from running a couple of errands and stuff like that. Anyway, I think we're just gonna chill for a bit at home. And if anything exciting happens, I'll let you know. Hey guys, so I was just cleaning off my non-stick mats and thought I maybe should tell you what I did. It's probably something that's been on YouTube before, but we'll throw it out there. So my one mat, it's cut down to size with this cookie sheet. It's what I do a lot of, obviously, alcohol, ink and things on. Also some resin stuff. Can you see that right there? So the whole sheet had lots of that on it and it had some drops of resin in this. And after a while, it gets to be too much. And so you need to clean it up. So I'm gonna show you how to do that. It'd be fun because I'm gonna do this one-handed because I'm filming with my phone, which is in my right hand. Anyway, you need some packing tape. And so I'm gonna put the packing tape on that. And then something to just push the tape into the mat and whatever's dried on it. Pushing in really good. This is a We Are Memory Keepers sandpaper thing.  But anything will work, old gift card. And then just peel the packing tape up. And again, I'm doing this one-handed, you won't do. So clean because yep, see? It sticks to the packing tape. I don't think there's anything I can do but the stains in around here. And I don't know that I want to, to be honest. You don't bother me that much. I probably could try rubbing it down with rubbing alcohol, but it's fine. As long as that big blob of glue and resin aren't on there anymore. So that's how you do that. And I cleaned that one and then I cleaned my big one, which was also messy. And then I wanted to show you this. So these are the ones I spoke about before that where I was using up my shrinky ink. So I'm gonna use it up thing right now. And I don't know if my diamond glaze was contaminated or old or if it had water in it. I don't know what the deal was, but it dried cloudy. Some of them dried with a crack. The ink on almost all of these ran. I forgot the ink would do that. And I didn't seal it before, so I put a diamond glaze on it. And the diamond glaze I think had some water in it or something, I don't know. So then I thought I'd try another batch. I would lighten up some of the images like this one, which wasn't too bad when it was big, but when I shrink it, it became way too dark. So I did that. And then I sealed them with a layer of the Judy Kins glaze, micro glaze. I know I mentioned these before, but anyway, we'll do it again. So Judy Kins micro glaze, which is the same thing Ranger has a glaze like this. It's made by Judy Kins, it's the same thing. So no matter which one you can find or order. So I gave them all a coat with that with a brush and let it dry. And then I gave them three coats of deco art, triple thick. It came out great. I had one that ran a little bit because I tried doing it without the micro glaze, which it still came out better than the first batch, but with the micro glaze, there's that same one. So no comparison. So, oops, I can do this totally one handed video. So the bottom one is the south of micro glaze, the top one is with, and they both have three coats of the triple thick. So these came out really well, much better than the first batch, nothing ran. And yeah, what am I gonna do with them? I don't know, I might try some of them into pins. Some of them, these are from Pinterest. So I might turn them into pins. There's something stuck in the micro, and they keep up with it. I might turn these into pins and stick them on my mini art bag, I don't know, we'll see. So anyway, this stuff is great. It does seal paper. It's actually made to seal ink on paper. It wasn't made for what I used before, but I know Ranger has a few videos on using their micro glaze, so you might check that out. Anyway, that's it for the moment. I'll be wanting to share with you all the stamp sets for 2019 came in. I've already put some of them in. These are the stamp sleeves from the Ranger stamp storage system. I actually need to get some more sleeves. But this is set one. They have fewer designs on them, but the designs overall are bigger and they're meant for mixed media work and journal work and jelly plate work. So we're gonna be doing some videos. They'll be coming out soon. This is set two. I kept the costs as low as possible.  Because they cost me more to produce because the stamps are so big. So that means I have to charge more. And you'll notice on this one, it says right here, some images are smaller than the actual size, which means the card here, the images on the card, these stamps are a bit bigger. They don't all say that, but the first three sets definitely do. This is set five. And they're meant for layering and making sort of an atomic age inspired design. So you would stamp the solid patterns with paint or ink in one color and then you'd go over the top of it with one of these other patterns in black or a darker color. And this is set, I mean set four, sorry. So we will be showcasing these soon on a video by themselves, which is why I have a jelly plate out and a stamp block. I'll be filming that when I can. And they are up for pre-order listing right now. So you can order them now. Hey guys. So I've said before that I love my new art space, but we're having some lighting issues, especially like at this time of the day, where it's the end of the day. Sometimes I'm still up here wanting to create, work on my computer. As you can see, I'm kind of in the dark. There's a light behind me, but the light's very weird. If I wanted to paint, my easel's like in a dark corner. I did get- These clip lights, now these are from Harbor Freight. They're real cheap. I think they're like $7.99 or something. Each I'll put put prices and links in the video description. It has a daylight bulb inside of it. And that was great, but having to clip to the top of my easel, I'm short people. So I could never turn it on and off without a stool. That was a problem. Plus I wanted to change the angle, I really couldn't. This way we got this bracket at Home Depot. It's actually a shelf bracket. It was I think $3. Again, I'll put links and prices in the description. My husband then hooked it to the wall. We clipped the light to it. Now I can reach it. And it lights up the corner I needed to. Plus this light is movable. So I can move it, I can unclip it and point it in a different direction very easily. So that solved that issue in this corner. And that changed that a lot. Then I had two of them. So here's another bracket with another light. And I can turn this one on. Again, it's the same light, same daylight bulb. And that makes a big difference with shiny light towards the table. Let me keep the phone this way. That's without, that's with, right? Then I got these two things. So I have an uncle, his name is Tom Johnson. He is the owner of Johnson's digital media. He does a lot of video and voice recordings, mostly voice recordings. He records musical groups and singers and musicians. He's fabulous at his job, by the way. I will link his website in the description below. I got some really great advice from him regarding lighting and the echo that you're hearing right now. I don't have time tonight to test his theories about the echo. I don't know what to do about that, but I'm going to, hopefully before this vlog is finished, so we'll see how that works. These are two LED video lights. They have enough lumens to simulate daylight. So I am going to get them plugged in in a couple of different spots and we're gonna turn them on and see what the difference is. Okay, you ready for this? I already tested one by mistake. This is the room without the two lights on. Hang on. This is the room with the lights on. All of them, including the new LED lights, holy moly, are they bright? And they're on long cords. So if I need to, I can move them pretty close to the art table. I have it kind of tangled up right here now, but they're on probably six or eight foot cords. So I can move it away out of the corner. Then I can move it to about, you can't see me, I can move it to about here. So I can move it pretty close to the table. The same with the other one behind me. Wow, does that make a big difference? I'm gonna include links for everything in the description below and tomorrow or the next day we'll test the microphone. Hopefully, so far his advice is spot on and the man knows what he's talking about. So anyway. Hey guys, I wouldn't say good morning, but it's already almost one o'clock. It's Friday, December 28th. I only know that because today we're donating blood late this afternoon. That's the only reason I know. So we just did something scary for me anyway. We drove into Portland and dropped my little brown art case off at a repair place. That makes me nervous, but they're gonna see if they can, I know, I know what's unreasonable. Anyway, they're not gonna only gonna see if they can give it a refurb, the leather's really dry, so the hardware needs fixing or replacing, but the guy who does that kind of work also does custom work on the side and he's gonna see how comfortable he is and what it would cost to make me another bag similar. I'd love to have a spare. So we're gonna see how, where that goes and in the meantime, they're gonna at least clean the bag and yeah. I don't know, it makes me nervous, but as you can, and as you can see, we have Lily in the back. She's just loved the car ride. Anyway, we are headed home and we're gonna have some lunch and I've got some more laundry to do. We already dropped off the Etsy orders and stuff like that, so. We have to give blood. We have to give blood. We need to drink a lot of water because we need to give blood, so I'm gonna be spending the rest of the afternoon drinking a bunch of water. Anyway, I'll be back. Okay, so we're gonna perform some lighting and microphone tests and I have gotten a cable to hook my snowball mic up directly to my video camera. I don't know if that's gonna work or not. I guess we'll find out. I forgot to turn the camera on. I'm gonna play that for you all. I've already listened to it once. It doesn't sound any better than with the lavalier microphone I already have. And if that's the case, I'm gonna just use what I have, but I'm going to also record a little piece with the lavalier microphone again as it kind of clips on your shirt. So I'm gonna record a bit with that one. I'm gonna play these tests with the snowball mic and you tell me what you think. So this is position one of the snowball mic, the blue snowball mic. It's white. The name of it is blue. I know it's confusing over there for you on the blog. So testing, testing. This is position two on the blue snowball mic. Testing, testing. This is position three on the blue snowball mic. Okay, this is position four. Testing, testing. How's the echo? I don't know. None of those sounded any better than my other microphone. Let's try. So I'm gonna insert some audio here and or video from the video camera with the clip on microphone. It helps if the green little buttons turned on. Anyway, testing, testing. How does this microphone sound? Let's try something I haven't done since I moved in. Let's try closing the doors because maybe part of the echoes are because of the doors are open. I don't think so, but let's try it. Okay, how does that sound? Doesn't sound any different to me. I can't, I forgot to turn it on. This is with most of the nude lights on by the way. And I'm just clipping the microphone into different places, the little one that I have to see if it makes any difference which I don't know that it is going to. So here it's clipped to the camera. And okay, this is using the camera's built-in microphone without any extra anything. But again, this is the new lighting which is much nicer than with just the old lighting above the table. With the doors open and with the doors closed. I don't think it makes any difference. The lighting was easy to fix. Although the lighting is not on right now but it was easier to fix. I don't know. I'm not the audio expert. I'm gonna look into the other lavalier clip-on type microphones my uncle recommended. If they're not expensive, I might get one and try it but we'll see, anyway. At the moment I'm just frustrated. I really don't wanna put up sound panels around the room. That's really ugly. So I have no idea. All right, I'll be back. Good morning everybody. It is Saturday morning, December 29th. Moaning. Yeah, moaning. It's 10 33 a.m. technically it's still morning. We are headed out with Lily in the back. There she is. We are taking her for a car ride. We're going up to the snow. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Or at least we're headed that way. I don't know how far we'll get but we'll see. Going on an adventure. Yeah, so anyway, we'll take you with us. We'll be back. 211 or something. I'm in the art room turning things off. I've been catching up on drawing. I was chatting with friends doing laundry, typical stuff. Once we got back from the snow anyway, which was fun. You've seen the pictures of Lily already. Say good night, Fred. Good night, Fred. Yeah. I heard you didn't know what it was. It's me. Anyway, I'm going to insert some pictures here too. One picture here too. I was cleaning up my embroidery floss counter. Which didn't fare the move very well. As you can see from the inserted picture I'll put right here. The drawers of floss, of which there are two, did not fare the move very well and when I opened them they both looked like the image on the right. So I spent some time this afternoon reorganizing them and cleaning the drawers so everything is back in nice, neat and in numerical order like the one on the left. I'm not that way about everything but I am generally that way about most of my art stuff. So anyway. And I only found out that the floss was a mess a few days ago because I hadn't up until then opened those drawers. Yeah. Anyway, tomorrow morning we're gonna go meet my daughter and her fiance and his parents for breakfast. And we're gonna leave Lily here because we're still babysitting her for another week or so.  So it's better for her, I think emotionally to just stay here. So we're gonna do that. We'll probably just come straight home. If we do anything, it'll just probably be stopping at the grocery store or something not exciting like that. I know we have to, I shouldn't say that. I know we have to pick up mail for the kids and stuff like that before we come home. But yeah, anyway, nothing too exciting. Anyway, I hope you've had a great week. We have, I hope everybody had a happy holiday. And I don't know about you, I'm looking forward to the new year, let's try to not get the glare there. And I hope you all have a happy and safe New Year's Eve. And let's start off the new year with a bang and a smile and don't forget to like, share and subscribe and hit that little bell icon down there. If you want notifications when new videos come out. I have a bunch of links in the description below for my Etsy shop and anything I've mentioned in the vlog. I think you guys might be interested in. There's a link to a site called Linktree.  I am considering some changes for the YouTube channel for the new year. When and if I decide exactly what they're gonna be, I will let you all know. And that's it for right now. I hope you've all had a good one. Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I will see you later. Bye guys.


In this lesson, we are going to talk about my library. My library is a system of bookmarks, so you can reuse part of your presentation in any presentation. You can keep entire flows or just images. Let's take a look at how it works. I'm going to open one of our presentations. Let's suppose that you need to use one of these sections topics in another presentation. And that it's something that you will use often. This particular topic is a description of Preginext. When presenting, all these are zoom-ins. So we will zoom in on the different parts. Let's see how it looks. And we want to be able to use this entire content with all its animations on other presentations. And we want to use it often. So I want to click this topic, go to my library, select the topic, right click and add to my library. We have other elements. Elements in a library can be entire topics, clusters of information, images, text, shapes, like images, videos, charts, icons and PDFs, and group items. Group items on graphics. When you have more than one graphics and want to keep them together, you group them. We talk about that in adding images in the lesson on images for the policy course. So now that we have it on my library, I can start a presentation from scratch. And I'm going to add it from my library. Let's make some room here, here, here and here. And I want to insert from my library the topic that we copied from the other presentation. So I can drag it. When I import an element from my library, it will import the structure and the content, but the style will follow the style of the presentation. Remember that we have our own template with colors. We also have our set of fonts. We use Ubuntu. Now we added this topic from my library. Remember it was an entire set of information. If we zoom in, we have everything that, all the animations. And if we present from here, we kept the entire structure of that section in my library. You can also add single images to my library. And it appears here. And just add it from my library. We can add specific images or group images. In this case, this is a group where we have the image and the text all together. When we move one, we move all of them. Just right-click and add to my library. See how it appears here? And you can use these elements, structures, videos, images in any presentation you make. It is a bookmark, but it makes a copy. So if I delete this presentation completely, the saved items from my library remain in my Prezi accounts library. And I can use it everywhere I'm working with Prezi from my account.


Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia You're looking very handsome this morning. Mr. Norton. I return the compliment mizzies Norton Mr. Norton, I'm always polite mizzies, not except then you're not which is never Where's my hat on your head? Absent mind. Oh, so it is. So it is. So it is Lovely early this morning small wonder. I've been getting myself ready since my six o'clock feeding Darling, don't you think you'll be able to learn how to sleep after you wake up that was slightly garbled But I'll learn in time by that time. It'll be too late We'll be back up in the farm and the baby will have a room all his own But he'll still have to be fed at six at ten at two at six at ten. Maybe we can cheat an hour I'll ask the doctor. We'll do nothing of the sort. He won't tell the baby I most certainly do not intend to ruin your health for the sake of his. Nobody's health being ruined We're not going into that now. I'm going down to the office.  Oh Business as usual is nice I'm in such a generous mood. I might even say goodbye to my son. Oh, I'm sure he'd appreciate any better head It's going to be an awfully hot day. I can feel it already Creeping up around me. Well, we'll be getting back up to Eastbrook pretty soon Mornings are nice and cool up there and the night Oh, David, it's wonderful to have a farm Call our own except for a few minor financial obligations. It's our own and I'm glad of it So am I Although if you told me six months ago, I'd never believed you and if you'd have told me a year ago that I was going to be saddled with an Offspring I would never have believed you. No, you weren't even saddled with me a year ago How time flies.  Tell me what you think of your son instead. Let me see. What do I think? He's still awfully small small. He's enormous for his age. Well, he's a lot bigger than a sparrow Hey Bobby Look at him. He doesn't even know his name. He is not a dog dogs are a lot brighter at two weeks dogs Can walk dogs can eat dogs even know their name Well dogs have four legs. Oh That's the difference. Yeah, I think it's time. He got out of bed Bobby and started earning your living in the meantime I'll go out and earn it for you David what darling babies grow awfully quickly. Don't they? What are you leading up to? Oh? I'm not leading up to anything's not especially then what are you leading up to? Not especially Well, I was thinking This is going to be good as a matter of fact. It didn't even take much thought that's encouraging David, I think we ought to have some pictures taken of him. What? What's so terrible about that? Everybody has pictures taking a baby darling You could go out and buy any old magazine and clip out any old baby picture in it and it would be just as good fine Talk for a newborn father.  Oh Sometimes you are impossible. Sometimes I make sense Well, didn't your mother take pictures of you when you were a baby? She did Where are they none of your business? Oh? Can't I see them sometimes? No, I'd love to see them Pictures of you on your stomach with nothing on remind me to burn them See what you're embarrassed about there. You haven't seen the pictures Well, I let you see mine.  That's it's different with girls. Why why? Why I I think it's a ridiculous fetish of our society if we can't remember what our son looks like We don't deserve pictures to remind well now I never was a picture-taking kind of woman. That's one of the reasons I married you but I feel sort of like this is different I Mean if we had other children be nice to compare them say it Three weeks comparisons are odious now Maybe I'd like to look at them when I'm older You'll never grow that old You talk a lot, but I saw you gurgling over those pictures of me when mama showed them to you a few months ago That's because you look so silly. I did exactly the way you look now only only smaller. Thanks. It's all right At least you had a good time of them. You might thank me for that. Yeah, thanks darling. You're welcome Believe me. I'm not going to be the kind of parent who goes around showing off pictures of his child Just because you have the picture doesn't mean you have to show them off then why I have them Why not? Well, do you carry pictures of me around in your wallet? You are nothing to be so proud of Well, I'm a darn sight handsomer than that that offspring of yours. He's yours, too. I admit that Sometimes I think you haven't got one fatherly feeling in you. Oh on the contrary I think Bobby's a pretty nice kid. There's kids of his age go my like him I'm getting very fond of it. No photograph will ever take his place. Well, maybe you're right Still he looks awfully cute lying there on his stomach Look darling if you really want pictures call up the photographer There's no hurry Except for you to get going. You're gonna be late instead of early. I'm on my way. See you tonight Bobby David promise you'll eat a decent lunch. I most certainly will eat a decent lunch having lunch with Colligan You'll probably eat Irish stew Good to get back into a man's world away from this nursery away from diapers and condensed milk and bottles and safety That's a good thing.  Oh, yeah, I'm doing all right. I suppose Now about your steel contract. Yeah, they're cute at two weeks. That's their kind of cute Now Colligan, I wanted to talk to you about the contract chosen a name for me it We're calling him after my wife's father Robert. Oh fine name Robert my third one's called Robert Got red hair big eyes and freckles as fine boy. I'm sure he is now if you can see your way clear to give me the day to Delivery on the steel. I'm sure what's the hurry? What's that? We got plenty of time to talk My first Patrick my second one's Sean my third one Robert We called him that because when he was little he had no Irish look about my toilet Oh, but he sure grew up to fool us. Yeah, and the littlest one Kathleen. That's quite a handful. There's nothing like them I'm sure they're adorable Now about the steel specification here. Here the wait till I get them out. Oh Where did I put that wallet so I was disappearing in the wrong pocket? Oh, here it is here No Here's a picture of Kathleen when she was three weeks old. No Very cute cute. She was and prodigiously advanced to born with one tooth. She was you don't say Oh, I had a full set of uppers and lowers before she turned three Look at that. They're lying on her stomach Yeah, did you ever see anything so cute? No, I never did. Ah, don't be so modest land I know you're thinking yours is cuter Not bad, but I I know you wouldn't want to miss this one.  Oh putty in their hands. I am There was a fine steak fine indeed Tell me not and you have them on four-hour feedings. Yes Yes, every four hours all day and all night Now I guess we can get on to those delivery dates that I want to set with you Yeah, time for that now these here pictures we took the summer we spent up in Maine This one here's Patrick in this here picture. We took out in the island last summer. Oh, yes It is a picture of me holding Robert when he was all of three weeks old Fat little boy, wasn't he? Well, he's not much Fatter than mine now. He's by Barney McGonagall, man No, baby was fatter than Robert was at three weeks You know to take a look at Bobby and see for yourself. That's all why the doctor said to me This is one of the fattest babies. I ever did see all right No, all right since I since I have no picture You win this round Colligan this round now. What about the steel contract?  Yes. It was. I don't need that good man's talk Might have to warm it Stifling Well, I guess I better be rushing back to the office can't take too long as you know Essie and not wait a minute. Colligan. Wait a minute. What about that date of delivery on the steel?  Well, I'll prove it. All right Big Irish Just wait just wait until I get a hold of my wife I'm going to the nearest phone booth.  Hello darling What? Darling you sound so excited it Get that photographer and get those pictures taken The day the darling this morning you said you didn't want to have pictures to what? What's that you said? All right, dear. All right. All right. I'll call the photographer All right, if you insist David, I'll call him right away honestly The more I know about David the less I know about men. Oh well One sometimes gets the impression that certain families have a magic formula for making a hit with the young folks because all the teenagers flock to their houses again and again if You track down the great secret. It's often nothing more than this The lady of the house keeps a plentiful supply of coke on ice at all times She knows there's no better way of attracting the young people and keeping her own kids at home Mr. King before you leave would you like to have a look at the pictures of my four little ones? I'd like to very much. I have a few of my own. I think you might like to look at boy would indeed You have four of them. Hey must be quite a handful for your wife They'll took her a while before she learned to manage, but the little woman is right good at it now Yeah, how is young mrs. Norton managing or as much as everyone will let her manage. She's managing very fine I'm hoping I'll be meeting her very soon. Well right now. She's got enough on her hands She gets the work done one way or another one way or another Mostly another as David will find out tomorrow and begorah. What does that mean? It means that baby clothes get washed bottles boiled and dinner on the stove as if by an unseen hand magic Huh, not quite magic, but come around tomorrow and you'll find out what Claudia uses instead I'll be there indeed nice to have magic the top of the day to you, mr. King and the top of the day to you mr. Colligan Every day Monday through Friday. Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joking saying olive wire and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold Coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola


One of the items that is critical for the economic growth in Southern Africa is looking at public resource mobilization, i.e. in the world of taxation. And the idea is to say that if countries are able to collect revenue and use that revenue for its own development and use that revenue in a targeted way towards inclusive growth and inclusive development, that that would assist in us achieving the objectives and the aims that SA tied program is working towards. For example, there was a study that looked at trade mispricing as a way of perhaps seeing a lot of their large corporates moving money out of countries and making use of base erosion and profit shifting mechanisms. Other areas would be more traditional ways of looking at tax gap, particularly there was a study that was done in the non-financial sector where we looked at national accounts data, but then we sort of took it from the top down and meshed it with our anonymized tax data to see where are the areas that cost this tax gap. It allows for policy discussions, it allows for tax design discussions, allows for multifaceted areas that talks to a topic that is old, but the data allows us to then start looking at interesting new paradigms. So key to an economic growth is productivity growth. And the latest South African system currently handles cooperating on taxation doesn't necessarily promote productivity growth. So it gives lower effective tax burden to some of the older industries if you wish and not necessarily so many tax incentives for research development and the newer service sectors. So that's one. Then maybe a second one could be that the correct mix of using tax instruments versus social grants for redistribution. So I think it would be more useful to have these direct benefits rather than zero rating in the value added tax system in order to reach the distributional objectives.


They're making the cow pregnant. They take the semen, they put this in female cow because a cow has to have what to give milk? A baby milk. Just like us. They take the baby straight away. Why do they do this? To make them producing more milk. Because the baby drinks the milk, they want to keep the milk for humans. Yeah, that's fine. They're male calves that have been discarded from the dairy industry. The dairy industry. Send them to be killed. This is for milk, cheese, yogurt. These are baby cows.  These are the Bambina. They can make latte.  Send, lock them in. Yeah, they put them in these milking things about two or three times a day and they basically milk them dry and when they can't produce enough milk, they send them on a truck to live out their life on a sanctuary. Slaughter. They kill them. Cheese. Latte kills animals.  This is a dairy cow. She was not... She's not there. She's just alive.  She's going live. Sometimes the bulk doesn't work. Do you think this is okay so we can have a burger? No. I'm showing people what happens to animals in the meat, dairy and egg industries across the UK. This is a chicken farm here. They cannibalising each other here. This is very common in farms in the UK. I'm just basically showing the public what the industry don't show them. They look like you in a couple of these videos. Yeah, I go into farms myself with the camera. Because you put cameras there with their consent or without their consent. Without their consent, because if they know they're there, they won't... Yeah, yeah. So the truth is, yeah, it's terrible. If they know you're going to come, then they clean it up. But if you put cameras when they're not ready, then you see the reality. And they hide this reality from the public, who have good hearts and they say it's all green grass, free range, humane. We put cameras, different story. Shouldn't they, like, with the advertisement, all fields with the animals and... Trick you. Do you know there's actually CCTV in the UK slaughterhouses now, but the public don't get access to that footage? They want to keep it away from us, don't they? Because it's a business. And they tell the public, it's all green grass and pastures and it's humane and we love our animals. No, it's a business. They're making money off them. They don't care about these animals. They abuse them, torture them, kill them and chop them up and sell them to the public and put a humane label on it. And we're trying to dispel that myth and show the public the truth. That's what they do to the piglets. They cut their tail so they don't... It's horrible. This pig here has been gassed to death. Gas chamber. Gas chamber. And they're suffering. It burns them.  When you breathe it in, it makes you scared because your body wants oxygen. What is this, sir? Electric shock. Electric shock. So what do you think about what you're seeing on the screens here? I mean, it looks pretty bad. It does look pretty barbaric. I've seen people kicking animals, mishandling the animals even. Let's just say they removed the kicks in the mishandling but they raced them in these farms and they sent them to a slaughterhouse to cut their head off and chop them up into pieces. If you remove the other abusive elements, would you think it's OK then? That's a good question. I mean, not to be kept in such confined conditions but obviously people want to eat meat. Do you think because people want to eat meat that justifies what happens to these animals to get the meat? No, of course not. Any suffering of this... And some of it just feels unnecessary. I've got to be honest, it actually feels like... I mean, it's almost sadistic. They've put them in factories to meet the demand because the demand is high. They need to put them in factories otherwise they couldn't supply. Sad. Let's just say they're out on the grass having a happy life. Do you think it's OK to kill happy animals? No, it's not. No, it's not OK to kill happy animals. There's not a way to... It's bad to say, but kill them without them suffering.  It's surviving. We all have always did like... Yeah, but will you survive without eating pigs or meat? I don't think so. Will you survive? Not your population can survive without... Can you? No, I don't think so. Yeah, I never tried, but maybe... OK, can you say that? Yeah. Do you like animals? Yeah, I ride horses here. Imagine if they took this to a horse. Yeah, I'm vegan. Are you a vegan? Yeah, I'm a vegan. So am I. Oh, that's good. Yeah, I've been vegan 10 years. Really? Yeah. Wow. I was vegan some years ago. Why did you start off? Because my father is a butcher. Oh. And he... He forced you? Yeah. But you can not make a choice? I'm 15, I live with him.  Yeah, I was vegan and I loved being vegan vegan. Are you a vegan? Yeah, I'm a vegan. So then you're our target audience. Everyone needs to remember that we can't place blame on the business that's supplying the customer. The business is only in business because of the customer. So the customer needs to remove their support and be vegan. When you take these products off of the shelf, animals get abused and killed because of us. So it's a supply and demand system. So if you don't want to support this, you should be a vegan.  And over the course of your life, you don't want these animals to be harmed and exploited and executed for you. Yeah, it's true. So that's why when you go vegan, you don't have that blood on your hands. When you didn't know, you didn't have the same responsibility. Now you do know. Now you have the responsibility to act. Do you feel betrayed that you pay for this? Yeah, I do. And I think these people should be prostituted, shouldn't they? So why aren't you vegan? Tell me. Oh, I've enjoyed meat for a long time. I never really felt that. Yeah, that's just awful. It's a good question, I suppose, weakness for me, but this is really his terror appalling. My sister and my mum are vegan. Funny enough, they are. Do you believe that animals deserve rights? Well, yeah, I mean, what we saw was just graceful, I mean. But real rights, I mean, rights not to be murdered for food. But the NSPCC are overseeing all this stuff anyway, I don't know. RSPCA? RSPCA. They're in bed with the meat industry as well.  Look, look, look. They'll put their stand on meat from animals that are slaughtered in slaughterhouses and then say they care about animals. That's a good point. If they put a stamp on, they say, we care about dogs, we rescue them, then we butcher them and put our stamp on them, would you say they care about dogs? It's funny, because when it comes to dogs and cats, people take that abuse seriously, because of these animals that you can think about. They're sentient just like dogs and cats. Like, they want to live just the same. You see how you get into an interesting area, because I don't know about it, but I think there are organisations that care about dogs and they get the dogs and they put them to sleep. I get what you're saying there. Do you want to say? They euthanise dogs in certain situations, but not chop the head off to eat them. That's why we rescue dogs and we don't support breeders because of the euthanasia aspect of, like, dog rescue. So we don't create the demand for dog puppy meals either, but eating meat, you don't have to do it. Your family's vegan. You're against this. Yeah, yeah. All right, so... Don't eat meat. Whatever excuses we make is not good enough for the animals. We have freedom. We have privilege. We can find different food. The animals have no freedom. They're killed, so we can have five-minute manjaro.  I'm glad that you're happy that you're vegan. You're vegan to be as well. Yeah, vegan to be.  You be vegan for the animals. It's a selfless act. So if you think of veganism as, I was doing something harmful to the animals and now I've stopped, it's neutral. You've stopped paying for this horrible thing. What I do is activism. It's like, now I'm going to try to help them. That's another step further. So I'm helping them through talking to people to have other people stop. And one day after you've stopped, maybe you can also help animals and get other people to stop. And then demand comes down. We can destroy industries through demand. And they know that. That's why they're fighting back so hard. The consumer has all the power. Yeah. I'm not sure. Yeah, we need to stop first, honestly. What we need to do is get enough people on board then we can change the law and make it illegal and give animals rights. Like fundamental rights protecting them like humans have.  Animals don't have rights. There's welfare guidelines, but no rights. When we see animals like food, when we see eggs like product, we disrespect the animals. This isn't for us. This is their body. This is their egg. This is their latte. Not for us. We're right. How do you say respect in Italian? Respecto. Respecto. Anemale. By being a vegano. Can I offer you this? It's just got some info on there for you. Apps. Where to eat. Where you find vegan stuff here. So you use Hapicale. Anywhere in the world, right? Where you go. It'll just show you where all the vegan stuff is. Vegan options. You can get so much vegan stuff here. It's really easy. In Italy, you find vegan options in the supermarket. Easy. It's very hard for animals. Easy for us. Thank you very much. It's a good effort. I think. Thank you very much. Bless you, take care. See you later. Thank you. God bless you, take care. Some people do watch it and they forget about it, but I hope they make a change. I gave them all the information they needed. It's horrible to watch. Let's face it, like as an activist, you watch it day in, day out, day in, day out, but it's not good to see it for the first time. It's like, wow, what is going on?


We're gonna go ahead and get started. I'm gonna give some library announcements and then I'm gonna turn it over to our featured artist. So we are celebrating more than a month and if you, you know, we've already, we're about a month in because we started MLK Day. And if you haven't noticed by now this amazing and beautiful artwork that we commissioned and worked with Tiffany Conway on and she developed this art specifically for us. So we have a huge thank you to her. And if you haven't made it to the main library lately, come by and you can see this in Beyond Larger Than Life. It's so gorgeous and welcoming. And we're looking forward tonight to hearing Tiffany's journey with art and her inspiration and what it's like being an artist. First off, we wanna welcome you to the unceded Ancestral Homeland of the Ramutishaloni peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We recognize that we benefit from living and working on their homelands. And as uninvited guests, we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders and relatives in the Ramutishaloni community. And in that link that I popped in the chat box that has some great reading lists about Aloni lands and some great websites you could donate to and learn much more. As I mentioned, it's more than a month. You can see Tiffany's artwork is just so gorgeous, so warming, the colors are gorgeous. I wanna just give you a couple of hints of what we have coming up for more than a month are on the same page, which is San Francisco's bi-monthly read. 17 years strong, we've been doing this and we're celebrating the work of Jessamyn Stanley and she will be in conversation with Tamika Castanella, who is a yogi, yogini and yoga studio owner and organic farmer. So it's gonna be a really great conversation talking about yoga and you can pick this book up at any of your branch or main library locations. This year's Black History Month's overall theme nationwide is Black Health and Wellness. So we have a lot of programs that are really centering around this. We have Mr. Dennis Billups, whom you can see his activist work in Crip Camp, Netflix Crip Camp. Amazing human being. He's been leading meditation every Wednesday at the African-American Center noon. Come on by, but we just got a video too. So if you can't make it, we totally understand that as well. And the video is coming. This Saturday, we have author Afetayo Ojilande and she is gonna be talking about letting the Orishas speak and she's part of Making Black Lives Matter book. She has an essay in there. I think it's gonna be really healing workshop and come on by for that. We have a lot. I'm gonna highlight the art for sure too. We have Ramakan. We love Ramakan at our library. He's so generous to us. And he's gonna come to a crochet jam with us Sunday the 20th, African-American Center, one to three. And you know, I think Tiffany tonight is also gonna highlight just the healing properties of art. And if you... I love art. I love bringing art to the libraries one of my favorite perks of this job. I'm so excited to work with authors. Artists like Tiffany and we generously, Tiffany is gonna come back on Thursday and do a draw with Tiffany workshop. We're having it at 430. So all ages, family, it's gonna be a good one. So come on by. And now I'm gonna introduce Tiffany. Tiffany again, like I've already gushed, but thank you so much for being so generous with your art and creating a specific piece for our library and it's so amazing to me and to all of the people I work with. We're all like, oh my God. And everybody we've worked with on panels. We had an amazing panel of black physicians and health experts. They're all like, we need that poster. Like, we'll get it to you.  I lost it. Tiffany is a visual painter. She breaks the generational curse and the door to beautiful beginnings. She has overcome stereotypes and an absent mother due to addiction and began speaking life herself first. She's raised in the Bay Area and she's gonna talk tonight about her creativity and how it grew from her life experiences. I'm gonna pop in links. Her website is really beautiful and her bio is much longer than I just gave it. And I'll add her socials and anything comes up. I'm gonna add that as well to Tiffany. And you can either put questions in the chat or the Q&A.  So feel welcome to add those questions and I'm gonna stop sharing and turn it over to you, Tiffany. Tiffany Conway, everyone. Wonderful. Okay, let me share my screen. I'm gonna do a little deck presentation and enter the screen. Usually I'm pretty good with this. Here we go. Enter full screen. There we go. Okay, so just wanted to talk about my journey so far. Tiffany, we don't see it in full screen. Okay, what's going on here? What do I... I'm going to stop sharing for one second and then hopefully we can... Done. Maybe I put a little bit of kerosene on this room here. Okay, let me see. I apologize, I'm usually more savvy or I'm more savvy than this. I think that all the time. And I'm like, okay, I've done this a hundred times. Now why is it doing this? Okay, well, I think I'll just... I think a little bit of it might have frozen. So I'm going to just kind of give like an overview of my life so far in terms of how I became an artist, like what inspires me and things of that nature. So I wanna say that my creative journey as far as becoming a visual artist started about 10 years ago. I was at a pivotal age where I was kind of deciding, okay, what's next for me? And I'd already had a long career in my 20s and in property management and real estate. And I was looking to really just kind of set my own path. And I started going back to school and I started studying art, the fundamentals of art and art history just because I've always been a creative person. I've always kept a sketchbook, a journal, things like that. And I was like, why not just kind of go back to the basics? And me making that step and pivoting my life in that way, I really fell in love with the process of making art. I really fell in love with like learning about art history and how so much of our culture and innovation is really founded in the principles and fundamentals of art. So I started that journey about 10 years ago, took some classes, but I really started to take myself seriously about five years ago. In the beginning, when I was taking classes, I wasn't the best painter, so I would just kind of splosh paint around and I was actually doing some really abstract pieces until I taught myself how to paint people. And my computer is really frozen. So I started teaching myself like how to paint people and when I found myself being successful with that, I realized that a lot of my personal narrative gets kind of sucked into whatever painting that I'm working on at the time. So at times when I think I'm painting someone else, I'm really painting my story or painting my emotions. So once I came to that realization, I started to work just very intuitively and allow the work to teach me. So a lot of the times I'll make something very freeform and organically and kind of sit with the piece and meditate with it and then it speaks to me, it tells me what this work is about and I'll come up with the title of the piece based off of that dialogue that I'm having with the work. Tiffany, would you like to try to share the slides with me? Yeah, I put my, I put our message to your message. Well, it's really interesting because let's see, let me see if I can do that with you. But it looks like my browser may have frozen. Of course. Right, of course, so... I can share like anything from your website again, like or... Yeah, that would be great. We can, if you wanna share the portfolio page, that would be great. I'm gonna do that right now. Yeah, really the whole thing froze. I apologize. It is the name of the game in Zoonland. Well, we learned that that's just, you know, unfortunately how things go, but we work as we will, here we go. Right, exactly. So tell me what to do. That's wonderful. I'll just kind of talk and you can scroll down as I go through the timeline of my portfolio. So 2017 is kind of when I realized that I had, I really had something there. One of the first paintings that I was extremely proud of was the painting in the middle, which is called Daydreamer. And at that time, I wanna say that's when I really, I really wanted to, I really started taking myself seriously. This really became like an undeniable passion for me. And when I look at Daydreamer, I see, you know, all of the elements that I feel are still carried out through my work to this day, which is like a sense of softness and elegance to her and like a sense of mystery. So I have some other paintings from that time period. My Thoughts Become Things and Mama Bear, those are all reflective of a personal narrative. And we can zoom down to 2018. So 2018 was a challenging year for me. I realized a lot of the time, at that time that a lot of my personal relationships were shifting and as a result, it really started to show up in the work. I found myself around that timeframe, you know, really, as I was really pushing, you know, my creative endeavors, I found myself really being alone and having time to reflect and think about my path. So I wanna say a pivotal moment from that year would be this self-portrait, The Uncomfortable Shift and that's to the left there. And in that painting, that was actually, you know, again, something that was very organic and free flowing. I did not necessarily anticipate her to look like me to a degree and at the time I did have short hair, but I was like, oh, she doesn't look like me. And I was like, wait a minute, she really, really does. So I was painting from a very intuitive place and in hindsight, I realized that I was going through a very uncomfortable shift. My mind was, you know, moving into the direction of wanting to be an artist full-time. My friendships and my relationships and my family relationships were all shifting and changing because I was coming into a different person. If you scroll down to 2019. So this was a really fun and creative time.  All of these pieces are really breakout pieces, but the one that kind of sticks out to me the most is the one in the middle, which is called Young Elder. And this is actually a painting that won me my artistic achievement award and essentially launched my career as a professional artist. What I love about this painting is I actually woke up, you know, from, you know, a very interesting night of dreaming and spent the day working on this. I woke up and I just got to work and I was able to complete this painting in a day. And at that time that was really, that was unheard of for me. You know, I had paintings before that would take me months to finish. But this one I finished in a day, like I was just really moved to convey this message.  So I imagined her being that person. And I wanted to create this really interesting background where her world is kind of shifting and things are not exactly as they should be. Like the sky being red, the fish are up in the air and the, you know, the birds are flying down below. So I wanted to convey that, you know, with all of that symbolism in there. So 2020 was a really interesting year as well because these three paintings actually were all completed right before the pandemic. And the one that really sticks out to me the most is Blooming in Spido. She's actually really popular, but the story behind this painting is, once that we would love to learn more about the dreams in your work, have you always had a strong, mm-hmm. Okay, so in terms of like my dreams being incorporated into my work, it has slowed down a little bit, but I think while my world was shifting and I was really like falling in love with painting as a creative outlet, I really feel like my dreams were really guiding me at that time. A lot of these paintings from that time period are really, you know, inspired by something that I had in the dream. For instance, this painting in the middle called Yemiah. Yemiah is an African goddess. She's the goddess of water. And in African spirituality, we have all of these gods and deities.  So the way that it typically goes is while you're in the middle of spiritual transition, certain gods will reach out to you and embrace you as their child. And typically when you are pursuing that as your religion, that particular god becomes the god that you connect with the most and pray to the most. So in my spiritual pathway, Yemiah was the god that reached out to me and that was through a lot of dreams. And it was a very fun time. So yeah, we can zoom down to 2021. So 2021 was the year that I created somebody of work called Aetherial Hue. And I was responding to so many things, lots of things that were happening in 2020. I wanna say that I chose most, all of the work from this show had a theme of blue in it. And I really feel like I chose that specific blue for its calming effect. I feel like at the time that I created this work, I was responding to the pandemic and then all of the stress around the pandemic and then all of the protesting and everything that was happening in this tumultuous timeframe. I really just wanted some peace, to be honest with you. And I just kind of immersed myself in the work in what I was creating. And the goal for me with this body of work was to create a sense of calm and peace and to also see black people and blackness without the barrier of race. I feel like there have been times where because it's black art, it's not necessarily considered in the same level of professionalism. So I wanted to see if I can challenge the viewer to look at the work for what it is without automatically categorizing it as black art. And the breakthrough painting for me in this body of work is the painting in the middle called Wisdom Lap. I was looking at images and responding to images of hair braiding because that's very big in our culture. I personally feel that in the process of grooming your hair, braiding your hair, things of that nature, it becomes a resting place for the person. And it also becomes a place where wisdom is passed. And it could be used as a child and it could also be used as an adult. In this particular image, this is a child resting on the lap of an elder who is braiding her hair. And the story comes out to me is that as she's braiding her hair, the wisdom that she has is being carried through the child. And I wanted to convey that in the corn rolls. You can kind of see the pattern of the corn rolls are rolled into her fingers. And I didn't necessarily include the full body of the woman because I really wanted to zoom in on the peacefulness of the child. And then there's also an ancestor in the background because a lot of my work is very intuitive and guided by spirit. So in relationship to my spirituality, I like to include an ancestor in my work as like a thank you for them getting me here to this point. So that was my portfolio so far. And I'm going to answer a few more questions. What is the story behind the third eye in the Flower Boy series? So this is a really, so with the Flower Boy series, I was attempting to understand the humanity of black men. And I'm married now, I've been with my husband for quite some time, but I always see with black men that they are balancing their own vulnerabilities while also being protective. So while with this third eye, you can kind of see that all of the different eyes in this particular figure has different reflections. And to me, that shows that he's looking in different directions and trying to be protective, but at the same time, I was also trying to convey a softness with him and a vulnerability as well. And when I typically work with men, sometimes I will be a little bit more playful and abstract with them. Typically when I'm working with women, they all kind of feel in relation to me as like a daughter or sister, just because I'm usually very connected to their story and with men, I'm not as connected. Let's see. There's so much in this one, the flatness, mm-hmm. Thank you. These are not people that I know, these are people that I imagined, which is I prefer to work with imagination as opposed to working from a real person's reference. And I do, I have paintings of myself, my husband, family members, friends, but I prefer to make them up. And the reason why I enjoy doing that is because it gives me a chance to be creative, but I also like when a viewer can see themselves in the work. A lot of the times when I'm exhibiting or doing shows, people will walk up to the work and you'll see that they have a resemblance to the painting that they walked up to. So that's fun for me to see. And I don't see any more questions. So I have a question. I have a question. Sure. Tiffany, because there was celebrating black health and black wellness, I'd love to hear like your take on what art does for your health and maybe for your mental health or just for your being and how do you think that I personally think, you know, art just makes, if you're, I don't know, I think it just helps people. I'd love to hear your take on what you think health-wise or body-wise or mental-wise art does for you. Absolutely. I feel like art kind of hits all of the areas in which I need healing. There are elements where it's meditative and there are times when I'm listening to music and I'm dancing, so I'm moving my body in a full range, being able to express my creativity or just kind of being, you know, like a vessel for, you know, whatever spirit is doing. Having that in my practice, it really does help.  What was that about? And my work really teaches me, you know, whether it be weeks, months, years down the line, I'll look at something and sometimes I'll find something new that I didn't even know that I added. Sometimes, you know, you'll see something very subtle like the expression in their face or my color choices and what those mean. So for me, it's extremely healing.  When I think about who I was before I discovered art as my medium, before I discovered painting as my medium, I was an entirely different person and I'm thankful. So I'm thankful for the practice. Thank you, Tiffany. I see another question in the chat is where do you see your art taking you next? That's a great question. So I am working on a new body of work at the moment. And you know, I'm always responding to, things that I may not necessarily be, things that are bothersome to me, you know? But when I work, my goal is to, whatever frustration I may have or lack of understanding I have, I tried to work through that so that the work itself doesn't really necessarily reflect like pain or struggle or anything like that. So I am working on something that I'm really excited about and I can't wait to share. I hope that my art will continue to teach me. I hope that it continues to resonate with everyone, with black people and with everyone that it resonates with. I think sometimes with black artists, we have a tendency to be pigeonholed just because the people in our work are black, but when I have meaning behind the work, it's something that can relate to everyone. Anissa is clicking on my Instagram page right now and I have a post about the little girl in the painting family meditation.  And it may be some inner child work that I'm expressing through my creativity. So I was really, another thing that I learned in hindsight after the work was created. Come on, Catherine is asking, who do you consider your major influences? So my biggest influence, and it's really interesting because his work is not, it's completely different. His work is very abstract and that would be Willisky-Condensky. And I have his book here. I wanted to show you guys. This is kind of like my Bible. And the reason why I consider this my Bible is because he talks about the spirituality aspect of art and I feel like my spirituality is, my creativity is a vessel for my spirituality.  So that's my main, that would be my first influence. I really love Amy Sherrod's work. I also like her personality as well. I'm kind of one of those people when I really get into someone's work I'll listen to all of their interviews and I really like her perspective. Another person that I would say influences me greatly would be Carl VanVetchen. He's an author and a photographer from the 20s in the Harlem Renaissance era. And he's actually white but he documented a lot of the artists and performers and poets and writers from the Harlem Renaissance era and his photography really shows, really shows all of those creatives in a very beautiful, elegant way. So those are my top three. So Anissa has an image up from my solo show, Ethereal Hue. This was the very first painting that I created. You can kind of see the work has a lot of heavy breaststrokes. It was really dense. And I was really working through some frustrations at the time. I mean, at the time we had the pandemic happening, we had protests happening. I was responding to some limited beliefs that I had about what it means to be a black artist in this day and age. And what I love most about this painting is the documentation of African hairstyles, traditional African hairstyles. And I like the idea of her hair encapsulating the moon. It reminds me of some of the spirituality texts that I've read in the past about African DTs, Demaya, Yoruba, and things of that nature. I'm adding links in as you talk. I just love when folks bring their artists and their books and who they love and who inspires them. So I do put all of that in our document that I shared with you. It's over here. Now I have all the windows open. And I'm just gonna put that in there one more time because this links will be the go-to for Tiffany as well as on Thursday. Maybe now you could, do we need to bring any special supplies on Thursday? There's my question. I was saying, just bring whatever dry materials you would like to use. I would kind of steer clear of wet materials like watercolor, just keep it dry with pencils, ink, markers, color pencils. Yeah, I would say just kind of, bring whatever you're comfortable with. Wonderful. Okay, I've put all of these links in so you can check out these books, artists inspired, that are inspired by Tiffany. Okay, I'm gonna stop talking your turn. Would you be able to pull up? Well, actually let me see if I can do it. Do you want me to stop sharing? Yeah, I'm gonna see if I can pull up this painting. I love how the, I think Anisa, I think you're on mute. That's okay, I'm just rambling. I just saw how beautiful that last painting was that you did with the woman's hair. Looks like there's two sons, one coming from behind her head and then one through her hair. It's gorgeous. Thank you. Can you see the painting of Family Meditation? We can. Perfect, okay. So when we were talking about the theme for the work, I really got excited. I automatically went to meditation. I've been practicing meditation for about five years. Ever since I kind of decided that this was going to be my journey, I started incorporating lots of different health practices. I changed my diet, I started journaling and then I also started meditating. For me, sometimes I will meditate with kind of like nature sounds. Sometimes I'll use a guided meditation. If I have access to like singing bowls and things like that, I'll use that. And then there are times where I meditate in silence. So I was really excited to create this piece. And spending a whole year working in blue paint, I really wanted to get back down to reality and create something that feels a little bit more, feels a little bit more actually like what my home kind of looks like now, just kind of very serene, calm, lots of earth tones and neutrals and things like that and plants. When I, my favorite part of this painting, of course, is the young girl, just because I realized there's a theme in my work of adding little girls into the work and making sure that they're at a place of peace. So that might be some inner child work for me. But I wanted to display a family meditating in their living room in all the ways in which you can meditate. A lot of people think there's one way to meditate.  Sometimes you have your fingers touching or your palms held together. There's lots of different ways to meditate. There's even walking meditations as well, but I wanted to kind of show you the traditional ways of sitting down to meditate.  So I have some themes in my work in regards to ancestors. And I wanted to make sure that I incorporated that into this painting. So behind the male figure, you'll see a bookshelf with an African mask. And then you also see that carried into his shirt as well. And then if you look behind the girl, you'll see that there is an ancestor there as well. But it doesn't necessarily look like, that it's a painting on the wall or a picture on the wall. It kind of looks inscribed into the wall and that was intentional. You know, in African spirituality, they teach us that our ancestors are always with us. So I wanted to make sure that I incorporated that because that's our way of carrying our ancestors with us. So I wanted to make sure that I incorporated that into the painting. And again, to also thank my ancestors for what they did for me and what they continue to do for me. And that's it. All right. Do we have any final questions for Tiffany? It's been such a joy to see you work every day this since Martin Luther King Day. Any final questions, friends? And we definitely, I'm gonna throw the chat link in there one more time. This is also the link for Thursday's event. And I'm also gonna put in the chat. I do see that someone wrote a mayor or a marine as she wrote something about my bio and breaking generational curses and creating doors to beautiful beginnings. So we talk about generational curses. We're talking about, you know, things in our family lineage that can prohibit us from really living like to our fullest potential. Unfortunately, my mom was, she succumbed to a drug addiction. And because of that, she wasn't necessarily present in my life. And then you also, being a child of the 90s and 80s, there was a lot of turmoil around that time in terms of like how we, how all of us were really brought up. So for me, my breaking generational curses is not succumbing to addictions. And then also, you know, I'm an advocate for education. And unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete my degree, but I didn't necessarily let that stop me from achieving my goals. I've always wanted to be a creative person. I just didn't necessarily know the medium. I've always aspired to express myself.  To me, that's breaking generational curses because I'm doing what I love to do every day. And I know that a lot of people don't get to do that. And because of that, I'm thankful.  And you also endure a lot of naysayers, but I'm proving that, you know, despite having, you know, not necessarily having, you know, my mother present, despite not being able to continue my education the way that I would have liked to, despite those things, I'm still living my dream. And that's what I mean by breaking generational curses. Thank you, Tiffany. And there is some love coming through on the YouTube side. They love seeing this family in unity and in meditation. Wonderful, thank you. Is there any questions from the YouTube side? You can throw them in the chat if you like. We all appreciate you sharing, you know, it's personal work too that I see here in your work. And we, it's not easy for the artist to always be like, to be the spotlight and promote yourself and all that, which you do a great job of. I love your website, it's beautiful. Thank you. Your top notch at responding quickly. Whenever I pestered you in all the spots. Wonderful, thank you. Any last words you'd like to share? No last words. I'm looking forward to seeing you Thursday for our drawing session. And yeah, I look forward to meeting with you and connecting with you all. And I hope that you cut off in the drawing session and we're going to open up to meeting. So we can all see each other. We can see all your work that you do. Perfect. Good to share time. All right, Tiffany and library community, thank you so much for coming out. Your work is gorgeous. I'm so happy that you were able to share it with us and that as well as sharing your time with us. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Tiffany. Thank you, library community. We'll see you next time.


What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Gold Pony today We are in the new 2019 Audi S4 courtesy of Sun Motor Cars in Mechanicsburg PA and so there have actually been several changes for the 2019 S4 And I will be going over them for you guys today. So as always Let's start with pricing. So let me begin with the new trim level for the 2019 S4 Premium trim is now available for the S4 starting at $50,200 then you have the premium plus which is the one we have today for 54,500 and the prestige for $57,800 but regardless of trim level power plant on the 2019 S4 will be the same Powering this one is going to be a three-liter turbocharged v6 engine putting out 349 horsepower 5400 rpm 369 pound-feet of torque available to around 1300 rpm power is going to be sent to all four wheels through Audi's Quattro all-wheel drive system that power is sent to the ground through an eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters Which we will be testing out in a little bit here But Audi claims zero to sixty time of four point four seconds motor trend puts it at four point two because we always know Audi underestimates and over delivers every single time but all-in-all top speed comes in in a hundred and fifty-five miles per hour MPG numbers 21 city 30 on the highway It's open then before we do any kind of acceleration I did want to mention there are driving modes available for the 2019 S4 Throughout ease drive select button which is located just underneath the climate control settings there But that's going to give you modes like comfort auto dynamic and individual of course individual being the one where you can really Tailor the car to make it your own but there's drive modes are going to adjust things like the throttle response the shift points and the steering Sensitivity actually and all-in-all dynamic is the best driving mode to have the most fun especially in a car like the S4 So let's put it in that dynamic driving mode here Let's do a quick little acceleration with the paddle shifters want to see how quickly they react for us And let's see how quickly we can get this 2019 S4 here up to speed here. We go I Can't stop laughing this car is nuts and so the paddle shifters are absolutely Instantaneous as they always have been in Audi. So definitely a fan of that acceleration is absolutely ridiculous Really there's no possible way you cannot have fun in this car and the best part about it It is quite cold today here in Pennsylvania But with the Audi quattro all-wheel drive the power actually sticks to the ground regardless of the cold weather in a rear-wheel drive car You more than likely would not get that but with Audi's quattro all-wheel drive you still get amazing Accelerations when it's cold out it's open then to go along with that acceleration breaking is equally important And so upfront you will find 13.8 inch ventilated front discs in the back 13 inch ventilated rear discs As far as the braking feel goes I've had absolutely no issues There's no brake pedal delay or anything like that with the S4 When it comes to handling a suspension up front you will find a five-link independent steel spring S4 sport suspension Differentiating itself from the standard A4 in the back the exact same thing essentially and as far as the steering feel goes definitely more on the heavier side So it has a nice weight to it here in the S4 ride quality has been just fine No issues there for me either it is gonna ride a little firmer if you bump up the wheel size like we have today But I'll get more into that a little bit later But lastly as far as cabin noise goes it does still sound like a luxury vehicle inside There isn't a whole lot of exterior noises coming into the cabin did want to mention though This S4 exhaust does pop a little bit when you downshift so it's not super loud, but it is there you can definitely hear it But so that when it comes to visibility I have never had an issue with an A4 or an S4 So perfect visibility when it comes to this one and also one additional thing I wanted to mention is there is a head-up display available if you go with the prestige trim level on this one little added visibility Helps the driver keep their eyes on the road a little better because their speed and speed limit is going to be projected upon the windshield there And it gives you some safety features actually up on the windshield as well So that's there for if you wanted it, but enough of the driving dynamics you guys Let's now check out the exterior of this new 2019 Audi S4 it's they're starting up front of course you will find that amazing looking Audi single frame front grille And there will be an S4 designation within that grille as well to the sides LED headlights will come standard They will come with the automatic feature along with automatic headlight leveling as well That's definitely something you usually don't find standard also just above that on the hood there I did want to mention there are heated windshield washer nozzles wanted to mention that because I do live in PA So quite often it is quite cold and snow or ice will end up up there And of course snow will then fall onto your windshield when you break and so when those are heated Therefore you still have the windshield washer fluid to help get all the snow off the car So that's always nice, but making your way to the side You will find aluminum trim window surrounds power adjustable heated side mirrors with LED integrated turret signals Also, just below 18 inch double five spoke alloy wheels with summer performance tires will come standard However, I was mentioning the optional wheel sizes, which you are looking at right now Actually is 19 inch double five spoke alloys and that's gonna add an additional $800 if you were interested there Then make your way to the back You will find s4 badging in the back there along with LED taillights with dynamic turn signals And what that essentially means is when you have the turn signals on it looks like the LEDs are sliding from one side to the other Definitely cool effect there and I almost forgot I wanted to mention before I go any further the exterior color on this one Is called quantum gray it's subtle but yet different from anything else on the road definitely a fan But anyways underneath the taillights there you will find dual exhaust outlets with quad tips So you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip And so but now since we are round back when it comes to opening that rear hatch There actually is a button on the key fob So simply press that if you like that will open up for you And if you go with the premium plus trim leveling up You will actually have a hands-free trunk lid release So simply walk up to the s4 with the key and that's gonna open up But once opened up cargo capacity is gonna come in at 13 cubic feet If that was not enough space for you there is a 40 20 40 split Meaning those rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space there if you needed it But also found in the cargo area are four cargo tie-down hooks to side nets and two grocery hooks as well Then make your way to the rear legroom that comes in at 35.7 inches So for reference I'm an even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there Also, there's rear passengers will find a rear center armrest with cup holders along with rear ventilation and the particular s4 We have today does actually have the cold weather package So if you notice there's rear heated seat buttons, that is how they got there that package adds an additional $750 if you wanted it but making your way to the front seats There is a leather Alcantara combination that will come standard for all trim levels And then we'll come 12-way power adjustable with four-way power lumbar and the massage function for both driver and passenger That's pretty darn sweet and those front seats will come heated as well But of course there's plenty of options for the front seats including a nap a leather interior package that we have that adds an additional $1,000 but that's also gonna give you the quilted leather pattern that you also see right now But taking a look up front there is a tilt and telescoping steering wheel and you will find that s emblem at the bottom of the steering wheel There and again with the cold weather package It will also actually be heated today as well and so but then when it comes to the startup Let me first start by showing you guys the key here You actually do have an s designation on the back there But flipping that around lock-on-lock in that button to pop the rear hatch either way to start this one up You will find a push button start for the premium plus trim leveling up I said with them once started up what everybody always wants to know is how do I get that Audi virtual cockpit? Premium plus and prestige trim levels are going to give you that and all of what is on that digital gauge set up can Be controlled by using the steering wheel mount controls on the left side there But that's gonna give you things like the cars information Bluetooth information radio settings navigation Really the navigation is the best part because there is a view button on the steering wheel there if you press that you can toggle between a Full navigation setup across all of the gauges or just a small one in the left corner there with the tachometer being front and center So that is perhaps my favorite part about Audi's virtual cockpit. You gotta love that But let's make our way to overall interior quality now three-zone climate control actually will come standard along with a black cloth headliner power Sunroof aluminum interior trim However, a lot of that aluminum interior trim actually has been swapped out for the carbon fiber trim that adds an additional $500 but we have a heck of a lot of that today and being LED interior lighting will also come standard along with illuminated door sill inlays And you will actually get a wireless phone charger if you go with the premium plus trim level It's gonna be located just underneath the center armrest there Now let's make our way to the tech display front and center you will find a seven inch color display screen to control What is on that display screen? There's a circular dial and buttons just in front of the shifter there But that's gonna give you things like Bluetooth and audio streaming Android auto and Apple CarPlay will also come standard Factory navigation also standard and you can check out your radio information of course up there as well standard sound system By the way, it's going to be a 10 speaker sound system But there is an optional Bang and Ulfson 3d sound system available if you wanted it and that's gonna add an additional $950 and that is the one that we have today. So you guys know what we have to do next Let's turn on the radio see what we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this one That was a fun song definitely a ton of bass on this one crystal clear plenty of loudness That is an amazing sound system for the S4 more than enough But so the last thing on the tech display I wanted to mention at least is when you do put the S4 in reverse You will find a rear view camera with dynamic grid lines letting you know who or what is behind you Which is always is going to lead me into safety and so to start there are front side and side curtain airbags Also what front driver and passenger knee airbags as well in the back You'll find latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats Also standard a tire pressure monitoring system as well as Audi pre-sense basic Audi pre-sense city and the premium plus trim level that we have today is actually going to add Audi side assist and Audi pre-sense rear And lastly the prestige trim level that one is going to add adaptive cruise control with traffic jam assist Audi active lane assist and a top view camera system. And so but that is about it for this one you guys Thank you so much for watching be shite I like the video and subscribe feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there And I will see you guys in the next video Stay Gold What is up you guys appreciate you guys watching this review you guys are all super awesome If you wanted to support the channel myself and stanga source feel free to check out teespring comm slash store slash gold pony Check out my merch and again I appreciate you guys's support and I will see you guys in the next one stay gold


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What if an aircraft could fly without the rear vertical stabilizer and rudder? What would be the advantages? Better yet, how could it be done? The X-31 international test team is helping explore these possibilities at NASA's Dryton Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. X-31 team members previously demonstrated supersonic quasi-tailess capabilities in March of 1994. Quasi-tailess is a state of simulated reduced tail, or tailess flight, through destabilizing feedback to the ship's rudder and ailerons. Close loop stability and control is then completely provided by the X-31's unique thrust vectoring system. This work has captured the interest of the Joint Advanced Strike Technology, or JAST, program group. Members from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force have joined to gather technology for the next generation of fighter aircraft. The benefits are decreased weight and drag. This will increase range and make future aircraft smaller, resulting in less expensive, more affordable strike fighter aircraft. The X-31 team at NASA Dryton was chosen because the X-31 is capable of gathering this data now, not three to five years in the future. The X-31 test team and JAST will conduct a two-phase flight experiment to include simulated power approach and ground attack maneuvers at low altitude for multiple levels of destabilization. Phase 1 emphasis will be on validating the simulation model for tailless flight. Test maneuvers will be conducted at 20,000 feet and 8,000 feet and lower in both cruise and power approach configurations at Mach numbers 0.34, 0.6, and 0.8. The levels of de-augmented stability from the rudder and ailerons plan to be varied a minimum of between 100% tail off to full tail during this test phase of roughly 10 to 12 sorties. The power approach tailless flight was initiated by the ITO test team September 1. Phase 2 testing will demonstrate the operational viability of tailless flight through quasi-tailless testing. Simulated ground attack maneuvers and precision approaches will be flown. The objective will be to provide flight validated data supporting future tailless designs. 8 to 10 test flights under these conditions should meet those objectives. Upon completion, the X-31 test team will analyze the test data and provide a final report and briefing of their accomplishments in quasi-tailless research to the JAST program managers in Washington, D.C. The ITO test team at NASA Dryden continues to plan for a reduced-tail tailless X-31 flight program during calendar year 1995. The X-31 international test team demonstrated supersonic quasi-tailless capabilities in March 1994. Quasi-tailless is a state of simulated reduced-tail or tailless flight through destabilizing feedback to the ship's rudder and ailerons. At this point, the X-31's thrust vectoring system provides closed-loopsed ability and control. Tailless flight would decrease aircraft weight and drag, increasing their range. This would lead to smaller aircraft in the future, resulting in less expensive, more affordable strike fighter aircraft. The X-31 project at NASA Dryden was chosen because the aircraft can provide immediate test results. The X-31 test team and the Joint Advanced Strike Technology team from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps will conduct a two-phased flight experiment to gather this data. Phase 1 emphasis will be on validating the simulation model for tailless flight. Test maneuvers will be conducted at 20,000 and 8,000 feet and lower in both cruise and power approach configurations. This test phase began September 1, 1994. Phase 2 testing will demonstrate the operational viability of tailless flight through quasi-tailless testing. Simulated ground attack maneuvers and precision approaches will be flown. Upon completion, the X-31 test team will analyze the data and provide a final report to the jazzed program managers in Washington, D.C. From NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, I'm Roger Williams.


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